XLBS: The Salute Meet Up and Warren’s Titan Repair
February 23, 2014 by dignity
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Great show, I’m guessing ‘London is full’ because the London marathon is on the day after salute. It would be interesting if you did a complete ‘non GW’ 40k army, (I am in the same boat as you, no longer like the company, still like the game) That way you could show all the different companies that do generic sci fi, heck even if you are just doing imperial guard you could use troops from prince augusts old warzone plastics (80 plastics for 25 quid), mantic, puppets war, pig iron miniatures, defiance (actually might want to give them a miss… Read more »
Looking forward to the 40k content, I don’t agree with the company’s philosophy but I do love the IP and most of the minis (except that fookin Lord of Skulls thing).
Great show as always and yeh accommodation at salute is a pain, why oh why do they time it to match the marathon every year?
Yeah lord of Skulls was unfortunate – I wonder if there is a suitable alternative out there? mmmmm
I’ve seen some interesting conversions on that, inlcuding using the torso on some defiler legs but the basic model out of the box made me shudder.
Anything buy Tonka toys would be an alternative…
Hey Warren, you might want to try out the FW Siege of Vraks. Great narrative, a gazillion trillion ways to create suitable traitors etc.
I used FW mini’s and regular Cadians with MaxMini torso’s and stuff.
I will definitely check that out, any picks of your stuff anywhere?
Lol I’m playing WoW while listening to this… Been playing since the beta too. Might have to try world of tanks 🙂
Good luck with the coverage, I did love 40k at one time and think newcomers will find it usefull, however, I think there are better games to get newcomers into the hobby of wargamming. I have been looking at trying to utilise Bolt Action activation rules with 40k troops, think it would make a better game.
Hey
Another great show.
Make the Titan walk through a large Building. (about half the size of the Titan) That way you can support the legs to the Falling pieces which are connected to the base.
You simply need a caravan for¨Salute (Snatch)
Happy Sunday
That building Idea is genius! Need to see if I can make that work!
I keep the ads on, I can’t imagine the site without them. A PM has been sent re: accommodation, Warren. You might have problem using non-Citadel minis in the store. We had issues with using a non-Citadel Blood Bowl team that GW had rules for but no minis. I know someone who got stopped from playing the 2009 Space Hulk in Warhammer World because it wasn’t a product you could buy anymore. Your bigger problem might be that a lot of stores have kicked the gamers out and leave the table space open for new customers only. New customers who… Read more »
Great show as always. With the polystyrene, try gorilla glue. Make sure its the non-expanding. That stuff lasts forever, takes a bit to dry, but almost never comes apart. The expanding stuff would be good if you have a lot of gap now in the dowel holes, but the overflow clean up might get kind of hard as it will dry almost like an epoxy. With the 40k, would be interested to see what you do with it. Always loved the ip, probably always will. I still have a lot of minis to paint up that have just been sitting… Read more »
Any idea on a UK retail release date for Myth?
No date confirmed yet, but we are waiting eagerly to find out!
Aye same here, even my missus loves the look of this.
Hi guys, World of Tanks is awesome. Have been playing since the release a couple of years ago. I play on the US and SEA server. My son now plays on the Xbox Version, I’m staying with the PC, as I have already completed the German tree and large chunks of the Soviet, USA and French. I was also part of the Alpha and Beta testing of World of Planes, that is another cool game. Nice and quick with 15 min rounds. Looking forward to World of Ships.
http://www.beastsofwar.com/groups/bolt-action/forum/topic/massive-tanks-a-skirmish-against-the-russians/
Some images of my Bolt Action stuff and since we’re tank mad, my own big beauty that will be crushing everything it can.
BoW Ben
Polystyrene glue is the way to go. You can get the stuff you use to glue coving to the ceiling. It should cure really strong.
http://www.jacksonsart.com/p39415/Bartoline_:_Coving_&_Polystyrene_Adhesive_1kg/product_info.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=shopping&utm_campaign=allprods&gclid=CKHrxtP74bwCFRDLtAodpDsAZA
Nice vid again guys, thanks. For the 40K series, I would suggest the first bit would be best done combined with the kill team rules, it is -by far- the best way to start 40K (given you can do so with few models), of course, with most companies these would be the free ‘quickstart’ rules but here you need to buy the main rulebook and the dataslate on top, but nevertheless they are well done. For the titan, the only tip i can give right now is for adhesive. Look for radio control model shops , they sell specialised stuff… Read more »
What I would do with the Titan (as well as pinning it) is build and add extra details and paneling around the broken or weaker areas like the leg joints. You could use parts from other models or scratch build some yourself from plastic card, things like extra armor panels to reinforce damage pieces like the foot, and details like pistons and struts behind the knees. Also when finalizing the pose I would go for a slightly wider leg stance, with one foot in front of the other so it looks like its walking forward, this should help distribute the… Read more »
posted a Topic in 40k General to help @warzan‘s cause 🙂
My name is Ollie and I am a X360 World of Tanks addict……
Sounds like my story is very similar to you guys! As a former WoW-addict (5yrs) I gave up to spend more time back on the tabletop, and avoided World of Tanks/Planes/insert whatever name here. Then it appeared on my Xbox last week and been hooked ever since – good thing is my Xbox is at my desk used for painting so between deaths have been painting minis 🙂
Ref lack of hotels in London – Saturday 12th is Salute, Sunday 13th is the London Marathon.
Still waiting for them to make a FireFly for WoT (the Easy Eight Sherman is a good sub for it though), But the tank models are amazing looking… we should form a clan 😉
I agree a clan is a great idea. Played this on PC and have just put it on the 360 after this video, didn’t know it was out. Going to do the british tree I think.
I agree great idea to do a Bow clan, I’m in. Did play this game on the PC and didn’t know it was on the 360, so I have downloaded it today. Think I will keep to the british tree in keeping with my BA army.
A BoW clan would be a great idea. But we will need one for PC and one for X-box.
Just because you talked about world of tanks. I did throw this replay together last night 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJBU6z-vxWk
Nice work. it’s a great earner the KV-1s.
It seem like it is the boozer train home on Friday and back Saturday morning for me then …. ohhh well ….
The other option for the titan that would be much more involved would be to purchase material to make an armature inside the body like they do when sculpting miniatures. Thin coper tubing for plumbing comes to mind. That would solve your gaming problem, as the armature, secured to your base, not the legs, would support the weight of the torso.
You can get plumbing tubing in rather small diameters.
For the 40k show maybe comsider he simplicity angle- with different vstegories of simplicity e.g. which armies are simpler to put together, simpler to paint, simpler simpler to play with (less complex tactics/rules) as a starting force etc so it makes it easier for a beginner to get into. Just a thought.
Finally, 40k content! Can’t wait. Third party miniatures is always a good idea, particularly if you just game at home/clubs. Still pretty certain that GW run tournaments are quite strict about using their products though, so you want to watch it if you decide you wanted to enter a tourney at a later date. @dignity start an imperial knight army like I’m planning to, only need three to six models, practically a skirmish army 😉 @warzan have you ever seen brazing/welding rods? Come in brass/steel, they are thin, really strong and they come in long lengths, so considering your titan… Read more »
Hi Warren, I think you definitely need a stable base to have a movable gaming …err… miniature 😉 As I build one from scratch I had the issue to make it stable enough not to flip over and destroy everything on the table, including itself. You can see pictures of what I did over here (http://dievincis.blogspot.de/2013/06/warlord-titan-part-7.html) in our hobby blog. One thing to keep in mid is transportability. So my warlord can be disassembled into legs, torso and of course the main weapons. If you need more information on how I solved some of the stability problems, feel free to… Read more »
I don’t know if you’ve seen TemplarsCrusade01 aka Brian new campaign hes doing a chaos warband to start then building up his forces through game play, maybe could do the same or something similar but through your show and with your diet Warren drink lots of water for every cup of coffee you drink dehydrates you 2 cups of water
Titan- Fill in old holes with milliput. I would look into getting some metal l-brackets for the knee joints and slotting them in down the length if each limb. I might even pin through the side if the limbs into the screw holes if the l-brackets. Then expound at the actual joints. Epoxy is the best… I don’t use superglue any more.
Damn you iOS. Stop trying to correct me! “Expound” was supposed to be “epoxy”.