The Weekender XLBS: Club Life, Meet-Ups & Painting!
November 17, 2013 by dignity
For some website features, you will need a FREE account and for some others, you will need to join the Cult of Games.
Or if you have already joined the Cult of Games Log in now
What difference will having a FREE account make?
Setting up a Free account with OnTableTop unlocks a load of additional features and content (see below). You can then get involved with our Tabletop Gaming community, we are very helpful and keen to hear what you have to say. So Join Us Now!
Free Account Includes
- Creating your own project blogs.
- Rating and reviewing games using our innovative system.
- Commenting and ability to upvote.
- Posting in the forums.
- Unlocking of Achivments and collectin hobby xp
- Ability to add places like clubs and stores to our gaming database.
- Follow games, recommend games, use wishlist and mark what games you own.
- You will be able to add friends to your account.
What's the Cult of Games?
Once you have made a free account you can support the community by joing the Cult of Games. Joining the Cult allows you to use even more parts of the site and access to extra content. Check out some of the extra features below.
Cult of Games Membership Includes
- Reduced ads, for a better browsing experience (feature can be turned on or off in your profile).
- Access to The Cult of Games XLBS Sunday Show.
- Extra hobby videos about painting, terrain building etc.
- Exclusive interviews with the best game designers etc.
- Behind the scenes studio VLogs.
- Access to our live stream archives.
- Early access to our event tickets.
- Access to the CoG Greenroom.
- Access to the CoG Chamber of Commerce.
- Access the CoG Bazarr Trading Forum.
- Create and Edit Records for Games, Companies and Professionals.
Hm, the video doesn´t work. Only for me?
Great video again guys. I like everything Romain does regardless, always learn something from his videos, even when it’s subjects that do not really interest me. However, an interesting subject assuming the timing works would be the deadzone scenery, anyone can spray and drybrush for a quick but simple effect, but I’m thinking more the weathering and so on to create atmosphere on the table. For the forums, personally I’d go with the smaller number of forums, I think people are more likely to get involved in forums that have a lot of activity, seeing the last post was say… Read more »
I’d second the weathering idea. Some added-value techniques that are quick to do but have the potential to lift a miniature (or piece of terrain) from decently painted to really eye-catching.
So I’m from Canada, but I’m visiting England for the first time in 8 years. Not only are you not in Essex anymore, but now you’re offering a get together next week, after I leave. Typical.
WRT Romain, I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again, SmartMax’s Smog. Even you said it, Warren, they are the nicest figures out there.
Happy Sunday all! On the subject of forums I like the idea of a smaller number of “genre” based hubs, but I’d like to be able ti create my own within my profile where if this is possible be able to subscribe to the topic tags that i’m interested in. id still be able to see the top level tagged subjects but if I go to my profile hub then I can see threads based on the tags I want to see all in one place even if they are spread across all of the top level groups. As to… Read more »
Thanks for the show.
Thinking about the forum thing. The broader hubs along the lines of your content hubs, maybe adding a general for news, updates and events, along with a hobbiest, ( painting, modeling, etc.) I think would make things seem more active. As long as people tag their posts accurately, it should curtail some peoples complaints about have to read through things they are not interested in. With almost 29k members, someone will bitch regardless. Good luck.
Nice work guys. Thanks for the lava rock tip for asteroids, I’ll pop down B&Q later and check it out. The forums being reworked into genres fits in well with what I’ve come to love about BoW. When I found this community I was only really into GW stuff but now I’m sat on a Flames of War collection, a mercs collection, xwing stuff and soon Deadzone. It just seems like a really great way of opening gamers eyes to a broad range of games. Personally I love all of Romains work, always interesting and well worth a look so… Read more »
Yeah, I just recently built flight stands pretty much like that. Drop me a line if you like, I can send you the details.
Interesting, another Monday club eh? Sadly I’m about to move away from mine which gives me about two more meetings to wrap up my Star Wars RPG campaign.. and funnily enough I need to run a space battle tomorrow so the X-Wing board info was highly relevant if a little late lol. If you have access to a good colour printer, the Sathrican Homeworld print and play set from WWG (http://www.worldworksgames.com/store/index.php?view=product&product=91) is also a good option for your space board (though holy cow is it going to eat up all your black ink!). On the forum side, if you give… Read more »
Similarly, if all forum posts are tagged then you should also have the same drop down list visible from the top level of each forum section (fantasy, sci-fi, historical etc) which would allow the users to quickly filter the forum posts to show only the ones for the game they are interested in. That way if you do have someone who only wants to read about – and talk about – Infinity, he can still do that.
Guys I’m not local to Nottingham but I’m always up for a drink or 3 would be great to have a few with you all. once a date is comfurmend I will endeavor to make the trip up.
The current categories on the forums not only mean that many see very little traffic, if you want to post on a game that doesn’t have an existing category it’s very difficult to place it. I encountered this problem last night trying to place a Batman post. I definitely would like to see much broader forum categories. It may be the case that the most popular games get enough traffic to warrant their own section, that would have the added benefit of allowing for some additional filtering of content for users, but even if not, I’d much rather be part… Read more »
If broader-based forum groups require more moderating, would it be worthwhile asking for a couple of volunteers from the community to help out?
Yes I think community moderators are a must for what were going to try and do here.
*blush, blush, blush*…
The difficulty with forums is finding the appropriate place to put or look for your specific question. Take for example “What colour should I paint my dwarfs?”. Would I post that in the fantasy, Mantic, Warhammer, Dwarf or painting forum? And what if that has been posted before but is on page 18 of forum topics? I like idea of generic headings, but with a very effective search facility that relies on keywords or tags. So if I search for “dwarf” I get 100 hits, and if I search for “dwarf and colour” I get 10 hits and can quickly… Read more »
If you want height adjustable bases with tilt:
http://corseceng.com/omni-stand/
They also do the acrylic templates and tokens 🙂
I’m going to hunt down some lava rocks.
Personally I think reducing the forums is a great idea. Ill admit Ive been lost in them more than once and I usually find forum browsing easy enough.
I think that the smaller forums are a fantastic idea really, fewer forums pulling the different topics together would work well and as long as people can see the game they relate to they can still decide if they want to go in and read it or not and it may just encourage more people to take those steps in to the newer games they are seeing around.
Loving the tips for setting up a Star was board as this is a game i have a few bits to but nothing major yet. The same fore groups/meet ups, i used to go to a store and play games there, but now hardly anyone plays down there and when they do its not something i have been interested in. So me and some other who felt the same now meet up and play games somewhere else. Also is the meet on/ around the 29th November? as i don’t live too far from Nottingham and it sounds like it could… Read more »
Great vid chaps.
I for one would be interested in seeing some DZC tutorials; Dave’s Youtube vids are good for quick and dirty getting the models on the table techniques, but I would appreciate seeing a more detailed process (for the Shaltari for example), from @elromanozo ‘s talented hand(s) 😀 I know a lot of the models in the rulebook were airbrushed, so maybe a series on quality airbrushing techniques?
Aye I loved @elromanozo ‘s PHR ship tutorial.
Great show guys. The forums definitely should be easier to use and more topics! As for what Domain should paint I’d love to see him paint a First Gen Plague from Deadzone with a none pink paint job. It’d be nice to see a different version painted buy a master.
Use the swing to the side! Is just great, i can see a lot of x-wing fans here buying those antennas for it. maybe you can use the movement sticks for sidemovement
Great vid. Love the lava rocks and Dollar Store hunting idea’s. I’ve seen things in there from time to time myself and thought “that would make a great alternative …”. Forums? You have a forum? Hehe never been on your forum but I know that seeing a forum with no recent posts is what stops me contributing. As Warren said, quiet forums are of no use. Broaden the categories. Enough people here play more than one system that genre based forums (sci-fi/fantasy/historical etc…) should be sufficient. I DO think a forum specifically geared to painting and one for terrain building… Read more »
About the forums issue , there is a kinda middle ground : You could subdivide each forum ( sci-fi, fantasy, pulp, horror, historical ) into the same subsections, like the following : Wargames, Boardgames, Terrain, Painting, Conversions, etc. And maybe add some specific to each forum, for example horror will certainly needs a Cthulhu Mythos section, Sci-fi will have near and high sci-fi. Historical will have a ton of different sections :P. I like the idea because i’m a massive fan of Sci-Fi, Steampunk and Horror in general, so i always like to see new games related to it but… Read more »
I sort of feel that the forums operate fine however it is rather daunting to surf it not because of operation as mentioned but because of how it is organized… Meaning that people who play multiple armies within one game system have to do tricks due to every army being separate from the other. End result is most war gamers will not bother following all things within that game system due to it being too spread out. Moderators is cool but it would attract more activity if BoW would maybe condense the forums for example… All things being “games workshop”… Read more »
It might be high time to relook at the idea of painting competitions. If that doesn’t get paint flowing then we can do a community painting challenge. We all have a sin bin, that unending void of half painted projects that we’ve lost interest in, so a good challenge to push everyone into finishing would be fun.
If you remodel the forums please don’t forget about the hobby side. Painting, terrain, and conversions are the other means into getting people into gaming.