Today marks the 3 week countdown to the greatest drinking event in the nation. I am talking about none other than the Oregon Brewers Festival, July 24-27th. An event where more than 70 brewers supply their sweet nectar to more than 60,000 people over the four day weekend.

As with tradition, my friends and I will be arriving Saturday at noon when they open. We will populate our traditional location, the north end of the southern tent and drink until dusk (it used to be “drink until dark” but we have gotten old.)

To all who may read this, gather your drinking clothes and cash and meet us in 3 weeks. You will have such a good time, that only through
drinking you would forget it (which is why we take pictures!)

Check out http://www.oregonbrewfest.com/

Here is an example of a simple insulation hill that been transformed with the magic of paint and flock.

Starting with this:

Ending up with this:

All in all, I think it turned out pretty good!

Here is the second terrain project for the the upcoming fantasy tournament, a simple Inn.

It’s a combination of insulation, foamcore, wood, cardboard and a fair share of hot glue.

With another tournament season approaching, I have been busy creating pieces for my gaming club’s (www.ordofanaticus.com) Warhammer fantasy tournament. My goal is to creating 4 table center pieces to establish an overall theme to the gaming table.

My first centerpiece was a Ziggurat for a Lizardman table.

Since the terrain making process is collective in my club, most of these pieces will be finished by other club members (hopefully by members who paint far better than I.)

In addition to this piece, I created a couple of spawning pools to accompany it. They are all constructed of Extruded Polystyrene (pink insulation foam) and mounted on 1/4″ hardboard.

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While surfing the ever expanding Interweb, I have come across an excellent tool for comparing lines of hobby paint by color. It seems to be the perfect tool for determining a similar, better or cheaper replacement for any of your current paints. Check it out here.

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Here is the look I’m going for on my new CSM project. This image needs some touch up, basing and a matte finish (I hate the shine it has now.)

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As I continue to play Warhammer 40K, it’s clear that I need a second complete army to vary my experience and playing style. With the release of the new Chaos Marine codex, it seemed like a good place to start. I have a couple of specific goals in completing this force.

• The army will primarily consists of troop models, rather than vehicles
• The force will represent a Renegade Marine chapter, so I will be avoiding mutations and deamons
• Each model will be modeled as uniquely as possible
• With the new codex providing Bolter, Bolt Pistol and CCW for standard Chaos Marine, I will work towards modeling all weapons on applicable models
• The force will be assembled using a mix of Chaos Space Marine, Space Marine and Khorne Beserkers parts, fully unitizing my bitz box.
• I will exhaust as many existing models as I have for this project before purchasing new models

With those goals in mind, I begin the construction of my yet unnamed Renegade force.

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