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I finally managed it! After a few final placings, and one first-place in the Summer event, I won the Best On Show prize for the winter contest.
I put in two entries this round. The "Eldritch Demon" was a Cthulhu-without-the-trademark model, and won Best Large Figure. It's a big green beastie with lots of tentacles, and leathery wings... fun to paint, as I shaded the green with brown, purple, red, blue and fleshy pink to add some depth to an otherwise monochromatic figure.
I also entered my first diorama in a painting contest, using two figures that I won in the Summer event. This won the diorama category, and the best overall prize :) It's based on an MDF coaster from Lincraft, with a piece of foam carved into the shape of a hill. The tree's one of Woodland Scenics' wire armatures, with a bunch of seed fragments from a silver birch tree used as leaves...
I tried something a little different to normal, and painted virtually everything in tertiary colours. Most of the colours were mixed up from several others (the hunchback's skin, blue-grey shirt), while others have some unusual shades mixed in (blue with the undertaker's skin, red with the green on his jacket). I was planning to paint in the glow from his lantern, but decided against it at the last moment - I wasn't sure how I'd place shadows in the grass. It's also the first time I've painted woodgrain - on the shovel handle, and on the coffin. Detail on the coffin was added as an optical illusion to disguise some horrible casting lines that I couldn't file off - the mould must have shifted, slightly displacing the front and back of the models.
I put in two entries this round. The "Eldritch Demon" was a Cthulhu-without-the-trademark model, and won Best Large Figure. It's a big green beastie with lots of tentacles, and leathery wings... fun to paint, as I shaded the green with brown, purple, red, blue and fleshy pink to add some depth to an otherwise monochromatic figure.
I also entered my first diorama in a painting contest, using two figures that I won in the Summer event. This won the diorama category, and the best overall prize :) It's based on an MDF coaster from Lincraft, with a piece of foam carved into the shape of a hill. The tree's one of Woodland Scenics' wire armatures, with a bunch of seed fragments from a silver birch tree used as leaves...
I tried something a little different to normal, and painted virtually everything in tertiary colours. Most of the colours were mixed up from several others (the hunchback's skin, blue-grey shirt), while others have some unusual shades mixed in (blue with the undertaker's skin, red with the green on his jacket). I was planning to paint in the glow from his lantern, but decided against it at the last moment - I wasn't sure how I'd place shadows in the grass. It's also the first time I've painted woodgrain - on the shovel handle, and on the coffin. Detail on the coffin was added as an optical illusion to disguise some horrible casting lines that I couldn't file off - the mould must have shifted, slightly displacing the front and back of the models.
