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I suppose such a thing irks me a little, but at the same time I don't really care too much. Often it's a result of backers having to wait to get the whole shebang, but the lion's share of it comes early. It's just that the very first, usually main line items, are often done sooner and could be in the wilds of retail making them money. But it would cost them (or the backers) more money to ship out that small part of the completed rewards separately.

It is not..ideal.. but I kind of understand it mechanically. I usually only back projects to which I have a reasonable reserve of goodwill anyway (hence I pulled my ME pledge). Mars attacks was kind of like this, the main game was hitting retail kind of when people were getting it, I think... but when we got our packages we were getting stuff that's just recently been released into the wild.

I had school last night, last class for the degree

congratz! been there done that....do you have to take exams or write a paper too? anyway... i hope this will boost your career and that life will get easier for you!

I'll have an exam for this class at the end, but no paper to write. Also it turns out I've been piddling around so much with my classes (not bothering with getting an advisor to help me), that I could take a few more classes and grab a second degree , so school might not be done anytime soon. Though I might wait a year before either persuing that or a masters degree. Up early due to noisy family.

what would be a good match for the possible second degree? here we have business and tech, business and law, and business and IT...and how much will each effect your current career? i mean, how soon can you quit mobbing floors and start mobbing peeps

IT seems like a good secondary for a lot of stuff, although more often than not it seems like people just fall into it without degrees (while my own CS degree sits and rots with no job to show for it ).

What was the major, business management or something? Law seems like more school on average than most. If you like that hospital you could get a nursing degree and administer them Although... nursing would probably have too many extra classes you haven't taken. If you're just picking off the last few classes of something it'll probably have to be generic like Math or what have you.

The B.A. Is in Business Administration, I was thinking of taking some more law classes as at one time I was going for business law, but got side tracked. The law classes would probably get me into corporate quicker, as they eat that stuff up. The hospital industry is the second most regulated industry in the U.S. The only other industry more regulated is the nuclear power industry.

I never could get into IT work. Most of my friends from high school did the IT route, ones in the silicone valley, one works from home, another works for the local power company and one was a lead on the Enterprise rent a car website redesign years ago. I just enjoy the physical work too much to sit behind a desk all day. Plus I start to doze off if I'm sitting too long.

Well it's been a while without paint or glue.... So hears a picture of a supply pick up last night. I stopped by Walmart and picked up sticks.....

yeah not too exciting....

But I needed more for doing the boarded windows, so there's that.

I've got some time so maybe some painting to do.

Good idea for the removable boarded-up windows. Liking that.

@Dr. H, thanks, practical and easy, how I like my women too

Well did some painting of zombies


Also knocked out two more boarded up window sets

The stuff on the one window is supposed to be part of a curtain that has blown out between the boards. It's just some gauze hit with the same tone as the zombies.

Stuff is looking good.

that curtain detail is super! it has the character of a made up shelter just like in a classic Z-movie!

and new stuff is always amazing

@grimdork, thanks
@Vik, I'm trying to think of some more hold out things to do, but drawing a blank.

Too much going on today and tomorrow for any major progress. Saturday night we have a memorial service at church for a former attendee. He was 20 years old and died in a motorcycle accident last week. I happened to be driving home from working at church after the hospital (was around 1:30a.m. And the police were blocking off the road, luckily it was just after my exit, so I didn't see anything. He and a group of other motorcyclists were "having fun" and then someone in front of him hit the brakes, he hit his but went over the handle bars of the bike hitting the street, and then was struck by another car. 9 witnesses and they all had very different stories from each other.

He donated all his organs, but now a week later the mom wants to go see the body. We're trying to convince her not to go. Even without the injuries, just the body without the organs is going to be scary.

Sorry for sharing that, it's just been on my mind a lot the past few days. He and his family attended my church before we started there, so I didn't know him, my wife however was one of his teachers in high school, so she is really torn up about it all.

Well, there is a saying here...motorcyclists are kidney donners...I too think riding by bike is the coolest thing, but I know I would die a horrible death if I ever try...you have no protection even when wearing protection....and I agree, it wouldn't be good for his mum to see him in this current state...it would traumatize her even further...hopefully it was quick for him, and she should remember him in his best condition...

As for the Windows...you've been very thorough with the first ones...make some that look like they're bound to be broken down...and then not wooden barred windows but with bars? Granny grating or mesh? Also just broken window panes would be cool...

Really liking the boarded up building there Theo, should make Zombie games look pretty interesting!

@AOV, I think it will help sell the fantasy, but it does limit the floor space
@Vik, I've got some ideas for windows and bars, mostly stolen from Red Harvest and Dsteingass.

Well time to paint/model, stopped by MM on the way home
$6 later I picked up 2 mantic models, the ogre general and a funky football playing tentacled alien named John Doe.

Couldn't pass that up.

Already assembled and now drying after being primed.

Also grabbed these out of the trash at church

The music pastor changed out his strings on some guitars. Never saw neon green ones before, now I don't need to paint the plasma coils.

i always dreamed about converting the mantic ogres... the ones with the crossbows to ogryns... i think they´re great and mean looking... so...good buy^^

and plastic wire for guitar strings? huh?...well, you learn something new every day^^


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also...the cthullu star player looks fun... almost like squidward tentacles gone really bad

Damn. A dollar for that ogre? Those are beefy minis, grats, what a steal

I'm sorely tempted to swing by MM on the 19th coming up to get trashed at X-wing again, and seeing such clearance buys makes it even harder to resist. The wife's extreme disfavor after leaving her for probably at least 8 hours alone with the kids on a saturday (and also taking the better car with better car seat placement) may put a kibosh on that trip though

@vik, they are still metal, just neon green, I think it came off of a guitar he was given from a teenager.
@grimdork, it takes a lot of digging to find anything good like that, but I stop by enough (2-3 times a week), most of the time I leave empty handed though.

I give you......

Zombie Wieners

Never thought I'd be able to say that in my life, sounds like a really nasty spell.

do you know what they call a zombie burger in france? le zombi in a bun...

Hey, I haven't been looking in this thread for awhile, because it said you weren't back. So I check it now and see an amazing horde of Zombies coming to life! Well done, mate - some really cool stuff here on a super-impressive number of them.

Heh, zombie wieners. Nice.

You were hoping for undead nudity, weren't you?

Nah, I'm good. I'm sure it's available on the interwebs somewhere if I weren't.

Eww.

Just had to go there, ehh?


Man, though... it would have to be one hell of a big mall to need four separate hot dog stand mascots...boggling.

I just wish there was a guy in a banana suit - very Arrested Development.

I have to admit that seeing these makes me want to grab mine and paint them up as well.

@Azazelx, thanks, and they are great fun to paint up. 30 or so more to do the. I can start thinking about the bases, matte finish and blood.
@Grimdork, I'm with you on the ew! I hope nobody came here looking for that.

Tonight was a really rough night at the hospital. Call offs, everything that could go wrong did, and the old crazy guy who kept punching and scratching nurses. We finally had to restrain him so he wouldn't hurt himself or anyone else. He was not safe to walk around on his own as he was dizzy from meds, but he kept trying to get to the stairwells .

Got home and my daughter was still up and crying and saying she wants to go home. Once she woke up enough I told her she was home and then she shrugged her shoulders and went back to her bed and fell right asleep. I'm just hoping it's not a twin thing as her twin brother is sleeping over at a friends house.

Everyone else is sound asleep so I think I might get a bit of painting done. I also might dig out some other goodies to paint up as I think I have a neat idea for some underused models.

Oh and I've saved up some pennies, so I hope the kickstarter pledgemanager for ZBP opens soon like they said. double King me please. I need 400 models to paint for next year.

I've only managed to do a few survivors and Zombivors so far (and 5 of the 6 dog companions).

If I manage to get a couple of other annoying things done first, I'll try to get a couple more half-painted survivors done this weekend. After that I can start on a new one (or two)....

Got home and my daughter was still up and crying and saying she wants to go home. Once she woke up enough I told her she was home and then she shrugged her shoulders and went back to her bed and fell right asleep.

my son felix is as it sounds the same ilk...he dreams very vividly...almost to sleep walking level...and when you speak to him he flinches... but once he is a bit more woken up you can reason with him...

Tonight was a really rough night at the hospital. Call offs, everything that could go wrong did, and the old crazy guy who kept punching and scratching nurses. We finally had to restrain him so he wouldn't hurt himself or anyone else. He was not safe to walk around on his own as he was dizzy from meds, but he kept trying to get to the stairwells .

errr.....i just read my way through the zombi survival guide...and well... you start seeing things...reading this story... well, you gotta admit it sounds a bit awkward if not alarming...ohoh...where was that Mini 14 again?...

I just realized the full thread title ATM is Going down: zombie wieners.

That's... Even worse than when I was just reading the second part.

well... there is just an "on" that still keeps us from unwanted mental cinema...

great now my thread will be eternally linked with zombie porn.

The theory behind some of the VIP personalities is that they are people who have "given up" and dressed up silly as to stand out amongst the rest of the undead. I could imagine the z-apocalypse breaking out on Halloween and people going trick or treating wearing the suits, then getting attacked and turning.

Also I want them to make a sequel to the dog companion pack with a wiener dog in a wiener dog suit.

Lawns mown, kitchen has had every cabinet emptied and rearranged, 10+ loads of laundry and the floors have been vacuumed. I'm tired, still have the memorial service to go to and then the clean up as well afterwards. Kids have been wanting to play Zombicide as well, but that will have to wait till after church tomorrow as they were cleaning rooms this morning.

Last night I got some basecoating done on the butcher zombies and the skins done on the nurse zombies as well. Kept dozing off while trying to finish them.