Pictures! (from Gateway GT)

Here's some pics that one of the organizers took at the Gateway GT a couple weeks ago.(my stuff is the Space Wolves)

Sooo I've Been Hobbying....

I just haven't been blogging about it.  Since my last post, I've been pretty busy.  If you look at the sidebar of what I've been painting, you may guess that I've painted about 2000 points of Space Wolves in the past two months.  If you were to guess that, you'd be spot on.

I had the idea back in April after visiting Adepticon for the first time that I would really really like to go to a big tournament.  Unfortunately, Adepticon only comes once a year and there was no way I was going to wait an entire year to experience one.

Luckily there was an event on the 2011-2012 Games Workshop Tournament Circuit scheduled for the first weekend in June called the Gateway Grand Tournament.  I talked to a couple of my  friends from up here in Rockford and we decided that it would be fun to head on down to St. Louis and 40k it up.

In addition to my Space Canines, we had a Ravenwing army, a Deathwing army and a Slaanesh Noise Marine army.  The tournament consisted of 80% power armor armies, so we fit right in.  Here's the vitals of the competition.

What: DieCon - Gateway Grand Tournament
Where: Collinsville, IL
Participants: 44
2000pts
5 Rounds
Battle Points: 150
Painting Points: 40
Sportsmanship: 50

At the end of the weekend, we were able to bring home quite a bit of hardware.  I got Third Overall in a ninja, come from behind surprise.  Our Deathwing player got First Overall and our Chaos player got Best General.  Painting scores helped us out a lot, as did timely massacres.  I may write up a more in depth report on my battles but for now, I'm back and writing again.  Oh yeah, I'm painting up some Orks.