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Print
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Apply double sided tape to back
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Stick to mounting card
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Carefully apply sellotape to top if you want them pseudo-laminated
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Cut out with craft knife/scalpel
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Amaze your friends and enemies with these cards
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Tell them to visit 40kaddict.blogspot.com for their own free markers.
Facebook shmacebook
I’m not entirely sure why but I thought I’d create a Facebook group for the blog. Mayhap you log into Facebook more often than come to the site, although I’m trying to make the blog more easy to navigate with the new tabs at the top to find all the relevant hobby stuff. But if you just want to dip in while networking socially then you can nip over to the Book of Face and join my group, here’s the link:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/144564502354384/
For all I know this may mean a drop in visitors but c’est la vie it’s there if you want it and even the few friends who’ve joined have used it to share their work so it’s ideal if you want to share stuff and maybe I’ll bring it over to the blog proper?!
Terrain is everything – more Eldar terrain
I saw these a while back when I was devouring any other Xenos terrain/fortifications I could get my hands on. Finally got the chance to point out Jack’s Painting blog with them in, it won’t be new to regular commenter Spyrle 😉 but perhaps news to anyone else, check out the old White Dwarf tutorials:
http://jackspainting.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/eldar-fortifications-and-blast-from.html
Battle Report 1500pts – Nids v Orks!
My turn 1, everything advance [obviously]. For some reason I chose not to use a psychic power on the Hive tyrant, missing out on Iron Arm and Enfeeble. He fired his Venom Cannon at the Grotbuster Killa Kan but his the one next to it just taking a hull point. The Trygon ran over the Aegis. the Hive Guard, hiding behind a ruined giant Deff Dread fired, I think they got a HP on one of the trukks, or penned and got a weapon destroyed – certainly not the successful shooting I was hoping for.
However, Ben was feeling a little under pressure with few options to take out my monstours creatures he burned his Trukks forward, jumped the boyz out to take on the Tyrant and sent his Warboss at the Tervigon who picked a wound off him through overwatch. I’m not sure how successful these assaults were. I think we ended up locked in combat for that turn, the Warboss did more damage than you would expect and the Trygon held in there, the fololowing turn the Monstrous creatures won out, killing the boss and enough orks for them to be swept away after failing their morale. But my turn of assault before this was particularly poor.
Meanwhile the Trygon killed the last of the Killa Kans but was short of his deployment zone but it was getting on after midnight and with the blob of Orks gone in the middle and both first blood and Slay the Warlord under my belt he wasn’t going to recover so he called it and I finally broke my duck.
Misdirection
I close my eyes see you suffocating.
We took our chances well it’s always a start.
Look at our faces tell me
We’re not sleeping, not sedation.
Misdirection, overrated.
I set the fire while you demonstrated
I close my eyes ‘cause it’s so frustrating
I wanna touch it but it’s always the same
We’re not sleeping, not sedation.
Misdirection, overrated.
I took my time. I closed my eyes.
We took our chances. Look at our faces tell me
We’re not sleeping, not sedation.
Misdirection, overrated.
‘nids part 64 – Nu Tervigon updates
A quick apology if these pictures look a little ‘rustic’ thanks to the random background. Having reached a point where I was happy to consider the Tervigon complete I wanted to capture it before I applied any varnish. Considering my last experience with Purity Seal you may be forgiven for thinking me daft to even consider trying this again. However, with a bottle of olive oil to hand I was safe in the knowledge whatever crazy imperfections that could happen could be fixed. I was also going to prepare a little better.
‘nids part 63 – Nu Tervigon updates
Chitinous highlights mostly in place. This is just endless to do hence why I switched to that pre-mix of my highlight. The results are a bit neater than the head but it’s still dodgy in places, isn’t it always? Once all the highlights are done I’ll be doing a small amount of secondary highlights on the most important bits. Spines are also done in a golden flesh, this will have some striations added with Bonewhite and white.
What GW should do – Merchandising
In case you didn’t know I’ve bought Citadel Miniatures and GW products since the late 80’s. I also have a blog, it’s quite cool you can view it here. Those two facts alone qualify me to make ‘suggestions’ to Games Workshop and their subsidiaries in how they can grow their company/improve their products. So, free of charge I will be sharing some of my sage business advice to them and just you wait as ‘we’re bound to see them take forward my ideas with gusto.
If you didn’t know GW released a new version of 40k earlier this year [hooray for delaying these posts 😉 ], I may have mentioned it but if not what the flip have you been reading on this blog? Anyway they decided to celebrate that release with a number of items to help promote the new edition. Now I think this is a good idea and something I’ve thought for a while they should be doing permanently, not just on special occasions. First up we have their Beanie Hat. I was definitely up for one of these, despite the rather small embroidered badge on it. I said to myself if it was less than a fiver [but predicted it would be £6] I’d get one. I’m partial to a hat being follicly challenged and was amazed at the £4 price tag. I was even more amazed when I got home and saw they were going for £16 on ebay! By that stage I’d already discovered it was too small for me and I’m pretty sure my head isn’t particularly large, small-medium in fact. I’d gifted it to my son and then immediately regretted it once I saw the resale value, ha, ha!
And here’s the doozy – Lanyards. Now I’d been suggesting these for months to our local GW manager. I saw his official GW lanyard and when the 40k 25th anniversary pin badges came out I recalled some of our holidays at Haven Holiday Parks. They sell lanyards and have dozens of pin badges for a couple of quid each. they encourage the kids to buy and swap the pin badges with their friends and to bring them each time they come on holiday to add to. The kids go mad for them and being only ‘pocket money’ priced they’ll buy a couple. I suggested it to the manager but he didn’t think they’d go for it, but lo and behold they’d already got it in the pipeline. GW still need to step up the pin badges to stick on it. A range of half a dozen should do because what else, aside from a pot of paint, can you get in store for about £2?
A freebie – Objective markers
White backgrounds black numbers. Simple is better.
Now I could have been mightily offended that my not inconsiderable time and, all modesty aside, talents had been summarily dismissed in favour of something anyone could do in Microsoft Word but I was prepared to listen to the critique of one of my ‘customers’. So I cranked up the old Illustrator and in 5 minutes I gave my punter exactly what they wanted:
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Print
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Apply double sided tape to back
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Stick to mounting card
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Carefully apply sellotape to top if you want them pseudo-laminated
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Cut out with craft knife/scalpel
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Amaze your friends and enemies with these cards
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Tell them to visit 40kaddict.blogspot.com for their own free markers.