Welcome to the 21st Golden Hat competition!

"Horns and tusks, unrest 'mongst the thralls! Watch out for slave rebellion and keep on loading that Hellcannon's soulfurnace with Goblins..."

Subject Matter: Slavery and Warmachines
For this Golden Hat contest we want more warmachine slaves! This could range from solitary slave crewmembers, such as Dreadquake Mortar slave Ogres; through Hobgoblin Bolt Throwers; to artillery or Tenderizers crewed entirely by the lowliest of slaves. It is as such a theme with a relatively free scope for your creativity.

Entries will consist of one or more warmachine slave crew members. Optional composition considerations: Inclusion of the associated warmachine for the slave(s) is entirely optional in the entry photos.  Furthermore, although the focus of the entry must be on the slave models, a maximum of one Chaos Dwarf or Bull/Boar Centaur model may also be included in the entry, if desired (see below).  

Aside from slave crew for warmachines there is no limitation on warmachines from a particular army list and entrants may take their queue from any source, including creating and painting crew for a warmachine of their own design.

Any number of slave-crewed warmachines may be part of your entry. If you choose to enter more than one warmachine into the contest, then the maximum amount of Chaos Dwarfs/Centaurs is raised to one extra Chaos Dwarf or Bull/Boar Centaur per warmachine after the first one, though the slaves should still thoroughly outnumber their overlords.

If you are unsure if your entry will fit the subject matter, please contact Admiral and he'll sort it out with the rest of the staff.

Regarding monstrous warmachines: Since monstrous warmachines have been a part of the Chaos Dwarf image since 3rd edition (revived partially with 6th edition's Daemonsmithing and Hellcannon), participants are allowed to make their warmachines into Daemonic monsters should they wish, but for such entries you must ask Admiral if your entry will fit the warmachine theme of the contest. He will sort it out arbitrarily, or with the staff if necessary. This is because the line between monstrous warmachines and plain monsters can be a fine one indeed to tread. Such elements as restraining chains; a monster spitting fire; or a cannon barrel protruding from gut or maw will be viewed favourably. This miniature, being so commonly used for Hellcannons, will be accepted even without conversion work. Regardless of how monstrous you choose to make your warmachine, the focus of the contest is still on the slaves and their plight in life.

Basing is unrestricted and up to your discretion with the following exception: Display bases and plinths are not allowed, though diorama bases are allowed for entries featuring a warmachine.


Specifics
Subject: Artillery slave(s)
The Due Date: 11:59 PM September 30th, 2014 EST (Eastern Standard Timezone)

Please read the full rules that apply to the Golden Hat competition before submitting your entry.

Submission
All entries must be sent to the Golden Hat account no later than the due date. Entries will not be accepted after this. (Entrants have ~8 weeks to complete entries). If for some reason you are having trouble with your submission, contact one of the Staff. In order to avoid problems, entrants should not wait until the last minute to submit their entries.

How to Enter
Upload up to 4 photos of your entries to the Internet. Photos may not have additional text or items/models unrelated to your entry.  Next, send a PM to Golden Hat (a special user that all Staff have access to) containing the links where the pictures can be found. (Note: This is the same as previous Golden Hats).

If you win:
- Walk across the backs of the cowed masses you have scorned and pushed aside, in order to take your place in the vaunted Golden Hat Hall of Fame.
- Receive the Golden Hat medal for your online persona (As with previous Golden Hats; if there are more then 10 entrants the silver and bronze Golden Hat Medals will be awarded as well).
- Everyone who enters gets a number of slaves equal to the number of entries. If 20 people enter we award 20 slaves to each person who entered. Entries will count towards a veteran medal.
- Win a flayman! See below for details.

Once all entries are received a thread will be created for voting and determining the winners!

If there are any questions it is best post them here so that everyone can benefit from any details or clarifications that may arise.

Prize
The winner of the contest will have 1 unpainted flayed enemy of the Chaos Dwarfs converted by Admiral after the contest. It will be based on a 20x40 or 25x50 base, and posted on his expense to the winner's address. The base size of the "flayman" is the winner's choice, as is the enemy's race in question, though it may not be larger than an Orc, Gor or Saurus. Also be careful with your choice, since not every man-sized creature will make a good-looking "flayman"! The winner will be contacted about the prize via PM after Artisan's Contest XV is over.

Also, one random entrant will receive a set of 3rd edition Chaos Dwarf mortar with crew from Fuggit Khan!

Should you wish to donate a prize to the contest, please PM Admiral about it and he'll sort it out with you and the Staff.

Good luck everyone!
The Staff

This post was last modified: 10-01-2014 02:20 AM by Admiral.

Very interesting GH!

Momentarily I have no appropriate model ... so I have to seach one or more cool miniatures and maybe a new warmachine too!


                     

Evil, pure evil. My head hurts already at the thought of this one

Lovely! If only this happened a few months earlier, when I was making this:


But I'll think of a new idea...

@Zanko: You can't have too many warmachines.

@Helblindi: That's a great one. But you need more gunline!

Really great theme, I really need crews! Models have been ordered now, grmbl 50 bucks

I'm definitely entering I'm in dire need of war machine crew models

Am i right in thinking that the entry can only consist of one "Chaos Dwarf" ?

The way I read it you can do as many slave war machine crew but only 1 chaos dwarf bully or crewman

The contest is about slaves, but as long as you have slaves in the entry you're also allowed to include one Chaos Dwarf, such as a taskmaster.

This is gonna be great! Was again a competition is gonna hold up all my other plans.

I need to understand the "optional warmachine part". I want to build my slaves as a part of something. Am I allowed to enter a warmachine in the competition also? I would of cause need to find a new warmacine, to keep secret and all.

And another idea just popped into my head while writing, way better than my initial one.

As long as there are some slaves about, then by all means take pictures of the warmachine that they go with. The contest is specifically for the slaves, so keep this in mind when you're taking your photos. Taking only one decent photo of the slave models and 3 others that are of mostly the warmachine or the base may not be in your best interest. Then again, the best painting always wins the day.

It was our intention to allow a Chaos Dwarf overseer/guard/taskmaster/etc and/or a warmachine just to keep the entries flexible. It's about the slaves, but the slaves never exist in a vacuum in the realms of the Chaos Dwarfs, so if you need to add something to put them in context and it fits within the confines of the rules, then by all means do so!!

~N

This is a truly original theme idea...I love it!
And since Chaos Dwarfs enslave all races, there will no doubt be an interesting variety of entries...whenever I think of Chaos Dwarfs I immediately think of slaves and epic warmachines, a great combo.
I think this will be a really fun Golden Hat

Thanks for the answer Nicodemus.

At first two different ideas popped into my mind. Then while I was writing down the details for them, a third one came to me.

After looking at my bit box, I have now decided on one idea. Of cause is almost certain that it's too ambitious and I won't make nearly half of what i want.

Edit: ... and reading the theme again, I know i have to drop my ideas. Had totally missed the "artillery slaves" bit. Can't we change the theme to "warmachine slaves"? Or simply "slaves"?!

Darn it. Back to the drawing board.

This post was last modified: 08-05-2014 07:39 AM by Bloodbeard.

Fuggit Khan has graciously donated a prize for one random participant to receive. First post updated.

Greetings all
For Golden Hat XXI I will donate a set of vintage metal 2nd/3rd edition mortar with crew. Staff will do a random drawing among the Golden Hat entrants and one lucky guy or gal will get these guys, I will post them to the winner at my expense. They're in good shape, but with a rather odd green primer
The bases even are marked Games Workshop 1984!
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Wow. That is a pearl of a gift. I don'y really have anything good to add as a price.

But I will give you 15 slaves.

Just thought of a question while trying to up with an idea - are there any limitations or parameters on what counts as a slave?  For example, would a Hellcannon count as an artiliary slave because it is an enslaved daemon bound to a warmachine, or is this only open to more conventional slaves such as Greenskins and ogres?

This contest is all about conventional slaves. The entries must consist of one or more normal slaves, such as Humans, Skinks or Gnoblars. Aside from this obligatory rule, entrants are of course free to make possessed warmachines with bound, enslaved Daemons part of their entry, though this does not count toward the ordinary slaves requirement.

This post was last modified: 08-06-2014 02:16 AM by Admiral.

Now it's getting interesting! If you say so then it may will end up with entries including just a warmachine. A warmachine with its enslaved demons.  

Do you see the problem?

Haha, I'm really not lawyer stuff, am I? I had to re-read my post, which you quoted, three times to spot any possible problem. Actually I'm still not sure if there was a problem with my post, but I trust other people to have better understanding of rules-writing than I do. My apologies for any confusion, I only intended to clear things out.

Attempt at correction: This contest is all about conventional slaves. The entries must consist of one or more normal slaves, such as Giants, Minotaurs, Humans, Skinks or Gnoblars. Aside from this obligatory rule, entrants are of course free to make possessed warmachines with bound, enslaved Daemons part of their entry, though this does not count toward the ordinary slaves requirement.

This post was last modified: 08-07-2014 03:11 AM by Admiral.