Titanium Dropship 2014 - The end is near (but what's next?)

You've got just under five hours left to submit your entry/entries... So far I've got 30 entries (14 squads, 13 vehicles and 3 pieces terrains), I sure hope to see some more coming in before midnight (UTC)!

But what's next? 

Chance are I'll be fast asleep when the last one comes in. So far, I've uploaded the entries already received and will add tonight bounty to it. Then I'll invite the three judges (David "Dwartist" Woods, Steve Dean and  Robbin "Gruntz" Fitton) to review them and come up with the three best out of each category. That's lots of though calls to be made so I expect this to take a couple of days at least. And once the winners are known, I'll start publishing the entries (all of them) and contacting the winners (in the previously discussed order) to invite them to choose a prize which will be send directly to them by the sponsors offering it.

Stay tuned!

Titanium Dropship 2014 - Judge 1/3 - Dwartist

Ladies and Gentlemen, please return your seats to the upright position and allow the crew of Dropship Horizon to introduce you the first of the three Titanium Dropship 2014 painting competition! Noone else than David "Dwartist" Woods!

Welcome on board David! Would you care to tell us how you did end up painting miniatures for a hobby?

I've just turned 64 and I've been modelling/painting since I was a young boy  - mostly Airfix 1/76 and the occasional Frog-de-Luxe 1/32 (?) or Revell 1/40 military models (birthdays and Christmas). I used to walk several miles to the nearest specialist store just to gaze in awe at the models in the window. Of course as a teenager that was all pushed aside as I discovered more interesting hobbies and I didn't go back to modelling until the 1970's when I was married and, by 1973, had two young daughters. I returned to the hobby after discovering a model shop in Liverpool's city centre - City Models - and seeing a built and painted Tamiya Hanomag complete with crew and stowage and couldn't resist the impulse to buy the kit and whatever else I needed to emulate the model in the window (which I obviously couldn't do lacking the required experience and skill). I've never stopped since then though but have moved away from the strict requirements of historical modelling into science fiction (my favourite book and film genres too) beginning with the SF3D models in the eighties and eventually moving down the scales to Games Workshop and Space Marines! I actually won a Golden Demon (vehicle) in 1991 for a converted Rhino. I very rarely buy or paint GW miniatures now but that's not because I don't particularly like their product I just prefer a more 'hard' sci-fi image these days and the choice is very varied and ever-burgeoning particularly with the advent of Kickstarters and 3D printing.

I guess that's the one! Found the pic on the net and using it without permission...