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Painting Competition

On September 25th 2008, Compendium Games of Burnley (epicentre of the universe) will be holding their 2nd annual painting competition in association with Games Workshop.

 

Last year the Stirpe clan did well. Max (7) won the under 12s category ‘The Scouts’ with his Chaos Warrior.

Alex (12) didn’t get placed in the 12 to 16 category ‘Space Marines’ with his Troll but this was by far the most populous category and he had a lot of competition. He did learn however, the value of making an effort with the basing.

I came second in the over 16s category ‘The Veterans’. I had been confident of a win but the judges voted against me because the other guy had hand painted his figure’s battle standard.

Well the gloves are off. I have finally settled on what I am going to paint this year but I can’t say anything just yet as I don’t want to give the opposition any inside information.

Here are some photographs of my 2007 entry.

 

 

 

 

Now you are probably wondering at this point, “when is he going to get around to drawing a parallel between my painting competition entry and something related to IT such as Silverlight or WCF ?”.

Well sorry to disappoint you. I have nothing to say today about IT. It is Sunday you know !

Here’s a thought. As I am primarily writing blog entries on behalf of my employer and I have managed to include technical references such as Windows Workflow and Visual Studio 2008 in order for this page to show up in search engines, I think it’s only fair that I claim the cost of the wargames figures on expenses.

If that works, expect a posting on the renovation of a Massey Ferguson tractor next week.