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grizzlymc wrote:

So, you could use woad for Bavarians or bodices, but Chaps dark blue jackets have to be indigo? What happens if you use less water with your woad?

It doesn’t go as far….. some bodices will have to miss out. I dont think it works like adding sugar to water ie less water sweeter drink, dyes have level of intensity not to be confused with lighter/darker such as adding white to paint fer’rinstance

…an for what it is worth, Gen’l Sade I agree with your comment, well put sir. We’ve all had our fill in one way or t’other with the other place I do not care for any overlap.

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Looks t’riffic Mr Monkey, nice atmosphere to the pieces.

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Great looking figures, nice style too, chunky without being too plump and good consistency throughout the ranges which is a big plus in my book

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Norm S wrote:

Some certainly look fed-up. On the games side, while these days everyone who you ‘interrupt’ will answer your questions, there still remains a sense that some of these games are just being played by a bunch of mates without any regard for the visitor standing anther table looking even mildly interested. This has been dealt with at Hammerhead (run by Kallistra) in which every table is a participation table and there is a positive buzz between all game tables and the public (especially as the gamers have worked hard to put something on that is interesting). I think they have very effectively ‘fixed’ that side of things and that show has moved into a league of its own. Last time I went, I sat at a table, played a 20 minute game and then went straight to a trader and bought stuff relating to that game – so that also seems to work and the show seems well rounded for that with an equal emphasis on trade and game, each complimenting the other.

Pretty much sums up my opinion, we have one very large national show and a few smaller state events in Australia. To be honest if it wasn’t for the chance to catch up with mates and have a week interstate mixed with a driving holiday (1200kms away) I doubt I could be bothered attending the big show. There is only a small handful of traders that aren’t reselllers so many stands are the same thing over and over and in the end it is mostly a gaming comp outing. . Hammerhead sounds like the smaller local shows we used to have in the good ol’ and personally I would like to see a show be a least 50% participation, it is the right way to get the unconverted “in” and for the rest of us it provides the opportunity to try out those things we hum and ahh over with experienced players. From what I read it is pretty much the case internationally that wargames shows have become trade events set up for the converted, to my mind that is not the route the hobby should be going down. Then again I doubt I have a clue.

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I’m currently having a crack at building some SAGA armies myself and have been making my own spears and javelins and wire works fine for me although I use a hammer to flatten the wire. You will need a flat surface to work on, as your anvil so to speak, I also use a dremmel to shape the spearheads after flattening but of course a file will work just as well, occasionally I will bash out a sword or saex if I want some variation and I’m currently playing around with some axes. All good fun and very enjoyable making my own bits and pieces.

Cerdics review is a gem isn’t it?

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Nice work Dave

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Dremmel that kit right off, bit of green stuff to smooth over any over eagerness and make any kit you might want to add.

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Surely they are subject to fashion just as most objects and ideas are?

Writers, artists, game and movies designers etc etc. explore new themes and styles so it is little wonder things like sci-fant are able to constantly evolve and re-invent. I like the sleeker unencumbered style I see in sci-fi films and figure nowadays it makes sense to me on a number of levels, from functional to stylistic taste. Yet I love the 50’s futurism of games and artwork from the Fallout series of console games, I guess a lot depends on the where the figure designer sits on the sci-fi spectrum on a particular day. I call the decline in the amount of lumps and bumps on the figure a maturing of technology in the world they inhabit, I also think I’m a bit of a wanker… go with your strengths

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Oh yeah any thoughts on having a show case/display case/gallery board,   a brain fart idea I just had

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A couple that spring to mind South Africa/Angola Border wars called  Bush Wars, The Malaysian and Burma emergencies if you want some jungle action post WWII rifts between Britain and dominions. The Chindit operations, great material for research available small scale hit and run. Mesopotamia pre WWII (Iraq) effectively, Bomber Harris learned much that he was to use later on during WWII, plenty of material available on this and Afghanistan around the same period.

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Yeah, very nice work.

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Cerdic wrote:

Nice job! I keep getting tempted by 1/72 figures but keep telling myself I really don’t need yet another scale….

I’m hearing ya.

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Don’t start me on Avatar ………his wife did make the better film that year.

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Who has a cool blue Avatar now !!!!!!

Upstart.

Bwaaahahahahaaa

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I always put new units in the reserve, we had a superstition that if a new unit failed on it’s first outing that would set it’s fate henceforth. complete crap of course but not one I was willing to test

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It may well work, seems the inverse to digging small shallow (about 30cm inevery direction)  ditches to break up cavalry attack. Nice find.

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They paint up quite nicely George, good job

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I’ve always thought vineyards would be a nice addition and I had looked at the JTT pack. Glad I didn’t but it because you vineyard looks bloody spot on for a fraction of the cost.

I will definitely be looking at trying this myself so many thanks for the how to photo’s Will, a right corker of an idea.

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Jacdaw30’s http://www.siegeworksstudios.com.au/cart/index.php

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This is the one I made for the Guild, taken from a Flashman cover. Bloody thing took forever to resize properly, then again I’m not the crunchiest chip in the wrapper

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Rod Robertson wrote:

I love to eat the little piggies! Bacon!!!!!!! Hmmm! I guess you are what you eat! Cheers and good gaming. Rod Robertson

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Thanks Cerdic, I’m particularly ignorant about the whole medieval dark age thing…. yes I am reading and getting a few bits and pieces nailed down and the GHA seemed a logical gaming arena with plenty of campaign potential. Any historical gems or comments are always most welcome. I think SAGA would handle village raids nicely and my rules of choice for larger battles is swinging in favour of Impetus, of course there is a long way to go with painting and researching so I keep plugging away at it.

Just as an aside I did have a brief read about the Investiture commotion whilst skimming in the library, once again a fight that seems like a very neat package perfect for a wargaming campaign, small battles lots of protagonist from all over Italy and Europe. And dont forget the Normans whats not to like about that?

My gaming plans for the next 12 to 24 months are pretty well mapped out, a heathen army of vikings romping here and there in dark age England followed by Germanic types and most everyone else with an invitation romping over post dark age/feudal Italy, jolly nice.

BTW I must say I really appreciated the comparison photo’s on your blog, it was a great help in when looking for figures.

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I was thinking that I have seen a post on a blog somewhere that Verneuil was a demo game at salute this year, I put a link up if I come across it again. I’m far to distant to remember much about the db rules so not much use to you I’m afraid.

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Being a bit lazy here guys sorry but I have a heap of stuff on. Started doing some more conversion work on my Saxons, heaps of photo’s and unnecessary spiel on the blog so I will just post the link this time round.

http://paintpigdave.blogspot.com.au/2015/05/dark-age-fun-basing-and-conversions.html

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Nice looking game, if it’s too tough to beat the longbow combination even with your mods then I think the rules are weighted too heavily although it is a long time since I have played any dbx games but I did play it a good while. I have found impetus has done their homework with bow armies and while the English longbow is suitably tough it isn’t invincible. It is a element based game like dbx and I’m quite enjoying it, it has got me interested in the period again. You can download the basic rules for free from their website take a look. Enjoyed your aar mate.

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Don Glewwe wrote:

This is what it look like if you screw up

I’d be pretty happy to screw things up and still have it looking that good, happy gaming

 

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kyoteblue wrote:

That mat is going to look great !!!

Spot on Kyote, look forward to seeing how it turns out.

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kyoteblue wrote:

Nope….still much more work and money than I want to do or spend…

Stop being a fuddy duddy and go to the dark side, send me a postcard

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Definitely a good idea doing if you have a “how to” type of post that is worth keeping as a tute, something of that nature.

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kyoteblue wrote:

I like talking about moderns here. Hell I like talking about almost every thing here….except Nappys…..That’s a rabbit hole I don’t want to fall in!!!

Fair cop Alice

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Rhoderic wrote:

I do have a fair deal of plastic aquarium plant (and cake topper palm tree) jungle terrain myself, so I’m also having a go at myself when I speak of this standard as something less than fully satisfactory. I mean to use some of the plants for my new jungle terrain as well, but it will involve converting and painting them to make them look more natural. I’m aware that painting plastic aquarium plants is quite unorthodox, and somewhat difficult considering the oily nature of the plastic, but that shiny, translucent effect of the unpainted plants doesn’t really do it for me. Einar Olofsson’s Ikwen are in a whole other league compared to the test paints I’ve done so far. Realistically speaking, I’m maybe one quarter the painter he is.

 

I made some terrain a few years back for a Vietnam game and the plants worked out really well other than the shiny look your talking about, I tried.. more like fooled about with the idea of painting them. I couldn’t seem to get it to work with that oily/shiny surface, a lot of tropical plants do have a shiny upper surface so some dont look out of place. I’ll be interested to see what you come up with so make sure you take photo’s, I’ll see if I can find mine they haven’t seen the light of day for many years.

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Mike wrote:

If we roughly group historical topics and sci-fi/fantasy topics on TWW we get: (ignoring the general forum) Historical 900 ish topics Non Historical 400 ish topics That is just topics though not gamers. It could be one gamer doing all the topics! EDIT: My gut feeling though is yes. Now at least. A few sci-fi guys left to use Facebook more regularly.

 

Facebook is going to make forums tough going for general chit chat which is where it shines, it is not designed for robust discussion of 3 or more with it narrow discussion box and options as it becomes too difficult to follow particularly when you want to reply to a section of a post, same with yahoo groups to my mind You’ll never be able to properly present an aar with fb either  but it is a useful tool for promoting and updating. Does tww have a fb page….. I know I’m on yours Mike.

There seems to be a pretty strong sci-fi following on here, well the above seems to indicate as much. I’m a historical person myself but I do like looking at the sci-fi stuff (re the ikwen) the guys here are posting, some of it is staggeringly good! I was a little surprised to see the strong following for moderns, as Rhoderic pointed out, I shouldn’t be as I know there are some very good modern rules and figures available. Good diversity, for me it helps to keep in touch with what other gamers are doing. Vive la différence

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I did warn you I would be checking up, I hope you haven’t been spending too much time over at the dark side?

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I hear you Lot o Gaul, most of my goodies are packed in a storage container while our house is undergoing renovations. Luckily I had my paints and brushes buried in the shed with one or two other bits and pieces, when I got my hands on the 2nd hand Saxons and Normans I just had to clear off a few square feet and do some painting, best thing I could have done, it has restored my sanity and shooed away the reno blues.

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Over the last 12 months I have seen some really quite interesting and pretty realistic jungle terrain using aquarium plants, they work well if you can put the time into them. Of course time is the most valuable commodity in wargaming… well any hobby.

I’ve seen the Ikwen figures on Einar Olafson blog, they are beaut looking figures. Of course his painting brings the best out of anything.

http://einarolafson.blogspot.com.au/

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Where’s your five things you love and hate about gaming Kyote? I give you a super secret mission designed to impress colleagues and attract women of ill repute… and of far greater chance of success than your last mission *cough cough bill cough* you were assigned.

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Get yourself over to http://emperor-elector.blogspot.com.au/

Check out the blog roll, many have good ideas even the now defunct blogs are worth reading.

Also have a look at The Grand Duchy of Stollen, Stokes is a thoughtful gamer with many good ideas, in particular http://grandduchyofstollen.blogspot.com.au/p/guest-gallery.html

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From what I understand  Norm as long as all the figures are based alike it shouldn’t matter what size the bases (frontage)

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Welcome to TWW Chris and many thanks for adding to the conversation, pity we haven’t seen Bob back yet. It’s great to hear from published professionals.

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kyoteblue wrote:

And here I am hoping for an AAR not a video game…

Stop your whining John

Here read this and then do one for yourself http://paintpigdave.blogspot.com.au/2015/05/more-dak-ages-fun-hate-play-love-my-5.html

I’ll be checking so make sure you do it properly

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War Panda wrote:

Dragon Age Inquisition

Yep another one I’d like to try

Bloodborne is really good but very very hard.

Well I think that’ll rule me out then

I was a bit harsh on DA inquisition when it came out, but then I played origin again and reminded myself of the limited nature of the original game. I guess being a Eldar Scrolls and Fallout fanboy I have pretty high expectations. Hopefully the new Witcher will help fill in the void while I wait for new Eldar Scrolls and Fallout editions to fall from the heavens.

DA Inquisition is quite a reasonable game, it is a good attempt at making DA open world though at times a bit too channeled, still it is  a vast improvement on the last attempt which I couldn’t play for more than an hour, a very poor follow up to Origins. You can now properly interact with your party again, I always enjoyed stopping and have a natter with the crew in Origins and was one of it’s great strengths. Give Inquisition a go if your into open world fantasy RPG’s.

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