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I'm in the same boat with GW stuff at the moment, I love the models well maybe not some of the new ones that look like toys but the game itself has put me off.

I've decided to move into just the painting and modelling side and open myself up to other games and miniatures.

I've been eyeing up Infinity they have some amazing models, as Graven said Saga seems to be getting very popular although its not my thing I prefer Ancients if I went that route.

Looking forward to seeing which direction you go in.

If you don't worry about all the damn rules, you will find the creativity really opens up.

I wish I had more of a "other game" environment in my area. If it's not geedub, I'm driving an hour to play. I've prolly got 50+ infinity, similar brushfire, as well as dark potential and some other goodies. I blame the lazy store owner.

I don't really know what to say to be honest except here have a six pack, nothing worse than looking forward to an event and turns out to be turd in a punch bowl.

The thing I find worst of all is the piss poor actions of the organisers, ok there might be issues and problems but treat people with respect after all they payed for this.

I am so glad I just model make and don't play this would have had me fuming, I hope you manage to find a gaming system you enjoy and don't loose faith all together that would be a loss to us all.

Hey, Brian, sorry that you had such a rubbish weekend, and I hope I didn't contribute to it.

On the positive side, that is a really nice battle/tourney report! I have to say, two of the highpoints of the tourney were when you shot down the hellturkey and then throwing everything (and by everything", I mean a Razorback, a 5-man Tac squad, a 10-man Assault squad, a Bike squad, a Ravenwing Command squad, and my Librarian) at Belial and cronies. Man those guys are tough, but that was a fun turn! Thanks for posting it!

Sorry that some pretty crappy stuff happened for you over the weekend, especially the seemingly lackluster attempt at paint judging. I did Team Tournament paint judging for two years and with the number of armies, you have to use a checklist, but I always made time to talk to the teams and ask what was cool in their army.

On the other hand....

 Briancj wrote:

Side Rant #2:

PROTIP: Do not tell someone who is having a horrific streak of dice luck "It happens". No. Buy them a drink. Buy them a beer. Take an effort to be a god-damn human being, and use your empathy skills. Get them out of their funk, tell them a joke, buy them some waffle fries. Hand-waving off someone's mental frame of mind with empty phrases DOES NOT HELP. It makes you a JERK. This is not aimed at anyone in specific, it is just how I was handled during the weekend, with a few exceptions.

Wow, you sound like a spoiled child. Your day isn't going great, so you expect your opponent to buy you something? Sorry, that's a total dill weed attitude. "It happens" is a perfectly acceptable way for someone on the other side of the table to attempt to commiserate with you, and no one is obligated to buy you beer or fries just because your dice crapped out. If anyone is a jerk in this situation, it's you for having this expectation.

Damn dude..you act like you've never had a crappy day where everything seems to be against you. Good for you! I'm glad your life is perfect and you are unaffected by emotion. -Cut Bri some slack, he's a good guy.

Redbeard wrote:
Wow, you sound like a spoiled child. Your day isn't going great, so you expect your opponent to buy you something? Sorry, that's a total dill weed attitude. "It happens" is a perfectly acceptable way for someone on the other side of the table to attempt to commiserate with you, and no one is obligated to buy you beer or fries just because your dice crapped out. If anyone is a jerk in this situation, it's you for having this expectation.

dsteingass wrote:Damn dude..you act like you've never had a crappy day where everything seems to be against you. Good for you! I'm glad your life is perfect and you are unaffected by emotion. -Cut Bri some slack, he's a good guy.

Redbeard, you have missed the point, the situation is far more nuanced that you have picked up on.

Dave, that's Redbeard's opinion, and it is not wrong or right. It is his opinion, and he's welcome to it.

I'm not going to argue the point, here. I have already vented, and moved on.

I ask that everyone else do the same.

--Brian

 dsteingass wrote:
Damn dude..you act like you've never had a crappy day where everything seems to be against you. Good for you! I'm glad your life is perfect and you are unaffected by emotion. -Cut Bri some slack, he's a good guy.

It has nothing to do with having a great life or not. We've all had dice-suck days and we've all had opponents whose dice have crapped on them. I've bought people a drink if it seemed like they were down, but I've never felt so entitled to be bought a drink that I needed to post on the internet and rant about how that's what should happen.

I'm sure Brian is a good guy who had a bad weekend. And if his opponent had gloated over him then sure, maybe then he has a call to complain about their attitude. But, having been on both sides of this issue in the past, it's not much more fun for the guy who is playing someone whose dice went to hell than it is to be the guy whose dice went to hell, and simple verbal acknowledgement of the crappee's bad day should be sufficient to be considered human.

So, let's put this thread back on the rails, and move to a more positive outlook.

Here is my current workspace. It is a disaster.



This is what I have to work on, before I can do anything. I'm not overly happy with a lot of things, especially how my paints are stored (in those plastic drawer stacks). So, it is cleanup and re-org time, and time to buy/make some paint shelves!

I'm also in desperate need of Army Storage. I think I am going to look into the KR multicase line. I believe that the one made of sturdy cardboard. I like the notion of being able to label the trays with Sharpie.

I <3 Sharpies.

--B.

Agreed!
I can highly recommend these Bamboo spice rack shelves from Wal-Mart ($5 each) for paint organization

Problem is, I've run out of flat spaces to put them
What's up with the two blenders? For margarita emergencies?

Well, you know, I kinda need a lot of alcohol to get through the day, DAVE.

No, I picked up a beater blender in order to convert plastic sprues into piles of sprue bricks. It works in theory, but not as well as I'd hoped. The second blender was given to me for the project. You have to cut the sprues up a lot for the blender to really be able to hack apart the sprues...and the process is VERY noisy, as one might suspect! Earplugs are mandatory.

Thanks for shelf idea! A run to Wally World is on the to-do list!

Being bamboo, they shouldn't succumb to warping from moisture/humidity either. I've found having all my colors visible is a huge help, since my biggest problem is always color selection.

Dave where were you this morning when I was at Wally World? Well, I forgot to get bread, so I guess another trip is warranted.

I ended up picking up some very simple shelving from IKEA:



I think it was $10 or $15 for the long piece, and they have smaller sections as well.

Hi Brian! Hope all is well, love the new army that giant missile artillery is quite the centerpiece! Don't worry bout the disaster of a workplace, I can't keep mine clean for 2 minutes. I dunno how stein works with such order:p

Yes, my workspace looked like that a few weeks ago now its covered in projects started a long time ago that were never finished no surprise there though.

I need some kind of paint stands I was thinking of making some of my own, although the spice rack idea aint a bad idea.

As for the sprue mangler idea I have an old butchers mincer, that does not work that great either

Haha, it's only clean like that when I'm not working on something

Damn!- I need an IKEA around here, I've heard so much about this mystical shop of wonders!

I've heard that a coffee grinder also works for that technique, but I only have one, and I NEED it for the nectar of life.

I suspect a coffee grinder would not handle the volume I wanted to try for. But, I'm ramping that down. I'm going to hack up the last of my sprues, keep the blender I haven't abused, and trash the one that is now gunked up with toxic, cancer-causing plastic dust. Mmmmmmmm, tooxxiiicccc.

Folks, expect a general announcement soon, but I have completed a handshake agreement to assist my friend in unloading his Games Workshop product. He acquired this product well over a decade ago from a Norwegian store that closed out. It is now sitting in a basement here in Massachusetts.

We have a MASSIVE collection of OOP product, including a still shrink-wrapped original copy of Space Hulk, and such long lost figures as "Chaos Renegades on Horseback".

Seriously.

We're going to offer this stuff direct, first, as I would rather not deal with eBay.

Stay tuned.

Any good guard stuff? I'm especially interested in old-skool tank kits.

Not sure yet. We're still in the cataloging/photographing/researching stage. Plus, you know, I get first dibs on Guard.

That should be a profitable venture. Cherry OOP items command a good price.

 Briancj wrote:
This is where I thank Solar_Lion, aka Pat Turner, for helping me out. I owe him a repayment AND something very nice. I'm pondering what that nice is, and an idea just came to me. Yes. Brilliant.

Brother.. no worries.. repayment when ever.. get you house in order You can even wait till next year Adepticon if you go. . As for something nice.. I'm blessed with great teammates. I need nothing more. And certainly my wife agrees~!

I hope I didn't contribute to your dilemma and I think you did great for all the crap you been dealing with.

Intrested in the stash of goodies as well!~

 dsteingass wrote:
Agreed!
I can highly recommend these Bamboo spice rack shelves from Wal-Mart ($5 each) for paint organization

Problem is, I've run out of flat spaces to put them
What's up with the two blenders? For margarita emergencies?

I've been looking for weeks for something to hold my paints.
I went to walmart.com and the best I could find was this
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Lipper-International-Bamboo-and-Cork-Expandable-3-Tier-Step-Shelf/22929065

On the other hand the container store is having a sale right now on these
http://www.containerstore.com/shop/kitchen/spiceStorage?productId=10000696&N=70879&mr=spice+rack

Interesting find at the container store! Looks like they're a bit backordered (probably because of the sale).

I found them in the kitchen organizer section..if that helps
The cork things, I have not seen..interesting!


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I just cleaned the shelf of the last 5 they had at my local Wal-Mart if all else fails, pm me.

Sorry you had such a bad time at AC. I always wanted to go, but with experiences like that, who knows now.

I feel like I am in a similar position as you when it comes to 40k (and GW as a whole). I haven't played in awhile because it just isn't fun anymore.

And god forbid people at our store try something new (only 1 other person will try a game other than 40k it seems). I wish we had more people with the same attitude as you there. Your blog is why I got leviathans. I hope you inspire me to some other games too!

Keep up the great work man!

I believe EVERYONE should attend Adepticon at LEAST once. Nor should you let my ONE bad weekend turn you off. I just...had a bad weekend.

If you do not get locked up in the two day Team Tournament, there's PLENTY of cool stuff to see, etc.

Also, as a note:

NONE of my Team Mates were part of my personal problems at Adepticon. Everyone was 110% supportive. They're the reason I didn't just implode.

Thanks, guys!

--Brian

I just picked up a similar lamp (2 actually) and it makes like 1000 times better to see. Had been rocking a single 100 watt before. Need to get something like that for paints, though I need an exact measurement, as my organization grid is kinda limiting.

For painting, you want an OTT Light, get the best one you can afford at Michael's, print a coupon! Totally changed my painting world for real!
The shelves are 10.5" wide
8.5" deep
and each shelf is 1" high