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  • in reply to: 3mm Scale 40K – Battle of Calth #194310
    Avatar photoMr. Average
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    Yeah, mine are pinned with a whole lot of steel wire, and glued up with two-part epoxy, which is the bane of my existence.

    in reply to: 3mm Scale 40K – Battle of Calth #194288
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    By the way, also visible is the foot of a Tavshar Archon, from Alternative Armies. Real bear to assemble but a very cool figure. I should come back to that project – sci fi Sengoku Jidai. With proper 3mm scale “conventional force” figures it’d be a very cool game, just need some rules to play it with.

    in reply to: New 10mm Sci-Fi ranges released! #194286
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    Then I’ll have to contain myself and wait to see what’s next!

    in reply to: 3mm Scale 40K – Battle of Calth #194262
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    It’s a plane from an advance copy of the game Dockfighters, which I meant to paint but life intervened and sent me instead to another country. I intend to come back to that.

    in reply to: My Portable Wargame tile project #194249
    Avatar photoMr. Average
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    I have been seeking to do portable modular wargame terrain for many years and I am in sympathy with all who attempt it, though I have never managed to make a good set myself.

    in reply to: Microworld’s 3mm Fantasy Log #194247
    Avatar photoMr. Average
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    I love them, I kiss them, they’re beautiful! It reminds me I have an Imperial army to finish! O Pocket Warmaster, forgive my inattention!

    in reply to: New 10mm Sci-Fi ranges released! #194246
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    Lean into it, man! That’s the way!

    Despite the price gouging the Post Office imposes on everyone’s shipping I am sorely tempted to dive into yet another project with these – the flavor is so good and dieselpunky I love it.

    in reply to: New 10mm Sci-Fi ranges released! #194206
    Avatar photoMr. Average
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    It’s not a bad thing by the way – look up the “North American Technate.” Makes me think of an alternate-universe Dieselpunk mid-1950s-like conflict on Earth between the Socialist Republic (“Collective”) and the North American Technate (“Empirical”).

    in reply to: New 10mm Sci-Fi ranges released! #194205
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    I want to add by the way, in my wet blanket kind of way, that I think you meant to call them “Imperial.” “Empirical” makes them sound not like a hereditary monarchy but some kind of technocratic dicatorship. As if they determined that theirs was the “empirically” correct form of government. Which also works, really, it’s just sci fi, so what’s the difference.

    in reply to: New 10mm Sci-Fi ranges released! #194177
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    I like how “baroque” they look – very definitively their own thing, and not derivative of other lines!

    in reply to: 3mm Scale 40K – Battle of Calth #194161
    Avatar photoMr. Average
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    Got my first prototype for the Word Bearers done. I think it will work quite nicely.


    That red is actually a bit of a challenge but it worked in the end!

    in reply to: What's on your painting desk/table/corner #194142
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    I’ll add this though: it’s taking a lot of practice to learn how to prime with it, and as I’m painting a lot of 3D prints which (as it turns out) are very slightly porous, this is a necessity. I discovered this fact after I unthinkingly dropped a handful in my cleaning bucket and they came out all soft and floppy, although they look like they may re-harden as the cleaner evaporates out of them again. Lesson learned.

    Regardless, white primer is a bear to apply, I’m finding. Black primer is more successful and the survface is very tight, but I’m not certain it will give me the vibrant colors I want in my base coat, but I’m trying it anyway.

    in reply to: What's on your painting desk/table/corner #194115
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    I actually find it relaxing, rather like cleaning a gun. Which you may or may not know about. But it’s a precisely made piece of equipment, and with proper equipment and cleaners, it doesn’t take any more time or effort than properly cleaning a brush, really.

    in reply to: What's on your painting desk/table/corner #194083
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    I’m working on 3mm scale 40K figures, as well as proxies from Vanguard, which I plan to play using their own partner system “MicroCosmic.” It’s an elegant little system. I also got an airbrush for Christmas and it is basically the greatest enhancement to my gaming life since I bought a game table three years ago. Really a great amenity! Basecoating is wonderful – you get really lovely cover and a tight, smooth surface I never had before. Great rendition of detail. And no VOCs, either!

    in reply to: 3mm Scale 40K – Battle of Calth #194082
    Avatar photoMr. Average
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    That’s one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen!

    For me, since I base my troops at 3mm scale and then conceal the little plinths they’re on. It’s painting between the ranks that is such a pain for me. With five men, you can space them out enough to get a brush through. When they’re in rows there’s always an angle you can’t hit and I just got tired of trying.

    in reply to: 3mm Scale 40K – Battle of Calth #194064
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    I’m basing first and figuring out the rules later.

    This approach scares me..

    Me too, and the ten men per base in three ranks ended up being way too much of a pain to paint. I have an alternate idea now.

    in reply to: 3mm Scale 40K – Battle of Calth #194045
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    Getting some armor together! I’m not 100% sure I like the white turret on the Predator Destructor. It also looks way too bright under my work light – it’s more of a very pale blue grey in reality. But I might go ahead and make it blue anyway. We’ll see.

    in reply to: 3mm Legions Imperialis #193735
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    With coins you can’t beat the price. I don’t think there’s any wrong way to do it – I’m rather magnet-obsessed, myself.

    in reply to: 3mm Legions Imperialis #193733
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    You are a man of class and distinction! Limp seems to me to be practically crying out for 3mm scale! For basing, Laser-cut plywood is best for me so far. My infantry go on 15mm rounds, my light vehicles on 20mm, and my heavies on 25mm. I actually do them in two layers – a 1/16″ base with a cutout for a little rare earth magnet pellet, and then a 1/32″ topper that lets me glue down basing sand with just plain white glue. The little infantry bases on the troops all but disappear into the base that way.

    in reply to: My 24 point Death Guard force for Xenos Rampant #193597
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    Very nice. Death Guard are very cool. Good job on that brush work.

    Agreed! The drone is especially well done.</p>

    Mr Average, those are cool. 3D printed? What size, 6mm or 8mm? Nice brush work as well.

    Mine are 15mm scale 3D prints. I do mine as plain old marines because I lack the bravery to tackle the gamy infected ones as Konstantinos has done!

    in reply to: My 24 point Death Guard force for Xenos Rampant #193592
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    I do love me some Def Guard! Yours look terrific!

    in reply to: David Drake passed #193389
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    I’m sure anyone who has looked at my comic 6-Commando can see that I was deeply inspired by Drake’s work. It’s really sad to hear but he had a good run.

    Avatar photoMr. Average
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    Ali is definitely a key player in the terrain side of the business. You did a lovely job with the builds too!

    in reply to: 3mm Scale 40K – Battle of Calth #192942
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    I like how chunky they are. They verge on cartoony but it works!

    As for rules I’m looking for something that will handle large scale so full bases get removed and the battle occurs at the scale of a whole company. I’m basing first and figuring out the rules later.

    in reply to: 3mm Scale 40K – Battle of Calth #192904
    Avatar photoMr. Average
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    Hah! Well, we all have our crosses to bear. I think they look very smart with the base label, just a very minimal one. Just a visual marker really.

    in reply to: 3mm Scale 40K – Battle of Calth #192901
    Avatar photoMr. Average
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    Bit of a pain to paint three-rank bases but they look right so I’m suffering through it.

    in reply to: The Thousand Years’ War #192358
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    You’ve made me think of a force of black-turreted tanks for His Majesty’s Armored Regiment of Shirkers! I shall get to work on that interphrastically.

    in reply to: I worry about history #192356
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    I don’t mind revisionist history if it is based on research and shrugging off old straitjackets. The work that has been done on WWI Western Front for example has sloughed off the sixties patina of ‘Oh What A Lovely War’ and maybe even opened some people’s eyes to the fact that Blackadder Goes Forth was not a documentary. When it’s an excuse for shoddy writing and not being bothered to check simple facts it isn’t revisionism; it’s laziness or grinding a political axe.

    You probably put it way better than I could.

    in reply to: I worry about history #192353
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    Revisionist history is in vogue at the moment. That is putting it as generously as I can.

    in reply to: The Thousand Years’ War #192340
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    The Royston Yeomanry covet the precious things of the French.

    in reply to: The Thousand Years’ War #192310
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    WE DIDN’T BURN THEM!

    in reply to: The Thousand Years’ War #192306
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    I am from Birmingham, but I now live in Lincolnshire… Just incase you need an odd unit here and there 😉

    I’m considering making my powered armor troops be Local People from Royston Vasey. 😉

    in reply to: The Thousand Years’ War #192305
    Avatar photoMr. Average
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    Also, yes, doing small contingents with different colors is kind of my own trick to keep the painting process interesting. I find myself losing interest in projects where I have to produce too much of the same thing. A sci-fi medieval approach seemed appealing for that reason.

    in reply to: The Thousand Years’ War #192304
    Avatar photoMr. Average
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    “You don’t mean… like the Earl of Doncaster?!”

    Aaaadder, bubumm. Aaadder, bubumm!

    You officially win the prize!

    in reply to: The Thousand Years’ War #192266
    Avatar photoMr. Average
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    Well here come the men-at-arms of the Duke of Norfolk:


    and here are his colors compared to the Duke of Lancaster:


    Now to figure out my next English vassal. And I know what you’re thinking:

    “You don’t mean… like the Earl of Doncaster?!”

    I mean JUST like the Earl of Doncaster! Or maybe the Duke of Battersea, or the Marquis of Marchmain, or even the Earl of Brideshead.

    in reply to: Microworld's 15mm or Less Fantasy Log #192263
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    in reply to: The Thousand Years’ War #192200
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    My biggest as-yet unsolved challenge is how to do castles in the 25th Century. Because both sides still use castles, and besieging and taking castles is definitely a big part of campaign goals.

    in reply to: The Thousand Years’ War #192193
    Avatar photoMr. Average
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    I must say that I do think this is a really inspired project 🙂

    Do I dare sense another Hellfire supplement coming?

    in reply to: The Thousand Years’ War #192160
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    In my world the Spahis would be coming from the territory of the Almohad Caliphate, who are tied up fighting with the Empire of Asturias, which owns most of South America. It’s not a bad idea though, it might be interesting for them to be mercenaries in the employ of the French king! The Almohads are no dummies and they might not want a strong English state on their northern borders! I need to draw some maps, clearly.

    in reply to: The Thousand Years’ War #192137
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    After many years I’m coming back to this lovely little project. Some iconography for the English and French as their war over Burgundy and the Angevin Empire continues into a new phase. English and French banners, for example:

    And base labels for the English:

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