This was a very frustrating model to paint. The model looked great, I'm just not skilled enough to bring it to life the way I wanted to. I'm not down, it gives me more motivation to learn new skills and paint more! 

Skills I need to work on: edge highlighting, blending and working with black. As you can tell, my edge highlights need a lot of work. I tried to employ several techniques but they didn't come out great. My brushes were not co-operating with me and the paint kept getting everywhere. I need to work on brush control. I also need to work on paint consistency. It could be why the paint was getting everywhere.

I also need to work on the basing. I went back and forth between clean and dirty and couldn't figure it out. The urban theme is also something new for me. The base didn't come out as well as I would have liked, it's going to be another adjustment. 

Infinity is the new Wargame that our gaming group has decided to try out. With some of the factions taken, I settled on Yu Jing because who doesn't like space ninjas? I know that the Infinity painting style is different. It has a lot of edge highlighting and a lot of contrast. It's going be an adjustment for sure but thankfully I have a few YouTube channels I can watch for some inspiration. I hope I can get it done quickly.

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In addition to helping man the booth at NeoCon 2017, I was able to make a time lapse of day 1 and do some interviews on day 2. If you didn't get a chance to read up on my experience at NeoCon 2017 chek out THIS post from last week. 

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I had a blast at Otaku Recon 2016 but it almost didn't happen. A few months ago I contacted the people from Kai Productions but they were not giving out spots for exhibitors. The group was disappointed but we understood. Two weeks ago the organizers offered us a spot  the main hall! I'm not sure what happened but we were willing to fill the spot. The short notice was unfortunate. I wasn't able to make a new diorama or display board but we did the best with what we had. I think we did a lot better this year since we had a wide variety of wargames. 

We decided to do a display most of our Wargames: Warmachine, Guild Ball and Infinity. Last year we did demos of Warmachine, this year we were going to focus Guild Ball and maybe Infinity. Since they were skirmish games, the demo would be easy. We set up the demo table with Guild Ball and the other table with Warmachine and Infinity. On the second day we had a small Warhammer 40k Ork display and a Dust Tactics display. 

We did a few demos of Guild Ball and Infinity. The new players really liked the games and will hopefully start playing with us. Instead of video, I was able to take a time lapse with my GoPro. I will upload the video soon. Check out the Limitless Fails Gaming Group Facebook page for more info about meet ups.

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