My plans to go up to a tournament today have been dashed by work… so instead I guess I’m painting some much-needed bases.

My plans to go up to a tournament today have been dashed by work… so instead I guess I’m painting some much-needed bases.
I’m running a tournament at Huzzah Hobbies on February 3, and it is shaping up to be amazing.
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I just wanted to see an Infinity tournament go down at my FLGS, but it’s really shaping up to be be very much a to-do. In addition to the standard ITS prize pack and the entry fees getting rolled back into prize support, several folks have donated some things to the prize pool, and we’ve gotten sponsorship from some really great companies that I want to call out:
The amount of stuff for folks to walk home with is really stunning to me.
As far as the actual event:
$10 entry fee
2 hour rounds
Missions are:
Schedule
We’ve got folks coming in from Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Maryland, as well as a lot of Virginians. At this moment, there are 19 people signed up for the tournament! 19! I’d been hoping for 8!
It should be a really great time and a great opportunity to overwhelm Huzzah with Infinity. If you’re in the area and free, you should really come out to play!
Finished the gangers; here they are.
They turned out pretty well, I think. I used the Warhammer TV painting guide because I didn’t really want to think through how to paint them.
I went a little off-script in painting a couple of them black: I’m still not happy with my approach to African skin, but I’m not going to dial in on one that works great unless I keep trying. I also painted their eyes, and toned their faces, ’cause that’s what I do. Finally, I gave a couple of them some tattoos.
I regret not drilling out their weapon barrels. I normally do that, didn’t, and I think they suffer for it. At least, I’ll have to go back in and dot some black barrel holes on them, I guess. It also wouldn’t kill me to go in and freehand some stuff in white on the red armor.
I was wrapping up progress on Lo Pan’s Noodle Hut (photos for all of the completed-ish Xi Guan stuff will follow at some point soonish) and realized I didn’t have many posters I wanted to slap on it, but that it’d be neat to take the little menu that came with the Fat Yuan Yuan, resize it and fiddle with it, and use that.
Sharing is caring, so here’s a PDF that uses the Lo Pan’s Menu as a base to spin up some Lo Pan’s posters, so menus that would be posted to the sides of buildings, and then some tiny little menus to fold and use as counter scatter.
(“I don’t have to tell you that 2016 was, as years go, a murderous sack of crap.” was how I started last year’s review. Oh, you sweet summer child.)
Hobbywise, I actually got a fair amount done this past year, so this should actually be a fairly positive YiR.
I got a lot done: less than in 2015 or 2016, but more than any other year. I actually painted more models in 2017 than in any year other than 2016, and I started gaming a lot more than I remember doing, which is fantastic.
Early high productivity, and then somewhat consistent productivity past that.
Again, maybe not a record number of models painted, but this is pretty amazing, especially considering there were no 15mm/1:72 models painted this year, and a solid month’s been spent painting “8” models (buildings).
I was able to track all of my purchases vs. painted models vs. sold stuff for a second year in a row. (I had to do this chart in Excel, as Google seems to be rolling back the flexibility of its Sheets’ Charts.)
I sold some Forgeworld early in the year; in fact, I did a great job of clearing out deadend projects, including finally clearing out the Tau I knew I was never to return to. That means that, without even factoring in the painted models, I sold about $700 in models more than I bought, which is great.
Most of the stuff I don’t want anymore’s been moved, though, so I can’t rely on that to keep my numbers good next year.
As always. Beyond that, it’s hard to say: my two big events are changing… Historicon’s moved away, and I might not make it out to it. NOVA’s not going anywhere, but the painting event’s changed so much, I’m not sure if I’m even going to try to keep up. Anything I can see on the horizon is either so immediate in term or narrowly focused, it’s a copout to list as a goal. The best I think I can do at this moment is supplement the standard with: