After the photography class I had about 3 hours to spend wisely before my glazing class. When I arranged my schedule I was cursing this chunk of unused time, but when it came I was glad to have a few hours to rest. The timezone change, late nights, early mornings and jam packed days had started to beat me down.
I went to find my friends and they were all in the Fantasy room talking. If you follow my blog, you’ll know that I’m a huge fan of James Wappel – he’s directly inspired most of my recent hobby activity and he was playing in the Fantasy tournament. I kept looking over at him, but he had a constant stream of fans around him and I didn’t want to interrupt with my useless fanboyism. (I’m miserably shy around celebrities I admire).
Patrick sees me looking over and says I should go say hello. He uses the words “this is about taking it to far”, grabs a sharpie and tells me to get one of my movement trays (the design for them came from James blog). I waved, James waved and says “I didn’t think I brought my trays with me!” He was happy to autograph my tray, and I’m stoked to have had a small conversation with my hobby-idol!
Peter had ordered 3 of a particular type of deep-dish pizza. Everyone we spoke with said “You know that you can only eat a single slice of that, right?” I had 1 and 3/4 and it was intense. We ended up giving away pizza to anyone who wandered past us. đ
After food, everyone slowly wandered off to head to a pub and have some drinks. I had another class, and was absolutely exhausted to boot so I stayed at the con and wandered around a bit.
Another shot of the giant gargant.
This guy is so badass.Want!
The “on display” of this thing is awesome. That’s an ork army rocking out to a concert. The bright thing in the middle is a TV screen showing a music video. They had music playing and were selling CDs. Yeah!!
A Tau and Necron alliance.
After that (actually, during that) I was done. I contemplated going back to the hotel, I was so tired. Instead, I found a couch and slouched down into it. My phone was low on power, but it didn’t matter – I was either going to make it, or I wasn’t and I was bored then and desperately needed something. Every time I looked at the clock it had only moved another minute, this was a damn long hour of waiting!
While slouching I saw these 3 fellows climb onto another couch, and then onto each other and do a triple-layer piggy-back.
Somehow I made it to class.
2 Comments
wappellious
April 26, 2013 at 12:47 pmIt was really cool to see the movement tray! I always wonder if people glean information from all those posts that they can use!
rythos42
April 26, 2013 at 1:32 pmSometimes it can be hard. You do an awful lot and I know very well that it’s next to impossible to write down all of the steps involved in something like this. I’ve been trying to figure out your glazing techniques, but (although my results are looking pretty good!) I don’t think I have it down yet. Looking forward to the videos when they come out!
The movement trays were pretty easy to pull useful information from though – get a base, some cork and start gluing! All of my friends are jealous of my trays now, since my skinks are so easy to move around. đ