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Army Painter RuneWars Hobby Weekend Live Blog – Sunday
Join us for another day of awesomeness here at BoW HQ in Northern Ireland as we get ready for a grand RuneWars battle thanks to Fantasy Flight Games and The Army Painter crew!
With our armies painted up and ready for action, it's time to don our helmets, sharpen our swords and head to battle!
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Which RuneWars faction would you pick?
Some Gaming Underway
We have some of the gamers playing out a demo game or two to get used to the rule of the game. It's neat seeing it all coming together.
The winter 4Ground table has proved to be a very good gaming table to play out battles on.
Lloyd's Frosted Snow Bases
Come and take a look at what Lloyd has been tinkering away on. Here we have his techniques for snow bases and frost, allowing for a slushy, icy mix.
As you can see it looks very effective and creates a fascinating look which makes for some cool 'White Walker' skeletons.
I've Finished A Base Of Four!
Yes, that's right peeps!
I've got a whole base of four done including a bit of white dry brushing to make the skeletons extra frosty looking.
I think it's really helped with the White Walker theme 🙂
Hope to see some gaming today, still undecided, bit expensive and too many cards and tokens.
Yes, please let’s see a lets play
Yeah, I’d also like to see some gaming!
Looking forward to the demo
Game day!
Can´t wait to see some results of the painting…
Finally we will see some full painted armies? And also a demo game?
Hope you all have an awesome day!
Happy Mega Paint Set Sundaaaaayyy 🙂 🙂
i`m awake at 4:30 in the morning Texas time painting my Conan board game, you guys gave me the bug of painting and i`ve been enjoying myself since yesterday while being constantly interrupted by my 2 years old daughter.. fun stuff.
Looking forward to seeing all the painted armies clashing
Have a great sunday!
I’ve been waiting for you lot to wake up and get back to work 🙂
The perfect weekend sun ,beer and minis…
Now let’s see how this game plays with some pretty cool minis!
It’s amazing to see how much can be done in just a matter of days, really great looking armies in such a short amount of time!
Those waqir look sweet, might use that as inspiration…
Awk go on count me in.
Runewars does look pretty fun
great! enjoyed this all so far this weekend!
Loving the videos definitely thing I will be trying out this game.
Loving the videos definitely think I will be trying out Rune Wars the game looks awesome to play and the models look amazing.
Can’t wait for the chance to come to the 2nd Hobby Bootcamp…… hint hint @warzan lol
Thanks for the demo. The mechanics seem pretty slick – no rolling 40d6, having them bounce into your nicely painted minis, picking a couple off the floor, doing another huge reroll etc.
Wow, tis weekend full of hobby is nice. May i get this with my friends too in the future.
a gameplay/ battlereport this day would be cool.
Interesting game mechanics. Looking forward to seeing a faction breakdown.
Look forward to seeing the game played.
Loving the actual video demos and explanations from the AP guys!
can’t wait to see what happens today
Can’t wait to see some more images of peoples armies nearing completion. My favourite colour schemes from the weekend changed like 8 times over the courses of yesterday 😀 Az
Got to talk my local gamestore into doing a hobby weekend. It would be a great way to get more local interest in miniature gaming. Pokemon, Magic and Heroclix have too much of a monopoly here.
Morning
I will rly try make a homemade version of hobby bootcamp! 😀
Saw almost everyone carrying this around at Adepticon, it’ll be cool to finally see how it plays.
What a cool idea and event
Love having a full weekend of hobby inspiration to keep me going!
The game system convinced me. Really nice and smooth.
Keep up the updates, awesome work there
I love ur Runewars painting tutorials. This is a great event 🙂
Just getting started as I head off to bed, Stupid time zones
Great stuff! I love the army painter (coloured) washes
As always, great vids!
This might be the game to get me back into miniatures wargaming.
Time to get stuck in! Last day of this wonderful hobbby week-end. Will we finally get to see a Let’s Play?
Initially I wasnt too interested in this game, as I’m already tucked into a number of fantasy battle games, however since the bootcamp started it has peaked my interest and now I have watched some demos, I really really like the game mechanics. Plus I have a tone of FF games, one more couldnt hurt right?
Day 3, looking forward to seeing a game or two.
Can’t wait for the release.
The basing tutorial is great! Thanks
Is it wrong to see these minis and think ‘can I fit them in my Kings of War army?’
well looks like you guys have have fun,some really paint works going on . may have to look at some army paint stuff
What a great weekend of hobby! Been great keeping up to date through the live blog and YouTube clips.
Looks like a blast
I need to try out the dipping method one of these days. Love AP stuff, but haven’t given that a shot yet.
Looks like a really fun weekend!
great to see what can be achieved in a single weekend
Liking videos a lot this weekend.
Enjoying these updates
Looks like a lot of fun
Loving the paint/play event. THIS is the kind of boot camp I’d love to be part of. I just wish you did it in the US
Hoping to see some big battles with the painted armies
I have been wanting to change from GW paints to army painter for a while now. The 100% matching spay cans and the dip will save loads of time. The Mega army painter paint set would definitly be the way to go I think.
Some impressive models when painted, never played rune quest but possibly tempted by what ive seen this weekend.
My body is ready for Runewars.
I want more!
Looked like an amazing time. Especially loved the frosty snow bases. 🙂
Nicely done guys. Loving the armies on parade. And the Learn to Play will be my background noise while I work on my rhino.
Late start today. Gonna have to catch up this afternoon. 7 hours behind doesn’t help. Hope everyone has had a great time.
Hmm I’m getting really tempted after looking at all these armies.
Is this sort of event done often? It looks amazing!
minis look kinda cool
Finally just got back in for the day, now I can settle in and catch up on the rest of the weekend . Hope I didn’t miss anything….
Loooks like a great game with the brilliant xwing mechanic. I like that the stats seem easy and no need to worry about needing a tape measurement
Warzan has been noticeably absent from the weekend.
really looking forward to more releases for this game to make it more “playable”
Nice videos. I want to try Runewars in the near future. Have a nice Sunday!
Phenomenal hints and tips. Thanks so much. I think I’ll be lookin into that nail buffer fo cleaning up minis
I would love to see another hobby weekend in the future
Awesome, looking forward to hopefully seeing some gameplay!
Some nice looking armies in a very short time there. Great stuff.
Thank you so much for the thorough coverage and great videos throughout the weekend!
All looking great.
I can’t remember when I had a whole weekend with hobby time. I think I’ll have to try and find the time and make it happen.
looking forward to seeing the painted figures in action
Ya i finished 5 models this weekend for Relic knights and my neck is sore I dont see how you guys and gals manage for 3 days. lol i am getting old i guess
Looks like a weekend well spent. Wish I could have been there, hope there will be more of these hobby weekends as an excuse to go on a little vacation to Ireland.
Need..Time..To…Paint…Damnit 🙂
Thanks for all the great advice and tips this weekend. Brilliant.
Loved the how to play video.
This weekend has been great
Looking forward to a game play video in today’s coverage. And that conversion mentioned yesterday :).
cool
What a weekend that was.
This wasn’t really something I was interested in coming into this weekend, but the coverage has been really good and I hope it works as another massed fantasy game out there must be good for the industry. Right?
looks like everyone had a good time. Would have liked to see more games played but that’s up to the participants.
All in all, great weekend!
No more game play? I like how much hobby focus this one was even so.
Very inspiring. I love how you focused on results.
Another great looking weekend . Army’s looked great and just in 3 days . Some great tips and dohh yep game looks good to .
Ohhhh I really like Lloyd’s frosted bases. I’ll have to give that a go on my Frost Grave minis.
It’s always cool to see how different the same models look when painted up with different schemes and painters. Quality work all around.
That looks like a great weekend. Great job in the coverage and thanks to all the companies involved. It was both entertaining and informative. Looking forward to a detailed let’s play.
The game looks amazing and I can’t wait to play it!
Great results in a short but intense weekend! It would normally take weeks!
looks like fun wish I were there
Was on the fence about this one, but may have to give it a chance.
Thanks for the interesting weekend! Some great models there that look awfully fun to paint.
Great show guys… been glued to my screen checking out everyone’s great work.
Great stuff this weekend. Props to all!
Looking forward to watching the games. Also really like the tips and tricks.
Well done! that was a good weekend. Good job all!
I’ve followed your progress and I couldn’t be more jealous. I will do my best to attend a bootcamp like this in which Army Painter help.. PUSHES you to have an painted army in a weekend. 😀
The liveblog was great!
doing a catch up and painting today this is going to be epic
Brilliant event guys! Well done to the BoW team- can’t wait to get stuck into Rune Wars!
I’m going to use the hell out of my opalescent medium while painting the Waiquar, no doubt about that.
Lloyds skelotons look awesome..
how do you guys have so much weekend time? gaming is a M-F thing for me…
I’m loving the tutorial videos. There’s something therapeutic AND educational about “how to paint” videos. Excellent camera work and informative. I really like the way these were produced!
Reminds me of S-Wing and the painting tutorials look also nice! Will keep an eye on it! 🙂
So, after watching this all weekend, I ended up pre-ordering RuneWars and some quickshade…oops.
Managed to get a couple of games of Runewars in tonight with the preview copy my local store received and I enjoyed it a great deal though e have not got as far as using the upgrade cards yet but I was very impressed by the minis and the plastic is a lot harder then I thought it would be.
I am new here. Where does one look for contest results?
@teage We usually announce winners on our weekend show called “The Weekender” on Saturdays.
Ya, I use the same basing technique. Never have used the army painter grass tufts before though, might look into ordering some of those.
I loved this stuff!
And like that I ended watching all the videos. Great job, Beast of War, it was a treat to watch!
missed the content at the weekend but am making my way through it.
my brother is just starting out with tabletop and the hobby side is terrifying him so this is perfect.
good job on the tutorials John mate.
Some of the armies on here are amazing, especially considering the quick turnaround times.
Great weekend guys!
I am impressed with everyone’s speed in painting up everything. Pretty awesome.
I was so impressed with the results everyone achieved on this weekend, and I thought the basing really looked superb.
From an outsiders perspective this has been the hobby weekend/bootcamp that I have gotten the most out of. Many hints and tips that I’ll have to try out. Great work everyone!
While you guys were playing and painting this all weekend i was playing the Star Wars Destiny, Spirit of Rebellion pre release. There are just so many amazing games and so little time to play them.
Wish I could have been there just to work on my painting skills. Especially to work on the “speed” aspect.
This looks like it could be really fun…