Master Painter 2014

Ah, Masterpainter, the contest of choice for the discerning student miniature painter. Learn mystic secret techniques such as the wash and drybrush! Gain access to a vast array of paints in startling shades! Wield teeny-weeny brushes! Marvel at the figures supplied by the nice bald men at Eureka Miniatures!
Painting starts 15/8 in B11.
Voting starts 22/8 right here on the blog.

Artists impression of what we are painting, as painted by notorious winner of 'Best Painted' at HGC Malifaux Weekend, Toppy.

And after we paint them... WE FIGHT!

We fight in a mighty arena death match on a weekly basis using our own personalised figures in a mad quest for ultimate glory! And prizes! The edible kind! Indeed, as the old saying put it "The rewards of awesome are shiny and potentially cake-based."

International Talk Like a Pirate Day and how it relates to gaming.

International Talk Like a Pirate Day is just around the corner. Also just around the corner, but on a more convenient date is Pirates Day at Coal Creek. In honour of the occasion, Gippsland Gamers is running free participation pirate games dressed as pirates.
Behold the full and frank details here.
Or see the details of the more mundane aspects of Pirate's Day here.

UPDATE: The Shire Council has decreed that there is a cost involved. Bah.

Terrain For Students

Starting August 1st, LSCWC will be running some hobby sessions instead of game sessions.
The term 'hobby' is used by game geeks to refer to all of those activities which are an important part of gaming, but which don't actually involve playing the game - things like painting figures for RPGs and making terrain for Wargames. We will be starting with some terrain building for a few weeks, followed by some figure painting. All in time for you to enter your masterpieces in the Terrain For Hippos Annual Terrain Compometition (Toppy's internationally renowned blog's internationally renowned contest!)
This will mean that we will be moving to the art building.
It will also mean you need to vote on what you want to build and paint.
Which you should do right now, using the cunning poll at the top of this page.
Note: poll results sometimes take a little while to show up. Be patient.

If you have any ideas not covered by the polls, post them in the comments and they will be considered.
Check out Terrain For Hippos for ideas.

UPDATE:
Looks like we'll be working on some steampunk generators on Friday1st. They'll be a combination of these two projects:
Skaven Reactor
Warpstone Mine
As to painting, it's looking like Fantasy Villains. Since Reaper Miniatures is blocked by Netbox Blue, I won't paste links here.

Little Wars 2014

Once again the year has rolled around to time for Little Wars! Melbourne's most magnificent miniatures mad marathon of mania and other words staring with 'm' - Little Wars is a long running gaming convention organised in part by the sinister men of Eureka 'we make a whole range of warrior frogs you know!' Miniatures.

Due to strange machinations, Little Wars has split into two events, but since one of them is held in Adelaide, no one cares.

Little Wars melbourne is on Sunday, 1st June, at Moorabin town hall in the fair city of Moorabin, which is part of Melbourne.

Little Wars 2014 is epic, featuring such things as:

• Participation games in numbers likely to boggle the mind!
• Warhammer played with so many figures your hair will catch fire simply from watching!
• Traders beyond numbers selling things at prices bellow retail!
• The infamous bring and buy stand of infamy!
• Large, bearded men with hippos explaining how to make stuff!
• OzPainters painting competition!
• Lego! Because why not?
• Other stuff!

Seriously, go check out the website and start working on getting a ride to Melbourne.

GUBQUEST player's pack online

I have created and shared a player's pack on Google Drive. It contains all of the unique weapons, armours and songs available to your starting gub.

GUBQUEST: The Search for Lorenzo

GUBQUEST IS GO!

The gubs of Tripolo are in trouble; Gargok plague threatens, and there are rumours of wasps and worse than wasps. In fact, everything seems to be pointing to the end of the world as they know it. Gubmanda, the Esteemed Elder of the colony has gathered the bravest, strongest and most skilled gubs and sent them on a quest to locate the mysterious, semi-legendary wandering holy gub, Lorenzo!The gubs will have to find their way through treacherous forests and caves, and find the Wandering Toad Palace of Lorenzo; a constantly mobile toad-borne dwelling. Then they’ll have to get him back to Tripolo in time to save everyone!

On Friday 9th we will create our heroic warrior Gubs (and probably play some Gubs also!) To this end, I have create some campaign specific rules for GubQuest which will fit in with the usual Dice Chucker rule set.

Will you choose to play a powerful warrior gub, resplendent in Shell Helm and bearing a powerful Thorn Axe? Or perhaps a skillful scout? What about a powerful singer, with a repertoire of magical songs? 

Since the Gubs card game doesn't have much of a backstory, I've made up all sorts of weapons and things you can have. To get the creative juices flowing, here are some samples:

• ·      Fungus club: A small club made from a mushroom. DL: 3
• ·      Grass Bow: A bow made from bent grass stalks, firing arrows made from thorn. Range: 8/12/16, DL :3
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• ·      Leaf Armour: Armour made from thick leaves. AL: 2
• ·      Shell Shield: A shield made from a different kind of nut shell. AL: 1
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• ·      Song of Courage (TN: 10): All Gubs within 6 squares get +2 to any attacks they make.
• ·      Song of Saftey (TN: 10): All Gubs within 6 can resist traps on  a 4+.

Naturally, none of this is officially endorssed by Game Wright, manufacturers of Gubs. But since we all love Gubs so much, I'm sure no one will mind if we create our own silly home brew RPG for it, as long as we never try to sell it or anything.

Oh, and I will be doing some paper figures next week. Probably. I am pretty busy with Face/Off, Little Wars and comissions...

Term Two poll now open.

Sharp eyed readers with trousers to match will have noticed that there is a poll asking what we should play in Term Two on the side of the blog. You should vote on it. Oh yes indeed.

PEG FLIGHT:
Build and lead to victory your own squadron of small fighter planes made from pegs. Combat is based on flicking dice across the floor. Did I mention the game takes pace on the floor? It does.

DICE CHUCKER: GUBS.
A Dice Chucker RPG campaign involving Gubs. Because why the hell not.

FANTICIDE:
If you don't know what this is, you should've turned up in term one.

GRUNT/OFF:
Multiplayer 15mm squad based combat - lead your forces to victory by capturing important stuff!