Artisan's Contest XXVII
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Admiral
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Artisan's Contest XXVIIAdmiral 05-08-2019

"Pull!"
Zanko Presents: Artisan's Contest XXVII!
Monument
The goal here is to make one or more monuments for your Chaos Dwarf collection! People can enter with any number of monuments, and likewise you are free to include miniatures not shared online before in a finished state as part of your entry. The field is wide open to craft dioramas surrounding e.g. the building of monuments complete with ramps, teams of slaves, draft animals and slavedrivers, scaffolding and so on; or dark sorcerous rituals taking place on monuments; or battles; or bored guards at duty; or victims being dragged onto altars or into torture chambers. Make a scene out it if you like, preferably with a megalomaniac backdrop!
If you're looking for ideas, then here are a few just to get the imagination in gear: Ziggurat temple; palace; stele; triumphal arch (Gates of Zharr?); mausoleum, a bronze or stone colossus that also happens to be your army's big monster; triumphal column; obelisk; clockwork statue; tower of skulls; giant Rune of Hashut floating in the air ; unstable Daemonforged petrified Greater Daemon locked in worldly stone and chained agony; a ruined and toppled monument; macabre display arrangement of flayed skins or bodies or bones; or an idol statue spewing molten lava into a sacrificial pool; or a stepwell leading down to bubbling lava; a Realmgate; or something else entirely. The sky is the limit!
The CDO Staff won't be picky with what entries are accepted. Instead we expect voters to reward those entries which play to the spirit of the contest theme, as is usually the case.
Still, if you are unsure whether your entry will meet the requirements please PM Admiral.
Prizes
Zanko will reward the gold winner with this scenery piece:

While the silver winner will carry home a kit of 15mm Tjubling Hat Command, sculpted by tjub:

Should you wish to donate a prize to the contest, please PM Admiral and he will sort it out with you and the Staff.
Deadline
The deadline for the submission of entries is the 3rd of July 2019 at 11:59pm EST.
Rules of the Competition
Each member may only enter once.
Model and paint monument/s.
Submissions should include up to four pictures. No overlaid words of explanation or photoshop effects in your submitted photos please.
You may not submit pictures of a model that have been entered into other online competitions or posted in a finished state before.
Don't post your entries in the forum before the contest is over.
See also the General Rules & Guidelines.
How to Enter?
Submit your entry by sending a PM to Staff (a special user that all Staff have access to) with four photos of your entry. Please do not send an e-mail to any of the admin or staff accounts as this is a sure fire way to have your entry missed.
Please note that your entry will benefit if the photos are all clearly composed, since voters will base their judgement upon what they can see in the pictures on their computer screens.
How will this be judged?
Sometime after the due date we will post all entries to a new thread and voting can commence!
Good luck everyone!
The Staff
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This post was last modified: 05-08-2019 10:32 AM by Admiral.
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Zanko
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RE: Artisan's Contest XXVIItjub 05-08-2019
Cool, better get ready for some terrain making then... 
Would this include an AoS "Realm Gate" as well, or is that planned for some future contest?
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RE: Artisan's Contest XXVIIJasko 05-08-2019
Ah, very nice topic for the next Artisan's Contest! I don't think I will be able to enter, it's just too early in my plans to already think about monuments, but you never know, 56 days is a long time Already excited to see what everyone will come up with! 
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RE: Artisan's Contest XXVIIKamphre 05-09-2019
That's a super cool contest!!
Well done Admirable for the countdown, it's a very good Idea.
And thank you Zanko and Admiral for your generosity !
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RE: Artisan's Contest XXVIIJackswift 05-11-2019
Hmm... Normally an idea jumps out... not here... will have to ponder a bit...
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RE: Artisan's Contest XXVIIAbecedar 05-12-2019
Must resist. I can feel Ambition stretching way of into the distance. Far outstripping the time frame
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Will Liam
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RE: Artisan's Contest XXVIIWill Liam 05-19-2019
I’ve just finished the structure and base - now trying to figure out what miniatures to use to help people identify its size - hardest thing I’m finding is how to show that it’s a chaos dwarf monument - any easy ideas would be much appreciated cheers
Don't ever chase what they are never going to give you!!
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RE: Artisan's Contest XXVIIAdmiral 05-19-2019
Alright Will, inspiration time.
Adding Chaos Dwarf runes and other symbols (lightning bolts, bull heads, cloven hooves, cloven skulls, bearded skulls, cracked anvils) will go some way.
Carcearion's Bit Forge provice both examples of icons one could craft oneself, or buy directly from there.
Check out "Terrain appropriate for Chaos Dwarfs" in this company list for architectural inspiration.
In it, you will find for example:




Furthermore, we have a lot of artworks in here, some featuring architecture. Check out t5p1ny (Raul Gomes) in particular.



The Mesopotamian image salvage contains lots of illustrations featuring palaces, temples (ziggurats!) and fortifications. There are lots of reliefs and details and overall robust design elements to be picked up from there.
Such as stepped crenellations:

Or stuff like this:




That is not all. The different Chaos Dwarf incarnations through the ages gives lot of visual clues. E.g. skulls, chains, spikes, fused mass of skulls or screaming soul faces (Hellcannon), mini-Chaos Warrior styles and details used in big warmachines (Forgeworld).
For inspirations to a wonderfully wacky workshop approach, see Nicodemus' Daemonsmith Forge:

You can also spice it up with columns:

Or put in small figurines. Statues, idols. Daemon figures, Lamassus, small Chaos Dwarfs. Tjublings molten into a wall?

And don't miss the legendary Chaos Dwarf Mine build!

Some common themes for Chaos Dwarf architecture would include stepped architecture, robust building which gets wider at the base (slender stuff are for Elves!), spiky stuff, skulls, cuneiform and other runic text, statues and idols, industrial works, altars, lava and grotesque remains of victims such as skulls, gibbets, flayed skins and so on.
Just a few ideas, hope that helps give you visual clues.
News on CDO: Artisan's Contest XXIX - Voting Deadline 18th of January ... Etsy shop

And thus there was Chaos. And Squats. Hobby Group Auxillia Work. On Dark Tides. Miscellaneous Commercial Sculpts. Flayman Tutorial.
Chaos Dwarf Writings: Fables. Songs. Proverbs. Quotes. Monumental Inscriptions. Religious Texts.
There's fourteen ways to skin a dwarf. Chaos Dwarf Warband Rules. Ninth Age concepts.
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RE: Artisan's Contest XXVIIWill Liam 05-19-2019
Cheers Admiral - l think I’ll use one of the columns ideas to help make it more chaos dwarfy as well - thanks guys
Don't ever chase what they are never going to give you!!
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RE: Artisan's Contest XXVIIBolg 05-20-2019
Oeh Nice one!
I should (as always) try to enter something just because its fun. Might challange some friends just to make sure I make my deadline.
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