Wazabi

[cdukino]

I just painted up Rackham's Wazabi. Man I love goblins they are starting to become as much a favorite of mine as dwarves.

I painted her up for a competition tomorrow in Belgium (Painting Crusade in Berchem it's not a competitive competition as such as all figures get judged on their own and not against eachother (though there are parts where people do compete like in best of Rackham)).
Could be that there will be pictures taken and all that and I'm not gonna find out before the Wyrd deadline has past. So i might as well show her here now.
I'm pretty happy with how she turned out.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/cdukino/Wazabi.jpg

[Ritual]

Very beautiful! Best of luck in the competition, Cindy! :)

[Hinton]

That's really good! The painting and basing are simply outstanding. Good luck with the contest.

[Duende]

Wow! Very nice Cindy. I'm sure you'll do great in your competition (and now I'm glad I don't don't have to compete against it, it blows mine out of the water. ;) ).

Don't forget to come back here and tell us how she did!

:thumb:

[Stupidcow]

I love the way you had painted the trims of the dress. Never thought of painting it that way. Brilliant! She could well qualify for the coming FF2 contest.

[Malebolgia]

Mighty nice! Love the color use and the facial expression. Good luck with the contest Cindy :)

[gi6ers]

Probably your best work to date, good luck with the contest (even though you don't need it!)

[Wren]

Super stuff! I love the pretty colours on the dress, and the way you've highlighted the hair makes it look so nice and shiny. (And purple hair is just cool.) The overall scene is very nice also.

[green stuff]

Very sweet Cindy! The high points for me are the face, the blade, and the base. The dress' colors are a little bit too flat for my taste, but the freehand is great!

[cdukino]

The freehand isn't true freehand though to be honest. The swirly line is resessed (sp?) in the figure itself. A deep line drawn in. So all wasabi's you see will have this line painted

[Thryth]

Excellent, as always. :You_Rock_

I have real sympathy for your opponents in IP3!.

[Eastern Front Studios]

very cool indeed lots of cold colors going on there..looks good together.

[Brimshack]

Cindy,

When you walk through the forests, do chipmunks and the squirrels in the vicinity become that much more playful and cute?

Or is it just anything you touch with a brush or a sculpting tool that becomes magically endowed with personality?

[cdukino]

Excellent, as always. :You_Rock_

I have real sympathy for your opponents in IP3!.

Well knowing my luck I will probabaly be put against Eric in the first round ;)


@Brimshack: that must have been one of the coolest compliments I ever got... put a smile on my face ... thanks :)

[thewartoad]

I like your choice of pastels, which accent the green...GREAT JOB! Cheers!

[Thryth]

[QUOTE=cdukino;21094]Well knowing my luck I will probabaly be put against Eric in the first round ;)

[Geek humor warning]

Wow! The shear amount of skill in such close proximity could conceivably create a singularity destroying the entire solar system! ;)

[Hinton]

[quote=cdukino;21094]
Wow! The shear amount of skill in such close proximity could conceivably create a singularity destroying the entire solar system! ;)

Well, we might get lucky and it could be confined to our planet only.

[Jubilee]

I really dig that yellowygreen flesh =) It's great! And the base is very convincing, and super cool

/ali

[cdukino]

I just came back from the competition. The quality of the doberman (that's experienced painters who won competitions before... and the category I signed up for (the other was chiwawa, or the never won comps and newcommers category) was very high. Great work. I'm happy that I won gold for Wazabi in the system where every figure got judged on their own worth, by a golden demon (and the likes) winning jury of 4, regardless of the others. But what was even more cool... i won gold in best of rackham (which only had one bronze, one silver and one gold to give away) :) I got nice kitchy looking throphies (which are fun) to show for it. And another fun thing. There were quite a few winners but I ended up being the only woman being called on stage. Wouldn't suprice me if I was one of the only girls even entering. Well (plenty of) pictures were taken so I will likley get my face posted on the website with wazabi.
Pretty scary to see your own miniature photographed and posted huge on the beamer on the back wall as they did calling the winners;)

[Wren]

Congrats on doing so well! You should take a picture of your trophies and show us!

[cdukino]

Hahaha... here they are... about life sized on my monitor

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/cdukino/throphies.jpg


Fun side comment... the rackham figure that was painted bronze, silver and gold... is a female figure.... girl power ;)

[Thryth]

Congratulations on another win (and so modest, too)!

I think we are looking at the old "irresistible force versus immovable object" paradox in IP3.

I'm thinking of starting a petition to stop you and EricJ from competing against each other in IP3 before the world is destroyed by my previously predicted singularity! ;)

[Wren]

Cool trophies, thanks for posting those. And congrats again!

[Stupidcow]

Wow really nice! Congrats on the win. Wished we had such events here...

[green stuff]

Congrats Cindy on all you prizes! Looking forward to seeing the pics of the event.

[Duende]

Fun side comment... the rackham figure that was painted bronze, silver and gold... is a female figure.... girl power ;)

Yeah! Cindy cleans up in the competitions (both live and here ;)) and IP winners have both been of the female persuasion.

Girlz rule!!


And please post a link to the contest site whenever it's ready, Cindy. It would be nice to see not just yours, but also the competition you thoroughly romped over. :D

[cdukino]

hahaha... well only the rackham ones ;) I believe there were around 12 of them. The gold (the helmet) isn't romping over others as there were multiple golds. In that case it's completely irrelevant how the rest did. The competition entries table was a joy to watch though. Quite a few figures I saw before, some from the french Ravage magazine. In the room (displays not on the competition table) were also golen demon and very high ranking cmon figures I (and probabaly a lot of you) knew from pictures from the guest painters. That's was brilliant to see:

http://www.bdow.be/paintingcrusade/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18&Itemid=43 (not all figures on this page were on display there... but most were... some I had the pleasure to inspect from about 5 inches distance without glass before it. Unbelievable and humbling quality... Banshee is a painting god)

These guys were the judges by the way.

[Jubilee]

Congrats and well deserved, Cindy!

/ali