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Wow man, I stop checking in on the blog and there is some serious gak going on. My heart goes out to you and your family Theo, such a super rough time.

Best wishes for you and yours.

I hope your mom feels better Theo, both physically and emotionally

Hey guys, taking a break for hospital visits with mom today. Getting burned out, too many days/nights of 4 hours sleep has me worn down. Not much progress with mom, they thought they would move her to the step down ICU, but then set backs happened.

I picked up a cheap game from miniaturemarket.com today. It's the expansion for the game Dark, Darker, Darkest. A zombie game similar to Zombicide, it is the radioactive e pansion and came with 66 models for $15 since the box was damaged. Pics coming later, they have been primed right now, just a tad smaller than the Zombicide figures, but might help make the game more realistic as there will be varying sizes of people. Plus has a giant gorilla , snake and zombie vulture.

Edit: quick pics right before I head out the door


The zombies for this are sculpted by the now former Mantic house sculptor who has recently posted here on dakka about his departure from Mantic. He is also the one who sculpted the 3rd generation plague guys for Deadzone and a lot of the upcoming Dungeon saga models. We will see how these turn out whenever I get to put paint to model next.

Also recieved my MODcube order, can't remember if I posted that, and too lazy to look back in my blog right now.

Sorry to hear of the setbacks for your mom Theo.

Nice zombie haul though!

That's a whole lot of monsters going on!!

man....get some sleep! beside needing it, you and your loved ones need you fully energized again...you don´t want to be the next one in line to be lying in the ER...

also...again...best wishes for your mum...

and from a standing/sitting perspective the height differences probably wont make too much of an issue game wise...

Sleep. Yes. Listen to Vik. This is a marathon, so pace yourself.

Those modcubes look good. Delivered in a timely fashion?

Thanks guys.

I average normally 6 hours a night. Lately it's been averaging 4. We were just short handed family wise this week as my brother had a cold so couldn't be with my mom and my oldest sister was with my niece who was competing in the state championship for high school golf. Her school took first place overall, she has won several LPGA junior championships herself and if they could afford the constant training she could go professional. But that left me and my second oldest sister to attend to mom. We even had to leave dad with her from time to time by himself, which mom disapproves of.

@red, the MODcubes were about a week past the estimated shipping date but I'll let that slide as RITides wife gave birth early.

Nice hauls . sorry to hear there isn't better news re: your mom. Thoughts and hopes remain with you all.

Thanks Grimdork.

Hey also a belated heads up, I got the email a few days ago and didn't have time to repost. Industrial Plastic Supply is having a sale right now till holloween. 15% off on their products using code "IPS15ASE". They sell bulk sheet and tube plastic. Dsteingass originally pointed me to them and I ordered a bunch in one go (it's the wAy to do it as the shipping is pretty harsh, but if you pick up a bundle of two at least then the cost including shipping still beats buying it from anywhere else). I'm still working on my stack from that original order and I've used plenty of it in the mean time.
http://www.iplasticsupply.com/?hsCtaTracking=dccce5d5-c8fd-4ea2-9bc3-070a90d33bcb%7C7b6b5773-a8b2-4912-96d8-55c7f9a5bcc0&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--xATLYlbPD95yrIFKSyTVGaHPDZpFlq_wk_QUds3dr83lF0xUV1r5UYHrq20WVIeSJbZAsSfbZRRQn9_PKEwDnLbGdig3BHAXtGLHSd2B97lMsHlQ&_hsmi=22731255&utm_source=hs_email&utm_content=22731255

What you want to look under is high impact styrene (normally we say HIPS, high impact poly styrene, but they just cut that out of the wording but it's the same stuff as evergreen)

Huh cool may have to check that out thanks for sharing.

What.......I slept for seven hours...straight....it's a record

Anyway this might be my last post ever.....Blood Rage will be delivered today.....the wife may not be too happy.
unboxing video for those interested roughly 8 minutes.



originally got it because the conan kickstarter was going to have a crossover adventure for these models, then i cancelled my conan pledge, but it was too late to cancel this pledge. I'm still stoked for the models, especially the huge monsters, but I've heard the game is great. Some of the monsters will make it into a Kings of War Army once I finally get my Kickstarter rewards for that Fethed up mess.

Looking forward to this, if I had the patience/funds for KS Blood Rage is definitely one I would have gone for, it looked like a whole box of awesome!

Thoughts are still with you and yours. Hope things keep on getting better.

Glad to hear you got some sleep!

I got my Blood Rage stuff yesterday too, and the models really are nice. Very excited about that. You will probably like the rules too, very similar to Chaos in the Old World, but seemingly a little more streamlined, and with a harder timer on the game.

Anyway this might be my last post ever...

i highly doubt that...even if you will be in a tidal wave of plastic crack...

What.......I slept for seven hours...straight....it's a record

good boy!...

Took some pics before work.

Space marine and Zombicide zombie for scale


That's $105 worth of pledge right there. I'm almost kicking myself for not getting the art book.

these are packed with character!

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
these are packed with character!

Yes they are. A few I want to use when Zombicide Black Plague comes out. Especially the Giants, they would be fun to have as players, but I'd have to house rule them somehow.

I did have to play with the sea serpent. If you didn't watch the unboxing video they put to the test the durability of these plastics by tossing the sea serpent around since it has all those small tentacles. I tossed mine up to our 9' ceiling and let it hit the tile floor with no damage whatsoever. They also come with colored base rings that snap on them, I tried them on my Zombicide zombie and space marine. It was just larger than the zombies base so it didn't snap in place, but it will work to use them to identify specific models in that game, and it fit snugly around a GW 25mm base as well.

Wow nice haul Theo :-)
Quite like the beastie hurling the rock at someone

That looks really nice, I must have missed that Kickstarter.

Nip Slip in the one photo?

Those monsters look pretty good.

Good that you got some sleep too. As I get older, I seem to need more, not less. :( I wish I could get by on 6-7 hours a night.

when my kids were born my average sleeping amount each day was also around 4 hours...but you can´t live on that pace...not for long...but i remember getting along like that for around two to three years...mind you...unemployment was a big factor to stay upright...

Hi Guys, quick update as not enough time in the world.

Thread title changed as today is the 28th day my mom has been in the ICU. Thanks for all your best wishes, they mean a lot. She was able to take two steps yesterday with a walker to move to the recliner. Slow progress, but better progress than regression. The doctors are pleased with progress at this point, since they didn't think she would make it through the procedure she has exceeded their expectations already. She has now enjoyed her first sip of diet pepsi and can suck on hard candy as well, but as soon as she drinks/swallows it all comes right out of the hole they made in her chest and into a collection bag so you can see exactly what she had. That's going to be the hardest part for her as she enjoyed cooking (and eating) and shared lots of time with friends over meals out. Now she can only have a tiny taste just to sample the flavor and nothing solid.

I have work tonight but the day off tomorrow, and I will be joined by all three of my kids tomorrow as they don't have school as a teacher comp day for parent teacher conferences. I have already been asked if we can "kill zombies tomorrow?", which turned a few heads as I was talking with the pastor and a few of the older men at church when my daughter injected herself into the conversation midstream. Lets just say there were some strange looks directed my way.

I still haven't opened all the goodies from the Blood Rage Kickstarter, but if there are any specific models anyone wishes to see then let me know. Also I have pics in a "Blood Rage" album in my gallery if you want to check there.

Good to hear it. Hope she continues to recover well.

Fantastic news about Mum, continued best wishes and love to you all. She is a brave girl.

Nice haul on the models, will look for that if it ever makes retail here.

And will say as others have, TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF BUD!

Great to hear your mother is perking up Theo . Though try to take care of yourself as well mate

Each day is a step towards full recovery for your mom Theo, so many blessings on this news that she has done so well so far!

Good to hear. All the best.

I'm sure you can get away with buying more zombies etc. as the kids are now getting into it; always good to have a shared interest with the kids...

I hope you played up to the "can we kill zombies tomorrow?" comment. Too good an opportunity to miss there. If they don't know about the zombies they are the ones that should be getting the strange looks, not you.

 Theophony wrote:
Took some pics before work.

Space marine and Zombicide zombie for scale
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What are the pictures there below the models in that first picture? Did you get like a poster or something? (Should I have?)

Glad to hear your mum is doing better, if only a little. Best wishes to you.

@Wehrkind, The pictures are the sides of the box bottom. Basically take the lid off and those are the images around the edge of the bottom half of the box. the models are sitting on the internal boxed for the big guys and units that came in the box.

Thanks everyone for the best wishes. The kids were off school today so I took them up in an attempt to lighten up moms mood. When we got there to the hospital they were in the process of moving my mom out of the Critical care ICU down to the regular ICU level. It's both a blessing and a curse as it means mom is doing better (able to walk 6'/2m with a walker), but it's not really great as she goes from sharing a nurse with one other patient to being one of 5 or 6 patients to a single nurse. THey had talked about moving her wednesday or tuesday at earliest, but I h=guess they had a sudden influx of patients that they needed room for. Lately it had been mom and 2-3 other patients on the floor, but when we arrived there were 10 other patients, and they only have 12 rooms in that area so it was "close enough" to move her.

I primed some of the big guys yesterday before leaving for work, I'm a little hesitant to try and paint these bad boys up, but I also want to get some of them painted up right away, hopefully i can do them justice. I'm torn between the Mountain Giant and the frost giant as my first models to paint.