As part of our relaunch to streamline everything, I’m putting information into useful sections for a master page that links to all you need to know, so in this article, we’ll cover how to nominate somebody as the next Community Miniature.

When?

Each round of voting requires fresh nominees. You may only nominate for the current round, once nominations have been declared open. It’ll be announced on this blog and social media when it’s time.

You may re-nominate anybody who has “previously-ran”, whether it was you who nominated them previously or someone else. Everyone deserves another chance!

Where?

Technically, you can nominate from anywhere, but outside of the designated thread at the time on Baggy’s Cave, there is a chance I will miss it, so that is the best place to be sure. The second best way is to email me, but I still highly recommend the FB Group to be 100%. Only in the nominating window though, otherwise people will be shouting ladies’ names at me all the time and get lost.

How?

There are specific details you MUST follow for your nomination to count.

You must include:

• Full Name and any other names
• Birth Date and Death Date, if known. Approximate century etc if not known.
• A short summary of what they were known for/who they were.

You can then add as much information as you would like including links and pictures to help sway the vote. Too much information might not get read, so there’s a sweet spot in the middle. If you quote anything external please do credit/link.

Who?

Make sure your person fits all the following:

• is dead. It’s just easier for so many reasons! Sorry alive people.
• has at least SOME basis in fact and history. Entirely mythological characters aren’t being included… yet!
• is a woman or potentially another marginalised gender. The focus is largely on women (which, of course, includes trans women), but there can be a murkiness around the past when there wasn’t a particular vocabulary to describe different genders. For example, there are many “women who disguised themselves as men” who, by today’s wording, could be known as a trans man or perhaps non-binary. They also could have simply preferred the social benefits of being seen as a man. Unfortunately, we cannot ask them individually as they’re no longer around, but they can be included in this project for sure, as sensitively as possible with the information we have.

Any other terms and conditions?

Bad Squiddo Games reserves the right to exclude any nomination from the polling stage without giving reason. In the unlikely event of this happening it could be due to the person being inappropriate, too controversial, already part of our range (or being sculpted), not following one or more of the nomination rules or something else that we haven’t considered yet!

Your name will be listed in the thanks for that round of nominations, if you don’t want your name listed – or it already has been and you want it retracted or changed, please do tell us and it’ll be sorted.

Tips to help your Nomination.

You’ve chosen the person who you would LOVE to see and buy as a 28mm pewter miniature… now how do we get them to win? More than the basic information will help. For example “Queen of Blah” doesn’t sound too compelling. “Queen of Blah, who is known for…” is much more so. What cool things did they do? Is there an extra compelling story of an occasion they made their exceptionalism known? What games would you use them for? What would make them extra interesting to paint? Do you have a diorama in mind? What does that person mean to you?

This information isn’t essential, but it will help. (Also I like to read it!) Are there any cool artworks (please do credit) or photographs of them? You can share additional information as extra posts in our Facebook Group where most the magic happens. You can do this whenever, though when a round of nominations or voting is on it will have the most effect.

This is the fun bit! You’re campaigning! And the side effect is that we’ll all learn more about these incredible women from history!

What if your nomination doesn’t win the poll?

Aw, it’s ok, there probably was some pretty tough competition. You can regroup and nominate them again next time, or perhaps try out somebody else. We’re hoping to run this project indefinitely, so there will be lots more chances. And you still got to tell people about someone incredible, which is excellent. You did some teaching!

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I’m going to keep this page updated if I think of anything else, so this can be the go-to rules. Please do comment if you feel there’s something not covered or have any questions,

thank you very much!

Annie