You really need to check out Spin Doctor's diorama award show , but if you need the quick and dirty list, here it is. Like last year, if a category was hotly contested (within a vote or two), then we put 2nd place below the winner(s).

Custom Figures/Vehicles

• Best G.I. Joe custom
  • Winner:Crazy Legs by kingphilbert
  2nd place:Lt. Stone by Dark Horse
• Best Cobra custom
  • Winner: 3 way tie
  • Shock Viper by TR1ER
  • General Bedlam by LIVEVIL
  • Bushmaster by LIVEVIL
• Best "Other" custom
  • Winner:Mal Reynolds by drbindy
• Best NJC Custom
  • Winner:Martian Manhunter by chad_ghost
• Best custom of an existing character
  • Winner: 2 way tie
  • Doctor Mindbender by Lance Sputnik
  • Range Vipers by LIVEVIL
• Best original character
  • Winner:Knighthawk by drbindy
  2nd place: Dark Horse Tank by Dark Horse
• Best group project custom
  • Winner: Faceless Master by daremo
• Best LBC
  • Winner:Dr. Venom by Spin Doctor
  2nd place: 2 way tie
  SAS mountain troop by blaster_e11
  JINX by TR1ER
• Best female custom
  • Winner: Cleopatra by drbindy
  2nd place:Jill Valentine by Jin saotome
• Most humorous custom
  • Winner: Prof. Dr. Herman Von Klempt by Dark Horse
  2nd place: Mini Mindbender by Lance Sputnik
• Best vehicle custom
  • Winner: Python Patrol Defiant by Python Viper
• Best playset custom
  • Winner: Swamp Base by Splintershins
• * Best overall customizer for figures
  • Winner: Jin Saotome
  2nd place: Dark Horse
• * Best overall customizer for vehicles
  • Winner: Python Viper
• * Best overall customizer for playsets
  • Winner: Cap
• * Most improved customizer
  • Winner:2 way tie
  • Drbindy
  • Veronica Mars
  2nd place:Tanstoys
• Best use of a bad part (ie - I can't believe the custom came out that good using that piece!)
  • Winner:Rogue by drbindy
  2nd place:Bushmaster by LIVEVIL
• * Customizer that you "borrow" the most ideas from
  • Winner:Chief
  2nd place: Matthew

Technique

• * Best camouflage painter: Refers to overall painting skills of a customizer, not just on a specific custom.
  • Winner:LIVEVIL
• * Best overall painter: Refers to overall painting skills of a customizer, not just on a specific custom.
  • Winner:Jin Saotome
• * Best parts modification: Refers to work on a specific figure by a customizer.
  • Winner: Mal Reynolds by drbindy
  2nd place: Range Vipers by LIVEVIL

Dioramas & Dio-Stories

• Best Dio Story
  • Winner: G.I. Joe Retro
• Best Mini-Dio Story
  • Winner: Evil Empire by raptor
• Best Single Shot in a dio
  • Winner:Street Hawk II by Pentastar

Miscellaneous

• Most helpful board member
  • Winner:pluv
  2nd place:joemichaels70
• Joecustoms.com Joseph Colton Lifetime Achievement Award: To be given to a member for their value to the site and the online G.I. Joe community as a whole. Previous winners (beav, General Hawk, camper, Cap, Marauder John, JFAK075, and pluv) are ineligible.
  • Winner:Matthew
  2nd place: 2 way tie
  joemichaels70
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