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Post by glennwilliams on Oct 12, 2010 9:00:09 GMT -9
O Lady Hathor, grant me abundant life. Make me healthy on the eastern side of the sky, so that I will be established in the horizon, and dwell in your temple forever. Come away with to the banks of the sacred Nile. Walk along a processional way lined with sphinxes as priestesses, dancers, and musicians celebrate the great festival. Burly, shaven-headed priests carry the sacred bark on their shoulders toward the temple. Enter the outer courtyard through a massive pylon gate, then through a second gate enter the dark and forbidding hypostyle hall, before finally reaching the gloomy sanctuary. Enter PHARAOH: THE TEMPLE the latest release from Finger and Toe Models using authentic textures from field research in Egypt. This is NOT a quick and easy model. A full temple complex would cover an area two by four feet; although, you can build the way the Egyptians did: start small and expand. Doing that, you could easily have a skirmish site or adventure built in a short evening. There are nineteen pages of instructions and thirty-eight pages of model sheets. Parts List: • Pylon gate (sixteen inches wide and over eight tall), • Eight types of walls to form the temple courtyards, • Two types of pillars, • Two types of pillar capitals, • Two types of bases, • An obelisk (twelve and a half inches tall!), • Roof segments, • Sacred bark, • Processional way sphinxes, • Pavement. PHARAOH: THE TEMPLE can be used with either 28mm or 15mm figures, giving it great versatility in your wargames terrain collection. Remember, every Finger and Toe model comes with SMOOSH ASSURANCE: if ya’ll smoosh your PHARAOH: THE TEMPLE, a new set waits your summons from hard drive and printer. PHARAOH: THE TEMPLE is available from www.rpgnow.com or www.wargamevault.com for $12.00. Uploaded with ImageShack.us
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Post by glennwilliams on Oct 7, 2010 9:48:28 GMT -9
A dumb game with cool pieces. I still have to find a good ruleset to use that ships. word
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Post by glennwilliams on Oct 6, 2010 18:50:58 GMT -9
Paper General has flats (but you have to browse through the pages): www.imagineimage.org/papergeneral.htmWhat about Pirates of the Spanish Main? Our local Targets are unloading them at Pick n Save prices.
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Post by glennwilliams on Oct 5, 2010 16:24:11 GMT -9
Finger and Toe Models announces the release of Quonset Hut, our first model packaged with both 15 and 28mm versions. Remember that terminal in Yak-Yurt Mongolia where you left your true love in the blizzard to fly off in search of the Lost Soma? Or the base on Paliwenu Atoll where you guarded the equipment from the second Philadelphia Experiment? What about Epi Centauri IV during the Elphisinor Bug Hunt? All Quonset Huts. Quonset Huts were intended as temporary structures to create bases quickly. This model represents a 20’x40’ version with corrugated steel ends, instead of the plywood found on the smaller, original versions. The model is actually a shell that fits over the support frame on the base: you can remove the shell to reveal the interior. The support frame can be “distressed” to create a ruined base. The 28mm version has a four inch by inch inch footprint, while the 15mm is 2.5 by 4.75 inches. This is a quick and easy model. If you ignore the optional window shades, there are only five pieces: a base, the hut’s roof/sides, the two ends, and the support frame. Quonset Huts can be any type of structure–from an airport terminal, base operations, barracks and offices, even a research lab plunked down in Antarctica! The design is so simple, some version will likely continue to be used for many decades to come, so even your orbital drop troops might find it familiar. Remember, every Finger and Toe model comes with SMOOSH ASSURANCE: if ya’ll smoosh your Quonset Hut, a new set waits your summons from hard drive and printer. Quonset Hut is available from www.rpgnow.com or www.wargamevault.com for $2.00. Uploaded with ImageShack.us
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Post by glennwilliams on Oct 1, 2010 8:37:35 GMT -9
love his Huey, Dewey, and Lewie--gotta love poker playing robots.
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Post by glennwilliams on Sept 30, 2010 6:57:14 GMT -9
Mine's kind of obvious. I'm not clever enough for a cool name.
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Post by glennwilliams on Sept 30, 2010 6:52:49 GMT -9
Now I've had enough. I've extended a friendly invitation to the local tax-f(r)iends and RPGNow. Once I got my first product ready we'll see whether I can get "Walking Papercut" off the ground... Thanks for your advice and support ;D;D Turn back! Run away! Now you'll be doodling during business meetings and cackling to yourself during presentations. When I was union president for the college faculty, I found it was the only way to get through all the frelling meetings. We were at the La Brea Tarpits museum in LA a couple of weeks ago, and as I was staring at the dire wolf bones, my wife said, "You've got an idea, don't you?" I've got a small, soft-cover Moleskine sketchbook I carry in my back pocket. Lesson: you're never off work, and you've now got the worst boss you ever had! Seriously, congratulations and good luck.
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Post by glennwilliams on Sept 28, 2010 7:04:16 GMT -9
in your opinion how does it compare to imageshack or photobucket? Glenn, is not only about sharing pictures (i consider it a side effect). Instead DropBox is a synchronizing tool. You have an online, private mirror (and backup, and a rollback history) of the Dropbox folder you have on your HD. If you have more than one PC, just install the executable in all of them, and it will keep ALL synched, without any effort from your part. You can share folders with other dropbox users (side benefit: the site increases the available space for both, if the new user come "invited" by you) and it also keep track of version conflicts if more of one user edit the same shared file. That is all free. I can't live no more without it. ah. automatic synch . . . that sounds good. I like automatic and will check it out
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Post by glennwilliams on Sept 28, 2010 6:03:28 GMT -9
good idea. in contrast for "regular" figures, I buy a divided plastic box at Wal-Mart for $2.00. I needed something like twelve for the Descent sets! And . . . I now have to store the boxes. I just bought Castle Ravenloft--and while the minis are nice, I've got a new storage solution to work out. Again, paper beats plastic beats pewter. Gotta go look at Amazon.
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Post by glennwilliams on Sept 28, 2010 5:58:20 GMT -9
in your opinion how does it compare to imageshack or photobucket?
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Post by glennwilliams on Sept 28, 2010 5:54:15 GMT -9
slideshow here (but I've gotta go back and change the font color to something with greater contrast later this morning.) www.fingerandtoe.com/28Histstructures.htmas to why ruins: I did ruins to go with the Mayan set (the inside of the hovels and noble houses), so it was on my mind. Semi-modern because I've wanted to broaden out from sci-fi (there's a wizard's tower coming). Last, that GI Joe and Willie cartoon has been on my mind because I just picked up a copy of Mauldin's cartoons. Yeah, it might be all the rage: Mad Max, Enemy at the Gates (if you haven't seen--do so), and the Resident Evil movies.
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Post by glennwilliams on Sept 27, 2010 12:42:38 GMT -9
oops, didn't notice the Bavaria location (face palm cubed). However, the basic idea is the same: your friendly local tax and social welfare agencies will want to be BFFs. Probably a good idea to confirm their friend request!
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Post by glennwilliams on Sept 27, 2010 11:08:07 GMT -9
This may be the very first card stock model set inspired by a Bill Mauldin GI Joe and Willie cartoon. In the cartoon, the pair stand amidst a smoking pile of rubble. Joe says to Willie, “We sure liberated the hell outta this place.” Kartagrad: Dead City represents such a city devastated by combat. Kartagrad is an easy to build set of city ruins intended to be used in just about any setting from pulp through World War II and the modern era to near-future science fiction. The set consists of modular pieces for one, two, and three story ruins, because it’s assumed anything bigger was already targeted and collapsed to the smaller sized ruins. With Kartagrad a gamer can populate a tabletop in an afternoon or evening of quick builds. There aren’t any fancy props, just broken walls and shattered floors. Remember, every Finger and Toe model comes with SMOOSH ASSURANCE: if ya’ll smoosh your Kartagrad: Dead City ruins, a new set waits your summons from hard drive and printer. Kartagrad: Dead City is available from www.rpgnow.com or www.wargamevault.com for $7.00.
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Post by glennwilliams on Sept 26, 2010 12:11:57 GMT -9
brilliant!
gotta try it.
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Post by glennwilliams on Sept 26, 2010 12:09:57 GMT -9
I'd recommend rpgnow and wargamesvault as a start. I like not having to worry about maintaining the shop. Sure, you pay for it (30%), but then, what's it worth to you? Mel runs his own shop, and his comments about tweaking code convinced to let someone else do that work.
You're going to need to upload PR photos for press releases, so don't forget to find a service like imageshack for photo hosting.
One reason I don't do minis as a regular part of my line is that I'm not that kind of artist. I remember a third grade teacher saying, "No more stick figures!" I checked out. That said, I'd recommend Christopher Hart's drawing books (particularly "Drawing Cutting Edge Comics") and Steve Miller's "Gung Ho! How to draw fantastic military comics."
Here's the most important part:
10 Do Loop 20 Don't quit your day job. 30 Goto 10
Remember also, it's a business: have a regular schedule, act like a business, and for heaven's sake, remember you're now partners with the IRS and Social Security!
Go back and read Jim's posts about problems with his employer and his burnout issues. A poet on faculty at Loyola Marymount in LA recalls a math faculty friend who was bitter and angry. Her advice was quit before you become bitter. When it's no longer fun, you need a break. Take time off, diversify, anything to recharge your spirit (artistic and personal)--but if it becomes a drag--go do something else.
Keep in touch with others on forums, develop friendships: they're your water cooler and break room.
Have fun and do it!
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Post by glennwilliams on Sept 22, 2010 14:51:41 GMT -9
as my adviser in my Ops Research masters would have said, "grids are merely an assumption to make the game playable." I don't see any reason why house rules couldn't adapt the mini/grid conundrum, as the grids are just reference points. (altho', when playing a rules lawyer, I do go for strict interpretation)
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Post by glennwilliams on Sept 22, 2010 14:46:39 GMT -9
The big bug was an enlargement done by Paragon of Jim's smaller bug. Uhm, no..the big bug is my design that hasn't had it's texturing finished. The SST Warrior bug is drifting around on the 'net somewhere, I believe it was Jim's first 2.5D creation. The one that looks like a centaur or the one that looks like a tarantula?
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Post by glennwilliams on Sept 22, 2010 4:50:27 GMT -9
May be this answer is write somewhere above but i can´t find it. . Where are those bugs from?. Thanks They're Mel Ebbles (except for the SST warriror bug, which I've got but forgot wherefrom--maybe MMIP?) Anyway, Mel's link: www.ebblesminiatures.com/shop/bwmodels2007.php
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Post by glennwilliams on Sept 19, 2010 15:04:01 GMT -9
then there's the clickies that just don't fit. I use standard grids and the clickies are deemed to be centered on the square and not overlapping. Personally, I prefer a 1" grid that looks like a floor pattern so it can be ignored if desired (most of us really don't fill a 5 ft square, do we?). The other advantage of one inch=five feet is that it makes converting and measuring so much easier (except for that Pythagorean thingie).
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Post by glennwilliams on Sept 19, 2010 14:58:08 GMT -9
very, very well done. Beautiful enough to use with my . . . ahem (looks quickly around) . . . uh . . . space derelict game from That Other Game Company with Lawyers--and with Mel's Guncrawl!
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Post by glennwilliams on Sept 17, 2010 20:18:56 GMT -9
nah. assurance it is--too many years spent talking up social security as social insurance (OK, I got paid to do it, but still)--the term gives me the willies. Assurance carries a meaning of making safe (plus there's an alternate meaning of impudence--which actually fits). It's meant to be kinda, well, silly. After all, everybody knows you can print out another.
It goes back to the day I priced a resin model set at $750 for That Other Game with Lawyers--about what I'd just paid for a week in Venice. Then I looked at my resin troops--boots and ankles glued to bases were all that was left of them. That experience was actually what sent me down the road to Finger and Toe--I "assure" you.
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Post by glennwilliams on Sept 17, 2010 14:48:09 GMT -9
Finger and Toe announce the release of the 28mm cardstock pdf model of the OLV-L Manatee in four solid Space Force colors: Space Force gray, sky blue, stealth black, and peacekeeper white. The model is about eight inches long, nine wide, and two high. The model comes with cargo pods that will fit the open bay: a standard ISO-style shipping container, a “squad pod” for transporting troops, and a refueling station. All share similar dimensions: 2" wide, 4" long, and 1 1/4" high (any cargo you have that fits a 2x4 footprint should fit in the hold). Remember, every Finger and Toe model comes with SMOOSH ASSURANCE: if ya’ll smoosh your Manatee, a new transport waits your summons from hard drive and printer. Manatee is available from www.rpgnow.com or www.wargamevault.com for $5.00. img27.imageshack.us/img27/4645/manateepressphoto.th.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
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Post by glennwilliams on Sept 17, 2010 5:22:10 GMT -9
Now we just need to come up with a good title for ourselves . : US. United Somethings
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Post by glennwilliams on Sept 17, 2010 5:16:52 GMT -9
that's really cool! also, nice to see parent-child working together.
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Post by glennwilliams on Sept 14, 2010 21:06:13 GMT -9
I find InDesign a little hinky for layered pdfs (which is why I don't do them). Looking either for something easier or just invest the time(which might mean it's my responsibility to make my work more manageable--dang, I hate when that happens).
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Post by glennwilliams on Sept 14, 2010 21:01:12 GMT -9
sic transit gloria mundi
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Post by glennwilliams on Sept 13, 2010 11:31:49 GMT -9
Let me also add that I don't think the change was necessary--or even good. After all, how many tavern's out there are named "Ed's" or "Pat's"? After a while, the name becomes as brand. OneMonk is a brand with recognition and respect. So there . . . nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah. Of course, it's your forum (and I still think you ought not to leave the industry, just cut back), so you call the plays.
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Post by glennwilliams on Sept 7, 2010 14:27:05 GMT -9
Since it's a different type of ship and a different period, I wouldn't complain too much. After all, we have multiple types of tanks. The art work on the FDG cog is simply beautiful. Since I tried my hand at designing a cog recently (and did not succeed to my expectations), my hat's off to FDG.
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Post by glennwilliams on Sept 7, 2010 13:17:08 GMT -9
“I am Ix-Chel! Defend my city, oh ye faithful!” Finger and Toe Models announces TZAK-NAL: City Walls, everything you need to fortify a small 28mm Meso-American city. Inspired by the ruins of Tulum, TZAK-NAL: City Walls, represents the defensive walls of a small Meso-American city, but this is a city and temple in decline. Plaster is peeling, moss grows along the walls, the bright colors of the sacred friezes have faded. Unfortunately for the peasants crowded in their hovels, the mighty walls defend only the houses of the nobles and the great temple complexes. The peasants will have to make do with crude palisades. There are three different wall segments to give some variety, plus a narrow gate (the Meso-Americans only beast of burden was the body of peasant and slave), a corner, ladders, and crude wooden palisades. The basic wall segments are six inches long, two inches high, with a one inch high palisade. As a bonus and thank you, an army of Mayan figures of a king, several warriors, leaders, priests, and temple maidens (equipped with assassins knives just in case) is included. While perfect as an historical setting, TZAK-NAL: City Walls can also be used as a lost city for pulp and fantasy campaigns, or even as a hidden base for your sci-fi raiders and rogues. The TZAK-NAL series is based upon three actual Meso-American sites: Tulum on the Yucatan coast, Tehuacalco and La Campana (both on the Mexican west coast). Every piece in Tzak-Nal uses architecture and textures from historic sites. Remember, every Finger and Toe model comes with SMOOSH ASSURANCE: if ya’ll smoosh your TZAK-NAL city walls, a new set waits your summons from hard drive and printer. TZAK-NAL: City Walls is available from www.rpgnow.com or www.wargamevault.com for $4.00.
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Post by glennwilliams on Sept 5, 2010 15:37:26 GMT -9
I was at the La Brea Tar Pits museum this afternoon and was struck by what great creatures skeletal saber tooth cats and dire wolves would make. Now I've got to see if they're in my skill set.
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