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Tuesday I will be trying to chillax for Veteran's Day

Well it wasn't a surprise everyone jumps out from behind the couch sort of party. Just one of her teacher friends came over to watch our kids and I took her to a special dinner at a five star steakhouse down the road.(well 4.5star now, but had been 5 star for years). Good time was had, and I have 90% of my 20 once porterhouse left waiting for my breakfast. Crabcakes and salad were filling enough even for me.

Agreed on the grenzer being too dark. I want my guys to be bright and bold and try to exude "I'm such a badass that I wear neon camouflage to sneak up on you in the dark."

Any praying person out there feel free to pray for St. louis today. They are supposed to decide wether the white officer who shot and killed an african American man/youth in one of our suburbs will go to trial today. The news people have been crazy almost eliciting riots trying to bait people after the initial incident and riot where a gas station was torched by protestors. For weeks it was all over the news, but all the people arrested in the protesting were from out of state. It's one of those events where it brings the worst people here to try and get their agenda across. Most school districts have cancelled classes today, but that's rediculous as the area of town where this happened is 20 miles from us, so my kids are in school, but other schools near us are closed. It's a bad situation for the family, officer, and the city. The area it happened in is mostly African American residents, but the police department is mostly Caucasian American, so it's automatically a target for "racial" rights activists when anything happens. The people of that area have suffered since then as news crews have been horrendous. One crew a couple days after the tragedy rented out an entire secured parking garage(fenced in) and sealed themselves in and made a huge ordeal about it. Normally people would ignore this, but it was one of the most used garages in the area and nobody could park there to get to their work .

Enough rambling this early in the morning. 3am, got up for a drink, back to sleep now

I haven't followed it closely but saying that whole thing sucked is a pretty weak understatement. I'd say I hope it gets resolved without further incident but I dunno if I have that much faith in people.

Kudos for showing your Lady a nice time, way to be

Minis looking like they are coming along nicely.

Yeah, let the DoJ handle it like they are supposed to.

Well there wasn't much stuff to do at church today so I took off early, but not after scoring a bundle of discarded guitar strings, power cables are go .

Well what do I do after church work....stop by miniaturemarket of course. Glad I did, they had put out more infinity stuff .

A box of nomad geckos(has the wrong arm in it, but two geckos, one will be converted now) for $30.00
Two Haqqislam remotes (might be missing some bits) for $8
A foxtrot trooper $6
An indigo spec ops $6 PanO
Also picked up some Arcane Legion boxes for $2 each, I know they are totally wrong scale, but if they look decent I might buy up all the Asian themed stuff to build a mantic Kings of war army out of them.

Other guy "those figs are too tiny"
Me "their scale Asians of the world of mantica, their fine."

Oops. How careless of you. You appear to have tripped over a pile of corvus belli.

So I went to pre-order N3 and was going to order Yojimbo along with it, but they were out of stock. I, of course, hold you responsible.

There is system for getting the missing parts, if they were genuinely missing, http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/542643.page Alpharius ( your nemesis?) has a thread with the info.

It's a bit soon to be turning into a faction whore, BTW That generally happens a bit later in the process. The geckos will work nicely enough with the Nomads you already have too.

Miniature Market sells bananas?

@red harvest, , they sell bunches(get it ) of things, but no bananas, or packs of sweet and sour sauce. I have hit them up before for a missing arm for Achilles, I just hate nit picking them. I got two of a different arm so I'm thinking of converting one to have battle damage.
@graven, is it too late to claim that I hurt myself in that trip and try and get compensation in the form of miniatures and trust me there's far worse things to trip on

Getting ready to leave for school, just finished school work for class tonight. Have I mentioned how much I hate accounting?

Numbers are tools of liars and thieves. You Enron accountants out there know what I'm talking about . Tomorrow starts my next 12day stretch without a day off . I'm thinking of adjusting my schedule at church to change that. It might work out that I can get Thursday's off except for school, which would be a godsend, but would make the rest of my week slightly busier, I'm gonna give it a test drive next week.

Gecko!

I approve. Sorry to hear there is an incorrect part, it's never happened to me for some reason but I know they are more than happy to replace bits in these situations.

Really Theo, fixing mispacks is their responsibility, and how do they know when there may be a problem? Only when people report them. By reporting the mispack, and using the complaint code, you can help them improve their QC.

Edit for grammar and clarity.

Holy Gekko's batman! Missing arm? Pfft, I'd have bought it too

I think you are totally outcollecting me on nomads, and painting them faster too.

Nice haul

Never seen the arcane legions stuff before. Look forward to it.

And more infinity is great

Okay sooooooo supply drop......again


I picked up a copy of the 2nd edition rulebook for $35.00, it might annoy me a little as the back cover is not bound correctly, but it's only for fluff anyways as my N3 preorder was made on the first day available.

Also picked up the al muymthmb,in,jvnbmfchmhgchgv 4 pack box, miniaturemarket deal of the day for $18 instead of the $50 RRP, and picked up a nomad prowler as well to get me to the $25 spin on the wheel at miniaturemarket where I got 300 points free (so $3 off my next order)

Also snagged a copy of the quick start rules for infinity, free (give a ways).

Major headache right now. Worked at church this morning getting ready for a wedding tomorrow. Was about to leave so went downstairs to check on a few things and smelled something weird from the furnace room. Opened the door and flipped the lights on, then remembered where I remembered that smell before....zombies....no, just checking If your still reading . There was a gas leak, a bad one, then I was like swift move exlax, you almost blew yourself up. Dozens of frantic calls from outside the building later and a few hours and the gas company was there to confirm and a repair company was there before the gas guy left. But I did find out the church does have good insurance just i case it happens again and my light switch flipping bless me to meet Jesus sooner than I anticipate .

Now off to the hospital, to work, no to check myself in , no padded walls at this one.

hey theo...
still alive...well...sort of...

why I was so longaway from all of you?...mixture of my current work situation at my internship...a school for kids with multidue of speaking disabilities...well so I am often quite tired to talk...even written talk...... and... I am still in the middle of the fourth season of the walking dead... good deal there were no real z´s in your church... tho that leak could have been a different kind of worse ... but the fella above looks after his flock...

your buying habbits seems to not have changed over the last months...... the amount of stuff you take with you at MM is amazing... and I make no mistake here.... my sweet talk means I am jealous about all that metal and plastic candy^^
your painted minis look very cool... I have tried to watch arrow a few times...and I have to say you caught that split colored scheme very good! amazing work mate...!

also... will we see some more of your trench in the nearer future?

cheers, vik

You've got that Infinity bug in a bad way and I love it.

Hey, who's that stranger that posted just before the guy who posted before me
Theo, We just call them 'Mutts'. $18 is a nice price, I think they are normally $32 from MM. Hmm, maybe they'll show up cheap for mail order too...

Edit: malditos ninjas

ach... so easy forgotten... all the tales of the past and to what end... to be just dust in the wind....

Who's the new boy?

And very jealous of all the infinity here abouts, very very jealous, my order has blown away. I too second a wish for some trench action.

@Vik, I'm going to speak for everyone when I say you were missed these last couple weeks. I almost ok'd you, but you had mentioned that school and the internship were hectic, so I figured you didn't have the time. But very glad that your back

Trench is put away for now, just too much school and work for me. Liking the infinity stuff more than the x-wing right now so that is back burner. So much so I e considered selling the fleet . Just no time to play and the free time I do have is usually in one hour increments between jobs, so not really a chance to get a game in. Plus infinity is more along my lines, never a big Star Wars fan, and all my Necromunda stuff was less grim dark and more grin dork.

Well lunch time is almost over.

Nice drop. And WTF miniature market. It seems like every time they sell something low quantity that I'd like to buy, they fail to send out an email. It's also potentially my phone being old and crotchety but this is maybe the third time in the last six months

Looking forward to seeing what you do with all of it

At this rate Theo will have depleted the MM supply of Haqqislam! I need some too as well as ariadna

There you go kids: plastic crack only leads to the more serious addiction to heavy metal crack.

Feed the addictions

Just shot an email to Corvus Beli to get the replacement missing gecko arm, hopefully will see that in a couple weeks(long postage times from Spain to the us ).

Also to some pics of the arcane legion stuff.



They are considerably smaller than the infinity figures, and the centaurs are only as tall as a human , but might be able to pull off an army with them for dirt cheap.
I'll definitely only do the Asian themed one though(probably) as they look the best out of all of them.

The booster packs are a little misleading. Looking at the boxes it looked like you get 11 models for xxxxxdollars. But if you actually look at what it says in small print it says "up to 11 prepainted figures" of course the three boxes I bought (1 of each faction) had 7,7 and 8, though each box had a larger figure in them. The Han box had a large samurai made out of wispy clouds, the roman had a Minotaur, and the undead/Greek had a centurion and 6 centaur, so I guess they are bigger .
The Han box also had 4 spirit guys which were in a translucent green plastic, then parts were painted. They look semi cool, and may be my archery (magic tossing) unit.

Not sure if I'll do any painting this morning as I'm wiped out physically from work this weekend, hopefully something to show later this week though.

Edit: mistakes may have been made a few minutes ago......

Great haul there Theo, I'm not sure about the arcane legion minis but you cant argue with that price

Must have been hard sneaky that lot through the door, I wouldn't have made it safely in.....

 GiraffeX wrote:
Great haul there Theo, I'm not sure about the arcane legion minis but you cant argue with that price

Must have been hard sneaky that lot through the door, I wouldn't have made it safely in.....

My wife's a teacher, so any shopping trips on my part are done during the day. And everything goes right to the basement, where she only goes for laundry . I just have to be careful of when I take the trash and recycling out

Those arcane legions guys tend to get absurdly cheap around black friday sales time. I noticed them last year.

Well you certainly can't argue with the price, if you need a quick army, they are spoton.

Nice haul. So wish I had a MM down the road.

GrimDork wrote:Those arcane legions guys tend to get absurdly cheap around black friday sales time. I noticed them last year.

As in better than $12 for 60 painted figures , I know your right, but still too cheap to pass on.

Camkierhi wrote:Well you certainly can't argue with the price, if you need a quick army, they are spoton.

Nice haul. So wish I had a MM down the road.

no you don't, I wish they were far away where I would not spend so much money so often. Like today

Okay it was only $20, and I got 270 figures out of it plus 6 painted ones. No pics due to time and these need assembling. But I got 2 of the starter sets and 2 of the Han cavalry expansion boxes.

The Egyptian undead guys look cool.....

Lol Madness? I live next to a miniature market! (kicks wallet into the well).

Dude, that's a heck of a lot of miniatures!