February - Big Model - Dark Angel Redemptor Dreadnought
March - Character - Blood Bowl Ogre
April - Squad - Blood Bowl Team
May - Big Model - Land Raider?
June - Character - ?
July - Squad - Deathwing Knights
Of course the pandemic scotched that, but in August they decided to create their #McrBattleOfTheBrush challenge online. Since then I've been entering my efforts but hadn't really kept track of what I entered so thought I'd keep a record here:
August 2020
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| My Blood bowl Ogre in the Single Figure category. |
September 2020
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| My Old Skool Middenheim Marauders Team [minus the Ogre, but I like this picture more] in the Squad category. |
October 2020
Oops, somehow I totally missed the entry post for this and didn't share an entry. So much for #HobbyStreak
November 2020
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| Deathwing Knights in the Squad category. This won one of the three 'Best in Show' awards for the category. |
December 2020
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| Galvanic Servo-haulers in the Squad category. This won one of the three 'Most inspiring' awards for how the judges would paint their version if they got that model. |
January 2021
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| Tyranid Tyrannofex in the Large Model category. This won one of the three 'Best in Show' awards for the category. |
February 2021
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| Nurgle Blood Bowl Team in the Squad category. This won one of the three 'Best in Show' awards for the category. |
March 2021
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| Adeptus Titanicus Cerastus Knight Lancer in the Single Figure category. |
So, you can see I've been a tad successful in my efforts, despite the quality of the entries being exceptional. Not just super-high quality but entrants with significant quantity - dozens of miniatures over all categories. I'll say it again though - I don't participate for the awards. I paint my figures, I had always tried to meet the criteria of the entries - 4 of each category. If I had something I was painting and meet a deadline then that was in, if I couldn't meet the deadline I entered something they'd never seen or I'd submitted before. It was all about motivation, joining in and sharing with my local hobbyists. Gutted I missed that October one but I've got plenty more to share - my Tyranid VSG, Rippers etc. Maybe I'll even finish these bloomin' Aberrants, or EVEN the Land Raider...! Check out if your own local GW/Warhammer store is doing a similar challenge and join in.
*local - as in that's where I work, I'm also joining in a lot of WiP posts at Warhammer Liverpool, which is actually my nearest store to where I live. This is also great motivation, even if I'm not being particularly productive at the moment.