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Post by adjutantgeneral on May 27, 2021 10:14:36 GMT -9
I don't remember which of you gentlemen created this excellent piece, but can somebody recolor this cute lil' fellow? I've made a bunch of them, but if I could get a few in yellow, light purple or light blue, that would be great. I plan on using them in a Jack Vance inspired sword-and-planet style game. These creatures, the "Vanx", are extraterrestrial insectmen, and make excellent warriors in both ground combat and starship boarding actions. They are immensely strong, very quick, naturally heavily armored, can fight in vacuum for extended periods, are gifted tacticians and excellent swordsmen. They also make extremely effective and loyal troops to anyone doused in an artificial queen-pheromone (unique to each hive), which does not need to be repeated in future, as the creatures will then imprint their commander based on audial, visual, and olfactory stimuli. Though not as strong as combat robots, the Vanx cannot be jammed electronically, nor are they subject to computer viruses and similar attacks, and the excellent military qualities mentioned above make them generally superior in all but the most simple "blunt-instrument" situations. This universe will be typically Vancian in that everyone is on the make, and humans and aliens will exploit each other mercilessly at any opportunity. Recently, further genetic modifications of the Vanx have resulted in creatures of increased intelligence suitable for command and intelligence gathering functions, though more conservative officers and politicians are hesitant about deploying them thus, citing all of the old "letting the genie out of the bottle" concerns. In fact a few such modified Vanx are rumored to have gone rogue. Though the Confederation Consejo has flatly denied this, such stories persist, along with even more troubling rumors of advanced (and unsought?) capabilities such as eidetic memory.
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Post by adjutantgeneral on May 27, 2021 10:54:52 GMT -9
BTW, I think these www.drivethrurpg.com/product/155287/Compact--Worn-Starship-Deck-Plan-6x6-TilesAre excellent small starships for combat with paper miniatures, which I will use with this campaign. I envision a universe in which defensive technology (probably in the form of forcefields) has outstripped offensive weapons to enough of an extent to make boarding actions feasible. Thus fleet actions now follow the Roman/Greek model more closely than WWII. These are smallish starships, a lot of fun to print and cut, and look great laid out on a starfield. They have a variety of backgrounds as well, and so can be printed out as if landed on a planet or in the hangar of a larger vessel. I really look forward to this campaign.
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Post by mproteau (Paper Realms) on May 27, 2021 12:47:01 GMT -9
Definitely a Reivaj antman figure, though the three sets they have on DriveThruRPG don't include that specific mini! They come in gold, red and black variants.
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Post by Vermin King on May 27, 2021 16:26:38 GMT -9
Definitely a Reivaj antman figure, though the three sets they have on DriveThruRPG don't include that specific mini! They come in gold, red and black variants. Did he not make the final cut? I don't have the OBS version, but his preliminary version of the Thrikreen Warriors ( Thri-Kreen todos escalado final ) has this as the first figure. Also, the preliminary version did not have the layers for the different color schemes. I hope Reivaj is doing well EDIT -- Since this was a figure that was given free to forum members, would it be an ethical breach to recolor the one figure? Especially since it wasn't evidently in the commercial release?
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Post by mproteau (Paper Realms) on May 27, 2021 17:36:25 GMT -9
Mind linking here to the post that has the mini? I couldn't find it!! I own the dtrpg sets, and love all of Reivaj's minis!
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Post by Vermin King on May 27, 2021 17:51:57 GMT -9
I went through the 33 pages of @reivaj's posts and saw where he posted the preliminary download, which is now dead. That was so long ago, I couldn't remember where I got the file. I will try to find it EDIT -- Searching for 'kreen' in threads by @reivaj was only 6 pages, and starting from the oldest, it took less than 5 minutes to find (since I'd already gone through ALL of his posts tonight). cardboard-warriors.proboards.com/post/32150/threadEDIT #2 -- That image in the first post was posted as 'Thrikreen imagen 1 solo.dib'. I think this is the first time I saw a 'dib' file
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Post by adjutantgeneral on May 27, 2021 19:33:50 GMT -9
It would be great if I could get a few of these guys recovered, but if you fellas think it would be problematic, I understand.
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Post by Vermin King on May 27, 2021 19:50:31 GMT -9
It's just that when someone isn't around to speak for himself, we have to guess/judge intent. As you had already found the image, and it is not in the commercial release, and it is part of a pdf that he had generously given to the forum, it would be easy to say 'okay ', but was the free file removed intentionally? Hard to say. I think we need to think about it at least overnight
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Post by Vermin King on May 27, 2021 19:58:01 GMT -9
Now, if you had purchased the commercial set and asked if someone could recolor something in the file, handling through message and email, for your own personal use, it is easier to say 'yes ', but evidently this figure is not in the commercial set. So it requires a little thought
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Post by squirmydad on May 27, 2021 21:04:53 GMT -9
I just sent him a message on FB with a link to this thread. That 'Kreen warrior is in the January 2011 Forum Horde; www.onemonk.com/fh-2011.html
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Post by Vermin King on May 28, 2021 4:19:46 GMT -9
Ah, with the broken dropbox and photobucket image links, it was hard to tell what was being spoken about sometimes
EDIT --
Since this was a Hoard figure and recolors of Hoard figures has been acceptable in the past, I went ahead and did the recolors in yellow, light blue and light purple.
Just need an approval to post them.
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Post by adjutantgeneral on May 28, 2021 15:32:55 GMT -9
I cannot ask for more than that Thank you vermin king, all and sundry. BTW, I would not mind throwing the original artist a few bucks for his work. It is a very nice piece, and I'm sure well worth it. Ah, with the broken dropbox and photobucket image links, it was hard to tell what was being spoken about sometimes EDIT -- Since this was a Hoard figure and recolors of Hoard figures has been acceptable in the past, I went ahead and did the recolors in yellow, light blue and light purple. Just need an approval to post them.
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Post by Vermin King on May 28, 2021 16:02:40 GMT -9
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Post by squirmydad on May 28, 2021 19:29:46 GMT -9
[DTRPG takes 30% of sales, then Chile wanted 50% (I think) of the funds when he would try to transfer sales income to his bank. Something outrageously frustrating like that.] The above is incorrect, faulty memory, so here is the actual from Reivaj himself in 2014; When i started with Reivaj Minis, like a comercial product, i expected to be like any other minis producer: make what i like and earn a little of money. It´s what normal producers do, producers that lives in normal country, civilized countrys, conected to the world through internet, conected to a globalized world. Every day i live in Argentina i convince me that i don´t live in a country but an island, and increasingly isolate us more and more. When i started to earn some money with my minis, i started to look for how i can get it through paypal and i discovered that all the paypal offices (and all paypal) leave my islan, sorry country, because of the restrictions that the government put. Then the money can not be cashed in Argentina. I found a solution, if i can´t get the cash, i´ll buy stuff in Ebay (Stuff=action figures). Then i started bidding in auctions and bought some action figures in October and November. Because Custom restrictions, i received recently yesterday a custom notification that recent arrived. Today my "Dear" president and her team, restricted the internet comerce in Argentina, you can only do 2 buys in a year, if you do more than 2 purchases you must be registered as an importer and pay all the taxes that a real importer/trader does. Now i´m more isolate that yesterday and every day we lost more and more our freedon in this islan. Yesterday i had begun a new set of minis, to publish in rpgnow but my disappointment today is making me to think in finish with this little bussines and declare Reivaj minis Closed until i live in a country again and not on an island. Sorry for all this words that may be don´t interest to all of you but i need to make catharsis and write about it to let all the world how we live in the Argentina Islan. Sorry
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Post by adjutantgeneral on May 29, 2021 17:22:03 GMT -9
Sigh. The old will cheat you as quickly as the young. The only advantage is that the old are not so self righteous about it, and it's a little less likely to end up with dead bodies piled like cord wood.
Rant over. If it breaks the forum rules, my apologies, and please feel free to delete. Just a little annoyed to see my hobby -a hobby inexpensive and harmless enough almost to amount to trivia - falling victim to political nonsense.
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Post by Vermin King on May 30, 2021 8:25:41 GMT -9
Luckily, our controlled media shelters us from a lot of what goes on. Why would we be interested in the mass-protests in Brazil or the assassination of the President of Chad. They did briefly report on renewed sanctions against Belarus and the Palestinian situation.
But Politics affects everything in this world, whether it is covered in the media or not. I also dislike the censorship of the media. If something truthful gets reported that they don't want out there, it comes down quickly. A fire captain was explaining why the Santa Monica fire was so difficult to contain. He started out saying that it has been 60 to 75 years since the last fire there, so there was too much tender just waiting for something to set it off. Then he went on about the wind direction, etc. The first part got deleted within 20 minutes. I had shared that with folks, explaining how they should take a lesson from the indigenous peoples and do controlled-burns. In 20 minutes I got my first response from someone saying that my comments did not make sense based on the linked article and video. It had already been censored.
Oh, well ...
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Post by adjutantgeneral on May 30, 2021 8:34:34 GMT -9
All the news that fits, we print.
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Post by Vermin King on May 30, 2021 9:23:23 GMT -9
It was a lot harder for them to manipulate the news when they did Print
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Post by Reivaj on May 31, 2021 4:03:43 GMT -9
Hi everybody, it´s a long time that i wasn´t here (Sorry for my english it´s a long time without practice), It´s great to see that my minis still alive here. adjutantgeneral there´s no problem to repaint the thrii kreen, It will be good that this one comes back to life again, and see him in other color schemes. i´d receive a message in facebook from Squimydad asking me for the repaint of the mini. Go ahead adjutantgeneral, i´m looking foward to see how this bug would look like in other colors (I hope you understand what I wrote )
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Post by mesper on May 31, 2021 4:15:53 GMT -9
Good to hear from you again @reivaj, hope you are going well!
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Post by Zephalo on May 31, 2021 4:34:42 GMT -9
Great to see you, Reivaj! Ah, with the broken dropbox and photobucket image links, it was hard to tell what was being spoken about sometimes EDIT -- Since this was a Hoard figure and recolors of Hoard figures has been acceptable in the past, I went ahead and did the recolors in yellow, light blue and light purple. Just need an approval to post them. I made these before VK edited his post: Link: Thri-Kreen WarriorGreetings, Zephalo
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Post by Reivaj on May 31, 2021 6:52:20 GMT -9
Hi mesper, everthing is good here!! Great work Zephalo!!!
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Post by okumarts on May 31, 2021 8:50:09 GMT -9
Hi mesper, everthing is good here!! Great work Zephalo!!! Great to hear from you!
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Post by mesper on May 31, 2021 10:20:04 GMT -9
Regarding these @reivaj's Ant Warriors - just rings my bell - remember that in the past (OMG it was ca. 2012, how so!?!) many of us here at CWF both collaborated but also joked and mocked (meaning friendly sense!) a lot - and as part of this, something like this Movie Poster was created. BTW I made several versions, perhaps they are still in the CWF's depths somewhere?
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Post by squirmydad on May 31, 2021 14:44:10 GMT -9
That's beautiful! And I have no memory of that or any other movie posters...hmm, I'll have to go for a dive in the forum depths.
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Post by Vermin King on Jun 1, 2021 5:39:07 GMT -9
Great to see you, Reivaj! Ah, with the broken dropbox and photobucket image links, it was hard to tell what was being spoken about sometimes EDIT -- Since this was a Hoard figure and recolors of Hoard figures has been acceptable in the past, I went ahead and did the recolors in yellow, light blue and light purple. Just need an approval to post them. I made these before VK edited his post: Link: Thri-Kreen WarriorGreetings, Zephalo Yours actually came out better than mine by a long shot. Can I add them to the Space Ant Colonization Hoard?
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Post by adjutantgeneral on Jun 1, 2021 8:33:11 GMT -9
Hi everybody, it´s a long time that i wasn´t here (Sorry for my english it´s a long time without practice), It´s great to see that my minis still alive here. adjutantgeneral there´s no problem to repaint the thrii kreen, It will be good that this one comes back to life again, and see him in other color schemes. i´d receive a message in facebook from Squimydad asking me for the repaint of the mini. Go ahead adjutantgeneral, i´m looking foward to see how this bug would look like in other colors (I hope you understand what I wrote ) Great to hear from you sir! I look forward to it as well. The orange ones are already proud members of my science fiction collection. Since the original artist is now with us, I'll shamelessly beg, and ask if he's ever thought of doing one white but striped like a zebra? Also, are the problems resolved with your country yet? Is there a chance I could buy a set through normal channels?
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Post by Reivaj on Jun 7, 2021 6:07:09 GMT -9
Hi, thanks!, It´s a long time since i did my last set of minis, if i want to restart to do minis y must re-learn to use corel and photoshop. I don´t have too much free time lately because of my work and my 3 year old daughter. You can buy the sets in drivethrurpg, may be someday i can use that money. and last, you ask if the problems in my country are resolved, no, my country is a problem itself all the time
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Post by Vermin King on Jun 7, 2021 9:02:33 GMT -9
I can only imagine how difficult it would be to pick those up again. When I did my recolors, I hadn't used Gimp in probably three weeks, and it is a good thing I did them, because I had forgotten a few things.
All the best, sir. What is your daughter's name?
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