Anyway, I liked her so much, that I decided that I'd put some pictures into a massive online competition being run by the Chinese resin cast figure company E2046. The competition is a pretty big deal for enthusiasts of these kinds of figures, and literally hundreds of hours have gone into some of the entries. It's all done with photos too, which was a bit of a novelty, but I guess that the main drive is to promote the hobby and their business. There are some big prizes too, with a $500 USD prize for the winner and over $2500 up for grabs in total. It is all in store credit though, but still it certainly puts Golden Demon to shame!
The competition is run in 3 categories. Figure, is for single resin anime style figures. The second category is "Mecha", which is pretty much the Gundam category or giant robots to most people. The third is the always impressive, but obviously insane Diorama category. The reason that I say it is mad, is because the smallest figures they make are about 1/8 scale, so painting up more than one is literally several months of work.
Anyway, my entry is now in the gallery and all I have to do is wait till the 14th, when the initial cut will be made and the finalists will be selected. Here's hoping for a good result!
My Gallery
On a side note, I painted this thing a few months back , and I submitted the gallery about 6 weeks ago, so the competition feels a bit distant, which is something I've actually really enjoyed as it has been nice and relaxing.
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| Sometimes looking back to the beginning, I wonder where I found the energy to finish it! |
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| An angle that didn't make it into the final gallery. I like it though, she looks kind of annoyed from down here. |
It really is a very well done mini, good luck in the competition.
ReplyDeleteThanks Rory. As the finalists will be selected tomorrow, I should know soon!
DeleteI think I stand a better chance than I did at Salute though.
I looked through a few of the enteries and they were not at the same level as your piece.
DeleteThere are some really impressive ones, but they tend to be hiding amongst a mass of varied entries. In particular there is a robot guy in the figure category done in NMM that looks quite unassuming at first until you look closely. That one has winner written all over it. There are also a few others in there that could easily beat me depending on what the judges are looking for.
DeleteGood luck bud! You deserve to place with this exceptional work!
ReplyDeleteThanks. You never know how competitions will go. I think it depends on the judges a lot, and what they're impressed by. Fingers-crossed though!
DeleteExellent job on her, especially the dress.
ReplyDeleteThanks. She was a fun side project, so we'll see if the competition comes to anything. I'm not too worried either way.
DeleteThe dress is mostly just airbrush work with tones from black to dark grey and finally light grey. I did do a bit of shading with black and an edge highlight with some Codex Grey too.
Well, good luck mate. I hope I could say you have big chances, but I do not know what the competition looks like! XD
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