Iron Painter V: The Kickoff!!

[supervike]

First off, so good to see all of you again, and I'd like to welcome the new faces as well.

Iron Painter is a very special type of painting contest, and it will test the mettle of all who compete, as well as the judges.

PLEASE, familiarize yourself with the rules located here:

http://wyrd-games.net/showthread.php?t=3224

To me, the rules are important, but not as much as the SPIRIT of the rules.

Let me also say that I cherish few other things more than fairness. I do my best to keep everyone happy, and I will try and be as fair as I can to all concerned. If problems arise, I'll deal with them in that regards.


We will have DNFers (Did Not Finish). I've no problem with that. This contest is grueling, and it is a bigger commitment than you may think.


BUT no more further ado....


The following are the matchups that were randomly chosen by RANDOM.ORG:

mcsneed vs. Darklord

Thryth vs. 350Kilotons

Wingz vs. Lukhan Sanath

Sculpta the Squig vs. HamishMcGreigh

Ringsnake vs. Ben$quig

Valmont vs. Morf

Matty1001 vs. wargriffon

Artemis Black vs. LavronYor

alizardincrimson vs. Thecadian

Moavoamoatu vs. tadme48

fieldarchy vs. Hinton

CommanderY vs. v22TTC

Paintingploddy vs. Grinning Buddha

JakubT vs. Coil

vincegamer vs. Bexley

Brushmistress vs. Jed

steelcult vs. Przemas

stubbdog vs. orkydave

Duende vs. ThunderhawkerMinis

Asmodai1973 vs. waghorn41

Dragonforge vs. CaffeineBoy




Study your opponents well!! But, remember, its all about pleasing the judges!

Theme is ultimately important, and has been the deciding factor in many of bouts!

SPeaking of THEME, Your theme for the First Round of the FIFTH Season of Iron Painter is:


"I GUESS THATS WHY THEY CALL IT THE BLUES"

Now how you interpret that theme is all up to you and your deviousness. Judges like to be wowed, so do your best. If you want to use all blue, have at it. Have another take on it...again have on it.

You have two weeks to do your best, the deadline is

SUNDAY APRIL 27 (my daughter Emily's 15th birthday!!) at 6 pm CDT (my time, same as Chicago time, look it up!)


No girl on girl action in this round, and the lovely ladies are outnumbered this time. It's never stopped them before, as we have had 4 straight Women victories. Can the men rise to the challenge?

Will VincegameR return with a vengeance after a long Wyrd layoff?

Will Bexely end up doing filagree?

How long until Laveryon Yor gets a misspelled name?

Has the spreadsheet tally sheet made Math calculations Easy on the vike?

Will a new face dominate this Season, or will it be an old hand?

All this and more will be decided by this Season of IRON PAINTER!!!

Which begins,


NOW!!!

[Hinton]

I knew it! I just knew it!!

Somehow I just knew that I was going to be matched-up against Meg in the first round.

Damn.

Good luck to everyone in the first round.

[Thryth]

Thanks Jim, it very nice of you to put all of the effort that you do into this.

Who are our judges this time around? Same as IP4?

Now if I only had a miniature that looked like Elton John...

[v22TTC]

Cheers Supervike for sorting all this out, and good luck to everyone! I'm off to research CommanderY.... ;)

[Dragonforge]

Ok who's CaffeineBoy ????

[Dragonforge]

Cheers Supervike for sorting all this out, and good luck to everyone! I'm off to research CommanderY.... ;)

Umm that would be Mr. Slayer Sword Winner ...Thomas Schadle

http://www.minivault.com/


Nw you can help me with Caffeineboy ????

[v22TTC]

Cheers Dragonforge! Checked his FFIII entries and saw they were all PP, thinking, `Oh well, that'll be a Cygnar 'jack he'll be doing then...' then checked your link.... You know in a cartoon when someone opens a door and there's, like, some great big beast on the other side and they slam it quick!... Oops! Will go back for another peep in a minute... some nice blues going on there....

'Fraid I can't help you with your opponent's form in return (I'm kind of new to all this... kind of...).

[steelcult]

I'm so boned. Not a bit of ultramarine blue anywhere in the house.

[Dragonforge]

Does anyone make a mini of BB King..

[v22TTC]

Well, I've only had one good idea so far but I can't imagine anyone makes such a mini... but my Muses never desert me!

Could be worse though - I could be up against a guy who won a Slayer Sword with a blue mini.... Have to confess that such awards don't impress me a hair but that is one fine mini! In fact, browsing his galleries, the one thing that constantly jumped out was how excellent his blues are.... Eek!

Might have to do an OrkyDave and get 15 out of 5 for theme or something....