Hobby Weekender 10/08/18

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@dawfydd I don’t even wanna know what the damage is on that Voltron kit… am guessing I could get a couple of armies for the equivalent price – and life is all about the opportunity cost, right? 🙂 Yellow does look good, your technique for yellow looks like a winner. Ordered the first 2 volumes of Unstoppable Wasp so will report back once they have been reviewed 🙂 Interesting drop from GW – given the inclusion of GS Cult in the Kill Team starter I wonder if this is a deliberate strategy to try and leverage new players into a more complete starter force or just a happy coincidence/ At any rate, that’s 2 starter game releases in a row that don’t contain Ultramarines…

@tuffyears cruiser has progressed nicely. No idea where an appropriate scale speaker could be sourced from though…

@biggabum Ah fair enough – I suppose I did sort of ask for that with the setup… Yeah my thinking on Napoleonics is that if I start now I should have enough to play proper sized games in 20-30 years time… Seriously though I think a 6mm-10mm force would be the way to go too – would be great to get to grips with some larger scale battles. BMG looks like it was fun.

@mage re bolt action hamlets, they are ‘true scale’ so possibly a little smaller than you would expect. I’ll snap a few photos with some mordheim minis and post so you can see what you think before procuring. Similarly, the laketown buildings, while really beautiful, are scaled to 25mm. Have yo considered scratchbuilding? Fat Dragon have a sale on their print and assemble PDF’s if you have access to a colour printer. Could look good pasted over an MDF/foamcore structure…

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/248366/2018-Paper-Mega-Bundle-BUNDLE?

Yeah fancy oils are a greyt way of upping your calorie intake when carb free – Off the record I have added avocado oil to instant coffee and called it breakfast occasionally… This IS still a judgement free zone, right?… 😛

@limburger yes but would need a lot more weathering to make it an authentic ‘Bluesmobile’ 🙂

@woldenspoons does that mean Age of Sigmar has three times more explosions?

@sundancer outstanding work on detailing your objective scenery. Also, more Sisters of mercy is always better 😉

@a27cromwell really creative approach with the bases, inspiring stuff!

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@mage : ‘t is French for duck, so yeah.  Perhaps it is because the profile is that of a duck in flight ?

@evilstu : it looks weathered enough in the pictures, but then that’s just me. 🙂

I see the bolt-action bootcamp tickets have gone live … anyone in ?
Any left for that matter ?

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@limburger Duck or whiskers. These are the questions!!!

 

@evilstu thanks for the info. Id rather scratch my eyes out than scratch build terrain; too much effort and time consuming for my liking.

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And we live in a golden age of pre created terrain. Stuff like 4ground and even games workshop stuff knocking it out of the park. Or even more excitingly the terrain crates from Mantic.

@mage 3x explosions that stick around and do bad bad things. In the case of the Purple Sun it’s possibly going to be the best model on the board.

@oriskany would you be upset if someone starting adding magic effects to your battles? Not even just talking about the German occult forces in ww2

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@mage : why not both ?

Duck whiskers …

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I repent! I REPENT!

So, I finished my project.

Also I survived my first day at work after my holidays and yeah! only one server died XD

I need some music now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXIWRan3XGY

I f*cking love heavy metal…. \m/

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@limburger <5 points>

 

Yes, duck whiskers. Thatll do

 

@sundancer <50 points>

 

5 points for making it through. 30 points for finishing the pledge you did up. Airbrushing?

 

Man thats a classic song I havent heard in a while. 15 points. Love it.

 

 

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@mage no airbrush has been used. Primer and matt varnish comes from rattle cans the rest is brushed on. Still need to buy a housw with enough room for a sizeable hobbyroom where I can set up a spraying booth.

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@mage pics below of Ruined Hamlet kit with Mordheim minis for scale. It actually doesn’t look too bad (although the smaller door section is much lower than the main/external door – refer crossbowman standing immediately behind the doorway in pic #3) – main issue seems to be the base height rather than the minis per se. Standard GW bases elevate the mini a little higher than is strictly necessary for the scenery. So you could use the Ruined Hamlet kit no probs, especially if you were utilising a less elevated base and/or mounting the walls/ruins on a base (OK, I appreciate it wouldn’t help when the mini was inside and also on the building base, but would assist with a ‘mini is outside’ comparison…).

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Ok, more page 9 responses and I will recap page 8 later, which isnt a lot I think. Tired, but in a good cosy way and enjoying a few days off.

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10 points for the detailed feedback to others.

Thanks for the pics of the hamelet. I could just proper it up on another base so its roughly the same size as the ones the models are on.

@woldenspoons

Have you go the purple sun model yet? I hear it has gap issues.

@sundancer

Really? Looks damn good.

Okay, time to do house work and then upload pictures.

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@mage thank you

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2k 40k battle today photos up later

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Your welcome @sundancer

 

Can’t wait @tuffyears

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@mage Indeed I do. I sprayed it black yesterday. Changing it from the 99% green stuff colour it was. Basically you have to be prepared from the initial frame to trim that down to unknown measurements for putting the shell on. I still imagine there will be holes though. Brilliant model regardless. I was reading the dark tower series at the time so I call mine Black 13. Hmm might paint it black too. Talking of which.. http://The Rolling Stones – Paint It, Black (Official Lyric Video) ABKCOVEVO

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So, this is for an upcoming project, which I did a bit of in the past and then put on hold for quite a while. It is a Gundam kit; not a good one and quite old. I’m reappropriating it for a tabletop game. This will be done over the coming weekend, assuming I finish my ten ogres (was originally eleven but left the character out for now) it will be a break project.

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One of my friends, who never touched miniature games, started playing board games with us a couple of years ago. This turned into miniature games too and he threw himself hard at X-Wing. With a mountain of stuff but not many games under his belt, he fell in love. This also branched out into Dungeons and Dragons. Last Sunday we had a barbecue for our d and d group, hosted by said friend. We all chipped in and brought various stuff and got stuffed.

Afterward, I found out he had bought a big battle mat and we decided to play some X-Wing. Since I was the most experienced with the rules, I decided to ‘GM’ the game with rules on hand, separating the lads into Rebels and Imperials and nominating one player each as a team captain. I quickly threw together a team of three ships totally in the same points and getting the Captains to decide who used what. No upgrades were used. I wanted to keep it light as a tutorial/introduction.

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The first few turns the ships were very far apart. Players got used to movement, dials and the turn order. As they got closer they got to shooting and learned that. The following turn I introduced actions, gradually spoon feeding them more information.

In the end, the Imperials blew an A Wing and X Wing out of the sky. Adam’s loan Y-Wing bravely faced them down, but inevitably fell to the more co-ordinated, lucky dice rolling Imperials.

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It took longer than a game of this size usually did. However, as people learned, rolled, damaged and evaded one another they really got into it. Much fun and joy was had, and it was good to have taken a step back from the game, and smile. It was nice to have the printed battle mat, painted miniatures and so many people enjoying the same thing and discovering how awesome the hobby is. Friendly banter and insults were exchanged, along with boasts as handful of dices for shooting and dodging were rolled, tokens were spent, shields were destroyed, damaged cards were given out and critical hits crippled ships.

It got darker outside, and the game finished as the last Rebel ship burst into flames and plummeted into the tree canopy below. After a short break, we continued Storm Kings Thunder for D&D, continuing the latter half of Chapter Four:

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The Oracle was reached, Cultists were encountered, and the party planned their next move in the search for King Hekaton.

 

A brilliant time was had by all and even before the day had ended we were talking about doing the next one. Probably with takeout instead as to save the effort of making and tidying everything, as well as getting in more game time!!! It took me back to my teenage years before doing state exams, having empty summers to spend with friends battling through the streets of Mordheim and levelling up our warbands or fighting accross the mud of war torn worlds in the Grim Darkness of the Far Future.

 

To quote Ice Cub, ‘It was a Good Day’.

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