AuthorTurbidious Well here we are again, 2021 is nearly finished and its been another crazy year of lockdowns and restrictions. But while the world has been crazy the Battlefleet Gothic community continues to produce amazing content and not only painting wise too. The 3d design and printing market has flourished with new designs from creators like Italian Moose, Vanguard Minis, Soul Forge Studios and, of course, Battlefleet Galaxy. There has been a new influx of hobbyists on social media and there is even now a dedicated BFG discord. New rules and fan made supplements have been prepared, such as the Discordia Ruleset and new Horus Heresy Rules! And I even had the a chance to interview the one and only Andy Chambers. What a year! As ever the battlefleet gothic monthly painting competition has continued to flourish and its time to take stock of the fantastic year. Now onto these awards..... This is the fourth year now I have been running the Battlefleet Gothic Painting Competition and it has been a pleasure. These awards are a little bit of a vanity project of mine but I think reflecting back over the year and celebrating the competition is great fun. So please forgive me the indulgence....but this year I do have a special guest to help with one of the categories....more on that in a bit. For the monthly awards the BFG Facebook community votes for their favourite entry, each year the community votes on their overall favourite too....the Bondsman Award. Bondsman Award - Best Overall Entry (Community voted) Ten winners throughout the year were are in the running to be voted by the community to be the overall winner of 2021. The competition was fierce this year as you can see below: Such an amazing group of winners but there could only be one as voted for by you the community.... A brilliant entry back in May to the conversion category and a stand out winner. Admiral Williams produced this amazing space station to act as a linchpin for his very own sector fleet. You can see how he did in the guest articles tab on this website too. Funny enough that's the second year in a row a space station has taken out the communities favourite. Techno Heresy Award - Conversion This award goes to out to the best conversion I have seen over the past year and there have been a lot! I just felt this unusual piece from Admiral Pritchard was a stand out. Neophyte Award So this award goes out to a fresh new member of the community, someone who has only just joined the BFG community or returned or entered their first BFG competition. Arch Magos Dunning provided this beautiful entry and has now provided a few more entries and is active in the Instagram community. Its wonderful to see new admirals. The Black Library Award - Xenos This award goes out to my favourite xenos entry of the year. This award category is always stacked with amazing entries, it has been since the very first month I started running these. This is no different. But in the end I loved this Demiurg Stronghold Ship from Admiral Friedman. Love the blue and orange contrast and the subtle base too. Wonderful work. Ollenus Pious Award - Imperial Im a little biased but this is my favourite award category as the Imperial fleet was my first love for BFG. It will never die either. So this award goes out to my favourite Imperial entry for the year, another strong field as ever and while there were plenty of new ship designs being entered I just loved this classic Emperor Class battleship Admiral Karolus entered. The blue and gold is just beautiful in my view. Despoiler Award - Chaos Whats the imperial fleet without the arch nemesis after all. As the name suggests this award goes out to my favourite chaos entry this year. I had to give this award to Warmaster John for his converted Thousand Sons battlebarge. That cauldron and green fire on the prow is so striking. Love it. No One Expects the Inquisition Award S0 this award is a little left field, a bit different. This award goes out to the entry that came out of nowhere. An entry that wasnt the typical and bit of outside the box thinking if you will. I had to give this to Admiral Granbery for his hangar entry for the first ever captains and crew category. Admirals Granbery has produced a number of awesome scenes both aboard ships and on planet and they all look fantastic. Brilliant work. The Crusader Award The Space Marines are the poster boys of the universe after all and so it would be remiss of me not to have an award dedicated to the champions of humanity. I feel this year has been one of the best for the Asartes, I have seen so many great entries this year and I have suspicion its partly down to the love for the new battlefleet heresy rules and era. Out of all the marine entries though I couldnt go past this awesome converted battlebarge for the Blodd Angels chapter from Admiral Le Blanc. The Furious Abyss Award This award is in its second year, with the popularity of the heresy and 30k fleets last year saw me introduce an award for this era. I am really glad I did because I feel this aspect of the BFG community is still really growing. Its rare the White Scars get any kind of love and so I love that Admiral Valoris sent in this fantastic complete White Scars fleet. The Lord Solar Admiral Award So this is a special award and a new award, one that I hope continues too. As I mentioned earlier I recently had the opportunity to interview the creator of this wonderful game, Andy Chambers. Andy is a wonderful man that still holds this game close to his heart. I decided to reach out to Andy to see if he would like to be part of these awards and I am very pleased to say he said yes. So this is Andy's award, given to his favourite entry from all the winners from this years competition. Ill pass it over to Andy for his words.... Lovely modelling and paint on the Eldar Battleship, so probably the best overall for me, although....I love the design work that has gone into the Invincible Reason. That is such a solid Imperial looking ship I'm blown away by it. Great detailing too, just needs a little bit more brushwork to really sing. Honourable mention to the Tau fleet as well, very clean. Great work by everyone really though, I loved the space station and the yellow freighters too (those were mine....im a little pleased ha). So folks, our Lord Solar Admiral himself chose - Farseer Crows Flame of Ausryan as his favourite this year. Special mentions from Andy: Commodore of Turbidious Award After Andy this might seem a little bit underwhelming as its from me but it is the final award. I reserve this award for someone really supporting the BFG Community. A person who is doing so much for the BFG community to keep this wonderful game and setting alive. This was a tough one for me this year, from creators, to painters to designers, its been a great year for BFG. But this year I give this award to...Italian Moose. Italian Moose works tirelessly to design new 3d models to print to continue the game and does this for free. He also is a key writer in some of the new rules being produced and helped prepare the new starter pack (you can find it on this site). Congratulations Moose. Thats your lot my fellow admirals, I really hope you enjoyed the article. Congratulations to all the award winners.
Thank you to each and everyone of you who enter each month and message me on FB and Instagram. Thank you very much to Andy Chambers for being involved in these little awards and still being apart of this community. Finally, thank you to Battlefleet Galaxy for sponsoring these competitions over the past year. Ill be back in the new year 2022 and I hope you all have a happy holidays. I look forward to seeing your space ships next year.
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Tom Williams
12/8/2021 12:12:55 am
An amazing array of talent and a genuinely fantastic, welcoming community. I am honoured to be amongst such brilliant company.
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I run a Monthly Painting Competition over on the main Battlefleet Gothic Facebook page (Here) and these are each months entries.
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