For the Ginger Dwarf: A Charity Painting Project in the 41st Millenium

What a busy little 60 hours that was. When I went live with the raffle on Wednesday night I was hoping to raise £150-200. As I closed it this morning we had taken £270. People from three different communities put in donations (not all wanted tickets in the draw, just wanted to chip in which was something I hadn’t considered). Wargamers are great people; thank you to everyone from here at OTT/BOW, TopTable Gaming and Blackjack Legacy for joining in the fun.

As I have been writing this up, there was a top up donation to get us to £300.

This has been a wild little three weeks. What started as a silly idea and a spur of the moment couple of posts asking for advice turned into several acts of kindness, many hours of work, a pretty substantial prize, and a lovely donation for a very worthy charity.

From a personal hobby perspective, painting to match someone else’s paint scheme without seeing it in person was an interesting challenge. There are things I would have painted differently, stages I would have put in that weren’t there. Overall though, I’ve very happy with how they turned out. Sadly I won’t get to see them all together in person. As of the draw, the Indomitus part of the prize was still in Newcastle so we’ll just send on to the winner separately.

Sadly the stream that dictated the timeline for all this had to be delayed by a week. Managing to keep all of this secret from Bob and Ginger has been hard because I’m a blabbermouth but being able to surprise them next Saturday/Sunday with the generosity of gamers is an honour.

To Bob and Ginger,
This whole project was written up so that you could read it back in my future, your present. I know that things have been horrible for you and nothing any of us can do can change that for you, no matter how much we wish it could. Several of the people who have been involved in this have had their own run ins with that c**t Cancer. They wanted to pass on their love and appreciation for what you are going through and doing with your Macmillan fundraising. We might all be strangers but we are all human and we’re all sending you our very best wishes.
Lots of love and stuff,
Gorram