2015 Give-away results : and the winner is...

Well after a week or so now, I guess it's time to determine who won this year's little give-away to celebrate the 200th follower of this blog.

Just like for last year's event, I've decided to use my trustworthy Excel sheet. It does look like crap and it is terribly not romantic or poetic like rolling a dice but there are times when the cold hearted engineer in me takes control and does things the cold hard way...

This year, 26 participants have taken the time to state what they'd want to win and that just about the same number as last year with a few new heads in the lot.

As you'll see below, the magic happend right when I pressed F9 (yeah I know I should have used a VBA button instead) and the stress of all contestants could end :

Congratulations to Airbornegrove26 for his submission which got the favours of the MS Gods ! I'm really glad the award goes to him because like all the other contestants, he is a very nice guy and I really enjoy his work. His proposition is also very evocative  as he's chosen a battlemaster knight and the falvours : Stillmanian and Frazetta.
This is little surprising as he's had the chance to visit the Frazetta museum and is very fond of the Nigel Stillman approach to gaming (not to mention his chaos army already has some very cool conversions of battlemaster knights).

I'm still struggling to see how to integrate the Stillmanian flavour but I have a little idea to do it without giving 3 coats of gloss...

You'll also understand I was quite relieved to draw this entry as it's actually one I can achieve. This year's submissions were particularly inventive and some of the themes have left me speechless...

Union worker, flaky pastry, atariaxia, wow, thanks a lot Suber, you really think I'm that imaginative!

Shotgun, mixer, gaping : Sean, as much as I'd have loved to see you wining after winning 2 of your give-aways, I just couldn't find any way not to make a very offensive model with those ideas...

Comedy, tragedy resistance : Oh the ideas come to mind right away ! cheers 24 cigarettes

Oh and for those wondering, yes I DID google ataraxia and gaping (glad I didn't do that at work or with the kids around).

Some other members deserve a medal for their ideas as the Kermit puppet or the explosive chocolate...

I was quite surprised to see the random model with 3 flavours wasn't picked since it represents nearly a third of entries ! Like last year, some models were more popular than others and the mordheim fanatic and champion of the emperor were some of the popular ones this time :

You know it's easier to read with a pie chart so here's one :

Now the real question is : How do I mix this imperial battlemaster knight :

With Nigel Stillman

And Frank Frazetta :

Well, you'll see my friends, you'll see ! I'm actually very eager to try and see and to make something that could work in Thomas' army !

Up to  my modellist knife and brushes now !

Thanks a lot to you all for taking the time to submit an entry, to follow this little piece of internet non-sense and thanks for supporting me by blogging, commenting and painting like you do !