Our Giants in Miniature range was launched half a decade ago and we are celebrating with an epic painting competition!
We want to see your painted Giants in Miniature! We’ve created a range of categories, along with varied judging criteria, to ensure painters of all levels can get involved. You could win glory and fame in the pages of Wi, along with some fine prizes.
You can enter as many miniatures and/or scenes as you’d like; each entry will have a chance of winning the Main Category it is entered into, and we will fit it into Sub-Categories that are applicable. In that way even the less experienced entrants may be rewarded for their exciting entries!
Main categories
Each of the three Main Categories has these fine prizes available!
- Winner – £100 North Star Voucher, one year Wi Print and Prime subscription, choice of ten GiM.
- Four runners up – 3 month Wi Prime subscription, choice of three GiM.
1. Best single miniature
The winner here will apply a clean, pristine, accurate, technically excellent paint job. Conversion and basing skills will be considered in the judging but the model can be as is if you prefer.
2. Best diorama
A diorama, with a size limit of 30cm by 30cm. Convert, scratch-build, create, and feel free to include miniatures produced by other companies as long as at least one GiM miniature is the focus of the scene.
Technical painting skills are important, but equal consideration will be given to the drama, dynamism, excitement, or fun visible in the diorama. Any number of miniatures (can be converted) should be fixed to (or in some way incorporated on) the diorama base.
3. Best unit/scenic
This is a creative photography category as much as it is a painting challenge. We want to see a GiM in-situ – it could be on the battlefield or at any relevant (or irrelevant) location. Models from any manufacturer may be included as long as at least one GiM features prominently. Images can use scenery, dramatic lighting, practical effects, digital effects and editing, and will be judged on these elements.
Sub-categories
We’ll put your submissions into any relevant sub-categories. This gives you more chances to win, particularly because the winners and runners up from Main Categories are exempt from getting prizes in the Sub-Categories.
- Winner – three month Wi Prime subscription, choice of five GiM.
- Four runners ups – choice of a GiM.
a. Keeping it old school
Your entry includes any of the first ten Giants in Miniature to have been released. Some of these are sold out, others are still available in extremely limited numbers.
The five Old School GiM still available from our store.
(L-R): GiM 02 Leon Trotsky, GiM 08 Steampunk Victoria, GiM 06 John Churchill, GiM 04 Lord Kitchener and GiM 01 Sergeant John M. Stryker.
b. From the silver screen
Your entry includes any of the Giants in Miniature that are a take on characters from the movies (and we’ll include other forms of media too).
Left to right: GiM 13 Warrior Woman, and GiM 14 A Couple of Bastards.
c. Rarities
Your entry includes any of the Giants in Miniature that are sold out on the Wargames Illustrated webstore. If you can’t see the model on our store pages but it’s lurking in your pile of shame, it’s eligible!
d. I deserve love too!
Your entry includes one of the five Giants in Miniature that are, bless them, currently the least far through their limited number run (excluding the last five GiM releases).
Give these five some attention!
(L-R): GiM 21 Pulp Agent, GiM 32 Presley Neville O’Bannon, GiM 48 ‘JT’ (The Survivalist), GiM 38 Unknown Soldier, and GiM 40 Johnny Clem (Civil War Hero).
e. Life begins at 50
One of the most recent Giants in Miniature – from GiM 50 onward.
The BIGGIE! Wi readers’s choice GiM
After all the entries have been assessed we will post our favourites online (the winners, runners up, and other commendable entries). You will be able to choose your favourites and determine the reader’s choice winner. Judge by whatever criteria you want, we will tally your votes, the top picks will receive some outstanding prizes!
Winner
- Be a Giant in Miniature – Your likeness, sculpted to fit whatever period and army you prefer, will be released as a GiM!
- 10 copies of your GiM.
- A Harder & Steenbeck Infinity CR Plus 2-in-1 Airbrush.
- A Broken Toad Mk3 Brush Set.
Second place
- A Harder & Steenbeck Infinity CR Plus 2-in-1 Airbrush.
- A Broken Toad Mk3 Brush Set.
Third place
- A Broken Toad Mk3 Brush Set.
The judges
- Dan Faulconbridge – Wi Editor, Owner, and creator of the
GiM range. - James Griffiths – Wi Project Manager, former professional mini painter, and office “hobby boy”.
- Special guests – We’ll have some surprise judges too, from competition painters to industry luminaries.
How to enter
This is a submission by email competition; you can begin submitting entries right now! Send them to our competition email – competitions@wargamesillustrated.net with the Main Category name you are entering in the subject. Attach as many images as you would like (tips for taking great photos can be found here) and we will do the rest.
The deadline date for submissions is 28th February 2021!
Terms and conditions
- The closing date for entries is 1st February 2021
- Finalists/winners will be selected by the judges within 6 weeks of the closing date for the main and sub categories.
- The readers’s choice winners will be selected by a public vote through the wargamesillustrated.net website within 8 weeks of the closing date.
- Submissions must be the artists’ own work, do not enter copyrighted or commissioned miniatures. Copyright infringement will be breached by the entrant who submits the work and not by Wargames Illustrated.
- Any photographs submitted may be used by Wargames Illustrated in future marketing activities and publications.
- Artwork must be submitted by email to competitions@wargamesillustrated.net.
- Entries will not be accepted from employees of Wargames Illustrated or their immediate families.
- No cash or alternative prize is available and the voucher is not transferrable.
- The winner and finalists will be informed after the judging has been completed.
- The judge’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into regarding the competition.
- Entry into the competition will be deemed to constitute acceptance of these terms and conditions.
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