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Hello folks, I am a PDX resident and I thought this might be a good place to ask if anybody wants some free stuff. In my possession I have some old-time warhammer fantasy paper buildings from the Warhammer Townscapes set. Incomplete, assembled and just a little wobbly. I did not have the heart to throw them away and I doubt EBAY would care. Does anybody want a FedEx box full of them to resuscitate or use? Please see attached photo. I also have a strange paper sack of styrofoam hills from a similar era. They have been flocked green and would probably be fine mounted to some 1/8th MDF or like. Anybody want these? My own terrain habits are a little more choosy nowadays and I am pressed for space in the basement. I hope everyone stays cool out there.

Rolled over to the GW store in the morning and got a learning game with Tyler with my starter set Bloodbound. He was super cool with teaching the rules and the crowd was helpful with suggestions. Great fun. Puttered over to Guardian Games and briefly met up with Thomatron at 1:00pm. He had his elves ready to go, but I sadly could not offer a game because I had to split to a little girl's tea party shortly thereafter. He was cool to chat with and we discussed weekday games and organizing for the future. I will be available more in the near month and look forward to meeting and playing more of you.

GG opens at 10am. Anybody there earlier that day?

A conflict has arisen in my Saturday afternoon dealing with a little girl's tea party. Is anybody going to be there earlier in the day before 2pm to play or hangout? Just curious. I have a mighty Khorne band of the Black Primer clan.

I really have not played AOS very much but have been a follower of Warhammer since I was a kid. I agree that the toxic environment online is really discouraging. I think that a lot of people are upset that their fantasy game and their fiction kinda disappeared and was replaced by something else. That has triggering a lot of unreasoned hate and negativity to the new rules and new fiction. I personally think that the simplified and clean rule set is a great idea even if I think the initial fiction for AOS is kinda shallow. (It's kinda hard to personally relate to the experiences of immortal god-warriors with foggy memories and blood-bathing 'roid cannibals.) Among some players is a rather immature conflation of pages of rules and points systems with tactical depth and playability. Same goes with RPGs and splat books. More is not always better. I listen to the Garagehammer podcast for positive discussion of AOS. It was interesting hearing their concerns over the switch to new rules and the ability to find the bright side of the new game over the last year. Ignore the haters, paint your minis and play.

Guardian Games in Portland, OR. Central Eastside. A very large game store with lots of playing space.

The gouged pink foam divots are obviously ravines, can't you tell? :) If I had to do it over again I would use bark nuggets for the stone "cliffs". Cut pink foam just doesn't sell it. I made a couple hills with the barky texture and they look way better. Oh well, it was my first go at it. Don't even know about the price of the whole thing, Not too bad but not peanuts. 1"x3" poplar for all the wood "trays" so they are nice and durable on the sides. 1/4th MDF on the bases (would do plywood now for nicer looks). Pink foam to build up the middle and hills. Spackle to even it out, particularly where the foam joins the wood sides. Sand/sawdust mix sprinkled on woodglue for ground texture. (maybe just sawdust next time for less grit) Painted and drybrushed browns. White glue and a couple different shades of static grass on top with a home-made static grass sprinkler. Access to table saw and good fence to saw all the wood trays precisely to size (20" or 10" on the dimensions, maybe just 23" now)

Ahh, I really should make a big blog post about how to do it. And how I did my game table, lights, and terrain cabinet. But I will save myself some typing and just post the pictures I had the sense to take in-process for now. Ask anything you want.

I will probably be there at least to say hello and may bring the black primer Bloodbound.

I had heard that there was a delay in manufacturing them (since the release of AOS) because the boards cracked when originally packaged. They had to find a new method for manufacturing them. I am torn between using my already great modular home table and buying a ROB for having a dirt/desert theme. I think I am sadly susceptible to GW marketing because I scoffed at the idea of a plastic board back in the day.

Thanks for the welcome folks. I will start to look for a game. I have to figure out how to transport my toys properly and see if I can get more painted up for hobby-pride. A narrative league sounds fun but I probably need some major rules studying and actual play for a bit. I don't have a big established army to play with, just lots of miscellaneous battalion boxes to assemble and fiddle with. We will see what I can bring. GG is pretty convenient for me if anyone is going to play soon.

Hi folks, I am a long time Portlander and a old-time Warhammer fan but I have rarely had the chance to actually play so I thought I would go looking about town for fun folks to play with. 40k is neat and all, but I have always been a fantasy fan so I followed GW into AOS territory and find it not too bad, it will give me a chance to paint up all that grey plastic I have sitting around. I have been a mini painter for years and am actually pretty serviceable but I go pretty slow, I just need to push through to complete units. I am currently working on my starter box Khorne Bloodbound but have way too many models of other factions waiting to be unboxed. It seems the OF folk get together at the end of the month at GG for AOS, anything I should be aware of if I wish to stop by and say hello? I hope having regular people to play with will help me finish painting my troops. Picture attached of 15mm Song of Blades in my basement that I enjoy as well. Drow versus Wood Elves with my irregular game friends.