AuthorTurbidious Happy New Year my fellow admirals! The BFG community goes from strength to strength with more designers and creators joining the community. This painting competition continues to roll on and warp rift magazine is well and truly back with a vengeance. We also have a fantastic remastered rulebook and fleet list we all can now use, along with a brilliant and easy to use Starter Kit to help get folks into this wonderful game. Its a good time to be an admiral. This painting competition is now into its 6th year, which is quite fantastic. Thank you to all of you who enter, I love seeing all the ships and I think the rest of the community does too. 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. I also like to look at the ships that may not have won in their month of entry as well, so all ships are represented. I have asked a few special guests again to help too, so I do hope you enjoy the new awards for 2023! 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 Entery (Community Vote) Ten winners throughout the year were are in the running to be voted by the community to be the overall winner of 2022. The competition was fierce this year as you can see below: An amazing group of winners but the clear overall winner as voted for by the BFG community was: This amazing Adeptus Mechanicus ship was painted by a stalwart of our community, Admiral Krows. The ship even lights up! Very Ad Mech I would say. Its a fantastic ship with a beautiful forgeworld base as well! Chris has won the monthly painting competition a few times now but this is the first time he has won the overall award. Congratulations and we look forward to seeing more ships in 2024. Techno Heresy Award - Conversion This award is given to my favourite conversion or 3d print over the past year. I have to give it to this ship by Bluesquat555 on instagram. This is an amazing Tobari cruiser. Outstanding work and I love the colour scheme as well, the green and yellow just works so well on this ship. Neophyte Award So this award goes out to a fresh new member of the community, someone who has only just joined the BFG community, returned or they entered their first BFG competition. I had to choose this amazing Battleship by Admiral Hryek. The white and grey is just beautiful and the subtle gold and green just makes the ship stand out. Stunning work and the rest of the fleet is painted in this scheme as well, amazing work. This ship design is from Battlefleet Galaxy as well. The Black Library Award - Xenos This award goes out to my favourite xenos entry of the year. Always a tough category but in the end I had to give it to this amazing tyranid piece full of character by instagram painter Guajirogunpla. The fleet colours are just striking and theres diorama elements to it as well. Love the background artwork as well. The fleet also consists of new designs, kitbashes and old original ships, it just shows the variety BFG can bring. Outstanding work. Ollenus Pious Award – Imperial This award goes to my favourite imperial entry of the year and every year this is one of the toughest awards to choose. There is always so many fantastic entries but in the end this Imperial Lunar class cruiser from Instagram community member Bleach Hawk took it for me. I mean not only is it beautifully painted but its in my fleets colours and has my turbidious logo! I might be a little bias but I think this is one of my favourite entries ever. Despoiler Award - Chaos This award goes to my favourite chaos entry for the year. This one is always difficult due to the variety and creativity that the chaos fleets can bring to the table. A lot to choose from this year, we even had a chaos month, so this was a very competitive category. From the group this stunning chaos fleet from Admiral Hannah stood out to me though. The ships themselves are from No fixed Forge and I dont think I have ever seen a fully pink fleet before. This fleet just works beautifully. The green accent colours also really pop, its such a striking fleet. Love it. No One Expects the Inquisition Award 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 wasn't the typical and bit of outside the box thinking if you will. This award has gone to various different types of entries before, from whole tables built like a ship, to actual painted artwork, to inside a hanger. This year I had to give it to utterly insane dragon prow battleship from the instagram community member Ben_hobbiz_lair. This is a Dragon Alpha legion ship and it is crazy good. I love it. The Crusader Award The space marines are the poster boys of Warhammer 40k, you cant do awards without including them. This year has had its fair share of marine entries but this amazing Blood Angels fleet stood out to me from Admiral Crossley. The yellows really bring all the fleet together and I love the addition of Death Company style ships. How mad must it be to serve on those! The Furious Abyss Award This award goes to my favourite 30k and/or heresy fleet from the past year. Heresy era wargaming is huge and has increased thanks to the release of the heresy rule set and plenty of new models. Some of the glorianas that are being built, wow. Speaking of, this amazing gloriana ship comes from Admiral Stribley and is a stunning Blood Angels ship called the 'Red Tear'. Stunning work, the white wings at the back are a particular highlight for me. It makes me want to make a blood angels fleet! These ships are from Soul Forge Studios. Blessings of the Omnissiah So I have asked three of the best battlefleet gothic ship designers and creators to choose their favourite entries of the year, they are Italian Moose, Battlefleet Galaxy and Paulsmallus. Fantastic creators you should check out. I brought this award in last year and the guys agreed to come back to select their favourites again this year. I appreciate it. So here are their choices for this year: Italian Moose I choose this one! From the Chaos month (Turbidious - how chaos is it to enter a tyranid fleet in a chaos theme, I love it!). I really like the creativity of using natural components to make a fleet that looks super alien. This fleet is from Admiral Ferrari. Battlefleet Galaxy So, I nominate this Grand Battleship produced by commission painter diseased_paint on instagram, It was excellently executed, immaculate technique, and the colours are perfect. Paulsmallus This one! Dioramas win. Every time! This ships is from Admiral Krows, doublebasefanatic on instagram. Thank you to those fantastic creators for choosing their favourite entries of the year. The Lord Solar Admiral Award So this is a special award, I have been very fortunate to be able to chat with the very man that created the game we know and love - the one and only Andy Chambers (you can even watch an interview I did with him on this page). Andy has again been kind enough to choose his favourite from the winners this year. Over to Andy: "Tough to pick favourites here, but the glowy lights for the Ad mech battleship swing that for me. Honourable mentions to both the Necron cruiser and Ork battleship as they are so nicely done, but honestly that applies to all the winners so I'm just on personal preferences here. Fantastic'' Thank you Andy for choosing your favourites of the year. Commodore of Turbidious Award Now after the creators and Andy I have one final award and thats my Commodore of Turbidious award. This is my main award and it goes to the member of the community who supports the BFG community. A person who does so much to keep the BFG community very much alive and kicking. This year I had to give it to Admiral Simon Saier. Simon is the mastermind behind the Remastered BFG Rulebook and Remastered Fleet List. The Remastered rulebook compiles the 2007 digital rulebook and the 2010 Compendium into one document with updated layout and artwork, and without altering any rules. Additionally, it contains the campaigns from the original books. This remaster is now the go to for all admirals, captains and ensign alike, it is what is constantly recommended across the various platforms as the go to for folks looking to play BFG. Simon has pulled together a fantastic document that is easy to use and beautiful to look at. Congratulations on creating a great resource for the community Simon. Thank you and thank you to all those who helped and continue to help on the BFG Discord. Well my fellow admirals thats it for 2023, I hope you enjoyed the article. Congratulations to all the recipients and to everyone who entered this year. It only continues because of all of you.
Thank you to the creators and to Andy Chambers for their input this year. Thank you to Battlefleet Galaxy for sponsoring again. It is very much appreciated. Please check out the Facebook page and discord. Im also Turbidious on Instagram if interested. The competition is already underway for 2023 - Jan/Feb category is - any ship. Like always to start the year. Look forward to seeing all your entries last year!
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Ben_hobbiz_lair
1/9/2024 04:14:27 pm
What an honor to figure in this master list !!! I have no words !
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Tom (turbidious)
1/9/2024 04:35:01 pm
My pleasure, I always enjoy going back and looking at the various ships that have entered. Thank you for entering
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DoublebaseFanatic
1/10/2024 01:09:26 am
However, one award is missing, that of the incessant and tireless competition organiser. Thank you Tom for doing this every year, every month and putting so much effort into it. It's clearly a lot of work on top of everything else you do for the community. The steadily increasing number of great contributions here proves that you are on the right track and doing a good job. Personally, I see this competition as a very big and important event in the community, as it provides continuous motivation and inspiration. Thank you! <3
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