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Found this vid of some of the stuff magnetized... is this one of you guys?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e36YhrtopqU

Id love to do this to mine, but not sure I have the modeling skills to do so and dont really want to chance messing up something as expensive as this...

Have any pictures surfaced of the models painted well? Have yet to see any on my travels...

That's really impressive, but also convinces me not to do it: they kinda' look like tiny action figures :/

I'd rather have more static gear combos (so not WYSIWYG) but be able to convert them more for better poses, more direction of character, etc.

On requests for paint jobs, I've been slowly working through my set.

Took me an hour to knock this up. The tray insert has a 6mm gap all around it between itself and the box. So some 6mm Strip Pine cut to length with some strips glued onto it. None of the parts are fixed, they can all be removed. What this does is allow all the cards to be stored with the card inserts and the board then sits on the frame, with the rule book on top. Minatures will all be going into battlefoam trays anyway.

For those in the UK, the 6mm Strip Pine cost me £9 ish for 3 pieces from B&Q. All I've done is jigsawed them to size and sanded them. I need to clean it up a bit, and will spray it black so it looks more part of the box. Thought people would want to see a WIP and try something themselves. It's not difficult to do,

 BrookM wrote:
My brother and I played it a bit today, I think we botched it here and there, but we had fun, mission accomplished!

I wonder though, how can we build a Catarium? We got some nice bits of lion, but no way of properly using them.

Catarium is built automatically after your first white lion hunt (The real one not the tutorial).


And Squig.... Thats AMAZING! Top notch idea. May have to steal that for myself

 Ramos Asura wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
My brother and I played it a bit today, I think we botched it here and there, but we had fun, mission accomplished!

I wonder though, how can we build a Catarium? We got some nice bits of lion, but no way of properly using them.

Catarium is built automatically after your first white lion hunt (The real one not the tutorial).

After a lot of flipping through the book we did indeed come across it, cheers!

 TheSecretSquig wrote:
Took me an hour to knock this up. The tray insert has a 6mm gap all around it between itself and the box. So some 6mm Strip Pine cut to length with some strips glued onto it. None of the parts are fixed, they can all be removed. What this does is allow all the cards to be stored with the card inserts and the board then sits on the frame, with the rule book on top. Minatures will all be going into battlefoam trays anyway.

For those in the UK, the 6mm Strip Pine cost me £9 ish for 3 pieces from B&Q. All I've done is jigsawed them to size and sanded them. I need to clean it up a bit, and will spray it black so it looks more part of the box. Thought people would want to see a WIP and try something themselves. It's not difficult to do,

Thanks for that, I'm in the middle of checking all the cards are there, and this was going to be my next step

Did anyone who got extra armor sets grab some sunstalker armor? I am almost literally dying to see those in the plastic. Of all the sets they are what I am most looking forward too(i am a BF bakcer so no opportunity for plege manager) and I would really appreciate a picture!

Barzam thanks for the look into the Dragon armor, that was #3 on my list of coolest armor.

My wave 2 showed up this morning I ran into the postman at the door as I was heading to work running later than normal today had I left a minute or 2 earlier I'd have missed it.

It would appear that when playing the game yesterday we botched a few things here and there, but in the end we decided to simply say "feth it!" and go with it, as the monster fights are still challenging enough to be fun. Then again, we've only fought lions until now, we're saving the screaming goat for next week when more players join the campaign.

We also more or less willingly fed one of our guys to the lion, seeing as he had taken up the habit of eating skulls and we had to mark our calendars with a "murder" event. I like to think we dodged a bullet there by letting the lion take care of him.

 TheSecretSquig wrote:
Took me an hour to knock this up. The tray insert has a 6mm gap all around it between itself and the box. So some 6mm Strip Pine cut to length with some strips glued onto it. None of the parts are fixed, they can all be removed. What this does is allow all the cards to be stored with the card inserts and the board then sits on the frame, with the rule book on top. Minatures will all be going into battlefoam trays anyway.
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Excellent, thanks for the image... that looks spot on. I guess I need a trip to B&Q soon before anything gets bent


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 BrookM wrote:
We also more or less willingly fed one of our guys to the lion, seeing as he had taken up the habit of eating skulls and we had to mark our calendars with a "murder" event. I like to think we dodged a bullet there by letting the lion take care of him.

Sounds like a reasonable thing to do to me.

After my first game I ended up with some Love Juice from the carved up lion (it sounds like it comes with a dodgy soundtrack *bow-chikka-wow*), which soon became twins, which was much needed as I managed to roll the minimum population amount :/

I realize that this was one of Adam's goals in how he designed the game, but I'm finding these little vignettes of other people's settlements to be awesome. Also awesome is that board support idea.

Thanks all for sharing!

Our settlement is called Colosmo, a name my brother always uses, he's something of a Xerox-syndrome sufferer.

So far we've lost two people, another lost his arm, but that didn't deter us from turning him, at first as a joke, into our resident pugilist. Spindle the one-armed boxer has knocked down a lion and beaten it up quite badly. Oh yes, he's going to be our resident badass or die trying. At this rate, he may just outlive us all.

We've also been asking around our friends for people who want to lend their name to the settlement, to help bring some more diversity to the population. Beats calling everybody Big Tits or Beardman all the time.

"Hey, wanna join our settlement and potentially die in a gruesome way?"

"Define gruesome."

"You could get mauled, eaten, get lost in the dark forever or become so insane that you well.. But hey, you get to hunt monsters and use their entrails as weapons and armour."

"Say. No. More."

On a mixed note, we had the Hooded Stranger visit us and gave one of us the Twilight Sword. Quite chuffed at this, because it was something I really wanted after painting up the Twilight Knight mini. Not so happy however when I found out that the thing is cursed, cumbersome and a whole lot of other things that make it quite hard to use. On the bright side, the better my proficiency with it gets, the better it becomes. Sadly, once I master it my character must leave the settlement for places unknown.

Some nice looking monochrome with lighting survivors from Fredrik Svensson in the Facebook group



[his] recipe is this. From black undercoat, airbrush a mix of black and a little VMC Intermediate blue from the direction opposite the lantern.
Then intermed blue with a litte black, hitting highlights from the same direction.
Spray VGC Dark Flesh, hitting all surfaces the light from the lantern would hit.
Mix VGC dark flesh with VMC Orange Brown, hit highlights from the lantern.
Then I switched to the brushes, highlighting towards the lantern with lighter mixes of orange brown and VMC dark flesh (I think. It's a slightly dirty whitish yellow).
Some citadel nuln oil to bring down the highlights on the dark parts, some edge highlights with VMC intermediate blue on the dark side and VMC dark flesh on the lit side.
I'll have to double check the names on the bottles, but orangey browns and desaturated blue.

I'm sorry, but I feel like that's everything wrong with airbrush paint jobs*.

High contrast OSL with smooth transitions that look impressive at a glance, which is enough that a lot of people overlook that there's absolutely zero attention to detail even direction on the one thing it's got going.


*well, at least there aren't flame templates

rwwin wrote:

SpectreHorseman wrote:

For the hands/weapons, I'm currently cutting off little pieces of wire from hardware cloth and drilling holes into the hands and arms but I'm not liking the short length of the wire so I need a better alternative. I haven't come up with one yet.

For my wrist/arm joint I've experimented using a piece from a sewing pin. They have a tiny diameter but are steel so are stronger than brass. They're also super cheap. I've used superglue on the hand/pin connection and am trying out a white glue connection between the wrist/arm so I can swap them out. The test pieces I've done seem to hold well bu I haven't decided if that's the way to go or not.

I got some fine grain iron shavings to add to some paint and apply that the the wrist of the hands. I will be starting my magnetization attempts this week.

 LordRogalDorn wrote:
some fine grain iron shavings to add to some paint and apply that the the wrist of the hands

That works?!

I've never heard of doing that- do you just put it in a gel medium or something? I assume you still use a little magnet on the larger piece?

 spiralingcadaver wrote:
I'm sorry, but I feel like that's everything wrong with airbrush paint jobs*.

High contrast OSL with smooth transitions that look impressive at a glance, which is enough that a lot of people overlook that there's absolutely zero attention to detail even direction on the one thing it's got going.


*well, at least there aren't flame templates

Well if that's not for you how about a Kingsman by Bohun

Bohun

King's Man, Kingdom Death, 32mm. Gold done in NMM, texture on cloak is drybrush.
I really enjoyed painting this model. And since I have 5 more of those bad boys I'm tempted to make a squad

IDK? Nice? I'm not sure what you're saying by posting that guy.

I'm not saying all airbrushing is bad, just that people often elevate extremely lazy paint jobs because they're airbrushed in a way that I never see "look, I undercoated this guy then inked him" elevated.

 spiralingcadaver wrote:

 LordRogalDorn wrote:
some fine grain iron shavings to add to some paint and apply that the the wrist of the hands

That works?!

I've never heard of doing that- do you just put it in a gel medium or something? I assume you still use a little magnet on the larger piece?

Yes, you use a small magnet in the wrist of the arm, and iron shaving mixed with some paint in the wrist of the hand. From what I have read, about a 1:1 v/v mix of iron to paint does the trick. I'm still waiting on the iron additive to come in the mail. But when I get that going I will post about it here:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/665760.page

If you're making magnetic paste, you should be using superglue for the binder, not paint.

 LordRogalDorn wrote:
Yes, you use a small magnet in the wrist of the arm, and iron shaving mixed with some paint in the wrist of the hand. From what I have read, about a 1:1 v/v mix of iron to paint does the trick. I'm still waiting on the iron additive to come in the mail. But when I get that going I will post about it here:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/665760.page

Cool-looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

 JohnHwangDD wrote:
If you're making magnetic paste, you should be using superglue for the binder, not paint.

I read an article on using the iron additive, and they tried paint and glue. The glue caused the iron to bunch up and become uneven, where as the paint stayed smooth and applied just as easily. I'm planning on either using a grey primer, or a flesh colored paint as well, so it would blend in well when painted.

If it works, great, but I'm surprised that paint would hold up very well. Working with SG-based paste gives a generally tougher result.

perhaps mixing it with an epoxy would be the best of both worlds? Slower drying lets the iron to integrate well without clumping, and will be far far more durable than paint.

Very curious to see how ya do!

 spiralingcadaver wrote:
IDK? Nice? I'm not sure what you're saying by posting that guy.

I'm not saying all airbrushing is bad, just that people often elevate extremely lazy paint jobs because they're airbrushed in a way that I never see "look, I undercoated this guy then inked him" elevated.

I wasn't trying to say anything, I just found another neat paintjob I could share, and thought you might like it even if you hadn't liked the last one

We are quite a few years in, killed the butchers and then another Screaming Goat. No one has weapon proficiency, not sure what this is or how people get it.

I've just got to check my gear cards now, and then gaming can begin,

And I shall see Zardozia the settlement peopled with survivors named after James Bond movie actors and actresses come to life (and no doubt die off swiftly)

Chopxsticks wrote:
We are quite a few years in, killed the butchers and then another Screaming Goat. No one has weapon proficiency, not sure what this is or how people get it.

After a survivor's first age milestone (I believe thats 3 hunts in), they become eligible to gain weapon proficiencies, in addition to a random stat boost.
After that, every hunt the survivor returns from in which he damaged the monster with said weapon, he gains a point in proficiency.

So is the game fun, does it have longevity? What do you think so far? Does it go beyond awesome miniatures?

 Mymearan wrote:
So is the game fun, does it have longevity? What do you think so far? Does it go beyond awesome miniatures?

Absolutely. It's probably the most well-rounded board game I've played. I set the game up in my home office and played a full campaign over the course of 2 weeks, so was putting in 4-5 hours a day and even then found myself thinking and strategizing when I wasn't playing. It's been about 5 days since I packed it away and I'm already trying to think if I want to have another go or whether to wait for the expansions. Probably wait for the expansions, as I haven't touched a brush since the game arrived.

More interestingly, it's (at least temporarily) curbed my game and plastic hoarding. I find every time I think about buying something new, I compare it to KD and ask if it will get played/painted/whatevered and more often than not, decide the answer is no. Probably end up culling a large amount of my board game collection.