Blizzard and Epic Weapons' weaponsmithing fan art contest winners announced
by Mathew McCurley 
Apr 12th 2011 at 3:00PM
Weaponsmithing Fan Art contest winners announced
The final results are in!Participants were asked to create a full-sized weapon replica of their choice (based on an in-game item from World of Warcraft).
Winners were selected based on accuracy and creativity.
Prize Information
Grand Prize: Winner receives one (1) Frostmourne Replica Sword with Ice Shard display stand ($629 value).
Five (5) Finalist Prizes (one for each category): Winners receive a $50 Epic Weapons gift certificate, awarded for the following categories:
Best Dagger • Best Mace • Best Sword
Best Ranged • Best of the Rest
Check out the winning entries!
Winners were selected based on accuracy and creativity.
Prize Information
Grand Prize: Winner receives one (1) Frostmourne Replica Sword with Ice Shard display stand ($629 value).
Five (5) Finalist Prizes (one for each category): Winners receive a $50 Epic Weapons gift certificate, awarded for the following categories:
Best Dagger • Best Mace • Best Sword
Best Ranged • Best of the Rest
Check out the winning entries!
The Grand Prize was awarded to a fan replica of Journey's End, a feral druid's dream drop from Naxxramas in Wrath of the Lich King. Best Mace went to Guiding Star, battle rattle of the Titans. Best Sword went to a wonderful replication of the Ashbringer, famed sword of the only paladin known to Ice Block. Thori'Dal took home the Best Ranged category, while Crux of the Apocalypse grabbed the Best Dagger win. Finally, the Best of the Rest prize went to a great recreation of Vanir's Left Fist of Brutality.
It's really nice to see so many wins for Sunwell Plateau, since its design was so freaking awesome. Check out all of the winning replicas, pictures and all, at Epic Weapons.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Faith Trust Apr 12th 2011 3:07PM
The site of the contest appears to be down. :S
Jae Apr 12th 2011 3:09PM
All of Kel'thuzad's loot would make great replicas, as would Aesir's Edge!
Petrus Apr 12th 2011 3:15PM
I'm impressed by the weapons more than I am of the picture quality on Epic Weapons' website.
Sleutel Apr 12th 2011 6:49PM
Indeed. I'm really surprised that they didn't host high-resolution shots of everything. It kind of defeats the purpose of having a contest to make detailed, high-quality replicas if you can't actually see any of the detail or quality.
Scunosi Apr 12th 2011 9:04PM
Assuming they only saw photos of the submissions and not the physical objects themselves, it's probably due to the entrants more than the hosts. If someone sends in an obviously awesome axe but it's a bad picture, what're ya gonna do, disqualify it for being a bad photo, or recognize it anyway as an awesome construct? You would hope the creators would take more care is presenting their work though, I know as an artists getting good quality representation of your work is very important.
rhrad99 Apr 12th 2011 3:23PM
I'm impressed with the server on which EpicWeapons.com is hosted.
Yangli Apr 12th 2011 4:09PM
Oh wow, I am pretty sure I already touched that staff! Might just be another person made just as good a replica of it, but there's a group of German WoW cosplayers I see on the AnimagiC in Bonn every year, and they've got one of those. No, actually I'm pretty sure it's the one in the photo. And I had to touch it to be sure it's really papier-mâché because the texture is just so incredibly realistic. I bow before the artists! /bow
Awesome Apr 12th 2011 4:17PM
any pictures? Or links or anything? I'm interested to see them
shadowhowl1900 Apr 12th 2011 4:31PM
did someone say Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker
Greg Apr 12th 2011 5:32PM
No. Nobody said that.
DayDreamer Apr 12th 2011 9:29PM
... that dagger looks like it was made out of paper mache. So lumpy.
and the central piece on Thori'dal is way oversized.
This is really sad. I suspect the problem is that they decided to judge based on categories, and there weren't enough dagger entries. Everyone wants a sword or a mace.
The staff and sword look pretty good. The mace is impressive, even if he got the band around the sphere misinterpreted, and the painting on the sphere is very unsubtle; he did go to the trouble to make the runes float around it.
Rae Apr 13th 2011 12:19PM
They took forever to post the results to this!
Higher res photo of the Vanir's Left Fist are here:
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/064/0/c/vanir__s_left_fist_of_brutality_by_beldolor-d3azwqf.jpg