Here are the designs I submitted for consideration.

I wanted to get a carved into the flesh look while keeping a simple black line tattoo style, I’m not sure if it worked. But I had fun doing it and really enjoyed the contest. Thanks Dave. Maybe this will end up on one of my renegades banners some day.

-Skeller

Our favorite local game shop, Waterloo Minis announces its first Golden Emperor painting competition. This competition is open to anyone and covers Warhammer Fantasy, 40K, Flames of War, WarMachine and Hordes.

*The date is set for 3/28/09.
*There is a $5 entry fee for your first model and $1 for each model thereafter.
*Your entries can be models you already own as long as they were painted only by you.

The guidelines for the Golden Emperor competition can be found in our forums.

It seems we’ve been playing to much Cities of Death around the Goblin Mart. So we decided to have a terrain building contest with plant life as the theme. The plethora of varied alien plant life found on the worlds of the Imperium is limitless. Let’s see some creeping plague vines, groves of blood cactus, hatchet ferns, yellow mung berry bushes, eye covered warp trees and armored sporical bloat pods. You can do ruined parks for your cities of death tables or bubbling hydroponic algae tanks for your forgeworld set up.

You’ve got six weeks.

Check out the details here.

This is a great gaming event and it gets bigger every year. It runs concurrently with the 2009 Old Dominion Open Scale Model Show and Contest, which is also a great event. We went last year, had a great time and met lots of real nice folks.

Check out this thread for some of our pictures from last year.

The Goblin Mini Mart crew will be on hand running some tabletop demos, eating some snacks, and talking smack all day. We’ll see you there Saturday, February 28th 9:00 am – 5:00 pm.

For information on the venue, including directions, visit http://www.ipmsrichmond.org/contest.html

For information concerning the gaming show check out http://www.myspace/battlehymn

We are proud to announce the first modeling contest here at Goblin Mini-Mart. Everyone is welcome to enter and we hope you do. For rules and prize info check out our forums. While you’re there you can trade for some bits to put on your contest entry!

Contest!

Waterloo Minis is having another painting contest. Here’s what Rob has to say about it.

“Please join in our second painting contest, starting Wednesday July
30th. Here’s the rules:

–single model figure (individual or character), 25/28mm, from any
miniatures line we carry and have in the shop.
–must purchase your figure from our shop, starting July 30th.
–all models must be turned in by midnight, Friday September 12th.
–judging and decision made by 4pm Saturday Sept 13th.
–prizes for first place and second place, and youngest entrant.
–prizes are $15 gift certificates for Waterloo Minis.”

So get on over to Waterloo and grab up some minis.

I hope I can make it out for this one. I went out to our local Stony Point store, for the midnight Apocalypse release and had a pretty good time, blasting on 10,000 points of Imperial guard and Space Marines with my new custom Big Mek Stompa.