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Oh, such silliness Clearly you all need a distraction: some attack wing.

Played the Borg Collective OP1 scenario last night. You build a 90 fleet and then get a random ship that's ~20points (a little ship, basically) plus some points for crew on that one. You try to avoid the borg (which you can't attack) while blowing each other up as you avoid being assimilated/destroyed.

I had a tank of a Jem'Hadar Battleship, Hideki fighters and my random was a Jem'Hadar attack ship (which is awesome, as it triggers the named Battleship's ability).

Here's some fun pics:

We are the stroopborg, resistance is foo-tul...

Closing on erithromycin's fleet (Martok his ship, a gorn raider and a random Maquis fighter)


Brutal firefight, in which I forgot to use one of my abilities (Invaluable advice) to make my volley of torpedoes take out both his little ships - a careless error that cost me the game.

Much fun was had, and much learned: I need to learn to hang back with the Dominion and let the fight come to me, Hideki fighters are lethal - really hard to blow up and allow you to effectively shepherd the borg cube (it goes after the nearest target), and always take dorsal weapons on a battleship for when Klingons sneak up your tailpipe.

Also, got the last ship for the Dominion, the Cruiser, which is gorgeous, huge, and has now had a wash:


Victory is life!

Sounds like a wonderful time graven! Nifty looking ship you have there!

Silliness? Here? Surely not? There must be some mistake, for we are not silly people, nor is this a fitting site for silliness. I think perhaps you have us confused with that postbox over there...

Sounds like a fun game was had...and you should know better than to allow Klingon's near your rear....


I like the Dominion Cruiser, but not completely sold on the flight stand....looks a little clunky.......

Gitsplitta wrote:Sounds like a wonderful time graven! Nifty looking ship you have there!

Cue Worf Voice: "Little?" It's a very fun game. There's a fair amount of cheese at competitive level, but if you play scenarios and/or faction pure, or at least a friendly tournament meta (which we do) it's a great game.

monkeytroll wrote:Silliness? Here? Surely not? There must be some mistake, for we are not silly people, nor is this a fitting site for silliness. I think perhaps you have us confused with that postbox over there...

Sounds like a fun game was had...and you should know better than to allow Klingon's near your rear....


I like the Dominion Cruiser, but not completely sold on the flight stand....looks a little clunky.......

What, it's too big?

And with highlights:


Needs engine glow.
Love this ship.
Must resist a second (the futility of resistance not withstanding...)

And with highlights:


And just to prove I'm not lazy:

Good to see the Jem Hadar get the good painting.

and as for all the C'thulhu stuff.........Cah Tool Hoo!

One thing we can never accuse you of is lazy.

Game looks fun, and that ship does look awesome.

The peeps are looking great.

Oh, you really need to add a scarf wrapped round the face of that dual wielding investigator.......

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

1920's call of cthulhu?

shasolenzabi wrote:Good to see the Jem Hadar get the good painting.

and as for all the C'thulhu stuff.........Cah Tool Hoo!

They rock! I love them, the ships are chunky and brutal. As a faction it's like 3 armies in one.
Ftang!

Camkierhi wrote:One thing we can never accuse you of is lazy.

Game looks fun, and that ship does look awesome.

The peeps are looking great.

Cheers on all counts. I'm not lazy, I'm just... Sporadic

monkeytroll wrote:Oh, you really need to add a scarf wrapped round the face of that dual wielding investigator.......

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

The Shadow over Innsmouth indeed! I might just do that

Miss Dee wrote:1920's call of cthulhu?

Yup Most stuff is set then based on when lovecraft was writing, although the achtung Cthulhu stuff is really cool.

I have that on order.

 Miss Dee wrote:
I have that on order.

Smart girl

So having rebuilt the garden wall yesterday for 4 1/2 hours (damn, but that's some serious lego) I decided that today I wanted some toy time.

First, a long overdue tidy out of the paint drawer:


And on with some Mansions.
Some furniture, to use for the various obstacles in the game:

Obviously, the books needs various writings, scrawlings, unauschprechlichen etc.

Initial colours all done and first washes on the investigators. Those on the ground floor:

(shh! don't mention the cthonian!)

And those exploring the basement:


Some basing details have changed, for example the scientist has the giant rat as the wife's terrified of them and the resemblance to my microbiologist missus is striking.

The kids want to play Talisman tonight. Who am I to argue eh?
Yours insincerely,
graven

Brilliant stuff, looking great.

Investigators look brilliant, but the furniture looks amazing, great job.

Getting a real itch for these models.

Nice work Graven. Like the furniture. Good wood tones.

Thank you kindly chaps. Finished off the table top:

Added some highlights to the investigators, too.

I think more furniture maybe forthcoming. Nice to paint instead of modelling, sometimes

Heresy

Squiggly pages look good, investigators too

Shame you cant create a magic user investagator

Looking very cool indeed. Makes me want to pull out Arkham Horror and give it a spin with a few friends some time soon. Nice to see some normal folks-- well normal enough as opposed to the sci fi and fantasy stuff that abounds.

I like the simplicity of the basing. Good call on that.

monkeytroll wrote:Heresy

Squiggly pages look good, investigators too

Heresy? Always thanks mate, there's even a tiny sketch of a byakhee in there

Miss Dee wrote:Shame you cant create a magic user investagator

A couple of investigators are pretty decent magic users (the stage wizard, the mystic and the old guy).

Red Harvest wrote:Looking very cool indeed. Makes me want to pull out Arkham Horror and give it a spin with a few friends some time soon. Nice to see some normal folks-- well normal enough as opposed to the sci fi and fantasy stuff that abounds.

I like the simplicity of the basing. Good call on that.

Thanks on all counts. I'd love to see them introduce rules for the arkham horror minis in mansions, and vice versa - same bases after all!

But now for something utterly bat crazy.
Everyone's favourite Tasmanian, nerdfest09, is running his 3rd annual comp here http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/615288.page and it's a Frank Miller Sin City theme for both modelling and painting (monochrome with single spot colour).
Whilst the prospect of the painting side of it is very intimidating, I just had to do it - love the Sin City comics, and I thought I could have fun with this. Having batted around a couple of ideas - painting up Gaunt, doing a chaos marine in 4 sins - I decided that there was really one thing I could do - a femme fatale, a stripper in the 40k verse:

I must be mad...

graven

What book and what page number

Brilliant! Love it!

I somehow think that the pole should be slightly bending under the weight.

Who instrusted him to pole dance?

That's... disturbing actually...

Truly brilliant

That's a great idea Graven

Miss Dee wrote:What book and what page number

Ah, in the rpg? Well technically anyone can use magic, as long as you don't value your San

Dr H wrote:

Spoiler:

Brilliant! Love it!

I somehow think that the pole should be slightly bending under the weight.

Why thank you! I'm debating reinforcing the bottom with a CoD post as having a CSM helmet spike (tau/skull helm on top.

Miss Dee wrote:Who instrusted him to pole dance?

HER! It's a repentia!

Gitsplitta wrote:That's... disturbing actually...

My work here is done

Camkierhi wrote:Truly brilliant

You.honour me

GiraffeX wrote:That's a great idea Graven

Cheers mate.

I explained it to the wife, with the suggestion of a podium rather a runway. She said, "It's a stripper. She NEEDS a podium. Honestly."

Well that's me told

U crazy graven... crazy like a fox! I've never seen a terminator armoured pole dancer before, and probably never will again.

True, Jem Hadar fleet was always tough in the show. brutal and potent

Most excellent - and yes, podium is the way to go....

Your plans for the pole are also heartily approved

Sorry I was looking on my phone.

weetyskemian44 wrote:U crazy graven... crazy like a fox! I've never seen a terminator armoured pole dancer before, and probably never will again.

You say that like it's a bad thing

shasolenzabi wrote:True, Jem Hadar fleet was always tough in the show. brutal and potent

Damn right!

monkeytroll wrote:Most excellent - and yes, podium is the way to go....

Your plans for the pole are also heartily approved

Thanks mate. That's what the Pole said

Miss Dee wrote:Sorry I was looking on my phone.

No worries

So, update on stripperella:



New feet, carved out the old ones, cut down another termie for his and gs'd the gap. The angle for these was very tricky to work out and required me to look at lot of rather risque picture on t'internet It's a hard life

Going to add some wires, maybe raise the podium up about 3 cm (and with a 50mm bottom to conform to rules), maybe a crossbar on the pole-banner?


And the investigators. Their faces need tidied but the casting is blobby, and you really can't see it at tabletop level, so I may just leave them as they are. Happy with the colours and would rather move on to monsters. Also, they're not this shiny, I'm just being quick and dirty with the lighting.





Onwards, etc!