Post by vectorsigma on Jun 2, 2009 17:13:41 GMT -9
Earlier this spring I attended a local gaming convention near Baltimore, very small-scale, but good attendance and a lot of fun. It looks as though it'll be run again next year (three days instead of two), so I was musing on a way to participate beyond just showing up and running a few games (we know the organizers). And then it struck me.
Paper models and scenery. For charity. A 'Paperthon'.
Here's how I envisioned it on the bus to work the other day:
A staff of volunteers (rotating, no doubt) and I spend the bulk of the con at our assigned table making paper terrain and some models, using free/donated kits and donated cardstock (the stuff having already been printed out pre-con using donated printer ink). The goal being to literally fill a 4x8 wargaming table with stuff by the end of the con.
Meanwhile, passersby would be invited to sit down and help us out to kill time, and handed a flyer advertising the websites of our donors (and probably Staples or Kinkos, whichever gave us the cardstock!). And we do a raffle - gamers buy tickets (low price), and at the end of the con, we pull a winner and they get everything that was made during the con to take home, plus storage tubs to keep it in. All the time is donated, and all the money from the raffle goes to the (local) charity.
I'm thinking if we try this, we'd go sci-fi themed; the con had a good turnout for its 40K tournament this year, and a table full of sci-fi terrain (an outpost, ruined city, whatever) would be pretty eye-catching.
So... 1) raise some scratch for a local charity, and 2) evangelize the paper modeling hobby to gamers who may not have stumbled across it yet.
Opinions?
Paper models and scenery. For charity. A 'Paperthon'.
Here's how I envisioned it on the bus to work the other day:
A staff of volunteers (rotating, no doubt) and I spend the bulk of the con at our assigned table making paper terrain and some models, using free/donated kits and donated cardstock (the stuff having already been printed out pre-con using donated printer ink). The goal being to literally fill a 4x8 wargaming table with stuff by the end of the con.
Meanwhile, passersby would be invited to sit down and help us out to kill time, and handed a flyer advertising the websites of our donors (and probably Staples or Kinkos, whichever gave us the cardstock!). And we do a raffle - gamers buy tickets (low price), and at the end of the con, we pull a winner and they get everything that was made during the con to take home, plus storage tubs to keep it in. All the time is donated, and all the money from the raffle goes to the (local) charity.
I'm thinking if we try this, we'd go sci-fi themed; the con had a good turnout for its 40K tournament this year, and a table full of sci-fi terrain (an outpost, ruined city, whatever) would be pretty eye-catching.
So... 1) raise some scratch for a local charity, and 2) evangelize the paper modeling hobby to gamers who may not have stumbled across it yet.
Opinions?