Decals - The revival

I don't know how many of you know this, but the decal printing part of the game store business actually pre-dates the game store by about three years.

I started the decal business as an independent online store called "Tangents" in (roughly) 1996/97. At the time I had picked up an ALPS printer to do some personal modeling projects and started selling some of my creations on the side to interested modelers. That line of decals grew to include decals aimed at the 40K gamer (which quickly became the most popular part of our selection) as well as small-run model kits from garage outfits and even the distribution of hobby magazines. Which all led, eventually, to Griffon Games (now Greenfield Games).

I was thinking about that history again today because the decal business is about to take another step forward.

Today I confirmed our first reorder of the original "Pro Series" decal set. That's the Black Cross set that you see above. This is a professionally screen-printed decal set printed by Microscale Industries. Shortly thereafter we're going to be bringing back a number of our most popular designs in this screen-printed format.

The new decals are going to be a better quality product than we've ever offered before. Hopefully we'll be able to bring the line back to the same quantity of designs that we had before, but that may take some time. In any case, I'm really excited to see things moving forward again. When the ALPS supplies dwindled to the point that we couldn't really afford to continue with the old line I was afraid that it was signaling the end of the decals. As it turns out, it was only the beginning.

BTW - We're still selling the final bits of the old stock of decals. Not everything is up in the store yet, but we're working on it. Once these are gone, they are gone and there's no guarantee as to how long it's going to take to bring back any of the specific designs in these sets so if you want them I recommend not waiting to pick them up.

Test New Gleemax Games

Wizards of the Coast just opened up their online games area for early alpha testing.

Among the offerings are Axis & Allies, Acquire, Guillotine, RoboRally and Vegas Showdown.

All of those games were created right here in Western Mass by our favorite online game company - GameTable Online.

The games are currently free to play but, at some point, there will be a fee associated with them. The details are, as yet, unclear.

Images from the GAMA Trade Show

I just got back from GTS and saw many a strange and wondrous thing. Have a look. You'll be seeing some previews of DUST: Tactics, Monsterpocalypse, upcoming minis for Warmachine like Epic Severius and Onyxia from World of Warcraft Miniatures.


Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

Shadowmoor Release Party - Coming in May

We'll be hosting two NON-Sanctioned events celebrating the release of Shadowmoor, the new Magic block. Apologies, and please see the forum post for more details.

Friday night, May 2nd 5:30pm will simply be a FNM booster draft using 3x Shadowmoor booster packs (no substitutions.)

Saturday afternoon, May 3rd at 1:00pm will be the big release party! We'll be hosting a Sealed Booster Tournament with each player getting One Shadowmoor Starter and Two Shadowmoor Boosters (no substitutions.)

Double the normal booster pack prizes, to make up for non-sanctioning!