The World Of Twilight

Pyre Studios is pleased to announce the first annual Burning Brush painting contest. This is an open contest with a combined £250 in prizes. It really only has two main requirements. Firstly the miniatures used must come from the game lines currently carried by Pyre Studios, including Twilight. Secondly is that “fire” must play some part in/with/on/near the composition. This can be anything from a cigar to a flamethrower or a logo to a flamejob.

Categories
1. Single miniature
This category covers a single miniature, of any scale, that can be mounted on a 25mm to 75mm base. This includes Warlands vehicles and larger kits.

2. Squads, Teams & Forces
This covers a cohesive unit or force of between 5 and 12 miniatures. Examples: A MERCS Squad, a force of Warlands vehicles, Elfball teams etc…

3. Diorama
Two or more miniatures arranged on a base to tell some sort of story. This can be as small or as large as you like.

How to Enter
• Register on the Pyre Studios forum (http://www.pyre-studios.com/forum/)
• Once the account has been activated post your entry with 1-4 decent quality images into the relevant category. For info on taking good quality pictures follow this link (http://thescreamingalpha.com/?p=552).
• The final submission date is 6pm GMT the 30th May 2012. The forums will be locked at this time and remain locked until the decisions are made.
• The winners will be announced on the 2nd of June 2012

Prizes?
Why yes, I suppose we could have some. There are 4 prizes up for grabs with the Burning Brush. Each category winner will receive a £50 voucher for the Pyre Studios Store and the overall winner will receive a £100 voucher. Worldwide shipping of the products will be covered by Pyre Studios.

Small Print
1. Entrants must be 16 years old or over.
2. Entrants may submit a maximum of two entries per category
3. Any decision made regarding the winning entries is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
4. These decisions will be thoroughly subjective based on miniature used, conversion work (if any), painting, composition and how well the entry captures the “sprit” of the setting/game the miniature is from.
5. Entrants must use miniatures from any of the manufacturers currently carried by Pyre Studios
6. Please do not used photo manipulation, composites or logos etc… the miniatures should be able to speak for themselves.
7. We may contact individuals to ask for better pictures. This is not a photography contest and we don’t want to miss someones awesome work because the flash was on…
8. Pyre Studios reserves the right to use any image it receives for promotional purposes. If used the artists name will appear with the image.
9. This contest is governed by the laws of fairness and common sense. See rule 3
10. By submitting an entry you accept the above terms.

Hmm...interesting...:D

I've already received strong responses for 5 of the games... come on twilighters!

This looks great - I'm sure we can encourage a few good twilight entries for the contest  ;D

Seems like something I could enter. Not sure I have the models spare though.

I'll kick of the 'tale of' painting challenge soon and any suitable entries could count towards that... (the challenge will be to paint one or more 300pt forces... Fabulous prizes to be won...).

Excellent, I have the first 12 or so models in the queue waiting for that Tale, heh.

I have declared that this year I'll learn how to paint and enter a few competitions... It'd be rude not to try something for this!

Learn how to paint? Say what? I've seen your painting in person, you're off to a pretty good start. ;)

heh, thanks! There's a difference between award winning 6mm, and army painting 28's which are the fields I currently cover, and true competition / display 28 / 54mm / bust pieces which is what I'm learning this year!

Well we have our first few entries up and narry a Fubarnii in sight... for shame  ;D

So, is anybody going to represent twilight in the contest? There must be a kalgush somewhere in need of painting...

If I paint anything for myslelf rather than commissions & ebay this month, it'll be for this competition. I am going to the Golem / McVey Painting masterclass in early June so really want to knock something decent (and twilight) out before then but I'm stuck in a world of regiments for ebay at the moment!  :-\

my pictures are so bad its not worth me entering online painting comps! Sorry pyre.

I'm struggling to paint anything this month :(

Only 7 days left to enter and nary an entry flying the Anyaral flag ...  ???

As the cliché goes... you've got to be in it to win it!

I'll enter Brenar! just to be sportsman like! :D

Only two days left! The militia are represented but where's the Engineers, Deraks, Kalgushs', Priests in fire embroidered gowns, Dhogu with torches and Devanu with crude fire-like warpaint?

Seems to be the way with WoT competitions - I've run out of time. My entry currently stands like this...

I dont think its going to happen....  :-\

:O beautiful

It'd be a crime not to finish it!

Or save it for another WoT contest?...

Going round to measure up at my new house in a moment, but I may have an idea... I have til midnight, right??? ???

6pm today I'm afraid...

Looks great, shame you didn't manage to get it finished for the comp.

HN

NOOOOOOOOOOOO

I could have had a pic by 10 past  :'(

And hour and a half of frantic painting came to nothing :( but here it is anyway!

"By cover of darkness, the "Aged Engineer" slips through the border..."

(Paint still dring in the pic! )

Congrats to all who were better organised than myself - there's some great stuff in there. OSL heaven!

I like it mate, lovely subtle lighting effect. Fingers crossed Pyre lets it slip through into the comp.

HN

Sorry Tuffskull the door's shut... However I will be running something similar around Christmas so keep it safe. I'll be disappointed if it does not make an appearance.

DB

No worries, I never wanted to be let "slip through". I messed up my timing fair and square!

I'm just playing around with my new airbrush on it. Not what I intended to do with it at all, but its fun and quick. Adding shadows, details and a name plate to it - it wont disappear :)

That's beautiful - shame about the missed deadline.

Would it be really picky to point out that TuffSkulls entry was posted at 18:10 BST. Which is actually only 17:10 GMT... I'm guessing he didn't post it in the correct place though so ignore my drunken post ;)

For ten minutes?

Really?

 >:(

thanks for the votes of confidence on the piece, but give him a break - its a fair cop!  ;D