CONTEST: Results!

To distract myself from constantly refreshing the standings, I played through a whirlwind 8 games of Blood Bowl yesterday. But when the Banner Contest polls closed...
Warhammer39,999's Jetseer banner swept the standings. Congrats! He's getting a base model worth up to $50, with custom sculpting and conversion to spec. I'm looking forward to hearing what he has in mind.

Also, thanks to Suneokun for the "Lone Ork" entry and my wife for the "Thinker". I ended up liking all three primary entries so much that I'm going to work something out in trade for all of them. That way I can alternate between them at whim!

But I'm sure the rest of you are here about the results of the second half of the contest! With the aid of a handy number generator...
Sculpting Tools A: 19, Scherdy! Who doesn't have a site to gander at...
Sculpting Tools B: 15, Rusty Dice! A great painter with some amazingly clean freehand. Your time would be well spent stepping over there for a look.

Then there was a choice of a fig seen here. These are an LE Chaos Sorceror, Marine Captain, Slaaneshi Renegade "Chainsword", Slaaneshi Renegade "Fiend Head", a Tech Priest, a mk2 Terminator, and (not pictured) an LE Emperor's Champion. This goes to...
Choice of Model: 1, Noeste! Not only the first commenter, but also a great sculptor. Go check his stuff out!

And since we hit 39 comments here and 1 via e-mail... Because I can, I'm going to offer up TWO more picks through the figs I put up:
Second Choice: 9, Sons of Taurus! If you're only going to read one post there, read this one. It's great advice and you should check his other stuff out too.
Third Choice: 27, Max! An IG player, but we can forgive him. Maybe this will be the start of something new?

So, thank you all for entering, voting and everything else. It has been an interesting experiment at the very least. For those of you that won something and have e-mails listed, check your e-mail box! For those of you that don't have e-mails listed, please leave an authenticated comment with your e-mail here and I will get in contact with you. If you want to keep it private, just delete after posting. You've got a week to get back to me or I pick a new winner...

Cheers and thanks again everyone. Now what to do for the next one...?

CONTEST: The last day...

With about a day left to vote and enter in the banner contest, I thought I'd do an update with a general post and a bit of housekeeping...

First, is the "Pony People" banner in it's full "glory". Some of you asked so I provide...


Second, I updated my recent "B2B: Flamers" article with a critical item I'd spaced about:
"UPDATE: And yet another fun thing about Tank Shock: "Death or Glory" attacks are only allowed by a single "model in the vehicle's path". Many players like to place their special weapons and nasty characters either to the center of the squad or stacked to one side. If you Tank Shock an edge of the formation such that those don't have to move, they are not able to perform a DoG attack. This is another of those simple yet critical items that be make all the difference in your Tank Shock."
Normally I'd just update and go on with life, but that's such a good thing to know that I felt it worth posting twice.

Third, I've mentioned that I'm giving away "a set of sculpting tools and an LE fig". Well, some of you might want to see what I'm actually offering?
So here's the "set of sculpting tools":And there's been enough comments that I decided to throw in a second set too!Then someone is going to get choice of fig from the following two pics:There's also a bare metal Emperor's Champion not pictured.Yeah, I know they're not all LE, but there's some cool old figs there too. There's a Chaos Sorceror, a Marine Captain, 2 Slaaneshi Chaos Renegades, an ancient Tech Marine, and an original Mark 2 Terminator.
I know I have more LE figs around here but that box is hiding from me... so they'll just have to wait for another contest.

Cheers!

CONTEST: Vote a new banner!

Win free stuff! What do you have to do? Simple:
1. Look through the banners below and figure out your favorite.
2. Go to the poll on the right and let me know which one you like.
3. Leave a comment on this post.

That's it. Clicking a couple buttons and posting "I voted" is enough. You're also welcome to share your reason for voting as you did or otherwise give feedback and commentary. (Entrants, the rule about anonymity still applies until closing. So no posting "I voted for X because it is mine!" :-P )

Many sites will do a contest like this and ask that you Follow them to win... I'm not. I invite you to take a look around and see if there's anything you like, but there's no burden to stick around unless you want to. I do this blog for personal fun and it's not like I'm trying to drive up ad revenue or something.

What can you win? Off the bat I have a three pack of sculpting tools that will go to some lucky voter. If there's enough entrants, I'm lief to go digging through my closet see what other fun things I can come up with too.

So a couple entries were clearly jests, such as this one:Yes, the jester in question did enter a real banner along with this. The joke was great and thanks for the laugh! But the last thing I need is another reason to have Hasbro's legal department after me, much less how... tasteless that banner is. (Update: I'm told it's supposed to have been animated and SPARKLE too! Ugh.) A couple others entries were the same theme with different colors, so I pared them down to my favorite version to avoid thinning out the competition.

So without further ado, here are the four finalist entries:
First up is the "Jetseer" theme.Second is the "Lone Ork" theme.Third is the "Hitchiker" theme.And last is the "Thinker" theme.

Now since this is starting a few days later than intended (darned working vacations), I'm going to keep it open a few extra days too. The poll will close next Sunday evening.

Cheers and best of luck to all who entered!

CONTEST: New banner

Win Stuff! That's right folks, I've decided I want to make this little blog look nicer and figured I might as well have some fun with the process. So I'm hosting a little two-part contest. The first stage will be to design a new banner/logo for Maunderings and the second simply to vote on your favorite. Prizes will be awarded for both.

Stage One, "Design a new banner"

The prize: One custom character model sculpted/converted to specifications.
I'll provide model concept sketches, base model and bitz (up to $50), shipping, and sculpt work. I will work with you exactly as I would a professional commission to make this a worthy centerpiece for your army or display case. (ie It will be done to the best of my ability and OCD tendencies.) I'll even paint it up if you want. Regular progress updates will be blogged.

The rules to play:
a. Entries must be sent to my e-mail (dweomer at hotmail.com) by 12pm (noon) MST Tuesday, February 16th, 2010.
b. No more than three (3) entries per person.
c. The banner should be formatted to no more than 900px wide and 400px tall.
d. No profanity, pornography, abuse of my basic tenets nor blatant IP violations will be allowed.
e. I will have full rights to use the final image for my blog and blog related stuff.
f. Entries must be kept anonymous until voting is done. (I expect a bit of cajoling of friends, but don't leverage your blogs, okay?)
g. All entries will be posted on Wednesday, February 17th and voting will be open for one week. The top voted wins.

Equal fun for me? I'm headed on vacation for most of this contest time. So the submissions (or any lack thereof) should be just as much a surprise to me.



Stage Two "Vote the Winner"

The prize: A set of three sculpting tools. I've had an extra set I've been meaning to give away for a while now. There's also possibly more/bigger prizes depending on how many people participate and what I can find in my bitz drawer.

The rules to play:
a. Simply vote in the poll for your favorite banner(s) and post a comment in the thread. Winner will be chosen randomly from the commenters one week later.
b. Yes, you can vote for your own entry(s). (If you think it's a contender.)
c. Yes, you can vote for multiple entries.

There's no requirement to Follow my blog or anything. I see no reason to have you do so and then drop right after. Simply show up, give your opinion and say hi. (Though if you decide to take a look around and like what you see, even better.)

This should be an interesting experiment at the very least... Cheers!

***Image snagged from Clker***