Let's face it this is as close to a Hellboy mini that you can get without infringing copyright.
Andre Duran, Time Chaser - Bob Ridolfi (SKU 80005)
As soon as I saw this mini there was only one way it was going to get painted. Thanks Bob you made my day.
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| Andre Durand (aka Hellboy) |
Now don't get me wrong I love a mini which is striking some highly dramatic heroic pose, but sometimes you need something that is just a big bag of subtlety.
Like Aragorn when he first meets the hobbits, he is travelling incognito as Strider. When you are starting out on your path to magical mastery you don't want to be standing out in a crowd attracting attention screaming "look at me I'm a wizard!". That's where Anirion comes in.
Anirion, Wood Elf Wizard - Bobby Jackson - SKU: 77068
I painted Anirion in shades of grey to accentuate the incognito feel. only her red hair and blue crystal staff give any hint of colour and I think the combo works well. My only criticism is that the staff is too thick, it's like she's carrying a small tree. However, the PVC that the early bones were made in was quite bendy even at this thickness. Life is a compromise I guess.
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| Anirion, Wood Elf Wizard (SKU 77068) |
Sector 55 Blues is a Judge Dredd Campaign using the Savage Dredd
unnofficial Savage Worlds Expansion. This is an online only game with
members from Dragons Keep Roleplay Club.
In the morning Judge Uhtred sets up the Sat Comms gear and relays a situation update to Sector 163 the response they receive is both puzzling and alarming
+++ MC1 SITUATION ALERT BLACK ALPHA +++ NO SUPPORT AVAILABLE +++ YOUR MISSION CRITICAL +++ RETRIEVE PERP NESBITT PRIORITY +++
A Black Alpha Alert means that Mega City One is dealing with a city wide disaster or epidemic and Justice Department resources are strained to breaking point.
Judges Cully, Hammer, Teal and Uhtred head out into the wasteland accompanied by the pirate ships Pinacolada, captained by Scurvy Jack, and the Saint Mary, captained by El Diablo. The pirates have charted a route on the map which leads them to a refuelling point known as "Nowhere".
At midday a dust storm blows in, Searing hot winds winds carry
abrasive dust which gets everywhere clogging the bikes air filters. The pirates lower the rear ramps of their ships with Cully and Teal boarding the Saint Mary. Uhtred struggles to get his bike onto the Pinacolada and Hammer needs to go back out and help recover his bike. Both bikes are damaged and take some fixing to get running again.
Visibility outside is very poor down to about 20 feet and the ships are sailing on instruments alone. They crawl onwards through the blackness.
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| Dust storm |
As night falls the storm shifts to acid rain and the ships grind to a halt. El Diablo explains that the rain turns the dust to mud and the ships will just dig themselves into an early grave if they try to move. They must wait it out until the storm passes.
Hammer and Uhtred find Jethro amusing himself playing a tin whistle. They engage him in coversation patched across to all Judges via their helmet radios which are fortunately still working.
Jethro explains that he is glad that the Judges are going to get him to Black Oil Mesa. He doesn't fancy their chances of beating Muldoon, but as long as they get him there he has a chance of finding the thing that Muldoon stole from him. He also reveals that Muldoon betrayed him a long time ago. Muldoon used to be a big thing in Mega City One some 15 years ago until he was stranded in a stratbat crash where he was badly injured. Jethro rescued him and nursed him back to health. Together they discovered the secret of the wild hair beasts and tamed a few.
Over the years this turned into a lucrative business and they traded hair beast meat with the free towns a welcome alternative to square pigs. Muldoon always yearned to return to Mega City One and he managed to make contact but was refused entry having spent too long in the Cursed Earth. In the following months Muldoon's mood darkened and he betrayed Jethro forcing him to flee for his life. Muldoon began to ruthlessley expand his empire soon after.
After a fitfull night of sleep, the Judges wake to the smells of sizzling square pig bacon. The pirates are already hard at work swabbing the deck with vinegar water and repairing rigging. It is not long before they are once again moving.
The Judges decide to once again take out their bikes and ride as escorts greatly increasing their range and firepower. Around 2pm the pirates spot smoke on the horizon and the team head out to investigate.Cresting a dune reveals a small flat valley floor with a small farmstead at its center. Two black vehicles, a van and a sedan, are hurtling around the building and their occupants seem to be attacking the homestead.
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| A Mutie Homestead |
Hearing gun shots from inside the building, Cully heads for the front door and through a window spies a woman and a man with a shotgun. "This is the Law" she cries and orders the man to put down his weapon"
Teal rides round to the rear of the property. The van is parked with its side door open and 2 perps are trying to gain access to the building. He lasers the van melting its engine block and shoots one of the perps at the door dead. Uhtred follows suit melting a hot wide channel through the side of the vehicle. Hammer's laser malfunctions and he opens up with his bike cannon collapsing the porch on the remaining perp at the door. Five perps in the van fire back winging both Hammer and Uhtred.
Cully busts open the door and two 10 year old mutie boys flee the building. She takes up a firing stance on the man who appears to be trying to reload his shotgun but her aim is blocked by the female mutie who pleads with her "Don't Shoot". Teal fires an incendiary into the van which bursts into flame and two perps bail out from the vehicle and run away on fire. Uhtred checks the van for survivors as Hammer punches his Lawmaster through the flimsy farmstead wall into the bathroom.
Cully pushes the woman out of the way and pistol whips the man with the shotgun to the floor. She opens the door and drags the badly injured perp inside. Teal chases down the fleeing perps and puts out their flames with a well aimed stumm gas grenade rendering the pair unconcious. Whilst checking out the burning vehicle, Uhtred encounters some of the farm's livestock a six legged horse, a two headed goat and some chickens the size of large dogs. He briefly considers calling sector control and having the Animal Squad come out to deal with them but remembers he is a long way from home. Concerned that the crime scene could still be harbouring perps, Hammer checks the remaining rooms discovering two empty bedrooms and confidently shouts "CLEAR!".
Hammer interrogates the injured perp, Bob 365, revealing that this raiding party are mulgoons from Black Oil Mesa and were in regular contact with home base. When they don't check in Muldoon will send more men in this direction.Next Prog ->
Prog 2 - Hair Today Gone Tomorrow - Rock Dwayneson's apartment and carnage at the Yes-A-Bout
Prog 3 - It's Ugly Out There - Fun and Games at the Ugly Pageant
Prog 4 - Down, Down, Deeper and Down - Entering the sewers under RESYK
Prog 5 - The Big Wig - Confronting the beast below the city
Prog 6 - Last Orders at The Two Ways Pub - A shootout in Sector 163
Prog 7 - Into the Cursed Earth - Judge Ezquerra orders a manhunt
Prog 8 - Avast Me Hearties It's the Easter Pirate Kangaroo - Black Ice Kanga
Prog 9 - Scav City and the Pirate King - A Deal is Made
A couple of years ago I played a Hollow Earth game set in the 1920's.
It was a fabulous adventure which leaned heavily on the pulp serial aesthetic of Indiana Jones, Doc Savage Man of Bronze, King of the Rocketmen, Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon to name just a few.
My character was the intrepid adventuring archaeologist Yorkshire Smith who was never more than a few feet from his faithful Bulldog Buller. A few weeks before the game began I ordered a set of Bob Murch's 28mm Pulp Figures PHP2 Rugged Personalities which contains 4 iconic pulp adventurers (an Indy, a Doc Savage, a pith helmet wearing British explorer, an American pilot and a bulldog.
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| Yorkie Smith vs The Doom Turtle |
This week I managed to crack it with Buller and finally got round to finishing him.
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| Buller the Wonderdog |
Now if only I could find where I've stored Yorkie I could reunite him with man's best friend.
"Buller, go find Yorkie!!"
The last of my Reaper Bones evil warriors (for a bit), say hello to Ragnaros.
Ragnaros, Evil Warrior - Bobby Jackson (SKU: 77150)
I wasn't terribly enamoured with this sculpt to begin with. He is basically an acre of plate and scale armour with a couple of skull motifs and a crude shield. It wasn't until I got stuck in painting him that I decided that the shield was his best feature.
I painted it like dragon scale. Ragnaros is so hard that after besting a huge red dragon he peeled off the side of it's face and stuck it on his shield (teeth included).
Totally ridiculous, but then aren't the best fantasy bad guys totally ridiculous? I'm looking at you Damodar!!
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| Ragnaros, Evil Warrior (SKU 77150) |
My weekly roundup of news and what I found on the internet.
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| Dark Tower Judges Guild |
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| Shin Godzilla by Francoyovich (Deviantart) |
The worldwide success of Catan has made this a family affair with both of Klaus sons now also play full time roles in the company.
Unles you've been hiding under a rock for the last week you will be familiar with the plight of the Golden class container ship the Ever Given which managed to get itself wedged between both banks of the Suez Canal. This one little incident demonstrated how our modern supply chains are so finely balanced that blocking this one canal can bring about massive economic turmoil.
I had to laugh when I stumbled upon the very creative fantasy version created by Limitron and available in both day and night versions on his Patreon.
I love a bit of nautical action in my Dungeons & Dragons and this is an encounter map just itching to be used in an upcoming campaign.
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| HMS Evergiven by Limitron |
Sector 55 Blues is a Judge Dredd Campaign using the Savage Dredd unnofficial Savage Worlds Expansion. This is an online only game with members from Dragons Keep Roleplay Club.
Onward to Scav City
With Black Ice Kanga and Toecutter riding in their land dinghy Judges Cully, Hammer, Teal and Uhtred ride due south in search of Scav City and the Pirate King. As they ride they notice that they are being stalked by large dog shaped creatures which periodically reveal themselves on the dune tops both East and West of them. When asked Kanga says "they're Rad Dogs, like big wolves, dangerous at ground level and smart, real smart. They hunt in packs."
After 3 hours it begins to get dark and the team decide to stop and make camp. Teal puts the bikes on overwatch mode set out at cardinal points. They pitch their tends in a smaller circle with the pirate dinghy in the middle and settle in for the night.
Several times throughout the night the bikes radar is triggered and on one occasion Hammer's bike fires off 12 rounds from its bike cannon.
In the morning Hammer checks what his bike was shooting at. Nothing, just a patch of dune which took the cannon burst and collapsed in a landslide. They pop their Rad Pills, eat some ration bars, pack their tents and head out.
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| Mutieville Refugee Bus |
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| Scav City |
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| The Pirate King |
Next Prog ->
Prog 2 - Hair Today Gone Tomorrow - Rock Dwayneson's apartment and carnage at the Yes-A-Bout
Prog 3 - It's Ugly Out There - Fun and Games at the Ugly Pageant
Prog 4 - Down, Down, Deeper and Down - Entering the sewers under RESYK
Prog 5 - The Big Wig - Confronting the beast below the city
Prog 6 - Last Orders at The Two Ways Pub - A shootout in Sector 163
Prog 7 - Into the Cursed Earth - Judge Ezquerra orders a manhunt
Prog 8 - Avast Me Hearties It's the Easter Pirate Kangaroo - Black Ice Kanga
When I got my new printer I knew that there were a few grail items that I've always wanted to own but was too afraid to print.
I am running a Judge Dredd campaign for my Friday night role play club in South East London (Dragons Keep Roleplay Club), so I took the plunge and printed a Judge Dredd Helmet.
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| My 3D Printed Judge Dredd Helmet |
I downloaded a model from thingiverse by user 3DPrintSolutions which had been cut into 4 parts but still was too big for my 200mm square print bed. The solution was to download meshmixer and split each print in half again for a total of 8 parts. These would then go together in two rings of four parts each.
The bottom ring had virtually vertical walls so I opted to print without support material and arranged the prints on the bed to minimize any stringiness which was largely avoidable. I knew I would have a lot of clean up so a few dody edges could be fixed with bondo in post processing. This got the print time down to just under 4 hours each.
The upper ring is mostly dome so I new I was going to need a lot of support. The first print I did had support set to 15 in Cura and this took over 10.5 hours to print. Reducing this to 5 got the other three parts to print in between 7 and 8 hours each but did result in a bit of loose stringing on the inside. As they say "it don't need to glow if it ain't on show"
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| Lots of support needed to print the domes |
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| Judge Dredd Helmet - 8 Parts Printed |
I've had this PLA filament knocking around since January last year and one reel has been open to the elements all that time. This is probably not the best PLA to use, but it's what I've got and it needs to be used up. I've never been one for colour matching filament and this filament is a gorgeous shade of poo, I mean chocolate brown.
The finished print is going to need a skim coat of plastic body filler to smooth out the layer lines so the filament colour is completely irrelevant in any case.
The other thing with this filament is it needs to be hot, 220 degrees hot and I printed some of the earlier prints at 210 which caused some under extrusion which needed fixing. I pulled out the trusty 3D Pen which is ideal for this sort of touch up work and started meshing in some extra plastic SANAGO style. I also resorted to the old superglue and baking powder trick to fill some of the more heinous gaps in the print and give the cracks some filling.
My old man was raving about some glue he had bought recently and so he sent me a care package from Amazon. It ended up being Mitre Bond Superglue & Activator which I had been trying to find on eBay and Amazon for ages but didn't know what to search for. Apparently accelerator is not the right phrase.
I assembled the first two prints before the third had even come off the printer as I was anxious to see if the parts had warped during printing. Everything was okay, well reasonably okay, fixable okay and so I held off further assembly until all the parts were printed. I taped the parts together in the interim to give me a psychological boost to keep going and to also get a handle on just how big this is.
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| Judge Dredd Helmet - Taped Together |
I think that this is incredibly important, especially when you have prints that fail inexplicably and you have to restart a 30 or 40% complete job twice over. 3D printing is not a fire and forget process and I learned quite a bit about my new printer in the process. This is only its third or fourth project and even though it is almost identical to my previous Prusa i3 homage, it's a little bit different in construction and behaves slightly differently. It is as much about dialling in the user as it is dialling in the printer.
Post processing is a laborious and crappy job. Another reason why I put off printing something so large. Fortunately this model is large areas of smooth surface with gentle curves rather than lots of fiddly detail and tight tolerances.
The bloke who glued the parts together (me) did a crappy job and so I had to use plenty of bondo (car body filler) to smooth out all the joints between the parts and fill in the layer lines on all surfaces.
A slight rant here but I wandered down to my local Halfords which is 10 minutes walk from my house. I say IS but I should mean WAS as thanks to COVID, the powers that be decided to close the store for good and it is now a DREAMS Bedstore. Now I am sure that they had sound financial reasons for it but it does mean that there is now no consumer auto spares store in Orpington. So rather than drive to the nearest alternative store which would be in Bromley I did what 99% of the population are going to do. I bought it cheaper off Amazon or eBay.
I think there is a morale in this tale about the death of the high street but I can't for the life of me guess what it is.
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| Judge Dredd Helmet - Big Boy Bondo Time! |
There seem to be two types of thought on visors either stay true to the comic book and half a two tone visor or go with the Dredd movie look which is all black.
The model also comes with a printed visor which to be honest is probably
a good thing as it ensured correct alignment of the nose guard
X during assembly. This was removed once the helmet was complete and
replaced with one a sheet of acetate covered with one way black film.
After all you can't have the perps seeing your eyes (or in my case my
spectactles).
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| Comic Book or Dredd movie visor (which do I choose) |
The concesus also seems to be that the best way to replicate this is by buying cheap motorcycle visors from ebay and hot gluing them in. The only problem with this is size. Motorcycle visors are meant to go on the outside of a helmet not the inside so the curvature is all wrong. I also had no idea what size I needed so I just went for a JDC one size fits all visor (eBay / Amazon).
I cut out the eye holes with my knock off dremel using an abrasive cutting wheel. I cannot stress how important it is to wear a safety glasses when doing this. The little cutting wheels have only one mission in life and that is to shatter fling shards of abrasive right in your face. Fortunately I only managed to break one "Wheel of Death" and with the eyeholes removed I made a paper pattern adding a generous half inch to all sides but the bottom. I used spray adhesive to stick this to the visor on top of the removable plastic scratch cover and then dremeled it out.
As you can see in the picture below I stuck this on upside down. The visor has a curved bottom edge and a flat top edge. You want the top edge to form the exposed edge of the visor on your Dredd helmet.
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| Paper template stuck on visor upside down. Just big enough |
This was a relatively easy job just hot gluing in sections of EVA foam tile. This is a cosplayer's go to material and can be bought as workshop flooring or playmat flooring inexpensively on Amazon or eBay.
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| Interior reinforcement and padding with EVA foam floor tiles |
Here's an estimate of the costs
That's a total of roughly £73 which is about the same price as a raw fiberglass cast helmet from eBay. A finished helmet will set you back at least £150 and you don't have any of the enjoyment of getting there or the enormous sense of satisfaction when the project is complete.
I posted a couple of pics on Whattsapp and a friend immediately asked
"Can you make it reflect flames like in the Dredd movie?"
The answer is most definitely Yes.
I've already printed a Han Solo DL44 Blaster, one of my earliest prop projects and a Judge Dredd Badge. I even did a custom one for one of my players in a previous Judge Dredd RPG campaign.
As a Sci-fi fan there are a number of iconic weapons that I 've always wanted to own including:
I also want to print some of those iconic droids like
But those are all going to have to wait until I've recovered enough to consider taking on a mega project like this again.
Big dudes wearing plate are the stock in trade of epic fantasy tabletop Role Playing Games.
Mangu Timur - Bobby Jackson (SKU 77148)
Mangu's got a big shield which gave me the opportunity to paint some planks. He's also wearing some weird elven looking decorative hip guard over the top of his faulds (the little skirt which does all the hip and butt protecting). I painted this antique gold but then felt that the viewers eye was drawn to the crotch area so gilded his pauldrons as well.
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| Mangu Timur - Front |
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| Mangu Timur - Back |
My weekly roundup of news and what I found on the internet.
Godzilla
vs Kong hit streaming services this week and I have to say I was
impressed. It's another installment in the Legendary Pictures franchise
comprising of Kong: Skull Island, Godzilla, and Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
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| Godzilla vs Kong - The long awaited match up |
It doesn't dissapoint.
The CGI is top notch and the story line pretty bonkers, but what you really came to see this movie for is a straight up duel between the two biggest monsters in Hollywood history. There is plenty of additional content to excite fans of Kaiju movies and without spoilers, this isn't just about the two biggest Titans duking it out.
An all star cast of quality actors provide exposition and never overshadow the real stars. This is a winning formula for Legendary and produces an insane mind blowing visual spectacle of a popcorn movie which is what the real fans are after.
In preparation for my current game at Dragons Keep Roleplay Club I had to invent an evil genius to be at the heart of the current problems that the city is experiencing.
In order to wreak revenge on an epic scale you need to have epic resources and epic managerial skills. Whatever your evil scheme is you will need to amass resources through various shell companies and have unwitting minions essentially funnelling cash into your organisation to keep the lights running at your secret volcanic island hideaway.
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| Not a supervillian lair and actually a Shopping Mall in the South of France |
And then I found some playthrough videos of Evil Genius 2: World Domination. The designers have clearly looked long and deep and consider all the vital aspects of the evil genius business model. Worth a look if you are into your worker placement simulations. Available to download on Steam
If you aren't into computer games I can heartily recommend Mwahahaha! which is a 2 to 5 player boardgame which explores the same principles of resource gathering and minion management. Published back in 2013 by White Wolf it is sadly out of print but copies can be snagged on eBay at a reasonable price.
The long awaited season 5 trailer is out and it looks amazing. As a fan of Combining Mecha anime such as Voltron (aka Beast King Go Lion) and 80s puppet show Star Fleet (aka X-Bomber) I am particularly looking forward to them exploring this trope.
Rick and Morty is chock full of great ideas for role playing games. No genre is left untouched from their hypercritical and synical gaze. One of the best sci-fi comedy series in the multiverse.
The new series on Sunday June 20th so yet another date for you to pop in your calendar.
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| DM Dave Free D&D Adventures |
However, whilst I love this part of the hobby as it scratches my story writting itch, I understand how important it is to support small creators who are doing some amazing work. Scalping everything for free doesn't keep the lights on for most publishers.
In fact small publishers often do things for the love of the hobby are some of the most creative people out there which is another really good reason to lend them some financial support.
There are plenty of resources for the time poor DM such as Drive Thru RPG, DMs Guild or Dragonsfoot and one such creator is DMDave who publishes a host of Dungeons & Dragons materials via his Patreon subscription.
These are really high quality productions and feature battle maps by Miska's Maps, additional monster stat blocks and magic item cards. I downloaded the Glaive of the Revenant King and this adventure is the real deal, a ready to run scenario.
Want a taste of how good his products are? Just sign up to his mailing list and you will get a free D&D 5e scenario every month.
Sector 55 Blues is a Judge Dredd Campaign using the Savage Dredd unnofficial Savage Worlds Expansion. This is an online only game with members from Dragons Keep Roleplay Club.
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| Black Ice Kanga's Pirate Land Ship - The Skull Duggery |
Cully and Uthred with Teal riding pillion form a posse and ride out to meet the oncoming land ship. Hammer does not move preferring to see how this plays out.
Cully swoops in from the East strafing the unmasked crew members with her bike cannon and then picking off a few with her lawgiver.
Uthred swoops in from the West blasting the wheel with the bike's cannon doing some critical but not fatal damage. The right hand wheel begins to wobble on it's axle. The Cyclops Laser blasts a hole in the side of the ship and a skillfull Uthred pulls the bike in allowing the Judges to board the ship.
Cully swoops around to the rear and blasts at the remaining crew member on the port side of the ship. "BUDDA BUDDA BUDDA" and her bike cannon shreds one of the smaller wheels under the belly of the beast. The ship begins to veer left towards the canyon edge. Hammer can almost see the whites of their eyes and with a twist of the throttle he engages the cannibal pirate ship blasting the wobbling wheel and strafing the left bank of small wheels taking out three.
Uthred and Teal quickly make their way out of the dark bowels of the ship up the stairs onto the main deck and teal shoots a musclebound pirate in the process. Uthred fires a few rounds at what can only be described as a half man half kangaroo but does not deal a killing blow. The creature effortlessley leaps the 20 feet over the balustrade landing a kick to Uthred's chest but the Judge is made of stern stuff and blocks the attack.
Cully fires a grenade round and plants it between two pirates on the sterncastle then opens up with all her bike weapons shredding the rear of the ship to matchwood. With its support structure gone, the sterncastle deck collapses dumping one of the pilots on the ground and Cully leaps from her bike to engage the pirate in hand to hand. Unfortunately she stuffs the landing and is stunned.
Hammer sweeps round and tears into the ship with his bike cannon felling the pirate at the ships wheel as the ship slowly grinds to a halt.
Uthred and the Kangaroo Captain trade punches as Teal shoots him with a GP round wounding him.
"I surrenders Law Man!" gasps the injured Captain Kanga "Parley, Parley. What are your terms?"
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| Black Ice Kanga |
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| Recovered Map of The Cursed Earth |
Next Prog ->
Prog 2 - Hair Today Gone Tomorrow - Rock Dwayneson's apartment and carnage at the Yes-A-Bout
Prog 3 - It's Ugly Out There - Fun and Games at the Ugly Pageant
Prog 4 - Down, Down, Deeper and Down - Entering the sewers under RESYK
Prog 5 - The Big Wig - Confronting the beast below the city
Prog 6 - Last Orders at The Two Ways Pub - A shootout in Sector 163
Prog 7 - Into the Cursed Earth - Judge Ezquerra orders a manhunt
Seems like we have found a new furrow to plough. Badass fighter dudes.
Another archetypal evil head henchman. Full plate, big axe, horns and skull motif. He's all show but probably goes quite a bit too.
I'm treating you to two photos today (front and back) because I'm pretty pleased with how the cloak came out.
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| Norgol, Irongrave Knight (SKU 77065) - front |
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| Norgol, Irongrave Knight (SKU 77065) - back |
Bones Progress
My weekly roundup of news and what I found on the internet.
The biggest tabletop games convention in the UK has announced it's dates for 2021.
Due to venue refurbishment this is going to be a much smaller event than in previous years but I for one am glad to see it still taking place after the disaster that was 2020. Fingers crossed.
More details on the UK Games Expo website.
Imagine running the same Dungeons and Dragons campaign since 1982 That's exactly what Robert Wardhaugh of London, Ontario has done for the past 39 years.
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| Robert Wardhaugh - Playing the same game since 1982 Pic: from CNN article |
Sometimes the YouTube recommendations algorithm just nails it and this is how I found the amazing carpentry creations of David Lundell. Check him out he has just about something for everyone.
Ask a roleplayer if they have enough dice and they will reply "You can never have enough dice". So who could resist these awesome floating eyeball dice.
There appears to be a trend of people casting their own dice with things embedded in them. I've seen skulls, frogs, penguins and eyeballs. The difference with these dice is that the eyeball floats and always looks up at the number rolled.
At $59 a set (D4, D6, D8, 2 x D10, D12 & D20) they are a premium item and I'm not sure how they would compare in a randomness test against the gold standard Gamescience dice, but they look amazing.
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| floating eyeball dice oumcraft.com |
Talking about dice, if you are a fan of the maker community on YouTube you will probably have heard of Wesley Treat. He makes one off custom furniture, signs and light fixtures in an Americana style inspired by his years as a photographer trekking across the USA capturing it's disintegrating history.
Wesley takes you through the whole process of constructing the classic platonic solids we know and love. If you have ever tried to do this yourself you know it's hard enough making it out of cardboard never mind steel. A fascinating video and a great YouTube channel if you are at all interested in art, design or making things.
