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ODaM: Miniature Summer Secret Santa - SIGNUPS CLOSED, SANTAS ASSIGNED!
Ein
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The ODaM Miniature Summer Secret Santa!
>Miniature?
By miniature I do not refer to the size of the event, which I hope will be fairly large. I am, instead, referring to the theme of the gifts being given. Warhammer, Warmachine, Hordes, Confrontation, hell, even Heroclix. I'm talking the miniatures that many of us know and love.
>Awesome! What are the rules?
Glad you asked!
Names will be taken until May 1st, at which point no further names will be accepted. In the week following May 1st, names will be picked at random and assigned to individuals, one name per entrant. The name you receive will be the person you will be gifting - and the point of this event is that you are a secret santa, so it makes no sense to go blab about it to everyone. Based on miniatures preferences that your recipient will post when they register to be a part of the event, you will then buy/convert/paint/whatever you deem suitable for a gift.
You will have all of May and June and a fair bit of July to collect or work on whatever is being sent. The deadline for your recipient to get his gift is going to be August 1st - that leaves you with nearly three months to put together whatever it is and get it sent out, which I think is more than fair.
>What would constitute a suitable gift?
This is where we unfortunately get subjective. I'd like to think we all have the good common sense to pick good gifts in this regard. For guidelines, I'd suggest something like $15 (or 20'ish with shipping) as a minimum. The minimum price on the gift is there to mostly prevent someone from sending like a single arm from a miniature. I do encourage you all to go above and beyond the $15 mark if you care to, and it'd be awesome to see that sort of thing on the whole. You will basically be held to the honor system to ensure that the person who you are gifting does not feel cheated.
My recommendation is to gift based on what you're capable of. Even if you aren't that good with models, you can definitely still participate - nobody's ever said no to a boxed set, and it's a nice and simple gift. If you're good at converting? Well, I can't think of a better gift somebody could receive than a converted mini - unless you are good at painting, in which case painted gifts would be really superior.
Single miniatures like characters are more than welcome and might actually be preferred in some senses, so long as they meet the $15 minimum requirement.
Examples of what might constitute a good gift:
Examples of what might constitute a bad gift:
>I live in ______. Can I participate?
Yes! Ideally, we would get a few people from all over - the U.S., the U.K., perhaps other parts of Europe to participate. To make sending the gifts easier, I will probably be organizing people into categories based on location while drawing the names to try and keep international mailing to a minimum to make sure that everybody can participate.
>How do I sign up?
Signups are presently CLOSED. Try again when we do a Winter one! Previous info spoilered so I have it for any future reference:
I require this information to make sure that you won't all have to pay an arm and a leg in shipping to make sure these minis arrive safely and intact. Still, some of you may have to make the sacrifice and drop a couple extra dollars on international shipping. I will try to avoid this, but it may become necessary if I can't organize people close enough to each other.
After you've sent the PM, I'd recommend you post the miniatures you collect or are interested in in this thread, as well. Too specific makes the gifting process a bit silly. List the games you wouldn't mind receiving minis from, as well as what you might already collect, so your gifter might have some starting point.
One last final point: While lurkers are welcome to participate, I reserve the right to use discretion in ruling people out of entry. If you have absolutely zero posts and you register on the boards to try and take part in this, I probably won't let you participate. Miniatures tend to be surprisingly expensive, and I really do not want somebody to try and take advantage of this whole event to just get free shit.
And, well, if you try to rob the system, you do so at the cost of providing me your address.
:winky:
The Big List of Santas:
- Typhoid Manny
- Rankenphile
- Wulf
- Shogun
- JamSessionEin
- Shorty
- Manifest
- Malkor
- ben0207
- Gabriel_Pitt
- WHY
- Quetzi
- MonteCristo345
- defrag - withdrawn
- Inquisitor
- Gigglio
- ElderCat
- TheKovakistani
- Marathon
- AcidSerra
- zenpotato
- Sharp101
- timspork's ghost
- J
- Lezta
- Clawshrimpy
- Uriel
- drhazard
- Anaximander
- MegaMan001
- GrimmyTOA
- TheLightBearer
- Technicality
- see317
Just one last little note, now that the contest is underway: I would love it if people took photographs of their spoils and maeked poast with said photographs. It'd be really cool to see what's being given.
>Miniature?
By miniature I do not refer to the size of the event, which I hope will be fairly large. I am, instead, referring to the theme of the gifts being given. Warhammer, Warmachine, Hordes, Confrontation, hell, even Heroclix. I'm talking the miniatures that many of us know and love.
>Awesome! What are the rules?
Glad you asked!
Names will be taken until May 1st, at which point no further names will be accepted. In the week following May 1st, names will be picked at random and assigned to individuals, one name per entrant. The name you receive will be the person you will be gifting - and the point of this event is that you are a secret santa, so it makes no sense to go blab about it to everyone. Based on miniatures preferences that your recipient will post when they register to be a part of the event, you will then buy/convert/paint/whatever you deem suitable for a gift.
You will have all of May and June and a fair bit of July to collect or work on whatever is being sent. The deadline for your recipient to get his gift is going to be August 1st - that leaves you with nearly three months to put together whatever it is and get it sent out, which I think is more than fair.
>What would constitute a suitable gift?
This is where we unfortunately get subjective. I'd like to think we all have the good common sense to pick good gifts in this regard. For guidelines, I'd suggest something like $15 (or 20'ish with shipping) as a minimum. The minimum price on the gift is there to mostly prevent someone from sending like a single arm from a miniature. I do encourage you all to go above and beyond the $15 mark if you care to, and it'd be awesome to see that sort of thing on the whole. You will basically be held to the honor system to ensure that the person who you are gifting does not feel cheated.
My recommendation is to gift based on what you're capable of. Even if you aren't that good with models, you can definitely still participate - nobody's ever said no to a boxed set, and it's a nice and simple gift. If you're good at converting? Well, I can't think of a better gift somebody could receive than a converted mini - unless you are good at painting, in which case painted gifts would be really superior.
Single miniatures like characters are more than welcome and might actually be preferred in some senses, so long as they meet the $15 minimum requirement.
Examples of what might constitute a good gift:
Examples of what might constitute a bad gift:
>I live in ______. Can I participate?
Yes! Ideally, we would get a few people from all over - the U.S., the U.K., perhaps other parts of Europe to participate. To make sending the gifts easier, I will probably be organizing people into categories based on location while drawing the names to try and keep international mailing to a minimum to make sure that everybody can participate.
>How do I sign up?
Signups are presently CLOSED. Try again when we do a Winter one! Previous info spoilered so I have it for any future reference:
Entries are not considered official until I receive a PM from you containing the following:
- Your name
- Your address - PLEASE MAKE SURE TO INCLUDE COUNTRY SO I DON'T HAVE TO GUESS
- What games you collect/play/would like a gift from
I require this information to make sure that you won't all have to pay an arm and a leg in shipping to make sure these minis arrive safely and intact. Still, some of you may have to make the sacrifice and drop a couple extra dollars on international shipping. I will try to avoid this, but it may become necessary if I can't organize people close enough to each other.
After you've sent the PM, I'd recommend you post the miniatures you collect or are interested in in this thread, as well. Too specific makes the gifting process a bit silly. List the games you wouldn't mind receiving minis from, as well as what you might already collect, so your gifter might have some starting point.
One last final point: While lurkers are welcome to participate, I reserve the right to use discretion in ruling people out of entry. If you have absolutely zero posts and you register on the boards to try and take part in this, I probably won't let you participate. Miniatures tend to be surprisingly expensive, and I really do not want somebody to try and take advantage of this whole event to just get free shit.
And, well, if you try to rob the system, you do so at the cost of providing me your address.
:winky:
The Big List of Santas:
- Typhoid Manny
- Rankenphile
- Wulf
- Shogun
- JamSessionEin
- Shorty
- Manifest
- Malkor
- ben0207
- Gabriel_Pitt
- WHY
- Quetzi
- MonteCristo345
- defrag - withdrawn
- Inquisitor
- Gigglio
- ElderCat
- TheKovakistani
- Marathon
- AcidSerra
- zenpotato
- Sharp101
- timspork's ghost
- J
- Lezta
- Clawshrimpy
- Uriel
- drhazard
- Anaximander
- MegaMan001
- GrimmyTOA
- TheLightBearer
- Technicality
- see317
Just one last little note, now that the contest is underway: I would love it if people took photographs of their spoils and maeked poast with said photographs. It'd be really cool to see what's being given.
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hitting hot metal with hammers
Edit: Thank you for the sticky.
Still, I'm happy that people are interested in this idea.
The dude is totally Leonidas in disguise. I refuse to accept any other explaination.
This is going to be the thread that gets me started collecting minis. Such an awesome idea.
I just have to figure out where I'm at in terms of cash dollars and such.
I would have to buy, convert and paint something for someone though... that sounds like fun.
he is my favorite
I prefer Ein's masterpiece.
I refer to it as "Punkinhead".
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
Foothead Orc is quality crafstmanship.
In all seriousness that is probably the best beard I've ever seen.
I like the look on his face. Like "I can't believe you would DARE to photograph the majesty that is my facial hair but I SHALL ALLOW IT."
This should be interesting, now just to go out and find some rulebooks so I'll know what the hell I'm doing...
Yeah, man. We arranged a game through the boards once I found out he was nearby and when I got there I was like 'Oh ye gods, there's no way I can win!'
Learn from my mistakes.
hitting hot metal with hammers
Then I believe you are in the wrong place!
Hey, Of Dice and Men.
RPGs. PnP stuff. All good. Fully encapsulated games? Sure.
I'll bet one of you would be a little pissed if I sent you a copy of the Grenadier DC Heroes miniatures. :-)
I meant the thread, not the forum. :P
But yes, I do understand. Perhaps that can be an option for the Christmas S.S.
We got like 18 people in the first 24 hours, and none since.