Indefinite hiatus

Due to work schedule, family matters and the general condition of the economy, Paint-&-Play will be in hiatus. We've missed all of you very much and regret not being able to continue on a regular basis, and we thank you all for coming out in the past.

Hopefully one day if things turn around and schedules permit, we can resume a somewhat regular Sunday event. Until then, I wish you all well and may you keep painting and gaming on your own.

Spike & Steve

Paint-a-vampire contest winners..and announcing our next competition

Thank you everybody who competed this time. We had four contestants..two in each age category. Both second place winners will get $10 in Reaper merchandise, and first place winners get $15 in Reaper merchandise.

In the youth category, second place goes to Senan for his painted male vampire from #03383 Vampire Spawn 2 Pack.

First place in the youth competition goes to Mike for his #03248 Classic Horror Dracula.

Second place in the adults category goes to Jason, for his interpretation of the male vampire from the Vampire Spawn pack.

And finally, first place in the adults competition is awarded to Dan for his diorama incorporating #02136 Rafael Maladoni and #02990 Crypt Of The Vampires.

Congratulations everybody on such fine work.

ANNOUNCING THE PAINT A FANTASY CREATURE COMPETITION!!!

Now that we've done scary, it's time to do fanciful. For this contest, a fantasy creature is defined as a non-humanoid being or animal that is...well.. magical. This includes unicorns dragons, pegasuses, (or is it pegasii?).  This does not include humanoids such as fairies, pixies and such. We're saving those for another contest later on.  If you're not sure if the model you want to paint fits the category, email me at spikepage(at)att.net.

The rules are as follows.

• Contest entry must be a model representing a fantasy creature as in the examples above.
• The model must be by Reaper Miniatures, and can be from any of their product lines except of course their Legendary Encounters pre-painted plastic line.
• Entry must be painted entirely by the person entering it.
• Participants must be present at the time of judging to win.
• Participants compete in either the 12-and-under or 13-and-up category.
• 1st and 2nd prizes will be awarded in each of the two categories.
• This contest is free and opened to anybody, not just P&P club regulars.

Judging will take place on Sunday, December 20 at 3pm at Hobbytown USA in Kennesaw.This will give everybody a bit of extra time to paint during the upcoming busy holiday season.

Meanwhile, I will be updating the calendar with P&T's new schedule. Due to seasonal changes and other commitments, we will be wrapping up future paint-and-take sessions at 3pm rather than 4. I hope to have the calendar updated within the week.

Werewolf contest winners....and announcing our Halloween competition

Sorry for the delay in getting our winners posted. Between work, other weekend obligations and having to transition to a new computer, time got away from me.

Anyway, thank you all of you who participated. I will have your award certificates and prizes to the winners as soon as possible.

2nd place in the youth competition goes to Senan for his wonderful job on 14032: Corm, Lupine Shaman

1st place in the youth competition goes to Mike for this snowy rendition of 02830: Wolf Pack (3)

And of course first place goes to our only competitor in the 13-and-up contest. Here is Dan's 14529: Ragon the Bloodied, Lupine Hero

Congratulations again to all of you for your great work.

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ANNOUNCING THE PAINT-A-VAMPIRE COMPETITION!!!

In the spirit of Halloween... hehe... get it... spirits?

Anyway, in the spirit of all-things-spooky, our next contest is vampires. The rules are posted below.

• Contest entry must be a model representing a vampire.
• The model must be by Reaper Miniatures, and can be from any of their product lines except of course their Legendary Encounters pre-painted plastic line.
• Entry must be painted entirely by the person entering it.
• Participants must be present at the time of judging to win.
• Participants compete in either the 12-and-under or 13-and-up category.
• 1st and 2nd prizes will be awarded in each of the two categories.
• This contest is free and opened to anybody, not just P&P club regulars.

Judging will take place on Sunday, October 25 at 4pm at Hobbytown USA in Kennesaw. I hope to see lots of bloodsucking vampiry goodness this time around. Good luck to all of you.

Paint-a-Dwarf contest winners, calendar, and other special announcements...and a new contest too!

Thanks to everybody who turned out to compete in the P&P Paint-a-Dwarf competition. Here are the winners.

In the 12-and-under category, we only had one entry. Congratulations Garrett on a job well done. Here he painted one of the models from Reaper's Dark Heaven Legends Army Packs > 06044: Dwarven Warriors


As usual, we had two prizes available, one for each first-place winner of each category. The 12-and-under winner gets to choose his/her prize first. Garrett chose an unpainted Reaper miniature > 14451: Durthen, Dwarven Berserker on Boar

We had three 13-and-older competitors. It was a hard choice to make because all were very good both in concept and execution.

Third place went to Matt for his work on another model from the 06044 Dwarven Warrior Army Pack.


Second place went to Garrett's mother (talent runs in this family) for her dwarf from the DHL Army Pack > 06040: Dwarven Miners


First place went to Dan, who painted up 14082: Margara, Dwarf Mage from Reaper's Warlord line of minis.

Dan took home the other first-prize, a set of HirstArts Battle Arena dungeon tiles and accessories.

CONGRATULATIONS EVERYBODY for making this a great competition!

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We will not be doing P&T this next Sunday, but will return the Sunday after. August should be a fun month for us thanks to the upcoming release of Reaper's 2nd Edition Warlord miniatures game. I know a few of you have already begun building some small armies. Warlord is the perfect introduction to miniature gaming because it's fun, fast, and doesn't require hundreds or even more than a dozen models to play.

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We will also hopefully have more chances to resume playing Swords & Wizardry at our P&T sessions. Thanks to thousands of other folks just like you for playing and spreading the word, S&W has become a popular name in roleplaying games... so much so that its publisher, Mythmere Games, is hoping to make the books available in game stores through regular distributors JUST like the other big RPG companies. Of course the free version is stll available on Lulu.com as a PDF download too for those who haven't yet gotten in on the fun.

Also, S&W and Mythmere Games have been nominatef for ENnie Awards. S&W for Best Free Product and Mythmere Games for Fan Award Best Publisher. This is a real big deal for an "upstart" like S&W, so feel free to add your vote too.

And finally, announcing our next CONTEST!!!!

PAINT-A-WEREWOLF!!!

The rules and categories are as before, except this time we'll be judging to see who paints the best wolf-man or lupine-warrior model. If you aren't sure about whether or not a model qualifies, just drop me an email at spikepage(at)att.net or reply to this post.

• Contest entry must be a model representing a werewolf, wolf-man or lupine-warror.
• The model must be by Reaper Miniatures, and can be from any of their product lines except of course their Legendary Encounters pre-painted plastic line.
• Entry must be painted entirely by the person entering it.
• Participants must be present at the time of judging to win.
• Participants compete in either the 12-and-under or 13-and-up category.
• 1st prizes will be awarded in each of the two categories.
• This contest is free and opened to anybody, not just P&P club regulars.

Judging will take place on Sunday, September 20 at 4pm at Hobbytown USA in Kennesaw. Good luck, and may the best wolfie win.

Highlights of 6-21 Paint-&-Play

In spite of the Fathers' Day holiday, we had two tables filled with P&Pers. Many returning friends and a newcomer or two joined in the fun. I actually think we may have frightened the historical-game guys down at the other end of the room :D

Here are some highlights of the painting.

Not surprisingly, we had at least one Dad participating. With so many painters, there was lots of work for my camera. Check out some of these awesome minis.

And afterward..we played. Luckily for the guys, they had enough minis from past P&P Sundays to help out in the fight against the purple wyvern. Also it was lucky that one of the "good guys"had the ability to paralyze the monster. Sometimes in the face of adversity, one must overlook little differences such as being undead and therefore evil.

Here they are...in the final assault before the incredible PWN!

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Remember, the Paint-a-Dwarf contest ends on July 26th. Also I have finally gotten my schedule made far enough ahead so I can update the calendar with July's events. Hopefully I will have August's events listed MUCH sooner than the end of July.

Check back here regularly for some exciting news about the upcoming release of Warlord 2nd Edition, a fun miniature skirmish game from Reaper Minis. Also I hope to have some exciting news from the folks who bring you Swords & Wizardry.

Long overdue updates and photos

My apologies for being so long overdue with my posting here. This past month has been a bit of a whirlwind due to the unexpected passing of Steve's father back in mid-May. We both have been busy taking care of family business, not to mention our regular jobs, and I've not had many chances to update any of my blogs.

BUT I still have a camera full of pics from the past few events, all sorts of plans for the upcoming summer months, and a surprise or two up my sleeves.

Here's some of the stuff painted back on the last day of May.



And that was also the day we judged the winner for the Paint-a-Orc contest.

Congratulations to Trevor, who is the second biggest orc fan at P&P. Here's his entry standing on the stoop of the HirstArts tower which he won. The caption ought to say "You kids get off my lawn!"

ANNOUNCING THE PAINT-A-DWARF COMPETITION!

The rules are as follows..same as previous contests.

• Contest entry must be a model representing a dwarf.
• The model must be by Reaper Miniatures, and can be from any of their product lines except of course their Legendary Encounters pre-painted plastic line.
• Entry must be painted entirely by the person entering it.
• Participants must be present at the time of judging to win.
• Participants compete in either the 12-and-under or 13-and-up category.
• 1st and 2nd prizes will be awarded in each of the two categories.
• This contest is free and opened to anybody, not just P&P club regulars.

The judging will take place on the last Sunday in July at 4pm at Hobbytown USA. Prizes to be announced here soon.

I will be updating the calendar over the next few days. Check back regularly for any further announcements.

June P&P events calendar

This month seems to have gone by quickly. I hope the lack of May events has not discouraged too many of you. Steve and I have certainly missed seeing all of our regular P&P gang.

In the next few months, we'll be on a more-or-less every-other-week schedule. Due to the fact that gas prices will be climbing, school will be out, and that families (including ours) have other things they need to be doing, we've decided to meet twice a month at least through September.

This coming Sunday is still the deadline for Paint-a-Orc. I hope to see lots of entries this time. We have some great prizes to pick from too.

For the month of June, we will be meeting on the 7th and the 21st, both from around noon until at least 4pm. Being that the 21st is Fathers' Day, I hope to see a few more Dads at the old P&P table. Like they say, the family that plays together stays together.

July at this point is still not set. As soon as I have my schedule, I'll post up July's P&P events.

Until we meet again, be safe, and have a happy Memorial Day!

May 10th P&P highlights

Several people dropped in to paint, including a few newcomers. Here are some photos of the various painted minis.

Katie and Ken discovering the fun of mini painting.

Katie's cherub. Ain't she cuuuute!

Ken's red orc... who is cute in his own way too!

Caleb's knight. No he hasn't had an accident. I forgot to bring the
Zap-a-Gap to attach his shield hand with

Korey's metallic Overlord. It's hard not to love the
Reaper ProPaint metallic purple and gold.

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CALENDAR UPDATES!

There will be no P&P this coming Sunday, as we'll be at ReaperCon out in Texas.

Also, there will be no P&PSunday the following week either due to a Pokemon tournament that day.

But May 31 will still be the deadline for the Paint-a-Orc contest.

Also, during the summer months, we will likely be going to an every-other-Sunday event schedule. This is in part due to gas prices rising again and also because summer is vacation time for many of us. Once we get back from Texas, I will be posting up our June schedule.

See you all in two weeks!

May 3 P&P highlights

A few of the regular P&P folks dropped in, but none could stick around long enough for a proper game, so we just painted.

The Paint-a-Orc contest is underway now, and I hope to repost the official rules at Hobbytown this coming Sunday. Official rules are in my previous post also.

Below is a picture of one of the minis completed Sunday. It is General Matisse, Overlord Leader, from Reaper's Warlord line. I think he looks pretty good...for a bad-guy, that is.

Next Sunday, if there is enough time, I'll be running a very small dungeoncrawl game. It'll be my first time to be game-master, so it'll be "quite interesting" at least and "downright silly" at worst. I hope you all can be there.

Paint-an-Elf contest winners ---and announcing next month's competition

Congratulations to R.J. for being this month's contest winner!


Here he is with his chosen prize, a section of HirstArts water cavern dungeon.

Below is his winning entry (on the left) along with another of his painted minis getting ready to rid the dungeon of ubiquitous orcs.



WHICH brings me to the topic of our next competition.

Announcing the PAINT-A-ORC contest.

Y'all saw this one comin', didn't ya! I mean, you can't have a proper dungeon-crawling adventure without the orcs and goblins, right? I'm really excited about this contest and seeing how everybody paints their entries. I hope to see lots of entries this time. After all, orcs always come in hordes.

The rules are as follows.

1. Contest entry must be a model representing an orc OR half-orc OR goblin.
2. The model must be by Reaper Miniatures, and can be from any of their product lines except of course their Legendary Encounters pre-painted plastic line.
3. Entry must be painted entirely by the person entering it.
4. Participants must be present at the time of judging to win.
5. Participants compete in either the 12-and-under or 13-and-up category.
6. 1st and 2nd prizes will be awarded in each of the two categories.
7. This contest is free and opened to anybody, not just P&P club regulars.

Although you are encouraged to buy your own model, and hopefully have begun your own collection of model paints, you are always welcomed to join us at any P&P Sunday events between now and judging to work on your model and share in the group's collective enthusiasm for improving individual painting skills.

Deadline and judging will be on Sunday, May 31st at 4pm at Hobbytown USA in Kennesaw GA.

So, good luck..and may the best greenskin win!