Dave's new Hobby Adventure thread | More buildings for the Building God!

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**SagesStone**

Never heard of it either, then again I didn't really read anything to begin with.

**Theophony**

"May the fourth be with you", heard it at least ten times at the trivia night

, not something most people would think to hear at a church event, but when the pastor wears Star Wars hurts in service anything is possible.

**Briancj**

Dave,

A couple notes of Valk cockpits:

1) You're missing the \_/ shaped pieces that goes between the two plastic cockpits.
2) The canopy pieces have the cross-beams moulded in. Thusly, you would have needed to build your own cross-bars for the side pieces. I seem to remember ranting about this awhile back, because it made painting the two canopies a total bitch.

Other than that, great progress, and great bag of OOP miniatures! Maybe if I'm nice to Theopony, they'll send me something. A pony? Perhaps.

--B.

**Theophony**

Briancj wrote:
Dave,

A couple notes of Valk cockpits:

1) You're missing the \_/ shaped pieces that goes between the two plastic cockpits.
2) The canopy pieces have the cross-beams moulded in. Thusly, you would have needed to build your own cross-bars for the side pieces. I seem to remember ranting about this awhile back, because it made painting the two canopies a total bitch.

Other than that, great progress, and great bag of OOP miniatures! Maybe if I'm nice to Theopony, they'll send me something. A pony? Perhaps.

--B.

No ponies here unless your needing knights on them. Ome Rohan, but mainly knights from the "battle masters" sets by Milton Bradley years go. A buddy and I split 6 boxes. Instant empire and chaos armies. The toy store had them on clearance.

Most of my guard tuff is gone now. But ask me and I'll check.

I'm sure we can work something out if your buddy wound up with any oop Escher or a mad Donna ulanti

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**dsteingass**

Well, I fixed the missing part with good old styrene strip stock, I'll certainly not be buying any more FW plastic/resin hybrids again, that is for sure!

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In other news..another beautiful day here! We took the puppy to the park, got new "antigravity lawn chairs", and I found an Infinity Campaign: Paradiso book at Half-Price books for $7!
Oh, and I found some of the infamous "sprued fish tank plants" for jungle terrain at the pet shop too!

**Viktor von Domm**

see... that is one cool outcome of having a pet... now you have a justified cause to go to a petshop...

and my wife went to the bookshop... seems that may 11 is the right day for germany´s free comic book day... but that is now marked out in our calendar^^

**dsteingass**

Haha- Yes, that is true! -I saw lots of potential alien flora hanging there too! Ahh! Very cool! It's always the first Saturday in May every year here

**Viktor von Domm**

in petshops you can also find lots of useful stuff...mainly for terrarium and fish tank related decoration... instant usable rocks and even ruins...

**dsteingass**

Yeah, but that stuff isn't exactly cheap either. It should be, but it isn't.

**Viktor von Domm**

er...yes...tho sometimes one can be lucky and get sales^^

**Briancj**

Pft. Not having a pet NEVER stopped me from going into pet stores looking for terrain.

**dsteingass**

I always saw the sprued stuff on UK sites, I never thought it was available in the US until I saw it today.

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Got this much for $12

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Welcome to the Roughnecks

THEO'S ROUGHNECKS!

**SagesStone**

That guy on the cork looks quite uncomfortable.

**dsteingass**

you mean from carrying around forearms that Popeye would look wimpy next to? Hands bigger than his head? And a holster for a sidearm as big as his Femur?

**Briancj**

No, I suspect the problem is with the rod shoved up his ass, Dave.

**JWMarines**

dsteingass wrote:

Welcome to the Roughnecks

THEO'S ROUGHNECKS!

And now I have to watch that movie tomorrow... while putting together Cadians.

**Theophony**

Glad they went to a good home, one away from bugs where they can live long healthy lives. Paint job looking good on them, is that just the base layer for a camo scheme or are you going more mono colored?

**RSJake**

Watching Starship Troopers should be mandatory while putting together IG troops.

Looking good there Dave! And I can't wait to see how you use the Pet Shop Flora!

**dsteingass**

HAHA Brian a.k.a. Mr. Obvious

D

@JW This is compulsory anyways, but you're welcome!

@ Theo Base Colors so far, The fatigues will have urban camo markings of a yet undecided pattern and since you get their namesake..YOU decide what color their webbing and gear will be (because I suck at color selection)

@Jake Thanks man!

**Theophony**

Pink

. Just kidding, go dark grey or black if your doing urban camo. It might help blend into the field.

**JWMarines**

@ Dave & Jake: For me it's a toss up between Starship Troopers (though closer to the IG mark) and Patton... "I love it. God help me, I love it so."

**dsteingass**

The critics be damned! It's a great movie, never gets old either.

**Viktor von Domm**

good looking troops there...you could also make these to be lead by your vault dweller... paint lil yellow numbers on their backs and they could be an anti-mutie squad

**Scarper**

Wow, lots of production lately! I too am in a painty kind of mood - never seems to last long for me, so try to make the most of your own painting mood!

New troopers are looking ace, lots of pretty diversity in the skin tone. At the moment the colour scheme's really calling to mind for me an urban military police force, kind of like a SWAT team, though I definitely pick up the bug hunter vibe. I really like the old cadian minis, they had a lot of character. Looking forward to seeing where you go with them!

**dsteingass**

Thanks guys!
Well, I like this, what do you guys think?

Nevermind the cobweb remains on his helmet, the building has been a spider playground for some time

**Theophony**

That's why they needed to be transfered to a new regiment, they'd still be in their arctic white camo if I hadn't sent them. They look great.

**dsteingass**

Thanks, only this one is done to test the camo pattern, which is just little squiggles of white really, I think camo patterns at this scale should always be simplified, otherwise it gets too busy.

**JWMarines**

That's a nice looking camo. It doesn't overtake the rest of the model like some camo schemes I've seen.

**dsteingass**

Thanks JW! That must mean it's working, whatever I'm doing

**shasolenzabi**

Those 2nd ed cadians are looking great Dave! good reassignment Theo!