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Lasers!! What cant they do?

Thats a nice lasercut mdf boat and crane combo. Bet your having fun.

inmygravenimage wrote:I am beyond appalled, and ashamed to be English

From how close it was, it could have gone either way. Which only means that neither side explained anything properly and we ended up just to one side of average. Oh well, make the best of it when it happens I suppose.

Other thought - I'm debating cladding the prow in plasticard just to make it smooth. Good plan, or unnecessary?

Anything that smooths out (rounds off) mdf stuff is a plus in my book.

inmygravenimage wrote:...Lovely wife also got me a hutch for my p&m table, so that's most exciting also.

So that you have have an army of rabbits and guinea pigs to help with your modelling?

Happy Birthday.

Januine wrote:Birthday eh??!! Hope you have a cracking one graven

Thanks indeed! Obscene amounts of cake and Italian food consumed.

Paradigm wrote:Indeed, have a good'un!

That boat is huuuge, should offer a lot in gameplay terms as well, lots of levels to play with.

Yeah I've not built the nuclear waste container that it comes with yet, which is roughly a double height container also. I'll leave it unattached so I can use it elsewhere. I also cheated by not building the interior controls - advantage being I can use them for something else

Theophony wrote:Happy Birthday Sir

How about a Dark blue with White accents for the Crane? Anyway it needs lights the blue and white to help blend into the sky so it's not an eyesore. The lights are obligatory.

Cheers Theo. I'm still torn on colour, it may depend in simple practicality of what I can get that works!

weetyskemian44 wrote:Lasers!! What cant they do?

Thats a nice lasercut mdf boat and crane combo. Bet your having fun.

Frickin sharks with Frickin Lasers, coming over here, cutting our mdf... yeah I need to actually lay out my full table at some point!

Dr H wrote:

inmygravenimage wrote:I am beyond appalled, and ashamed to be English

From how close it was, it could have gone either way. Which only means that neither side explained anything properly and we ended up just to one side of average. Oh well, make the best of it when it happens I suppose.

Other thought - I'm debating cladding the prow in plasticard just to make it smooth. Good plan, or unnecessary?

Anything that smooths out (rounds off) mdf stuff is a plus in my book.

inmygravenimage wrote:...Lovely wife also got me a hutch for my p&m table, so that's most exciting also.

So that you have have an army of rabbits and guinea pigs to help with your modelling?

Happy Birthday.

Cheers pal this is the hutch -

I just am saddened to see our nations divided. It's the trekkie in me I guess.
Adding to the geek-day carnage, my mum and dad (who've now moved up here, so had my first birthday with them in 20-odd years) took the hint when asked what I wanted ("spaceship spaceship spaceship!")

First time they've taken a geek hint for that matter given that wife let slip that at least one of her relatives be gettin' me more ties (as long as it's not neck ties) I anticipate Imperial ascendancy!
I think smoothing out the prow will definitely happen. I'm starting to plan my next raft of acquisitions... depends what my mates get me though. Hard life playing Firefly with them Tuesday, sadly I would rather do that than go to the pub. Also I have a job interview Weds so beer free night required.

Plan is to pick up Flash&Arrow expansion book, for starters, although I've decided to not pick up any more BMG for a while as I have 3 crews to finish building painting (plus Ivy). Apart from maybe Deadshot, Flash, Ravager...
More keen to round out my rebels and Imperials, nearly there with the small ships need to see if I need more clutter for my city streets also.
Adios
Graven

Have to agree with Dr H never actually saw somebody state the simple advantages of remaining in the EU it was all rampant scare mongering or this bunch of suits say neither of which are particularly useful when trying to convince the middle ground.

Anyway back to important stuff nice haul with the space ship and nice work on the sea ship. I'm always impressed by how quickly those cranes go off. I can remember coming back to site to see the tower cranes had had 4 babies. Most of the ones I've seen about are white and fairly clean as they don't stay up long enough to get dirty.

Star Wars goodies - always a sure fire winner in my book.

That crane and cargo ship... You'll have a glorious set-up in the docks of Gotham

Happy Birthday graven! Wonderful that you could share it with your parents again & that they've finally "gotten the hint". Mine never did, I finally gave up and started asking for conventional things like socks & stuff. Glad your parents could be taught!

inmygravenimage wrote:... this is the hutch -...

Well, I can't see how you're supposed to stop the rabbits from escaping that, there's no door!

I had to look up "hutch", and was very disturbed what for you might find a padlock/cage item useful for hobby...bunny blood for the bunny headed God of blood spilling???

Mmmm, now I'm craving hasenpfeffer...

Happy Birthday, Graven. The hutch has potential, especially since you could mount things to it, like additional lighting... unless you're getting all *trendy* on us and going with the arc lamp thing. Storage space is always a good thing. Lockable storage space is even better, especially with the little ones around. Won't go into the horror stories, but lessons were learned.

Ooooh, I haven't had hasenpfeffer in decades... since before my mom passed. Yum!

Happy Birthday Graven. I know what you mean about relatives never taking the hint. I finally got my wife to buy me something game related for Christmas last year. My family still has never done that .

First and foremost, thanks for all the kind wishes. Now have additional excellent nerd shirts also.

Llamahead wrote:Anyway back to important stuff nice haul with the space ship and nice work on the sea ship. I'm always impressed by how quickly those cranes go off. I can remember coming back to site to see the tower cranes had had 4 babies. Most of the ones I've seen about are white and fairly clean as they don't stay up long enough to get dirty.

I know you mean about cleanliness - that's an interesting point. I think yellow is winning, with red and white hazard stripes.

Ruglud wrote:Star Wars goodies - always a sure fire winner in my book.

That crane and cargo ship... You'll have a glorious set-up in the docks of Gotham

I need to get my other buildings done, they're languishing just now.

Gitsplitta wrote:Happy Birthday graven! Wonderful that you could share it with your parents again & that they've finally "gotten the hint". Mine never did, I finally gave up and started asking for conventional things like socks & stuff. Glad your parents could be taught!

Yup really glad, but to be fair they also got me some clothes vouchers

Dr H wrote:

inmygravenimage wrote:... this is the hutch -...

Well, I can't see how you're supposed to stop the rabbits from escaping that, there's no door!

They're breeding in the shelves.

Viktor von Domm wrote:I had to look up "hutch", and was very disturbed what for you might find a padlock/cage item useful for hobby...bunny blood for the bunny headed God of blood spilling???

There's some very dark places on t'internet.

Red Harvest wrote:Mmmm, now I'm craving hasenpfeffer...

Happy Birthday, Graven. The hutch has potential, especially since you could mount things to it, like additional lighting... unless you're getting all *trendy* on us and going with the arc lamp thing. Storage space is always a good thing. Lockable storage space is even better, especially with the little ones around. Won't go into the horror stories, but lessons were learned.

Wife has expressed similar fears. I used to have a lockable Edwardian writing desk. Wife felt it was too attractive to waste in geek cupboard. Boys know not to go near desk of doom. Baby girl will learn the study itself is lockable though.

Gitsplitta wrote:Ooooh, I haven't had hasenpfeffer in decades... since before my mom passed. Yum!

I love rabbit but Mrs is too squeamish, which is a shame as her uncle hunts, cleans and preps them for family freezers

Theophony wrote:Happy Birthday Graven. I know what you mean about relatives never taking the hint. I finally got my wife to buy me something game related for Christmas last year. My family still has never done that .

Mrs is always good that way. Amazon wishlist helps an awful lot mind she has a real knack with comics. Doom that came to Gotham was particularly inspired.

Build now done. The extra that come with the Cargo ship are also lovely:




And here's the full get-up (fair play - there are 3 more containers).


And now, New Desk!

Well, New hutch for old desk
And oh, the shelf(-ves) of shame.
So much to do. So little time!
Of on my hols soon. So of I go quiet for a couple o' weeks, y'all know why. Still need to get a game of xwing in with the boys, but even in holiday time, life, etc...

Later my lovelies!
Graven

Your shelf(ves) of shame are pitiful.

However the new hutch looks good, nice set up you have going on.

Crates look good, and ship is awesome.

If I don't see you before, have a great holibobs bud.

Very nice

You have no shame

That's about 25 figures on the shame list. I'm guessing that it is less than 5% of mine and less than 1% of Whaley's. pftttttttttttt.


oh and Happy birthday and have a great Holiday!

Enjoy your break! The cargo set up looks fantastic. My mind is alight with gaming possibilities!

Camkierhi wrote:Your shelf(ves) of shame are pitiful.

However the new hutch looks good, nice set up you have going on.

Crates look good, and ship is awesome.

If I don't see you before, have a great holibobs bud.

Thanks mate. Don't fear, there's lots more shame elsewhere

Theophony wrote:Very nice

You have no shame

Shameless, me

Solar_lion wrote:That's about 25 figures on the shame list. I'm guessing that it is less than 5% of mine and less than 1% of Whaley's. pftttttttttttt.


oh and Happy birthday and have a great Holiday!

Cheers buddy. I've still got a mountain of X-wing repaints to do also, but at least they feel less shameful

Gitsplitta wrote:Enjoy your break! The cargo set up looks fantastic. My mind is alight with gaming possibilities!

It definitely opens up a lot of possibilities. With my bell tower and cathedral pieces there's going to be crazy amounts of scenery, but then it's a game that depends on much multi-level, rooftop action.

Well excellent birthday shenanigans were had. Played a big game o' firefly, and against all probability, won on the last turn! Also given that my friends are incredibly competitive I know that it was a real win

Also scored Cthulhu Gloom (a card game of squamous horror!), a Jumpmaster (Dengar's ship) for X-Wing (dammit, I was avoiding Scum stuff ) and...


Some fantastic scatter terrain from erythromycin. The highlight is a toss-up between the working hinged gate and the USS GOTHAM statue. It also came with extra posters and a couple of X-wing promo cards
Very chuffed.

Was thinking about my skips. It occurs to me that I have never seen one empty. So I've been hoarding the mdf frames for no particular reason - however...

Result! I have 4 skips. I think I'll leave two already painted empty and do two like this. The empty ones are painted underneath also so can be flipped over for superheroic silliness or filled with some TT combat scatter terrain (sofa, broken TV, fridge) accordingly. Might need to score a toilet off Dr H to complete the look

So, much good nerd loot acquired. Will probably treat myself to FlArrow book but am certainly geeked to the gills for now.

Hey ho,
Graven

Piles on dunnage is very common on ships, especially those loading and unloading. You'd find piles of wood like that on the docks near an unloading ship too.

I've seen an empty skip only for about five minutes after they've been delivered to a site. One of the weirdest jobs I've done involved carrying buckets of spoil from the hoist out of a window and dumping them into a skip for a week. We were digging the archaeology out of a new lift shaft at the Cambridgeshire Council Offices. As it was built in the top of a castle straight on top of the roman town we actually got a fair amount of finds. Including 2 brooches.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
...Might need to score a toilet off Dr H to complete the look ...

Woo. I'm excited at the prospect, at least.

and the rest is looking nice.

We see them all the time at our Mfg plant. They need to be banged up to be believable on the table top.

Do you have a website ( I might have missed it earlier ) of all this MDF terrain stuff you been working on?

Regarding your skips I had the same plan, but with a tweak. The skips should be multi-use so I am going to line both of mine with cling film and use the skip as a mould. Do a couple with rubble and soil, with a few girders etc, just girders in some more, a few corpses for Zombicide etc etc etc

Gitsplitta wrote:Piles on dunnage is very common on ships, especially those loading and unloading. You'd find piles of wood like that on the docks near an unloading ship too.

Yeah, I'd like to just create some stacks of wood also. Mdf, is there anytihng it can't do?

Llamahead wrote:I've seen an empty skip only for about five minutes after they've been delivered to a site. One of the weirdest jobs I've done involved carrying buckets of spoil from the hoist out of a window and dumping them into a skip for a week. We were digging the archaeology out of a new lift shaft at the Cambridgeshire Council Offices. As it was built in the top of a castle straight on top of the roman town we actually got a fair amount of finds. Including 2 brooches.

Nice I'm considering simply filling one with stoor from my basing tub - grit, bricks and offcuts.

Dr H wrote:

 inmygravenimage wrote:
...Might need to score a toilet off Dr H to complete the look ...

Woo. I'm excited at the prospect, at least.

and the rest is looking nice.

Need to hassle you then

Solar_lion wrote:We see them all the time at our Mfg plant. They need to be banged up to be believable on the table top.

Do you have a website ( I might have missed it earlier ) of all this MDF terrain stuff you been working on?

http://ttcombat.com/collections/city-scenics
Here's my other two:

Fairly banged up

TP^DC Deputy Manager wrote:Regarding your skips I had the same plan, but with a tweak. The skips should be multi-use so I am going to line both of mine with cling film and use the skip as a mould. Do a couple with rubble and soil, with a few girders etc, just girders in some more, a few corpses for Zombicide etc etc etc

That's an interesting idea. I like the notion of making the filling "modular".
Anyway, going dark after today for a fortnight mes amis. Cy'all mid July!
graven

Well hello once more my friends!
Back from a lovely break in Ibiza and feeling much better for it Also got a new side-job for the exam board, a promotion which compensates for my in-school promoted contract running out, and the guy in the level above retires in a year So things looking up, doesn't stop me being a grumpy old sod mind you

So set about the Crane with yellow Fiat car spray:

And a test with cassandra yellow on the cab.

Think that worked. Going to eat all my cassandra yellow mind you, then you get the gw paint fear - when will they stop doing the paint on which i depend?!

Here's the yellow over black primer:

Good for more damaged yellow. This will get ogryn flesh as its wash instead. Skip will get filled with rubble, I've decided. Other skip earned itself a sofa and a TV:


Might try Honda red for the boat (or at least the hull) over black and the other "branded" cargo crates.

Getting other stuff primed. Shelf of shame is slightly less shameful toy Batmobile has worked particularly well:


More terrain incoming, this time from Multiverse: tattoo parlour, bus shelters, and fast food joint. Heads up that there will be 2 prize contests for them on my big comic page blog (good plug huh? ) I'm getting to review DC stuff too now which is jolly cool.

So lots of bmg to do. Also got my new xwing Imperial stuff to jazz up: Veteran Tie Defender & Bomber, punisher, interceptor, 2 regular ties and the Gozanti, plus Aggressor and Jumpmaster for Scum. The standard of Fantasy Flight's prepainted minis is improving, so they're a fairly low priority tbh. Applying to be a Sidekick (Knight Miniatures volunteer) so bmg is more so.

Speaking, vaguely, of which, anyone want some SciFi terrain? I have a pile of Systema stuff I'm not really using.

A bit too Sci-fi for my tastes. Cheaper for you lot if interested

Got a set of lovely modcubes from Gitsplitta. Jeez, they're awesome! They need to do a Batman token set though, exactly what's needed.

Anyway, lovely to be back! Be sure to catch the current LOER contest too, btw. It's... Wet
Cya
Graven

The crane looks great, was eying one up the other day so found your post very interesting,

Yellow is indeed yellow.

Look forward to more.

Alaricuk wrote:The crane looks great, was eying one up the other day so found your post very interesting,

TT makes great stuff. Well worth a look.

Dr H wrote:Yellow is indeed yellow.

Look forward to more.

Yes indeed! Now it is more yellow (well, actually, shadier yellow):

Starting to grey in concrete and windows. Hook and panels will be white/red hazards. It's actually not as massive a job as it seems. On consideration and research it's going to get some sponge weathering also just to break up the wall of banana.

The skip and crate were done over black primer as mentioned, now have been shaded also:

Trying something a bit outré: I've not painted the rubble. After all, I'd be painting it to look like, well, that. What do we reckon?

Got my Ford Pepper red for the boat and other crates. I'm going to try converting one crate into a makeshift shop of some dubious sort, or possibly a takeout place. Thoughts?



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Here's the red


Bit more work on the rust


And adding stripes

Crane and crates are looking fantastic graven.

Good news on the job Graven, congrats. Crane looking good. It needs the white and red stripes though to break it up, may need some more too depending on how it looks.

Great choice of red for the boat hull, would have been my choice too.

Shop in a container sounds like a fun plan and would fit with the BMG aesthetic I imagine. Is it better for it to be a shady back street gun shop or even better a weapon cache for Batman and his allies?

Looking fantastic, and yellow, but mostly fantastic.

Liking the red hull also, and think Weety is right, crane needs a few more patches to break up the over all.

Like the idea of a secret stash container.