Painting Competition | Giants in Miniature Five-Year Anniversary

[Harry Faversham]

Well, after all the prevaricating the Giants in Miniature Painting Competition exploded onto page 97 of WI like...
an 'apenny firework!

[Vanth]

That was a major anticlimax...

[Harry Faversham]

Certainly was, I was expecting several pages of superb miniatures to drool over. In my 'umble opinion WI Magazine really missed a trick with this one. The majority of the Giants in Miniature range are superb, they should have really bigged 'em up!

[Matakakea]

I believe there may be more to come...

[Harry Faversham]

Hope so.

 

[Vanth]

I don't understand why they did not make a FB gallery with the entries. Especially given that there should be a "reader's choice" and that the page you are supposed to go to in order to vote that returns a 404

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

Just had an e-mail from WI to say that I won runner-up in the Best Unit/Scenic category.   

Well excited, I can't remember the last time I won a prize in a competition!   

[Vanth]

Well done!

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

Thanks, Vanth.   

[Bearwoodman]

Well done Lord Snapcase! May I ask whether your entry was featured in the printed magazine?

It was an slightly odd feature. I expected the winner of each category to be shown along with each of the four runners up, plus a selection of notable other entries. Seeing as the magazine encouraged painters of all ability levels to contribute I was hoping to see a wide variety of interpretations of each figure,  which would be interesting even if not every one was a masterpiece. Instead there was a fairly small selection of figures consisting of the winner of each category plus occasionally an extra figure (and it was not always clear whether these extra figures were prize-winning "runners up" or just non-winning entries that the judges nontheless liked. Hopefully we will see more of this in later issues, and I hope that the readers choice will eventually go ahead.

[Harry Faversham]

Absolutely spiffing Your Lordship, drinks all round in the Occifer's Mess...
on your tab!

[THE CID]

I was runner up in the Stars of the Silver Screen category. My email didn’t say which of my figures was placed, as I entered two. I’m still waiting for my prize.

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

Well done Lord Snapcase! May I ask whether your entry was featured in the printed magazine?

Sorry Bearwoodman, only just seen this. No, my photo was not in the magazine. My painted GiM was Lord Flashheart in a group with Blackadder etc. There was some mention of an on-line gallery with all the prize-winners on it but I have yet to find it.

Absolutely spiffing Your Lordship, drinks all round in the Occifer's Mess...
on your tab!

Absolutely, Harry. Pink gins all round, pip, pip!

I was runner up in the Stars of the Silver Screen category. My email didn’t say which of my figures was placed, as I entered two. I’m still waiting for my prize.

Well done, THE CID. My choice of three GiMs arrived a couple of days ago and also an e-mail regarding three free months of the on-line magazine, so I imagine yours can't be far behind.

[Harry Faversham]

I didn't win anything so will never buy that magazine again... ever!
That I was beaten fair and square by lesser brush-mechanics, is an intolerable insult from the shower at WI, to whom I'd recommend a visit to Specsavers. From now on I'm sticking to mi' old mantra...

"Better to cheat and lose than play fair and win."

Not that I'm a twitter and blisted sore loser or anything.



 

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

I didn't win anything so will never buy that magazine again... ever!
That I was beaten fair and square by lesser brush-mechanics, is an intolerable insult from the shower at WI, to whom I'd recommend a visit to Specsavers. From now on I'm sticking to mi' old mantra...

"Better to cheat and lose than play fair and win."

Not that I'm a twitter and blisted sore loser or anything.