Winners of the Balor Miniature Painting Contest! -Worcester Store

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December 7, 2024

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Winners of the Balor Miniature Painting Contest!

Fan Vote: Guests of our store could vote by choosing their favorite miniature from among all the displayed Balor miniatures that were in our front hallway display case. Votes were submitted digitally through our website.

1^st Place: Jacob S ($50 Store Credit Prize)

2^nd Place: Nick C. ($35 Store Credit Prize)

3^rd Place: Jenny S. ($25 Store Credit Prize)

Staff Vote: Our That’s Entertainment staff voted for their favorite Balor Miniature based on painting technique, completeness, and creativity.

1^st Place: Nick C. ($50 Store Credit Prize) – We were very impressed with this entry. Not only did you display topnotch painting techniques on your piece, such as blending, contrast, and object source lighting, but you also created different terrain textures and landscapes on your base. The addition of the three figures and details helped create a fun narrative for your submission. It’s clear that you spent a lot of time on this piece, and it shows! Fantastic work, and we hope to see you enter other contests in the future!

2^nd Place: Sara A. ($35 Store Credit Prize)- Sara, you never cease to impress us with your professional painting skills. You brought a sense of atmosphere to your Balor through contrast, shading, blending, and color. We could feel the coolness of the dungeon that must surround the Balor, and the hot fire of his whip. The textured base covered in runes and symbols was a very nice touch that helped complete the narrative of your piece. Excellent work!

3^rd Place: Michael K. (Tied -$25 Store Credit Prize) – Wow, Michael! We love the panting techniques you applied to your Balor! We could feel the coolness of the ice and the heat from the flaming whip! Your blending and shading techniques are fantastic, and those eyes send chills down our spines! Amazing!

3^rd Place: Dylan T. (Tied- $25 Store Credit Prize) – We are amazed by your textured base, the blending and shading on the paint job, the added ice bolt, but what we think is an especially interesting choice is the broken horns. There’s a story there we want to know… Did the Balor get into a brawl with a beast greater than itself, was it self-inflicted? We may never know what happened to his horns, but we love coming up with narratives to try and figure it out.

Congratulations to all the winners, and many thanks to everyone who participated, including the voters! We hope you will join us again for another miniature painting contest/event in the future!

A NOTE TO OUR WINNERS: Please pick up your prizes and miniatures at the front counter of our store. You will have three weeks to pick up your miniatures from the day of this notice. After three weeks we will donate all abandoned miniatures to our volunteer dungeon masters, who will put them into action during our one-shot adventures or youth D&D. May that be a fair warning to you! HA!