Pyrkon 2016

Hello again,

This time instead of my personal spam only, I'm bringing some large scale spam from one of the biggest (if not THE biggest) multigenre fan convention in Poland: Pyrkon 2016.

And just like last year and year before - it was a blast: huge event with lots of things to see and tons of attractions for 3 days: interviews with people standing behind the hobby, games, prelections, contests, miniatures, cosplays, rpg, board games... You name it.
From what I heard yesterday about 35.000 - 40.000 participants came to the event this year.

This time it was totally different trip because my wifey (and kid) decided to get on board.

So there were pros and cons:

Good thing was my kid saw even more daddy's toys and got lots of photos with robots, superheroes and characters from fav cartoon and my wifey got assured my hobby friends are not (only) mid-aged degenerates and drunkards.
As for cons - such even was just too big for 4,5 years old kid so we were mostly watching stuff and only for half of Saturday. And because of that there was no wargaming for daddy.
And no drinking after gaming...
And no sleeping under gaming board after drinking after gaming...

With figure case as pillow...

Just like last year...

Anyway - there was also painting contest organized by the Chest of Colors team - I brought "Dagon" Hellhound as large model entry and "Copplestone's finest" as squad. I got 3rd place for the tank and honorable mention for unit - not bad for gaming models especially there were some awesome works this year - you can see some quick shots below but Sławol from CofC was taking pro pics of all entries so I'll try to post the link when he's done with the work.

Hope you like the pics - next time I'll do my best to bring some minis and play a bit Battletech.

Cheers!

Warzone pig party: tekron and kadavers

Heil Algeroth!!!

Pyrkon is over so we can go back to the blogging routine.

Just before going to the event I finished oldie tekron model. As it was written before those old, ugly farts can really appreciate a bit of attention and fresh paint.
Sculpt itself is just damn ugly but after the painting was done it was immediately promoted to badass boss for the campaign game.

No boss, no matter how bad, can operate without trusty servants:

especially master of necrotechnology and Dark Harmony.

I have most of oldie Warzone zombies but recently got 2 missing ones: kadavers. I've never have occasion to field them when I was still into the game - stats amd rules were nothing special and models are just crap. Horrid even for my classics standard. But such animated corpses they fit tekron quite well. Besides they are quite funny: one with brain exposed and other with skin tissue ripped off the back. Necro-funny ^^

Also I also tried new green / brown camo pattern but definitely prefer khaki (will use it on necromutants squad).

And the family picture.

Oh, and the last thing about Pyrkon painting contest: Sławol did just great job and managed to take great pics of all pieces displayed on the contest: if I remember correctly there were 65 entries!

Nurgle daemon beast (whatever) was just stunning - as well as others - check all the models.

Of course there was also group shot ov da winnerz: try to quess which of them is good ol' always positive as hell Demi ^^
Thanks all for great fun: organizers, judges and painters who dragged their precious toys to the spot. Hope to see at least some of them in 2016.

Pyrkon 2015

Hey again,

I had lots of fun during last weekend because of Pyrkon convention.

I was there last year just passing by but it was so cool I just couldn't miss it again. Next time I hope to take kiddo and wifet - might be fun.

Anyway it was big event, really big!

And there was probably everything sci-fi / fantasy related: prelections, games, cosplays, exhibitions, meetings with authors - you name it.

Of course I spent most of time with wargaming - finally I had opportinity to play some more Full Thrust and see Battletech in action (was really surprised there are still people playing that thing). It was also good reason to take Fabius Bile & Da Rotten Boyz and Chaos Dragon for a very long walk. Some photos I managed to take - below

You can find some more pics in the photobucket album.

See you on Pyrkon 2016!