Weekender XLBS: Hobby Time & Prepping For Warzone!
April 5, 2015 by warzan
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great series by bintykins , happy sunday everyone.
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Happy Sunday!
40k weekend would be a good laugh, and I believe I still have all my Lego, although the majority of my kits were broken down for building into my own stuff.
Happy sunday !!! 🙂
for more fakery look up the camoflague unit on wikipedia.
Not just any any happy Sunday! Happy Zombies and Chocolate day!
Hoppy Sunday!
Happy Easter Sunday!
Happy Sunday!
In case anyone is interested there is a new version the tree woman from the guy who did the ultraforge sculpts. It is part of the creature caster kickstarter which has finished now, but i am guessing it will be commercially avaliable at some point in the not too distant future.
Video and pics are below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXsGQiwopjk
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jeremyglen/creature-caster-first-wave/description
The 40K connoisseur event I’d love to atend, but since my Ultramarines were A collected over 20+ years so have a wide range of paintjob qualities, and are B 10-a-penny Smurfs that everyones fought, I feel I may be disqualified… I’ll still watch the liveblogging though.
I think the 40k event sounds really cool and would definitely apply if I was able when it came up.
Happy Easter Sunday y’all!
Nice weekender, last year I bought 2 Lego mindstorms kits to build robots with my 6 year old kids and they have been loving it, now they make their own systems and with a little help they program astonishingly complex routines for their age, for me lego is the perfect toy.
HAPPY EASTER SUNDAY.
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Happy Sunday
thanks for another great show
Some of my first memory of gaming is useing Lego for RPG, nice and easy
Happy Easter-Sunday guys! The vid is odd to watch for me again. Had that prob in the past. I watch in IE11 and when switching to full screen the people get to be pixly..the backround is sharp…odd.
Happy Sunday, and Easter…great show guys
Ahh lego… yes it is expensive, but my 6 yo loves it and creates all sorts with it. @warren the issue I have we build a set and then within days it’s broken down by him and added to the lego crate so he can do his own stuff which is kind of how I used to play and sounds like how you described playing with it…but the modeller in me is like Nooooo it is a completed set how can you break it down.. but it’s encouraging creativity right…lol
I’ve never had a mini that wasn’t bashed into a better one. Probably because of Lego.
Happy Easter Sunday!!
1. Re GW being more… ‘relaxed’; my flags told me last week that restrictions were being relaxed on him selling GW stuff through eBay and the like. Interesting!
2. Re 40k weekend. Firstly 12 people would need 11 games each to play each other. So how about 3 groups of 4; Imperial, chaos & neutral. Each player plays 3 games against each other group, maybe chucking in a couple of battle-brothers games? It’ll help you filter the applications to ensure a good mix.
Warren rediscovers LEGO! We have all been dismissive of something through a mix of ignorance and old fart prejudice; whether it be a form of music, game, technology or whatever. LEGO is a fascinating company in many respects, I looked into its history etc in the last couple of years due to some big anniversaries. Some things to look into: 1. The solid foundation that is the ‘Lego System’. Simple, but brilliant idea that means pieces from 50+ years ago are still 100% compatible. 2. The ethics of the company. Right up there in terms of worker rights, ecology etc.… Read more »
Can’t argue that Lego are hugely established and have a great foundation (largest tyre producer in the world I believe) but they are far from an ethical company. They are in partnership with Shell (makes sense for their produce) which I don’t need to bore people with details about drilling in the Arctic etc.
I think the 40K Connoisseur weekend sounds like a lot of fun! I’d definitely want to make my way over to that if it was within my budget.
I’d be totally up for the 40k event..
Great video. A couple of things, first the 40K thing. As ever, family and life in general mean it would be impractical for me to ever attend, but for what it is worth, it is definitely something I would love to watch on alive blog. The what’s in the box stuff, aside from his obsession with bases, I thought Darryl’s way of doing unboxings way back when was the best you had. Clear view of the contents plus the end result and a few comments about the models use in game. Now I know you want to up production values… Read more »
I would say that is pretty similar to what we do now with myself and Justin on the unboxings. In most cases we try to show a built example. But you would suggest more chat on in-game use where applicable?
It’s good feedback, don’t get me wrong there. I may need to start using justin as my rules guy more often and maybe cut some of the historical ranting 😉
Keep the ranting as it’s very informative ranting, it would be good to package up the unboxing, building tips and 3 colours up in one video once they were all aired.
I agree with @brucelea . Don’t cut **too** much of the historical content. Nor the “technical” content (what all those knobs and rivets and vents and boxes on the tank actually are). This is particular is where I’ve actually learned a lot from the unboxing episodes I’ve watched. I’d almost be embarrassed to say what I USED to think a lot of those components were.
I think the in game stuff worked very well for Daryll as he mostly did 40K which he knew inside out. With such a wide range of systems now I do understand it would be difficult, I mean, I watch for the models anyway, I’ve never played half the games you unbox stuff for. I like the rants about things, and if its a model you have useful insight into using, that has a place too. Mainly I think it served as a little extra beyond ‘this is the parts this is the model’ aspect that unboxings can become. Some… Read more »
I think showing the built version is pretty valuable – and a suitable figure for scale is always handy (just in case either John or Justin has uncommonly big or small hands :-)).
OR make it a bit longer and have both? john.
Not sure about the in-game use chat. Needs to be based on context. I don’t play Bolt Action. But I like the unboxings of those products because they can be used in the different games I do play. A lot of chat about how they work in a single game would be of no value to me. Whereas with something for Warmahordes that is almost always going to be used with those rules, it would work.
Visual treat 40k weekend sounds great, I also like the idea of campaign weekends. Unfortunately I can always find too many reasons not to paint so wouldn’t be able to attend.
I loved the End Times. I have played a massive Mega Battle for every book and gone through a fantastic amount of ‘sitting and listening’ when my local games store owners waxed lyrical about the new stories. The final end for most of the characters was very good – especially with Teclis and my Ungrim Ironfist. I didn’t like the idea of Balthasar Gelt becoming as important as he did for the Dwarfs but we were practically demolished as an empire by that point. The finality of the End Times was a good line to be drawn under the whole… Read more »
Still sore about my Lizards blasting off again.
BoW Sam
It’s all good. Once the new warhammer world is founded, the Lizardmen will find it, guided by the stars and land to rebuild their civilisation. They’ll also have their own great plan to thwart Chaos. Second times a charm yeah?
agreed, if i dont like 9th just play 8th, i love 8th. i dont mind what they do with the game i will make my own new releases and my own stuff to play it, cus i love it
Happy Sunday! I have collected legos for around 30 years , and now my daughter loves them, there is a product line named Lego Games, i adquired some of the Heroica series that is bassically a dungeon crawler game, and is a great way of introducing my little daughter into gaming, instruction following, rules, and dice, since you make your tiles of terrain with legos and play with the minifigs as tokens. and after you finish playing they can end being a spaceship or anything they comes up with. Ps. AFOL(adult fan of lego) is the name we lego fan… Read more »
If you were to run the 4ok weekend in the/a summer I’d be very keen 🙂