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Camkierhi wrote:Your welcome, Look forward to seeing results

Well it's much appreciated my friend and I look forward to experimenting!

shasolenzabi wrote:Building is coming along nicely! "Squid Inc" nice pun there!

The heroes and villains also coming along nicely, "Gotham Butcher" Hmmm, DC: "Let us mix Wolverine and Hulk and make him a new villain for our universe!"

Marvel: "Hey why didn't we think of that?"

Well, I try I know, the Butcher is daft

Dr H wrote:Nice work on the orange chaps, and that shop is coming along nicely.

Cheers. I wish they made more crims! Although joker gang are in prison orange also. Hmm...
So anyway my tattoo parlour is now done to my satisfaction.



The standard Multiverse kit just with its sign mounted on the roof (mdf offcut leg), a cthulhu statue from black cat bases and a gs binbag, plus various printed pics for added signage.


I just decided, arbitrarily, that I wanted an elder sign on the roof. Seemed fitting. I blame John Constantine

And the tag is just cos, well, I thought I'd sign this one myself.


The smiley face is actually a kid's size 11 shoe label. It is weird where I find inspiration. Sometimes I worry...


Multiverse like it and have asked to use on their page which is really nice, too.



In the process of doing this I've finally worked out how I want to paint my fast food restaurant also, not quite to match but a similar core palette (more cream though).

Good weekend. Mountains of food including a triple jalapeño burger, carving pumpkins (jack skellington rather more successful than my Decepticon logo) and general hanging. Long dark march ahead, November is a killer in teaching starting with parents' night tomorrow. But, we shall sally forth!

Hey ho
Graven

Cracking stuff! Full of character!

Wonderful job graven. The Old Ones would approve!

Paradigm wrote:Cracking stuff! Full of character!

Cheers! Multiverse kits have tremendous details.

Gitsplitta wrote:Wonderful job graven. The Old Ones would approve!

Well hopefully they think it's... great

Did a wee TIE s/f repaint, just cos.


Once my ARC fighter is done, I think that I'm all ready for Wave 10

Finally made a start on my Cantina, too

It may or may not be a hive of scum and villainy...

Tagged Ink parlor is looking great!

Like the work on SW stuff, and that eatery promises some opportunity!

What shas said, except in my voice. It all looks great. Love the elder sign on the tattoo parlor's roof.

Hey... scum & villainy have to eat too!

shasolenzabi wrote:Tagged Ink parlor is looking great!

Like the work on SW stuff, and that eatery promises some opportunity!

Thanks mate. The arc fighter creeps into a pic of my desk, below.

Warboss_Waaazag wrote:What shas said, except in my voice. It all looks great. Love the elder sign on the tattoo parlor's roof.

lot of fun to do. Tried to make a slightly glowy, too.

Gitsplitta wrote:Hey... scum & villainy have to eat too!

Indeed, bantha fodder ain't cheap!

So I toddle along. The restaurant proved a pleasant distraction from the shelf of shame (even if it is technically one of its inhabitants )


Fun to do, do like Multiverse's kits.


I added the internal doors and hatch to the kitchen but there's still plenty of lovely details, especially the little hot plates.

The counter top soda machine is also cracking.


I couldn't NOT have at least one poster on it, so I made one for the Tattoo parlour


Also goes well with armoured Syndicate stuff (these are from the cuervos muertos faction, hence the crow perched on the sign also).

There's no graffiti on it which I thought I was happy with. Then ... I saw an amazing piece BLACKHAND put on Facebook of the Decepticon logo with "you are being deceived". Tempted.

Or might just put a Decepticon logo on the toaster.

And next on my desk, an act of sacrilege - converting my promo black flash to CW zoom (oh, and an ARC fighter)


Got a pick up and play game of bmg planned for demo/casual purposes Tuesday. Should be fun. Starting to gear up for the hell of November (parents' nights, eldest's birthday, mother in law's, sister in law's, nephew's...) BUT am determined to keep on with the shelf of shame. I want to be fully painted by xmas. We live in hope
Cya
Graven

Those buildings are looking excellent Graven, may I ask which glue you use for the mdf kits?

Good old kids craft pva. Pennies from Morrison's. Nothing better


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And thanks should I add a deadpool poster to this or would that be too weird?

I think you might be able to pull it off!

Nice work on the buildings.
Good job on the graffiti and posters.

Building look great.. nice additions.

GiraffeX wrote:I think you might be able to pull it off!

Well, I shall try, anyway.

Dr H wrote:Nice work on the buildings.
Good job on the graffiti and posters.

Thank ye kindly! More to come

Solar_lion wrote:Building look great.. nice additions.

Everyone loves a well-made wall

Anyway, meanwhile:



Weird angle on that last one. Oh well. Very pleased how the simple gs mouth conversion, and leaving on the "flash", has worked.

Next up, need to crack on with Hawkman & Hawkgirl - not part of the Shelf o' Shame, but rather xmas goodies (not baddies)

Cheers
graven

Great work on the building graven. Looks really cool! Nicely done.

Super job on the buildings, the lighting on zoom is cool too

Those buildings are fantastic. I love all the little details in there

Hey gang.

Gitsplitta wrote:Great work on the building graven. Looks really cool! Nicely done.

Cheers mate! Last one for a while.

JoeRugby wrote:Super job on the buildings, the lighting on zoom is cool too

Thanks! Got what I was aiming for.

endtransmission wrote:Those buildings are fantastic. I love all the little details in there

helps that the kits are lovely.

Sorry for brief hiatus. It's mid November, which means birthdays, notably kid A. So that means cake.

Taught the wife how to weather (at her request). I'm very impressed with her efforts (believe me, this was a beast to do!)

This came in the post:

Lovely box of stuff. And with solo play, for us sad lonely old dads.

Did get my ARC fighter done. Nice wee ship.




Have cleared off my shelf of shame - not because I'm finished, but to force be to concentrate on Hawkgirl and Hawkman for xmas gifts. Not entirely sure how, or if, I'm going to redesign them. I'm considering gs armour, similar to my use of brass etch on my hawkgirl, but even closer to the CW look. I like the muscle bound comic Hawkman even less than Hawkgirl's mighty midriff.

Ran a big BMG demo on Tuesday for a couple of mates : green arrow vs flash vs joker vs swarms of goons. As a demo scenario it was great fun, fairly quick and a good learning curve for them. I do like the game very much

Anyway, after birthday shenanigans, need to do a Walking Dead review, and then onto hawks and beyond!

Later
Graven

That cake looks too awesome to cut!

Lovely work on the ARC, such a cool ship.

Cake is amazing, like the ship too, but that cake steals the show.

Good job on the ship.

And nicely done on the cake/helmet... cakemet... helmake... Mrs Graven.

When does Mrs. Graven appear on the Great British Baking Show? A local Public TV station has been showing episodes of it over here.

Solo play? It is a cooperative game? Those generally have a solo play aspect.

That cake is amazing.... wow.

Beautiful little ship you have there my friend. Nicely done.

Another awesome cake.

love the colors on the taco stand. I was not expecting that.

That's a fething cake??? Holy bakingbahoogajooga batman!! That's friggin awesome!! Seriously talented Mrs. Graven.

Nice Cake! Interested to see your take on the Zombies.

Cool cake!

Minis look good as well.

Hey gang

Paradigm wrote:That cake looks too awesome to cut!

Lovely work on the ARC, such a cool ship.

Yeah, but sooooo tasty. The ARC is exactly why it bugs me when folk rant about prequel design - fantastic aesthetic.

Camkierhi wrote:Cake is amazing, like the ship too, but that cake steals the show.

Cake thief! Noooooo!

Dr H wrote:Good job on the ship.

And nicely done on the cake/helmet... cakemet... helmake... Mrs Graven.

She is supremely talented

Red Harvest wrote:When does Mrs. Graven appear on the Great British Baking Show? A local Public TV station has been showing episodes of it over here.

Solo play? It is a cooperative game? Those generally have a solo play aspect.

It can be solo, co-op or versus. See below and I've suggested Bake-off to her (her bread is actually, IMO, better than her cake), but she says she does it for fun, and that would destroy the joy.

Gitsplitta wrote:That cake is amazing.... wow.

Beautiful little ship you have there my friend. Nicely done.

Cheers mucker!

Solar_lion wrote:Another awesome cake.

love the colors on the taco stand. I was not expecting that.

Thanks! A lot of fun to do, if a bit silly.

Januine wrote:That's a fething cake??? Holy bakingbahoogajooga batman!! That's friggin awesome!! Seriously talented Mrs. Graven.

She is indeed. And, delicious (cake, not wife, you saucy bugger...)

dsteingass wrote:Nice Cake! Interested to see your take on the Zombies.

Ha! Might be a while till they get painted. Bloody shelf of shame

shasolenzabi wrote:Cool cake!

Minis look good as well.

Why thank you bro!

So, here's a little review of Mantic's new Walking Dead game, that I was lucky enough to get a preview copy of.

Designed by industry legend Mark Latham (interview coming later this month), it features a host of iconic characters from the comic/show - Rick, Carl, Luke, Sandra, Derek, Patrick, Liam - beautifully cast in decent, mould-line free plastic, cracking bunch of walkers, a 2x2 playmat for post-apocalyptic Georgia, and a host of tokens, game cards etc on high quality stock, all for a very reasonable £35.

Which is fine, but how does it play?
Really well, is the answer.

This is a remarkably accessible game, which will speak to fans of comic/show and general gamers alike. It's pretty simple to wrap your head round, but is a bit more complex than a basic, pick up and play, beer and pretzels game. It's definitely a bridge game, a transition between regular board games (well, regular geeky board games) and miniature gaming per se.

The quick start rules are excellent, taking you through with added complexity step by step, so that once you get into the full rules it doesn't feel like a huge jump. It also lets you get a sense of the game as both a co-op and a versus game, both of which are differently fun.

Because the boxed game contains everything - counters, scenery, ruler, dice, templates - it feels like pretty good value for money. One of the biggest pros is that you do feel like you're playing the series. The walkers are run by "AI" rules responding believably to the various sound levels you make - and because they're AI driven, the game can be played solo. This is a major selling points to me, for a game that's in direct competition with the likes of Dead of Winter.

On the other hand, there's just one scenario. This is frustrating - yes, it's part of how they sell the expansions, but it would have been easy enough, surely, t little at least one extra, alternative play mode, or even a download link, on top of what came in the box. And, at the end of the day, it's a 2 (or 1) player game. I'd like the chance for more players out the box, really, though you could take one survivor each.

However, this is a pick up and play game with real depth. I can play it with my kids or dedicated fellow gamers, or anything in between. It'll go well post turkey dinner, especially in family teams, and I can likewise see myself getting hold of at least one of the scenario expansions (besides, who wouldn't want the governor's tank?), and certainly the amazing plastic versions of the scenery. As a fellow geek parent said, what point is a board game if you're bored by the time you've got through the rules? That won't happen here. So for some fast (not too fast, or they'll hear you) fun, never mind an accessible way into the wider hobby, this is a cracking buy.

So what else am I up to? Well aside from general decluttering, slightly enraged by not one but two commissions falling through AND a mate backing out on a trade. Just - irritating. Not out of pocket, but, annoyed nonetheless.

And on with the CW hawks:

So they're armoured up. Better get some paint on!

Reorganised my BMG into a giant army bag today, with [gulp] room for more. Ah well, in for a penny...

Cheers, I'm off to eat cake,
Graven

Thanks for the game review graven, sounds like a very promising game.

Interesting on the zombies game.