ReaperCon 2015 - Day 3

Saturday is the big event day at ReaperCon. While there is a small flurry of entries being entered for those that can only be there on Saturday 95% of the judging has been completed and we are busy trying to figure manufacturer awards and Sophie Trophies. There is a banquet at 6 and the awards ceremony in the main hall at 8.

The vendor hall is quieting down as people move over to the stage area

Some last minute checks of the entries in the competition room. We ticked over 500 entries this year from 137 entrants.

Jennifer Haley's spot, she must be off teaching at this point

The crowds begin to gather. The monitors in the center have been displaying the entries in the contest over the weekend.

 

Ali Bailey, Jessica Rich and Erin Hartwell prepare to pass out the awards as they are announced.

A bit of cheering as Anne Foerster takes the stage. Oh and the BONES III kickstarter was announced Friday night.

ReaperCon 2015 Day 2

For a small convention ReaperCon just never really stops and Friday was building up to be busier than Thursday, much as you would expect. Most of my day was split between working with the vendors and helping out in the competition room. There is always plenty to do.

The priming booth for this year. If you needed to prime some minis this was the designated spot.

Painting Competition Room; Row 1 Dioramas and Open entries

Row 2; Painter Entries A-E

Row 3; Painter Entries F-M

Row 4; Painter entries N - Z

Row 5 Ordnance

Row 6; Overflow, currently sporting entries from the Open table

The Reaper Metal Trade table, the search has begun!

ReaperCon 2015 - Day 1

I'm several days behind posting at this point but I finally found a few spare moments to show off what has been happening at ReaperCon this year. We are back at the HGI in Lewisville TX and its a nice site for us. They are starting to outgrow it a bit so I'm not sure we will be back next year or not.

As usual pictures show things off better than I can write about them.

Some of the games being setup for the convention. Most of these are running multiple times over the course of the convention.

This is MBA's table, full of Miniature Building Authority Terrain.

Vendors; some are ready to go some are still setting up.

MBA

Hanger 18

Vitalie Photography

Tom Meier at DGS running a demo of Freeblades

The water version of the famous Reaper Dungeon Crawl

The original (well almost original) Dungeon Crawl. This game has been part of the show since 2005. I ran it for years

TGJ Hobbies, makers of lasercut paint racks. They announced their launched their kickstarter on Friday

TheTardis for all your priming needs

Setting Up ReaperCon 2015

I arrived Wednesday morning after a night of no sleep. My first goal get my vendor area setup in time for my vendors to be able to setup at 3pm. We setup the pipe and drape and the hotel moved in the tables and skirting. That part went easier than expected although we didn't manage to get power to the booths before it was time for the meet and great BBQ at the Reaper facility. It was a very long day, as I was pushing 40 straight hours without sleep. I definitely crashed hard that night.

Here are some photos of the convention, should give you a better idea of how much space we allocate to painting compared to gaming.

Registration

Kit and Bryan get registration setup

The Big Board shows where everything is supposed to go

Artists' with new lamps this year. Very high tech

The far end of artists', most of the sculptors are sitting down here

Open painting looking towards the main entrance to the vendor room

Open painting from the end of artists' row

Open painting looking towards the far end of the vendors' room

Vendor Hall

DGS

Laserlight

Frontline Gaming

TGJ Hobbies

Painting Competition

More room, hoping for 500+ entries this year

A serious discussion about how to handle the number of expected entries. Note that the tables are lower, this is before we put on the leg extensions (made from PVC pipe) to bring them up to viewing height

Painting competition registration. Raised two of the tables up so its more comfortable for the photographer. Note our massive lightbox, We can handle up to 2'x2' sized entries in this one.

And that's pretty much the end of Wednesday, an "unofficial" con day. I meant to take pictures at the meet and greet but my phone died.