Friday, 6 March 2020

Dallas Pride 2020 - Grand Marshal Nominations, Volunteers Needed

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Dallas Pride 2020

Save The Date | June 6-7 | Fair Park Dallas

PERTINENT DATES

Grand Marshal Nominations
NOW ONLINE (thru March 13) - Go to Grand Marshal Nomination

Volunteers Needed - Sign-up Now
NOW ONLINE - Go to Volunteer Sign-up and Info

Festival Vendor and Parade Registration
NOW ONLINE (thru 5:00pm May 4) - Go to Registration

Pride Guide Ad Reservation
NOW ONLINE (thru April 15) - Go to Pride Guide Information

Sponsorship Opportunities
NOW ONLINE - Go to Sponsorship Opportunities

2020 Beneficiary Application Process
NOW ONLINE (thru March 20) - Go to Beneficiary Request for Proposal

Buy Festival Tickets online
GOES ON SALE - MARCH 16

DALLAS PRIDE 2020 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
WE LOVE VOLUNTEERS!
Dallas Pride could not happen without our great corp of volunteers. Sign-up now!
Volunteer here

DALLAS PRIDE 2020 GRAND MARSHALS
NOW ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS
Nominate someone from our community to be considered for our upcoming Grand Marshal voting.
Nominate here

BOOK YOUR DALLAS PRIDE WEEKEND HOTEL
Dallas Pride is pleased to have several local Hotel partners offer special weekend Pride Rates. Check our Visitor/Hotel web page for rates and links to book your weekend stay.
See Hotel Information here

SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2020
Miller Lite Music Festival at Fair Park
TEEN Pride
Family PRIDE Zone
( share this event on Facebook )

SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 2020
The Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade
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PRIDE WEEK - PARTNER EVENTS

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 2020
First Wednesday Wine Walk on The Strip

FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2020

MetroBall XV

We are excited to announce MetroBall XV will help kick-off Dallas Pride 2020 Weekend on Friday, June 5th at S4. Legendary 80's pop artist Tiffany joined by Grammy-Award-Winner Jennifer Holliday and Thea Austin (formerly of SNAP). Dallas-based artist Chris Chism will also perform and emcee the event. MetroBall is the major annual fundraising event for GDMAF, Inc., which helps provide last-resort emergency assistance to those living with HIV/AIDS in DFW. Purchase $40 advance tickets or VIP Sponsor packages online now at www.gdmaf.org/MetroBall

FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2020 thru SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 2020
LOVE WINS Y'ALL
(Event details and tickets go on sale March 1, y'all)

DALLAS PRIDE - FEATURED NEWS

DALLAS PRIDE SUPPORTS CENSUS 2020
Dallas Pride encourages everyone in every community to participate and be counted in the 2020 Census. Your response matters. The census determines who will receive health clinics, fire departments, schools and much more!

Plus, Census 2020 is hiring and they need your help. More information about Census 2020 and available positions on our Dallas Pride Census 2020 page.

Click here to find out more

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Thursday, 5 March 2020

A10 Cruiser Tanks For The Desert

I have been really slack this year when it comes to fresh gaming output. I had the big burst of Italian Wars at the start of the year which burnt me out a little, so with this year's Analogue Hobbies Winter Paint Challenge about to start I needed to get back in the saddle, warm up the Pro Arte Sable and start to splash the Vallejo again.

This year I have decided to have a tank theme and try and crack through the huge backlog of 28mm Early War desert vehicles I have lying around in the to do box (I say box I mean small garage). First thing was to get a bit of pre season training in with a couple of A10 Tanks I needed for our next Op Compass Campaign Game.

The vehicles are from Warlord Games and will join another 3 A10s that I already own. The vehicles are painted in the early war Caunter Scheme as most of my vehicles are, I've gone for a very pale blue grey for my third colour on these. I have given up debating Caunter Colours and stick to my own interpretation, I have vehicles in the official colours (the earliest) and then others with various shades representing my interpretation of the colour change / fade for the third colour.

There is also a (shock, horror !) conversion on one of the vehicles, it sounds big and clever but all I have done is taken a 3" CS barrel from a Rubicon Models Crusader it (cheers Steve 👍) and replaced the two pounder barrel on the original model to get a Close Support version, which is required for the game mentioned above.

It's nice to get a couple of new vehicles finished and hopefully this will get me in the mood for the challenge. After all looking at the pic below I have 11 Honeys, 4 A13s, 7 Crusaders, a Matilda, 5 Panzer III, 2 Panzer IV, an 8 rad, 3 Sdkfz 222, a Panzer II, 3 Mark VI Light Tanks, 3 Italian M13/40 tanks and 6 M11/39 tanks to be going on with.

The plan past year during the Challenge was to complete a small unit of 6 Cavalry each week to keep me driving forward, it worked a treat. This year I plan a minimum of 3 vehicles each week, so there are more than enough in these boxes to keep me going.

I only started playing around with weathering of vehicles a year or so ago so I'm quite new to it, there are some washes, some chipping and a bit of streaking on these, I don't want to go too far with it (some models are all weathering and no paint) but I'm happy with my progress.

The vehicles are due in action straight away so will have the opportunity to perform dreadfully (as all new units must) pretty soon.

So the wing table will be mostly empty for the next couple of weeks whilst I get this lot cleaned up, washed, dried, built and primed ready for the start of the challenge on the 21st December. See you at the start line.