Hair cuts,Mines,and Mechas

  Well updates I guess.I have started painting my second TechCommander Mecha after giving him a key stuck in his back and some spare watch parts to make him look like a wind up clockwork "doll" of sorts.I have tried to start on finishing my Mines of Moria board (that aint going to well).I have pre-ordered Voltaire's new album which is called "Riding a Black Unicorn Down the Side of an Erupting Volcano While Drinking from a Chalice Filled with the Laughter of Small Children!".I am not joking when I say that that is the name.I also had my sister shave my hair off after she dyed it black for me several weeks ago...I miss my long hair and am going into with drawl...Hahahaha..Anyhoo,I'm also in the process of buying my friend's old car (1996 Ford Contour)..Anyhoo,toodles,ciao,see ya..GLYAASDI --Nate--

More figures and Game Con volunteering

Well today in the mail I got my figures from Elven Archer and pixel97504 from off the Snaggle Tooth Games forum.I have a cavetroll now and a bunch of other "crunchible minionsies"

 What I recieved

 Evil Collection(minus Hero duplicates)

Good Collection(minus Hero duplicates)

Also,I'm volunteering this year at Origins Game Fair in Columbus,Ohio and another joy or surprise is that its also going to be Victoriana and SteamPunk themed this year and they're even having a SP costume contest(I am really considering a field medic because I have a "bloody" dress shirt from an old Sweeney Todd costume and I'm also filing down a 6" round saw blade).Anyhoo,I shall post pics of what ever costume I decide to bring in addition to my normal SP clothes.Cheers --Nate--

Edit:Here is a link to the Con's site: http://www.originsgamefair.com/

3D Wall map

Okay,last Friday I started working on a new "mini" project on account of I'm out of Hot Glue sticks so I'm making the wall from the Wall Map from Sabertooth Games LotR TMGMap Pack 1.

The main thing about it is thats I'm making it to be taken apart and put back together again and I'm accomplishing this by using tooth-picks to hold it together.

I'm using insulation foam and already have the pieces cut out and etched waiting to be painted but I also got to get as much as possible of my Helm's Deep done by Saturday as well so it should be fun (I have it leaning against the dresser in my room and I can't bring myself to finish painting the beast).Anyhoo...

Tomb finished for now

Okay,I have finally hauled the tomb from out of my closet and repaired and paint everything there is to do.One problem though,I am out of spray paint and glue so the walls are gonna have to wait but I'm still moving it to the garage.My main project at the moment is now to try and get as much as possible of my Helm's Deep done(I started working on that 2nd or 3rd week of December and it has been a drag let me tell you).I actually have dragged it into my room and it will fill the now vacant spot left by the tomb in my closet...Thats actually one of the big pluses for SBG is that its a smaller scale,then again a drawback for SBG is its smaller scale.Anyhoo,here are some pics.

P.S. Hope you all enjoy my cave troll

Of conventions and bargains

Well I went to my first "official" Gaming convention yesterday and while I was there I found a "Deluxe Edition Lord of the Rings Tradeable Miniatures Game Starter set" for $20! I bought that and have greatly increased my supply of troops and also dressed steampunk(which I love btw) so here are some pics of me playing SBG as well:

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Here I am playing "Alien Frontiers

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My collection at the moment

Ok,well I've been busy with school and helping getting this years garden going but I just got some figures from my friend Sean who is a LotR TMG player from Toronto,Ontario,Canada (which I googled by the way and its 394 miles away (quikest route) and 6 hours and 49 minutes,but I doubt thats including traffic or customs).Anyhoo,so I layed out all my non-duplicates on the floor and sorted them by alignment and faction,then I had an idea to take a picture of my smallish but growing collection but I couldn't get a good shot so I smushed em all together and and then took a picture with all the "Official" LotR TMG dice I have as well.Anyhoo,hope yall enjoy,but now that I have 3 extra starter Lurtzs I think I'm going to turn em into Uruk-Hai warriors or something (simple really,print out the proper base stats,paint a hand on his shield to tell him apart and maybe move the limbs around a little bit for added differentness).Cheers --Nate--

Apologies

Ok,its been a while since I've posted so I must apologize about that.Things have been busy,I got my license,I took hunter safety,my sister's birthday came up,been broke,have had a job interview(12:45 this morning) and the second interview for the position is tomorrow night at 11:30 so wish me luck.Lets see,I haven't done much for modeling except I FINALLY painted my Chamber of Records...But according to Murphey's Law my little cousin stepped on the throne area only 2 days after I painted it so that was kinda annoying.Okay then,also my folks got a bunch of games (Rebuilding San Jaun,Carcasonne(more like crackasonne),another one I can't remember,etc..) and one of them was Risk 2210 so we've played it a couple of times and I really REALLY like that game.So one thing I did was to look up expansions and I found that you can pretty much conquer half the solar system and a bunch of commanders...The best part is that its all free (except for the printing cost...I'm gonna get another cartridge before I print off mars or any of the territory cards...  :^/ ).Anyhoo,oh yeah,like I was typing,I love boardgamegeek.com for all their goodness,anyhoo,I gotta go and get ready for WinterJam tonight so toodles and ciao.

Another wonderful update

Well I spent a few hours tonight working on the tomb and I think it looks pretty swell.All it needs now is some paint on the new features and some walls and we can start bashing some goblins...well,I need to get some first..that and the rest of the Fellowship..and a Cave Troll wouldn't hurt too..Ok,its clearly obvious that my collection is a little limited at the moment but hopefully Ebay may provide.Anyhoo,heres the progress so far

Chamber of Records and Balrog of Morgoth

Ok,finally been able to begin some serious construction on my Balin's tomb now,using the same construction methods as my Hall.Ok,and with the Balrog my cat Dusty(or Basement Cat for you "Lolzcats" lovers) decided to play in my tomb last night.

Not much to report

Well it has been a bit since my last posting(sorry,some unexpected things came up so yeah),anyhoo,as of before I went to write this I had 499 pageviews and two followers(which ain't bad in my honest opinion).Alrighty,earlier I had installed the drive shaft into my 21 year old ford ranger but I still gotta drain and refill the tranie fluid and change/reconnect the battery cables as well then she'll be drivable(Yay!).Now for a Mines of Moria update,I've been able to cut out the wood part of the board and glue on the gate on top of the hex map(same printoff as last time) and have the outer raised up "shelf" with the stairs by the main gate all installed.I'm gonna have to spray paint the foam part but that shouldn't be to hard,also to make everything else look good i'm going to spray paint the outer walls and any exposed area of the boards that isn't part of it so to say black so it'll all look MUCH better(the interiors are nice but the exterior..  :^p  blagh).Ok then,i'm gonna go work on it for the first time in a week(well maybe almost,idr)

Stair Case of DOOM:part 2

Ok,once again in record time(thanks much to the help of a artistically gifted little sister) another section of moria has been completed,I posted pics of when it was primed earlier(black with what was left of my gray..Thank God for making spray paint) and then did a healthy drybrush (well it was pretty wet so idk) of a dark gray on the brick work(and a lot on the ruined part I added on after it was sprayed).Then last but not least a lighter gray on the tiles/hexes with dark gray lines for hexes where there was multiple next to each other,all I got to do is seal it in the morning.

The Stair Case of DOOM!

Well no actually,just more picture updates of my Durin's Causeway based off of "lotrscenerybuilder.org" Hex based one.Turning out pretty good,lol.(Oh,and one of my Helm's Deep side project)

Durin's Causeway and slappin'da bass

Well practiced guitar today with my sister,our pastor,and Mr Gordy.Went very well,everything is starting to click and Mr Gordy is letting me have a old bass he never uses as long as I learn to play it but I already know how a lil bit so alls good,lol.Also I cut out the stairs for the moment,lol.Here are some pics:

MoM update (2)

Alright,its been nearly a week(sorry) but I got my Lord of the Rings Tradeable Miniature Game Starter Set on thursday(mail didn't come wensday on account of the weather) and I have played 4 games of it so far and I have to say that it trumps SBG anyday of the week(except on account of having to make terrain in 40mm hexs...it can be a pain).ANYHOO,back to the Mines of Moria update,well you all saw the pics (well,mightive) of the pillars before I painted them but what I did today is spray em and seal em along with the walls for my main hall.Ok,my plan for the actual main hall is that there will be several door ways so that they can enter into the tomb through the gate then when they exit out the back crackway you pull the tomb around to the other side and they enter the hall from the other side and then get surround by gobs,and then keep running across to the gate(same one as earlier) and go through Durin's causeway(stairs) and at the bottom they come out the same gate and go left towards the bridge(which by the way is a "add-on" part of it).Anyhoo,after working hard at it for over the weekend my sister(Tink) who did alot of painting (including the Balrog back drop and floor) and me were able to get the main hall secton 100% done.On the to-do list is the stairs(drew out the plans earlier),the Chamber of Records(gonna take a weekend in itself I think),the Hall add-on(two extra pillars bringing the total to 6,the crack in the wall for the tomb exit,and the crevice for the bridge),then the actual bridge itself.Oh,and sometime between completion and now I'll hopefully get a Balrog,Cave Troll,a bunch of gobbos,and the rest of the fellowship($18 for a Borimir and Gandalf each is a little stiff).

MoM update

For those of you who may not know I have a WIP thread on the One-Ring site but I kinda scrapped the project until last week where I started it again for use with LotR TMG,anyhoo,here are some pics of the Pillars so far(with some SBG minis running around for the heck of it).Also I plan on having the pillars to just be glued to some hex "bases" so to speak so that way I can remove them for storage and transportation.

Rider of Rohan

Yes,my single 99% complete (I need to spray him with sealent) has had pics taken finally..In case you all haven't guessed yet,I am a procastonater,then again..so is the whole danged generation.Anyhoo,to avoid some of my earlier "epics" that I had with uploading pics and commenting on them(my uruk-hai phlanx for example),I'll tell you then upload.Alright,as you may have read earlier(at least I think I said it on this sight) that I was kinda trying to go for the Riders of the West scheme(more red in the paint mix),at the very least I painted the shields,saddle blankets,and belt sashes red.Also,since I was batch painting all I have to do is some highlighting and finish the horses(they are a pain in the a**).With the faces all I really did was paint them flesh colured but I tried doing the eyes(FAIL) and mouths(less fail) so I recoated the flesh and painted any facial hair and then I washed the whole figure(all of em) in a homemade wash of about 50/50 water and black poster paint which REALLY brought out the detail and made em look all halfway decent,Ihighlighted a few things again and then put one on his horse(no glue) and popped on his sheild(no glue again),the reason I didn't glue the rider on or his shield is so that way I can sorta customize my army every time and also let say I get a butt-load of em(not likely cuz painting them takes forever) and I did WotR(sbg's expansion known as:War of the Ring) Then I could change shields,horses,etc.. for each formation/tray/etc..  Ok then,here are the pics:

1/26/2011

Alright then,over 200 page views(i'm sure that a good couple dozen are mine but still),well I Finally finished a Rider of Rohan today,have yet to even seal him or take pics,lol.After much thought I think I will sink ten bucks(what? i'm broke,what can I say) and go buy a starter set for the long oop game of: the Lord of the Rings Tradeable Miniatures Game.. AUGH! The ensuing horror coming from any serious gamers who read this s***,why would anyone in their right mind go and play such a horrid and ill-put-together game?? Well thats what i thought until I actually started researching it,my conclusion: wtfh did GamesWorkshop go and drown such a great game when they could of made some serious dough off it and use that to keep their other LotR game alive(i'm sorry,but lets face it,within a decade they'll more than likely have stopped producing for SBG and WOTR).Then again,if they didn't kill it there wouldn't be such an avid market for collectors and die-hard and hard-core players alike.So come Friday i'll hopefully have ordered the starting packet and then soon there after be able to crack it open and play with the up-to-date rules that you can get offline(Thank You SO much Captains of Gondor of North America for keeping this game alive),aaaanyhoo,congrats to "boo" for being the first follower.  --Nate--

Of Snowboarding and Birthdays

Well its the day after my 18th and i'm staying for a few days at my grandparent's house with my sis and my new snowboard(well its a used one,but it's new to me).My "Riders of Rohan" minis came on the 12th and I base coated them and glued the horses to their bases.I'm still working on painting the riders but its been kinda a pain trying to paint them with so many colours and shades.To be a little different from the normal Rohan colour scheme of gold and green i'm going with more of a "Riders of the Westmark" scheme(which has a rich red instead of green for flags and shields).I also haven't been able to take any pictures of my cat yet but maybe soon..Idk,lol    Anyhoo,think i'm gonna take a shower soon  Ciao

this fine morning

good morning in the sense that i hope its a good one for everyone,its been a few days and i didn't post anything for 1/11/11 11:11  which also was my older cousin's birthday,lol.so i expect to get my Riders of Rohan up today but with the weather i wouldn't be surprised if it was tommorrow,i'll be taking pics so no worries.today should prove interesting because we finally have hot water(oh its so good after 4 and a half months of just cold) and i'm gonna have to do some shoveling(again),hmm...i've forgotten to post pics of my wonderful cat dusty,oh,and speaking of posts,i got and idea from "bemygoth.com" so i think i may start posting tutorials for that kinda of stuff instead of just modeling tutorials..anyhoo,toodles and ciao for now!  :^)

more minis

well just bought a box of riders of rohan for 3 bucks cheaper than off Game Workshops site (excluding shipping but it was free for me on ebay),well not a box,just the sprue and such so i'm happy thats 82 points of minis to add to my very meager army collection but as i still have a bulk of paper minis things will do nicely for when i do helms deep (i actually need to draw up some uruk hai specialty troops but i think i'll use windows paint or something and print em off).so my eigthteenth is incoming in 8 days and that'll be epic(i've never been to fond of my birthdays..idk why).as an update on helm's deep:i used up most of my stucco that i bought but i think i'll only need 1 more,i have most of the battlements glued on,all i have to do is the part in the second ring going over the horse ramp.i have yet to work on where the doors into the mountain will go or look like for that mater nor have i found something for the statues but no worries.i should have some pics up in a few days of that when its done and also maybe of my cat Dusty.alright,night peoples