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Miniature Hobbyiests not only bought they from England, but also hand paint and build them.
These models are a work of art that portrays personal style, and can also be played on table top.
It's like an actual version of online game.
The soldiers line up in formations. No you haven't seen it wrong. This isn't an online game, but a real table top battle game.
And there are gaming rules to play with.
"I need 5s and 6s to hit."
"1 didn't pass so 1 guard is down."
It's like online game made real, this is called Miniature Gaming. A group of Taiwanese hobbyists bought miniatures from England and formed Mini Games Club,
and designed personal army to share and interact in club meetings, shaking off the stereotypes of Otakus staying home.
"Online game is a virtual world. If you close the screen, you may find there isn't much left."
"Otaku usually stay home, and doesn't interact with people that much."
"Table top games are played face to face with others, therfore you get to meet friends from all directions with the same hobby."
Even if not played in games, these miniatures look great as decorations. And what makes them proudest is that all the colors are hand painted, stroke by stroke.
One even gathered common materials and added them on the miniatures to add personal flavour, and even made it on a Modeling Magazine.
"This is a Carnifex"
"It is usually high priced, so I sculpted one."
"It is mainly composed of plastic and metal wire, and then slowly making the outer form with putty."
Hobbyists also collect themed books, learning background stories and gaming rules.
Although it's all in English, they have overcame the language barriers and dedicated their passion in gaming and spreading the hobby.
Looking forward to find more who are interested in joining the hobby of Miniature Gaming.
Hsinchu ZhengDao report.
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That warmed the heart! Nerd enthusiasm - the universal language! What well-dressed 40k players. I don't think I've ever seen a button-down shirt in the friendly local, unless someone was just coming from work.
Did I see tons of home converted and painted models in that knock off 'Taiwan Dwarf'? Ha! real White Dwarf has far superior articles. Just shows, you're better off buying the real thing.
George Spiggott wrote:Did I see tons of home converted and painted models in that knock off 'Taiwan Dwarf'? Ha! real White Dwarf has far superior articles. Just shows, you're better off buying the real thing.
LOL...
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Why am I not surprised to see 'nids...ZERG RUSH kekeke!
Well, that's actually Korea, but still.
On a serious note, watching that reminded me of a local news station doing a story years ago about D&D 3rd edition when it just came out. You have to wonder how the hell that ends up in the news...does anyone but us really care? Or is it just a "lolz look at the nerds! They're nerds!" thing?
Why am I not surprised to see 'nids...ZERG RUSH kekeke!
Well, that's actually Korea, but still.
On a serious note, watching that reminded me of a local news station doing a story years ago about D&D 3rd edition when it just came out. You have to wonder how the hell that ends up in the news...does anyone but us really care? Or is it just a "lolz look at the nerds! They're nerds!" thing?
What you don't realize is that all the painted models on the table are actually recast.
More like LOL look at nerds all across the world. Asian wargaming scene is picking up.
Zerg rush hahaha.... it can't be racist if its an actual sport ;P.
Starcraft and 40k are very alike. Starcraft was suppose to be a 40kRTS game before GW said no.
Beastlier gaunt?
If Blizzard came out with a tabletop wargame, they'd kill GW in the asian gaming scene and possibly the world.
All they need is to pull Andy Chambers off from the lead designer position for SC2.
Tell him to make a tabletop game and BAM!
Assault marines!.. i mean... Terran Reapers.
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What you don't realize is that all the painted models on the table are actually recast.
Taiwan is a lot of things, but a haven for counterfeiters of GW product it is NOT. So how about cutting out the cheap wisecracks from people who've never been here?
All the big recasters on eBay seem to be located in the UK, Brazil and the USA. Wasn't Mac-Ace from Missouri?
Sorry, who? I'm not really big into the recasting "scene" so I don't know everyone who does it.
Mac-Ace was a fairly (in)famous recaster who sold large quantities of figures on eBay a few years back. I think GW actually prosecuted him.
Sidstyler wrote: I apologize if my wisecrack caused offense, but to be fair I wasn't the first to start throwing the word "knockoff" around.
OK, people need to chill out - nobody on here is having a go at Taiwan, its people, or its gaming fraternity.
Understood, and I appreciate that. I just wanted to nip any further jokes in the bud. In the last few months, these folks have built a new club, made up tables and terrain, they're running small events and now they are getting a little exposure on TV too: I think it's awesome and I don't think it should be diminished by comments (jokes or otherwise) that feed ignorance.
I know the guys in the video personally and they already face an uphill struggle promoting this hobby in a country where it's so hard to explain that the reporter practically had to say "It's like an MMORPG only you actually leave the house and see people face to face." (If that isn't irony, I don't know what is).
By the way, if you haven't already, you should click the link in the first post to Robin's blog. He's an excellent painter and he cranks the models out quickly too.
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Sidstyler wrote:Maybe I should throw a gak fit every time a foreigner cracks a joke about Americans being overweight or stupid.
More like a joke about Americans being soccor hooligans and eating frogs and wearing leiderhosen (haha they all lool the same :roll Here's hoping someone will jump in with a crack about ninjas and complete the thread.
OP: Good to see. I hope whenever Japan discovers there are wargamers in the country the coverage will be that positive.
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:sigh: I wish I was asian so I could pull off the sweater-vest look...
Those minis are astoundingly well painted, as is the terrain. And the players themselves look far more respectable than most of the cretons I see around here...
CoALabaer wrote: Wargamers hate two things: the state of the game and change.
It's amazing how fast the lady announcer can speak. Or is it just that I don't understand the language. (Is it Mandarin?)
Mandarin. Gets nuts for asian languages to speak so fast.
Even harder to constantly decipher the bajilliion of characters in Chinese.
I wish there was an alphabet or sorts ha.
I can't read worth jack.
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Theres just been negative stigma of Asia. I'm Chinese myself, and I laugh at fellow comrades (lol) at times (Being 100% purely raised American)
haha.
However, just to really 'clear' the air out there - Taiwan is not mainland China. They can afford a good amount of things and have some awesome stuff there.
Hong Kong wargaming scene is getting up too - there seems to be a legitimate 40k dealer about around those areas. Or they order internationally or something.
To my knowledge, no casting/recasting of GW models is mainstream in Asia... unless I just haven't went to the right venue.
Can there be recasting in the future? Yeah, it could be really easy.
However I do not feel the companies out there know what 40k 'really' is, and its potential specialized multi million dollar niche market.
Unless they keep getting into the news and grow crazy xD.
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There's a close up of the magazine and it's 'model world' so probably just covered 40k from a modeling persepective.
Dunno how it is in Taiwan or Hong Kong but in China I saw a few knock off armies and many players had a few knock off models in their force (usually resin). But the majority of armies I saw were legit.
If you are a fan of online games, then you mustn't miss the following info.
Miniature Hobbyiests not only bought they from England, but also hand paint and build them.
These models are a work of art that portrays personal style, and can also be played on table top.
It's like an actual version of online game.
The soldiers line up in formations. No you haven't seen it wrong. This isn't an online game, but a real table top battle game.
And there are gaming rules to play with.
"I need 5s and 6s to hit."
"1 didn't pass so 1 guard is down."
It's like online game made real, this is called Miniature Gaming. A group of Taiwanese hobbyists bought miniatures from England and formed Mini Games Club,
and designed personal army to share and interact in club meetings, shaking off the stereotypes of Otakus staying home.
"Online game is a virtual world. If you close the screen, you may find there isn't much left."
"Otaku usually stay home, and doesn't interact with people that much."
"Table top games are played face to face with others, therfore you get to meet friends from all directions with the same hobby."
Even if not played in games, these miniatures look great as decorations. And what makes them proudest is that all the colors are hand painted, stroke by stroke.
One even gathered common materials and added them on the miniatures to add personal flavour, and even made it on a Modeling Magazine.
"This is a Carnifex"
"It is usually high priced, so I sculpted one."
"It is mainly composed of plastic and metal wire, and then slowly making the outer form with putty."
Hobbyists also collect themed books, learning background stories and gaming rules.
Although it's all in English, they have overcame the language barriers and dedicated their passion in gaming and spreading the hobby.
Looking forward to find more who are interested in joining the hobby of Miniature Gaming.
chaos0xomega wrote:I thought otaku meant westerner?
Otaku is a Japanese term used to refer to people with obsessive interests, particularly anime, manga, and video games. Female otaku are occasionally referred to as fujoshi.
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