since the earliest days on my channel midwinter minis has had a really strong focus on the
warhammer quest game blackstone fortress after putting out my first few videos mostly about
sandstone necrons in the fifth midwinter minis episode i kicked off my speed painting blackstone
fortress series with the aim of showing newcomers to the hobby that painting miniatures doesn't
have to be scary or take ages and that you can get great game ready results in just a few minutes per
model with a very limited paint selection since starting the series and over the course of more
than two years i've put out 31 tutorial videos showing you how to paint every model from the main
game and all of the game's boxed expansions for a lot of people blackstone fortress kind of became
synonymous with midwinter minis and i became a sort of unofficial ambassador for the game
now though the set is complete there's new adventures to explore new games to experience
and new models to collect paint and play with with that in mind i'm going to be giving away my entire
blackstone fortress collection to someone watching this video right now maybe you now i love raising
money for charity whenever i can and i don't really like the idea of the set just going to
the highest bidder on ebay so in association with the nova open charitable foundation we're setting
up a charity raffle giving anyone who's interested the chance to get hold of my whole collection
at the moment combined all the videos in the speed painting blackstone fortress series have received
almost 2 million views so while it's definitely not the best painted set quite bizarrely it's
probably the most famous blackstone fortress set out there after games workshop studio version
obviously on ebay fully painted sets of blackstone fortress often sell for more than 1 000 pounds
so it's a great chance to get an iconic games workshop board game and a bit of midwinter mini's
history in one go for a tiny fraction of the price and even if you don't win you'll have helped
support a few very worthy charities the charity raffle is going to be handled by the nocf they're
the experts when it comes to this and each ticket for the raffle will cost just nine us dollars
speaking of charities the foundations that the nova open supports are medicine frontier doctors
without borders who provide healthcare to the most vulnerable people in the world in conflict
zones in the aftermath of natural disasters and in community epidemics and outbreaks fisher house
a us-based charity who build comfort homes for the families of wounded veterans where they can stay
free of charge while a loved one is in hospital the breast cancer research foundation who provide
critical funding for cancer research worldwide fueling advances in tumor biology genetics
prevention treatment and survivorship and i asked if this blackstone fortress raffle could benefit
a charity close to my heart calm the campaign against living miserably depending on the country
you live in between 60 and 90 of all suicides will be male and as difficult as it is that's a
topic that needs to be discussed and that's what khan does they specialize in offering support to
men in their darkest hour from crisis support to spreading mental health awareness in the community
and i'm very proud to do what i can to support them so that's the serious business taken care
of now let's see what you have a chance to win if you entered the raffle first
up obviously my blackstone fortress box game including all 9 explorers and all 35 hostiles
the escalation expansion featuring 5 additional explorers and the unique chaos cultist squad
the dreaded amble expansion with the amble itself and both of its little gribbly babies
traitor command featuring the chaos commissar and his ogryn buddy
no respite with three plague marines and a cohort of pox walkers deadly alliance featuring the
zoat archivist model and the final expansion ascension featuring the giant guardian drones
i'll throw in my sealed abominable intellect card set pretty rare these days
and also the set of 3d printed dragon's rest pieces for the base game that i painted in a video
the whole thing will come with the awesome feldherr storage system specially designed to
fit all the models and game aids without them smashing off each other and getting damaged
huge thanks to the team at feldherr for sending me this and supporting the charity raffle if you
want to check out their range of game storage solutions there's a link and a discount code
in the video description i'll also throw in some little midwinter minis goodies for the winner too
so who are the people organizing this the nova open charitable foundation is a us-based
non-profit and they've been fundraising with the tabletop wargaming and hobby community since 2013
and they do an awesome job of showing the world how compassionate and generous this community is
to date through online raffles and events at the nova open they have raised almost half a million
dollars for worthy causes they are well versed in organizing charity raffles so they fully
comply with all the legal requirements they're also a non-profit so the only percentage they
take from ticket sales are what they actually need to survive pay their fees shipping prizes
and organizing great giveaways and charitable events tickets are up
for grabs right now they're on sale today but the ticket sales will close on august 28 2021
and the winner will be randomly chosen the day after that all the details and links you need are
in the video description and i wish you the very best of luck i'll catch you next time bye for now
you