Competition YakTribe Competition 14 "Neglected Youth"

[djmothra]

"Juves are often neglected, or at least low priority, when painting and modelling gangs and warbands. They are the test pieces to see if a paint scheme will work, and often have the least attention paid to them when it comes to details and finishing touches. We all know what happens when youths are neglected, they become the Young and the Restless, and it is rare to hear the word "delinquent" without the prefix "Juvenile" " ~ Trollmeat

Welcome to Comp 14 - Comp 13 was (just) won by @ClockworkOrange but he decided to hand the idea to the 2nd place entry which is @trollmeat.

As you can see above this one is all about those new additions to your Gang / Warband / Mob etc.

In essence, we'd like to make / model / paint a brand new "ZERO XP" member for you to use - perhaps you just got that 6 you need when working the settlement, or maybe you just need some new blood for replacements.

This works for just about all gangs and warbands (I think Scavvies may be an exception - and spyrers ofc)

Whilst this is essentially a Miniature painting contest - I can think of a few ideas 'outside the box' as it were

Usual Rules Apply - nothing special here.

Closing date will be 6 weeks from now - so on or around the 6th of July (I may extend as it's close to that day that Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum saved the world )

Please respond to this thread with your intention of joining - keep the WiP on your own thread but please post occasionally here too. Also, any questions, please post them here - either myself or @ClockworkOrange can advise.

Good Luck

EDIT: Removed the move request.

 

[djmothra]

RESULTS ARE IN!!!

In 3rd place with 12 votes is @Xavier Bacon with Brian

In 2nd place with 14 votes is @Scumb4g with Cawdor Juves

But the Winner of TakComp14 "Neglected Youth" with 19 votes is @Mad Sergeant with Blue Orange - Escher Juve

Congratulations @Mad Sergeant many thanks to everyone that entered and to all those that took the time to vote!

@TakUnderhand will be in touch regarding the prize.

Myself and @ClockworkOrange will discuss with Mad Sergeant over the next few days about number 15!

Again, many thanks to everyone from the YakTribe team

 

[djmothra]

Final Entries for Comp14 - Neglected Youth.

@grimwork with Cole "Rustie" Rust -The Kid

@Stoof with Mags The Mutie - Escher Juve

@Mad Sergeant with Blue Orange - Escher Juve

@Jaws with Sonja, Slyde and Ulfang

@Xavier Bacon with Brian

@KungFuPanda with "Point of No Return"

@simon with Delaque Noob

@Silk with Deathskullz Yoof

@Kaludram with Orlock Juves

@trollmeat with Hernia & The Man-Cave

@Scumb4g with Cawdor Juves

@SirFrog with Carl "Blondie" Scheele the Van Saar juve.

@Dixie with Trigger - Hive Guys

*PHEW* and WOW! A lot of awesome entries!

Can everyone please check that everyone who has finished is here - I'll put up the poll later today.

 

[ClockworkOrange]

I'm not entering this one so Simon @djmothra Cowel I can be your impartial judge if needed. Hmmm zero xp juve you say? I have feeling I know your plan

 

[Xavier Bacon]

I'm in!

 

[djmothra]

Well, I know juves get a little XP on creation, but brand new, no advances... YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN!!!!

 

[Xavier Bacon]

I'll kick stuff off...

So I'm going to enter the 'Neglected Youth' competition. Why finish stuff when I can start more, right? RIGHT?

OK, this chaplet was in an eBay bitz bag, as a lot of this thread's minis began life. He's truly been neglected, I suspect by a youth. He had a thick coat of tan paint which I've soaked him in Biostrip to remove. But LOOK! Look at that assembly prowess! The audacious removal of a foot! The... whatever happened with that arm? Quite avant garde!

So, I've a full strip down and cleanup job to do, before rebuilding the missing leg and deciding what to do with the rest of him. I may regret choosing him as a base, especially if all the detail is poly cemented away, but I'll only GS him anyway. Now... what to do with him?

 

[TakUnderhand]

I'm in. This time a simple sculpt (probably Esher), hoping to leave time to cast... and practice that painting...

 

[simon]

Time to try again to actually get round to entering a competition. I'm in.

 

[ClockworkOrange]

For people waiting on my ponds, I should be posting them out on Saturday.

Love Clockwork.

 

[Kaludram]

I'm in. Since I'm new here, this will be my first competition. As I have an absolute mountain of work on my Necromunda Resurrection project anyway, entering a Juve in this contest sounds reasonable. Too bad my painting skills are still terrible...

 

[Blood Donor]

You should enter ALL your juves

By the time you paint number 10 you will be an ace. I recommend dry brushing if your painting skills are in fact sub par, it can make the work of an amateur like me look worthy of the title "tabletop standard".

 

[spafe]

I'll give it a go... maybe one of these days I'll actually find time to finish an entry in time to enter it!

now to decide what house to go with... hmm... goliaths are drawing me back in...

 

[TakUnderhand]

Would a Frost Grave apprentice wizard count?

 

[djmothra]

Yeah, why not! I do occasionally mention FG (and its nearly the same as Mordheim right?) in the comps....and I did also say "ideas outside the box" above!

 

[Scumb4g]

and this right after I just converted all my juves and thus cannot enter them

 

[Xavier Bacon]

Painting one would count?

 

[ClockworkOrange]

Painting one would count?

Unfortunately not if you have already converted the model before the comp begins you can't then paint it as your entry. However painting a "stock" model would count. It's so the voting punters can gauge the amount of work you've put in easily from the photo.

The one exception is painting a cast of a model you have previously skulpted yourself .

 

[Silk]

I'm in. I'll do an Ork yoof, once I figure out what to give him for a weapon. Linky to blog.

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• Silk
• May 26, 2016

 

[Ben_S]

Unfortunately not if you have already converted the model before the comp begins you can't then paint it as your entry. However painting a "stock" model would count. It's so the voting punters can gauge the amount of work you've put in easily from the photo.

The one exception is painting a cast of a model you have previously skulpted yourself .

I appreciate that it's difficult to frame rules for every eventuality, but am I the only one struggling to see the rationale here? I was going to ask whether you'd be allowed to paint a model that someone else converted - indeed, I believe someone else did it in the last competition. If so, what's the difference between someone else and your past self - if anything, I'd prefer to see people's own work.

Surely all that's needed for voting purposes is before and after photos and/or a declaration that we should only vote on the basis of the paint job and not the conversion.