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SpikeyCon- Build a Display Board with Jawaballs

By Rob Baer | June 7th, 2013 | Categories: SpikeyCon, Warhammer 40k

Ever want to build a display board for your army, but didn’t know where to start?

Come join Jawaballs for a two hour seminar this month on building a custom display board for your army!

This is your chance to learn from an expert how to build a great looking customized display board for your favorite army. Bring your own decorative bits, or use ones provided by Spikey Bits and learn the techniques Jawaballs uses to create his own award winning displays.

The Jawaballs Way: A seminar on custom display boards

What you’ll need:

Bring your army, and any wreckage or terrain pieces you would like to incorporate into your display. Jawaballs will then help you come up with a winning design, taking into consideration elements such as form color and space to and then help you put it all together!

FTW Games will provide the board, paints, flocking materials and glues. Rob will also make available as much bits as he can including building pieces from Cities of Death. (And any thing else he can find.)

Through the two hour course you will build your board, and leave with a fully functional display!

Also during the seminar you will have access to exclusive Jawaballs painting techniques and advice including hand painting on your tanks. After all, watching glue dry is no fun!

What works best for display pieces?

Old 40k tanks for wreckage. However, lots of “dead” miniatures does not.
Old scifi toys.
Kids castle toys
Gothic church model buildings
Aquarium terrain! Go to your local pet store and see what you can find. You will be shocked.
Want lights? Hallmark “Dicken’s Village” and other similar pieces are great. You can even easily get sound and motion if you wish.
Hallmark and Lemax also make other great things like twisted trees, graves and Spookey buildings.

So hit up tag sales and eBay and find lots and lots of cool looking pieces and we can make them work in your display.

When and Where:
We’ll be doing two Seminars during Spikey Con I (FTW Games Birthday Weekend) at 1PM and 3PM respectively. Saturday June 29th. This is happening on location at FTW Games, the Home of Spikey Bits.  For a complete listing of events for that weekend, checkout the link here.

To sign up please call us (804) 464-1873 to get on the list for either time slots! Payment for the class is due the day of the event!

Price is 25.00 a seat for the two hour session. There will be two sessions. You will leave with a complete display board and invaluable knowledge. But also, you be able to get discounts on the new DVD series, The Jawaballs Way: How to Paint Wargame Miniatures and maybe even special discounts from FTW games on select merchandise.

About the Author: Rob Baer

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Rob Baer

Job Title: Managing Editor

Founded Spikey Bits in 2009

Socials: Rob Baer on Facebook and @catdaddymbg on X

About Rob Baer: Founder, Publisher, & Managing Editor of Spikey Bits, the leading tabletop gaming news website focused on the hobby side of wargaming and miniatures.

Rob also co-founded and currently hosts the Long War Podcast, which has over 350 episodes and focuses on tabletop miniatures gaming, specializing in Warhammer 40k. and spent six years writing for Bell of Lost Souls. 

Every year, along with his co-hosts, he helps host the Long War 40k Doubles Tournament at Adepticon and the Long War 40k Doubles at Las Vegas Open, which attracts over 350 players from around the world.

Rob has won many Warhammer 40k Tournaments over the years, including multiple first-place finishes in Warhammer 40k Grand Tournaments over the years and even winning 1st place at the Adepticon 40k Team Tournament.

With over 30 years of experience in retail and distribution, Rob knows all the products and exactly which ones are the best. As a member of GAMA (Game Manufacturers Association), he advocates for gaming stores and manufacturers in these difficult times, always looking for the next big thing to feature for the miniatures hobby, helping everyone to provide the value consumers want.

While he’s played every edition of Warhammer 40k and Warhammer Fantasy (since 5th Edition) and has been hobbying on miniatures since the 1980s, Titans of all sizes will always be his favorite! It’s even rumored that his hobby vault rivals the Solemnance Galleries, containing rulebooks filled with lore from editions long past, ancient packs of black-bordered Magic Cards, and models made of both pewter and resin.