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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Storm Wardens Army Charity Project




Introducing "The Great Storm Wardens Collaborative Army Build and Charity Project."

I am working with several talented hobbyists and bloggers that feel we have gotten so much out of this hobby and our blogs that it is time to give back a bit and work together on something awesome and raise money for charity.

The end result will be an incredibly painted, unique army going to one of you, the WINNER of this drawing.


The Army.

The Storm Wardens are a new Space Marine chapter from the yet to be released Death Watch RPG. Together with Games Workshop, Fantasy Flight Games (Horus Heresy, Wings of War) has been developing the game which will be released this summer.

We approached the folks designing the Death Watch game while planning this project, and told them we were thinking of building a Storm Wardens army, and they loved the idea. They have been working with us in getting the look of the army just right and giving us some great unreleased fluff and imagery.



We are going to build a complete Storm Wardens Space Marine army with a decked out HQ, Marines, Veterans, Scouts, Terminators, and a bunch of vehicles, a massive army that any commander would be proud to field.

You will be able to see the army units come together and follow the army build progress through links to all the builders blogs on our "Storm Wardens" mini blog roll.


Who will be working on the army?

Dave Taylor

Thomas Wynn (Wynn Studios)

Jawaballs

Ron Saikowski (From the Warp)

Secret Weapon Miniatures

Mik (Miks Minis, Barter Bucket)

Mike & John (Santa Cruz Warhammer)

Along with the blogger build team, we are going after some related hobby retailers to give up some loot to add to the army prize. Secret Weapon Miniatures is donating all the custom bases, and Chessex has already sent us the custom dice.


What can you do?

Well, you can donate money to the cause. You can donate to the fund we are raising at the top right of this page or any of the other participating bloggers, using PayPal or a credit card. Each donated dollar will also qualify you for a chance in the army grand prize drawing, the more you donate, the better your chance of winning, and more money for charity.

We will randomly draw the winner in mid July.


What if I don't have any money, but I still want to help?

Dig around under the couch cushions or under the seat of your car, put on some dark sunglasses and sell pencils out of a cup on the street corner, or even sell some extra Warhammer minis on Ebay, then use that cash for a donation.

You can also help by linking to this project in your blog, telling your friends and other gamers, mention it at your gaming club or even posting about it in your favorite forums, this will help us get the most exposure we can, so we can raise more money for charity.

If you have a small business (or know someone who does) that might have a product to donate that would be great to add to this army, contact us about a feature during the build.


Why should I help out?

If you have ever read something on our blogs that you thought was cool, gave you a good idea, showed you how to do something better, downloaded a free drop pod template, used the Barter Bucket, or perhaps you even got something from us for free and you are feeling a bit guilty about it.... well, now is your chance to give something back, pay it forward, return a good turn.... well you know.

Oh yeah, and you could win an entire finished army, by giving $1 to a good charity.


Where does the money go?

The money will be donated to Doctors Without Borders, and actually help people. We chose Doctors without Borders because their cause is a global pursuit to help people in need, where ever help is needed most, and they have a good track record with getting the $ where it does the most good.


So there you have it. I hope you are all as exited about this as we are, its been tough keeping it a secret.

So.......who wants a new army?

4 comments:

Jim said...

Brilliant idea mrj, link added. Good Luck

Unknown said...

Many thanks - and I'm told that we're already raising money. I hope you'll enter your name into the drawing too. It's going to be one hell of an army!

J. Edward said...

Oh, this is too awesome. I recently started entertaining the idea of doing up the few minis that I have as Storm Wardens, and you're doing a whole army... and for such a good cause.

Have you thought about dropping a line to Flight of Fantasy Games about this, or posting something on their forums? They might be interested to hear what you're doing, and from what I've seen of the guys working on the 40k games they'd probably be pretty honored too.

You can definitely expect some donations coming your way from me in the coming weeks. *smiles*

~ J. Edward, aka Croaxleigh

Unknown said...

J.Edward: Check out the Storm Wardens links on the right hand side of my page. There are several of us involved in the project - including some big names - and FFG have thrown in their support.

I'll have a new post up later today to announce the weekly mini-giveaway events and will include a prize list.