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Post by alloydog on Jun 9, 2020 9:06:59 GMT -9
Great work man!!!! I want to see the battle now:D Soon, youngling, soon... But, a quick re-cap as to the figures used:
I'm aiming to get a battle in by the end of the week - I've got this week and next as holiday, so the I need to clear our storeroom. It's not big, but what is in there I have no idea, I'll probably need a decent level fighter, magic user and thief for company... If I'm not heard from within a week, raise a tankard of mead and sing a raunchy song for me! |
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Post by alloydog on Jun 9, 2020 5:21:19 GMT -9
Anyone got any ideas here? It got awfully quiet I'll cheat a bit: As neither a Fantasy Pet nor Familiar, rather, a mascot, I'll repost Stalin, the ship's cat of the Soviet Research Vessell Lev Davidovich Landau: |
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Post by alloydog on Jun 8, 2020 10:54:32 GMT -9
Finally! I have the Dark Knights. Messed up a bit. I printed them up, stuck them onto typical cereal-box card and cut them out. When I went to take pictures of the rest of the Unholy Blight army, I found I had already printed them up and stuck them to better, thinner but stiffer card. Also, they came out very dark, too dark to 2½D, as I can't see the edges to cut out detailed bit. Anyway, I shall use the based ones for now. After several versions, I settled on squirmydad's Wraith rider. One, I used my horse and altered the riders position, to match the horse and on another, I mirrored the image, but altered it so that rider was still right-handed. However, at 15mm and on the printer I used, you can't really see it much. I can post the file, if old squirmydad doesn't mind.   They now complete the Unholy Blight and both armies are ready to rumble!  The Unholy Blight Gentlemen, I want a fair fight, no kicking,
biting, gouging of eyes or foul language... |
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Post by alloydog on Jun 3, 2020 22:38:38 GMT -9
Does "Original D&D" mean this  or this  ? Maybe this:  This is so old school, the pupils use stylus and wax tablets... |
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Post by alloydog on Jun 2, 2020 23:20:26 GMT -9
I don't know how long the link will be up, but if anyone is interested, you can some free PDF books from Linux Format magazine. They are: Coding Made Simple (48 Mb) The Python Book (64 Mb) Raspberry Pi - The Complete Manual (25 Mb) Incredible Science (87 Mb) Retro-Gamer (190 Mb) The initial link is bit.ly/lxf263ebooks which just asks you to register your email address with Linux Format magazine. You can opt-out of all " Send me spam about ..." options, so no worries there. The file sizes are pretty horrendous though (You'd have thought a professional computer magazine publisher would know how to optimise a PDF file, but there you go...) I bought The Python Book about two years ago for about twelve Euros :/ - It's pretty good. |
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Post by alloydog on Jun 1, 2020 7:06:28 GMT -9
Back in the days when an ent was still an ent  Yeah, yeah, grandpa...  |
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Post by alloydog on May 31, 2020 2:23:02 GMT -9
Gelatinous Cube and Carrion Crawler! Awesome! I haven't seen them since playing Basic D&D (Red book), way back in school |
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Post by alloydog on May 28, 2020 10:45:40 GMT -9
Cool, are you making a big wraith cavalry unit? Not yet. To get started, I just need three figures for one unit/regiment of Dark Knights. But, once I get a few games done, I'll be expanding the units as the campaign advances. Well, the plan was to cut them out this evening and mount them on the base, so they'd be ready for the weekend. Instead I'm at work, it's past 10 p.m. and first thing tomorrow, I'm driving north to install a water-level monitoring station in the Kemi river. Three to four hour drive there. A couple of hours installation and commissioning a four hours to drive back. I think on Saturday, the game can wait. I'll be sleeping... |
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Post by alloydog on May 27, 2020 17:02:04 GMT -9
No, it's just the Lone Ranger Wraith Lone Wrainthger, you mean?  |
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Post by alloydog on May 27, 2020 10:51:26 GMT -9
Cool, are you making a big wraith cavalry unit? Not yet. To get started, I just need three figures for one unit/regiment of Dark Knights. But, once I get a few games done, I'll be expanding the units as the campaign advances. |
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Post by alloydog on May 27, 2020 9:27:29 GMT -9
alloydog - this is a Mounted Wraith that I submitted to the Hordes years ago, you might find him useful.  This is what I have come up with:  I kept the image-mash of the rearing horse as, to be honest, I can't be bothered to re-edit another horse at the moment. I just want these printed up up and ready to play with as soon as possible and also, once scaled down to 15mm/43%, it's not that noticeable. |
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Post by alloydog on May 25, 2020 20:41:00 GMT -9
Not really sure how this ties into paper miniatures and papermodels? Ready made lighting kits - Woo Yay! I have been toying with the idea for some time about doing a string of very small LEDs for lighting the corridors of my Beer & Pretzels Space Marines. Also, just think, with a 3D dungeon, you can add a flicker circuit, and have tiny torches along the walls, flickering away. |
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Post by alloydog on May 24, 2020 21:31:50 GMT -9
...people can download them into a nightmare of flash. It is turning into a nightmare or comedy depending on how you look at it Just when the world is dumping Flash. Not a good medium o start using, as most browsers have or are ending support for it. |
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Post by alloydog on May 21, 2020 10:17:41 GMT -9
alloydog - this is a Mounted Wraith that I submitted to the Hordes years ago, you might find him useful. I was thinking of that one, but couldn't find it again... Thanks. I'll use him/her/it. |
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Post by alloydog on May 20, 2020 23:29:05 GMT -9
While trying sort ut the last regiment/unit for my Chronicles of Blood game, I came across Microtactix's BattleLands 15mm Normandy:1944 FREE PREVIEW SET. Very good looking and quick and easy to build - if you build it as is from the PDF. I printed up a couple of copies to add a bit of texture. Last night I made the ruined version of the house:   Took me about an hour. Next, the undamaged version... |
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Post by alloydog on May 20, 2020 17:15:40 GMT -9
Yaaaarse! My homies! My home town is Colchester, Britain's oldest recorded town and home to Boudicca, a bad-ass babe who kicked Roman arse. |
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Post by alloydog on May 19, 2020 3:42:37 GMT -9
Antohammer OK, I have downloaded the rulebook and given it a quick read-through. I'll come up with a country name, capital city and flag this evening.
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Post by alloydog on May 19, 2020 3:20:56 GMT -9
Out of curiosity, this 8mm hole puncher from AliExpress has free shipping to Australia, how much does it say for Finland ? 8mm hole puncherNice find! It is free to Finland as well. Thanks. Although it says that delivery is 15 to 28 days and that the Finnish post office is notorious for "losing" post from China (seriously, we have lost several item and friends have too), I have ordered it. I just received the hole-punch today. It's 3/8 th of an inch. Now, I went to school in the UK in the seventies, when Britain was going metric. We had to learn both metric and imperial measurement systems, so I know, that 3/8 th" is not 8 mm, without a calculator - it's over 9 mm. 9,525 mm to be precise.   |
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Post by alloydog on May 17, 2020 22:10:49 GMT -9
In the words of the immortal Bob Hope, 'Heroes run in our family' He who fights and runs away, Lives to run away another day! |
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Post by alloydog on May 16, 2020 21:46:43 GMT -9
I'm definitely in shop queue for that. For one of my dark knights, I had to clumsily chop together two horse pictures:  And of course, there is no true other side, just a mirrored image. Cool, here's two things for you to play with;   , thanks! For some barding and harness go hear and download the "Knights Parts" file. Thanks, but is there supposed to be a link here? Mounted Evil Knights has been on my list for...ever. Like soooo many of my projects... |
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Post by alloydog on May 15, 2020 21:34:52 GMT -9
I'm definitely in shop queue for that. For one of my dark knights, I had to clumsily chop together two horse pictures: And of course, there is no true other side, just a mirrored image. |
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Post by alloydog on May 14, 2020 20:10:41 GMT -9
G'day Bruce!
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Post by alloydog on May 13, 2020 8:18:51 GMT -9
Funny you posted this. I had the idea of enlarging one of Permes' ( mesper) Knights' Templar figures to something like A5 size and really going to town with the layers. I guess most of my figures are laminated, rather than 2½D. I thought I'd have go with the Knights of the Realm, for my 15 mm figures, but at that scale, six layers of card is starting to get hard to work with... I also haven't gone too deeply into raised detail, as I am trying to get at least one project finished before summer. Once I have the Chronicles of Blood up and running, I plan to start work on the Templar figure. |
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Post by alloydog on May 11, 2020 7:44:30 GMT -9
Hmm, it seems for issues earlier than May 2013, you can only download a two-page spread at a time, as opposed to the full magazine. After April 2013, you should be able to get the full magazine for each month.
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Post by alloydog on May 11, 2020 6:16:32 GMT -9
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Post by alloydog on May 10, 2020 23:52:14 GMT -9
Ah, OK.
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Post by alloydog on May 10, 2020 22:04:22 GMT -9
Celtic (not Scottish) orcs and goblins are long overdue in the fantasy genre... And why not Scottish? I now have the image in my mind of an orc with a club in one hand, a can of Tennent's Lager in the other and wearing a Ranger's shirt... |
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Post by alloydog on May 10, 2020 9:42:33 GMT -9
Finland's is today too. The UK has a different date, but I have never remembered that one...  |
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Post by alloydog on May 8, 2020 21:24:20 GMT -9
I like the Romanesque shield. I have been toying with the idea of using the Romans as a style theme for something, but not sure what, yet - most fantasy stuff seems to be European dark age and medieval or ancient Egyptian. Millions of years ago, when I was young, there was a comic, I not sure if it was an actual Doctor Who comic, or another one with a Doctor Who story in, but anyway, one story was set in a world with orc-like creatures in an Imperial Roman setting (armour, shields, clothing, architecture and so on...), and ruled by two Pterodactyl-like "gods", Gog and Maygog. The Roman-orcs were subduing humans, using them as slaves and sacrifices/food for the two gods. |
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Post by alloydog on May 8, 2020 2:43:20 GMT -9
Got it now, thanks!
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