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Water Tower update
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Nov. 19th, 2006 @ 07:59 am
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Well this is about what I started with to meet the requirements of the contest
Drill a few holes and paint it black
Set the platform pylons
Sand the base
While that waits to dry start the platform
And a ladder
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Competition
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Nov. 14th, 2006 @ 10:04 am
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Recently I signed up over on the Terragenesis site. Great site and although I am not a big fan of forums (I prefer email lists) I have gathered some good inspiration and comments on my own terrain. While there i noticed that a competition had started. Though I have only been making stuff for a couple of years I feel that my stuff is pretty good. So decided to try my hand at competing.
The particulars of the one I have decided to try is that the base of the terrain be no larger than 15cm square (6inches x 6inches) and must use a toilet paper tube or pringles can somehow in the piece. Simple enough I thought. Next came to decide exactly what to try my hands at. The first thought that came to mind was doing a fountain but I decided to instead try my hands at an old fashioned wooden water tower.
As I do things I will keep a running picture catalog of my work in progress.Current Mood:  awake |
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Shopping
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Nov. 3rd, 2006 @ 09:54 pm
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Got out on my walk today and decided to go to the Hobby Town down the street. Only thing I went in for was a couple of pieces of balsa wood. Besides the balsa wood though I did spend a few extra dollars. !st was a bit of woodland scenics turf, a small package in yellow to vary from the only color green I had. Also spent a few dollars on a cutter/saw. Will see how good it can be for $4.00. Got lucky this time and spent a total under $10.00.
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World War II gaming at the Hydrant
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Oct. 12th, 2006 @ 10:07 am
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Although World War II is perhaps one of my favorite eras of military history, I had not yet forayed into gaming it in miniature. Well other than those long ago days, out in the field by our house with a bunch of 1/72 British Paratroopers and some German infantry. Can still picture those dirt clods flying...
"brief flashback moment reserved for old people"
I started seriously considering gaming the World War II era a couple of years back while looking over some Osprey WWII books at the local game store. I also noticed still a few set of rules around for gaming WWII and of course various miniatures to game with. About this same time chatter in the IRC channels among some of the gamers was about Flames of War. I started listening to their chat and asking a few questions, looking over some really nicely painted miniatures, reading a few after action reports. I must say I was very intrigued.
So I set out to take a closer look FoW and some of the other systems that are out there. I had some ideas as to what I wanted to get from the experience of gaming World War II. I hope over the next few months to share with you what I am going for, what I have obtained, and amidst all that did I keep my sanity. So here for the sake of the well being of all future generations is my concepts.
Concept 1 - Games and players. Any game I take up on a large scale would need to have a fairly large user base. This isn't so much for tourney play, but just so that there is some players who enjoy the game. I have over my years gotten interested in games that well simply put, no one local plays. Of course mostly this has been board war games, that I did manage to find players using one of the myriad of online play aids. But this of course is totally unacceptable for a miniature based games.
Concept 2 - Rules updates for the game shouldn't change the mechanics so much that new models are required. New "source" books for armies should not make older armies obsolete.
Concept 3 - Winning a game or two should NOT be dependant on how much money you can spend for the latest uber model.
So what I am going to try is Flames of War. The system is highly played in this area, and doesn't seem tied to how much money you can spend to win. My desire is to do a DAK army and the British to oppose them. So looking for your ideas here. You can talk to me in person over IRC at irc.scifi-fans.net in the channel #battlefront. Looking for someone to help "design" the armies I will be using and point me in good directions.Current Mood:  envious |
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OH NO! Not another genre!?!
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Oct. 9th, 2006 @ 02:47 pm
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Talking with a long time gaming friend last night, the subject of gaming genres that each was doing or considering came up. So I thought I would share the genres I currently game or plan on gaming in the next year.
Ancients
While wandering the internet one day I ran across a page where a gamer showed off his idea for making an arena in a cookie tin. I have since lost the link but it was inspirational and peaked my interest in doing something with gladiators. Mostly I envision small amounts of miniatures here, perhaps something more character based.
Old West
Well I currently am gaming this era. Some of the plans for this you can see in previous post. Currently have played the rules Six Gun Sound and The Rules with No Name. I also plan on giving Legends of the West and Gutshot a try.
World War I
The only interest in World War One gaming will be in doing dogfights. This is also the only period of aviation gaming I am interested in, at least till science fiction spaceship combat. I plan on using 1/72 plastic kits for this.
World War II
I am going to save my thoughts on this as it deserves a post of it's own.
Vietnam and Moderns
I admit that it was gaming the Vietnam Era that really peaked my interest in war gaming with miniatures and making terrain.In this I have mostly Baker Company figures. Future plans include adding a few more miniatures in 28mm. Not sure what other moderns I would consider playing at this time.
Future Fiction
Although this could fit under moderns I tend to put it more as Post-Apocalyptic gaming. For me it offers a good chance to flex my terrain muscle, especially since I do quite a bit of dumpster modeling. Besides at times I have really dark vision of the future inspired by novels, movies, and just the real world in general. I have used Combat Zone and going to give Mayhem Wasteland Warriors a try.
Fantasy
Way back when there were a couple of board games from Metagaming. Part of the Microgame line Melee and Wizard offered a chance to play duel like encounters between players as fighters or wizards, or even beasts and monsters. These are still played though now we are using some of those old miniatures we have from the early days when we started playing RPG's. The rules themselves have a slight flaw so we have done a bit of tweaking on our own. One day should put those in a web presentable format.
Sci-Fi
I am really not sure what direction to go with this one. My exposure to this genre is limited to board war gaming. And even there I have only ever really played Avalon Hills Starship Troopers and Amarillo Design Bureau Starfleet Battles. I am really lost on this one. I have no desire to play the miniature version of SST, nor the miniature version of SFB. The reason in the first case is simple, I really don't like the miniatures. The reason for the second is I just don't want to play such a mega-game as SFB anymore. Oh well... like I need another genre.Current Mood: awake |
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Normally I don't do much in the way of sitting down and planning out my next 10 or so projects. But thought I might share what I am currently working on.
In the Old West
First on my bench, another Wild West style building, that currently has no function. But I am sure it will by the time it is based and has doors and windows set.
Next is the General Store. My first inclination to name it "Olsen's" after the Little House on the Prairie store.But a lot of my inspiration comes from Boulder Colorado, both real and the one in my warped imagination. As I go over names in my head of stores I have visited, or people I knew who hung out in Boulder, I decide to leave it unnamed, for now.
Post-Apocalyptic
Ok, I admit it, I have a love hate relationship with Boulder Colorado, and in my post-apocalyptic games, it is mostly hate ;) I try and truly warp out and the one project I am working on is "The Boulder Theater". In real life the Boulder Theater offers a varied venue of entertainment, in my skewed vision, they offer only one now, porn movies. Here is a picture of the real Boulder Theater as it exists today.
Nope there isn't any pictures of a real project yet for this one, as it is still in the planning stages and is just a few scribbles in a notebook.
Oct. 7th, 2006 @ 08:06 pm
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