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Just some pictures I took. I had a lot of fun, I met a bunch of cool players and hobbyists. I wish I had brought a small army to play, but the workshops and big games we're more than enough entertainment in their own.

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Big ultramarine!

Awesome siege of a Chaos Fortress.





40k Epic battle.

Awesome Templars

Amazing Dark Angels vs. Tyranids battle.



Great looking city terrain.






Awesome 3-D Spacehulk looking battle vs. Chaos.

8 boxes of Spacehulk!



Gameboard with a real river flowing through it, I spent most of my playing time at this board. I wish I had a better pic of the Chaos symbol.





Great looking Space Wolves.

Awesome Blood Angels and IG vs. Orks.

Sharp looking battle standard.




My favorite piece from Golden Demon.

I loved this dude's Templars.

Great looking Shyshield conversion.


Non-40k Stuff -Sorry for the lack of, I was working with limited space and I'm more of a 40k guy.

The industrial city is my favourite, followed by the Tyranids vs Dark Angels.

I love that fantasy board with the underground sections...

I was really confused yesterday when I didn't see anything from GD come up. Very happy to finally see some pictures! I love that jungle board with the real flowing river. What I'd give to play on some of these tables!

Oh mah gawd. That's awesome!

Movac wrote:Awesome siege of a Chaos Fortress.

You know, over the years at Games Days there have been a fair few tables along this sort of theme... Previously, where the fortress has been something built from scratch, there's been that Wow factor from looking at this awesome detailed terrain and thinking 'Some poor sod put hours into building that'... Somehow, 'Look what you can do when you buy 17 boxes of GW terrain' just doesn't have the same impact.

Don't get me wrong, it's nice and all... and having terrain available to buy is definitely a good thing. But I look at this, and the city table a little further down, and the city is much more impressive as a modelling piece.

That, and I'm unsure as to why the Chaos fortress has a giant Aquila plastered above the front gate...

Laughing Man wrote:That, and I'm unsure as to why the Chaos fortress has a giant Aquila plastered above the front gate...

Because it may once have been an Imperial fortress.

I'm surprised that Mikhaila's table hasn't been featured yet.

That minas morgul OSL is Amazing, wow I want that gameboard,
and the inflatable space marine, GW should have one on the roof of ever store!!

Good thing you warned us that the GD picture thread is picture heavy

I'll post these in this thread since I don't think we need mulptiple GD Pic theads around.

Here's a few of the Forge World models they had on display.

Wait, that big ork flyer is a fw "mini" what is it? details!!

The ork flyer was part of the Conversion contest... I'm reasonably sure it won...

Thanks for the pics!

Some amazing efforts there.

My fave is the Lizardmen "Super Heavy"

Lizardmen riding a giant dewback FTW!

Really like the Vermin Lord.

Beamo wrote:The ork flyer was part of the Conversion contest... I'm reasonably sure it won...

I hope not. It's easily three feet long (one meter) so it certainly exceeds the stated 18" limit. There was another big conversion based on putting buildings on a couple of Baneblade tracks. If either of them won, then GW needs a big slap in the face for not enforcing their own rules - aside from any other reasons people may have.

-Loki- wrote:Really like the Vermin Lord.

That's not a "three up" either. It's easily as big as a Doomwheel, though not quite as thick. Regardless, I want one.

insaniak wrote:

Movac wrote:Awesome siege of a Chaos Fortress.

You know, over the years at Games Days there have been a fair few tables along this sort of theme... Previously, where the fortress has been something built from scratch, there's been that Wow factor from looking at this awesome detailed terrain and thinking 'Some poor sod put hours into building that'... Somehow, 'Look what you can do when you buy 17 boxes of GW terrain' just doesn't have the same impact.

Don't get me wrong, it's nice and all... and having terrain available to buy is definitely a good thing. But I look at this, and the city table a little further down, and the city is much more impressive as a modelling piece.

Ninja'd! If you can call reading my mind hours before I even found this thread ninja'ing. That was my first thought too.. "It's very nice and expensive... BUT I'd have found it more inspiring/impressive they had scratch built it instead..." Where all the tables run by GW or were various clubs from across the country running some? I'd be curious to see which was the case with an all-GW official terrain table. Thanks for the pics btw. No cosplay ones though?

Wow, that city table is really cool, I have to make it to one of these conventions someday...

I think I actually saw a thread somewhere of a person building that lizard man dewback, but I can't remember were.

Thanks Movac for stopping by our tables. I don't quite remember which army you played, i think one of the ork forces

We ended up taking Best overall and Best Attendance. pics coming soon.

If anyone is interested, I've got a post on my blog about Games Day with plenty of pictures.

http://adventuresinminiaturegaming.blogspot.com/2011/07/games-day-chicago-2011.html

Albino Squirrel wrote:If anyone is interested, I've got a post on my blog about Games Day with plenty of pictures.

http://adventuresinminiaturegaming.blogspot.com/2011/07/games-day-chicago-2011.html

Why not just link the pictures here?

Hi, I biult the Ork plane, to Breotan
The !8" limit is for height only. conversions don't have any other size limits...Yet. everyone should push the limits!!!


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Kanluwen wrote:

Albino Squirrel wrote:If anyone is interested, I've got a post on my blog about Games Day with plenty of pictures.

http://adventuresinminiaturegaming.blogspot.com/2011/07/games-day-chicago-2011.html

Why not just link the pictures here?

He wants the traffic on his blog. Nothing too wrong with that but a couple of teaser pics in the post probably would have been better.

Scott B wrote:Hi, I biult the Ork plane, to Breotan
The !8" limit is for height only.

I was unaware of that. Well, then my apologies (GW still needs some face slapping though).

I take it you won?

It's probably just wishful thinking, but the giant Space Hulk game raises my hopes of a re-release - maybe that's what September's purported mystery box will be after all.

Edit: Oh, and many thanks to Movac for the pictures.

insaniak wrote:

Movac wrote:Awesome siege of a Chaos Fortress.

You know, over the years at Games Days there have been a fair few tables along this sort of theme... Previously, where the fortress has been something built from scratch, there's been that Wow factor from looking at this awesome detailed terrain and thinking 'Some poor sod put hours into building that'... Somehow, 'Look what you can do when you buy 17 boxes of GW terrain' just doesn't have the same impact.

Don't get me wrong, it's nice and all... and having terrain available to buy is definitely a good thing. But I look at this, and the city table a little further down, and the city is much more impressive as a modelling piece.

Have to agree with you on this. It has a "cleaned out my flgs of all its chaos bastions" look which is less impressive to me than scratch built stuff of lesser quality.

Scott B wrote:Hi, I biult the Ork plane, to Breotan
The !8" limit is for height only. conversions don't have any other size limits...Yet. everyone should push the limits!!!


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Congrats on an awesome conversion!! What did you make it from?

Scott B wrote:Hi, I biult the Ork plane, to Breotan
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I saw it live and in person...and I felt like when I was a little kid and saw Star Wars for the first time. That plane and all of the details was amazing. I'd love to know how much you spent on different kits to build it!

The plane was made with about 25 baneblades, 20 stompas, 4 drop pods, 15 battlewagons, a bunch of trukks, a monolith, and a bunch of random bits. the canopy was made by cutting clear polycarbonate and cutting the rivet strips from the tops of baneblades. Sprue was used inside to make the airframe the way you would build wood model planes. Sprue is great for conversions. the other thing I used for covering the wings was Imperial Guard landing pads!