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sundancer 5 years, 1 month ago.
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01/10/19 Edit to lable work
First up some Grim Hammers. There are 12 in all. I bought them for an ex about 2-3 years ago and they were still here while she is not. I gave them to a cousin then and he has been scarce lately so I decided to keep them and paint them up. These have since been finished and I will be posting pics of them later today.
My kitbashed Sons of Medusa Primaris Captain: he has a Tartaros Terminator Power Sword, Devastator Missile Launcher backpack and old metal Iron Hand upgrade kit head. He has also since been finished.
A quick and simple objective marker I made for Warhammer 40,000. All the cannisters were loose pieces which I was afraid I would misplace so I just glued them together.
@somegeezer sent me some Catachan heads as I thought the ones that come with the kit are too cheap/playmobil looking. They will be added to my Mantis Warriors detachment, at least some day when I get weather for priming.
The terrain I finished building with my GF at her place. Space Marine for scale comparrison. Its a quick to build and impressively big kit.
And this was annoying enough to do so I wont be reordering the photos…
The bases for three Carcharodon… I cannot remember the name for themm. They have these backpack chute thingies and autocannons. I used the recipe from a GW Warhammer TV video for terrain, and have been using it for various things for some time. I love how they look.
My test Plague Marine. I love the colours and how it looks, but it is TIME consuming.
My friend’s Warhammer Underworlds warband. He did the basecoats but hasn’t called up for a painting session in months. I was getting sick of them looking at me from the shelf so I painted them up to completion. Pics to follow.
The ‘Not-Pokemon’ Kickstarter I backed: ‘Battle Monsters’.
The first one is based on the Pokemon, I reckon, ‘Slugma’ so I painted in the same colour scheme.
All three together. There are about 15-20 more left in a box for a day suitable priming.
This guy appears to be based on Paras, so I gave him/her the same colour as the corresponding Pokemon.
Finally the ‘not Bulbasaur’ that I painted, but did the bulb as an Ivysaur bulb (the slightly more mature evolved form of Bulbasaur’). I like how the skin came out and will do that on some Orks at some point.
I went to a local ‘maker faire’ event today ( https://eindhoven.makerfaire.com/ )
They had a company doing demos with a really cool (and expensive) 3D printer
And yes … that thing was hanging from a thread and printing at the same time.
They even had a battery powered model printing while on a rotating platform just to demonstrate the stability of the thing.
There were a few flaws in the model that was printing, but given the abuse that thing had endured I’d be tempted to say that any of ‘cheap’ 3D printeres most likely would have failed.It’s definitely proof that with this sort of stuff you get what you pay for (it’s not below the 500 Euro budget … ).
The thing is targetted at schools who want to use these things in classes. I’ve got to say that if I wanted a 3D printer then this would be the one I’d be saving my money for.Death, an interesting topic. I’ve tried my hand at calling in dead to work, or as close as I ever felt like with effluent coming from both ends, which did work at least once.
- Terrain: There is a small amount of order that comes into play when setting up things for a skirmish game. In playing Malifaux there’s always some back and forth to the setup as you do vie for leverage in foresight to later play. I can only guess that with battle board settings it probably eliminates that element. I’ve recently picked up Warcry to try out at my FLGS and it looks like the same despite my notion that it has strong elements of Mordheim.
- Starter sets: I’d say they do have their place to get up and go for people who generally don’t collect and build or have limited chances to get out and play. I like the idea of having nearly matched forces to start off play with and then running wild with other crews/factions. Blood Bowl and Necromunda look like that. I’ve yet to get my hands on Guildball as I fell in love with the Butchers, building a collection slowly, and then grabbed a team of Alchemists on consignment for a damn good deal. That does remind me someone owes me a box set that I should follow up on.
- Book to film: Oddly enough Jurassic Park was the last one that I watched which I had read the book beforehand. I’m curious to see how the film “It” stacks up against the book. With all the improvements in CG I’d think that more and more films might well come closer to the printed material.
- Comedy sucks: I mostly agree. I just recently watched an Eddie Murphy special from the 80s on Netflix (Richard Pryor soon to be watched as well) and thought that the best comedy is offensive that takes the power out of polite humor. It generally is seated in our collective sense of guilty pleasure where we know we shouldn’t go but love to do so anyway.
- Comedy duos: As far as duos I don’t think that there’ve been many in the way of many in Western countries that I’m aware of for some time. Maybe the most recent could be Jeff Dunham, for American audiences, eventhough he uses puppets and plays as voice for both straight man and funny man roles. It might be easier to look to Japan with their tsukkomi and boke partners of manzai tradition (the inspiration for C3P0 and R2D2 in Star Wars from Akira Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress).
For my pledge I will finish off my tiefling on display base and then get a basecoat for my superheroine. Yes, I’ve had my head down lately. I’ve been getting work issues and doing painting to try and get some ends to meet. Now, photos.
Could only throw so many out at one time. After the commission bear this Reaper Bones fig was good to play with. I took the shield off and repla ed it with a piece of plasticard that I sculptsd on for visual interest.
Ok, final display tiefling that I’m about to finish up. Yes, @oriskany there are reasons that we paint some figures.
Now what I’ll start on next to basecoat. The only thing I’ll need to add is the spider webbing around it after the paint is done. I can already see the final effects that will tie this figure to the base.
Now then.. I’m spent as its a quarter to midnight unlike other times in music
That reply took me 137 minutes to write…I am really slow today! After all of that I need some toast.
@sundancer – those Dredd minis rule. I was sitting in bed thinking about them!
@limburger – jokes that bad will get you banned. I’m surprised you are still here.
Joke: Hunchback of Notredame goes on a blind date. He meets the girl and she is so offended she slaps him (almost knocking him out) and then pukes on him. As he regains his composure he notices the chuck and says to the girl, “Did you do that?”, pointing to the vomit. The lady, with venom in her voice, says “Yes!” “Thank god for that, ” says QM…”I thought my hump had burst.”
A punishment device used by the British Army too. You place the man on top, but the top of the horse will separate the testicles. Try being sat there from sun-up to sun-down!
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