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Theo, I'm very sorry to hear about the losses in your family.

Not a tentacle horror person?... Gasp... Me neither, to be honest. The tentacle tokens look generically useful though.

Careful with that Xbox stuff, you'll burn out your retinas and give yourself Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. I hear the new bloodbowl plastic minis are pretty nice though. Should be fun to paint.

All the best, Theo'.

Yay, tentacles!

Manly man hugs. Also, good to see you back - now, no sleep till page 200!

Well, I don't know what to say, so I'll change the subject...

I did back The Others, mainly for the minis. Some of the monsters could be used as Chaos gribblies and some of the heroes could be used in modern games. I say "some" because the core box heroes include a vampire, werewolf, and a... whatever Rose is.

Sorry to hear about the difficult time your family is undergoing. Good on you all for rallying around Grandma in her time of need.

I really like what you are doing with the Dust Tenement buildings. I'm going to have to snag some from Miniature Market soon.

Gotta love spinning the 'loot wheel' after you pick stuff up from them. I seem to always get free DvDs - got The Departed last time.

 complex57 wrote:
Sorry to hear about the difficult time your family is undergoing. Good on you all for rallying around Grandma in her time of need.

I really like what you are doing with the Dust Tenement buildings. I'm going to have to snag some from Miniature Market soon.

Gotta love spinning the 'loot wheel' after you pick stuff up from them. I seem to always get free DvDs - got The Departed last time.

They got rid of the wheel again . I was in there Monday, but it's now an app on the system so after checkout you get to spin it no matter how much you spent. I spent $12 and got a bonus40 points . I almost bought more of the dust buildings during their spring cleaning sale, but too many kickstarters coming up to buy more of the buildings.

Sorry to hear of your loss, Theo. Hope you and yours are doing well.

Look forward to seeing you get back on the hobby bike. Blood Bowl stuff in particular .

 Theophony wrote:
I LIVE!

Sorry for the absence, but I have been dealing with stuff. Three deaths in the family in short order, one being my wife's Grandfather, which means we've been dealing with Grandma almost daily for the last 5 months.

I can't promise that I'll be back to doing anything major anytime soon, but I haven't been completely idle either.

Today I picked up a pack of tentacle tokens from "the Others" boardgame. 60 of them for $12. They are half the size I wanted, but they will be good chaos bits.

Got to run. More later.

Theo.

My condolences to you and your kinfolk.


And welcome back.

Well it's harder getting back into the swing of things than I remember. But since it is raining nuts outside I decided to do the hardest thing any of us can do.......clear the deck . I haven't been able to sit at my painting desk in over a year because it was coated in so much FAILED PROJECT, so I grabbed an empty box and started to unceremoniously wipe stuff off the desk and into the box. Some breakage occurred, but since I haven't messed with it in so long I decided it didn't matter. The result....

For those who saw my old paint collection, do not worry, they are upstairs in three boxes(space marine drop pod boxes I believe, and eventually they will return downstairs to join their brothers.

Now onto the new hotness
Some recent scores on the scavenging front.

I found 16 of these little plastic bits, 3 3/8" long 1/2 wide and the tubes are 1/8" wide. I figure they might make for some nice guard rails, or pipes in Necromunda. Could also make a nice twin autocannon for a marine dreadnought, I'll have to check the size.

Also found about 4' of this plastic which I think is for old fashioned notebook binding.

Looks a little too short for jersey barriers, but the top hollow part is just a little wider than the thickness of the cardstock tiles used by dust tactics and zombicide. That will help with making another texture for my buildings in the future.

The opening on the bottom of the plastic piece is just large enough for the red pipe parts to fit inside loosely too.

Man those red pipes look made for scratch building.

Some interesting materials you got there. Following

GrimDork wrote:Man those red pipes look made for scratch building.

My thoughts exactly

CommissarKhaine wrote:Some interesting materials you got there. Following

Thanks , always looking for ideas.

Well delays hit with more storms here and basement flooded again . I'm at work now, but tomorrow will see my work area cleaned out again and hopefully no major loses. I'm kind of worried that I may have moved my sets of zombicide off of the shelves and right onto the floor where the water was coming from. That will be sad if true. I've been toying with the idea of rearranging the basement again, so this may have made my decision easier. I'll see tomorrow.

Unlucky with the flooding and I hope its sorted quickly

Sorry to hear that, hope the damage isn't too bad!

How annoying! Hope the losses are minimal. Is there anywhere above ground you could do your hobby stuff? Think this must be the 2nd time you've been hit by flooding :(

Llamahead wrote:Unlucky with the flooding and I hope its sorted quickly

St. Louis has had hard rain the last three days, just tropical torrential rain, not common at all.

CommissarKhaine wrote:Sorry to hear that, hope the damage isn't too bad!

From what I saw when I got home last night it's nowhere near as bad as it was last time, and zombicide was not affected

angelofvengeance wrote:How annoying! Hope the losses are minimal. Is there anywhere above ground you could do your hobby stuff? Think this must be the 2nd time you've been hit by flooding :(

Our basement is not "finished" I bought some cheap carpet that I just rolled out on the floor when we moved in a few years ago just to keep my delicate toes from getting cold . Theirs some wet cardboard boxes that I had laying on the floor, but so far nothing tragic. This is the second time in three years that this has happened. 2015 had major storms in a short time just like now, and water levels are going to be higher this year they said. It's just the shear amount of water that fell in a short time that is causing massive flooding. My house is around 600' above sea level and is in no risk of flooding, it's just excess water from the downpours and the hydrostatic pressure of the water in my yard pushing the water through the concrete of our basement.

Yeah it's been raining constantly here as well. Good luck getting it under control.

Well rain delay is somewhat over. Plus the Miniaturemarket.com deal of the day was a copy of the others: gluttony expansion.

Zombicide figures and angry servo skull hostile organic lifeform eliminator (the acronym) for scale purposes.

Building in behind is something I've been messing around with in the last few weeks.

Well, quick updates, I haven't posted these pics yet, but it's the little bits I've worked on over the last few months.

Bloodbowl

Humans

Better pic of ogre

Chaos

Rotters

Chaos beastmen


Also messing around with some dead zone terrain for general use.
Overhead industrial pipeline

Zombies for scale (big tentacle thing will most likely become my bloodbowl nurgle rotters beast .

Pillars without pipes for better lighting


Worst problem is the plastic is some weird type that even superglue will not adhere to. I've tried sanding it and even tried plastic glue and gorilla glue to no avail . So the join keeps breaking. I think I'll wind up running wire or some type of screw through it all to hold it together.

Thoughts.....ideas?

Also I'm thinking of buying into Beyond the Gates of Antares (I've rewatched/listened to all of Star Trek the next generation series in the last month or so, and the concord are calling to me. I remember someone on here posting some awesome purple and yellow? Concord figs, but that's all I've seen and there is nothing in the lower bowels of dakkadakka that I could easily find.

I'm not getting any gaming in as my brother in law is moving to Texas because of his wife's job . Also too busy looking for daytime employment so I can have evenings off with my family (and maybe an occasional game night at the local store GameNite .

Looking great Theo, Good to see you kicking about.

Bloodbowl teams looking great, I always see conversion possibilities. Never really went for the game.

Pipes are looking spot on. Is it the pipe clip plastic that is a problem. Try sprinkling bi-carb on superglue, the heat from the chemical reaction may make a difference. Also try pvc pipe glue. Also could try Bostik contact adhesive as it does not care if the surface is porous. Also could just go with hot glue, if you have roughed up the surface it may hold enough.

Good luck.

Good show, Theo.

To add to what Cam' says: Pinning of one form or another would be a good thing to do. With the size of it and all the mass up top, any glue join could be easily broken. Also consider epoxy glue for when you want something to remain glued; superglue can be a bit brittle for some applications.

Thanks Dr. H and Cam

I have some epoxy stuff at home somewhere, displaced from the water in the basement, but I will hunt it down. It will probably get pinned also just fore overkill (There's no such thing as overkill, just underbaked.-officer Axley )

Bloodbowl is still one of my all time favorite games, I just really HATE the look of the current dwarf team, so I stripped my old dwarf metals and have begun reprinting them. Hopefully I'll have something to show this week.

That pipeline has some serious potential!

Looking good! For th epipes, PVC glue as was said above, or screws - unless you plan to run actual fluids through there

dsteingass wrote:That pipeline has some serious potential!

Thanks Dave , glad to see you back and kicking.

CommissarKhaine wrote:Looking good! For th epipes, PVC glue as was said above, or screws - unless you plan to run actual fluids through there

The screws would have to be really small to attach the clamps to the pillars, and shouldn't affect the pipes at all. The pipes themselves just snap into the clips no problem and I want them free.

So took about an hour and started to knock this bit up.

Part of a pumping station, made from one of the used printer cartridges from church.

The top of the cartridge has plenty of nice texture.

Not sure how I want to finish the center/top. Either large fan blade or just cap it off and maybe put a hatch on it of some kind. Suggestions welcome.

Nice platform! I'd cap it off like those big round fuel tanks you see along highways and railroads.

Nice work so far on the platforms.

Nice terrain lately. Good variety of heights and shapes.

Nice idea for the pumping station. Nice haul of miscellaneous bits for terrain etc.

EDC

Thanks everyone, it feels good to be back into the swing of building.

I decided to try and build a lookout post, inspired by the stancion building produced for Gates of Antares. I feel really drawn to start that game, but the investment seems too large right now.

Once again built using dead zone building parts. I plan on adding a rooftop to it as some point.

Floor door that goes down to a lower level via a ladder.


So For Gates of Antares I am considering buying the Xilos Starter set.
http://www.miniaturemarket.com/wga-start-01.html
It has a mix of both Concord troops and the Gahr

If I wait then they might get the Kar'A expanse which has Concord and Algoryn, I think I prefer the first as the Gahr are not as "human", plus fighting bots