AdeptiCon Talks

Jasper and Guy from Wargames Soldiers and Strategy Magazine sit down with us this week to take a look at what a full spectrum historical hobby magazine looks like. Themed issues, Online free content, and Youtube painting tutorials. We have divided this interview up into two parts. The week we dive into the results of the WSS Hobby poll, the various historical game systems, and how to get involved with the historical game scene.

Jasper and Guy from Wargames Soldiers and Strategy Magazine sit down with us this week to take a look at what a full spectrum historical hobby magazine looks like. Themed issues, Online free content, and Youtube painting tutorials. We have divided this interview up into two parts. The first part is focused more on the actual magazine, Wargames Soldiers and Strategy. Next week we dive into the results of the WSS Hobby poll, the various historical game systems, and how to get involved with the historical game scene.

Adepticon is the sum of a massive amount of moving parts. Volunteers, Terrain makers, Organizers, Attendees, Vendors and much more. Today we catch up to Alex Landing of Iron Heart Artisans, who helped Adepticon 2014 out in several of those categories. We discuss Iron Heart as a company, talk about the contributions Iron Heart provided to the terrain efforts. As well as discussing care and working with MDF terrain.

Part 4 of 4 from the Adepticon 2014 Industry Panel.

Part 3 of 4 from the Adepticon 2014 Industry Panel.

The second part of our four part Industry Panel from Adepticon 2014.

There were many new events on the schedule for Adepticon 2014. Adepticon talks decided to attend one in particular and record it for prosperity. The Miniature Hobby Business Panel, which was the Brain child of Mr Justin McCoy of Secret Weapon Miniatures. A one hour Q&A Panel bringing three of the great minds business minds present at Adepticon to one room to answer our questions on breaking into the business.

Miniature Hobby Business Panel - Insider Perspectives

We round out the Adepticon 2014 vendor hall interviews with three shorter intervies. We start with Kevin Clark of Iron Box Games talking Angry Sheep and Skid Marks. Iron Box Games is a brain child of Kevin as well as Justin McCoy of Secret Weapon.

We then chat with James Hakola, Mr Dandy, well known for his resin models such as his Thunder Wolves, and various race specific defense lines.

Last but not least we turn to Outlaw Miniatures makers of the alternate Earth history game Wild West Exodus. Adepticon is one of the first conventions we get to see the great resin models and amazing plastics produced by the very successful WWX kick starter.

Sunday we caught up to Mr. Ronnie Renton of Mantic Games. Mantic had been extremely busy over Adepticon, having brought several of the new Battlezone modular terrain kits, as well as Deadzone. We discuss kickstarter, Mars Attacks, Kings of War, and look towards the future of Mantic Games.

It seems the hybrid board/miniature game Aetherium was one of the surprise hits from Adepticon 2014. We sit down one last time with Brian, Chris and Vince while the Kickstarter has a few days left to go. We chat about the Adepticon experience, what we can expect post Kickstarter, the next races, how we will be able to get the next factions, competitive vs casual play and a host of other topics. So sit back and lets enter the Aetherium.