Weekender XLBS: Building Army Background & Making Models Your Own
February 14, 2016 by warzan
For some website features, you will need a FREE account and for some others, you will need to join the Cult of Games.
Or if you have already joined the Cult of Games Log in now
What difference will having a FREE account make?
Setting up a Free account with OnTableTop unlocks a load of additional features and content (see below). You can then get involved with our Tabletop Gaming community, we are very helpful and keen to hear what you have to say. So Join Us Now!
Free Account Includes
- Creating your own project blogs.
- Rating and reviewing games using our innovative system.
- Commenting and ability to upvote.
- Posting in the forums.
- Unlocking of Achivments and collectin hobby xp
- Ability to add places like clubs and stores to our gaming database.
- Follow games, recommend games, use wishlist and mark what games you own.
- You will be able to add friends to your account.
What's the Cult of Games?
Once you have made a free account you can support the community by joing the Cult of Games. Joining the Cult allows you to use even more parts of the site and access to extra content. Check out some of the extra features below.
Cult of Games Membership Includes
- Reduced ads, for a better browsing experience (feature can be turned on or off in your profile).
- Access to The Cult of Games XLBS Sunday Show.
- Extra hobby videos about painting, terrain building etc.
- Exclusive interviews with the best game designers etc.
- Behind the scenes studio VLogs.
- Access to our live stream archives.
- Early access to our event tickets.
- Access to the CoG Greenroom.
- Access to the CoG Chamber of Commerce.
- Access the CoG Bazarr Trading Forum.
- Create and Edit Records for Games, Companies and Professionals.
Supported by (Turn Off)
Supported by (Turn Off)
Supported by (Turn Off)
Happy Sunday!
Customized armies in the gaps needs a thread in the forum, like the painting pics 🙂
@Warzan The Vikings
http://imdb.com/rg/an_share/title/title/tt0052365/
That Mad Meks stuff is insane. Just…..Wow.
Shaterd Hearth got really nice mini and after seeing the las weekender the game play just look awhsome so could not resist and wish for more backer to jump in !!
and Happy sunday 🙂
Morning
Justin… 18:58… please save this and replay it as often as possible. Put some groaning background noise. Classic. Sorry Warren but awesome mate. Happy Sunday!
XLBS, no longer rated PG, now rated @WARZAN!
I’ve got the metal coins and power tokens for AGoT from Broken Egg. Probably going to get some more from them at AdeptiCon. They also do the best condition tokens on the market.
Vikings! Almost in a mind to jump across to my old haunt of Dublin to point out a few bits for you
Daffcon is at Firestorm Games in Cardiff on the weekend of April 8th-10th. It’s got a wide variety of games going on but no GW or PP. The focus is instead on games with smaller playerbases and there’ll be lots to try out. I’d be all over this con (and running the Relic Knights event on the Saturday) if I wasn’t at AdeptiCon the week before.
I think 2nd ed Incursion fulfilled its KS a few months back. Don’t think it’s a retail, though.
Abaddon is A bad un. That’s the first time I’ve noticed that.
“Where did metal coins turn into plastic armbands ?” In a parallel universe of course. We have obviously crossed over into one where you didn’t pay attention to what you said at the beginning of the show.
lol
Morning all, great explanation of the theory of relativity @warzan, totally baffled me but I think what you said backs up my own theory of “Shit Happens” quite nicely 😉
Happy Sunday.
Astrophysics, Einstein and gaming all in the same show.
Totally agree with @warzan about Nero Wolfe and you can now get them on DVD on Amazon.
Fabulous Beasts seems like an amazing blend of ideas and looks very polished too.
@warzan
Individualising it and giving little narratives to a Bolt Action army is where I take most of the hobby pleasure from and all the easy conversion possibilities plastic has to offer really make this fairly effortless..
When building an army for myself I usually go nuts in this respect 😎
For your Fallschirmjägers
http://www.beastsofwar.com/eventslist/bolt-action-project-vlog-building-wwii-armies/
I was keeping back a little (although I named every individual soldier..couldn’t help myself).
Happy Sunday!
First and foremost a good show, in fact a really good show ace content and really driven discussion on what to me Wargaming is really about. Making it, any of it your own. If you know me at all you will know how I prattle on at length trying to enthuse gaming in the cracks, writing in your own house rules and altering the way to look at even the most mundane way of gaming. I like to have an idea and see if it lights a fire then add kindling and allow that small fire to be a real… Read more »
kirk douglas was always a viking it was his half brother tony curtis who grew up a slave and became a viking
Kirk Douglas in Vikings, what an ace film – may have to root it out for my Sunday afternoon viewing me thinks now that you’ve mentioned it! Forgive me for being an ignorant Englishman but doesn’t Dublin translate as black pool? Vikings always were prone to finding the best natural harbours when making their incursions, the Rhone, the Schelt, the Humber all provided nice big estuaries that could be exploited. If you’re in England, would check out the Jorvik museum in York, great place, any profits from the museum go back into financing new archaeological digs so it’s a nice… Read more »
it does, nicked from the net The Gaelic name for Dublin is ‘Baile Atha Cliath’ which translates literally as ‘town of the hurdle ford’, a description of the bank of wooden hurdles built up across the river Liffey by the Vikings. The word ‘Dublin’ is actually a composition of two Gaelic words: ‘dubh’ meaning ‘black’ and ‘linn’ means ‘pool’ (or ‘mire’). Thus the literal translation of the words from which Dublin gets its name is Black pool! Crossing the ‘hurdle ford’ was not without its dangers. In 770 AD a band of Bon Valley raiders were drowned crossing the Liffey… Read more »
cheers @buggeroff, thought I was on to something! Heavily armoured warriors and water, rarely a good thing – really makes you think about a viking’s ability to jump into the surf and storm a beach or into a river and up the bank, getting the leather and wool components of your gear soaking wet would be heavy enough without having a mail shirt, reinforced boots n a dirty great big shield to lug about the place…
Coins: if minting the coins is out of reach, how about casting them in pewter or similar? Use the same process as for metal miniatues. Ink them for patina, and bobs your uncle,
I have seen many chinese i-ching coins that obviously are cast and painted/inked in this manner.
If you are looking to make coins in the thousands, there are companies that can mint coins /medallions that probably can give you a fair price. Worth checking into.
For the coins you could try the lost wax process, lots of fun to do I you have the patience 🙂
@warzan Love the Nero Wolfe reference.
It ran for 2 series on A&E. The original Pilot some of the actors are different than the ones in the series.
I got into the series via Sky Movies and I was able to get the box sets from the states.
@warzan Your impression of Nero Wolfe was spot on. You could play him if they do a remake. lol.
My profession is astrophysics and the discovery of gravitational waves is an amazing break through. I’m not going to critic your explanation or science. I’m sure there is plenty of information online if people want.
Excellent show guys.