FOOD MACHINE

Food Machine is a local 35pt Warmachine /Hordes tournament where people donate cans of food to play and win prizes. 

Hobby Town will be holding this event on the 31st of December

It will start at 10am and run to 6pm 

The Entry fee will be 5 cans of food. 

All food will be donated to a Arvada food bank. 

There will be ways to "cheat" the normal rules by bringing in extra Cans of food.

Also If you want to just support a great cause and save yourself some money 

Hobby Town USA will be giving anyone that brings in two cans of Food 10% off there purchase of any games, models and paints! 

So save some money and donate to a good cause!!

Last Saturday of every month is Gaming day!!!!

Starting this month and every Saturday to come we will at Hobby Town Westminster will be hosting mini games days! With Demos of board games painting tutorials and war gaming demos focusing on Warmachine, Hordes and Warhammer 40k!!

This month we will be kicking things of at 11:am on September 24th!

Expect to see demo games of Warmachine and Hordes,
Chaos in the old world, And a painting demo Focusing on base coats and washes!

                         (bring your own models and paints for specific help with your army!)

Next month on Saturday 29th starting at 11:am we will be demoing Super Dungeon Explore if it is released by then If not we will demo Castle Ravenloft! And because it is Halloween weekend we will also run Mini DnD 4th ed ZOMBIE MASHES!!! 
We will also be demoing Warmahcine And Hordes!

The Painting demo Is going to focus on shading and highlighting.

                         (bring your own models and paints for specific help with your army!)

WARHAMMER 40K Coming back to Westminster!

Starting 6/3/2011 We will have Warhammer 40k every Friday From 2pm to 9pm
And Saturdays open gamining for 40k/Fantasy/warmachine! From 12 to 7pm

with late night gaming to come in the future!

If you have been waiting to play 40k here is your chance!

Bring your army lists and through down!!

Average army size should be around 1850 to 2000pts.

Ill see you there!

Next Jump in the Fantasy League!!

So we Are now on to our next jump in points and will be playing games at 2000pts!!

For all of those that did not get into the league at 1000pts here is your chance to jump right in.

There will be some changes to the way we run the next points jump.



First we will be playing scenarios from the book. If you want to earn points for the games you play you have to also play a scenario game. 

Second we will also be needing more points to buy into the tournament.

This round we will need 30pts to get in. 

Here is how you earn points.

3 points for a win
2 points for a draw
1 point for a loss
2 points for registering for the forums ( you can only get this once. ) 
5 points to finish painting a unit from the start of the league. ( you can only get this once )
3 points for flocking a unit from the start of the league. ( you can get this twice )
5 points for building a display board for your army. ( you can only get this once )
5 points for building and painting terrain for the club. Must be at least 6 inches by 4 inches.
( you can get this 3 times,)

Only 25 points can be earned through battle!
And you can only earn 25 through building and painting!

So those are the rules! Again id like to mention that if you don't already have a hobby town card id get one as soon as you can it will help to save money! There free just ask to get one at the front counter!

Also for those of you with modeling project's in the works don't forget to look through the hole store.

Can find all sorts of stuff in the other models section, train section and the toys section that can be turned into something really cool for terrain or display boards! 

Above all other things Have fun and I look forward to the next 5 weeks!

 

   

HOBBY TOWN LT

 So Our First League Tournament is upon us And the Forces of Warhammer have gathered and made a triumphant showing over the last 5 weeks But the battle has changed and its time for the first true test of our generals skills.

Tomorrow we will start at 4pm those of you that have earned your buy in will be able to participate.

Each round will last one hour and thirty minutes

Each round will have a different set of objectives the scenarios will be provided by Elliott Vigil

You will want to have your army list written up before hand and must keep the same list throughout the tournament

Be prepared for WAR!!!

So now that we have made it to week five all that is left is the tournament until we make the jump to 2000pts

For those of you with the points we will be starting at 4pm next Wednesday and we will go for 3 rounds Get your lists ready because you will have to play the same list for 3 games in a row so make sure its something you can live with!!



Here are a few pics of our last week at 1000pts

Feast of Blades Con 2011 Announced

From Chandler over at feastofblades.blogspot.com:

Feast of Blades 2011 dates announced!!!
We will be hosting the Feast of Blades Convention on....

November 4th, 5th, and 6th.
Location: Red Lion Hotel, North Denver I-70 and Quebec.


Yes, that is right, a whole weekend of bashing your friends (and strangers) faces in. I will post more here in the next following weeks and check in often as updates will be posted.

Chandler
Feast of Blades TO

Week Three Of the Demolition Corps Fantasy League

So alot of people got some new models painted this week here are some shots!

                                                   Some of Jacob's Demons of Chaos

                                                      Ruperto's Warriors of Chaos

 Michael has Finished a unit of Vampire Counts Blood Knights

 Jeremy's Skaven vary nice and this is his first time painting mini's

 Kims Lizard men again a first time painter!

 I managed to finish one of my two cannons.

 John's Beastmen Hero!

 Corey's Britonians! Custom made swords!

                           And some shots of the games that were played tonight!!! 2 weeks left! There were some good games played tonight I look forward to next week!

Movement trays!!!

So I am doing a demo of this on Wednesday as well but I thought I would post it up here so that those that cant make it or those that do and need a refresher can come check it out.

So first are the things you will need.
-Plastruct plastic sheets, get something that is decently think but not so thick you can cut it other wise you will either have a tray too flimsy or way to hard. Or if you are at the Westminster store evergreen plastic sheets are the same thing just a different company.
-Evergreen/ Plastruct strips. I use .008 x .125 ( item code evg166 in case we are out and you need to order some.)strips but anything that is tall enough to prevent your models from falling over is fine.
-Plastic weld- I'm using Tamiya here but because there factory was destroyed recently you will probably want to use the other plastic weld we have at the store. I don't use normal glue here because it tends to be too thick and it globs up the movement tray. Also on flat surfaces plastic weld is a much stronger hold.

Start by placing your 90 degree angle down. I like to use the edge of the plastic sheet because its easy. Try and make the plastic sheet you are going to be using bigger then you will need. It makes everything alot simpler in the long run.

Next line up your models on the angle you just made. I prefer to use empty bases but as most of you already have built and semi or finished models you will be doing this for I know that's not a option. 

 Next add the other 90 degree angle along the back of your unit. Remove the models as fast as you can once this is done so you don't glue them to the tray!

Next score the edge of the tray with a hobby knife and then fold the plastic over. It should be easy to pull off at this point. I like to start with the long edge first then do the short edge but it dose not really matter in the long run.

With your hobby knife trim up the edges so there flush with the plastic strips. Be careful not to cut into the strips or your finger as you do this.

The last step is to go around all the edges of the plastic strips with a little more plastic weld to make sure they all stay in place. And that is all folks you have a perfectly decent movement tray to push some dudes around and win wars for chaos or the empire!

And here is one with the unit inside ready to fight.

By the way as much as I would like to take credit for these I cant. They were shown to me by a good friend who works at the Fort Collins store James Fritz. So if you like these and are ever up there make sure you thank him for the great idea!!

New Blog for the store and fantasy league!!!

Welcome Hobby Town Gamers. Hopefully this Blog will be helpful for everyone attending events at this store.

Most of you will be playing in the Warhammer Fantasy League and I will be able to make announcements and updates as too whats going on with that on the blog. For those of you that don't know we are currently in our 2nd week and moving onto the 3rd by the time of this post.

The rules for the grow league are as follows.

-1000 points of the army of your choice standard force org as per the 8th edition rules.

- Each game you play will be worth points a win is 2 points a loss is 1 point.

- you will get 5 points for painting any one unit or hero during the course of the league. ( I.E its OK to bring unpainted armies that's what we want!!)

- Points cap at 10 points over the course of the league those people that get all 10 league points will be able to compete in the 1000 point turny and get the chance to win free GW prize support!!

-after the first 5 weeks we will move to 1500 points. More info to come.

Make sure that whatever hobby you might play at the store you get signed up for a hobby town card they are totally free and they save you money!! How cool is that!

We also have some Roleplayers at the store on Saturdays and Sundays. Saturdays is D&D and Sundays they are playing Gurps.

Welcome everyone if you have any questions just call the store or send me a e-mail.