Weekly Update

Last Week at Wargaming Tradecraft

I showed off a number of tools this week. It started with Safety Goggles then continued with Tin Snips and Pipe Cutters. The work on my postapocalyptibuggy began air brushing. And, in blog-fu, I wrote a very detailed post on getting your own .com for your blog, as well as highlighted a new Views feature to Blogger.

Last Week in the Community

(I may have missed some as I didn't get as much time as I'd like to have to read blogs this weekend, but I was visiting family, so it's all good.)

Because these types of articles mean a lot of me, I'll going to bring light to it here. James over at Warp Signal talks about matters similar to my punk art series http://warpsignal.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/painting-outside-the-lines/

It takes a big man to admit defeat, especially in public. Larry over at Paint Your Toys is wondering what a gamer is to do when they don't win - lets give him some suggestions

http://paintyourtoys.blogspot.com/2011/04/would-you-quit-hobby-if-you-never-won.html

News

Here is some of the Adepticon coverage. (You may need to scroll back in the blogs to see all the posts on it)
http://bloodofkittens.com/blog/2011/04/03/adepticon-2011-40k-campionship-coverage/ (They've got a lot)
http://darkfuturegaming.blogspot.com/2011/04/six-of-my-favorite-models-from.html
http://briancarlsonminiatures.blogspot.com/2011/04/adepticon-day-2-recap-team-tournament.html
http://strictlyaverage.blogspot.com/2011/04/adepticon-road-trip.html

Tutorials

Lauby talks about using Gold Paint http://lauby.blogspot.com/2011/03/tyberos-red-wake-supplemental-2.html

An excellent showing of magnetizing http://excommunicatetratoris.blogspot.com/2011/03/valkyrievendetta-magnetisation.html

Weighing down and magnetizing bases from War Paint Guy http://www.houseofpaincakes.com/2011/03/user-content-wednesday-adding-bit-of.html

A very unique tutorial with lots of green stuffing to make a chicken rider http://losthemisphere.com/blog/?p=12780

Volomir has a good looking WIP of a Ork Warboss in progress http://volomir.blogspot.com/2011/03/wip-ork-chieftain-part-1.html

Tips

Vallejo is apparently releasing paint on primers of a polyurethane base http://www.acrylicosvallejo.com/blog/2011/01/surface-primer/
I'm intrigued, but unsure.. urethane is usually a plastic or rubber base, which tends to be a pain to paint on.

Gallery

Raffa over at Massive Voodoo has created an incredible Grey Knight http://massivevoodoo.blogspot.com/2011/04/joy-of-painting-x.html

Lauby's finished a grey termie http://lauby.blogspot.com/2011/04/tyberos-red-wake-final.html

Gimnir has a great looking Blood Angel coming along http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://gimnir.blogspot.com/2011/03/angel-sangriento.html

Old School has some great shots from Adepticon http://darkfuturegaming.blogspot.com/2011/04/adepticon-team-tourney-pics-pic-heavy.html

A freaking awesome custom Nurgle Demon Prince http://excommunicatetratoris.blogspot.com/2011/03/nurgle-daemon-prince-conversion-now.html

A game board coming together http://eyeoferror.blogspot.com/2011/03/new-game-board-in-progress.html

A great looking psyker battle squad http://excommunicatetratoris.blogspot.com/2011/03/psyker-battle-squad-conversions-built.html

MWC has a large plague tower in the works http://miniaturewargameconversions.blogspot.com/2011/03/few-shots-of-more-alternate-plague.html

Great looking orks http://warpaintguy.blogspot.com/2011/03/ork-nobz-finished-part-2.html

Musing

GMort talks about "counts as" armies http://www.houseofpaincakes.com/2011/03/fluff-counts-as-and-other-grey-areas.html