Hobby Weekender 14/04/2019 – Waking up before we get to sleep

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@robert Its Tuffy-ears

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@robert a SW:L Ewok army would be a must buy for me… just to annoy the hell out of competitive players 😉

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Well I wasn’t keeping an exact count but I think I went through 8 tubes of cheap superglue today. Assembled 7x 6 inch wall sections,  3 viking longships (still need to affix another 70 shields…) 3 bolt throwers a townhouse and made  a start on a Governor’s residence. Still have an Inn and a Chapel to do, plus a couple of siege towers to finish assembling. Got some that lot partly primed too, will try and get another coat of primer on tomorrow if the opportunity presents. Also had a test game smashing together Warhammer 9th ed rules with Sharp Practice. was quite interesting. I may do a write-up, will need to have a think about how a few things played out or how they could be changed. Was also interesting to see how the army rules for the Albion army (war Fury) and Norse Army ( Counter-Charge and Beserkergang) special rules interacted (quite violently in actuality…). Going to need bigger units of infantry – 10 man blocks melted to nothing after 1 round of combat…

@sundancer keen to see how the new IA additions look once you get them and get round to incorporating them into your forces. 10 points.

@tuffyears Assassin’s Creed totally counts as hobby (research?… inspiration for terrain?…) so don’t stress 🙂 Congrats on the award! I’ve made a few attempts at getting into WoT over the years but given up in fairly short order. I find the atmosphere on the lower tiers to be, er, let’s say, uncooperative at best 😉 I’m sure once you push past the F2P crowd then things do settle down a bit though. 10 points.

@robert thanks for the shots. So those Dwarves are a fairly solid mini then! Would work well in a heroic 28mm army. Not that I need another army to work on right now… And thanks for the tips on liquid greenstuff. Smart strategy to try it out with some expiring glue as nothing to lose. Now if only I could find a homemade recipe for superglue activator… Bicarb and white spirits maybe?… Yes the nice thing about KoW is that the rules are elegantly simple. You feel like you are playing a mass combat game but there is so little record keeping. I really need to work on my basing game. well, I guess what I should say is that I feel obliged to consider working on my basing game but for any project bigger than warband size I just go for tried and true glue on sand and rocks with PVA/Glue on flock/glue on tuft grass. ‘m not really up for doing anything more convoluted 150 times in a row ;-P 40 points.

@woldenspoons well played. I’m going to avoid most internet forums for the next few weeks at least for similar reasons 😉 10 points.

@limburger apologies I didn’t mean to concern you – conan is not difficult, it’s just out of all the stories there was one line that could have potentially benefitted from a rewrite. But is was the first story and once you get past that things just roll from one epic adventure to the next. It’s a fun romp, albeit a product of it’s time. Loved Neuromancer, I think the descriptor is as you say, a static picture on TV (apparently that was actually caused by background space radiation, can’t quite remember what kind though…). Oooh Chronos is so pretty! So. Much. Detail. 10 points.

@horati0nosebl0wer don’t stress the army looks great as is. Yes I’ve heard urban myths on secret vaults in the vatican which house all sorts of confiscated heretical manuscripts from throughout history. Would be a great plot hook for a modern/horror RPG – thief breaks in, sells trove to a dealer, dealer distributes on the black market, the wealthy and corrupt have access to arcane mystical lore, chaos ensues… Congrats on the incoming KS. Any chance you could keep aside a small cache of basic colours and a few brushes so you could at least put down base colours on a couple of minis rather than having everything unpacked? 30 points.

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@evilstu it’s Legion not Imperial Assault 😉 (IA is, more or less, discontinued now. Yes they will keep adding digital content to the app but there are no current plan for physical releases.)

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@robert – cheap greenstuff looks like a great idea, will have to try this!

Car (getting it fixed and looking for an alternative) is taking up a lot of otherwise-hobby-time, sadly. Still here, listening in, just not as hobby-active this week In the meantime, I found some old vinyl picture discs in the loft, but don’t have anything to listen to them on any more! There’s even one with a picture of a space marine in black armour in a box somewhere….

Thanks, Youtube, at least I can listen to the Dio track that looks so awesome in 7″

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@evilstu Many years ago, on this very site, in an actual weekender thread, Uncle Jimmy, recommended to me a great superglue activator – licking one part of the model that you want to stick!!!!  It is actually the water that reacts with the superglue causing it to harden very quickly!  I think superglue was developed, or first used, as a battlefield repair for soldiers, so they could put it on wounds to get them to stop bleeding immediately.  The water in the blood activates it causing it set very quickly.  Though I may be wrong on the history and blood bit, the licking bit works and I actually use superglue when I cut myself with a hobby knife… all because of the great Uncle Jimmy’s advices!

While I don’t recommend licking models, I have used a brush and a little water to wet an area to get it to stick before… and being truly open and honest, I have, in frustration, also licked models to get them to bloody stick and even got superglue on my tongue. It hardens straight away and doesn’t taste or feel pleasant for a short while.

Bicarbonate of Soda on its own will cause superglue to harden straight away and is a very cheap and effective gap filler.  I did it recently on a model as I had forgotten all about it working until it popped up on my YouTube feed.  My Dad used to use it when building wagons or coaches for the train layouts.  Again much cheaper than actual greenstuff or other putties.  Not sure of the white spirits needing to be added, never heard or seen that before.

 

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@blinky465 is it this one?

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@robert A leather jacket wearing Ewok with a bad attitude chomping on the end of a cigar just makes me chuckle. Perhaps the sniping kitten might need to be changed

@sundancer *writing notes for future reference humming ‘In The Hall of the Mountain King’

@evilstu I think if you went with pumice medium for acrylics you could save on space for basing. Its not colored so you just paint right on it and then give it a drybrush to pull up texture detailing. It isn’t as brilliant (?) as flock but you can lay it on with a small palette knife or spatula and layers it as thick of thin as needed.

I can’t speak to activation but here’s something that works for gap filling and construction.

As far as basic colors I might be able to but I really just want to actually have all out paint sessions. I had a few colors with me at work so I might be able to run limited palette for the entire model. More than likely I would just block in base colors by section and then go back in chunks to address different colors. Realistically I’ve got the painting itch that might best be dealt with via airbrush which is definitely not going to fly at work.

@blinky465 Dio? Sheesh.. you need some Tenacious D action… complete with sing along lyrics

What is this non sandwich music? I require a sandwich to be made pronto to fill my empty tummy. In the meantime I found some stuff earlier that was keen listening and a few versions of one song that I listened as background audio for work.

Now for some VNV Nation which really hits the spot

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@sundancer, sorry, wrong acronym, my mistake 🙂 In my defence I have inhaled a lot of paint fumes today ;-P

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@horati0nosebl0wer

IN THE HALL! OF THE MOUNTAAAAAIN KING!

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this is an ewok , right 😉

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@robert – that’s the one! Oblivion. Personally, I prefer this similarly-titled song – though when it came out, I could only get it as a novelty-cased CD.

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@robert – http://www.ultimatequeen.co.uk/brian-may/discography/collaborations-1.htm#D-Rok

Who knew? A Brian May collaboration?!

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@horati0nosebl0wer – Uh oh … I hope I didn’t give you  any flashbacks!  No, the EW / ECM rules and values in AirWar C21 are pretty straightforward.  Pretty  much just a list of ranges, +/- mods on a d10, and a quick note about target aspects.  Oh, and a notation about whether the missile is IR or radar-based, so players know whether chaff or flares applies against them.

I like those walkers!  They remind me of my Locust IIC mechs in BattleTech.

@evilstu = Norse and Albion figures look great.  I still like the square bases for ranked army figures.  My 20mm AWI are done of square bases.   And I like those Shieldmaidens, too!

Holy cow, @robert, a 1/72 Harrier?  Indeed that would be pretty big (about 7.5″ long?)  If that was in solid metal you’d need a weight belt before putting it on the table.  Lift with your knees, not your back!  

Congrats on the medal, @tuffyears . 😀

 

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@evilstu : nah, that didn’t scare me. I skipped the ‘history’ section and started with ‘Phoenix and the Sword’.
It takes a bit to get used to the names and such (always a bit iffy in fictional settings), but it is manageable so far.
I wasn’t expecting the stories to begin with Conan as a king though.

Tales from the Loop / Things from the Flood kickstarter books arrived today (or rather the delivery guy had left it in front of my door … *grrr* ). The art is great, so I can’t wait for the posters to arrive as well. It also includes a few books for Mutant Year:Zero, because mutant animals are kind of cool.

More kickstarter goodness heading my way … I think it’s the Batman, but the tracking hasn’t revealed any details except ‘Di-Mythic games’ named as the source.

Dutch Goth Metal

(the loud music tends to hide her awful Dutch accent a bit … )

A song about beer to finish it off :

(That’s Dutch dialect … a few dozen variants so I doubt anyone understands ;-))

 

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