Saturday, September 5, 2009

Absolut Toy Soldier! (+ the beginnings of a new plague)

Last nite was real productive - I painted up the bastion, re-primed a few new ruins and assembled a new bunker - which I really enjoyed. Our new friend from Scotland (my apologies, I don't know how to spell his name, my bad) did some good work with his Chaos marines, before he and I decided to roll some dice. That was a pretty close-run battle - we deployed at one of the dead-grass tables (with abandoned Imperial settlement), dawn of war annihilation, and the first time in years I'm using Guardians in a pick-up game - short, sharp, bloody and absolutely a blast! Thanks for the game.

Also at the main hobby table was Ivan and Jeff. Ivan was on hand to show us some amazing GS work with his smelly termies and blited daemon princes. Them's some real skills, dude ... looking forward to seeing that all done up (perhaps after some dip?). Talking about dip, Jeff's Unclean are coming along nicely, in all their stinkiness. The Lord was done, as was a couple of other termies. But the star had to be the Rhino. In the space of one hobby nite, the Rhino was assembled, fitted with kustom Unclean extra armor (you gotta check these out), then primed and base-coated. Now we are all waiting to see it dipped!

Talking about dip again, Faizal's new veterans also got the dip treatment - and they look awesome! His IG took on Rizal's Ultramarines (complete with the cool cheapo no-sponson Predator) and I think the Astartes won that kill-point battle. Back to the dip, Dann finally saw the light, that is, the dip-light, I think. After seeing how FAST the Unclean is coming along, he had an epiphany - that's how his Nids are going to be done at long last (and I secretly had one of my own too - for my O&G). This dip thing is contagious!

Khairul and Arzmi hung out for awhile, no doubt getting infected by the new contagion. And amidst all that, I managed to plant the seed of yet another new army in some people :) GW should start paying me ...

I lurv Hobby Nite! See you guys next week! Ave Legio!

16 comments:

  1. I missed a helluva hobby night..nevermind, I shall be there next week..consider this my RSVP..

    by the way, the dip-mania is contagious..very contagious..very nurgle..

    and who's the one planning to build a new army?

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  2. That would be me, opening my big mouth, "You know, it's been ages since I had an Eldar army." Azlan mentions how cool an Iyanden ghost warriors army would be....

    sigh.

    So, after the Unclean are done I'm going to take a strong look at Iyanden, and how I can dip it lol

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  3. Faizal just totally destroyed my Ultramarines Army today....sweet revenge for him... :)

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  4. yes, there weren't many models left on the battlefield, were there?

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  5. hahaha..yeah, it'd be cool to have an eldar army..but I think anyone of us should complete the current projects first before moving on..

    although, an Iyanden ghost warriors army sounds cool..

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  6. Oh believe me, The Unclean are top priority. I'm modeling them right now to the exclusion of all else. However, I'll be done with the army within the next few weeks, and I'll need something new to do afterwards... :)

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  7. Wow, now that Lan has hyped up my army, the pressures on to deliver.

    Got the dit and Tamiya Flat Clear....
    Time to get painting.

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  8. yeah, I gotta get that Tamiya Flat Clear too (and the Tamiya Plastic Cement that I really need right now)..by the way, the Flat Clear is a spray, right?

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  9. Flat Clear is a spray ... and i lurv it

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  10. It's good stuff. I also have a can of Mr Surfacer I picked up at "Toyz & Hobbies" at Cineleisure/Curve and it works just as well.

    Ivan, welcome to the dip! This method was tailor made for devotees of Nurgle.... baaaaallaaaaaaahhhhh!!!!

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  11. Hahaha...

    I'm having trouble with my basing.
    I'm using Bonds PVA with the fine grit but it doesn't stick. Any suggestions?

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  12. Use super glue, or switch to normal play sand instead of whatever it is you're using. Also consider using two layers of glue- one before and one after...

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  13. This Dip thing interest me much. I wish i can come and see how it's done.

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  14. hey azlan just sayin my names spelt ceiran, it not a comon spelling so many ppl get it wrong

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  15. Thanks Ceiran ... i had no clue how to spell it :)

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