Neoscream's Painting Table: 13th of August 2017

Hi everyone and welcome to another blog post. The last two day (Friday and Saturday) I have been helping my friend Simon move. He is returning back to the Milton Keynes area from a village in the middle of nowhere. This will mean we (myself and our mates) will be seeing him more.

OK, last week I showed off the first of my display cupboards. So let us move on the second, starting with the bottom shelf.

This shelf holds my three MechWarrior figures (one hidden behind the next thing), a figure of the Yu-Gi-Oh figure Launcher Spider, Planet Express Ship from Futurama, USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D from Star Trek, an Enforcer Accuser Interceptor from Mantic's Warpath and silver PVC Conehead Decepticon Seeker.

The middle shelf (two pictures due to sheer numbers) has a ton of my 7TV and Doctor Who stuff. However, the Doctor Who figures have been moved out and boxed for Doctor Who Exterminate. The 7TV stuff are based on the Black Knights from Code Geass, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, James Bond, Section 9 from Ghost in the Shell, the Silicon Lords and Hive Master from my old stories and Cyborg characters from a team based on WWE Wrestlers.

Due to the huge gap left by the Doctor Who miniatures, I am thinking of move the remaining stuff to the top two shelves of the first cupboard and placing one of my Warmachine force in instead. If I do this I will post updates after doing all the areas I plan on covering.

On the top shelf has a large Tomahawk toy from Robotech (Macross) and my a chunk of my Decepticon Seeks.

Next week I will be the third cupboard.

Painting

This week I have managed to finish off Astrid from Reaper Miniatures Bones, the 2015 Salute figure, Sephera (cannot remember where she is from and I cannot find her on an internet search), Peter Pan from Tale Of War Miniatures, the Gate for my castle terrain, Smiley from Arcadia Quest, a figure based on the 10th Doctor from Heresy Miniatures (sadly the do not sell his any more so I cannot get a name), Hedgehog Girl from Sphere Wars, a tower from my Castle terrain, (oops, will be on next weeks), Surprised Faceless from Arcadia Quest and four Monster Fruits.

I am currently painting two Tengu Harrier and a Tengu Mage from Stonehaven and Surprised Faceless and Serious from Arcadia Quest.

Gaming

Doctor Who Exterminate!

On Monday I went down to Wargames Workshop MK for a game of Doctor Who Exterminate with Bob. This was our first time playing the game. Sadly there were not much how to play or game play videos on YouTube. As it was the first game we did not use the Adventure Card and we use the example forces the were in the beginning of the second book. I played as Dalek while Bob was the Cybermen.

I managed to Exterminate a chunk of his team. However, Bob was extremely lucky with his V Tokens and he won with twelve victory points to my seven. Overall it was an enjoyable game, however, there were a couple of problems.

• It is not that clear if Armour has a factor in Close Combat. We did play it that it does not.
• A large chunk of Warlord's Doctor Who ranges currently do not have rules as the figures do not come with them (apart from the two expansion packs) and the Starter set only covered what was in it, both Doctors sets and three Alien packs. They have stated that there will be PDFs rules for them in the future.
• The force cards do not have any lists of Weapons that are/can be equipped with or clear statements of that Faction(s) they work for or list of what is in the faction in the books (eg. army listing). Also, there are some inconsistencies in the cards. The three man Dalek Patrol in the Dalek expansion has a Fate Token while the three Dalek Patrol in the core game does not.

HeroClix

On Thursday I went down to York House for some games of HeroClix. This week's build was 900 points, five Actions, no figure above 250 points, no ATA's and no bases larger than peanut sized.

I decided to make an Avengers themed team, more because I made a mistake and only realised the night before as I was about to go to bed (thinking it was 500 points). The team ended up being:

Iron Man (002 Marvel What If) 100
Thor (005 Marvel What If) 110
Iron Rick (010 Marvel What If) 55
Iron Punisher (023 Marvel What If) 100
Black Panther (007 Marvel Avengers/Defender War) 30
Captain America (011 Marvel Avengers/Defenders War) 50
Warmachine (004 Marvel Captain America Civil War) 105
Hawkeye (002 Marvel Avengers Assemble) 85
Echo (010 Marvel Avengers Assemble 96
Firebird (011 Marvel Avengers Assemble) 105
Justice (014 Marvel Avengers Assemble) 64
=900 points

For some unknown reason, Michael did not turn up. Adrian even could not get a hold of him. As the rest of us turned up, we decided to play anyway. It just means one of us had to take the bye each round.

On the first round, I was up against Adrian who was using an X-Men themed team. This was a nightmare game where his defense from range was twenty (my team was range based), his attacks were twelve at a minimum and a ton of hypersonic. and Power Cosmic. All this was due to Cannonball and Emma Frost. I was creamed, losing the game. I was not expecting to do good, but those very high values compared to my average values made the game very unfun.

On the second round, I got the bye. So it was Darren S verse Adrian. Adrian won this game, but it was a lot more of a close fight.

On the third and final round, I was up against Darren who was using a Crime Syndicate themed team. I lost this game (like normal against Darren), but it was a much more fun game than the one against Adrain.

As there was no Michael, we will be using the same build next time. However, I will be using a different team and Adrain will hopefully try a different team than the cheesy one he was using.


Future Games

• On Monday the 14th of August I will be going to Wargames Workshop MK for a game of Mansions of Madness.
• On Thursday the 17th of August, I should be going to York House for some games of HeroClix.
• On Saturday the 19th of August, there will be a Future Card Buddyfight Tournament happening at Wargames Workshop MK.
• On Monday the 21st of August, I should be going to Wargames Workshop MK for a game of Kingdom Death Monster.

Well, that is it for this post. Until all are one with the Lantern-Spark.

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Salute 2015

Welcome all to my Salute 2015 post. Unlike the past two years where I post pictures and little content on my blog and then edit them the next day, this year I posted all the pictures on Twitter which then get automatically posted on Facebook and then a big post of the event with all my pictures of the event when I can. Apart from a little chaos (underground being one of them), everything went well with tweeting. I even got several new followers, several posts were favoured and there was a couple of comments on Facebook (family).

Well, where to begin. It was a good time out. Sadly I could not find everything I was looking for. These were magnets to use on my Robotech RPG Tactics stuff, figures to use as M and Q for my Bond team for 7TV and some Zombicide bits I was after. But I did get some interesting stuff. Here is a list of the stuff:

·         The goody bag that came free with my ticket that has the 2015 figure, the 2015 dice, the 2015 programme, a fire arc template (useless to me) and a ton of flyers.

·         A second copy of the 2015 figure as it has two weapon and head options. (£2)

·         A fifty pot paint stand. (£5)

·         Two packs of ten 30mm resin bases from Secret Weapon for my Cygnar Warmachine stuff. (£6 each)

·         A pack of two 40mm resin bases Micro Art Studio for my Convergence Warmachine stuff. (£3)

·         A Torii from Plast Craft Games. (£4)

·         Seven pots of Vallejo paint (the brand I normally use). Light Flesh, Heavy Green, Sun Yellow, Chainmail Silver, Squid Pink, Heavy Orange and Charred Brown. (£10)

·         Peter Pan and Tinkerbell from Tale of War in a bargain bin. (£4)

·         Matlal the Elder from Deepwars in a bargain bin. (£3)

·         Snooper from Sphere Wars in a bargain bin. (£4)

·         Collector from Sphere Wars in a bargain bin. (£3)

·         A pack of three resin base inserts from Dark Age in a bargain bin. (£1)

·         A 100mm resin base from Secret Weapon in a bargain bin. (£3)

·         Cirae from Joek Minis. (£5)

·         Baby Doll New Hope from Agora Miniatures. (£8)

·         A pack of six pure red sable paint brushes. (£8) I decided to not go for better quality brushes as brushes do not long with me sadly.

·         Close Combat Futura from Infamy Black Market. (£15)

·         An Arcane Tempest Gun Mage Office from Warmachine. (£5.35)

·         A purple dice bag. (£2.50)

 

I shockingly only spent £108.85. Less than the last two years of Salute and everything into my backpack. No extra bags being carried, however I did sadly lost my hat. Face palm.

This year’s theme was Agincourt and it did not really stand out. The only real place I remember seeing the apart from the event goodies at the South London Warlords stand (the people who run the event). I did not get a demo game of beta second edition 7TV in, but I did watch a demo being played and chatted to the person running it afterwards about second edition. I was planning on reposting all the pictures of the event here. However as the is about eighty of them and I have to add one at a time, so it will take too. So here is my Twitter @Neoscream where you can find them all. The labels for this post also includes the pictures from the Twitter post

Until next time, hope for a better tomorrow.

5th Anniversary of the Blog

Hi all. Welcome to the fifth anniversary of the blog. I have several things I would like to talk about in this special post.

“History of the Blog”

About a month before the blog started, I started write a log which I only shard with a selected number of people. But then one day Blaire, an old online friend of mine who I had a crush on back then which the log did talk a lot about back then, said that if I do not start posting them online, she will stop reading. I asked her about a good place to do it and she pointed me to Blog Spot/Blogger. The log has changes over the years and still is going strong. This has shocked me as I have tried making websites in the past, but always gave up after several months. At the start of this year thing did seem to be on a downer due to personal problem “THAT I WILL NOT RECOVER HERE” as talking about it here coursed problems with the problems. But luckily the blog has survived, it just lost “Life” section of the “Neoscream’s Life” posts where I took about what I have been doing, dreams that I have had and my thoughts and feelings. So sadly now I do not really talk about what I have been doing during the week outside gaming and what things I have been watching/buying. This has led to a reduction of the number of set weekly posts to two a week.

In the being I use to write the log/blog in a note pad during the day and then type it up in the evening. This took up too much time as I was writing it twice. I then decided to pick up a BlackBerry to save time and then I moved on to a HTC Flyer tablet. Nowadays I write it on a Samsung Note 2 and save the work in on Dropbox. So when I post, I can do it on my computer without messing around downloading off the phone or dealing with trying to do pictures on the bleeping blogger app. Yes you can do pictures on the app, but they all end up at the bottom of the post as you cannot place them like you can on a computer.

Sadly I was hoping to do a redo to the site will a new look that had site draw images (by me or someone else) then using image I got off the web. I might try to slowly work on this.

“Gaming Event Update”

Wargames Workshop MK Is open on Monday, but only from 6PM to 11PM. Normally It is close on Bank Holidays, but they will be open more for game Is bank holiday. I do plan on going. Oh and the gaming evenings start at 6PM or 7PM.

“Some Bad WWE News”

Yesterday I received some bad news that will sadly change the blog. AJ is retiring from in ring WWE action. The statement does not really say that she will not be doing anything with the WWE anymore or wrestling outside the WWE, just that she is retiring from in ring action with the WWE. If she is still going to be working with the WWE, I would love to have her on commentary on ever Raw or Smackdown.

This will most likely mean that there will be no more AJ section in the “Neoscream’s Life” post, yet another blow to the post. What will replace it? Not a beeping clue.

“Life”

OK technically I do not do this section in posts any more, however I do what to talk about what I have been doing this week as I have been off work and as this is an Anniversary post. This does not include how I am feeling, problems in my life (other than space based) or people I know (well a couple of names are mentioned. I know that the Baka, Immad, will be upset.

I have been busy this week tidying my pit hole bedroom and up grading my computer. I have taken photos before I really started on Monday:

The Black framed storage draws were a new thing that was added during the weekend

Of Thursday evening before emptying/remove the old chest of drawers:

The Computer and TV set-up

Hobby Area

The old chest of draws that I am/have gotten rid of. The wheels at the bottom where no longer standing up and the draws where a nightmare to open and close (why the top three draws were open.

And on Friday when most of the major work was done.

Opps. Been too busy with my room I forgot to change the calender to April.

Two Shades of Turquoise

A more tidy hobby area

As you can see above there was a problem with the chest of draws. Ikea massively changed the shade of Turquoise they use. Instead of being a light shade like the one I got a year or two ago, it’s a very dark shade now. Well there goes the match chest of draws I was hoping for. All that is left real is some more reorganised to the selves, draws and a couple of small boxes.

With the computer upgrades, I have moved all the internal parts into a smaller case as the one Darren H let me was far too big. I have added two new larger hard drives as I was starting to running out of space. The first drive is a 250GB SSD for new software and the other is a huge 3TB to up storage and to hold my music as Windows 8 media software does not like adding stuff off NASs to liberties for some weird reason. I original forgot it was a problem with me until Richard got Windows 8 and ran into the same problem. He installed a second OS, Linx, to play media his media. I have also got some new fans too, but sadly I cannot install yet due to power connector problems. I just need to pick up a couple of converters like the one with the case fan. Due to the hard drives I had to drop any kind of optical drive as the mother board only has four SATA posts (OK I have an odd feeling you can get splitters). Luckily optical drives are becoming less and less important and my mum has an external USB DVD drive which I can borrow if I really need to use one.

“Top Ten Posts of All Time”

Lastly I wanted to post a list of the all-time top ten posts (by view count) of this blog so far. Please note I did this last night, but I dealt that there will be any real changes between then and when I post this. However after posting this is a different thing. Sadly it is mostly Cosplay Deviants post then gaming post which I would prefer these day or Life based post that everyone think it is.

10. Cosplay Deviants: 15th to 21st July 2013 I am stocked that is not higher as it has been in the top ten post of the week most of the time (and mostly at first) since I have added the list to the right hand side of the blog.

9. Cosplay Deviants: Noel - Destined

8. Cosplay Deviants: Quinn and Kickapoo - Starter

7. Cosplay Deviants: Quinn - Ninja

6. DreamClix Dial Designs Dialled Up Part 4, Ghost Dragon IS

5. Cosplay Deviants: Ichigo - Strip Poker 4

4. Cosplay Deviants: Nova, Paige, Aglaia, Rosie and Dryden - Senshi

3. Cosplay Deviants

2. Cosplay Deviants - Noel - Kokiri girl

1. Heroclix the 14th of July, Avengers vs JLA part 1 At least the top one is gaming related.

Well that is it for this post. So until next time:

Enjoy! (2010)

Have Fun! (2011)

Mecha Up! (2012)

Armour Up! (2013)

Keep Rolling! (2014)

Hope for a better tomorrow! (2015)

I’m Out! (TheKingNappy)

Keep It Shady! (ShadyPenguinn)

LOL! Had to do that.

Neoscream's Life: 26th January to 1st February 2015

Season Two Female Corporation Team

Welcome to the new Neoscream's Life post. This is a weekly post of what games I have been playing, what I watch and news on the great Geek Goddess, AJ (when she is not injured).

“Blog News”

Sadly there is still no sign of AJ yet. I have a bad felling we will not be seeing her until after the next Pay-per-view, Fast Lane.

Due to a massive build-up in painted figures now, I will be adding an extra “Painting and Converting” section to this post from now on. However this and the one in the “Gaming News from Neoscream” post will each be a lower number of figures per post compared to the old once a week section, but it will be fifty percent more a week between the two posts than in just one post.

My Battle Angels Team with Alita and AJ

Oh and here is a shout out to the Baka from work, Immad.

“Arcadia Quest”

On Monday night both me and Roxy (who was visiting) went to Wargames Workshop MK for some games of Arcadia Quest. I had ten out of the twelve heroes from the starter just about finished. I have started on Friday to post the first wave of five, however I do think that the second wave are much better. I have a feeling that more love was put into them. Well anyway, we got two games in and we did start on a third game, however we had to call it quits due to time. We played the “District of Hammers” scenario first which I won, the “Brightsun Arena” scenario which I won too, and the third one that we never finished was the “The Moon Gate” scenario.

“HeroClix”

Like normal on a Thursday, I went to York House to play some HeroClix. We played a "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” scenario which is 400 points, four figures (no more no less), no figure over 100 points. One figure will be Famine and will get penetrating Poison. One figure will be Pestilence and will get Steel Energy that cannot be reduced below one damage. One figure will be War and will gain penetrating Quake. And the final figure will be Death and will gain double victory points for all figures it KOs. I went for an X-Men themed team who were:

Colossus (002 Marvel Wolverine and the X-Men) 100 (Famine)

Wolverine (001 Marvel Wolverine and the X-Men) 100 (Pestilence)

Beast (010 Marvel Giant Size X-Men) 95 (War)

100 MU014 Bishop (014 Marvel Mutations and Monsters) 100 (Death)

=395 points and four TTPCs.

On the first round I was up against Adrian who was using an Avengers themed team. His team was:

Scarlet Witch (006 Marvel Avengers vs X-Men) 100 (Famine)

Spider-Man (004 Marvel Avengers vs X-Men) 100 (War)

Black Panther (007 Marvel Avengers vs X-Men) 100 (Death)

Rogue (021 Marvel WizKids) 99 (Pestilence)

=399 points and four TTPCs.

Sadly I ended up losing. Also Darren S won his game against Michael. On the second round I was up against Michael who was using an X-Men themed team. His team was:

Archangel (049 Marvel Giant Size X-Men) 99 (Death)

Polaris (025 Marvel Wolverine and the X-Men) 94 (Famine)

Cyclops (009 Marvel Avengers vs X-Men) 100 (War)

Emma Frost (010 Marvel Avengers vs X-Men) 100 (Pestilence)

=393 points and four TTPCs.

Sadly I also lost this game too. Also Adrian won his game against Darren S. On the third and final round I was up against Darren S who was using an X-Men theme team. His team was:

Colossus (002 Marvel Wolverine and the X-Men) 100 (Famine)

Husk (027 Marvel Wolverine and the X-Men) 100 (Pestilence)

Banshee (051 Marvel Deadpool) 98 (War)

Cyclops (009 Marvel Avengers vs X-Men) 100 (Death)

=398 points and four TTPCs.

Like normal against Darren S, I lost. Also Adrian won his game against his brother Michael. Over all Adrian won this week.

On this Thursday we should be playing (unless it gets pushed back) a "War of Kings” scenario which is 500 points, the team must have at least one figure with the Ruler keyword. Choose a figure with the Ruler keyword, that ruler is King. King figures have Master Mind and if they KO another King you gain 50 extra Victory Points.

“Silver Age Sentinels”

On Friday evening me Richard and Darren when down to Simon’s for a game of Silver Age Sentinels. We continued from when we left off last time. We had just defeated an alien invasion and another team of super heroes appeared to take in to custody an NPC that was helping us. After sorting out the confusion, the aliens attacked again. The heroes fought them and a laud us to escape. Sadly the aliens ended up capturing the heroes and clocked off. We are currently trying to find them, however we managed to learn that the aliens have technology to steal powers from metahumans. Oh Crap. We left my character's ship and Darren H character's sidekick searching while we meet up with an old friend of Darren's character who needed his help. The guy's son who works for the Russian Super Human project has gone missing and he felt like he was being followed. We went looking for his son and bumped into a bunch of humans with the same weapons as the aliens. We got some Information on where he is and manage to escape when the military appeared for some unknown reason. This is where we ended the session. The next one should be on Friday 13th of February.

“WWE Royal Rumble Results”

In the preshow match the team of Cesaro and Tyson Kidd defeated The New Day members Big E and Kofi Kingston in a tag team match.

Next The Ascension destroyed The New Age Outlaws in a tag team match.

After that the tag team champions The Usos defeated the team of The Miz and Damien Mizdow retain their titles

Next sadly the Bella Twins defeated the team of Paige and Natalya in a divas tag team match.

After that Brock Lesnar sadly defeated John Cena, oh and Seth Rollins in a triple threat match for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. It was a good match, just pissed that Brock Lesnar is still champion. Sadly I have to say it, but I would have preferred that Seth Rollins over Brock Lesnar. Please note I was cheering for John Cena.

Lastly Roman Reigns won the 30-man Royal Rumble match for a WWE World Heavyweight Championship match at WrestleMania 31. One of my two bets to win. The other was Daniel Bryan. Sadly this did not go down well with the fans as most of them wanted Daniel Bryan or Dolph Ziggler (and there are some freaks wanted Bray Wyatt) to win.

“Loot Crate”

OK, last week I said I would do this as its only post. However, I kept on forgetting to do it (but I did take the photo. So I am doing it here. January's Crate was fantastic. The theme was Rewind. It has a Voltron t-shirt, a geek black tie, 8-bit sunglasses, a great little games cartridge figure (I would have preferred the Dr. Who one), a Star Wars comic and a comic book note book for making your own comic books.

February's theme will be Play. As a war/board gamer, I cannot wait to see what will be in it. Oh and next week I will be doing the crate from November 2014.

“Painting and Converting”

This post's figures are three more Arcadia Quest heroes. These are Grom, Hobsbawm and Johan.

This posts figures

Grom

Hobsbawm

Johan

In the next post there should be three Standard Zombie Walker, two Standard Zombie Runners, a Standard Zombie Fatty and three Toxic Zombie Walkers.

“Watch, Listen and Read”

LARPS: The Series

Monday

Watched: WWE Royal Rumble.

Received: The Loot Crate for January 2015 and the resin Wind from Demigods Rising.

Brought and Received: Three pots of paint.

Events: Work and I went to Wargames Workshop MK for some games of Arcadia Quest with my friend Roxy.

Tuesday

Watched: That week’s episode of WWE Raw, Maleficent and episode one of LARPs the Series.

Events: Work.

Gundam Build Fighter Try

Wednesday

Events: Work.

Thursday

Watched: Episodes 4 and 5 of Gundam Build Fighters Try, episode two of Ghost In the Shell Arise.

Events: Off work and went to York House for several games of HeroClix.

Friday

Events: Work and there when to Simon’s with Richard and Darren H.

Saturday

Watched: That week’s episode of WWE Smackdown, that week’s episode of Weekenders and episodes 6 to 8 of Gundam Build Fighters Try.

Received: The Xmas Special Pinup Twilight Knight.

Events: Work. No Coffee due to going to Simon’s.

Sunday

Watched: That week’s episode of Weekenders XLBS and episodes 9 to 14 of Gundam Build Fighters Try.

Events: Work. I was also meant to be meeting up with a couple of friends, however it got cancelled at the last minute.

Still in the post or soon be should

November 2014 Loot Crate. (Received yesterday)

Weave two of DreadBall Xtreme. (Received yesterday, well sort of. More details in Friday’s “Gaming News from Neoscream” post)

Until next time, hope for a better tomorrow.