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all but 3 tests done, plus some coursework. Should be all done by the end of the month.

one test to go, plus a ton of coursework I need to do today (3 hours +)

also, have some photos:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Rutherford-Ratmen-warhammer-club/280315135366880

that fotographer was mighty daring... did he stand on the table??? ohoh...i smell danger...

so you played a game of space hulk? how did your ravenguards fare?

and good luck with the last exams...and same for the courseworks...try to keep yourself motivated...easier said then done...

the photographer was my teacher
our time was up before the game was over (we only get 2 hours including setting up and packing away) so we took a video of the board and are going to put the models where they were last time and carry on from there.
I would be doing fine, but the chaos and tyranids, instead of killing each other like I'd planned, teamed up on me and took out 3 terminators- now down to my librarian (1 wound) and 2 terminators, and whatever is dead at the end of the mission is dead for the rest of the campaign, so I'm debating whether to run off the board or not. Thing is, there's a 50/50 chance that in running away the men will be cut down, and I think the necrons might pile in and the ensuing struggle might let me get away and push another squad forwards into the grinder.
We played a game today, and I needed to take 4 armour saves (3+)... lost 3 raven guard that round, then I went to my ally who had all 5 left, and another was cut down then. We then faced a daemon, and 3 more of his men were killed taking it down, so then it was me with 2 models, him with 1, but we had a head start on the approaching chaos and I sacrificed a marine meatshielding the two others to safety, carrying the objective home. So we both took 80% casualties, but claimed the objective. using a special rule of the campaign, 2 of my "dead" men were held captive, and the sergeant and another marine were captured but escaped, the sergeant losing an eye in the process (worse at shooting).

wow, sounds you had wuite some tough gaming luck... and a campaign that starts that hard...ohoh...

good idea to make a vid for this game... the idea to "save" the setup is quite brilliant...and your teach even had his part in this game? cool teach! are your teachers allowed to wear short trousers? lol...

Viktor von Domm wrote:wow, sounds you had wuite some tough gaming luck... and a campaign that starts that hard...ohoh...

good idea to make a vid for this game... the idea to "save" the setup is quite brilliant...and your teach even had his part in this game? cool teach! are your teachers allowed to wear short trousers? lol...

I normally either luck out or am unlucky, though normally that luck swings round later in the game- this time was bad luck the whole way through, it was just that chaos saved us- while the chaos marines were in combat with the necrons for two turns, our 2 marines were in and out of the objective room quickly enough to avoid massacre.

idea to "save" the game was my idea ^^

and the teacher is a P.E teacher, so he's allowed ^^
He was the player I allied with in the game today... We decided that we are going to upgrade the two survivors- his bloodclaw (space wolf initiate) is now a full blown grey hunter (tactical marine), while my tactical marine is now a veteran (more attacks in combat). We plan to give each veteran a colour scheme- mine will have a shoulder pad to be completely white.

chaos saved us

... that is sigworthy... but i am just too loyalist for using that one^^

P.E. teacher...that is like sports? lol...yeah, then the shorts do make sense^^

and a good idea it was... when we are nowadays on a trip to a park or something we usually take a pic of the resident map... saves quite a big time of trouble^^ tech that is sometimes helpful^^

also i like the idea to make gaming stuff shown on minis... gives you more identification with your minis and makes you come up with more thought through decisions...hopefully^^

I have done that a couple of times in the past, e.g as an in-joke, my librarian (leader of my campaign army) is now holding a packet of polo mints because of something that happened in the first space hulk game we played three weeks ago. (IIRC). I also have lots of purity seals for my scout sergeant for stuff he's taken out, as well as finished my vacuum cleaner objective marker.

Anyway, school tomorrow, better get off to sleep ^^

vacuum cleaner objective marker

...that needs a pic... if ever there was a need of one ...that surely is in need for one!!!


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oh and good n8!

There are a few pics of it taken during yesterday's game, but I don't think people have uploaded it- maybe so that pictures are uploaded of the previous week's game.

Got my heresy-era jump packs from chapterhouse today, and apart from a few lumps of resin, they look great!
Not got any superglue ATM though, so I'll have to wait until the weekend beforre marrying them to the torsos :(

does plastic glue work with resin? probably not?...

how long did these jumpacks take to get to you? iirc it took quite long?

about a month to get to me IIRC, and I don't think plastic glue works on resin, it definitely isn't as strong as superglue in any case, so I'm gonna wait until I can get them.

well then waiting is better...would you say that a month is a good time to wait for that stuff?...

Well it wasn't time sensitive or anything- as long as I got it before march then I'd be okay.

okidoki^^

Okay, more of a bump than anything actually meaningful, but the club's been cancelled (IIRC) for the past 4 weeks, but tomorrow we're heading down to the LGS and playing a game. I have ridiculous amounts of work over the next month (up until the end of march 4 pieces of coursework have deadlines, then april is lots of revision, leading up to tests in may/june, at which point I get a long break for warhammerin' )
though to keep you appeased until then, I have ordered some plasticard for some possible modelling work later on, and april will herald the arrival of the centrepiece for my raven guard, and following them will hopefully be a second tactical squad, another transport of some kind, more chapterhouse jump packs and maybe a stormraven. Hopefully by the end of the summer holidays my army will be complete and I can get on to guard and rivetness!

hmmm... i am hooked now... what will you plan to dowith all that nice white plastic?

and somehow i don´t remember school with so many projects...hmmm...and i wasn´t on one of those tree nursery schools either... (joke here might be lost in translation...)

Viktor von Domm wrote:hmmm... i am hooked now... what will you plan to dowith all that nice white plastic?

and somehow i don´t remember school with so many projects...hmmm...and i wasn´t on one of those tree nursery schools either... (joke here might be lost in translation...)

don't understand the joke there, but yeah. Stressful times, but I have a few ways to keep me from giving up ^^
I actually don't know what the plasticard is planned for- I needed a bit of it for a school project (only an A3 sheet), but the minimum order cost was £4 so I bought a bit more while I was at it. I'm also planning on getting some 2mm plasticard rods as "silencers" if I get round to it, but that can wait ^^

I hope I can get the majority of my army at least basecoated in the next month but it depends on how school's going.

well... we hopefully will be seeing your stuff soon... the schoolproject i would love to see too...always a good idea to see what others are doing in school...mind you i will be doing the sitting in school hopefully soon too^^

Well it is warhammer related, and I think I should be able to take it home once complete...

warhammer related school project... now that is truly interesting...

Also, my resistant materials (DT/woodwork) project is a display case, which has to be painted brown, but when I take it home I might make it rusty metallic, maybe with rivets made of large cut-up dowels or something...

you are truly a tease mister... why not spill the beans^^

dowels would be in my opinion be too big for a 28mm scale use... that wouldn´t even be in the head sized rivet department any more...

Nah, this is for the display case itself, which is around 30cm by 10cm, with a rounded top. The front is kind of wood framing glass, and I was thinking of adding dowel "rivets" to the frame.

ah i see... to make it appear to be metal...human sized metal works... interesting...

Aye- using my amazing skills with MS paint, here is what it'll look like after I'm finished at school with it:

and what I want it to look like when I've 40k-ified it:

one of the rivets might act as a handle, I think.

okay... a door...a door that leads to where?

The mines of moria ^^

just the inside of the display case to put models and stuff in... which could be goblins and dwarves

cool idea....dwarves are the nxt best thing to any riveteers^^