Catch Up

Man, working late has really put a damper on my hobby! Haven't been able to write anything until now. Well, I can pretty much summarize what has happened in the past few weeks on this single post.

So I went to Gamesday. It kinda sucked. Mainly because I got there late. I missed the Golden Demon entry time as a result. Also missed out on a couple activities like the the conversion contests. I did meet up with an old friend and his kids which was nice.

I got to do the 40k make and take scenery which was fun. Everyone got a rectangular piece of clear acrylic that was used as a base for your building. Sprues were randomly given out. One wall sprue, one floor sprue, and one miscellaneous sprue. Mine wasn't quite well thought out but just getting a chance to build something new and different was a nice experience.

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The minis showcased were awesome as always. The large dioramas were incredible and loved the Forgeworld Skaven Exalted Verminlord and Brood Horror monster- probably something that I'll never get to pick up. :( Check out the pictures I took here.

In other news, I got to play my first game ever of Infinity finally. I was able to meet up with one of the guys on the forums and played a game. It was more of a demo really, just learning the fundamentals and the skills my unit had. Overall it went really well. In four(or maybe five) turns we were done. By the end of turn 2 both of our lieutenants(army leader) were eliminated. Mine walked in front of his remote mech with a machine gun. What was I thinking?! Anyway, it was fast and brutal. I hope there will be many more games like this.

There were 2 guys playing a game of Warhammer Fantasy next to us at the store. Seeing all the stuff they had to bring and seeing my army in a box about the size of hard drive just confirmed how much I'm not going to miss it. :)

Lastly, I got to work on my Ariadna. Started painting my tankhunter and got my first group of line kazaks ready for priming.

Gamesday 2011

Well it's official. I got my ticket in the mail today! Seeing that the real reason I'm going is for the freaking Gamesday Skaven mini, I should probably try to make the most of the day. I am definitely not bringing an army to play. Skaven is just not a fun army to lug around. I'm just tired of it all. Instead I might do some of the activities provided.

-Armies on Parade could have been fun but I'm late on that and should have started months ago.
-The Monster & Vehicle conversion contests are too expensive to make anything worthwhile I think. The Warhammer/40k conversion contests where they provide the supplies, on the otherhand, sounds like fun! Plus if you've got a conversion idea already in your head but unsure if if will work, this might be a good way to find out. Never done this before so I'm not sure what really to expect.
-I guess I could enter the Golden Demon just for the hell of it. Just to say I participated in one is something right? I do have a couple that I'm pretty proud of so why not?
-I am somewhat interested in the Battle Board Paint & Raffle. I wouldn't mind winning a board actually.
-If I'm confident enough and if I have a pretty good surplus of creative juices I might give the Art contest a try.
-Seminars are also an option.

Hope to see you guys there!