Mornin guys (unless your reading this at some other point in the day or from another time zone then insert whatever time it is where i’ve wrote mornin…. just so’s not to overcomplicate things).

Oh fudge the gas lift in my computer chair just gave up the ghost, now im looking up at the screen instead of down….arrrgh feels like i’ve shrunk.

Anyhoo my pleddge this week is tto persuade the wife to buy me a new chair and to paint the final crew (my own crew) for the Batman Miniatures Game.

I have ordered some Gotham Police so if they arrive today the lineup might change slightly, with the spare model becoming a proxy for Harley Quinn (who is still on her holidays in Spain).

on to the questions:

1) Mmmm well I don’t think it would make much difference to me because nobody would still know what the hell I was waffling on about. I suppose a lot of it depends on whether the timeline changed for the better or worse, I mean if it changed so that my wife could walk without aid and Matty and Any were both Autism free and my life wasn’t just constantly having to attend their needs, I wouldnt want it changed. However if things were worse, I’m not sure there would be anything I could do about it apart from hope one of the other people who had noticed the change was in a position that could figure everything out.

2)  Not quite what you meant, as I haven’t tried anything new (too old, too boring, and too restricted a diet) but I did have a curry a few days ago and discovered I no longer have a tolerance to spicy food. Reflux and the most terrible case of flatulance you have ever smelled…the wife blamed the dog for an hour until my hayfever made me sneeze and then there was no hiding it… even had to make sure there was nobody behind me when I was using the weights at the gym.

3) In all honesty I don’t really understand much about todays Pop Culture so I wouldnt really know whether references are being made. So based on that, I have no opinion either way really. Saying that though, if I did know more about Pop Culture and a  game is interesting and fun to play and full of Pop Culture references it wouldn’t bother me. I think the only time I would get a bit miffed was if my opponent was from a younger generation and found the in game references Hilarious, while I’m standing there with a blank expression, just not getting why the guy is rolling around on the floor laughing.

@mage Nice skin tone on the Ogres. I really like the way you have gone darker with them than you usually see, it gives them a unique look.

Great Battle report too, and a fantasic way to start the thread.

@johnlyons the guardsman sniper you asked about Wednesday was from this box

Hey Team, thread is off to an early start, happy surprise, caught me off guard 🙂

Questions first up:

(1) What would you do if you woke up in the morning and found out that the timeline had changed, and only certain other people, if any, had noticed it? What could you do?

Actually this happened to me a few years ago following the great war against the evil garden gnomes. Funnily enough I’m the only one that seems to remember it…

(2) Name something new you tried this week in regards food, takeout, cakes, deserts or a new dish you attempted to cook.

Using avocado oil when making quiche. Actually, avocado oil with pretty much anything… It’s expensive but so very tasty..

(3) Do you like pop culture references in your gaming? Be it computer games, board games, wargames or RPGs? If so, why, and if not, why? Also, give one good and bad example of such things.

Pop culture references always find a way in, and they are usually entertaining. first example that springs to mind is a game of Pathfinder form a few years ago where the DM set up a trap where there were a horde of baddies and a necromantic gem hidden in a stash at the centre of the room. Idea was that we would kill the baddies, loot the stash and when we disturbed the gem all the baddies would raise up from the dead, have us surrounded and attack once more. My rogue ended up sneaking in, looting the stash, pocketing the gem and sneaking out without engaging the baddies. A few rooms later my character got smashed to bits by a high level monster. I hit the ground at which point the gem I had pocketed, it’s properties unbeknownst to me, activated and resurrected me. My immediate response was naturally “Strike me down and I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine…” which, due mainly to the immense amount of sugar everyone had consumed by then, garnered more than a few giggles 🙂

@mage Thanks for hosting once again. Love that track 🙂 Ogres are coming along nicely (gut plates are a stand-out in my opinion), and great BatRep. Was good to see you breaking out some Mordheim at  the end of last week’s thread – is that another project to be queued up? or just sorting some stuff from storage for later? Yeah, I’ll never be able to let Mordheim go…

@biggabum BMG stuff seems to be progressing at a rate of knots – hopefully you are enjoying the minis. Keen to see how the good guys look with a bit of paint on. Sorry to hear about your chair – can you pad it out with cushions and prop yourself up a little? Hope you don’t use the same cahir for painting…

@woldenspoons welcome back! Enjoy the well-earned days off. Ha, nothing like a deadline (or in this case, a game) to motivate the painting. If it wasn’t for tourneys I don’t think I ever would have finished an army back when I started gaming…

@tuffyears Kill team stuff is really looking good. Have you had a chance to muck about with the rules set a little? I’ve watched a few BatReps on Youtube but still don’t really have a feel for ot. Hopefully my copy will arrive next week and I can get stuck into pulling the rules apart a little.

My pledge:

– Work on historicals for Sharp Practice

– Fix up my old Orc army a little

– Prime some counters

– Work on the Death Guard marines I primed last week

– Print up more terrain for when Kill Team arrives

– Paint up some terrain

– Maybe have a go at playing with pigments

– Quick Shade on to some Bretonnian archers and British historicals

– Probably a bunch of other stuff if I get to it…

Current state of the Kill Team terrain I’m printing. This may end up being a little large (each piece is a 5cm square and the walls are about 8cm high…) but I personally like terrain elements that force you to interact with them rather than just treat them as line of sight blockers. Need to fill in the floor in the middle, print and swap out a few of the wall sections and add a ruined second storey at the front. Well at least that’s the current plan…

@evilstu not had chance to play yet.

The full 20 man kill team

Questions , always with hard questions lol .

1. Timeline changed – probably just get up  and go to work , if work’s still there and I’m still employed there . I’m pretty much a creature of habit , so can’t see any real changes in my life unless there’s aliens involved .

2. As I said , creature of habit , so nothing new this week , last week , ever …..lol . my life is pretty constant , or as my kids call it , boring .

3. Pop Culture – Not really up on todays pop culture , I don’t Facebook , or Twitter , or follow any celebriety  on You Tube . Being 60  and having most of my friends in their 50 -60s ,all we talk about is classic 70/80s music and movies of our youth . So references to Terminator , Aliens , Star Wars ( IV , V , VI ) , and bands like Blue Oyster Cult , Foghat and Uriah Heep . To me , the kids at work ( 20 – 30 yr olds ) talk a whole pile of crap  about people who are famous for being famous , not a real  bit oftalent amongst the lot of them , but they sure take a nice selfie showing lots of skin .

This week I pledge to keep on pledging , lol . Lots of partially finished kits and conversions , as well as half painted figures . I think not actually playing any games to finish figures for sort of let’s me waffle along and drop one project to start another

WIP , knocked out Tiger II , back date Panther to an early D , Winter Russians to Poles in Berlin 1945 , some German Para tank riders , Russian troop / Perry US Civil War Cavalry conversion and a resin Star Wars figure

And these are on the to do pile , some are being built to be given  to  friends as scenery pieces  , and others are just for fun builds , X Wing and the Meng Tu-2 Bomber . Plus I have a 6 foot stack of 1/35 kits , but I haven’t touched  them in a few years , maybe one day I’ll get bitten by the larger scale bug again , but 1/56 is my main interest now