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Welcome! Relax and enjoy yourself!

Katie! Great to see you here! This is fun and I'm sure you'll enjoy yourself as long as you don;t match up with Noel in Iron Painter. ;-)

Yep, eventually we'll finish all the editting and paperwork and stuff and Gen Con will have the pics of all the winners. Also, Historical Miniatures ("HM") magazine will be publishing covereage of the competition and our events, so check that out as well!

So please be patient...we all have jobs and families and waaaaayyy too much to do. We;re talking a few weeks, not days here.

AND Jeremie is our MHE Guest of Honor at Gen Con, so you should feel free to bug him all weekend except during classes. :-) Welcome to Wyrd, Jerems! Can't wait to see the new stuff!

AND Jeremie will be giving classes at Gen Con too! He's our MHE Guest of Honor!

Nathan, I second that. My minions tell me everything will be okay, it will all get done and Gen Con will be a happy time and go off without a hitch. Every year they say this and somehow they are always right...See you at Gen Con.

Jim! More Cats! What Rhonda and Ali said! Your painters demand cats! :-) Siamese-ish please for me. ;-)

Download the event catalogs and go to the MHE Section. I provided a link for you to do so. Debby Lewis handles all Speed Painting so it is under her name. But pretty much every hour and a half from 10am on has a Championship...we have multiple manufacturers including Wyrd! Though not all companies are having a Championship.

2008 Gen Con Indy Miniatures Hobby Events (MHE)

They play games at Gen Con Indy?!

How the heck would I know, I'm busy at the MHE area! We have so much going on and we're excited to see many of you year after year joining us at our events and having a great time, as well as the many manufacturers that support us consistently. The MHE Crew does this for you! Please find us in the second floor Serpentine Lobby this year! See you very soon!

We're open to any and all manufacturers of miniatures hobby products to join us and contribute to these events. They cannot happen without you, and it gives attendees the chance to see what you really have to offer in a hands-on and promote-the-hobby venue!

We welcome new manufacturers, new instructors who want to try giving classes, anyone who wants to demo their skills and products, or would like to volunteer their time to help make our events run smoothly! Paint & Take, prize support, volunteer support, speed paint, classes, demos and more! Find out what you can do for MHE and what MHE can do for you!

Please remember that many events and classes will accept walk-ins with the cost equivalent in Generic Tickets to fill empty seats.

For questions, please contact Sue Wachowski, the Volunteer MHE Coordinator, at paintminion@yahoo.com .

For current updates and information, to ask questions, make comments or suggestions, check the MHE Section of the Gen Con forums ( http://community.gencon.com/forums/167/ShowForum.aspx ), or look in the Event Listings for more information on event times and place.

Here's a quick overview of what's happening this year:

Free Paint & Take

Hours: Thu. - Sat. 10 am - 6 pm, Sunday 10 am – 4 pm

Last call for seating is 30 minutes prior to close.

Try your hand at painting miniatures! We have everything you need, including basic instruction, to help you release your inner artist. We make it easy! Maybe you've always wanted to try a certain color, or manufacturer's paint line? Sign up for a seat! The hardest part is choosing your miniature from the dozens of manufacturers who contribute to this popular annual event! Use your masterpiece in your next RPG or show it off to your friends and tell them – I did it at the Paint & Take!

2008 Gen Con Indy Miniatures Painting Competition

http://www.gencon.com/2008/indy/events/MHE/Competition.aspx

Entry Deadline: Fri 9 pm

Entry Pick Up: 5 pm – 7 pm Saturday, 9 am – 3 pm Sunday

Gen Con is giving away over $1000 in cash, trophies and prizes! Even if you don't enter, be sure to catch all the entries in our display cases—nothing beats seeing these masterpieces in person!

Manufacturer Awards – Awards given by a specific manufacturer for entries from their product lines. Check here for current listings of Awards! (http://community.gencon.com/forums/t/16355.aspx )

Speed Paint Arena

Speed Paint Arena, various times.

Reaper, Dark Sword, Privateer Press, Crocodile Games and Wyrd Miniatures will be hosting Speed Painting rounds all week long, and some of them will have Championships on Sunday! Check event listings or onsite for times and info. You'll have 45 minutes to paint, and you keep your miniature! Compete for fun and prizes! Seats for Generic Tickets are available each round.

Aces VII: Charity Speed Paint & Auction: Kraken Editions!

Speed Paint Arena, Friday 6:30 pm, Charity Auction Saturday about 7 pm.

The pressure is on as top mini painters compete to be the "Ace of Aces" by painting a miniature in one hour. All proceeds from the auction go to the Gen Con Charity. Come cheer, or jeer, your favorite mini painters! Then bid at the Gen Con Auction for this one of a kind item. Minis will be auctioned as one lot with display base and certificate! This year we're sponsored by MHE Guest of Honor Jérémie Bonamant's company, Kraken Editions! AND he'll be painting, too!

MHE Hobby Classes

Want tips from the experts? We have over 100 Miniatures Hobby Classes with instructors from around the world. Topics include terrain, beginner and advanced painting techniques, sculpting, conversions, army painting, basing and much much more! Classes for both beginners and experienced hobbyists. Read the Class Descriptions for information on whether it is a Hands-on class or a Demo/Q&A class. Many have handouts, minis provided, and products to take with you!

Event catalogs – ( http://community.gencon.com/files/24/default.aspx )

MHE Seminars

Thursday night, 7 and 9pm

Free Pro-Sculptor and Pro-Painter Seminars with panels of experts to answer your questions. How do they do a certain technique? How do you get work in the industry? How did they learn and grow as artists? What's their strategy for competitions? Find out this and more at the annual MHE Seminars!

Demonstration Tables

Check the Demo Table for times and artist.

Watch as industry and hobby experts and pros create magic right in front of you! Here's where you can chat, ask questions, and learn a few tips by watching as they work on current projects. Terrain, sculpting, painting—something for everyone!

MHE Guest of Honor – Jérémie Bonamant Teboul

Jérémie is a master globetrotting painter from France, known worldwide for

his beautiful use of color, ambiance and technique. His articles and

tutorials have been widely published in modeling and miniatures magazines

around the world and on his website at []www.jeremiebt.com]. Most recently

he's become one of the creators of a new miniatures company called Kraken

Editions.

Jérémie was young when he fell into the bottomless cauldron of obsessive

and maniacal miniature painting. Hyperactive and persevering, Jérémie just

can't help his painting frenzy. While already busy with sports and social

activities, Jérémie managed to transform his passion into a full time job.

He is unavoidable on many French mailing lists dedicated to the painting

hobby. He has an innate talent for putting together a vast network of

other passionate painters around the world. He describes himself as a

"couldn't give a damn, clumsy and not so creative guy," and often says he

uses many hints and tips discovered by others. Always willing to chat,

speak, babble, natter and share his passion, Jérémie ceaselessly wanders

around the world to meet people as crazy as him.

He'll be giving classes, demos, and participating in various MHE

events, as well as exhibiting some of his finished work in the MHE display

cases.

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16 days and counting!

Love the Bilbo, and wish I had the time to paint my own...someday I will! The Masque is indeed a touch nut to paint it looks like, and I really like the banner work on that. Not enough purple though... ;-)

I really like the basing on the barbarian, and the paintjobs look like they deserve the gold!

Jim, we'll see you there! And I also encourage as many folks who can to come out to this show and see some truely awe-inspiring works and soak up the hobby goodness.

See you at the party!

Hang in there, Dan, good thoughts coming your way...

Hmmmmm... I think I'm pretty much all over the place. Something new? Ah...I have this large scale female pirate bust I bought last October to paint for a show this October...but have not yet started it. Still, is it breaking the mold? I've done dark, I've done light, I've done funny and serious, I've done good guys and bad guys. Seriously, other than the bust being something different for me, I'm not sure I have any ruts trailing behind me on the painting road...

Happy Birthday! Now where have ya been!? Come to a paint night sometime!

Tom Mason's giving some sculpting classes as well. Very nice guy. Anyway, I'm pretty much booked, but everyone come to Friday night Aces Charity Speed Painting and cheer me on. No drinking involved, but shenanigans...

Happy Birthday to you two

Don't sniff your super glue

or you won't have the breath

To blow out candles and sing too!

I'll be there. Kinda have to or Miniature Hobby Events would spiral down into chaos. Well, okay, I like to think that, but I know I have great volunteers who really do most of the work! Anyone looking for volunteer/helping out opportunities, please let me know! We could still use a heck of a bunch of help at Paint & Take...even if it's just for a few hours. Yes, you too, can teach washes and drybrushing to total strangers and walk away with swag!

Meanwhile, don't forget Wyrd Speed Painting! Should be lots of fun!

Acclaimed (in their own living room) movie critics, Art and Sue Wachowski give Ironman a FULL four thumbs up. There is a very brief ...ehem...affair, and the bombing and sniper scene in the beginning was a bit too close to Iraq reality. I was uncomfortable with it and would not bring an 8 year old. I'm thinking the 8 year old will love everything else, but again, the middle east scenes I think might be too much for an 8 year old right now. Maybe in the comfort of your own living room, with the parental distraction method employed, an 8 year old would breeze through the worst parts. They wouldn't catch the psychological nuances. Then again, I'm not sure Art did either. ;-)

Wachowski Four Thumbs Up!

Mineral, as in Iron?!

...nope, no supervike on my list of language arts passes..

The judges and I have conferred on this problem and have made an official ruling...The 2008 Gen Con Indy Miniatures Painting Competition will officially not hold Bexley's language skills against him when we judge his entry.:dancing2:

Otherwise, listen to your gut. If the gore and blood is done well and obviously fits the group in your mind, it's up to you whether you can do it well or not. Gore done badly does not help you. Gore done well, might. Gore added may help you, or may not. There is no possible way to answer that--it's your decision.

I can say that yes, we're a painter's contest. Don't care what manufacturer we're judging, don't care too much about background (you want to paint your skellies purple and your space marines pink, so be it). What we do want to see is minis painted well and presented well. A good mini tells a story, an action, hints that there's something happening to that mini, around that mini, and by that mini. That said, a standard pose can win as well if the paint job warrants it.

You'll be judged by painters of various styles who will argue their way towards a winner's circle of entries. Just make sure you give them as few reasons to take your entry out of the running as possible.

Anything else? Anyone else need special dispensation for language skills?

Think of it as a chance to get ideas for snow basing...:hmmmm::snow:

Claddagh is a great place. Always busy as is everything else around there. Friday night is Aces from 6:30 to 8pm, and judging for the paint competition starts at 9pm, though, so I do invite everyone to come to the Aces Charity Speed Paint on Friday and make fun of the silly painters before you go drinking--one of the few times you'll see me sitting down and captive to whatever you want to shout at me, and I think I'd rather have you do it sober. ;-)

I think gluing them in a few groups and using wire hidden in the seaweed would work better for what you're after, but I do agree that the paintjob is a stunner! The only nitpick would be extending some sort of brightness down onto the face/nose. Perhaps a "blaise" of the orangish color like on a regular horse to help bring out the face...otherwise it tends to get lost in all that brightness. Perhaps a touch of different color on his belly, or push the contrast in highlight and shadow a bit more to give the belly and torso some depth. The crab is great, as is the anemone, but the crab is my favorite part. :-)