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« Reply #105 on: July 20, 2012, 04:01:11 AM »

I built a 'nef and you built a fleet!  Shocked

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Don't start up with your false modesty - your Egyptians are exquisite.
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« Reply #106 on: July 20, 2012, 02:31:40 PM »

My poor Egyptians... their landship still languishes in the build phase...  Confused
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« Reply #107 on: July 31, 2012, 04:27:50 AM »

And one more bit of terrain.  This started from my bitching that I had this old Star Wars kit I got in a trade (from White Knight, I think, actually) that should be able to be used, but I didn't want to build walls for it, as it was a playset style Cantina.  My wife made the comment, "then put a tent over it"...

And the idea for an open-air bar/gathering place was born.  With lowerable curtains (not really, I am lazier than that) for those pesky dust storms...









And yeah, I spent all of my time indoors playing with toys this weekend - yard work be hanged!
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« Reply #108 on: July 31, 2012, 08:47:06 AM »

Brilliant. Great idea to use ticking for the canopy - I might have to steal borrow that idea, since I have some suitable material somewhere.
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« Reply #109 on: July 31, 2012, 09:17:28 AM »

A Great idea, its looking good Smiley
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« Reply #110 on: July 31, 2012, 09:22:13 AM »

Wow!

What a brilliant idea with a tent and all. Never had thought of that.
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« Reply #111 on: August 05, 2012, 02:37:28 AM »

And a few more civilians.  I ran a game last night, and realized I didn't have enough townsfolk painted for a whole town, so I painted these up before we ran the second game today.




Mostly just kids, but they were all half finished, and required just some detailing to finish, so I got to it.  Then I did their mother, and caught hell for it when she came charging out of a house with her family sword, and killed 2 Tusken before leading her kids to the other townsfolk.




My friend tells me I'll come up with anything to justify figures I like in my army.  Of course, she and 2 hobbits are all I have left from my LOTR collection - sold the rest to someone who plays the game.
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« Reply #112 on: August 05, 2012, 09:25:40 AM »

I love what you have done with the Cantina!
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That is a cracking idea, and it really works.
If you had just written about it without the pictures, I would have been seriously sceptical about it.

Nice to see that set with some 28s as well.
I thought it would be too small, but it works just fine.
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« Reply #113 on: August 05, 2012, 02:10:05 PM »

Missed the 'cantina' earlier; you know, you could cause a run on the few found on eBay, that way.  Wink

Not sure I understand about the canvas. Is that seatback stuff, or...?

Lady with the sword brought me up short, I must say. "That's Otto, that is!" before I'd even got to the final comment. Not all of the LotR figs, and more than a few of the paint jobs, have me wondering 'who is that?' No doubt there.

After years of hillsides crashing to reveal a cave from whence herds of dinos, including curious mixtures of herb-ies and carn-ies, has left me to awe in the simplicity and rightness of 'lass runs out wielding her great-great-etc.-grand-dads' broadsword'.  Laugh

Now, felling two of the blighters DOES seem a bit of artistic license; I have noticed lasses tend to do rather well in our games as well. One wonders...

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« Reply #114 on: August 05, 2012, 06:59:57 PM »

Missed the 'cantina' earlier; you know, you could cause a run on the few found on eBay, that way.  Wink

Not sure I understand about the canvas. Is that seatback stuff, or...?

Lady with the sword brought me up short, I must say. "That's Otto, that is!" before I'd even got to the final comment. Not all of the LotR figs, and more than a few of the paint jobs, have me wondering 'who is that?' No doubt there.

After years of hillsides crashing to reveal a cave from whence herds of dinos, including curious mixtures of herb-ies and carn-ies, has left me to awe in the simplicity and rightness of 'lass runs out wielding her great-great-etc.-grand-dads' broadsword'.  Laugh

Now, felling two of the blighters DOES seem a bit of artistic license; I have noticed lasses tend to do rather well in our games as well. One wonders...

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Hey, they missed, she didn't...simple as that.  As the simplicity of her dress makes her usable in so much more than fantasy alone - and the sculpt is very on.  The LOTR line from GW was exquisitely done - I bought most of the first run of figures, and then found the game left me cold, and so I lost interest in painting them.  No matter - they are going to good home.  And my pal is correct, I will jump hoops to justify a figure I like in my VSF armies.

The material I used is a heavy cotton that my wife had left over from a corset that she made for one of her steampunk costumes.  It will probably show up a few more times, as I am considering actually making a small riverboat for my Norwegians and such, but having the canvas covers interchangeable depending on who is using the boat, so that I don't have to build one for each faction.
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« Reply #115 on: September 04, 2012, 02:38:56 AM »

And another piece of terrain.  This was a birdhouse I found at a Michaels in my area, and while the doors and windows were WAYYY off scale, I didn't feel like taking the time to change that...so I just made up an excuse.



It is a good scale for a 2-3 story building, but significantly larger than the majority of my other terrain pieces.  Covering the bird hole with a clock was actually my wife's idea (another reason I love the woman).




And this, of course is why the door is so large - as the sign says, greens are welcome here!
(and if I mangled the Norwegian, blame babelfish, not me!)



The door has to be tall enough to let them in, y'know?
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« Reply #116 on: September 10, 2012, 03:19:21 PM »

Too long without comment, I fear. Sorry about that.

I will say I was surprised you took the house, but shouldn't be that it worked even as well as it does. Too-tall customers DO explain a multitude of sins.

And I thought JUST the rocketship bird house was usable. Well, the castle towers have possibilities, if you don't use based fellows. The parapet walkway is damn skinny.

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« Reply #117 on: September 12, 2012, 05:02:19 AM »




The door has to be tall enough to let them in, y'know?

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Very cool. Good use of the birdhouse terrain.  Cheesy
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« Reply #118 on: September 12, 2012, 05:38:34 AM »

Thanks - I bought it not having a model in my pocket (which I actually do make a habit of doing - usually an unpainted 28mm GW something) and was pretty sure it was oversized, but it was on sale for 50% off, and I'll take the chance for $3.
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« Reply #119 on: September 12, 2012, 04:03:23 PM »

"and I'll take the chance for $3."

Picked up some plastic 'crystal' at a dollar store. GF gave weird look when I opined it might make strange, unworldly craft.

I'm risking, what, the price of can of pop?

Okay, she's upset for more 'junk'.  Cheesy

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