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Good Morning All!
No hobbying done yesterday. I crawled into bed and slept 14 hours. I still feel like shit, but at least I’m not in danger of falling asleep and drowning in my coffee mug. Not sure how much I’ll get done today either. I may just have a hot bath and crash when I get home.
@robert nice work on the Nurgle models. My favourite stuff to use on dead things is Gw’s sepia wash. Looks especially good over a white or light grey base colour.
@unclejimmy the Tractor Mul sounds like a really versatile piece of kit. My hope is to have one remote per section eventually, but for now I’ll only have them at platoon: one missile tractor and one minigun tractor.
I like the idea of casualty retrieval too. Dreamforge makes a pretty cool medic and robot mule:
I think I’ll need to add better feet; it looks like a leper right now… not much traction. I’m also going to have one of these per section in airborne and mountain platoons to carry kit.
At work on a huge rooftop installing solar panels. Its hot and sucks. A quick pic of the mini I finished and sealed lastnight.
Now for ogres and leave off of the naked boobs for a bit. I know.. boohoo
@ceppie those minotaurs look awesome!
@unclejimmy – I literally just finished re-watching peepshow and enjoyed it more now than when it came out. The ending is just perfect for that show.
I have watched some of the carry on films although not all, i remember enjoying carry on up the khyber. I’m a bit sad that only fools and horses isn’t on netflix (they only have season 4?!) as ive watched odd episodes but never seen it all the way through
I’ll check out force on force definately! I just printed off skirmish sangin at work so I have alot of reading to do now!
I’d like to see some terrain as I will probably scratch build some stuff of my own afterwards. I was really tempted to use the 4ground terrain and try and make ‘Satriales’ from the sopranos (i’m learning italian due to the girlfriend and I can slip it in as “educational” – even though even their dialect slang is terrible! haha)
But i feel i’d have to chop up quite a bit to make it work, picture of satriales below:
which would be great to put in to a line of the 4ground americana shops I have
I also built one more middle eastern adobe building:
i believe i own some assault group ‘nam figures I think? Will put them on the list!
The thing i like about enter shikari is they try to make the live event great and shunned the normal routes into the music industry. Also the first review of their first album I read helped. It basically stated “5 stars, I’m old and don’t understand it fully, the kids seem to like it and there’s something about it” haha – and to be fair thats how I feel about them
I imagine system of a down are awesome to see live. The specials /a.ka etc were the sort of bands my mum loved, whilst my dad loved prog. I think the specials have been churning out music again if im right?
@ceppie nice cobbles I always just end up cutting up card and putting down some wall filler, this would save me about an hour of cutting card! haha
@robert those are some nicely painted nurglings you have there!
@shingen never trust gandhi! that’s what I have learnt haha, there is one specific scenario on CIV II that I found it was set after the fall of Alexander the great and before the rise of rome.
Rome were a ridiculously powerful faction and the idea was to try and hold them back, whilst having strife with the other nations I can upload if anyones interested but by far is one of the best fan made scenarios I’ve seen.
Rome is to be ai, the other playables are: macedonia, phyrrus, selucids, ptolymaics, carthage, celts (although the weakest by a long way)
@biggabum they are really nice – there’s a few bits i’ll change as on the garage some of the areas feel like they could be easily damaged, but the overall look once done is beautiful!
@horati0nosebl0wer very … perky! 🙂 Honestly, good work! When I could tear my eyes away I noticed how well you shaded the cloak. What kind of ogres are you painting?
I recently began picking up some Wargame Exclusive Tau females to use as aliens in Traveller. They are more risqué than I would like, but female models are hard to find.
I may paint the skin as a body suit.
Another great mini:
Zealot will occasionally have female torsos and heads in stock, but it’s hit-or-miss.
@skiptotheend Good call on the ‘educational’ Italian project! I can usually justify working on terrain, or at least the battle boards, as I’m getting paid for those, but it’s hard to justify painting mini’s! Looks like you definitely have the skills to pull off that Satriale’s Store!
@biggabum Too bad. Painting seems like something you and Matty really enjoyed doing together. Well, at least you can still get your ass handed to you in WWX! 🙂
Okay, I’m overdue for some replies.
@ceppie – yes, the 6-A*-8 is the autocannon 3-barrel 20mm autocannon. The “C” is a typo, I have to remove that. Apaches are not troop transports). In the game a pair of Apaches (one counter) has an effective range against platoon/battery sized targets of 8 = 1200 meters.
The weapons loadout would b e up to the player. In our playtest, all four pylons were loaded with Hellfires. So two “game volleys” with ratings: 50-G-20. You could also switch one of those out for the anti-infantry rockets, probably a 25-H-10 or some such. Totally guessing there.
Speaking of 1991 Gulf War Panzer Leader, tinkered with a few more counters. Again, I have to go back and fix many of these, they have small errors in them. Then many new counters have to be added, like Kiowa scout helos, M3 IFVs to distinguish from M2 APCs, M113s, M-60A3s and LAV-25s for the USMC, M109A5 Paladins, there’s a lot to do. A-10 Warthogs and B-52s will also be added as airstrike counters (not really “units” per say).
Damn, I hope you feel better soon. 😀
@unclejimmy : Napoleonics players used to bore the arse off me when I used to go to a club. Every turn has to be exactly how it really happened…what’s the point of playing? – Sounds like they’re not doing it right. The point of games like that is to set it up exactly how it STARTED, then give the players free options from there. The problem with battles this far back is that movement and battlefield communications are so bad, it’s tough to <i>realistically </i>change things once set up from a historical starting point. So sometimes players feel frustrated. On the other hand, sometimes this historical players go too far.
I like the Traktor Muls – reminds me of the old M50 USMC Ontos.
Damn, @robert – those plague bearers looks nasty! Almost like the dancers in a South Florida gentlemens’ club when the lights come up at closing time. 😮 😮 😮
@rayzryr – Other candidates for the “just copy/paste it” UserID Award are @suetoniuspaullinus and @horati0nosebl0wer . Speaking of which …
@horati0nosebl0wer : I love your minis! There was a whole cardboard box of “politically incorrect females” for sale at Historicon, a whole range of poses I probably shouldn’t get into here. I keep wanting to try minis like this, or Kingdom Death pinups, but I’m afraid I’ll mess them up. Painting women and painting tanks are very different. Example: I’m not bad with tanks, but I’m ass at planes. Aircraft are a very different skill set, smoother, cleaner lines, smoother finish, etc. For these reasons I’m never brave enough to try pinup type minis.
@biggabum – cool deal. Hope you start winning games soon! My luck’s been running hot and cold lately. Tied @elessar2590 with my VC against his Australians in Vietnam, won with my Russians against @damon at Darkstar, lost with my Germans against @yavasa at Panzer Leader.
@skiptotheend – Satriales! YES! My mom’s side of the family comes from this part of New Jersey. That’s a real meat store, but has a different name in real life. You can only build it, though, if you also build a Bada-Bing! and a Vesuvios and Tony’s house as well. 😀 Don’t forget the 28mm ducks to go in the pool. 😀
@ceppie – that is exactly what I was talking about. They even have a tracking version that runs like an animal. Not cool. Boston Dynamics have all sorts of scary videos on YT.
That is a brilliant mini. I love the legs. Perfect. 200pts. I like that the sensor is ‘following’ where the trooper is going. Tasty.
Remotes are very useful in Infinity. However, that is all Ariadna really have. The other, more advanced, forces have some really nasty stuff. You can also use them to hack through! Naughty, naughty…very naughty. Some of them can climb walls and have ODD’s. A bit like Predator and makes you -6 to hit. That is pretty bad when you are using a D20.
So, an averge trooper with an assault weapon is BS 13. You are at medium range and in the open…D20 hitting on 13 or less, but +3 for the range and you have 3 shots coming at you. Not good odds. However, ODD gives you a better chance. Add partial cover for another -3. Lethal.
Those bootleg Tau are delicious.
@rayzryr – you have never played Traveller? (almost faints) You have never come across it! It is the end times for sure…
That was Mowgli watching over his garden when I first got him. When his brother dies the woman form Cat Protection rang and asked if I wanted to take another cat to keep Mowgli company. I got Lilli. She had been feral and was about a year old. She used to play with the foxes in the wood opposite my house.
When I moved back home they both just fit in with the other three cats we had at the time. When the local children were heading home from school he would sit on the wall and they would fuss him. He got xmas cards from them!
Lilli would come in first thing in the morning covered in cobwebs/dust and smelling of foxes.
I can show you what he has…
We called it “Horn of War”. That is a full-size SM for Dawn of War 2 in the enterance to GW HQ in Nottingham. I did send them a copy, but never got a reply.
The old jokes are the best. I was Special Forces so i’m trained to get in-and-out without anyone noticing…
He was a great uncle, but it is what you learn about people later that changes what you think of them. He was a massive twat and still is according to my mother. He lives alone with some 16 year-old girlfriend…if she is to be believed. When I was younger he really spoiled me. He has three daughters and no boys. You don’t need to be a harsh Freudian to get that one.
I never thought about the make-up angle before! I will ask her when she gets in. When it comes down to it she prefered Dita. 500pts. I used to love buying records. Every saturday morning at 1000hrs Keith and I would head into Newcastle to buy music. Those were dangerous times to show your musical alliances. If you went up the wrong way into the Handyside Arcade, to buy badges, you might have to walk past the Heavy Metal lads who didn’t really like Keith in his Pork-Pie hat and strip glasses or me wearing fingerless fishnet gloves. No wonder I was so good at escape and evasion. No kidding, you could get a punch in the back of the head for having the wrong record in your bag from Virgin. It was a sad day when they made the bags see-through.
The worst crime back then was being ‘square’. That would get you an instant kicking…if you were lucky. Being ‘square’ was wearing badges and/or t-shirt of conflicting genres. I am not joking. When I was on holiday aged 12-13 (my birthday was during our summer holiday) I was stopped by four locals when they noticed I was wearing a Duran Duran badge and a Crass badge. Then they discovered I was not from around there. I was VERY lucky that day. The good old days.
TISM? I’ll work it out. I started young going to see bands. When I was 13 I was offered a ticket to go and see a band. It was Slade and I had 20 minutes to decide. Second best decision I ever made. I always loved music from being really young and my grandfather played the piano very well. This was something else. These guys were firing it at me from 45 feet away and it made me feel like I was going to wet my pants. It was amazing. Still is. I have no idea how many bands I have seen, but I have seen one band 66 times since I was 15. I took Jamie to see his first show just after his 12th birthday – Steel Panther. Then we went to see Rush. I am a great parent!
My Newcastle is a bit less sunny than yours. The north of England…just before Scotland. We live just outside Durham and you can see the famous Cathedral from our bedroom window. I do spend a lot of the time on the banks of Loch Fyne when I need a break from all the noise, but not as much now that I can’t ride my motorbike anymore.
I hope your brother doesn’t put it off too long…than is never a good idea. I’m sure he knows what he is doing. I spend quite a bit of time in hospitals too! I’ll be thinking about him.
What bands do I see in Newcastle? Most of them growing up as back then it was impossible to get to other gigs. Kids these days do not know they are born. My granny used to say that and I thought she was just old, but she was right. Where do I start? Toyah kissed me when I was 13 behind the Mayfair (I skipped school to get an autograph), Bauhaus scared me to death at 13 too as I had to go wearing my school uniform, Stiff Little Fingers, Siouxie and the Banshees, Cure, Smiths, Rage Against the Machine, Damned (loads of times), Gary Numan, and I met Bill Hicks when he played Newcastle Uni student union.
Heaps more. I also sat 6 feet from Tori Amos as she sang ‘Landslide’ by Stevie Nicks. She looked right at me as she played and sang. I could feel myself blushing. It was wonderful. We used to go all over to see bands – any excuse for a road trip. Glasgow is always my favourite ‘other’ venue. We have a friend who has a sort of tribute band, but it isn’t…the Symths Experience. We see them if I am well enough. Brilliant.
I have no real interest in tournament games. I did win our club Blood Bowl tournament in 2009, but that was just a fun thing. I am always wary of playing games with total strangers. Some people get so pissed off when they lose I always worry they will tip the table or try and hit me!
I look forward to seeing what the new game is like too.
No pictures? Strike one.
@biggabum – I have never worn a watch since I was 14 and saw Easy Rider. If you wear a £20000 watch all it shows to me is that you are a dildo with too much money and a tiny champer.
As long as they both keep showing their father how much they love him by buying models…i’m good. For Father’s Day they got me a portable spray-booth. I knew all those beatings would pay off!
Eve just does stuff like that. When they were not at school we used to send them to do voluntary work. They both did it until the were 18+. It was good for both of them.
@horati0nosebl0wer – AWESOME! The green is very striking. 200pts. I love redheads too.
@skiptotheend – the end of the series is perfect. I wouldn’t pull him off either! Have you seen ‘Back’? Very sinister. We sometimes put it on Netflux and just let it run. Heather also watched ‘Fresh Meat’ and I thought it was quite funny.
Have you seen any BBC Scotland stuff?
I think it is on YT, but you have to watch ‘Carry On Screaming’. Jon Pertwee is in it as the mad doctor. The best of the lot. Carry On Camel too as it stars Phil Silvers.
One of my M-E roadside buildings.
Italian? Sopranos? Ah, forget out it. 100pts. I want to see that when you build it. I fancied some of the TTCombat versions for ZombieTV games.
Basically – not allowed! Warning. Prog rules forever. Well, the songs are pretty long!
@oriskany – that is not how they played it! Boring old wankers.
That must be their great-great-great grandfather. Nasty thing that. Must be noisey?
@unclejimmy – the M50 Ontos? All I know is that the Marine Corps ditched them pretty quickly. That should tell you something. When the funding-starved, equipment-starved, always-using-weapons-two generations-old-because-we-operate-off-the-US-Navy’s-tablescraps … when the US Marine Corps turns its nose up at equipment … man, you know it’s bad. 🙁
I like the space marine statue. What’s up with the arrows on the knees? So players remember how to set the mini on the table? 😀
Epic desert building! I like the weathering along the paint on the bottom.
Oh, I meant to say – thanks very much for the kind words on the Sitrep Podcast thread. 😀 😀 😀
Have no fear, @yavasa – those were new counters I had never playtested, what I really needed was artillery and we weren’t using indirect fire in a tutorial “demo game” – and I make it a point to never “beat up” a player to whom I’m trying to teach / introduce a game.
I don’t throw the game, of course, or let the new player win or lose on purpose. After all, I find that new players dislike being patronized as much as they dislike being curb-stomped by experienced players who are “teaching” them the game.
What I usually do is set up an “impossible” game for myself … or at least a very hard game … and then play as hard as I can. This way the new player can watch me and learn, but at the same time I’m not steam-rolling a new player who’s trying to learn the rules of a game that admittedly has a pretty significant learning curve.
@oriskany do you think I have a set of those counters when you’re done? 🙂 They’re gorgeous, as usual.
some of the kit looks VERY familiar. I crew commanded an M577 Queen Mary in Germany (I think it says m557 on the counter though). What’s with the ‘0’ attack rating? Mine had a Ma Deuce on the cupola — and I was damn good with it! ;-).
I have questions about some of the numbers. Why only a range of 2 on the American infantry? Also, their defense rating is the same as for Iraqi infantry. Doesn’t body armour account for something? Or is that all supposed to be encompassed in the A-D morale system? Just curious. I’m sure it’s all very well thought out!
@unclejimmy Wargame Exclusive makes GW stuff better than GW.
Their skimmer pilots look like they’re dry humping their machines, but still a good model. I also like the turret gunner, mean to replace a drone in a devilfish, or three drone skimmer like the one above.
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