Hey Everyone! I hope you all have been on a roll with your hobby. There is plenty to prepare for such the upcoming Nashcon, Coalescence, Socal Open, Cross Roads GT, Nova and the new Midwest Meltdown (Ask Domus for more info)! I am still trying to prepare the terrain for my local Coalescence event as well as prepare a Display board for my Warhammer Stores Inner Circle event.
2 day Display Board!
I was able to work up this fairly generic display board in a few days for the local Inner Ci
Welcome to Part 5 of my "Building a Community" Series. If you have not read Part 1, 2, 3 or 4 please check them out in the links below. Today I will discuss the recent town meeting I held at my local club and the rather quick turnaround I have seen in members since.
At our last club day, I felt it was best to hold a town meeting to get everyone together to discuss the future of the club. I felt a lot of what I was trying to do wasn't being received properly or was being misinterpreted.
Hey everyone! This week's Hobby is all about preparing for Coalescence on June 10th. The word for the event has spread much quicker and farther than I originally thought it would have for my club. I decided to keep pushing and have been hitting up local stores to hang up flyers I printed off for the event and hopefully get players to register via email so I can get a somewhat accurate headcount.
My Local FLGS's and even my local Warhammer Store has allowed me to put up flyers to help
Hey Everyone! This week I wanted to begin a new segment where I talk to a club mate about their journey in Age of Sigmar and this Hobby. Today I will be talking with Matt who is a consistent member of a local group based in Pittsburgh, PA. I am dragging him back to Twitter so follow him here as well!
Matt (Background) and myself at Adepticon 2017
Hey Matt, Thanks for being my first test subject for my new Blog Article Series. "No Problem. Happy to help and talk about Age of Sigmar anytim
Hello Everyone! I have made the decision to take my blog from once per week to twice per week. I want to have a short post about what hobby I have going on or a short hobby related topic every Wednesday, which is the post you will see today. I also plan to continue bringing you longer more in-depth posts at the end of the week on Friday. If you have any topics you would like to see covered in my Shorter Tuesday posts please let me know. Today I want to share with you all the projects I am c
Hello everyone! I wanted to take this week’s post to run down my games from The Age of Sigmar Championship that I participated in at Adepticon 2017 this year. I decided to take the Stormcast Eternals to the event. My intention was to take the Warrior Brotherhood, but after the changes that occurred in the new book, it simply wasn't a worthwhile option in my opinion. With only a limited amount of time to adjust my list, I decided instead to use the Hammerstrike force. Because the Hammerstrike
Welcome to Part 4 of my "Building a Community" Series. If you have missed Part 1, 2 or 3, please check them out in the links below. Today I want to talk about how I will attempt to bring unity to my local club.
Later this month my local club, Ligonier Legions, will meet as we usually do. However, instead of setting up immediately for a gaming event, I have set up an open forum to let members determine the future of the group. After speaking with a few dedicated club members
Hello, everyone! I have recently returned from my first Adepticon and I wanted to share an overview of my time at the convention and run through my experience. Spoilers...it was great! I traveled out with my buddy Matt and from Pittsburgh, PA. We took a predawn drive Thursday morning through a few states; Indiana being the worst due to construction, and seven hours later we arrived at our hotel. After a bit of unwinding, I headed over to the Convention Hall to Register and explore.
My A
We have at last come to the week of Adepticon 2017. This will be the first major Wargaming event I will be attending and the excitement is incredible. Games Workshop will be out in force this year with event support and hobby seminars galore. It is going to be big and I cannot wait for Thursday to arrive!
Over the past few months, you could see a few posts about Adepticon preparation appearing in your social media feeds. As we grew closer more and more appeared as the Hobby Crunch time
This past weekend I was able to attend the first event for The Steel City Sigmar Series. The event was hosted at Legions Hobbies and Games. Organized by Bill Souza and acting as T.O, Mike Ryan. I wanted to run down my games and give some of my opinions from the event. I took Stormcast Eternals to this event using the Hammerstrike and Thunderhead formations. I do want to mention that this club is separate from the local scene that I am trying to grow within my immediate area that has been th
I was chatting with my friend about our preparation for Adepticon that is rapidly approaching. An interesting topic came up on where we saw ourselves in a level of competitiveness. I thought it could be a good talking point to discuss how someone might see themselves in the various levels of competition.
So much to do and so little time...
I see myself as a very competitive player. However, Adepticon will most likely change my perspective on the matter. In my local scene, I hang around
Welcome to Part 3 of my "Building a Community" Series. If you have missed Part 1 and Part 2, please check them out in the links below. Today I want to talk about my local club’s tables, terrain, etc...
I need to be honest with myself. Building and painting terrain can be a chore for the common hobbyist, with the exception of a few notable exceptions. When I go home to hobby I would rather build lists, paint, or convert models while catching up on Warhammer TV streams. I could go on and on
Hello everyone! This week I wanted to give you a short update on my Adepticon 2017 Preperation.
Adepticon 2017 is now less than one month away and I am feeling the hobby crunch in full force. This is not a new feeling, as I have experienced it before, although it feels just as stressful and fun as it always has in the past. Perfecting my models, my list, and stashing aside those few extra hobby bucks for an impulse buy constantly occupies my mind.
As you may have seen in my previous
Welcome to Part 2 of my Building a Community Series. If you missed Part 1 please check it out here. I apologize for the delay in getting this article posted.
In this installment, I want to talk about poisonous players and the current challenges with this type of player that I am currently facing. I will not be calling out anyone by name, as that is not the direction I want to take this article. My wish is to show you my personal dilemma that I have encountered while trying to grow my local
Hello everyone! I wanted to start a sub-series focused on building a community around Miniature War Gaming (particularly Age of Sigmar) by sharing my experiences. My hope is to speak with other community members during this series, and share ideas to use with local gaming groups. Part one of this series will focus on developing your local scene. I will explore connecting a personal gaming group to a larger scene in future articles.
Before I dive in I want to preface the article a bit.
Last week was the anniversary of my blogging career, and I wanted to take a moment to look back on this previous year.
On January 23rd, 2016 I released my first blog post. I loved the idea of running my own blog to share my thoughts and ideas with the community in a format beyond Twitter. Truthfully I felt a little intimidated at first. I believe I spent a week or two designing the blog layout and reading articles with titles such as "How to write your First Blog Post". Soon I reali
Hello Everyone! I wanted to talk this week about my local club, and the exciting things that are happening.
The club is located in and around Pittsburgh, PA, and several small Age of Sigmar groups have popped up all over the place. Clubs from Latrobe, Ligonier, Pittsburgh, Bridgeville, Monroeville, and I am sure others I have missed, are off playing Age of Sigmar together at their friendly local gaming store (FLGS). Occasionally people from these gaming groups pop into our new Games Wo
Hello everyone, sorry for the delay in this week's blog post. Nurgle has blessed me with a plague and it has been a struggle, but I am battling back! Enjoy!
This past weekend, I attended a Competitive Tournament at my local Games Workshop Store (Bridgeville, PA). It was a six player 2000 point event, with three games scored on Win/Loss/Draw. The Tournament was free, but that didn't mean the competition was any less fearsome. (Sadly my pho
We are less then three months away from Adepticon 2017 and I still feel as if I need more time.
This will be my first Adepticon and my first Wargaming convention. I am very excited to finally participate and see what all the fun is about! I have attending local tournaments and events and they have been enjoyable and well run, but I have a feeling they will not compare. I am also excited to meet many people I know though the Twitter community Face to Face ( So please feel free to say Hi to
Happy New Year everyone! 2017 has finally arrived and that means setting a few goals and resolutions for the coming trip around the Sun. Here are my Hobby resolutions and goals for 2017.
1) Attend more Events and go for a Podium. I have always been competitive and while I am one of the consistently better players in my area I am pretty sure I will be suffering "Big Fish, Little Pond" syndrome with this goal. Nonetheless I want to try to hang around the top tables at some major events and
Let us be honest 2016 has been a terrible year, but the shining gem this year has been Warhammer. I honestly doubt I would have survived this trip around the sun without all the good going on in the Hobby.
Now on to my Warhammer Top 5 for this past year.
5) Games Workshop Reaching Out: When the year started no one could have predicted the cultural change at Games Workshop. Age of Sigmar was still a bit of an unknown, but now it is a thriving and continually growing community of
Happy Holidays everyone! Today I wanted to take some time to discuss your Hobby Space and give you some insight to future content I will be putting out (with help) to the community in the coming year.
Where the hobby happens...
Above you will see my new dedicated hobby area (Video Tour here). There is still more lighting to add as well as general improvements due to it being my basement, but that will come with time. While it will always be in constant development I could not be happie
Weeks ago I decided to finally begin Airbrushing in earnest. Until that moment I was honing my skills with a brush (and even did a lot of priming with a brush) with a plethora of techniques to still learn.
Here is my weapon of choice. Found a great deal online.
I managed to find a great deal on the brush above and purchased it without a second thought (over one year ago). Then I let it sit in the box unopened for about eight months. To be honest I was intimidated by the thought of st
This is a follow up to a previous post entitled "Preventing Hobby Wobble between Projects"
It has been just about 2 months from my previous post regarding hobby wobble and I wanted to discuss how my attempt at embracing the wobble in a controlled way to knock out smaller projects went for me. Over these past few months I have managed to knock out the following projects. Two Battlefleet Gothic Fleets, Ten Dark Angel Terminators, Five Stormcast Judicators, and a handful of one off individual M
It is that time of year for us to muster our forces and display them proper in Armies on Parade!
Every year I watched as hobbyists across the globe created armies and display boards for their local Armies on Parade. Seeing the projects was always a great way to get my hobby mojo going either through the White Dwarf or Online posts by the community. This year I finally have a Games Workshop location within driving distance and I am finally able to participate.
I decided to use my Stormcas
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