Adepticon 2011 | General Coverage part 2

Part 2:

So the line for Forgeworld was insane. In typical forgeworld fashion, they were slow as molasses. I've been to a few Games Days and they were just as slow there. They sort of make up for it by having things like big massive Titans sitting out for you to look at. Theleadhead and I sat in line FOREVER, but it was nice talking to the BlueTable painting crew who had set up shop at the halfway point of the line. Overall though its a negative experience because it's like this at EVERY con they go to. Respect your customers and bring enough people to handle the demand you know is there.

Adepticon 2011 | General Coverage part 1

 Ok so moving forward past my new bromance here is some general coverage from Apdepticon 2011. Theleadhead and I arrived Thursday well before our first Class with Mathieu Fontaine. I said it previously and I'll say it again, he is awesome. I'll be showing off my new painting skills here shortly and it's thanks to Mathieu's teaching. If you want to learn more about him, his blog is located HERE.

The Crystal Brush event brought mini painters out of the wood works and  the competition level was high. I'll talk about that more in Part 2 and post some pictures of what jumped out at me from the case.

Game Aides: Army Creator Mobile App

I like many others have an Android smart phone.  Gamers of all kinds can imagine many ways to use smart phones to assist us in gaming.  I know I have been looking for a mobile army list maker since I got my Android.  I have been waiting for Lone Wolf Development to port Armybuilder over to the Android or iPhone. 

Well now we have an alternative.  Army Creator Mobile by Magic Toad Software is now availible through the Android Market for $3.49 USD.  Army Creator allows for army list construction using Android menus that pulls data from XML sheets.  The menus take a little bit to learn but one you have a grasp on them it takes no time to build a force.  As you add units and options it automatically adds the points up for you.  It has two views, one is just a list of points and options the other has unit stats layed out like you would see in other builder programs.  The units can be reorganized after you've completed the list by a simple drag feature.  Lists can be exported out of the program as a .TXT file for emailing or printing.

This app can support any point based gaming system./ The author has already created a 40k file that allows creation of most current armies and has said updates are coming that will add more armies to the list.  The use of XML files means anyone can add to or create their own datafiles.  The author even has instructions on his web site to help you with this.  Now this App is still early in development there are a few bugs and the developer know about it.  In fact he is requesting anyone to email him who has an issue so he can try to address it.  He has asked that anyone that contacts him with a bug to please include all of the information that you can, it will help out a lot.

Scratch Build Project: Thunderfire Cannon

I don't know about anyone else but I'm not the type of person who likes to proxy models. It just feels wrong. I know that for friendly games it really doesn't matter and I don't mind when other people do it, but I try my hardest not to. So when I decided I wanted to try a Thunderfire out I had two choices. Buy one or build one, and building one was way easier on my wallet. I started with styrene tubing for the individual barrels of the cannon.

Red Scorpions Battle Report

Played against theleadhead this Saturday. It was a fun game that ended in a draw. I forgot my Camera (again) and so did theleadhead (again). So you will have to settle for some blurry low res pics from our cellphones. You can see Commander Culln (a space marine captain in the game) Surrounded by some smurfs and a chaplain. I was playing generic Marines so I could get used to 5th ed rules while showing theleadhead and another friend how to play. We played a capture and control mission with a pitched battle Deployment.

How to paint Red Scorpions

 This is my guide on how to Paint Red Scorpions. I hope by reading this guide you can avoid the pitfalls I encountered when painting this army. This will be fairly in depth and Ill try to have general tips marked with ** so you can gloss over them if you feel so inclined. This is a dry brush and wash painting guide so the aim is a high table top standard but nothing beyond that.