Hi! Its me! I am back again with a piece of wisdom, loaded with opinions. Those opinions can be ignored, but try to filter the wisdom in!

So you are going to enter in a painting competition for the first time? Thats good, competitions are a lot of fun. They bring likeminded people together and its a day of celebration of everybodys work and dedication to their craft! You can paint any model for a competition. Its fine, you can choose any. There are how ever options with choosing an easy model to paint or a difficult one. I´ll give some examples on the difficult ones and on the easier ones. You dont have to choose these miniatures excactly, but look for commonalities between these examples and the ones you are intrigued by! Remember to choose a piece you are passioined about! You might be looking at it for hours and many sessions. You have to want to paint it. I just want to give you some suggestions to not get overwhelmed and dissadisfied in the prosess!

If we want to have easier time we should choose a miniature you don´t have to fix a lot before starting. This one has a noticable flaw even in its “box art” picture.

If you choose to have a miniature that has a mount or a steed, its like having to paint to miniatures. More are more time investment.

The next two will show a problem of accesibility. One of them more noticable and more complex and the other more subtle. Open poses and open space overall on the miniature gives you more room to show your paint brushing skills. You can live with a little bit of complexity and a little bit of hard to reach areas. Its a matter of planning and brushcontrol.

So by doing deduction on the negatives… We get a piece thats open space, open pose and a little bit of complexity, without too much detail.

With these you are ready to start choosing your miniature! I hope you have fun painting your first competition piece, and I wish you bravery to submit it in a competition some day soon!