Dream Pod 9 at Historicon 2022 this Week and Golden Gear is back for 2022!
Dream Pod 9 staff will be out of the office this week attending Historicon 2022 down in Lancaster, PA, USA from Thursday July 21st thru Sunday 24th 2022. Attending will be Robert Dubois (DP9 President), Joseph Johnson (Pod Squad Director), John Tinney (Pod Squad) and a few other Pod Squad members helping out at the booth. We’ll be running Heavy Gear Blitz demos, challenge the staff games, and have the core HGB products along with a large selection of other HGB products for sale at the booth. Also, Paul Campbell (Pod Squad) will be running 2 full games of Heavy Gear Blitz at Historicon on Friday at 8 pm and again on Saturday at 1 pm. Checkout the Historicon website at the link below, see the exhibit hall map attached below for DP9’s booth location and join us there.
Please note that our office will closed the last week of July, after the convention for a short staff summer vacation, we’ll be back in the office on Monday, August 1st 2022.
Golden Gear 2022:
It’s time again for our annual miniature painting competition, see all 4 categories and prizes for each below. Get painting your Heavy Gear Blitz and Heavy Gear Arena Gears, Vehicles, and Combat Groups, take your entry photos and email them in by Midnight EST on November 30th, 2022.
The Categories:
– Best Heavy Gear Blitz Miniature (Single HGB/HGA Miniature: Gear, Strider, or Other Vehicle)
– Best Heavy Gear Blitz Combat Group (Combat Group of Four or more HGB/HGA Miniatures)
– Best Duelist Miniature (Single HGB/HGA Miniature: Equipped with Duelist Weapons)
– Pimp My Gear (Single HGB/HGA Miniature: Gear, Strider, or Other Vehicle – All Pimped Out with a Flashy Paint Scheme, Custom & Scratch Builds are encouraged for this category. Note: You don’t need to make an actual Pimp as some did in our first Pimp My Gear Contest.)
Prizes for each Category Winner:
– Best Heavy Gear Blitz Miniature Winner receives a Golden Gear 2022 Trophy plus $100 USD DP9 Online Store Points Credit.
– Best combat group winner receives a Golden Gear 2022 Trophy plus $200 USD DP9 Online Store Points Credit.
– Best duelist winner receives a Golden Gear 2022 Trophy plus $100 USD DP9 Online Store Points Credit.
– Pimp my gear winner receives a Golden Gear 2022 Trophy plus $100 USD DP9 Online Store Points Credit.
This years Golden Gear Trophy is a Water Viper painted gold and mounted on an oak base with plaque, see photo attached below.
The Rules:
MINIATURES: All Heavy Gear Blitz & Heavy Gear Arena minis can be entered into the Golden Gear Painting Contest. Conversions and decals are allowed and encouraged. Custom bases and plinths are allowed, hex bases are not required. Pimp My Gear entries can be custom builds but should include some recognizable HGB/HGA parts.
Entry Deadline is Midnight EST on November 30th, 2022.
Submissions:
Email up to five photos per entry to rdubois@dp9.com, please include your full name. By submitting your photos you grant Dream Pod 9 Inc. the right to publish the submitted photos. Entrants may submit entries to multiple categories, however, every submission must be unique. Current Dream Pod 9 employees are excluded from the competition.
Judging will be done by the Dream Pod 9 Montreal Staff (Robert Dubois, Philippe F. LeClerc, and Alain Gadbois) in early December and Winners Announced.
We’ll be posting all the entries received in a DP9 Forum thread.
