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Not just kids I'm worried about, adults can be just as bad, especially really bored husbands of English teachers . We love to look at things, touch them, and accidentally break them because we're clumsy. While cleaning off the workstation I made sure to shelve the servo skull janitors and army figures up higher Han most kids can reach. It was satisfying to see how much I accomplished in such short of a time. I'll try and get pics of it later.

What's really upsetting is that all the bits I had dug for and had organized in piles on my desk got unceremoniously boxed up. But diggin for gold is fun to me so I'm sure I'll find them again.

In the mean time I just saw the new league competition, recycled underhive will be my first project when I'm back in business. I have a couple ideas. Either a power station, or a ganger house. Still trying to decide which, any suggestions? I had cruelly found bits last night during he cleanup and said "hey this would be cool for........", hen saw the competition his morning. Can tell if it was God giving me a head start on everyone else because he knows the party will sidetrack me, or if it was he devil having fun by sidetracking me from the servo skull army.

A third idea just hit me while typing this. I better go write it down before I forget .

You'll never find anything again...I weep for your hobby area!


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Man should never be denied the peace of his Inner Sanctum!

I still haven't found exactly how I want my game area setup, so this is just a step towards getting h basement how I want it .

Holy styrene batman I'm at 50 pages , that's 49 pages further than I thought I would ever get thanks everyone for your time and imput on my thread I'm all chocked up

Okay enough sappy get back to work all of you not suffering through a heat wave. It's 33 degrees centigrade here right now, and three more hours roughly till the hottest part of the day. We have 30+ people coming over and I'm supposed to BBQ for all of them at that time , I guess I've been trying to loose weight, but sweeting like this is less fun than working out.

It is feeling like 36c here, later to get to feeling 39c here Tstorm on the way, hope it cools things down

It's nice and cold inside for me

Well we're at 35 celcius now, and that's not counting next to the grill. But getting to think of competition stuff while m cooking(both ways)

love to look at things, touch them, and accidentally break them because we're clumsy.

that sounds a tiny bit autobiographical, innit?^^

and well...50 pages and you served us cool stuff all the way... not our fault to follow the damned piper if he makes those sweet tunes all the way

But diggin for gold is fun to me so I'm sure I'll find them again.

i think that is the main reason i try to join so many comps recently... they make me dig through my bitzboxes ...

I had cruelly found bits last night during he cleanup and said "hey this would be cool for........", hen saw the competition his morning. Can tell if it was God giving me a head start on everyone else because he knows the party will sidetrack me, or if it was he devil having fun by sidetracking me from the servo skull army.

A third idea just hit me while typing this. I better go write it down before I forget .

lol... i really wonder if martians now come in there... if you blame god or the devil.... then what ever could be the third option... sublimal messages during the nigt from your wife during sleep?...suspense is killing me...

also... be sure just to place it on a CD... brain seems to be doing this for educational reasons... and you can´t go more classic than CD based terrain!

Congratulations on 50 pages. It has indeed been enjoyable to watch.

Good luck with the bbq and the basement shuffle (maybe you'll even find your marbo-alike this time).

Or the MW?

 SelvaggioSaky wrote:
Or the MW?

Oh yeah MW. That's what I meant.

Happy 50! 400+ to go!

 dsteingass wrote:
Happy 50! 400+ to go!

Isn't that just to catch your old thread, or get to where vik is now??? There is plenty more to come, no worries here.

All the teachers have left now , I spent two hours on the grill today cooking brats, dogs, and burgers I'm more well done than the food. Then listened like a wallflower as they talked about students, faculty, and state laws on education . I try to be a good host, but the only pauses that showed up are or were teachers also . I'm tired now, hopefully have mod energy in the am.

take your rest, bratwurst slave

Your sacrifice will be rewarded!

Cooking brats? Were the kids that bad behaved that you chucked them on the grill? And as for dogs, hope you peeled the fur off first, nothing worse than getting that stuck in your teeth...

Cooking brats? Were the kids that bad behaved that you chucked them on the grill?

here speaks a father who has seen a thing or two

Dakka ate my hilarious post. I'm to funny for it,and it was too long to re type. Needless to say everyone survived the party. The kids were great any funny as heck. The adults had fun in treachery sorts of ways . And no one even went into the basement, so my stuff was safe .

On to competition news couldn't sleep last night, even after two showers I still smell like a turkey burger. But while I was tossing and turning I was trying to think of an idea for the terrain competition. Drawing from what got me into warhammer fantasy (my first miniature wargamesfactory), I remembered the one piece of terrain that was THE objective to take every game....the outhouse . So I figure I can make one of those for fantasy and one for 40k, and I think I have the perfect starting pieces for it.



They had to be something a new warhammer would have. Who doesn't have loads of dice? The cubes are the dice boxes that one gets from buying bricks of d6s, and I have had them sitting around for years doing nothing. So that should fit the requirements of recycled/repurposed/reused. Both together would fit on a cd, so I think I'm safe there. The 40k version will just be turned into a Johnny on the spot and the fantasy one will become a true outhouse. Bothe will get treatment using plastic card that any new gamer can easily get for free by grabbing a few gift cards at Walmart, or using the spent I tunes cards they have gotten on birthdays and holidays.lets not throw those in the rubbish bins. Time to start chopping

even after two showers I still smell like a turkey burger

LOL...

the dakka ate my post... that always happens with my wifes comp... this is so frustrating!!

i really like your outhouse idea... MR Merlin did an outhouse for the cookie competition in the second comp...maybe you check his gallery... but you are aiming for a modern "dixi" toilet (that´s how they are called here...) and he made a wooden one...also... what about the throne? will you make an insde for this?

Look forward to the outhouses. My first though for inspiration for you was Day of the Tentacle...

^cool! i can´t say when the last time was i have heard of that ol´ gem!!!

It's still one of my favourite games of all time.
I even used it as inspiration of the colour scheme for one of my Tyranids...

Because purple tentacles are always evil...

Never want to run across that gaunt anywhere, much less in a toilet. The inner workings will not be functional on these to allow larger models to fit inside. We had great fun with the outhouses in our games, ah the memories.


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And in on a second competition, here's the linky
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/540894.page#5862868
Gun emplacement, now what to make?

a gun emplacement perhaps

ah so i understand you will leave the outhouse inside emptty and the case as such to be still being able to open...aha!...clever idea...is the mini inside then in full cover?

Opponent gets full cover save, but flame weapons do double damage stupid computer issue last night. Hit submit, walked away for date night Witt the wife, and nothing went through.....maybe dakkadakka has had enough of me and my humor.

maybe dakkadakka has had enough of me and my humor.

there lies madness down that road...beware!

nope... sometimes i bet it has to do with the web as such...

like the times when we double post... only hit the submit button once but it hickups...

More humor! more madness!

 cormadepanda wrote:
More humor! more madness!

This is Theophony!!! Insert spartan picture here!


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Well, everyone seems quiet today. I hope I don't wake too many up with my latest. It is going to be part of my competition entry. For the competition this will be a separate piece, not sure what it will count as besides a BFG, but later I intend on making a second home for it as part of a building.


Orbital killer gun

Business end

In the far future this will be part of a defense building, but the building here is only a part of the whole. I have additional base pieces, so one will be made to be an outpost weapon, for the competition, but the gun itself will later be transported to the roof.

The ball of the weapon is a Lego kit part. Basically planets, this is supposed to be an asteroid field. The cup it sits in is the top from a kool aid mix bottle. The focusing bit is left over part from my ultrasonic cleaner. Tubing and rivets are.....tubing and rivets from pc.

The gun has a tilt of 180 degrees and can spin freely in the cup. It can be used as an objective in 40k, apocalypse, hopefully with the dreamforge game as an anti leviathan weapon, and maybe even with mecha front.

As always comments, suggestions, and Snide remarks are always taken .

That gun looks like Star Wars planetary defense ion cannon



I like it!

awesome... simply awesome...
we have quite some of these lego planets too... but I wouldn´t commit this work to them... I have other balls for that

but I like your whole design!!!

by the way... to make matters even more cruel... do you know which planet would have been ideal? the death star set!!!

deathstar set would have been great...if only the store had one at the time. I picked this one up a while back and was going to use it for a power plant, but then this came up. the only problem I see with the death star would be the divet in it where the maingun fires from, it would have looked awkward in my design, but would have loved the panels molded on it.