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watch your back mate... that sounds as if you work at a snakes den...have worked with such female workers like these before...and here the ancient idiom duck and cover is the best strategy... in my view if you wait long enough they tear themselves apart in due time...(thunderdome )

and do I get it right here... you´re an evangelic Christian and your aunt is a catholic?...
and kicking the habit... I guess she does that each evening after before the shower

Well, the 3 stooges lost that round. Next round is caged death match sponsored by the hospital. Chain saws included. Panda has VIP tickets. I get a set for Vik too. Odds are 4:1 you are the favorite, simply because you asked for a straight jacket.

Hope to see some hobby time after family time.

@vik, thanks, I have all four of my eyes peeled , and my bosses are prepared too. They know what type of work I do so I just need to keep my nose clean (picking it right now), and they will back me up. Plus they've been n trouble before fore the same reasons.
@comrade, I still have hobby time in the early am before we leave, like this morning.

So I was in a stripey mood this morning. Also my old standard iron warriors color scheme seems to be winning me back. The newer method looks good on the organics, but the hard metals are crying for bolt gun metal/leadbelcher.

And the new gator-mauler delivery system . Because what's scarier than a resentful giant cybernetic demonic gator.....a resentful flying giant cybernetic demonic gator backed up with a knight Titan.

One liter bottle for scale reference.

Thinking of writing the "unbreakable litany" (iron warriors creedo) in the black area of the shoulder pad. It goes like this


From Iron, cometh Strength. From Strength, cometh Will. From Will, cometh Faith. From Faith, cometh Honour. From Honour, cometh Iron. This is the Unbreakable Litany, and may it forever be so

Either that or try and get the iron warrior helmet there, I could do one on one shoulder and the other on the opposing shoulder. Any suggestions either way?

From Iron, cometh Strength. From Strength, cometh Will. From Will, cometh Faith. From Faith, cometh Honour. From Honour, cometh Iron. This is the Unbreakable Litany, and may it forever be so

They've not talked to any chemists have they...

Nice stripyness. Good job.

A large area like that is ideal for the writing. You won't get many other chances at this scale to do it.

Ah, I see. I thought the bottle was the delivery system

Thith ith the unbreakable litany, and may it forever be tho....


Stripey Krueger glove looks good

@monkeytroll, thanks, just wait till you see stripey wolverine claws/katanas
@Dr. H, no they obviously didn't, but I'm not arguing with perturbo

Speaking of perturbo, I went digging through my iron warrior stuff and found my conversion of him.

Also found 8 metal obliterators, 2FW dreadnoughts slightly messed up , 24 nurglings, a pack of deathguard terminator upgrades from FW and other fun things like demon princes

After pulling perturbo out I remembered he had his robotic guard "the circle of iron", perhaps I can use these guys to represent them.

The center guys. I have three now, I think there's supposed to be eight , guess I might have to buy more sedition war boxed sets

I sometimes can´t believe how much stuff you are storing....

the stripes look amazing....and I like how shaded they appear! nice scratches too...

perturabo looks good...tho I have to say...the kneepads look slightly too big... if it was a truescale marine that might work... but I get a feeling as if his knees are a bit swollen...arthritis...

Theo I want in your bits box and all it.comes with.

some people limit themselves to bits boxes, me I have a bits basement with a section devoted to lego

lol... well that is why owning a house of your own has all the merits....

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
watch your back mate... that sounds as if you work at a snakes den...have worked with such female workers like these before...and here the ancient idiom duck and cover is the best strategy... in my view if you wait long enough they tear themselves apart in due time...(thunderdome )

and do I get it right here... you´re an evangelic Christian and your aunt is a catholic?...
and kicking the habit... I guess she does that each evening after before the shower

Duck and Cover.... Oh dear, that old Civil Defense song. I remember that from Elementary school. A Cold War thing. Here we go. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60

In the good Ol' USA Vik, Duck and Cover is not as wise as Document and Report. It is the best way to CYA.

 Dr H wrote:

From Iron, cometh Strength. From Strength, cometh Will. From Will, cometh Faith. From Faith, cometh Honour. From Honour, cometh Iron. This is the Unbreakable Litany, and may it forever be so

They've not talked to any chemists have they...

Nice stripyness. Good job.

A large area like that is ideal for the writing. You won't get many other chances at this scale to do it.

I don't think there are chemists in the 40th millenium Doc. Or physicists either. A sad vision, humanity without scientists :(

I'm amazed at how well organized things look in the background. Pegboard even. Nice.

Doc is right about the freehand too. You must do some on something that big.

I don't think there are chemists in the 40th millenium Doc. Or physicists either. A sad vision, humanity without scientists :(

Yeah, I keep forgetting that The (Mad) Scientist is a bastion of sanity in the crazy universe of the 40th millennium.

Love how crisp those stripes are. Lovely work on the gribblies too, sorry for just lurking!

at Red... CYA... had to look it up... learned something new...the old song of duck and cover I know from way back... silly politics thinking for even sillier peeps...
I still remember that scene from war of the worlds...where they nuke the aliens and just wear protective glasses...

and because of the lack of science in the 40k quasi religious worshiping got that far...or the other way round...

@vik, well we play games from an industry that believes bikinis provide a 5++ save so goggles could work, just ask Indiana jones if his refridgerator is still running?
@graven, thanks, I use a micro pen to outline the stripes and a ruler to make sure they start and end similar. Lurking happens(I think I need a shirt that says this)
@Dr. H, all scientists in 40k are given future lobotomies, where their heads are removed and turned into servo skulls. While this increases their longevity, it tends to shy people away from that pursuit of a career.
@redharvest, I recently reorganized my gaming/painting area.....it needs cleaning and reorganizing again
@vik.....again, home ownership is good, having a mortgage sucks, but its better to pay. Little more each month and know you'll own it eventually than to pay rent and not get any return. But I also know that there's times when renting is the only way.

Did a little painting, but pics will come later as I must run out really quick so my daughter can go on a play date with a friend in a little while.

Edit back with pics.


Hazard stripes on claws I thought was a good idea at the time.....now it looks like scary gay fingernails

scary gay fingernails ....ROFL....

but I still like them nevertheless^^

and yep indy´s freeze is epic...epic facepalm...I absolutely think that movie is the essence of jar jar binks... if he would have been grinded to dust...which I too think should have been done^^

Another sedition war figure, this time a good guy. Barka Soze, or something like that. Hears his t-Shirt armor and exoskeleton. Still needs work, but I'm liking the flesh tone on him. Must do something about the lips and his eyes though. WIP.


Then back to the iron warrior Titan

Sickle arm.
And how could I not throw hazard stripes on there

Good work Theo. Skin tone is good and I like the metal work and the stripes.

and what's wrong with patterned fingernails...

@Dr. H, thanks, patterned fingernails are good for.....not even going there

Well Thursday night and all day Friday were family time, as I'm sure today and tomorrow will be as well. Yesterday we spent 5hours in the car driving to and back from Hannibal, MO. The home of Samuel Clemens and Molly Brown. Samuel Clemens also known as Mark Twain the author of numerous books, articles and stories including Huckleberry Finn based most of his stories on his own life events in Hannibal. While the trip was fun....I wouldn't recommend it to anyone unless they were a big fan of Mark Twain, or wanted to see a run down town 80 years past its prime . Seriously it felt like the city wanted to only invest its resources into Mark Twain and Molly Brown (who I didn't learn anything about except she survived the Titanic . I didn't see one building in the town that looked as if it had been built in the last 50 years, everything was older than that and looked as if 50 years ago was the last time it saw any attention. Most homes had sagging roofs, falling porches and lawn mowers on their front stoop with weeds in the yard higher than their kids bikes. It was the Norman Rockwell equivalent of a 1960s Necromunda without the imperial eagle and skulls.

I may be bitter because everything we researched before going said "admission $8.00" and when we showed up it was at least twice that . Seriously we went to four different "attractions" to be let down with the price being way more than expected, and the Museums being little more than really old storefronts with a few actual pieces of furniture Samuel Clemens may or may not have sat in at some point in time. Even the metal street signs that used to be in front of the buildings that he worked in were just leaned against a wall inside a museum, no picture of the old building or anything, just the old sign saying that he used to sit in front of THIS window (you were in the center of the museum with no window within 30') and read an article about Joan of Arc, which got him interested in the topic .

I asked my kids what the best part about he trip was, and they mentioned getting to eat out for breakfast, lunch and dinner. That's with all the places we went including the museum set up like a riverboat, all the old stores and seeing old cars 1950s era cars produced by manufacturers not even around when I was a kid in the 1970s. Normally I make them come up with a favorite besides the food, but my wife and I exchanged looks back and forth and we could see on each others faces "yeah that was pretty much the best part o the trip" .

The weather was pretty oppressive as well 96 degrees Fahrenheit with high humidity all day. On the drive back we hit bad storms where you couldn't see 30' in front of you, but the temp dropped from 96 down to 69 (35 Celsius to 20 Celsius)in a matter of two minutes during the storm, but as soon as it stopped raining it was back up to 96.

I was so glad to get home and out of the car. Thursday night we went to the pool and I got sunburnt even with SPF 80 sunblock , I'm so fragile . I guess that might have skewed my opinion of the trip since the seatbelt kept rubbing my burns.

Anyway enough grouchy John. Woke up this morning before the kids and did a little panting.


Tried to write the iron liturgy on the pads, but it came out badly, so got painted over. It's just so long that even breaking it up onto both pads was not legible. It might appear on the top of the back later.


Edit: Also preordered this http://www.manticgames.com/mantic-shop/pre-order/dreadball/product/azure-primalball-viii-limited-edition-dreadball-mega-bundle.html
Yep, getting into dreadball hardcore. Great bundle deal. I was saving for more creaturecaster stuff and possibly a second kingsofwar army. The second might occur, but as I've heard how easy the dreadball rules are and my kids have been trying bloodbowl with me (big frustration for me to try and teach them), I though it might be fun. Plus so much cheaper than the bloodbowl stuff. The bundle comes with seasons 1-3, ultimate dreadball, and the azure forest league. Multiple teams, pitches, MVP, and a few giants. Ships onetime in July. Hopefully early July then I can say happy birthday to myself when it arrives .

Mortis is looking great Theo, and the "good guy" looks like an awesome piece.

Sad about likely the museum website likely posting outdated admission info, now they could be accussed of "Bait and switch" if they soon do not update their information to show 16 dollar admission rates.

@shaso, it wasn't JUST the museum. It was also a nearby cave that doubled its rates and a couple other attractions increased theirs as well. I think the city gave them all internet sites a few years ago and no one has paid the we page administrator to update anything recently.

Back from a day in St. Louis. So much better..... Free museums (all of them in forest park are free along with the zoo). The only thing they will be charging for this year is the 4th of July fireworks which have been moved there this year due to the St. Louis arch grounds being renovated. Even then they are only charging for parking. But with the local buses and metro link system I can hop on the bus at the stop that is next to my house and ride there for relatively cheap and not worry about traffic . St. Louis is a great place for a vacation, and dirt cheap as well. Anyone looking for a family trip let me know, I can give you the low down. The city also just celebrated it's 250th birthday (nothing compared to Europe I know), and there are 250 concrete birthday cakes around town at major landmarks. We hit four of them today, 3 while at dinner, and visited a fifth that we have already gone to. All the schools have a side project over the summer telling the kids to try and visit as many as possible and get a picture with you family next to each. Seems like it's working as every one we go to there's always a small line of families waiting to take a picture at the cakes. Each is about 4' tall and painted differently to celebrate the are they are at.

Anyways headed into one of my kids room with the family now as a nasty storm is approaching. Quarter sized pieces of hail, wind damage and flooding alerts going off. Maybe I'll getucky and that tree I was wanting down will come down and be covered by insurance .

Covered but minus a deductible. Just hope the storms blow it down away from the house. Sounds like standard summer weather here in the Mid-Atlantic. Except the hail. We do get the Hurricanes and Tropical Storms though. And in the past few years, a couple of earthquakes. Those were serious WTF moments.

The painting. Have you tried metallics with the airbrush yet? I'm seeing metallics on the big boy and wondering. For some reason they look great when airbrushed on.

Stay safe family Theo.

You guys are getting some weather at the moment, Git's tornado, and your storm.

Take care.

On the painting, it is looking beautiful. Brilliant and crisp.

Stay safe from the storm.

It sounds like they need to majorly update all their websites for their attractions. Heck sounds like the town itself is all historical builds

@redharvest, its standard weather anytime here in the Midwest, just was different in the fact I was sitting by the window and heard my neighbors eating on their back porch (they eat outside on their patio year round unless its raining). I heard her say something about hail then them grab their plates and run inside, the stuff started about ten minutes later.
@cam, hatches were batten down and everyone is safe . Also thanks.
@shaso, I really think the town must have paid a guy years ago to build all the websites and haven't looked back at hem since. Given the state o the town (slums of Mayberry from Andy Griffith), I wouldn't be surprised if they didnt have Internet connection. One of the places was adamant that you had to have a printed coupon because there was no other way for them to know the coupon existed, and seemed shocked when my wife pulled it up on her phone. We also only got 1 bar on our phones most of the time we were there and at the restaurant we ate a and the museum there was no bars.

Anyway the storm passed us with little to no damage. Was without Internet for about two hours , but no damage I can tell to our vehicles, roof or the tree in the back yard . Got a little painting done this morning. Decided to try and paint up some more sedition wars stuff. This time a test for the good guys color scheme.

First pick with an Iron Warrior for size comparison. I call it "By the Emperor, Its a girl!!!"

The real reason the chaos marines turned is because the Emperor didn't tell them they'd be neutered when changed into space marines

Thinking of painting a little heart or playboy bunny on the badonkadonk

I didn't want to go with a space grey armor scheme, might try it on another model though to see.

Paging soldier McHottie , who needs big guns when most of he conflict can be resolved with supermodels in skintight armor holding their guns in totally ludicrous ways.

If I don use these figs for a sedition wars game hen I can always use them as alternate corporation soldiers for warpath or deadzone.

dreadball is awesome... I am quite often contemplating to get me the human and the orc team... they look simply stunning... for you I recommend the human dreadlike robot... that is an awesome built!!!

and that chick in armor needs a white hand on her rear... as if someone already inspected the merchandise...(sorry for the really horrible chauvinism...)

the chest piece of the IW looks interesting... a very unusal and fresh way to implement stripes on a model!

as for trips... well hasn´t anyone seen the inlaying weirdness? we drive millions of miles just to see that there is no place like home... I still want to get that idea into the head of my wife to stop going on unsatisfying trips... better stay at home...and avoid scammers this way ...

also glad no real storm danger happening to you!
as for the sunburn...you´re still a red head right?... avoid the sun at all cost!... really... my father in law had his legs totally burnt...looked something horrible when he was forced to sit and get healthy again...he slept in his chair and only his lower legs got sunburnt... well he to a redhead and this made his skin literally peel off and look as if he got roasted... (not that this made me too much sympathising with the old &&%§)

I love the titles you give your pictures excellent work all round and glad you're not winning lobster contests

@graven, yeah, I lost the lobster contest, but won the retired farmers tan contest
@vik, we call those staycations, where you stay at home and either see attractions there or you don't do anything except unwind. Not a redhead either, unless you consider the burnt parts around my receding hairline .

Have you played Dreadball? If so how fun is it? Doesn't matter ha I already ordered it I'm going to get into the game.

Also just returned from the "nun party", their were 7 women in her "class", 5 of which are still alive and were at the convent for the celebration. A sixth just passed away a month ago and the seventh within the last year. Pretty safe life to survive this long. My older sisters (who spent summer times with my aunt when they were growing up) found the room she was staying in and shorted her sheets like they did when they were kids . They just wish they could be here tonight when she crawls in bed and find the sheets tightened up where she can't stretch her legs out . Otherwise it was a good time seeing half my family that I usually only see at funerals.

Trying to think of an accent color for the sedition wars people. I put a yellow wire on her arm, but what for a shoulder pad color? Or should I do stripes on the helmet or something else.

Shoulder Pad, Hmm not having seen anything of the background of the game, I think Red

Second the red, or maybe turquoise.

And yup I could not shoot her, so maybe there is something in it!