Weekender XLBS: Dungeon Delving Show Update & More Star Wars X-Wing!
September 13, 2015 by lloyd
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Happy Sunday, Comrades!
Happy sunday!
…and thus began the story of Chicken Lich.
Happy Sunday!
The lack of scale between my toys always annoyed me as a child, and now as a adult I am also concerned when buying toys for my kids.
Bingo!
I’m not alone on this then lol
Exactly!
I also never historically segregated my lego’s. Nope, didn’t happen at all. (Sorry pirates, but the knights just cannot be your friends.)
I think you’ll find that even the ffg Millennium Falcon and many other models aren’t to scale. The abstraction used in x-wing game isn’t dependent on models being to scale.
You’re quite right. The X-Wing core scale is 1/270 but there is considerable variance, for example both the Falcon and the Imperial Shuttle should be quite a bit larger.
This guy is a scale modeller and has a page detailed the variance.
http://www.rebelscale.com/scale-lists/fantasy-flight/
In the case of X-Wing it doesn’t actually bother me too much since the models just seem to “sit” well together. In the end I’m a gamer, not a modeller although some of the egregious examples (e.g. Hot Wheels Star Wars models) do really annoy me but FF have got it right enough for me.
The most obvious example is the pound shop bag of green generic soldiers.
They so often have a 1/72 ‘ish’ sized tank with 1/32 ‘ish’ scale soldiers.
My son has a set of soldiers where a red cross tent is big enough to fit some soldiers in, but about twice the height of the tanks in the same bag.
It isn’t until you get older and start making your own models that you really give it any thought as to just how nonsensical that really is.
🙂
‘Round here we call it “box scale”, the size of the model is determined by the size of the box (packaging) it’s meant to fit into.
Epic T-shirt, @johnlyons . 🙂 Moriarty doesn’t appreciate the Tiger. “Always with the negative ways, Moriarty! ALWAYS with the negative waves!”
xwing stands look like they would to be to fit on childrens fingers
Happy Sunday
Well coincidently with @lloyd talking about his dragon, I have a D&D red dragon that needs building and painting. Although I am going for a more black , purple and red scheme…I have been trawling through youtube and some of Romain’s old tutorials on the beholder and the worm to get ideas of how to paint it.
Happy Sunday!
Morning gents 🙂
SF dungeon crawl sounds fun!!
40k would be ideal but also Mantic could work well I guess..
And if you need USMC painted up you know where I live 😎
Happy Sunday all!
Finally you’re regrowing that beard Justin.
Not sure if I missed it but did you guys say where the dungeon crawler terrain came from?
Made using Hirst arts molds
Sci Fi dungeon crawlers : Traveller , Kill Team , Dark Heresy and at one time TSR even bought out one . These are but a few of the plethora of Sci Fi games that have been out over the years.
Mantic also had Project Pandora
Happy Sunday!
Where’s your Rise of the Kage unboxing ?
The only intimidating thing about that ludicrous hat would be the fear of how many of my nicely painted models you damaged when it fell off you head onto the table later in the game!
The Chickenliche you refer to is called (disappointingly) Mike! http://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/history
Happy Sunday!
Isn’t Imperial Assault kind of a Dungeon Crawler in a Sci-Fi setting? Not sure if you mention this today?
/Tommy
Star Wars: Imperial Assault is the very definition of a science fiction dungeon crawler. To be honest, I don’t understand that why, aside from a couple of reposts of other peoples articles, Beasts of War has completely disregarded Imperial Assault, especially considering all the effort they went into the Battle of Hoth board. Imperial Assault has it all, disparate characters coming together (6 heroes now), wide variety of baddies, heroes, villains, allies, bosses, missions. Loot, loads of loots and experience. All this plus a full narrative, re-playable campaign with branching storyline And that’s not even referring to the skirmish game… Read more »
@compel never fear it is not forgotten, it is on our list of reviews.
BoW Gianna
@warzan, you forgot to terrify @dignity with the vegetable elemental!
In all seriousness though, am looking forward to the dungeon delving series, and more bolt action. I have been debating starting a LRDG bolt action army, but am unsure where to begin, and it would just be an unused army( closest bolt action player is approx 600kms away).
Just waiting for my dungeon saga KS to arrive so I can mix in some elements of WQ that I used to enjoy.
Anyone else still having problems with the xlbs videos? For me it jams regularly when watching, whether phone, Kindle or pc. Don’t have this issue with the YouTube videos.
Today I managed 15 s of content before it jammed. Yesterday’s video on YouTube plays fine, so can’t be my bandwidth.
Try using the Chrom web browser and turn HD off.
Dasvidanya is Russian for good bye
Zdravstvuyte is Russian for hello
Happy sunday!
I’d donate £5,- to have my slogan painted on one of the tanks.
I would have to think one up though.
Indeed, those “ЗА РОДИНУ!” (Za Rodinu – for the Motherland) and “ЗА СТАЛИНА!” (Za Stalina – for Stalin) . . . I hope those Cyrillic characters come out in the web window . . .are just the basics you see all the time on wartime posters and tanks. A lot of tanks also had Suvorov’s name on it (another Imperial Russian marshal), general’s names, and names of home towns. Towns could make donations and somehow “buy” or “sponsor” a tank to send to the front (almost like a demented “Kickstarter 🙂 ), so these things got really informal. Polish and… Read more »
Scifi dungeon crawelers:
Doom (The best imo)
Level 7 Omega Protocol
I would go with Deadzone, rules are practically ready for you ^^
Not to forget the classic Mutant Chronicle – Kampen om citadellet, the game that got me into this 😀
I regards to SF dungeon crawling, I’d try the Deadspace IP, or alternatively, use AVP in that, you are ….(get players to pick a collective faction), and are investigating (LV426)(aliens), verifying a distress peacon(alien), etc. Personally I’d like to see a Deadspace SF style dungeon crawling experience, trying to get supplies, get parts to either fix whatever to get off the planet or the Ishimura, the planet-cracker class ship(the ship from the first game). I think @dignity would be crapping himself at necromorphs dropping on him from air vents….(evil DM chuckle). Then again, you could try for a mad max… Read more »
Yeah Deadspace would be excellent, played out on the AVP, Sedition Wars and Space Hulk tiles. I wonder if you could adapt the Shadows of Brimstone rules for this..
schastlivoye voskresen’ye – Happy Sunday (in Russian)
IT’S OFFICIAL, JUSTIN IS REGROWING HIS BEARD! Open the kegs, prepare the hogs for a grand BBQ and initiate the festivities!
Second the motion. 😀
Happy Sunday
@lloyd for the dragon I would suggest doing the airbrush steps as warren suggested, then gloss varnish, then apply the black wash as either a watercolour or oil wash. This should get the black into the recesses but also allow you to clean the black off the scales so it doesn’t look dirty.
@amentothat: That is the best suggestion!
@lloyd: If you won’t paint all the scales over the black primer one by one, because dry brushing won’t do the job for your aimed result
Great show. Glad to see Bolt action get tons of attention. The dungeon delving scenery looks brilliant, but I understand why a bit of grime would tailor itself to the story and atmosphere you are likely aiming for. I love the idea of Sci-Fi Infinity dungeon delving. Those individual miniatures that catch your eye, but you aren’t collecting the army so can’t always warrant the expense of buying miniatures just to paint. Corvus Belli could cash in from people like me in that way. I would love to see a fellowship of Haqqislam Hassassin Ragiks, Ajax from Aleph, Mercenary Miyamoto… Read more »