Announcing...

THE "TYRANTS OF PAINTING" COMPETITION

How this is going to work?

Each month a theme will be set for which type of miniature you can enter into the month’s competition.

This post will reveal the first month’s theme, while onwards the next theme will be announced at the end of the winners post, but I’ll get to that later.

Each week, you can make your entry by simply taking a photo of your work, logging into twitter (if you don’t have an account you are missing out) and tweeting @TheMalibros with the photo and the hashtag #MFXTOP

Every Tuesday, so after #miniaturemonday I will post the entries I have so far, along with who they are from.
People can comment on twitter or on the blog post itself.
This will happen on a 4 week period.
After the 4th week of entries has been posted a winner will be decided.

How will it be judged?

Once the 4th week of entries has happened, I will announce via @TheMalibros that voting has opened.

The way voting will work is that you will need to tweet @TheMaibros with the twitter account/ name of your choice and the #MFXTOP

Each vote will count as one point, with any ties decided by myself.

However, to answer a question I suspect some people are thinking.
Nope.
You cannot vote for yourself.

[Additional rules may come into play in the future, but anything like that will be announced]

Voting will close midday on Thursday of that week.
By the following Friday, the winner will be announced along with the next theme.

Also, according to the quantity of entries, the Friday post may include a podium or even announced best of factions if the quantity is even higher.

Why should you enter?

Simple really, it will be fun.

The idea of this competition is to be extra incentive for people to paint, try new techniques, raise their game, or even just show off.

Currently there will no prizes bar prestige, but the chance to see some fantastic work from lots of different members of the Malifaux community I’m sure you will all agree, will definitely be a nice thing.

This Monthly competition can also be used for a whole host of personal goals.
Try something new, get that miniature done you aren't currently painting, get a crew done in the year to your highest standard.

The rules and the first month’s theme.

Every painting competition has rules, this one will be no exception.
However they are simple
What you enter must be a miniature you have started to paint during the month of the competition, miniatures which were already assembled and even undercoated are fine, but no one needs this competition to be the same miniatures every month that we have all already seen.
I will say, 3 colours minimum, however this is mostly a pointless rule as, if your miniature is not finished, simply you should probably not enter it.
The miniature needs to be based, again probably pointless to even say, but the base is an important part of the miniature and if it is just blank, the miniature is not finished.
Oh and another pointlessly obvious rule, the miniature needs to be painted by yourself. It doesn’t even have to be for yourself, but it must be your work.

Last rule is that it will need to cover what the theme of the month is, which leads me to finally announce.

January 2014’s theme for #MFXTOP is

“Heavy Hitter”

To qualify this must be a miniature with a soulstone cost of at least 7SS or higher and have a melee attack (any non-master model).

There we go.
Good luck to everyone who enters.
- Ben (@psientologist)

Also if you want a bigger painting challenge, don’t forget to check out @aaronbailey17 ‘s #theboxopens painting competition over on the Wyrd Forums and twitter.