Weekender XLBS: Christmas Hobby Time Plans & A Yeti Mystery!
December 18, 2016 by warzan
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the Near Future/Sci-Fi Solders By CP Models are the ones originally by Frank , from Franks toybox , and then from Hasslefree , very very cool models.
http://www.wampforum.com/VB4/showthread.php?t=13489 (earliest link I can find for them)
Happy Sunday!
@warzan Loving your Idea for a hobby bog, though surely you have described a Turdis…
Happy Sunday! Or it would be if I didn’t have the bug that makes you *censored* and *censored* endlessly. Will be watching this in short spurts ( excuse the pun 😉 )
As far as that Elite is concerned, are we sure it’s not an NMM paint job? Without a moving 360 or more angles it’s hard to tell. Want to know either way….
The Greyscale cell-sheded models look excellent. In painting technique terms they reveal an excellent technique in the use of tone alone to achieve contrast; many painters could learn how to get more out of their colour paints by trying to paint in greyscale only. It’s the equivalent of a pencil sketch.
Sometimes “less is more”. Looking forward to KD:M 1.5 turning up later in the year I love the stark look of the simple paint scheme. I was looking to start with basic white primer with some simple black was, gradually adding the most basic of unsaturated colour wash, slowly increasing the colour saturation as the models work through the lantern years. Colour being symbolic of something!
One word… COMMODE!
Get wel soon.
I was thinking for Starship Troopers that you would do a co-op game where you and your buds control a squad of troopers vs waves of bugs trying while trying to get an objective of some sort. The longer you take the more and bigger bugs show up.
@warzan what is the make of the compressor????.
Here you go https://bartsharp.co.uk/index.php/compressors/tc88t-airbrush-compressor.html
Obviously we cant stand over this yet until its given a good run out, etc, but after chatting with @nakchak it seemed like the best option for the budget we could scrape together.
We’ll probably chat a bit more about how hes getting on with it next week 🙂
Thank you Warren… May your day be fantastic and your sit down time undisturbed 🙂
@cousins286 its a pretty tidy little compressor, just make sure you follow the rest period instructions as it does need to cool down once in a while, but would be absolutely fine for getting to grips with airbrushing
Thank you. I currently have an Iwata Ninja Jet, paired with a Neo for Iwata, which i’m having trouble with, which could be down to the fact that I am a complete novice to Airbrushes and was wondering whether having a pressure gauge would make a difference. So have been looking for a half decent budget compressor to try out and this could be the one.
I got this setup myself from bartsharp last summer and whilst I haven’t had it out much (nowhere setup to paint) it has run well.
@cousins286 Huge difference, its practically essential in my opinion to have a decent pressure regulator, and a receiver, to find out why i point you at a series of articles i wrote on air compressors earlier in the year:
http://www.beastsofwar.com/painting-and-hobby/air-compressor-introduction/
http://www.beastsofwar.com/painting-and-hobby/air-compressor-receiver/
http://www.beastsofwar.com/painting-and-hobby/air-compressor-accessories-maintenance/
Any issues you are having with inconsistent air delivery are almost certainly down to the compressor lack of receiver and lack of adequate pressure regulation
Classic reaction from Justin over the present. He looked like a small kid getting just what he asked for from Father Christmas . Well done Warren and Lloyd!
You deserve it guy. Enjoy.
My other half bought me an air brush and compressor a couple of years ago and have not looked back(what a diamond) and yes I had same look on my face too,or so she says.
Aww, Justin’s little face!
I’m genuinely feeling a bit emotional after that 🙂
Me too. Great show ( as ever ) lads. I have always loved hearing / reading about folklore and legends like the yeti, chupacabra, bigfoot and such.
I have to disagree with @dignity about Dredd though, the re-launch / re-boot should be based off the comic, not the Karl Urban film. As much as films would draw people into the game and hobby, i feel ( maybe because i’m an old fart ) that the game should come from the comic.
Same here. Did I see a small tear in the corner of his eyes 😉
Otherwise it was mine in the way:)
Great gesture guys.
I will follow his progress with loads of attention as I am thinking about getting a starter set myself.
Thanks for a great vid :*
Happy Sunday,
There does seem to be more and more great value boxsets coming out from GW and regardless of people’s thoughts about the company as a whole, it is really nice to see them head in this direction.
Really loving the undead oriental force and the options it gives you for fielding a very different but very cool undead force.
I think the latest Dredd film from a few years back, not the Stallone one, did a great job. I feel that the miniatures out there already are pretty rough and need to be brought to life by a company that has a passion for the comics and wants to do them justice. 2000 AD has a number of great characters and storylines begging to be brought to life.
I think in regards to the conspiracy, it’s more a military one than a supernatural one.
@warren why was it the military and not local civilian authorities that dealt with it. Surely this is just a chemical weapons test of a fear causing agent, developed having watched the Batman film and thinking the Scarecrow had a good idea. Disguised by an avalanche triggered by a Yeti comrade that survived the battle for the north pole.
Lol nailed it 😉
@warzan i see a lot of value to it just being the 2000ad license, as there are a lot of people (myself included) who graduated from the beano/dandy to 2000ad, so another dred movie really wouldnt make any difference as whether i would get into it, and the prospect of other 2000ad series getting the game treatment really excites me…
Wouldn’t hurt getting the basic story in to folks mind though 🙂
For the lesser known 2000ad IP’s i agree, but for dredd the problem with more story and a movie is that you end up with the stallone wonk, when all that needs to be established if that a) he is the law, b) he is an unstoppable badass who never takes his helmet off 😉 less is very much more with him, its really the supporting cast who have the backstory, that said if they were to do megacity1 stories in the vane of sincity as a film i would probably enjoy that, and would get a lot of world building done without compromising dredd himself…
Happy Sunday felllow Weekenders!
I have been so busy I haven’t had a chance to go through the Dropfleet Bootcamp vlogs – that Space Station is beyond epic!
@warzan – my favourite moment of the XLBS series this year – seeing you present Justin with his starter airbrush kit. No amount of internet kittens could have brought a bigger smile to Justin’s face. You are a generous (and canny) friend. Well done sir.
Great show guys. On the conspiracy. And my movie of the Week is The Abominable Snowman (1950’s starring the absolute legend Peter Cushing). Yetti hunting!!!
The Yetti theory is as believable as any other but here’s my take on it. Three major red flags for me.
1. The Date. This is a few years after the Death of Stalin and Khrushchev had denounced all the murder, camps and State violence of Stalin. (Khrushchev was one of the biggest supporters of it at the time and personally purged Ukraine killing millions but politics is politics). Khrushchev went to great lengths to hide any Government massacres and purges including pretending to shut down the Death/Work Camps (in reality they were just moved and increased in size). This was a time of secret murder.
2. The place. The USSR immediately puts the Government at the top of the suspect list. Just look at all the massacres of even suspected disenters/spies.
3. The people killed. Students are extremely useful and extremely dangerous to Communists. KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov put in best when he talked about how the USSR feared disillusioned Communists since betrayal is a much stronger feeling than hate. Look at almost any Communist revolution backed directly by the USSR and you’ll see betrayal, assassinations and counter-more radical coups to try and appease the disillusioned supporters.
To me the most plausible theory is the students stumbled close to a secret base and were just executed. Bullets raise questions so scattering naked people into the snow is pretty convienant. For the tongue that could be a tortured woman and the impacts more torture to see if they were foreign agents. Deffinately something to look into more though.
With the UFO’s I find it very very very sketchy. The exact same time UFO’s are suddenly seen all over the USA is when the US starts testing top secret stealth fighters that flew like nothing else and couldn’t be admitted to. Radical leaps in technology are always played around with in crazy ways (Look at early tanks and early aircraft to see this). Also we now know MKULTRA was real and has been admitted and the CIA was kidnapping people and torturing/drugging them to try and brainwash them and a lot of people see this as a reason for some of the abductions. I’m open to anything very interesting stuff.
A quick theory (This is getting long appologies). The Hitler Escape. There is absolutely zero evidence Hitler died in 1945. All we have is the story of a man (Hitler’s Bodyguard) who changed his story frequently, could not have heard anything in the bunker and had a vested interest in protecting Hitler. The story first came from Soviet Propaganda (if you hear the Soviets say water is wet disbelieve it) with no evidence. Stalin, the FBI and almost all other official channels kept files on Hitler for decades and Stalin never stopped looking for him. The bones and blood (On a couch) that the Soviets said was Hitler’s belong to a mid 20’s Woman not an older man. And the final point. There was a plane that flew out of Berlin just before it fell. The pilot of that plane (Hanna Reitsch) never said whether she was alone or had a passanger and the Soviets sent soldiers to the airfield she took off from specifically to stop a Hitler escape attempt. She also left without any standing orders or goals despite being an active service Military personel and having permission to leave. Interesting to think about. I know it’s a bit dark but the idea of Hitler slowly dying in some rat hole in Argentina seems more fitting than a quick bullet/pill.
Merry Christmas guys
Re. Hitler – Don’t know if you are ( or can ) watch it but there is a program on the History Channel (in Canada, maybe elsewhere) called “Hunting Hitler”. In its second season now, using declassified files with small teams doing ground checks to follow up leads in Europe and South America. As you say, interesting stuff.
Oh, “live long in custard” – a strong contender for BoW event of the year
Loved Justin’s little Christmas present face. Bless.
Darker Days Radio covered Dylatov Pass a few years back. Worth having a listen.
Happy Sunday
@warzan…dropzone…yes do it..lol
RE: Dyatlov pass adrenalin etc, the psychotic member would probably not need to overpower 8 people once they cave in number 9’s head with their bare hands. 8 people can take 1 easily, but so can 7 or 6, and if 4 or 5 of them think “the others will do it I don’t need to take the risk” suddenly you have the others standing looking at them thinking “oh crap I’m doing this on my own? Screw you guys I’m running.” After that hypothermia screws with the brain.
The party member with the missing tongue can probably be explained by the fact she was found face down in a stream and the running water had purified and eroded her face as well. Honestly the events are weird enough without trying to embellish them through omission, and the claims from the coroner of no soft tissue damage are a bit more telling than anything else- either the guy wasn’t looking for the right thing, or what he found was ridiculous to him so he ignored it, or it wasn’t politically advantageous to put what he found in his report- which I’m sure someone would have reminded him could cause a 9mm brain haemorrhage.
Not gonna lie, Warren totally caught me out on this, and he even had me carry the big wrapped box in to the set telling me it was a gift for his missus that he wanted to hide, (sneaky git) 🙂 I’ll be fireing up a form topic later today to start getting some tips and tricks off everyone 🙂
dude, your reaction was priceless – pretty much summed up christmas for me in one go 🙂
Good luck and enjoy the airbrush 🙂
Happy Sunday – what a great Weekender XLBS again!
This Dyatlov incident looks like a Predator hunt. But – even if we all know it is really unlikely there is another civilization in our galaxy at the same time. There may be others in different galaxies, but they are just to far away. I think – and many more educated scientists do so two – the universe is just too big we will ever meet.
@dignity Congratulations to your airbrush starter kit. Keep in mind, patience and practice is the key to get good results on minis. May be you’l repaint those “banana ships” 😉
That or go for an eyeball searing hot yellow 😉
I watched a documentary about Stalin planning to breed an army of half-ape Super Soldiers…
Like the plot of that creepy ITV miniseries Chimera…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXrWX3fAZnw
So why couldn’t they have had Soviet Yetis? 🙂
Would be good to see how Justin gets on with the Airbrush. I fear there are quiet a few of us wanting to get one but not really knowing where to start like myself.
an airbrush n00b vid series would be good, if not a series a monthly vlog showing progression and lessons learnt would be a valuable resource
Yes, this sounds very good. I might buy one myself but I keep putting it off because I don’t know were to start. And I don’t know anybody around to show me the ropes.
A couple of points on today’s show:
1) @warzan – Well played on the gift for Justin. I was expecting a joke or some other not “real” gift when you gave the box to Justin. When he actually opened it, and the reaction on his face and the sincerity you showed, was great to watch. Thanks for your Christmas generosity.
2) I ABSOLUTELY want a remake of Starship troopers. The movie that was made was more of an insult to the book than an attempt to actually translate the book into a movie. I absolutely love the book and generally will re-read it every one or two years. The point of the book has very little to do with the bug war, and the movie is nothing but. I would love to see a movie that sticks closer to the book than the first movie did…
@warzan: instead of the flashing light when you’re in, why not a flashing light when your not, but tell people it flashes when your in? 😉
@dignity: you are aware that the Mummy has been remade before right? Apparently, the remake out next year is supposed to be the first in an expanded universe series of films with all the classic universal/hammer horror monsters in the vein of the MCU or DCCU.
On the pigeon bomb: it was mentioned a few years ago on QI as well.
I remember seeing a story about chickens being used in search and rescue craft as a follow up to the pigeon bomb. It was to be used as sea as it’s very hard to pick out sailors in life jackets amongst the waves. The scientists had seen chickens pecking at grain in a farm yard and thought they could tap at a screen where they could see sailors
My take on the Dyatlov Pass incident is as follows:
Nothing as fun as aliens or yeti’s im afraid, human error and possibly depending on how much you like tin foil hats the military.
For me the most likely explanation is a combination of altitude sickness and hypothermia induced erratic behaviour and group hysteria, much the same way that many super experienced mountain climbers die on everest and k2 due to hypoxia induced delusions, the same could happen to them, for arugments sake the “leader” of the group started to freak out causing the rest of the group to flee too, run out unprepared into blizzard your not going to have a good time. The lack of a tongue can be explained by decay and passing wild life eating it.
The more fun tin foil hat version is that the group inadvertently stumbled into a military exercise possibly anti personal nukes and become unwilling test subjects or my pet theory uncontrolled descent by spy satellite , they die/get put out of misery by the military, who then move there camp to an area well away from the test site (there was “evidence”/conjecture [same diff with discovery documentaries] that the tent was actually erected incorrectly facing into the prevailing wind with guy ropes not set etc. which is considered inconceivable for an experienced set of mountaineers) and stage the bodies as if fleeing from some local folklore monster, the tongue is removed for pathological testing or just through decay, the rest of the injuries sustained by the group can be explained by exposure to radiation and explosive reentry as well, the clothing is removed to show their “terror” and more likely as it contained elevated levels of radiation or visible evidence of exposure to something nasty.
If you go with the crash landing satellite theory you could conceivably explain the terror by being in a tent when suddenly you have a very bright light appear in the sky with a lot of noise coming straight for you, leg it and get taken out by the explosion, the survivors dressed in scavenged rags die of hypothermia and the injuries they sustain in the explosion, things like detached retinas popped ear drums and broken bones would be very disorientating for any survivors
great show, LOVED the look on@dignity‘s face when @warzan gave him that present! absolutely priceless!
I’d like to see @warzan try to melt either @johnlyons or @brennon‘s mind…….I’d think it’d be @warzan educating @johnlyons about some obscure WW2 facts would be highly entertaining!!
@warzan Well you said you are not into comics. But i see you hard into the conspiracy theory or mysteries are what you would call it.
I still recommend Prometheus from Christophe Bec. He took all the actual mysteries and melded them in a very nice blend of Apocalypse:
https://www.amazon.com/Prometheus-Christophe-Bec/dp/0785143637/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
Actually i see no english version available. Mayne you want to learn french. 😉
Once again, a great show guys.
Justins little face when he opened his present was so sweet. Bless his little cotton socks.
Some really good stuff today. Love the near-future sci-fi troopers.
@warzan : In regards to the conspiricy theories, have you heard of U-28? It was a German ‘Type U 27’ U-Boat commissioned by the Imperial German Navy on 26th June 1914. It conducted 5 patrols and sunk 40 ships totalling over 90,000 tonnes. On 30th July 1915, it came across the British steamer ‘Iberian’. In the Commander’s log, the ‘Iberian’ was sunk and remained under water for about 25 seconds before exploding, sending some debris flying into the air. Along with the debris, the commander reported that a “gigantic aquatic animal” which resembled a crocodile was seen, before it quickly disappered. At this time in history, if a Commander wrote something in the log so outragous without a good reason, they would be relieved of command and usually imprisoned due to higher command thinking they were trying to get out of the war effort. The commander, Freiherr Georg-Günther von Forstner, continued to command the U-boat until June 1916. Clearly the German War Cabinet didn’t find enough evidence that the commander was falsifying his reports. Just for completeness, the U-28 was sunk on 2nd September 1917 when it came across the British steamer ‘Olive Branch’. It fired a torpedo which scored a hit on the steamer which was travelling from England to Russia. The torpedo detonated the ‘Olive Branch’ munitions and the U-28 was badly damaged by the explosion and sank. Even though the target ship was called ‘Olive Branch’, the lifeboats of the British ship refused to pick up the U-boat crew who managed to escape. All 39 of its crew were lost. What does Justin think the Commander saw when it sunk the ‘Iberian’?
Have a great Christmas to all the BoW team and to all the Backstagers! Have a good one!
Warren on the Black Knight satellite . That theory that it is a dropped blanket is NASA disinformation campaign and dates from the mid 2000’s- to early 2010’s , but the Black Knight was originally filmed in the 60’s or 70’s. So unless that Blanket can time travel it ain’t it.
I mean you know what NASA stands for ? Never A Straight Answer.
On sound effecting brain waves and emotional states; the U.S. Military already has a weapon that uses ultra and infra sonic waves to effect people, turn that up and you explode internal organs, or shake them to jelly -Nasty.
HAARP is again using sound waves to effect the weather, and cause earth quakes, and natural disasters. In fact to get really deep foil hat wearing conspiracy the lead investigator of 9/11 has proven that the world trade centre was destroyed not by an exploding plane ramming it, but actually it was dustified by sound waves, If you look at it you can see them dustifying by level, and with 3 other buildings that did not touch the towers were also destroyed by dustification so again there is no debris , everything is just gone. also there was no real damage to the surrounding area buildings. Yes the Death Ray exists —- dum dum dum dar du rdah
Forum post is up and live: http://www.beastsofwar.com/groups/backstage-green-room/forum/topic/airbrushing-for-dummies/
Justin speechless do to his Christmas present, priceless. I love the idea for 10 second clips of highlights of the year. I have one for Lloyd, his hobby time with John for collapsible rocks. My daughter is eight years old, and together last weekend we had so much fun doing this project that now she’s clamoring for more project ideas. Thanks BOW for another great year of hobby coverage. From my family to yours Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Looking forward to hanging out with you all in 2017.
Happy Sunday. Regarding Starship Troopers, as said in a previous post the book is much better than the films but is mostly geared to their training and indoctrination so probably wouldn’t make a good game. There are three races in though, the humans and the bugs and also the “skinnies” who initially are allied to the bugs
The terracotta armies sound good but would obviously have to be led by the famous terracotta duo Bill and Ben!
The Christmas gift segment was heartwarming. It looked like Justin was about to cry at one point. Looking forward to see how the paint jobs turn out. You might need to find a new victim for Miniature ER.
Happy Sunday!
Great show!
Merry Christmas! 😀
Really happy for @dignity , hope he’s gonna have a lot of fun with it!!!
Well, deserved matey 🙂
@Starship Troopers
As someone who invested quite a bit of my hart earned in Mongoose’s game I’d love to see it coming back to the tabletop once more! Maybe a new movie will help?!
Re. your main photo on this article. What is that fierce, shaggy, lumbering great beast glaring down at Justin? Its hideous! The Yeti in the background looks good though :p
@warzan, in relation to A.I. and aliens. Surely if something out there is watching us or has visited us then they will have gone through the A.I. issue already and having done so would have been wiped out by said A.I. This would mean all aliens would be machines rather than squishy fleshy things, which they find impractical and rather tacky. That would then mean that the Black Knight could be an alien itself and the end of the world is nigh. It has gone to bring back its machine besties to get rid of us squishy things that have enslaved the Ford Transits and Toyota Prius’ of the world. Sooooo, to prepare can you get Fantasy Flight to do an End of the World: Revolt of the Machines/Alien Invasion combined supplement to ready us for this future battle.
In preparation I now have a tin foil helmet, have sharpened my old school tin opener and hidden my spare car keys in a place they will never find them, so I have a hostage when it all goes wrong!
Warren what you and Lloyd did for Justin was superb, Aaaahhh Justins face was priceless…….
Don’t be so quick to dismiss a painting station. After my eldest daughter was born I was also struggling to get any painting done until I bought the GW painting station. I never use it to paint on my lap.
The benefits of the station are that at the start of a project I load it up with the paints and brushes that you I need, my undercoated minis, a home-made wet pallet and a pot of water. I then paint with it on a table. If I am interrupted it only takes a few seconds to clean my brush, put the lid on my pallet and then store the station on top of my bookshelf out of reach of the kids. When I’m free again it only takes a few more seconds to set up and start painting again.
This makes it very easy to squeeze painting into all your free moments.
Hey, everyone. Okay, I don’t usually jump into these XLBS science conversations, but there’s a first time for everything. I can “hold my fingers” no longer, so here we go.
On the whole “will we ever find alien civilizations” or “are we being watched over by a Federation” question.
Short answer: No. Sorry. Explanations below:
The main argument that people tend to use when optimistically predicting that we WILL find alien civilizations is based on some version of: “there are just so many planets out there, we HAVE to find something on one of them.” Or … “Isn’t it arrogant to think that the accident of biochemistry that happened to spark life on Earth has happened ONLY here?” Or … “We don’t even know whether the original organic compounds and amino acids that sparked life in Earth originated here as opposed to a comet or a rock blasted off of Mars” or whatever.
Okay, first of all, we really need to distinguish between “will we find LIFE” and “will we find CIVILIZATIONS.” I firmly believe we will find life, i.e., bacteria, molds, etc. Maybe even primitive multicellular type life.
And I’m not saying that there aren’t civilizations out there by the thousands.
I’m just saying the odds are astronomically against us finding any of them, or them finding any of us.
The factor that people always tend to forget about when I hear these optimistic arguments (and the first thing that tossed the long-debunked silliness of the “Drake Equation” many of you may have read about) is TIME. As in “Deep Time” or “Cosmological Time.” This, balanced against the likely impossibility of any kind of meaningful FTL travel (let alone FTL communications) really cuts down on any realistic chances of inter-civilization contact.
Look at our history. Human civilization has lasted about 5,000 years so far, and already we’ve already come damned close to destroying ourselves. Our odds of making much farther are not bad, but not great, either.
So let’s be optimists for a moment and say we DO make it. Given the current exponential advance of our technology (assuming it doesn’t kill us), how long before we don’t need bodies anymore? Before we can upload our consciousness into some kind of Omninet where we live as immortal beings of pure energy? 1000 more years? 2000? 10,000? Absolutely NOTHING in the true stretch Cosmological Time.
Meaning that one way or another, we “cease to exist” on this plane within 5,000-10,000 years.
Compared against the age of the Milky Way Galaxy (11 billion years or so), or the likely expected lifespan of the Universe (JUST getting started, according to latest theories on Dark Energy, Expansion, Heat Death, Cosmological Decades and Deep Time, Second Law of Thermodynamics, etc), these civilizations exist as tiny, momentary blinks of an eye, ephemeral “firefly blinks” in a huge, timeless, and very dark forest.
So human civilization is one of these fireflies, buzzing around randomly and alone in a continent-sized forest that has existed for thousands of years. So not only do we have to accidently bump INTO another firefly (yes, bump INTO, because of the theoretical obstacles to FTL travel), but we have to bump into it WHILE we’re “blinked on” AND they are “blinked on” as well, within the age of the forest measure by millennia.
You see the odds against it.
All this said, I firmly believe we will find life. We may well find remains of past civilizations that have already destroyed themselves or evolved to some other plane or place. And yes, right now I would say that there are other civilizations blossoming right now in the Milky Way Galaxy (please forget other galaxies, science fiction is one thing, science absurdity is something else).
I just don’t think we’ll even be close enough to another civilization to interact while it is in this extremely brief evolutionary window in TIME (the often-forgotten factor), while of course in our own extremely brief evolutionary window … simultaneously.
And as far as the Federation thing goes, and I hope I don’t rile anyone up here (if I do I apologize in advance), but it’s starting to feel borderline religious, or at least drawing on those same human instinctive needs. “There’s an invisible man in the sky watching over me and looking out for me and everything will be okay.”
When we’re kids, this role is filled by our parents. Adults in the past invented religion. Now it’s a Federation of Aliens?
Sorry for the long post, and hopefully I didn’t depress anyone.
Nice one. FTL is the issue and to get the population high enough to actually travel throughout the Milky Way. Yes there is growth on Earth and there would be growth everywhere else but it takes a huge amount of people to search the galaxy. (almost wrote astronomical amount)
How about from another dimension who have populated the Moon or Mars and on their way back to Earth had an accident or met a spacial anomaly that pulled them here. That alien would be very human like and could even be called Ruck Bogers, he could even be from the future :} That would make a good TV show
I remember the first lecture I attended for Palaeontology 20 years ago.
The Lecturer told us that given the age of the universe Earth was only in the third generation of planets/galaxies…. :-O
So the Starship Troopers book has more factions and is a much easier transfer to a game. The movies started as a movie called Bug Hunt at Outpost 9 or some shit and the director got the rights to the book title and hated it so he just took some of the tropes and did them so horribly that it was a joke. The book gives you a great option for a skirmish game with the horde of bugs. It really could be a good game as long as it isn’t associated with the crappy movie, well it is a popcorn movie, I just love the book.
I agree with @outriderhobbies about Starship Troopers. It is one of my most favorite books and the movie was a t&a travesty that cheapened the whole rationale behind the book.
Heinlein, a Naval Academy graduate, wrote the book as a response to the policy of Massive Retaliation adopted by the Eisenhower administration. Heinlein pulled the policy of Flexible Response into his book to show that conventional forces still had a purpose in the post WW2 era. Heinlein’s generation was exposed to the sacrifices involved in WW2 and completely avoided the knee-jerk drivel about a fascist society found in the movie.
There were three factions in the original Mongoose game – humans, bugs, Skinnies. There was also a cartoon version of the book that is hard to find now. See the Amazon link here: https://www.amazon.com/Roughnecks-Starship-Troopers-Chronicles-Campaigns/dp/B0009I8QI6
Happy Sunday!
Justins expression when he got his present, Adorable :3
The new minis from Zenit look awesome, terrifying but awesome 😀
On the Subject of early UFO sightings during WW2 so-called Foo Fighters (not the band) were first reported in late 1944.
Great show as ever guys 🙂
Oh and Bah Humbug! Sorry, I mean Merry Christmas!
On the Avatar thing, remember this is just a retelling in a kind of not really original way of the History of the Commonwealth Virginia.
There was a tabletop version of starship troopers made by Mongoose publishing back in 2003-2004, but would love a remake…
@warzan – missed a trick there Warren with Justin’s pressie. I thought you were gonna reach into the box there at the end and pull out a picachu and acid smiley face stencil to airbrush his DFC banana fleet 😉
SSI made a Starship Troopers board game decades ago back in the 80’s, a classic that had the player(s) against the Skinnies and the Bugs. Updating that might make a good skirmish miniatures game.
I want to see a vlog on BoW Boxing Day (as a yank I only know about it from a Christmas episode of M.A.S.H.) with the roles reversed and John making Warren build and paint something. Of course, John would have to make a subsequent vlog on how to repair the project.
Cracking show guys – thx a million
The look on Justin’s face – just beautiful! Well done Warren and Lloyd – you created the perefect ‘Christmas face’ . Happy Christmas to you all and a peaceful New Year 😀
Adrenaline doesn’t make you stronger, it turns off pain receptor nods in the body. People have to think about this you’re using about 1/3 to 1/2 of your strength currently, yet you think your using 100% of your strength at this point. So a Female panic is about perform a Push up with 3 Police Officer trying to hold her down.
Along this line PCB also does the same and causes psycho personnel shift, Hence when the police has to deal with a individual on PCB they require 8 Officer to wrestling him down and it still a fighter for the officers.
Hahaha. The look on Justins face was priceless.
Can’t wait to see what you do with your new kit. 🙂
As for Starship Troopers… The first was ok but 2 and 3 are garbage. The tv show Roughnecks was a lot better than the films and was a bit closer to the book. Even thought it looks dated now it’s a shame it didn’t get its last series ao it could finish the story off.
Starship Troopers – Invasion (which is currently on Netflix) is a briliant follow up to the films. In usual Japanese style it’s a bit slow to start but once the action kicks in it’s pretty good. Also. How do yhe Japanese always manage to make womens uniforms so bloomin sexy. Lol
@warzan have a look at this, great use of candy using an airbrush https://youtu.be/z5Wrrx-m_zk
Is this what we get when we subscribe to XlBS? We get to hear Warren talk about his bowel issues? That is an image i do not want to have in my mind. How shitty…
Stay a member long enough and we’ll get you to a bootcamp where you can witness it first hand 😉
When they say backstage, they mean backstage. I mean even the toilets in Riverhouse is 2 in a room with no division – I can only guess the 2nd one is for the lucky cameraman 😛
If Ben had been born twenty years earlier it’s unlikely he’d have had to go and look up Strontium Dog, as he’d have been reading it. Just as I was, Stallard was, and pretty much all the GW creative team at the time were. However, 2000AD’s heyday is long since in the rear view mirror. Circulation figures aren’t released, but anecdotally it appears to have been selling as a little as tenth of its 1980s peak for quite some time now. It’s why when the announcement came of Warlord getting the license, the speculation was around strips which were popular in the 80s. People weren’t talking about Nikolai Dante or Button Man games, they were taking about Rogue Trooper, Judge Dredd, and Strontium Dog. The Mongoose JD game was steeped in 80s Dredd also.
It’d be an awfully big risk to release a JD game based on the Karl Urban movie and not the comics. Even if more people watched that movie than currently read 2000AD, and they surely did, it performed poorly at the box office and the large majority of people with an interest in Dredd will be former readers of 2000AD, of which there are a lot of us. The movie was also severely restricted in what it could depict because of its budgetary constraints. It is a ‘future cop’ movie with a Dredd skin as much as it is a Dredd movie. A new Dredd movie with a production and marketing budget behind it of a Marvel Universe movie would obviously be an enormous boon, but it unfortunately isn’t going to happen.
I do think that Dredd has more than enough material to draw on, and enough brand recognition, that a quality game, well marketed with premium miniatures, could easily find a place in the market.
I used to be a rabid fanboy for all things 2000 AD. Back in their golden age the stories and artwork were fantastic.
Then it slowly went down hill and I gave up on it when pne of their strips was badly drawn in biro and coloured in with highlighters.
Yeah, some of the early 40k stuff – like the city-plans – were for both Space Marines and Judge Dread!
This, a thousand times this.
thanks for the show guys.
Well, @dignity, we expect to see updates on your very nice XMAS guift!
See you next sunday!
The dyatlov pass incident has been made into a film called the Devils pass, this was released in 2013…
This is one of the few “found footage” movies that I actually like. Strongly recommend
congratulations on the air gun Prezi @dignity
That was great to see @dignity being acknowledged like that on the show. The look on his face he quite clearly didn’t have a clue that this was going to happen. You’d have to be a hard man not to be touched by his reaction.
Hope we are going to get a lot of coverage on his venture into spray painting as it is big step to make in the hobby for most people,
a prequel for DREDD would be great with the mega city’s coming into existence for the survivors.
@warzan @dignity on the subject of sound being a weapon have you seen the extra’s in resident evil with Marlon Manson taking about the sound/music in the film.
with xmass coming up what about a mega paint challenge turning all the empty sweetie tins into terrain/defence post.
Dredd should be a cop series – and Dare Devil should be a Perry Mason/Law and Order setup with the first half of the show Super Crime fighting and the second half courtroom drama 🙂
and Source Code should also be a Quantum Leap style series…
Scott Bakula was in Source Code…
No way – I had to look that up! I didn’t believe you :-O
Bakula was his dad and said ‘Oh Boy’ on the phone 🙂
That bit with the present for Justin was lovely guys. I got a little teary eyed.
Totally agree. I think Justin wasn’t parked so far away from the water either. Real nice gesture and present. Looking forward to the article about the assortment.
I had to laugh carzily when I heared “MAN DIARRHEA”. Last night we finally got to name our first desease in Pandemic Legacy. We named in “MAN FLU” (or in German “MÄNNERGRIPPE”). Didn’t know the “MAN …” describtion for illnesses was also a think in the english language. Makes me think about how similar all people are and why are we still fighting wars?
I was thinking some more about the Yeti thing. There is no way a Yeti could migrate across the thousands of miles of Steppe land that separate the Himalayas from the Urals.
The monster was probably a Human-Ape Stalin experiment escaped from a Secret Soviet Trooper base…
I meant to recommend the movie ‘Dredd’. So good. ( Not the one with Stallone. ) There is also a documentary on 2000AD and the comics. called Future Shock ( http://futureshock2000ad.com/ ). For those of you into WH40K lore and history, i’m pretty sure that 2000AD was ‘inspiration’ for some of the grittier aspects of WH40K. I can’t remember if there was something specifically explicit making that connection in that documentary, or if i made the connection from something they mentioned.
Several of the GW design team in the 80s have acknowledged that 2000AD was a big influence on what they were doing.
Merry Christmas! Watch out for seas monsters!
Bit late to this party but I have to agree with Justin when he said about one of the hikers going nuts. I was once one of 6 police officers that pinned someone to the floor, we could barely keep him there, and he’d only had a lot to drink, colleagues of mine warned me about certain types of drugs that give people almost unnatural strength of the sort where they are bending police batons in half. Not saying his theory is right just that it’s highly possible