Double Trouble 4 Painting Competition - Single Miniature Categories

A little later than planned, here's the other two categories in the DT4 painting competition. I normally call these the single miniature categories since often Best Conversions is a full army. This time around all the entries were single models though.

I was pleased to see a decent number of entries in both of these categories even if not all of them ended up receiving votes. I was also pleased that every single player voted in the end which is a great way of recognising the effort that everyone put into their armies. Still, there were some nice armies that didn't get displayed which I always think is a shame. Even if you don't fancy your chances you should let people see the work you've done. It's a great way to inspire people to do better with their armies. Anyway, let's start with:

Best Vehicle or Monster
Five entries in this category. First up Chris Rider's dreadnought:

Next up Ian Plumpton's Stormsurge which he won as the top prize in the raffle of one of my Blog Wars events I think (BW9 maybe?!):

One of the few Forge World units in use was David Irving's T'au Tigershark flyer (his list also feature a Y'vahra suit) which got three votes:

Another raffle prize put to good use was Luke Capper's Knight Castellan which he won at DT3 gaining four votes. This wasn't in his list but I don't specify that entries have to be featured in your army. Click for a closer look at the purple armour which must've taken ages!

Finally, the winner of the certificate and £10 Element Games voucher was Dave Weston's stunning Cerastus Knight Lancer. I had the pleasure of playing against Dave in the final game and his knights are truly beautiful. Every single centimetre of them is packed with detail and full of skill. Sadly my photos don't really do it justice but you can find more at www.40kaddict.uk

Best Character
Another categories with five entries and again only three of them got votes. This was a much closer contest though. First up, Rob Nathan's Commissar Yarrick and Greg Barber's regular Commissar:

Another entry from the Capper brothers with Tom's Mephiston getting four votes (strangely the same as his brother's entry above got:

A very close second place went to Matthew Longmore's Blood Angels Captain, who I'm told should be referred to as "Captain Slam", which took 10 votes:

Finally, winning by a single vote with 11 was Martin Waine's Windrider Farseer. Again my photos aren't doing it justice but I take them in a bit of a rush so I can get back to entering the scores from round one and eating some lunch!

That wraps up my final painting competition rundown. Congratulations to all the winners who took home a share of the £50 worth of Element Games vouchers that were on offer across the four categories.

The next post from me will be my battle reports which I'll try to keep brief so they can be done in a single post. Stay tuned to the blog after that though for news of a possible successor to Double Trouble which I hope you'll all support.

Double Trouble 4 Painting Competition - Best Army and Best Conversions (pic heavy)

I was thrilled to see a lot more on display in the painting competition than usual. I'm always frustrated when people decide not to show their armies because they don't think they'll win. If you've put the effort in you should get the kudos. Anyway, as usual the painting competition was split into four categories: Best Army, Best Conversions, Best Character & Best Monster/Vehicle. To avoid one player sweeping the board, players are only allowed to enter one of the categories.

Today I'll talk about the Best Army and Best Conversions entries starting with the former. As usual, apologies if some of the pictures aren't great, I have a lot to do over the lunch break!

Best Army
There were some excellent entries in the competition with an incredibly high standard. First up, David Wagg's Executioners (Space Marines):

With three votes each Jamie Jackson's Ryza Ad Mech and Theo Upton's T'au shared third place:

Next up Richard McManus' Harlequins got four votes. Now, Richard wasn't actually playing in the event but he'd come along as my backup in case we had a last minute dropout so I had no problem with him displaying his beautiful Harlies force:

Running away with the victory scoring 16 votes was Nathaniel Gibbs' awesome Dark Carnival Drukhari force. You might remember that his army won Best Conversions at the first Double Trouble. I had the pleasure of playing with him at that event and against him at DT4:

Best Conversions
In previous events there's often been one army that gets displayed that puts everyone off showing theirs. This time however, all of the entries were single miniatures. First up Duncan Gray's Soul Grinder:

Next up Dan Wellington's two-headed Alpha Legion Heldrake. Once again I had the pleasure of playing against Dan's army. This thing proved irritatingly durable though! More on that in my battle reports.

Finally, taking a whopping 17 votes was John Walton's renegade knight. A stunning example of the best of this hobby. It's also refreshing to see a Slaanesh version as we've seen a lot of Nurgle or Khorne offerings. Pull you finger out Tzeentch worshippers!

I'll be back later in the week with the Best Character and Best Vehicle/Monster so stay tuned for that.

Imperial Knights for DT4 - Hobby Progress

Just a quick update today. I'll hopefully get the Obligatory Pie Chart Post for DT4 done one evening this week. Anyway, in the meantime I'm working on my army for the event. As it stands at the moment I'm not playing but just in case I have to stand in I thought I should have something ready. If nothing else it gave me an excuse to get some Armiger Helverins and the motivation to get them painted up.

I'm painting them in the same scheme as my existing Questoris knights (still can't get used to calling them that). In case you've forgotten what they look like:

That means breaking out the airbrush again because orange really isn't much fun to paint without it. I've therefore kept all of the armour panels separate from the skeleton. The skeleton itself I've sprayed with Leadbelcher then washed with Nuln Oil.

The armour panels have been hit with Wild Rider Red as a base over the black primer and then Troll Slayer Orange over that. I then masked off for some of the orange bits on the skeleton like the "hood" over the head and hit them with the same red then orange. The shoulder and ankle armour then got masked off to spray the back half Abaddon Black.

Finally, I decide to bring the hazard stripes onto the carapace this time instead of the white on the bigger knights. I'm not sure how I feel about it yet but hopefully it'll look better when it's tidied up there's some of the washes over the top.

You might also spot a missile launcher in there. This was in my pile of spare parts for the big knights and is needed for the list. I'll therefore be painting this up along with the Helverins to be ready for the event. Not sure if I've got enough time to finish but I'm going to give it my best!

Looking forward to seeing what you guys will be bringing along.

Double Trouble 3 Painting Competition - Best Character & Best Monster/Vehicle

There are four categories of which players can only choose one to enter. These are Best Army, Best Conversions, Best Character and Best Vehicle/Monster. On Monday we looked at the Army and Conversion entries and today we'll wrap it up with the single miniature categories. I'm pleased to say there were far more entries in both categories than in the whole army awards.

Best Painted Character
Whilst there were more entries in this category not all of them received votes. Owen Brignall's Custodes Shield Captain, Chris Thomas' Gabriel Angelos and Jonathan Lyness' DG Noxious Blightbringer all received two votes each. The top three were then Duncan Gray's Typhus with six votes, Tom Capper's BA Chaplain with eight votes then a narrow victory for Michal Schiller's Succubus with nine votes. Michal also scooped one of the raffle prizes (the Webway Gate I think). He was also the fourth German who's been over just for my event which I still find a bit crazy!

Best Painted Monster or Vehicle

Again not everyone got votes here but the top five were David Wagg's Venerable Dreadnought and Matthew Longmore's Myphitic Blight-hauler with a single vote each. Luke Capper's Skarbrand took six votes which was good enough for third. Second place went to Dan Wellington's Tyrannofex with nine votes then Greg Barber's Traitor Guard Basilisk took the prize with 12 votes.

 

That's it for the results round up then. I'll try to get my battle reports written up towards the end of the week whilst they're still reasonably fresh in my mind. Keep an eye on the blog for those.