Thanks to everyone who entered the 2018 Pendraken Painting Competition! We've seen a fantastic standard of painting this year that showed just what can be achieved in the 10mm scale.
We've thoroughly enjoyed watching the entries come in, and we hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did!
In a change to the format this year, the voting has been entirely in the hands of our forum members and was open for seven days. Every member had three votes to cast in each category, so let's see how they judged it…
The Winners of the 2018 Pendraken Painting Competition are…
Foot – Pre-20th Century (34 entries)
This category saw one entry pull away from the pack, but there's been a three-way tie for second place!
1st place: Mixed grenadiers, by redstef – wins £40.00 GBP Pendraken credit!
Joint 2nd place: Ansbach-Beyreuth, by paulr – wins £20.00 GBP Pendraken credit!
Joint 2nd place: Early Saxons, by barbarian – wins £20.00 GBP Pendraken credit!
Joint 2nd place: Saxe-Eisenach, by DHautpol – wins £20.00 GBP Pendraken credit!
Foot – 20th Century (11 entries)
Again, we had a clear winner, then a few fighting it out for second place.
1st place: WWI Germans, by Forez42 – wins £40.00 GBP Pendraken credit!
2nd place: Soviet AA, by Womble67 – wins £20.00 GBP Pendraken credit!
Mounted (30 entries)
There was a real fight in this category, with 1st and 2nd place only separated by one vote!
1st place: Polish Hussars, by shutuphippe – wins £40.00 GBP Pendraken credit!
2nd place: Prussian Dragoons, by Redstef – wins £20.00 GBP Pendraken credit!
Vehicle (28 entries)
This was another very close contest, with only two votes separating the winner from second place!
1st place: Panzer IV, by skinade – wins £40.00 GBP Pendraken credit!
2nd place: Type 95 Ha-Go, by Rubenmegido – wins £20.00 GBP Pendraken credit!
Fantasy & Sci-Fi (12 entries)
First place was quite decisive in this category, but second was up for grabs for a long time until Ironduke grabbed it!
1st place: Wood Elves, by clawlessdragon – wins £40.00 GBP Pendraken credit!
2nd place: Undead skeletons, by Ironduke – wins £20.00 GBP Pendraken credit!
Open – Single Base (20 entries)
We had some excellent entries in this category, with two nice entries getting first and second place!
1st place: Wiliam of Orange, by redstef – wins £40.00 GBP Pendraken credit!
2nd place: LoA Commanders, by DHautpol – wins £20.00 GBP Pendraken credit!
Open – Army! (18 entries)
First place had a clear winner here, and then we had DHautpol fighting it out with himself for second and third!
1st place: Servants of France, by Rupert of Hentzau – wins £40.00 GBP Pendraken credit!
2nd place: LoA French, by DHautpol – wins £20.00 GBP Pendraken credit!
Congratulations to All of Our Winners!
Also, a huge 'thank you' to everyone who entered, from all of us here at Pendraken HQ. We always look forward to the Competition each year, watching every day as these wonderful entries come in. The time and effort that go into achieving such a high standard is appreciated by all of us here, and we hope you've enjoyed it as much as we have.
We'd like to thank all of the members for judging as well, it was a difficult task, and we appreciate you taking the time to go through all of the entries.
