MAIWAND DAY: 2025

Learn some simple, low-cost methods to build eye-catching tabletop terrain useful for a wide variety of Historical, Fantasy & Sci-Fi miniature games!

Sign up & you'll be able to build and take home multiple terrain pieces, such as roads, crop-fields, rail-fencing and rocky terrain!

For the first time ever I am teaming up with my friend, fellow miniature wargamer and Terrain-Making-Maniac Brother-From-Another-Mother Frank "'bama" Patterson to run a "HOW TO SCRATCH-BUILD TABLETOP TERRAIN CLASS" on Sunday October 12th at MINI-WARS 2025!

If you plan on attending the con and have some free time on Sunday, PRE-REGISTER FOR THE CLASS so we can prepare materials for you to build your own versions of some of the cool stuff shown below, which you can then take home and game with however you see fit!

Frank Patterson and I have fought many MANY tabletop battles side-by-side and against each other, and teamed up to help create some epic miniature battlefields over the years -- but neither of us has ever done something like this before, so... please don't leave us hanging!!!

Here's another handy link to the MINI-WARS convention page over on the Table Top Events website, where you can pre-register to attend the convention and reserve tickets to participate in our event:

https://tabletop.events/conventions/hmgs-psw-mini-wars-2025

HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF 'BAMA'S SCRATCH-BUILT RAIL FENCES, ROADS & CROP-FIELDS:

...AND SOME EXAMPLES OF THE MAD GURU'S (AKA: MY) SCRATCH-BUILT ROCKY TERRAIN PIECES:

LAST BUT NOT LEAST, HERE'S ANOTHER COPY OF THE MINI-WARS 2025 FLIER:

HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!!!

Calling all tabletop miniature GAME-MASTERS throughout the Southland, whether you be in...

Orange County...

The San Gabriel Valley...

The Inland Empire...

Greater Los Angeles...

Or beyond…

Your presence and that of your awesome games is hereby requested at HMGS Pacific South West's MINI-WARS 2025 convention, to be held on Saturday October 11th & Sunday October 12th at:

California State University, Fullerton
Titan Student Union – University Conference Center, Portola Pavilion
800 N. State College Blvd, Fullerton, CA 92831

Yes, this year we are very happy to be returning to the site of some of our greatest conventions of the past, Mini-Wars' once and now future home on the campus of Cal State Fullerton! Featuring FREE PARKING, dozens of good restaurants nearby on Chapman Avenue, and Conveniently located less than a 20-minute drive from Disney Land and Knott's Berry Farm Amusement Park, and less than a half-hour from Huntington Beach & Newport Beach (two of the nicest beaches in Southern California), a half-hour drive to Downtown L.A. & 1-hour drive to Santa Monica Pier.

Here's a LINK to the convention page on the Table Top Events website:

https://tabletop.events/conventions/hmgs-psw-mini-wars-2025

In celebration of the upcoming 250th Birthday of the U.S.M.C. less than one month after the convention, the theme for Mini-Wars 2025 is: SEND IN THE MARINES!

All Game Masters hosting games featuring Marines will be eligible for a special award for Best Theme Game.

For anyone interested in learning more about HMGS-PSW, here's a LINK to our organization's website:

https://hmgspsw.org/

Of course, we also need PLAYERS for all those games, because no GM wants to be left alone at his table, especially at a con! So if you're looking to play in one big game or a dozen, come on over!

As usual for Mini-Wars, events will range across the gamut of historical land, air & naval wargaming, along with various fantasy, sci-fi and horror games, and will include a FLAMES OF WAR Tournament and possibly a DBA Tournament as well.

UPDATED Wednesday Augst 6, 2025 -- Here's the new Convention Flyer:

Here's the Convention Flyer with lots of info:

And that leaves only one more thing for me to do: post a ton of pics of past Mini-Wars in an effort to convince you to join us at Cal State Fullerton for a great weekend of hobby fun and games -- as well as healthy competition, history, fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and some laughs (not necessarily in that order!)………….