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Haha I'm afraid its more than 200...... I was counting them up last night trying to fall asleep. Deadzone is probably around 150... got the 80 zombie deal 'cause it was relatively cheap, plus two factions and their boosters. The entire point of bones was to get a load of minis as well, so there's a lot there. Battle systems will be a reprieve since its just a bit of popping dense card out of its sheet, with a bit of clean up. I never counted up mars attacks but its a heavyweight too.

Though... really I mean, dbx is practically just an expansion to deadzone for me. I'm picking up some extra SciFi entities to use as civilians, objectives, hazards, and so on. At least one or two of the teams will be getting weaponized and drafted to either join or form their on strike team. What I'm really looking to do in terms if priority is more like...

Finish Dr who diorama by deadline, roughly by the time I should have dz w2 and mars attacks. Mars attacks may get priority, at least the base game, so I can play with a couple of people in town. Bones will never get priority, its just to sprinkle some minis in on the side for fun. Infinity minis will probably stay a side thing as well, even when I get ice storm, though ice storm may get localized priority among the infinity efforts.

I'm doing another diorama for November too, so that will be a background item until the date gets closer.

Not sure I've got the heart to do another todo or die list, just too damn many things to work on!

Damn, that is a lot of stuff, then. Oh well, everyone knows a painter dies when he runs out of minis

Haha I should be good for some time then!

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 GrimDork wrote:
Haha I should be good for some time then!

I think you are functionally immortal.

Not if I base coat dip myself into oblivion! But yeah I should be covered for years.

Bah i'm still here, just being slow/lazy about things.

Managed to get some negative hobbying done, tried to seal my paper ad walls with the same sealer i use elsewhere, kind of fogged them up, zombie marines one i cleared off in time but the official marines ad got a bit funny, i may try to turn it into weathering.. maybe. I also dropped the building knocking loose one of the wall panels by snapping the one clip and the hot glue seal, going to try to reglue it with superglue since more hotglue would be pretty obvious. Bah, it's going to happen, but negative productivity is lame.


I had an idea... anyone remember that floating asian boat-restaurant from the the 5th element? I wonder if i couldn't repurpose an old dark eldar raider to serve as such a thing. More or less a piece of set dressing for a gameboard, though if it worked, i have enough raiders to make a small floating bazaar Would either have flying stands under neath it/them, or i could rig something to attach it to the side of a building, something that looks like soft ropes or chains, but has a strong center bit that can hold it at a right angle without looking like it is.

Oh well, filing it away for later. The infinity crew over on the CB forums seems to think using my old wyches



as alternate, themed, counts-as der morlock gruppen



is a terrible idea and the wyches are horrible models that were terrible even when they were new.

I'm sniffing a little reek of fanboyism there, but only some, the models are probably too heroic in scale. Don't get me wrong, i want some morlocks, in a bad way. But i also like the oldschool wyches and was looking for a place to let them get some use. That's another thought that'll have to get shelved anyway...

I've got just under a month to finish that doctor who diorama so it's all hands on deck, full steam ahead for that project.

I'll keep you apprised of what's going on over on the other blog since, screw trying too hard, if the gift target wants to ruin the surprise that bad, it'll happen Latest tardis update.

Damnit, now i really want to pick up those Morlocks now instead of later Too bad, got a queue a mile long as it is!


For today all I did was slap a little paint on a couple of dr who minis, might dip them soon, will potentially put pictures of the results here as well as the diorama page.

I always have mixed opinions about the Morlocks. I want them to embody what's really messed up about the Nomad faction, the crazyness of modifications and whatnot. I think the one girl with the head-tendrils is a great example of that at least, same with the wolfguy. The other two I'm mixed about. Elf girl is cool but not extreme enough, and the other guy, while certainly modified, looks a little rough around the edges.

Yeah, part of the reason i keep an eye out for other suitable models is a similar feeling to yours, i like all four morlocks, but i wouldn't mind fielding a full force of irregulars just to use the morlock LT and have a wonky themed list sometimes, but i certainly don't want to play with duplicates. Elfgirl doesn't look like she was crazy enough in the first place to need to be dosed with meta chemistry, maybe if she had some killer tattoos on her face?

Yeah, maybe braveheart it up a lot, and do some shifting colors or something.

I think the easiest thing to do would be just paint her something other than fleshtones. A bright red skin like a morat, or neon green. Something that is shocking to the eyes that tells you she's been hitting more than a tanning bed.

Yeah lol. I love the morlocks thematically. I can just see them chilling out at moderator central or wherever, hanging out in the breakroom playing cards and video games, kind of like your stereotypical hippie/stoner/couchpotato, no aggressive emotions just really calm and laid back.. ''hey, bro, you spilled your coffee on my shirt and it's hot, let me help you clean that up man'' kind of attitude.

Then they call them in to a situation and flip the switch and they hulk/bane out, start foaming at the mouth, and just berserker charge any enemy in sight.. their handlers keep yelling over their comm lines the same orders over and over so they do what they should instead of bee-line into enemy fire cause it's the closest path to face-wrecking.

Gotta get some


Another side project i'm considering is to go through my bones 2 shipment in september, or whenever, and maybe check their catalog if that isn't sufficient... to cobble together my own uberfallkomando, like use a gnoll for one of the pupniks and a couple of other suitable man/beast hybrid critters, and then find a model to modify into the chimera.

It isn't that i don't like the stock models, they are amazing, but it's such a neat concept that i want to throw my own hat in for designing a different but similar group, and maybe to run a couple of them!

Those minis do look awesome, they give me a kind of X-men vibe with the mutations (the guy with the double blades is basically Hank McCoy/Beast).

Indeed! I picked up the Uberfallkommandos because of that. I have yet to paint them yet, as I had promised I was going to try White Primer for once. I still have yet to pick up any white though, so alone they sit.

I broke the weapon on the Chimera. It was just so fiddly. She is an incredibly thin model, and I fatfingered it. I sorta fixed it though.

And they are excellent models. I was looking for some beasty things to use as well, but my big problem is the BIG problem. All the beastly models I find are just way too big for the rest of the scale.

As much as I DON'T think they need an update, I think that after seeing the new Antipode models, they could certainly go... bigger.

Those guys are huuuge. I really wouldn't mind a 'special character' pupnik on a 40mm base.

Hey, speaking of Infinity Grimdork, are you planning to get Operation: Icestorm?

Also, I like the stuff here so keep it up man!

Hah, yeah that could be cool. I mean, it's all about entertaining people on the ariesta or artista or w/e it is tournament gladiator thing.. why not have giant pupniks. Could have a banukin uberfallkommando TAG equivalent, chimera riding on it's shoulder or something

I think once all of my kickstarters have come in, and things settle down to the point where i'm looking for stuff to do, i'm going to use deadzone scenery to make an arena for the aretista! battles, maybe i'll make it big enough to fit dreadball into it too... not sure. Then i'll have open license to make all kinds of wonky set-ups, gladiator fights and so on.


And yeah, he's a bit more charcoal than blue, but the one morlock really does look like beast.


@Tanakosyke22, thanks, i intend to. Once this dr who project is done, i have a smaller infinity based diorama and i'm done with them for the year at least. That one is all yu jing and merc infinity minis anyway, and should be smaller and less time consuming to build... though i plan to spend more time painting them all. Then i'll be just freely painting whichever deadzone, infinity, mars attacks, or reaper models i feel like painting, and i'll be laid off in the winter so whatever i end up doing for money will be less likely than full time so i'll have more time to paint

And yes, i'm very much planning to get Op:I, gonna be at gencon and as long as they still have them on friday, i'm gonna grab one. Maybe i'll get the complete pack with the bolt and penny too, i dunno if i'd pay 20 bucks for either since i don't have a direct use... but 10 bucks a piece is a steal for penny and not bad at all for the bolt... and i'll have a brand-new 7 model pan-o force ready for the bolt to join. Then the give-a-mouse-a-cookie-ing happens.. and i pick up one more of whatever the list is light on... basic infantry or maybe a specialist... and nab a squallo from the armored cavalry (since they are one of the cheaper tags monetarily, but still worth 100 points, still really good, and generic enough to use in a proper vanilla list) just so i can finish out a 10 model list at some points value

The nomad stuff will be great too, the spekter and grenzer will give my nomads in vanilla mode some more options and probably give me excuses down the road to pick up more tunguska stuff like the interventor(s) and the szalamandra tag... the auglaciles and mobile brigada will give me enough models to kit out a small kapu qualqi force as well along with my kaplans and ghulams... and of course the larger corregidor and even haqq sectorial forces will make getting the iguana more likely.... it's all a vicious cycle that feeds on itself and makes me buy more shiny shiny pretty models


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So here's something for you guys to consider, perhaps render some advice...



I got the 4pack of knight sabers from ground zero games (gaming?, something anyway) a while back and Priss here is the one i painted, the others are ready... I went ahead and dipped her last night, though the highlights and washing she already had kind of did everything the dip would have so it was kind of just another top coat, and i sealed and based her in the usual way this morning. I wanted to maybe use them as infinity models but... they're really small. Priss here is the average size, one is smaller, one about the same, and one has a taller running pose.



I don't think i can buy that there's a human in the armor, so they'll have to represent robots.

But who has smaller robots like this? I could potentially use them for those doctor/engineer helper robots, nomads call them zondbots but almost every faction has them, they just let the doc/tech act from a distance for a slight premium.

Now that i think of it... the japanese army has something called karikuri or something like that, robots built to look like those old school stage actors with the masks... could almost sub for those but i'm not trying to start another army

Thoughts?

Just read through your entire PnM blog (well looked at the pretty pictures and skim read )

I really liked the knight sabres models you had shame they were too small really. And I was wondering what happened to them until your last post.

After seeing the stuff you did with the the sedition wars models it almost makes me wish I hadn't sold off most of my stuff ( thinking of cleaning all that PVC makes me change my mind thou)

I wish they would do tank police tanks too I think I saw a metal slug tank in 28mm once but can't find it again.

The rust and weathering on your scenery looks excellent. And I think I'll steal the rubbish bun idea.

That's entirely fine, there's a lot of rambling going on here, especially if you read through the whole thing, i'm not sure i could even do that, and i wrote it!

I'm going to have to find some reasonable use for the knight sabers, be it infinity, or something else, if it was just the four of them and crazy mutating robots, that would work too.

Restic is kind of a PITA, but i usually clean a few models and paint them, rather than trying to do the everything all at once, i probably wouldn't have liked cleaning up the contents of the deadzone strike team pledge like some people seem to have done. I may be looking in to splicing the strain with the plague, and some other misc scifi zombies, to make a massive zombie doomsday horde... of doom... +2... for uhh, reasons.

I would totally buy tank police tanks, i would buy all the tanks, there would be none left, then i would have ALL THE TANKS! I think someone put a link to one of them in the thread at some point, but it wasn't quite what i was after.

Thanks for the comment on the terrain, it's pretty easy to do, and doesn't take obscenely long, but i like to think it gets the job done.

That video in your sig, it was... interesting? At least funny in parts, and that's what counts.


Nothing more to report hobbywise today, hoping to get some painting in tomorrow, but we'll see.

 GrimDork wrote:

Oh well, filing it away for later. The infinity crew over on the CB forums seems to think using my old wyches
as alternate, themed, counts-as der morlock gruppen
is a terrible idea and the wyches are horrible models that were terrible even when they were new.

I'm sniffing a little reek of fanboyism there, but only some, the models are probably too heroic in scale. Don't get me wrong, i want some morlocks, in a bad way. But i also like the oldschool wyches and was looking for a place to let them get some use. That's another thought that'll have to get shelved anyway...

More than a whiff, if you ask me. But it's predictable in many ways if you're on the official forums. If you ask me, use whatever the feth figures you want to as whatever the feth units you like in any game, and don't let any mouthy melon-fethers on the internet tell you that you're not allowed to.



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 Chemical Cutthroat wrote:
Yeah, maybe braveheart it up a lot, and do some shifting colors or something.

I think the easiest thing to do would be just paint her something other than fleshtones. A bright red skin like a morat, or neon green. Something that is shocking to the eyes that tells you she's been hitting more than a tanning bed.

With those ears, I'd be going the Night Elf look.

White, glowing, (usually) pupil-less eyes, and a selection of skin tones ranging from blue to dark pink. Hair ranging from green to white to purple. And usually some facial tattoos.


Googling "Night Elf" brings up a bucketload of bikini shots, DeviantArt-type images, and cosplayers - but despite all of that, I think it'd work perfectly with that figure. In fact, the WoW-style ears sculpted on the model makes me think the link is at least partly intentional.

I think the only issue with the Wyches is that sculpting-wise, the old ones aren't going to quite fit in. Now, I'd wager that the newer ones would fit in just fine. But, I think I'd at least like to see how they turn out before I render any kind of judgement rather than just outright say that they won't work. A paintjob can go a surprisingly long way.

As for Priss, you really nailed the colors on her. I bet you have a fun time trying to remove her from that integral base, too. The sculpt on her looks pretty good, considering the age of the sculpt. The real big problem though is that GZG designed her and the other BGC figures to go with their 20-25mm range. Without the integral base, she almost winds up looking like a kid in armor. I bet the Knight Saber figures would work well as Ghost Servants. I just wish their Boomers were bigger. I'd love to have some Boomers.

Oh, and what about Metal Slugs? Would you buy some of those?

Yeah, Az, if i were desperate to use them, i'd let nothing stop me, but staring at the comparison shot hard enough does make me cringe a little. Ironically enough, the new wyches are probably good enough sculpts to fit right in for the technical theme, but i don't like the way the look in comparison to the old ones. I'm not one to be bullied down, but i do notice the infinity crowd here is a bit touchier about stuff than some, like say the mantic guys.. unless you have anything bad to say then, feth you! Generally the painting and modeling folk are the mellowest, usually.

Night elf! Hot damn, this is happening. Probably my favorite alliance race, which isn't saying a whole lot as i didn't really care for any of them much. How times have changed, i used to love gnomes but never took to them in wow. I think the troll's lanky silhouette fits me better anyway... but night elves were ok, i even got one to level 20 or so

But seriously, the purple skintone, tatts, white-out eyes... synched up with the sword and pose.. the only thing she could possibly be better is a blood elf, but those aren't as cool or crazy looking. Nice suggestion!


@Barzam Oh man, all four of them were pretty bad, but i've had a lot of practice from the integrated mantic bases so it wasn't too tough. Thanks about the colors, i think she's going to end up the closest so far Lina is maybe too bright of a green. By ghost servants are you talking about the zondbots/whatever the other factions call the 3 point doctor/engineer's helpers? That was basically my thought for functionality too.

I think converting some boomers might be really fun, a lot of open license kind of like when you're doing various flavors and genres of games workshop chaos.

I somehow missed pretty much everything to do with metal slug, i think i played one of the games a few years ago, but it was a port or something... the tank looks a lot like Bonaparte though so i'm sure i'd like it!


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I've made strides on the non-28mm miniature portion of the dr who project, i'll put something about it up here eventually, maybe just the completed work though as it's kind of boring right now.. especially if you aren't a fan. Pushing me out of my comfort zone which is good in a way, though i still don't think i'll be jumping to work with foamcore board again in the future...

Had a cool idea about the next diorama too, i think i'll be a bit more liberal with the pictures of that one here, for at least two of the three minis, one of them may be too much of a give away but i should be able to show off ninjas without anyone catching on I'm planning on doing one of them in a room, dark except for the neon glow of the laser/ninja sword, with the target outside the door, other directions covered by the sniper ninja who i will be attempting to blend into the scenery to represent the TO camo. I'm planning to put her back to a billboard or at least the service walkway under it... so it should be interesting... i'll also want to limit the viewable angles on her so the illusion of blending into the background is better enforced by only being able to see it from the correct/generous angles.

Aren't those little doctor/engineer 'bots called Ghost Servants? But yeah, those are what I'm talking about.

How on Earth did you miss out on Metal Slug? For shame. But, there's a Chinese company out there that made an unlicensed 1/35 plastic model kit of the Metal Slug. There's a few of them on Ebay right now.

I also saw that there was at some point an actual Bonaparte 1/35 scaled garage kit, too.

 Barzam wrote:
I think the only issue with the Wyches is that sculpting-wise, the old ones aren't going to quite fit in. Now, I'd wager that the newer ones would fit in just fine. But, I think I'd at least like to see how they turn out before I render any kind of judgement rather than just outright say that they won't work. A paintjob can go a surprisingly long way.

Ultimately, though - we're just talking about little army mans. It's like someone telling you that you can't use that Scibor not-marine in your Blood Ravens, or you can't use those Grenadier Future Warriors in your Imperial Guard. So long as they're a distinct unit, they'll be just fine.

Just did a quick search

Metal slug tank 28mm link

http://newobmij.tumblr.com/post/31353425624/metal-slug-model-kit-review
Kit review of metal bug with marine scale shot.

I do t think it's the kit a saw before but looks good next to a marine. I dread to look at the price.

Don't tempt me!

I agree with Az in terms of play what you want. Just be a gentlefolk and explain what everything is to your opponent's satisfaction. I rarely get to play, and i just won't waste my time playing with people who aren't on the same wavelength, or feel i should play with my little army mans in a certain way.

 Azazelx wrote:

 Barzam wrote:
I think the only issue with the Wyches is that sculpting-wise, the old ones aren't going to quite fit in. Now, I'd wager that the newer ones would fit in just fine. But, I think I'd at least like to see how they turn out before I render any kind of judgement rather than just outright say that they won't work. A paintjob can go a surprisingly long way.

Ultimately, though - we're just talking about little army mans. It's like someone telling you that you can't use that Scibor not-marine in your Blood Ravens, or you can't use those Grenadier Future Warriors in your Imperial Guard. So long as they're a distinct unit, they'll be just fine.

I'm not saying I wouldn't allow them to be used. I'm all for proxying. I'm just saying that they're going to clash visually. A paintjob though will help to bring them in together. Hell, I'm proxying stuff for Alguaciles and whenever I get my Rangers Project mech, I'll be using that as a catch-all TAG proxy.

@Joe, that is exactly the kit I was talking about! There's also a second one based on the Metal Slug II. I don't think it was ever actually used in the games though. It's basically the same tank with lasers rather than gatling guns. Though, apparently the Super Vehicle 002 kit also comes with some kind of mech and a figure of Eri as a bonus.

I can find the cheaper one with the precious-moments style person peeking out of it on ebay, but not the nicer looking kit featured in the link. Just as well, i do *not* need to be spending even more money on models just now.

Oh, I can help with that....

www.ebay.com/itm/Hobby-Kit-1-35-Vietnam-Metal-Bug-Slug-Super-Tank-Vehicle-S-V-S-Army-SV002-MODEL-/221405957144?pt=Model_Kit_US&hash=item338cd2cc18

That's the 002, it's missing the minigun things on the sides. It *is* a kit though, which is a step better than that preassembled one i was looking at.

Which pledge level did you go in for on Reaper Bones 2 KS Grim? My brother and I went for the purple level stuff (though I really wished he'd gone for that big demon model as an add on- that guy looked amazing)