UPDATE: VOTING IS OVER FOR THESE CATEGORIES FOR THE 2025 CONTEST. CHECK OUT THE WINNERS HERE.
The second month of the 2025 Great Pirate Paint Off has concluded and we have to more categories wrapping up and ready for your votes. Our judges have helped us narrow to the top 5 entries in both the Oak & Iron Ship and the Terrain categories.
Voting Instructions and Timeline
People’s Choice voting will run from Wednesday 3/5 through Friday, 3/7 at the end of the day (11:59pm PST) and the top voted entry in each category will earn everlasting glory and an attractive gold medal!
Punch in your name and email, click on your favorite, and push the “submit” button below the images.
Oak & Iron Voting
We only had 10 Oak & Iron entries this year but there were some good ones!
Here is the gallery of all images from these top entries:
Terrain Voting
The Terrain category is always a lot of fun! There’s always a wide variety of stuff. Some of it is scratchbuilt, some designed in 3d, some just painted, and this year we even got some great Oak & Iron terrain! Always hard to narrow down!
Below are all the submitted images from each of these top 5 entries:
Full Galleries
You can find the full gallery of Terrain entries here and Oak & Iron entries here for this year’s contest.
March Category
The Blood & Plunder Unit category will be judged at the end of March! This is the meat of the contest! Watch for a contest update with more details and another prize giveaway in the next day or two.
Thanks for voting for these categories!
Additional Recommended Content
- Full list of sponsors and prizes for this year’s contest
- Character and Commander Winners from January
- February 16th Update with lots of highlights and a prize giveaway.
- Entry Spotlights from January 5th
- Great Pirate Paint Off Details & Rules
- 2025 Gallery
- Entry Form
- Collection of Blood & Plunder Painting Guides

































