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So, I just QCed Fury. Holy crap.

1. It works fine at my theater. Content plays, we have CCAP, and HI VI audio assist.

2. BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLS! It is rad. Radder than rad.

3. Ramos, if you don't dig this movie, just stop going to see movies. They aren't for you.


In hobby news, I think I have a handle on what I want to do for Git's comp. I hope no one has stolen my idea yet. I'm going to use some spare pilot legs and make a dead, chewed up MW, and have another one be stripping him down for spare equipment. I think I'll put snow on it and put it on a 40mm square base. I'll probably put a tree on it too, just cause.

Don't steal my idea, punks.

GO WATCH FURY NOW!! Do not pass GO, do not collect $200. You can thank me later.

Edit: Just came up with a haiku to go with as a sponsor for my efforts:

Hero fallen, snow
Snow melts, tree will bud once more
Even in death, serve.

Edit: Hacked out some bitz to start working with. Took a picture:



That should be enough to play the game. I just don't know how far to go with making them beat up and torn apart by the penitent crusade. I might just go all the way tore up like last time. I don't buy into the insectify aesthetic. It just holds no interest in me. Taken to the furthest extreme, I should make it a sister of battle who mates with the enemy then cuts his head off and eats him.

Ha! Someone please steal that idea.

Oh man.... that's GOLD.

If only I had a old SoB model I could seriously try that idea.

So, I figured I would try to use my camera on my computer to take pictures of the project until it's done and, like all things I need to get done, I get Ice to do it for me.

The first shot is just hilarious, so I include it. It is my unintended self portrait.



No, it is not my 23rd birthday, though I am partial to the Little Mermaid. Quite the inverse, in fact.

There's also pictures of my whole family and Ice's first kid as a baby. That's my fridge! Can you spot the Steelers magnet?

But on to hobbyness. I laid down the greenstuff and plugged in the tree to start the project. It is curing now. The standy legs aren't glued and neither is the chest. I left the other crap, because, again, hilarious. That is my "concentrating" face. I use it for new tasks, detail painting, and difficult bowel movements. That's for all you Americans just waking up, Brits having tea or whatever, and Kiwis/Ozpeeps going to bed. Dream of that tonight! Only, when you imagine me flushing, the water goes the other way.



I went for a bendy look to the tree like sometimes happens, I think. The trunk starts at a weird angle and stays that way, but as it grows, it says, "oh, I'm supposed to be straight." You can tell it's a fantastical setting because trees don't talk.

I think standy dude will have a flamer. 1. Promethium is easier to steal that bolts are to produce. 2. Cremation is the go to when your homesystem of the Endymion Cluster is forbidden to you.

Bummer. Should have switched sides before the Executioners did.

Quick tangent to those Badab enthusiasts out there. So, of the 3, Executioners, Lamenters, and Mantis Warriors, all of them were sent on 100year penitent crusades. At the end, the Mantis Warriors and Lamenters were both described as having barely survived. This is not mentioned with the Executioners that I have seen.
Set the scene: trial of the Secessionists.
Great Inquisitor Waxamunda Poppapop commands, "Though shalt do thine penance with a 100 year crusade. Anyone giving you even a crust of bread shall be drawn and quartered. So the paperwork has been signed in triplicate, so it shall be done."
Mantis Warriors: "Hisss! We'll barely survive. Let's go hide."
Lamenters: "Oh no. We'll barely survive. Let's be sad."
Executioners: "Got it. Hey, I've got this disembodied head. You want this disembodied head?"
Great Inquisitor Waxamunda Poppapop: "Yes. Yes, I do. But, this doesn't make things ok. You still have to do penance."
Executioners: "Yeah, I heard you the first time. Now, if you don't mind, I have things to murder, behead, and decoratively display."

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to sleep before I go to work in 10 hours.

 moonpie wrote:

Quick tangent to those Badab enthusiasts out there. So, of the 3, Executioners, Lamenters, and Mantis Warriors, all of them were sent on 100year penitent crusades. At the end, the Mantis Warriors and Lamenters were both described as having barely survived. This is not mentioned with the Executioners that I have seen.
Set the scene: trial of the Secessionists.
Great Inquisitor Waxamunda Poppapop commands, "Though shalt do thine penance with a 100 year crusade. Anyone giving you even a crust of bread shall be drawn and quartered. So the paperwork has been signed in triplicate, so it shall be done."
Mantis Warriors: "Hisss! We'll barely survive. Let's go hide."
Lamenters: "Oh no. We'll barely survive. Let's be sad."
Executioners: "Got it. Hey, I've got this disembodied head. You want this disembodied head?"
Great Inquisitor Waxamunda Poppapop: "Yes. Yes, I do. But, this doesn't make things ok. You still have to do penance."
Executioners: "Yeah, I heard you the first time. Now, if you don't mind, I have things to murder, behead, and decoratively display."

I'm sure that is exactly how that went down.

I suddenly had the urge to create Waxamunda Poppapop, I picture him with a large beer belly, a handle bar mustache, and really bad teeth. No weapons other then a nice pen. Actually no, not even a pen. He has a servitor to do that.

Nice tree.

And now I'm just waking up to see a tree, mounted on a base, and a visage of concentration staring back into my soul, wondering "Knightley, why have you not post your updates for the mantis maker challenge" to which I would answer " cuz..."

Couldn't sleep so I got more work done on Mantis Maker challenge. The build is nearing completion.

 moonpie wrote:
Couldn't sleep so I got more work done on Mantis Maker challenge. The build is nearing completion.

What no evil laugh, snicker or pithy comment!

oh .. I envoke the 'Git' rule! Pony up the pic!

ps.. Saw John Wick over the weekend.. Much enjoyed.. except for the puppy thing!

There's yo pics!

This is also a test run to not look dumb on Git's blog.

I think I'll keep it at that. I know the pics are trash, but the idea comes through. I'm going to put down sand and prime it next.

Did no one really see Fury yet? Go! Go see it. Report back your findings.

Let me know how you all like the build.

Cool. Who'se the guy in bits and pieces on the ground?

Moonpie, you're wearing a Steelers bumblebee jersey, you already look dumb

Signed,
A Browns fan

@Alf: Remember 50 years ago when the Browns were good?

I don't.

@Git: It's a shot up guy nestled against a tree. The pile is all the useful stuff that could be retrieved from his corpse. Waste not want not

That's cause the Executioners are Conan Marines. Crom... er... that Emperor guy doesn't accept failure.

Brother Sgt. Head Chopofficus, what is best in life?

etc..

 moonpie wrote:
@Alf: Remember 50 years ago when the Browns were good?

I don't.

Yeah me neither :(

I don't even remember 26 years ago when they were last good...

As a Steelers fan, good means winning the Super Bowl. Which the Steelers will do this season.

One thing we can agree on is that the Ravens are just bad people.

Just a little update: No hobby work getting done.

Boo.

I played a game of WHFB at the local store against Chaos. It is nice because my army is on display, so all I have to do is show up.
Wiz
I got whipped pretty solidly. I need to go with a lvl 4 wizard instead of my level 2. I should have gone for more smaller spells rather than going for the big spell everytime. Two fully painted armies against each other is always awesome though.

The new Chaos rules are pretty cool. Wish something could have gone wrong for him though. First turn Tzeentch decided to blast 16 of my militia out of existence. The small template is way more brutal in WHFB.

I am going to work on getting a new Wizard and Engineer in effect. I picked up a Chapel, because it is oop. Hopefully I worked out getting an End Times 3 book. I arranged for someone to attempt to preorder it for me as I will be at work. I am no. 2 on the list to pick up Shield of Baal for Ice, so hopefully that works out. Supposedly these will come out in softcover as well. That should be nice for those that missed them.

welcome back..

What no pic's?

I'm just dying to know. Did your cannons blow themselves up in turn 1 again?

Yeah, first shot at his lord on Manticore. Misfire. Roll a 1. Take it off the board.

Gimme a break...

Edited to add old pics:

Got on my steroid and my z-pack and my albuterol and summoned the energy to get in another game of WHFB. To ruin the end, this is no tale of woe.

ROMA VICTA!

I won a game! Woo! It's possible.

We were playing all new rules, including the latest Khaine book(which, by way of review is bonkers. Dude.. Ulthuan... The changes they are smashing in are crazy rad.)

The newest rules that we put in for this game were magic rules. I have, I think, explained magic in Fantasy before-it's very similar to 40k's psychic phase. Well, now it's got some pretty serious differences. It's more chaotic and possibly more powerful now.

I went with 2 level 4 battle mages, because I decided to be a goob. Sue me. There are a ton of big changes and one is that you get access to ALL of the spells of a given lore if you can cast that lore. I took a Gold Mage because Lore of Metal is one of my absolute favorites, but it was very situational and depended on rolling the right spells for the right game. All the magic missiles wound on the armor value of your enemy-the more armor they have, the easier they are to kill-rad against knights, crap against naked barbarians and hobos. Either that or it was buffs. Or it's a spell that makes the enemy into golden statues. That's just a good spell-hard to cast, but nuts. They also added End Times spells. These can be cast once a turn, not dispelled, and only castable by lvl 3 and above. The Gold one is a 2+ ward save for a unit.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

At one point he did 21 wounds on my Greatswords, after armor saves 5+ and wards he killed 2 dudes, maybe 3. Get some.

I put it on my militia, who are lucky if they are armored with a decent set of clothing and got smacked by a Gorebeast chariot. I still lost 4 guys because I suck at rolling, but it was far better than the utter slaughter it would have been. Hobos coated in gold FTW!

He used his chaos thingy that just sucks for me every turn. Apparently there are rolls on this table that don't suck for me, but I have never seen them. He rolled Slannesh's, so if he rolls a 4+ I have to take a ld test on 3 dice, what I fail by take s4 hits from....well, Dakka is a family site. The 2+ ward save helped me we theorized because you can't *expletive deleted* someone to death if you are both made of metal. Enjoy that image.

I increased the size of my greatswords to 4 and now I have to paint more greatswords because it was the only way to roll. Sure, they are 11 points apiece, but MAN! I lost almost half of them and they were still swinging away.

I had an idea for my halberdiers of which I have 40 or 50 and 1.9 painted. I was going to go with a regiment of renown you may have not flipped the page past in a WD. They are from Altdorf and are the best in the city and have black laquered armor and yellow plumes and are hoity toity and great. I just didn't think that would work with my theme, so I came up with a different idea. They will be the Altdorf "Second-Besters". No, we are not the The Regiment of Honor, but we are the second best behind them. They are a mix of young-ins who think they will get there one day or grizzled old vets that have resigned themselves to where they are, and I snuck some drunks and failed gamblers in the mix.

It is my contention that the Empire army runs on 3 things:
1.Training
2. Faith
3. Booze

You train to fight so you can do it without thinking. Then you get stupid drunk and pray the whole time, performing all your functions on pure muscle memory.

How else would you be able to take on a 12 foot tall minotaur with a pointy stick and maybe a breastplate?

Oh, and I got the cannon to work. It even killed some things. Yay! I got a friggin Engineer. I hit the minotaurs with it first turn. Misfired of course, rerolled for the Engineer. I then failed to wound on a 1. I had a fit, a literal fit. Ah, acute bronchitis.

So, this is more rambling than usual. But, the new rules and new things going on with Fantasy are very cool. It's exciting and new, but it's nice that even an army with very few specific new rules just for my army(just a couple new characters) and I can still win a game. I'll see if I can get Matt to snap a pic or two of my army in the case at the store. Still pretty proud of that-also very convenient for me.

I need to finish the basing. I think I am going to try a snow effect with Woodland Scenics snow and maybe get some Liquitex gloss medium. Give it a try. The idea is a late spring snow right at the beginning of campaign season.

I seem to have lost my Merchant and Scribe models. Not excited to try to find them. Hope I didn't accidentally trade them off.

Cheers!

These are my militia:


This was my army general, Cornelius Westen(he just smelled a fart):
This is where the fart came from.

These are Matt's Beastmen. I do not have permission to post this image, but I don't think he would mind:

Congrats on the win. Now back to painting those SW and Fools!

What's up, Solar?

I mean, dearest adoring hoard of fans, quiet thyselves, so that I may pontificate:

The purpose of this post is to parrot Git's post regarding the year 2014 in my personal hobby. Now, not so fast with the exalt button, my legion, this isn't about Git's hobby... It's about the one and only pie's. That's me.

What were my stated goals for 2014? Well, imagine some crickets. I had some goals I made for myself, drinking gas station coffee and staring at sprues, but I never made them official.

Here are some that I probably had and non-color coded pass or fail ratings(without actually saying pass or fail and in no particular order)

1. Play some damn games.
I'll give myself an ok on this one.
I got in another Adepticon. Hit the table with my brudders. That was a blast as always. Ice and I got some games in, but not a ton. He's busy and I work a job that has completely non-normal hours. We get a lot of Pathfinder and other more womanly accepted games in. By that I mean accepted by our particular women, not that wargames can't be played by women, potential trollfemmes out there. So, it's not bad in that way.
I got in some Fantasy games and worked out a way to be relatively consistent with it. I know you are all big 40k guys and you know that I am down with the bolter, but 20 years ago I was given the Warhammer box with goblins and elves and that has always been my first love. I appreciate those of you who have indulged me with my forays into it.

2. Paint that last damn Chaos Lord:
Ok, so I only built and primed him!
In 04ish, when I worked for GW, they released the Hordes of Chaos book and made 4 totally rad Chaos Lords for each of the Gods. I have always adored them and over the course of the past few years have built and painted almost all of them. They are in my gallery if you want to check them out. These were always purely for my hobby joy and gooby collectorness. I also managed to snag them all while the were still metal. The Tzeentch Lord on Disc is the last of them to be painted. I am sure all of you have that white whale of hobby that you are totally daunted by. I just stare and stare at him and go, "What the hell am I going to do with you?" All the other lords were painted to the absolute best of what I was able to put out at the time. After your 4 Space Wolf squad or 45th militiaman, you've just got to let it all hang out. Pop you hobby collar as they don't say. I got this guy built up and primed white(reference to Moby Dick way cleverer now, huh?) but man I am stumped. He has to be colorful and crazy. Boo. How do you do that? Well, at least I have him ready to go. You can't get started without those basic steps, so when I get that particular bug up my butt I will be good to go.

3. Get together a playable Fantasy army.
Done and still going.

4. Get rid of some of my old crap.
Ditched my Warmachine stuff and my rows and rows of metal minotaurs. Glad to be rid of it. I got the SW flyers for them, so not unhappy about it totally. Could have got more for them, but anytime I can take a step away from my hoarding nature it's a good thing. Sure it was 2 steps forward and one back, but math says that's net 1 step. Argue with math, trollfemmes!

5. Do the Mantis Maker challenge.
Fail.

I have the thing built too. I'll try to do it just to have it done. Green. Why did it have to be green?

6. Nerdfest challenge:
Didn't even get past thinking stage because current state of RL at time, but I really wanted to show all you full spectrum viewers what is up. Might challenge myself to do one like that some day.

7. Too many goals. I would never actually assemble 7 whole goals. Maybe, indulge in my hobby and remain having a roof over my head and a girl I call my girl? Pass.

8. Keep my hater-blockers firmly wrapped round my eyes:

Not so much. I went off on a diatribe against the haters this year. I need to not even let them get that out of me. It's not worth it. Who cares what the people who haven't collected, gamed, or painted in x number of years say about the hobby I still participate in? Do these guys not know there is porn on this box? Watch that and leave me and my toys alone. Haters gonna hate.

9. Build a board.

Adepticon board with Ice... Not the same as a board in my place. That would rule. I didn't do that this year.

So, let's talk about 2015...

1. Finish the Tzeentch Lord.

F&*% you Tzeentch Lord, I'll get you someday!

2. Finish the majority of my Empire I currently have and not buy too much more.

I don't have faith in either of these 2 goals. I have about 100 guys left to paint that are built. I have 3 or 4 more cannons. I just built 5 more characters... Also, with this new edition that is coming out(rumoredly) I am going to get into it. Haters gonna hate, but I'm down.

3. Get in more games!

Do this thing.

4. Vehicles...

AAAAAAARG! NO!! ARG!!! RAAAAHR! Why does my fun have to be such a chore!

5. Get my stuff cleaned up, organized, and well displayed.

Don't you just think it's a hoot when you watch A&E's Hoarders and think, "That's what I'm like!" No? You don't get that thought? Which brings me to...

6. Engage hater blockers at all times.

Oh, they didn't release Legion rules, new models for Sisters or retconned a decade old idea? Sorry, buddy, I'm checking out new End Times models and can't be bothered by your hate. I'll be over here painting my old metal Necromunda models, not commenting on a post about Warhammer 9th(or whatever they'll call it) saying how I wish they still supported that game. Though I do wish that. The things they could do...

7. Seven goals is way too many.

8. Have fun.

9. Build a board.

10. Make the Emperor's Fools a playable army.

I hear you, Solar. I know. I know. They make me happy and they look weird, but also pretty darn cool. Vehicles? AAAARG!

11. Waste less time that I could use painting.

And with that, I have gnoblar to paint to finish off a Paymasted Ogre Maneater for use as a unit filler.

Hear Hear.. good Show.

Here's what should be #1
'indulge in my hobby and remain having a roof over my head and a girl I call my girl!'
I'm guessing this puts you ahead of 85% of the current gamers

I look forward to this year’s result with high expectations and fueled by your ever present indomitable fortitude.

 moonpie wrote:

1a. What SL said.

1b. Play some damn games.

Can't overemphasize how important this is (IF you are a game-playin' kinda person)... without it, the hobby can be drudgery.

2. Paint that last damn Chaos Lord:

Meh... painter's block. We all get it from time to time.

3. Get together a playable Fantasy army.

It's not a "fantasy army" unless it includes the Swedish bikini team.

4. Get rid of some of my old crap.

I'm with you 100%... this has been on my list for 2 years now.

5. Do the Mantis Maker challenge.
Fail. I have the thing built too. I'll try to do it just to have it done. Green. Why did it have to be green?

Look at it this way, you just have a very early start on next year's competition!

6. Nerdfest challenge:

Lesson #1: Real life comes first.

7. Too many goals. I would never actually assemble 7 whole goals. Maybe, indulge in my hobby and remain having a roof over my head and a girl I call my girl? Pass.

See #1a & #6.

8. Keep my hater-blockers firmly wrapped round my eyes:

I must admit to being pretty fuzzy on the modern interpretation of a "Hater". If I actually "hated" something... I would actively seek to obliterate it from the face of earth (if such was in my power). If I criticize something that I disagree with or don't fully understand... do I hate it?? Clearly not, yet I have been labeled a "hater" before (not by moonpie of course, I luves me some moonpie!). I guess if you can claim that you've been hated-on... you at least have the comfort of being a self-appointed victim and are released from the much more complicated responsibility of defending your position. If the haters you are referring to are non-gaming acquaintances who criticize your hobby... educate them, involve them or ignore them. Save the "Hate" label for things that matter in life; crime, poverty, injustice.

9. Build a board.

You guys did a great job on your Adepticon board. A+ man.

lol vehicles... that's adorable. I have some of those, somewhere, I think. Stupid vehicles.

I have decided to join the Moonpie Fan Club. When do I get my autographed 8x10 glossy?

I don't want a photo, I want a darn tee shirt with his face plastered over the front, including LED lights for the eyes and mouth (I'm not demanding, I just know what I want)

It's a good list, and provided you share with us how that progress goes, how could we be haters...

@Gitsplitta: Thanks for the get back. As far as being the game playing type of person-I don't think I am one of those until I get a game in. When I do, it's way too obvious that I am.

As far as the haters go, I'm not talking about people hating on me. Who could hate on me and how could I care if they did? By hating, I mean the hating on GW thing-analyzing their numbers and hoping they go under, bagging on every new release, blah blah. It gets my goat. Maybe I take it personally, because it was one of my first really good jobs, was a place and a hobby where I made a lot of good friends, but I take it personally. I need to not. I need to just let it go.

If you find a swedish bikini model team in miniature form, I will put it on a 40mm square base, paint their suits blue and red, and have it in my milita unit!

@CaptainStabby: Some people love them, though... I like them in the game. Maybe if I just nut up and do one, I'll dig it.

Maybe not.

@Brian- Standard rate $50 per. Include a SASE. The resale market just kills me, but what can one do?

@Knightly: We'll have to put that together with my Marketing Director and PR guy. I guess we'll also have to include my IP lawyer in the mix. First thing we do...

I'll try to get it updated. I like my new ogre. He's done now aside from basing and that's drying currently.

Makes me think to add an addendum. I need to try to include more pics. Git's rule and all.

The current plan is to get 50 halberdiers, 50 "swordsmen", battle mages, and assorted officers done. In there will be Karl Franz on Griffon, because KFE is beast modeness and if this Archaon on Dragon thing is for real then I need to go mano e mano with that. This will likely involve glowy effect, so I'll need to get that down. After that or in the middle somewhere will be 2 SW flyers and 4 SW drop pods. I also have 15 or 20 more fools to get down on.

I want to get the Empire stuff done in time for the last ET book. The SW i would like to get done before Gen Con. The Fools I would like to have already gotten done and yet never want to be finished with.

Also, Knightly, I wanted to say I appreciate your style. It would be amazing to pull off your crispness. Crispness is the opposite of my style. As a guy at the local GW stuff said to me, "I like your stuff. It looks dirty." Thanks?

Thanks for stopping by. I'm going to the GW store on Thursday, because I HAVE THE DAY OFF!!!

I think I may have my army taken out of the display case soon, because he is doing some neat new hobby competitions. I'd like photographic evidence that it was indeed in there.

Sound like you have an exciting year ahead, look forward to seeing some more fantasy on dakka.