Diesel DM

After being introduced to Thunderdome at CaptainCon 2015, I knew we needed a board for our local store.  I set upon it immediately to get it done before our Reckoning event.

Woodworking Complete

The boards we had seen were 36″ diameter circles and designed for up to 8 players.  In order to provide a nice wood border around the outside I decided to go with an octagon.  The octagon I built has a maximum diameter of 36″ which means the flat edges are 33″ apart.  Each interior edge is 13 3/4″, with 22.5-degree angles cut on each end to form a regular octagon.  The bottom is made of hardboard and the edges are strips of a 2×4 I ripped down to 3/8″.  This keeps the board lightweight but sturdy.  I routed grooves into each edge piece that housed the hardboard.  Wood glue in the grooves and the angled edges holds the board together.  For some additional strength I also put two nails in each corner.

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Captain Con 2015, that I helped Kickstart at the Captains level, has come and gone and I returned home with some painting awards. Which helps make up for my 1-3 record in the standard issue tournament.

The Draconic Awards ran the painting competition at CaptainCon.  I was interested to see how my work would be judged outside of a PP sponsored competition. Like the P3 competition at Lock & Load, the Draconic Awards had merit-based awards, where models are judged independently of each other and awarded gold, silver or bronze coins. They also had a Best of Show award and a People’s Choice award.

Arcane Tempest Gun Mage Pistoleers – Gold Merit and Best of Show Runner Up

My Arcane Tempest Gun Mage Pistoleers took a gold merit coin and won runner-up for Best of Show. (more…)

Nog challenged me for the #donateorpaint challenge and I managed to finish up Jakes in under 3 days:

Allison Jakes – Front

I’m happy to have completed it in time with a decent paint job.  While I was initially pretty excited to paint this one, overall I found the model to be too busy.  Too many buckles and belts and pads and it all felt detrimental to painting the model.

Allison Jakes – Side

To alleviate the bizarre downhill pose she came with I ended up sculpting a little hill on the base for her right foot to sit on in order to make her not be staring into the ground.  With the extra green stuff I made the little gray boulder in front of her.

Allison Jakes – Back

Janissa Stonetide

Every Troll player’s favorite character solo: Janissa. She puts down walls, she Force Locks, she has Armor Piercing and perhaps the greatest victim of character restrictions. This was my first attempt at the albino Trollblood skin color and it went well. Struggled to get some good contrasts while keeping it pale.

Runes, swamp grass and a pink dress

I really like how the dress turned out. Similar to Taryn’s cloak, I pumped up the contrast going both darker and lighter.  Then adding some Menoth White Highlight/Base trim to the dress, gloves and boots really made it pop.  Tried for blowy runes on the axe, but I’m not thrilled with the results.