Iron Man Painting Challenge RETURNS!

Well, its that time of year again!

Break out your brushes and paint pots, caffeinate yourself to an inadvisable degree, and get ready to throw down in the most grueling painting event EVAR!

IRON MAN PAINTING CHALLENGE is our twice-yearly, pre-convention painting pow-wow. That's a lot of hyphens. 

Join us Saturday, February 9th at 11:00 am, and paint all day, and all night, and far into the next day IF YOU ARE IRON MAN ENOUGH!

This a great opportunity to just sit down and grind out all of those minis you've been meaning to get finished, while enjoying good company and eating terrible junk food.

Refreshments will be provided, and wimps will be mocked. 

I MIGHT paint some Dark Eldar.  But probably not.
-DB

Demo Days!

Starting January 12, 2013, the Knights of the Gaming Table will be hosting monthly demo days. These will be a good opportunity for new players and those kind of interested to get the low down and try out many of the games we all play and love on Saturdays. Games like Warhammer 40,000, Warhammer Fantasy, Malifaux, Hordes and Warmachine, and Infinity. All games will be small, and can take as little or as long as you like.

The event will start around 2PM and run till around 5PM, in the hall in front of Hobby Town USA. Drop on by, and give one of these great games a try.

VI Edition! Midnight Madness and Release Party

UPDATE #2:  We have a release date!  Sixth Edition will be in stores June 30th!

   Changes have been made below in red.

Sixth Edition is here!

In case you've been living under a cave squiq, in the cave squig's cave, with cave squig ear squigs in your ears, you know that it is the 25th anniversary of Warhammer 40,000 (holy CRAP I'm old!).  What better way to celebrate than with a new edition!  Yes, folks, get out your thinking caps and wallets, the whole shebang is getting reset.  Again.Click below for the teaser video...

http://youtu.be/nef_5gNkGfM

What does the mean for the environment?  Dunno.
What  does this mean for your favorite army?  Dunno?
What does this mean for the Knights of the Gaming Table?...
 It means that, as most of you know, the Knights will be presenting the 40k tournament at Tacticon this year.
Let that sink in...

It also means that on Friday night, June 29th, at midnight (Technically the 30th), we will be hosting a Midnight Release Party and late night gaming session for 40K6E!  We will sell the rulebooks, in whatever form they may be in, and anyone who purchases one will get 20% off any OTHER GW product in the store. Then, we will play VIe until we all fall over.

Where:
Hobbytown USA
3500 S. College Ave
Fort Collins, CO 80525
In the basement...

When: Friday, July 29th at Midnight (July 30th)

See you there!

Knights' Chronicles

Holy crap, games! I haven't seen that many people playing games at the same time in a while. It was a fight for space. Fantasy, 40K, Malifaux, even Infinite. Barely room to move. At max I believe we had 5 or 6 games and 1 painting table going simultaneously. It was a riot. Tons of new players, some returning infrequent ones, it was great. We even had some players shoot a video battle report!

I hope everyone had a great time. We are starting our Malifaux league next week, but don't feel like they won't be room for everyone, cause its a small game, and everyone will still be bringing their other stuff. I know I am still looking to get some games. Also, it the first Saturday, so we will be having after hours painting.

Confessions of a Brushlicker - WHY to paint your models!

Take a cursory search of Ye Olde Internet and you can find thousands of articles, videos, and blog posts with instructions for painting models for miniature wargaming. Whether you want to learn OSL, zenithal lighting, blending, layering, airbrushing...the list is endless...the information is out there. Lots of people are trying to show you techniques for improving your paint jobs or shortcuts when you are banging out those 50 Ork Boyz. There's plenty of HOW. Let's talk about WHY.

Why should you paint your models?

Of course we gamers are always tweaking lists, cooking something up, or testing