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2014/02/17 15:02:22
Subject: Dubstep Tau--Sometimes NSFW (2 Feb) Even more Space Boobs!
A couple of things happened before work today. First, I embraced my inner Mechwarrior and used a set of spare sentinel legs and some ball joints to create a badass Mad Cat. Here's an early mock up with tacked joints:
Riot suit shown for scale. There are a lot of tweaks that need to be made to the pose once I'm happy with it enough to use glue. Also I need to wire the thing and light the guns.
so that happened. And then I looked at the other half of the quad suit, and I thought about Ghost in the Shell, specifically Major Kusanagi and her ass in general. Priorities, you know? But then there were also those little Tachikoma tanks. And so this happened too:
I only have one problem, and that's that the Tachikoma doesn't appear to light up. Otherwise, I love it. I mean, you just made me squee a little. I'm gonna go eat some raw meat, that'll make me feel manly again. Yeah.
Pretre: OOOOHHHHH snap. That's like driving away from hitting a pedestrian.
Pacific:First person to Photoshop a GW store into the streets of Kabul wins the thread.
Selym: "Be true to thyself, play Chaos" - Jesus, Daemon Prince of Cegorach.
H.B.M.C: You can't lobotomise someone twice.
2014/02/17 15:20:06
Subject: Dubstep Tau--Sometimes NSFW (Feb 17) Mad Cat and Tachikoma
This pleases me greatly. Can't wait to see the results
Pretre: OOOOHHHHH snap. That's like driving away from hitting a pedestrian.
Pacific:First person to Photoshop a GW store into the streets of Kabul wins the thread.
Selym: "Be true to thyself, play Chaos" - Jesus, Daemon Prince of Cegorach.
H.B.M.C: You can't lobotomise someone twice.
2014/02/17 20:52:29
Subject: Dubstep Tau--Sometimes NSFW (Feb 17) Mad Cat and Tachikoma
Can you... make Major Motoko Kusanagi too? Err, ideally in real life?
BURN IT DOWN BURN IT DOWN BABY BURN IT DOWN
Psienesis wrote: Well, if you check out Sister Sydney's homebrew/expansion rules, you'll find all kinds of units the Sisters could have, that fit with the theme of the Sisters (as a tabletop army) perfectly well, and are damn-near-perfectly balanced.
bossfearless wrote: A couple of things happened before work today. First, I embraced my inner Mechwarrior and used a set of spare sentinel legs and some ball joints to create a badass Mad Cat. Here's an early mock up with tacked joints:
Riot suit shown for scale. There are a lot of tweaks that need to be made to the pose once I'm happy with it enough to use glue. Also I need to wire the thing and light the guns.
so that happened. And then I looked at the other half of the quad suit, and I thought about Ghost in the Shell, specifically Major Kusanagi and her ass in general. Priorities, you know? But then there were also those little Tachikoma tanks. And so this happened too:
Quick question... where did you get the green flourescent rod? The place I found produces rod that is just barely more green than yellow. Completely unusable for my Necrons. (I hate the fact that the new 'Crons don't come with the Gauss Rods so I'm providing them, in theory at least.)
Mannahnin wrote:A lot of folks online (and in emails in other parts of life) use pretty mangled English. The idea is that it takes extra effort and time to write properly, and they’d rather save the time. If you can still be understood, what’s the harm? While most of the time a sloppy post CAN be understood, the use of proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling is generally seen as respectable and desirable on most forums. It demonstrates an effort made to be understood, and to make your post an easy and pleasant read. By making this effort, you can often elicit more positive responses from the community, and instantly mark yourself as someone worth talking to.
insaniak wrote: Every time someone threatens violence over the internet as a result of someone's hypothetical actions at the gaming table, the earth shakes infinitisemally in its orbit as millions of eyeballs behind millions of monitors all roll simultaneously.
2014/02/18 07:42:25
Subject: Dubstep Tau--Sometimes NSFW (2 Feb) Even more Space Boobs!
Mannahnin wrote:A lot of folks online (and in emails in other parts of life) use pretty mangled English. The idea is that it takes extra effort and time to write properly, and they’d rather save the time. If you can still be understood, what’s the harm? While most of the time a sloppy post CAN be understood, the use of proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling is generally seen as respectable and desirable on most forums. It demonstrates an effort made to be understood, and to make your post an easy and pleasant read. By making this effort, you can often elicit more positive responses from the community, and instantly mark yourself as someone worth talking to.
insaniak wrote: Every time someone threatens violence over the internet as a result of someone's hypothetical actions at the gaming table, the earth shakes infinitisemally in its orbit as millions of eyeballs behind millions of monitors all roll simultaneously.
2014/02/18 09:12:05
Subject: Dubstep Tau--Sometimes NSFW (Feb 17) Mad Cat and Tachikoma
There are also very strange comic books (I've never actually seen the films!). Comic!Kusanagi walks a delicate and uncomfortable line between "empowered female warrior-philosopher" and "fetish model."
BURN IT DOWN BURN IT DOWN BABY BURN IT DOWN
Psienesis wrote: Well, if you check out Sister Sydney's homebrew/expansion rules, you'll find all kinds of units the Sisters could have, that fit with the theme of the Sisters (as a tabletop army) perfectly well, and are damn-near-perfectly balanced.
@Lord Hat: The reason those rods seem so suitable for Necrons is because they came from Necrons. I bought them off a bits seller on eBay for 99 cents a sprue.
I finally came up with a good idea for the army's gun drones. I had some built but they've been collecting dust for a while til I manage to figure out a way to make them better. Then it hit me earlier while I was painting on the Hammerhead. Wub wub drones. Each drone is going to have its carbines replaced with a speaker gun. Step three is profit.
After adding all my speakers to the Hammerhead, I've decided that I'm not going to even bother putting dedicated guns on it. WHenever I write up my lists for tournaments, etc, it will read something like this for a standard IonHead loadout:
By the greater wood and all there is holy... this is just... perfect!
It had already won a million and two of my awesome points, and that was before the Tachikoma and Piercing Suprise Buttsex Bass. Never have I seen so awesome tau figures (the paintjob could maybe be a tad better) but that there is humor as well... This is just amazing
2014/02/20 14:55:56
Subject: Dubstep Tau--Sometimes NSFW (Feb 17) Mad Cat and Tachikoma
So here's the thing. Idk if I've mentioned it on this blog, but elsewhere I have bemoaned the difficulty of adding a smoke effect to plastic models. However, I got in touch with a man who found just the right parts. Now I really wish I had found this out before having built the hammerhead.
Pics don't really exist yet since I haven't even ordered the parts. But if you're curious enough to search for them, the smoke generators are Seuthe #5 smoke generators for plastic train engines. The units are little more than a small metal tube that holds smoke oil and heats it up. This exact model is very important because it puts out almost no heat. All the other ones will melt your plastic into sludge. It's 4.5 to 6v, which means it should run on 2 of my disc batteries. I'll probably get creative and add switches to whatever project uses it. The tricky part is the tube needs to be vertical for best performance, which limits the applications.
bossfearless wrote: Pics don't really exist yet since I haven't even ordered the parts. But if you're curious enough to search for them, the smoke generators are Seuthe #5 smoke generators for plastic train engines. The units are little more than a small metal tube that holds smoke oil and heats it up. This exact model is very important because it puts out almost no heat. All the other ones will melt your plastic into sludge. It's 4.5 to 6v, which means it should run on 2 of my disc batteries. I'll probably get creative and add switches to whatever project uses it. The tricky part is the tube needs to be vertical for best performance, which limits the applications.
But can you make it puff out smoke to match the beat and strobe of the lights?
Is the smoke heavier or lighter then air? If for a train, I’m assuming lighter. And can you use tubes to vent it where you want it, or does it have to exit the generator and stay there?
Sounds very cool, looking forward to seeing what you do.
Bobbing along on the briny North Sea, and Montrose, Scotland when home
Could you put it in the main body of the devilfish and funel it through small tubing to the engines, and leave a little to come out around the hot tub, like steamy water?
I'd have suggested the rhino, but I think you already put your mp3 player in there.
And never having seen the size I have no idea if they would fit in the engine pods, whicha re already built up....
Kanluwen wrote: What's that quote from Mauleed? "When you can make complete strangers on the Internet hate you, you know you're doing something magical."?
Hatemonger wrote: If that is true, then GW must be run by Gandalf and Nagash and Harry Potter and Tinker Bell, because this site alone is crapping rainbows worth of magical internet nerdrage.
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dantay_xv wrote: Could you put it in the main body of the devilfish and funel it through small tubing to the engines, and leave a little to come out around the hot tub, like steamy water?
I'd have suggested the rhino, but I think you already put your mp3 player in there.
And never having seen the size I have no idea if they would fit in the engine pods, whicha re already built up....
Those little smoke generators have to fit in an HO (about 1/8 of an inch = a foot) or N (about half that) scale train models, the smallest one can't be more then an inch long and a 1/16 of an inch wide.
Hokay, lots of questions about the whole smoke thing. I'm not gonna quote anyone specifically, but I'll go through and answer what I can.
1. Dry ice: No. It's too volatile and any suitably small chips would sublimate in a matter of seconds. Dry ice just doesn't work on such a small scale.
2. Tubing: No. The smoke is actually a vaporized oil. Once the vapor cools, it condenses back to a liquid. One side effect is that you get some residue built up after prolonged use on the area around your model. This also means that if I were to try and run it through tubing, it would just cool in the tube and congeal before even coming out.
3. Questions about placing: the generator has to be placed vertically or at worst at a slight slant. So a lot of applications don't necessarily work unless I do a really well thought out build.
4. Anything involving the Devilfish: Look back through the thread and you'll see photos of the inside of the devilfish hull already. Nothing else is fitting in there, it's packed. And the engines are totally glued shut and the whole thing is painted already and the Devilfish is just not gonna happen.
5. The Rhino: While I would not be able to put the generator in the Rhino itself, I am considering putting it amidst the wreckage on the base I'm making for it so that you get a smoke effect rising out of the ruins. That will likely be the first application of this medium within my cadre once my generators arrive.
Just when I was thinking the thread had reached its quota for awesome...
Keep classy, Boss
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Pretre: OOOOHHHHH snap. That's like driving away from hitting a pedestrian.
Pacific:First person to Photoshop a GW store into the streets of Kabul wins the thread.
Selym: "Be true to thyself, play Chaos" - Jesus, Daemon Prince of Cegorach.
H.B.M.C: You can't lobotomise someone twice.
2014/02/24 15:13:34
Subject: Dubstep Tau--Sometimes NSFW (Feb 17) Mad Cat and Tachikoma
I've been struck by yet another odd bit of inspiration. I'm wondering if, on the quad riptide project, I might fill the swimming pool with clear resin tinted with blue ink, and set some LEDs into the bottom to make it glow.
Also, a big box of goodies came today. Gundam Nataku (endless waltz,strike freedom gundam, and 5 12mm coin cell holders with matching 3v cells. The 12mm batteries should allow me to put together a workable 25mm powered base for standard infantry.
bossfearless wrote: I've been struck by yet another odd bit of inspiration. I'm wondering if, on the quad riptide project, I might fill the swimming pool with clear resin tinted with blue ink, and set some LEDs into the bottom to make it glow.
Wait.... you weren't already planning to do this?
Mannahnin wrote:A lot of folks online (and in emails in other parts of life) use pretty mangled English. The idea is that it takes extra effort and time to write properly, and they’d rather save the time. If you can still be understood, what’s the harm? While most of the time a sloppy post CAN be understood, the use of proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling is generally seen as respectable and desirable on most forums. It demonstrates an effort made to be understood, and to make your post an easy and pleasant read. By making this effort, you can often elicit more positive responses from the community, and instantly mark yourself as someone worth talking to.
insaniak wrote: Every time someone threatens violence over the internet as a result of someone's hypothetical actions at the gaming table, the earth shakes infinitisemally in its orbit as millions of eyeballs behind millions of monitors all roll simultaneously.
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