Cancon Sessions: What they all mean.

Here's a run down on all the sessions I will be running at Cancon, along with what they are all about, and some pics of the projects. You can still book into sessions here. Some spaces will be available on the day, but as you can appreciate, I cannot bring all the materials from Melbourne to run ten people through each session, so extra spaces are going to be limited, unless you bring the materials with you.

All the way from Ishoo Nin, please welcome: the bunker!

CONCRETE BUNKERS (for hippos)

Saturday, January 24^th, 10:00apm-1:00pm

Skill Level: Knows which end of the knife is the hurty end

2-3 hours

$15/ticket in advance, $20.00 on the day

10 seats

Join notorious terrain crusader and hippo enthusiast Owen Top of Terrain For Hippos and Terrain Crusade fame to learn how to build a concrete bunker with removable roof and detailed interior.

Students are required to bring a craft knife, foamcore sheet (about A4 size) and any interesting detail-y miniature bits they want to use as control panels in the interior. Owen will provide hot glue guns, steel rulers, and paints.

Space Orks are the greatest of slum hut builders.

RAMSHACKLE SLUM HUTS (for hippos)

Saturday, January 24^th, 2:00pm-5:00pm

2-3 hours

Skill Level: Knows which end of the knife is the hurty end

$15/ticket in advance, $20.00 on the day

10 seats

Join notorious terrain crusader and hippo enthusiast Owen Top of Terrain For Hippos and Terrain Crusade fame to learn how to build ramshackle scrap metal slum huts, as used by 40K Orks and slum dwellers everywhere!

Students are required to bring a craft knife, foamcore sheet (about A4 size), scrap cardboard and any interesting detail-y miniature/toy bits they want to use to detail their building. Owen will provide hot glue guns, steel rulers, corrugated cardboard sheeting, more scrap cardboard, detail parts and paints.

Most ubiquitous of buildings, the peasant's cottage.

MEDIEVAL STYLE COTTAGES (for hippos)

Sunday, January 25^th, 10:00am-1:00pm

2-3 hours

Skill Level: Knows which end of the knife is the hurty end, can spell ‘medieval’ five times out of ten.

$15/ticket in advance, $20.00 on the day

10 seats

Join notorious terrain crusader and hippo enthusiast Owen Top of Terrain For Hippos and Terrain Crusade fame to learn how to build medieval style timber-framed cottages, so beloved of European peasants and those fine upstanding citizens of the Empire in Warhammer.

Students are required to bring a craft knife, powerful scissors, foamcore sheet (about A4 size), and an old towel (or about 20cmX20cm of an old towel). Owen will provide hot glue guns, steel rulers, balsa, and paints.
NOTE: This project has a long drytime – we will not get to paint the thatch during this session.

Ah, topiary. How can I have never done an Ishoo on this?

THE GENTLE ART OF TOPIARY (for hippos)

Sunday, January 25^th, 2:00pm-3:00pm

1 hour

Skill Level: Knows which end of the knife is the hurty end, can expain what ‘topiary’ means.

$15/ticket in advance, $20.00 on the day

10 seats

Join notorious terrain crusader and hippo enthusiast Owen Top of Terrain For Hippos and Terrain Crusade fame to learn how to turn anything into a small, carefully sculpted bush in mere moments!

Students are required to bring a craft knife, and plastic toy animals or miniatures to turn into topiary. Owen will provide hot glue guns, steel rulers, flock and paints.

CREEPY TREES (for hippos)

Sunday, January 25^th, 3:30pm-4:30pm

1 hour

Skill Level: Knows which end of the knife is the hurty end.

$15/ticket in advance, $20.00 on the day

10 seats

Join notorious terrain crusader and hippo enthusiast Owen Top of Terrain For Hippos and Terrain Crusade fame to learn how to make haunted creepy trees of sheer horror and mighty creepiness!

Students are required to bring a craft knife. Owen will provide polystyrene, modelling clay, branches and clump‚ foliage.

How can I have never done an ishoo on these either?

Fantasy Watchtowers (for hippos)

Monday, January 26^th, 10:00pm-1:00pm

2-3 hours

Skill Level: Knows which end of the knife is the hurty end, can eat Pringles with the best of them.

$15/ticket in advance, $20.00 on the day

10 seats

Join notorious terrain crusader and hippo enthusiast Owen Top of Terrain For Hippos and Terrain Crusade fame to learn how to build a fantasy watchtower from a cardboard tube.
Students are required to bring a craft knife and a large cardboard tube (such as a Pringles tube). Owen will provide hot glue guns, steel rulers, and paints.

It's the world's leading producer of steaming punks.

Steampunk Factories (for hippos)

Monday, January 26^th, 2:00pm-5:00pm

2-3 hours

Skill Level: Knows which end of the knife is the hurty end.

$15/ticket in advance, $20.00 on the day

10 seats

Join notorious terrain crusader and hippo enthusiast Owen Top of Terrain For Hippos and Terrain Crusade fame to learn how to build a small steampunk factory complete with smoke stacks and more rivets than you can reliably shake a stick at.
Students are required to bring a craft knife, an A4 sized sheet of foam core, and a small cardboard tube (such as a toilet or paper towel roll). Owen will provide hot glue guns, steel rulers, more rivets than you can reliably shake a stick at and paints.

Cancon For Hippos: Bookings now open!

As mentioned previously, I will be running some master classes at Cancon 2015. Well, the Canberra Games Society have beaten their website into submission with a large whacky-stick, and the ability to book into these sessions now exists!
You can go and check out the sessions on offer here (towards the bottom of the page)
You can go an book sessions here.
Places in each masterclass are limited to ten rabid patrons (non-rabid patrons may be turned away), and you can sign up on the day, although that costs more, and there may not be enough materials, depending on how much I can cram into Greg's car, while still leaving room for the Cookie Monster and Pete, and (more importantly) a change of clothes.

For those who cannot be bothered clicking links, these are the sessions that will be running:

Saturday Morning: Concrete Bunkers
Saturday Arvo: Corrugated iron slum shacks
Sunday Morning: Timbered cottages
Sunday Early Arvo: Topiary
Sunday Late Arvo: Creepy trees

UPDATE:

The Victorian school year starts unusually late in 2015, which means I can run sessions on Monday.
Monday Morning: Fantasy Watchtower
Monday Arvo: Steampunk Factory

Thanks to Pete the Scatterlaser for wrangling accomodation and allowing this!
Rousing cheers all round.

Terrain For Canconists: TFH masterclasses at Cancon 2015

Those notorious tournament-y convention-y thing running men, the Canberra Games Society have asked me to come and run some masterclass-y workshop-y things at Cancon 2015! We still finagling details with powerful finagling sticks, but so far, it looks like the following will be happening:

• Concrete Bunkers (with removable roofs and interior detail)
• 40K Orky ramshackle huts/slum huts
• Timber framed cottages
• Topiary
• Creepy Trees

Students (their term, not mine!) will need to provide some of the materials and tools used, since I will be traveling many hours to reach the workshops, and space in my luggage is limited. Places in each session are limited, and they also cost monies. A quantity of monies as yet undetermined. Who knows, actual meatspace Grot might even put in an appearance!