Reply To: Hobby Weekender 23/02/2019 – Here we go!

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So started my  week off with the a slight feeling of foreboding as it was time ot take the car in for it’s MOT, the first one this car has had under my ownership – happily it passed with no work needed (but a few advisories to work on over the next year)! So opted for a spot of retail therapy in the new branch of Firestorm Games that opened up earlier this month 🙂 Picked up a can of AP Uniform Grey primer (I was in need of some more), a pot of Stirland Battlemire (so I can get the rest of those Knights based up), a copy of the Getting Started With Age of Sigmar magazine (mainly for the rad Knight-Incantor mini – might take a stab at kit-bashing him into a Primaris Rune Priest or something…), and, unplanned, the Severina Raine mini and the HB version of the book she stars in, so I think my afternoon will be building her and reading Honourbound 🙂

And in order:

@blinky465 good shout on the Battle Systems terrain. Their Kickstarters have been phenomenally good value, but even the mass-retail versions off one of the most cost effective ways to cover a table I’ve ever seen, whilst still looking amazing.

@limburger I  take your point, but whilst Aresteia uses a character-only very similar to what Overwatch & Apex Legends deliver in their arena combat, I think a TF licence would run into some major balance issues, but I guess the TF CCG is doing ok so maybe they’ve come up with a work-around?

And yeah, Devastation is pretty rad. It’s from the fine folks at Platinum so the combat is honed to razor sharpness, and they give each of the playable Autobots a distinct style that enourages replays to see who they handle each level, even if you  spend a LOT of time beating on anonymous Seekers & Battlechargers….

@evilstu Predator is really quite superb, and I always marvel at how each of the films three major acts clocks in at around the 35-40 minute mark. It’s crazy to think that the film could have been a LOT worse (ever seen pics of the monster suit they initially shot with? That had one Jean-Claude Van Damme inside? It’s a thing, and we will leave it at that), but also that director John McTiernan would better it a year later with the peerless Die Hard  o_O

I hear what you are  saying about possibly locking in a particular part of the franchise, and G1 is quite literally “the daddy”, but here’s a thing – this year marks 35 years of G1, we are nearing 25 years of Beast Wars, the Unicron Trilogy is nearing 20, and it’s been over a decade since Michael Bay put his mark on things. There are a lot of fans for whom each of those was their Transformers, and I’d hate to see them put off by overly focusing on Generation 1.

@mage gods damn that Mordheim Ogre is just a classic bit of sculpting. Was that one of Brian Nelsons first? Or  was that Nicodemus? Loving the paint job and the basing is just aces 🙂

@robert that might even be all they need – the Command and Heavy Weapon kits made the arms on the Catachans comparatively smaller but still buff as heck. And yeah, the classic Jungle Fighters are still pretty rad. Got that whole 80’s action movie vibe down pat