Thanks!
I'd love to do an army on parade thing what does it entail exactly - having a whole painted army and scenery?
Basically, it is displaying an army on a board. How you go at it is up to you. There´s people who make the scenery glued to the base, others modular (like me). Usually for the board it is recommended to glue the scenery, as this will allow you to create better-looking scenery, but there´s no rule against doing it otherwise. Regarding the army, it can also be glued (with no bases) or modular, though it is preferable to have them separate on bases, after all it´s an "
armies on parade" contest, not a huge and awesome diorama contest
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In this contest there´s no one thing that´s looked at the most, people vote for the one they like most, which could be the painting or the scenery or the convination of both.
Anyways, as my experience from this year thought me, build something tall or big to attract the viewer´s attention to the board, which will make him/her check out for detail, painting quality and otherwise. The problem of not attracting attention instantly is that the people who are watching will think the board´s boring and will not look out for details on your board.
For example, my board´s attention attraction point was the spawning pool (I ignored this previous to the contest day, though), this was due to its strong contrast and vivid colour, and to the fact that it was the only glossy component of my board. But the winning board´s attention attracting element was its huge height, which complemented with its enormous amount of details. But upon closer inspection the paintjob was pretty mainstream. And then the boards that didn´t have any attention-grabbing elements were only looked at after seeing the others in detail, which makes the viewer think they were poor (and they weren´t)
This is not to say that my board was better, but to show you that to have more chances of winning you need some element that will make the viewer only focus on your entry.
