Games Day Chicago 2011 Preview

Just in from Chicago, tired, great time. 

Next year Games Day 2012 will be in Chicago ...again.

The Heroes club table won best theme, the Jawa Banner won best banner, Chris Borer's Steel Legion Master of Ordinance won a Demon.

The Heroes of Armageddon Club Table.

Bloggers, John (Me/Santa Cruz Warhammer), Brian (InnerGeek), John (Drathmere/40kHobby Blog) Brian(Gentilemans Ones)

Some of the painting crew, Jawaballs, Alex "Red Beard" Kallend, Kirill "Mad Russian" Zhilkov, Dave Taylor, Chris Borer, Cho.

Cho blew us away and won a Silver Demon, against some very tough competition, his best showing yet, look out for him next year.

Brian (the Table Guy) closes the deal on an additional $600 donation for one of the tables.

Kirill'sYarrick in the Golden Demon Contest display, this amazing model made the final cut in a very tough class.

Chris' Master of Ordinance Golden Demon winner

   

Jawaballs and Frozen Joe. Chris is basking in the afterglow of some kid asking for his autograph.( ok I told him to gimme a thumbs up, but some kid really did ask for his autograph)

I met a lot of cool people, we had a great time, more pics to come very soon, I promise.

John

Barter Bucket: 7/30/11

Another world, another time. In the age of wonder.

A thousand years ago this land was green, until the Bucket cracked. A single piece was lost, a shard of the Bucket. Then strife began, and people began charging for bits and single models. Here in the castle of the Bucket, Santa Cruz Warhammer took control. Now the bits flow freely once more. Now the Bucket hangs above a shaft of air and fire. Once more gamers gather at the Bucket. Once more they replenish their bits bins. The Bucket...
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mike dot tess at charter dot net (SCWH's own Mike) is looking for the 100 Space Marine chapter poster as seen below.

It will be the inspiration for a SCWH project that will involve multiple blog posts and could lead to a small scale charity project for Toys for Tots by this Christmas. New and Unopened preferred but will take any condition. Lots of stuff to trade.

heaventouched at yahoo dot com has the simplest request anyone could hope for, and one that none of us can deny. He is looking for:

• Bits. Any kind of bits. Whatever you have...in bits form.

for trade he has:

• Imperial Guard bits, lots and lots of Imperial Guard bits

david.serranojr at gmail dot com is looking to perform the vaunted army-switcharoo, email them directly for specific details:

• Wants: Fully assembled, unpainted or decently painted Space Wolves (new models only please)
• Has: Fully assembled, unprimed, unpainted Dark Eldar Army (all new models, 2ooo+ points, plus bits)

guido.kreemers at gmail dot com is on the hunt for:

1. Blood Angels Tycho character
2. Blood Angels Dante character
3. Blood Angels Corbulo character

and has for trade:

1. lots of 40k Space Marine stuff
2. some old Imperial Guard Valhallans
3. various WHFB Empire and Dwarf bits from over the ages

salamndr at gmail dot com is looking for:

1. Imperial Pilot from the Battle for Maccragge box set
2. OOP MkIII Space Marine (not the FW ones)

for trade he has:

1. Wide selection of current and OOP Space Marine items

david.millest at bt dot com has got a hankering for:

1. Space Marine Rhino headlights, any
2. Space Marine Predator sponson scanners, any

for trade he has:

1. variety of Imperial Guard bits, including heavy weapons

av8hotrod at yahoo dot com (SCWH's own John) wants:

1. Long Drong's Slayer Pirates, any.
2. Fantasy Chaos Marauders
3. Orks in Mega Armor, any.
4. OOP Land Raider box, the first one, just the box.
5. OOP 2nd Gen. land speeder, the one with just the riders legs covered.

miksminis at gmail dot com (SCWH's own Mik) is celebrating his birthday today and is looking for:

1. a single Rogue Trader era Ambull

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The Bucket has one purpose, gamers helping other gamers. It's a place to trade the stuff you have laying around, the stuff you're not using and get the stuff you do need. No more buying whole sets for just one model, no more buying overpriced single bits. This concept is kept alive by the cooperative spirit of all of us.

Make sure your email gets to me by Thursday for it to post that week, emails go to miksminis at gmail dot com. Please keep them simple and concise with details, and limit your requests for needs and haves to three items each. This will turn a shotgun effect of a huge list crossing your fingers hoping for a bite to a more streamlined surgical bits hunt. It will also keep the Bucket itself compact and efficient.

Remember, change comes from within...your bits box!

SCWH Honor Roll #22 - Conversions

Welcome to the SCWH Honor Roll!  This week, I'm bringing you the conversions from around the web:

Mordian 7th's Custom Ahriman
White Metal Game's Soul Drinkers Sarpedon & Sgt. Telion
Winterdyne Commission's Pandora Chapter Master of the Forge
Miniature Wargame Conversion's Contest Entries

Hand Cannon Online's Basic Basics
The Madhouse Workshop's Skaven War-Litter

Mike and John's additions for this weeks Honor roll are:

Mike: check out this amazing thread with Chaos Super Heavies

John: I like this diorama from Arsies Studio 

Heroes of Armageddon has wrapped up after nearly 4 months, donating over 31,000 to Doctor's Without Borders.  Thanks to everyone who contributed!! 

As a special request, I'm going to have to give up my role in this series in August, but I don't want my departure to be the end of the Honor Roll.  If you think you can take up the reins (and maybe improve it), then please let Mike or John or I know.  I think this has been great at helping share the joys of the hobby, and it still has so much to offer.

And AGAIN: if you care about your fellow bloggers and their work, please link the Honor Roll on your blog. Grab the jpg from this post and use this link underneath:

http://santacruzwarhammer.blogspot.com/search/label/honor%20roll

It would be really appreciated!

Next week our topic is going to be Painting.  If you want to help out, when you see something great out on the web and want to make sure I don't miss it, feel free to send it to robert [dot] biddle [at] gmail [dot] com.

Rob

Heroes raised over 31.000 dollars!!!!!

We are very proud to announce that these armies have raised $31,057 for Doctors without Borders

The Steel Legion built under leadership of Dave Taylor: The Winner of this army is Colby Anger of Houston Texas.

 Blood Angels, built by Jawaballs and his team the winner is Peter Dean of Oakland California

Ghazghkull Thraka's Horde, painted by the Santa Cruz Warhammer Gaming Group and FTW Games, the winner is Jason Mace of Fort Knox Kentucky

And the speedfreaks under guidance of Wazdakka Gutsmek, built and painted by Goatboy and his team the winner is Andrew Lewis of Winnipeg Manitoba Canada

Heroes of Armageddon - Final Weekly Drawing Winners!

The winners of The Bolter and Chainsword Prizes in the last of the weekly prize drawings are:

The Deck of Cards goes to; Joseph White of State College, PA

The B&C Patch goes to; James Preusser of Chicago, IL

Not only did you win the B&C swag, but you are still in the running for tonight's big drawing.

Remember today 6PM Eastern and 3PM Pacific we will be live on the Jawaballs Podcast on Ustream where we will finally be drawing the 4 Army Grand Prize winners, and there will also be some other prizes just for viewers that tune in and know their 40K trivia. 

We start with a clean slate and everyone that made a contribution will have their shot at winning one of the four Army Grand Prizes!

Just click on the countdown clock on the right sidebar and watch the drawing LIVE!

See you on Jawaballs live!

This is the END

John and I dreamt up the Heroes of Armageddon in December, during some regular banter session at his house. We originally had the idea to do two armies, but Dave Taylor convinced us we should think a bit bigger, so we started fresh..and bigger. But the whole thing really became real with the image above. I had asked Chris Miller, the amazing artist from Minions of the Monster Master, to do another piece for the Armageddon Charity Drive. Chris was responsible for the Stormwardens Artwork and I asked him to drum up something for a charity drive about the heroes of armageddon. After that we moved Yarrick closer and bang...there is the iconic image that you all have seen everywhere for the last 3 1/2 months: a real masterpiece. Contact Chris if you want to buy a print or hire him for something.


Tonight, Saturday evening the drive will end. The armies are done, the Battlefoam bags packed for Games Day in Chicago and the Paypal buttons will be removed, Saturday Night LATE.

I already feel a bit empty. John and I and all the team members have been so engrossed in this project, that it is hard to believe we won't be emailing each other daily anymore, we won't be checking emails constantly about new development, checking Paypal to see how it's going or talking about new ideas or models for the drive.
Despite many serious discussions and even a few feisty moments, I feel proud to call all the teamleaders who worked on this my brothers. Having you all in the bloghosphere means a lot to me, it's like I have a bunch of friends, although I have never met you and maybe never will. Despite that I know your hearts are in the right place, your work ethic is above and beyond and your talent as modelers amazing. I love all of you.

I will be proud and happy to announce the winners on Sunday and have John represent us at Games Day in Chicago next week.

...if you want to win one of these armies....you have one day left. PayPal link on the right.

Till next year.

Mike

Why are we working on Heroes of Armageddon?

The Heroes of Armageddon Project is almost over....in a few days we will announce the winners and the amount raised, you have until Saturday Evening to contribute.
We have all worked extremely long hours on this thing and you know what? I has been GREAT. We modeled and painted for a worthy cause, so it's a double feelgood exercise. Now to the cause.
Everyone should check in with Doctors without Borders Newsfeed. I have been checking in with them every week and it's astounding to read about problems that no one seems to care about, except organisations like DWB. Sure, in the papers and online you read about Darfur, the NATO led war on Lybia or the unrest in the Middle East. But there are many forgotten conflicts, epidemics and neglect of people, young and old, just like you and me.
Promise yourself to spend 10 minutes today reading the DWB newsfeed. It's amazing how hard the doctors, nurses and other personnel work to save people's lives. It sound cheesy, but it isn't. It's real. Read and then find 5 bucks or so to help them out. And a big thanks to everyone who already has done so.

Below are a few startling images of refugees in South Sudan, where DWB is in the middle between North South fighting over independence, food and power.

 More images here

It's really amazing that together us gamers, modelers and painters can make a difference. It's real stuff and we are REALLY helping.

Mike

Heroes of Armageddon - Final Weekly Drawing = Bolter & Chainsword Swag!

Alright folks, the last of our weekly drawings comes to you from the Crew at the Bolter and Chainsword.

B&C and esspecially Kurgan the Lurke have been HUGE in helping us promote this project just as they were last year with the Storm Wardens. They have posted many, many times and Kurgan has sent out multiple MASS emails to all the members to draw attention. They also commisioned their in house artist to create this banner, which has been on the home page for the last 3 months:

Every post on B&C had a corresponding spike in the donations to Heroes of Armageddon Project, and we thank them and all the B&C Forum readers for helping to make this years project such a success.

Just like last year the Bolter and Chainsword donated a deck of their unobtainable and awesome B&C playing cards and a sweet B&C patch. I got to see these last year, and had to give them up to the winners, and have had another set sitting here which I will once again not get to keep.

 

Many readers on the forum have been pulling their hair out, going crazy wanting these two prizes, but the forum gave them to us, so we can give them to YOU.

We will be drawing two winners this Sunday morning at random from the HoA donations.

The Bolter and Chainsword also will be sending 30 blood Drop dice (10 of each color) to the Blood Angel army winner. They started out as a Space Marine Forum after all...

Bolter and Chainsword also created FOUR of these awesome Purity Seal Icons with litanies created by Rob Ellis II aka -Q-.

DONATIONS WILL CLOSE AT MIDNIGHT PST SATURDAY !

DONATIONS WILL CLOSE AT MIDNIGHT PST SATURDAY !

Sunday morning we will pull 2 winners for the patch and cards, and then later at 6PM Eastern and 3PM PST, we will go Jawaballs Live on USTREAM  to pick the 4 army winners.

So, if for some reason you have been holding out to toss in a few bucks, for crying out loud, do it before it's too late!

John

WIP shots of Mega Nobz for Heroes of Armageddon

Here's a shot of the Mega Nobz I am painting for Ghaz's Horde for the Heroes of Armageddon. They call themselves Lil' Thrakas and also painted their armour yellow, just like Ghazghkull himself. Check his WIP shot out here

The yellow colour came out nice. i used bronzed flesh, then sponged metal on it, then sepia wash. It looks cool. No they are not bad moons, just something different.

A few more days to go on the Heroes. Make sure to donate some, maybe you will win one of the armies!!

Mike

The Heroes of armageddon are finished!

NEWSBREAK!!!

go to the Heroes of Armageddon website right now!!!

the time has come to show you all the work!!

Mike

Heroes of Armageddon: one of the last weekly winners!

We are ONE day away (tomorrow, monday) from showing the world the completed four armies that will be given away NEXT sunday. But before we go there, here's one of the last weekly prize winners.

This wonderful model of Lord Dante was donated to the Heroes of Armageddon by Joel Jameson, who himself was one of the weekly winners and wanted to give something back.

So here we go, the winner of this excellent model is...

Jonathan Hamilton, Tregear
Australia


Congrats to Jonathan and thank you for donating for Doctors without Borders!

Next wednesday the last give away: the LONG awaited and super secret prizes from Bolter and Chainsword. There is NO forum who has done so much work for our cause. Join them and be active, it's truly a wonderful and generous community. The prizes from B&C will be given away on sunday, right before the main prizes.

thanks

Mike

Barter Bucket: 7/16/11

Another world, another time. In the age of wonder.

A thousand years ago this land was green, until the Bucket cracked. A single piece was lost, a shard of the Bucket. Then strife began, and people began charging for bits and single models. Here in the castle of the Bucket, Santa Cruz Warhammer took control. Now the bits flow freely once more. Now the Bucket hangs above a shaft of air and fire. Once more gamers gather at the Bucket. Once more they replenish their bits bins. The Bucket...
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guido.kreemers at gmail dot com is on the hunt for:

1. Blood Angels Tycho character
2. Blood Angels Dante character
3. Blood Angels Corbulo character

and has for trade:

1. lots of 40k Space Marine stuff
2. some old Imperial Guard Valhallans
3. various WHFB Empire and Dwarf bits from over the ages

salamndr at gmail dot com is looking for:

1. Imperial Pilot from the Battle for Maccragge box set
2. OOP MkIII Space Marine (not the FW ones)

for trade he has:

1. Wide selection of current and OOP Space Marine items

david.millest at bt dot com has got a hankering for:

1. Space Marine Rhino headlights, any
2. Space Marine Predator sponson scanners, any

for trade he has:

1. variety of Imperial Guard bits, including heavy weapons

jon_clegg at yahoo dot com would like:

1. IG Hellhound Inferno Cannon muzzles, x4

for trade he has:

1. Wide variety of Imperial Guard bits
2. Wide variety of Space Marine bits
3. Wide variety of WHFB Empire bits

reece.ncf at gmail dot com is looking for:

1. Imperial Guard Baneblade Commissar on foot, x1
2. Imperial Guard Commissars, any

for trade they have:

1. Space Marines
2. Kroot
3. Chaos

seemyinnergeek at gmail dot com is looking for the following:

1. Storm Lord Mega-Bolter turrets, x2

for trade they have:

1. tons of Space Marine and Imperial Guard bits
2. quite a bit of Ork stuff (much new in box)
3. a reasonably small amount of cash

av8hotrod at yahoo dot com (SCWH's John) wants:

1. Long Drong's Slayer Pirates, any.
2. Fantasy Chaos Marauders
3. Orks in Mega Armor, any.

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The Bucket has one purpose, gamers helping other gamers. It's a place to trade the stuff you have laying around, the stuff you're not using and get the stuff you do need. No more buying whole sets for just one model, no more buying overpriced single bits. This concept is kept alive by the cooperative spirit of all of us.

Make sure your email gets to me by Thursday for it to post that week, emails go to miksminis at gmail dot com. Please keep them simple and concise with details, and limit your requests for needs and haves to three items each. This will turn a shotgun effect of a huge list crossing your fingers hoping for a bite to a more streamlined surgical bits hunt. It will also keep the Bucket itself compact and efficient.

Remember, change comes from within...your bits box!

SCWH Honor Roll #21 - Green Stuff

Welcome to the SCWH Honor Roll!  This week, I'll be bringing you the most fantastic sculpting and green stuff work from around the web:

Wargame News and Terrain's Rise of the Occulites
Recalcitrant Daze's Nurgle-ized Land Raider

Massive Voodoo's Sculpting Showcase and Advice on Sculpting Details
Laughing Ferret's Orc Band

Unrelated, but awesome nonetheless:
The Lead Head's Cinematic Effects
and
Awesome Paint Job's Talos & Scourge

Mike and John's additions for this weeks Honor roll are:

Mike: I saw the announcement for this new game on table top fix, this is something I will probably have to buy. Finally something NOT so serious

John: I think this post from Mr. Bug Man shows incredible greenstuff. Check out the largest base!

Be sure to also check out Heroes of Armageddon for all the details about the charity event benefiting the Doctors Without Borders organization.  There there we recently EIGHT more winners announced.  Time's running out for you to get a chance to win and to help out this great cause.

And AGAIN: if you care about your fellow bloggers and their work, please link the Honor Roll on your blog. Grab the jpg from this post and use this link underneath:

http://santacruzwarhammer.blogspot.com/search/label/honor%20roll

It would be really appreciated!

Next week our topic is going to be Conversions.  If you want to help out, when you see something great out on the web and want to make sure I don't miss it, feel free to send it to robert [dot] biddle [at] gmail [dot] com.

Rob