Monday, 10 April 2023

In Celebration of Challenge XIII

Well, here we are at the end of the thirteenth edition of the Painting Challenge. The film lot is closed, all the votes have been counted for both 'Minions' Choice' and 'Challengers' Choice', Sarah has made her selection for 'Sarah’s Choice' and I’ve done the same for my SnowLord's selection. Whew, it's been a hectic few days! 

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Minions' Choice

Okay, first up! Our intrepid cabal of Minions have convened, muttered their sacred rights and made their 'Minions' Choice' for our last month of the Challenge.

The runners up are:

Dallas for his majestic and imposing Warhound Titan




Kerry for his whimsical Baron Munchhausen.





...and Simon for is incredibly impressive Jewish Revolt Temple Mount




The Minions' Choice' goes to:

Ken for his stunning Italian Wars Spanish Colunella!




Ken, for your prize you have a $50 gift voucher from Westfalia Miniatures. Congratulations mate!

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Challengers' Choice

We had 31 nominations this year for the Challengers' Choice, with a great responce from voters (in fact, there were only a few votes separating 1st and 2nd place). I found it a lot of fun to take in the gallery of nominees as it provided a wonderful retrospective of the thee months of the Challenge. Our Monday Minion Peter was kind enough to tally up the votes and so here are the runners up and podium finishers.

3rd Runner Up 

Curt for his Mad Maximillian Roadsters.



2nd Runner Up 

Sidney for his Samurai figures




1st Runner Up

Miles' Battle of Peleliu Project


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Podium Finishers for Challengers' Choice

Third Place

Tamsin for her enormously impressive and, well, just enormous 'Spirit of Camberwell'




After looking at it again I think you're right Tamsin. It really is worth 1000 points... :)

Second Place for Challengers' Choice  

Darrell for his sumptuously painted Byzantines. Here are just a few selections of his work:






First Place for Challengers' Choice' goes to: 

Ken for his fabulously salty and foamy WWII ships. Once again, bravo Ken! Challenge XIII has been a banner edition for you - well done!








Ken, for your prize you get a print edition of Simon Miller's 'For King & Parliament' and the 'Marlowe to Maidenhythe' scenario book from 'BigRedBat'.

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Snowlord's Choice

Honourable Mentions go to:

Kerry's  Italian Wars Gendarmes




Martijn's Don Quiote and Sancho Panza 




SnowLord's Choice goes to:

Sidney's wonderful Samurai-themed figures and terrain for his upcoming rules, 'When the Last Sword is Drawn'. Absolutely stunning work Sidney, Bravo!






Sydney, for your prize you get a starter boxed set of Moonstone from the good folks over at Goblin King Games.

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Sarah’s Choice 

Hi Everybody!

Another fantastic Challenge comes to a close! Well done everyone!

A highlight of the Challenge for me is seeing the terrific variety of female figures being presented.

The scope of this years figures - from cut throat lady pirates, Viking shield maidens, vampires and zombies, steam punk witches and French Revolutionary peasants, ghosts, nuns and queens and an excellent Frankenstein Bride - has been a real pleasure to re-visit these past few days.

I find that no matter how diligent I am during the Challenge, there are often figures that I missed or forgot about. It’s such a treat to come across these unexpected treasures!

I’d like to highlight the sculpting skills of GeoffreyT, his Bandida was a really fun entry and I liked the cool-hippy chick vibe of his sculpt. Very characterful!


Another of my favourite entries this Challenge was the elegant 75mm Female Duelliste from MartinC. The paint job reminds me of classic toy soldier style… which is awesome. The Duelliste herself could be the heroine from a Georgette Heyer novel .. also awesome!


This years Sarah’s Choice Award will be un-precedented .. and the Snow Lord agrees that I can do this …

We have two winners for Sarah's Choice:

StuartL and MattW!!

StuartL’s Malifaux Mannequins Showgirls, the fish seller, and his steampunk witch are all wonderful.




MattW’s Apple Lady with donkey, medieval milk maid and the French Revolutionary peasant women were also standouts for me.




Definitely treats for all of us to enjoy!

And, speaking of treats, Stuart and Matt, you both will get a $50 Gift Voucher from our good friend Kawe over at Westfalia Miniatures.

Thank you and congratulations!!

- Sarah
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Congratulations to all the nominees and winners. Thank you for sharing your wonderful work with us. To the winners, please email me to work out the details for getting your awards. 

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Before Challenge XIII concludes, I’d like to thank again our fabulous Minions for all their hard work herding entries, managing the Spreadsheet of Doom and keeping on top of the duels. I also wish to thank our Challenge Sponsors for their generous support of the event.  If you have a free moment please visit their web stores via the banners on the left sidebar and see if something strikes your fancy.  As I say every year, the Challenge doesn’t need prizes to be a success, but it adds a bit of sparkle to the show.  Thanks again to all our wonderful sponsors! 

Finally, and I really can't say this enough, I want to thank all our Challenge participants. This event would be nothing without all your industry, your humour and most of all, your open-hearted support. All of these make the Painting Challenge what it is. You folks are terrific, thank you.

So in closing, I bid you all a fond farewell. I hope you enjoy the next eight months 'off', and until we get together again next December...


In Memory of Oscar


- Curt 

31 comments:

  1. Great roundup, congratulations to Tamsin, Ken and all the other nominee's and winners, a bumper year!
    Best Iain

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  2. Congratulations to the winners. Thank you Curt, Sarah and the other minions. To the participants, well done, without you Curt would be very bored.

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  3. All of the categories were definitely hard to put in order, but there's no arguing that winners are right. :)

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    1. Yes, it's a bit of a production to put it all together in one post. Hopefully its not too confusing!

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  4. Great wrap up and very worthy winners all round! Congratulations to all. Here’s to next time 🥳

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  5. Very well deserved nominations and prizes. Thanks again Curt, Sarah, minions and rest fo crew for such a fun edition. See you all back in December, stay safe til them, guys

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  6. Excellent choices all. Until next time!

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  7. A great round up and worthy winners! Take care all!
    Cheers JezT

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  8. Well done to all the nominees, runners-up and winners! :)

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    1. ps @ Curt - I guess you finally spotted my not too subtle attempt at subliminal messaging in the photo captions! ;) :)

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    2. Oh, I saw the captions from the start and did my best to resist it mightily! :) Truly, a stonking piece of work, Ms. P!

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  9. Well done to all, best wishes and thanks to all and looking forward to December again

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  10. Massive congrats to everyone who was nominated and all the great winners! Well done one and all!!!

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  11. There are some tremendous works there and well deserved winners, and plenty more who were worthy of winning as well.

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  12. Well done everyone. Some excellent work here.

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  13. Congrats to all the winners and all the challengers as it was a splendid outing this time! I am already assembling next seasons queue....Polish your skull Stuart! ;)

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    1. Someone sounds confident. :) Just be aware that I won't relinquish my skull or my title without a fight. I'm looking forward to it.

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  14. Congratulations to all very deserving winners and nominees! I was pleasantly surprised by, am grateful for, and feel very honoured by, my unexpected honourable mention, so thank you, Curt! It was a great Challenge with truly amazing work by all participants, and I hope to see you all in December for Challenge XIV.

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  15. My personal favourite took gold but there are some fantastic entries that I had forgotten about when submitting my nominations like Sidney's Samurai and Matt's apple lady and donkey.

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  16. Congratulations to everyone, and thank you to Curt, my fellow minions and Lady Sarah (who clearly has impeccable taste). Also, a huge thank you to each and every challenger. It is the constant output, positive spirit and friendly atmosphere of the AHPC community that keeps me coming back year after year.

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  17. My God, thank you everyone, I have had a busy few days at work and only managed to get on the site to check the results today. Winning both the Minions and Challengers 1st Prize is simply amazing 👏

    It was a real leap in the dark with the WW2 Ships and a million miles away from what I had planned, but I can honestly say this project is the most fun I've had in years with the hobby and I'm glad so many people enjoyed it too.

    Thanks again everyone !

    Regards Ken

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  18. Well done everyone, and very well done to all the winners. I loved watching this Challenge (and apologies to everyone for me getting stuffed with work for a big chunk of it). Fantastic work by Curt, Sarah and all the Minions. Hope to see you all in Challenge XIV !

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  19. Huzzah, congrats to all the winners. Some right smashing minis there!

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  20. Some fantastic stuff, well done to all. Thanks to Curt and Sarah, the minions and all my fellow challengers. Special thanks for those generous in their comments (finally listened to Yarkshire Gamer's interview with Curt - 'childlike glee' indeed!). Its been an absolutely fantastic experience joining this community for the first time . Very much hoping to do it again later this year - see you all there I hope! (in the meantime, now i have actually painted stuff, have to get off my rear and (re)start my own blog - so oughties of me!)

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    1. Good gravy, I forgot about that interview with Ken. We had fun with it. :)

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  21. Congrats folks, well done.

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  22. Congrats to all and especially to Yarkshire Ken with the double win.

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  23. Congratulations, everyone, truly excellent and inspirational winners.

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  24. Another cracking Challenge. Thanks Curt and Sarah!

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  25. Great post - thanks Sarah and Mr Curt, and to the Minions for your runner-up votes for my Warhound Titan!

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