Adepticon 2012: The Unwinding

Got back yesterday from my Adepticon trip. I am going to take a day to unwind and then I'll put up my thoughts and a few more pics of the 2012 iteration of this Event. I will say that I had a blast and plan on going again next year.

Friday Adepticon Photo Dump

Friday Photo Dump

Thursday Adepticon Photo Dump

Just gonna dump Photos here for now.  Will do a daily Photo dump as long as I have meaningful content to dump. Let  me know if there is anything you want snapped.  I opted f a bit.or the larger pictures. The original sizes are bigger if you dont mind panning and scanning

Mathieu Fontaine is a cool guy

Quick Update on something theleadhead told me about while we were painting on Sunday. The full story is on Mathieu's blog linked below, but basically he kicks arse. He got tied up in US immigration for flying to the US to teach some classes for Adepticon. There was not enough time to make the changes to his visa/passport to get paid for Adepticon.
Instead of canceling all his classes, he chose to donate all the proceeds to Doctors Without Borders so he could still come and teach his classes. I have taken his classes and they are great. Those of you taking them this year will have the added benefit of supporting a great charity as well as learning from on of the best. Here is his Blog entry: http://www.akaranseth.com/blog/adepticon-ill-be-there.htm

I don't know about you guys, but theleadhead and I already agreed were gonna hook him up with some food and drink on our dime. Hes giving up a lot of his own time and money to be there, so show him some much deserved love!

Road to Adepticon Part Deux

Well I am all kind of excited gearing up for Adepticon. I am assembling and painting models like crazy. This is all much to the chagrin to the "Budget Authority" as I am taking up the entire kitchen table to do this. The boys are with nanna, so I am getting away with it (for now). I was able to get listed on the Adepticon website again as a covering blog, which is very cool.


Continued

Road to Adepticon: 2012

Its getting close to that time of year again. My good friend theleadhead and I will be heading to Chicago for Adepticon 2012. This year I am not signed up for any events or classes so I will be able to spend more time blogging about all the goings on. I do plan on being at the Iron Arena a lot so if you want to get in sme games hit me up here or on twitter.

I'm gonna bring my laptop with me this year and actually put up some posts of the eventx while I am there instead of waiting to get home and put up something prettier. I will still do the roundup, but I think it will be more interesting to see stuff on the fly. I think between here google+ and twitter I should have a lot of stuff up at any time.

If you guys would like something specific covered that you didnt get any info on last year or just didnt think got any love, Let me know.


I am funderhammer on twitter and Blake Everhart on Google plus if you want to follow me there as well.

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.