Will You Take Part In Salute 2024’s Painting Competition?
January 24, 2024 by brennon
South London Warlords has been detailing the categories that you can enter this year as part of their Salute 2024 Painting Competition. Sponsored by Wayland Games, this gives you another chance to dive in with a project and potentially win yourself some plaudits.
Salute Painting Competition // Salute 2024
There are a variety of categories that you can enter this year alongside a new set of medals to win from Salute plus a Salute Shield Trophy for Best In Show.
Categories // Salute 2024
We will be keeping an eye out for the entries at Salute 2024 and covering the painting competition as part of our Live Blog. Make sure to follow along and let us know if you're going to be taking part and if so, in which category.
More information on Salute 2024 can be found HERE alongside Tickets, the Traders List and the Games List.
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I entered pre-Covid lockdown and there were some great models and it was a great experience. However, I wish they’d split the categories into 1) semi-professional painters (i.e. people who make money from commissions part-time) along with full-time professional painters and 2) pure amateurs who paint for fun and not for money. When you looked at the winners, a number came up to get their prizes wearing t-shirts or hoodies with “XYZ Paint Studio, etc.” clearly indicating that this is more than hobby and if you can spend a huge amount of paid time developing your craft, then no wonder you can produce jaw-dropping pieces of art. I seem to recall there was one entry that had already won a GW golden demon – and no wonder went on to win at Salute as well (it was a cracking piece!). However the hugely positive development of the hobby and indeed industry does mean such competitions aren’t really providing a level playing ground anymore? The bog standard hobbiest has a different paid job from their hobby and so it’s a real challenge to meet such expert levels that are now being set. Of course such a system would rely upon a declaration of professional or amateur status and trust just in the same way as you wouldn’t submit an entry that you had got professionally painted by someone else yet you pass off as your own work? However, as the phrase goes “if you are not in it… you can’t win it!” Giving it a go is better than not and if you don’t win, it’s not the end of the world! ?
From covering the painting competition for BoW and OTT for nearly a decade, every year the quality shocks me.
This is why I seldom enter, it’s nice to see something in the cabinet, but with little to no chance of getting a pin, let alone a prize.
I like the idea of categories by skill, or time taken?, someone who painted the model in 5 hours vs. 150 hours, paints for a living / a hobbyist… although there are plenty of hobby painters that are excellent!
Looking forward to seeing what’s there this year…
Maybe 😉
Shhh, it’s a secret!
Salute 50 was crap! Nothing really done to mark this milestone, boring show, same traders as previous years, and 25 quid to park, think I’ll give 51 a miss