Gencon Report: Day 1 (Thursday)

Thrusday began with waking up and grabbing a shower, then heading out to the nearby mall to get breakfast and hunt for batteries. The only place open in the foodcourt was a Chik-Fil-A, and while I'm not a fan of the whole crap involving them/their ownership, I was hungry. No batteries were found, however.
Once sated with a sausage, egg and cheese biscuit I was off to wait for the vendor's hall to open! Unfortunately, I would not be able to procure a Gencon book/schedule/maps until the very last day, so I wasn't entirely sure if I was in the right place. Thankfully I found a sea of flesh waiting for doors to open and figured that this would be the place. It was, and I even got to watch the opening ceremony thingy, complete with amusing technical difficulties (I swear we watched those sheep talk about how evil the Gencon CEO was at least ten times..).

Behold the Sea of Flesh

Navi was chasing Link up and down the hall, demanding he listen.

The doors opened and every made their way to the vendor's hall. The first stop for me was the Wyrd Miniatures area, because I wanted Malifaux Second Edition, Nightmare Tara and Miss Step, damnit! I also grabbed the Neverborn Arsenal Deck and the fancy convention fate deck. :)
From there I made my way to the Cool Mini or Not booth to try and pick up a couple of Nyan Nyans for SDE and Candy & Cola for Relic Knights. I managed to get Candy & Cola, but apparently they sold out of their Thursday allotment of Nyan Nyans within the first seven minutes!
With my shopping done for the day I was off to the Miniatures Hall to meet up with Mason and friends, as well as to sign up for the Malifaux Achievement League. After getting a game in with Mason I did some demos (Evil Baby Orphanage, Showdown and Puppet Wars) before it was time for my first seminar of the day: Writer's Craft: Mystery vs. Confusion!

Puppet Wars!

Mad Scientist Rainbow Dash!

The seminar was pretty good and informative. It wasn't quite what I was expecting, or quite as helpful as I was hoping, but it was still worth the hour and the cost (which was free. :D ). After that it was back to finding and hanging out with friends for a while.
Eventually though, I went back to the hotel room to put away some stuff and then went to dinner with Templar and his brother. We went to a place called the Ram, which had really gotten into the spirit of Gencon by replacing their menu with a Warmachine-themed Menu. Now, I'm not a big fan of Warmachine and Hordes, but that was pretty awesome!

Unless this place is ALWAYS Warmahordes-themed..

Also, we saw a barmobile... That was... Odd.

This seems like an accident waiting to happen... (Alternately: Scottish Troop Transport)

Next, some more wandering, but not much, because Thursday April, Mason and I were going to the Glitterguild's Nerdlesque Burlesque. The show was awesome, and had both women and men performing. The routines included:
Star Trek Vulcan, who ended the show with the Vulcan hand sign over her crotch.
A Carmen Sandiego routine
Female Galactus
The main character from the Walking Dead (male) who ended his routine with a badge over his naughty bits.
A Catwoman
A male pony that pranced about the stage.
A magician who kept his clothes on.
A tribute to B-Movies
and others that I can't remember. Sadly, there were no pictures allowed.

Gencon Report: Day 0 (Wednesday)

Wednesday started off annoyingly, but not terrible. I didn't sleep at all over the night, so when 6AM rolled around I was still wide awake for my shuttle ride to the airport.

Early morning Arizona

At the airport I learned that apparently everyone wants to leave Arizona - which I can't blame them really - as the lines for both check-in and security were positively massive. I think in total I was waiting in one line or another for an hour and a half. It was okay though, as my flight was delayed for nearly four hours!
The delay wasn't too bad though, given that half of the flight was going to Gencon. As a result we ended up having a mini-convention right there at the gate. :D It was entertaining to say the least.
The flight itself went well, and when I got to Indy I took a limo (it was cheaper than most of the other options!) from the airport to the hotel. There I met up with the friend that paid for my plane and hotel fees for the convention (huuuuge thanks for that again, Templar!), as well as his brother and their friend. We then went to eat at a place called Steak'n'Shake where I met up with more of my friends from online.

April and Mason, raaawr

Afterwards it was back to the hotel where I hung out for a while before heading to another hotel with April to check out the pre-convention demos from Wyrd Miniatures. There we watched a game of Kings of Artifice that was in progress until we headed back and passed out in our respective rooms, eagerly awaiting the first day of the convention.

SDE: Glimmerdusk Ranger

Muahaha. Glimmerdusk Ranger and a chest for Super Dungeon Explore by Soda Pop Miniatures. ^_^ Also done several weeks ago.

Anima: Tactics: Lynn Steiner

Whew! Finally got pictures taken of everything that I've done since the last update. I'll be posting them up every other day or so.

First up: Lynn Steiner for Anima: Tactics.

Pictures...

... Will be coming soon! :D I've got quite a bit finished. It's just been a matter of getting a new space set up for taking pictures of the finished products. I've cleaned up an area though and it seems workable, so I'll be getting some new shots up soon.

Avengers and Kobolds!

So, since I missed updating last weekend, I'm going to post up both the Dire Avengers and Kobold Gougers today. ^_^

First up: Super Dungeon Explore Kobold Gougers

Not too much to say about the Kobold Gougers. Tried a couple of different colours to see which one I liked more. Still not sure on that. :D So I'll probably end up going half and half, the Spawn Points are different anyway. XD

Now, the Dire Avengers for Warhammer 40k.

Fun story behind these guys. I picked them up at a used miniature sell thing for 5$. I didn't realize until much (much) later that the guy had used Plastic Glue on them, so no luck at getting them taken apart to paint up properly.

So, I tried to paint them in my Craftworld's colours as they were and... Well, it didn't go so well. Too much in the way to get to details and such... But then I had an idea! I would paint them up as Wraithbone statues and use them as objective markers! Or terrain pieces! Or if I -need- to, use them as proper models!

Thus, the idea of an entirely Wraithbone army got into my head. It's a project that I'll continue to work on if I find cheap, used models. If I do then I'll probably go back and add some colour to a few of the soulstones.



Next Up:
1: ANIMA: Tactics - Lynn Steiner
2: Super Dungeon Explore - Glimmerdusk Ranger
3a: Super Dungeon Explore - Kobold Knuckleheads -OR-
3b: Malifaux - Mature Nephilim -OR-
3c: Warhammer 40k - Wave Serpent and Falcon

SDE: Hearthsworn Fighter

Meant to post this up last weekend, oops!

I'm fairly pleased with him. Could've done better on the steel, but it's not too terrible. ^_^


I should be finished with my Dire Avenger statues in a couple of days and I'll get those put up shortly thereafter.

On the Painting Table:
* 6 Kobold Gougers for Super Dungeon Explore.
* Lynn Steiner for Anima: Tactics