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@evilstu Yeah, as other have said the Asian dragons definitely are interesting. At the end of our previous D&D campaign we came face to face with an ancient Red Dragon… even playing as level 13 characters he was every bit as terrifying as it should have been. Fortunately we were able to redirect its attention…
DA’s are great for that colour diversity. Oh yes, I could totally slow grow from eBay purchases and cheap clear-outs. Tanks and other vehicles aren’t that uncommon either, especially if I’m prepared to repaint. At the moment I could muster up Company strength just in troops alone:
My Elf project:
Which will go on hold for Orktober.
@mage that’s interesting news regarding the Hasbro Cinematic Universe, but given the woeful treatment of Transformers to date, I’d not be rushing to the cinema for them anytime soon… though I want them to be good!
@sundancer Ulysses 31… I remember that one… I only ever seemed to see it sporadically though.
I wish you luck on your endeavour to gain your own home! The old 6×4 table is an ongoing dream for many of us I feel. That’s probably why so many skirmish games have become over the years: lack of space. Much easier to find a handy 4×4 on top of a dining table or such.
@limburger the kind of dragon you speak of, they could be used as NPC’s in D&D. Metallic Dragons could act in that manner. I share @evilstu’s confusion over the Wish Dragon though…
MacGyver, for sure! We still joke about fixing any problem with a microwave, some chewing gum and a Swiss Army Knife.
@elessar2590 Bellerophon… sounds like a tough cookie!
In the vein of the old 80’s anime
Well, got my Orcs undercoated… but they aren’t in my pledge… so I’d better get to work…
@horati0nosebl0wer ambitious sounding pledge. what does the Slaanesh project entail? I’m keen to see my man/woman Slaanesh reappear in the Age of Sigmar universe. the new beastmen might tip me over the edge and back into the game but Slaanesh would get me over the line no questions asked. 10 points for the pledge.
@elessar2590 Bellerophon – ah yes are we all familiar with the acronym ‘BAMF’? If not please don’t go and google it on a work computer… 22? Good grief I had you pegged as a venerable grognard with your extensive knowledge of history. Well played on accumulating that much historical knowledge already 🙂 I hear you on the small scale stuff. I’m personally thinking of just picking a scale and working out the gaming system later. re the French I had the same problem with regard to their being top heavy with the smaller footprint bases. My solution was to pick up a couple of packs of washers from Bunnings and superglue them to the underside of the bases. They still fall over, just less often now…
What system are the french going to be utilised in? Ie, will you need to have them all as individuals or are you going to do group bases? I got bored counting but it looks like close to 100 French? 30 points for responses.
@querion that changeling setting sounds positively disturbing. Although it would afford some excellent opportunities for role playing as the characters become paranoid and think they are about to become reclaimed or have terrifying flashbacks triggered by seemingly innocuous events. Agree on the villians needing a motivation too. what I used to do Dming is just create a town full of NPC’s each with their own broad agendas and fill in the blanks based on how they interacted with the payer characters. Experience taught me never to plan too far in advance because my players would inevitably do something unexpected. Quite often this was something bad but now and then they would come up with a solution to a problem that was brilliant and very inspired. Not sure if you have seen Macross Frontier? It is possibly my favourite anime. Would be a close contest between that one and the very funny Martian Successor Nadesico. 20 points for detailed responses.
@sundancer I like the idea of a broad spectrum of terrain on a table. While I would personally love to have a nice large carved table with rivers running through and hills the reality is that it would be too difficult to store when not in use. So I go with a flat surface built upwards with modular components instead 🙂 Star Wars Legion just provides so many options for tabletop settings (ice worlds, forest, desert, massive cities, spaceports, on board ships etc etc…) that I wouldn’t personally know where to start. I have held off getting any of the mis so far but I might pick up the Boba Fett model after Orktober just to paint something different. Great BatRep! 30 points.
@rayzryr an ancient red dragon at level 13? That could have potentially gotten very ugly for everyone who didn’t happen to be the dragon 🙂 Already at company level? Wow that’s impressive. Elf project looks like a fun idea, and Senior Swirly Swords did make me laugh 🙂 30 points for project, responses and tunes.
My hobby time today has been mostly spent mucking about trying to get stowage printed from my Ork LRDG project. I nailed the scale on the first attempt with each of the components but I had sized it ti be true scale – for this project I will need things to be oversized to have them appear in proportion. So will need to go back to the models to scale up and re-export. Also, I need to keep from continuing to mentally add cool or fun ideas to my project or it is going to go from a novelty skirmish force to a full sized army very quickly…
1) What is your favourite mythical or fantastical creature or tale from folklore and why? Ever tried incorporating that creature into a game? If so, tell us about it. If not are there any settings you feel they would work well in?
A tough call, I think it always has come down to mischievous fay or dragons. The mischievousness I think has always called to that inner child of mine, whereas the dragon I have always seen as awe inspiring. I once played a WFB 8th edition campaign that pulled in all of these folklores. It was set on an island almost Albion like, and fay would steal items, dragons would randomly join the game would swoop down and attack units from both sides, a sighting of a unicorn granted bonuses etc. It was fun. The Dwarf slayers of course had added rules about trying to kill these things.
2) Favourite TV show or shows form your childhood. Have you ever re-watched them as an adult? If so, how did they hold up without the nostalgia goggles?
Has to be Pokemon, I dont watch the anime anymore but still play the handhold main story games
3) What is the one hobby project you have always wanted to do but have never started? What is holding you back from starting?
Well if this had been asked a few months ago, I would be saying what I have started. I had a lot of challenges of getting to this point, a 40k Astra Militarum Cavalry Company
Tunes will follow later but, I will finish with my pledge
PLEDGE
I have not taken part in a weekender in nearly eighteen months so I am not pledging anything to extreme. I just want to finish building 50 mainline Fenriders, and start on the tedious task of greenstuffing gaps, and filing mold lines
The heads are altered Puppetswar Cossack Heads, The Horses are from the Death Riders, the Torso is Cadian, the Rebreather is Victoria Miniatures, the legs, arms and webbing is all sculpted
watching the weekender and working on my wardrummer:
i love it when a weekend starts like this
My progress today has been messing about with 3d prints – converted a Canadian WW2 Otter armored car printed at 125% scale to fit into my Ork project. Still need more stowage and detail but I’m having fun playing with the idea.
Also got the first basecoat down on my Salamander Kill Team
And assembled/converted and primed 24 orks, made some progress on my foot knights and started applying paint to the horses on my British Dragoons. A pretty productive day so far hobby wise so happy with that.
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