I haven't managed to post any updates lately due to mad hours at work and life in general, and I apologize. What I plan to do now is start hobby video updates, to track and share my progress on the many 2013 games I plan to get into playing more!
Hey guys, just a quick heads up: I was able to hook up my old computer and snag all the raw data from my old Friday Night Fights videos that were lost to Youtube.. so I've re-stitched them and been uploading them again.
Here is the link the youtube channel with the old AARs:
Long story short, we had our big tournament at a new venue, Game Summit 2013. The event is turning into a full fledged Con from its humble beginnings from a few years ago. How do you know you've made it? Klingons and StarWars folks, thats how! Anyhoo here are some pics, and a quick Video of the Setup (I don't take video during tournament games anymore)
TK421, why aren't you at your post?
Huge-Settlers game equipment
Huge-Settlers map, cleverly made by cutting carpet into hexes. The houses were blocks of wood, painted
Sadly this is the best shot I got of the Klingon booth. I hope others got a few pics
Huge-COnnect 4 and Huge-Chess & Checkers
Best 15 dollars ever spent: 1940's era fuel truck for the airfield board.
I had commissioned Jeff Black of OMG club for the awesome hangars. Also, plane nerds, what is the large 2 engined bomber? Hint, it was actually used against the British, and its not a Condor.
ThunderST kindly lent his awesomely painted V2 launcher for the airfield table
Thanks to those that brought extra planes.. here is the "captured german stuff"
And here is the allied stuff.. I want that Halifax model something fierce!
Quite a messy cluster of Germans vs Staghounds. My Shermans later found out that some of 'em have AT 10 CrusaderIII turrets!!!
Mike Abbott's incredible Para's army. This army got my best painted vote, though to be fair the lvl of painting keeps climbing higher and higher at each event, so its getting tougher to pick a clear winner.
Big thanks to the GS Set up crew, the Dice Devils set up volunteers (the free breakfast is a lie) and bigger thanks to Ca$H, who ran the event for us again this year. It was a smashing success, good show old boy.
Here is my video of the setup, as I don't vid during tournies anymore.
Pripyat and I managed to squeek in an Infinity game this Sunday. He brought over his Combined Army, and went up against my Yu Jing list. Let's head straight to the action :
I learned the hard lesson of just how deadly mines can be. I hope you enjoyed it!
So with a few of the lads and I getting more games of Infinity I thought I would try my hand at scratch building some basic terrain to add to our collection.
I decided to start simply, and test out some ideas. To get things going, I bought two 2'x3' sheets of foamboard for about $8 total. I then set about measuring and cutting out pieces to build two simple buildings.
The goal of the buildings was to introduce line of sight blockers while still encorporating multiple access point and windows. Here is what I started with:
As you can see, I make them stackable, as well as aligning the opposite doorways to allow us to put them together to make one, larger building. I simply used my hot glue gun so assembly time was all told at about 10 minutes (after cutting out the parts).
To start on the painting, I decided I wanted them to appear "prefab" or concrete looking. To keep things as simple as possible the base coat was Krylon Grey Primer. It came out an great mid level grey. To add some texture to the flat grey, I lights sprayed a dusting of Krylon White Primer on all the surfaces. The end result can be seen here :
In the last few pics, I added a couple of my Yu Jing models for scale, and to show that I managed to make the whole building a great line of sight blocker. I think they may even make for some interesting indoor firefights in our upcoming games. Once I have done some more detail work (like making stair for when they are stacked, and adding interior details) I will update the blog with another post.
All told, my total investment so far is:
~$8 -Two 2'x3' sheets of foamboard (one sheet I haven't even touched yet!)
~50 cents of hot glue
~$8 - 2 cans of Krylon Spray Primer ($4 at walmart each)
1.5 hours of my time.
All in all, pretty decent starter, and super fast and simple to make. Expect to see them on our table top soon!
