Thursday, 12 February 2015
More Plast Craft!
These containers need more touching up than the buildings will. Hopefully I'll get a day free next week to do them. The containers are a lot bigger than I thought, which is cool.
Wednesday, 11 February 2015
Plast Craft Games Terrain
These aren't finished yet, this is just the masking, airbrush and assembly stage.
Despite this being SUPREMELY easy to assemble, I made a big mistake by getting two key components switched around. They are not easy to take apart again!
I painted eberything in part, then assembled afterwards. I need to go back with a brush and tidy all the edges up and pick out the odd detail, but I'm happy with the speed and overall look
1 day painting challenge
Had about 7 hours free the other day, set myself the challenge of painting my Warcor and his drone before I had to go out
Monday, 9 February 2015
Moto.Tronica board
Don't worry, I don't play on the floor. My gaming table just hasn't arrived yet
My first project of the newly spacious Airworks Studio was to build all my Moto.Tronics sets
I intend for this to be my travelling board, as I'm tired of building boards only to see them deteriorate when they are transported around.
I think you'll agree, it looks pretty nice.
Thug life.
Cleaning the Painting Room, and gaining a Gaming Room!
The time had finally come to stop putting off the cleaning of the painting room
And now I have a newly ordered painting desk, and room for a gaming table!
Silhouette Marker basing tutorial
First, I take a sheet of hex plasticard (all my aleph troops are based this way). Then I glue the bases face down into the bottom of the hex card, using superglue
I roughly cut the bases into individual chunks with a craft knife
I then carefully shave them down until they are flush with the base edge
I use green stuff to fill the gaps along the edges
When that's dry, I line the markers up, and draw their edges with a pencil
I don't want to add any height to the markers, even a few mm, so using a steel rule and craft knife, I cut a groove for the markers to sit in, so the base of the marker will be glued directly to the supplied base.
I glue the markers in place, then mask them off ready for painting.
I paint the bases to match my army.
Finally I remove the masking tape and cling for the finished product. Please note, I had a little mishap with these, I used a new masking tape which was...a little too clingy, and it's kind of ruined the S1/S2 marker. Lesson to be learned, check your stuff.
I roughly cut the bases into individual chunks with a craft knife
I then carefully shave them down until they are flush with the base edge
I use green stuff to fill the gaps along the edges
When that's dry, I line the markers up, and draw their edges with a pencil
I don't want to add any height to the markers, even a few mm, so using a steel rule and craft knife, I cut a groove for the markers to sit in, so the base of the marker will be glued directly to the supplied base.
I glue the markers in place, then mask them off ready for painting.
I paint the bases to match my army.
Finally I remove the masking tape and cling for the finished product. Please note, I had a little mishap with these, I used a new masking tape which was...a little too clingy, and it's kind of ruined the S1/S2 marker. Lesson to be learned, check your stuff.
Customeeple Silhouette Markers Review
Customeeple Line of Sight Markers!
Overview: All hail N3 personified in acrylic form! Line of Sight, or Silhouette markers, are one of the big changes in N3. Previously, a dynamic or large model had a distinct disadvantage over a similarly sized but less excitingly posed equivalent. The Gorgos, for example, was a beautiful model, hampered by the fact that it towers over everything. Well no more! N3 introduced silhouette markers. Now all units have a silhouette value, which means, in gane terms, they always occupy a cylindrical volume, as wide as their base and as tall as their silhouette. In times of doubt, players can replace their models with their silhouette markers, and if line of sight can be drawn between any point of either silhouette, then the model can be seen. Simples! For reference, at present Warsenal and Bandua offer their own versions, whilst MAS and Antenocitis workshop have some on the way. Customeeple offer their set of LoS markers, but they come with a little something extra...
Specifics: The set corresponds to all of the silhouette values available in the game. Instead of having 7 templates, however, the silhouettes which share the same base size, are marked on the same token. So S1 and S2, for example, are both 25mm wide, so they both are marked on the 25mm token. The set includes a 55mm base and token (S4,S7), a 40mm base and token (S3,S5,S6) and a 25mm base and token (S1,S2). It also includes an SX marker (more on that below). The markers are available in blue, green, yellow, magenta, orange, transparent, or smoke transparent. I opted for Magenta
Price: The set is €6.95 (approx £5.19/$7.88) by comparison the Warsenal set is $12 (€10.60/£7.90) and the Bandua set €14.95 ($16/£11.16), so is therefore the cheapest on offer so far (note the Warsenal set follows the same 3-base format, whereas the Bandua set is 7 different tokens)
Shipping to the UK was €10 and arrived in 5 working days.
Customer Service: this order arrived in the same batch as the marker box, please read the excellent customer service they gave me in that review.
Quality/Durability Standard, well made Customeeple acrylic. I do have one minor quibble...it's not really magenta. To my mind, it's really more red. I had bought it to match the violet/magenta scheme of my Aleph stuff, but in fairness there is no other colour available that matches any better. Warsenal do a 'purple' which is not listed as fluorescent, however the tokens still look cool.
Usefulness silhouettes are a big deal in N3. The whole game works on LOS, and this is thetool for LOS. Therefore, whether you photocopy the silhouette pages from the rulebook, or you invest in a set like this, they will be joining your weapon templates as something you use often.
Now, the SX marker. I'm broadly a supporter of the new silhouette rules, they are more fair and easily determined. However, the moment they were announced I feared the following scenario
Player A's Aelis Keesan wants to shoot Thrasymedes, Lord of Visual Examples
Player A: can I see him?
Player B: I dunno, I'll use a silhouette marker
Player B: nah, he's safe
The SX market prevents such shady practice, or worse, accusations of such practice when you've done no such thing. It has grooves to fit a 25mm, 40mm and 55mm base. Simply place it around your models base to note its position on the table. Replace with your LOS marker, then place your model back in its original position. Genius.
There is one final feature worthy of mention. The rules specify a 3mm by 3mm area as the minimum area you must be able to see to claim LoS. Each marker is covered with 3mmx3mm squares to make this fairly easy to determine. I believe the Warsenal version has a grid which fulfils and identical function.
Summary This has clearly been well thought out in regards to the rules and the practical applications of them. They are inexpensive and fairly essential nowadays. I just wish there was a purple one!
Overview: All hail N3 personified in acrylic form! Line of Sight, or Silhouette markers, are one of the big changes in N3. Previously, a dynamic or large model had a distinct disadvantage over a similarly sized but less excitingly posed equivalent. The Gorgos, for example, was a beautiful model, hampered by the fact that it towers over everything. Well no more! N3 introduced silhouette markers. Now all units have a silhouette value, which means, in gane terms, they always occupy a cylindrical volume, as wide as their base and as tall as their silhouette. In times of doubt, players can replace their models with their silhouette markers, and if line of sight can be drawn between any point of either silhouette, then the model can be seen. Simples! For reference, at present Warsenal and Bandua offer their own versions, whilst MAS and Antenocitis workshop have some on the way. Customeeple offer their set of LoS markers, but they come with a little something extra...
Specifics: The set corresponds to all of the silhouette values available in the game. Instead of having 7 templates, however, the silhouettes which share the same base size, are marked on the same token. So S1 and S2, for example, are both 25mm wide, so they both are marked on the 25mm token. The set includes a 55mm base and token (S4,S7), a 40mm base and token (S3,S5,S6) and a 25mm base and token (S1,S2). It also includes an SX marker (more on that below). The markers are available in blue, green, yellow, magenta, orange, transparent, or smoke transparent. I opted for Magenta
Price: The set is €6.95 (approx £5.19/$7.88) by comparison the Warsenal set is $12 (€10.60/£7.90) and the Bandua set €14.95 ($16/£11.16), so is therefore the cheapest on offer so far (note the Warsenal set follows the same 3-base format, whereas the Bandua set is 7 different tokens)
Shipping to the UK was €10 and arrived in 5 working days.
Customer Service: this order arrived in the same batch as the marker box, please read the excellent customer service they gave me in that review.
Quality/Durability Standard, well made Customeeple acrylic. I do have one minor quibble...it's not really magenta. To my mind, it's really more red. I had bought it to match the violet/magenta scheme of my Aleph stuff, but in fairness there is no other colour available that matches any better. Warsenal do a 'purple' which is not listed as fluorescent, however the tokens still look cool.
Usefulness silhouettes are a big deal in N3. The whole game works on LOS, and this is thetool for LOS. Therefore, whether you photocopy the silhouette pages from the rulebook, or you invest in a set like this, they will be joining your weapon templates as something you use often.
Now, the SX marker. I'm broadly a supporter of the new silhouette rules, they are more fair and easily determined. However, the moment they were announced I feared the following scenario
Player A's Aelis Keesan wants to shoot Thrasymedes, Lord of Visual Examples
Player A: can I see him?
Player B: I dunno, I'll use a silhouette marker
Player B: nah, he's safe
The SX market prevents such shady practice, or worse, accusations of such practice when you've done no such thing. It has grooves to fit a 25mm, 40mm and 55mm base. Simply place it around your models base to note its position on the table. Replace with your LOS marker, then place your model back in its original position. Genius.
There is one final feature worthy of mention. The rules specify a 3mm by 3mm area as the minimum area you must be able to see to claim LoS. Each marker is covered with 3mmx3mm squares to make this fairly easy to determine. I believe the Warsenal version has a grid which fulfils and identical function.
Summary This has clearly been well thought out in regards to the rules and the practical applications of them. They are inexpensive and fairly essential nowadays. I just wish there was a purple one!
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