Golden Gear 2022 Update and Deadline Extended!
We updated the Golden Gear 2022 Trophy to a Water Viper mounted on our black resin gear base with plaque. We forgot to make reminder posts last month so have decided to push back the entry deadline to Midnight EST on December 25th, 2022.
We seen lots of great painted minis on the various Facebook groups over the last year, now we need everyone to send those photos into Robert at rdubois@dp9.com as entries for Golden Gear 2022, so we can show them off to everyone. If you have not started yet, get painting your Heavy Gear Blitz and Heavy Gear Arena Gears, Vehicles, and Combat Groups, take your entry photos and email them before the deadline.
Categories
Best Heavy Gear Blitz Miniature - Single HGB/HGA Miniature: Gear, Strider, or Other Vehicle.
Best Heavy Gear Blitz Combat Group - Combat Group of Four or more HGB/HGA Miniatures.
Best Duelist Miniature - Single HGB/HGA Miniature: Equipped with Duelist Weapons.
Pimp My Gear - Single HGB/HGA Miniature: Gear, Strider, or Other Vehicle - All Pimped Out with a Flashy Paint Scheme, Custom & Scratch Builds are encouraged for this category.
Note: You don't need to make an actual Pimp as some did in our first Pimp My Gear Contest.
Prizes
Best Heavy Gear Blitz Miniature - Winner receives a Golden Gear 2022 Trophy plus $100 USD DP9 Online Store Points Credit.
Best Combat Group - Winner receives a Golden Gear 2022 Trophy plus $200 USD DP9 Online Store Points Credit.
Best Duelist - Winner receives a Golden Gear 2022 Trophy plus $100 USD DP9 Online Store Points Credit.
Pimp my Gear - Winner receives a Golden Gear 2022 Trophy plus $100 USD DP9 Online Store Points Credit.
This years Golden Gear Trophy is a Water Viper painted gold and mounted on our black resin gear base with plaque, see photo attached below.
Contest Rules
Miniatures
All Heavy Gear Blitz & Heavy Gear Arena minis can be entered into the Golden Gear Painting Contest. Conversions and decals are allowed and encouraged. Custom bases and plinths are allowed, hex bases are not required. Pimp My Gear entries can be custom builds but should include some recognizable HGB/HGA parts.
Entry Deadline is Midnight EST on December 25th, 2022.
Submissions
Email up to five photos per entry to rdubois@dp9.com, please include your full name. By submitting your photos you grant Dream Pod 9 Inc. the right to publish the submitted photos. Entrants may submit entries to multiple categories, however, every submission must be unique. Current Dream Pod 9 employees are excluded from the competition.
Judging will be done by the Dream Pod 9 Montreal Staff (Robert Dubois, John Bell, Philippe F. LeClerc, and Alain Gadbois) the week following Christmas and Winners Announced.
We'll be posting all the entries received in a thread on the DP9 Forum.
