Hobby Weekender 10/08/18

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Something is up with that link @woldenspoons

 

Good info on the Purple Sun. As for the Dark Tower, I really need to read those books…

 

The Ogres I have been working on. These are four Ironguts. The pants, gore on weapons and skin is next. Then the base. Nearly there:

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Progress on my banshees continues. Pics from today, work from last week. Not sure what way to do the daggers and armour, and if I should do something with the eyes or not.

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@mage your Ogres look like smurfs on steroids (in case nobody had said that XD)

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They are smurfy lol. Skin isnt finished yet though.

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Good morning ~

Apologies that I’ve kind of fallen off the thread here, with the boot camp formally announced things have gotten very busy all of a sudden.

@mage – the “mini wings” at the front of the Eurofighter are “canards” – ironically coming “back into fashion.”  The very first plane built by the Wright Brothers had them, they stopped being a common design feature for a while but in the 80s started being more common on military aircraft.

Yeah, those charts just show some of the math that goes into breaking down some of the maneuverability, resilience, and firepower of the many kinds of warships in this game.  Excel functionality breaks it all down and compares, then factors in bonuses that players have earned, and tabulates all this against the scenario points of each individual ship and makes sure everything stays as balanced as possible.

Nothing you couldn’t do with a sheet of notebook paper,  but with thousands of ships of dozens of warship classes, I’ve been working on automating the process through the construction of a simple database that cuts down on the effort of this administration.

Just a different kind of hobby, is all, but still definitely wargame related.

 

Yeah, I loves me some memes – at least the ones I “create” myself. 😀

Creepy work on the banshees!

@evilstu – Thanks for the kind words on the ship drawings.  “Weight” in space, yes, I know what you mean.  Technically weightless but still MASSIVE.  Yeah, and that’s weightless until we have another battle in a gas giant atmosphere.  Then weight becomes a very, VERY big problem … 😀

@woldenspoons – Not sure if I understand the question.  “Would I be upset” is someone used magic in a WW2 game?  If it’s set up as a PPHW / Alternate history game like K47 or Dust, then no … not at all.   I played tabletop RPGs for about 15 years and the most successful campaign I managed to run was in fact about exactly this … a super-secret special intelligence bureau in British / Allied intelligence were everyone had some kind of supernatural ability, mostly mages (the system we used was White Wolf’s Mage: The Ascension).  So magic in WW2 can definitely work, so long as it’s “billed as such” up front and everyone knows about it.

@limburger – glad to hear you’ll be at the boot camp after all!  😀

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@oriskany I think I just worded all of that incredibly badly. I know you like the stats and realistic recreations. So say you were fighting the Battle of Oriskany and you had historically accurate forces and your opponent rocked up similar but swapped something for a squad of flying monkeys. That.

@mage I will attempt to link again. I think I failed haha. Ah no. I just managed to keep it secret, keep it safe.

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I got some more work done on the Ogres. The pants are finished, first coat of brown on the base before sand. After firmly cleaning my hands and letting the paint dry I will add blood to the weapons, do the twin on one of them, and start the skin. Im onto the second last phase.

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Welcome back, participant! To quote the 90s

You must be excited for the bootcamp! No apologies in this thread dude 😉

Don’t they say that with Nostaliga every 30 years? Maybe its longer…

Man you really have a grasp and understanding of the statistics and stuff, kudos to you. It is very impressive.

Hobby = hobby

Thanks for the compliment on the Banshees.

15 points for feedback to others.

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A secret?

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Battle photos chaos v necrons

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Nice pics. 20 points. Morepoints for a full write up and BatRep. Is the coke glass an objective?

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@mage its a pint of red wine my buddy was drinking

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A pint of red wine? Whats next, a champaign flute of cider? I love it.

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@mage : don’t be silly … if he drinks wine in pint glasses then surely he’s drinking cider from buckets 😉

Those banshees kind of scream for a bit of colour. Perhaps a bronze/rust kind of effect ?
Or something bright & shiny ?
Eyes are fine, but at the same time I’m wondering how yellow or blue dots would look.

@oriskany : my wallet wasn’t too happy about it, but since it was fun and it’s pretty unique so I took the chance to get in when it was offered.

 

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@limburger I too consider yellowy eyes as a good option. They are looking good so far @mage, same as the Ogres. I presume they are due a light blue Highlight? No idea why my phone cut to caps there.

I’m in a dilemma for painting my Dracoline cavalry. Trying to do them different so I can’t paint them red. Tempted to go green tiger like battlecat from He-man.

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@limburger

 

It could be opposite day…

 

I was thinking of yellowey eyes and gold maybe on the armour on some of their stomachs. A dark gold.

 

Maybe a dank iron for the knife with sharp hilights.

 

@woldenspoons

 

Its been decided so. Thanks. The Ogres are on the verge of completion. Ill wait til daylight as the room Im painting in at the moment has poor bulbs. Yeah, a blue touch up and hilgiht, maybe a third hilgiht or something. Ill see…

 

Maybe do battle cat on one and see how it looks?

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And before I retire for the evening, this thread will end 23:59 this coming Thursday.

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