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I agree with Vik, good on the shoulders, knee pads should be camo, or maybe unit designation stuff

well no new stuff to show off as im about to go do that work thing, but I have a cunning Idea to bounce off of all of you. I was thinking of what to do to carry my zombies around in, and I was having second thoughts of using the dust buildings as terrain pieces since going more than one tile they start not lining up to do the internal design, and then it hit me. Why dont I use the Dust walls to make a building that can hold ALL the Zombies. The plan is to make it two stories tall and long enough to contain the walkers on the ground floor and have seperate spaces for the fatties and walkers on the top floor in two seperate rooms. This will help me get rid of some of the dust solid walls that have no windows, and still make it thematic terrain for non zombicide games. THe floors Ill make out of Plastic card and foamboard and will try and photocopy the game tiles in case I can squeeze it into a mission. I might get a proof of concept together when I get home from work tonight, otherwise Im looking at MOnday for any real progress.

The moment you started I was thinking exactly that...kinda like a big case of Polly pocket...if you can make it strong and secure enough, this will be a cool carry case!

I'll be brief (as well as late).

1) You're only competing against yourself here. If it were a competition we may as well all go home and let Jah-Joshua and Winterdyne compete.

2) Then again, as Stalin is quoted/misattributed as saying: "Quantity has a Quality all it's Own". Because as good as they are, those guys don't really finish the quantity that so many others do, and are needed to put whole armies (and Zombie Hordes) on the table on a realistic timeframe.

3) So there are different types of "good" and "quality". And we all fall somewhere in different places anyway.

4) I kinda liked the plain bone armour. It just looked more "real military" to me rather than Space Marine-y. Maybe with a smaller shoulder flag than the whole shoulder?

5) I can't picture the Dust Building Carry Case.. you'll have to show me instead.

6) I think that's it....

I also liked the plain bone armor! Not crazy about the brown though, maybe a grey?

Okay well after a quick tabulation (not really as I too liked the plain bone armor ) I think I'm going to go that route. Plus I might have a special surprise to go with it .

I'll try the grey on the boots as well, but it would be a light gray as I don't want to go with a second dark gray on the model. Maybe I'll also try some alternate browns too, go really dark brown on one.

As for the building I need to remember to save space for survivors too. I might need more dust buildings.

Okay so maybe a picture will help more than just words. Especially since my words were not with me yesterday.

Not sure if it will work out as the two levels don't come apart more easily, but I will endeavor to make the bottom floor and top floor be seperable and then put a solid bottom on both so they can be transported instead of just a cardboard box to hold my Zombicide things. I've got enough pieces to make it slightly larger, which I hope will make one floor big enough to hold the Zombicide floor tiles. The other story I'll seperate with walls to make rooms, which will keep the zombies sorted by type, leave a space for survivors, and hopefully some pace left over for the cards, dice and tokens.

This will be a long term project as I've got the painting competition stuff to work on and a few zombies left to complete.

i think you should also involve some plasticcard... make a section between the two storeys , one that can make the floor to be slid in and out...that shouldn´t be too complicated...and i bet the dust terrain takes plastic glue well, so a strong connection would be there...
also the bottom of the building needs some inside support as well so that when fully filled the bottom doesn´t bend too much outside...
if you can build one more storey, then it will have enough storage to hold every model?...hopefully? eventually this building will need a roof...and you a sort of grip/handle to manhandle the case...that could be built by the top/roof like these small built you have on top iof american buildings where the last part of the stairs comes out...sorry lack of words here^^

Where did you get the buildings from Theo??

I think those are modular Dust buildings, and if that's the case then Miniature Market for sure.

@Vik, internal walls will happen on the lower level for support and to sort the minis. See below for the rest of the ideas
@AoV, the building is modular and comes from DUST. Link to the clearance kits here
http://www.miniaturemarket.com/catalog/product/view/id/25887/s/ffgdt040/ for a two story kit
Or http://www.miniaturemarket.com/catalog/product/view/id/23698/s/ffgdt025/ for a three story kit andrew figures.
@Grimdork, correct on both counts

So went to lunch with the pastors from church, their families and some other friends. Good times, but had to leave to head to work directly afterwards, so no time to head home and do any building or painting.

So the next plan is to see if I can expand the levels a little more. I really need to take all the buildings apart and sort what I have out before I do anything else. I "think" I have enough to expand it out and maybe to add a third level,but it will be close. With what I have built in the picture there is only a set of windows on the back and a door on the front, but I think what I will do is put a matching door on the back, which will give me finger holds on both sides to make transporting easier. I was trying to figure out a way to set up a carry strap, but I think just carrying the building will require both hands once it is full. It won't be modular anymore after I build this, though the different levels "should" still come apart. I was also thinking of building a roof for the top with a little garden and possibly a water tower/ dice tower integrated into that, but that's a far far far (even farther than Star Wars) future design. Possibly a fire escape too, but that might be too much to make it portable. Possible chicken/pigeon coup on top as well

Water/dice tower is the best of the ideas for the top, I love dice towers

I don't think it would match, but you can totally craft a decent dice tower out of Battlezones (I think I recall you mentioning having one and not doing much with them, maybe?). Water tower dice tower... damnit all now I need to make one of those for my Mars Attacks board

everything sounds awesome already! totally wanna see this^^

well...good day at work to you!

Well I gave you those cardboard tubes a while back. I know you were using some for a project, but that's what I think I'll use. I had one covered with wooden boards and was going to make an Orc but out of it, but now I think I'm going to repurpose it again.

Oh so this kind:


I always jump to this kind when someone says water tower:

Because that's what we have around here. But that other kind.. especially on a roof. Yeah, looking forward to it

If you were feeling really ambitious, you could make it open up like a tool box:


You said it'd be a long term project, right... ?

What the BLEEP is up with Dakkadakka this morning? My screens all white, half the emoticons are screwey, and ........I don't know, but things come in threes....like GOD.

Anyhoo....

I should actually be having a play date today. My brother in law and his family are coming over shortly, my son just said we are all going swimming , the dice demand to be rolled, blood needs to be spilled and zombies must be shot in the head.

@Grimdork, yes the first picture is the type of water tower I was thinking of.
@Vik, eventually I'll get to it, but first things first.
@Dr. H, I'll leave that build up to you.

Almost had a perfect carry box for the zombies last night at work. I was just to busy to grab one of those medical styrofoam transport cases before it got crushed . It looked like the perfect size for it all too.

Ahh bummer about the box. Good luck slaying zombies later on

"i´ve got places to go and people to kill..." i forgot who used to say that...some marvel vigilante...?

the error , my best guess, must be the last death spasms of your i-pad...i think it has to be shot too....an act of misery...

and well... so long as you stay in the hospital you will run in eventually some day into these boxes... t is bound to happen ...again...

@Vik, it was a temporary glitch with Dakkadakka, I haven't used the iPad in a week or two except to watch Netflix. It was happening on my phone and our new chrome book so two different OS.

@Grim, many zombies died, more will definitely in the future as well.

Well bro in law loved the game, so much so that he wants to buy his own copy. I think he's going to chip in on the Black Plague as well. Monty Python figures sold the deal.

So stopped by minimarket yesterday. Almost bought the model Ive been thinking about for a while when a familiar voice said "Hey John, Whats up?"

It was my brother in law. He Loved Zombicide so much he bought it . Bought the third season of ZOmbicide so we have new models and characters to play with. He's keeping it at his place for when we play there. Also he might be jumping in on my ZBP pledge.

Also got an email from CMON. Its a response from my July 22 email reply to them. Talk about great customer service . They now want to help see what they can do to cancel my Blood Rage Pledge, which is already picked, packed and on a boat in the ocean.

well i didnt buy the model after that, walked out empty handed, but with a huge smile on my face.

No hobby stuff done lately, too many other things to do. I can't wait till saturday (three day weekend). might get some of the troopers assembled tomorrow.

Always nice to run into friends and such.

Cool that they're willing to work with you on the Blood Rage thing.

@Grimdork, Well the problem is it's too late for them to do anything. Basically the parcel is in the mail and they have no way to stop it. The boxed everything up along with 10,000 other pledges and put them in containers (2 for the U.S. Alone) and they are on their way to the states. Each pledge is already labeled for shipping so when they unload them they will get scanned and put on postal trucks immediately, no sorting happening. I had contacted them before the "cut off" window and was told "no problem", but then when I checked with them in early July they said "too late". Now the original person I talked to must have gone through her emails and said "I knew I was supposed to do something back in july ". They still have not responded to my reply from the other day. Oh well, probably going to eBay it and the exclusives.

Well I've been a little worn down and too busy to do anything, but the contest is still going on so I decided to at least start assembly.

More to come as time permits, but have to buy and install a new dishwasher this weekend, and then one of our two showers broke this morning....so plumbing work to do as well.

well...at least the half of them is standing already...er...well...even if it is the half of each....

Ahhh I think I misread that they were *going* to take care of it rather than that they couldn't do anything at this point. Bummer.

All the Batman stuff going on....well I bought my first knight model....I gotta say it's smashing

What are the odds that the Eisenkern trooper makes it home safely.

Good lad this way madness lies

i always thought about getting me a hulk model... even an action figure to convert it into a fething huge ork boss...

Fetching huge is right Vik, I wonder if this is one of the 70mm scale models instead of 28. I never imagined hulk to be THAT big. I think he might make it into a kings of war army as a giant at some point as well.


Anyway he has been glued together now and primed right before I left. Hopefully he will get some paint over the next week or so. Also the box he comes with has alternate hands and three heads so you could make red hulk, gray hulk or common old green hulk. This box was sitting at miniaturemarket for months, and at $20 it was a good deal (normally over $50). The box had been opened and the parts were loose inside and the model was a terrible cast with lots of mold slip and a few bubbles. I got it anyway and have already trimmed the mold slip lines off, and the bubbles are in less than noticeable areas so no real harm there. Also it came with a second bag of parts under the foam , so I have five extra hulk heads and a few arms. I already have a plan for the "Hulk Hands"

that sounds indeed like a good deal...
extra hands come in ...er...handy

also...this jade/grey behemoth needs a greenstuff session asap...that hand looks like it is not slippery but might come off