Reply To: Hobby Weekender 21/09/2018 – Sometimes even earlier…

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Morning everyone! OK, response time.

@mage Yes the minotaur is fantastic. and you are right – it is practically custom designed for D&D. I wonder how that would go as a D&D campaign – drop the players in a dungeon where sections rotate and shift? or worse still – teleporters instead of doors where each ‘side’ of the teleporter leads to a different area than the other… I still have a bunch of 5th ed WHFB minotaurs that I need to get to. Something else on the ‘to do’ list 🙂

Extensive list of childhood cartoons and a fair bit of overlap with what I used to watch back in the 80’s. I think we can all agree that the X men cartoon had the best opening theme. ever. Sorry John Williams, you’ll have to move over… I know what you mean re Kingdom Death. I have been hoarding high quality minis for years for ‘when I get good at painting’  – I think I need to bite the bullet and just start practicing. batch painting is fine for getting stuff down on the table, but I’m just getting faster not better. Could you do a Heresy army form the 30k box sets? Appreciate they are still not cheap but they are, shall we say, less prohibitive? have you considered other suppliers for IG conversions? I’ve been looking at Victoria Minis and Anvil Industries, but there are plenty of companies out there. Re White Scars, how would they look primed in several thin coats of white, black lined with a pen and then just with the red detail added? I guess from there you could use an ivory or similar and paint on undershade? Not sure on what to think of the Hasbro Cinematic Universe idea – hope there is more to it than toy sales but I guess we will see where we land…

It could end up being riotously good fun even if it is terrible 🙂 50 points for posts and replies

@sundancer Yes agree Orcs and Goblins are a staple. Any idea where the original idea for them came from? I know Tolkien used them but most of his ideas drew from existing folklore and mythology (albeit modified and/or developed further) – just wondering what the source inspiration was… Again I see a great deal of overlap with the shows I used to watch. nly one on the list I have been brave enough to revisit was Robotech. And yes it has dated but it is still OK because the show is based on character interaction and relationships not just giant fighting transformable robots. I really need to track down a version of the original Macross one day. Ah yes, lack of space 🙁 what sort of a 6×4 were you considering? What type of terrain? were you looking at interlocking modular sections or a one piece carved board type or something else? What game or games are you hoping to have it work with? Ah yes mimics are great fun. when DMing a dungeon crawler it is good sport to have a mimic model on your tray of ‘random monsters’ in full view of the party, and then drop lots of treasure chests about the place. every time they find one they will shoot the treasure chest with bows, poke it with sticks, douse it with burning oil etc just to ‘make sure’. I have good fun encouraging people not to metagame like that 🙂 50 points for detailed post and responses to date.

@rayzryr welcome back! Who wasn’t a fan of dinosaurs as a kid? I’m still waiting for my 6 ear old niece to grow out of that phase – I’m not sure she is going to. Birthdays and Christmas it’s all about dinosaurs 🙂 besides Smaug do you have a favourite type/style of dragons? Astroboy is another cartoon that really held up well – again due to the fact it was based on personal interactions rather than beating up the bad guy. Loved X-men, the Days of Future Past story arc were my favourite episodes. I do like DA’s, mainly as between the deathwing and ravenwing you have an opportunity to paint some things in different colours. A full chapter does sound like an ambitious undertaking. Any chance you could slow grow some DA’s by just picking up minis here and there second hand from EBay? Appreciate that may not work quite so well with interesting things like Ravenwing Landspeeders or Deathwing Terminations but for the rank and file grunts there seems to be plenty of stuff about now and then – possibly due to people upgrading to Primaris? Elf project – what is it you are working on? Do you have a link to somewhere in the projects system you could share? hat RPG sounds like crazy-good fun, hope you have an awesome time with it 🙂 30 points for initial post.

@querion ah yes properly and authentically dark faerie folk are great. I’m pretty desensitised to most horror stuff but there is something about that lore tahd does make my hair stand on end – maybe some sort of ancestral memory that makes me predisposed to those tales? You are right about eastern dragons – the idea that they are spirits and have their own agendas and concerns is much more interesting than the ‘eat all the livestock/burn all the villagers/collect all the gold/get stabbed by an adventurer’ version 🙂 Ok I know they are not all so one dimensional but I do like my dragons less brutish and more sophisticated… Again a great deal of overlap with your picks for TV shows and what I used to watch. Heh Duck Tales was good fun. and Dino riders – had forgotten about that one. re your orcish wardrum are you considering a platform for it to be carried on or are the Orcs going to lift it directly? 50 points for post and replies to date.

@horati0nosebl0wer was there ever any doubt about the kindred nerds? 😛 Satyrs are a good one. I like the D&D take on them that they are wild, high spirited, high drinking cavorting rogues. Lots of opportunity for interesting character interactions there. Yes Robotech/macross blew me away the first time I saw it. I still remember the scene where Max and Mirya fought on board the SDF-1/Macross – it was the first time that I had seen an animation that wasn’t just done in 2 dimensions. Completely blew me away.

For the benefit of the uninitiated, jump to the 3 minute mark in the below video and bear in mind this was done in the mid 80’s:

Ah yes, busts. My work with skin tones is not great at the best of times so I would find that intimidating too. Could you maybe pick up some cheap plastic toys/dolls or similar and practice repainting their heads to get a bit of confidence yup? Appreciate that they would be much less detailed and all… 50 points for post and replies to date.

@limburger a couple of busy weekends ahead 🙂 Hope you have a fantastic time! Benevolent/wise dragons as a guide mentor for the hero are great plot devices. It’s nice when they can work from the sidelines to guide events rather than taking a more direct hand in things. As a kid I could never quite work out if the dragon in the Neverending Story was a dragon or a giant flying puppy dog… Never did watch Macgyver (or Stargate for that matter) but I do know what you mean when an actor from a franchise you are familiar with suddenly ends up being seen in an unexpected or unfamiliar context it does throw out the sense of disbelief a little. Now Buck rogers is one I did watch. As a kid, that, Flash Gordon and Battlestar Galactica (I could have piloted a Viper at age 3,…) were the only cool shows on TV. As I got a little older things did improve a bit… Can you use Kill Team as a vehicle to maybe start work on some smaller forces and just get the ball rolling? How big is the mountain of plastic? Would it help to pack most of it away in storage boxes somewhere and begin by attacking a smaller component? Although I’m guessing you probably don’t want to kick anything major off before the bootcamp 🙂 Only a little bit jealous 😉 40 points for post and replies so far.

Ok that took a while so going to reload my coffee and plot the rest of my moning…