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Not sure about the grafitti but everything else appears as always epicaly awesome...

Gits - Well thank you.


Vit - Cheers! graffiti, streets, very good


neil - Hmmm, Monkeytroll knows gak. Not the best motto I've heard

Bah, the tiny spacemens, they no need the buildings no more.

Vindaloo earlier?


ldd - Cheers! The Craze


mullet - Thanks. Anything in particular the matter with the graff, or just the general idea?




Not a lot done, mainly due to slicing open the pad of my thumb last night. Makes it tricky to hold things But also spent far too long mulling over new ideas.


Finished off the first support:





Not very happy with the camo'd patch, bit of a rush botch job, I'll angle that so it's not that visible under the pad


Not worth showing the bits on the cookie generator, just a few more highlights. Jut ned to finish that off, touch up the base, add the cable and then powder.


Also played about with one of the ideas for pipes between buildings.



Hanging bits of metal/armour down as makeshift barricades, blocking line of sight. I'm thinking the pipe for this should be slightly shorter, so that the plates start nearer the buildings.


And that's about the size of it....

The weathering on your tube things is most realistic. You have a knack for dirt which I want to appropriate! I tried to emulate your shacks with the lollypop sticks, matches and cocktail sticks but I had trouble cutting the damned things. Not wanting to slice open my precious hands (I need them for work) I am leaving off the shack till I find a sharper knife. Hope your hand heals quickly! We need robots with lasers for all this cutting, it would be safer (unless the robots become self aware and decide to make tiny shacks out of our bones)

And thanks again for the link in your sig!

I love the character on these latest peices, And the hanging bits of metal on the pipe is genius! it looks great!, and by the way, you grafiti is a perfect variation of random, and weathered, and it looks natural (may or may not know someone in the grafiti buisness ) I will definatly be adding these pics to my inspirational terrain folder!

Really like the idea of hanging metal plates acting as cover, its so simple and yet so orky. would be really fun gamewise as well. oh and your buildings are so beautifully derelict its unbelievable, how do you paint graffiti like that!!!
anyway keep up the awesome

These concrete supports look almost real, awesome attention to detail, man! Great work!

edit: oh wait I hadn't commented on here before?? Well, I love your blog, extremely creative, exalted!

weety - OK we need to organise a mind-meld which results in you gaining my dirt and me gaining your speed
Yes, sharp knife required, although the matches are a perfect size as is
I actually sliced my thumb doing the washing-up rather than any hobby-related accident
Yes, where's our robots? And our personal laser cutters?
And even more importantly, Jetpacks. Where's our fething jetpacks?


Rogue - Thank you, thank you and thank you!
I figured the hanging metal was a more interesting take on barricades. In game terms I think the pipe by itself is low enough to stop most vehicles, which is kind of interesting. At least to me


bigfish - I was thinking that the metal plates had been used by the hive-scum who were there previously, but the idea struck a chord with da boyz I may do some little floor level bits to go with them, to prevent constant foot-sniping
Like the real thing - layer by layer


MrMerlin - Thanks man, and welcome if this is indeed your first time in the monkey-cave.




So it seems that cd/mini-disc bases are absolutely ideal for slipping into cuts across the thumb Not in the least bit fething annoying


Current state of the supports:



One doone, one nearly done, one just started.


Finished one of the older buildings and started colouring.





Klub Grottz is under new management and having a lick of paint before the grand opening.






And what fun are shortcuts without precarious walkways to traverse?




Thank you for flying Air-Monkey. We are currently cruising at 1000ft. Please undo your seatbelts, leave your belongings where they are, and proceed to the nearest emergency exit where the stewardess will relieve you of any cash before helping you out...

HA HAH AH HA Klub Grots Sounds like a place to avoid, I just imagined a grot pole dancer YUCK !!!!!!

However the scenery is coming on great, the walkway simple but effective especially the misshaped corrugated iron, and the pipe with hanging metal items from it, well I thought it was some kind of Ork windz chyme LOL

Gentle brezze blowing and all you can here in the distant is the tuneful sound of CRASH BANG CLANG !!!!! NICE.

Watch out for the CD'S they will get you every time

I am sorry I haven't gotten back to you sooner about the Graffiti I just don't think it's up to your usualy standard of realisum... It looks of to me but I appear to be in the minority.

It is an exceptionaly good idea and one I might try to steal for my next project but I'm going to have to practice and print out some resorce material for inspiration

ldd - What do you think those red squares are for? Grots like to keep their podiums low

Ork wind chimez Hmm, now there's an interesting idea. There may be something in that


mullet - No worries, thanks for replying. I'm fairly happy with the graff itself, in the sense of random scrawlings rather than art, but not so happy with the actual support itself - it was a bit of a 'play around with different styles' thing, and I felt it needed something added to help detract from that, hence the grafitti. There'll be more to come, some of which will be a bit more b-boy, so hopefully there's better to come

Sometimes the lone dissenting voice is the correct one

Good luck with whatever you have brewing presently, I look forward to seeing it , and potentially any grafitti on it

cool.... klub grotz.... splendid concept!!! that has me hooked!

Not a lot done, mainly due to slicing open the pad of my thumb last night. Makes it tricky to hold things

ouch....

So it seems that cd/mini-disc bases are absolutely ideal for slipping into cuts across the thumb Not in the least bit fething annoying

double ouch....


and that line of sight blocking metal washing line equivalent is a totally unique idea... gives the term iron curtain a new take!

Excellent work as always. Your terrain is really well done and it must make your table look amazing. Any chance of a 'group photo'? Would really like to see some of your completed pieces together.

vik - Cheers! It had to be a grot hangout as the pieces lent themselves to a smaller scale than orks There'll be more to come on da klub later, that's just the basic klub

It's just a big ol' washing line for armour plates is all


Skalk - Thank you man! Well, it might make my table look amazing if I had one. I don't actually play, just somehow managed to get myself stuck on the terrain tip TBH, most of the pieces are in the usual state for my work - not quite finished Don't worry, as they get finished I'll be taking shots of the different 'builds' I can get I wanna show it off



So bit more done on the cookie genny, need to crack on with it after this post to get it done tomorrow.

Mind is going into overdrive with ideas at the moment, drifting off at the slightest provocation - which is oh, so useful when you're looking for a vital part and have to pick up and contemplate designs for 20 or so other parts before reaching what you were after
I almost came back from Tesco's yesterday with no food as I kept seeing things that could be turned into other things

Just about managed to hold it together by giving in to these two



Saw them on the shelf and thought that for less than a tenner each they could probably make something interesting Was quite disappointed with Captain America's Goliath Assault Tank (bet you can't remember that ) when I got it out of the packing, but after cutting a few bits off and playing with it it's grown on me a bit - still not as promising as it first looked, but there's material for a variety of things there.

I had a little play with it but that and Iron Man's Firestrike Assault Jet (Nope, me neither ) are really projects for a rainy day. Oh, wait, that's pretty much any day around here isn't it?


Anyhow, had a package turn up at work today, and I thought I'd share it with you guys. 'Cause I'm nice like that

Well, two packages actually, the first had a few crackle paints I ordered after seeing neil's great work on his terrain. I'll be putting them to the test soon I think.

But the main attraction tonight is that old favourite...Zombies!!!


Scarper pointed me in the direction of the Zombiecide kickstarter a while back and I opted in.

Got my box today.

Let's see what's inside boys and girls...




So we have the game, a t-shirt, a lithograph, 6 dice and the abomination pack.
Ok, better open some of that stuff up, get a smell of new game




A slim paperback rule book, looks ok on a brief flick through. Sorry, didn't get a page count and have packed it all back up, this won't be a proper review just some quick first impressions. It'll also probably be a while before I get to play it (I intend to at least try it before deciding how to hack the mini's up ) No doubt there will be, or already is, some real reviews posted. Also just remembered I never got a 'group shot' of all the stuff unpacked, oh well.

The book contains 10 scenarios/missions to play out - the game is for 1-6 players and supposedly takes around an hour to play. I'll get back to you on that at some distant point in the future...

Opened it back up...28 pages.




Tokens. Cop cars, shambling hordes in a disco, red cross aid points, the exit, golden bullets, blue cross sale, hearing aid recharging points, doorways, Satan and the green cross code....yep, this game seems to have covered all the bases




A stack of cards (seems to be weapons, mods, encounters and some other stuff) and some dice - these ones sans zombie-head and molotov cocktail.




Nine double-sided tiles for the board, each 25x25cm, and six character cards. The reverse of the cards has blanks for creating your own.




The zombies. 8 models (1 fatty, 2 runners, 5 walkers), 4 rows, 2 trays. Some of those are getting chopped up no matter what




With some friends for scale. A few have obvious mould lines, there's some nice detailing, faces are a bit sharper than they look in the pics, but there is a certain 'zombie-softness' to them. I'm betting Scarp's already cut some up in his head for his scavengers




The abomination. Guess he's the big bad




Our heroes:
Doug, the office worker. Phil, the cop. Amy, the goth. Josh, the hoodie. Ned, the bum. Wanda the waitress.
Roller boots and a chainsaw. She has Escher genes baby, I'm telling you


And that's the contents of the game. Looks kinda cool.

OK, let's take a peek inside the abomination pack then.




Some more cards, and some more dice - this time with those heads'n'bombs on And one set is glow-in-the-dark . It doesn't matter if you can't see the zombie heading for you, you'll still be able to see if you wounded him.




Another abomination, and three more heroes.



That'll be Nick, the seat-of-the-pants cop-in-a-vest, El Cholo, the Mexican with machetes, and Dave, the geek with the molotovs


And there was also another trayful of zombies.

Hmm, that's a good way to order zombies I feel, by the trayful

Well, that's a bit of undead fun for you to drool over, I need to go eat, and then invent a time machine to go back to when I started typing this so that I can go paint instead


edited for an inability to count up to eight. And I'm the stock manager? Sheesh.

You got yours already! No fair!

I played my copy, yesterday, and it was an absolute RIOT. Book scenarios are little boring, but the contents of the box lend themselves to free Internet Scenarios by the bucketload.

I am PLEASED.

--B.

Hearing aid recharge points??? Are some of the hero's deaf?

Looks like fun

monkeytroll wrote:I may not play, but I like to think about how it works

Awesome comment, sigworthy...

Vit - You mean I'm the one that got my gak early for a change? That's a nice sensation


Brian - After flicking through the rules it sounds fun. I'm sure I'll get a chance to have a couple of solo plays before a group session. Definite scope for plenty of expansion. I can see me converting up some survivors for a start


weety - Well, what do you know. After glancing at the rules it seems my guesses as to what the tokens represented was off a little No golden bullets either that I could see. Those are cop cars though
With pimpmobiles on the reverse Like a giddy scholgirl I didn't even notice that the tokens were double-sided.

The game has zombies and pimpmobiles. What else do you need to know people?


Baiyuan - What I find interesting is that I'm not trying to build a cool model of a building, I'm trying to build a cool piece of gaming terrain. I like to think how a model could use the terrain, even if the particular rule-set I'm thinking of isn't quite right


So took the cookie genny to work to try and sneak in 20mins of chipping at lunch. Which was okay.

It does seem that transporting terrain needs planning though I had two pieces when I got to work. Bonus!! Oh wait, that's not how this game works is it? It was just one of the supports for the wire, but it did take a smal chunk of paint with it, and that's going to be a pain to cover up, and then finish it for tonight.

Hmm, it's not going to get to the state I wanted, but I'll be back later with whatever I've got.




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Ok, pic dump, chatter later












Not quite to the state I wanted, it could do with a couple of washes and some drybrushing in places, and a spot of tidying...but it'll do

Looking groovy and apocalyptic. I find it fascinating what crowd-sourcing is doing for the hobby (relic knights is just bananas) and it's always interesting to see what other ponds folk are dipping in (not skinny-dipping though, specially when there's zombies about).

Speaking of which, come the zombie apocalypse, I'm buying a boat. Wait, you already thought of that...

Colour me subscribed!

Looking brilliant. But you know what this game really needs Zombie Orks........

graven - Cheers. I think there's going to be some interesting times ahead with the crowd-sourced projects - just so long as there isn't a run of good ones at the same time I've dropped on Dreadball and Dreamforge too so far, and the Bombshell Babes will no doubt be getting some of my hard-earnrd too.
Zombies will be an interesting change of pace - with so many it's going to be minimal conversion and 'quick' paint jobs for sure.

Melting icecaps, torrential storms, zombie apocalypse - I'm covered for it all


Squigsquasher - Will do, but be warned, I take a loooong time over my colouring Welcome aboard, it's a bumpy and confused ride, but you can probably get by without holding on for the moment.


Llamahead - CHeer bud! I have been looking at the fat y and the abomination for 'research' purposes


Not a lot done hobby-wise at the weekend as I was off at a hip-hop festival. All good except for the early shut-downs, luckily there were a few guys who lived close so we just skipped out after a while so we could get pretty decent kips and brekky

However I did pop over my folks to exchange birthday presents with my mum (mine was Wednesday hers was Thursday) and decided to rescue some old terrain whilst I was there.



And some assorted other bits... I'l see what I can do with these, the larger building and the round huts can certainly be used. The walls and ruin are on dodgy cardboard bases so I'l see what can be salvaged there.


And a touch on the zeds



I'm thinking I'll start with a whitish base and a wash for definition, followed with coloured washes for the majority. And I'm playing with the idea of having an item or two per mini done in paint to stand out from the rest - I'm going to use one of the trays for experimenting with the look, but I need something quick to get through the hordes Spend a bit more time on the survivors.



Here for instance I might paint the high heels and the tie a bright red. I started hacking up the base on the male before realising that there was no way I wanted to customise all the bases
I said the first tray was for experimenting didn't I?

Oooo I really wanted that game.. although a bit demotivated being that I couldnt donate any money to their kickstarter and I really want the Bruce Willace, Samuel Jackson, and Chuck Norris heroes...

Love what you're doing with the zombies. Eager to see how the rest turn out.

they look rather good.. especially like the movement in them .. and those characters are a treat... now you just need the survival guide and and brown and yellow bell jet chopper..

those wooden thingies.... these looks very good...

and did you really just use washes for those z´s? very cool looking!

Ahh the old nothing but washes technique. My favorite technique.

They look great by the way. Zombies are always a welcome sight - did you see the blog with the pirate zombies? That was totally superlative, it was practically awesome.

Hipityhipityhophop.

Rogue - Just after the kickstarter closed I was kicking myself for pledging as I spotted sedition wars and was thinking that the sci-fi stuff was far better suited to my sensibilities, but now I'm thinking that the zeds make a nice change. The Sam Jackson one has been pulled, looks like there'll be a Clint version taking it's place. Not sure of this, but won't the wave 2 (Clint & Chuck) minis be available to buy when they're released?


adam - Cheers. I suspect you'll be a while waiting for them all to be done - I think that's about twice as many figs as I've finished in my 2 yearss on dakka


neil - They are pretty cool, the zombie versions of the characters should be interesting. I was thinking of building a mall...


vik - They were part of an chaos encampment, used to have very crap thatched roofs and a couple more huts that seem to have been eaten by the garage monster. No great loss, but these'll be okay with a bit of corrugated iron rivetted in place.


weety - I think it's going to be mainly washes, with a few inks and a splash of paint here and there. It needs to be fast to even think about getting through them - I'll spend time on the survivors, and their zombie counterparts, plus the abomination - maybe both if one doesn't become a bit orky

Cheers! It does ring a bell, might go look for it again though.

Hiphopbodyrockbodypopdontstopbebop.



And a few more washes gone down - see it is fast, or maybe that's just the red brush I was using



Veronica and Bob, almost done.




Davey and Trent. Almost done.




Paulie and Sue. Who seems to have put on mismatched stockings. Bit to do.

And no, I doubt they'll all get names. Or at least, they won't keep their names


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Forgot the obligatory 'trouble at t'hive' shot:

I had thought not but you know what clint is 100000 times better than sam.. you just made my day

Well, that's not yet confirmed to be the replacement - rumour based on some artwork in the dlc campaign - zed with a magnum