MichaelStockin
Member
I did think for a moment that the new kids civilian farmer model would win, but the classic Ruglud's soldier fella is coming in very strong now.
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GG 2024 Golden Gobbo 2024 - Voting
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Fimm McCool
Member
Well! That was a close run thing, but we have winners.
Congratulations @MichaelStockin !
Second place @Sneekid
Third place @MarvellousMinis
Of course everyone's entry was wonderful to see and having such a glorious paint job on your shelf is the true prize.
Congratulations @MichaelStockin !
Second place @Sneekid
Third place @MarvellousMinis
Of course everyone's entry was wonderful to see and having such a glorious paint job on your shelf is the true prize.
chrisgoodone
Member
Yes well done all and thanks for organising! Congrats to Michael
MichaelStockin
Member
Thank you everyone and thanks for the votes.
I did not expect to win so that I nice.
So, I would like to thank the academy, my wife for her support, my agent, the art director of course, but most of all the vanity of Sean Pertwee who channelled his likeness onto the models face via my hand.
Thank you and Happy Holidays.
I did not expect to win so that I nice.
So, I would like to thank the academy, my wife for her support, my agent, the art director of course, but most of all the vanity of Sean Pertwee who channelled his likeness onto the models face via my hand.
Thank you and Happy Holidays.
MarvellousMinis
Member
Wow! Thank-you all who took part. For the inspiring selection of miniatures and for those that kindly sent a vote in the direction of my little skeleton.Well! That was a close run thing, but we have winners.
Congratulations @MichaelStockin !
Second place @Sneekid
Third place @MarvellousMinis
Of course everyone's entry was wonderful to see and having such a glorious paint job on your shelf is the true prize.
This will put this Christmas up there with ‘89 (I think it was) when I got my copy of AHQ!
Thanks Geoff for organising.
Wishing you all a fantastic Christmas and holiday season. Martin.
MarvellousMinis
Member
I’ve recently given home to a horde of Grenadier wood elves. They will, eventually(!), be painted as inspired by yours!Well done everyone! That was good fun, and great to see the broad range of old lead painted up.
Special thanks to Fimm for organising it all, and to the particularly discerning and enlightened three who voted for the Wardancer.
inchmurrin
Member
Well done Michael and Thanks to Fimm for organising and congrats to all for supporting a great event.
twisted moon
Moderator
woe is me, not a sausage.
Fimm McCool
Member
Still puts you joint fifth. I think because it got pushed a bit closer to Christmas this year (my fault) we got more entries but fewer voters. That's just a guess though, haven't actually counted or anything.
MichaelStockin
Member
The poll was up for about 2 weeks ish?
Does this mean there is about 30 ish active forum users?
Does this mean there is about 30 ish active forum users?
Eric
Administrator
Last year we had 30 votes, year before 24. People do drop in and out of the forum for periods depending on real life. I think it's one of the attractions of the slightly less frantic pace forums run at compared to the Reddits and Facebooks of this world. The stats since we switched to XenForo would seem to indicate it's around that number. These are the weekly users:
Luckily for us we're not running on advertising income, but gamer love
Anyhow whilst you are thinking about vote counts what do people think about getting multiple votes to cast. Now the polls are simple so we're not talking ranking in any way (ie 1st choice, 2nd choice, etc), nothing complicated like that. You simply get several "votes" to cast as you see fit. So say we said you got three votes, you could vote for just one model, or you could vote for two or three models. You'd not be able to vote multiple times for a model.
I don't know it would skew things much, we'd probably end up with fewer cases were damn fine minis had no votes (which having been there is always a bit of a bummer, but then again I know there is no malice and there can be only one...) Hell there were several I wanted to vote for this year, bloody hard to choose just one.
Thoughts? Worth a try next year, stick with what we know?
Luckily for us we're not running on advertising income, but gamer love
Anyhow whilst you are thinking about vote counts what do people think about getting multiple votes to cast. Now the polls are simple so we're not talking ranking in any way (ie 1st choice, 2nd choice, etc), nothing complicated like that. You simply get several "votes" to cast as you see fit. So say we said you got three votes, you could vote for just one model, or you could vote for two or three models. You'd not be able to vote multiple times for a model.
I don't know it would skew things much, we'd probably end up with fewer cases were damn fine minis had no votes (which having been there is always a bit of a bummer, but then again I know there is no malice and there can be only one...) Hell there were several I wanted to vote for this year, bloody hard to choose just one.
Thoughts? Worth a try next year, stick with what we know?
Citizen Sade
Member
My vote's for KISS & sticking to one man, one vote.
MichaelStockin
Member
Last year we had 30 votes, year before 24. People do drop in and out of the forum for periods depending on real life. I think it's one of the attractions of the slightly less frantic pace forums run at compared to the Reddits and Facebooks of this world. The stats since we switched to XenForo would seem to indicate it's around that number. These are the weekly users:
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Luckily for us we're not running on advertising income, but gamer love
Anyhow whilst you are thinking about vote counts what do people think about getting multiple votes to cast. Now the polls are simple so we're not talking ranking in any way (ie 1st choice, 2nd choice, etc), nothing complicated like that. You simply get several "votes" to cast as you see fit. So say we said you got three votes, you could vote for just one model, or you could vote for two or three models. You'd not be able to vote multiple times for a model.
I don't know it would skew things much, we'd probably end up with fewer cases were damn fine minis had no votes (which having been there is always a bit of a bummer, but then again I know there is no malice and there can be only one...) Hell there were several I wanted to vote for this year, bloody hard to choose just one.
Thoughts? Worth a try next year, stick with what we know?
Up to the masses, I am happy with just being able to cast 1 vote.
Maybe do a poll?
But don't poll if that poll should have multiple votes
Brother Meredith
Member
Having multiple votes would be nice to try out for a year. Like you, there were a few entries my vote could have gone to…