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Maelstrom Painting Competition-only a few days left to enter

Post by Dark Alliance »

Something slightly different now.

The subject of this competition is the unit filler. With 8th edition encouraging the use of the larger unit size, an economical way of achieving this is the use of unit fillers. So, your task is to paint an interesting unit filler for either infantry or cavalry.

The closing date for entries is Midnight on the Sunday of Halloween weekend. There will be prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.

Any questions?

The winners from the previous competition are mentioned here

http://www.druchii.net/viewtopic.php?t=65378
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Post by Comrade igor »

Sweet ... time to make a filler for my Wood Elves, oh wait.. ;)
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Great idea!
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Post by Blackbone »

Great idea for a contest. I will definately give it a shot. I have been thinking of something to fill out about 4-6 spots in a unit of DE Spearmen that is currently 25 strong.

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Very Cool. Can't wait to get started.
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Post by cultofkhaine »

Great - count me in. Good idea for the unit filler.
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Post by Durloth »

For us barbarians in non-halloween celebrating countries; which date would "Midnight on the Sunday of Halloween weekend" be?
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October 31st, or if you prefer, OKTOBOR! the Thirty First.

There are some ideas I could throw at this... tick, tick, tick.
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Post by De_te »

Whats a unit filler?
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Post by Calisson »

DE_TE wrote:Whats a unit filler?
It is when you own 20 corsairs and you need 30 of them.
Instead of buying 10 more, you recall that you have some unused leftover bodies from another army, so you create a scenery which is exactly 5x2 wide, showing the slaves that the corsairs take along with them.
When you start the game, you have a 6x5 corsair unit with your 5x2 unit filler in the middle of it.
When some corsairs are killed, they are removed from the rear.
When 10 of them are killed, it is time to remove the unit filler and put back the 10 corsairs.

It is fluffy, it allows you some creativity with your leftover bits, and it is cheap.

Of course, you can do this with other troops than corsairs. Just find another idea, such as a reserve of bolts for the RXBmen, or sacrificial slaves for "sac dagger" spearmen, or a mini altar of Khaine for WE or Execs.
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Post by Dark Alliance »

How are people progressing with their entries?
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Post by Lord_azoth »

Hi DA, some questions mate:
Can I send more than one entry?
I have a filler for my BG, and another one for my warriors. Can I send both?

How must I show my entries?, in a post in this thread, with a PM to you?

thanks for your help
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Post by Dark Alliance »

Yes you can enter both. To enter post the pics in this thread.
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Post by Lord_azoth »

thanks..these are my entries..
1 - Warriors, a 6 minis filler:

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The filler in the unit, only the link because the photo is really big

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/1060/deguerreros2cf2.jpg

2 - BG, 2x4 minis filler:

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In the unit:
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Post by Dark Alliance »

Awesome.

Keep 'em coming guys...
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Post by Dalamar »

I'm still waiting for delivery for the main piece for my filler... Hopefully it will get here before halloween so I can enter.
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Here is mine on a 40x40mm base. Can be used as a unit filler for a variety of units with the Dark Elf representing the champion.

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Few more pics on my thread http://www.druchii.net/viewtopic.php?t=66910
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Post by cultofkhaine »

Where is everyones enteries??? - come on give Lord Azoth and myself some competition or do we both have you all shaking in your boots :D
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Post by Pap3r »

Sorry I just dont have he time to paint something outside of my list. and I just don't need a unit filler...
I really wanted to enter the competiton but I can't...
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Post by Dalamar »

My entry is in the mail... it may or may not get here in time. (the latter more likely considering how much (or little) time there is left till halloween).
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Post by Durloth »

I haven't made a filler in years, so the quality isn't really up to what I would paint today, but not entering at all is for chickens ;)

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Post by Meteor »

Dunno how to do all this fancy lighting control and stuff, just remembered I had this piece in my cabinet and might as well throw it in for the spirit of the competition. It's a Sorceress with a Sacrificial Dagger stabbing slaves.

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Post by Dark Alliance »

Well that was quite a disappointing number of entries, but well done anyway to those who did bother to enter. As there are so few who tried, I have decided to divide the prize fund between all 4 of you, so everyone is a winner!

If you already have an account with us, just pm me your Maelstrom account email address and I'll sort out the credit to your account.

If you do not have a Maelstrom account, go to our website and register. Then pm me your details.

Well done guys!
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Post by Dark Alliance »

Hey guys, thanks for the pm. I have instructed our Customer services dept to add £15 prize money to each of your accounts. It should be there shortly.
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Post by Dark Alliance »

There will be a new competition early in the new year.
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