The Weekender: Back From Ficzone & May The 4th Ideas!
May 3, 2014 by dignity
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Warren & Lloyd are back from their adventures in Spain and boy oh boy was it an amazing trip from the sounds of things with loads of cool stuff happening AND being announced!
The guys have a chat about all of that and show off some sneak peek footage from the weekend before thinking up Star Wars ideas for 'May The 4th Be With You' day this Sunday!
Great show again guys, is that another Imperial Shuttle with defective wings that I spy. Mine only lower to that level, must get round to fixing that, a common fault according to the FFG X-Wing forum.
Some great tables on show guys, really funny about the rocking OAP’s.
Look up Black Sheep Cosplay and Props on facebook to see some very impressive Batman, Bioshock and Silent Hill cosplay! Might give you some ideas. plus he’s a very nice and helpful guy, so he’d give you some tips 😀
My vote for Warren’s cosplay: the Butcher from Warmahordes 😉
That might actually work lol 😉
Warren’s cosplay… well if brother Lloyd is going as Jabba the Hutt, then I see (disturbing sight) only one option for Warren—> Leia—-> metal bikini.
lol – No amount of votes will make this happen 😉
Your going you kill my boyhood fantasies lol
Haha, with my earlier post I’ve managed to kill my own too. 😉
With the whole gazpacho soup debacle he should go as Arnold Rimmer, charity shop suit sprayed metallic red and tin foil H and away you go!
The tourism episode? I’m claiming this one as the history episode 😉 Avatars of War and Knight Models are other high profile Spanish companies. If you noticed the By Fire and Sword stand at Salute, they’re a Polish company. France has a load of great sculptors, presumably a legacy of Rackham and Asmodee. I saw those cosplay photos when I was checking my FB feed on my phone. I saw the first one and liked it, then saw the second one and liked that, then they just kept coming and I thought well I don’t want to give the impression… Read more »
“The tourism episode? I’m claiming this one as the history episode”
You trying to ruin my hard earned reputation? 😉
lol Godzooky!!!
I have a hard enough time squeezing through the crowds with a camera crew, imagine with that costume on!!
You could clear out a path by blowing smoke rings at people lol
Warren should cosplay the sanguinor. The costume already exists!
That plastic scenery stuff looks really nice, for me, Infinity tables have started to look a bit too similar, variations on pod housing structures in a city environment, that green curved stuff really stands out, loving it.
How about Imp Guard like in this pick… http://www.wallchan.com/images/sandbox/67227-imperial-guard-tanks.jpg
If Lloyd has to Cosplay as Jabba the Hutt, does that mean Warren is going as Princess Leia…
Oh dear. Millions of voices cried out in horror… and they are still crying out in horror. 🙂
Maybe all gaming conventions should be held in places of great historic and scenic interest, like Prague, Rome, Dubrovnik, Rhodes – those sorts of places. Oh yes – it helps enormously that all of the above have fabulous eateries that I am sure could accomodate even Justin’s culinery requirements.
I think Warren should cosplay as Wonder Women,
Justin, the incredible hulk (painted green and where skimpy purple shorts)
Brother Lloyd as Friar Tuck (complete with shaven in bold patch).
I think there is enough of a challenge there for all involved. Hehe.
Link for Plastcraftgames. 🙂
http://www.plastcraftgames.com/en/64-designed-for-infinity
Great show guys, would have liked the link to
Oh mein gott!!!!
Guys you just made my day…
As for the cosplay thing… Lloyd would make an awesome bounty hunter Father Lucien Sforza, and Warren might nail it as the old discontinued Cadian liutenant with shotgun 😀 😀 😀
Whatever you decide to do for cosplay, Warren, if you want to make it yourself, you can’t get off to a better (or cheaper) start than with the humble plastic bin and a tub of car body filler since many costumes are going to require some panels / armour plates etc. Take a look at the following links – they even tie in nicely with the whole May 4th thing but then again, I’m always down for some Star Wars 😀
http://www.thedentedhelmet.com/f20/trash-can-armor-pics-6290/
http://www.thedentedhelmet.com/f34/apollos-weathering-tutorial-29520/
Here’s my effort from a few years back:
http://www.freewillstation.net/armour1.jpg
http://www.freewillstation.net/armour2.jpg
Alhambra has long been one of those places I tell myself I need to visit. I bet wished you’d had longer to look around.
It’s on a very long list of places I’d like to get to. Combining it with a trip to Ficzone might be the way to go.
Certainly sounds tempting. My wife’s a keen gardener. Alhambra is meant to have beautiful gardens so I have another sound reasons or convenient excuse for a trip.
Alhambra has really nice gardens, but the real jewel are in El Generalife, a smaller palace next to Alhambra.
Technically haven’t you already done coslay. What about Captain McStain the pirate. 😉
Beautifull! My wife is from Spain so I really appreciate that lovely country. Glad to hear that it is also coming out in wargaming. I only wish Italy could do the same…well it’s up to us I guess.
Warren I vote for princess Leia too! Ciao!
Oh man, Battle of Hoth in Miniatures, How cool would that be? Can I play General Veers? Always my favorite Imperial . . . as he the only one that seems to ever WIN a battle.
Great episode as always guys, the battle of Hoth sounds very cool.
If you don’t mind me asking, what company makes those Star Wars minis on the front of the table? The AT-STs and speeders, are they toys that are converted or are they actual miniatures? I know there used to be Star Wars minis and there still may be, I remember some game from a while ago but can’t remember what it was called and who made it. Ral Partha might of made the minis, sorry just can’t remember. Thanks for any info.
They are from the (long since OOP) Sta Wars Miniatures line from Wizards of the Coast. You can usually buy job lots fairly cheaply on eByay but the bigger things like ATSTs and even the ATAT are pretty rare now and tend to sell for more than a casual gamer is willing to spend lol
Warren should cosplay a StuG.
Some suggested rules / mechanics for Battle of Hoth (some serious, some not so much) … As a hard-core historical wargamer, I base a lot of these on the shared “history” of Episode V The Empire Strikes Back. 1) The Rebels CANNOT win, the sheer weight of Imperial firepower is just too much to hope for a successful defense or repulse. This was a delaying action. 2) I saw you guys had a power generator terrain piece. Set this up on one side of the board and designate a line for AT-AT’s firing range on that target. The Imperials have… Read more »
How about a 5th one, if an AT-AT topples down for some reason, you take a check to see of anyone nearby gets crushed by the weight of the walker? 🙂
6) Snowspeeder crews who are shot down and survive the crash landing have only 1d6 rounds to successfully bail out of the wreck. Failing this, they are considered destroyed units and removed from the board as an AT-AT stomps them into the snow. Poor Dax. 🙁
7) Both Imperial and Rebel forces must, at the end of each movement phase, make a d6 roll. On a result of “1,” the ENEMY player gets to place a “marauding Wampa ice-creature” anywhere on the table, up to and including base-to-base contact with enemy unit for immediate melee attack. Note that Wampas get +2 attack against Rebel Tauntaun cavalry. 😀
Speaking of Ficzone and Angel Giraldez, this is an article on the masterclass seminar he ran at the convention. It was originally in Spanish but the Bing translation is for the most part clear.
http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=es&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Fmundomachango.blogspot.com.es%2F2009%2F05%2Ftutorial-con-angel-giraldez.html%3Fm%3D1
Great episode guys! Alhambra and Granada look indeed awesome.
Warren, if you want to do cosplay do it about someone you freaking love/admire/respect , not something that looks really cool. Why ? Because you need to know everything about that character, the poses, phrases and everything related to it. You have to love being him ( well… you can do a her/it, but for firs timers crossplaying is a bit too much 😛 ). Go as something you really know and love. If you aren’t a big Otaku when it comes to anime just avoid it, we know everything about the characters and everyone will see thought you. Sorry… Read more »
Surely in keeping with the Starwars theme Warren’s cosplay should be as “Red 6” 🙂
🙂