Thought for the day:
Hope is the first step on the road to Disappointment.
Have been pretty busy working on terrain. Maybe I will post about that tomorrow sometime.
To everyone who did get the rules, have fun with them.
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Unrestrained rage.
Not really having a local gaming store that I care for I pre-ordered the 6th Ed. rulebook last weekend. I could have just picked one up at the thrice damned Jester's Cap (they banned my grandma you know.) But I didn't want to give them my business. Monday I got a message that it was dispatched by GW. I was really hoping to get it a day or so early but when it wasn't with the mail on Friday I wasn't really that upset. But Saturday has come and gone and no one from my gaming group has received their copy. We ordered it early, nearly as soon as we found out. All in the hope that when we each got to our respective homes from our jobs on Saturday that the book would be there waiting, ready to show us what the future holds. Instead we got nothing. But I pre-ordered and this is the price I pay. So I go to sleep tonight somewhat angry and upset. Our weekend of trial games will not be. So we will not get to play the new rules until next Sunday. At least there was the FAQ glad I can understand that without the rules... Oh wait.
Thought for the day:
Hope is the first step on the road to Disappointment.
Have been pretty busy working on terrain. Maybe I will post about that tomorrow sometime.
To everyone who did get the rules, have fun with them.
Thought for the day:
Hope is the first step on the road to Disappointment.
Have been pretty busy working on terrain. Maybe I will post about that tomorrow sometime.
To everyone who did get the rules, have fun with them.
Thursday, June 28, 2012
New table, new terrain! [Part 5]
So, another week and some more progress on the buildings. All I could really do was glue down some texture and so that's what I did. Step one is to brush on some glue.
Step two is to pour on some flock and do it 12 times until all of the buildings are done.... It was rather repetitive and took a good amount of time to do this step. I had time to do more work but the elmer's take so much time to dry that there wasn't time to prime once it was done.
This weekend I will get the priming done and then we will be trying out 6th edition or playing some more Mordheim. While I was working the rest of the lads were playing some Mordheim when this happened. Yeah, sort that out for yourself. I tried to make the table pretty "tiltproof" guess I failed...
Also, another a member of our group has returned to us after a while away from gaming. He brought 2 Leman Russ tanks which I bought from him to use with my Forge World Turrets. I need to strip them to repaint them so for tonight they are soaking in Simple Green. This is the first time I am using it so I really hope it works out. From what I understand it's the best way to strip plastics. I am also going to strip my Baneblade for repainting if this proves to work out.
Step two is to pour on some flock and do it 12 times until all of the buildings are done.... It was rather repetitive and took a good amount of time to do this step. I had time to do more work but the elmer's take so much time to dry that there wasn't time to prime once it was done.
This weekend I will get the priming done and then we will be trying out 6th edition or playing some more Mordheim. While I was working the rest of the lads were playing some Mordheim when this happened. Yeah, sort that out for yourself. I tried to make the table pretty "tiltproof" guess I failed...
Also, another a member of our group has returned to us after a while away from gaming. He brought 2 Leman Russ tanks which I bought from him to use with my Forge World Turrets. I need to strip them to repaint them so for tonight they are soaking in Simple Green. This is the first time I am using it so I really hope it works out. From what I understand it's the best way to strip plastics. I am also going to strip my Baneblade for repainting if this proves to work out.
Stay tuned, next week should see some start to the painting of all of the buildings.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
New table, new terrain! [Part 4]
Okay, some more terrain updates. I spent the last gaming night working on the basing for the buildings. I added some texture to all of the hardboard in the form of water putty. I also added some bits and lots of rubble pieces. There are lots of buildings to work on...
Here's a close up of one which I incorporated an Aegis line piece into.
A shot of some more of the buildings. I believe there are somewhere from 8-10 pieces.
So while I was going to do the flocking as well, the rest of the gang started a new Mordhiem campaign. They needed a lot of the buildings for their game, because it's not Mordheim without buildings. In order to keep working, I decided to start working on the pews for the church. Here's the test one I did with Andy's spare balsa sheets.
Then I cut out all of the parts for 9 more of them...
And got to assembling them all. Here's a little gauge I made to make sure the legs were all the same height.
Then 10 finished pews appeared in the church. The congregation was happy that they finally had someplace to sit as they worshiped the Emperor and the dice gods. A statue from a LoTR set will stand in for some sort of saint and the altar will be made of 2 d6 dice which will get a wood top.
As the people were worshiping, some chaos folk cam in and shot the place up. How rude! On this side we have some flamer damage, bullet holes, and shotgun blasts.
On the other side there are more bullet and shotshell holes.
So there we have it, a church in a warzone. Next week I will be flocking all of these buildings and perhaps priming them as well. It's going to be a long process on these and I still have an entire list of other terrain features I want to add to the collection to update it.
-Raised Pipes
-3ft Defense Wall
Here's a close up of one which I incorporated an Aegis line piece into.
A shot of some more of the buildings. I believe there are somewhere from 8-10 pieces.
So while I was going to do the flocking as well, the rest of the gang started a new Mordhiem campaign. They needed a lot of the buildings for their game, because it's not Mordheim without buildings. In order to keep working, I decided to start working on the pews for the church. Here's the test one I did with Andy's spare balsa sheets.
Then I cut out all of the parts for 9 more of them...
And got to assembling them all. Here's a little gauge I made to make sure the legs were all the same height.
Then 10 finished pews appeared in the church. The congregation was happy that they finally had someplace to sit as they worshiped the Emperor and the dice gods. A statue from a LoTR set will stand in for some sort of saint and the altar will be made of 2 d6 dice which will get a wood top.
As the people were worshiping, some chaos folk cam in and shot the place up. How rude! On this side we have some flamer damage, bullet holes, and shotgun blasts.
On the other side there are more bullet and shotshell holes.
So there we have it, a church in a warzone. Next week I will be flocking all of these buildings and perhaps priming them as well. It's going to be a long process on these and I still have an entire list of other terrain features I want to add to the collection to update it.
-Raised Pipes
-3ft Defense Wall
-6x Tanks Traps
-6x Fences
-Scatter Terrain
-Supply Dump
-HQ Emplacement
-4x Emplacements
Plus some other random stuff I already started, like a small LOS blocking hill, a couple ruined vehicles, and an overrun lascannon emplacement. Wish me luck.
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