Neoscream's Painting Table: 25th June 2017

Hi everyone and welcome to another blog post. Due to a lot of late nights and early mornings as well as watching WWE shows with my dad, I have not done too much.

I was planning on talking about the new Warhammer 40,000 last week, but due to time, I did not. If you have not heard, the eighth edition of 40k was released last Saturday. It is a complete remake of the system just like second and third editions than a rules update that fourth to seventh were. I use to play 40k back during the second edition to not long after the release of fourth. Over the time I have gotten rid of most of my 40k stuff, apart from my Tau stuff (but it looks like I did get rid of some sadly) and anything that can be used for Necromunda. I decided to pre-order the "Index: Xenos 2" book, as it has rules for the Tau (apart from Forge World stuff) so that I had the rules for my Tau if I ever decided to try the eighth edition, I could. Painting my Tau Pathfinders for Shadow War Armageddon has gotten me in the mood to dig out my old Tau stuff and try out the eighth edition. So I have hunted down as much of my old Tau stuff I could find. I managed to find seven Crisis Battlesuits (including my old Commander), twenty-five Fire Warriors, thirty Kroot, two Kroot Shapers, eight Kroot Hounds three Gun Drones (got to be more somewhere), six Shield Drones and my Ethereal. No sign of my Stealth suits or Hammerhead. Maybe I sold them at Campaign and forgot about it. I might be able to gain two Crisis Battlesuits, two old Stealth Battlesuits and a bunch of Fire Warriors by reconverting a bunch of my old "Lost and the Dammed" back to normal Tau. Without the reconverting, I worked it out to be less than 1,500. Damn. It is not over two thousand. I also will need to do some repair work. I have also managed to arrange a game of the eighth edition for Monday.

Painting

Sadly this week I have not managed to do any painting. Been recovering from a lot of late nights and early mornings because of gaming and work. However, I have managed to build up all the Wild West Exodus figures I got from Wargames Workshop and the extra six Tau Pathfinders.

Here is this week's catch up photos. This time I have some Malifaux stuff. There is Shenlong, Sensei Yu, Katanaka Sniper, three Ten Thunder Brothers and two Peasants. The reason why the Katanaka Sniper is on her own is that I forgot her.until I was adding the photos here.

Next week will be Arcadia Quest.

While hunting for my Tau stuff, I also dug out my Inquisitor stuff. I took out the finished/good ones for display. Here they are:

There are two I wanted to highlight. First is my Rogue Trader that was converted to be Zechs Marquise from Gundam Wing.

The other is a bizarre conversion I did that served two prepuces. As a demonically possessed Tau Steal Battlesuit in Inquisitor and a demonically possessed/Demon Prince Tau Crisis Battlesuit from my old "Lost and the Damned" army. This was pre KDM.

Gaming

Future Card Buddyfight Nationals

On Sunday the 18th of June, went down to IQ Gaming in Huddersfield for the Future Card Buddyfight Nationals with Liam, Crawford and Blake. I am going in the deep end here. I had only played about four games before going, and the first twenty episodes of the original anime experience. Oh, I am doomed. I was using the Hero World Quartet Five deck I got from Crawford. Quartet Five is basically Power Ranges/Sentai. Because of the deck, I decided to wear my Green/White Ranger t-shirt that I got from Loot Crate.


Before the tournament, I got in two practice games with Blake and won them both.

There were at least fifty-seven players turned up for Future Card Buddyfight. Due to numbers, it ended up becoming six round, instead of the five they first thought. Also, only seventeen players turned up for the last Luck and Logic Nationals that was running at the same time.

On the first round of the tournament, I was up against Crawford who was using a Star Dragon World deck on table seventeen. Why did we travel all this way just to play against each other? Lol. I through it would be a clear victory for Crawford as he was much more experience in the game and he was the one who built my deck. However, I managed to pull off a close win. Also, Liam won his game and Blake lost his game.

On the second round, I was up against a Katana World user called Dan on table three. It was a clear loss. Also, Liam and Blake lost their games and Crawford won his.

On the third round, I was up against a Dragon World user called Sam on table seventeen. Sadly I lost this round. Also, Crawford and Blake lost their games and Liam won his.

On the fourth round, I was up against a Dragon Ein user called Nicky on table twenty-two. I shockingly won this round. Also, Blake won his games and both Liam lost theirs. However, Crawford decided to drop.

On the fifth round, I was up against a Star Dragon World user called Mark on table thirteen. With his Jackknife, I was destroyed in next to no time. Also, both Liam and Blake lost. Liam decided to dropped.

On the sixth and final round before the top eight playoffs, I was up against a Dungeon World user called Iain on table seventeen again. That is three games on flipping table seventeen. Sadly I lost again. Also, Blake lost his game.

So none of us made it to the top eight playoffs. I got thirty-sixth place and Blake got forty-first, and we both won a pack of Standard size Ultra-Pro sleeves. As Liam and Crawford dropped out, they were not given a place.


KDM WWMK

On Monday I went down to Wargames Workshop MK like normal, but this time I was playing Kingdom Death Monster with my group from the store. Even tho she said she would be coming, Wai-Yin never turned up. No words why. To be brutally honest, I am feeling super upset over it. I am at the point of even dropping her as a friend and from the group. Ok, there is more to it then I am willing to say here, but this is more or less "the final straw that broke the camel's back" (hope I get that saying right).

Anyway, the rest of us decided to hunt down another level one Gorm. All of us apart from Michael had to use new survivors as our main ones had to miss the hunt due to disorders. Following the Fire Emblem theme (my main survivor is called Marth), I decided to name mine Tharja (there is an image of her to the right). The hunt was not as bad as the past hunts have been lately, and we defeated the Gorm in two turns (or was that three).

The Settlement event this time was "Triathlon of Death". We mainly choose survivors that are not being used anymore. Basically, Adrian's two past survivors and Bob's main survivor who can only do every other hunt. We could have chosen Wai-Yin's old character. However, I decided to choose a character we used once, Char, for the chance to improve her. Char did gain +1 Strength and Understanding, but she has to miss the next hunt. No big deal, we were not planning on taking her anyway.

With the resources and endeavours we received, we managed to get the Sauna Shrine innovative, made Leather Boots to finish the Leather Armour set, and taught both mine and Bob's main survivors the Mammoth Hunter Fighting Art thanks to Sculpture.

The next game will most likely be the 10th of July with this group as I am unable to transport KDM next Monday (also Bob could not make it) and the following Monday will be Frostgrave.


HeroClix

On Thursday I went down to York House for some game of HeroClix. This week's build is 500 points. Dormammu has taken Wanda Maximoff to be his new Dark Bride, time for a mystical hero to save the Universe from their Reality Warping Potential. If your team contains a figure with the 'Mystical' Keyword you can re-roll one die roll a turn (your team may not contain Scarlett Witch or Dormammu). While at IQ Gaming I brought some HeroClix boosters. I decided to use several of them in my team, which ended up being an Avengers themed team who were:

Luke Cage (008 Marvel Avengers/Defenders War) 50
Black Panther (007 Marvel Avengers/Defenders War) 30
Captain America (011 Marvel Avengers/Defenders War) 50
Iron Fist (012 Marvel Avengers/Defenders War) 50
Iron Man (053 Marvel Avengers/Defenders War) 165
Swordsman (008 Marvel Avengers/Defenders War) 50
Firebird (011 Marvel Avengers Assemble) 105
=490 points

On the first round, I was up against Adrian who was using an Excalibur themed team. As I was setting up my figures I release according to the dial and card, the version of Iron Man does not have the Flight ability or any Improved Movement. WTF. Apart from some versions of the Mark 1 or some Buster and past armours, Iron Man has alway be able to fly so I never looked. This made the figure looked VERY over pointed. Anyway, it was a tough battle, but sadly I lost. Also, Darren S won his game against Michael.

On the second round, I was up against Michael who was also using an X-Men themed team. I managed to win this game. Also, Darren won his game against Adrian.

On the third and final round, I was up against Darren who was using an Excalibur themed team. Like normal Darren won this game, without losing a figure. Also, Adrian just managed won his game against his brother Michael.

Afterward, we learned the Iron Man figure I had been using was errata and he was meant to have the Flight symbol instead of the Boot. Damn it, things might have ended MUCH better.


Cardfight Vanguard Tournament

On Saturday I went down to Wargames Workshop MK for a Cardfight Vanguard Tournament. I was planning on post the blog before this, but I still had too many photos to add and a couple to still take.

I was not sure which deck to use, but as John was using Nova Grapplers and I had to work on my Stride Deck for Dimension Police Cosmic Heroes as I just got the Dimension Police GB8, I decided to try out the Royal Paladin deck again. There was a huge turnout with something like twenty-two players.

On the first round, I was up against Jasper who was using a Granblue deck instead of his normal Oracle Think Tank deck. I lost this round. I could not pull any trigger cards to help in my defense.

On the second round, I was up against John who was using his new Nova Grappler deck. Sadly as I could not pull a single grade three Blaster, I could not keep up. I lost this round. I really need the new "New Style Blaster, Llew" card from the next set.

On the third round. I was up against David who was using a Link Joker. With a double critical in both games and bad draws, I lost this round as well.

On the fourth and final round before the top eight (instead of four due to numbers) cutoff, I was up against Blake who was using a Gold Paladin deck. My luck decided to change and I managed to win this round. However, with only one round win I did not make the top eight. In fact, none of our locals made into the top two. Yes, shock horror Shell did not win the tournament, but she did making into the top eight and Liam made it to the top four.


Future Games

• On Monday the 26th of June, I will be going to Wargames Workshop MK for a game of Warhammer 40,000 eighth edition.
• On Thursday the 29th of June, I should be going to York House for HeroClix.
• On Monday the 3rd of July, I should be gaming at Wargames Workshop MK from some Frostgrave.

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

Neoscream's Life: Chair and maybe more delays. April 11th 2017

Welcome to another "Neoscream's Life" post. Due to my dad's Hernia being much worse than he was letting us know, we did not do much last week. The only real work that was done was me putting up the caches (ok most likely the long term) for some of the shelves and building the new computer chair, seen in the opening photo (the lamp and 3DS cable are just there waiting for the new smaller bookcase). The chair is a lot bigger than I thought, so big I cannot tuck it under the desk. C'est la vie. However, it is a lot more comfortable than the old chair. Oh and we bought a new TV for my room too.

On Monday I finished work early (just doing the morning) so I could get home to help out my dad with my room. Dad was off work this week due to Monday being my mum's last day at work before retiring/being made redundant). He managed to turn the bookcase into shelving for my boardgame (minus KDM) while I was at work, as seen in the second photo. I will most likely move one of the comic book boxes to make a space for my DVD/game CD folders when I get some new folders and the BIG two have fallen apart.

We then took down a re-fixed the cupboards back better on the walls, finally added the headboard to my bed and finished the shelving in them and we fixed the towers to the wall and planned the shelves that will go over the desk.

While my dad was off picking up my mum and taking her to a doctor's appointment, I finally got my board games out of my shed and placed them onto the shelves. I also got some of the figures that were going into the cupboards and started filling, as seen in the third photo. Still got more work to do to them. I also finally set up the new TV as well.

On Tuesday my parents picked the shelving and the bookcase from Ikea. The new bookcase is up and I have started feeling it.

Now to gaming.

HeroClix

On Thursday I went down to York House in Stony Stratford for some games of HeroClix with Darren S, Michael and Adrian. This week's scenario was "Big Bash". 1,000 points, five actions, no figure over 200 points, no figure on a base bigger than a peanut base, no ATA and a maximum of five theme team re-rolls.

I went for an Avengers themed team who were:

She-Hulk (006 Marvel Civil War) 90
Yellowjacket (010 Marvel Civil War) 60
War Machine (004 Marvel Captain America Civil War) 105 + Iron Man was Right 5 = 110
Firebird (011 Marvel Avengers Assemble) 105
Silver Centurion (001b Invincible Iron Man) 161
Thor (005 Marvel HeroClix 10th Anniversary) 200
Vision (013 Marvel Chaos War) 95
Scarlet Witch (006 Marvel Chaos War Fast Forces) 75
Ms. Marvel (023 Marvel Chaos War) 110
=1,001 points

On the first round, I was up against Darren S who was using a Dark Avengers themed team. Like normal Darren S won. Also, Michael won his game against his brother Adrian.

On the second round, I was up against Adrian who was using a Green Lantern themed team. I managed to win this game. Also, Darren S won his game against Michael.

Due to everyone feeling tired, especially myself and Adrian, we decided not to do the third round. I really do not know who I have been so tired lately as I have been sleeping well to my knowledge.

Anyway, there is no HeroClix next week as there is no Darren S. Instead I will be playing board games with Liam and Matt at Wargames Workshop MK. Oops, that reminds me, I forgot something happened on Monday I forgot to blog about in the last post.

Future Card Buddyfight

On Monday after KDM, I managed to get my first Future Card Buddyfight. I borrowed a Hero World deck from Crawford based roughly around things like Sentai (Power Ranges). I was up against Crawford who was using a Dungeon World deck and I managed to win with Liam's couching. I might look into building a deck in the future. Just need to get my room finished first and Salute (Saturday next week) over and done with before doing anything.

Cardfight Vanguard

On Saturday I went down to Wargames Workshop MK for a Cardfight Vanguard Sneak Peek of the new set, GBT-10 Raging Clash of the Blade Fangs. However, as most people wanted to buy the boosters but do the Tournament, I ended up playing in the main Tournament. I decided to use my Cosmic Heroes deck. I had worked on the Stride deck. The main change was dropping most of my X-rogue and X-phoenix for the new Stride, X-lead.

On the first round, I was up against, crap I truly have forgotten, sorry. I know I lost but sadly I am pulling a blank on who or what deck. Sorry.

On the second round, I was up against Wai-Yin who was using her boys, Touken Ranby. She had been using a Legion deck but decided to rebuild the deck just before the tournament. I managed to win this round.

On the third round, I was up against Shell who was using her Bermuda Triangle deck. Shell won like normal for her. However, I was having bad luck with my draws. Especially one the second game where I had three triggers in my starting hand and no grade ones. I sent the triggers back to the deck and redraw three cards which were all triggers. Beep. Then I did not draw a grade one on the first turn so I had to G-assist to Grade one. Beep.

On the fourth and final round before the top four cut off, I was up against Jasper who was using his OTT deck. This ended up as a draw, with one game each.

I somehow managed to get into the top four cut off with just one win. Well we did have only seven players, plus withdraws and byes being treated as a lost, it can happen.

In the semifinals, I was up against Shell. She won and then she defeated Crawford who was using Kagero in the finals.

Kingdom Death Monster Zombicide

We were originally was planning on playing KDM on Monday but without Bob who could not make it. However, on Sunday evening Wai-Yin message us to say that she could not make it due to an unplanned family outing. As this meant that it was just myself, Michael and Adrian, I ask if they want to play a different game. We decided on Zombicide. Then about two hours before we meet up, Wai-Yin message that she would be back in Milton Keynes in time. LOL. We decided to stick with Zombicide.

We played one of the missions from the Compendium, but a yellow and with Standard, Toxic, Berserkers and Skinners in the zombie deck. We were using Adrian's and Micheal's copy of the game as it was currently easier at the moment (however, I had to bring my Zombies as they forgot theirs), until my room and shed are finished reorganising. Their copy was missed a bunch of cards and character that were miss placed somewhere at their home. This did cause a couple of problems due to chooses from the experience deck not working. Also, Adrian's "Team Player" (not) did cause problems, especially with Wai-Yin who I forgot to warn about (god I wish Bob was there). Due to time, we did not finish the mission. However, we could have easily done it with a bit more time. The only difficulty there was is that their was an A-Bomb on the map and we did not have anything to kill it YET. It was fun to some degree apart from the fighting between Wai-Yin and Adrian.


Well until next time, until all are one with the Lantern Spark.

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The Foxes and London Neoscream's Life Special: March 4th

The amazing Louisa Rose Allen aka Foxes

Welcome everyone to a special Neoscream's Life post that covers my journey to London and the fabulous Foxes concert.

There will be a normal "Neoscream's Life" post on Tuesday, however it will not be covering Friday. Maybe a brief mention of it.

As I was about to leave home I decided to buy Pokémon Yellow from the Nintendo eShop, so I could play the game on the train. However I realised after doing that I did not have the time to download it first. Facepalm.

I met up with Richard at Milton Keynes train station at about 9AM (well he turned up more like ten past, but it is very common for him to be late). We catch the 9:22AM to London and the London/Foxes adventure started there.

From Euston (after getting drinks) we catch the underground to Tottenham Court Road. Once there we headed to Forbidden Planet and lost track of the time. I was about to go buy some stuff when Richard spotted the time. It had gone 11:45AM. As we were meant to meet up with Darren H at Tower Hill at 1PM and we still had the Orcs Nest to visit, we needed to get a move on. So I quickly brought my stuff (forgetting to buy something I wanted to get) and rushed to the Orcs Nest.

At Forbidden Planet I picked up issues 0 and 1 (Forbidden Planet exclusive cover) of the new Mighty Morphin Power Ranges comic from Boom, a HeroClix booster of Marvel Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD (pulled the super rare female Thor) and two Cardfight Vanguard boosters of G-BT01 "Generation Stride" (got another Final Wrench that I needed). I need to remember to ask Carl at Wargames Workshop to get in future issues if he has not already.

Luckily due to the size of the store, we did not take too long at Orcs Nest, in fact it was quicker than I thought it would be. I picked up a Reaper Miniatures Bones figure "Shaeress, Dark Elf Queen" to use as a Zombie for my Frostgrave warband and some based basing staff for my Frostgrave stuff. I might need to retake the photos of my Wizard, Apprentice and Captain as I might be adding a bit more to their bases. Richard also found a board game he liked, but he did not buy it as he did not want to carry it around London.

The Tower of London

We did have more time than we thought so we walked to the Embankment Underground station to catch the underground train to Tower Hill. Once there we met up with Darren H for some lunch. We walked to a market and got some Japanese wraps off a VERY popular and quick market store. We chatted like we normally do at coffee or on car journeys to and from Simon's, but wondered around. Darren H later had to go back to work (he works at London and was not going to the concert). So myself and Richard went to a Starbucks for some coffee and some rest.

At 3PM (well before that) we catch the underground to Camden Town. Once there we looked at a random comic shop and Camden Market before going to the massive Camden Stable Market. Camden Stable Market was quite interesting. It is a great place to visit and I would like to go there again. I would also strongly recommend it to cosplayers of all types as they might be able to find odds and ends they need or to give them ideas. I did find a store I liked called Cyberdog, more due to my liking for mecha and tech. Sadly I did not buy anything from there because of the cost and they did not do my size in t-shirts and jumpers. Maybe next time if I am ever there again and have lost some weight. Also as there was a lot off no photos signs (more for certain items I think) I sadly did not take any in the store.

One of the new t-shirts

I did managed to get at the Camden Stable Market two anime t-shirts (Dragonball Z and Evangelion) and a Mother's Day gift for my mum. I was after a Dragonball Z zip-up jumper as I wanted a Geeky Jumper, however they were out of my size.

At 6PM we went to Weatherspoons for dinner and some warmth as it was getting cold. I also changed the battery in my phone so that I have a fully charged phone at the Foxes concert.

After that we headed to the Roundhouse for the Concert. Due to the number of people already in the Roundhouse building when we arrived, they started a queue outside with us in the front. I did not know it at the time, however the time table was changed from what was on the Roundhouse website. Entry to the stage was now at 7:15PM instead of 7PM, however it was more like 7:20PM when they did open it. The website however did state that the time table might change without notice.

When we finally managed to get into the building we dropped our bags off and my coat and then headed to the merchandise stand. I was originally planning on getting a Foxes t-shirt. However as I could not get or find a suitable Geeky Jumper and ended up getting anime t-shirts, I decided on getting a Foxes tour zip-up hoodie instead. It was just alittle too small for me, but I am trying to lose some weight so hopefully I will be OK (read the "Neoscream's Life" post this coming Tuesday).

Rivrs

The first supporting act started later than what it was originally listed as online. The act was Matt Wills. He was good, but not someone I would listen to normally.

The second act was the band Rivrs and they were really good and enjoyable. I will be checking them out more in the future.

During the break between the second supporting act and Foxes (there was a break between the two supporting acts too), a bunch of people did the usual mistaking Richard for Jesus Christ. Facepalm. Why does this always happen? Facepalm.

Anyway after the break Foxes finally came on stage. WOW. Just WOW. She was breath taking, amazing, fantastic, wonderful and dreamy. I almost lost my voice twice singing a long. LOL. I just wish my camera could have gotten the experience of seeing her live a lot better. The only little (and I mean little) problem I have with the show is that I have seen pictures of her in better outfits in some of the other shows on the tour from her Twitter and Instagram (@iamfoxes). Oh and more Foxes on stage. LOL. I do hope she will tour the UK again soon as I would love to see her again in concert, however sadly I might have to do it alone.

The third supporting act that was originally meant to follow Foxes (according to the Roundhouse website), Curfew, never happened. Maybe they were cut off due to time or problems or they bailed out on Foxes and the Roundhouse. Anyway this meant the concert ended at 11PM instead of midnight. This also meant for us that we could get the underground to Euston instead of by bus or walking and to a catch MUCH earlier train. In fact I got home about 1AM when it was originally going to be some time past 3AM.

Overall it was a fantastic day and a dreamy night. I wish there was more hours in a day to fit in a lot more things, however sadly my legs would not have taken much more as they when aching from the long day on the way home. OK I could think of thinks to top that (like Louisa's love), but sadly you cannot have everything in life. Sadly.

In a normal "Neoscream's Life" post, I would have a "Watch, Listen and Read" section. However is is not a normal post so here is a recap of all the things I managed to get during the day instead:
Pokémon Yellow for my 3DS.
Issues 0 and 1 of Boom's new Power Rangers comic (issues one being the Forbidden Planet excursive cover).
A HeroClix booster of Marvel Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD. (containing 001 Nick Fury, 009 Sarah Garza, 011 Agent May, 021 Fitz and 050 Thor.)
Two Cardfight Vanguard boosters of G-BT01 "Generation Stride". (Key pulls Masuraoraizer, Starlight Violinist and Final Wrench).
Reaper Miniatures Bones figure "Shaeress, Dark Elf Queen".
Shrub White Flowers.
A Mother's Day Gift. A Jewellery Box.
A Dragonball Z T-shirt.
An Evangelion T-shirt.
And a Foxes Zip Up Hoodie.

Again (as I did this on Twitter and Facebook) I would like to thank for this brilliant day:
Immand for giving me the time off hell work.
Richard for coming with me when he was not a Foxes fan.
Darren H for meet up with us for lunch and showing us an interesting place to have lunch in London.

The stuff and helpers at all the places we went to like Forbidden Planet, Orcs Nest and the Roundhouse.
Foxes supporting acts Matt Wills and Rivrs.
Foxes band (sorry I bad at remembering names).
And of course the main reason this happened, the amazing, fantastic, wonderful, brilliant, talented, dreamy, sexy, cute, beautiful, funny, beam of sun shine, Louisa Rose Allen (Foxes).


Until next time, enjoy life.