Sunday 28 January 2018

The Votes are in for the 'BFG' Bonus Theme Round!



Hello Everyone!

Our second bonus theme round is complete! We had 41 participants submitting entries providing their interpretations of the 'BFG' theme. Below are the results of the voting. As you can see it was a close race, with several ties all along the line.




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Here are the Runners Up:

Martin C's 'Big Freaking Gorilla'





DaveX's 'German Winter Pak 40'




and PaulOG's 'FIW Royal Artillery'




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The podium finishers are:

Tied for Third Place: ChristopherS' 'Hessian Jaeger Amusettes' and KenR's 'WWI German Howitzer'





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Both Christopher and Ken will receive another 25 points in recognition for their excellent submissions this round. Wonderful work guys and congratulations!!
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Tied for Second Place: Byron's 'Mechanicum Thanatar Siege-Automata' and Kyle's 'Medieval Cannon'







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Kyle and Byron will both receive another 50 points to add to their respective totals. Beautiful work and tremendous job you two! 


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And in First Place: 

Michael's 'What a Load of Bullucks'







Absolutely wonderful Michael (that pale violet gun carriage is brilliant). For claiming top spot on the podium Mr. Awdry will receive another 75 points and a gift certificate from Kyle over at Mr Lee's MinisCongratulations Michael, you can now unhitch your beasts so they can rest on their laurels and bask in the glow of their fame.

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Once again, a BIG thank you to all the participants of the 'BFG' bonus round - you all gave us wonderfully varied and booming interpretations of the theme. Brilliant stuff! 

Finally, as a reminder, next Saturday midnight (February 3rd) is the submission deadline for our next Bonus Theme Round: 'Musician', so limber up your fingers, run the scales and show us what your interpretation is of this sonorous theme!



15 comments:

  1. Of course the "god like" genius MichaelA won. I know I voted for him. His work is just awesome. On a personal note thank you to all who voted for me, proper chuffed to be mentioned in dispatches, a first for me. Right now do I have a musician somewhere

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    1. Great job mate! And well deserved as it is a smashingly well made model ;)

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  2. Well done everyone who entered. Especially the winners!

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  3. Top efforts everyone, very pleased to get a placing, thanks for everyone who voted for my BFG !

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  4. Well done everyone and very deserving podium finishers! Thrilled to have a achieved a Runner Up spot for a second time in AHPC VIII

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  5. Congratulations, I see many of those that I voted

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  6. Cheers for that and lucky top placing! Email me at mrleesminis@gmail.com for details on the prize ;)

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  7. Well that has rather made my day, many thanks to all that cast their vote in my direction, I am really thrilled. Many congratulation to all the entries, another wonderful round to be part of.

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  8. Congrats to the winners and runners-up!

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  9. A very well deserved result, congratulations to all winners and lord Awdry in special!

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  10. I was lucky enough to see Michael dry-brushing his bullocks a couple of weeks ago at Awdry Towers - a worthy winner in a closely grouped round. Congratulations to all. Mr RN figures arrived finally, so I'll have to paint him up. Cheers.

    Richard C

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    1. I'm not going to say a word about this comment. Not one word. Evan? ;)

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    2. There's never a moments peace. :D

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  11. Fantastic work, everyone - and huge congratulations to all of the winners. Well done indeed!

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