🎉 New Year New Challenge — Grand Finale Event! 🎉
From 17th January to 9th May, our community has been turning piles of potential into painted heroes, monsters, and armies… and now it’s time to celebrate everything you’ve created!
Join us for our End‑of‑Challenge Hobby Day, packed with fun activities, friendly awards, and a chance to show off your hard‑earned progress.
⚔️ 🌟 Friendly Painting Awards
Bring along the miniatures you painted during the challenge and take part in our relaxed, feel‑good award categories:
- Best Single Miniature
- Best Unit
- Most Creative Colour Scheme
- Most Improved Painter
- Best New Hobbyist.
- Community Favourite
It’s all about celebrating effort, creativity, and the joy of the hobby.
📸 ✨ Hobby Photo Booth
We’ll have a dedicated photo area with great lighting and terrain so you can capture your models at their best.
Take some shots, share them online, and show the world what you achieved between January and May.
🏆 Collect your rewards
if you made its to one of the milestones, you will be able to pick up your rewards for meeting them. 25 models will get you a pin badge, 50 a coaster for your water pot and 100 a awesome tin to hold your brushes.
Whether you painted one miniature or an entire army, this finale is all about celebrating YOU and the incredible work our community has produced.
⚔️ Come along, chat to like minded Hobbyists, take photos, cheer each other on, and help us close out the 2026 challenge in style!
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