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2013/06/18 03:04:13
Subject: Re:Scratch Built Stuff on the Cheap - On the Warpath
I thought it was a thing of beauty that Mantic made Forgefathers (Squats/DemiUrg) and Veer-myn (Space Skaven/Hrudd) after GW's stance on NOT making them.
Squats always came off as goofy and slow, poor mans IG with some nice toys, while the Forge Farthers are a technologically advanced race, low in number high on firepower.
Space Skaven never made it past fan made lists, while the Veer-myn have a tunneling and short ranged special weapons of destruction theme.
True, I think they outdid the GW Squats quite well, and also seems to have them in the Demiurg role with their high tech always able to mine in spce and such.
Veer-Myn also did the fan idea of the space-Skaven/Hrud concept as was wanted but turned down by GW, the Asterians seem very Necron/Eldar/Tau mixed
The rebs seem a new idea, the Xxor seem Tyranid/other hybrid, and the Plague, I was watching the movie Planet Hulk, and they have elements of the Spikes infection mixed with zombie movies and others in fiction.
"Your mumblings are awakening the sleeping Dragon, be wary when meddling the affairs of Dragons, for thou art tasty and go good with either ketchup or chocolate. "
Dragons fear nothing, if it acts up, we breath magic fire that turns them into marshmallow peeps. We leaguers only cry rivets!
2013/06/18 13:11:26
Subject: Scratch Built Stuff on the Cheap - On the Warpath
The drill(s) are fantastic!
I especially like the tread system! Now can you build me a set for a 28mm HISS tank?
"dave you are the definition of old school..." -Viktor Von Domm My P&M Blog : It's great how just adding a little iconography, and rivets of course, can make something look distinctly 40K-adamsouza
"Ah yes, the sound of riveting.....Swear word after swear word and the clinking of thrown tools" "Nope. It sucks do it again..."- mxwllmdr
"It puts together more terrain, or else it gets the hose again...-dangledorf2.0
"This is the Imperium, there is no peace, there are only rivets" -Vitruvian XVII
"I think rivets are the perfect solution to almost every problem"- Rawson
More buildings for the Building God! -Shasolenzabi
2013/06/18 15:06:15
Subject: Scratch Built Stuff on the Cheap - On the Warpath
"Your mumblings are awakening the sleeping Dragon, be wary when meddling the affairs of Dragons, for thou art tasty and go good with either ketchup or chocolate. "
Dragons fear nothing, if it acts up, we breath magic fire that turns them into marshmallow peeps. We leaguers only cry rivets!
2013/06/27 17:33:33
Subject: Re:Scratch Built Stuff on the Cheap - On the Warpath
Saw you had a blog. Thought I'd check it out. Awesome stuff! I fall into a similar place as you in terms of not being willing to pay full retail for minis these days. Not nearly so accomplished with the scratchbuilding though! I made some paper buildings for D&D once but paper stuff and I just don't get along too well, and the awesome buildings and terrain you people pull out of thin air and random parts are just beyond me!
Much of interest be here, I'll be watching for sure
2013/06/28 03:02:55
Subject: Scratch Built Stuff on the Cheap - On the Warpath
I'll be back into the swing of things scratch building soon enough. Been side tracked lately with some real life drama, and an addiction to Marvel Avengers: Alliance.
Didn't get any modelling done, other than to put a few layers of PVA on the drill sections of my tunneling vehicles.
Didn't get the promotion, I was the most qualified for, and they didn't even have the decency to call and tell me.
Spent a week on vacation with my wife and kids, which resulted in me needing a vacation more now, when it's over, than when it started.
My wife and daughter got in to a car accident this morning. They are okay, but the car will be out of commission for days/weeks until it gets sorted. They actually got rear ended, by a police officer.
Heading into work today, for the first time in 9 days, feeling under appreciated, dreading the heavy Monday work load, and I think I'm coming down with a sinus infection, because I'm starting to get an ear ache.
It's been one of those days. All I want to do is go back to bed.
Built a pair of working catapults with my daughter. Will post pictures of those, once the paint dries.
Someone kindly asked me about the defense lines I made a while back. Had completely forgot about them. Will try and get a set of printable plans up for them this weekend.
Got my Reaper Bones package. 29.6 lbs. I got tired just cutting them out of their little individual baggies. I'm not looking forward to inventorying them, but I think a few odds and ends might be missing. Beautiful detail. Reaper always made top quality models.
One of my friends, just this week, opened up a new gaming shop, Cape Cod Collectables. Miniatures Gaming, Comics, MTG, Heroclix, and 3D printing all under one roof. Going by there later tonight to check it out, I'm quite excited about having an awesome new gaming shop a 20 minute drive from my house.
Wow jealous of reaper bones backers.. missed that one.
Wish your friends new game store wasn't half the country away (assuming its cape cod ma) but good to hear you've got another one close, they're in short supply out my way.
Catapults you say?
2013/07/12 21:59:59
Subject: Scratch Built Stuff on the Cheap - On the Warpath
Yup, Cape Cod Mass. Technically East Wareham, and a 30 minute drive from my house, but worth the trip.
The Gaming store is going to be awesome. It's in a great location, has lots of parking, handicap accessible, lots of space for gaming and merchandise,two additional rooms, an outdoor fenced in basketball court, and literally 20+ places to eat minutes away, some just across the street.
One of the additional rooms used to be a good sized conference room and is now the Role Playing Game room. 8x8 table, dry erase board on the wall, well lit. The other room they plan on having a permanent painting station set up, for gamers to have some where to relax and assemble/paint their models, and work on terrain.
The building used to be a church, and it's in immaculate condition. They'll have GW product on the shelves by weeks end. Comics, T-shirts, and toys already line the shelves. Home of the worlds largest repository of SHOCKFORCE miniatures and rule books (One of the owners bought out all of DemonBlades Games inventory)
There are also plans to add Mantic products, and Warpath as well. They already have a MTG and Warmachine playerbases already playing in the stores.
They plan on running classes/seminars on 3D printing, and I will jump on those.
I wanted to do a proper release of the defense walls with a more detailed version, a building tutorial, some painted pics, etc... but I always seem to get distracted. Not playing 40K, or having plans to in the near future, crushes some of my motivation, but I will do it, eventually
In the mean time, here is the original version, so you can experiment with it yourselves.
thanks mate... very genrous of you!... downloaded already!!!
i think i will need that sooner than later...i think it will star in a way in my next league of extraordinary riveteer competition...i will of course show credit where it´s due
With the risk of goind off topic, my YLAM Gaming blog has had the pleasure of letting people know about this work, since it's inception a few years now, and I figured it would be welcomed news here on DakkaDakka of the update
Updated Warhammer 40K 6E Sisters Of Battle Codex July 2013
This is an updated, improved version of the Sisters of Battle Codex as found in White Dwarf Issues 379 and 380, combined with the infomation in Warhammer 40,000 6th Edition Rulebook, Imperial Armour Vol. 2: Space Marines and Forces of the Inquisition, Imperial Armour Aeronautica, Wall of Martyrs – Vengeance Weapons Battery set, Wall of Martyrs – Firestorm Redoubt set and the FAQs and Errata for all of the above, into a print-ready, Condensed Codex, which includes all the rules for running a Sisters of Battle army.
GW has so far neglected the Sisters of Battle in an official capacity for years. Certain enterprising people, who wish to remain anonymous, have lovingly compiled all the official Sisters of Battle material into one handy resource.
Two days ago I was at my local GW, and the manager there told me that GW customer services explicitly told him to tell people wanting to start an SoB army to just download a PDF from the internet.
You may actually be getting more downloads thanks to GW!
With over 7000 downloads in the past months, this may be as unofficialy official as it gets.
Actually the Bastion was done on the fly. I made a box for the bottom, a box for the middle, and just figured out the rest of the pieces as I needed them, nothing was digital, but I'll see if I can put something together
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And now for something completely different...
This week I built some terrain for a Necessary Evil Game I'm running. It's printed cardstock, mounted on Foamcore.
Trigger helped me out with some custom art, and I kitbashed the heck out of it.
The Building is from Fat Dragon GamesCapital City Line, and is building number 4. All the blue trim, window art, and doors are custom work by Trigger.
The original model is basically a box. I mounted it to foam core, recessed the doorways and roof, added the side window and wrap around wood trim, and removed a thrid door from the original model.
I showed one of the owners of Cape Cod Collectables and he was delighted.
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