Gencon Preppin'

Five days and two models left. Among other preparations I've been brushing away on some entries for the P3 contest at Gencon. I'll be working at a booth too so if you can find the Chimera Hobby Shop's location in the vendor hall come say hi. I'm unsure of the number but it's in there, promise. Here are a couple shots from the last few days.

The mountain king has been a bit of a hair puller lately due to the chains and whelps and my fingers rubbing paint off while I try to handle this lump. I'm also working on a War Hog when the King isn't my dish..Today has half my city without power due to a storm last night, good thing I know somebody on the other side of the tracks and progress continues :)

Finished! Iyanden Farseer

Just jazzed up a mini to help fund my upcoming move. I tried to take this one a little further than the last one. I also took the chance to work on small portraits more.

Win a date with a farseer here!

I was trying to make a little step by step for the portrait but as usual I got sucked into the painting and didn't snap many pictures. Hopefully the following two will give an idea of how I started it off. Pretty simple really, just a sketch to begin and once it was roughly applied to the miniature it was slow process of wax on wax off.

Back from Gamesday 2013, Memphis

What a ride what a ride..11 hours actually. I did perfect the art of sleeping with a sweatshirt on my head though. That's something right? So what do you do exactly when you've been in a van for 11 hours? Our first idea was to drive another hour across town to GW's headquarters for a friggin barbecue! :)..I'm vegetarian but damn if that wasn't some good tater salad.

This was what made Gamesday memorable to me. The actual saturday may have been a little less than expected but GW stretching it out a bit by throwing a cookout the day before helped. We walked around the place and then back and forth again. There was a lot to see :)

We rolled back to the hotel and went to restaurant for some beer and eats..Yeah, barbecue again. I shared a greek a salad and some red beans & rice with the other herbivore in our clan. The next morning with our nerves in a bundle we headed to the Cook convention center for Gamesday proper...

In no particular order here is a pile of pictures. The disorder is probably a result of rushing in and then wandering around in when the afternoon hits and you've seen it.

This was a great gamesday over all. I was a little disappointed that there wasn't a speed painting contest or and art on display. But I was happy as hell to see my painting pal Tom grab the Slayer Sword and not one but 3 Golden Demons as well as the Forge World best in show. Hi five my man! I was a little disappointed in myself when I only took home one bronze but it's hard not to get wrapped up in the competitions on the day of. No big deal, I was thoroughly inspired and got some good feedback from the judges. I'm already planning on next year's conventions and taking it a step further. 

See you at Gencon.