[PAINTING] Voting for Painting Challenge: Shagrat

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Tue Sep 04, 2012 8:51 pm

Welcome to the voting thread for the Shagrat Painting Challenge (August 2012).

Voting in this challenge should be based not just on painting skill, but also for application of different painting techniques, individual artist improvement, creativity and originality etc.

Voting will be open for 7 days and will close at 21:51pm GMT on 12th September.

The Entries are:

BilboOfTheWhiteTower's Shagrat:

Sacrilege83's Shagrat:

Eaothen-the-brave's Gorbag:

Dead Marsh Spectre's Mordor Uruk-hai:

IsleStaggerholm's Sharku:

RidersOfTheMark's Orc Captain:

garmenhord's Grishnakh:

Ardboe's Uruk-hai Captain:

Chris GoM's Shagrat:

Alatar of Rhun's Shagrat:

Bartelomeus' Sharku:

Wah Wing's Gothmog:

GothmogtheWerewolf's Mordor Uruk-hai Captain:

karavatis' Mordor Uruk-hai Banner Bearer:

SidTheSloth's Mordor Orc:

PowerofWill's Orc Captain:

Good luck to all entrants!

SouthernDunedain · **Posted:** Tue Sep 04, 2012 9:00 pm

Hmm, some good entries this month, will have to have another look and then cast my vote. Got a couple of contenders though. Good luck everyone.

SidTheSloth · **Posted:** Tue Sep 04, 2012 9:21 pm

Ahhh!

Too many great entries!

Based on painting skill alone, this month I voted for Chris' shagrat because of brilliant smooth highlighting, nice colour choice and a cool base.

Superb work from all the entrants though :yay:

A very hard choice... I only wish I could vote for more than one

Bastion.HUN · **Posted:** Tue Sep 04, 2012 10:36 pm

WOOOOOW!

annie-caius · **Joined:** Tue Aug 21, 2012 8:39 pm **Posts:** 4

I voted for Ardboe's Uruk-hai Captain. I like the natural highlighting and the flesh is brilliant! Standards I only hope to achieve one day! I like the rustic look of it too!

All entries are fantastic though!

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Wed Sep 05, 2012 12:48 am

Man, there are so many I wanna vote for...
I need more time before I make a decision. Well done everyone!!

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Wed Sep 05, 2012 6:33 am

Sorry to be a pain but I've had to reset the voting as I forgot to add Sacrilege83's entry!

Wooops.

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Wed Sep 05, 2012 7:48 am

My vote this month goes to GothmogtheWerewolf - Excellent conversion, great sculpting and a fitting paint job. Your paninting is improving dramatically. Well done.
Now all you need to work on is the photography side of things

Chris GoM · **Posted:** Wed Sep 05, 2012 8:46 am

My vote goes to Garmenhord, definitely one of the best models I've seen from him (especially the eyes), such an improvement from those first Goblins!

Great entries from everyone though, it was really hard to choose

tomogui · **Posted:** Wed Sep 05, 2012 10:03 am

Wow, so many to choose from, and so many good ones too! I think the One Ring community is definitely lifting its overall painting skill level, which is excellent.

Had to give my vote to karavatis for that beautiful Eye of Sauron banner, but it could just as easily have gone to several other great entries.

theavenger001 · **Posted:** Wed Sep 05, 2012 2:34 pm

It was POW's for me this time. Great job on that guy. :yay:

Beowulf03809 · **Posted:** Wed Sep 05, 2012 3:38 pm

Very good indeed. Need to think on this one for a few days as I'm torn between three right now...

Wah Wing · **Posted:** Wed Sep 05, 2012 4:00 pm

So many great entries!

I decided to vote for Chris GoM's Shagrat as the blending is fantastic between the colours. Love the skin and especially the base!

Superb job to all entries! It's never easy to win, is it? :-D

CaptainOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Wed Sep 05, 2012 7:46 pm

Really difficult to choose this month as there are some amazing entries. I'm going for karavatis this time, I prefer the darker skin tone that others have adopted but the banner is incredible and I like the highlighting on the dark cloth.

Best of luck to all.

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Thu Sep 06, 2012 12:56 am

Well, I've narrowed it down to three...Chris GoM's Shagrat, Wah Wing's Gothmog and Bartelomeus' Sharku.
Now that is not to say I didn't like the other entries...I just thought that these pieces showed me something I really liked. Each had something that stood out...Chris's superbly painted Shagrat blends perfectly onto his base, Bartelomeus has a nice matte finish to a great paint job and I liked how he gave Sharku pants, and Wah Wing's Gothmog with its unique color palette and great base.
After looking at each for a while I decided on Wah Wing's Gothmog. Well done everyone!

Lord Hurin · **Posted:** Thu Sep 06, 2012 1:03 am

There are so many great entries this month! Some really cool conversions, some entries that make me wish I hadn't procrastinated on buying certain sculpts and awesome painting all around! Good work and good luck to all.

edge67 · **Posted:** Thu Sep 06, 2012 1:21 am

Oh for goodness sake - will you guys stop doing such awesome painting. Seriously, there are so many good entries here. It's great that there isn't a clear standout as so many people have improved their painting skills.

Basically I like all of them. However, I am a sucker for dioramas so I had to go with PoW. That is one awesome scene - and really great painting too. I also really liked the Sharku's - especially IsleS's, and RotM orc captain, and Chris's, Sacrilege's, Bowt's Shagrat, and DMS's uruk, and..........

Amarthadan · **Posted:** Thu Sep 06, 2012 1:13 pm

PowerOfWill got my vote. Not the best paintjob of the candidates, but the colouring is very 'arty' and I like it. That and the fact that I'vebeen waiting for someone to make a brutal diorama with that orc captain.

Telchar · **Posted:** Thu Sep 06, 2012 4:09 pm

Some lovely miniatures again, but this time DMS really, really trumped them all.

GothmogtheWerewolf · **Posted:** Thu Sep 06, 2012 4:29 pm

Like many before me, I too found choosing which one of these entries to vote for. I immediatly ignored all entries that were not Shagrat, Mordor Uruk-hai, Mordor Uruk-hai Captains, and Gorbag, which made muy choosing easier.

I was very keen on DMS' rare Mordor Uruk-hai, and karavatis' banner bearer, as well as those entries of sacrildge, bilbo and eothen. in the end I settled on Chris GoM as I really like how his Shagrast has turned out, good job to you, and to all applicants :yay:

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