[Adept Zero] Adepticon Musings and Pictures

Beginning of Day 2

Greetings, one and all. It's your humble servant Zero with a lot of photos and a bit of rambling concerning Adepticon. I know it's a bit late to be talking about it, but by now you've read the dozens of battle reports, watched the various on the scene video clips, and listened to the podcasts. You may have even checked out the finals via the excellent quality stream. All of these things are great, but they don't really give the flavor of being there, I think.

Adepticon 2012: A weekend of tournaments!

As I am sure a bunch of you already know from other sources, I switched gears this year at Adepticon and participated in tournaments all 3 days. 40k championships on Friday, WFB on Saturday, and the Team tournament on Sunday. Long weekend, not much sleep!

Normally, I do lots of hobby seminars, the painting contest, and stay up in the hotel room painting all sorts of other projects. I have not seen anything at Adepticon since 2007, so I figured I would try out some tournaments! I did the WFB Championships in 2010, so I had some idea of what I was in for :-)

My original 40k army was Dark Eldar, but the last 8 months had one disaster after another, claiming weeks, if not months, of painting time. Plus, the army is so elaborate, I would have had to repaint everything had I rushed it into service! So, I switched to Grey Knights, since I had a good chunk of it already finished.

I had to create some new minis, namely psykers, Death Cult Assassins, and other retinue figures. I also had to make an army board a day before!



Here are a few of the specially made figures, such as this Coteaz...









And some psykers made from Empire Flagellants:



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I needed an Inquisitor in terminators armor with a psycannon!





Here are my three objective markers:





Over the next week or so, I will be posting numerous threads to the Blog at wappellious.blogspot.com of all the custom made figures that went into the army. You can also see the thread about the tournament itself and the making of the army board on the blog as well.

Speaking of the tournament, I did manage to win Best Appearance! I was very happy, since there were 246 armies there as competition! I tied for Player's Choice as well. I thought there was a good chance I cull pull it off, since my terminator squad won Gold for Squad at Games Day last year (that is in the White Dwarf this month, ironically!).



The prizes were really great for all the tournaments... you can see that Oliver, the Inquisitorial War Monkey has claimed the 40k stuff for himself:



After playing in a lot of WFB tournaments over the years, the 40k tournament seemed far more relaxed. Warhammer already has a lot of obscure rules (and even an extra phase to each turn), but the newest edition has created even more chaos in interpreting the rules. So many complicated and contradictory situations arise, I got the feeling that I played seven WFB games under completely different rules systems. Other players expressed that same thought. It's just the nature of the beast. I hope that 6th edition 40k does not get too crazy.

I will post about the other tournaments in the coming days! I managed to win Best Appearance in the WFB Championships, and nearly pulled off the same feat with the Civil War Dwarfs. Yes, you heard that right:-)

[Adept Zero] The case for Adepticon

I just wanted to chime in here for a moment to talk to you about Adepticon.

You get to see incredible stuff like this.

Even if you don't have a ticket, if you live within driving distance, you should go.

All the player slots are filled, and I believe the openings for the team tourney will be gone by the weekend. You should still go.

This may be the year that all of the painting and modeling seminars will also be completely sold out. You should still go.

All the pics in this post were takem by me.

Why?

1. There's something about seeing that many people playing 40k at once that's just awesome. I'll admit, on Sunday afternoon, it sort of takes on that locker room ambience, but seeing people's display boards makes you feel like you belong to something bigger than your own little FLGS.
2. The models are awesome, and I'm not just talking about the CMON contestants and the dioramas like you see above by Mr. Sabol. Almost every army I saw there, even the ones that were painted poorly, gave me unique perspectives I never would have gathered had I not seen it in person.
3. You get to put a face to the avatars. I had a really great conversation with Goatboy last year, and I met at least a dozen folks that I knew from the message boards.
4. Most vendors were offering about 30% off, plus there is no sales tax at the event.
5. Forgeworld. Enough said.
6. You get to see people playing FoW, which is always awesome.
7. All those awesome miniatures at the CMoN store? Yep, they're there.
8. The GW Battle Bunker is about a 1/2 mile away.
9. You might meet me, and you might get Zero swag. Stay tuned!

Is it worth going without a ticket to anything if you live far away? Probably not. But if you are anywhere within 60 miles, I'd say some check it out!

[Adept Zero] Instant Mold Review

Hello, Brethren of the Adeptus MWC. Zeronyne here with a detailed review of Instant Mold, the press molding compound distributed by Cool Mini Or Not.

If you've ever been to my site, you'd know that I cover products and techniques in a relatively unique way - I show my mistakes, no matter how dumb. I'm a firm believer in the philosophy that we learn much more from our mistakes than our successes. Consequently, my reviews are hubris-free. You may avoid the mistakes I made, and I guarantee that alone is worth the reading time.

This review will document my very first experience with the product. Let me say upfront that to me, it was an inarguable success. Is it worth the money and time? Let's see, shall we?

Tomb King Leaked Photos - Ummm Snakes?

Adepticon Forgeworld Tables

This year, as always, Forgeworld had some amazing looking tables at Adepticon.

A true city fight board!!! Gimmie!

A table for the new IA11 book. Winter guard vs eldar vs space wolves. Should be pretty neat.

Reminds me alot of the Battle for Big Toof River board. God I love converted super heavies and russ tractors!

I never was a huge fan of the GW battleboards but with this upgrade, I have more hope for it!

Well that's all for now, ill be back tonight with the complete prize list for the Pay It Forward give away that takes place in 36 hours. Good luck to everyone!

Adepticon 40k Team Results

Alec over at Apocalypse 40k has been kind enough to post the Adepticon 40k Team Results since known of the other blogs or forums have yet. A big congrats goes to Alec and his team for winning Best Appearance!

Forgeworld Sneak Peaks from Adepticon (pic heavy)

 Hey Folks,

Awesome new stuff from FW on display at Adepticon: