BLOOD Forum

I did setup quickly a forum for all discussion regarding Oldhammer, B.L.O.O.D., the golden Gobbo, the fanzine, etc.

It's hosted on one of my server and ou can access it there : http://bloodforum.treps.net (we can change the name at anytime, it was just easier to set it up this way).

We'll work on the design later ! If you have ideas feel free to submit them, but it's more intended to be a collaborative tool than a showroom ;-)

You can register and use it freely, if you need something (more than basic access rights, specific need, etc.) just send me a PM (treps on the forum) and I'll see that you can access it !

Bruno

Editing the Oldhammer Fanzine.

So with all this activity I thought it worth mentioning the idea of editing the pieces people are preparing.

I think ensuring the quality and readability of the finished works should be a priority. People aren't going to bother downloading an over long document full or errors after all. So I think it makes perfect sense to ask for volunteers to help proof read and provide editorial guidance to the contributors. Anyone feel like helping out here let me know.  

While I'm at it, anyone have any experience setting pages out and creating good looking pdf documents? I'm sure if need be I can get my head round it but if someone has abilities they would like to volunteer so much the better.

Finally hosting the fanzine for download is something worth considering, I'm not certain drop box is the ideal solution here.

Oldhammer Fanzine Plans

OK here are some thoughts on what I hope will be issue 1 of Oldhammer Fanzine, we can debate the exact name on another post. I think we should keep it simple and get issue 1 out relatively soon say beginning of September. I’m going to be optimistic and assume there will be later issues too, so here is a list of articles I’d like to include in issue 1 and some idea of the size they probably ought to be. The loose theme for this issue will be introductions.

1)       A great cover would be awesome, anyone got a great picture they’ve drawn/painted, digital or analog that they would like to see on the front? Perhaps the golden Gobbo?

2)       Hitting the nail! I had thought we should include a mission statement, what is Oldhammer but then I realised it could well mean something different to different Oldhammerers. Fair enough we can accommodate all. Then I thought perhaps it should be an editorial by myself the closest thing we have to an Ed but I think we should be more democratic. So here is the plan I invite different Oldhammerers to, “Hit the Nail on the Head” with their one paragraph description of what Oldhammer is to them. Perhaps three of these paragraphs on 1 page per issue (aren’t I optimistic) would not be overly indulgent.

Perhaps also answer  any of the following one word/line questions to be printed along side:

Name:

Age: (somehow seams relevant, 36 ½)

Location:

Blog:

Collections/Armies:

Favourite Mini:

            Anyway get your paragraphs to me and I’ll knock it into a regular feature. Be good to include Zhu in the first set as he coined the term…

3)       Introductory scenario Thantsants. 1 or 2 pages. Ideally we could have counters on another page for this scenario.

4)       Collector’s corner Steve, Erny can help if needed. I think it would be great to outline the bare minimum to get into Oldhammer. How much for a rule set? What’s the cheapest way to get a useable vintage force, (warhammer regiments springs to mind). Are there any other outlets than Ebay?) 1 page should be fine.

5)       ‘evy ‘ammers: painting section Nico & possibly orlygg. How to begin to get that old school look. Or painting old school minis the new school way. I’m open to ideas, to be honest orlygg’s post about paining shields recently would be great. I see no problem using old blog posts as the basis of an article, having a print or PDF copy of them would be very useful. A couple of pages of this would be fine. Hopefully we can have more contributors to this in the future.

6)       Golden Gobbo competition results, orlygg. 1 page

7)    Review: Erny. A look at some of the recent  new old school minis. No reviews of minis given for free, only purchases by the reviewer.

8)       Bonus scenario, Bruno, 1 or 2 pages.

Illustrators who have pledged support and may like to sign up to provide at least one maybe more illustrations to an article:

Knobgobbler

Mattthew Monster

Erny (possibly, I’ve got my B in A-level art you know!!)

We are probably a bit short on illustrators so anyone who can contribute anything, even one relevant illustration, even if from years ago please do get in touch.

I think this is more than enough stuff to fit into issue 1 about 10 pages in all. Any other contributors let me know.

Quest for the Old Hammer of MacGuffin

Hello all and glad to be making my first post in this fine enterprise!

Just to let you all know I have an introductory scenario, as well as a few others, ready to roll - guess what I called it...  As I think they could do with spicing up with some pics I'm just looking into editing some of my old photos to make them look more like the old black and white illustrations. The more I think on it the more I like the idea of stylised black and white photos of actual minis to give the scenarios a distinctive look - might even look into staging specific scenes for future scenarios,

 Of course if any of you talented chaps who can wield a pencil to good effect fancy having a go I can email you the docs to give you a flavour of what might be required - you can't beat a good bit of scribbling after all!

As I'm not massively well-versed in these matters my next question is what form should our e-zine take - I'm assuming some kind of downloadable pdf? Are there any preferred fonts to give things a unified look?

Anyhow - would love to get these scenarios out there soon so let me know what you think.

Fanzine.

So who is up for contributing to a Fanzine?