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evilstu 6 years, 2 months ago.
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To tell the truth , most game play type and computer/ video game questions just go right past . I’m just not interested in playing games . Never got the bug as a kid , too busy building models and reading . Never got into it as teen as rock concerts , girls , booze and cadets / militia plus model building was my focus . As a 20-30 something I was into model trains , and the last 5 or 6 years I got back into model kits although mostly 1/56 – 28mmm . Nice to see well built and painted figures and kits but no interest in playing with them . Pus I can’t see the point of chain saw swords and power claw hands in a game with laser blasters . So that’s questions 1 , 2 and 4 sorted . # 5 – The game play part of a boot camp would probably be wasted on me , but I’ld sure love to sit down and build tanks with John , or spend an afternoon picking through parts boxes to find bits to create unique figures . .
#3 Kit Bash and Converting are they the same thing ? I would say they varying degrees of the same process . You can give a plain jane basic cannon fodder Space Marine ,for example , an arm from another set , and you have a totally different figure than the other 4 same pose guys from the box . Very easy to swap arms and heads ,in some of the more human looking 40K figures , same as the Bolt Action plastics . Next level would be cutting figures off at the waist and then cutting the legs apart to create different walking / running poses . And then get a little more knife happy and start notching elbows and knees to create even more dynamic poses . Sci Fi , 40K vehicles are the same , substitute a turret from this kit onto that kit , now its something different and new . Historical vehicles need a little thought as you want to have a basis in reality . So you could remove molded on tools or tow cables and add parts to give the model a more 3D look . Or you get out the plastic card ,green stuff, resin and pewter bits and change the vehicle into something that isn’t available from your favorite hobby company . Here’s a couple of examples of kit bashes and conversions . 1st is a British seated figure from the BA plastic Universal carrier converted to a German Panzer crew man by changing his uniform with thin plastic card , green stuff , plus a metal head
Next up , Russian Cavalry made by combining Perry Civil War Cavalry and BA Russian plastics
To get troops in the rear of my M3A1 half track , I just swapped legs around . The troops all have 1 leg up on the seats , the other on the floor so they can be facing / firing out of the vehicle . A little trial and error to get them to fit but worth the effort
Next is changing the Spider style mid/late T-34 wheel to a early war dish style . There were about 12 different T-34 wheel styles during the war , and the ones BA uses on the 76 model is wrong for the 1940 turret . So I just got a very small (1/8 inch ) chisel blade and removed the ribs .
This tank would be a Kit Bash as it uses the upper hull and turret of a BA late Tiger I and a BA T-34 lower hull , wheels & track . I cut off the side skirts ,chiseled off the ribs on the road wheels ,left off the exhaust covers and removed the molded on tools . It’s supposed to be one of those 1970s WW2 movie tanks like we saw in Kelly’s Heroes . Second tank – standard Tiger , third tank – standard T-34
The turret on the above T-34 , I would consider a conversion . The kit piece was the wrong in so many ways that I had to add plastic card to the sides and rear to widen it and then add green stuff to smooth out the cast surface of the turret . The piece on the left is what you get in the kit , the piece on the right is the more to scale turret . I did have work in progress pictures but lost them during the photo bucket site changes
@a27cromwell That’s one of the reasons I love coming to the various iterations of this thread, seeing stuff I don’t see in my gaming areas, also how people feel about accurate historic representation. Really in depth analysis. Cheers fella.
@mage Thanks for hosting again, Lots of questions there, wow. Also Queen and the Beatles? Stop it, you are making me blush.
Thanks for hosting @mage and hello everyone to this fine hobby weekender.
Let’s start with the questions:
1.) Oh yes, many of them! I started playing those even a bit before tabletop miniature games. And i never stopped. My first two RPGs were Das Schwarze Auge (something like the german D&D) and Shadowrun. Soon after those came Mechwarrior and The World of Darkness. Sometime later D&D and lots and lots more. But my alltime favorite will always be Legend of the Five Rings. Thats why i was so happy to get my beginners box for the newest edition in the mail. I’m really tempted to try and find a way to maybe GM the beginners adventure in some way around here for some of the community.
2.) Let’s see. For more strategic games i would recommend the new Battletech if you like your mechs and turn based combat. I really like that game. Or maybe rather the “new” editions of X-Com if you like to go alien-hunting with a small squad of soldiers, that could die in any mission if you’re not careful enough. Total War Warhammer 1+2 are also nice, i just wish the combat was turn based and not real time. If you’re looking for something that will eat your time as if it was nothing and if you wish to build your own interstellar empire i would recommend Stellaris. At the moment i’m playing it with a race of sentient robots that want to share their blessings with every other species in the known universe, by converting them to cyborgs. And NO they’re not called the Borg!
3.) since i’m a total noob with this topic i can’t say if it is or isn’t, sorry.
4.) at the moment i’m just happy if i manage to get a game in from time to time. But i would prefer them t be narrative or campains, i just love to tell storys.
5.) so far i haven’t been to one of those, but i hope that i’ll manage to do it some day.
Allrighty, with those our of the way, let’s listen to some music:
and to mix it up a little bit:
Hobby pledges:
– read more Legend of the Five Rings (L5R) to get ready to GM it for some friends
– play a bit more of AoS Champions on my so called “smart” phone
– try to build something with this:
the end result will hopefully be some kind of giant orcish drum … and yes i’m trying to put my idea into reality. Hopefully i’ll be able to grab the Warchanter from my local store tomorrow.
And lust bot not least, a bit of commenting:
@mage what a way to start the music for this thread, it’s hard to beat those … or rather imposible!
@a27cromwell wow that was an interesting read and i learned a fair bit thanks to that. So thanks for expaining and sharing!
@elessar2590 you really should look at the newest edition of L5R, so far i like it a lot. And well the setting is still the same, they just moved their iteration down the timeline a lot, to the point where the first edition of the CCG and the RPG were set too. So you could call it a restart i guess.
Training in an hour. Coffee shortly, then date night. I will reply when I can, but guys it will be scarce until Im available again.
So these bad boys arrived today
Im going to start a separate thread at some point and ask people their thoughts on painting terrain for a particular board.
Im also painting up some D&D minis for friends, here is some:
My wizard is almost done too
My priming:
The rest of the Albionnicans I will be working on too:
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