Thinking Outside the Box

I built TONS of models during August and September, and even applied some paint to a few figures. Most of them are Heroclix repaints / rebases, but there are a few actual paint jobs in the lot. First up is a little-known board game that I picked up on discount years ago. Herocard: Champion of New Olympia . It came with two figures, and the other two were single character expansions. The figures were a sticky plastic with low detail, but I rebased them and repainted them anyway. The game is actually pretty fun. To'a King, Ferrion, Deva, Talon Next up, for some reason I got on a roll doing Fantastic Four stuff. I'm not a huge fan of the team, but I had a great Thing figure built and primed from Knight Models , so I decided that he needed his pals. The other three figures are just rebased & touched up Heroclix from the "Fantastic Forces" set. Invisible Woman, Mr. Fantastic, The Thing, Human Torch I've always been a sucker for She-Hulk, so when I fo...

I realized the other day that I have posted very little over the past year or even more. Why? Well the short answer is that my life has changed a lot in the last 2+ years. I've moved cities, am studying for a complete career change after 20 years, and have put a lot of time, money and focus into growing my business o2media . I won't bore the few of you who read this with the details. They're not that exciting. What I did want to share was that my company has been developing some gaming figures of our own. A few weeks ago I announced a license agreement with Xion Studios , which lets us play in their amazing "WatchGuard" universe. I'm  really excited to showcase our first two figure sculpts: The Scintillating Spider-Squirrel and his partner, Trash Panda! These 35-mm scale figures will be cast in resin and each model will include a profile card for use in the superhero skirmish game "Super Mission Force," by Four-Color Studios. Thanks to S...

On my last school break I picked up The Valiant Card Game - Ninjak vs The Valiant Universe . I ordered it on a whim, after hearing that it was based on a comic and live-action web-series of the same name. I confess it's been a couple of decades since I have read anything from Valiant , but I was aware that they had relaunched a few years back, and had picked up their RPG series and their card game last year, neither of which had yet to see the table. However if you've ever stopped by here before you'll know I'm a sucker for superhero comics, so none of these purchases should be a surprise. Deciding that I needed to see the web-series before trying out the game I fired up YouTube and spent an hour being mildly impressed. The writing and acting weren't anything amazing, but overall the costumes very well done, and FX were certainly better than I had expected. I would certainly watch more if it were produced. Anyway, back to the game at hand. It's a basic ...

Yet another successful tournament in the books! We had an excellent turnout and tons of fun for the day. Tournament Results 8th Place: Mike D Black Manta, Darkseid, Deadshot, Harley Quinn (Rebirth), Lex Luthor (Warsuit) 7th Place: Marcel Batmite, Green Lantern, Raven, Superman (Red Son), Zatanna 6th Place: Darkness Coming, Paul Darkseid, Parademon 1 x2, Parademon 2, Steppenwolf 5th Place:  Doom's Avengers, Josh Ares, Dr. Doom, Hulk, Spider-Man, Thor 4th Place: Justice League, Talon Batgirl (Rebirth), Harley Quinn, Martian Manhunter, Raven, Supergirl, Zatanna 3rd Place: Black Adam & the Bat Attitude, Elton Black Adam, Clayface, Killer Croc, Lobo, Parademon 1, Solomon Grundy, 2nd Place:  Justice League, Tezlin Flash (Ezra), Green Lantern, John Constantine, Shazam, Wonder Woman 1st Place: Jet Lag, Mike H Black Adam, General Zod, LexCorp Heavy Trooper, Professor Zoom, Superwoman Fellowship Prize: Elton Best Painted Crew: Josh

On April 7th, 2018 I hosted my second tournament of the year at  Eastridge Sports Cards & Games  in Calgary, Alberta . We had 8 players registered to play, but weather conditions brought our numbers down to 6. We still had a great day of games, food and fun with the  Batman Miniatures Game  2nd Edition rules . Tournament Results & Crew Lists 6th Place:  Birds of Prey (346/$100), Mike D Black Canary - Boss, Batgirl, Catwoman (Modern Age), Huntress, Poison Ivy (Classic) 5th Place:  Joker (346/$1350), Brian Joker (Leto), Harley Quinn (SS), Pandaman w/ magazine), Deadshot (SS) 4th Place:  The Brave & the Bold (James) Batman (Rebirth), Robin (Damian), Swamp Thing 3rd Place:  Organized Crime (348/$1950), Mike H. Lex Luthor, Heavy Trooper w/ jet pack, Lexcorp Trooper 1 w/ Bribe, Lexcorp Trooper 2 w/ jet pack, Lexcorp Trooper 3 w/ grapple, Anatoly, Hugo, Troy 2nd Place:  Bane (350/$1500),...

WARNING: If you intend to play adventures from "These Are the Voyages Vol. 1" stop reading now! Back in the summer of 2017 preorders were announced for a new roleplaying game series called  Star Trek Adventures , to be published by Modiphius . At the time I'd been playing with a regular group in a Dresden Files  campaign and had just begun running my first Mutants and Masterminds 3E  campaign as well. So when the Star Trek game was announced I was all over it and placed my order. The materials showed up in early September but I didn't have a chance to actually play until a few weeks ago, shortly after the release of the free quickstart rules.  After some posting around on Meetup, I found a group willing to give things a go. I ran the quickstart scenario for a group of 5 players and we had a great time. The rules definitely need a few reads through by whoever will be running the game as the task resolution, combat and the various actions available to the cha...

On January 6th, 2018 several players from around Alberta gathered at Eastridge Sports Cards & Games to play in our very first DC Universe Miniatures Game  tournament. We had 8 players registered to play and had a great day of games, pizza and fun! Tournament Results & Crew Lists 8th Place: "Clipped Wings" (Charles) Classic Superman, Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Black Canary, Hawkman, Hawkgirl 7th Place:  "Earth 2" (Brad) Classic Superman, Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, Hawkgirl, Batman (Ben Affleck) 6th Place:  "Cuddly Bunny" (Micheal Hooper) Doomsday, Superwoman, Power Ring, Johnny Quick, Ravager 5th Place:  "Magic FTW" (Mike Davis) Doctor Fate, Wonder Woman, Hawkman, Hawkgirl, BvS Superman 4th Place:  "Ane Justice For All..." (James) BvS Superman, Shazam, Doctor Fate, Wonder Woman 3rd Place: "Beastly and the Owl" (Marcel) Darkseid, Atrocitus, Sinestro, Owlman 2nd Place:  ...