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shasolenzabi wrote:The horde will be impressive with the way Theo has been going!

Well slow and steady will win this race.

oldravenman3025 wrote:


Nice work so far, Theo.

Thanks

Well July fast approaches. A little bit of paint this morning, needed some recoup time so putting off a few things. NPC zombies have more detail and take more time to complete.

Jester, jailor and noble guy. Might get another done today, but I'm watching shield right now.

This weeks' painting has been interrupted due to Netflix Binge watching!

 shasolenzabi wrote:
This weeks' painting has been interrupted due to Netflix Binge watching!

Not quite that bad, usually I watch something on my tablet or laptop while painting. Today I was just really sore from being on vacation the previous week and then coming back to a long stretch of really high census at the hospital. I find it amazing how quick my muscles can atrophy when on vacation for just a week .

 Theophony wrote:

 shasolenzabi wrote:
This weeks' painting has been interrupted due to Netflix Binge watching!

Not quite that bad, usually I watch something on my tablet or laptop while painting. Today I was just really sore from being on vacation the previous week and then coming back to a long stretch of really high census at the hospital. I find it amazing how quick my muscles can atrophy when on vacation for just a week .

Yeah, I myself am a shadow of what I used to be!

Old age has not helped me at all (42 on Tuesday) . I wish my Dyslexia would work on my age because 24 was great .

Well I didn't post this guy on Tuesday.

I've got four guys painted up but they need their strong tone wash before pics.
Edit: pic inserted

I've got to shade inside the hood where it's really yellow, didn't notice that till the pic hit.
In the mean time I stopped by MM and picked up more cheap stuff.......

They have the angry zombie boxes on clearance for $12.50 each (24 zombies in each box), which is just north of $.50 each , so I bought two boxes. $25 even, which being a local pick up got me a spin on the prize wheel, which netted me a $5 Dairy Queen gift card . So that was 2 addictions satisfied. I'm thinking of building a prison table to field all the zombies on as half the box are inmate zombies and half are police zombies. Still in really rough idea mode at this point as I don't even have my table anymore .

Wow that is a good deal on zombies. Building a table with no table sounds like theo. Well we can all dream like theo. I do like the progress you have made theo in my abscense.

Well in my defense I had a nice set up, but then we reconfigured the basement and took the racks that I used for the base of my table and then I was left without . I still have a 4x6 top that I can throw on a desk to play a big game.

I would like to tear apart a shelf in the garage and rebuild it into a game table with a 4x6 MDF top and storage underneath, but I keep running out of time. I also was gifted with an older but fully functional mini fridge which I would like to incorporate into the base of the table even though I only drink water or Gatorade. Also I'd like to make the table have drop leafs to expand to 4x8 for larger games, but I haven't even played a big battle in over a year.

June completed pic

31 flavors of Black Plague

You're really churning out the zombies,Theo. How many you done so far?

That's a bloody nice set of zombies for the month. My BP stuff just arrived today, I haven't even had a chance to look through them properly yet, let alone have half of thempainted!

angelofvengeance wrote:You're really churning out the zombies,Theo. How many you done so far?

With the ones I about to show I have about 60 of the Black Plague set done, possibly more, but the glossy ones I'm not liking as much.....I'm toying with the idea of stripping them down and redoing them (including the 300 or so of the contemporary zombicide ones)

Azazelx wrote:That's a bloody nice set of zombies for the month. My BP stuff just arrived today, I haven't even had a chance to look through them properly yet, let alone have half of thempainted!

If you got the knight pledge I think thats about 200 figs on it's own, so getting half of them done would be quite a feat.

well these guys I had painted up in the last 6 months, but my dark tone varnish had gelled up, but I'm liking the non glossy versions more. So I cannot add them to the total for this month as I really already counted them.


I have a few hours before I need to get ready for work, so the paint is out .

Edit: only 3 today, family time before work called.

Nifty. I like the subdued colors on their clothes.

Thanks Josh .

So I have a quandary. Got some money yesterday Thant can go towards anything. I could either back the Massive Darkness Kickstarter, or use it towards general purpose gaming.

1. Massive darkness is sitting at 143 figs and 25 scenery pieces right now, but I'm not sold on even half the sculpts. I'm sure the game will be good, but all the sculpts I like are available later in the expansions, so no exclusive that I HAVE to have. It's just a great deal now.

2. Some items I've missed in the past have become available now, it's very flexible and I could use it for zombicide (contemporary), necromancy, or any modern or light scifi. It may not be a widely popular item, but it would definitely give me something besides zombies to mess with for a while....and I think I need a break. It would also get me back into terrain building.

My wife pointed out how bad the basement is messed up since the great cleanse, so the great cleanse part 2 might happen tonight/ this week. I'm going to try and get a game table set up one way or another during this process.

I wish I had a game table

I'd go for general gaming stuff IMHO. Or hold until the end of massive darkness KS and see if the good sculpt ratio shifts in your favour.

Thanks TP^DC deputy manager ,

Well I was going to wait to see the final outcome, but the deal has to be done quick. There's just not enough great sculpts that are exclusive to keep me in. I've arranged through another DD member to be able to grab some add ons, but I think I'm safe waiting until retail for the set if I even bother.

In the mean time, I've harped on how bad my gaming and painting area has been, but I figured some pics were needed.

My storage area


My painting area .

My wife and kids are baking me treats today as Tuesday is my 42nd BDay, so I have already begun making a dent. I have bulldozed a spot to move my old desk to and turn that into the base for my 4'x6' tabletop. It's not great, but it will suffice for now. Maybe next year I'll be in a better position to fix up the basement more.

Absolutely! You've got good stuff down there that just needs to be moved around a bit and you'll have your own hobby nirvana. Can't wait to see the photos.

And if I forget, happy birthday for Tuesday!!

Well I remembered that the league had a terrain contest on called "let it flow", and I think I can kill two birds with one stone here. I've been wanting to scratch build something and I had an Idea for a terrain piece to put on my new board, so here's my entry into the competition (still in the planning phase).

RULE #6 GO BIG OR GO HOME

Well I spent a few hours yesterday cleaning the basement finally. It's been almost 6 months if not longer since we had water damage down there and my stuff got flung all over. Between being a bit tired of painting zombies and having an itch to scratch(build), I think I've decided to join the competition.

So some of the pieces I have for this have been shown in my blog before and I had this idea a long time back, now I just need to modify it a little to include actual liquid showing. Anyway onto the parts.

First and foremost, most of the parts are recycled parts from work, work around the house and old project.

Item one is recycled out of the trash from the hospital I work at. They are shipping clamps that pop around the neck of newborn infant baby bottles. I found a couple about two years ago and had no idea where they came from, but now I figured it out and have snagged 8 of these babies .

The clamp parts (4 of them) fit 1" PVC pipe, and the space between the clamps on two sides can also accomadate a 1/2" O.D. pipe.

The next item is a packing part that goes inside of plastic window shutters. I salvaged about 20 of these when I put shutters on my house 2 years ago. I've used it on other projects, but now they will be a fixture on this project.

They stand 6" tall roughly and will support the structure I have planned.

Oh and a rough mock up of the main part of this project.


size comparison with some necromunda bulkheads.

The dark grey tube between the large white pvc pipes is just a place holder, it's the only piece I had that would fit it right now. It will most likely get removed all together, or be replaced with some wooden dowel rod.

size comparison with a dreamforge leviathan, a forgeworld dreadnought and a space marine for scale.


I really am going to try and make this a focal point on my table that I want to build, so we will see exactly how this turns out. also I need to figure out how the water effect will be shown. I think I'll create a saddle bracket to mount to one of the pipes and have it drop down to the ground and then have smaller pipes coming off of that. maybe with a broken smaller pipe to have the water come out of it.

So I decided to try and knock out some zombies for the beginning of the month so I can continue with the table build afterwards. With my addition of 48angry zombies last week I figured I could knock out the guards out of that set plus the ones from prison outbreak. That's 20 guards total. I didn't know wether to paint them blue police color or try to mimic how I painted Phil, but I think I'm going to try them in Phils colors if I can get reasonably close I'll be happy as I didn't write down what colors I used on him and that was months and hundreds of figures ago. With 20 of them and zombie Phil, I was thinking I could rank them up and just field them in KOW , I know it's a stretch with them being contemporary, but eh.

Also about to head out to MM To pick up my present that I'm going to get instead of the Massive Darkness Kickstarter. I'll post pics later.

The terrain looks like a great idea Theo, cracking concept and as you say nice and big. I think any reasonable player would have no problem with those zombies in KOW...maybe they are just ahead of the curve fashion wise?

Go big or go home! I like it looking forward to that.

Zombies are looking good too.

Thraxas Of Turai wrote:The terrain looks like a great idea Theo, cracking concept and as you say nice and big. I think any reasonable player would have no problem with those zombies in KOW...maybe they are just ahead of the curve fashion wise?

Thanks Thraxas, I think I could just call them a fallen kingdom of man, just need to figure out what rules to use them with

ckig wrote:Go big or go home! I like it looking forward to that.

Zombies are looking good too.

Thanks Ckig, well here's a little more about the go big or go home idea. Posted over in the competition thread this morning.

Well picked up one of 2 boxes of secret weapon tablescapes clean urban tiles today. Only picked one up so I can double dip tomorrow and get to spin the wheel again (local pick ups at Miniaturemarket get to spin the prize wheel each order that's over $25, but only once per day), so I placed each on separate orders so I can stop by after working at church tomorrow pick up the other box and spin again. Today I hit the 400free points, so that's like $4 off the next order. Also with my birthday today I got 250 free points and 47 points on this purchase. I'll get 47 points tomorrow on that purchase and hopefully hit some more points on the prize wheel.

Miniature market.com had them on clearance for 40% off ($51.40 after tax for me per box) instead of $79.99. These will become the base for my gaming table and at least 1 square(probably 2) will be the base for this competition for me (2square feet).

The box only came with one locking clip , but it comes with a perimeter border that secures the rest of the parts to have a 2' x2' display board. I need to try and contact secretweaponsminiatures.com to see about getting other clips to combine the two sets. I couldn't locate a phone number on their website, so I'll have to track that down next. I really need 9 of these tiles to make a 3'x3' board, but they only had 2 sets of this type. If I can scrape together the funds I'll grab one of the damaged urban sets which I could then have a 3'x 4' table, or just not use a few tiles. The other option I considered was leaving one square empty or filling it with a sheet of plywood cut down.

I started painting the 20 guard zombies. They all have brown pants and hats now, black belts and shoes as well. I'll need to go and do their shirts sometime soon and then hair colored randomly.

Ah yes, I have to wait for stuff in the mail from MM, you get to drive there and pick up stuff you spot on the site. Lucky Theo!

I should get my next Dogfaces today once the kid grabs the mail.(My friends I live with have the 10yr old, he can be useful at times, other times, he is a stubborn argumentative little bugger.

 shasolenzabi wrote:
Ah yes, I have to wait for stuff in the mail from MM, you get to drive there and pick up stuff you spot on the site. Lucky Theo!

I should get my next Dogfaces today once the kid grabs the mail.(My friends I live with have the 10yr old, he can be useful at times, other times, he is a stubborn argumentative little bugger.

Lucky.....yeah.....I get to pay sales tax since we are in the same state . I really need to move across the river to Illinois so that it's just a 10 minute drive and no sales tax. It would also help with not needing to get emissions work done on my car. Oh well we're stuck in our house in a great school district and close to everything. I just need a new job because this doesn't pay enough.

If you think one child is a bugger my twins just turned 11 and the oldest is 13 . Life doesn't get easier, it just gets different, but at least they are better able to communicate than when they were toddlers.

Very nice looking pipeworks in progress, there, Theo. The table is going to be epic!

 Azazelx wrote:
Very nice looking pipeworks in progress, there, Theo. The table is going to be epic!

Not epic, but apocalyptic .

I I stopped off and picked up the second box of tablescapes, but it's in my car as the wife is home . Also grabbed a couple light grey paints as I'm running out of some of mine. Won a $5 gift certificate on the prize wheel . Family day today, so probably no painting or modeling getting done.


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So my mother in law gave me a gift card, along with the other stuff and store credit I went and bought another set of tablescapes (ruined city), got another $5 Dairy Queen gift card . So I now have a 3'x4' table. The new box has one tile from the grassy set in it instead of one of the ruined tiles. I've called Miniaturemarket and they are checking on what they can do to fix it.

Stupid Miniaturemarket Christmas in July sale AFTER I've spent all my monies . Oh well lots of great deals for you infinity fans as well as good deals all around on other items.

Miniaturemarket was going to swap out the wrong tile for me, but I've gotten in contact with secret weapon miniatures and they are sending me a free replacement. So I might be able to make a city park tile section .

Dr. Appointment morning for the kiddos, annual check up time. Hopefully will have some painting time before going to work at the hospital today.

Justin is very good that way. Your idea is v cool (I am in holiday lurker mode )

Yeah the sales that arrive just after I spend money online for the month at their site!

Theo it is just a sale its ok. You already have all the things. After all we have seen your dungeon you live in.

Quick pic dump as I run out of the house.

I got the shirts on the 20 guard zombies all done, just have ties, hair and beards to complete before a wash. I should be able to get that done in the morning after working at church. also have to do their exoskeletons as they are berserkers. Should still finish tomorrow then I can work on terrain for the rest of the month.

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inmygravenimage wrote:Justin is very good that way. Your idea is v cool (I am in holiday lurker mode )

i hope you enjoy your holiday, you deserve a rest. Plus just think of the mountain of goodies when you get home

shasolenzabi wrote:Yeah the sales that arrive just after I spend money online for the month at their site!

yeah I saw the dogfaces and though about you

cormadepanda wrote:Theo it is just a sale its ok. You already have all the things. After all we have seen your dungeon you live in.

Obviously I don't have ALL the things....otherwise they'd have nothing to sell

Okay so at work now and remembered I had another pic

That's the tablescapes urban tiles that are damaged. Too right time was the mispacked time as its from the rolling hills or something like that.

Stopped by Lowes I the way home from the kids dr. Appointment. I picked up a few PVC fittings that will hopefully help the terrain display. Also grabbed stuff for my wife's projects, which I'm staying far away from.

Yeah that stupid sale... I just added 3 infinity dudes to a hold order to meet shipping and guess which three were half off for the sale? Barely 9 dollars but that's a whole other dude. Still not as bad as buying something next to full price and it gets massive DotD discount a week later.

Looking forward to your table