Adepticon 2011 in the books!

Well, it's been a few weeks since Adepticon 2011 and I'm finally feeling like I've returned to normal life. The excitement of Adepticon always takes me a few weeks to recover from. Below are some pics of the LotR Championship event including some of the new table surfaces we added this year. You can find the full set of pictures from the event here.I had a great time playing in my first ever Adepticon LotR event. My thanks go out to Brent Sinclair for taking over the event for me this year. And I should also thank Frank Brown, John Humphrey, and Tim Cornstubble who helped in various ways both before the event and during the event. Without folks like these stepping up to help I wouldn't have had the chance to play. So thank you guys!

I managed to finish my new Dwarf army for the event and was making a run at the best appearance award. But I knew this would be a challenge as great painters like Ty Finnochiaro and Marc Raley would be in attendance. Ty walked away with Best Appearance for his AWESOME Black Numenorian force. You can see some pics of his army along with Marc's Dwarves and my own Dwarf army. I was surprised to find that I had won Best Sportsmanship by tie-breaker (i.e. lowest battle score). So really, I won for doing what I do best....being not so great at playing this game I love. LOL!

Ty's Black Numenorians

Marc's Dwarves

My Erebor Dwarves With Adepticon in the books it's time to move on to new projects including a new LotR force for Bilbo's Birthday Bash, also know as B3. This great event is held in November and you can find more information or even sign-up here.

Adepticon 2011 fast approaching!

Adepticon is just about a month away and I've recently kicked my painting into high gear to meet the deadline of April 1st for the Lord of the Rings Championship. Here are a few pics of some work in progress models along with what the completed bases should look like. Thanks to my friend Brent taking over the coordination of the event this year I will finally get to play in one of the Lord of the Rings events at Adepticon for the first time!

As you might tell I'm very excited about this. Having run the events at Adepticon for the past four years I've watched some great games and even greater players playing the game. Now I get to join this fantastic group of Lord of the Rings hobbyists and compete against some of the best players around.

So stay tuned for updated photos and information. And as always, check out the Adepticon forums at www.adeptuswindycity.com for more information on Lord of the Rings and Adepticon.

Bilbo's Birthday Bash 2010

Last weekend I had my first chance to play in a LotR tournament by attending Bilbo's Birthday Bash. This event started last year and this year the organizer, Brent Sinclair, went out of his way to make it a huge success. With over 20 players, some from out of state, it was a top notch event.

Although my battle score was horrible I had a fantastic time and walked away with Best Appearance and Favorite Army. I was totally honored to win these as the competition for these was pretty stiff. My personal favorite army was John Humphrey's Grey Company. We actually tied for appearance score and I lucked out by getting a few more Favorite Army votes. John is a great painter and a great guy.

Below are pics of the event including a couple of John's army, Kyle Toth's Mordor force, another great looking army, and a few of the other forces in attendance. There were some really nice painted armies in attendance to be sure. In all the excitement I forgot to take some photos of my own force so I'll do that soon and get some up. Needless to say, with the likes of John and others I have to step my game up if I want to keep up at Adepticon 2011.

I'm back!

It's been far to long since I posted a blog update. Summer has come and passed with little new miniature work from me. But, now that fall is here and Bilbo's Birthday Bash is around the corner, it's time I got some work done.

"What's Bilbo's Birthday Bash?" I hear you say. B3, as we call it, is a growing Lord of the Ring SBG Indy GT here in Chicago. For more information on the event check out http://bilbosbirthdaybash.com/.

My plan for a new army fell by the wayside. So, here is an addition to my current Minas Tirith force. Hopefully, I can have enough new models added to at least call it "partly" new.

Gorgon Spartan Army

I finally have some good shots of the Spartan army I painted for Adepticon as well as for display at the Gorgon booth at conventions in the future. This is the first 1000 points of a planned 2000 point force using exclusively Gorgon Studios models. In addition to more Spartans I'm planning on some Greek cavalry and some allied Greek hoplites using the soon-to-be-released Etruscan cavalry and out current range of 1st class Etrsucan hoplites respectively.

WAB at Adepticon 2010

Had a great time at Adepticon as always. On Sunday I played in the Warhammer Ancients Team Tournament along with my friend Dave Pauwels. Here are some pics of the fun.

For Sparta and Adepticon

It's been a busy month of February with the ranks of the Gorgon Studio Spartan army growing each day. With the Adepticon WAB Team Tournament just weeks away there is still much to do. Here is the basic force so far minus shield designs. More pics of the awsome Gorgon shield transfers next time.

Now, back to painting!