Hey thanks IgorSandman! 
Hang in there. Things will get better. I’ve been getting less sleep than ever since I’ve been using Blender, and it’s turning out to be a good thing 
A blend a day keeps the whatever away 
Maybe there could be a “Weekday Challenge” too at some point, which would give everyone a week to make something and having voting on the weekend or something like that.
RobertT
Hey Wu guess what I voted for you Your story and image was funny and original and I thought you deserved a vote for your efforts.
Keep on blending.
RobertT
Thanks, Desoto-111! I never won any contest before so this would be a first, but if you win that’s cool too because you have the makings of a great scene there. Seems like the perfect setting for a showdown 
I hope you get to use it for an animation at some point. Some particle effects for dust, maybe some tumbleweed. It could also be a ghosttown, so it has lots of possibilities.
RobertT
Desoto, when I saw your old west scene, I thought, wouldn’t my horse look nice in that scene. Here I am making the model available for you (and anyone else) if you want to try putting a couple of horses in your scene.
http://www.angelfire.com/journal/melbourne/horse.blend
you might have to right click and save
Thankyou very much for that offer tamarin. I’ll definitely keep that in mind as I add more features to the scene. Please keep that file available just in case! Thanks again!
Voted for Robertt. Always nice to see another breakthrough. The most complete scene with a good sense of parody and humor. Well, good luck! 
Still waiting for my breakthrough, damnit. I’ll own the next weekend challenge, I promise 
Thank you very much I defiantly will compete again next week.
Thank you that made my day seeing my very first vote. Your work is very impressive too, lots of time was spent on that I can tell.
Thanks for the nice words, it means a lot. And I’m working on getting a handle on textures.
It is great to see so many people give there free time to participate in this challenge, and then give so much encouragement to their challengers.
I voted for DeSoto-111, the sand texture alone was worth a vote.
Its not procedural, it was borrowed from the awesome texture fest. But thankyou for the compliment anyway. I was looking at some of the older entries…do people usually stick to procedurals for the WC?
Tamarin, that is a very nice looking horse you made there. Modelling organic things isn’t easy, and that’s nice of you to make that available to other Blender users.
One trick I’ve learned while using Blender is that if you’re going to use two or more copies of an object in a scene you can make copies of the materials/textures and alter the X,Y,Z values in the materials window to give some textural variety to the objects, using either the ofsX, ofsY, ofsZ (offsets) or the sizeX, sizeY, sizeZ. Alternatively you can copy the material and the texture and in the case of procedural textures alter the NoiseSize and NoiseDepth parameters to introduce more variety in a scene.
RobertT
Three-dee, I just cracked up on that
George still insists they were cows 
I was between ray_theway, tordat and Desoto…
But since I’ve got only one vote, I’ll give it to tordat…
The overall mood and the originality of his render won me…
Good luck to all the rest of the participants…
I think I’ll vote for Robertt, since it looks both polished and complete. Then again, I like Tordat’s. What to do…Votes for Ray There! Those folds deserve a vote!
Hey, these competitions aren’t half bad! I think I’ll be participating more…
Robertt, Desoto-111, Robertt, Desoto-111, Robertt, Desoto-111, I don’t know. Roberts one is more finished and may be more organic. But Desoto-111, you did make the scene I had in mind when I was thinking about the topic.
I give you my vote, because it’s more wild west and if you finish I’m sure it has a real wild west mood.
I posted a suggestion in the last vote #66 about changing the weekend challenge a little. This week I have the same suggestion but a little different.
I would suggest that when people submit a entry to the challenge they also have to give a suggested theme for the next week. The next part is a little tricky to explain because the voting and adding entires will be happening at the same time. For instance
*Monday afternoon-Voting for last weeks entires will be closed, the votes are added, and the winner in announced.
*Then the new entires from last week are taken, and voting for them is open.
*Then all the suggested themes are taken and put into a hat, and then one is randomly selected, and then the new theme is posted.
All this would take place once a week on Monday. so it would also give the forum administrator a huge break because they only have to come to the forum once a week: add the votes/announce winner, take entires/open them for voting, take suggested themes/select one/open new entires.
I would just like to see more people compete, and be able to spend as much time on it as they want. So there is the best of what people have to offer and the competition would be great. And I would also like to save my only day off Saturday for going to the clubs and picking up big women.
Thanks Smoky Joe and BackiZ for having considered me
Yes, ray_theway’s wagon was very well done and definitely deserves recognition.
RobertT
It would be cooool to have a seperate, more open competition, for blendermade multimedia entries such as my ‘spaghetti blender’. I am still working on that btw. It gets a bit surreal toward the end.
hey three-dee, I’m not sure what the message is you’re trying to give out, but the silohetes are groovy. Some of their feet are mangled or too smooth… I guess it would help if you understood what the picture was about though…
if it weren’t for the long tails I might be inclined to say pigs myself…
Tara I like your HORSEYS’! NEY NEY NEY RARR!!! NEY!
They look like brown horses with Delux splashings of white… still, nice models… pretty cool fog blue colours… the ground could of been bumped… I’d work on that next…
ray, you’ve got a good grasp of the materials needed for the stage coach, I’m pretty impressed by how well it’s turned out… some of the creases are impressive! I’d work on the middle bones … the arches in the middle bal;h balh… very light, very breasy… it’s very reflective aswell… it’s good as it is.
I’m also taking the time to notice the effort going into the metal fixtures on your coach aswell… they are kewl… takes time but you can easily skip over these things if you don’t look at modeling seriously…
hey tordat… the foreground is great, but how does it relate to wild west? hmm…
the background buildings… it seems a little muddled maybe… is that a cot on those stands? it’s alittle hard to make out what the scene is about… maybe you could post some more WIPs if you fancy carrying it over to your SPARE TIME
desoto offers a nice scene, but I think the buildings could be brushed up. I like the grey steel roofing material… the whislter and the water tower covers… seems pretty real, but things like the poles and connections between window frames etc could be tweaked abit… maybe OSA wasn’t turned on? that could help… seems very sharp is all… the wood texture on the closet building could be scaled down also maybe… or model the big planks of wood separately so we can get the cracks on the middle a chance to shine…
HELLO JOE :o
From my quick glance afew days ago I would of voted for you over the rest… well, robertt was competing with you
Shading/rendering used is very original for the contest… the man standing on the hill totally suits the scene and colours go well with the scene… how did you get this effect in Blender? can you sum it up in 5 words?
Fair play Robert, the flowers and the clouds catch my heart… the main chars do have very shiney features… some lighting could of been looked over to match them with the softer effects of the scene… but you’ve done a nice job with getting your own toy story %|
skelly… hmmm… a compass… ok
the model seems fine itself… I’m not too sure about the grainy effect you’ve given the whole render though… if you kept it to say the floor… or maybe just the metal texture, that way they would stick out separatly… but it seems too fused together… the only other advice I could offer is to smarten the details of the DEVICE up… think about all the small details expensive pocket watches have on them… think about the small cogs and holes… the pins and wheels… get that fagile feel … the old expensve… precious… worthwhile feel to this piece… or err… have a poo? :-?
Wu… I’m glad you’ve given the oppertunity for fruits to fight back… scarey though…
yes it’s very hard to ignore the texture problems you see on the strawberries, but I’ll let you learn Blender more as I’m sur eyou’ll get to grips with UV wrapping or whatnot sooner or later… you can get those strawbs looking mighty juicy if you wanted to!
Bud’s facial features and the expression he’s giving is cool… you’ve worked on giving him character and shows what he’s feeling… so I like that aspect of your scene… you’ve done well on the character… things like the arms and trouser textures… also that starnge line that seems to pop out across Bud’s face… if you can have another go at it and fix these faults you’d be much more proud of your work!
sorry Mac… can’t see your image… maybe I left it too late? 
… ray, tordat joe robert or Wu…
gaak.
I don’t like that black ‘blob’ building… or whatever it is on the right side of your scene Joe… detracts my attention from the pretty scene…
ray, I would of liked to see a fuller picture of the coach… maybe added the bottom on the wheel in and such…
Tordat I’m going for you!! I really do like the feel of your scene… really, please explain what’s happening?!
Modron your animation ROCKED!
I was left hanging… and the fade out/music pieces where perfect… I liked it… I’ve watche dit once, I may watch it again… but I liked it non the less!!!