Monday 17 April 2017

Salute Painting Competition Panic!

With less than a week to go till the big event, I'm determined to be finished on time; although the jury is still out on what the quality of my entry will be in the end!



For those who missed it, Salute is the biggest independent Wargaming convention in the UK. Fairly obviously, this means that the painting competition is the second biggest around (after Golden Demon). A few months back when the Triumvirate of the Imperium was released, I decided to try my hand at painting up Greyfax for the competition. If you missed it, the project was designed to push the limits of my skill by stretching my painting to the max. For some insane reason, I decided to paint her wholly in Non Metallic Metals (a technique that uses regular colours to replicate the look of metallic objects). I even did a tutorial on the technique as I understood it. My intention was always to enter the finished mini in the competition when the time came.

So, now the time has come and I'm frantically trying to finish. On the upside, I have a doable amount left. On the downside I still have a long way to go. At this point, I don't expect to place in the competition, but I'm still determined to at least finish. My goal was to try and make the cut for the finals, so fingers crossed for that!

The Condemner Boltgun in particular mocks me with its unfinished yellowish mediocrity!


The problem is that the more I look, the more I see that I need to do! Oh well, no sense in complaining about it now... better get back to painting...

If you missed the article on painting NMM, you can find it here:

http://tabletopapocalypse.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/how-to-paint-non-metallic-metals.html

10 comments:

  1. She is looking absolutely lovely Blazmo! The end is in sight!

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    1. Thanks Greg. I just need to keep painting. I'm sure I'll make it, but I don't have long now.

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  2. Looking good so far - keep pushing through, i'm sure you'll place well!

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    1. I wish - the competition is really serious stuff there. I can't be bothered to spend the hundreds of hours needed to really compete, but I like to give it a go anyway!

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  3. Don't worry, if you lose, we can drown our sorrows in shopping. Say hello to unnecessary knight titans!!

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    1. When I lose. Also, don't forget that I'll be run out of town by the painting community for my disparaging remarks about wet palettes and wet blending!

      On that subject, I saw Angel Giraldez with a wet Palette the other day - I'm losing this argument by a landslide.

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    2. He was probably paid a lot of money to stand next to a wet palette. It's a conspiracy man!

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    3. Aliens and the CIA band together to sell blotting paper? I could see it happening! Bring me my helmet lined with tin foil!

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  4. I was going to try be, for your sake, super critical of the bits you have worked on but sorry I couldn't find anything to complain about.

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    1. He said whilst looking at the pictures through a kaleidoscope...

      Seriously though, I tend to be more critical of my own work. I can see a lot of improvement that needs to happen and not much time.

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