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Thraxas Of Turai wrote:Dunno, the Titan Games stuff is pretty epic.

Are you questioning the judge's aesthetic here?!?

I still say yours is the best so far!

Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
Brand is Holts Auto Spray paint, a Manchester company, their 300ml sprays are cheap and what i use to base all of my miniatures.

Matt Black Spray.
Hgrey03 Spray
GW: Seraphim Sepia
GW: Hawk Turqoise
GW: Golden Yellow (over a white base).

I don't think those primers translate over the pond, but those GW names do - thanks!

pretre wrote:Omg, so excited. They should be here on Monday and all these pics are getting me more excited.

Now if I could only remember what I got!

Same here - I'm off to go look that up...

I figured out my plans for the terrain, going to involve coloured translucent acrylic windows. Looks like getting custom-cut rectangles should work great with a little filing down on the internal walls of the window tiles. Just need to find a good source with the right width, colour and custom cut sizes.

Going to base the colour scheme off Miranda from Serenity. Sandstone board (once my secret weapon board arrives), white buildings, turquoisey blue glass.

I think a clear plastic window insert sprue could be pretty popular if Mantic decided to make one. Or possibly some custom resin or acrylic bits from a third party supplier.

 scarletsquig wrote:
I figured out my plans for the terrain, going to involve coloured translucent acrylic windows. Looks like getting custom-cut rectangles should work great with a little filing down on the internal walls of the window tiles. Just need to find a good source with the right width, colour and custom cut sizes.

Going to base the colour scheme off Miranda from Serenity. Sandstone board (once my secret weapon board arrives), white buildings, turquoisey blue glass.

I think a clear plastic window insert sprue could be pretty popular if Mantic decided to make one. Or possibly some custom resin or acrylic bits from a third party supplier.

With the ease of turning some Rebs into browncoats, are we going to see your first Reb ship look like a certain familiar ship captained by Malcolm Reynolds?

I think one wrinkle with that plan that would need consideration is ease of manipulating figures within buildings - the tile with the double window has enough space to fit a finger if needed. If you put in a pane of glass you'd have to make sure there were enough doors/gaps to accomodate gameplay.

Depends on how you make the buildings. If you make them intact but with the back wall (where they meet the edge of the mat) missing, then it would probably work just fine. Kind of doll-house-like.

A good trick that I used on a couple of my buildings was, if you stick the long straight connector / scenery pieces from the accessory sprues on each end, and don't use any corner connectors, you can quite easily create a remove-able wall.

My plan was to cut some clear acetate to shape for the windows. You can get 10 mil A4 sheets intended as booklet covers for fairly cheap, certainly much cheaper than custom cut acrylic. They have colored acetate, mostly used as overhead transparencies, but it's usually more like 2~4 mil sheets.

http://www.cfsbinds.com/clearvincov.html

Not exactly news or rumours, but if you'd like to see more in detail just how *much* 4 Battlezones actually is... Have a look at my Deadzone Blog in the Mantic Games section.

 Compel wrote:
Not exactly news or rumours, but if you'd like to see more in detail just how *awesome* 4 Battlezones actually can look assembled with a nifty theme in mind... Have a look at my Deadzone Blog in the Mantic Games section.

Fixed that for you, too modest, it's a really neat board set up

and I like that I've managed to make every part of it *functional* and not just random corner pieces.

It's really inspiring. Like you say there, it looks better when all of the buildings look like they have some sort of purpose, rather than just being ruined corners.So far I've only made a vehicle garage (and it still needs the roof decorating), but I want to have something in mind for each piece. If I can hit my painting target before the Christmas break starts then I'm going to clear my paint station and just build for a couple of weeks.

I think if painted up right this may go well on a deadzone board.

http://www.antenocitisworkshop.com/colony-habitat-1-28mm.html

As would much of the other stuff in the range.

http://www.antenocitisworkshop.com/antenocitis/governance-of-technology-got-scenery-1.html

Just realised they were selling some of this stuff in the kickstarter.

I have been assembling figs all day... I have a disdain for the Enforcers idk why, but I feel like God put them on this planet to torment me.

With that being said, my excitement level is still ridiculously high. I've got my plague assembled, starting on one of the other factions while watching Sunday Night Football. I'm half tempted to just treat this as a board game, assemble everything and then never paint it, just so I can play it with people

Really digging your scenery Thrax! I'm probably going to do something similar, then just weather the crap out of it
I've not done much painting yet, still working on a test model. Would love to know what you guys think so far. He's still WIP, lots of the model is just base coat still. Will be taking DZ boxset to work Tuesday, hopefully get a small test game in.

Reb WIP

The painting is looking good. Did you prime him?

The platforms his feet are on look awful. Those are going to add a lot of work to my figure clean up when my package finally arrives.

 Rhelyk wrote:
My plan was to cut some clear acetate to shape for the windows. You can get 10 mil A4 sheets intended as booklet covers for fairly cheap, certainly much cheaper than custom cut acrylic. They have colored acetate, mostly used as overhead transparencies, but it's usually more like 2~4 mil sheets.

http://www.cfsbinds.com/clearvincov.html

This is good advice!

I think I'll definitely have a much easier time looking for some 200+ micron thickness material, whatever the source. Getting the right colour and transparency is tricky though. After browsing around for an hour or so, I think I've found my solution:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tiger-foolscap-coloured-wallet-folders/dp/B004WSAOPC/ref=pd_sim_sbs_office_1

Tinted plastic A4 stationary folders. You can get these things in pretty much any colour you want, from almost anywhere. The link above (for the turquoisey one at the back) is what I'll get if I can't find the colour I want individually looking through the local stationers. Reasonably thick, but still cuttable plastic that should do very nicely for windows.

@ ttw85: Would be quite easy to make a firefly game out of deadzone, although I think the plague zombies would be more suitable as reaver minis.

Woo hoo! My Deadzone was officially picked up by Fedex from Mantic at 1:42 pm today and is en route to the east coast of the United States! ETA is 10:30 am tomorrow, but we'll see!

Mine is ETA 10:30 this morning.

Box already made it from England to my local FedEx office this morning.

Hopefully someone is actually home when the delivery guy comes around, or I will be one sad panda.

Darn you guys! Still sitting on the first floaty notification =/ Are you both courier by chance or am I just unlucky to have been passed over or something?

 GrimDork wrote:
Darn you guys! Still sitting on the first floaty notification =/ Are you both courier by chance or am I just unlucky to have been passed over or something?

Same here - so we're in that particular boat together.

I've got a fairly substantial pledge and I live on the East Coast - I was expecting to see this thing on its way to me by now...

East coast, yeah you're a bit closer than I am. I've been saying all along that I'd be likely to end up closer to last just because. However the sorting goes, if they do it by last name, they'll start at Z, if they do it by amount pledged, they'll send out the small packages first etc

At least I got my miniature market order in and have my enforcer scheme sorted out

Crossing my fingers we get our shipping notifications by tomorrow/wednesday so we can still hope to get them by friday/saturday in a pessimistic time frame.

 Alpharius wrote:

 GrimDork wrote:
Darn you guys! Still sitting on the first floaty notification =/ Are you both courier by chance or am I just unlucky to have been passed over or something?

Same here - so we're in that particular boat together.

I've got a fairly substantial pledge and I live on the East Coast - I was expecting to see this thing on its way to me by now...

Did you get a second notification and think it was the same one? I got two. The first one is stuck in limbo. The second one is delivering today.

I've been checking the second one - no movement there.

Maybe I should check the first one?

I'm practically right next door to you Alph, and I haven't seen any changes either.

Yeah I used a grey primer, so you can't really tell. Didn't want to paint yellow over black and I don't really like white undercoats. The feet platforms are rather horrible. I'm hoping just basing over them will be ok. I'd of clipped them off If I'd thought of it Cpt.Jake

Scratch that, it just changed. I can expect it tomorrow apparently! If that's accurate. Haha. I'm gonna have it rerouted to work.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Scratch that, it just changed. I can expect it tomorrow apparently! If that's accurate. Haha. I'm gonna have it rerouted to work.

So I get all excited and recheck mine just knowing I'll see it has been updated.

Nope. Still "anticipated to ship" by Thursday the 5th of December.

 Alpharius wrote:
I've been checking the second one - no movement there.

Maybe I should check the first one?

Hmph. Weird. Maybe the Fedex guy threw his back out putting it on the truck?

I believe I've only ever gotten one, and it's never moved except to change delivery date to n/a or whatever. I'll have to check again. By the 5th? Mine said the 3rd and still no movement =/

 timetowaste85 wrote:
I'm practically right next door to you Alph, and I haven't seen any changes either.

Is Ms. Alba still at your house?!?

My info says:

This shipment is scheduled to be sent on 12/02/2013.

I'm fairly certain that hasn't happened yet.

I've got two, now that I check. Both have no movement.

News you say? Merc cards are out for anyone with the PDF, get to lookin!