This year we decided to go towards ReaperCon a day earlier. We arrived in Dallas late Wednesday morning, got unpacked and then took a trip out to the Dallas Zoo… nice zoo, but the cost is too high. After a couple of hours under the hot Dallas sun, we were off to the Reaper headquarters for some Hickory Creek BBQ Tredway's BBQ (Great stuff, Thanks!)
The following morning we headed over to ReaperCon and had some home made pancakes before the con started (Again, great stuff, Thanks!). Once the doors opened we took our 211 ounces of scrap metal to trade to the back and spent most of the day in the bits bin. (Next year there should be a lot less trade bait, as I cleaned out most of the minis I had no desire to paint)
The Classes were very informative, with all of the instructors for the classes we took handing out notes for the class. We took classes on Army Painting by Kris Marquardt (I really could have used this info a couple of armies ago), Non Metallic Metals by Laszlo Jakusovszky, Faces & Flesh by Rhonda Bender, and Blending by Angela Imrie (who threatened to hurt me). Talked a bit with Jason Wiebe about upcoming projects and got to see his new sabertooth tiger green (I can’t wait!)
Overall I think the con was an improvement over last year, with two notable exceptions, the first being issues with the AC with some parts of the building were too warm, and others were too cold. The other was the absence of the “paint and take”… not so much that it was missing, but that I didn’t bring any minis with me to paint on the premises as I was going to rely on the ones that would have been available if there would have been such an event. One other minor disappointment was that there wasn't a Sophie says this year (we had been practicing our singing!)
