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 ;D
Coolio - I'm looking forward to seeing pics of this one 8)
Ditto, looking forward to the pics!
well ok, . . alright, alright, . . . I am looking forward to seeing the pictures too . . . i guess
;D 8)
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc31/Maenoferren/DSCF2043.jpg
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.
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc31/Maenoferren/DSCF2044.jpg
Very nice mate, very nice 8)
Why thank you ;D
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. ::)
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!
When I saw "bong" my mind wandered off to my mispent youth 8)
What you mean the name Bong has already been used for something! :o
Poot I will have to come up with another short name ::)
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! ;D
Excellent - don't forget to charge your camera batteries ;)
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. ;D
Quote from: Maenoferren on 11 August 2010, 10:10:01 PM
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. ;D
She's spoiling you, eh?! :P I need to get her to talk to mine..!
Remember it involved lots of concreting ;D...lots and lots :o
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!â€
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!â€
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.â€
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.
Nice write-up 8)
Bad card-reader though - I hope you've given it a stern talking-to ;D
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. ;D
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 ;D
Cool - glad they're useful...I am looking forward to seeing some of your pics once you've sorted the technology! ;D
HAve you ever noticed that no matter how many times you go over a piece of terrain when it is wet, s soon as it dries you can see all the white bits you missed >:(
Will get some taken today in the daylight, rather than using the flash
Well we had another game tonight, it went horribly wrong from move three. The happy hunters had been tasked to take down a Parasauralophus to prove they could hunt before taking on anything dangerous. http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc31/Maenoferren/DSCF2097.jpg
this shows the game at turn 4 the large disks near the party are raptor stand ins, apologies for the unfinished terrain,I ran out of time :-[
They had gone three turns out of the gate and had spotted a flock of galiminus when I drew a club card, this meant that something bad would happen, in this case 3 large raptors. The tracker/guide was very good at his knowledge of various dinosaurs, apart from the pack hunters. The problem was solved by Lord Addishum, Earl of Toxbury and Sturmbamfuherer Ulrich Von Schmurtzig who opened fire, killing two of the three.
However turn 4 meant reinforcements arrived with 8 of the beasties appearing in from the woods ( I drew another club) and encircling the hapless party. Three ran straight in and Attacked Sir Sidney Rough Diamond and his bearer, whilst the third attacked the guide. Everybody shot at something and all missed bar Lord Addishum, who killed his outright.
The next turn saw the raptors going first, another bearer went down and the rest closed in intent on their prey. A number of saved wound rolls later, a further 2 raptors were down and the party stood firm, rifles at their feet and colts spitting bullets left right and centre. Sir Sydney was in trouble with his beast so bravely he fired at the one attacking the guide, killing it with ease. the guide then took a shot at the raptor attacking Sir Syney, missing it completely and shooting the man instead, Sir sydney managed to soak the wound and had his hip flask blown apart instead.
Further flurries of shots and attacks occurred, with more wounds soaked and further raptors killed. At the end of turn 8 the one remaining raptor took flight and was gunned down by Sir Sydney with his winchester.
Von Schmurtzig was attacked every turn after the first and each time the raptor failed to wound him. Lord Addishum fired at the surviving raptor for 4 turns, never managing to kill it.We didnt get much further as a lot of the game had been taken up with the role play section in Puerto Rico. Another giggle of a game, with the hunters very quickly realising that they were the hunted.
Quote from: Maenoferren on 16 August 2010, 11:27:40 PM
the guide then took a shot at the raptor attacking Sir Syney, missing it completely and shooting the man instead
=O
Your reinforcements will be on their way tomorrow, so if they can find a cave and hold out, help is on it's way!
Quote
Your reinforcements will be on their way tomorrow, so if they can find a cave and hold out, help is on it's way!
Hurrah! :D :D :D
considering they got about 300 yards from the gate, before running into difficulties, I feel I had better get the transport painted up as fast as possible so at least they can get to somewhere to shoot what they came to get! And at the rate they are going through gun holders the bearers pack would be very useful too.
Excellent stuff...although this:
QuoteSir sydney managed to soak the wound and had his hip flask blown apart instead.
is a tragedy of epic proportions! :o
strangely enough Sir Sydney felt exactly the same way :D
Well thats the spotter plane built, toying with the idea of adding the wires....hmmmmmmmm :-\
Quote from: Maenoferren on 20 August 2010, 10:01:02 PM
Well thats the spotter plane built, toying with the idea of adding the wires....hmmmmmmmm :-\
Let's not...and say we did ;)
yey like the idea 16th of an inch wires in 10mm scale would be invisible...I like you way of thinking :D :D :D
Now for colours..... hmmmmmm
Red, blue or white methinks or possibly bright yellow....
Oh - bright yellow seems to make so much sense...but it is Friday night as I type this..! 8-}
true but yellow can be a bugger to paint >:(
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc31/Maenoferren/scoutplane.jpg
here she is in all her unpainted glory :D
What colour attracts giant gorilla's? ;)
good point she might look like a giant banana if she is yellow!
OUt of interest are the flying dinosaurs the same as the flying dragons?
Quote from: Maenoferren on 20 August 2010, 10:29:22 PM
OUt of interest are the flying dinosaurs the same as the flying dragons?
The flying lizards have their wings close to the body, you've got some of these I think? The flying dragon has it's wings extended out, flames from the mouth, and no horn on the nose!
Quote from: Maenoferren on 20 August 2010, 10:24:43 PM
true but yellow can be a bugger to paint >:(
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc31/Maenoferren/scoutplane.jpg
here she is in all her unpainted glory :D
You'll be fine: undercoat white if you're painting yellow...or if you've already undercoated black etc, paint the I-want-those-bits-yellow white first & you'll be coolio 8)
yeah was thinking white, orange, yellow- orange then yellow,then yellow-white for highlights but then again It will probably be white, yellow, yellow wash finished ;D
What? No multiple layers with wet-blends? Heretic ;) =O :ar!
They are all wet blends, I can never be bothered to wait for the layer before to dry :-bd =O
It is Blue, as is a portion of the kitchen wall..... I found a can of Ultramarines blue and thought yeah blue, gave it a dman good shaking and somehown, not quite sure how it kind of went kersplat and went in every direction except the plane. For some strange reason I decided to cover more than normal with paper (Normally I do it in the shed but it was raining) the paper got 95% of the paint, 4% got me and only 1% go the wall....oh am I in for a bollocking tomorrow!!!!!!! :'(
:D Mate: you are having a top Friday night, eh?!!
If you've not had a drop now - best correct that right now & at least you'll have something to blame!
Fear not I survived, the wall is plasterboard anyway and needs covering -phew. its a nice blue to be honest. I will finish it off tonight, wondering how to have it in flight :-\
Nice :)
For planes I tend to use a 50x50 base & either drill out a nice hole & use dowel or plastic rod which is then embedded into putty on the base...for lighter planes I'll use a large paperclip bent around & glued into a groove I file onto the underside of the fuselage... the clip is bent into a triangular shape for gluing to the base [& again covered with putty]...
...if that makes sense ???
Cheers Nik I will see what I can find loitering around here :D
she is getting there :D
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc31/Maenoferren/scoutplanepainted.jpg
Quote from: nikharwood on 21 August 2010, 07:19:33 PM
Nice :)
For planes I tend to use a 50x50 base & either drill out a nice hole & use dowel or plastic rod which is then embedded into putty on the base...for lighter planes I'll use a large paperclip bent around & glued into a groove I file onto the underside of the fuselage... the clip is bent into a triangular shape for gluing to the base [& again covered with putty]...
...if that makes sense ???
Got a pic??
Quote from: Maenoferren on 22 August 2010, 09:31:45 PM
she is getting there :D
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc31/Maenoferren/scoutplanepainted.jpg
Mate - that looks lovely 8)
Quote from: Sandinista on 22 August 2010, 09:48:13 PM
Got a pic??
You can kind-of see what I mean from these - but I'll take some under-fuselage shots tomorrow [batteries on charge at moment..]
Choppers-on-dowel: http://nikharwood.pbworks.com/CWC+US+Airborne+battlegroup
Chopper-on-metal / planes-on-clips [scroll down]: http://nikharwood.pbworks.com/CWC+Soviet+Army+-+Afghanistan
Choppers-on-clips [scroll down]: http://nikharwood.pbworks.com/CWC+US+GW+battlegroup
Planes / choppers on-wire [these are 6mm though]:
http://nikharwood.pbworks.com/%22Chinese+Dawn%22+-+US+forces
http://nikharwood.pbworks.com/%22Chinese+Dawn%22+-+Chinese+forces
http://nikharwood.pbworks.com/CWC-Angolan-Army
http://nikharwood.pbworks.com/CWC-South-African-Army
QuoteMate - that looks lovely
Why thank you :D ,
Next stage getting it upyfied into the air so thanks for all the photos, I am thinking a banking pose so the pilot can spot those dino's below
My camera has decided it doesn't actually want to be a camera anymore & is much happier in life being an expensive metal paperweight...grr... >:(
Once I can convince it of the error of its ways, I shall bung some pics here on my paperclip-trick!
I Picked it up tonight to varnish the transfers in place and the right hand number on the fuselage has fallen off, again! >:(
Have you tried sealing the transfer on? I always do this...once you've got them in place & have dabbed off the excess moisture, take some PVA & dilute it 50:50 with water - brush this over the transfer & let it dry well (at least overnight, 24 hrs is better) - this will seal it in place as well as masking some of the raised nature of the transfer...there are other methods (which, to be fair, blend the transfer almost entirely) but these are much more expensive!
I got her based, banking left to better see those dinosaurs below. I also got a number of bases done for terrain bits. 2 wooded knolls, a large (welll cd sized) rough terrain along with a smaller base complete with skull statue and standing stones. I will have to do another game write up too :D
Here are some shots of what I managed to do :D
Scout plane and trees
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc31/Maenoferren/DSCF2152.jpg
Rough terrain on a CD
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc31/Maenoferren/DSCF2150.jpg
Dinosaurs - they still need something doing to them, something not quite right, but not sure what, maybe shading??
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc31/Maenoferren/DSCF2148.jpg
standing stones and altar or whatever it is
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc31/Maenoferren/DSCF2144.jpg
my other dinosaurs - not pendraken
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc31/Maenoferren/DSCF2154.jpg
Looking very good Maenoferren!
What figures are you using for your hunting parties?
Hi Blaker,
I have the following from Pendraken:
BW24 dismounted foot slouch hat
GEA1 Early Askari troops
SV19 armed sailors for my tramp steamer
NEA4 Native porters
ME27 Phoenix scout aircraft (with the radiator removed :-[ )
I also got some Masai as well as various vehicles.
I got some Barbarians for cavemen, however they tower above the other figures. The same was true of the other fantasy range I got, the ponies are the size of cart horses, and the fantasy tigers are huge, but they will become smilodon, so no worries there. This isnt a criticism at all about the size,The figures themselves are really nice. only knackers like me are likely to mix up fantasy, world war 1 and 2, Boer war and anything else I can get hold of. I will just have to have massive cavemen :)
The figures painted are Magister Militum I think. My wife bought me the dinosaurs fo a present, and a mate gave me some first world war infantry which I painted up in non uniform colours, just so that I could have a game really. I am preparing for the 1st September so that I can have a bash at the figures mentioned above.
Some good stuff there - I think your dinos would benefit from a wash to give a bit of depth...looking great though 8)
Finally got the camera sorted so some quick pics re mounting aircraft - some of these are blurry...but might make my earlier post make sense!
Pendraken Huey mounted with dowel:
(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/plane%20mounts/STA40145.jpg)
(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/plane%20mounts/STA40143.jpg)
(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/plane%20mounts/STA40144.jpg)
Plastics with paperclips:
(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/plane%20mounts/STA40146.jpg)
(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/plane%20mounts/STA40148.jpg)
(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/plane%20mounts/STA40149.jpg)
(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/plane%20mounts/STA40152.jpg)
(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/plane%20mounts/STA40153.jpg)
Thanks for the images and comments NIk. I found some thickish wire cnapped it and put one end in a triangle, this I glued to the base, then covered it in filler. ONce this had dried, I drilled a hole in the plane, and superglued it to the wire at the jaunty angle of my choice :D
WHat colour do you think to wash the dinosaus, blue? My other ones were done in Devlan mud I think .
I think Devlan Mud might be a bit too dark / harsh for the blue/red scheme- unless you really dilute it first...I'd be tempted to go with a lighter tone - although I'd probably stick with a brown though, avoiding specific colours unless you're happy to spot-wash the two colours you've got?
I reckon you wouldn't got far wrong with a 'magic' wash on these y'know...
I just remembered I have a Zepplin part built in the loft.... it will fit 10mm beautifully....yey! :D
Excellent - we like dirigibles...
Just realised I've not asked you what rules you're using for gaming this..?
Hi Nik,
I am using Savage worlds rules, basically role play rules. Part of the game is the main role play bit, the other part is mainly hunt with a role play element. It works well. I have upgunned the dinosaurs to give the players a fright :D Well since the time of JUrrasic park everyone knows about raptors, so mine have been tweaked to make them a bit more scary (all of them that is, not just the raptors) After watching thing about hadrosaurs the other day and how they could use their sound boxes to produce sub sounds, my Parasaurolophus can issue the brown trouser note if startled, Basically the character has to make a soirit roll or in essence craps himself if he fails. If, however, a large number of the hadrosaurs issue the note in defence, the charachter will take physical damge as a solid wall of sound attacks his inner organs. :o
Triceratops are inpregnable from the front, which means they have to actually flank them to get a killing shot, and because I am cruel, the target animal can be anywhere in a herd.
tracking skills are important as are people skills, the more you look after your bearers/gun holders the better class of bearer that wants to come and aid you in your hunt.
The airship is made from two 2 litre bottles end on so as you can imagine it is quite big, in terms of 10mm figures., it basically needs painting, gondolas and engines added then ready to go :D
Coolio - I've got Savage Worlds (freebie) version somewhere - will have to dig it out...
Nice on the upgunning of the dinos - savage & mean & nasty, but nice 8)
That does sound like an enormous airship (if I'm visualising it properly!) - you know I want to see some pics, right? ;)
QuoteThat does sound like an enormous airship
it was built for 28mm games as a representation of one, not to scale :D
Well I now have a nice group of Archetypes to go into the game, all stats done all I need are the figures to represent them. If not it looks like it is down to making my own yipe! :o
I need a film crew at the very least
Gestapo agent
femal reporter
pilot
engineer
sports star (flash Gordon type)
Male and female lead for the film
and typically I cant remember the rest as they are printed out in the car! doh :(
That's a good list - and I'm enjoying watching King Kong again on ITV2 as I type...poor gorilla :(
We have:
Jake Cutter ace pilot
Doctor Xander Berkley Proffesor of ancient history
Ford Neal Quarteback New York Giants
Robert Muldoon - Hunter and guide
Victor MAraschino - movie star with a nice Errol Flynn moustache
Delores De Syn Movie Starlet with a nice pair of matching colt revolvers
Bob Collins - Mechanic
Willie Tenboom Gestapo Agent
Polly Perkins Plucky reporter New york Herald
THats the list so far, I havent got round to the rest of them yet, but there will be Ninjas!
Cant watch the end of the remake, which IMHO is just as good as the original :)
It is sooooooooo sad, much more emotional than the first.
AM toying with the idea of scratch building the ship from the film.....hmmmmm
Quote from: Maenoferren on 15 September 2010, 01:33:45 PM
Cant watch the end of the remake, which IMHO is just as good as the original :)
It is sooooooooo sad, much more emotional than the first.
It's
very well done...interestingly, this is exactly how I feel about the original
and this one: once you clock the symbolism of this, it's hard to take...but that's probably a whole other discussion!
Quote from: Maenoferren on 15 September 2010, 01:33:45 PM
AM toying with the idea of scratch building the ship from the film.....hmmmmm
Good - further proof that you're as bonkers as the rest of us :P 8) ;) :D
What are you starting with - the corvette?
Nope am starting from scratch for the tramp steamer, balsa base with plasticard sides etc - see mental! :D