It’s been a while since we’ve had a Monthly Giveaway around these parts. Time to give everyone a reason to break out the files, clippers, drills and all your pent up aggression – it’s Build a Wreck time!
This challenge is sponsored by us, and Bell of Lost Souls and it’s a pretty cool diversion to the fall blahs!
Here’s the rules: Your Hobby Challenge is to create a wreck diorama using a large vehicle (40k), monster/thingy (WFB), or warjack (WM/H).
Remember this post from waaaay back? All you have to do is grab an oversized round base available at any hobby store like Michaels, or Hobby Lobby, and let your creative juices flow. We want to see how evocative of a wreck scene you can create that really takes the viewer into the aftermath of some battle.
It could have occurred hours earlier, or centuries, that’s your call. So have fun, create your masterpiece, and put 2-3 picures of your entry shot up agasint a white background in this Wreck Challenge Thread on the BoLS Lounge.
Spikey Bits will select the finalists in 1 month on October 15th, 2011, and put them up for a BoLS user poll for the grand prize winner. The winner gets not only big time bragging rights, but the following hobby and basing supplies courtesy of Spikey Bits!
- Vallejo Black Lava Paste
- Vallejo Transparent Water
- GF9 Plastic Accessory Variety Pack
- GW Grass Tub
- GW Snow Tub
- GW Glade Grass Tub
- GW Scorched Grass Tub
- GW Sand Tub
That’s it! No purchase restrictions, just wide open imagination time!
So crack open the hobby / bits boxes and get to it! Remember, the deadline for the Wreck Hobby Challenge is 10/15/2011. -MBG
Obligatory shameless plug time- We’re having a huge bits sale over at the Spikey Bits Online Store. All bits items are 20% OFF (yep 20% OFF). Just type the code Bits20OFF in the promotion code field when you check out and BAM! bits on the cheap!
Taking a cue from Tosh.O, you can also follow along with my hobby shenanigans by Joining Me, liking our Facebook, or catching my tweets live from major events!
About the Author: Rob Baer
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.
