GenCon 2015 – Costumes, Miniatures and Custom Terrain

Aug 8th GenCon 2015 – Costumes, Miniatures and Custom Terrain

Now that I’ve covered the phenomenon of crowdfunding and the changes to the tabletop game marketplace evidenced at GenCon 2015, I’d like to move on to the eye candy.

There were a tremendous number of great costumes this year. There were also quite a lot of impressive miniatures and pieces of terrain. I snapped some pictures of everyone’s wonderful hand-made art over the weekend as I wandered the convention. Here are a couple of my favorites.

Miniatures

There were lots of jaw-dropping paint jobs. The painting contest cabinet, in particular, was breathtaking.

Terrain

I saw a lot of great pieces of terrain this year. Big trends were paper buildings, as in the Dropzone Commander terrain below. Also very popular were laser-cut MDF and balsa wood terrain. I also saw a lot of good use of foam board. And the sheer size of the Space Hulk game they were playing was impressive.