Home Again

I landed safely back in Denver yesterday afternoon and promptly collapsed from exhaustion. Here is the vista I have been missing during my stay in TX.

For those who are interested the tallest peak you see in the picture is Longs Peak and it is about 50 miles away from where I took this picture. Longs Peak is part of the Front Range and rises to 14,259 feet (4,346 meters). 

ReaperCon - Back to Work - The Day After

Its Monday and I'm hanging out with all the freelance painters and sculptors today, folks that I didn't get to spend much time with during the convention between running games and helping judge the painting competition. So here are a few shots of the warehouse and what it looks like the day after ReaperCon comes to and end. A pretty impressive make over.
Blister Carded Miniature storage back in place. You can still see the warlord tournament tables setup down there.

 The paint department is back in full production and paint is being poured.

 The blister card machines and their racks are back in place, shipping department is back up and ready for operation.

 Where there was gaming, painting and sculpting tables are now filled back up with miniatures waiting to be pulled to fill orders. This was by about 10am this morning.

ReaperCon - Sunday - Day 4

Day 4 is still pretty busy, busier than most other conventions by this point. For me the day is all about getting ready for the auction and making sure that I have enough stuff to sell off to the crowd. At ReaperCon I only take ReaperBucks which you get from participating in games and taking classes. Everybody has something to buy stuff with, essentially for free. Obviously I didn't take any pictures of my self auctioning things off, maybe there are some out there but I was a little busy to do it. This is also the day that things start coming down. Its amazing how fast things can get changed back to a productive factory. Tomorrow they will be up pouring pewter again.

The new sign for the breakroom

 Frontline Games Alien Invasion game. Check out the flying saucers.

 Sunday Gaming

 ReaperBryan holding court towards the end of the show

 The aftermath, tables and chairs are rapidly heading back into storage for next year

ReaperCon - Saturday - Day Three

Saturday sees the biggest attendance of the weekend. Along with that means that there will be another round of  miniature judging. Just a single team of three to handle that entries that come in from the Saturday only people. Of course there are still plenty of games going on and fortunately Steve has been more than willing to help run Kraken's Revenge since I got pulled into helping do a lot more of the miniature judging this year. Early Saturday evening are the painting awards along with the first five inductees into the Masters Painting Hall of Fame. Five well deserving painters went in this first year; Jen Haley, Derek Schubert, Laszlo J., Anne Foerster and Doug Cohen. The evening ends very late with the Reaper version of Hollywood Squares.

The beginning of the awards ceremony, Ron Hawkins, Ed Pugh and Matt Clarke start things off.

Matt Clark making the first annoucements

At the end of the awards ceremony, Laszlo and Michael preparing to wrestle to break a tie for Best in Show

 Derek Schubert picks up a Gold Sophie

 Michael Procter picks up a Silver Sophie

 Cowboy Shootout guns down some more cowboys

 Saturday gaming

 Kraken's Revenge; some tasty morsels for lunch

 A row of production molds in the Reaper Facility. These rows are about 24 feet long, with six shelves on either side. Each four feet of shelf holds 39 molds (more or less) That's about 234 molds per four foot section for approximately 1404 molds per 24' long shelf. There are 9 of these shelves so that's about 12,636 molds. These are the molds for all the active numbers in the catalog, meaning you can order any number currently in the catalog as well as any number that has been removed from the active catalog except for licensed lines that are no longer in production (Doom, L5R, etc).

 Speed Painting; one mini, two brushes, a dozen paints and 45 minutes

VCR Challenge entries

 Saturday Warlord Tournament

Hollywood Squares

ReaperCon - Friday - Day Two

Despite the title of day two its actually day three for me. Had a great time yesterday although all the pictures I'm editing are starting to look the same. So today I'll try and post something different. Over the course of a four day convention, even a small one, things start to blur together a bit.
Yet another shot of Kraken's Revenge

 A very intent VCR Challenge competitor

 Painting Competition Medals

 The infamous Sophie Trophies

 The Russian ICBM ductwork

Painting Competition Judges

 Serious Discussion - Michael Proctor

 Intent Contemplation - Ali Scheirman

 A Full Judging team with an alternate judge - Jon Bonnot, Jen Haley, Anne Foerster, Derek Schubert

 Attention Judges

 Heavy Gear running demos

Mario at Frontline Games

 Where old minis go to be melted down

 The Friday Warlord Tourny squeezes into their space