Attack-X 2014 "Sage Brush" painting competition

On Sept 12-14th a few friends and I made the 4.5 hour trek to Kamloops from Vancouver to attend a gaming convention, Attack-X.  I played Warmachine, of course, but did pretty damn poorly so we don't need to talk about the gaming!  But the painting, on the other hand, I will do some talking about!

I took a few pictures of the entries relatively early on the Saturday of the con so unfortunately I may have missed some entries that were put in the case later on in the afternoon, so apologies if I missed your figure! (I'm certain there were a couple I missed that were there the next day sadly).

Without further delay:

Really spectacular dwarven battlegroup with tons of weathering, nice OSL on the visors and an excellent display base to make it really stand apart from the other entries.  I believe this one was by Karim Sadik

A very interesting chaos dragon.  I'm not sure if this is a conversion or if its an actual Forgeworld model but either way it was well done with nice little freehand scales on the wings (similar to something I've done in the past).

Here's a pretty cool Kraken that was almost certainly inspired by Todd Mcneal's Kraken with the pink color scheme and mud streaking down the hull.  This one added some really nice water effects on the base which I actually prefer to green goo but both are fitting for the model for sure.  This entry ALMOST confused me into thinking it was Todd's at first but the blending is not QUITE up to par with Todd's though its nothing to sneeze at.

This was a terrible picture with bad glare because a door was open facing the cabinet.  Overall this was a pretty cool take on a Cephalyx monstrosity.  I liked the blue/grey skin that was well blended.

In this picture we have a few entries that I couldnt get closer pics of due to the layout of the cabinet.  This picture mainly shows off Todd Mcneal's Pandora crew from Malifaux.  Some very nice bright ghostly green on these dudes.  My own Tiberion sits in the upper corner.

This masterpiece is all Alex Yuen.  After talking to him about this one I discovered this was disqualified from Gottacon's painting competition for being X rated.  I think its pretty funny personally but I can understand it's not for everyone.  Good job and very creative Alex.

This is Dave Brereton's (I hope I spelled that correctly) big ass Woldwrath.  It's always impressive to see these huge models in the display case at painting competitions and this one was quite well done with real life made into the pose as if its lumbering forward.  

Here's a picture of my Trollblood battlegroup I entered into the squad category.  I'll have better pictures of these in a later blog post hopefully.  Behind these guys and really hard to get a good picture of is an excellent chaos sorcerer/lord on a manticore.  It had some great blending going on with the manticore's skin and the rider's cloak.  This was one I can tell probably deserved more than it was awarded but thats my technical eye speaking.

Centered here are some sweet looking Legion figures with an alternate color scheme that fits quite well with the models.  Had the blending on these ones been slightly better I think they would've had a very good chance of taking the prize as the painting was generally clean and the models had a nice balance of cool and warm.

Here are a whack load of different entries.  My Xerxis is sitting there along with some great freehand on a Mercenary warjack.  A really nice turquoise dwarven Tactical Arcanist squad sits alongside a turquoise Scaverous boasting some NMM gold trim in the corner.  The Scaverous belongs to Will Hellebrand and was actually painted to the same style and recipe as some of my older gold NMM (I wrote an article on Handcannon Online quite a while back). 

First place for small base - Todd Mcneal

First place for Squad - Karim Sadik

First place for large base - Glen Tarbet
this is one in particular that I didn't get a closer picture of because it was added later on in the day.  Glen has consistently smooth painting along with brilliant colors and professional, non-sloppy use of Armypainter Quickshade.  Great job Glen!

Annnnnddddd... not to toot my own horn but.. I'm the PAINT MASTER!!!!! (I went around all Sunday informing as many people as I could that I'm the PAINT MASTER!!!!!!)  Very cool trophies thanks to Nathan Bosa and Lukasz Kruszewski for making and providing them.  Thanks for the Sage Brush painting competition - I hope more tournaments and cons have this opportunity in the future.