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ach.... you´re in deep...I am at a loss for further helpful ideas....

Flaming turtles sound awesome. Just saying.

Burning turtles would be cruel tho...

Theo, I have the codex with the harry potter spell sounding name for IG, and the Taurox and Taurox prime were so unnecessary

@comrade, flaming turtles sounds more eldar than anything.
@vik, no culinary snobbery will be allowed here , if turtle soup is okay then turtle flambé is also approved.
@shaso, it wasn't unnecessary for their bottom line

Everything's on hold for now.

I must get an idea that sticks with me and I can go full into it. So far I've had too many ideas and they are all in different directions.

Latest idea for the Japanese mythology was using Dark eldar last night. Scourges=Tengu, so many options for ninjas and oni. I'm in the start of my 6day straight at work and they have asked me to work Thursday as well which would mean 8days , and next weekend is looking booked. Plus the kids are out of school now.

Continue o hit me with ideas. Comrade told m to do an eldar wraith army using the new tree men as the wraithknights. I think it has merit, but I don't like those models, but I like the ultraforge treewoman, and the creaturecaster treewoman. Add a bunch if dryads......could work

Trying to catch up here, sorry.

Me think maybe do the flames as seaweed, either bright green or brown, to contrast with the armour.

Also like the wood people idea.

Hope you have a good stint at work and it's nice and easy on you.

If turtle soup is okay, how about going with the soup dragons?

Clanger guard....surely that's a thing?


Might be some merit in combining the kappa and the sand dragons....different companies specialising in different styles of warfare perhaps....underwater, desert, aerial/jump, stealth...got to be some mileage to come out of Eastern folklore there.....

@cam, good idea with the seaweed
@monkeytroll, soup dragons . Their war chant can be "Soups on Beetches!" (Totally hearing that in Jessie's voice from breaking bad)

So first order of business today was praying the house for bugs again. Sprin has been here, but the rain is starting o send he spiders inside . While I enjoy wildlife and my wife shrieking like a little girl , I get annoyed when it happens when I'm dead asleep and she wakes me up to kill a spider in the bathroom. So my son got the full lesson on spraying the house for bugs, including the extra of not spraying his sisters even though they bug him.

While he sprayed the basement I spray primed the cut up pillbox that I showed a little while ago(idea from grimdork).

While waiting for that to dry I cleaned some of he gaming area and Zack cleaned up the Lego mountain and cars.

Finally before I get ready for work, I tossed some paint, the primer was still wet, but I think it helped blend the colors well.


Oh and the tree service guy just showed up to quote out cutting down a huge tree in the back yard. $1400.00, $1670.00 if I want the stump ground down. More than I was expecting, I'll definitely will get some other quotes, but it will bring. Smile to my face to see all those little squirrels be homeless . I would enjoy it only more if it was right before winter hit.

Bins looking fantastic.

Sounds a productive day, got to say quote for tree is WOW. Get a chainsaw dude.

If I do the tree army then I'm getting both the creaturecaster treewoman, and the ultra forge treewoman, oodles of dryads and I'll figure some other stuff out for it as well.

As for tag lines for a treewoman army....."man I have to tell her to trim that bush "

LOL.

Wood they only use nailguns?

 Camkierhi wrote:
LOL.

Wood they only use nailguns?

Well the main army only uses nailguns, but this will be a splinter force led by willow. They aren't branching out of their own tree will, they were asked to leaf. When they asked what they did wrong, he replied "I'm tired of you barking up the wrong tree" so they kicked him in the twig and two berries and packed their trunks. You see the root of the matter sprouted from the fact that his limbs were too small to hold the cradle in a stiff wind. Now willow can stop weeping as she will likely get the house in the divorce. Some think she is a real birch, others think she's a fruit, but I think they are all nuts. If your still reading at this point I feel sorry for you . I can't tell you mulch more of the situation. It seams they might get back together after all. Seems they are both sappy.

The End.......or is it .


Edit: stopped by miniaturemarket today totally intent on buying the wood elf forest kit that has three freemen and 36 dryads. They were out of stock of everything wood elf . I'm actually glad as I looked at the pics of the treeman again and I just don't like it .

Well so I took the next route while there

All were clearance. The ninja boardgame I got for $20, it has 25 minis in it that I wanted to see about building a samurai army for KoW since I'm on my Asian kick again.

There's 10 monopose plastic samurai drawing their swords in their pajamas
There's 10 monopose samurai with yuri in armor
3 drunk samurai in pajamas
And two ninja, one is red and other is black.
Turns out less than a $1 a fig, but they are monopose, great for forming up units, not so great for style though.
Also got two boxes of L5R cards with the Mon for the scorpion clan and the lion clan (my two favored factions in the game)

Last but not least

Sedition wars. Okay I've heard all the about how bad the game is and everyone complain about the models, but $39.00
There are 45 25mm custom bases and 5 60mm bases in the box. True the 25mm ones there's only 5 flavors of them, but they are starship textured, and the colored red and blue chips in the picture snap on and off the bottom of them. You can even stack a red and a blue or multiple of one color. These could be great for games like Necromunda with denoting pinning, over watch, or other specials like carrying loot. The large bases are all one print on top and don't have the cool rings that snap on, but come on with this price .
Plus you get figures for all the bases.

Nice dumpsters.

I like the idea of different squads having different looks, as MT said.

Lol. DD wood be far less entertaining without you Theo.

I didn't get to mess with the figures that much, but they seem pretty decent to me, I'll look more tomorrow. But I figure for the price I could use the strain guys as counts as tyranids, or even possibly nurgle, so I might pick up a few boxes at this price. Like I said though $39 for 50 minis and 50 custom bases is a good deal to me.

Now I need to check out the dead zone rules because these might work for that game as well. I could wind up with a cheap army to cross multiple systems .

I think the wooden army will not happen, especially if I like these strain guys. Neat idea and two awesome centerpieces, but I'm getting away from GW as a new rules set, eldar army book and iyadin army book =$185.00

You are so lucky.(Good and bad) having a store like that so close. I would love it and the wife would hate it.

LOL... that lil wooden story made my day... and ruined it too in the same instant as it totally drew me away from my school duties as I was searching for a fitting response... and failed...argh... that´s what you native English speakers are at least one step up front....

the buy looks huge....holy....well the ninja game I don´t get... looks a bit like a failed buy to me...all these monopose minis...

but the sedition wars buy look more than decent to me...especially for the huge amount of bases... that is a winner for sure!

I just had a tree service guy give me a quote for $7000 for removing 3 large trees, but he offered a 25% discount, so $5000. ( I said nothing about his math skills.) Finally found one for $2100. It pays to get multiple quotes. And the price is lower if you keep the wood, ie no haul-away, except maybe the brush that goes into the chipper. They can use the mulch or sell it. That must be a big tree and needs a lot of rope work for that price.

And a review of the Ninja game, play-wise?

 Camkierhi wrote:
Bins looking fantastic.

Sounds a productive day, got to say quote for tree is WOW. Get a chainsaw dude.

It won't help him. I have a chainsaw, Cam. But these larger trees in residential areas, you just can't cut them down willy-nilly, unless you like the sounds of trees crashing through roofs... and power lines... Dangerous work too.

A friend of mine who I was living with at the time, had a tree in his back garden that he decided should be a little shorter. It was a fir tree, about the height of the house (that's two stories and the roof).

It wasn't possible to climb the tree as it was (too dense), so I cut a path up it, tied a rope about 5 foot from the top, and then cut a wedge in one side of the trunk with an axe (about 10 foot down) and then cut part way into the other side with a saw. One tug of the rope and the top 10 foot of tree landed exactly where I had aimed it. I had a very smug look on my face at that point.

I wouldn't encourage anyone else to do it though.

@cam, it is a two edged sword. Even though I get 20% off most stuff it's cheaper to go online and order it far away(out of state so I don't pay sales tax), but for clearance and impulse buys it's great/deadly if the wife finds out
@vik, German might be a Romance language (Latin root dialect), but I never saw much poetry when I studied it.
@red, nail in the head about the tree. It has power lines going through it, probably as old as our house 70+years, and it hangs over our back patio and my sons room along with our neighbors carport and another neighbors koi pond and another neighbors shed.

The ninja game was just a purchase to check the feasibility of making a samurai KOW army on the cheap. But like all L5R products it has an actual storyline in it that is a good read. It's one of the things that kept me hooked with the ccg game as the major tournaments actually determined the storylines of the next card set. I haven't looked at the gameplay but it looks pretty simple, there are six objectives (randomly determined before the game for the ninja and the lion clan doesn't know which he gets. He starts with x sentries and moves them around the house on patrol. The ninja player has abscond map that he resolves his movement on and each turn they must see if they overlap. If it does then they each have actions they can do to raise the alarm, kill a guard or spike their sake.

Still don't think I'll do the treewoman army. But I did pick out names if I did . The first treewoman will be named "Maple", not only because of her species, but because everyone wants to tap that . The other will be called Asshley, because she's a fine piece of assh



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@dr.h, we keep posting at the same time ,

The tree is about 45' tall and there's fences on two sides and thick branches, so I ain't trying that. But I've done it before on other trees.

Does sound like you need a surgecal strike on that tree. Best of luck.

You are certainly having some wood issues lately?

no wood problems here we don't joke about that. Smiling bob has nothing on me

Totally mind numbing night for the second in a row. So that's a mixed blessing/curse as my brain tries to keep me mentally stimulated and comes up with ideas. I wish I had paper near me for half if the stuff I came up with, but I didn't so some miracles are lost forever. Let's just say another army idea that was mulled over a while ago might be in full swing shortly. I just need to find the right bits for it, I'll take my son with me to the store again tomorrow and I'll check ebay tonight when I get home.

honestly theo...I know I've mentioned a few times you should start angry marines... but well forget about that, what you really need to start is orks... you need an army to have a sincere comical base... something that helps you roll with the punches lives throws at you... and I can´t think of anyone else where that idea would totally fit the bill.. you just need a fitting joyous theme...


oh....and Dr.H...."he´s a lumberjack and he´s ok..."

That's an impressive level of gamer ADHD there mate

German's a Germanic Language, not a Romantic Language (a West Germanic, technically).

Reminds me of that line,
"Always say 'I love You', because life is short. But shout it, and in German, because life is terrifying and baffling."

also...just to raise the flag for peeps I still have no strong ties with...germans do have great poem writers..tho for the love of it... none will come to my mind atm^^

@graven, are you sure about the root of German language? Because when I took it 20+ years ago I was also taking French and iirc the way they congigate, sentence structure, and even most of the root words were the same. My teachers also said they were from the same root, but I did go to public schools soooooooo . Yes and I need medicine for my ADHD.
@vik, not going Ork. I even gave away all my Ork stuff a while back. Is till have the gorkamorka books and the buildings from the set somewhere, but I just can't pull off the eclectic paint job. My Ork bloodbowl and mantic Orc army will have to do for now.

Oh and it's not angry marines I'm building, but it is comical. It has also caused me to start carrying a notepad with me again . So many ideas have sprung off of this concept now. Oh and I actually mentioned it to one of the guys at work, they now understand exactly how crazy I really am.

I assembled and primed some if the sedition wars minis last night. Big gaps on some of the models and the pour channels are in bad spots when you put two pieces together, but all in all a really neat set. If I don't find what index at the store this morning then I might get to throw some paint on the beasts.





Edit: there comes a point when you know you need help....I think I'm there, call the people with the straight jackets, make sure they have one in 2xl.

Ok, engage language nerd:



Prior to the advent of

I knew somewhere out there we had a language nerd here somewhere, much less in the league. I bow to your wisdom sir.

Well I started messing around with paint on the sedition wars guys. The first up was Grendel, one of the most advanced forms of the strain.
He'd like to give you a smooch

Big muscles

Back armor reminds me of a crocodile.


Still a lot of work to do, missed a bunch of armor plates and hoses so I need to go back and hit those. I'm starting from a white base so I'm covering those with a thin white layer now and Wil paint over them again shortly/tomorrow.

Looks like the minis needed some grey stuff and a sculpt tool

oh... that mini looks very good actually... I actually get an armadillo vibe from him...(check your local marvel supplier for further questions)

the scheme looks very horror movie... doom, or ...er...cant place it atm... but I like it...

I don´t think you need to be in a straight jacket...yet... but honestly... you are not thinking this big and wide enough... if you want to start popping cherries....well why not take a big banana....(see what I did there...)

the ralph machio er ... maraschino is a splendid idea...lol...and I now the pain of making up a fitting idea for multiple little hands... if the scale allows it... you could look for holepunched hand shapes... this way they would get hands like old mickey mouse...if that is to your taste tho...

and I understand your decision about orks.. I think I am currently leaning myself way too much out of my own window so to say with my recent buys of green skins... I need to take a pic of what I hunter gathered recently... gorka morka and RT stuff galore... and even zillions of grots...oh my...

at graven.. I actually knew all that stuff in essence too... we had a school course concerning this matter... and etymology was always something I liked... so I will put that information about you in the back of my brain for later use...I am sure I will come back to that one of these days... cool

@shaso, yeah, but my liquid green stuff was hard as a rock
@vik, the comic book called 'Virus' by dark horse is I think the start of this concept. Also I got a ton of ideas for your olive guys if you ever do them. I almost bought some beads at the store today to make a few myself

Somehow the last pic of the beast didn't take, so here he is....


Oh and I had a banana in my hand at the store to vik , it was going to be their ship a banana boat.