Annual Terrain Compometition 2015: Results.

The wait is over at last! The compometition results are here!
The thick red velvet curtains part with a gentle sigh and the exertions of a gang of sweating stage hands. The lights slowly rise on the following scene...

Congratulations Mike and Riley! Your prizes will be on their way shortly!
And to those of you who missed out... there's always next year.

TFH Annual Terrain Compometition deadline approaches!

The deadline for the TFH Annual Terrain Compometition is almost upon us! All entries must be in by midnight, September 30th Melbourne Time (GMT+10).
There have been some nifty things submitted so far, but there is still the chance that you could out-nift them!

Ishoo Ninty-Nin Poll open!

Normally, we have reader's choice polls for every four ishoos, but since the next poll should be for Ishoo Wun-Hunred, and that's a pretty significat ishoo which I have major plans for, I've put up a poll for Ishoo Ninty-Nin instead.
You can vote as usual at the top right of the blog.
And yes, one of the options does involve me revisiting the CNC Workshop MDF terrain which I was so annoyed by the first time. On the plus side, another involves a technique which was introduced by a reader in one of the old Terrain Compometitions.
Speaking of which, entries are still open for the 2015 TFH Annual Terrain Compometition. Which you should obviously enter. Because, you know, the prizes are just soooooo shiny.
Also bragging rights.
Okay, here's your plan of action for the day:
1: Vote on the Ishoo Ninty-Nin poll.
2: Enter the TFH Annual Terrain Compometition 2015.
3: Curse that you have only discovered the blog AFTER those events ended.
4: Invent time travel.
5: Go to 1.

Annual Terrain Compometition deadline now two months away!

Egad! Tis August! And you know what this means? It means that the TFH annual compometition's deadline of September 30th looms ever closer!
You can check out the rule here.
Unless you come from the future, in which case that page will have updated to show the winners.
Unless you come from the far future, in which case it'll probably be showing details of the compometition in whatever year you're reading this from. In which case you should take off your jetpack, park the flying car in the hovering garage, and get down to making terrain instead of wasting all that time watching zero-g football.

Developments and goings on at Terrain For Hippos.

Age of Shenanigans:

It seems that the current fashion is to write a mournful article on one's blog mourning the passing of 8th edition Warhammer and bemoaning the round-based skirmishy shenanigans of Age of Sigmar.

My cat reacts to Age of Sigmar.

Age of Sigmar is not going to kill my hobby, and will not stop be hammering wars. I don't play much WFB anymore, but it is my favourite setting for terrain making. Fortunately, it's also a fairly generic dark fantasy setting, and the bulk of the terrain will work in other settings. It will also not stop be in my ambition to build at least one themed terrain item for ALL the WFB races in 8th ed. Depending on what I think of the new setting, I will probably end up making some terrain which fits into AoS somehow.

Annual Terrain Compomeition:

Yes! It's that time of the year again! The annual terrain compometition is now open for entries until the end of September. Here's Grot with the rules:

For those who either cannot or will not learn the art of Hippospeak, here are the full, complete and utter rules:

• Build something which has either appeared on TFH or uses techniques which have appeared on TFH.
• Email pictures (NOT links to photobucket, google drive or similar) of same along with:
• Your name.
• A description of the project.
• At least FIVE photos of it (not all of these will be published, but more pics help the judging).
• Your mailing address for prize sending purposes.
• Chew your nails as you await the announcement of winners.
• Juniors (under 18s) is only open to people under 18. Seniors is open to all entrants.
• If anyone REALLY young enters, a Super Juniors category will be added.
• All entires must be in by midnight, September 30, 2015 Australian Eastern Standard Time (GMT +10).
• Entries which do not include all of the details required will not be considered.
• Minimum bribe level: one turnip. Oh hang on, I don't want to price myself out of the market!*

Prizes are as follows:

SENIORS:

• Glorious and magnificent Certiwotsit of Winneration, signed by Grot himself!
• Shiny and wondrous $50 TFH terrain commission voucher!
• Awesome and lustrous TFH official mug-wot-holds-liquids-and-also-paint-brushes!

JUNIORS:

• Glorious and magnificent Certiwotsit of Winneration, signed by Grot himself!
• Shiny and wondrous $30 TFH terrain commission voucher!
• Awesome and sort of matt-black hot glue gun of power!

*Baldric; Black Adder the Third.

TFH Annual Terrain Compometition reminder

Egads! The Compometition Deadline looms! It's been a while since I had any progress to report (I've had a lot of commissions this year which have gotten in the way of my own projects), so I'd clean forgotten about the September 30th Deadline. I think I might actually extend it to October 5th so the whole thing ends conveniently on a weekend, allowing more time for last minute entries.
And here, to remind you, are the rules once more!

2014 Annual Terrain Compometition opens!

Yes! It's happening again!

You can find the complete details, along with lists of shiny prizes and details of previous winnerators here.

Ishoo Atey-six: Scrap Yard

Here it is folks - the TFH Annual Contest Winner's Special Request Ishoo! By Winning the contest, Evan Brooks also won a commision voucher, the building of which was to be the subject of an upcoming ishoo. 

Well, he decided he wanted a Necromundan scrap yard. So that's what this Ishoo is about.

Cue Grot!

And there you have it! The mighty wrecked crap trading empire of Shady Zeke! Stay tuned for next ishoo - it's probably going to be about turn counter, and then I'm going to be well and truly stuck into some comissions so it might be a while before anything much else happens.