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Arachas
Posts: 1447
Join date: 2010-08-15
Age: 27
Location: Secret Volcano Lair in The Netherlands
 |  Subject: Re: Plodding Along on The Gaming Table: Update 05/10/12  Wed Dec 08, 2010 3:08 am | |
| Actually I want to move to a warmer place. But I would totally enjoy having a grandpa... I never knew mine! (: Yes, sad moment... now move along!  _________________ Arachas - The one who changes Avatars more than Lady Gaga changes costumes - Bursting with Dev-Powah™!!Tau Squad Co-Lead Designer |
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Utan
Posts: 16
Join date: 2010-11-27
Age: 45
Location: New Jersey, USA
| | Subject: Re: Plodding Along on The Gaming Table: Update 05/10/12 Wed Dec 08, 2010 9:37 am | |
| You better go see the bad doc and have your head checked, because that table is INSANE!  Is this terrain growing up from the styrofoam out of your fever nightmares, or did you develop some intricate blueprints first? I suppose a little more color variaton will be in order once the landscape is complete, yes? |
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DeafNala
Posts: 709
Join date: 2009-07-16
Age: 64
Location: Horseshoe Bay, Texas
| | Subject: Re: Plodding Along on The Gaming Table: Update 05/10/12 Wed Dec 08, 2010 10:55 am | |
| | Utan wrote: | | You better go see the bad doc and have your head checked, because that table is INSANE! |
Having worked in a closed psychiatric ward I can attest that the Folk on the inside are saner than the Folk on the outside.
| Utan wrote: | | Is this terrain growing up from the styrofoam out of your fever nightmares, or did you develop some intricate blueprints first? |
The Beasty started out with a few sketches & some notes. Once I start on something, it just grows in a spontaneous manner. It's in part inspired by Jim Hensom, Tim Burton, Dave Andrews, & Bugs Bunny. Like the central Mushroom Tower, all the rock formations will be sprouting stuctures in various forms of dilapidation/decrepitude; all inter-connected by bridges, walkways, ladders et al.
| Utan wrote: | | I suppose a little more color variation will be in order once the landscape is complete, yes? |
Oh most definitely...the black with white dry-brush is how I prime ALL my stuff.  |
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Mordheimer
Posts: 8783
Join date: 2009-07-12
Age: 38
Location: Elizabeth City, NC (USA)
| | Subject: Re: Plodding Along on The Gaming Table: Update 05/10/12 Wed Dec 08, 2010 1:57 pm | |
| Deaf... this is INSANE! Right now, you PRIMING still leaves me speech-less. A record only you can hold. To me looks amazing... and then I remember that for you this is priming. Now... few questions. I do not want to sound disrespectful or anything. I'm 99.9% sure of the answer, but I just want to be sure. Will this be a playable table? I mean, some of the places seem SO high! Or are you planing to do a giant diorama, worth of a museum?! Can't wait to see things finished. _________________ . The Mordheimer - Death Squads' Chief Editor & Ninja Designer. Bursting with ARACHAS' Dev-Powah™!  Support Bacteria; it is the ONLY culture some people have!Since I ask "What do you think?" to all Staff, I have included it here to save time.DoZer  Mordheimer Justice NEEDS to be Served! Maybe 3rd Degree burns will teach you not to Tom Sawyer me to work! . |
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DeafNala
Posts: 709
Join date: 2009-07-16
Age: 64
Location: Horseshoe Bay, Texas
| | Subject: Re: Plodding Along on The Gaming Table: Update 05/10/12 Wed Dec 08, 2010 8:28 pm | |
| It will mostly be a gaming board. There will be a LOT of crosswalks & bridges connecting the buildings at different levels. When I did up the first Bar Wars board characters got extra swashbuckling/notoriety experience depending on the level on which the action to place....no guts; no glory. |
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Mordheimer
Posts: 8783
Join date: 2009-07-12
Age: 38
Location: Elizabeth City, NC (USA)
| | Subject: Re: Plodding Along on The Gaming Table: Update 05/10/12 Thu Dec 09, 2010 12:18 am | |
| That is what I thought... now I can officially start getting some of these, to help contain my excitement!   PS: Japanese culture... LOVE IT! Dr. P! Who comes up with those names?Keep us updated! _________________ . The Mordheimer - Death Squads' Chief Editor & Ninja Designer. Bursting with ARACHAS' Dev-Powah™! Support Bacteria; it is the ONLY culture some people have!Since I ask "What do you think?" to all Staff, I have included it here to save time.DoZer Mordheimer Justice NEEDS to be Served! Maybe 3rd Degree burns will teach you not to Tom Sawyer me to work!. |
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Arachas
Posts: 1447
Join date: 2010-08-15
Age: 27
Location: Secret Volcano Lair in The Netherlands
| | Subject: Re: Plodding Along on The Gaming Table: Update 05/10/12 Thu Dec 09, 2010 1:56 am | |
| You gotta love the fact that your models are possibly going to be falling like... 20 inches? LOL!
SPLAT! _________________ Arachas - The one who changes Avatars more than Lady Gaga changes costumes - Bursting with Dev-Powah™!!Tau Squad Co-Lead Designer |
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DeafNala
Posts: 709
Join date: 2009-07-16
Age: 64
Location: Horseshoe Bay, Texas
| | Subject: Re: Plodding Along on The Gaming Table: Update 05/10/12 Thu Dec 09, 2010 5:45 am | |
| | Arachas wrote: | You gotta love the fact that your models are possibly going to be falling like... 20 inches? LOL!
SPLAT! |
The fall &, more importantly, the landing add a certain excitement to the combats. The top of O'Leery's Tower, where the Steam Powered mushroom Observatory will be, is 30" above the oh-so-hard-and-unforgiving ground...a definite SPLAT! |
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Arachas
Posts: 1447
Join date: 2010-08-15
Age: 27
Location: Secret Volcano Lair in The Netherlands
| | Subject: Re: Plodding Along on The Gaming Table: Update 05/10/12 Thu Dec 09, 2010 6:57 am | |
| I wouldn't even be able to store terrain of that magnitude. _________________ Arachas - The one who changes Avatars more than Lady Gaga changes costumes - Bursting with Dev-Powah™!!Tau Squad Co-Lead Designer |
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Mordheimer
Posts: 8783
Join date: 2009-07-12
Age: 38
Location: Elizabeth City, NC (USA)
| | Subject: Re: Plodding Along on The Gaming Table: Update 05/10/12 Thu Dec 09, 2010 1:13 pm | |
| | Arachas wrote: | | I wouldn't even be able to store terrain of that magnitude. |
Based on the pictures on your battle reports, you can barely stand in your apartment one you have any table setup!! _________________ . The Mordheimer - Death Squads' Chief Editor & Ninja Designer. Bursting with ARACHAS' Dev-Powah™! Support Bacteria; it is the ONLY culture some people have!Since I ask "What do you think?" to all Staff, I have included it here to save time.DoZer Mordheimer Justice NEEDS to be Served! Maybe 3rd Degree burns will teach you not to Tom Sawyer me to work!. |
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jammydodger
Posts: 141
Join date: 2010-11-06
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
| | Subject: Re: Plodding Along on The Gaming Table: Update 05/10/12 Tue Dec 14, 2010 5:10 am | |
| Just to add my own comments: awesome. The Burton influence is very clear and absolutely true to type. I find his style phenomenally beautiful in its intricacy and bizarre grandeur both of which you have captured.
At the moment it seems like you are exclusively using pink foam, will you be introducing new materials into the mix later on or do you find that the foam is adaptable enough to be used for everything you need?
I'm intrigued by the concept of post-apocalyptic Mordheim, surely the original Mordheim is already facing the apocalypse? Is this a Necromunda / Mordheim blend, or a completely new setting to compliment the board?
Excellent work, thank you for sharing
Edited to add: Bar Wars? I did a search on TBMF and Google but couldn't find anything. Could you please enlighten us, or will I have to go hire a PI? |
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Arachas
Posts: 1447
Join date: 2010-08-15
Age: 27
Location: Secret Volcano Lair in The Netherlands
| | Subject: Re: Plodding Along on The Gaming Table: Update 05/10/12 Tue Dec 14, 2010 5:20 am | |
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DeafNala
Posts: 709
Join date: 2009-07-16
Age: 64
Location: Horseshoe Bay, Texas
| | Subject: Re: Plodding Along on The Gaming Table: Update 05/10/12 Tue Dec 14, 2010 3:29 pm | |
| | jammydodger wrote: | | Just to add my own comments: awesome. The Burton influence is very clear and absolutely true to type. I find his style phenomenally beautiful in its intricacy and bizarre grandeur both of which you have captured. |
Thanks for the kind words. While I can't make any claims at grandeur, bizzarre/absurd are my thing.
| jammydodger wrote: | | At the moment it seems like you are exclusively using pink foam, will you be introducing new materials into the mix later on or do you find that the foam is adaptable enough to be used for everything you need? |
It's mostly pink & blue foam with some florist foam, balsa & bass wood, plumber's epoxy, & various & sundry thingies.
| jammydodger wrote: | | I'm intrigued by the concept of post-apocalyptic Mordheim, surely the original Mordheim is already facing the apocalypse? Is this a Necromunda / Mordheim blend, or a completely new setting to compliment the board? |
I was doing the "what if" thingy that the Comet that hit Mordheim was an opening shot in a war between the Gods of Law & Goodness & those Chaos Fellows for control of the Yet-Unnamed-Planet & the Celestial Law Mower (T.Pratchett) which will leave most of the place a real wreck.
| jammydodger wrote: | | Excellent work, thank you for sharing |
You're most welcome.
| jammydodger wrote: | | Edited to add: Bar Wars? I did a search on TBMF and Google but couldn't find anything. Could you please enlighten us, or will I have to go hire a PI? |
I had done up a multilevel Mordheim board that one of my patrons eventually got. It was a bit smaller than a coventional board but quite high & represented the "Red Light" District. Conflict between the drinking establishments produced a regular series of brutal melees between teams of 2-6 Warriors representing their favored watering hole. This in turn became a major spectator sport like a more violent form of Blood Bowl. It was based on my Dad's Church Bowling League. 
| Arachas wrote: | | HOWEVER, I'm moving! From 2011 onwards... I will have a GAMING ROOM! WOOOT!!! |
CONGRATULATIONS!  |
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Da Bank
Posts: 2356
Join date: 2009-07-28
Location: Fort Myers, FL (USA)
| | Subject: Re: Plodding Along on The Gaming Table: Update 05/10/12 Tue Dec 14, 2010 7:51 pm | |
| Somehow I missed this thread.
You do some great work! |
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DeafNala
Posts: 709
Join date: 2009-07-16
Age: 64
Location: Horseshoe Bay, Texas
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