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Yeah, that's what I got. The big floor standing one and the smaller desk lamp.

Opps sorry Whale, I just added the pics and dimensions of the shelves on the last page as you rolled over apparently.

I switched to daylight fluorescent bulbs, and MAN has it made a difference, both in painting AND my general mood. Daylight, FTW.

Nice, good looking out.

With Specialist Games being put six feet into the ground, and me not having money to go on a mad buying spree, here endeth the last parts of GW I could continue to support. It also means a lot less guilt for abandoning a company that's been a part of my life since 1987.

On the plus side, it means I can yank a few games off my 'list of things to support in the skirmish games group'.

Note: Yes, in theory, I could support these games, using the rules and other miniatures, or what have you. But I feel that I should be supporting new companies, with active product lines and support. Not the corpse of a company being kept alive by a golden throne.

--B.

Sounds like solid reasoning Brian.

You can still enjoy Necromunda and Mordheim etc., since you already own rules and minis, technically, you're not supporting them anymore, but I agree about not buying anything new. Unless they release some cool new Guard stuff, I'm not sure I'll be able to resist then.

On the topic of "trusted companies"- Did you know that the LEGO group is the most trusted company in North America? -Not a defense contractor, not an oil company. or even an American company, a Danish toy company!

not even coke?????

Well theTop 5 are Google, Apple, Disney, BMW, and LEGO.

google...well...and BMW?...oh my...

Yeah, people got sick of American cars after the crap of the 80s-2000s, Ford is making a comeback now.
Me? I can only afford a Korean Kia, but I love it.

I cannot, in all good faith, promote Necromunda and so forth, because of my dislike for the company. I also do not enjoy saying things like "Well, the game isn't supported anymore, but you can find the rules on the internet!" I understand this is my own logic, and using the net-supported rules for Necro, BFG and so on is perfectly possible.

But my goal is to divert money into the hands of companies other than GW, and these games are (still) gateways to Fantasy and 40K.

time for Lego version of necromunda. Let there be "legomunda". Not really. Bad idea as you can build and rebuild your own terrain. No measuring sticks needed as you can count the dots. There's even Lego dice.

Will work on my gang tonight

There are a lot of game systems/rules for wargaming with minifigs. My modular city will have the dual purpose of Train layout/zombie apoc game one day.

just typed legomunda into google... others went down that lane already...lego is omnipotent....

Alllrighty then! First, we have to clean the apartment. This is step one. Everything's a g*d damn disaster, and I'm sleeping on the couch.

Note: I have a VERY comfortable couch.

Today, we baked bread, made a Mediterranean lamb stew, ate pizza, and cleaned the entire apartment. There's still more to do, but the dishes are done, cat box is cleaned, bathroom mopped, trash and recycling ready to go out, paperwork stacked to be sorted through, and all the floors have been vacuumed. The cats have gotten their weekly heavy brushing, and some shelves have been re-arranged.

I really need to figure out how to store my miniatures. I'm debating a bulk order of foam trays, since my Adepticon Battlefoam Bag has enough space to carry multiple skirmish armies.

Anyways, have some apartment work-in-progress pictures. Maybe these will motivate you!

We're getting a little better, here.



And now everything's been stored under the table. I have to attack this entire area, but now everything is THERE to be dealt with.



You can see Excalibur, my mighty vacuum.

Finally, here's a design I've been playing with for a bit. It uses a cardboard magazine holder, and cardboard tubes from toilet paper rolls and paper towel rolls. The ones in back are full-height, then a paper towel roll cut in half, then toilet paper rolls. This is designed to hold bits and pieces of plastruct/evergreen product that have been cut down from their original length, with full-length sections being stored in the way back. As I clean up, I'll be sorting stuff into this, and I'll let you know how it works out.

May I recommend these cheap wooden Scrapbooking drawers?



And YES Vik..I own some fething Marines

They aren't much good for transporting them, but they keep them safe at home

The old 5 1/4" floppy disk drawers are good for blister packs

See, I saw the tubes and immediately though Massive piece of ordnance...

Those are interesting ideas, Dave! Thank you!

I store my minis that don't live in my KR multicase bag in box's with steel paper on the bottom and then I put magnetic sheet on the bottom of my bases.

They stay in place really well I even transport them to tournaments like it. I wouldn't try it with metal minis though as they are a bit too heavy and will come unattached mid transport.

Its also really useful at tournaments if you carry round a metal cooking tray as they don't come off that even if you turn it upside down, and yes I've tested that

Reason #Idon'tevenknow why you should stop buying and playing GW:

A ban on bitz.

"Ha-ha, long tail veterans, now you cannot convert and/or make new and unusual creations! ALL MUST CONFORM TO GW STANDARDS. And you thought that by pulling out of the convention/event circuit, we'd lose control? HA-HA."



A ban on bitz.

Really? REALLY? F-UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.

I'm missing the context here, GW is banning bitz?

at dave... from what i´ve heard, they banned the selling of bitz via bitz-selling webshops...a suicidal mission going the next step, if you ask me...

and..

And YES Vik..I own some fething Marines

I KNEW YOU`D BE A CLOSET COLLECTOR (and that was a mean joke and no mistake )

inmygravenimage wrote:See, I saw the tubes and immediately though Massive piece of ordnance...

me too graven... knowing brain has a thing for big shooty stuff... i imidiatly thought emperor class titan^^

The bitz thing is part of the new North American Trade Agreement that states that people that get their GW product from distributors cannot part out the models and pieces in a box. So you can't take Dark Vengeance and sell the marines separate from the chaos. This also means you can't sell broken down boxes of GW kits...

Granted you would have to be caught doing this...

You can see how much love I've given them in the paint department

In the most recent 'terms of servitude' to all stores carrying GW product, ONE of the MANY disturbing things was a ban on the resale of GW product, inlcuindg breaking up boxed product to sell as bitz.

What this means is that if GW finds out you're selling bitz, they'll cut you off.

Bitz have been the basis of 'making cool gak' since the dawn of time. GW dropped their own bitz service, and now they are blocking retailers from the (lucrative) bitz business.

Watch this for more information:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnPpfs120DA

this is a worldwide thing, eh? so what happens if i as a private seller on ebay sell my unsuded bitz? will i get a lawsuit too?

No. The only thing GW can do is cut a retailer off from ordering product. You and I can sell off our bitz.

Both Branches of my FLGS are already skimming down on new GW product, all the better I say. Such anti-capatalist tactics from corporate bullies!

 Briancj wrote:
No. The only thing GW can do is cut a retailer off from ordering product. You and I can sell off our bitz.

and this is not a precedence? i mean if we can sell these bitz... then anybody else should and could too...