It’s time to vote for the finalists in the Great Pirate Paint Off event! Voting will run for 2 weeks, closing June 4th. You can vote once per day in each category (on the honor system). Please don’t game the system and make us add email verification… Select your favorite entry, the click Submit Vote, the repeat for each category. Then you can come back and vote again the next day. Share with your friends, family and gaming club!

Make sure to keep scrolling all the way down to vote in all 6 categories:

• Best Painted Ship
• Best Painted Commander
• Best Painted Unit
• Best Painted Army Force
• Best Painted Character
• Best Painted Oak & Iron Ship
• Best Painted/Built Terrain
• Plunder Den Terrain Challenge

Voting will close on June 4th. [VOTING IS NOW CLOSED – Check out the People’s Choice Winners in this post.]

The voting options here have been selected by us from the multitude of great entries submitted over the past three months. With the number of entries we received, we couldn’t figure out how to do public voting and present all 100+ entries. So if you entered minis and don’t see them here, they should be visible in the various galleries of entries and are still eligible for some of the other prizes that will be awarded on May 28th (see bottom of this article for final timeline for the contest).

Best Painted Blood & Plunder Ship

Here you can can vote for your favorite ship entry. You can see additional photos of these finalists in the gallery below, and ALL the painted ship entries in this Gallery. Keep checking back and voting because we’ll be narrowing the choices to the top voted entries as the end date gets nearer!

The prize for the top voted ship is a set of deluxe Balandra Sails from Seamons’ Quality Sails

You can see more images of these top entries below. Please use all photos in your voting considerations. You can also see all the Ship Entries in this gallery.

Continue to vote for Best Painted Commander below.

Best Painted Blood & Plunder Commander

The prize for the top voted Commander is a custom engraved dice tower from The Doubloon Lagoon blog. Please refer to additional photos of these finalists in the gallery below.

Keep checking back and voting because we’ll be narrowing the choices to the top voted entries as the end date gets nearer!

You can see more images of these top entries below. Please use all photos in your voting considerations. You can also see all the Commander entries in this Gallery.

Continue to vote for Best Painted Unit below.

Best Painted Blood & Plunder Unit

The prize for the top voted unit is a set of 3 deluxe fortune coins from Blood & Pigment. Please refer to additional photos of these finalists in the gallery below.

Keep checking back and voting because we’ll be narrowing the choices to the top voted entries as the end date gets nearer!

You can see more images of these top entries below. Please use all photos in your voting considerations. You can also see all the unit entries in this Gallery.

Keep checking back and voting because we’ll be narrowing the choices to the top voted entries as the end date gets nearer!

Continue to vote for Best Painted Army Force below.

Best Painted Blood & Plunder Army Force

The prize for the top voted army force is a custom army carrying case from The Dead Man’s Chest blog. Please refer to additional photos of these finalists in the gallery below.

You can see more images of these top entries below. Please use all photos in your voting considerations. You can also see all the Unit entries in this Gallery.

Continue to vote for Best Painted Character below.

Best Painted Blood & Plunder Character

The prize for the top voted Character is a Box of Plunder sprue from Blood & Pigment. Please refer to additional photos of these finalists in the gallery below.

Keep checking back and voting because we’ll be narrowing the choices to the top voted entries as the end date gets nearer!

You can see more images of these top entries below. Please use all photos in your voting considerations. You can also see all the Character entries in this Gallery.

Continue to vote for Best Painted Oak & Iron ship below.

Best Painted Oak and Iron Ship

The prize for the top voted Oak & Iron ship is an Oak & Iron expansion box from the Timber & Sail blog. Please refer to additional photos of these finalists in the gallery below.

Keep checking back and voting because we’ll be narrowing the choices to the top voted entries as the end date gets nearer!

You can see more images of these top entries below. Please use all photos in your voting considerations. You can also see all the Oak & Iron entries in this Gallery.

Continue to vote for Best Painted Terrain below.

Best Terrain Entry

The prize for the top voted terrain piece is a set of objectives from Tales of the Sail. Please refer to additional photos of these finalists in the gallery below.

Keep checking back and voting because we’ll be narrowing the choices to the top voted entries as the end date gets nearer!

Continue to vote in The Plunder Den Terrain Challenge.

You can see more images of these top entries below. Please use all photos in your voting considerations. You can also see all the Terrain entries in this Gallery.

The Plunder Den Terrain Challenge

Dexter at the Plunder Den hosted a terrain challenge where hobbyists got to make a specific piece of terrain using a limited set of materials and very limited time. Please vote for your favorite entry below.

Conclusion and Final Contest Timeline

The window for entries has closed for the 2023 Great Pirate Paint Off but the contest is still ongoing! All entries have been logged now plunder will start to flow! The categories and prize structure is a little complex for this event, so let me break it down in a quick timeline.

May 22 – Public Voting begins for People’s Choice Categories

Anyone can vote in this contest. You can vote for one entry in each category once per day. Entries are (semi) anonymous but you are welcome to share the voting page (will be posted May 22nd) far and wide with friends, family, games and anyone. Part of the goal of this contest is to share these cool miniatures, this fun game, and the talent of this awesome community with more people and get more eyeballs on it!

We limited the People’s Choice voting to a top 10 (or up to 13 in some categories) to keep voting fun and manageable. These finalists were chosen by us here at Blood & Pigment. It is always hard making cuts like that but we couldn’t really have a public voting with categories with 100+ entries.

[UPDATE:] To keep things spicy and make continued voting more meaningful, we’ll be narrowing the choices every couple days, keeping the highest voted entries until one remains as the winner!

May 29 – All non-people’s choice prizes will be awarded in Update #7
These prizes include categories for:

• Most entries
• Best New Painter
• Best Kitbashed Entry
• Plunder Den Terrain Challenge
• Top entry from each nationality, chosen by our Summer of Plunder Commanders
• A variety of random winners

June 4th – Voting will close for People’s Choice categories

June 5th – People’s Choice Winners will be announced –SUMMER OF PLUNDER BEGINS!
Categories include:

• Ships
• Commanders
• Characters
• Units
• Army Forces
• Oak & Iron
• Terrain
• Grand Prize – entry with the absolute largest number of votes from all categories.