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@Moltar: The whole thing is pinned, problem is the arms are very thin and at a severe angle so the pins are by necessity short and keep failing... stupid figure...

@Len: At this point we're just collecting... so if you had anything you didn't need, it would probably fit in fine. LMK

@WM: See above, and yes.



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Oh Len... even small stuff... rippers for swarms and termigants are great as he has it in his head to do the Plague guy and a Tervigon. At this point just about anything is useful.

Wow... I've just finished all 100 pages (not all at once obviously) and I had to comment, I normally just lurk and leech some great ideas off people, Great work Gitsplitta.

And also to all the guys helping you with ideas and bits and all the great sculpting, it's awesome to see a community pulling together to help out.

Keep it up guys, it's a great read!

Thanks perplexiti! Flattered that you liked it enough to un-lurk for a bit. Please feel free to chime in whenever you'd like... we're all about getting differing opinions & always love a fresh set of eyes on the work.

Gits

Hehe, no worries mate, I wanted to post after the first couple of pages but decided I should read the lot first.

Also love that tranquility camo, it's great to see some old school stuff around.

A well, page 100 has been and gone...

Good to know you helped Thing 2 with his Nids but you need to keep workin on your Dread.

Just realised somethin', I could throw in a couple of rippers to the trade, I found a few in my bitz box. I'll also put some spare gaunts in if you like, I found a box of 40k stuff which had few strewn around it.

Yeah perplexity... you been around as long as I have, there's a lot of old stuff around... My son says he likes your avatar... Plants vs. Zombies he says...

@GS: Those would be greatly appreciated my friend, thank you!

So Gits, any plans for making a Rodgers marine, maybe passing a melta bomb or something?

1-i wrote:So Gits, any plans for making a Rodgers marine, maybe passing a melta bomb or something?

Nah i think of him more as a Ork on a lucky day. the best QB Brees is still on the saints rooster and my blood bowl team
yah i have a New Orleans Saints BB team

but back OT How is your dread comming allong Git?

@1-i: I'm actually a life-long Bears fan... but he** will freeze over before I make a Cutler marine. A-Rodge doesn't need me as a worshiper, he's got enough in Wisconsin to "ascend" all on his own. Great QB though... fun to watch too.

@fatty: Took the weekend off to work on the kids stuff. Will be working on the dread again tonight. Would like to have him done this week.

Thanks for the reply, Gits!
I figured I'd pin him at the waist, but since I won't play with him, he'll just sit on display, I'm hoping to not have to pin his arms. I do, however, plan to add wings which will also be pinned and probably a huge pain when it comes to balancing him on a base. Hopefully I won't have to put too many pins in such a thin mini. I think most people who haven't seen a Nightbring in person don't realize that although he is tall, he's not that much bigger than the average mini and totally skinny. Only time will tell at this point, but thanks again!

Depends on where you set the wings... as long as you keep their center of gravity above the base, you'll be fine. He's kind of unstable as it it. I was debating adding some bird shot to the base of Thing 1's Night Bringer (as well as Thing 2's zoanthropes) in order to make them more stable. I did this on my chapter master's base and it worked wonderfully and was stupid simple.

Bird shot? Like shotgun pellets? Just to weight it down? Interesting...

Yeah, go to your local sporting good store. You can do it the dumb way (like I did) and actually by shotgun shells and *carefully* remove the shot from them... or you can do it the smart way and just buy shot for re-loading. Just get the smallest sized lead shot they have. A single layer fits nicely in the free space under the base. Just throw in some glue, let it dry. Then lightly go over it with a large file in case there are some bits that stick out. Works great, takes no effort, can greatly stabilize unstable models. I did it on my chapter master as he was metal and the basing lifted him up in the air. Because I didn't want to have tip-over problems with him, I added the shot. Problem solved.

Going sligtly Off Topic here:

A friend tiped some shotgun shells into a iron tube and started to bang it with an Iron rod...... Can you guess what happened?

It blew up and his hand swelled up and said "You think I should go to the hospital?"

He is now an archaeologist

Thanks for the tip, Gits. I'll definately be looking into that.

Miss Dee, you may need to re-evaluate your friends

I very carefully take a tin snips and cut the plastic at the OPPOSITE END OF THE CASING FROM THE PRIMER to open the shell and pour out the shot.

This is still stupid as it leaves an unexploded firing primer and charge to be disposed of in a safe manner... which is not easy. Be smarter than I am... go buy some loose pellets. It's cheaper and safer!

If you need to get rid of the primer, and the shell still fits in a shotgun, just dump everything out and fire it. Like a really dangerous blank.

Hahaha no worries. I've always known I'm not to be trusted with live ammo. I'm bound to hurt myself. Will def just by the pellets, but wouldn't weights for fishing lines or even hobby weights for a wooden boy scout car work? Or are the pellets just a lot cheaper?
Sorry I seem to be pulling this OT

Good idea WM... should've thought of that myself.

@Moltar: Pellets are pretty cheap, and have unlimited flexibility because they're... well... pellets. I use them for weighting my kids pinewood derby cars for cub scouts, etc. Steel shot works too and is more environmentally friendly... just not quite as heavy & not very fileable.

Also for those who do not know, primers are extremely dangerous and explosive, please do not try things with them that they are not made for. If you have a few in your hand and manage to set one off, you hand will become forfeit. Which will make painting, typing and rolling handfuls of dice much harder. Not to mention those other things you use hands for.




Like clapping and high fives, you pervs.

Hahaha! Good call WM!
I'm not sure who you picture me to be, but I assure you I'm not a child who is gonna be hammering away on shotgun shells in my garage. In fact, if I bought whole shells my wife would totally flip. She hates guns, so I would def play it safe and just buy the pellets.
But, it never hurts to give safety tips and they're are probably plenty of people reading this who are thinking, "I have shotgun shells...why didn't I think of this..."

whalemusic360 wrote: Not to mention those other things you use hands for.

Like clapping and high fives, you pervs.

Did someone mention Barney over here?



(and yeah, Gits, that's me for the 3rd time who mentions that show... lol)

Yeah plants vs zombies is pretty much the greatest game ever, your boy has good taste all right...

Tell him if he goes to the popcap site he can make a zombatar for himself.

Now to get on topic a bit, I'm doing some nids for my son as well, he's just turned 6, and found I need to weight loads of the bases, although I've just been using the tabs off the bottom of some malifaux minis I've got. They wouldn't be heavy enough for the bigger stuff, but for the little plastic gribblies they work fine.

(closest thing I could find to a high-five)

@perplexiti: I'll pass that on... he'll be thrilled that you answered his comment. I don't have to weight many bases, but occasionally it can be very helpful.

You Yanks crack me up, not in a bad way, I just find the idea of using ammo in your model making totally alien. I guess its the stigma attached to guns in this country. But thank you guys for reaffirming my faith in the majority of Americans, the thread I read a couple of weeks ago had shaken it a touch.

By the way guys what is the shot made from, is it still lead or has its been changed?

There are a lot of idiots in the US, just like elsewhere. We arm ours however, in the hopes that they will do the gene pool a favor and point them at themselves.

So, gun policy in the US is a form of genetic engineering, it's just not something that we're supposed to talk openly about.

(Shhhhhhhh!)

well here in the gun hating land of Holland we use pennies. a 1 cents piece fits right in base

Gitsplitta wrote:There are a lot of idiots in the US, just like elsewhere. We arm ours however, in the hopes that they will do the gene pool a favor and point them at themselves.

So, gun policy in the US is a form of genetic engineering, it's just not something that we're supposed to talk openly about.

(Shhhhhhhh!)

Ok, I'll wait for the declassified documents then.

fatty wrote:well here in the gun hating land of Holland we use pennies. a 1 cents piece fits right in base

I have a ton of slotta-bases... so pennies don't work for those, thus the shot solution.

whalemusic360 wrote:Also for those who do not know, primers are extremely dangerous and explosive, please do not try things with them that they are not made for. If you have a few in your hand and manage to set one off, you hand will become forfeit. Which will make painting, typing and rolling handfuls of dice much harder. Not to mention those other things you use hands for.

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