congrats grimstonefire! this will be your first medal and certainly deserving. more than alf of the voters must have voted for you so its certainly deserving, although it was very tight in the end!
and its nice to finally see whose entry belonged to who
what is interesting is that vexxus managed to get more votes than his much more chaos dwarf experienced brother lol
i wonder if that is going to be brought up around the table at thanksgiving
GREAT STUFF!! awesome work from everyone ,some great ideas and colour schemes in there congratulations to all
I'd say now is the time for you to get a proper
Xandatar™, abyss. Your Golden Hat entry will make a nice one!
I've heard that. Can;t remember who said it. I agree anyway
I never said I was displeased with my resulting model, I just expected it to occur. Curse the fine sculptors and painters!
pretty much the same here i got 0 votes but im still happy with my finished model, but i always knew there were so many better painters here. at the end of the day bettering your past achievements is more important than bettering everyone else.
I dont think there a single entry that you would say was badly done, and i would say that CDO possibly has the most skilled modelers and painters of any army specific web forums ive ever seen. The whole community breeds improvement, and im sure your pushed as much as i am to make your nest GH entry even better!
WOW! A 2nd place i my first GH and for the first painted Chaos Dwarf in many, many years. Thank you all! This should really motivate me doing some serious painting sessions now - and bring some paint on my Raiding Party and that collection of classics.
And a big congrats to GFS - that entry is such a brilliant sculpt - a true winner
So what a great day it was, a silver medal, a Marauder Mage by post and then this:
Seeing as I already have a copy of WD Presents: Chaos Dwarfs, I offer this to 2nd place. So Clam if you want this it's yours!
... really don't know what to say ... it so generous of you passing this reward on to me. I have read the book a few times in the past, but I don't own a copy of it myself - so 'yes' I want it very, very much - thank you!
And like so many others, I would also like to add a big Kudos to all who entered, and those who voted. I hope this would be the standard for all future Golden Hat Competitions 
Congrats everyone! what a fantastic GH competition, let's have more of this please!! (sorceror for GH6!!
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to all medal winners!!!
YES lets do it for GH 6 .I think it would be great to have CDmordheim warbands
Well the rules and characters from the CD list surely offer enough converting and painting potential. Although I've never played Mordheim, I suppose there is a points limit as well that is agreed before starting a group...? So that's something that would need to be fixed first.
As much as the mordhiem idea sounds fun, i think a whole warband may be a bit much for a lot of people. I think a better idea for a mordhiem warband would be something like what i did with a bloodbowl site a few years ago. Everyone picks one model from the pre-written list, makes it, paints it, all to a specific theme (we did norse in blue and white, thats as complicated as it needs be).
Then what you do is post your entries to someone, probably xander. they are then all photographed, judged, and whoevers model wins, win the whole warband.
i know this is a a very different approach to everyone just painting their own warband, but it would be a great prize for the winner to have, and it would be cool for it to be something we all did together.
this site
http://www.geocities.com/melifaxis/
2004 legacy team, my username was tomb.
basically would enable us to create 1 whole (possibly with extras) warband, that would be of much higher standard than if we all did one separately, and im sure border town burning would still get all the pics they need.
At this point we are disussing whether or not we want to have GH6 to help out Border Town Burning, and their Mordheim supplement. They need pictures of Chaos Dwarf warbands by the end of June! Should we help the Chaos Dwarfs beyond these walls?
That sounds cool. I think I may work on a warband even if it's not for GH6!! Is there a PDF file for the gang, I can't seem to download it from the BTB website?
If you decide this isn't going to be a GH, then maybe a warband thread in the project development would be in order.
@ Ishkur:
You have a limited budget of Gold Crowns to start your warband, then after that, you gain money from missions, and get experience etc. Basically, the warband would be made up by a number of heroes and hencmen, as the campaign goes on, you end up with a bigger warband because you have more money to spend (in theory, but if you lose a lot, then it is in fact the opposite that happens!).
I think first of all we need to chill a bit after the awesome hype and excitement of Golden Hat V.
However, if BTB need the pictures in June, then this next Golden Hat could take place in about two months, which would give us enough time to collect some creative energies again. ^^ And, say four miniatures as warband is the same amount of work as was done for the "slaves" GH.
Gaoler and mechanical cart would be good most of the others people should have already .Some warbands could be VERY small
I think the mechanical cart would be a better artisans contest entry, and the gaoler as a golden hat entry. that way it would focus on the ideas that went into the cart rather than the finished product, which makes it a more open contest. I dont think you could really judge a contest based on more than 1 model per entrant, deciding for GH5 was hard enough!
I have been looking through the pdf, and i think it is very well done and does deserve some of our attention. Im sure a lot of CDO members already have a nice set of models they could put together as a warband and take some pics of for BTB's website.
I think a gaoler would make a good golden hat competition. you could even call it a 'specialist golden hat' or something.
pyro has a good idea, you dont want the momentum GH is building up to lose itself by having a model that isnt going to be popular with all gamers. Certainly everyone can easily put another unit champion in their army, and there is so much possibility for that.
But the gaoler and prison wagon are very cool ideas and something that hasnt actually been done before. This does make the competition more open but it also will put off those who dont really enjoy converting/modeling as much as painting, as it would be a big modeling project to make.
Possibly the BTB contest could be a longer contest, ending approx 2 weeks before they need the pictures, and running alongside golden hat. that would give people to put together warbands, not to mention creating and painting prison wagons. large models can take up a lot of time, i know my gorkamorka track took around 18 hours of painting, the sand colour base coat took 3 in itself.
As always im quite happy to run with whatever is decided on, but i thin 6 weeks isnt enough time for a prison wagon. especially for people who have a lot of 'real life' commitments.
We could do a Prison Wagon for Artisan's #2, and Gaoler for GH#6?
Gaoler would essentially be a themed Chaos Dwarf Champion anyway.
At the end of both competitions we could have a separate vote for Best Warband pictures, wherein you include a small warband composed of models you already have in conjunction with the Gaoler and Wagon?
The winner of the Warband vote would get a unique medal, and like 100 slaves or something? We need to entice people, because right now, our current Artisan's contest isn't attracting much attention, and I worry that people will forget about the Mordheim pictures...
I think this is the best way! i should start planning already!
I defintely think we should have a gaoler as GHVI and prison wagon as AC2 (which I hope more people enter. Thus far, two entrants for AC1! More please. There is still a little time!) would work well.
You might want to remind people about the deadline of AC1. I think with all the GHV hype going on, people just forgot about this contest. I for my part almost did... almost.
So, just wondering...
Are there any solid plans yet and when will the next Golden Hat start? Would just give me the right drive to do more work! (even thought I'm swamped as it is!
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