Tuesday 16 February 2016

Teesside Tyrants: Shirts


As part of our upcoming trip to 'I am Alpharius' in April I'm working on Polo Shirts with a badge, to mark us out as the kings of kool.

Here's what I've got so far.
This logo fulfils Pad's desire to have a skull, but without the serious and hard to find in lineart crown, instead having a sombero like we had ourselves at the Council of War in September, which makes the whole thing about as jolly as a skull can be.

I'm aiming for a purple / burgundy shirt with the logo and text in orange or gold.

I also asked for some quotes from different companies. The table below assumes 12 shirts all being the same price and splits the cost of the embroidery set up and delivery where appropriate. All numbers in Pounds.

Seller
Price per shirt
One off costs
Extra for names
Total
Each
Dimensions
12
24
2
192
16
T Shirt Kings
7.8
26.4
1.5
138
11.5
Krowmark
9.66
22.74
1.5
156.66
13.055
TagTeamWear
10.8


129.6
10.8

Dimensions is the most expensive despite being in Middlesbrough, although this has the advantage I'll be able to go in and see them. T-Shirt Kings had a vague quote so I've made some assumptions and asked for clarifications, although their website claimed to have a Middlesbrough branch the reple email came from Middlesex which is slightly different.

Krowmark look the most professional, mainly branded company clothing from what I can tell. They also offered to put the name on the opposite side to the logo for an extra £1.

I've emailed TagTeamWear for more info as they did not specify and 1 off costs or delivery. I emailed a local company but they referred me to TagTeamWear so I don't actually know if they are local.

Anyway, pending a response from the companies I've asked for info from, what do people think? Anyone who wants a shirt post in the comments with your size. The price per person will go down a the fixed cost is split between more people.

Friday 5 February 2016

I am Alpharius! Prologue


One of the highlights of our gaming calendar is our occasional trips to Warhammer World in Nottingham to enter the events they have there. Most recently we went to a Council of War 4-person team event last September, but in the past we've been to Doubles and a Campaign Weekend.

Our next event is to be the Doubles event 'I am Alpharius!' in April, and this looks to be the best attendance record yet for our little group, with either 8 or 10 players travelling down. Most of us will be taking armies we already have, with a few extra units added maybe, but Pad and Steve are taking it seriously by both starting a new Tau army with no time to spare! ( I do hope Pad can spare some time though, to write some blog articles about it)

Currently our contribution looks like this, subject to change:

Tau & Tau (Paddy and Steve)
Space Wolves & Space Wolves (Graham and Dan)
Iron Warriors and Space Sharks (Luke and Matty)
Deamonkin and Chaos Space Marines (Martin and Ash)
Space Marines and TBA (Carl and Lottie)

My Chaos has Alpha Legion Shoulder pads, which sort of makes them appropriate.


Is anyone else planning on going to this event? Is anyone else reading this blog? Let us know below!