The Warforge Miniature Modelling and Conversion

Golden Demon and some other things

So one of the people I talk to on AIM was nice enough to let me know that Games Workshop now has Golden Demon Baltimore 2008 coverage up on their site. The ironic thing is that I was looking for this yesterday afternoon, but their newly-designed labyrinth of a site means that there's a decent chance you won't find the thing you're looking for, even if it's sitting right under your nose. I bring up their coverage for two reasons. The first is in vanity - my gargant is up there as a Honorable Mention, which has me giggling like a schoolgirl because I have invaded GW's webspace. The second reason is just that I was impressed by something - and no, it wasn't the Slayer-winning inquisitor, which I thought was a blindingly busy model. I was impressed by this - the gold winner of the Open Competition.

Why, you may ask? That miniature is the one you received at the registration desk at Gamesday this year. Meaning, the fellow must have gotten there, gotten the mini, presumably primed it, sat down at one of the painting events, painted the damn thing before daemon registration ended, and then submitted it and won the gold. That is a staggering result for what could have been no more than three hours of work. Of course, this is decidedly less impressive if he somehow managed to get his hands on the miniature earlier, but to my knowledge they weren't mailing them out with the tickets. Truthfully, too, I don't think it had any right winning the gold over the other two entries on the same page, unless the judges were also absolutely floored by the speed at which it was painted also.

Edit: I've been told that the guy who submitted the Salamander I was talk about above was a store manager, meaning that he probably had about two months or so to work on it in advance... meaning, it's not quite as impressive as I had imagined. Still, I think this makes an argument for a new category for Gamesday - speedpainting! They had tables for speedpainting events, but it'd be hilarious to see how Demon winners could do given only a handful of hours.

Moving on, I just want to mention that if you haven't spotted them, final photos of the Gargant are now up under it's project listing. The Pressure Casting Tutorial has also been completed as of this morning, and the third video is up for what I hope will be your viewing pleasure. I'm looking forward to making more tutorials for the site as I can, but I don't know what you all want to see from me! If you have something in particular you would like a tutorial on, throw it in a comment and I'll give it consideration.

Also, an unrelated point I want to bring up: Thanks are due to Mad Jazz of the Penny-Arcade.com forums for my wonderful Secret Santa gift, a boxed Space Marine Predator. It really is a brilliant present - it fits both armies I play nicely, and is loaded to the gills with bits!

More to come as I have time.