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I’m getting these boys primed up this morning:
Then I’m out this afternoon to see Alita: Battle Angel (a film I’ve been eagerly awaiting ever since hearing that Jim Cameron had acquired the rights) followed by boardgames with the old Borders crew in the evening.
At the moment no painting planned but might try to fit some in tomorrow 🙂
Gonna throw in some viewing recommendations:
- The superb hard-science fiction space opera The Expanse is now up on Amazon Prime, including the 3rd season available for the first time outside the US. Burnt through the whole of S3 yesterday (had to take something off the pain…) and it was utterly fantastic. Can’t wait for Season 4…
- Star Trek Discovery continues its excellent run of form in Season 2, with an episode that has possibly the most Trek plot that ever Trekked, plus a tour de force performance from Doug Jones 🙂
- The first two Star Wars: Galaxy of Adventure shorts – recapping the Yoda/Dooku Episode II fight and Luke/Vader from ESB -were awesome, but the latest one blows them out of the water with it’s focus on the Rebellions MVP, Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan
I also need to work out some logistics, as I’ve volunteered myself to read a short story from The Black Library for The Fluffenhammer, and have opted to tackle the original Gaunt’s Ghosts short story from issue #4 of Inferno!, so need to work out the best way to record with the resources at my disposal, and do I dare trying to do voices for the different characters……
And primed:
Boardgame session has been cancelled, but that does mean I can get to an earlier screening of Alita, so I’m now going to motor. Later chaps 🙂
Happy Weekend!
It’s a fresh Sunday morning, I’ve got my first coffee. Later we have to go shopping but for now I can relax.
Thanks to @evilstu for hosting again!
The pledge will be to finish the current squad and start another. Also start posting in the project I’m creating around these guys.
The A’s to the Q’s
- Hmmmm…. I was thinking a couple of options… but perhaps the potentially most interesting one would be from our own part of the world @evilstu . Australian indigenous culture has a wealth of stories that could add an interesting and characterful faction to any game. It would have to be done respectfully and sincerely, but I think that in (for example) a real-world fantasy setting it could add something quite unique and engaging. Think about Wyrd’s Other Side, or WWX. I know in the 90’s White Wolf had some stuff that I know of for Werewolf and Wraith. But to me it never quite rang true. I feel as though there’s interesting stories to be shared there, beyond our borders.
- Oh geez, so many! Haven’t we all walked through a random non-gaming store and assessed the contents for its potential to be used in gaming/hobby? Ever looked at a failing house appliance like a toaster/ food processor/ vacuum and thought “When you finally die, your components are mine!” Considered if you can convert a stationery receptacle into a dice tray? I’ve dismantled printers to obtain the gears for scenery, the shells and lids for bases. The wiring for… wiring. I’ve looked at various bits and pieces from computers for Necromunda scenery. Hell, I’ve assessed the agitator from a top load washing machine and determined it would make a good sci-fi tower/ nuclear cooling chimney/ inter-galactic starship thruster. Fisher & Paykel model agitators specifically.
- Probably just doing hobby. I like to feel I’ve done something with my weekend.
@dawfydd looks to be an ambitious amount of priming there – are you working in sub-assemblies? ie, are the carapaces glued on at this stage or removable? And some more Wolves into the mix too. How was the movie? 30 chocolate coated coffee beans for hobby progress.
@sundancer Ewoks would be Hilarious! Would be almost as much fun to troll powergamers with as Gunguns (we all know it’s going to happen one day…), Still need to get round to actually making one of those static grass applicators – would be much easier to just batch-produce 500 grass tufts at a go and store them for later use rather than to mess about with PVA and trying to get grass to behave as desired when you are trying to finish and base an army. Oh yeah, IT breaks down 24/7 so you have to be in a state of cat-like readiness at a moments notice :-/ Hope you do manage to de-stress rather than focus on the ‘what might be about to go wrong’ all the time 🙂 Nice work on the droids! Quite the list of options you are starting to have with your Legion forces. 60 chocolate coated coffee beans for question responses and hobby progress.
@woldenspoons Infinity version of the Suicide Squad would definitely be cool. I may need to get around to reading Legend (but my to-read pile is already huge… OK not as bad as the to-paint pile but you get where I’m coming from…). Shatter effect technical paints? Hrm, you now have me wondering if my GF’s nail art stickers could be modified into shield decals… Ugh, we’ve all been there I’m sure – jobs you don’t like just grind you down 🙁 Hope you can work a out a way to improve things for yourself 🙂 Fingers crossed you feel better soon! 30 chocolate coated coffee beans for question responses.
@mage sleep stratagem in 40k would be awesome! You just need to frame it as ‘Scouts steal all the opposing Guardsman’s coffee and replace it with decaf – they all fight with -2 initiative for the rest of the game’ or something ;-P OK, I’ll stop 🙂 Hope you got through the shift OK. A Barbican is a fortified gateway that forms a part of the wall around a town or city. So one of these:
Still need to finish off the hoarding (wood bit that sits on the gap on the top right wall). Just waiting for the varnish to settle, will then hit with a matt spray and retouch slightly. If I do the hobby-a-ton will be next week – have a High elf Sea Patrol army queued up and some Chaos mortal reinforcements which are now all prepped and ready to be painted up and incorporated into my existing forces. Mercs in 40K would be great. Why hasn’t that been done before? Yeah I remember both shift work and graveyards all too well – do things line up so you get a couple of days off in a row fairly regularly or is it too chaotic? 50 chocolate coated coffee beans for detailed question responses and other posts.
@rayzryr coffee! What a way to kick off a Sunday 🙂 Nice progress on the Marines. And pledging to dive back in to a second squad no less. Yes key would be on handling things in a respectful manner – not sure that could necessarily always be relied upon to happen. Heh, yeah Bunnings is really expensive to walk through as a gamer. Oooh! band saws are just $150! I could use one to make some really nice movement trays! and similar nonsense that my brain tells me when I am there to pick up something practical like dowelling, superglue and insulation foam (none of which is even a little bit for hobby purposes.. nope, not at all…). 40 chocolate coated coffee beans for question responses and hobby progress.
@horati0nosebl0wer yeah – I have a bunch of older Slaanesh models that I’m planning to rework in the near future into my chaos army. A bit twitchy about whether they will need a NSFW header on the updates. Am I being too conservative? Actually, it’s probably more the raging Heroes minis I’m going to add to the force that are more of a concern… Both gods could make nice thematic BB teams though if done well. 40 chocolate coated coffee beans for question responses and responses to others.
Other hobby stuff I’ve been working on:
– Got my Middenheim force more or less rolling from a painting perspective. Planning on just chain-painting the whole bunch at once. As I’m planning on using an AP dip should be able to get away with just base colours without highlighting at this stage so shouldn’t be all that bad… Progress as of Friday:
Getting the printer fixed on Saturday was a major roadblock removed – can now print more bases etc for all the old minis I’m restoring/scratchbuilding (I’ve been stealing bases form one kit to make another, now I can just make what I need instead).
Also, as mentioned in an earlier post, stripped, repaired/restored and primed a bunch of old and/or second hand minis.
My High elf sea Patrol now stands at 2 blocks of 15 seaguard, a block of 10 marines, 2 units each of 6 shadow warriors and a leader (plus 2 boats and a dragon but he’s not there…). So just need either one or two mages and then this is a reasonably fieldable force.
For the Chaos guys (and this might be my paintathon project), I’ll be looking at adding the following for each of the gods:
Tzeentch will get 2 more characters (one on foot and one on a flying burny-disc of spikes) and a block of 6 knights.
Nurgle will get 5 warriors (to top up an existing unit of 10), 14 warriors with command and a champion to go with, a chariot, a unit of 6 knights and single extra knight to beef up an existing knight unit to being 6 strong.
Khorne will get 14 warriors with command, 2 commanders on foot, a unit of 6 knights, a single knight to be the 6th in an existing unit, and an additional 2 blocks of 5 knights. Plus 4 more marauders to push an existing unit up to 20 strong.
Sounds like Tzeentch isn’t getting much love but there are plenty of daemons set aside for them later on, plus a box of wargods of Aegyptus minis I picked up nigh on 10 years ago which I plan to use to make a 15 strong unit of Tzeentch Chosen.
So I shouldn’t be short of stuff to do 🙂
@evilstu I am indeed doing sub-assemblies on the Knights – the main carapaces are glued in place as they are majority black /very dark grey in any case, but I primed the other armour plates separately in Fur Brown to provide a richer base for the reds, yellows & golds of the House Mortan colour scheme. Likewise I’ve kept the Preceptors weapons separate for ease of painting (the Las-impulsor in several parts so the gun-shield could be painted) and the Armigers arms I primed in place as it was easier but they were not glued so that they could be taken off for painting.
I’m also only painting one of the Armigers at this point as I ran out of Stirland Battlemire and wanted to get the bases textured before I began painting the Knights. Hopefully I can end today with the gold trim blocked in and the endo-skeletons of the two knights base-coated 🙂
Alita was excellent. Definitely worth catching on the big screen, and i think I’m going to be re-reading the manga on my iPad later…
Digging the amount of minis you’ve stripped. Reminds me I could probably make use of the old metal Shadow Warriors and the Mordehim Elf Mage (plus some other bits) to build an AoS force of wandering Elven Rangers. You’ve also reminded me that I still have my old partially-completed Stir River Patrol army in a case in here somewhere….
@horati0nosebl0wer good shout on The Cybertronic Spree 😀
@sundancer have you seen the selection from Skullforge Studios? I really dig their Professor Moxi…
https://www.shapeways.com/shops/sun-and-skull-studios
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