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Ok, I’ve had dinner and have a bourbon in hand… replies to page three… playing catch-up!
@ceppie yeah the camera is great for pointing out what needs more work.
@biggabum were you defeated though? The rules of “pics or didn’t happen” still apply, right? 😉
oh I didn’t actually say Hello @oriskany sorry! Good to see you too.
Eyes are a pain…
Tom Cruise?
Someone told me the other day that Christian Bale based his performance in American Psycho on Tom Cruise after watching an interview that he was doing. Here in Australia in the 80’s we had an ad of a teenage girl giving up a dinner date with Tom Cruise to stay home for her Mum’s Lamb roast.@sundancer come on, you cant just drop in a cool idea like that and walk away! Share! Materials, method! Also, breakfast chocolate? Like chocolate biscuits for breakfast?
@ceppie man, the battle boards kick butt. I’ve had a look through the project you’re doing, I’d be stealing ideas and tips if I had space to do that. In the near future maybe.
@horati0nosebl0wer dude that sucks having to move. Sounds like he’ll be free to live with his waifu pillow in peace though.
A picture of our guest, who moments ago was up on my painting desk trying to drink my brush rinsing water…
ok, I’m actually going to go and do some hobby now… I’ll post some pics tomorrow.
Good Morning All!
I got the second board flocked, and have moved on to the last two flat boards. I’ll be putting a plasticard edge on these today.
I also got the second minotaur built last night. They are totally badass.
@sundancer very creative use of a chocolate tray! What brand is that? I need an excuse to buy chocolate. I’ve considered buying a TV before just to get the Styrofoam stuff to make a bunker.@horati0nosebl0wer Sucks that you have to move. Sorry to hear it, but there’s something to be said for new beginnings. At least you won’t have to tiptoe around your old roommate anymore.
I wouldn’t want to be the plastic surgeon that had to implant those Tupperware tits!
@rayzryr The crewman is for a Traveller first contact campaign. There are going to be a few human and alien ships floating around in orbit, and when it comes to boarding actions, I want to have both factions well represented with drones, robots, remotes, etc. I also have human marines.
The Zealot mini’s are fabulous. They have an entire range of minotaur models: champions, command groups, shamans. All the ones I’ve bought so far have been resin. They also make a badass kroot hound proxy:
Thanks for the endorsement on the battle boards project! I like sculpting polystyrene; it’s really easy to work with, and won’t break the bank – $35 CAD for a 4’ by 8’ sheet (2” thick).@unclejimmy I wonder if Kelly Ann McGillis will be Tom Cruise’s love interest in the Top Gun sequel?
Tunes this morning:Chores then back to battle boards. Game on everyone!
Apologies All @unclejimmy I got ambushed by a family get together which involved a new tandoori oven! Annoyingly the uncle in question works sourcing sites for mobile phone masts, but lives in the back of beyond.
The picture is from SPACED it was a sitcom on channel 4 around the 2000’s which was written by Simon Pegg – very much in the mould of his later films but I think probably in some way his best/funniest work. It’s about 30 somethings living in london but not quite being adults. However it is probably only fourth on my list of favourite sitcoms to Red Dwarf, Dads Army & Peepshow although this changes alot! well worth the watch!
I like TTCombat especially their venetian range! I also like sarissa’s gangs of rome stuff – however i already got some 4ground stuff from my brother last year (which to my shame i only finished this weekend), luckily i got a few bargains on ebay and picked a couple more up in their 20% sale:
The ones i finished off this week:
their stuff is lovely but in some places very fiddly, i plan to make signage and posters for different eras so i can quickly theme up a board!
I also started my gangs of rome bakery – which i might use in a middle eastern board for the time being as I have a lack of terrain and it is in a similar ‘build’ to those
however i am unsure how my painting will turn this out!
So moderns I havent actually started I got Spectre rules and minis in the BOW swap-a-thon which I am probably painting these next few weeks. I also bought a pdf of skirmish sangin as this seemed to have good reviews!
and is also the reason why my tea chest of shame has now some 4ground middle eastern buildings (ebay bargain)
I also bought some modern us ranger squads and a couple packs of insurgents to paint up too. All models atm are at 28mm but we will see where the future leads!
1) yes unfortunately it was a cuddly toy lab, although a real one would have been cool – my g.f wants a german shepherd and I love a boston terrier, but i think we (if we move) might end up on an australian sheep dog for one we both like (as a middle ground)
the blanket was more of a doylie considering the holes, however much like now as a kid i could snooze anywhere, i think i was just much more prepared back then.
My dad had the old dr who on vhs when i was young (well some of them!) and i enjoyed them quite a bit growing up! I do like the new dr who but sometimes it is a bit paint by numbers or a little bit force fed on subject matter…
Sharpe is great for a young kid, all about battle and women (of which i knew nothing much about either! – and probably still dont!)
I have the coin! (Picture below) next to the notes my oma bought over with her as mementos when she escaped cold war germany (she was from kothen but escaped in berlin with help from two aunts), tried a few times and had to stop, got shot at once and nearly caught the night she did run across train tracks. many an interesting story of her life in ww2 and before – however she seemed to very much dislike russians!
I remember my first computer – infact I still play the first game we ever got on it called civilisation 2, it is both rubbish and utterly brilliant at the same time. In the game they tried to make Ghandi ultra mellow as a leader so set it to 0, however 0 both meant zero and 10 in the coding of the era, so infact instead of giving him a 0/10 rating for agressiveness, in the game he is the demon child of adolf hitler and genghis kahn, he is 11 on the bastard-o-meter ever sneak attacking, threatening etc. Gandhi – what a bastard!
for music I will drop in two of my more modern english bands:
Enter shikari – redshift – ecclectic band, everything is independently done crossing the lines from hardcore back into dance/drum and bass/electro etc and back again (and everything in between) I think last year they were one of the first bands to use surround sound at their gigs – it was quite a weird experience having the music move around the room
and the milk
annnnd:
the skints:
east london ska?
Thanks for coming out to the stream, @tuffyears !
Not a bad little playtest. Proves the Iraqis can be dangerous if handled with aggression, focus, and properly asymmetrical victory conditions.
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