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as i have come to known and understand....blackmail and threats are the effectivest way of working with youngsters...they are just not the nicest ways of doing so^^

and being the "resposible one " sucks major^^... (me being dad of two youngsters^^)

if everything tuns out good and hopefully it will...then coming august i will start an aprenticeship to become a nursery nurse...i then will work in a school to assist the teacher... and your worklife shows that you must have a sheer endless suply of nerves and understanding... this is truly not something easy! and doing that in a good way...i would say that resembles something of a true calling...

Ah, the wait is over people! At least it sort of is. I find i still need to get to know my camera a bit. Shot some 200 pictures, and only about 50 are sharp enough. Hrm...
Anyways, I'll still post them, but the chronology of the fight will be out the window. I'll try to talk you all through anyway.
Please feel free to post questions, remarks, stuff you want more shots of etc..

Situation:
A small settlement near a refinery.



Gangs involved:
-Little sister's Snow white's merry men
-Maus' Lawless Lawmen

Task at hand: Chance encounter

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The merry men set up at the refinery, the lawmen at the outskirts of town.









Both sides use their first two turns just to advance. Aside from a juve and a heavy hiyacking a car, the merry men seem to go for a full assault, with all their close combat prowess, while the Lawmen use the cover of their big bad APC.







The APC attacks the out in the open merry men, and jams. The lawmen disperse into cover, as the merry men enter the hamlet from their side.





Pot shots are taken here and there as the merry men close in. Luck must certainly be with little sister when a shot from her punk with missile launcher blows up the APC, killing its driver. The gunner gets out unscathed. He is then besieged by the merry men.













All out combat breaks out, with the gunner of the APC cut down by a drunk with bat, and the only close combat Lawman cut down by The Oriental.
Snowwhite manages to shoot one of the Lawmen inside the building, even while they blaze away at the just arrived Cayenne with merry juve and heavy.





With nerly half my gang gone, i bottled... Not of my own willing mind you, the dice forced me.

Snow white fought the Law, and she won...



Any and all comments welcome people !

LOL...nice battle... and it yet again shows me how much fun you can have with munda... smaller armies...in fact gangs that just scream to make totally individual models for and lots of nice and cool looking terrain pieces... tho i have to say... grim dark never looked so cheerful as on your table

by the way... what are these new grey looking and grafitti treated buildings made of? is it MDF? they look sturdy...and where they airbrushed or just the ole paint from a can treatment? anyway...the grafitti really makes the rock^^

i think when i see this... since my older son is getting to school this summer... i need to make a table worth of terrain so that we can play munda together soon too... the only fact that stops me for now is that he still can´t read...but after that is achieved...there will be fun times ahead!!!

very nice work...terrain and battlereport alike!^^

cheers, vik

Its foamboard all. Nice and cheerfull mostly due to the green underground i'm afraid. I need to ge some suitable gray boards. It'll make a world of difference. The buildings are modular of sorts, as in stackable. That way you can easily create height when needed.
You should really give it a go. Small gangs that actually grow in experience and skill will keep the youngsters more interested. After all, if you use th same guys for a couple of games, they become really badass...

yup...besides being an old RPG player it is the very esence of gaming i like... used to play all the big rpg strategic games on PC...

well the cheerfulness i sorta liked...but true...some nice rotten roads or other concrete looking undergrounds would be of course better for a certain kind of mood you want to play with^^

stackable buildings is always a good idea... we don´t live all in big castles with lots of room for complete tables to stay set at all times now?^^

ah... foamboard...i should have thought of that!

I made the other side of my grass board concrete by adding sand to gray craft paint and using a wall roller to paint it on.

what a lovely little town you have got there, know if there are any huts for sale?

none fo sale, though i believe the supermarket is available fo rent as it needs a new owner

I''ll do a tutorial on how to make quick and easy foamboard buildings monday or tuesday

that would be cool!^^

They are honestly not that hard to do. Biggest poblem I have is getting all the walls nice and straight, but fo all you guys with a decent metal ruler and sharp hobby knife that should no be hard.
Anyways, the process is a follows.

Take a piece of foamboard. (2 layers of cardboard with foam inbetween, most hobby shops have it)
I use 3 mm thickness.

Next, mark out pieces of 8 cm broad, and as long as you can make with the piece of board you have. I buy them in 90x90 cm, so i get strips 90 cm long, and 8 cm across. Cut them at the lengths of the walls you intend to make.
Inner walls should be about 5 mm (0.5 cm) shorter than outer walls, so they fit snuggly inside.
Mark out doors and windows. My doors and windows will be at 4,5 cm height, allowing most models to stand in the doorways. They are 3 cm wide. Windows start 2cm up from the floor.
Cut out all the doors and windows you want.
Presto, walls!

Cut out a piece of foam board the size of the building you want. This will be the base. Make it 1 cm longer and broader as the wall length you intend to use.
Ergo, if my wall is 10 cm, my base will be 11 cm.

Now, cut another piece of board the same size as the base. This is now the roof, or if you are ambitious, the base of the second floor

Use simple white glue. Mine comes from the 1 euro shop, and works like a charm. Glue the walls together, by glueing them to each other and the base. Do the outer walls first, and space them half a cm off the base edge (remember the 1cm extra we did?)
After that, glue in the inner walls of the building. Remember, doors inside yes, windows inside no
The white glue will bond quickly with the fomboard, and it will be hardened enough to handle in an hour or so.

Keep the roof unglued! That way you can play inside too!

Take out spray paint. Also euro shop, colours black, green, red, blue, grey primer and white. Spray the entire building. Thin layers, as the paper might soak up too much paint and come loose. Any colour will work at this stage. Let dry.
Take grey primer spray can, and spray another layer, but uneven and at different distances. This provides you with instant stone/weathering look. Experiment with these for different schemes.
Let dry.

Print out posters, plaques, signs and whatnot. Stick them to the walls.

Freehand graffity. Have a history with graffity for ideas, like me, once upon a time, on trains and bridges...
Or, look them up on google

Anyways, thats how it works, without pics to show. I''ll be doing another building in the next few days, so pics will be made and shown later on.

Meanwhile, if there are questions, shoot!

of course...white glue (PVA) as the foambard has paper/cardboard as a cover on each side...that way it can bond easily... i have to remember that...

Thanks a ton for the tutorial, Maus! Will definitely try this out today or tomorrow, and I'll let you know how it goes

The battle report was loads of fun - sounds like you got pretty roundly trounced, but that board looks awesome to play on, green grass and all.

Scarper, feel free to post any pics of what you make in here mate... would love to see wht others can do with this simple tutorial.
The green grass will definately NOT be on the table next time. Green Grass is for smoking, not for Necropocalypse.

And yeah... i got soundly trounced... in my defense, we used only basic rules and models... not my 'true' gang

Green Grass is for smoking, not for Necropocalypse

well...that is so cliche` from a dutchman^^

Well, can't win em all, right? And necro is brutally random anyway, especially once you introduce some of the atmospheric condition rules

I used your tutorial to start some buildings! Still a long way to go, but I think it's getting there. Thanks so much for the detailed instructions - the dimensions in particular were SO handy! Hope you get a few more photos up soon - I believe we were promised some zombies...

well this is a fun little blog, love the ninja and fro guy. do you think your foamboard technique will work with cardoard, (like the ones from ups? or fed ex) since im kinda broke most of the time and cardboard is redily accessible to me i thought i would give it a go with that using your tut. Ill let you know how it goes. and for stein and vik ill even add some pva rivets to look like to give it a bolted ramchackled look. all of you have been so inspiring over the past couple of days thank you all.

hmmm....supermarket....or Super Duper Mart?

@ alabamaheretic: I think it'll work with cardboard yes... just make sure you fill the corrugated edges with something to make it look solid.

@ everybody else... uploading pictures as we speak, finally...


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Bout time I show some progress I guess... So I best start with something nice no?

I give you... 47...







Also, we support the mannschaft,, since the dutch were sent home...





Popeye, and cyber-gator (mastiff of sorts )





Love me tender...



but do it in the garbage...



Lest we YMCA you...



Insane Clown anyone?



Smily hippy WIP



Cultists WIP



Odd gangers/survivors/lunatics











Hope you guys like it. More's comin, but for now feel free to comment, criticise, ooh, ah, barf and whatnot... just don't say nothing at all!
Oh yeah... also feel free to ask any questions... and there'sbonus points if you can name all the parts used here

thats a fun little update your garbage bin looks really good.

well i know you used catachans and wyches other than that i have no clue.

like the female ganger she doesnt even look like a wych any more

Lol, she's all wych parts except for the lasgun But painted like a ganger it suddenly seems to work.

well she turned out great maus. your nod to hitman was nice to those shotgun shells are a nice touch

Really like the Cultists! Subbed and will be back!

Thanx Skalk, i'm honoured

oh maus... the zombie german fan is particularly cool as the germans just now have been sent back home so to say too...

the amount of new and overly cool minis... wow!

47 is really a cool conversion... what did you use? looks like you sanded the parts like the devil

the postapocaliptic gangers looks very good... the wynch conversion in particular... but my favorite... by far is the smiley hippy... and it s mostly because of those frail arms... that creates an awesome look!!! brilliant...


by the way... what took you so long to come back here? you are not supposed to update every time you stick your mug out ^^ you know? you can just mingle and banter too

anyways...welcome back^^

Ah yes, mingling and bantering... I\ll try to do more of that,..

47 is really fault of all you guys and your suit avatars... I decided i needed a suit. So i took a sharp knife, a catachan commander (on command sprue, the one with torso and legs in 1), and a lot of tissues (sharp knife remember)
I proceeded cutting everything i didn't need, as in all the detail. Then i elongated the trousers, sanded the shirt smooth, and gave him a tie. I cut the barrel of the militia pistoleer hand, added two pieces of spear shaft for barrels, and presto, a sawn-off. Bit of colour did the rest of the 47 look.

The smiley hippy is a zombie with wych arms, brownstuff trousers, and again, just the paintjob...


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Some more straggler pictures:









Now... Since i'm more and more into de-grimming these grimdark models into something more post-modern post-apocalyptic... tell me...

What kind of character would you guys like to see in a necropocalypse setting?
In other words... challenge me! Make me do stuff outside my comfortzone! Comment,. criticise etc... as usual people...

cultists of the chaos persuasion with beast men bits i dunno you could always delve into the world of the kroot thats fun

Great update MauS!
Now You must do an Italian zombie 'cause We're going to the final

Lolz, an italian zombie... That'll have to be a balotelli then...

Have you ever seen the movie "The Book of Eli"? -It is basically Fallout 3: The Movie, and the roaming bands of cannibals intrigue, and scare the feth out of me!

I think, in any post-apoc world, with our consumerism infrastructure gone, people would always revert to Cannibalism to survive, but how to model those second generation post-apocalyptic cannibals that are still shunned from pockets of society??

Alabamaheretic... good plan... I haven't got anything kroot or tau yet... besides a single sword that is, made from a tau rifle...
Kroot, a good idea


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@ Dave... no haven't seen it yet. I'm adding it to my must see list right now... Cannibals... hrm... like living zombies then?