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Well nothing done with the trench run, little/no time, and lack of motivation. I got some time today, but had a few ideas to try out.

Pallet jack and pallet
Going to make multiples as I have an idea for a necromunda pallet jack racing game


And large bins for transporting bundles


Also came up with a bundle of barrels/rolls of paper stock


Oh and an electric walk/ride pallet jack

Still work to do on the regular jack. I tried to cut down the handle as the original was taller than the figure, but now its just odd looking, maybe paint will help.

Afraid the trench run will not be completed anywhere near time. I do still have other concepts in mind though to go with these items though. I work the next 8 straight days, had the last 4 off, but family stuff happening including my youngest daughter getting presented an award tonight by the Missouri board of education for getting a 100% on the state test.

Love the palette trucks we use those things at work both kinds although we are not allowed the stand on ones for some reason, could not believe how much they look like the real things

Racing trucks game now thats just madness but I want to see it

All looks good, the pallet-jacks are great.

Sorry to hear about the trench run dio got put on hold - would still love to see it finished some time! - but family reasons come first. And congrats to the young one for her achievement

Pallet and jack look pretty cool Pallet racing....ahh, that takes me back

Here's hoping you get a sudden burst of motivation for the trench......just a few more details and then some grey spray...honest Look forward to whatever else you bring out though.

And congratulations to your daughter.

Congrats on your daughters achievement must be down to good parenting well the mother at least shame about the trench though but I am sure it will rise again soon

Yeah, great looking pallet jacks.

Do what you can, when you can.

Well done little one.

Intriguing concepts. Congrats to the Theo-ette for her work.

Nice pallet jacks!

Fantastic application of the everyday things people normally overlook Theo! Very realistic! A most excellent excersize in basic shapes layered into a complex model!

I don't know if this helps, but I made this a few years ago for the Wizards of the Coast SW Game:







I made a "tile" cast it hundreds of times and glued them down !

Intereting concept there with the tile repeated but in different posing.

Bwahaha. Pallet Jack! Excellent

Stay on target....

I assume the blank tiles are for Turbo Laser turrets etc.

Theophony wrote:
Sorry for long delay, but that's how things are going. No time for fun since the birthday party marathon, but I've been getting supplies like crazy. One of the ladies at work is helping gather stuff, I remind her of her son when he was creative and she was younger .

Vik loves cardboard, so this should make him happy. The tubes are the cores from rolls of stickers we use at the hospital to label medicines. Also tubes from the paper towel dispensers and the big container of Gatorade that I've gone through. Should make for some interesting terrain, even if just more water towers .

Well off to the grandparents to help out some more again before going into work .

cool assortment of carboard tubes....the smaller ones I have too...I think... very sturdy stuff!!!

Theophony wrote:@shaso, what would someone put on their résumé to become an interior designer for the deathstar? Understands Fung shui, but ensures there is still enough random big things around the room to hurl at rebel scum.

Well quick run to grandparents, they had places to go so no long time "helping" today.

I was picking up some heavy card stock that poppy had in storage for my wife. Got three bundles/reams of paper, 70,80 and 100 pound weight, I'm keeping a bit as a shipping tax . Got home and had an idea, been a while since I got any ideas, but the short larger diameter tube fits the black rollers I got last week.

Looks like a nice fit for the base of a water tower. The lip of the black plastic roller sticks out just the tiniest bit, which the paper almost completely covers .

The smallest tube has an inside diameter that perfectly fits the base of a 25mm round base, which means that razorback turrets and predator turrets fit it perfectly.

these black thingies look very good....some quaint thrusters for a 28 mm scale BFG ships?...

Theophony wrote:Well nothing done with the trench run, little/no time, and lack of motivation. I got some time today, but had a few ideas to try out.

Pallet jack and pallet
Going to make multiples as I have an idea for a necromunda pallet jack racing game


And large bins for transporting bundles


Also came up with a bundle of barrels/rolls of paper stock


Oh and an electric walk/ride pallet jack

Still work to do on the regular jack. I tried to cut down the handle as the original was taller than the figure, but now its just odd looking, maybe paint will help.

Afraid the trench run will not be completed anywhere near time. I do still have other concepts in mind though to go with these items though. I work the next 8 straight days, had the last 4 off, but family stuff happening including my youngest daughter getting presented an award tonight by the Missouri board of education for getting a 100% on the state test.

damn... so much time wasted on work...well... the burden of RL...but I have to say, you are truly a master of every day items... I have worked with both versions of these steeple jacks... we call them "ants" here in Germany by the way... and I can testify they totally look the part! the containers and the pallete too look very convincing!

I hope for us all that we get some more time to be here at dakka more regularly and be more productive again.... man it really sucks to have the creativity seeps from one...

Well, some catching up to do. Been busy, but finally had yesterday off from my main job and a really short day at the church as the teens took it upon themselves to get everything prepped for the weekend.

@LDD, racing truck game is still in the works, but it sounds fun in my head.
@Littletower, rejoice, for the trench is back in business
@monkeytroll, new trench, new attitude towards it, but no longer within the competitions guidelines I'm afraid
@LDD, definitely good parenting, we stole her from some of the best
@Dr. H, thanks
@Red harvest, thanks as well
@Shaso, they are the envy of millions.....of servo skulls
@dsteingass, thanks boss , just really jumped out at me and was motivated....for once....and had time.
@the buzz, thanks for stopping in, I saw your build back then, but wasn't into the game at the time it really was part of the inspiration for my build .
@grimdork, never expect anything normal around here
@ angel of vengeance, new target acquired, hopefully a better one at that.
@vik, why can't we all just win the lottery? Or Jesus returns and we find out he loves gaming as much as us. I mean God did create us all, and we are fighting these wars right

Okay, so my oldest daughters grades just came back. Where my littlest daughter got the award for one section of the test my oldest girl aced all three sections of the test so we took her out to dinner last night. Her grades were 80-90 points into the highest grade level, the test scores are like credit scores they go up into the 900s. My son is all sad because he just did average on all three, so he'll get his special meal because his behavior this year has been soooooooo improved over last year.

Well now the update on the trench, the old one is being put away for possible future use.
(Copied from the competition thread)
The trench is still happening, but it won't fit the competition as I'm now using Deadzone tiles to complete it. Here's a sample of what I'm talking about.


The end of the trench. I'm thinking the little circle in the center on the end wall can be the hole, looks like the size of a womprat


And my solution to flying over the trench. That way models down in the trench cannot be targeted by models outside the trench since they will have problems of their own, such as turrets and walls to look out for.

This is about 7"x9" I plan on making the sections 12" long and modular. It all depends on getting more of the sprues though. Which should be rectified shortly .


Edit: stopped by Miniaturemarket.com on the way back from working at church today......

This will extend the trench a little .....more to come

Dam that is a shame I was looking forward to seeing what you came up with for the trench, however the tiles do work nicely and yes about Womprat size

I gather you have not found a new route home yet then

O yes as to your reply I can't get this image out of head now

Cannot unsee strange man(?!)... Ack!

Anyway, those deadzone tiles look perfect for all sorts of things. I'll need to look into getting some. Although at the moment, may gaming group is lookiing to play this 5e D&D, so maybe I need dungeon tiles...

@ldd, why would I look for a new way home, I wouldn't get as good of a discount
@redharvest, there's speculation they might try a fantasy version of these, the last KS they did had fantasy furniture in it

Well only had about an hour of free time to mess around today. Lots going on and lots of school work for kids and myself to finish.

But the trench is 3' long now. Might try to take it to 4' by taking apart some othe buildings I've done, but not sure just yet.

And still modular for stacking/storage

And the three secotions just assembled each have one of the cool vents in them in off set patter. I hope to make the turrets to plug into that slot on the board.

Regular table size for games are 3'x3', but I'd eventually like to make this board bigger for epic battle games.

Interesting use of the DZ terrain!

that looks pretty nifty...and yes, that looks big enough like a womprat...

your kids are very good at school, at least that´s what you tell about your daughters, with boys you always have to take into account that school today is sadly built and managed to be fit for girls... I hear it quite frequently that boys have way more difficulties at schools than girls...many peeps think that sports and other competitive things would make school life for boys better... I guess the truth is somewhere in the middle of the know and the above...

@shaso, the tiles can be used for so much more, and since I've had no desire to finish reading the rulebook that's a good thing.
@vik, new womprat target below, school never held interest for me, probably why I'm stuck finishing college at such a slow pace.

Well a bit of inspiration and and old flashing light later.

Figured a way to put the exhaust fort horizontal and give the trench a little something more. The flashing lights are from an old shelf displayer that I grabbed a few of over 15 years ago. It runs on two AA batteries and has two red bulbs that flash at random intervals. Hopefully it looks like the power plants energy emissions. The lights came from an old displayer for eyeglass repair kits we sold at builders square. I have a few of them still in my bits basement, originally they were for an adeptus arbites ar,y I had purchased back then so the vehicles could have flashing lights.

And here's two of the sections placed end to end.

I think I'll get rid of the end wall piece of the trench and just continue to make modular sections. That will allow for different set ups and might be an advantage I give to the imperial player to allow them to set up where the exhaust port gets placed AFTER both sides deploy their forces.

A very interesting use of DZ tiles to be sure!

Theo you really do think outside of the box mate that has to be the best use of tiles I have seen and the light really adds to the atmosphere of the setting good call, what are you going to use for the turrets ?

Very effective use of the tiles. Works well.

@grimdork, I had to find something to use these for, and deadzone just hasn't called out to me yet.
@LDD, I think I'll have to scratch build the turrets, but the radar dishes could be used as a temporary proxy.
@Dr. H, thanks

Woke up and unable to drift back to sleep , so instead of tossing and turning I decided to assemble more bulkheads for the trench. Unfortunately that meant disassembling some other things I had built. While still a great buy, the deadzone terrain leaves a lot to be desired . The fortified tiles are too thick on some parts to actually be used with other tiles, and the layout of the sprues means your getting lots of tiles you may not want/need and reinforcing bits that are on the sprues you wind up with a plethora of and little use for them. I wish there was just a "floor tile sprue" and "walls sprue".

In the mean time I was thinking of one of the fan made scenarios with the trench run where there is a force field protecting the exhaust port. You had to do damage to the force field before you could shoot at the port, and a thought hit me, the support struts that come with one of the deadzone kits could look like field relay posts . So I built a small section to have them be able to be placed in front of the port in the trench. There are five all together, but I think that is more than enough for gameplay.

Perhaps I can make it so you must do a point of damage to drop each section of the field. A critical hit allows the shooter to decide where he's weekend the shield, a regular hit lets the defender choose which section is down. Just wondering if I should allow the attacker to have kamikaze shield strikes or not by ramming his ships into the field to do a critical, of course his ship would be destroyed, but it could be possible.

Also noticed the new Kickstarter for basis has deadzone pads. Too bad they aren't the basic deck piece I want, or I'd order it to complete the top of the deathstar. I might just have to make my own mould and get some dental stone mix.

also, flipped upside down the make a big building

Very cool - a great concept, one that I'm going to tart about to my mates as a project! Flying your ships into things to blow them up *is* very star wars (a-wing...)

@shaso, I'm thinking of making it 3 squares wide instead of 2.5 just for that purpose
@graven, I think it would make a nice table for fighting on a Borg home world too.

Well, not much done, overtime at the hospital and getting the church ready for a wedding have taken up a lot of free time. But as I was coming home from church I of course stopped by miniaturemarket , "get a little God, get a little distraction from God ".

I was checking out some things on their website and saw the sedition wars terrain pack was back in stock, I had been interested in it when I picked up the sedition wars boxes on clearance (they still are clearance too ). I didn't realize how much comes in the box for $32.00. Here's a pic of all of it out on the deadzone playmat.

You get six air locks and six double wide doors

And twelve regular doors and four crates

There's also four barricades, two of each of two console designs, two teleport homers and two turrets that swivel, and six dead tokens

A better look at the turrets and two life support/medicos. Also two alien things.


More alien things, and another look at the barricades and small doors, crates.

A little poster tack later and I have a wicked cool turret system


"Sensors say it's all clear on the other side of the door"


I did have time to clip some more mantic accessory SPRUE items clear, and that's more scatter terrain.


Oh and look what I saved from the trash at work. 24"x14"x4" box, empire baseball player for size.

And it had foam in it too


Oh and did I mention.....I'm getting into Infinity

I got this guy for $5 at Miniaturemarket in their physical store. He came with the wrong arms, but I'll contact them for replacements.

Operation:icestorm is on its way here from Thewarstore.com, I was able to order it Thursday and get a copy WITH the limited exclusive model a few weeks after it had all been allocated . Plus Neal's done good by me in the past, I'm not just a miniaturemarket junkie, im addicted to anyone who will supply my gaming crack .

You always seem to find good bargains Theo

That box looks quite cool for keeping vehicles in.

I'm just getting into Infinity as well. Got my O:I the other day its still boxed though, just not enough time in the day

That looks like a crazy amount of goodness, nice haul.

Like where you took the trench in the end, liked the original concept too though.

Box is an excellent find as well.

Nice to hear from you bud.