[PAINTING] Voting for Painting Challenge: Royalty

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Tue Jul 03, 2012 6:57 pm

Welcome to the voting thread for the Royalty Painting Challenge (June 2012).

Voting in this challenge should be based not just on painting skill, but also for application of different painting techniques, individual artist improvement, creativity and originality etc.

Voting will be open for 7 days and will close at 19:57pm GMT+1 on 10th July.

The Entries are:

Laurapalmer's Theoden:

Lochlan8me's Eomer:

Telchar's Eowyn:

garmenhord's Eomer:

valpas' Gil-Galad (not eligible for voting):

Ardboe's Eomer:

Legolas31's Eomer:

Chris GoM's Eowyn:

Wah Wing's Legolas:

warhammergamingnl's Arwen:

edge67's Golden King of Harad:

lorderkenbrand's Witch-King (unfinished):

Bastion.HUN's Theoden:

GothmogtheWerewolf's Queen Beruthiel:

BilboOfTheWhiteTower's Witch-King:

Damian's Witch-King:

cal585's Elendil:

Green_Dragon's Witch-King:

Minimal Monkey Saddle's Eomer:

PowerofWill's King of Men:

serrate's Aragorn:

Good luck to all entrants!

Bastion.HUN · **Posted:** Tue Jul 03, 2012 7:12 pm

I vote for Damian's Witch king, I like it.

Erurainon the Trombonist · **Posted:** Tue Jul 03, 2012 7:27 pm

A lot of entries, and a tough decision, but I went for Ardboe's in the end. I always liked the style of it from when I first saw it. I like the base too.

fritskuhntm · **Posted:** Tue Jul 03, 2012 7:57 pm

I went for laurapalmer's Theoden: nice detail.

Chris GoM · **Posted:** Tue Jul 03, 2012 8:03 pm

I went for Green_Dragon's Witch King, really cool

although the other entries were also great, good work everyone

WhiteWizard · **Posted:** Tue Jul 03, 2012 8:30 pm

All very lovely I must say, but I'm torn between Laurapalmer's Theoden and Damian's Witch King. Very tough decision...

Wah Wing · **Posted:** Tue Jul 03, 2012 9:32 pm

That's quite the number of entries! :shock:

Wow. Where to start?
So far its between Damian's Witch-King, warhammergamingnl's Arwen, Legolas31's Eomer, Laurapalmer's Theoden, and Ardboe's Eomer. Very tough decision.

Hmm...................

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Tue Jul 03, 2012 10:47 pm

Alot of these models are excellent and were so hard to choose between; but in the end I went with my gut and felt that Ardboe's Eomer was the one that I had to go for.
Well done all and look forward to seeing next month's submissions!!

Green_Dragon · **Posted:** Wed Jul 04, 2012 1:04 am

So many cool entries! I voted warhammergamingnl's Arwen due to the brilliant idea and finish. Special mention to Valpas' Gil-Galad I think that would've taken it out had it been eligible. Also great conversions by Chris GoM and Legolas31! Laurapalmers Theoden is fantastic painting and photography also. Hopefully just as many taking part in next months one, it's awesome to see all the entries and provides alot of motivation and inspiration for painting.

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Wed Jul 04, 2012 6:29 am

LauraPalmer for me ... great work on a tough model ! Well done Chris :yay:

Some really fantastic entries again this month , getting more and more difficult to pick a clear winner. Well done all!

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Wed Jul 04, 2012 7:56 am

I found this to be typically tough to call as there are several that were of similarly top quality painting but also because some of the images were not so clear. Guys, please get the best lit, best focussed images you possibly can so we can all make the fairest possible judgment based on being able to see the mini clearly. If your phone or camera is not able to get in close enough, check with relatives or friends who could spend a few minutes getting you the images and you can copy the files to your own computer and go from there.
Well done to everyone for some very nicely painted and based minis!

mastermanje · **Posted:** Wed Jul 04, 2012 8:07 am

Cmon Arwen!!!

Wah Wing · **Posted:** Wed Jul 04, 2012 6:06 pm

I'm going to place my vote on Legolas31's Eomer, since that's the best painting I've seen from him. Love the excellent conversion too.

Nice work everyone. You've made another voting thread more difficult than it should be. :-D

SidTheSloth · **Posted:** Wed Jul 04, 2012 6:33 pm

I went for Damian's which king because of the great source lighting

Damian · **Joined:** Mon Apr 02, 2012 10:59 pm **Posts:** 185

Yet again I am torn.

Every entry has something really good about it, either smooth, accurate painting, great colours, really fiddly detailing, ambitious conversions, imaginative thinking, painting progression from previous challenges or a combination of all of them.

Sacrilege83 · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2012 2:51 am

I would call it a draw between Laurapalmer and MMS if possible, but since I'm forced to choose one I'll go with the new kid on the block since it's the same great stuff that is expected from Minimal Monkey.

There's one thing I'm disliking from Damian's great work and I have considered him up there as well to vote for, but I can't tell if the orange gleem on the face of the horse and on the sword is from highlighting or a reflection of an external light source because his white background is giving off a orange hue reflectio0n as well.

Damian · **Joined:** Mon Apr 02, 2012 10:59 pm **Posts:** 185

It's external, you spotted it correctly from the background. It's also one of the reasons I included a shot from the front, it shows the true colour of the horse's headgear. More specifically it's my GF's table lamp. It was the only light source I had available that was a similar brightness to my painting lamp. Unfortunately the orange light is a bit strong, but I've got alternative lights for next time.

Mwaaa ha ha ha haaaa

Sacrilege83 · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2012 1:16 pm

Ah you're tricky, still very good job nonetheless. I would have found it weird having a model on a table top game having an orange gleem on it if it's not part of some diorama or it doesn't have some fire source to allow it like the Aragorn Weathertop model does.

Telchar · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2012 3:35 pm

I voted Gothmogthewerewolf's Beruthiel, simply great painting job. Though MMS, Ardboe, Bilboofthewhitetower and laurapalmer (among others) were very, very close runner-ups.

CaptainOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2012 8:50 pm

Green_Dragon's Witch-King is awesome and got my vote. It was a tough one though as I also wanted to vote for LauraPalmer's Theoden.

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