Saturday, August 28, 2010

Adepticon 2010 and Blog...

While wasting time exploring the blog-o-sphere I stumbled across some pictures from this years Adepticon over on Cursed Treasures. Below are some of the pictures (with original commentary) that jumped out at me...

Each year Sabol Designs brings a cool looking team event display board, this year was no exception. In fact it was the 2010 winner for Best Display. This thing was huge and looked awesome! One thing I have always wanted to do was to incorporate working lights into some of my terrain, but someone (DrunkenSamurai!) thinks that's too geeky! Well after seeing this he may change his tune.


Man does it look AWESOME...

Here was another cool display board that could be used for a regular table. Each year the displays keep getting bigger and better and I look forward to seeing what will turn up next.
Also Adepticon has a painting competition called the Rogue Demon each year. I have read that some folks would like to see this event broken down into two different events, one for anyone to enter and one for previous winners to enter. Regardless I love looking at the entries.
Here is my friend and fellow blogger Dave Taylors entry which he featured on his blog a few months ago. More pictures of these Creepy Little Guys can be found here, here and here. There is also a picture somewhere on BoLS from WAR Games Con...
And this Land Raider was way cool, I love the whole effect on this model. Some really nice painting on this.

Also from Cursed Treasures is this stunning banner.


While exploring the blog-o-sphere I also came across this post by the guys over on Dark Future Games which leads to the new Adepticon Development Blog. Looks like the hard work of Mike, from Whiskey & 40k, has had another positive effect on the tournament scene with a movement towards transparency.

Disclaimer - All images taken from Cursed Treasures and will be removed if requested.

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for the link! The Sabol display (and the Ork Cruiser from 2009) are insane. That display won Best Display in the 40K Team Tournament (or course).

    Mike and I have been in contact for awhile and have traded tons a good idea. Whiskey40K (while it hurts my eyes - no offense Mike!) was definitely an inspiration for the dev blog (which has existed in some form for years - just not designed for public consumption). The move to a W/L/D format and Best All-around Showing award for the Championships event was also partially inspired by the NOVA format. Good stuff. The other 7 40K events are not changing that much (or in the case of Killzone are totally new) - although there are some clarifications and FOC adjustments to the Team Tournament (rules out Monday or Tuesday).

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  2. The more successful 'mainstream' tournaments become at catering for all gamers the better. You have gone to the effort of establishing a medium for gamers to voice their thoughts and concerns. Now need to raise awareness about it.

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