AWC competitions

[Andrew]

So here we are after another AWC tournament. Mixed feelings again...feels sloppy but whatevs, good time anyway. Here's how our club members did!

Name / Battle Sportsman / Painting Player's Choice / {Fav Opponent} / Overall

3 Jon Frizzell 114 / 36 / 25 / 0 / 5 / 180 Orks
5 Les Westmoreland 94 / 36 / 28 / 0 / 3 / 161 Daemons
18 John Clemens 49 / 36 / 30 / 1 / 5 / 121 Imperial Guard
19 Andrew Karolus 48 / 36 / 26 / 0 / 7 / 117 Ultramarines

And I finally was given the paint scoring sheet, so we know how to make our painting scores better:

Painting (worth up to 35 points +3 bonus points) Max 15 pts

Army is fully painted, but only to the three-color standard of basecoating. 10 OR
Army is beyond fully painted, additional steps beyond the three-color standard. 15

Check All That Apply to Bulk (80%+) of Army Max 12 pts
Painting is Uniform: Not a mix of schemes, styles, and looks. 1
Clean Basecoat Colors: Base colors are painted neatly. 1
Details: Details are painted such as eyes, buckles, and jewelry. 1 OR
Clean Details: Details are painted well (clean, have highlights). 2
Hand-Painted Details: Details (that are well executed) have been added such as unit markings, banner artwork, blood marks, dirt on cloaks, etc. 1 OR
Artistic: Banners, markings, and details are hand painted to an incredible degree! 2
Discernable Highlights/Shading: Drybrushing, lining, shading, inking, etc. (not required to be clean) - 1 OR
Layers of Highlights: More than one layer of highlight, which may include shading, highlights over inking, blending, etc. 2
Masterful Blending: Highlights have been masterfully blended, shaded, or layered. 2 Bonus
Overall Appearance: Overall appearance is amazing! Everything works great together to create an awesome scene. 2

Basing - Check all that apply to bulk (80%+) of army. Max 5pts
Based/Detailed: Bases have basing materials (flock/sand/tiles) or details painted on them. 1
Extra Basing: The bases have multiple basing materials (rocks/grass), extra details painted on them (cracks in tiles), or if extra basing is inappropriate, basing is done very well (eg. rolling desert dunes). 1
Highlights: Bases have highlighting (shading/drybrushing). 1
Special details: There are extra details on the larger bases (helmets, skulls, animals, building rubble, etc.) 2

Check One Box for conversions that are appropriate and well executed. Max 4 pts
Minimal: The army has some elementary conversions (head and weapon swaps, arm rotations) or a couple interesting swaps. 1
Minor: Units have multi-kit conversions including head and weapon swaps. This is for more than a few models such as a unit. 2
Major: The army has some difficult conversions that use things such as putty, plastic card, drilling, sawing, minor sculpts, etc. This could also apply to the entire army having very well done multi-kit conversions (see above) 3
Extreme: The army has some extreme conversions, which could be: a scratch built conversion or sculpt of an entire model, a large amount of models with difficult conversions (see above), or the entire army is extremely converted 4

Other -Check all that apply to bulk (80%+) of army. Max 2 pts
Display Base: Basic based & highlighted or detailed display base. 1
Something Special: There is something above and beyond about a model's painting, the display base, a conversion, or the basing. Something that seperates this army from the rest. 1 Bonus
Total

This thread will be for reports our various capers there this year. Also, it looks like the other armies one needs to think about beating are:

1. 4x Battlewagon/mechanized Orks
2. Thunderwolf Space Wolves
3. Mechanized Eldar
4. Daemons, of course
5. Chimera-heavy IG

Basically, majority AV 12 tanks, some monsters, some annoying units.

[Andrew]

Interesting that Alex won best overall, even over Jordan's army. I thought his wolves were top notch, and the thunderwolf conversions epic. I wonder if they just weren't painted completely? As he only got 26 for painting, while Alex got the full 36.

Just me opinion, but four battlewagon deff-rollas does not constitute: "Extreme: The army has some extreme conversions, which could be: a scratch built conversion or sculpt of an entire model, a large amount of models with difficult conversions (see above), or the entire army is extremely converted." 4

[liberatedobject]

I'd love to do one of these, but painting Deathwing sucks.

[dragonbait]

It's especially not a conversion at all, since it's GW that sells the deff rolla kits isn't it?

[Andrew]

I think it's forgeworld, but yea still. Friz you had entire models that were conversions.

[liberatedobject]

Both have it. It's bought by itself on Forge World, and it's part of a Battlewagon upgrade sprue on Games Workshop.

[dragonbait]

Yeah that's what I thought....oh well. Maybe there were grand conversions he did that I/we didn't see. (yeah, and maybe their judging isn't totally biased at all).

[Andrew]

Haha, no shit. Maybe his excellent display board gave every single one of the points above the base 15, lol.

[equinox]

This is why I love the tournaments you guys run!

[Depayen]

I saw one conversion of his his Mek Boy (if thats what its call) was in a souped up wheel chair.

[dragonbait]

Yeah I do remember that one now too.

[ddaypunk06]

I might have to think of playing in one of the next ones. Let me know when the next one is Friz. I will either play, or come check it out. Btw, I am moving into a new apt on October 5th - 9th. Its a two bedroom and I will have room for parties and for a guest or two to stay over. I will also have room for minis gaming and RPG. Oh yea, and rock band, for those who used to come play it at my place in Dekalb lol.

[dragonbait]

The next one is August 21st, but I'm not sure who all is or isn't going at the moment. For me it depends on which job I'll be working (the awesome new one or back at the hardware store). It's on the AWC forums if you want to check out the details.

[Andrew]

John and I both can't go. I have a family event that came up, and he has something that couldn't get moved.

[Depayen]

It looks like Tom and I are going. Chad has prior commitment also.

[liberatedobject]

I could, but it is a huge maybe.

[Depayen]

I have Cole sign up to go he is the Sub for both Adepticon teams.