Theophony wrote: I was thinking of your hot tub dilemma, I forgot if you figured a way to set one up on a vehicle when I thought why not just make it an objective? That way your army can be headed to the tub to chillax. You could also do a Beverage objective and a medicinal objective(though I don't condone that )
I kinda like the idea of "party supplies" as objectives. I'm still wrestling with the hot tub dilemma. I might do a few things like that. I already have the heavy metal marine. So now we just need sex and drugs to go with the rock n roll. The hot tub, as it stands, is going to be attempted in the quad riptide. I have a very vague mental sketch of the build, but I'm trying to finish up a couple of my current projects before I dive in.
@IHateNids: You're correct on the parallel circuit problem. I think I am going to skip on lighting the cannons because the first battery is already kind of obvious from the right angle (mounted under it's butt), so I don't want another one complicating things. My build on this was really not very elegant, I wish I had saved it for later, but the titan idea called to me.
Too bad you couldn't use button batteries and their holders on the outside, sculpted and painted to look like those little round shield-y bits the Tau seem to like so much.
Subtle. Almost too subtle. I nearly missed it. The truth is that the guns are already glued together, and that's more the reason why I don't want to try and alter them at the moment. Trying to crack apart long, thin sections of plastic, much of it glued along delicate sections? That's begging for catastrophic damage to the parts. Yes, it's thoroughly possible to GS/glue a drone disc to the clip of a 20mm cell holder and effectively camouflage the thing in plain sight. I can even add a bunch of exposed power cables from various sources so that, once they were all in place, the exposed wire leading to the guns wouldn't really be an issue. But the guns themselves present the biggest problem, trying to open up something that I built to be thoroughly shut.
Now, knowing me? I'll probably try it anyway when I finally start trying to finalize the build. How many times throughout the log have I done something like that, followed by a blurb about how I ruined the pieces and had to order a new one? Spoiler alert, I've done that a lot. So it'll probably happen again and I may or may not have to redesign the titan in the process, but I was already going to add wings and a tail once I got the right Gundam kits (got a good tail idea from Nataku Custom). I'll be in Japan next month and I'll pay the Gundam museum a visit. Yes, that's a real place.
At long last, this thing is finally done. I need to get some time to take real pictures of it, maybe even use a backdrop for once, and make a big collage to put in the gallery. Better pics and a Youtube video showcasing the sonic weapons will be forthcoming.
Pretty awesome. Still not sure the graffiti on the nose is bold or rude enough, though. Maybe paint over with purple and write "Eldar suck dick" in bigger letters?
Yes I know this is the last thing you want to hear after all this work I apologize. It's a bit like someone going up to Leonardo da Vinci and saying, "hey, the bridge in the background -- behind the Mona Lisa's left ear -- I think you need to clean up the brushwork a bit."
You know, I am actually quite pleased with the graffiti. I was going to change it but now it just feels right. I might go back and change it to "Mods are dicks" just because I hate forum moderators, especially on ATT, but no doubt they'd get their panties in a bunch and ban me.
bossfearless wrote: You know, I am actually quite pleased with the graffiti. I was going to change it but now it just feels right. I might go back and change it to "Mods are dicks" just because I hate forum moderators, especially on ATT, but no doubt they'd get their panties in a bunch and ban me.
Oh not that stuff. There was some exchange over PM and some other interaction where a couple of the mods were just plain uncool. Do try to have some facts before you go weighing in on something
bossfearless wrote: You know, I am actually quite pleased with the graffiti. I was going to change it but now it just feels right. I might go back and change it to "Mods are dicks" just because I hate forum moderators, especially on ATT, but no doubt they'd get their panties in a bunch and ban me.
Just gonna point out I'm a mod elsewhere (Ever heard of Gothicwars? ). You already know my stance on your stuff, so yeah. I'd let it fly
I've got the Remora on the painting table now, and it's coming along quickly. There's not very much to it, and to be honest I'm almost never going to field it so i don't really give two gaks. It's the last thing that's built and needing a pint job, though, so I'm getting rid of it before I move on to any more builds. In theory anyway. I did a little more work on the super broadside, changing out the flamestorm cannon arm for a piece of a Menoth warjack (Vanquisher), mostly because I didn't feel like wiring up another light. Lazy, I know lol. One problem I have right now is that I just got three videogames in the mail. Three. And they're all ones that I really want to play. And I should really be studying Japanese a couple hours a night for the next couple weeks. So I think the models are going to slow down a bit during April.
Dark Souls 2, Thief for PS4, and FF13 which I actually hadn't played yet. FF13 was first on the play list, but I found out that the ebay seller I bought it from did not include all the discs, so it's stuck maybe a third of the way through. Lame. Age of Wonders 3 just came out too, which looks like total crack from what little I played tonite. So...yeah. Games everywhere.
But on the bright side I did churn through a bunch of my first level Japanese lessons in quick time, and I got the remora painted.
And photobucket decided to take a big dump on me. I'll upload pics in a minute.
AoW3 has consumed me. Its wretched claws are sunk deep between my ribs as it pulls me deeper into its vicious orbit. I wasted my entire day off playing this game, and I completed 2 missions. I don't mean a whole day off as in 3 hours or so, I mean the whole damn thing. I forgot to eat dinner, that's how addicting this game is. Needless to say, painting took a backseat to smiting my enemies. But frankly, I'm somewhat stalled out until I get more large bases. I can finish the Tachikoma though...
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dantay_xv wrote: Nice use of the Necron Lychgard shield on the remora!
And if japanese is anything like Mandarin, you are doing well pickng it up.
Actually, Japanese is very similar to Mandarin in terms of structure and even some of the symbols are the same, but then they add two extra alphabets on top of that and you're like, 'dafuq?'
Mini-update to tell you about my egregious stupidity. I did the same goddamn thing I did on my first broadside. I hollowed out a channel in the Tachikoma's torso for the wires to go through and then I completely forgot to feed them through when soldering. The wires are an absolute mess now but I don't dare clip them off and try to redo them, since they were a bitch and a half to solder due to poor planning on my part. Now I need to do some kind of big filler pieces to hide this rat's nest of wires hanging out of the torso. Other than that, though, that suit is coming together very well and all the lights are working, guns are attached, thorax thingy is on and everything.
Could do a "Dynamic Entry!" basing scheme, with the Tachikoma riding a satellite through reentry. Or make it into battle damage. Some of these heavily converted armies kinda need to look shiny and perfect, but I think with the sort of grungier sleazy cant your army is heading towards, having a battle damaged unit or two wouldn't be out of place.
I'm already working on a dynamic entry base with a crisis suit swooping down and nailing an assault marine mid flight, using the marine's rocket exhaust to connect them to the base
I got the Tachikoma mostly done now. Still working on the chest area abdomen thorax thing. Bug anatomy words.
A quad legged crisis suit that became a broadside that became a Tachikoma from GITS. The guns still need a few bits added but I haven't found the right pieces for the muzzles yet.
Huzzah! A small package came for me with bits and bases ordered far to long ago. The mail is really slowing down around here lately. Anyway, now I have the bases to wire up the Fat Boy and the Mad Cat suits, as well as the extra ion cannon for the other arm. Preliminary work was done on making powered bases earlier tonight.
I also won a few auctions for some more neat bits, specifically the guns off the Stalker/Hunter SM tank and some Deathwing terminator torsos so I can do that part of my tutorial series. I'm gonna see about getting a bunch of projects to a good stopping point before I leave for Japan. Hopefully lots of updates this week!
Okay, just spent a few minutes looking through your thread and this entire thing is delightfully bonkers I'm not sure I'm going to be able to get rid of the mental image of The Doctor in a Hammerhead with naked Tau out of my head any time soon, try as I might.
Goliath wrote: Okay, just spent a few minutes looking through your thread and this entire thing is delightfully bonkers I'm not sure I'm going to be able to get rid of the mental image of The Doctor in a Hammerhead with naked Tau out of my head any time soon, try as I might.
I would have said that's a good thing lol these are really amazingly done models. I must try putting LEDs in my battlesuits, thnaks for the inspiration and the tutorial. Loving this blog keep up the fabulous work.
Good to see a couple new faces poking in and leaving comments. Always does a bit to convince me that people actually read my ramblings, or at least stop to look at the pictures.
Speaking of pictures, I did some things. Things got done. One of these things that happened was a leg. Specifically the leg of a Dreadknight, which has been chopped and reworked six ways from Sunday to build a reverse jointed setup. Here it is before I do any real finishing work to it to hide all those messy bits:
Kinda neat, right? That's going to be a part of a Riptide/Dreadknight/Whatever build I'm doing. It's been shaping up since forever, and coming together in short little bursts before being put back on the back burner. Here's a *VERY* early mock up of the general shape of the thing using lots of tack:
Right now it's very much an unrealised concept and I'm just sticking bits here and there to see how they fit with one another. I actually wound up with some pretty good results and I'm much further along than I was yesterday.
The powered bases for the two other WIP suits are still curing, taking much longer than expected for a giant wad of glue to dry (gel superglue makes inexpensive gap filler). I'm still a bit stumped on the Tachikoma's weapons and what to mount on the ends. I'll need to look through everything and come up with a fun idea or three.
Three and a half days to go til I leave for Japan. I'm going a little bit crazy with multiple kinds of inspiration right before leaving, go figure. Nothing like a deadline to light a fire under your ass.
It's a big chunk of piranha. Hoard o Bits has piranha hulls for pretty cheap so I have a couple laying around. The rest of the piranha squadron is gonna happen sooner or later.
Sinful Hero wrote: Just watch your "Views" next to your thread slowly tick up. We're always watching, we just don't want to clutter up the thread with fanboism.
Speak for yourself!
[fanboyism]squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee[/fanboyism]
I mean, that is a very interesting model you have there, sir.
Been fiddling and diddling on this riptide build, and I've come to a range of head options that I want some opinions on.
1.
2.
Or 3.
On a related note, sticky tack is the best friend of anyone trying to build something really over the top.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Leaning towards #2, myself. I like the cowled look.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Oh, and this is also a thing that happened.
The lower portion of its legs will get some up-armor to adjust the proportions a bit. Aside from that this is very nearly done. Just have to solder it onto the base once I get the wire affixed properly to the leg, which in itself is a multi-part job that takes a while to cure at each step.
I think no1 head is the best option, if you could get one of those Targetter thingies from the SkyRay turret kit and put that in as 'eyes' (an LED would also work)
A suit like this shouldn't even HAVE a head except to play to the cephalo-centric vanity of the designers. A central instrument cluster is exactly the type of one-shot kill that any sniper would be looking for, like the helmetless dreadknight pilot. Of course, I already have the exposed pilot thing going on Snowflake's suit, so this shouldn't be a problem. Headshots for everyone!
Automatically Appended Next Post: So, Nooblet, I see your signature and can't help wondering if you've got a Tau log of your own going somewhere?
bossfearless wrote: A suit like this shouldn't even HAVE a head except to play to the cephalo-centric vanity of the designers. A central instrument cluster is exactly the type of one-shot kill that any sniper would be looking for, like the helmetless dreadknight pilot. Of course, I already have the exposed pilot thing going on Snowflake's suit, so this shouldn't be a problem. Headshots for everyone!
Automatically Appended Next Post: So, Nooblet, I see your signature and can't help wondering if you've got a Tau log of your own going somewhere?
No, unfortunately. However I do plan to begin one, except I'm only 15 so my income is fairly limited. I'm still working on getting battlesuits, I only have a bunch of Fire Warriors and Kroot so far, but hopefully in future I can start one. But yeah, for now I do not have a blog, sorry about the misleading sig. Oops!
EDIT: Also, contrary to my user status, I am most certainly not a disbeliever of the greater good
No worries. Though at 15 I think I ought to give you a stern talking-to about browsing a thread loaded with space boobs If you're just starting out, I will give you what I think is the most important piece of advice when trying to do a cool project: Balls. Big brass balls and the ability to accept that failure is a likely outcome and, should said failure occur, the even bigger brass balls that it takes to break a project apart and start from scratch.
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bossfearless wrote: No worries. Though at 15 I think I ought to give you a stern talking-to about browsing a thread loaded with space boobs If you're just starting out, I will give you what I think is the most important piece of advice when trying to do a cool project: Balls. Big brass balls and the ability to accept that failure is a likely outcome and, should said failure occur, the even bigger brass balls that it takes to break a project apart and start from scratch.
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sounds good!
It's probably better to use it when I actually have cause.
Or just put a link to this thread in it (shameless self-promotion). Speaking of balls and failure, there was a lot of that over the course of developing these two suits. Here's the Fat Boy and the Mad Cat with a side by side comparison to the original Gunslinger broadside for scale. These things are BIG!
I'll get detail shots of both of them up later. I need to finish some work on the bases before they go on the painting shelf.
Um...which ones? There are a lot of different builds and each one has its own set of quirks and parts. What were the pieces you were wanting to know about, specifically?
Oh! Those are actually Tael pattern jetpacks, which are made from the existing Crisis jetpack. You basically chop along a few predetermined lines and then stick the two single packs together to make a double. Hold on a sec and I'll dredge up the quick and easy "Tael Suit" tutorial on ATT. Okay, my search fu is so freaking weak right now. I wish that forums had search functions that actually returned usable results.
Okay, I would spend more time to dig it up for you but what you're looking for is called the "Tael" pattern battlesuit, and there should be one or two conversion guides out there somewhere. I may even have one saved on my laptop somewhere. I do, however, have to spend time tidying things up before my japan trip so I can't actually spend too much time on a new project tonight. If I do come across it I'll post it for you, otherwise try looking on Advanced Tau Tactica (be careful when joining, their mods can be jerks).
Automatically Appended Next Post: I did not find the picture I used as a guide, but I did find some photos of my old space marine tanks with freehand artwork.
NSFW Warning.
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Sigma:
GodHand:
Reaper:
I need to search around for images of Golem, Chimera and Renovatio. These sorts of things are why I got banned from Warseer and my threads kept getting deleted, and why I dislike forum mods who can't see past a pair of boobs and use their brains for a minute. There are layers of symbolism at work here, at least on the two blue ones. The green one was a commission and it's just a pinup. And there's tentacle porn on the bottom of the tank for when it gets blown up. But the other two, and the others in that series? Art, dammit. On those, the girl can't *not* be naked to retain the image's meaning. There are reasons for everything and a lot of thought was put into the work. The girls in the Dubstep Cadre are just silliness, but this had a purpose and it was stricken from the record as immature garbage.
Oh, man. Everything is pretty great in this thread. I've got a moderate sized Tau army myself (also since 3rd ed, with XV15s to prove it). I cannot imagine any of this stuff on ATT. That place is pretty useful for tactics, but it's way to stiff for pimpin'.
Biophysical wrote: Oh, man. Everything is pretty great in this thread. I've got a moderate sized Tau army myself (also since 3rd ed, with XV15s to prove it). I cannot imagine any of this stuff on ATT. That place is pretty useful for tactics, but it's way to stiff for pimpin'.
I know, right? I had to apply black MS Paint squiggles to pics with boobs, and the girls were left off the Pimp suit's base altogether when I took those pictures. It's lame to have to self censor like that, but that site is kind of one-stop shopping for a lot of new tau players and so I feel I really should post there to expose a lot of people to my goodies.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Detail shots of Fat Boy and Mad Cat now that their bases are finished. Sorry about the bad lighting, had to use the camera flash since the house lights were being a pain today. Hooray for saudi engineering!
The Fat Boy has a feather, marking its pilot as a member of the Order of the Plume. Haven't come up with the pilot's background yet but as the reincarnation of my old XV88 team, they deserve it.
When I can get better lighting, I'll take pics with the LEDs lit.
Automatically Appended Next Post: You can see in a few places that there's some finishing work still to do, but I'm happy with where these are at for now.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be snorkel-deep in a geisha.
In terms of cockpit shape, yes. But imo the most important difference between the two is the shoulder missile mounts versus integrated into the side torsos.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Oh gak lookit that! It changed my flag to Japanese! JUST AS PLANNED TACTICAL GENIUS HURR HURRRRRR!
There are unconfirmed reports that I picked up a master grade Wing Zero Custom and SOOOO many extra bits in Akihabara. And also a sex toy that looks like a food processor but that's really a whole 'nother thread. This trip was bipolar as feth. Amazing highs followed by life trying to bone me as hard as possible.
bossfearless wrote: There are unconfirmed reports that I picked up a master grade Wing Zero Custom and SOOOO many extra bits in Akihabara. And also a sex toy that looks like a food processor but that's really a whole 'nother thread. This trip was bipolar as feth. Amazing highs followed by life trying to bone me as hard as possible.
So you're just gonna bone it right back, right? Right?
Hello?
Anyone...?
Oh, before I forget, I know it's not technically dubstep, but it does have wubs. Andit's Metal Gear, so y'know... Go find the whole OST actually, it's all great.
Anyway, that's my contribution to the thread. Enjoy.
Saw the new Captain America in Tokyo cinema, and the Japanese did NOT seem to get any of the jokes. Go figure. Thank you for those wubs liquidjoshi, and yes, I boned life right back with my deluxe tentacle rapelator that I got in Aki. There were SO MANY MODELS! Their hobby shops put ours to shame, catering to all the needs of a serious, SERIOUS modeler. I picked up some clear resin and a few blocks of Oyumaru mold material plus a Gundam Converge figure that will act as a crisis suit slash commander. The great thing (one of them) about these shops is that they were packed with displays showing all the finished kits with loads of custom work, so this time I know I have a crisis suit instead of a broadside.
Nah. They're more like Tupperware parties. Just a bunch of dudes, and one of the dudes is trying to sell impractical and overpriced knives to all the rest of them.
Anvildude wrote: Nah. They're more like Tupperware parties. Just a bunch of dudes, and one of the dudes is trying to sell impractical and overpriced knives to all the rest of them.
Like some kind of CutCo convention but with more dubstep. I'm really enjoying seeing my little flag icon change as I move from country to country. I'll have to remember that for future trips. I have had zero free time since I got back. It's been all planes, trains and desk duty all the time. I really want to dig in to all the stuff I bought in Akihabara and start playing around with my new toys, dammit.
The little Gundam Converge figure I bought is a bit of a mixed bag. Some conversion work is going to be necessary to bring it up to my standards, and the arms are going to need to be replaced with Crisis parts. The material of the model is a much softer, rubbery material reminiscent of Mage Knight and the like but with a much higher quality than that old crap. Totally doable. But the arms were really thin at the elbow and that led to them being way too bendy to stand up to the rigors of gaming.
I also made some progress on my big DreadTide thing that I've been building. Got the wires run down through the leg gubbinz and it's attached to its base now, along with some more work on the torso. It's going to need some serious gap filling. And then I'm basically stalled on that one until my Stalker guns come in the mail.
You know what would rock? A Hellhound variant that fired cluster munitions. Large blast, maybe S4 or S5 and AP-, but with Rending or Shred. Sort of like the Wyvern but in a FA slot with shorter range and used in a forward role. I pity anyone who buys an army during this month, since we have the new rulebook coming and that tends to make everything slightly obsolete.
Thanks for stopping in and gibing props Dantay. The build is nowhere near finished, but it's at a stopping point for now.
I did a few test pours of Tamiya clear epoxy resin that I picked up in Japan. I poured the resin into a few overturned 25mm bases in various states to test out drying consistency and whether it would damage paint, resultant transparency and the effect of adding ink to the mixture. The end result of course should be a good filler for the hot tub (did you think I'd forgotten that build?). Those hobby shops in Akihabara are serious business. There were like a dozen different molding/casting products and it was all rather badass.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Have to wait 24 hours for those to cure now, which is the hardest part.
Okay, the test pours I did came out perfectly, everything I'd hoped for. I did one pour specifically to test the effect of the resin on painted pieces and I am happy to report zero paint dissolution or diffusion into the medium. The addition of blue ink did not alter the resin properties and it dried perfectly. Pics to follow shortly.
Now, I started working on the pool deck and it's quite an onerous project. I'm trying to find something that would be the perfect size for this, a bottle cap of some kind or similar round structure with a bit of depth. I'm not happy with the piece I'd been considering before so it's back to the drawing board. I plan to sink some LEDs into the sides of the pool so the whole thing lights up, but first I need to build an appropriate frame. In theory it's easy, but in practice it's causing problems.
Looking forward to the reveals of the bits you grabbed in Japan. Good to hear your test pours all worked as expected.
For the lights in the pool are you looking at actually sinking them in to whatever container you find, or using a clear container with them attached to the outside? The latter may prevent any issues with resin leaking around portholes cut for the leds.....but may be harder to find a suitable clear container I guess. What sort of diameter pool are you thinking of?
I'm looking at a pool with about the diameter of a 60mm base. I'm going with LEDs sunk into the sides of it through pre-drilled holes sealed with gel superglue. Right now I'm putting aside the pool and focusing on building the legs. I've said more than once that I wanted to do a quad-legged suit for this build, and I'm going with an unbalanced look with heavier legs facing the rear, while the forward legs will be smaller. The idea is that all the weight is shifted backwards and that the heavy rear legs are there to absorb recoil from whatever cannons I mount on this thing. Once I have the legs built and the suit mounted on the base, I can start building the torso/pool apparatus with a better idea of scale and proportions.
Ooh, if you do the Cannons thing, you should model the 'water' in the tub to look like it's sloshing forwards, increasing the 'look' of the whole suit being pushed violently backwards by the force of the cannons.
Sweet Jeebus! Work has been such a pain in the ass lately and stopped me from doing much hobby stuff. That, and an apparent shortage of superglue in the region. Laaaaaaaaaaaaame. BUT! I have rallied from this mess and continued work on the latest giant robot flavored monstrosity:
As you can see the arms are held on with just tack at the moment, so the whole thing can be reposed or repositioned. I'm going to fiddle with those pauldrons a bit to get them just right, and maybe add some kind of plumage to the rear of its shoulders. Got some fairly large guns that are going on those arms when I get the chance, too.
The mech is taking shape now with guns mocked up on the arms and some rocket pods on the shoulders to test out the look. I like them more than I thought I would. Here's a shot without the rockets:
The addition of the rocket pods totally changes the look of the piece. I'm not 100% sold on the battle cannon on its left arm. Thinking about dropping the battle cannon and replacing it with a length of plastic tubing with the heavy psycannon muzzle from the DK kit on the end. I don't have another Punisher cannon or else I'd go for dual gatlings, since the right hand gun came out nicely.
I feel like it needs more armor plating on the lower arms, but I don't know if anything is going to be aesthetically compatible with the Riptide leg plates I've used as pauldrons.
I don’t know why, but I want to see a large energy weapon on the other arm. Could be too many years playing battletech. Don’t want to rely entirely on ammo-using projectile weapons.
Although symmetrical gatlings would also be cool. As is what you have now, for what it’s worth.
@Anvildude: I'm still a novice at using plasticard, believe it or not. And it wouldn't match 100%, which would drive me crazy.
@Nevelon: I've been thinking along similar lines, but I'm not quite certain what kind of energy weapons I could scrounge up right now. I'm in a tricky place, scale-wise. Too big for infantry weapons, too small for riptide weapons. I might try fitting a Sentinel plasma cannon and see how it looks, then go from there.
bossfearless wrote: @Anvildude: I'm still a novice at using plasticard, believe it or not. And it wouldn't match 100%, which would drive me crazy.
@Nevelon: I've been thinking along similar lines, but I'm not quite certain what kind of energy weapons I could scrounge up right now. I'm in a tricky place, scale-wise. Too big for infantry weapons, too small for riptide weapons. I might try fitting a Sentinel plasma cannon and see how it looks, then go from there.
Maybe a sponson LC from a pred? Just guessing on the fit.
A single Sentinel Plasma cannon won't be big enough. Two might work, but eh... it's just two tiny guns. I'd try other Leman Russ guns - Vanquisher and Executioner are what I'd recommend.
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And you're wondering what to stick on that arm? Why not try it out? Or is it just way too massive?
Also, how'd you get that? Just a basic bitz trade? Because I'd figure you'd also have access to the gatling cannons from that kit if you'd bought the whole thing...
Anvildude wrote: And you're wondering what to stick on that arm? Why not try it out? Or is it just way too massive?
Also, how'd you get that? Just a basic bitz trade? Because I'd figure you'd also have access to the gatling cannons from that kit if you'd bought the whole thing...
Look closely at the receivers on those arm cannons. Those are the bodies of the gatling cannons. As you can see, they were too small to stand on their own and needed to have a bigger barrel put on them. I haven't tried out the Skyspear launcher because work has kept me shackled to my desk (VIP in town for a couple days and we have to keep up appearances of actually doing a job).
Automatically Appended Next Post: I'm having an odd reaction to the whole notion of Unbound armies. On the one hand, spamming is stupid. On the other hand, I freaking LOVE building crazy big robots, and I have more than I could field in any normal list.
I put two ion cannons on the Mad Cat broadside. I am now out of ion cannons. I have the bits from the new Riptide kit I've been fiddling with, but I think I'm gonna need those guns for that build.
Yeah, I wouldn't recommend Riptide guns for this. Too big, same with the Ion cannon I think.
The cannon will work if nothing else, but it's just a tad... meh, all things considered. I mean, a massive plasma cannon or super long cannon would be perfect, but the Battle cannon does work.
You know, it just might. I'd have to double it up and then figure out how to mount it. Hmm...have to figure it out.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Turns out that I am fresh out of railguns. I've used chunks of those guns in a lot of miscellaneous builds and it seems I left myself high and dry. You know what surprisingly never works? The pulse submunition guns from O'ralai. I have 3 of them somehow and they look totally wrong on everything.
Sydney, for that submission you are awarded +25 Internets and a fancy hat with tassels. You'll be the envy of all the jaegermonsters henceforth.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Okay, so I looked a bit deeper into my work backlog and I came across a Forgefiend that I was supposed to light up for my bro out here, which has been simmering on the back burner because feth it that's why. I looked in there and I found the hades autocannons that he didn't even want to use, and I start fiddling with them. I bit the bullet and cut new barrels out of plastic tubing to replace the cool but incompatible skull barrels, and then covered the receiver up with space marine armor plating. Here's how it came out next to the original chain gun:
And here it is attached:
And last but not least, LET THERE BE LIGHT:
And since I snatched a bunch of the parts, I decided to finally start working on the fiend. It came partially pre-assembled in a manner I did not approve of, so i snapped and chopped it and now it's got dreadnaught feetsies and it'll be cooler when it's all said and done:
Automatically Appended Next Post: The whole time I was building that big suit, I found myself wishing that I had a Knight titan I could compare it to. It makes the dreadknight base looks small by comparison, and unlike GW's knight, this thing looks like it could actually move under its own power.
There's just something I dislike about perpendicular weapons on dangling mech arms- It's like, if you're going to have a hard-mount, why not just put the guns directly on the shoulder joint? Why the extra bits that are just more points of potential failure?
I mean, Madcat, sure- but even then, the arms flowed directly into the weapon mounts from the back, not the top. Could you try that sort of setup?
Or, potentially stick some hands on there, and have it holding the guns all underslung.
bossfearless wrote: Sydney, for that submission you are awarded +25 Internets and a fancy hat with tassels. You'll be the envy of all the jaegermonsters henceforth.
Anvildude wrote: There's just something I dislike about perpendicular weapons on dangling mech arms- It's like, if you're going to have a hard-mount, why not just put the guns directly on the shoulder joint? Why the extra bits that are just more points of potential failure?
I mean, Madcat, sure- but even then, the arms flowed directly into the weapon mounts from the back, not the top. Could you try that sort of setup?
Or, potentially stick some hands on there, and have it holding the guns all underslung.
It's a little bit way to late for that. I mean, all the parts are glued. On like five different points. And the arms would have to be chopped up and reposed in order to make them bent for underslung weapons (otherwise the guns will be pointed straight at the ground). And the mounts I built are so thoroughly glued into the wrists that if I remove them it will destroy the whole wrist and forearm. I get where you're coming from, and you've seen that I normally go for that design, but this was where I wanted the project to go pretty much from the get go.
I getcha. Just putting that out as personal preference- and honestly, the perpendicular mounting fits the shape of this guy a little better anyways- This suit's all about the odd projections from the center of mass.
liquidjoshi wrote: I'll level with ya Boss, I preferred the original chaingun.
But the new ones are still pretty damn awesome. I'm not sure there's enough gold in this thread though... gold stuff's pretty baller
I preferred the original's perforated muzzle as well. It was hella dope. But, since I lacked a second one I had to find a compromise. I feel like the suit still needs a little something, a certain panache added in somewhere.
Anvildude wrote: Could you possibly continue the 'theme' of the shoulders down onto the legs? Maybe that could help. Make it even more Anime and smooth-mech.
I wish I had more riptide leg armor to use, but I'm fresh out. And I'm not sure they would actually fit in the space available. That's assuming that the chimera track guards could be pulled off without completely destroying the legs. Quite a gamble. If I had any more plates I'd definitely give it a look, since I think that would actually look pretty sweet.
Slight problem. I kind of got wasted, flew into a drunken rage, and smashed all the furniture in my bedroom. It's not all that uncommon out here, surprisingly. But uh...it's gonna be a while before I've picked up all the pieces of everything and sorted out my work space again.
bossfearless wrote: Slight problem. I kind of got wasted, flew into a drunken rage, and smashed all the furniture in my bedroom. It's not all that uncommon out here, surprisingly. But uh...it's gonna be a while before I've picked up all the pieces of everything and sorted out my work space again.
monkeytroll wrote: Well....as long as it's only furniture and not anything that was actually in the work-space...like Melvin for instance.....
Melvin is smashed. I think the wires are still connected to the base, so it might be salvageable. I've just barely started to clear a path through all the broken gak, so I haven't even checked yet.
Guys, c'mon, Boss had a real sh*t day, let's have a little more sympathy along with our humor. If I had to work in the Kingdom I'd probably be smashing stuff too.
Ouch, that's rough. Broken furniture can be replaced, it's a pain, but replacable.....and further down the line becomes a story. When models and their ilk become collateral damage it sucks.
Keep it smooth boss.
Clearly he's a bear. He just took a lot of levels in Bluff. He's actually just typing gibberish onto the keyboard with his big bear paws, but his bluff skill is so high we're interpreting it as english text.
Not so much a meme as a popular story among PnP RPG nerds. I do feel for you boss, but there's a cost to drinking too much. Might be time to cut back a little.
And does anyone even give a gak that this is the only time in about 6 months that I even went ahead and got drunk? Did anyone even bother wondering why I was so angry? Or did you just see that and come to your own conclusions? Thank you, internet, for always assuming the worst of me.
And does anyone even give a gak that this is the only time in about 6 months that I even went ahead and got drunk? Did anyone even bother wondering why I was so angry? Or did you just see that and come to your own conclusions? Thank you, internet, for always assuming the worst of me.
Honestly man, from your previous posts, you seem like a dude who's pretty chill, so it musta taken quite a bit to get you to *that* point.... I just didn't really post about it, because i hadn't come up with a way to express that without seeming like Dr. Phil.
Sorry if anything I've said or done offended. I can't speak for others, of course, but you have my apologies, at least. I can't imagine how stressful it must be to be stuck in an alien culture for so long.
And does anyone even give a gak that this is the only time in about 6 months that I even went ahead and got drunk? Did anyone even bother wondering why I was so angry? Or did you just see that and come to your own conclusions? Thank you, internet, for always assuming the worst of me.
Whoa, take it easy. It was just a bit of teasing. No one assumes that you're an alcoholic(probably) based off of one post. We are all strangers here, no one knows anything abou anybody- what problems they may have or not, what they know or don't know.
So now let me ask as one stranger to another, "What caused you to get drunk and break stuff?"
And does anyone even give a gak that this is the only time in about 6 months that I even went ahead and got drunk? Did anyone even bother wondering why I was so angry? Or did you just see that and come to your own conclusions? Thank you, internet, for always assuming the worst of me.
Whoa, take it easy. It was just a bit of teasing. No one assumes that you're an alcoholic(probably) based off of one post. We are all strangers here, no one knows anything abou anybody- what problems they may have or not, what they know or don't know.
So now let me ask as one stranger to another, "What caused you to get drunk and break stuff?"
The short version is that I've been on permanent night shift for almost 2 years straight with little to no human contact at all. The pressure finally got to me on the one night when I could finally relax and let go. I felt like crap, tried to feel better by drinking (my one available night to get drunk in several months) and that just made it worse, and next thing you know I'm seeing red and looking for something to break.
Automatically Appended Next Post: It needs to be said that, of all my minimal human contact, most of those people are goddamned fething SAUDIS. I mean, holy gak. You can't imagine it unless you've lived it. Saudis, man. Saudis.
Pretty much never. It's the best paying job I could ever land, period, and the only way I'm ever going to pay off my student loans. Maybe another three years at the very minimum if I can't find a workaround to the crippling loneliness.
Oof. Sorry to hear that. All I can say is hang in there. While we can’t be there in person to help with the loneliness, we are just a blog post away from you. There is quite a community here to be supportive, at least of your hobby. So while we can’t help with everything, we’ll do what we can here.
If there is anything we can do to help, let us know.
Aye, we're all here for ya Boss. Stuff will work out for you eventually, but it's pretty much a waiting game. I don't really see anything you can do, aside from pack up and relocate, which is... well, not really an option as far as I can see.
Ouch. Looking at another three years min?......that does sound painful on the old sanity Boss. Wishing I had a handy link to some uplifting wub-wub to hand right now.......
Meh. I'm finding a bit of peace through powerlifting. From what I understand, everyone who works out here gets these episodes once in a while, so I'm not in nearly as much trouble with my job over it as I thought, which is a relief. Coming home in August is going to help a lot too, even if it's just a month. Hell, I'll be lucky to have everything back up and running by then lol.
Exercise is excellent for stress relief. Outbursts where you smash stuff -- which, um, I know something about personally, and I didn't even have the excuse of alcohol -- have a lot to do with modern society triggering our fight-or-flight reflex in situations where we can't fight or flee, so all that energy has nowhere to go except indigestion, mysterious back pain, and blowing up at inanimate objects.
I got this theory that a lot (if not all) of our "Modern" personality disorders and emotional disorders (depression, bipolar, explosiveness, anger management issues, all that) is actually due to our brains being designed to handle huge swings in emotions and stress on a daily or weekly basis- going from enjoying a breezy pleasant noon day, having some roasted animal on a stick with friends, to the fear of night and being surrounded by things you can't see that want to eat you, to the pride of a successful hunt/gather, to the sorrow and pain of death-
And then modern society comes along and says "Everyone's gonna be happy or bored, all the time, forever".
I figure our brains can't handle it, and so just start dumping random neurochemicals trying to 'balance' things out. Something similar probably happens in any situation where you're constantly feeling one or two emotions, instead of a wide variety- situations such as being stuck in a desk job in a culture that you can't undestand, and being constantly on the watch for danger, for years on end.
bossfearless wrote: Meh. I'm finding a bit of peace through powerlifting. From what I understand, everyone who works out here gets these episodes once in a while,
I kind of read the wrong the first time through, lol... I read it as "everyone who works-out here" in which case I was going to ask about which roids you and the guys prefer
Anvil Dude, I think you're pretty much right on the neurochemistry. We've got all these fight-or-flight systems designed to deal with a sabertooth tiger or the guy from the next cave trying to kill us, and we live in a society where no one is trying to kill us 99.9% of the time, so that system starts to get triggered by "goddamit this guy just cut me off in traffic I WILL END HIM."
Oh yeah, and it almost goes without saying, but I'll say it: please holy feth nobody do steroids seriously that is a bad bad bad idea.
In fact, let's not put anything in our bodies that's not tested by the medical community or generations of ancestors, and even then there are some things -- eg this medication I was prescribed once that made me start to lose my hair, or alcohol -- that we gotta be real careful about.
Okay, I finally got around to picking up some of the pieces of my work area (it's a hard thing to sift through that kind of wreckage) and I salvaged the Melvin suit, more or less. The bad news is that it's in a few pieces and the LED isn't lighting up. The good news is that all of those pieces can be reattached easily, and I can see the broken wire so I should be able to fix it. Not so bad after all. More than anything I'm not motivated to get back to the tau project. I'll do some repairs and then I might have to take a step back and work on something else for a while.
On a completely different note, this happened a while back, and has finally gotten finished up:
Ashiraya wrote: I am unsure of whether to chew you out for sexism or commend you on the amazingly original models.
There's a long post where I address the issue of sexism at great length. It's lost somewhere deep in the first half of the thread. To sum it up, yes it's sexist. Yes, I'm okay with that. And no, I don't care that someone *could* get upset about it. Because if they're getting upset about it, then chances are I didn't want to know them anyway.
Unsure of what this actually means since feminism means wanting gender equality which, in this mainly patriarchial world, almost entirely means women's rights.
Unsure of what this actually means since feminism means wanting gender equality which, in this mainly patriarchial world, almost entirely means women's rights.
I think he means the feminists that are the total opposites from macho's
The type that screams equality but really want to reverse the situation.
Anyway on the drunken rage thing, no chance for a holiday trip? Relax somewhere in Europe, for a few days/weeks?
I came for the Tau, I stay for the robopimps. I still love everything about this thread.
I call myself an Equalisist, but aren't there better things to be pointing out than one guy's plastic space mans? This thread is too awesome to drag off for that discussion I think. Besides, we need some chill time up in here
Unsure of what this actually means since feminism means wanting gender equality which, in this mainly patriarchial world, almost entirely means women's rights.
Generally, Feminists, at least the generally outspoken ones that the public / media is exposed to, say they want equality, but blatantly don't.
They want it reversed.
Things like expecting having a hissy fit and scraming at you if you hold a door for them, get their chair, or any given gentlemanly thing, and insist you treat them like anyone else, then later bitch that 'you can't say that to a woman' or some such nonsense.
The events to raise money and awareness, where women get the goods at a significant discount / men have to pay inflated prices.
Where you're treading on eggshells because they thing men are the scum that have 'kept them down' and so need to be 'punished' for it.
I'm all for equality for everyone, that's great, but going the other way and basically being sexist in their own right isn't.
You sir, have won a few Internets for that (I havent decided how many yet, but it should be a bunch)
It's not hard to out-Calgar Calgar, because Calgar doesn't Calgar all that well.
Almost forgot to credit the image, a commission from Fafnir here on this very forum (he has a project log here for his art). Pricey, and it came with some buyer's remorse, but I wanted to get the commission done by a Dakkanaut to keep the whole thing in-house.
Everyone asking what kind of feminist I'm talking about
Actually I'm talking about that god-awful bitch in the do-rag standing outside the campus Starbucks screaming and calling me a rapist and throwing used tampons at me when I've never met her before and it's 7am and I am just NOT AWAKE ENOUGH FOR THAT gak RIGHT NOW.
You know. Her. That's not a generalization or a baseless pejorative by the way. That crazy bitch nailed me with a couple tampons once at USF. And if you file a complaint about it? That means you're sexist. You sexist pig, you.
Yeah, okay, that person was being a dick, in a non-gender-specific sense. Please don't tar all feminists with her brush (and that sounds, um, hmmm). I consider myself a feminist and I'm, y'know, a man. A heterosexual man with a son and a daughter that I want to have the same rights and opportunities, full stop.
Unsure of what this actually means since feminism means wanting gender equality which, in this mainly patriarchial world, almost entirely means women's rights.
Generally, Feminists, at least the generally outspoken ones that the public / media is exposed to, say they want equality, but blatantly don't.
They want it reversed.
Things like expecting having a hissy fit and scraming at you if you hold a door for them, get their chair, or any given gentlemanly thing, and insist you treat them like anyone else, then later bitch that 'you can't say that to a woman' or some such nonsense.
The events to raise money and awareness, where women get the goods at a significant discount / men have to pay inflated prices.
Where you're treading on eggshells because they thing men are the scum that have 'kept them down' and so need to be 'punished' for it.
I'm all for equality for everyone, that's great, but going the other way and basically being sexist in their own right isn't.
This is harmless though, and very well made.
beat me to the punch - and put far more eloquently then I would have. XD
bossfearless, sorry to hear about your rage bender, as a former expat from the land of saud I truly understand. I use to live in Khobar and even as a kid the place sucked but at least there were shawarmas the biggest thing that i miss about that place oh and the scuba diving.
It's been a while since I posted anything. The project isn't abandoned or anything but for the moment it's on the back burner until we move to the new compound in a couple months and I can set everything back up. I'll be going on holiday back to the States soon, and I'm packing everything in my room up ahead of time because we're moving right after I get back (or before, you never know with this company). After the incident, I got everything picked up and accounted for, more or less. I still need to repair Melvin, but that will probably be among the last things I do before the move. If I can, I'm gonna try to rig up a couple more LED-lit space marines for an art trade, but that might be pushing it.
One of the astonishingly stupid things I did that night was knock over my bits box, and the whole thing spilled everywhere. So if you were wondering how Ive spent some of my recent time, imagine sweeping the floor of your bedroom and trying to differentiate between clippings and scrap, and honest to goodness bits. It's been tedious, to say the least. Between that and two to three workouts a day, I haven't had much energy left for modeling.
One thing I have to say is that I'm very grateful for the support from you guys, even though it's just silly forum posts. In a place like this, that sort of thing actually cheers me up quite a bit.
HEYYYY welcome back boss, hope you get to enjoy your return to the states, even though its temporary, but I hope it cheers you up a bit more. I've been going back over the posts and finding new nuggets that I missed on the first round, can't wait to see what you come up with upon your return.
Also I feel your pain in regards to the bitz box, I was working on my Ork Warboss (Tau are on hold for now) and I spilled my tiny bitz box and had a hell of a time fixing it up, I hope you can get all your good bitz back.
Minor update, I guess. Actually, this is a total whine-fest so you can skip it if you don't want to read that crap.
Stressed out and pissed off at the hobby and the community that surrounds it. I was banned from Advanced Tau Tactica forums for no disclosed reason when I hadn't even posted there in a couple months, and the admins won't return my emails as to why. So, that sucks. But what sucks even more is that there are a sizable number of players in my local and state area who apparently just hate my guts. Ran across an article on BOLS, and apparently a guy who I had a major disagreement with a few years ago now writes for BOLS, which has given him a ridiculously tall soapbox on which to publicly trash me and call me out by name as a cheater and a liar. I've been reading an article on BOLS once or twice without knowing the author, and it'll get to some section about "that horrible douchey cheater in your local meta" and I'll be like, hold on who wrote this? And yep, it's that same guy, talking specifically about me. And of course you get shouted down by him and all his friends if you try to defend yourself in the comments section. Oh, and he also seems to run most of the big 40k events in a big chunk of Florida now, too. So, as far as I know, the entire local gaming community has been poisoned towards me in my absence, and this has left me completely disheartened and at this point I'm not even going to bring my Tau home with me. On the plus side, that means less packing. But it also means there aren't going to be any shots of them on the table or anything like that. I'm going to try and pound out these three LED space marines in the next couple of days working solo on the weekend, but after that I don't even know when I'll get back into the hobby. There's not much love left for it at this point.
Oh, and on top of all that loveliness, the company I work for has had some serious budget misappropriations and so all the funding for my branch is gone, meaning that we're being forced to move to an unfinished compound with no AC, probably no running water, no TV, limited electricity, and so far out into the desert that the internet won't even work because there are no towers in the area. That's gonna last like 6 months. Which means that even if I had this glorious renewal of my love for the hobby, I'm going to be in a hellhole with severely limited ability to actually do any work on it.
bossfearless wrote: Minor update, I guess. Actually, this is a total whine-fest so you can skip it if you don't want to read that crap.
Stressed out and pissed off at the hobby and the community that surrounds it. I was banned from Advanced Tau Tactica forums for no disclosed reason when I hadn't even posted there in a couple months, and the admins won't return my emails as to why. So, that sucks. But what sucks even more is that there are a sizable number of players in my local and state area who apparently just hate my guts. Ran across an article on BOLS, and apparently a guy who I had a major disagreement with a few years ago now writes for BOLS, which has given him a ridiculously tall soapbox on which to publicly trash me and call me out by name as a cheater and a liar. I've been reading an article on BOLS once or twice without knowing the author, and it'll get to some section about "that horrible douchey cheater in your local meta" and I'll be like, hold on who wrote this? And yep, it's that same guy, talking specifically about me. And of course you get shouted down by him and all his friends if you try to defend yourself in the comments section. Oh, and he also seems to run most of the big 40k events in a big chunk of Florida now, too. So, as far as I know, the entire local gaming community has been poisoned towards me in my absence, and this has left me completely disheartened and at this point I'm not even going to bring my Tau home with me. On the plus side, that means less packing. But it also means there aren't going to be any shots of them on the table or anything like that. I'm going to try and pound out these three LED space marines in the next couple of days working solo on the weekend, but after that I don't even know when I'll get back into the hobby. There's not much love left for it at this point.
Oh, and on top of all that loveliness, the company I work for has had some serious budget misappropriations and so all the funding for my branch is gone, meaning that we're being forced to move to an unfinished compound with no AC, probably no running water, no TV, limited electricity, and so far out into the desert that the internet won't even work because there are no towers in the area. That's gonna last like 6 months. Which means that even if I had this glorious renewal of my love for the hobby, I'm going to be in a hellhole with severely limited ability to actually do any work on it.
This is going to suck massive donkey balls.
Man that fething sucks ass.
Blows to hear about the assclown back home running his mouth about you, but for every good guy there's at least 30 douchebags with microphones and soapboxes. Hope it works out just the same.
Hopefully you don't go nuts in the sand, and gak, screw what other people have to say about the hobby and you. You enjoy working on the stuff, so keep doing it, get your army to DOPE levels of DOPENESS and bring that gak home and run it in a tournament setting and kick some asses. feth the naysayers and have some fun with what you've got.
Wow. That guy can go feth himself, quite honestly., I'd be honoured to play your Tau. You could throw the rulebook out the damn window and I wouldn't care. Not even the DV one, the full hardback $70000 thing, feth it, I don't care. Your stuff is amazing, that's all there is to it. Nuts to the guy on BOLS.
He's probably jealous that his army will never be as pimpin' and sexy as yours. If you can apply the term sexy to any plastic models, these are it.
The internet has a fickle attention span. While he might have a soapbox today, it might be gone tomorrow. And a large number of people don’t post/read rumor sites. So don’t let one turkey get you down. One of the best ways to deal with slander like that is to show there is no truth to it. Play a pick up game, be a great guy, and if someone makes a connection between you and his raveings, he’s the one who looks bad.
And an army as awesome as yours need to be on the table.
But if you need a break from the hobby, take one. Just never, ever get rid of anything. Someday you will come back, and you will want all your stuff. Just pack it up and find a quiet corner for it.
Why can't necromancers hydrate? "Now, my undead minions -- bring me another bottle of pure and natural Fiji (tm) bottled water! Mouahahaha! Oh, and a straw. A straw MADE FROM THE HOLLOWED-OUT BONES OF MY ENEMIES! And make it a bendy straw."
I don't know that'll say anything different than anyone else but I'll give it a go. This blog is something I've truly never seen before. It's made me laugh and brought me a lot of happiness. It truly is amazing. I hate that you'd give up on it, but I can't make that decision for you.
Damn, guys. I don't know what to say except thanks for all the encouragement. And thank you for putting up with my whiny bitch fests now and then in the furtherance of crazy tau models.
I've got most of the work done on the three marine models as far as prepping the pieces, now I just need to get the soldering done on the LEDs and I'll be ready to go. Of course, I haven't been able to find the right terminator parts in the giant pile that is currently my bits box, so I'm only half-building it before I fly out, and finishing it up in the US. I've been persuaded to bring my Tau home as well, so if there's anyone at all willing to play me in the Tampa area then I'll have a few shots of them on the table. Still not holding my breath, but at least I'll be able to say that I brought my A-game home with me.
@Kepora: If you were to ask about it, it might provide some useful answers but don't go standing up to the mods on my account. The mods over there are complete deutsch-bags, especially Bear, and have in the past threatened the banhammer when anyone spoke up on my behalf in a thread. Not sure what's so caustic about me that inspires abject hatred in some people, but apparently I'm very good at it.
@Sydney: I've actually got a friend going to Iraq now as a contractor to fight ISIS. He's going to try to collect four heads from ISIS fighters and strip them down to just skulls. Two will be made into skull pauldrons for his body armor, and the other two he's going to send to me to coat in some kind of resin and turn them into drinking goblets. It should be a very unique project if it eventually happens. Now that I think about it...I need a skull goblet bit for a crisis suit, and a piece of wire I can turn into a crazy straw.
You know, I feel as though I should be more disgusted by the whole "Skull-goblet" thing, but then I remember that such brutality is at once both how humanity rose to prominence, and, in a way, a tribute to those you've fought and killed- that you'll remember them, have a piece of those who joined you in combat, for all time.
Now, if it were something more crass, like making the skulls into truck balls or something, then I think I'd be properly disgusted. But trophies, especially of those who would, honestly, understand and reciprocate, doesn't feel that terrible. Strange.
On the projects front- I know exactly how it feels to just sort of, fall out of love with an army. That happened, sadly, with my Orks, about a year ago. I still have them, but I looked at everything I've built for them and realized it wasn't the full effort I could have put into it, and that, if I wanted to start something actually worth being proud of, I'd need to essentially restart- and I haven't been able to yet.
Mostly, I dealt with it by going to a different army- one that I haven't ever used in a game, and that I was less conflicted on- Tomb Kings. And I'm not trying to build towards a goal, or for other people's entertainment. I'm doing what I want to do, for myself, and doing it without rushing, without worrying about time limits or contests or deadlines- spending days on a single rank and file model so that it's incredibly detailed and well-put-together, and doing that for every one I want to do that for.
You're not in this for anyone else- and you're not in it for itself. You're in this for you. Don't worry about what others think, don't worry about whether you get to 'use' it or not, or how effective it is when you do- just make cool little models, and make them well.
@Sydney: I've actually got a friend going to Iraq now as a contractor to fight ISIS. He's going to try to collect four heads from ISIS fighters and strip them down to just skulls. Two will be made into skull pauldrons for his body armor, and the other two he's going to send to me to coat in some kind of resin and turn them into drinking goblets. It should be a very unique project if it eventually happens. Now that I think about it...I need a skull goblet bit for a crisis suit, and a piece of wire I can turn into a crazy straw.
I have no idea if you're being serious about this, but if so that's amazing! Also I wonder if you realize you're on the list for most exalted threads of all times. In the hall of fame along with Doomthumbs!
I put in a lot of work on the three marine models that needed to be done, and on one of them I think I've managed to do something that nobody's ever even tried before:
Damn, that's a fantastic heavy plasma Marine, bossfearless! (I guess you're going to use masking tape to keep it paint free?) Any forum would be lucky to have you as a member!
bossfearless wrote:I was banned from Advanced Tau Tactica forums for no disclosed reason when I hadn't even posted there in a couple months, and the admins won't return my emails as to why. So, that sucks.
Oh crap, we banned you?! Why the hell would we...
bossfearless wrote:@Sydney: I've actually got a friend going to Iraq now as a contractor to fight ISIS. He's going to try to collect four heads from ISIS fighters and strip them down to just skulls. Two will be made into skull pauldrons for his body armor, and the other two he's going to send to me to coat in some kind of resin and turn them into drinking goblets. It should be a very unique project if it eventually happens. Now that I think about it...I need a skull goblet bit for a crisis suit, and a piece of wire I can turn into a crazy straw.
Oh, right. For stuff like this.
It's the same as it ever was, bossfearless. That you are an excellent modeler was never in doubt. But your personality repeatedly clashed with the administrative team -- and more to the point, the content of your posts continued to be juvenile and NSFW. Of all the admins, I was the saddest to see you go -- you're a vibrant and creative personality, an asset to any forum -- but I ultimately agreed with the decision to ban you. Comments like the above, about the gruesome collection of war trophies, only further convince me that banning you was the right choice.
I'm glad that you've found a supportive forum with more permissive rules. It's a joy to see your work... somewhere else.
I have a friend who occassionaly makes the most ridiculous, incensitive, charged, argument bait comments. When he does, I simply ignore them and carry on.
That space marine, and all of your lit projects are great. I have an idea how much patience it takes to plan, drill, insert wires, etc.. and I just can't do it.
The combined effect when you have your entire Tau force on the board is inspiring. The Dark paint scheme contrasting with the light effects is quite impressive.
VERY nice job, though it'd look better if the new 'coil' was higher up. Also, I've seen that head a few times and it's one of the few 'bare' heads I like; what kit is it from?
@Kepora: The head is from the most recent Tactical Squad box. Unfortunately, if the coil was any higher it would not be in a straight line with the barrel of the gun and the housing where the LED is concealed. There's a surprisingly confusing split level thing going on in the plasma cannon assembly, so that the rod kept winding up crooked as I tried to fit it in. The end result shown above is not just the existing coil section cut away, but a fairly deep trench dug into the gun's surface to let the rod sink in and get into a straight line. AND the gun barrel had most of the inside carved out because holy crap they did not want you to execute this mod when they designed that bit.
@Eliott: For what it's worth, you're the only member of the admin team over there whom I did not consider to be a raging douche-canoe. So you've got that going for you, which is good. By all means, stay and enjoy my uncensored work. There's lots of titties and even some alien poon tang, plus I think I just heard one of the gun drones whisper a racial slur.
How much heat does that thing put out? I know LEDs are supposed to be cooler then other lights, but with that amount of glow, I wonder about Gets Hot! rolls…
Okay, I think that can no longer be a thing. Actually I'm pretty surprised that it's taken that much to actually have a mod pop in and put a stop to something in one of my posts. That is why I fething love Dakka.
Wasn't that what the one painter chick was doing in the Fulgrim book? That girl was just nasty.
Automatically Appended Next Post: The box almost held the whole army. I could have been a little more conscious of the space usage, but in the end it mostly all fit. I packed up the remaining few pieces like the pimp wagon in a tupperware loaded with foam scraps. Between this and the hard shelled luggage, my work *should* survive the Bengali bag handlers. Assuming all my stuff doesn't get sent to freaking Mumbai or something.
I know, right? And this is an armored, padded pelican case. Those bangie bastards must have fething jumped up and down on it like a bunch of fething circus monkeys to do so much damage. Look at that gak. LOOK at it. The arm is off of the XV117, and believe you me that thing was freaking ON there. Putty, glue, all that jazz. I disapprove of whatever clown college Qatar airways uses to recruit its bag handlers.
Aaaaaaannnd I finally get the models repaired and get to go out to my old FLGS only to find out that nobody even plays 40k there anymore. This whole vacation has sucked major ass.
Finally back from the USA. Didn't get to play a single game of 40k with my Dubstep Tau the entire time, so I ended up just putting the pieces I'd brought home into storage at my parents' place with the rest of my stuff. If I really, really need to I can have it shipped over so I can finish painting the one or two things that needed it. But for now, it's honestly for the best that I don't have the models around. Gonna have to move soon and it'll be enough of a pain without excessive model stuff everywhere.
Oh, and I almost didn't make it onto my return flight because the lady at the ticket counter decided that if she couldn't read the arabic language visa, then it must obviously be invalid. She flipped out when I called in her supervisor and stormed off, returning shortly afterward with the freaking cops. Not some random TSA agent, but actual gun carrying cops. America has been enough of a collective gakker that I don't have any special need to return any time soon.
Welcome to what happens to a nation when the ignorant masses are kept ignorant by a radical far Right and are then frightened by that leadership, be it political and/or religious.
I live in the South (Louisiana, near the Texas border). It. SUCKS.
Kepora wrote: Welcome to what happens to a nation when the ignorant masses are kept ignorant by a radical far Right and are then frightened by that leadership, be it political and/or religious.
I live in the South (Louisiana, near the Texas border). It. SUCKS.
LoL, not to drag this thread further off topic, but mate, you are so wrong here..... It honestly isn't ONLY the purview of the Right to "scare everyone" into ignorance. The Dems and "far left" (as far left as a US politician is, when compared to other countries) do just as much damage through their own ignorant campaigns and fearmongering.
@boss, that really sucks... I don't get some people who work at airports and whatnot, but hopefully she ends up severely reprimanded and/or fired for being so stupid. And I hope that once you're moved and settled in, that you find some hobby time and inspiration for projects, because your stuff is seriously awesome.
Personally, I think it's everybody who finds themselves in a high legislative position. It's not necessarily the people themselves, but the pressures that public scrutiny and the drive for reelection (because imagine if you were in danger of being fired every few years if you didn't win a massive popularity contest? It's like playing Mafia for your paycheck) forces them to publicly striate their opinions- because people demand a clear Black and White, anyone that doesn't stay by their first publicly pronounced decision (even if they later learn or experience something that changes their mind) is essentially politically dead. They band together in Parties because there's strength in numbers and the more successful or longer-sitting politicians (who are more set in their ways) are the ones with more connections and experience, and so essentially force any younger, more idealistic or honest politicians to 'play the game' or, again, lose their job.
Personally, I feel like making any and all positions of Government into fully Volunteer jobs would be better. Have funds set aside for political apartments and a stipend for food, but anything and everything else comes out of the politician's personal pocket, not the public coffers. And of course, they wouldn't be allowed to hold positions in any other corporations or businesses during this time either. (you want that private jet and $3000 suit? Well I hope you have a pretty fat bank account already! And forget about hiring personal aides- you're doing your own research, buster brown).
Of course, that sort of significant positional change will never come about due to the simple fact that it's the Legislators that set their own paychecks. Telling someone that they essentially get to decide how much money they make, with no upper limit? Kind of a drastic oversight by the Founding Fathers- Congress' paycheck should have been decided by Executive Order, or been limited to a certain multiple of the Minimum Wage or percentage of the total GDP or something.
Anvildude wrote: Personally, I think it's everybody who finds themselves in a high legislative position. It's not necessarily the people themselves, but the pressures that public scrutiny and the drive for reelection (because imagine if you were in danger of being fired every few years if you didn't win a massive popularity contest? ...
Yes! Always look to the incentives and disincentives to behavior, not to issues of morality and conspiracy -- because 90% of people will convince themselves whatever is in their self-interest is the right thing to do, and large-scale trends almost always result from lots of people have the same responses to the same pressures, rather than any mastermind coordinating behind the scenes (because, seriously, herding cats).
I personally think the US political systems needs more secrecy, corruption, and cynical back-room dealing, because the big problems (e.g. sequestration, the invasion of Iraq) get caused by politicians grandstanding for public attention and feeling terrified to compromise:
Hah! You know, I think you might be on to something there?
The biggest problem with a corrupt government is the 'ones in power' taking up more than their share of the produced wealth- but in a full capitalist economy- and especially one as frikkin' robust as the American one (I mean, seriously- the biggest issue even our poorest have tends to be 'can't afford digital cable'), we could support rampant wealth mishandling. We are supporting rampant wealth mishandling!
I know, right? And this is an armored, padded pelican case. Those bangie bastards must have fething jumped up and down on it like a bunch of fething circus monkeys to do so much damage. Look at that gak. LOOK at it. The arm is off of the XV117, and believe you me that thing was freaking ON there. Putty, glue, all that jazz. I disapprove of whatever clown college Qatar airways uses to recruit its bag handlers.
If it was a good airline company, you should be able to get some money for that damage.
Morgoth, while Qatar is in most respects the best airline I've ever flown with, it is still an Arab airline and you have to understand that there is simply no concept of accountability in this part of the world. God broke my models, not the airline's employees. God.
Considering how well you protected the models you do have to wonder, maybe God did break them... None of my completed collections had as much time and effort put into them as these, but for those one or two models that have and that got broke it is a very hard emotion to describe, seeing them destroyed for the first time and then wondering how the eff you're going to repair them.
I hope everything is going better and that your new digs don't suck too much.
bossfearless wrote: Morgoth, while Qatar is in most respects the best airline I've ever flown with, it is still an Arab airline and you have to understand that there is simply no concept of accountability in this part of the world. God broke my models, not the airline's employees. God.
If there was ever a concept in this world that truly needed to be nuked from orbit, it's most definitely "In Shallah" Holy Feth, that one phrase alone cause so much gak to go sideways for us while in Iraq.
Ugh. Inshallah is the bane of our existence here. It's the ultimate cop out, an abdication of all personal responsibility and it's illegal to argue against it due to the stupid theocracy. Surgeon goes into the operating room drunk? He didn't kill your child, God did. Idiot joyrider street racing totals his fourth Ferrarri this week and paralyzes your brother? Nope, that was all God.
So, uh, a little micro update. Not so much an update but a general status report. I'm kind of on a break from 40k as a whole. The hobby, the fiction, all of it. I just can't seem to bring myself to care right now. I'm going to work on my novel and put my mental energy into this real estate project I'm spinning up, and maybe come back to finish my Tau in a few months. There's a chance that in a while I might get a couple more players out this way, so that would help. But for right now, I've just had the love of the hobby sucked out of me.
The one project I might take on is the big Wing Zero Custom model kit I picked up in Akihabara. That's going to need lights like a melon-fether, and I may go with some modifications to the whole thing because why the hell not.
bossfearless wrote: Ugh. Inshallah is the bane of our existence here. It's the ultimate cop out, an abdication of all personal responsibility and it's illegal to argue against it due to the stupid theocracy. Surgeon goes into the operating room drunk? He didn't kill your child, God did. Idiot joyrider street racing totals his fourth Ferrarri this week and paralyzes your brother? Nope, that was all God.
SisterSydney wrote: Take your vacation from 40K, make crazy real estate money, buy GW, make everything awesome.
Also, novel?
Fantasy novel with a bit of steampunk flavor. Kind of Harry Potter meets American Pie. Apprentice wizards trying to make money and get laid, thief guild enforcers with flowcharts, brownies with and without nuts, poor sad pathetic Trevor, and a plate of sausages that ends the world.
No, Trevor is the poor dumb bastard who made fun of an old Riven (Gypsy equivalent) woman and got cursed to be forever teabagged by goblins.
Poor Trevor. That guy is an absolute wreck these days. He tried everything, but as curses go, his was perfect. Totally counterspell-proof. As soon as he isn't looking, BAM. Face full of slimy goblin wing-wong. They just appear out of nowhere, sweaty like they've been working in the field all day, and they run off before anyone can even get a good look at them, so nobody knows if they're local goblins or if they're being ported in from somewhere else. He once tried wearing an iron welding mask to keep the little bastards off of him, but that was the worst mistake he ever made. Little fether appeared inside his mask, and being stuffed into a dark, cramped place had him soiling himself aggressively on top of the usual bit.
So now, resigned to his terrible fate, Trevor just sits in the Flaming Red drinking himself stupid every night. Old Tom lets him drink for free out of pity, and because he's become something of a local tourist attraction, and the bar's ambiance isn't harmed by his occasional screams about balls.
There's a lot of that sort of thing going around. Midget emperors, vampire pimps, ultra masculine pirates and tattooed magic bitches are all planned for the sequel, along with a gun that shoots bowie knives.
Hope everything goes well with the writing and the real estate, and I hope the break from the 40k world (eventually) leaves you refreshed and willing to enter it once more.
Keep us posted of any progress you do make with the Wing Zero.
bossfearless wrote: No, Trevor is the poor dumb bastard who made fun of an old Riven (Gypsy equivalent) woman and got cursed to be forever teabagged by goblins.
Poor Trevor. That guy is an absolute wreck these days. He tried everything, but as curses go, his was perfect. Totally counterspell-proof. As soon as he isn't looking, BAM. Face full of slimy goblin wing-wong. They just appear out of nowhere, sweaty like they've been working in the field all day, and they run off before anyone can even get a good look at them, so nobody knows if they're local goblins or if they're being ported in from somewhere else. He once tried wearing an iron welding mask to keep the little bastards off of him, but that was the worst mistake he ever made. Little fether appeared inside his mask, and being stuffed into a dark, cramped place had him soiling himself aggressively on top of the usual bit.
So now, resigned to his terrible fate, Trevor just sits in the Flaming Red drinking himself stupid every night. Old Tom lets him drink for free out of pity, and because he's become something of a local tourist attraction, and the bar's ambiance isn't harmed by his occasional screams about balls.
bossfearless wrote: That honestly brings up a good question. Why did I never plan to include David Bowie in my Tau army? It seems like a no-brainer now.
I'm looking for ways to get Bowie influences into my army, and I play Tyranids. Yeah, he's awesome.
bossfearless wrote: That honestly brings up a good question. Why did I never plan to include David Bowie in my Tau army? It seems like a no-brainer now.
I'm looking for ways to get Bowie influences into my army, and I play Tyranids. Yeah, he's awesome.
That's a no brainer. Hive Tyrant in a leotard with Labyrinth hair. Done.
By early evening, the morning's rain had turned into one of those awful summer storms, the ones that dropped a lake's worth of hot rain and never let up. Most of the shops closed up early when these sort of things blew through rather than have their wares exposed to the heat and the wet and the wind. The only places still open for business were those that offered cold air and hot food, places like the Flaming Red. The sign above the door would have made me chuckle as always if it hadn't been raining too hard to see straight. Something about the relief carving of a novice mage combusting explosively tickled my funny bone. We are such a morbid bunch.
I had to turn sideways a bit to get my shoulders through the door without catching on anything. Someone once told me that I was the biggest novice to ever survive the Red phase, a thought that wormed its way into my mind while I absent mindedly shook the rain out of my umbrella and dropped it into the stand by the front door. Sometimes, I wondered if that were true, that I was some kind of a freak accident of survival. I'd met one or two mages taller than me, but nobody with quite so wide a set to their shoulders. The dry, cool air within the place hit me with a wave of pure refreshment after the stifling humidity outside, and I stood beneath the vent near the entrance for several long seconds just taking in the miracles provided by sweet, sweet frost magic.
There are a number of disparate social philosophies regarding novice students at the Academy, the Reds. While most types of schools encourage students to try and make friends with their classmates, the Academy's official stance is that Reds ought to avoid any sort of attachment to their fellows. The entire first session of classes revolves around learning basic control over energies a human body was never meant to channel. Almost a third of every starting class is lost to attrition through miscasts, botched spells whose energies are allowed to discharge violently through the body of the caster. Thus, it is rare to find a student beyond the first session who has not wound up covered in the smoking remains of a classmate or close friend. It is small wonder that many professors begin their lectures by donning a raincoat.
Over the years, there had been plenty of attempts made to curb the high mortality rate. During the deanship of Magus Dario Soon, a Kroen-born necromancer, "backups" were made of every new student so that when they died in a miscast, they would wake up in the medical vault and be slightly wiser. The thought was to reduce death to just another learning experience. What Magus Soon soon learned was that a student who miscast once was apt to do it again, that it was more a result of a lack of talent than just a lack of experience, and before long the Academy was nearly bankrupted by the cost of cloning so many inept pupils.
With all this in mind, an uninitiated person might think that the Flaming Red tavern was named in poor taste, and that the murals on the interior walls were especially scandalous. But the place was a mage bar, and thrived on the patronage of jaded ‘prentices who thought that scenes of exploding novices were absolutely hilarious. On a night like this, the Flaming Red was packed. Finals were done with at last, and by tradition drinks were on the house. There was food, sometimes, but mostly the patrons sought catharsis of the bottled variety. Faraday sat at the bar examining his fruity umbrella drink, as always wearing those ridiculous cowboy boots with the lifts in them, and Bloodgorger Seth looked miserable as always. I never understood why he was so morose with a name as awesome as “Bloodgorger.” Seated at a long table made from two smaller ones pushed together, a motley group of tired-looking teens caroused loudly beneath a mural depicting a Red who seemed to have misplaced himself from the waist up. A girl was the center of attention, though that hardly came as a surprise, given the circumstance. Her name was Alice, and her tits were out.
bossfearless wrote: .... Thus, it is rare to find a student beyond the first session who has not wound up covered in the smoking remains of a classmate or close friend. It is small wonder that many professors begin their lectures by donning a raincoat. ...
You ever try channeling elemental fire through your soft, squishy body? Spoiler alert, you're going to be sponged off the ceiling lol. One of the main things i want to differentiate between my world and others is the danger involved with magic. Mages tend to be short lived, intense and have an infamously dark sense of humor. It's common wisdom to never accept a gift from a mage, as they tend to be worse than Jokey Smurf in that regard.
Are you secretly Terry Pratchett? I was reading the extract, enjoying it immensely, thinking, this is what Discworld used to be like before it got all formulaic, all's that is missing is a little overt sex and then I got to the last line and I literally laughed out loud, the dead-pan delivery was spot on.
I'm completely with you on magic being dangerous and if I may go back to Discworld, I recall Rincewind performing proper magic for the first time and he truly understands why the wizards do it, as the experience is extraordinary, better than sex as he says. However, it should involve huge danger where doing it wrong results in instantly fatal results most of the time, I think that makes it more 'real'.
I suddenly get the picture of mages in your world not as bearded sages, brooding necromancers, or cocky apprentices , but as something like oil rig workers or deep sea divers: highly skilled, highly paid -- when they get paid -- but not highly respected or long-lived, with a grim, sarcastic camaraderie.
Thank you for the kind reviews. It's been slow going lately, with video games and other distractions stealing far too much of my time. I've got about 3/4 of a chapter left to tie together the second act, and most of that involves heavily armed hookers and zombies. Unfortunately that scene does not write itself as easily as the subject matter suggests.
Pics will be posted at various stages as i tackle this beast. Also, ever take a selfie that just looks too good to keep to yourself? This is what I've been doing while on hiatus from my Tau:
Recently reached my initial strength goal, 315 bench press, so now i start my first cutting cycle. Flexing intensifies.
Lastly, I finally managed to wrap up the second act of my novel after an exhausting action sequence. I spent hours last night imagining the sensations of being burned alive from the inside out, and trying to translate that into prose. Something like that can be emotionally draining. I've realized that I much prefer writing witty banter to action scenes. Good action is freaking tough to write!
I'll drink to that Boss. It's hard to get detail into an action scene and keep it fast. But you ain't seen nothing 'til you see a magic floating rock start talking smack to a Loli god.
I swear, color your hair blond and you'd be able to pull off one heck of a "Mr. Incredible" cosplay. Looking damn good, congrats on completing that goal as well
liquidjoshi wrote: I'll drink to that Boss. It's hard to get detail into an action scene and keep it fast. But you ain't seen nothing 'til you see a magic floating rock start talking smack to a Loli god.
See, that sounds like an anime. When you write for an anime, manga, or other visual media, the hard work is done for you. You've already got the image right there so you don't need to do much to set the scene. When writing fiction without any pictures to go with it, you have to create pictures in people's minds with just your words, so finding the right ones to get the job done can be exhausting.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Excerpt from Chapter 15: Garters and Salvation:
Madame Bovina’s Discount Bordello was the type of place where they’d never heard ‘less is more.’ The exterior of the building sported baroque decor and all manner of tasteless gilded statuary that had, on more than one occasion, been cited by the city zoning commission as an eyesore operating outside of a designated eyesore zone. The zoning issues were hardly the management’s fault. The place had been an old plantation house in the countryside by the mines from which the city of Mirth originally sprouted, until the urban sprawl caught up and swallowed it. Now the quaint old house was crowded on all sides by ugly tenements and, like the middle child seeking its parents’ attention, had to act out in outlandish ways to retain its identity. No surface could be wasted on such banal pursuits as good taste, and so even the glass doors featured mage-scribed engravings depicting all manner of unmentionable activities involving mayonnaise and a rake. Once inside through the double glass doors with their etched lechery, the perfumed air assaulted the senses with its unique mix of fine spices, essential oils, mildew from the leaky roof, and exotic body odor from a dozen different races of clients and professionals. The carpets may have been luxurious once upon a time, though now like the furniture and the staff they were well traveled and world-weary. A grand staircase, where a couple of ladies practiced a provocative form of lounging, led to the upper floors where the professionals plied their trade in rather depressing private rooms. On the bright side, the place never closed and they had a fabulous student discount program.
I wish. I could do some kind of GoFundMe thing or something like that. But if I accept any kind of money ahead of time that might constitute sales, legally speaking, and I have no idea how that would affect my ability to publish through a traditional publishing house. I'm determined to get published the old-fashioned way. A lot of people self-publish nowadays with mixed results, but I've seen a lot of members of my family go that route in order to put out truly god-awful piles of crap that didn't deserve to be published at all. When this is finished, it will be a labor of love that I will send out to be brutally hacked apart by merciless predators, and hopefully through all that it will get a respectable name behind it and nice cover art and everything.
ferarless....i did enjoy your excerpt of your story it was quite amusing...jeez dude do you even lift bro good on ya for keeping your time busy well if you feel the need to give any more snippets of your story do post them. i do enjoy your writings immensely
Built the chest piece of Wing Zero. That little thing is about 20 parts and took me about an hour. Of course, a large part of that was spent finding out that the instructions and sprues were labeled differently.
Also wrote another chapter involving chefromancy and the forbidden truths whispered by Merrick's lasagna.
Yeah, I'm sat here thinking about my sci-fi setting and then you're there with chefromancy. I'm just like "Damn son." That's awesome. I mean, I'll give you real comments when I'm not buried in essays, but what I've read so far from what you've put up has been great. Easily better than some of the stuff I've had to read for uni
Liquidjoshi, if you're having trouble with your setting shoot me a PM. I tend to be pretty good with world building and character creation. Finding something for those characters to run around doing, though, that's my downfall. Oh, and major spoiler alert (if this ends up getting turned into a series and gets that far), this is really just science fiction masquerading as fantasy.
Beware (or embrace, your choice) the Dragonriders Syndrome, where your Fantasy story is slowly encroached upon by Science Fiction.
Spoiler:
Oh sure, it starts small, with a computer masquerading as an Oracle Wall, but soon you'll have teleportation explained by Science and spaceships in orbit! And then, horror of horrors, the Ancient Ancestral Enemy will be discovered to simply be a strange kind of mindless fungus and the characters that are actually in charge of solving problems will use logic and reason and the resources at hand to create a long-term permanent solution to the Plot Hook!
My series (fingers crossed) focuses on two main principles:
Any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic--Arthur C Clarke
Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science--Agatha Heterodyne
Magic is a subject pursued by scientific minds, an evolving field of study that continually advances with each generation to better serve the needs of the various races of the world. Except trolls. feth those guys.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Oh, and just think! If one day my writing career blows up, people will sometimes whisper of a depraved warhammer 40k fanfic I wrote in obscurity, and GW will be forced to make it canon to satisfy my slavering fan base.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Actually, and it's times like these that I love the automatically appended sequential posts since I never have to click the edit button, if I blow up real good then I swear by the seventeen screaming hells that I will write at least one good book for Black Library.
Automatically Appended Next Post: feth you I'm a manatee. Okay maybe I'm not a manatee. I'm just really fething high from working out way too much and I wanted to post something somewhere because I'm hyper and I feel like it. My latest chapter involves compulsive masturbation and vampire piss. These are actual things I write about. If you need me I'll just be cackling like an idiot in my corner over here.
Are you like Mr. Universe Arnold Schwarzenegger? Is pumping iron better than sex for you?
You know, I'd let you know if I could just find some sex to have out here. No women, yo! So I just pump constantly and wait for those glorious vacations to Thailand or Bahrain where girls literally throw themselves at you from all sides. I actually thought I had gotten a really great girlfriend in this country last month, met her online and we started getting really involved. But just before I could finally get a day off to go up to Dahran and see her for the weekend, she flips out and dumps me. The hits just keep on coming lately. So that's another reason I'm working out so much lately, a good way to channel unmitigated hatred for the entire female gender until I cool off and start thinking rationally again.
Geez, she preemptively dumped you? Without, like, actually meeting you? You really are rolling a lot of 1s lately, doesn't matter how good you are with luck like that.... You have my sympathy, we've all had runs like that.
Yeah, pretty much exactly how it went down. It made no sense then, and it made no sense now. The only question is whether to post all those nudes she sent me online with her contact info attached. There's nothing quite like revenge porn.
Tonight's writings began a chapter dealing with teddy bears, zappy things and science, glorious science.
She dumped you when things were getting serious and you were about to come up and see her in person after (only? Mostly?) interacting online? Sounds like an "oh gak this is getting too real too fast" moment. I.e. cold feet. Frustrating as feth -- I can tell you about this girl I knew before I met my wife who emailed me "yeah I'm still coming to stay with you for a week but I kinda have a boyfriend now, sorry" -- but an understandable reason to freak out.
Use in your art, man! Channel all that frustration and pent-up sexual energy into your characters, it's a proven recipe.
I know, right? It's hard to come up with a good pen name for yourself because it has to sort of fit the genre, and for me that would mean something like "Jake Action" with a middle name consisting entirely of exclamation points.
Well a pen name is supposed to sound plausible. A good example is Jim Butcher, who is made of awesome and with whom I would totally just hang out all day being awesome and talking about wizards.
I'm... Not entirely sure that "Jim Butcher" isn't his birth name. Butcher is actually a family name, you know, and James isn't that uncommon a first name.
For example, I had a friend in high school named Alex Savage.
For funding stuff you could take a look at Patreon. It's not reeeealy crowd funding, but like. Open source patronage for stuff people like and want to support.
I may turn to Patreon or something of the like after I'm published. Kind of like "Hey, here's proof I actually produce work, so you don't feel sketch about helping me make more."
[MOD EDIT - Maybe you'd be better off with a Personal Blog for some of this? - Alpharius]
Okay, so I pushed the envelope a tad too far in the last post, not so bad in my own opinion but the site rules are what count. So, yeah, I'll throttle that particular bit back a bit.
Tonight I mostly focused on writing a solid synopsis for the novel to be submitted along with initial chapters to agents. Way harder than I thought it would be, trying to condense 300 pages into 1 and have it still be a meaningful description.
After that was at a good place (read: terrible but complete) I put about 1000 words into a chapter involving the dangers of static discharge, really hungry vermin, and the horror of Fat Suzy.
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