Gangs of Golgoville international sculpting competition
East Riding Miniatures and Golgo Island are pleased to announce the Gangs of Golgoville 2009 sculpting competition, starting now until March 15th 2009!
Who can enter?
Anyone can enter. Actually, anyone is encouraged to enter, even if it’s their first go at sculpting anything. It’s our first go at running a sculpting competition too after all, so don’t feel too shy.
What to sculpt?
The theme for our 2009 releases will be “Gangs of Golgoville”, and we’d like your entries to fit in that theme too.
The harbour city of Golgoville is a very nasty place largely populated by scoundrels, petty criminals, thugs and all kinds of low-life. It is all in all a rather unhealthy and dangerous place ruled by gangs that, inevitably, have some occasional fun together.
The city experiences disasters of all kinds on a regular basis, which include but are not limited to: gang wars, invasions, genocides, lava spat out by the Great Golgo, plagues, toxic/radioactive/biochemical pollution and nuclear/death ray/secret weapons attacks.
Your sculpt should represent the character you’d like to see live, fight, and evolve in that environment – they can be a hero fighting for glory/survival/a better world, a lost soul, a worthless thug, a gang leader, a never do well, a lone wolf, the Chosen butt-kicking babe of The Lost Prophecy, a devilish megalomaniac personality, or anything you feel would fit in that theme and you’d like to play in that kind a game setting.
Your character can be armed with about anything: big muscles, huge bare fists and kickboxing, bats, chainsaws, nunchuka, ninja swords, tyres, hammers… Firearms tend to be more scarce, but life is so harsh and unfair in Golgoville that you may come across an attractive weight-lifting monokini karate expert babe with a 180 IQ and cybernetic implants pointing a rotary plasma cannon from another galaxy at you – so don’t feel too limited.
Though there are plenty of movies, anime and video games to draw inspiration from, don’t get too inspired if you some kind of “not-someone”. More generally, don’t be a challenge to any Intellectual Property, please.
Size-wise, the average figure should be the usual 28mmish-to-the-eye tall that is the standard of most gaming miniatures today.
What to use?
Sculpts should be made from the regular vulcanisable epoxy resins (such as greens stuff, milliput, ProCreate etc) and metal parts. Don’t use plastic bits or fimo, for example, unless you really don’t want your figure to win and be cast.
Ready made armatures dollies, and any commercially available bits and bobs (heads, weapons etc) are fine as long as they are free of rights. Please keep castability in mind! If you have the faintest doubt about the castability of the pose you have given your character, contact Tony @ ermtony@gmail.com
What’s to win?
Your name carved in fiery letters in the Golgo Island Hall of Fame for eternity, lots of thanks from the Golgo Island Hobby, your figure joining the “official” Golgo Island characters and range of figures by East Riding Miniatures, and a few casts of the winning entries. Also, Mr Dagenhameast has kindly offered to support the competition by painting you one cast of your figure if you win, yippee!
The number of winners and what extra goodies we may give you is going to depend on the number and quality of entries submitted – so it’s best to go for the worst case and think that should your figure be selected, you’ll get very little while we might be making insane profits out of your hard work and spend it all on beer and women.
How your figure will be manufactured/sold will also depend of the above – we have no bloody idea how successful this competition will be. In a perfect world, we’d like to have 4 winning figures to sell as a special pack, at a special low price, but that’s about all the wishful thinking we can do at the moment.
When and where to post my entries?
You can post them on whatever forum you wish, and a thread dedicated to the competition has been opened on Warmania to submit your entries, but you must send pictures of your entry to banana.tyrant@gmail.com before March 15th 2009. All entries will then be posted for public viewing on TMP, FU-UK, Warmania, and The Rev’s Crap Forum.
Winners will be chosen after this round of feedback by Tony Barr at East Riding Miniatures, and Sylvain Boudeele at Golgo Island.
What else should I know?
That this isn’t the most serious competition ever and it’s meant to be fun, wacky and friendly!
Should you have any more questions, feel free to address them to banana.tyrant@gmail.com
