2/5/25 UPDATE: The People’s Choice voting for the Commanders and Characters categories ended on February 4th, 2025. Check here for the winning results! The voting portion of this page has been removed.

Our panel of judges has helped narrow the field to 5 entries for each category. Now its it’s up to YOU to vote for your favorite entries! Narrowing is always difficult, but necessary for public voting like this. Check the February 2nd update for the contest for full details on judging and narrowing categories. So many great entries!

Make sure to peruse all the great work submitted in these categories in the Complete Gallery of all Commander & Character Entries.

Vote for Your Favorite Commander

Please vote for you very favorite commander from the top 5 entries below. There are some incredible entries this year so good luck choosing just one! Voting will be open from Sunday, February 2nd through the end of the day Tuesday, February 4th. One vote per person. Honor system is in place and we hope no one wants to win more than they want to follow the contest rules. 🙂

Fill in name, email, click on your favorite, then submit your vote with the button at the bottom. There’s a gallery of all the pictures from each entry a right below the voting portion if you’d like to see the minis from other angles.

Commander Finalists Gallery

Vote for Your Favorite Character

Same procedure for Characters! Vote once for your favorite! Check the complete gallery for these five entries below.

Character Finalists Gallery

What’s Next?

People’s Choice voting will wrap up at the end of the day (midnight PST) and we will announce the winner within 24 hours. The winner will receive a custom medal with the event title, date and category on the medallion.

February’s categories are Terrain and Oak & Iron Ships. And you can obviously work on and enter stuff for the April and March deadlines as well! You’ll be entered to win the random drawing giveaways no matter what category of entry you submit during each time frame.

Check the February 2nd update to the Great Pirate Paint Off for more entry highlights, details on how judging and narrowing was done, the end of the month drawing winner, and details for the month of February. Lots more painting contest left and you probably have lots more minis to paint! Back to work!

Additional Recommended Reading

• Gallery of all Commanders & Characters
• Full Gallery of all 2025 Entries
• Details & Rules for the 2025 Great Pirate Paint Off
• Contest Updates from January 5th and January 16 with entry highlights.