Hey all!,
This is your friendly writer, the Blessed Bolt Thrower, returning to give you some exciting updates on what to look out for in the next few months. I talked with Big Red from Bell of Lost Souls and we're going to work with him on a collaboration with my boys & girls down in Austin to help deliver the best hobby blog I can. I will need your support...and a solution to having a kinda crappy camera. But little camera that could and I will try as best as we can :)
Articles forthcoming:
* Thinning your paint: Chunky monkey is an ice cream flavour NOT a painting technique.
* Priming 101: Primer is for undercoating not for base coating!
* Cleaning our models: Plastic v. metal v. resin
* Stripping paint: Oops we did it again... lets hit the redo button!
* Dirt, basing, and you!
* Green stuff basics
* Green stuff and basing uses!
Also coming up we had a VERY unique thing happen here in the Detroit area. I had 8 friends come up to me and say "We're all friends... can you... show me how to paint this; fix this; use this; play this; not feel like a total noob"... YES! the answer is yes :)
So jokingly I said, well when World Steam Expo is over in May lets call the SE Michigan War Council to council here at the house for a barbeque and a meeting...and I think the name stuck. So my little Hobbylings have a name. heh. I will be making another page just for their progress and linking it back so we can follow the campaign and whatnot. Likewise I will be doing that with the council of Rust as well.
The SE Michigan War Council will be a mini blog dedicated to giving veteran hobbiests a template to roll by to help get their friends together. It is focused on taking people who have desire to learn and have never played and also people that used to play many many rules editions ago and bringing them together to put THEIR hobby in THEIR hands.
The link is in the side bar. Feel free to check it out sometime :). It's kicking off in June but there's no harm in preparing.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Hobby focus: Sportsmanship & Attitude
Greetings program. Cleaning out a lot of the posts on the blog and also starting up 2 side blogs to keep things organized: 1- the SE Michigan War Council. The warhammer fantasy group that's come to me and said hey we are totally out of touch with our armies to the point of feeling like we're brand new. Help. And help we shall! Trevor (the husband and resident Beastman herder) and I are going to help coach them to do their very best in the process of letting them work as a group instead of feeling like they are on their own.
So today's hobby article is on Sportsmanship and Attitude! I saw a great deal of good attitude this past week. I just got back from Adepticon and all I have to say is WOW. First of the level of teamwork I saw out there was great. Some of the things I loved:
Bell of Lost Fezzes - I loved that the BoLS crew came together and had matching hats. And more so because I am wearing mine now as I am writing this. heh. But you can see it stick out in a crowd and they were bright and fun and it makes the statement of: My friends and I are here as a team even if we're not all doing the same thing. Bravo!
The 40K team tournaments. I am LOVING the fact that the Cult of Charlie Sheen was pouring shots for people going by just to share and stay in theme and have a great time! I love that the Necron/Blood Angels team had pins and expansion packs for the 40K card game that they made to give to their opponents just to keep it fun. I LOVE this level of involvement! It made me WANT to play in teams tournament so I could give something to my opponents other than grief or my tears (depending how the dice fare). Anything that inspires me to want to do for others is top notch in my book!
Mini bar! Not that alcohol is required but it was nice to keep the mood light and everyone seemed to behave themselves. Except the Charlie Sheen Bobblehead but he was busy winning. He was having fun on his party tower all weekend and we don't blame him.
The other vendors: Now I didn't get a chance to leave the booth a whole bunch, but I did get to talk to several of the other vendors there. They were very nice to me and the rest of the team in the booth with me, and the respect from vendor to vendor was really refreshing for me to see. I'm so used to vendors of other types in clothing and manufacturing seeing one another as rivals or spies that it was really great to see everyone come together to facilitate helping people enjoy their hobby. So refreshing.
Also got to talk to Big Red from BoLS. I really miss being down in Austin with them but online is a great place to share the things you love. So I have made a promise to make a devoted forward effort to actually doing some completion work on my blog here and share the hobby skills from a very basic level on up and get more involved.
Today I have 3-4 minis to work on for a friend of mine so I will start there. I am still settling back in from a week away from home and will heat up lunch and try to get some work caught up on. So until then, cheers! and may the dice be ever in your favour. :)
So today's hobby article is on Sportsmanship and Attitude! I saw a great deal of good attitude this past week. I just got back from Adepticon and all I have to say is WOW. First of the level of teamwork I saw out there was great. Some of the things I loved:
Bell of Lost Fezzes - I loved that the BoLS crew came together and had matching hats. And more so because I am wearing mine now as I am writing this. heh. But you can see it stick out in a crowd and they were bright and fun and it makes the statement of: My friends and I are here as a team even if we're not all doing the same thing. Bravo!
The 40K team tournaments. I am LOVING the fact that the Cult of Charlie Sheen was pouring shots for people going by just to share and stay in theme and have a great time! I love that the Necron/Blood Angels team had pins and expansion packs for the 40K card game that they made to give to their opponents just to keep it fun. I LOVE this level of involvement! It made me WANT to play in teams tournament so I could give something to my opponents other than grief or my tears (depending how the dice fare). Anything that inspires me to want to do for others is top notch in my book!
Mini bar! Not that alcohol is required but it was nice to keep the mood light and everyone seemed to behave themselves. Except the Charlie Sheen Bobblehead but he was busy winning. He was having fun on his party tower all weekend and we don't blame him.
The other vendors: Now I didn't get a chance to leave the booth a whole bunch, but I did get to talk to several of the other vendors there. They were very nice to me and the rest of the team in the booth with me, and the respect from vendor to vendor was really refreshing for me to see. I'm so used to vendors of other types in clothing and manufacturing seeing one another as rivals or spies that it was really great to see everyone come together to facilitate helping people enjoy their hobby. So refreshing.
Also got to talk to Big Red from BoLS. I really miss being down in Austin with them but online is a great place to share the things you love. So I have made a promise to make a devoted forward effort to actually doing some completion work on my blog here and share the hobby skills from a very basic level on up and get more involved.
Today I have 3-4 minis to work on for a friend of mine so I will start there. I am still settling back in from a week away from home and will heat up lunch and try to get some work caught up on. So until then, cheers! and may the dice be ever in your favour. :)
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