The reverend healer looks pretty nice! Says she is 33 points and 0swc, she's considered ... a heavy infantry? Weird, she's got the lower 4-2 movement and only 1 wound. She's got mimetism, doctor, religious, a combirifle, explosive ccw, whatever this new breaker pistol is, and even a nanopulser, ouch watch out... basically everything! Oh and a pretty high cc stat, seems like a nice all-rounder especially if she can link with moiras.


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On the topic of the UFK, I'm making it a personal mission to dig through all of my bones 2 stuff to create a second uberfallkommando team, i'm thinking i'll have to rely heavily on gnolls, but there may be some shark people or similar... maybe I could even use the shark guy from deadzone....


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Heh, here's a quick try at an observance force for 300, avicenna+1pt is a stand in for the reverend healer:

JURISDICTIONAL COMMAND OF BAKUNIN
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GROUP 1 10 0 0

REVEREND CUSTODIER Hacker (Hacking Device Plus) Lieutenant Combi Rifle + Marker / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 38)
AVICENNA Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (32)
REVEREND MOIRA Combi Rifle + E/Mitter / Pistol, CCW. (30)
REVEREND MOIRA Combi Rifle + E/Mitter / Pistol, CCW. (30)
REVEREND MOIRA HMG / Pistol, Shock CCW. (1.5 | 39)
REVEREND MOIRA MULTI Sniper Rifle / Pistol, Shock CCW. (1.5 | 44)
SIN-EATER MULTI Sniper Rifle / Pistol, CCW. (1.5 | 39)
LUNOKHOD Boarding Shotgun, Akrylat-Kanone, D-Charges / Electric Pulse. (26)
SALYUT (EVO Repeater) Electric Pulse. (0.5 | 13)
TRANSDUCTOR ZOND Electric Pulse. (8)

5.5 SWC | 299 Points

Open with Army 4


I don't know that this would be my first list via what I own, it would require the moira link box, salyuts, and regular zond boxes. It gets the theme across, with lots of remotes (which I love) and the rest of the list as observance. The remotes would probably have to skirmish a bit to try to keep things at bay so the range-preferring moiras and sin eater can plug away from a distance.

This has me wondering... I wonder if I left the... nah. I was going to wonder about using my Sputniks as salyut zonds with a bit of conversion work and magnets... but the salyuts are too neat, they have little faces and the EVO unit has ginormous bunny ears!


Adorable mechanical beasts of burden!

Be careful with those Nomad remotes. They are very "Fiddly" according to pretty much everyone. Do NOT throw out anything from the box until the remotes are fully assembled. Not kidding.

About the Winter Vixen Chimera, someone on the official forum did a chimera cosplay. Here ya go... http://infinitythegame.com/forum/index.php?/topic/19003-chimera-cosplay/

A most excellent coplay IMHO.

Huh, that's neat... though... eesh, that's an expensive outfit!

The lunokhod is together fine, though I left off one of the antennae for the sake of playability. I kept it around, may add it back on later if i feel the need. I've been through a reasonable amount of metal minis in the past, usually get by without pinning too, so I'm not terribly worried about anything. Thanks for the caution though, I'm sure someone weaned on plastic kits like we have today might have a lot of trouble sometimes

I have seen the ''is it flash, or an important detail'' on several models so far. I think bran do castro is a bit tricky like that, and maybe the mushashi model but I haven't liberated him yet.

I did nail and prime two more moderators and the MK12 sineater, as well as 'Helga', who is a dreadball/misc kitbash of the Anne Marie Helder mvp. I've got to do the diorama first though.

Geez, sounds like you've been busy lately. I've been following the plog at work, but since I can't post there, I wind up missing my chance to comment on the conversations.

I'm rather glad I'm not the only one that likes the Chimera. I'd kind of like to get just that figure from the set. Forget the catgirl Daktari, I'd rather have the cool looking fox girl. A bootleg version of her would be a good excuse to buy one without having to get the Uberfallkommandos.

Nice to see I'm not the only one who's had thoughts of converting the Riot Grrls into the Knight Sabers.

The knight saber grrls needs to happen, no conversion necessary, i figured it would be a long shot until I really looked closely at them, and they should work for it out of the box with the right paint.

Chimera is awesome, i do want to fashion my own for the fun/challenge of it, but I'm totally buying the stock one as well. I do like her pupniks though so I won't mind having them too.

I wish they did a whole mess of the Chimera. They're one of the most interesting things to me about the Nomad faction, the reckless and wild biological modifications. Sure the occaisional bunny ears or whatever are neat, but nothing beats the over the top crazyness of the Chimera and the Pupniks.

Yeah they're neat for sure. And the morlocks. I need to invest in bakunins freaky side.


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Well, still got some body work to do on the Tardis, and I've still got 5 more minis to paint for the diorama... But after that I'm planning on hitting up some infinity and maybe some deadzone.

Here's what I'm tentatively planning on doing next:


Helga, Wrath, Triana, and Dean.

Helga is just someone fun to paint, I'm not sure about colors yet... not pink, she's a serious merc. Maybe... I dunno red, with kind of orange-red highlights? The helfather is going to be colorized similar to my forge fathers, so that kind of red will be otherwise untouched for the near future.

Wrath I plan to paint with a white coat, maybe red-orange on the inside to match the Moira. The rest of his gear will match my other nomads.. err well.. my moderator. Dark grey slacks, the shoes probably won't be flamboyant like Hank's (previously he was called Dean, but the color of his hair is hank-worthy) but more like the moira's. I'll probably paint armored bits white still, and the off-color will be blue.

Dean (who will be receiving brown hair instead of sharky blue as the stock moderator) and Triana (who will get black-purple hair and a black patch somewhere with a skull and bones on it) will be painted otherwise like Hank. Not sure what to do with Dean, but I'll think of something.


I may also do some more marauders sometime, I've got 8 of them ready and in stages of progress, a lot of them are red.

I don't understand any of that Infinity stuff, (though a lot of them look nice) and I'm too lazy and surly to become a regular at the not-so-F, LGS to learn/be taught it, since my time is at a premium anyway. Having said that, if there's limited edition stuff you're even slightly interested in, then go for that. You'll be able to sell it off later for what you paid for it, if need be - and that way you avoid the "I shoulda.. " regrets.

Yep, gonna get it. I'll probably hold on to the limited edition box mini to see if value rises. If they never ever make another one.. It probably will. Might do the same with the cosplay bolt.

The panoceana starter will be trickier, it might have a higher value initially (like for a couple of weeks after gencon) and then peter out as the preorders arrive. And then it's becoming a normal item minus the father knight. He may be worth mo monez, but I think when/if they make another run of icestorm, he'll still be in it.

Hell who knows, by the time I get all of the shinies, I may not be able to readily give up the Pan-O guys. All it would take to finish the force would be a tag and another dude. If people wanna get me x-mas/birthday stuff they can get those Bakunin things I want, and failing that... there's always tax time potentially


So the diorama is almost half done, just sealed the last model for the second panel. Still gotta do the windows and the wooshy light on the top, paint a total of 5 more figures.

Family visit going on next weekend, gonna try to finish this up asap. Then hmm... Maybe Helga.

Damn you Grimdork and your posting Infinity pics....I have had the Nomad starter box you have sitting on the shelf looking at me for ages now and your have forced me to open it and get distracted from my real goal again.

As a game I really like infinity, although I can see how it can become a little stagnant as everyone sits around waiting to trigger their arrows.

Love the Nomad look though, I am definitely in the camp of liking the manga aesthetic.

Yeah, manga aesthetic isn't bad. Looks like the newest models are trending towards somewhat smaller weapons though, which I approve of highly.

Seems to me like Infinity would be pretty tense, every time someone moves both players are frantically scanning fire lines to make sure they're out of line of sight, or that they aren't missing any AROs. And it sounds really brutal too.

I've got three of those minis up on the block, as soon as this Dr Who madness is out of the way... we'll see what I can do with them.

I haven't gotten much done this week, work has been kicking my butt. I did put together one of my iron ancestors the day before yesterday:



I think he's a reasonable approximation of the dreadnought, he should be shorter since he's a dwarf unit! A lot less bulky/massive, but still pretty solid.

I didn't glue the arms, or magnetize them. I think I'm going to secure them with small blobs of blue tack, though the metal gun arm may require a magnet. The bluetack is actually a bit more versatile for posing than magnets and you don't see it if used properly. The hammer head is magnetized though, I figure I can fit a drill head there someday, and maybe a different gun or even a hand eventually.


New League of Extraordinary Riveters competition up, I had to back out of the last one, we'll see about this new one.

Still working to finish diorama then back to painting random minis until I have to work on the next dio. Then no more 'ramas unless I just get the mood.


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Here's another theoretical project...

Azazelx did some interesting adobe style desert ish buildings, you can see them on his blog. I've kind of become inspired and have half a mind to do a 2x2' deadzone (or possibly mars attacks) board with similar buildings. I'd mix in deadzone tiles but only sparingly. Basically I'd use my 1/2" hardware cloth covered with plaster cloth, coated with hydrocal/putty/whatevs. I figure the wire grid, when plied with the right tools, will give me a better shape without embarrassing myself on foam core again.

For the 2x2 board, it wouldn't take a whole lot of buildings really. Maybe a perimeter fence with a gate and a couple of broken sections of varying size. Probably use the hardware cloth walkways I've shown previously.

All this with a bit of tech built in, like keypads on the adobe looking structures, satellite dishes, and the ever present corporate ads.

Hell it could even double as a Bourak terrain board for when my Qapu Khalqi are playing the home field.

Maybe? Someday?


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So I'm trying really hard to reorganize my hobby space to include a smaller area for my daughter. She's too little for hobby stuff for the most part, but my thinking is that if I get her a little block/play-dough table in view of a TV... we can hang out like we do in the livingroom, but I'll have access to my hobby stuff.

I've also got one weekend, 10 days, and not even really 10 days due to GenCon to get my Dr Who diorama finished. mostly just finishing touches and painting 5 more minis.

This could end disastrously, but I think I'm going to group my various hobby paraphernalia into like groups and box them up and shelf them, clearly labeling what goes in each box. Otherwise... I'll never clear my space quickly enough to redo the room and try to nab some bonus hobby time in which to finish the Dio/Rama.

ROUND ONE... FIGHT!

Ahhh.. memories of Street Fighter II.

I'm keen to see what you do with a small desert board. Might even get me keen to make some more stuff for my own. Though I've got to get back to that Tank Graveyard soonish. If only building those tank models wasn't so tedious...

Your plans for your daughter sound cool. She could also do Lego if she's interested in that, and eventually graduate onto some Reaper Bones models. I support your plans to organise, and thoroughly recommend various types of clear plastic tubs and a label-maker. Much better than the Cardboard Boxes I'm still moving my stuff out of when you go to look for and find something or other.

Yeah I'm pretty excited about it too. Kind of looking forward to making something permanent without building flexibility into it. We'll... I was thinking maybe 4 sections that could rotate to change the disposition, but more or less that would be it.

I got the toddlertainment center 'good enough' to get working this weekend, just the TV and a small table. I'm gonna sort my least desirable bones minis, men at arms, d maybe older 40k stuff into a toddler box and once she's maybe 3 or so I'll just let her snag whatever she likes and paint with me. We'll see how it works.

"Thinking of Who" delivered. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/609716.page

So now I can work on whatever for awhile.

In addition to random models, I'm going to start another diorama with ninjas and samurai and combine it with the prototype of my desert outpost board. I was going to put them in the city, but I figure the ninjas will be following the samurai and there's no reason he couldn't have taken a contract to fight near this outpost. So I'll get to put some effort down on that project, and scout out methods for my new board.

And don't get me wrong, I have absolutely nothing against battlezone tiles, I'm gonna use them all eventually, I'm just unreasonably excited about this desert theme for some reason.

Also, I'll be attending GenCon this week! I know, I know, I won't shut up about it, but whatever, I'm excited.

The benefit for you guys will be lots and lots of pictures, as many as I'm allowed to take, and a couple of unboxings -- potentially some of the first for those things. Supposedly I can pick up my Mars Attacks basic game box there, and I'll be getting the Infinity Operation: Icestorm unless I wimp out at the end. So expect some pictures of that stuff as early as friday night.

If there are any tables you guys would like me to stop by in an information gathering capacity, do let me know! I'll be heading to the Mantic, Corvus Belli, and Reaper tables for sure. Or is it stalls? I know Mantic will be showing off the latest deadzone stuff and probably the masters of the models for their new Dungeon Sagas game on kickstarter, but I'm sure there are booths for things I'm not even aware of doing the same.

Anyway, I hope to have a bit more content flowing this way soon, thanks for watching.

You best not be wussing out. You're currently the Gencon extension for me. I must see things through your eyes. Don't let me down!

Oh hell no. My tickets have been bought for months, I paid for three events and arranged lodging and babysitting. I'm mugga fugga going this year.


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So I'm thinking about throwing my hat in for the current LoER terrain challenge, themed around roads. A couple of prototype pics I set up:




Building all of the terrain from scratch most likely, just placeholders there.

Ok enough of that lame diorama stuff, I'll put the choicest snaps from the WiP and finished shots here, but I probably will leave the majority of the WiP and stuff in the other thread. But don't worry, I've totally got cool stuff for here too. Whenever I paint a random model from my queue, boom.

And since I just got through skimming the deadzone: contagion supplement, I'm dying (pun intentional, hand basket ready, pun hell bound) to try the new solo zombie survival campaign for deadzone. Basically you start with the same 140 or so points of units (double the size of a normal game's team) like you do in a campaign... but that's it. You get no reinforcements, and injuries that are survived only have a moderate chance of being repaired. Experience can be gained but there are only four missions. The first two missions take a smaller team, then a normal sized team, out to complete an objective; you have to repeat the mission until you get wiped out or clear it. The third and fourth missions are all or nothing, you bring your entire remaining strike team along to both.

And the zombies look intense, they aren't much to look at individually... but there are spawn points and instead of having their own turn... the zombies react to *everything* the player does. You move? All zombies with LoS move towards you. You shoot? All zombies within 3 cubes move towards you. You end your turn? Solid chances zombies move towards you once anyway, and spawn points build up dice that increase the chances that new zombies will arrive from off-board.

I'm looking forward to getting wrecked and putting up a battle report My enforcers aren't really kitted out for this, I think list building will be pretty crucial to winning the campaign (goal: at least one model makes it to the evac site on the fourth mission, score is considered as the number of points you get evacuated). Anyhoo, I may just do the first one, get a feel for it. I'll be using my enforcers obviously, and the zcorp marines and strain will be filling in for my zombies.






Not the set up, just getting my bits in order.

Your DZ table is looking great. I'm getting more keen on my own stuff arriving next month just from looking at your stuff!

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the solo rules, I really want those when they're available for retail. Do you need a deck for the Zombies, or is it all in the book how they act?

The zombie rules are called 'Artificial Stupidity', and they're just a page or so in the zombie section of the book, no cards are necessary.

Basically, the zombies just react to everything you do, and at the end of each turn within a round, there's a chance they do something on their own. The same mechanic applies to using zombies in a normal pitched battle as the solo campaign, the campaign just adds the missions to try to survive.


I'm getting pretty pumped for my second shipment, and battle systems, though I haven't gotten a shipping notice on either =/

I'm a big fan of all things zombie, at least when miniature gaming is involved, so I full heartedly approve and look forward to the tales of zombie woes.

I like zombies as an implacable force of nature to be survived, which is just what they'll be in this case. I have a feeling the first try at this is going to end pretty nastily, the zombies will be moving several more times a round than a standard opponent.

Not sure I'll get the chance to run one before GenCon... but we'll see!

Nice looking deadzone stuff there.

And Gencon starts in 2 days...tick tick tick... Have a great time.

I'm going day 2 and 3, not doing thursday so I can work part of the day and spend the rest of it driving. Hopefully Icestorm is still there!

I need to do another round of work on terrain pieces don't I...

Oh yeah they released the AI cards and stats for the second wave order form minis today (or yesterday and I missed them) gonna have to give it a serious look!

I am almost tempted to get myself a box of Deadzone just for the terrain, since the terrain fits well for Nercomunda. Also for the models as well.

Ok so I took pictures but I don't have time to post them, gotta sleep since I've got to work and drive a bunch tomorrow...

Played the first round of the zombie survival solo campaign in the new Deadzone:contagion book. I'm not 100% on all of the zombie moving and all of that, I totally survived with most of my dudes so I may have been interpreting the rules too favorably, or maybe I just had good terrain and got the gist quickly. Some highlights before bed:

Depending on LoS blocking features and terrain... zombies move freaking fast! Every time you move if they can see you they move towards you. If you shoot, within 3 cubes they move towards you (which is like half the board when you think about it). I had one or two zombies move maybe 4 times in that first turn and they only start 4-5 cubes away, scary fast. And don't think you can get by on overwatch and command actions and stuff...anything that activates your model but doesn't trigger one of the above responses means you add a dice to the roll for the zombies to move at the end of your turn (within the round)

I dunno I may have done some things wrong, I'm thinking now that I should have rolled an extra time for zombie moves at the end of the round after the last turn, meaning two zombie mini turns in a row. The second roll would have been on 3 dice so it wouldn't have mattered much, but maybe enough to throw me off. I also assumed that if you moved but didn't end in such a way as to trigger zombie movement, it didn't also trigger the added dice to the move-at-end-of-turn pool, which may have been the intention.

I don't care about normal games, an enraged enforcer sergeant is totally fine for curbstomping zombies. I think he could actually consider starting a fight chain. I need to bring an assault enforcer to the next game for sure!

Blaze away with an enforcer rifle is entirely superior to shooting the way zombies are written, you get as many or more kills and can cleave multiple zombies in the same cube (and use your actions to draw the mindless things into such a situation!).

Exploding dice are fun, but very chaotic. Attacks that should succeed can fail, and even a slight chance can prove to be a heroic effort. I had the chance to take an extra fight for a normal enforcer with 4 dice (buddy in cube) against a single zombie, I could have opted to not use the action at all. I chose to fight and got one success out of 4 (going for 6's) but the zombie rolled a 7 and two 8's, which became 5 total successes! Not even the enforcer's armor could save him after that! Then the zombie used its own free fight and flubbed it's roll only to get clobbered in the exact same manner by the Sarge.


Anyway.... zombies move quick and clubbing down one or two isn't a huge deal, but once you get 3 or so in the cube with you you're done. I'll have to put up some queries on Jake's blog to see how some of this stuff is meant to work as it's a bit confusing at first glance.

Good to hear you're having fun with it. I really want to try the Zombie and AI rules soon as I rarely get a game otherwise.

Bah I wanna dump pictures but not sure there's time for a full battle report before work, and gotta drive after. Oh well, just one more thing to throw up during the unboxing madness.


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Yeah... no time for edits and battle reports, maybe tonight on the laptop as I wait for the con.

I am also reading the rulebook for my DZ. I have not paintied my buildings yet, and I see you also mixed SW and DZ, LOL

I mixed SW plus corporation marine zombies . Still no wave 2 for me yet.

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I mixed SW plus corporation marine zombies . Still no wave 2 for me yet.

Me neither Grim. :(

The last update said the Asterians were ready to go, so I'm hoping my stuff will be tootling over to my workplace soon

Got forge fathers in mine and for as cool as they look, I'm ok with waiting more.

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Got forge fathers in mine and for as cool as they look, I'm ok with waiting more.

My brother wants to field Asterians as Wraithguard for an Eldar army, since Cyphers are pretty much the same.

Yeah, they're a bit less dour than your typical wraithguard, but similar size and aesthetic.

Okay, just to show my take on both infections

Grendler/1st Gen-A/Cthonian
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They look good.

Day 2 (skipped day 1) was fun, kind of a fuster cluck. Of gencon I mean. Got ice storm and mars attacks!, so that's nice. They were out of at least one of penny or the bolt so I just got the starter. I'll do a full write up of janes gully, not enough time we still aren't back to base.

A low percentage of cosplayers but still quite a few. Everything from ruroni Kenshin to Mario to a spiderman+black cat couple and even a pair of nudist beach operatives.

Lot of shops, gamesetc, the war store, a game store with a lot of close outs. Many shirts and even edged weapons to be had.

Gotta remember to get my munchkin shirt signed.

I'll type more when I get back to our lodgings, maybe dump some photos.

Photos would be great. Living vicariously through you this weekend!

Man. My spirit is a bit crushed. I'm not finding any dome helmets in my mars attacks box. I can't tell if this is because they failed to produce them at all, or if my box is just defective, but missing the helmets is making me look at everything negatively. I think I'm just gonna wait to talk to mantic tomorrow before I do any kind of proper unboxing for the MA.

I've got other stuff though, gonna see about working through it to cheer myself up.

Bugger, that sucks Grim. Must have been a mispack... yet again you get screwed over by Mantic.

Are you sure? Have you seen an unboxing with helmets in it? I would so much rather it be a mispack than a blatant lie/betrayal of the promise to follow through with them.

So a couple of pictures before bed.


Holy gak it's Yojimbo, I want one. Bad. He comes on foot as well, probably a combo pack.


Swag.


Box guts.

You're talking about the clear domes over the martians heads? They've been a thing in Mantic announcements for a long time, here's a pic of production models with clear helms:



So rest easy! It's just another case of Mantic almost getting things right ; p They sort this stuff readily, it's just (another) big inconvenience for you from them heheh. Nice backpack of loot though!

Mantic seem incapable of not screwing up orders. They do it every kickstarter.

Yeah kickstarter is one thing its almost more forgivable but these boxen will be sold to first time customers too. I shall have to inquire in a few hours.


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I was gonna throw some pictures up here but the internet where we are staying is apparently not particularly conducive to uploading images, 17+ minutes for 10? Usually that just takes a couple of minutes sigh. I guess I'll just inundate you guys when I get home if there's time on Sunday. I've got the gencon pics from yesterday, today still to be taken, zombie solo campaign round 1, another rules less skirmish/ photo session with some corporation marines and infinity models... gotten behind.

That is rubbish news Grim, hope you got a bag of the clear helmets today (and a freebie or two as compensation for your trouble).

If it is in your box I fear it may be in every box, one hell of an error if it is.

Well, missing domes aside, how do the MA figures look? Face details aren't all muddy, no massive mold lines, etc? Are you going to be painting yours or keeping them raw?

Mantic.......almost . They look great, especially for a board game, but they are still just floundering about. They need someone in their company to be in charge of production and oversee it better, even if that person could give a rat less about gaming. Nice haul you got at gencon. Did they still have any operation ice storms left? I know they sold out of the cosplay bolt right off the bat.

I did get ice storm and it looks to be in good order. My wife took a photo of the Bolt cosplayer and I got a picture with Angel Giarldez (or however you say it). They sold out of ice storm after I got one, probably by noon the second day.

They'll be including extra domes in my KS fulfillment , its not like they had any on them to hand out. Hopefully it was just some of the boxes, they're working on getting everything coming from one factory and lessening such things moving forward.

@Barzam I'm gonna look at them again tonight, I was a little pissy last night, so my view is skewed. The plastic is fairly bendy but not quite to a bones degree. Hot water will probably sort them all and apparently almost everything enjoys being washed before painting. Some parts that are very narrow are a bit bent.

The faces didn't look resin quality but I dunno if they were what I'd call mushy soft. Somewhere in the middle, I'll take close ups and post once I'm somewhere with better lighting.

Mold lines are mostly minimal, some almost non existent though Edwin has a large one down his chest.

I'm gonna leave them alone for now, but I will mist likely paint them eventually.


I'll post more when I can get on my computer this is too wordy for a phone. The others decided it was a good idea to stop and wait 30-60 minutes at a bar for food FML I wanna rest.

Icestorm sold out completely, before noon. 300 boxes. And all 300 blisters of Cosplay bolt and Alt-penny. Those sold out day 1. CB seriously underestimated demand :/

You should enjoy it GrimDork. I hope you get the Mantic stuff sorted too.

Yeah domes should be no issue given time. Still vitta decide about pan o to keep or not.

Also...

OOPS!

Couldn't help yourself, had to get more hey ; p If you're gonna go to gencon, may as well make it worth the trip!

Right?

Whew that's a lot of bzs in total though.

Just wait until you get home and you can add them to the bz pit to swim in!

Sucks about the domes. Any pics you can post of the ma face details when your back would be appreciated.

Your going to have enough battlezone tiles to build a caravan soon ...now that would be an interesting camping trip

Couldn't help but buy yourself a ruined quadrant eh Grim? Unfortunately I've not had much time to play about with my BZ ruined quadrant. I really should do something about that. Else I'm going to be overwhelmed by KS dollies lol.


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Ps> it's a large box isn't it? Heh.

Tell me about it! I had that thing from somewhere around 11 am to 7pm yesterday. It gets freaking heavy after a bit, and hard to maneuver. Structural integrity is weakened, probably collapse once I get the poor thing home.


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Working through my photos, here's a gallery with (almost) everything I did involving Infinity:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-70053-42674_Gencon2014-Infinity.html
I still have to do an unbox for operation Icestorm.

The mantic table, I didn't really get any good pictures of staff, I should have asked Ronnie to take a photo with me but oh well I don't think I'll have too many generics of that, but I do have a lot of shots from the Jane's Gully event, and I'll be unboxing Mars Attacks! very soon. Also my kings of war battle.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-70053-42703_Gencon2014-mantic.html
Here's the mars attacks photos, I need to get a couple more but it's too dark to get them right now. The one of Ashley is too blurry for sure.

I'll do a proper unbox too, I just wanted to put the gallery up since I've been promising pictures!

Cheers Grim, looks like a fair few mould lines on and around bases to me. The red plastic heroes look a bit softer on detail, but that may just be an optical illusion caused by the colour as the cream marines look fine.

How do you feel about the material used to make the miniatures?

The heroes look the softest. The marines look the best, martians are in between but maybe closer to the marines. The material is softer than I was expecting, it can't be the same thing my one Loka piece is made of, or if it is it's a different mix. I might have to try painting one of the softer faced heroes and see what it looks like though, could be because of the color and reflection. Ashley, maybe Deek. I think they look the worst at first glance.

It isn't the same as bones, but so far that's the closest thing I can compare it to. The minis are light and seem fairly resistant to damage from drops and being loosely tossed into the box. I haven't had a really good chance to mess with them yet. I'm probably gonna see how hot water bending works with them to fix a couple of minor things and possibly to try some re-posing on some of the duplicate martian grunts.

As a side note, the terrain seems a little different from the DZ stuff. Not sure how, maybe in the uhh... springiness of the plastic? It seems like the pieces and connectors are similarly rigid but maybe more likely to survive multiple uses and pop-outs. Feels like stuff you'd get in a 'normal' board game maybe?


About the mold lines, I feel like Edwin has an almost unreasonable amount, but everything else I thought was pretty acceptable. I probably won't bother doing anything to them until I eventually get around to painting them, they're fairly easy to ignore.

The weapons on the heroes look pretty rough. Is that just the pictures or are they that soft and muddled IRL? The marines do look great. Those heroes have me worried about Dungeon Saga though...

The heroes appear to be the worst. I'm not sure if it's a trick of the eyes because of the red, or what. I'll probably have to paint a couple of heroes, a marine or two, and a couple of martians ahead of schedule just to figure it out 'cause it's bugging me.

I guess if they make the Dungeon Saga dudes out of the brown marine color all will be well?

I mean, do we think its the color that makes the difference? I wonder if the heroes were sculpted by one guy and the marines another... I'm super worried though after seeing the heroes. I will try to hold judgement until I see some painted up though.

Yeah, if my daughter gives me half a chance I'm gonna skim a few mold lines off and try to get them ready to be painted ASAP, but we'll see what work and daughter allow me to do.


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As I trim these the different colored plastics almost have a different level of hardness between them. The martians seem pretty soft and bendy, the soldiers more in the middle, Eva and Ashley are both pretty stiff. It may have more to do with the posing and thickness of the models too.

Thanks for the pics! Interesting that the material feels different for different models.

I could just be hallucinating it too, I'm still pretty tired from the convention and staying up too late trying to at least get a coat of white on these guys for better comparisons.

What do we think, white and then maybe a black ink/wash to see what that does?

That usually works. Grey, white drybrush and black wash would work too but ain't no one got time fo' dat!

Yeah pictures going into the gallery in just a moment. I think they look better than I was seeing in the red, maybe not as good as I had hoped, but for a boardgame.. probably fairly acceptable.

Going to have to kind of imagine/draw your own eyes on a couple of them but the face is the right shape for it. I think Brandy is the worst. martian came through fairly well I think. Ashley and Eva again are visible but slim. A thick rattle can primer may obliterate the details if you aren't careful.

They do seem a good deal better with a clean and a spray, especially the red heroes. The martian grunts that you have circled, what is going on there? Just a complete lack of detail there is worrying. And going on what you have said on the KS comments, the different coloured plastics have different level of hardness?

Anyway than you for the detailed pictures and work, you have earned a massive sleep and rest.

Thanks for the new pictures. That coat of primer makes a world of difference.

I may have just been hallucinating it. The red models seemed a little stiffer than the green ones, but they also had much less dynamic poses so I dunno. I know the thicker bones gets the harder it is generally, this may be similar.

Ok so yeah, I think I'm supposed to be putting pictures up. Maybe tomorrow, this has been one of the hotter weeks of the season and I haven't had anything left by the time I get home.

Does anyone need to see the contents of Icestorm? Unless I have horrible miscasts, I'm pretty sure Carlos himself unboxed the whole thing on Beasts of War. The card counters are thin, about as thin as you can make counters, but hell with the LE minis, rulebook, and dice, anything else like the counters and terrain is basically extra/free.

I tried painting Eva, but no energy today.

I may throw something together using the ruins sprues, but it's too late tonight.

I didn't get any amazing cosplayer pictures, though my wife has a couple of nice shots.


Is there anything I said I would post that I haven't? I wouldn't call it a fuster cluck, but the weekend did not go smoothly enough to be conducive to getting things up here quickly. I still have the Jane's Gully battle shots, and a few images from the Kings of War battle, the Infinity stuff and Mars Attacks! should have been linked by now. And then I still have photos from the Zombie battle and some stuff from before that. I tell you what, if I get a day off, there will be pictures. But for now meh.


I did think of some funny stuff to incorporate into my next building. I'm thinking a bombed-out smut-house. There will be a board/sign on the wall kind of like they have at theaters detailing the current hot titles such as:

Backdoor Soraks 9
Dream of the fisherman's wife
Dream of the fishman's wife
Big Assets Corporate Edition

Where the first is a nod to backdoor sluts 9 from that lotr southpark episode, the middle two allude to that old painting/carving/whatever it is and the fact that Sphyr exist in the Ronnieverse and that they apparently thrive in the skin business, and of course something like Juggs or whatever.. but with a corporate spin.

Any thoughts for another poster/sign?

I too cbf painting today. Sat down with my void sirens, did a layer on a couple and thought ehhhh. Not fussed on operation icestorm cos yeah, BoW video had solid info iirc.

rofl nice ideas for the posters ; p Could only think of a couple off hand:
Two Zees one Sphyr (or something like that)
sora.cx

So phone probably does no justice. Needs highlights and a dip.

Found the eyes almost easier... like nothing in my way to paint around...

"Corporations hate her. House wife finds simple tip to patch up bullet holes."

"Rebelo and Enforcerette" This summers love story.

"George Romero's night of the killing plague."

"Bar Wars: Return of the Judwan"

"Mercenary Wine: Grapes of Wrath"

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"Bar Wars: Return of the Judwan"

This. This needs to be done!

Heh, filing those away for later.

Now I've got a bit of a headcold in addition to being tired from work. We were replacing an older concrete wall (well cinder blocks with concrete poured into them) and the last piece was ridiculously hard to get out, and too big for our little machine to lift so I went into a berserk rage jumping as high as I could and slamming down the prybar (straight down, probably break a wrist with one of those if you used it like a bat that hard) until it was in more than one piece... Textbook example of D&D style barbarian rage, more str, more con, fatigue afterwards. Still feel bleh.

I think I'll finish up Eva first thing, then I've got a lot of stuff to get around to.

 Paradigm wrote:

 carlos13th wrote:


"Bar Wars: Return of the Judwan"

This. This needs to be done!

Its the only one I really like out of the ones I posted.

I think she turned out pretty well for just doing my basic base+minimal highlights+dip+flatcoat.

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I think she turned out pretty well for just doing my basic base+minimal highlights+dip+flatcoat.

Nice job

Now paint a martian

I'll consider it. What color? Studio scheme or something rather different?

Nice job on Eva.

As for the Alien paint scheme, they are so ingrained in my head as they appear in the movie I can't imagine as them as anything else. Although, I imagine the armor color varies, radically different skin tones would just seem off to me.

Nice work on the Cop there. She's very effective. Are tyou using the integral bases, or will you be rebasing them on your trademark clear perspex?

@Adamsouza, I was thinking some kind of mix of orange/flesh for the skin, somewhat similar to the studio set. More the armor is what is malleable. Dunno if I wanna do the same turquoise, or go with a greener shade, or try some kind of sinister black...


I was gonna a leave them plain entirely but people needed to have as clear a picture as possible so I started cleaning minis and adding paint to show the details... then there she was ready for paint...

Probably clear bases like everything, just in case they need to see action in a dead zone or on my eventual desert outpost.

I've borrowed my folks' dremmel to investigate it for easily removing the mini integrated bases from kow and dead zone minis, I'll probably stick to a knife for Eva. If it works well, I'll probably leave the mini bases on while painting then dremmel them off of the models right before basing.

Mostly this would greatly expedite getting KoW minis onto a multi base.


Got a package today but alas no battle systems or dead zone yet!


Souza says I paint a martian next, anyone else gonna contest that?

I would vote for a Infinity miniature personally but a Martian would be interesting too.

I have some infinity minis ready, but I always get a little intimidated by them, I wanna do a good job and I hate stripping models if I can avoid it.

I do have a primed Martian too. We shall see!

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I have some infinity minis ready, but I always get a little intimidated by them, I wanna do a good job and I hate stripping models if I can avoid it.

This! This is my problem! Except I'm a much worse painter so it's taken me forever to get to a decent enough level practicing on second hand models to actually start painting some of my stuff recently ; p Half jesting aside, I do understand what you're saying. Great models deserve a great paintjob!

Well they're more stressful if nothing else...

I did Eva in just a few minutes really, little bit here a couple of mornings before work, maybe one little bit on the couch watching TV with daughter. Infinity minis usually require a bit more concentration and effort.

I dunno though, I may just be psyching myself out. I don't think they're any harder to paint, just have to be careful and go slowly, the hard crisp edges of the metal make them a joy to paint as well.

 Yonan wrote:

 GrimDork wrote:
I have some infinity minis ready, but I always get a little intimidated by them, I wanna do a good job and I hate stripping models if I can avoid it.

This! This is my problem! Except I'm a much worse painter so it's taken me forever to get to a decent enough level practicing on second hand models to actually start painting some of my stuff recently ; p Half jesting aside, I do understand what you're saying. Great models deserve a great paintjob!

I used to be like that then I realised I would rather paint them poorly than never paint them.

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I'll consider it. What color? Studio scheme or something rather different?

Keep the face studio scheme, but just change the suit scheme for unique squads

Eva looks great to me, a Martian would be excellent to see next in the painting queue.

Good call Carlos, I shall bear that in the forefront of my mind, you are too right.

Thraxis, thanks. Good call on martian scheme.

Also, good suggestion AoV. Means two color schemes for the current box of martians.

Guess a martian is next up.

Honestly with my samurai I was so worried about screwing up the lacing on my samurai I didn't touch them for ages. In the end I decided feth it if rather paint it badly than not at all and I can always strip first models after finishing the last ones if they look that bad.

That said I am trying to paint my less complex models before the more complex ones so I can use the earlier models as a learning experience.

Yep you make a good point And doing simpler models first is a solid approach as well.

Been playing with the ruins sprues to increase the size of some of my smaller buildings:




Although my internet is being screwy so I'm not positive that's what I just linked


Here's a finished martian grunt since you guys decided that's what I should do next. Actually stuck pretty close to the studio scheme with this one, figure I can try different colors out on another batch.

 GrimDork wrote:
Yep you make a good point And doing simpler models first is a solid approach as well.

Been playing with the ruins sprues to increase the size of some of my smaller buildings:




Although my internet is being screwy so I'm not positive that's what I just linked


Here's a finished martian grunt since you guys decided that's what I should do next. Actually stuck pretty close to the studio scheme with this one, figure I can try different colors out on another batch.

Ack ack. Ack ack ack ack ACK!

Lol. Do not run, we are your friends.

Indeed, I really want to get a proper game or three in.

Looks like I might have to grab a ruin set at some point, it could make buildings go a lot further at ground level so I can save full rules for expanding upwards.

I'm not much of a fan of MA stylistically, but I have to say the paintwork looks good!

Thanks, he's standard tabletop - basecoats till they're solid, minimal highlights where necessary, dip, seal. I probably wouldn't grab a box of them off the shelf in a vacuum, but the game sounded fun and chaotic so I was hooked

Yeah the ruins are great. You can also use them to imply height as well, build corners that all end in ruins to suggest a much taller structure.

Got a big building painted today too I'll take some shots after awhile. It needs railings, or portions of a second and or third level, but I'm not there yet.


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I'd like to add at least portions of an upper floor or two.


The rubble piles are nice for scatter terrain and blocking LoS over long straight portions of buildings, though they don't really well resemble the materials the buildings are made of.


Add a couple of outlying structures and some catwalks here and there, and you've got a board, it's a nice centerpiece/mission objective/whatever.


What is that sinister shape stalking in the shadows? I don't know... but I'm scared...

Your table is looking damned impressive these days!

Haha, I need to get it all painted and detailed though.

Until then just argue you are going for a film noir vibe with the key characters in colour so they stand out

Hah! That's awesome, I like it

Anyone unpainted is relegated to an extra or npc

That Martian has come out excellently Grim. I am quite impressed with the detail on the model, especially the areas where some had concerns such as the brain.

This blog makes me want ruins as well, Mantic should pay you commission.

Just a heads up Grim, use PVA glue on your Martian helmets when you come to putting them on. That way you avoid the plastic domes looking all cloudy.

Yeah, same thing goes for the bases I use. Except it doesn't, I've been supergluing the last 10 or so minis down to no ill effect. I'll probably get some clear PVA for the domes (when I get the rest of my stuff), but I'm definitely gonna try one with superglue out of sheer stubbornosity!

Been working on something, will wait for actual finished things to photograph before doing pictures this time.

Whats up next Grim? More martians?

We shall see, we shall see.

I'm trying to restrain myself and show off several things at once, but my willpower is waning

Top secret project though...

Show it off, Show it off!!!!

Liking the addition of the damaged parts. Martians are well done! (Liked that silly movie!)

Fine fine, since you asked

I was trying to hide my shame for having started something entirely new but here you are:



A Shasvastii Seed-Soldier, a basic line infantry for Combined Army. I used CA in my learn to play/demo infinity event at GenCon and fell in love with a model called the Gwailos. Turns out I like his entire faction, the Shasvastii. Turns out miniature market ships things to me in like a day and I was weak. Ordered 3 dudes from Amazon burning up my bonus points, then broke down and ordered the Shasvastii Expeditionary forces starter since I was "good" with spending at gencon, and I wanted to try out some fluorescent paints. Lord help me.

Started him this morning before work, finished this afternoon while baby was napping. He's a bit grainy under super zoom, I guess I need to switch back to basic white krylon, the primer variant is apparently rougher. The camera picks it up but he looks rather smooth to me.

I'll hopefully be powering through finishing the other 8 models then working back into something else. I'd like to blow through them all since I'm content with this scheme and I'll feel better having bought them if I get them finished Should be some time yet before DZ wave 2 finally shows up as well.

Still got a samurai diorama, not sure I'm gonna be able to follow through with the LoER road project, I will have to hang my head in disgrace and stop entering if I don't finish this one.

I like that a lot. Very alien dispite the humanoid shape.

Its been forever since I've used green, and I really wanted to work with the pink and purple colors. He isn't miles away from the studio scheme, but he's definitely not the same. Got the idea to use the pink from there though.

After the dip, I'm positive I like the scheme. Several of his kin will need some different colors, but the baseline is established.

I think the colour scheme is great mate. Going to have to check out the studio version.

These guys look sweet. Your colour scheme is similar but easily identified as different.




Got to admit what I want to see the most is the Samurai diorama.

Yeah I need to get to work on it pretty soon.

Interesting looking Xenos.

That looks pretty cool, suitably alien. I think at some point I may have to grab an Infinity mini or two just to paint.

The only thing I don't like about the infinity models is the price.

Tell me about it! And they're addictive, sooo pretty, I don't even care if I get to use them in game if I get to paint them. Never felt that way about space marines, those were all bought to be used someday, infinity models can just be on a shelf if it comes down to it (not that I wouldn't love to play...).

Still trying to think up a good way to represent the TO camo for the malignos, I think I'll start the Asuang next, he's a creepy bastard for sure. Basically has a special ability that lets him eat downed opponents to gain wounds, and he also has a adhesive launcher (think working riot control glue foam gun thing), so.... yeah scary camouflaged alien monster running around rooting enemies to the spot then closing and eating them. Try not to be terrified at *that* prospect

Sounds pretty scary, and completely weird! I must look into the Infinity fluff at some point. I'm not such a fan of parts of the aesthetic, but the setting might be worth delving into.


They are damn expensive models, but if I were just buying one or two for display I think I could stomach it.

Ehh you only need about half a dozen for games. Ten for full sized. But then you'll want variety... then you'll want that other faction... its addicting!

I think I could resist buying loads, simply by virtue of not having the cash, but at the same time, Ice storm still looks very tempting... As someone who owns it, how would you say it looks as a Standalone game? Would it be playable just with the box content (mini wise, I have more terrain)?

yeah, I would say you could play ice storms by itself and still get quite a bit of enjoyment out of it.the two factions you get are very balanced,and weigh in at 150 pointswhich I would equate to about a thousand. Game of 40k.. Game.forgive my speech to text. I will clean this up later.I think there are 5 scenariosand you can always switch sides with your opponent.after that you can always play deathmatch.

I think one would have more fun if they eventually bought more models, but both sides could do this a single unit at a time costing only 10 to 20.I think there is enough specialists in the box but you could also branch out and do the its missions as well

Sounds good, I'll take a look at the starter rules and some fluff and then I might just go for it. If I do, I'm sure I'll start expanding eventually. It's not that much more per model than Malifaux, and the minis look as good. The terrain also has obvious crossover with DZ as well.

Are the rules you get in the set the full ones, or will I still need a BRB at some point?

Ice storm has n3 quick start rules. Quick start and normal rules are available on CBs website but are version 2. N3 is coming this year, rules should still be free fluff less PDF on website eventually.

Cool, thanks for the info. Are the v3 rules much different from the V2, because I just had a look at the v2 and it looks really, really good? The ARO stuff looks particularly awesome.

Looks like I'll be going for Icestorm, I have enough Space Marines, and I do like the look of everything in the set.

I think its more of a polish and consolidate thing then sweeping changes.

Good to know. Looks like I'm pretty much sold.

Seems like this thread is doing half Mantic's/CB's marketing for them!

I should send them a bill... maybe I should switch careers

Nice work on the Infinity model!

Damn it Grim, I am TRYING to focus on my 40k Orks and ignore the Infinity models with their siren calls from the cupboard. Your constant putting up of your fantastic work is making that very hard to do.

Love your paint job on the Seed Soldier by the way.

Thanks guys . Pushing forward working through the greens on the Aswuang.

I may do a side by side panO /nomad ice storm progression starting with the line infantry from both factions and adding others in order with the missions.

Maybe. Got 8 shasvastii left and you know how I like to change my mind about things....

I really like that idea grim. If you do it one for one with each faction it would be a good way to break things up. Starting with the grunts and working towards the commanders.

I think I may try to do all 3 grunts in a row (but not in a batch) per side, then switch to the other side's heavy, then go back and forth until done.

Something like auglaciles x3, fusiliers x3, mobile brigada, orc, grenzer, nisses, etc.

I'm still working on schemes too... I'm leaning towards non-traditional for both factions. Almost wanna paint the auglaciles white, or at least their jackets. And blue is definitely Pan-O but I wanna consider other colors before I commit to it.


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Not green though, getting plenty of that right now

Do the nomads as florecent pink.

Hey did somebody say they wanted MORE ALIENS!?



And with his buddy:




In one afternoon, this scheme may not be fancy... but it's quick I need to go back over several items with fluo yellow, and gore up his snack/trophy with BftBG, but otherwise I think he's ready to go 'ahunting. This guy is why you use the buddy system at night (or in the broad daylight!) when you go out to water the shrubbery.

Asuwang!

I'd like to get one at some point. He's just nasty looking.

I think you're the only person I've seen paint the Seed Soldiers wearing helmets. I think I may do that myself. They look good that way.

I didn't really look before I picked, I just decided what textures were which color and that was that. Look at the aswuang, he has an organic shape for a head, definitely skin/face, but the seed soldier is rigid plate look. For me there was no other way to do it.

Still haven't figured out what I want to do for the malignos and his camo, will probably do another seed soldier or a shrouded next. Then maybe the gwailos or speculo killer.


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Plus you are right, kind oof gives the seed soldier that menacing faceless minion vibe.

Since they're both on their bases now

Gonna do the other two seed-soldiers next and together since they're so similar, speed things up.

And the 2014 award for the longest post title goes to...

Looking good, very alien looking, and having properly looked into Infinity now, I almost have a clue what they are!

Haha we'll have you converted in no time!

I'm not totally sure what these are in particular, the CA is the big bad guy for the game, this is the sneaky/freaky faction.

All looking amazing Grim, love the Mars attacks dude awesome job there.

I love the look and feel of the Infinity stuff, just never actually play anything any more, cant really justify getting a bunch of the models, but you are veery persuasive.

I think I'm pretty much converted already! Ice storm will be ordered before the end of the week, I've been reading up on the fluff and minis, and the rules look great. I might try and set up a proxy game using DZ/40k stuff, but so far, I like what I see. They're don't seem any more complicated than 40k at a base level, although I need to take another look at the abilities like camo etc.

The basic rules are interesting, everything else is kind of bolt on.. or well I mean if you start with basic line infantry it's dead simple. Then you add things slowly over time like multiwound infantry, camo, advanced deployment, cover some extra rules like guided ammo being routed by forward observers, hacking, and other fun tricks.

The ARO is the big thing to get your head around. Kind of like the entire enemy team is on overwatch during your own turn. Feeding multiple orders to one model may seem foreign, but that one is pretty intuitive right off the bat.


The models are super pretty Cam, and metal. That's that. I don't love metal but the quality of the sculpts (and it's not as easily broken as resin I don't think) makes up for it. Even the price doesn't bother me much, they're fun to paint. I probably won't get to play much either But don't run out and buy any on my account



@paradigm, If I ever get to the point where I get to play games regularly, I'd use DZ and infinity interchangeably... DZ is the fast/easy game, infinity has a lot more nuances and is more complicated. I dunno if I can say DZ is way faster, cards and tokens bog things down a bit and when the tables turn in Infinity, things get messy fast and games end quick, it's all about the set up and dance around eachother till one of you gets the upper hand and then keeps it, I think.

May also use DZ rules for Infinity-lite, and infinity rules for ComplexZone.

The new paint looks great.

I know I've asked you about the acrylic bases before, and that you get them from Litko, but what thickness did you go with ?
The price varies considerabely based on thickness, and while it's difficult for me to judge the thickness from pictures, I don't think you opted for the thicker bases. Your's look fine, so I'd be happy to go with the same option.

Those are the thinner size, 1.5mm thick I believe. 3mm is the thickness of a gw standard base. The whole idea is for them to blend in and dissapear, thinner bases seem to do it better. And cheaper too

Your pace on these is crazy, how long do you spend per mini?

I didn't count yesterday... whoops.

The first guy I had maybe 30-40 minutes in the morning and I was mostly figuring out the scheme. Then I came back and threw a little more time at him to finish up the last colors, do minimal highlights etc. Dipping takes like 5-10 minutes, dunk, spin/fling then carefully blotch and siphon with paper towels, helps to keep an eye on them for the whole 10 minutes or so as sometimes things you clear out pool back up. Using the dremmel to chew him off his base and then glue him back down is the work of a few minutes, but you've got to give them at least 4 hours to cure, better if its 8 best if its a full day. I usually am too impatient :p

Second guy was similar, probably not more than an hour or two painting, it's all just basecoats, a little drybrushing, I haven't layered anything in years lol, I think I forgot how. Dip helps blend things together smoother than I'm likely to though and that's what really helps me be lazy and quick.

That's a pretty impressive pace mate. Takes me hours to do even simple minitures ATM.

Well I guess my muscle memory may finally be coming in or something. These guys you can be pretty sloppy with too.

I'm pretty much all smoke and mirrors man, deception and tricks to shave time and achieve reasonable results. Dipping, drybrushing highlights, picking color schemes that are easy to paint. Letting the dip take care of my white. And so on.

I will say that I've gotten significantly better at painting tiny details like eyes and stuff compared to my early days, that has to be the muscle memory/ better tools and materials.

Still got a long way to go though.

When my bones stuff gets here I may try some fancy stuff out every now and then, I would love love love to learn to use my airbrush to actually paint infantry sized models, or at least large portions of them. My control is improving, but I've got a terribly long way to go.



Dishwater was pretty clean after running a few plates and cups so I'm currently washing 8 ruins sprues, 2 fortification sprues, and 4 connector sprues, we'll see what we can make out of those at some point in the future

Haven't started the seed-soldiers yet, may try to do a little work on them tonight yet, maybe in the morning before work, we'll see.

If the end result looks great the method doesn't matter.

I really want an air brush in the future.

Ice storm looks fantastic, might have to see if I can get a copy for Christmas and split it with the gf so we can play together. Thing is I think we will both want the nomads.

@Carlos ouch. Getting to play with the girlfriend sounds excellent, having to give her Nomads sounds sad... But you will probably already have some pan-o from your friend (as long as it isn't the basic starter, icestorm has similar yet superior contents) in that swap right? Kinda shoehorns you into them Maybe you can trade off back and forth, gives you excuse to play more games!

But Carlos that's a slippery slope now isn't it, what if my painting is all enhanced by dipping them into baby seal blubber? The ends justify the means? I dunno man...

I think I'm going for the adriana starter from my mate. I think the pano he has is the starter too and while I like a fair few of the pan o models I am not a fan of most of their starter set. Honestly if it's between her and the nomads she might not like the answer. :p

Paint it with the blood of your enemies for all I care as long as you share the miniatures afterwards.

So I'm guessing you settled on an adhesive for gluing the metals to the clear bases? What're you using?

Also, the Asuwang looks like he's got a comb over with those fleshy bits of his on top of his head.

Yeah he just sleeps in the woods. Wakes up to check his doo inthe pond, runs a comb through it, says screw it, and then runs off to stalk and eat people.

Super glue so far. Loctite brush on kind cause its easier to control. No issues with fogging so far at all and its easier than epoxy and it is even less conspicuous since I don't have to use as much of it.

Being that it is super glue and the models are metal, I suspect even a twelve inch drop will result in separation but it will also be easy and quick to fix.

Loving the aliens, really dynamic models.

I have to say, as I have in the past, for me this is one of the most inspirational blogs on Dakka, just because of the little details you share about how and when you get your work done between your kid, your job and all the rest. Makes me want to get my act together- I got no kid, and my job can't be any more exhausting than yours, so what's my excuse, eh?

I need a better photo set up though. The phone cam is not up to much.

Alien dudes are looking pretty cool...tempted to pick up some myself for chopping purposes

Heh, Da Boss, I am touched. You guys are all quite inspirational to me as well, keep me interested in doing more stuff so I can post it and chat back and forth about it

I had to finally give up and throw a hundred bucks and a little change at a camera, my phone had been getting increasingly worse and I like to take pictures :p

@Monkeytroll just remember they're metal so the chopping will be tough

So beyond painting as many shasvastii as fast as I can stand it, I've been following a couple of kickstarters. Shameless plugs below:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1744629938/dungeon-saga-the-dwarf-kings-quest
ends sunday!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1621774283/battle-systemstm-fantasy-dungeon-terrain
nearly a month left

I still don't have my BS scifi terrain but I'm sure I'll love it and the fantasy stuff will give me a home for my reaper bone stuff (and go well with the dungeon sagas). The Dungeon Sagas seems to offer gameplay from a straightforward tactical boardgame all the way up to an RPG with miniatures... seems like a good gateway game to get people into RPGs or minis gaming either way, and the extra rules for using KoW monsters/races should allow me to use most of my bones stuff as well.

Got the skin done on those two seed-soldiers which puts them closer to being done than I'd usually think. Just the other two greens, a rifle, a knife, and all of the yellow ports/tendrils. May get them done tonight, maybe tonight+tomorrow morning. May just take a break, who knows

Continuing the green alien parade we have two more seed soldiers:



I'll take better pictures after I've got them on their bases, freshly dipped here.

I think the first one and the gwailos came out a little better from the dip, the guy with the rifle really got it bad from the primer with the bumps, you can see them with your eye not just the camera.

Well it's Labor Day weekend so I've got saturday, sunday, and monday to paint more. Wonder if I could get three done?

It's actually pretty cool how they look slimey.

Great stuff.

Thanks

The slimy is more or less intentional, the bumpiness especially on the rifle seed soldier is poor choice of primers.

Nice work, youv'e kept the alien and slightly crept look to them with the sliminess.

That thing you said, indeed!

Gonna do the combi rifle shrouded, gwailos, and speculo killer next. So we'll have the most armored of my 9, and a bored looking chick with a light saber

I think the shrouded though will be the most versatile in game, there are profiles for a Lieutenant, mine layer, forward observer, all of them have the rifle so this guy can pose as all, nice and versatile. The Gwailos however is at fault for getting me started down this path in the first place, and the specculo killer is fairly different.

Looking forward to seeing your Gwailos.

Are you planning on doing anything to differentiate the multitude of Shrouded?

I'd almost want to see you 'ardcoat the stuff to get it all shiny up like that. It looks wicked.

Nah I just have two and the sniper has s massive cloak.


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@CC what do you mean, you think it should be shinier than it is? I have a pot of 'ardcoat if you think it would make them shinier





Whoop! Up to 4 now. That's all seed soldiers done. I think I'm gonna work on the Gwailos, Shrouded, and Speculo Killer all at once, since I have to mix several of the colors that I'm using, saves time. No work on that yet, been busy watching Dungeon Sagas count down and being lazy

Nice stuff, Grim. I know those are infinity models, but you could use them as 3rd gen plague as well. They would fit right in.

Loving the Seed soldiers and their shininess, the colour choice is great too. I love the sculpts as well, a closer look at Infinity may well be in order...

Not a huge fan of Infinity- the models are a bit dear andthe style doesn't do anything for me. However, liking the paint job Grim

Very amphibian looking. Nicely done.

Thanks guys

I will probably use my deadzone and infinity stuff with a high degree of interchangeability, so this may happen

Randomly grabbed mars attacks Ashley and she's nearly done now :p


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next update 47: Don't think we need pictures too hard...

Basically putting abyssal dwarfs into the bestiary, neat. Dunno why that costs money, I they have to figure some stats for them for DS. Ehh, some people aren't happy, but the more enemies to vanquish the better imo! Also another $30 add-on:

Heh, kind of amused by mantic, I'm pretty sure they've left adding doors in for this long just to troll everyone for constantly begging for them in the comments

The Seed Soldiers are looking very good. You're making me want to order a set (they'll have to wait though because a Zerat is actually my next CA model). While I'm actually not a fan of Giraldez's colors for the Shasvastii, I really like the way you're doing them.

Well I'm not on the same planet as Angel in terms of skill or awesome, but I like the way my colors have turned out.

So far I don't really like any other CA models. I thought I liked morats but I kind of fell out of that. Raicho is still a badass though.

Lol! I just realized I stuck a response to the DS kickstarter news post in my own blog. Lewlz.

That one went ridiculous, a million and 50k on top. So you guys can look forward to me painting that towards the tail end of next year eh


So I guess I'm glad I painted Ashley, totally have gotten zero work done on shasvastii this weekend between watching kickstarters and hanging out with wife/daughter.

Too late for daylight pictures though! I'll have to try to get some tomorrow. Think I may have some hobby time since it would usually be a work day but it won't be.


Getting a lot of battle zone sprues clipped and ready... may go on a building spree

How dare you spend time with your family grim, we didn't approve this.

Haha! Too bad, I'm a maverick! You can't control me!

Got the skin started on the next 3 shasvastii minis, should have some time today.


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This will probably get buried later on, but here's the pictures from the KoW battle at gencon:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-70053-42942_Gencon2014-kow.html

Commentary probably not coming. I'm pretty sure my opponent was named Mark and he hailed from Toronto. He had a neat nature army created by the event handler (I know the name somewhere, I think he goes by Puggimer or something similar on the Mantic forums) out of old Rakham/confrontation models I think he said. The dark elves (and all of the other armies there) were also his and quite nice tabletop jobs.

The battle was a complete route, my crosbows were useless and I got smashed in melee by the big fatty elementals, kind of like fighting ogres with more special rules.

Hey Grim- want some (more) nice heroes for Dungeon Saga?

Lol it costs me $17 to ship stuff from that guy. I like his stuff, but that's a lot of shipping

Plus, bones 2


Gotta love that little Norko guy though

 GrimDork wrote:
Lol it costs me $17 to ship stuff from that guy. I like his stuff, but that's a lot of shipping

Plus, bones 2


Gotta love that little Norko guy though

He'll refund you if you ask lol. Or give you a freebie equivalent to the cost of shipping

Why do that if it's the legitimate cost of shipping? I don't mind that it cost that much, just makes it prohibitive to order much. For instance I want some guns, but I think Hasslefree ships for maybe 5 bucks which is a lot less bitter of a pill.

That does seem like an odd way to go about things.
What guns are you after grim?

Oh nothing for a long time, I've just been very slowly sourcing weapons for my DBX dreadball teams so I can use them as Deadzone mercenary forces and maybe gangs etc.


So I see Paradigm is going to use some enforcers and marines (corporation) for stand-in pan-o guys... got me thinking maybe I should do the same. Enforcers work well as power armored heavy infantry in a general sense, and corporation marines do grunts and middle management pretty well. Maybe as janissaries and hafza for my Qapu Khalki, or Azri'al or whatever.

If you are not too fussy on want they are I may have some GW guns going spare you might find a use for

I've got a load of space marine guns and a few las rifles, they're kind of big on mantic models though. I appreciate the offer but shipping 'cross the pond is probably not worth it for either of us

Probably not but figured I would ask. Wasn't gonna charge more than shipping anyway as they are spares.

Yeah I hear you and appreciate it

I think I'm gonna have to zero-out my hobby budget after DS.

I get that, my budget still depends on sales and trades

Yeah I've got some stuff to sell, or trade if I ever bump into anyone nearby that wants it, but I'm pretty slow about moving my merchandise

Think I'll be heading to ebay soon.

 GrimDork wrote:
Oh nothing for a long time, I've just been very slowly sourcing weapons for my DBX dreadball teams so I can use them as Deadzone mercenary forces and maybe gangs etc.


So I see Paradigm is going to use some enforcers and marines (corporation) for stand-in pan-o guys... got me thinking maybe I should do the same. Enforcers work well as power armored heavy infantry in a general sense, and corporation marines do grunts and middle management pretty well. Maybe as janissaries and hafza for my Qapu Khalki, or Azri'al or whatever.

My thinking was Marines for LI, Enforcers for MI, and peacekeepers for HI, so whatever the Haqq ones of those are (they're one of the factions I've not looked into) would be a good fit. The Enforcers work well enough with the aesthetic I'll probably keep using them, the Marines will likely be used for test schemes and counts as once i get the proper minis, as they aren't quite right, I don't think. The only issue overall is the posing, which is a lot more static, but shouldn't be an issue if you're just building up numbers.

I certainly look forward to seeing your take on it.

I dunno I think the corporation is higher tech than most Infinity stuff. It isn't as clean or anime shiny, but they have laser rifles and more FTL travel options etc. Plus wider spread.

I think I'll use marines as light infantry, enforcers as heavies. Peace keepers will either be those models that are almost too heavy to still be infantry, or mini tags like Gekkos. I bet a strider is the right size for a T.A.G. too

I would probably use marines as Hafza, QK infantry that more or less went to officer training school and have better armor than grunts. That leaves only Janissaries or Azra'il for the enforcers to be.

I mean they could sub in as military orders too but it would almost be easier to use space marines for load outs at that point.

The Corp certainly fit better than, say, 40k Guardsmen, I just figured the look of the armour didn't really fit. I might change my mind one I get some actually Infinity stuff in.

I was gonna get the QK starter set but now that I've got a full force of Shasvastii, and ice storm... I think I may need to limit my forces to 10+options rather than going nuts. Meaning the shasvastii get a few more models (eventually!, not now), pan-o get a few more models (down the road), and QK may just be good enough, I've got 4 nomad models it can hire as mercs and 7 other Haqq models that fit in, use the marines as Hafza and the enforcers as one of the two HI available to me and they're set.

May even delve further into deadzone and scope out the mercs and human rebs too.

Ok here's Ashley:


I may try to do something with the eyes, I liked them at first but they stand out funny or something, maybe something I'm not used to with the skintone, maybe just too big?

A quick job, maybe 30-45 minutes while watching tv lol.

Here's a link to the new Mars Attacks! gallery, which will slowly grow to include finished minis and scenery from the board game.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-70053-42952_Mars%20Attacks!.html

Still no finished Shasvastii today, I spent a solid hour or two trimming bits and assembling this monstrosity:





It's a 2x2x2 building with a full and armored catwalk/surround, and armored roof. Will serve the Nexus Psi scenario Bunker Hill, as well as being fully playable elsewhere. The big gate opens easily enough, and the gate could be attached with angled clips to give a partially open or flung wide appearance, giving LoS blocking benefits to a small space in front of it, for when play isn't centered around the structure. Obviously it got shelled from the rear and most of the floors are gone, still fairly serviceable as most of the windows still have standing room for firing out, but it should be fairly playable with reasonable accessibility.

I'm glad with how this turned out. It's a monster that ate a lot of clips, I'm hoping the extra bundle I ordered with my second shipment is enough to get me through the rest of my original order+ruined quadrant+second wave lol. I was torn between doing this and one of those kick-ass single-tile thick bastion walls that stretches all or most of the way across a table. This serves a mission in nexus psi though, and if I want a big wall of doom, I can simply connect this to my other fortified structures and get the same thing. This one should go well with my walled double width walkway sections, I'll just have to remove the barricade bits where the walkways connect.

Gonna clean house and mow the back yard so the wife is happy with me when she and daughter get back from a bit of a trip, then maybe i'll sneak in some more hobby time


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Janes Gully images from Gencon. Just need to get you a couple of things from the backlog and I'll be all caught up.

That building is pretty sweet.

Aye, that's a pretty cool setup, should offer a lot in terms of gameplay.

 GrimDork wrote:
Thanks

The slimy is more or less intentional, the bumpiness especially on the rifle seed soldier is poor choice of primers.

They look great - and the slight bumpy texture works. So call it a happy accident!


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And yeah, that big-arse building is pretty sweet!

Thanks guys

I'm fearful for my clip supply after that one. I didn't catalog or try to ration clips this time, just used them as necessary. Hopefully I've got enough for the rest of the goods.

Long weekend did not yield 3 more painted shasvastii, but on the bright side that's more fun stuff to do this week.


So since I get unemployed/find a crummy min-wage paying job in the winter, it's time to start prepping and tightening my belt! The hobby budget is sealed! Going to ignore all kickstarters and sales going forward. This will be a trying time for me , I fully endorse you guys to nag and yell at me if I say I'm buying anything!

But don't worry, I've still got like 4 kickstarter packages coming due by the end of the year and a ridiculous pile of stuff before that shows up, this will be good for me

Current game plan is to continue finishing the Shasvastii, then I'll look into what I want to do next. I'll have to do that samurai diorama before the middle of November, and I've got a couple of Xmas presents I want to make though they aren't necessarily wargaming-hobby related. Thinking about making my dad a saw-blade shop clock, with tiny little Heineken bottles for the numbers and something cheeky about beer thirty is when I say it is.. or something. And I want to make my daughter a little table for her various little people and what not. Something like a small scale version of those walk/crawl-in model train display tables, where you can get into the middle so you can get to everything better. Not sure if I'll just be building the table, putting down a very simple surface, and covering it with her little people houses, or if I'll have time/will to replicate something like Daniel Tiger's neighborhood. Maybe put in a train that goes around, dunno yet. Fearful that actual scenery will get broken and smashed and poked with sharp things, for the initial model I may just do it up flat and use her current toy houses.

Working on editing the images from the first zombie solo attempt, then I've got one more batch after that.

Nice building, Grim! I assumed you glued it? Or did you leave it so you can take it down?

I don't plan to take it down, but I just stuck to clips this time. If it acts weak later on, I'll glue it.

I imagine your deadzone terrain would do a great double duty for infinity

Yep, that is the plan. Part of why I got 4 mats.

Will need a pretty hefty pile to set up a proper game yet.

 GrimDork wrote:
Yep, that is the plan. Part of why I got 4 mats.

Will need a pretty hefty pile to set up a proper game yet.

Looks like I'm not the only one who did that. I love the DZ mats they're very nice. Plus when you play games like 40k you can put them on top of the current board you're using as a sort of prefab foundation slab like in the video game "Dune: Battle for Arakis" Then all you do is plonk buildings on it

That's one elaborate building. Should be much fun to play on.

Remember, you can always sell stuff you don't use anymore to buy stuff you will use-- it doesn't really count as spending money, just advanced trading

Yeah, I need to do that with my fantasy empire army, maybe my skaven too though they're so close to being done...

And dark eldar...

And tyranids...

And maybe space marines...

And then there were tall buildings for lewls:

I think I'm gonna make the little grey one out front into a restaurant, with some stools outside, like a ramen or beef bowl kind of joint.

 carlos13th wrote:
That does seem like an odd way to go about things.
What guns are you after grim?

Gotta say, never heard of Heresey Minatures till i saw this thread/your sig. I just checked out his site, and man o man their is quite a few mini's i am considering(for my IG army). I understand his frustration on the issue, and i honestly can't blame him. I was just wondering what the quality and type of minatures they are? I would assume Resin? Thx for the info!

I think most of Heresy's stuff is white metal, but Angelofvengeance may know better. I liked the not-Dr. Who stuff I got, I may order again but it would have to be a big order to justify the shipping.

 urbanevil wrote:

 carlos13th wrote:
That does seem like an odd way to go about things.
What guns are you after grim?

Gotta say, never heard of Heresey Minatures till i saw this thread/your sig. I just checked out his site, and man o man their is quite a few mini's i am considering(for my IG army). I understand his frustration on the issue, and i honestly can't blame him. I was just wondering what the quality and type of minatures they are? I would assume Resin? Thx for the info!

He is gradually shifting over to resin, but the majority is white metal I believe. I've not had any resin stuff from him yet but looking at how the Nether Lord and the Dragon comes out, his commitment to QC is exceedingly high. Never had any problems dealing with him. Top bloke!

That Bunker Hill is a magnificent build, I love the fact that it looks like a massive incendiary device has blow a whole into/out of the building. Initially with the battlezones I doubted that they would scale up well but seeing buildings like this and some other builds makes you realise that the sky really is the limit.

Good luck on tightening the hobby belt, I plan on doing the same thing and getting as much painted up before the inevitable Christmas influx. Be strong Grim (except for Black Friday).

I was building it and knew I wanted playability through battle damage, so I kind of tried to concentrate it and make it look like a single or at least concentrated attack. It's still almost as beneficial to inhabitants as if it were intact, all of the firing points still have a partial floor by them, though non-enforcers will have more trouble getting up the floors. I'll probably add a few ladders after it's painted.

The trickiest thing about making big buildings with battlezones is getting that magical 90 degree right angle on all of your various connections. Or 180, whatever. If you get off somewhere, maybe a clip is too thick or one isn't fully into a panel, it can mess you up later on.

I plan to spend exactly zero dollars until I'm gainfully employed again. I mean, I'm still in the middle of busy season right now, but come december I'll either be unemployed or working a crummy part time job as there isn't much landscaping to do in the winter. Gotta build up the pantry and additional funds to keep the bills happily paid till I get back to the usual amount of income.

Dunno about black friday. Maybe I'll see if anyone wants to get me stuff via the excellent sales then, but I probably will stay away myself. I know I got damn close to buying one of those dreamforge leviathans for a steep discount last time...


Almost got my Gwailos done, half hour, hour tops to go. The other two are just skinned. That sounds more brutal than it is

Gotta take the wifelady out to dinner tonight but maybe after things calm down I'll finish him and start one of the others.


I've been having thoughts about color schemes for ice storm. I want my bakunin and corregidor nomads to sort of match, and my corregidor mercs to match up with my qapu khalqi, and I'm leaning towards white armor, grey/black clothes, and maybe each faction gets it's own off/special color. Like my bakunin dudes have blue in places, my corregidor may have red or maybe even yellow somewhere. Not sure about QK yet.

Heavily considering doing black armor and standard dark khaki clothes for pan-o. Make them look a bit more menacing, I think that scheme would look killer on fusiliers and make the Orc and any Knights fairly frightening.

If I paint any pan o I will be painting them with red berets.

Not sure about the armour but I probably won't use the standard blue.

 GrimDork wrote:
Dunno about black friday. Maybe I'll see if anyone wants to get me stuff via the excellent sales then, but I probably will stay away myself. I know I got damn close to buying one of those dreamforge leviathans for a steep discount last time...

Need a loan? Mates rates, only 25% p.a! Still have to build my leviathans but they're very sweet, I'd love seeing what you'd do with one. You have enough Deadzone terrain to give them cover too! ; )

Gotta take the wifelady out to dinner tonight but maybe after things calm down I'll finish him and start one of the others.

But but that's hobby monies!!

I've been having thoughts about color schemes for ice storm. I want my bakunin and corregidor nomads to sort of match, and my corregidor mercs to match up with my qapu khalqi, and I'm leaning towards white armor, grey/black clothes, and maybe each faction gets it's own off/special color. Like my bakunin dudes have blue in places, my corregidor may have red or maybe even yellow somewhere. Not sure about QK yet.

Heavily considering doing black armor and standard dark khaki clothes for pan-o. Make them look a bit more menacing, I think that scheme would look killer on fusiliers and make the Orc and any Knights fairly frightening.

Know sfa about the game but the schemes sound good.

Well turns out dinner was a bad idea, cost us both our laptops an iPod, a Wii and who knows what else. Thought we lived in a nicer part of town too.

Might not be keen on hobbying for a few days.

Oh bugger ; / Yay humanity hey. Hope your insurance covers it and you didn't lose anything sentimental.

Ah Grim that is horrible news. Sympathies go out to you and your wife.

Thanks guys =/ Probably a crime of opportunity, some kid within a neighborhood or two, but maybe not. The biggest thing was pictures on the various devices, even if we managed to get the items back the pictures are probably gone.

Oh well this is a hobby time blog so not much point posting stuff like this here. I'll be back in working order sooner or later.

Our thoughts are with you, sorry to hear about it, see you soon we hope.

PS May the culprets genitals shrival up and drop off painfully.

Bad luck mate, hope it gets sorted soon.

On a hobby note, I have to say the idea of black-armour PanO sounds epic!

gak mate hope you get it back.

If you get the drives back but the pictures are gone give me a message. I might be able to help.

Oh that sucks Grim....My sympathies.

Hope they manage to recover your stuff intact.

Thanks guys, appreciate the sentiments.

Chin up Grim, I haven't seen your blog this quiet for quite some time and that is an indication of how much the world can get you down.

Look forward to when you get your modelling mojo back on deck as your work is always an inspiration.

Best of luck.

 GrimDork wrote:
Thanks guys =/ Probably a crime of opportunity, some kid within a neighborhood or two, but maybe not. The biggest thing was pictures on the various devices, even if we managed to get the items back the pictures are probably gone.

Oh well this is a hobby time blog so not much point posting stuff like this here. I'll be back in working order sooner or later.

Oh man, that sucks. Sorry to hear that. People can be such jerks.

Whoa gak. Sorry to hear that, mate.

Well, happily we loaded up another iThingie and I guess it saves the cameraroll to the cloud up to a certain amount so all nearly 900 of my wife's pictures were intact. Still lost some stuff on the laptops and probably some music from the other thing but that was the most irreplaceable bit.

Still hoping they get the sucker. I'd take getting our stuff back, but it isn't such a big deal without all of those pictures missing.


Still gotta finish my shasvastii, almost did but I've got FFT emulated on my phone and I was kind of zombieing out playing that for hours the last two days.

Good to hear you got most of the photos. The cloud is useful sometimes I guess!

 Yonan wrote:
Good to hear you got most of the photos. The cloud is useful sometimes I guess!

Unless you are a celebrity.

That's good news grim, I'm glad.

Glad you got most of your pics back. We can only hope that the little gets whats coming to them. But the important thing is you and the misses are OK.

So you've had a couple days now get some blooming models done so we can drool!!

Heh. Well see I ended up putting final fantasy tactics on my phone and that's kind of absorbed all of my free time since I did it Forgot how much I enjoy playing the game.

Soon though, the Gwailos has been ''almost done'' for nearly a week, and I'm looking forward to painting the rest.

Sorry to hear about the theft. The equipment is always replaceable. Good thing the photos were backed up. Maybe the iPod is traceable too? I know Android devices have that ability. Eventually the police will catch the thieves.

Glad to hear your back to painting

 GrimDork wrote:
Heh. Well see I ended up putting final fantasy tactics on my phone and that's kind of absorbed all of my free time since I did it Forgot how much I enjoy playing the game.

Soon though, the Gwailos has been ''almost done'' for nearly a week, and I'm looking forward to painting the rest.

I know that feel, bro. Far too many times I've been sidetracked by video games.

Indeed. I don't usually get into them quite as much lately as I have in the past. FFT is a soft spot for me though.

And it's always easier to play a game than paint.

Like now. Or maybe just sleep.

So I got the Gwailos and two of his buddies done, just have two more to go and I'm done with shasvastii till I get some for xmas or I get some more bonus points on my amazon account

I'll get pictures tomorrow, they're still drying and need to go on their proper bases, and the shrouded lost his gun during the spin phase of the dipping process. First time I've had a break during that process though, so it's not all bad.

Think I may do something a bit more bulk-style next. Maybe a few martian grunts? Don't hold me to it, I'm kind of in a do-what-i-please-or-play-fft-instead phase right now I am gonna have to get cracking on the samurai dio sooner than later though...

See you tomorrow!

I still vote for the samurai diorama mate. Well excited for that.

It'll be sooner than later, I promise. I need to paint a few humans first though, so I don't just do all of the minis for it up in slimy green out of habit

 GrimDork wrote:
So I got the Gwailos and two of his buddies done, just have two more to go and I'm done with shasvastii till I get some for xmas or I get some more bonus points on my amazon account
!

I now know how I sound to people who don't play 40k when I talk about the hobby.

What makes me laugh is gwai lo sounds like a chinese word for white people who's literal translation is white devil / ghost person.

@Adamsouza bwahaha. Yeah they're just slimy alien infinity models, quite liking painting them right now.

@Carlos, that's exactly why they're called that. Foreign devil or whatever, the Yu Jing forces ran into them and called them that. Same for how the Asuwangs are a kind of vampire in a certain country's folklore, a lot of the Shasvastii units are named after monsters, ghosts, and goblins

I didn't know that was part of the fluff.

Haven't read the fluff as I don't have the book they show up in, but the descriptions on the CB website seemed to suggest it for at least a few of them.

Good to hear you're making progress! Are you going for a Shasvastii Sectoral or going to throw in some other CA stuff?
(Yay, I understand Infinity-speak now!)

Yep, gonna do the sectorial. I mean, I could probably pick up some other CA stuff and run vanilla no problem, I haven't got too many of any one shasvastii thing that I couldn't.

So far the rest of the CA line doesn't interest me. I thought I liked morats for awhile, and I kind of do, but there are too many other things I want way more. Like Morlocks, and the Uberfallkommando.

Then I kind of want to consider getting the Pan-O neoterra capataline defense army starter or whatever it's callled. Though I'm still kind of torn and almost wanna use mantic models to do that just 'cause I can lol.

Gonna go get those latest 3 models onto their bases. May take pictures, may need to wait for the sun to come up a little better for proper shots.


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Alrighty, I promised pictures, so here's what I could get this morning:


The three new minis.


And a group shot for what's done so far.

Two to go for now, both of the snipers incidentally.

Looking good!

Looking great dude, nice to see you in the saddle, great stuff.

Thanks guys

I think I'm gonna just paint the Malignos however instead of doing any more research on schemes. I think I'll do one side normal, then a blue/white glowy line (green/yellow is more in theme but it may not be obvious enough at a distance.. maybe though we'll see!) and the other in a greyscale on the darker side, complete with the same blotchy skin and spots, just in greys and black, to suggest the stealth systems cycling or whatever.

Shrouded sniper is just gonna get normal paint, I realize he's still getting camo benefits once revealed but the other shrouded looks fine without some kind of active effect.


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Then I'm not sure. Maybe some Mars Attacks, but maybe I'll do those other Nomads that I've had prepped for awhile. I wanna get to icestorm but I've kind of got a thing about priming models and not finishing them lately. Of course my Marauders want a word with me about that one... sorry d00ds.

Hopefully I'll get tired of FFT soon and go back to my paint-as-often-as-possible-even-if-it's-only-5-minutes-at-a-time system, but my epic Dance Party led by DJ Grimsong is burning a path across Ivalice showing no signs of stopping...

Those do look oddly cool!

I can handle oddly cool

I've got the skin done on the last two Shasvasti. Doing the greyscale 'cloaked' side in time with the normal side on the malignos. It's fun to do so far, but I'm not sure of the final effect. Might consider washing it a color, maybe blue for the effect.. dunno we'll see what it looks like when he's more or less done. Goes pretty fast in general, the skin isn't quite the halfway point but I'm getting places.


Alright shift in momentum. I keep having these... urges... guys. Dark urges. Chaotic urges. I think I may want to... work on some space marines... GASP!

Probably not loyalists. I think the only way I'm doing any more marines is if I tall-scale them and that takes a lot of time and effort, hard to justify for a squad based game. Maybe just for fun sometime. But no darker still are my thoughts.
CHAOS!

Gulp!

I've always wanted to work on chaos stuff. Well not always, but intermittently. Probably not necessarily honest-to-the-dark-gods chaos, something a bit skewed from that. Probably no chaos symbols, I'm thinking of using sedition wars strain and the plague from deadzone, greenstuff... what not. Something like techno-zombie space marines. And zombie space marines. And mutant space marines. May or may follow chaos enough to usethem for 40k.

What can chaos take? I don't think I have a codex and only know a bit about them, obviously space marines but I keep hearing abut cultists and demons and stuff.

Meh we'll see where this goes, maybe nowhere.

Admission is the first step HERETIC!
ahem...

At the moment, Chaos have three things going on, really:
- Chaos Marines of all types, including Cult Marines and Chosen, which are just CSM+1
- Cultists: the cannon fodder, bought in big blobs dirt cheap, and can be upgrade to Zombie with a certain character.
- Demon Engines, which, as the name suggests, fit at various places on the scale between Demon and machine. On the mechanical end you've got Defilers and old style Dreadnoughts, on the more ambiguous end you have Helbrutes (the demonDreads), Fiends (DemonDinosaurs) and the Heldrake (flying DemonDinosaur).

So there's a lot of potential for what you want to do with the last two, and a lot of chaos lists these days are lots of Cultists with Demon Engine/vehicle backup and only a few actual CSM.

The Combined Army looks awesome, I would stick with the Sectoral Army personally, I like strong themes in my armies and all that slimy green looks awesome.

My vote for your next painting project is more Mars Attacks, loved that movie and want to see some of your cinematic photo's for them.

@Archer, yeah I'm probably gonna stick to Shasvastii for now. If I get more CA it will probably be a concentrated shot of Morats, unless it's way down the road and its those new guys (though I'm not necessarily jiving with them at this point).

I'm definitely considering doing some Mars Attacks soon. I've got a few more Infinity models sitting up on nails demanding paint, but I may take a martian grunt break and maybe paint a hero soon.

Still torn on how to paint the marines. Part of me wants to do them like my corporation marines, as a lower tier of grunts/fodder/chaff, and part of me wants to make them look like proper army. I'll bust out martians and white/black/red marines and non-gamers will likely scratch their heads in consternation. However, for me, I think that's what I'd like to do. Letting the dip handle the white parts, they'd be pretty quick too, mostly putting down the grey-black, red, and flesh.



@Paradigm, certainly I'll have loads of zombies at my disposal It may be fun to cobble together some monstrous strain/zombie marines too. Does the Typhus 'moar zombehs than you can reasonably keel' approach work? What would you take with the big blobby squads of zombies?

Can you still take 3-man squads of terminators? Those always seemed neat, and I guess obliterators work well with the whole techno-zombie theme.

Your Shasvastii are looking good. I think you need a few more Gwailos though. How are you planning on modeling their shields?

Interesting take on models I know nothing about. I like the variety you put into your model ranges. Dem clear acrylic bases, you sell them well!

The multiple zombie ranges we have could make for some excellently varied hordes. Z-Corp alone I thought was good for that, but adding in these others... sweeeet.

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@Paradigm, certainly I'll have loads of zombies at my disposal It may be fun to cobble together some monstrous strain/zombie marines too. Does the Typhus 'moar zombehs than you can reasonably keel' approach work? What would you take with the big blobby squads of zombies?

Can you still take 3-man squads of terminators? Those always seemed neat, and I guess obliterators work well with the whole techno-zombie theme.

I think it probably works (so long as you're not taking it to a Grand Tourney); in my experience with horde Guard once you hit 100+ models for troops and then throw in support you can just walk up to the objective and sit there.

However, the Zombies do forgo any actual shooting, I believe, so you want the rest of the army to do damage. To this end, you'll want a Heldrake or two to fight from above, some Termies/Oblits to DS and kill stuff with melta, and maybe some bikers to provide a little mobility/durability. For the core of the army, though, 3x30 Zombie Squads should do nicely and leave you with points to play with.

@Barzam: Thanks, will probably get more Gwailos as time goes on. Warsenal sells these:

at 3 for $5 or 5 for $7, which is probably my best bet in the states. I think all you could need would be five since Gwailos are ava 4 and there's a character who can link with them that also has a screen. For now, I'm likely to stick the little plastic sheet they give you on a spare base and use that for pictures and what not.

@Yonan, I like clear acrylics. I kind of miss doing fancy custom bases, and I've got 50 sedition wars bases going to waste, but I really like clear acryilcs. I'm getting more and more excited about deploying a huge 'combined army' of various zombies I think I'll go over them all with shiney void-black eyes to tie them into the NEMESIS concept.

@Paradigm:
Huh heldrake. I would have to extend the tail on one of those to really like the kit. And stomach buying another GW kit Maybe as something to get at the end if I really wanted to go from "Generic Scifi Zombie Horde" to 'something I may get to play 40k with', getting a few things like that would do the trick. I'm pretty sure terminators and oblits would be great fun to convert, and I have several loyalist terminators I could use for a base-line. Maybe even convert the bikers too, I've got 9 DV bikers and a few others besides, and some kind of fallen-angels-meets-cyborg-zombie theme may just be the ticket

I could always get good 'ole Mortis to stand in for Typhus:

Though, converting him from scratch (well a terminator base) could be a lot of fun I know I've got a few scything talons to choose from for his scythe.


May try to put some paint onto those last couple of shasavastii this morning, may go dig up an army builder and armchair general for a bit scheming up a chaos list I have little chance to play


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Certainly, it seems like typhus plus 90-100 zombies leaves loads of room for oblits, termicide, bikers, a heldrake (i don't like spamming big things usually, like to do the kit once generally speaking) and so on depending on the list size.

Will have to keep this in mind. Maybe use the strain and or plague to fix up some terminators and oblits


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Really it's just an excuse to mutilate some space marine bits and use up my strain models... The plague are fine as is but having an up-armored and up-gunned zombie/mutant element to my NEMESIS hordes will be welcome. If I don't claim my marine bits in one project or another eventually I'll have to sell them to feed my hobby addiction...

Those Infinity aliens have come up well. You'll have to come up with rules for them to use in DeadZone...

...Or just play Infinity with them

The Shasvastii are looking good. Outdoor lighting? You have some strong shadows in the photos.

@Azazelx yeah I probably will do that. I could just play Infinity with them as Red suggests, but Deadzone has AI and zombie rules too so I can play by my own lonely self.

@Red, would that I could find somebody to play Infinity....

Yes, outdoor lighting. I had a space set up in the garage that kind of used the garage door as a giant light defuser but I've moved stuff around. I'll probably need to go back to that set-up though as the light is too harsh.

I've felt those dark urges pulling me towards Chaos as well. Sedition War just arrived last week.
Coincidence ?
I think not.

and its 30 bucks from Amazon how could you not get it.heck, if I were under trees that I would probably be alone.damn you text to speech, if I were sending hubby money right now, I would probably order another set just for the strain.man this is over, happy hobby there we go

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and its 30 bucks from Amazon how could you not get it.heck, if I were under trees that I would probably be alone.damn you text to speech, if I were sending hubby money right now, I would probably order another set just for the strain.man this is over, happy hobby there we go

Speech to Text , making the inter webs a more fun place to be, one mangled message at a time.

What's really annoying is it's still £40 ($65!) at least over here, which is just not quite cheap enough to make it a no brainer. It it hit £30 I'd grab it in a flash, but for minis that really won't get used beyond painting fodder it's just a little to much at the moment.

For the £20/$30 you guys are paying, I'd buy two!

The saddest part is that what I'm probably going to get the most use out of the SW bow are the floor tales, scenic bases, and translucent green counters.

Unless I convert the infected to Chaos models they are not likely to see any practical use.

It was a great deal at miniaturemarket, and I'm glad I'm not the only one picking them up. Plenty of fodder for my iron warriors to send forward to use up the imperium's ammunition. Anyone looking for these in England might try the swap shop here on dakka. I've picked up a couple $100 pledges for $20 bucks , some kickstarter people are still so put off by it they are tossing them away.

Kickstarter people can be a, erm, *fussy* bunch.

Grimdork, try this http://infinitythegame.com/forum/index.php?/topic/3138-infinity-players-locales-living-database/page-49#entry516893 the Player's Finder for Infinty, or se if a warcor is near you http://www.infinitythegame.com/warcors/warcors_list.php It may help.

Yes, they can. Hell, I even pulled my own battle systems fantasy terrain pledge due in part to not having my stuff from the first one before the second one funds. Mostly it was due to lack of funds at the moment, but a little bit was casual spite, just a little.

Huh yeah there look to be a couple of people within a couple of hours drive If I still lived in springfield I'd have to look a couple of them up. I assume there are a reasonable number of players within driving distance of Miniature Market due to what I assume is a reasonable volume of infinity sales, but it's just a guess (and still a couple of hours away ).

Too bad getting time to play is almost as hard as finding players!

Woowoo! Got some stuff done Finished my Shrouded Sniper and Malignos Sniper yesterday, got them onto bases and photographed today. Took obligatory shots of the rest as well.

PICTURES!


Group shot - wide. This is my entire Shasvastii Sectorial until I get some more, which won't be happening till xmas at the earliest (unless I get some amazon credit built back up ).


Speculo Killer and my latest mini, the Shrouded Sniper on the right.


The Up-front contingent, these guys don't roll with camo (well the seed-soldiers start with it but only for the first turn before they pop out of their pods). The seed-soldiers are grunts, they're decent but fairly basic. They start the game in camouflaged seed-pods. The Gwailos has a swarm of nano-bots that fly around as mobile cover, so he's quite happy to engage things in the open when it's required.


The sneaky d00ds, these guys all have Camo. The sniper's role is obvious. The Aswuang in the front likes to get in close, root his targets, then devour them to gain wounds! The Shrouded on the right is capable of standing in as several important roles from Lieutenant to mine layer, forward observer, and maybe another.



Here's the side of the models that I'll be most likely to see while playing them Some of them have a few neat details that don't show from the front like the tendrils that connected the seed-soldiers to their pods. I think the Malignos's stealth effect looks better from this side too.



Here's the malignos engaging his Thermo-optic camouflage systems.

A couple of Atmospheric shots:





Sister Superior, forgive my being so forward, but you've been acting strangely today...

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Ahh! That would explain it...

As always, please feel free to comment and critique, banter, and generally hang out. I still want to go back and tweak some of the lighting and anything bright yellow or green. I think this is the largest sub-project I've done in a little while. The plague and enforcer teams being the last such that got finished in a straight line. There are some more pictures in the gallery this time.

Got some Martian grunts cleaned up, I'm either gonna go prime those or get to work on some soldiers and a survivor. Deadzone Wave 2 should arrive tomorrow so I'll probably be doing unboxes of that stuff soon too.

For fun, here's all of my Infinity stuff to date:

Beautiful work. They look brilliant matey.

very nice mate.

Thanks guys Now If I just had someone for them to route on the field of battle!

Oh well, I guess I'll settle for cleaning up some more mars attacks minis!

Nice work on those shazvasti, personally I do like the Morat/zerat sub group, personal tastes.

Very nice little contingent there, the camo effect really did work and the whole aesthetic looks great.

Looking forward to DZ wave 2.

Thanks you two

Hope to unbox a little DZ wave 2 today. We'll see!

Those Infinity aliens have come up really well. I like the purple-green mottled flash you've given them. Quite effective.

They look great, and I love the little battle scenes you've photgraphed them in.

Thanks guys

Got my DZ wave 2 box. Seems heavy enough. But I dunno how they fit everything into it that they're supposed to. I will check soon.

Got out of work a couple of hours late today though so photos may be delayed.


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So far I'm just missing the cards for my space dwarfs (kind of important, but only if you're actually going to play) and a couple of sprues of zombies. I'll have to open all of the baggies and see if anything else is missing but so far it's not too bad. A couple of things I can stand to wait for seems to be all of the damage.

I got a few things I had been on the fence about but I'm pretty glad to have now.

I'll get some pictures soon, no good light by the time I had everything inspected.

Not really an issue since you have the cards digitally.

Well using the digital cards would not be nearly as fun for playing. If I could get regular games in and were so inclined as to slap the forge fathers together and stick them on bases to play ASAP, then it would be a pretty annoying issue. For me though, not a big deal like you say.

Definitely inventory the pieces in each bag. In my wave 1 I was missing half a mawbeast and I've seen others with similar missing components that renders certain models unusable due to the complete lack of options. It's time consuming but you'll kick yourself if you don't do it, assemble them later and realize Mantic ate your captains lightning claws. At least Mantic can combine missing items into wave 3 shipping to save them a little cash and still get the stuff out to us in a reasonable time frame.

You're not referring to missing one of THESE are you? ; p

They likely won't. Usually address missing ks fulfilment parts like they would any missing parts and send them out right away. Or at least it seems that way.

I realized a month or two late that they messed up my marauders a bit. I had the right number of dudes but the bags were wrong, had too many dancing snipers and only one aiming sniper, and maybe one of the two guns commandos.


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Gah! Damn you!

Yonaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!

Nice infinity stuff. Really like the Camo guy.

And lovely terrain too!

Thanks, means a lot having seen your sexy nomads on the community showcase thread


Battle systems is here! Holy crap so much card! I simply must punch some out and assemble... but I don't wanna mess it up


I've also been having nagging chaotic urges... Just want to chop up my tyranids, sedition wars, and anything gribbly I can find and go to town on my space marines. No theme, just wonky nasty angry brutal chaos stuff Got a lot else to do though so we'll see!

Deadzone and Battle Systems within a day of each other! Are you drowned under all those boxes?

Looking forward to seeing what you do with both, that Battle Systems stuff does look like some of the best card terrain on the market. I might just have to grab some for various reasons down the line, it depends on how it prices against Battlezones at retail.

Yeah lol theres a lot. The battle systems is actually pretty compact, until I start assembling it

Gonna try to take some pictures of everything but its tough with hurricane toddlerington bouncing off the walls

Yeah battle systems stores very compactly in component form... not so much assembled hey ; p Glad you finally got it. I hereby reserve the right to steal any chaosification you create for my own chaos.

Heh, please do. However be forewarned that these will be absurdly mutated and modified. If I do it, I'm not gonna fret over viability and cross compatibility. Not going to include them in NEMESIS, I may do a legit chaos marine followed by a nasty monstrosity half formed of tyranid parts and expect them to be squad mates


So...

First impression of battle systems.

Its probably as sturdy as card gets. But its still card. I think I'll have to pen the lot and glue *any* edges that I'm going to use more than once. I didn't think I was a rough handler but I'll mess this stuff up if I'm not particularly careful.

I think I'm going to quite glad to have my stronghold+similar thickness of add ons... I'm just kinda glad I held back on the fantasy set. I think I can cobble something similar to the fantasy set myself that's 'good enough' should I ever need it. And card is more of a liability for spills and toddler-rampage.

Not in the best mood today, I'll probably warm up to this a bit more as I go, a d its certainly neat, but not quite as plug and play as I was hoping. Could be my lack of experience with the material too.

On that very point of the chaos marines, have you seen these?:

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/WORD_BEARERS_LEGION_GAL_VORBAK.html

I don't think you'll have a lot to worry about. Also, what's Nemesis?

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Its probably as sturdy as card gets. But its still card. I think I'll have to pen the lot and glue *any* edges that I'm going to use more than once. I didn't think I was a rough handler but I'll mess this stuff up if I'm not particularly careful.

Yep you definitely need to glue the edges, but I think if you do so it will serve you for many years of regular use. Having tried glued and not-glued, the difference in durability is very obvious. I'm still waiting on my markers and a good storage box but I intend to glue every edge of every piece... that may go by the wayside over 4 battlezones though ; p

FW is coming out with some beautiful (hideous?) SMs. I really like some of the flavoured ones like that but only have a couple sets myself... Iron Hands and Emperors Children I think.

@Azazelx geeawd those are awesome. Yeah that, just like that. But entirely different. But thematically just like that. Maybe even some snake-bottoms or spider legs going on.

I'm sure I'll hit a good groove with this stuff. And the scatter will be useful instantly. Starting to think I should separate the parts I've already built and pack it up till I'm ready to marker and glue it all though.

Almost went right away and made myself a chaos marine. But... too many bits scattered too far. Maybe when I've got my hobby area better organized, sometime this winter would be ideal.

I got 2x 36 tray bitz holders that do wonders for organising them and allowing quick access to bitz for kitbashing. Was thinking of getting another too as these are full of SM, IG, Renegade IG, CSM and bits and pieces that could be used for conversions for them. If I can get my boxes of chinese resin cleaned and sorted into trays it would greatly help my creativity in kitbashing unique (C)SMs.

This older shot shows the (red) trays I use for storing bits, find they work really well. They're all packed now. The blue trays mostly have WIPs and tools that are hard to store so far. Still need to refine my work area substantially, but really love those bitz trays.

I've got a couple of the little pull-out-drawer things but they're full =/ I'm starting to consider going back to a tackle box like those I used to pack models into. They're kind of bad for that, but they make pretty good bits containers. What I'm thinking of has one level, split into I dunno... a bunch of 2x2" ish sections, can see the entirety of it from the top as it's clear. Plus they're stackable and lock shut so you can sort of toss them around a bit. Need to see if I can find some more on the cheap, it suits my current situation better than the drawers...

Envious of your large clear table I could have that much space but I've got to clear it off first and when I've got time to hobby or time to clean... guess which I pick?


Few pictures:


Extras on top of the strong hold box. I got the docking bay (can't remember if that had the little observation deck thing inclusive or if I added that on separately, I know I should have both), and pretty much at least 1x of any of the add-ons that weren't included with strong hold. So an elevator, windowed walls, medicenter... I also got 2x sets of clean walls which should allow me to make what 4" wall sections and 4 per sheet so 8x4"... I guess an 8" square room or something a bit more rectangular.. probably big enough for a nice medicenter or command room. And 4x of the infested walls, which I figure you can spread out to make a much larger complex infested



Curious that the boxes stacked in such a manner are keeping the zombies out. Almost looks like they were stacked from within the room. Perhaps the scientists and soldiers therein tried to barricade themselves in but harbored an infected compatriot, and now the zombies are trapped in a room by measures meant to keep others out...

Definitely puts playable terrain on the table faster than most anything else, and I'm looking forward to dressing the interiors of my battlezone buildings with all of my extra scatter bits. Even in the close-up of the pictures you could almost do without penning, though I'm sure it'll make everything look nicer overall.

Envious of that table? What about it's twin? ; p These are old shots, the space is much more refined now, the second table is no longer taken up by my wall of shame. All the boxes full of unbuilt stuff are still underneath though ; p I get pretty OCD about my workspaces, I can't work well if they're cluttered so part of my hobby time is by necessity maintaining said hobby space : (



Do love seeing that battle systems stuff, both built and even unbuilt. Look great with your clear acrylic based minis on it as expected! I have some deadzone rebels a gnats fart from being finished, I should get on that so I can do the same.

So much stuff to assemble and paint! Grimdork now knows what that feels like! LOL!

@Yonan, nice. I'll take a photo of my set-up if I *ever* get it cleaned up. Do finish your rebs, looking forward to seeing them

@shas, while I am currently buried under new stuff, I've had a ridiculous model debt for years Never this many new things at once though.

I still have most of 100 defiance games UAMC Marines to paint into IG

That's a lot of models to just have hanging out. I have to bury them in boxes and containers out of sight or I get all emotional about it.

I think I want to split my battle systems stuff in half and make two space ships. Similar interior space, but different layouts. Or maybe several smaller ships I dunno. Maybe get some 28mm scale fighter ships to go with them. Have boarding actions, ship to ship combat, fighter skirmishes... fun.

I'd like to see your hobby area setup grim if you wouldn't mind. I need a lot of inspiration to refine my own. As I've gotten deeper into it I've encountered "workflow problems" ; p As I'm housebound it's hard for me to visit others in the hobby to see theirs. Don't feel the need to clean it up - "in use" is fine by me ; ) (I say after I just cleaned mine up...)

Feeling a bit better again? You're too nice a bloke to be down in the dumps, though you do have some good reasons. Want to see you churning out high quality gaming goodness again!

Battle systems will make great interior space ships which would make for some great RPG and skirmish scale scenarios.

Yeah getting the pictures back really made the burglary more tollerable. Still pisses me off to no end but w/e. And we're starting to get over being sick (all three of us tend to pass stuff around between a hospital job and daycare).

Honestly having FFT on my phone is more to blame for productivity lapse than anything

I'll take pictures but I have to clean first or you can't even see the work surfaces lol.

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Still no finished Shasvastii today, I spent a solid hour or two trimming bits and assembling this monstrosity:





It's a 2x2x2 building with a full and armored catwalk/surround, and armored roof. Will serve the Nexus Psi scenario Bunker Hill, as well as being fully playable elsewhere. The big gate opens easily enough, and the gate could be attached with angled clips to give a partially open or flung wide appearance, giving LoS blocking benefits to a small space in front of it, for when play isn't centered around the structure. Obviously it got shelled from the rear and most of the floors are gone, still fairly serviceable as most of the windows still have standing room for firing out, but it should be fairly playable with reasonable accessibility.

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Janes Gully images from Gencon. Just need to get you a couple of things from the backlog and I'll be all caught up.

Do like. Good thread man, followed.

Thank you sir

Folks, do check out Mr. Wiggin's blog if you'd like to see some gnarly gribbly chaos ness.

I need to work on that building. Kind of been in an airbrush funk lately, mostly I don't get good opportunity to use it.

Yeah that's a very nice busted up DZ tower! Airbrush so much fun and I'm really looking forward to finally getting off my ass and using the anarchy deadzone battlezone stencils to make the job easier on me heheh.

I hear you though, sometimes I'm in a brush mood, sometimes airbrush... sometimes just cbf and zone out cleaning mould lines while watching the daily show ; ) FFT for your productivity... Divinity Original Sin and WoW for mine... curse dem vidya games!

Heh I used to play a lot of wow. Semi-serious raiding in college and lots and lots of farming lol. Altitis to death though.

Gah, WoW consumed waaaaaay too much of my life. It was so much fun back in Vanilla...the world PvP was the business.

Then everything became instanced, crossrealms matchmaking, then finally you could even do dungeons w/people from other realms. No sense of community, no MMO...just a gear grind at that point.