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Congrats on it all! New hobby space looks nice too, lots of shelves is always good!

Still gotta move more stuff, once things are all settled I'll take some proper photos of the two hobby spaces. I've put paint to plastic a couple of times since last I typed here, but nothing substantial has yet to come of it.

Also we brought home the second little one/jawa/ewok/munchkin/whatever nerds are supposed to call babies... today. I suspect hobby activity and blog updating will drop off even further than they have to this point.

Know that I ordered another Shasvastii on 'accident' while getting a belated gift for my principle (or is it principal in that case?) gaming opponent from miniature market. He seems to have a thing for mutant/super/crazy gorillas and so I ordered about 5 dollars worth of Dust gorillas to paint and gift to him. Those will show up here eventually.

Anyone else excited about bones 3? I really don't have the hobby funds but I'm thinking about doing a dollar pledge and picking out some of my favorite add-ons. The Black Star Corsairs (or w/e, the terran marine/terminators) look cool, as do the crusaders. Plus, as much of Lovecraft's stuff as I've read... I pretty much have to get the Goat, if I get anything. Frost giants also look tempting due to sheer bulk. I think if I can make a reasonably (read that as under a hundred bucks, preferably under fifty) small order.. I may go ahead and pull the trigger.

Still waiting for warpath though my buy in for that will steadily decrease over time till it finally gets here.. just don't need bulk minis anymore.

I'm glad mantic is going to the one weekly email which will cover all of their kickstarters next week. I backed the Dungeon Saga (I hope I did anyway) after the fact and because of that it doesn't show up on my backed project lists, nor do I get the updates, so I keep forgetting about that.

Congrats on bringing thing 2 home . When was the birth as I seemed to have overlooked that . Hope everyone is doing well. Goodbye sleep (should have gone with twins like we did)

Congratulations on the wee one, best wishes to all concerned.

Looking forward to what comes out of the new hobby space.

Oh and you swine, you just reminded me about Bones 3, now i have to go check it out.....

Congrats grim.

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Still waiting for warpath though my buy in for that will steadily decrease over time till it finally gets here.. just don't need bulk minis anymore.

I thought they said Warpath was being pushed back to early 2016 ?

Thanks folks.

A single mantic update would be nice.

Theo the 17th brought her home yesterday. Still have crap to move too... Just like last time sigh.


Bones just secured some of my money between shub niggurath and possibly the mythos expansion... We'll see.

Congrats dude! Good luck with the fungus too - pain in the arse.

I think that stuff is mostly gone, just gotta hit a couple of high spots that required a step up and we should be gtg.

And a bunch of moving yet..

Congratulations on the new baby! Boy or girl?

Also, Bones 3 is sweet. I don't need the main set, but the dungeon and lovecraft expansions come with enough monsters that I can't say no.

Thanks. Girl. Which makes 2 of them. I'm outnumbered 3 to 1 now =/

I'm trying to make as small of a buy-in to bones 3 as I can, due to fatigue/overload and other things that need the funds. A whole Cthulu Mythos expansion is soooo tempting though, it will depend on the third chunk and overall value.

Some of the first expansion stuff looks cool, but I'll let it pass and pick a few things out at retail (maybe).

I think the Black Star Corsairs are worth getting, and the crusaders hit an aesthetic that I like. Plus the shub niggurath, frost giants, maybe one or two other things.

Made a small order, saw Dust was up to 80% off on miniature market, noticed they had giant killer gorillas...

My maindary taking opponent has a thing for crazy gorillas, he's got gangsters, big gorillas with spikey arms...etc. Also seems to like stand punk stuff s bit, so I nabbed a set of 'Sturmaffe' which are killer gorilla assault/engineers apparently. They've got hand held single use(from what I can tell) incendiary weapons and huge jack hammers for ruining tanks. I think they'll fit right in with his other stuff. On sale for $5.50 it was hard to say no. They're quite chunky.

Also more than doubled my order to include a shasvastii Cadmus as he's neat and I'd like to slowly increase the size of that force. Call it stress shopping or whatever

They threw that 80% up last week or two ago. They had 20+of the tenament building for $15. I thought about going nuts and building a Dust City, but thought better about it.

The gorillas look quality, primed is nice though I'll still have to pick off mold lines in places. I may look the range over s bit as any 5 dollar infantry hits the dollar/mini sweet spot in a decent material. Sci-fi up their guns and get short little projects for mercs.

Bones is adding mostly investigators and historical/steam punk/whatever townsfolkish dudes to their mythos expansion... Considering it but the small minis are pretty affordable at retail too.

If he likes gorillas then there's also the Karmans from at-43 which should also be clearance.

I'm holding off on bones. It's too broad of categories and between retail price and the MM discount I can pick and choose later and save.

I'm kind of agreeing on bones, except for a few addons, I don't want the whole random set. One bones core set is enough for awhile.

The bigger addons do tend to see reasonable discount, the giants and especially Ma'aldrakkar will cost noticeably more at retail, but still no reason to 'buy all the things now'.

At43 huh?

Congratulations on the addition to the family

AT-43? is that stuff still available? Apart from the shipping containers which seem to have some demand for them.

Gorillas look great mate.

And they have alternate mask/helmet heads, very cool

Yeah, I don't think I'd be as impressed with some of the smaller human infantry as these gorillas. And really, for my own purposes they're pretty useless, but I think my gaming buddy will like them. I believe I'll do two as 'silverback' gorillas and the leader will be an albino, like on the box.

Still got a lot to move and less time than ever, so don't expect much progress

You need more shipping containers...... Call reaper. Then you can pack up all the important things like paint, brushes and models.

Too little time. Seems like typical grown up situations we all run into. I'm still Unboxing stuff from our last move three years ago. Just found my metal space marines. I really need to batch them together to sell them.

Haha yeah, I'm hoping to get properly unpacked this time as moving somewhere else would be... an ordeal to say the least. But I've got to worry about getting everything here to start!

Sigh, that's not gonna be much fun but off to do it anyway

Alright, amazon credit card means eventual accumulation of amazon reward points. Dropped 30 dollars worth of them (and 6-7 more out of pocket) to order 3 more shasvastii. I ordered a second Cadmus --this time with a combirifle-- a second malignos, the hacker with combi rifle (which means he's good for like 5 of the 7-8 profiles )... and the Cadmus Agent Naish Sheskiin who's some kind of special character. I guess she did the Morphoscan that Cadmus can do on some butch unit so she's got pretty high characteristics and a fairly potent CC skill (but no martial arts, natural born warrior, iKhol, or other useful things like that) with the added benefit of being able to join any link team within the shasvastii sectorial. So she can have a nice bodyguard of gwailos She's also probably the sexiest Shasvastii... though... I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not

So my Shasvastii are 9/9 for being painted but along with the Cadmus I ordered from MM the other day, this will put me to 9/13. I like my scheme and think it's pretty easy to paint... so hopefully I'll get them assembled and painted sooner than later. As long as I keep the ones I have painted, I'm willing to get more.

Lots more. I want a full team of Gwailos (or at least 4 to chill with Naish). I'd like to fill out at least partial or full squads for several of the other units that can do so, though I don't remember which they are. I think I'm probably good on shrouded and malignos but I don't have any Noctifers and those are too damn cool to pass up:

I also need a Caliban or two, they're like the heavy weapons guys but they have fiendish faces and look even more sinister than shasvastii do in general. Oh and a Haiduk, an entrenched sniper with access to a smart sniper rifle with guided rounds

And the Sphinx! Coolest TAG ever IMO.

Probably forgetting a few things.. and that's just Shasvastii...

I'd like to get a lot of the generic/EI units too, the part robot stuff like the Skiavoros, Charontid, and Anathematic. I'll wait for a resculpt of the Avatar before I look for one of those. And the new stuff! The new starter is fantastic, I'd have to give the Umbra a proper light saber, of course... but it's a really nice box. I'd also want the extra Batroids I skipped a week or so ago when they were MM's deal of the day... And if I ever buy any Morats I'll end up with all of them... the Daturazi Witch Soldiers are too cool to fool, and the Morats in general are really chunky and imposing. They'd be the last CA things I would get but... I'm warming up to them, really. The Raicho is pretty awesome, big rude thug of a TAG.. much like the lighter Morat infantry.

I also had another random thought...

I'm gonna make myself a Zeram/Zieram model even if I have to build the sucker from scratch.

This space pirate (I think he's a space pirate.. need to watch the show again...) is ridiculously badass and the bounty hunter that takes him out is cool enough to deserve her own model too..

Zeram


Iria with zeram in the background.

I mean Iria practically screams Infinity aesthetic or vice versa... gotta be some model I can use as a base for her.

I kinda forgot how much I liked the show back in the day... gonna have to rewatch and keep an eye out for parts. Zeram may need some serious sculpting, but surely there's a good base model.. either with the cape or with the muscled body to work from. He's pretty big, I think Iria is probably less than 5 feet but zeram is almost twice her size so an Ogre type model may be a good base.

Time for bed anyway.

I love those Dust gorillas, it is just such a shame that the issues over the ownership and distribution of the game makes it difficult to get into. I guess that is less of an issue at 80% off!

Cannot wait to see your attempt at Zeram, looks full of potential.

Those Shasvastii look like Dr Doom lol.

I can definitely see a full CA force with a little bit of everything looking really cool. In general I'm more of a Morat/Umbra/Batroid fan than the Shasvestii, but it's all cool.

How about this for the sniper bounty hunter?


For the other guy, I almost think a Fantasy mini of some kind might be the best start, what with the cape/over muscled proportions. Anything suitable in your Bones pile?

I think you're right about the fantasy mini Para, I'll have to look over my bones collection once it's unpacked. Atalanta hits some of the points, for sure, I think I can definitely cobble Iria together out of Infinity minis... will have do some research.

She's not so much a sniper, she only uses the long rifle sometimes, other times she's got pistols, knives, a retractable sword, and so on. That's a good start though, I'm probably gonna have to kitbash, gotta find one without a skirt..but some of the aleph upper torso stuff and possibly heads may work.


@AoV the Noctifer *does* look like doom... not complaining

Well if nothing else the Atalanta figure comes with a cute bunny

The bunny is, indeed, cute.

I watched the live action version of Zeiram.