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Other Stuff => The Lead Painters' League => Season 8 => Topic started by: Prof.Witchheimer on June 01, 2014, 06:23:03 PM
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Ladies and gentlemen, the Season 8 of The Lead Painters League is finally over. I would like to thank to all the participants, for their hard work, tenacity and motivation. Well done, all of you! It’s been a great season again; we’ve seen some very hard fights on a very high skill level. Though you know, skills alone are not enough. If you enter LPL, you enter a marathon and sometimes it’s very hard to push oneself to keep running. Being myself a participant I really know the feeling of endless weariness that overcomes you at some point, mostly somewhere between the Round 7 and 10 :)
And now we come to the winners.
On the top of the table, in first place, the invincible Frank! In a very close final match he defeated his opponent, secured his part of the Hejaz Railway and ensured his supremacy in this season, losing only one match and providing lots of mind-blowing scenes, full of brilliant ideas and inspiration to us all. Bravo, Frank!
(http://leadadventureforum.com/images/lpl/s08/r10/Frank_Hedjaz_Railway_RD10a.jpg)
In second place – the ingenious Captain Blood! The fantastic precision of his vivid painting is legendary in the meantime and also this time he was able to prove again his skill and took the second place with minimal point difference in the final match-up. Top notch, Richard!
(http://leadadventureforum.com/images/lpl/s08/r10/CaptainBlood_Round10a.jpg)
In third place – the tremendous Tsar1701! Being another old hand and master of LPL and covering all sorts of adventurous gaming he brought this year some beautifully painted entries and did manage to take a final sprint and to get the third place. Well done, Chris!
(http://leadadventureforum.com/images/lpl/s08/r10/tsar1701WelcometoTannenberga.jpg)
Now congratulations to all of you who took part in LPL8. With all you passion and hard work you made it possible again to create that wonderful event and give this amazing show to our members. I salute you!
And now the Season 8 is officially closed. See you all next year!
Thank you.
(http://leadadventureforum.com/images/lpl/s08/lpl8_leaderboard_rd10.jpg)
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Well done, lads. All of you. It's been spectacular this year.
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Well done Frank, Captain Blood and Tsar. I certainly have a much better appreciation for the work involved in the LPL now!
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Congratulations Frank, the winner!
And congratulations to all of my fellow participants. It's been great fun. :)
Most of all though, thanks and congratulations to Alex for organising and running such a spectacular event.
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Well done to the winners and all those who took part. There were some awesome entries. I have been inspired to improve my painting for next year. And special thanks to Prof and the other adjudicators for setting up and running the LPL.
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Very well done, winners!
Next time I am going to have to put on an extra shovel of coal to boost my steamer... :D
It was a great competition and an honour to see my entries paired versus such magnificent ones as it was. Thank you very much.
Plus a big thank you for all the hard work of doing the maths and statistics for us beside entering fabulous ancients being a competitor yourself too, Alex!
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Splendid work chaps 8) 8)
Green beer's on you Frank ;)
cheers
James
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Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all involved, some lovely painted minis this year and a couple of hard fought matches, it's been an inspiration.
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Great win Frank 8)
Yo! Blood you is a Don and cool :D
Tsar1701 fucked up my top three bet but the bookies wouldn't take it anyway so I'll let him off ;)
All my favourite painters didn't disappoint, fantastic work chaps, cheers. :-*
And well done Alex, the maths must be mind boggling. o_o
Sunday will be a bore 'till next year ::)
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Wonderful work everyone and well done to those nearer the bottom for comming up with new ideas over the ten weeks, making such a great competition possible and providing new ideas too!
Nice to see that everyone won at least one round too!
I think the position of previous winners this year speaks volumes for the quality!
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I have been inspired to improve my painting for next year.
Agreed 100%! Each of the past 3 LPLs, I feel I've learned a new technique by using this competition to spur me to improve. A top 10 finish is WAY above my expectations.
Congrats to Frank, Capt. Blood, Tsar, and all the others whose magic with a paintbrush enthralled us for 10 weeks. Thanks, Alex, for all the hours you put in on this while simultaneously working on your own magical entries!
Sad to see it end...but I'll be back next year!
Mike Demana
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Tsar1701 fucked up my top three bet but the bookies wouldn't take it anyway so I'll let him off ;)
I was talking about getting a book up, perhaps next year....
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Congratulation to all participants making it through the ten rounds!
Special Kudos to Frank, Capt. Blood and Tsar1701, of course!
And very many thanks to Alex who let this all happen!
:-* :o
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Fantastic entries, great painting, magnificent photos and exciting management.
Once again the LPL didn't fail to disappoint.
Congratulations to all participants and especially the winners!
Well done to all.
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Congrats to all involved
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To quote the Duke of Wellington: 'It has been a damned nice thing — the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life'.
I cannot think of anyone more deserving of the champion's mantle than Frank. If there's a more talented fellow when it comes to composing and shooting brilliant pictures of wargames miniatures, I've yet to meet him. Congratulations Frank!
It looks like the green beer is on me next time in Kiel, or Hamburg - or whereever! :)
(Or perhaps we'll just let James buy the beer, and we'll sit back and enjoy it ;))
Well done to everyone who took part, painters and voters, and congratulations to Tsar1701 too - thoroughly deserving of a podium finish :)
Alex, you have provided a lot of wargamers and modellers with a lot of happy sunday mornings for the last three months - and for your reward, you gave yourself all the most damnably tough match-ups you could find! Madman! Thank you.
Suppose I'd better put my name down now to run LPL9.
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I was talking about getting a book up, perhaps next year....
You just have to watch out for Bugsda taking a dive in the tenth round! lol
Things I learnt from the LPL:
1. Don't take photos on your phone, they will generally be shit.
2. Pay attention to detail in the composition, the punters like a good show.
3. Get as many bonus points as you can. I blew an easy 10 on not including a train I could have instead of working on a crashed zeppelin I barely started.
4. Don't get too stressed about the points (this may not necessarily be compatible with point 3).
5. Take advice from other painters.
6. Enter in to the spirit of the competition. It is a celebration of our community.
7. I paint REALLY slowly!
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Richard, you're still one of my most favourite painters! lol
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6. Enter in to the spirit of the competition. It is a celebration of our community.
I would enter next based on this, but fear buy losing heavily every time I'd accidently skew the finishing positions....
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Thank you and congratulations to Richard and Chris...well done! This year it was really hard work and I had a lot of luck in some matches. Right now I am on a "Viking" Trip by bicycle in Dennmark ( islands) and the baltic coast of germany...so I have to use my mobil to send you these words. Right after that I flying to Paris und then Normady...D-Day:-).
Thanks to Alex for the perfect work and greetings to all of you...it was great fun:-)
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Congratulations to all who participated. I looked forward to every Sunday for the last 10 weeks to see all of the eye candy. Well deserved wins for the top spots. I will be back next year.
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Congratulations to all who took part, some truly phenomenal entries! :-*
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Congrats to the top three, all worthy contestants. This year had some amazing entries and some seriously tough calls when choosing which entry to vote for.
Congrats to all participants, really. I enjoy seeing the clear improvement in painting and presentation over the years. Some of the people here are very clever and Sunday mornings of the LPL season are highly anticipated.
The sting of not making top three wore off long ago, I knew I wasn't going to be up there after Bugsda laid into me on Round 2 ;)
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Great job everyone! Congrats to the winners (much deserved :)) and much thanks to the Prof for doing all the heavy lifting again for all of our benefit!
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The LPL seems to get better every year. Fantastic painting and inspired photography abound. Congratulations to all the participants.
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Just want to add my congratulomatationisms and thankifications to all who took part
Huge round of applausitilians to Alex for such a well organised competition
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Congratulations tot he top 3 and to all the other contestants this year - this is probably my favourite competition of the year (even more so than the Eurovision song contest)
Was my first year entering and only started late - Had a great time and made a dent in the lead pile (even my wife approved - swoon)
Hope to be back next year and see if I can work out how to keep ahead (had a blip in getting rounds 8 & 9 ready and had to fall back on completing some virtually finished high elves as opposed to some Batman figures) and also how to compose the presentation and picture - practice practice practice
One tick on the bucket list of life complete
Can't wait till next time
Congratulations again to Frank, Blood and Tsar (what an introduction for my first round)
:-*
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I knew I wasn't going to be up there after Bugsda laid into me on Round 2 ;)
I'd forgotten about that :o So it was actually my own fault you didn't make the top three, glad I didn't have any money on it lol
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I'd forgotten about that :o So it was actually my own fault you didn't make the top three, glad I didn't have any money on it lol
lol
That would be pretty funny if you made a bet and sunk yourself ;)
If you had knocked out all new entries I think you'd have been in the top three- you did some stunning stuff this year!
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Ladies and gentlemen, the Season 8 of The Lead Painters League is finally over. I would like to thank to all the participants, for their hard work, tenacity and motivation. Well done, all of you! It’s been a great season again; we’ve seen some very hard fights on a very high skill level. Though you know, skills alone are not enough. If you enter LPL, you enter a marathon and sometimes it’s very hard to push oneself to keep running. Being myself a participant I really know the feeling of endless weariness that overcomes you at some point..
Wait!!
What?
NO LPL pictures to greet me when I awake tomorrow morning??
Say it ain't so!!
Hang on, Today's Sunday??!!??
I knew it couldn't be, 'cause no LPL eye candy fer breakfast.
Well done everyone, splendid efforts all!!
Much to learn here, many ideas nicked, filed away for future reference, superb inspiration!!
One day my eyes will be so bad ALL my efforts will look like this, to me at least...
Thank you LPLers, you have given me more than you know.
Have I by any chance mentioned I hate, loathe, despise, abominate and abhor talent?
Possessing as I do none of mine own.
Valerik
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Thanks everyone, especially to the organisers.
Already looking forward to next year (will prepare in advance next year :D)
Was a lot of fun.
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Thanks to all the participants! ! Especially the top three. There's been some great inspiration in the last ten weeks!
Thanks as well to all the organisers! Without your maths and dedication, none of this would be possible! !
Thanks everyone for keeping us all entertained!!!
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Thank you and congratulations to Richard and Chris...well done! This year it was really hard work and I had a lot of luck in some matches. Right now I am on a "Viking" Trip by bicycle in Dennmark ( islands) and the baltic coast of germany...so I have to use my mobil to send you these words. Right after that I flying to Paris und then Normady...D-Day:-).
Thanks to Alex for the perfect work and greetings to all of you...it was great fun:-)
The lifestyle of the rich and famous! Well done Frank, Rich and all the others. You really levelled up my sundays.
Thanks!!!
Jan
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Thanks to every who participated and voted, but thanks most of all to the forum owners and lpl organizers! All the work is appreciated. It was a lot of fun!
Thanks again
n
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Kudos to all that participated, all entries were better than the average wargame paint job, and the top rankers were amazing. Looking forward to next year.
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Well done to the winners and all who took part.
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Another Thanks to all who participated. I have never had so many near tie votes in all of the seasons of the LPL :o :o as this year! I hearby apologize to all those who I would like to have given a vote but could not - and there were many of you! Brilliant work on all parties part :-* :-* and especially the organizers who brought us a pain free contest with great leaderboards!
LB
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A great time as always! Now...what to do for the next one... o_o
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A great time as always! Now...what to do for the next one... o_o
Start painting! What else...? lol
Mike Demana
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oh ! I'm third ! :o
I'm glad and proud ....
Congratulation to Frank and Captain Boold, you're really fantastic painters !
Congratulations too to all the other participants. The LPL is a great moment in the year.
Now start thinking the mini to paint for next season.
Next year, I promise, there will be background on all my pictures ! :D
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God ! I forget to thank greatly our dear Prof for organizing the League, and I have to say I know how hard is this job !
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Brilliant competition. I enjoyed the entries and the difficult votes I had to make.
Perhaps next year I will have the time and stamina to compete!!!
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My heartfelt thanks to my fellow participants and the League organizers. It was a brilliant 10 weeks of madness.
Here's to next year!
Curt
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Congrats and thank you for the inspiring work.
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Well done to the winners!
I was a bit disappointed in my performance, and especially in not getting a new team each week (twice I had to recycle, which I hated).
I believe I will begin painting now for next year's competition. Need to work on my scene-setting as well, because I think that hurt me on at least two rounds. Goal next year: 5 wins.