It’s mid February and time for a Blood & Plunder painting contest update! First we’ll give away a couple prizes, then highlight some entries from the last two weeks, quickly check in on the Plunder Den Terrain Flash Challenge, and finally check out the prizes for the end of the month.
We have two mid-month prizes to give away.
Terrain Prize Drawing – Silver 8 Reale Coin from St. Augustine Mint
The first prize here is a handmade reproduction genuine silver 8 Reales coin from St. Augustine Mint. This is a 1690 Potosi mint 8 Reales “cob coin” reproduction weighing about 1 ounce.
We have been giving away some reproductions from St. Augustine Mint during the past couple Summer of Plunder events, but those are cheaper “white metal.” This coin is genuine silver. Beware! It may ignite the buccaneer’s lust for treasure in your heart when you flip it in the air and hear that true silver ring! This can be used as a attractive Fortune Token, or as a collector’s display item.
Drawn at random from participants who have submitted entries in February, our winner is Evan Botkin!
Evan has entered a nice “Sandy Hill” terrain piece this month, in addition to two fine Native American Commanders in January.
Oak & Iron Prize Drawing – Oak & Iron Terrain Buildings from Timber & Sail
We haven’t had many Oak & Iron entries yet! Two entries to be precise. Bring on the Oak and Iron ships!
Our mid month prize for Oak & Iron entries is a set of custom made buildings for a coastal Oak & Iron Game, made, printed and donated by Jason Klotz from the Timber & Sail blog.
Jason has been massively helpful to the Oak & Iron community through several avenues. Not only does he run the Timber & Sail blog that is the online HQ for Oak & Iron players, but he produces custom content, STL’s, custom scenarios, and convention events and tournaments (and that’s in addition to all the Blood & Plunder content he works on here at Blood & Pigment!).
For this prize he donating a full set of buildings that he designed and printed. These can be used either for interesting coastal scenarios, or can be used for eye candy for your standard games of Oak & Iron.
This prize is going out to Gerardo Gonzalez. In addition to several Blood & Plunder entries last month, Gerardo submitted an Oak & Iron Fluyt this month. Congrats to Gerardo! Thanks for leading the charge on the Oak & Iron ships this month!
February Entry Highlights
Here are some more of the terrain entries we have seen so far.
Half Timbered House by Mike Anderson
This is an impressive building that appears to be scratch built!
Rum Distillery by Kurtis Fraley
Pirates got to have their rum!
Various Buildings by Jason Klotz
As mentioned above, Jason has been making some very useful and practical STL’s for Blood & Plunder and Oak & Iron players. You’ll be seeing some of these buildings at Adepticon this year!
These great designs are available on Jason’s Cults3D page.
Various Scatter Terrain Pieces
Scatter terrain is super useful and flexible when setting up battle boards for Blood & Plunder. Here is a diverse selection of scatter terrain pieces along with some walls and ruins. These come from several different painters/crafters over the past two weeks.
Plunder Den Terrain Flash Challenge
We also have the Plunder Den Terrain Flash Challenge running this month! Dexter over at The Plunder Den YouTube channel is hosting a special contest where people can use one of his great tutorial videos to create a simple and useful piece of winter scatter terrain. He has some of his coveted terrain pieces to give out as a prize at the end of the month to the best entry. We have two solid submissions so far and hope to see many more!
You can read a bit more & submit more entries for this special event on this page, and watch Dexter’s tutorial video here.
Upcoming Prizes at the End of February
We’ll be giving out another batch of prizes by random drawing at the end of this month.
For Oak & Iron entries, We’re giving out a set of the Kraken pieces for Oak & Iron.
Get your Oak & Iron entries in for a chance to win this playable monster that is sure to spice up your games!
In the terrain category, we have a new sponsor in Miniature Building Authority! They have donated one of their prepainted Spanish buildings for the contest this year!
Enter a terrain piece for a chance to piece of playable terrain that’s ready to drop on the table!
At at the end of the month we will be opening up both the Oak & Iron and Terrain categories for People’s Choice Voting and we’d love for you to share that voting page around so we can get eyes on the game and lots of opinions for helping select the winners in both categories! Those winners will receive custom Great Pirate Paint Off medals!
Final Thoughts
Thanks for participating in the contest this year! I hope you’re enjoying seeing everyone’s work and getting some done yourself! Both Terrain and Oak & Iron Ships are some of the smallest categories, so that means better chance of winning a great prize. February is a short month so get your entries in!
March will focus on Blood & Plunder units which is the real meat and potatoes of this contest. You can start submitting those now as well! Below are some of the early entries in the B&P Unit category.
