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.

Neoscream's Life: Salute and Problems. April 30th 2017

Welcome everybody to another "Neoscream's Life" post. Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I have not done much to the room since the last post, partly due to Salute. However, I have done a little work on the deck. People who follow me on Facebook or Twitter will know I was at Salute. It was a great day out, but sadly I spent more money than I was planning. I have also managed to do a bit of miniature work done. While at Salute I picked up a new Warband for Frostgrave and two figures I want to paint up (and Heavily convert one) for some friends. So I have been building, converting, undercoating and started painting them.

There most likely be no post next week, due to the lack of gaming and getting ready for Campaign. However, "Neoscream's Painting Table" might be back the following week.

I also have been avoiding writing this as there are things I really want to talk about. But after the whole Shenell thing I know I cannot really. Maybe I should be avoiding using that beeping name (the problem is not Shenell, but the damage that was done to me emotional does effect this), but I used it so that people who know me for a long time will know what I am talking about. I will try to do a brief outline with what is happening, without giving too many details that will course more problems. There seems to be a problem between myself and someone I really like and I do not know how to handle it. It is hurting me not knowing how to solve it. I have asked friends who do not know her for some advice and it mainly just to leave things alone and wait. (No Simon, I am not sending dick pics like you keep on suggesting to do. I know she will not like that what so ever.) However, waiting is hurting more as I just want to get things sorted. To be honest, as I was writing this I am getting close to tears as I feel lost. (But the tears side could be due to the Eczema around my eye irritating my eyes. I know it is a stupid thing, but my life does get me like that sadly.

Anyway, let us get on to gaming.

HeroClix

On Thursday the 20th of April, I went down to York House for some HeroClix. The scenario was "The New Age". 400 points, no figure above 100 points and no ATA's. I went for a "New X-Men" themed team who were:

Cyclops (001 Marvel Uncanny X-Men Fast Forces) 50
Jean Grey (002 Marvel Uncanny X-Men Fast Forces) 50
Beast (003 Marvel Uncanny X-Men Fast Forces) 50
Angel (004 Marvel Uncanny X-Men Fast Forces) 50
Iceman (005 Marvel Uncanny X-Men Fast Forces) 50
Kitty Pryde (023a Marvel Uncanny X-Men) 45
X-23 (037 Marvel Uncanny X-Men) 100
=395 points

To cut things short (as I am writing this just over a week after it happened), I won both my games against Michael and Adrian, but they were close games if I remember correctly. Also like normal, I lost my game against Darren S.

There was no HeroClix on Thursday 27th of April as both Adrian and Darren S called it off on the day and there will be no HeroClix on Thursday 4th of May as both Adrian and Michael are busy.

Cardfight Vanguard Tournament

As I am writing this about a week after the event I will not be going into so many details about the rounds. On Sunday 23rd of April, I went to Wargames Workshop MK for a Cardfight Vanguard Duos Tournament. It was on a Sunday instead of Saturday because of the Magic the Gathering Prerelease event. However, the prerelease still had a very huge turnout on the third and final day of the event. So we were moved to the spare room in the comic book store "Magic Comic Kingdom" (owned by Carl the owner of Wargames Workshop). Sadly the room did not have the room to support a six-team duos tournament. So we had to do a singles tournament. Damn it! So all the planning I did with Wai-Yin was a waste.

I won two of the rounds during the pre top four cut off rounds. One round against a new player called John and the other round was against Wai-Yin which was a close round. Even though Wai-Yin sadly would not agree.

I managed to get into the top four cut off. In the semifinals, I was up against Shell. She won like normal for her and she won the finals too.

After the event, I managed to trade with Shell for my second copy of the new Grandgallop. Just two more to go.

Kingdom Death Monster

This one is easy to write as it is just a copy and paste job (with some little changes) as I have already written it on a new Facebook group I made so that both my KDM groups can interact with one and other and I can share information to both groups at once.

On Monday the 24th of April, I went down to Wargames Workshop MK for a game of KDM. There was no Bob as he had a game of The Walking Dead All Out War with Peter booked. Also, there was no Adrian as he called off at the last minute. So it was just me, Wai-Yin and Michael. We all took our normal Survivors. Wai-Yin took Alice, I took Marth (named after the Fire Emblem character) and Michael took his normal character which I cannot remember the name. As there were only three of us we took a random female Survivor which we called Char.

We hunted a level one White Lion and won without losing anyone or taking any serious injuries. We got enough resources to build upgrade the pool and finally built Wai-Yin's Cat Gut Bow and as well as two more pieces of our third set of Rawhide Armour. Oh and all three of our characters went up an Age and all got an extra +1 to Strength.

As it was quick and we had the time. We sent our Endeavours on Purifying both Adrian's and Bob's current characters and then went on another hurt against another level one White Lion. It was another easy fight. The only problem we would have has was a double Gorm Climate with both at the low result. However, we realised we were safe as it would have only destroyed Resources in the Settlement Storage. Resources gain/leftover from a Showdown are only recorded in Settlement Storage at the end of the Settlement phase. So the resources we just gained was safe and as we spent all the resources before going on the hunt, we had nothing to lose. We finished off the third set of Rawhide Armour and Purified two more Survivors.

There was three mistake made. During the two Lantern Years. The first one was I stupidly got Deadly mixed up with Devastating on the first Showdown. (Deadly is +1 Luck while Devastating is deal extra damage.) Sadly it was done and could not do anything about it, but we did realise we missed out on two critical wounds. However, afterward, at home, I realised I had also forgotten I had Savage one my weapon too. (On Critical Wounds deal extra damage.) So I had only accidentally done one extra wound to the first Lion and I would have done two more damage to the second as I critical wounded it twice. Lol. Facepalm. Oh and the third mistake was that we forgot to use an endeavour when we innervated both years. That is an easy fix. We just un-Purify one of the Survivors, as we could not have done them.

Sadly due to Monday 1st of May being a Bank holiday and the following Monday being Frostgrave, the next KDM game for the Wargames Workshop MK group will not be happening until the 15th of May.

Star Trek Ascendancy

Roxy was back in MK for several days and HeroClix was canceled, we decided to try out Star Trek Ascendancy. We played a two player game where she was the Klingons and I was the Federation. It was at first a peaceful game there was an early Trade Agreement that gave both sides a lot of Production. One side used a stockpile of Production and a ton of warp bonus to create two full-size battle fleets to attack the homeworld of the opposite player. They conquered the defending ships and homeworld with easy and then defended against a counter-attack before taking the planet for their own. The Federation conquered the Klingons using the Klingons own brute force tactics.

Star Trek Ascendancy is an interesting game and I do plan on buying the Brog expansion as well as at least one of the other races so I can do four player games.


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

Neoscream's Life: Close to Finishing. April 18th 2017

Welcome everybody to another "Neoscream's Life" post. The shelves over the desk and Chest of Draws are up now and the extra (not the internal shelves) have been added. I am also been doing a lot of sort out the stuff in my shed and move stuff back to my room. Still got a lot more work on that end of things.

With the way things are going, I might be back doing "Neoscream's Painting Table" in May.

Now to gaming.

Random Games

On Thursday there was no HeroClix as Darren S could not make it. So I meet up with Liam, Crawford, and Matt for some random games. First myself, Liam and Crawford played a game of Boss Monster which Liam won. Then with Matt, we played something like two or three games of a new card game Liam just brought. I cannot remember the name or find it on a search, but it was Lovecraft based. Last we played two or three games of Exploding Kittens. A great fun night. I also managed to get my first ever pair of decks for Future Card Buddyfight.

Kingdom Death Monster

On Saturday night I went down to Simon's with Richard and Darren H for a game of KDM. We hunted a Gorn this time. We managed to win. However, we did get some crippling disorders. One character had to retire because of it.Sadly we could not do much of the Settlement phase and there was a Nemesis event.


Oh I also got a new game to on Saturday, Star Trek Ascendancy.

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

Neoscream's Life: 21st to 27th of March 2016

Welcome everybody to another the Neoscream's Life post. This is my weekly post of life, what games I have been playing, what I have been painting and what I have watching and reading. This week's opening pictures are of the Flower Knight.

"Life"

I did not manage to do any gaming on Monday at Wargames Workshop MK as no one was up for a game of Warmachine, Malifaux or Frostgrave against my. But I did pop into the store for some undercoat which I forget to buy the Sunday before.

Due to problems at work I could not do HeroClix on Thursday like normal and as I needed to have Friday off to do stuff with my mates, I have to sacrifice my Saturday off so I could not go to the Cardfight Vanguard Tournament or pick up a box of the new set G-BT-06 "Transcension of Blade and Blossom". I have not clue on when I can get it as the store is closed on Monday this week so there is no Monday game again.

On Friday I went to Richard's with Darren H and Simon. We played a game of Britannia that took all day like normal with that game. Darren H won the game and I came a close second.

"Loot Crate"

March's Loot Crate for 2016 arrived in the post during the week. This moth's theme was Verses. In the crate this time was:

AVP Aliens vs. Predator Vinyl Figure.
Marvel Daredevil and Punisher Reversible Hat.
Harley Quinn Comic Book.
Batman vs. Superman Dawn of Justice Mighty Wallet.
Quantum Mechanix Mirror, Mirror Star Trek T-Shirt.
The Monthly Magazine.
The Monthly Pin.

This is not a picture of the stuff "I" received, but it is what I got.

It was not that great of a Crate time. The lack of Captain America Civil War stuff with a Harley Quinn comic that seem to not have any reason to be it the crate is a bit of a let down. I am not saying the comic is bad, but it is not really in the theme of the crate. My favourite items were the t-shirt and the hat.

April's theme will be "Quest".

"Painting and Converting"

For this post I have for you all is two of my Cygnar Rangers from Warmachine rebased and three soldiers from the XCOM board game.

During the week I managed to finish painting two more Malifaux figures. I also undercoated an Arcadia Quest figure, a Kingdom Death Monster figure, and three Zombicide figures.

In the next "Gaming News from Neoscream" post I should have for you all three more Soldiers and five Interceptors from the XCOM board game.

Below is an image of my painting table at the end of last Sunday night or the start of Monday morning.

“Watch, Listen and Read”

Monday
Watched: Episodes 1 and 2 of season two of Daredevil.
Brought and Received: One pack of card sleeves to sleeve up more of my Kingdom Death Monster cards and a can of black undercoat.
Received: The Lion Knight expansion for Kingdom Death Monster and Folder Sleeves for my Kingdom Death Monster gear cards.

Tuesday
Watched: That week’s episode of WWE Raw and episodes 37 and 38 of GaoGaiGar.
Brought: Three 60mm resin bases.

Wednesday
Watched: Grimsby.
Brought and Received: Batman cup.

Thursday
Received: March's Loot Crate.

Good Friday
Nothing.

Saturday
Watched: That week’s episode of WWE Smackdown, that week’s episode of Weekenders and episode 17 of Cardfight Vanguard G.

Easter Sunday
Watched: That week’s episode of Weekenders XLBS, episodes 3 and 4 of Ren the Girl with the Mark and episodes 3 to 6 of season two of Daredevil.

Still in the post or soon be should
Both the Dung Beetle Knight and the Flower Knight expansions for Kingdom Death Monster.
Three 60mm rasin bases.
Thunderbirds wave two.

Until next time, enjoy life.

Star Trek Beyond | Trailer #1 | Paramount Pictures UK

Gaming News from Neoscream: 18th September 2015

Warpath in coming

Welcome to the “Gaming News from Neoscream”. This is my weekly gaming news post for miniature games, RPGs, some card games, my painting and upcoming local events.

“Gaming News”

First off we have the HeroClix news. We got previews of: Winter Soldier from Marvel Nick Fury Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D..

Now for the Mantic news. Mantic have be showing off a painted Enforcer Jetbike for Deadzone.

Wave one of King of War has just finish shipping. Dungeon Saga should now start shipping mid-October.

The long awaited Warpath KickStarter should be starting this coming Monday I they have be showing off a tank from the Forge Fathers that they are working on for it, called the Firefight.

Next is the Battle System news. The Post Apocalypse Terrain KickStarter should be starting today.

Now for the Cool Mini or Not news. With their “The Others: 7 Sins” Kickstarter they have managed to unlocked since the last post: The Greed Avatar; twelve Greed Cards; a Greed Board; a Greed Controller; six Greed Abominations in three sculpts; six Corrupted Policeman Acolytes in three sculpts; the Kickstarter exclusive Sniper Hero Nichole; an Art Book add-on; two old town tiles (the ruins and the docks); a Lust Controller; twelve Lust Cards; a Lust Board; the Gamma Team expansion; six Lust Abominations in three sculpts; three Sin Dice; a dice pack add-on; and the Lust Avatar.

As I post this the stretch goal that are still going are: The Sniper Hero Polly at $530k; and a Kickstarter Exclusive new city tile the sports centre at $530k.

Next is the Modiphius news. They have finally started the KickStarter for the Infinity Role-play Game. This is a role-play game based in Corvus Belli’s Infinity miniatures game. There are several Pledge levels and I will not be listing them. However I have included a graphic from the KickStarter that goes over them after several Stretch Goals were made. I have gone for the "Print and PDF Master" level. This level original got you a Physical copy of the Core Book and PDF copy of all books.

Since starting on Wednesday they have managed to unlock: The Core Book was funded; everyone who gets a copy of the Core Book (PDF or Physical) will now get a PDF copy of the Player's Guide; all backers of Pledge levels for physical copies of the Core Book will get a free miniature of their choice from a six different miniatures; the number of artwork in the Core Book has been increased; the Gamesmaster Guide; the Shadow Affairs Campaign; digital wallpaper based around the RPG; Form Fillable Character Sheets; Several pre-made characters from the staff at Corvus Belli; an eight page Adventure made by the Corvus Belli team; the Nomad Faction Source Book; and a Spanish version of the Player's Guide and Character Sheets.

As I post this the stretch goal that are still going are: The Paradiso Geomorphic Tile set at £115k; the Paradiso Planet Source Book at £130k; and an extra eight more pages to the Adventure that the Corvus Belli team are making at the next two level up (special goals for things like sharing and favourites).

They have already revealed that there will be three waves. Wave one should be shipping in February 2016, wave two should be shipping in July 2016 and wave three should be shipping in October 2016. The Core Book, Player's Guide, dice and Minitures will be shipping in wave one. All the other Stretch Goals should be split among the three waves. I personally hope the Gamesmaster Guide will be part of wave one. However if the contents of your order is available, it will ship (so if you are only waiting on one extra book and it is finished in March you will not be waiting till July for the shipment). The shipping dates are a guide to when all of the books listed will be ready. 

Lastly there is the Wyrd Games news. This Monday we got a preview of a new Resurrectionists minion, the Night Terror.

“KickStarter Dates”

·                     Wave two of “Journey Wrath of Daemons” (July 2014), “Mekton Zero” (digital December 2013, physical March 2014), wave two of “Shadows of Brimstone” (August 2014) and “Paranoia” (June 2015) have all been delay due to problems and currently have no dates on when these will start shipping.

·                     Wave one of “Journey Wrath of Daemons" (July 2014), wave one of “Kings of War Second Edition” (July 2015) and “Last Saga” (November 2014) has been shipped or is shipping soon.

·                     “Slaughterball” (June 2015), “Blood Rage” and wave one of “Thunderbirds Co-operative Board Game” (August 2015) are meant to ship this month.

·                     The “Warpath” KickStarter should be starting on the 21^st of September 2015.

·                     “Mechabrick” (April 2014), “Dungeon Saga: The Dwarf King’s Quest” (August 2015), “Dragon Tide” (September 2015), wave 1.5 of “Shadows of Brimstone” (August 2014), wave two of “Kingdom Death Monster” (December 2013), “Ghostbusters the Board Game” and “Home Raiders” should ship in October 2015.

·                     “The Others: 7 Sins” KickStarter should be ending on the 7^th of October 2015.

·                     Wave three of “Kingdom Death Monster” (December 2013), “Demigods Rising” (July 2015)/”Demigods Evoltion” and wave two of “Yashima: Legend of the Kami Master” (July 2015) should ship between October to December 2015.

·                     Wave two of “Robotech RPG Tactics” (December 2013) should ship between October 2015 to March 2016.

·                     Wave two of “Kings of War Second Edition” (July 2015) should ship late November to early December 2015.

·                     Wave two of “Thunderbirds Co-operative Board Game”, “Ninja All-Stars”, “Zero Agents” and “Zombicide Black Plague” should ship in December 2015.

·                     “Dwarven Forge's City Builder Terrain System”, “Deadzone Infestation” and “Halfling Adventurers Miniatures” should ship in January 2016.

·                     Wave one of the “Conan” board game should ship between January and March 2016.

·                     Wave one of the “Infinity RPG” should ship in February 2016.

·                     “The Others: 7 Sins” should ship in March 2016.

·                     “Myth Journeyman” should ship in June 2016.

·                     Wave two of the “Infinity RPG” should ship in July 2016.

·                     Wave two of the “Conan” board game should ship between July and September 2016.

·                     Wave three of the “Infinity RPG” should ship in October 2016.

"Up and coming Events"

These are local gaming events in Milton Keynes I know of, Guardians of Tyr events at Wargames Workshop Northampton and other events I plan on going to or want to advertise.

·                     On Mondays (not including Bank Holidays) at Wargames Workshop MK is Wargaming night.

·                     On Tuesdays at Wargames Workshop MK it is Card games night (or is it just Magic the Gathering).

·                     On Thursdays York House Youth Centre in Stony Stratford is open from Wargamers and Boardgamers.

·                     On Fridays at Wargames Workshop MK it is Friday Night Magic.

·                     On Sundays, Wargames Workshop MK is now open. It will be for role-play and board games day on every Sunday apart from the last Sunday of the month which will be a card games day (Yu-Gi-Oh, Magic and Cardfight Vanguard).

·                     On Saturday the 19^th of September 2015, Guardians of Tyr will be running a Warhammer 40,000 Conquest tournament at Wargames Workshop MK.

·                     On Sunday the 20^th of September 2015, there might be a Weiß Schwarz Tournament at Wargames Workshop MK. Rules of the event will be on the “CFVanguard and WeißSchwarz M.K.” Facebook group.

·                     On Sunday the 27^th of September 2015, there will be a Cardfight Vanguard Tournament at Wargames Workshop MK. Rules of the event will be on the “CFVanguard and WeißSchwarz M.K.” Facebook group.

·                     On Saturday the 3^rd of October 2015, Guardians of Tyr will be running a Steam Roller Warmachine/Hordes tournament at Wargames Workshop MK.

·                     On Sunday the 11^th of October 2015, Guardians of Tyr will be running a Star Wars X-Wing UK Team Championship at Jurys Inn MK. Sadly this has already sold out.

·                     On Saturday the 17^th of October 2015, Guardians of Tyr will be running a Warhammer 40,000 tournament at Wargames Workshop MK.

·                     On Saturday the 7^th of November 2015, Guardians of Tyr will be running a Star Wars X-Wing tournament at Wargames Workshop MK.

·                     On Sunday the 8^th of November 2015, Guardians of Tyr will be running a Steam Roller Warmachine/Hordes tournament at Wargames Workshop Northampton.

·                     On Saturday the 21^st of November 2015 will be a Mantic Open Day.

·                     On Saturday the 28^th of November 2015, Guardians of Tyr will be running Android Netrunner UK Team Championship 2015 at Wargames Workshop Northampton.

Wargames Workshop MK has a £2 gaming fee or £4 with a booster pack (Magic/Yu-Gi-Oh/Vanguard) unless it is a paid tournament run by Guardians of Tyr. Weekday events normally start at 6/7PM.

For rules for Guardians of Tyr tournaments and leagues as well as information on pre booking your place in tournament. Pre booking is highly recommended so they know how many people are coming. So please go to their website which there is a link to it under my links section which are located on the right hand side of this blog.

York House has a £3 on the day gaming fee (unless you are a child or unemployed where it is £1) and a £5 fee for a year’s membership. However the first day is free and they only take yearly membership fee at the start of the year. The hall officially opens at 7PM, but normally people start arrived 15 to 20 minutes early.

“Painting and Converting”

For this post I have for you all four Toxic Zombie Walker and three Toxic Zombie Fatty from Zombicide.

The Toxic Crowd zombies finished

With the next post there should be both the Survivior and Zombivor versions of Padre Johnson from Zombicide.

Until next time, hope for a better tomorrow. 

Wil Wheaton Announces International TableTop Day 2015

Christmas, Special Gifts and Loot Crate December 2014 (updated)

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY

Figure 1

Eight special people received a very special, personal gift. Here is the history of this special gift. Everybody who received this special gift got this.

Why back in 2012, Hasslefree Miniature started a Sculpting Competition. The rule where: 

Figure 2

1. You must use the female armature HFL503 (Figure 1) as a basis for your sculpt.
2. The Final piece must be able to be cast-able in metal by us. This means you will need to use epoxy putties like Greenstuff or Milliput plus you can add other items like guns or parts of other figures. Fimo is not advised as it can crumble under the pressure exerted on it when a mould is being vulcanised.
3. You must agree that the Final Piece that you submit will be sent to HF for production and you will relinquish all rights to reproduce that piece for personal use or for profit.
4. People who enter the contest (but only once regardless of how many entries they enter) will receive a set of a metal copy of the winning entries (resin instead of metal ones), a copy in metal of their stuff that gets produced in metal, vouchers for the winners and runner ups and 20% off an order (which was added just before they started shipping the prizes.

Figure 3

I decided to enter the competition to see how well I would do. I manage to pick up four armatures to use. I based each of them on characters from several sources, make sure to do some changes to copy right characters to not break any copy rights.

The first one was based on Lily Rain Eve from an online computer game CosmicBreak (Figure 2). I dropped the shoulder less sleeves (or at least that is what I think they are), hair decorations and weapon. This makes her able to fit into other things like a Martial Artist. This finished green in show in Figure 3. Here is some background of the character: 
Not much is known about Lily Rain other than she is an Angel Force member. It's possible that she is a Neet because she is often seen lazing around with domestic technology. It also supports the fact that she doesn't go directly into battle. Then one day her friend were being attack and she was wounded. An ancient, sentient weapon known as E.V.E. answered Lily's call for help. Turning her into Lily Rain Eve.”

Figure 4

He second was based on Kallen Stadtfeld/Kouzuki from the anime Code Geass (Figure 4). Again I dropped the shoulder less sleeves, however I added short sleeves to her red to. I also did not do her headband as I was worried that it might be a pain to do. I do wish now I tried it. The main reason I did this character was that I was making a team based on the Black Knights from Code Geass for a miniatures game called 7TV. I was trying to find a figure I could convert (modify) and with the contest I decided try to do her. This finished green in show in Figure 5. Here is some background of the character from Wiki:
“Kallen Stadtfeld is half-Britannian, half-Japanese, but believes herself to be a Japanese person at heart and prefers to be known by her mother's maiden name, Kouzuki. Her father is Britannian and her mother is an Eleven; her father comes from a prestigious Britannian family, which Kallen benefits from. She attends the Ashford Academy, where she later becomes a member of its student council and is one of its most outstanding students. Her brother, Naoto Kouzuki, with whom she had a deep connection, was a former leader of her resistance cell before his death.

Figure 5

Both Kallen's stepmother, a Britannian, and biological mother live with her in the same house, but her biological mother is employed as a maid and is often mistreated by both her stepmother and Kallen herself. After her biological mother is arrested for using Refrain (a fictional drug which lets people think they're reliving the past), Kallen changes her views and decides to fight against the Britannian Empire not only for her brother, but to fulfill her new wish for a world in which she can live happily with her biological mother.
Kallen leads a double life as a normal Britannian student and as a member of a guerrilla resistance group against Britannia, which is later reformed into the Order of the Black Knights by Lelouch Lamperouge. In school, she portrays herself as a weak-bodied high school student who obeys all of the formalities, and goes by her Britannian name of Stadtfeld. However, her personality changes into a very strong-willed and forceful one when she acts as a resistance fighter.”

Figure 6

The third was a Silicon character from some of my old stories, Shen the Silicon Lorddess of Lust. This was major redo of her. As the original designs (that came from a dream from 15 or more years ago). Her original design was of a female in yellow spandex with golden boxes over her shoulders that came from ever the shoulders or her back. The boxes had large symbols engraved in them. Now a days she is a sharp shifter with an internal skeleton (skin shifter might be a better description than sharp), changing her look to blind in or for what she needs, for example combat look I model her in. This finished green in show in Figure 6.

Figure 7

The fourth was a character based on the Start Trek online game I briefly played called Izrei Rasesay (Figure 7). She was the Trill Science Officer of the star ship(s) my character commanded. Sadly this figure was near finish in time as I had a major problem with one of the hands. Sorry I do not have any pictures of the greens on me.

Figure 8

The entries were stent off to them around Christmas time 2012. Sadly due to problems their end the polls for voting never come up until the end of September 2013. The winners were not reviled until the end of October 2013. Sadly none of my entries won, however they sadly the might product some of the non-winning entries in metal (but it does not mean that they will be released to the general public). Figure 8 shows all the winners from the Contest.

In October this year I got an email from them saying that at least one of my entries were being produced in and not long after that it was revealed that the figure based on Kallen Stadtfeld/Kouzuki and the figure based on Lily Rain Eve were going to be produced in metal and people who entered the contest would be able to order extra copies. I decided to order nine extra copies of each to make it ten copies of each. I set I planned to keep unpainted to display somewhere with the greens, one set for gaming and the other eight sets I decided to paint up and give as Christmas presents to eight special friends. I will not be listing the people who got these, however the version of this that they got did have a list so they will know. Figure 9 shows finish painted nine sets. The Two figures on special bases on the left edge are my set.

Figure 9

Now that is over and done there is another thing I wanted to talk able. On Tuesday I received my December 2014 Loot Crate. I was plan on posting pictures of the content on Tuesday or yesterday,but never got around to it. So I decided to merge it with this special Christmas post.

It had an excursive POP! Joker Batman, an excursive cover Batman comic, Groot socks, a paper Simson's Wallet, a Captain America car freshener, a Ghost Busters door notice, Tetris sticker set, a free 30 day trial of Crunchyroll and the monthly badge and mag, as well as a couple of other minor bits. This was a great crate. The Joker Batman and Groot shocks are AWESOME. However I do not think this crate lived up the HUGE hype that it was getting compared to past crates I have seen. Here is an unboxing video of the Loot Crate from Shadypenguinn.

Until next time have a Merry Christmas and Keep Rolling.