Tabletop Minions

July Meeting

admin — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:00:34 +0000

The semi-official monthly meeting of Tabletop Minions is tomorrow night, and this month we’re going to talk about how to spread the word about the club here in the Fox Valley. If you can make it, please come and help us brainstorm, and bring projects you might be working on, too. If you can’t make it but have some ideas, check out this thread in the forums and leave some feedback. Hope to see you at the meeting!

Facebook Page, New Video, Unlikely to Snow

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:38:23 +0000

We’ve got a brand new Facebook fan page for Tabletop Minions. You can click the link over to the right, next to the YouTube graphic. Joining the fan page will allow you to sign up for Facebook reminders of the meetings and to make contact with other Minions (if you’re more of a Facebook person rather than a forum person) and you’ll have access to many other features that I don’t currently even understand fully, so that’s nice. Check it out.

Also, the video from last month’s presentation is now up on our YouTube channel. The February presentation was on PDF miniatures games: What’s a PDF? Why are they good or bad? I tried to give the pros and cons and explain why you might be interested. Hopefully I did okay.

Lastly, tonight is our monthly meeting at 6:30 p.m. at House of Heroes in downtown Oshkosh. Bring some projects you’re working on, or some projects you’ve finished, or some miniatures rules you want to talk about, or just come by to chat with other miniatures gamers and listen. It should not be a blizzard tonight (unlike the last few meetings), so we hope you can stop by.

New Video and Meeting Tonight

admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:49:34 +0000

The presentation video from January’s Tabletop Minions meeting is now up on the YouTube channel. The presentation was: What is Primer? I talked about why people prime their miniatures, the different types of primer, why you use certain colors over others, etc. I guess I kinda went a bit long, as I had to edit it down a little bit to make it fit under YouTube’s 10-minute time limit. I’ll try to watch the time better in the future.

Speaking of the future, the February meeting is tonight at 6:30 p.m. at House of Heroes in snowy downtown Oshkosh. Tonight I’ll be doing a presentation on PDF miniatures games: what are they, how do they work and why you might be interested. We hope to see you there.

January Meeting is Tomorrow

admin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:34:03 +0000

For those of you who need reminding, tomorrow is already the second Tuesday of the month, which means tomorrow is the January meeting of the Tabletop Minions group. The meeting is at the House of Heroes, 407 N. Main Street in beautiful downtown Oshkosh and it starts at 6:30 p.m. I’ll be giving a short presentation about priming your miniatures, and we’ll talk about upcoming events (like the Fire & Ice convention in Manitowoc in late February) and I’m going to also try to play/show off some Monsterpocalypse from Privateer Press. We hope to see you there!

First Meeting a Success, Despite Snowpocalypse

admin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:30:18 +0000

Laughing heartily in the face of danger, six brave souls fought the snowy hell that was Oshkosh on Tuesday night and made it to the inaugural meeting of Tabletop Minions. It was mainly just a meet and greet, with much discussion about painting, techniques and some gaming. There was some talk of the future of the club and there was a short presentation.

(l to r) Adam, Zach, Lee, Michael, Jake and Tim

The presentation was a quick rundown of the goals of the club and what people can expect from the club and its web sites. The presentation was videotaped and will be available on YouTube soon. Watch here for more details.

Remember, the next meeting is Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 6:30 p.m. at House of Heroes in downtown Oshkosh. But until then, make sure you register at the messageboard for more information.

The Inaugural Meeting, December 2009

admin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:29:14 +0000

Tonight, at 6:30 p.m. at House of Heroes, 407 North Main Street in lovely downtown Oshkosh: The inaugural meeting of the Tabletop Minions miniatures gaming club will start with a short presentation of what the club is about and what the features of the club will be. This presentation will be shorter than 10 minutes and will be videotaped so that it can be posted on YouTube so that others unable to make the meeting will still be able to view the presentation. After the presentation, there will be some time to chat and maybe even play something short, however, with the blizzard bearing down on us, we will probably not want to stay too late.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email them and I’ll get you an answer as soon as I can.

Things are Coming Online

admin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:18:40 +0000

The site is mostly working now and the forum is at least at a decent jumping off point. I need to do some more writing and tweak a few more graphics on both sites, but then everything should be pretty easy and stable for awhile. There’s more information to come, but if you find any problems, please let me know at info@tabletopminions.org and I’ll see if I can figure it out.