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Post by Canuovea on Feb 11, 2018 21:20:10 GMT
I've grabbed some of the newer Warhammer models for their Shadespire skirmish game. So far only the skellies though I'm going to grab the main box probably today. They've got much more dynamic models than the old Warhammer Fantasy did. Though I still have some of those to paint and assemble.
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Post by Harkovast on Feb 12, 2018 16:53:50 GMT
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Post by Harkovast on Feb 12, 2018 17:13:22 GMT
The formation thing in old warhammer was very limiting on the models poses. Everyone had to rank up, so wild stances were always out of the question. Even characters kinda had to be able to stand in line with the troops.
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Post by Canuovea on Feb 12, 2018 21:17:22 GMT
Yeah, I know, it really did make for more boring poses than, say, even 40K.
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Post by Harkovast on Feb 12, 2018 21:48:02 GMT
I think warhammer as a game (nor the lore, which I thoguht was cool) was a fundamentally flawed concept. medieval fighting on that scale lends itself to big units in formations bashing each other, so you needed a lot of models and they all had to be in big blocks. This made it prohibitively expensive in terms of models, and limited how the models could be posed. The models looked cool in their big formations, but they looked awesome as groups rather than individuals. And painting 30 guys who are all just part of one big mass is kind of a pain in terms of labour. When the models are being removed constantly it makes all the effort of painting each individual seem like a lot of work for the tiny difference they make. Extra guys are basicaly just more hit points for the units. Its a lot of money and painting to add more hit points!
The big plus of BFG is that the scale is massive with only a small number of actual models. YOu can blow up ten thousand guys with just a dozen mdoels a side. It also means effort spent painting and converting them doesn't feel wasted as they dont all get evaporated in the first five seconds.
Seriously, warhammer is better as total war than it ever was on the table top.
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Post by Canuovea on Feb 12, 2018 22:09:25 GMT
I'd argue that so far, Age of Sigmar kinda looks that way. As in, better.
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Post by Harkovast on Feb 12, 2018 22:27:21 GMT
Hahaha warhammer being shit does not make age of sigmar any better! Though I will grant you that a skirmish scale suits that scale of model better. But I probably shouldnt hijack the thread for age of sigmar thoughts....did you look at my Ork ship?
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Post by wordweaver3 on Feb 13, 2018 22:08:39 GMT
Found out my mom is interested in playing the ukulele, so I'm building her a banjo/uke using a cookie tin as the body.
My nephew's build is coming along rather slowly as he has a tendency to change what he wants to do midway through something. He bought some parts that weren't in the original plans that required some modification to the design in order to incorporate them.
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Post by Canuovea on Mar 10, 2018 6:51:14 GMT
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Post by Horsie on Mar 13, 2018 19:34:57 GMT
In other words, a way to make a recorder even worse.
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Post by Canuovea on Mar 13, 2018 21:00:36 GMT
I know right?
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Post by Horsie on Mar 13, 2018 21:13:37 GMT
Just imagine something like "Scotland the Brave" being played on that thing
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Post by wordweaver3 on Mar 21, 2018 18:41:01 GMT
Well, my nephew and I finally finished that 6 string electric cigar box. Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture. I think there's a vid of him playing it somewhere and I'll see if I can find it.
Despite the fact that the neck is a bit thicker than he's used to and the action is much higher than a standard guitar, it plays pretty well and sounds pretty damn good for something we banged out with hand tools.
I've been slowly figuring out how to play my 3 string. I found that if I think of it as a one string that just happens to have three strings I can get my head around it. After dicking around with his electric guitar and finding how simply it can be made and how awesome they sound I'm thinking I need an electric 3 string now.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Mar 21, 2018 20:31:23 GMT
With word getting around that I have built guitars that prompted a friend of my father to suggest that maybe I fix up his father's old 5 string banjo that he bought in the 50s. While the instrument has sentimental value, a professional restorer would charge hundreds of dollars to get it back in order. I said I'd take a look at it.
I'm kinda regretting that now.
The banjo has a Fender head and an Elton tail piece, but I know for sure the banjo itself isn't either one of those manufacturers, the parts were replaced afterward. What manufacturer it actually was is a complete mystery as neither the neck or the can have any marking on them whatsoever. It probably had a sticker on it at one point that was pealed off. The neck is very clearly maple and the fret board might be mahogany, but it seems darker than even mahogany should be. The can is just veneered plywood. I'm thinking the neck and the can didn't start as the same instrument either since there's some evidence of the neck being reshaped after manufacture, probably to conform to the lower quality can.
The instrument is old and has a lot of issues. It has a broken peg that I'm not sure where I can find another one that won't looks so out of place that I have to buy the entire set. Banjo tuning pegs are stupidly expensive. They're also friction pegs, so I'm not entirely sure how well the ones that are on there will actually work. If I put some new leather washers on them they should work, but since I have no experience with this type of peg I can't say for sure. There's also a long screw that retains the neck to the can that has broken off inside the neck. Not just at the head of the screw, way down at the tip. It's still partially keeping the neck attached, but only just barely. I'm entirely at a loss as to how to get it out. Trying to drill it out seems like a recipe for fucking the neck up royally. On top of that it's missing a lot of hooks that hold the head of the can in place. They're not horribly expensive, but it is just more that has to be bought. The head itself is intact, but very old with a clear worn spot on it. I don't know if it will hold up at all to being played. So add another 20 bucks at least to the project.
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Post by Harkovast on Mar 21, 2018 20:33:39 GMT
I have a project! Look at my project! And it's a project I will send you through the post! Looooook!
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