2024 Online Model Contest

Welcome to SprayGunner's Hobbyists Arsenal International Online Scale Model and Figure Painting competition!

We want to share our support for these wonderful hobbies carried out by people from all over the world. We see it as a means of connection, friendship, and enjoyment shared by very different individuals with the same passion.

We have fantastic prizes for winners, sponsored by SprayGunner and our partners AMMO by Mig. The prize pool this year is $3000! Our favorite projects will be recognized and published on the social networks and official pages of SprayGunner and AMMO by Mig.

To participate in this contest, please follow a few simple rules listed below.

Submit a minimum of five (5) photos of your model completed. One of the pictures must have SprayGunner card/sticker/t-shirt anything physical you have with our logo (no Photoshop masters, please).

All participating models must be finished in 2024. Yes, you can enter if you started building your model in 2021 and finished it earlier this year (2024). *Please note that your model can be disqualified from the competition if it was spotted online or competed in local events prior to 2024. One model can compete only in one category.

There are 8 categories listed below. When posting a model, please mention which category. One project can enter only one category, so choose wisely!

The deadline to submit your model is December 31st, 2024 (EST). Enough time to build something for the contest, which we highly encourage, and we will be happy to share your process on our pages!
To enter the contest, please post it (instructions below) with the required pictures (see below). Use hashtags #SprayGunner #SGcontest2024 #hobbyistsarsenal and mention the category you're entering. 

We don’t want to miss any submissions, so please follow one of these guidelines:

1. Submit your model to our contest group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/spraygunnerscale
Please make sure you create a new post, not commenting on someone’s entry!

2. Or post it anywhere and send us a link to legendscalemodels@spraygunner.com
If you don’t like social media, you can simply email us pictures and all the information, and we will post it for you.
Important: Please keep it between 5 and 10 pictures! Don’t send too many. If you send over 10, we will have to filter what we think is most suitable.

Minimum photos required:
Photo 3/4 front
Photo 3/4 back
Photo right side
Photo left side
Photo of the model with SprayGunner attribute next to it.

The Categories:

1. Planes
2. Civil vehicles, cars, and motorcycles
3. Gundam, and Mecha
4. Military and armored vehicles
5. Figures, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
6. Sea, any vehicle or composition on water
7. Warhammer
8. Scratch built/kitbashing

For Category 8. Scratch built; please submit photos proving it is made from scratch.

If your model qualifies in 2 or more categories, please select one to enter. Choose wisely because some categories will have less competition than others. If you don't mention category in your post, we will select it for you, so please no hard feelings if we put it not where you intended. 

The Judges:
To be announced.

It will take time to organize judges in early 2025 after all the holidays so please bear with us. We will announce winners on or before January 15th. 

The awards: (per category)
1st Place: Hobbyists Arsenal Gold Medal and $150 SprayGunner.com gift card.
2nd Place: Hobbyists Arsenal Silver Medal and $100 SprayGunner.com gift card.
3rd Place: Hobbyists Arsenal Bronze Medal and $50 SprayGunner.com gift card.

Special Prize: 1 person will get something very special. We will reveal towards the end of November!

*Please note that we want to have more people inspired and participate in this wonderful hobby, so if you submit multiple models in different categories – we highly appreciate it, but after getting first prize with any of your models, the rest of the projects will be excluded from the competition.