The Lead Painters League Season 10 - General Discussion (Round 11 started)

[Prof.Witchheimer]

This thread is for general discussion on the LPL10

All your rules questions should be posted here:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=85538.0

As usual we ask you all to be careful with your comments on the running entries. Keep your comments constructive. Feel free to tell us your opinion about entries, but DON'T post any comments with any sort of "quality comparison" of the pictures.

Some "no-go" examples:
- Entry A is great but I have to vote for entry B, this is so much better.
- Well entry A is so manifestly superior to entry B, that I cannot understand why so many people are voting for entry B.
- Entry A is running for the third time, so I give my vote to the Entry B, it's a newly painted one.

Any comments of this or similar sort will be deleted/censored without warning.

And now get painting. Good luck to everyone!

[Sir Barnaby Hammond-Rye]

Question...would something like a boat be treated like an elephant. My understanding is an elephant with mahoud and 4 crew is a calid team - yes? Would some sort of watercraft containing 5 crew also be a valid team?

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Question...would something like a boat be treated like an elephant. My understanding is an elephant with mahoud and 4 crew is a calid team - yes? Would some sort of watercraft containing 5 crew also be a valid team?

Elephant with mahout and 4 additional figures counts as a valid team. A boat with 5 crew would also be a valid team.

Larger beasts or vehicles, such as elephants and trucks, including their mahouts or drivers count as a single figure; any extra figures such as howdah fighting crew and passengers count as separate, additional figures.

[warhammergrimace]

Can I put my name down for season 10 please

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Can I put my name down for season 10 please

No, that's not possible at the moment:

  - You may not enter your LPL10 registration pictures before Friday 19th February 2016, 19.00 (7 pm) GMT. Entries sent before this date and time won't be accepted

[Uncle Mike]

Very excited to do LPL 10...but I wonder about the bonus for round one...

Let’s NOT take a Stand: Lying, sitting or kneeling miniatures

To score bonus points in the first round, you must paint and submit a team of at least 5 lying, sitting or kneeling figures. This specifically EXCLUDES any casualties (i.e. dead and wounded). If your team matches the above criteria, you receive an extra 10 theme bonus points.

I wonder can they be swimming? Floating? I honestly have no idea where to get 5 not standing figures that have some sort of theme. Any ideas would be welcome.

Again, super excited and already organizing some stuff for the holiday painting break. 

[McMordain]

I wonder can they be swimming? Floating? I honestly have no idea where to get 5 not standing figures that have some sort of theme. Any ideas would be welcome.

First rank of a firing line maybe?

I hope this (next) year I will have enough motivation to paint for the LPL.

[von Lucky]

Just dived into the pile and found some 28mm WWII examples - so I'm sure they exist in other genres and scales.

[Westfalia Chris]

Any ideas would be welcome.

*cough* Harem ladies, reclining. *cough*

Eureka do a couple of figures that could be suitable. Or so I've heard.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Very excited to do LPL 10...but I wonder about the bonus for round one...

Let’s NOT take a Stand: Lying, sitting or kneeling miniatures

To score bonus points in the first round, you must paint and submit a team of at least 5 lying, sitting or kneeling figures. This specifically EXCLUDES any casualties (i.e. dead and wounded). If your team matches the above criteria, you receive an extra 10 theme bonus points.

I wonder can they be swimming? Floating? I honestly have no idea where to get 5 not standing figures that have some sort of theme. Any ideas would be welcome.

Again, super excited and already organizing some stuff for the holiday painting break. 

Swimming or floating, yes, why not, would be okay.

Ideas? Weapon teams..

[von Lucky]

Eureka also do a couple of frogmen that could be suitable. Or so I've heard.

[Drachenklinge]

I'm in. 
At least, if I can make it with three gangs until the deadline.

*rolling up sleeves, spitting into the hand* lets get started, folkes. 



And by the way, thanks a lot for organizing that hop again!!! 

[Rhoderic]

I do suspect that we'll be seeing a fair few Eureka figures in the first round. They do a lot of sitting and prone poses, and there are probably quite a few of us LAFers who own their Indian marketplace civilians.

Maybe, assuming it won't go against the spirit of the contest, we should start a thread about sources for figures that are sitting, kneeling, lying down or swimming/floating. It does sound like a tricky round and I'm probably not the only one having difficulty thinking of what to do for it (if I end up competing, which is not a given at this point).

Come to think of it, I have two questions about round 1:

Do animals that are sitting or lying down count? I'm thinking of camels and the like. I'd instinctively assume that a sitting camel would count, but then again that might raise issues with animals like crocodiles/alligators which are always essentially "lying down" (or swimming).

Seeing as they haven't been mentioned, would I be right in assuming that crouching and "crouch-walking" (humanoid) figures don't count? If so, where does that leave figures sitting on their haunches? It's termed as a form of "sitting" but it's really more of a form of crouching as only the feet are touching the ground or any other surface. I know I have several figures sitting on their haunches in my collection.

[Mason]

I wonder can they be swimming? Floating? I honestly have no idea where to get 5 not standing figures that have some sort of theme. Any ideas would be welcome.

My first thought was wagon drivers.
But it would be, wouldn't it?
 

[von Lucky]

Hah - you're entering 5 wagons in round one? I love this hobby; I thought of something and sure enough someone makes them:
https://grekwoodminiatures.wordpress.com/2012/07/30/28mm-hospital-beds-now-for-sale/