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Can't go wrong with a commercial Ford mini-van when Z-Day rolls around.

@Shaso, no, thank you for your service and sacrifice (we need an orky saluting emoticon). Oh and the Thundercats want a word with Mantic with that name
@Azazelx, they had quite a few sport cars as well, but I figured a gaming table suited the cargo van better, the next will be the VW van, both good for moving survivor camps around and the occasional heist
@oldraven, it's actually endorsed by ford and has a QR code underneath it on a sticker, I haven't tried it, but might mess with it later today.

Well I spent a half hour trying to organize my painting and modeling area in the basement today. If you recall we had water damage and then I gave up most of my shelving/table supports to reorganizing the storage areas in the basement. So much stuff just got tossed anywhere and I haven't had the heart to even sit at the desk for any length of time. Well earlier this week I was at Home Depot and I saw a clearance storage shelf for my pegboard wall and I grabbed it, just installed it today and began clearing the deck. I've got an itch to scratch (build) , so the little time I had got put to use.

New shelf with 6 drawer pull out organizers, already filling up with wooden craft sticks, magnets and beaded chains and bottle tops and bits. The bottles on top are the canisters from Walgreens chocolate covered nuts that my wife and I love which make good storage tubs. Already have those filled from a couple years ago with coarse and medium basing gravel, grass flock, MODcubes and such.

The drawer seperators probably will get repurposed as scifi or urban highway noise barriers

Last but not least is the van parked in front of my Dust Tactics commercial roll up garage door I made last year with some A.S.S.H.O.L.E.s(Angry Servo Skull Hostile Organic Life-form Eliminators ), Dreamforge troopers, a trash dumpster made from a pill organizer (idea by Grimdork), emperors scythes marine, some MODcubes stacked up and a troll from Blood Rage. All for size comparisons.

Last night I threw some necrotic flesh on some zombicide figs and started painting orange jumpsuits. Berserker zombies inbound .

Full day and night ahead of me, this week is jammed with church activities including a summer vacation bible study for kids, so I'll squeeze in what I can.

So just a bit of progress,

All but 3 were primed last we saw them. Still need hair colored, body plates will be the same as the zombie skin tone, I might hit it with another wash later, but a separate color was not working for me. Have not decided on uniforms for the guards. Originally thinking blue, but then thought I might go with the colors I did on (not-Rick) Phil.


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Oh and another supply drop. I went back to Dollar General after finding a $2 off of $10 or more purchase coupon on their website . They also have a $5 off of $25, but I think this will be enough cars for now.....but they did also have a silver H3 hummer and another cargo van...and a convertible.....and a not-bumble bee Camero......and some other sports cars


Airport taxi van (they also had two yellow taxis) and a white escalade(no spinners on the rims though )

Pic is not sideways, it's post apocalyptic

Great productivity. So much fun. Vehicles are great addition. Got something going to be heading your way soon on those lines.

NP

Oh those zombies are shaping up nicely!

Variety pack of cars for zombie town

@Cam, oooooooooooooo, I can't wait, thank you in advance
@Shaso, thanks, I really do like the cars for zombicide.

Well not much happening today. Worked at church for a couple hours, now waiting for kids to get up and go to the pool for a bit. Will probably need a nap before work tonight. Tomorrow might see some productivity, but honestly between work and VBS at church this week I am worn like an old sweater in Mr. Rogers closet .

Oh and just in case anyone has missed it, a new Kickstarter begins at 3pm eastern standard time today.
http://www.massivedarkness.com
It's a new one by CMoN (makers of zombicide, Blood Rage and the Others), and looks like a quick and dirty dungeon crawl which will undoubtably come in the KS with a ton of minis. Zombicide Black Plague hit the sweet spot of 200 figs for $150, and some of those are huge honking monsters. They have shown some of the main enemy critters including a 6 armed medusa like snake woman, demon, troll and much more.




contents

75 miniatures -
275 cards
100 card tokens
12 custom dice
9 double sided game tiles
6 class sheet pads
6 hero dashboards (plastic versions shown)
6 coloured bases for the heroes

That Kali-Naga is awesome! and the rogue looks good too. going for those to enhance your army?

Oh definitely looking for them as a game in itself (very heroquest), but some might find use in other events or armies.

I could see the Kali-Naga as a hero in a lizardman army.

There's also a giant spider and hellhound looking thing.

Just watched that video for the game, that is LOADED!

Interesting how it is supposed to run, pretty different from most games.

No more kickstarter for me, and the art direction isn't really my thing either, but be sure that I look forward to seeing you paint them in a year or three

Some of the style isn't striking me either, but we are 4 hours in and have broken 6-7 stretch goals already and almost to 3/4 of a million dollars

Doesn't even faze me anymore I barely glanced at that uhh... Dark Souls KS even. Any future KS's for me will have to not only catch my eye when I'm not looking but also be so tailored to my interests that I can't escape. Not saying it wont' happen. Battle systems is gonna make more scenery, for instance, but ehh. That's another man's game now, I'll live vicariously through all of you guys.

Definitely some cool pieces in there though the percentage of pointed hats is throwing me a bit

I think the cars seem the right scale for the zombie stuff and would certainly fit the setting.

EDC

I'm not doing many Kickstarters at all anymore. In fact I'm pretty much done and dusted with them now with very few exceptions. But given that my group played Zombicide for over a year straight, and this also looks to be fully-co-op and has the Guillotine Games/CMON rules/production legacy, along with Zombicide Black Plague comparability in some form and it's a no-brainer for me.

Well spent the day at a car dealership , my wife surprised me with that. At the end of the day no new car, upset wife and a migraine.

On the bright side I just got my email notification that ZBP wave 2 is on its way to me . I start vacation Saturday, so if it arrives soon then happy dancing Orc emoticons all around .

I am on holiday after tonight's shift too, huzzah!

Massive Darkness looks pretty cool, like Grim I am truly off the Kickstarter train now. Retail is just so much more reliable.

I'm really only following the CMoN kickstarters anymore. Possibly one other which may be coming soon as well.

They're at $1,010,xxx,xxx right now. Well I guess we will se where we are tomorrow, I'll be able to follow things tomorrow while at the twins orthodontist appointment. I'm looking forward to catching up on some threads .

Always wanted to do the kickstarter thing, but no credit card no play, so saved that one really. I would be hip deep and mega frustrated by now else. Did arrange through a wonderful fella to get my mitts on ME, but that was much more about supporting our wonderful Dakka. I do like the models, but it is still sat in its box, and not coming out any time soon. I could easily go for Massive Darkness, looks like some interesting sculpts that could be useful, but again I have enough to last me the next several years.

Hope you have a great break Theo, you deserve a rest.

Well I couldn't wait any more do I called the post office at 9am when they opened and went to pick up a package....

The main box showed up before Christmas but wave 2 (the final wave) just arrived

$202.xx for 200+ miniatures the core game and the Wolfsburg expansion.

Oh and abominations......


I'll just be drooling for the next few hours.

Oh and Monty Python figs

Some fantastic looking minis there buddy

Awesome Theo, look forward to seeing you work on them

We just had to do the replace a car thing... fortunately we found a used one that will do until we're truly in the situation to be considering new. It's a stressful and lame process so I don't envy you doing it. Good luck.

It looks like you have a big job ahead of you. Looking forward to seeing the results.

Nice loot, Theo. I haven't heard a thing about Aussie shipments yet.

So my vacation is turning out far less productive than I wanted

Took kids to the pool yesterday, then to visit relatives, borrow a pressure washer and find out we don't have enough pressure going to the power washer for it to run smoothly hour wasted. 100degree weather wiped me out, but I still made dinner then family movie night and I was asleep before the kids .

Woke up early just to get some ZBP figs primed (82 figs primed at one time), the NPC1+2 boxes(each have 20) plus the whole box from Wulfsburg and the freebie extra wolves and wolfbomb along with extra NPC figs from the Knight level pledge (NPC is Notoriously Plagued Characters). The NPC figs are 4 identical figs of zombified Snow White, headless(and horseless) horseman, priest in full papal regalia, dwarf in armor, bard, jester, elf noble and others. In game if you kill off 5 of these types of zombies you get a special prize card (cooler weapon including the boomstaff/army of darkness boomstick ).

They are primed and drying now, but church looms ahead of me and then we had agreed to paint our front door today and see if we can't get the power washer working. Definitely hoping for some free time this week to paint and get the gaming area back to functional levels.

Good luck sir!

Sounds like an excellent haul. And all primed is good.

RL issues sound a pain in the bahooky, but your Theo, You will manage, I have faith in you.

We shall prevail
SO SAY WE ALL!!!


Part of the priming was the addition to the herd army(now not ALL werewolves all the time), now with undead wolves, the children of the moon who didn't survive the transformation from human to werewolf, or wolf to werewolf.


Now with rotting fleshy parts , also ratbombination and some NPCs that have gotten a bit dead. And they ain't getting better .

Picked up 2 new brushes and the ring green ink , it's the darker biel-tan shade instead of way watcher green.

Back from the pool now and we are going to play some Black Plague.

Woohoo playing sounds fun That's a lot of wolf things.

Little bit of progress. Still a ways to go, but church duties call.



I was going to do more of a white mouse (pinky from pinky and the brain), but the wash changed all that.


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Edit: finished wolfbombs

That's bonkers. Some of your best work mate