Bong - The 8th Wonder of the World

[Maenoferren]

I thought I Would start a separate thread for my Heart of Africa/ dino hunting/ Big Monkey hunting game thingy
Tonight I have produced a cliff and very large wall, which now needs painting and flocking etc.......
It is a wall that has one purpose, to keep whatever it is on the other side out!
The other thing I managed to make was a small temple complex with stepped pyramid and surrounding wall. Quite enjoying this 

[nikharwood]

Coolio - I'm looking forward to seeing pics of this one 

[Leon]

Ditto, looking forward to the pics!

[Blaker]

well ok, . .  alright, alright, . . . I am looking forward to seeing the pictures too . . . i guess

 

[Maenoferren]

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Sir Percival Fanhard, ninth Earl of Lancaster, finds out:
a) what the wall was keeping out
and
b) it evidently doesn't work!

A quick mash together of my fieldstone blocks from Hirst arts and some pink foam.

The temple complex again made from Hirst arts blocks, i forgot to glue in the small blocks for the damamged wall bits so it looks a bit bare there.

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[nikharwood]

Very nice mate, very nice 

[Maenoferren]

Why thank you 
Need painting up and flocking etc, was thinking creepers on the walls and the like, I did it first with a huge gate in like in the film, but it just looked, wrong... but I figured that a 40 foot high ape, wouldnt be able to squeeze through a 10 foot high door..... instead he evidently climbs over it, but anything higher looked wrong too. :

[Maenoferren]

Spent last night painting dinosaurs which led to the discussion... was a t-rex camouflacge type the same for all t-rex or were they different.... In my world they will be different as I mixrd so many different colors last night I will never remember which was which! I also had a bash at making some bamboo... I think it will look ok, but next time I think I paint the stem first, then glue on the foliage - pillock that I am!

[Sandinista]

When I saw "bong" my mind wandered off to my mispent youth 

[Maenoferren]

What you mean the name Bong has already been used for something!
Poot I will have to come up with another short name :

[Maenoferren]

Well the dinosaurs are nearly finished, just basically eyes and teeth to pain in and maybe some highlights on the smaller beasties
They hav all had there filler and sand done on the bases too.
The wall has had a second layer of filler (or tile cement/grout in this case) as the majority of the first layer fell off. it has had the sand added too, should be able to paint it up tomorrow night.
THings are beginning to come together....yey!

[nikharwood]

Excellent - don't forget to charge your camera batteries 

[Maenoferren]

THe dinosaurs arent Pendraken so I didnt want to stick them up...seems a bit off sticking up photos of somebody elses figures without any Pendraken stuff up either. My wife got me them as a pressy for doing lots of concreting.

[nikharwood]

THe dinosaurs arent Pendraken so I didnt want to stick them up...seems a bit off sticking up photos of somebody elses figures without any Pendraken stuff up either. My wife got me them as a pressy for doing lots of concreting.

She's spoiling you, eh?!  I need to get her to talk to mine..!

[Maenoferren]

Remember it involved lots of concreting ...lots and lots

[Maenoferren]

We had a bit of a dino hunt the other night, just messing around with the rules, to see what worked. it was a mix of tabletop and roleplay game.
The gist of it is the usual suspects Fanhard (A peer of the realm) and his associate and friend Mr Lyle (of the sugar family) are out hunting on an island owned by a very wealthy Businessman called Shakenbacker. His island is stuffed full of dinosaurs. along for the hunt is a Great movie star Victor Maraschino and an up and coming starlet Delores de Syn  who are evidently going to be making some movie on another island that involves something big and scary.

Anyway the hunt sets out, various dinosaurs are seen, shot or run away from (especilally a herd of Tricerapatops defending their young) and eventually the track down a big rex defending its kill in a stand of trees. There are no photos I am afraid as the card reader corrupted the sd card.... PANTS!

IN cinematic terms the finale went something like this:

Fanhard held his hand out sideways and motioned for his party to get down. As he did so his eyes never left the stand of trees some two hundred yards away.  He was convinced he had found his quarry. The unmistakable odour of a carnivore wafted towards him on the warm breeze.
He slowly eased back the hammers on his rifle and then, checking carefully where he put his feet, advanced.
He had gone no more than ten yards when there was a sudden squawk and a thump behind him, he glanced back to see the ‘movie star’ sprawled face first on the ground. His eyes snapped back to the front as an angry roar erupted from the trees.
“Watch the trees!” he barked. Moving silently was no longer a necessity.

The thing that suddenly appeared from the foliage was immense it stood eighteen feet at the shoulder it’s head was as long as Fanhard was tall. It leant forward and roared again showing it’s foot long teeth. The roar caused a sudden commotion behind him. He heard screams and the sound of receding feet as most or all of his party vanished into the undergrowth.

The beast roared again then broke into a run aiming straight at Fanhard. He shouldered his weapon and waited. Someone appeared beside him.
“You want to wait till he gets close!” Ngoko pointed out.
Fanhard’s friend and tracker had remained with him. The thing was fast, it had covered the ground in long strides, a bit like an ostrich Fanhard thought. Waiting to fire he calmed his breathing and pulled the rifle tightly into his right shoulder.
Sixty yards, forty yards, thirty yards. The ground shook as the beast ran towards him.

His gun spoke flinging a .455 bullet straight into the chest of the creature, he fired a second time, again his bullet striking true. He dropped the empty weapon and reached out to Ngoko. The second weapon was thrust into his outstretched hand. As he shouldered it a rifle fired once then twice from his right. He watched both rounds strike, then fired himself. Blood fountained and the thing stumbled. Fanhard stepped aside as the creature thudded to the ground a mere three feet from his boots. A choking cloud of dust billowed around him. From within he could hear the rasping breathing of the creature and frantic kicking as it tried to stand. He reloaded his Express and made his way to the head. A baleful yellow eye watched him as he drew aim and fired straight into the eye socket. He fired a second time and the creature stiffened, then relaxed. A death rattle rumbled within the might chest and then silence apart from the wind and the barking call of some creature in the distance.

As the dust settled he noticed Mr Lyle swatting at the dust on his jacket with his hat.
He looked at Fanhard with a glint in his eye. “Well old boy, looks like we bagged ourselves a real live dinosaur!”
Fanhard smiled and nodded looking at their quarry, it was indeed huge, its body a Khaki green colour with reddish stripes across the back and down it’s massive back legs. The forearms however were tiny, mere stumps. It didn’t need to use them, he considered, the teeth in that head and claws on those back feet would make short work of anything up to and including a tank. As it lay stretched out on its front he judged the length to be somewhere near forty feet, and probably weighed…
“Seven tons you reckon?” Lyle commented pointing to the body with his hat.
“Nearer six old man,” Fanhard drawled “thanks for sticking by me the pair of you, however we seemed to have lost the rest of our party!”
Ngoko smiled. “Don’t you worry we will soon find them, especially after the movie hero pissed his pants, I can follow that trail with my head in a bag.”

Suddenly in the distance there came a number of scattered shots, followed by screaming.

Fanhard, Lyle and Ngoko grabbed their weapons and loped off into the brushwood leaving the tyrannosaur where it fell.

[nikharwood]

Nice write-up 

Bad card-reader though - I hope you've given it a stern talking-to 

[Maenoferren]

it was sent to the hell of bad card readers... the lights kept flickering...basically it was switching itself on and off in rapid sucession, just fried the card... 2gb card up the swanny, luckily 90% of the photos had been downloaded.

It was a good game though with lots of laughs all round.
it actually took 6 shots to bring down the rex. the last one was in base to base contact with fanhard, luckily his card came up first and he fired otherwise he would have had it.

[Maenoferren]

The terrain is partly painted this evening, just need some kind of a wash on it to fill in the gaps.  Thanks to NIk for his painitng 10mm pdf's as I painted the sand base and it works really well

[nikharwood]

Cool - glad they're useful...I am looking forward to seeing some of your pics once you've sorted the technology!