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Good Morning All!
Some chores this morning and back to battle boards. I also need to finish the minotaur ballistae build.
@horati0nosebl0wer Great work on the medusa thingie! I always find that I’m happy with a mini until I take a pic of it. The camera really shows the holes in my game.
I find this site is motivation enough to get things done!
@oriskany Now that you mention it, Panzerblitz was probably one of my best bargains ever! Not that I got it for less than retail, but if you consider how much mileage I got, and still get, from that game, $14 was a steal!
@unclejimmy That washroom description made me gag. Worst one I was ever in was in Brindisi, near the docks, where there is still, fittingly, a statue of Moussolini (or at least there was): shit on the floor, shit in the urinals, some had plastic bags over them that had been half torn away and used anyway. There was creative scatography on the walls, and all the toilets but one were full… and I had to pay a guy out front for a square of bum wad.
While we’re on the topic, I also have to clean the bathroom this morning.
I’m OK with skin, although I struggle with it longer than I should. I don’t paint eyes, and there are probably only 20 people in the world who should. Most efforts look like their parents were brother and sister. Maybe I just need better magnification.
What are Traktor Muls?
Some token Canadian content this morning:
Back later.
Weeeell we got our game in today but unfotunately my phone died on me half way through the game so only got pics of the first few turns. Which isn’t a bad thing reall coz you miss the bit of the game where Matty absolutely destroys me with some really underhand tactics (Hiding Jesse James behind a building untill I forgot about him being there and moved everything up and into the open to mop up his last few survivors, then have Jesse jump out and shoot everything in the face). I lost…. in a big way.
Okay, finally some more responses. Sorry I’m so late. I have this weekend off … but not entirely.
PSC indeed make great kits, @unclejimmy . The only two small things (and these really are SMALL things I don’t like are they usually sell everything in 5s, which is annoying … and the track assemblies. Yours seem to have worked out great, though. 😀
Marders are indeed very useful, and “historically useful” – a LOT of German units had them from early ’42 onwards. Kitbashing at 1:1 scale, though, so there are a lot of versions and variants out there to look out for. Some with German 7.5 PaK40s, some with captured Soviet 76.2mm AT guns, etc.
And great work and pose on the Domaru!
Shit, that reminds me, I never pledged.
Okay, like I said, I don’t really have the weekend off. So … I and putting a huge dent in Ops Center Episode 10 (Vietnam P2). Everything is written, recorded, edited, and mixed … now it’s just the graphics and storyboard. It’s due to Sitrep at midweek at the latest … so I’m still early, but only by 2-3 days.
Also, I’m still responsible for a SitRep Stream on Sunday afternoon, even with no game scheduled and even with the 40K weekend. So I’ll be coming up with an AI version of Valor & Victory Vietnam and running through a quick demo game and playtest tomorrow on Twitch.
So that’s a design, setup, play, and live stream.
Still, this whole weekend is about half speed. Got an amazing NINE hours of sleep last night. Felt great.
Good to see you @rayzryr and @skiptotheend .
Hey, @biggabum – now there’s a blast from the past! Been a while. Hope you are keeping well. Looks like a great WWX game set up.
Damn, that Black Mamba singer is pretty hot!
@ceppie – more great work on the starship crew!
I made about $650 USD as month as an E-2 recruit. Graduating recruit training to infantry school / A-school we were cranked up to about $800. This was 1989, though. It was actually great money, so long as you weren’t married.
And good grief, look at that model! I’ve never seen a soldier who could carry a BALLISTA at shoulder arms!
And OY! Don’t blame me for the depletion of your honey whiskey. I only drank what you gave me. 😀
@mecha82 – Bf-109 was indeed a beautiful plane. And 10 points for the correct name. If I had a nickel for every time I heard it called an “Me-109” … 🙁 🙁 🙁
Great work on the commission piece, @horati0nosebl0wer. You can probably guess what my two favorite parts are. 😀
@unclejimmy – the Guns of Navarone did not have trench lines. Pretty much what you see in the photo. Except I’m noticing now the photo didn’t really come out. I will re-post. German infantry that were actually in German uniforms and equipment (as opposed to the usual same guys just colored gray or tan), a garage door at the base of the mountain, an elevator that worked with a little string, medics, casualties, beds, a whole little base in there. The tanks were a little goofy, but the jeep and halftrack were nice.
Yes, I agree the FoF rules “play” much simpler than they read. Reading the rules the activation sequence sounds like a nightmare. But it really isn’t.
Yes, I have a thing for that game (PanzerBlitz / Leader / Arab-Israeli Wars) Might have something to do with the fact that it’s one of the best wargames ever designed. It’s designer, Jim Dunnigan, later started his own company. He won every award there was for wargame design and publication. In 1999 they made up a new award for him: Designer of the Millennium. Not kidding about that. Now there is a “Jim Dunnigan Award” other designers aspire to win. When they start NAMING the awards after you, you made a big contribution to the industry.
@ceppie – that toilet sounds like the ones in Paisley. Except they have no toilet paper. 100pts. I went into a pub toilet and there was shit all over the light bulb…very surreal. Very German. Very Warhol…the dirty park ranger. The worst smelling toilet I never saw (thankfully) was in a jail not far from BoW. I don’t know what they had been eating, but their diet needs more fibre. Give me a warm, open grave anyday.
I was in someones house and asked to use the facilities. It is someone I had known for ages, but never been to their house. If I tell you he was growing onions on his living room floor (in loads of cola bottles cut in half and glued together) you can maybe guess the rest. Anyway, I went into the dunny and the seat was pretty bad so I lifted it with my foot. Only half of the seat went up the rest was stuck to the bowl. It looked like an episode of Star Trek…loads of Klingons!
Dave paints eyes while he is talking to you! He is a shit-bag, muscle-bound bastard. I tried once about ten years ago and I would rather not talk about it. Dave will paint make-up on female minis and can do the “wet-look” on dresses. Most of the time you see people do them it looks as though the mini has suffered a severe head injury!
Traktor Mul: Ariadna version of a high-tech Remote. Quad-bike sized, with tracks,and a pair of massive rocket launchers on the side. Pretty nasty stuff. Requires an operator. You will love them.
@biggabum – he didn’t want to be a barrister after two years. He was really down towards the exams and I got him to spill…too many wankers talking about cases equaling a new Porche and what kind of watch do you wear? He wanted to quit, but as he was half-way through a 4 year MA, it would have been a waste. He loves “the law”, but not the people he was having to work with. We talked with his tutors and they changed his course to a standard law degree. The extra year is just the barrister stuff.
He doesn’t know what to do, but this job was just for 6 weeks to set-up their ebay store – one of Heather’s friends recommended him. We thought it would be good work experience for a CV, but they offered him a full time job running the office. I know it is vulgar to talk about money, but he makes over £350 a week. My first job made me £47.70 a week. What has happened to the world? He is off in a couple of weeks and has booked more driving lessons…he has eyes on a Skoda Octavia! My first job allowed me to get the bus.
Eve works for one of the Energy companies and has done really well. She has her own department where they are responsible for all the finance. Eve and two of her friends got chatting about people who had outstanding bills because they were seriously ill or terminal. The cancer charity they made a proposal to is patronised by PC, they told him and he invited them to a dinner he was giving for awesome people. All 3 went and Eve left before they changed into their Lizard forms!
She sent me a picture just before the Rolls collected them…
That makes two of us now. I am no fan of fancy food and small portions. However, they did have a super Port. Not as much when we left!
If any customers are diagnosed then their bills are stopped until they get better. No time limit either. They say three years, but technically it is infinite. (an insider told me) They also do lots of other things for the families.
TTCombat rule. We have heaps of their stuff that gets used for Infinity. The fire escapes and air-ducts are outstanding.
I want the big barge and convert it for Infinity!
You started with a pretty nasty looking battle line, but it sounds like it didn’t last. Some fantastic pics. 100pts. I always loved your battle reports. Another 100pts.
@oriskany – that is just one sprue I bought from Ebay. I have never built one before and thought I should give it a try first. My left side makes a good ‘holder’ for stuff, but is not to good at making models! Not too bad…so far. I have a few of their tanks.
The Domaru is a single pose mini…all Infinity minis are. A shame, but I don’t care. Their minis are by far the best! I will have to get the other three finished before Jamie is on holiday next friday. With any luck the new O-12 stuff might be here before that and I can go all ‘alien’ on his skinny ass.
What time is your stream tomorrow…I would like to give that a watch. 50pts.
Nine hours of sleep. I don’t think I have ever slept that long in the last 30 years! I did almost 3 hours without moving, but that was while I was sedated with Morphine. Hmmmmmm, Morphine!
This week @biggabum returns…it is starting.
Those things with the crossbows look like Biffa Bacons mother. Google her. 100pts.
I notice I get no points for knowing the right name…someone is teachers pet.
The GoN set was by Airfix and OO/HO scale.
@woldenspoons – they might be good, but I wouldn’t buy a Wacoshop product. I’ll struggle on. I am on try number 4 as I write this. I’ll post a picture as soon as I can.
Well, I am on my fifth and final attempt with this ‘skin’. If I fail then he gets camo-paint on his chops! I am going to have a bite to eat and some milk before I try again. Wish me luck.
@ceppie – this is a TM…
@oriskany – I also found some pictures of the sets I was talking about.
The first one I bought was about £5 when I was 7-8. Very expensive.
@unclejimmy I didn’t say the movie Top Gun was good, just the song and the first five minutes. F-5’s for MIG’s, and they’re supposed to be Russian jets carrying Exocet missiles? I spent most of the movie rolling my eyes. You should see his co-star love interest now… total battle heifer!
I’m sure mommy ordered the hit on Di… never crossed my mind to ask Charles about it. I met him at a mess dinner once, just before I threw up a cigar I had eaten on a bet. I blame the port.
First board more or less done. I just need to touch up the edges. River boards have already been delivered, along with two of these flat boards. They are 2′ by 2′, just like GW ones. If you don’t have river boards you can pretty much get away with a doctored vinyl mat and scatter terrain.
Next: I start with the same green edge as a default on all the boards, so you don’t have a sudden straight line of a different colour of foliage from one board edge to the next. No gravel or any other stuff to tilt bases, and all variations in the terrain will be accomplished with scatter terrain, rather than sculpting elevations into the boards themselves. It always looks like crap having movement trays sitting on uneven ground.
I made four hills and four copses, and a few individual trees thus far. My favourite hill:
This was on when I came in for a beer.
More to follow.
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