DC23 Pilot Painting Contest Finalists and Winner

The first Pilot Painting Contest was pretty successful I think. We got a total of 82 entries during the competition. The Contest was most active at Instagram as I have 7,000 followers at Instagram during the contest. It was so cool judging and screening entries during that time. We hope to bring you a quick exciting competition in the near future soon.

This fun contest was sponsored handsomely by GreatToysOnline.com and Hobbymate, links below..

HOBBYMATE

GreatToysOnline.com

Both HobbyMate and GTO ships worldwide. Fittingly so as I have more following internationally than locally ( Philippines ). HobbyMate will be shipping a handsome HM Airbrush and GTO will be shipping a set of Gundam Metal Nano Puzzles ( Both shops has shipped the prizes to our winner as I write this post ). and so our winner ( as posted both at Instagram and Facebook ) was 

Mark Carlisle of Australia 

( two time Australia GBWC Champion )

Also a ton of thanks to all the 82 entries and a warm congratulations to the other 9 finalists below! Again, I cannot thank you enough for joining our fun and humble competition! Hope to come up with more competitions soon! As always thanks a ton for dropping by! Until next post guys! Just enjoy the hobby!

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Newtype Gunpla Competition by Mechaspot.com

I have judged a handful of online Gunpla Competitions already, but never have I been invited to fly to another country and be a guest judge on a competition. I am so honored that Mechaspot.com extended me an invite late last year and I am so excited that their competition is pushing thru.

Yours truly ( Don Suratos aka DC23 of the Philippines ) and Anupong Channarong ( aka nuNunu of Thailand ) will be flying to Indonesia and will be staying there for 3 days. We will be judging a Gunpla competition and both of us will be conducting workshops on Gunpla. The workshops should be fun as we will try to teach you as much as we can during the event ( with live demos ).

Me and nuNunu will also be giving out a special award for the entries of our choice. I will be awarding my fav diorama entry and nuNunu will be awarding his Kitbash King award.

This competition is on December 11 and 12 and is OPEN TO ALL participants as long as you can fly to Indonesia with us. You may register now at Mecha Spot Facebook and Inquire on how to participate in this event. 

Mechaspot @ Facebook

I'll leave you with nuNunu's latest build featured at Kenny Lim's aka Toymaker's Blog...

Alpha Seraphim modeled by nuNunu

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DC23 Pilot Painting Contest

Greattoysonline.com and myhmshop.com ( Hobbymate ) has agreed to sponsor our first "Pilot Painting Contest "( PPC )! Greattoysonline.com and myhmshop.com ( Hobbymate ) ships world wide so everyone in this planet is eligible to join! GreatToysOnline.com will be shipping a couple of Gundam Metallic Nano Puzzles, myhmshop.com will be shipping a HM135 .3 nozzle airbrush and yours truly will be shipping a set of Vallejo Acrylic Paints. 😊

I am most active at Instagram ( @dc23_mecharts ) and also active at My Facebook fan page and group page, but I will be requiring all participants to email me their entries during the contest. Using my hashtag #DC23mecharts at Facebook and Instagram is also a basic requirement. So here are the rules guys...

PPC RULES & MECHANICS

1. Paint any 1/144, 1/100 or 1/60 pilot figure from any of your Bandai kits.

2. Each participant is allowed to enter 5 painted pilot figures.

3. Good photography is an advantage as we will be judging based on your photos alone.

4. Email your entries at donc0023@yahoo.com

5. Label or title your email with PPC ENTRY. One email per entry ( each participant can submit 3 entries ). Include your name ( real name and hobby name ) and the scale of the pilot figure in your emails.

6. Each email should include 3 photos. Front, Back and most importantly a photo of the figure on top of any unpainted / painted Gundam head. The last photo requirement will ensure that the photo and entry is yours.

7. Use my hashtag #DC23mecharts and #DC23PPC whenever you post your entries at both Instagram and Facebook.

8. Deadline for submission is on March 31, 2015. You can submit on or before the deadline. 

PRIZES

ALL entries will be featured at DC23-mecharts Blogsite, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook page and group page. Winners will be notified and will be asked for their shipping address for the prizes. All prizes will be shipped by Greattoysonline.com and myhmshop.com ( Hobbymate ) directly to the winners.

Hope to see those awesome pilot figures soon! Thanks for dropping by! Until next post guys! Just enjoy the hobby! 

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