Weekender: UK Games Expo’s Weird & Wonderful Events + Perfect Blood Red Skies Mats!
March 24, 2018 by dignity
We're delving into more awesomeness this week as part of The Weekender. There's plenty of ace stuff happening at UK Games Expo this year, so we're talking with Rich and Tony all about it!
Weekender Podcast Download
As well as that we've been delving into some hot news out of AdeptiCon and much more besides so make sure to stay tuned.
Updates
We have some great things for you to check out this week...
- AdeptiCon Live Blog - Dawn, Gianna and their team are in the US right now covering the mighty convention.
- DreadBall 2nd Edition Week - Keep an eye out next week as we delve into Mantic's Futuristic Sports Game.
- Hellboy Painted! - We were lucky enough to paint up the first pre-production Hellboy model ahead of Mantic's Kickstarter campaign in April.
Check all of the links out above to get the lowdown on what's been happening this week.
Warren Meets Mat
With the Warlord Games guys being in the studio this week we turn our attention to Blood Red Skies and think about the different mats from Deep-Cut Studio which would work for this high-flying dogfighting game.
Win Frontier Wargaming Painting Stations!
We have a look at two of the Frontier Wargaming Portable Painting Stations that they have added to their webstore recently and give YOU a chance to win one of your own.
The giveaway includes ONE Portable Painting Station and ONE Miniatures Case (Small) and all you have to do is...
Tell us what your next big project would be that you would use these for!
Get your comments in below and share with us what you're working on right now.
News
There was some pretty massive news this week and loads of awesome content for you to comment on.
- Star Wars: Legion Terrain - Check out the mats and terrain available from Fantasy Flight Games.
- AdeptiCon Reveals From Games Workshop - Plastic Sisters, Idoneth Deepkin and more revealed this week.
- PlayFusion Making Age Of Sigmar CCG - Watch out for this new CCG launching in July 2018. Watch our Lightseekers Content HERE
- Angry Joe Heading To Kickstarter - A new Street Fighter Miniatures Game is in the works!
- Cryptids - Learn more about this new deduction board game coming to the tabletop in September.
- Ultimate Werewolf Legacy - Rob Daviau adds a layer of Legacy to this popular party game.
What caught your eye this week?
The Weird & Wonderful At UK Games Expo
We talked with Rich and Tony from UK Games Expo about some of the weird and wonderful events that you can get involved in at the convention this summer.
This is a fantastic event and you can get your hands on tickets HERE.
Kickstarter
We take a look at two terrain-based Kickstarter projects...
- The Lost Islands - Printable Scenery have some amazing new STL files for you to download.
- Viking & Anglo-Saxon Terrain - See what Renaissance Miniatures have planned for your Dark Age tabletops.
...which of these would you back?
Competition Winners
Make sure to listen out to see if you were a winner as we give away prizes.
- Infinity Week
- Dark Crystal Board Game
- GameMat.Eu Prague Open Mat
If you heard your name, or know one of the people who popped up in our announcements make sure to Claim Your Prize!
Have a great weekend folks!
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The weekend starts now. Shame I’m heading into work ; (
I remember those sad days of working on a weekend. Hope t goes quickly for you
Yep. The weekend starts now, with my Eschers finally painted and I’m off to bed. 🙂
Happy Weekend!
night night son
Ah, saturday morning: Coffee in hand and BOW weekender running in the background… Happy weekend everyone!
I want to win the BIG one. My next project will be Star Wars Legion. I’d love to use that on the go, at friends and even the local store and get the forces of Rebel Scum and Imperials painted up for some wargaming goodness.
@warzan even if Mantic’s use of the IP is restricted to a board game format, the Walking Dead has rules for creating your own characters so TWD: Hellboy Edition would be very easy to make work, it could well be one for a little Sunday gaming project.
And ofcourse once again you are bang on mate! 🙂
Oooooh man. Throw hellboy into the walking dead fray??? I just popped a disk in my back bending over back words to this thought. I need a hellboy mini to run this.
A nice weekeend everyone. Waiting for my coffee running to me and the rest of my family standing up 😀
Next project: I’d like to finally paint my AvP boardgame minis
Finishing up some flames of war pieces.Got some new panzers
It’s the Weekend!!
A very Star War-sy weekend for many I suspect, including me.
No sign of mine yet, but my Hasslefree Kickstarter arrived yesterday and they are sexy as he’ll. I may make the nekkid Matt mini a gift to @dignity as I know he’ll appreciate it
Clippers at the ready?
I frequently have to travelfor work, staying over in hotels, so the self contained nature of the paint station, especially with the light andwith often limited desk space, would allow me to take my hobby with me. Other solutions involving multiple things to remember, unpack and layout… taken care of by this.
Only concern is tipping it over and damaging models.
@warzan I think the zone of focus effect the unit creates is enhanced by turning on the light which highlights this bubble and pushes everything else away, increasing your focus.
I wouldn’t want to make any layer I added to the work surface too bright or shiny as that would only distract from the model you’re working on and potentially tire the eyes with too much background light. A matt dark green wipeable surface would be ideal.
Mynext project is to paint up anumber of KD:M survivors that I’ve been assembling from the various sprues. Been focussing on the monsters and encounters up until now, and with wave 2 imminent need to catch up with the survivors before the new monsters take over.
my next project got to be start a full JSA army, I am a Pano player but those JSA minis look soo good that I cant pass the chance to paint them
My next big project will be either my jsa for infinity, my dragons for Dark Souls or depending on which side my bro picks Imperial or Rebels for Legion.
Nice portable paint station would mean no more having to paint in the garage zone.
Super awesome video, My next big project is to paint up all my dreadball minis, that has been sat in storage for too long, my spark for the hobby goodness has been lit and i am looking forward to get back in the hobby and let my inner nerd out.
Nice portable paint station means the wife will be happy as nice and tidy and portable to take with me down to my local gaming store 🙂
Wow..this paint station is awesome 😎
Great show, thank you guys for making me spill my coffee early on
Jackhammer & the Gates of Hell..! Lol!!
Currently painting SW: Legion. The AT-ST is my next big project.
@warzan , the moment Same mentions with Vader surrounded by Rebels is from an arc called “Vader Down”. In fact I would highly reccomend all of Kieran Gillen and Salvador Larroca’s Darth Vader series as it presents the most pithy, bad-ass version of Vader at the height of his powers in the aftemath of A New Hope, the dark mirror of Artoo & Threepio in BT-1 & 0-0-0, and the wonderfully amoral archaeologist Doctor Aphra. (there is another Vader series that has replaced this one, but wheras the first is set post Ep-IV the new series follows Darth building his… Read more »
my next big job is modernising the house i just bought, so i need a mobile painting setup whilst i live in a building site (unless i board the loft and create the hobby lookout….)
Do I really need to confess about all the unpainted minis and half finished projects I got laying around my apartment D: Very well, my primed M1 Abrams for Team Yankee is blaming me for their losses for not being camouflaged, my Imperial Guard is going berserk without their officers, my Blood Bowl team might have migrated to another county in search of uniforms, I swear that the damn Leman Russ have started pointing its barrel at me during the nights and since thursday I have a legion of little plastic stormtroopers being told a bunch of unsavory lies by… Read more »
On the painting station was the bottom drawer difficult to get because the hinge was s in complely the wrong place ?
my next big project would be the ultramarines army i have been attempting to start for the last year or so
It would be tough to choose but my next project would probably be my rising sun miniatures. Some of those dragons and oni are awesome. Though when those new van saar are released I may need to switch 🙂
Need to paint a couple of Blood Bowl teams next week. League starting next month.
Amen to that brother @dignity, the problems of being a hobbyist/gamer dad and being grumbled at for having your hobby gear all over the dining table, it makes you negative before you even start, as the thought of having to pack it all away again sometimes makes me not want to paint. Add to that the pain of having built a hobby space, only to lose it when my lad came back from Uni. I love my son to bits but noooooooo, where’s my hobby space now???
My project would be the JSA I just pre-ordered
Justin the Jackhammer ……. Now there is a mental image I didn’t need. Happy Saturday!!
…. oh and Dreadball week !!!!! YEEEEESSSSSSSSSS