What are you working on today?

[knightkrawler]

From 8AM to 5PM I am going to attempt to print, cut, glue and paint my way to a magnetic modular board for tonight with 3cm squares. WISH ME LUCK!

That sounds too much like work hours to be fun.

Maybe he's doing it at work instead of work? That would make it fun.

In that case, don't forget to take pictures of you taking pictures.

[Sydcomebak]

I managed to finish what I needed to in order to run "The Maze" and the 1st Quest of The Gathering Storm before I ran out of magnetic backing. Then I discovered that for some reason, these magnets don't work on the steel plate I bought ??? I'm pretty sure I didn't buy aluminum, and the magnets stick fine to everything else, so maybe I did.

I work nights, so no, this wasn't at work-work, it was instead of sleeping.

Also, I tend to get so into a project that I forget to take pictures, like this time. HOWEVER, I will take some when I complete the board this weekend. I have more backing to buy, and I will make a point to take pics!

As for the game itself..It didn't go well.. The kids just don't sit still long enough for extended periods of role-playing. Even with the break between quests, they lost interest and the 2nd quest (The 1st of The Gathering Storm) was just the 1st 3 of them running off in random directions opening doors and running on to try and find treasure. This left the Wizard to take a bunch of attacks and with me rolling behind the screen, I fudged some rolls to keep him at 1 health long enough for him to heal himself, but it was too late. The Dwarf quit outright to play on his iPad, only the Elf came back to save the Wizard, and the Barbarian was hunting for the exit when we ran out of time.

*sigh* I had high hopes.

[IvenBach]

The Dwarf quit outright to play on his iPad

I don't think that's just a children's problem. When we get together whenever the womenfolk get bored (aka things don't go their way) they start playing with their phones and don't pay attention. Turns into Barb playing his wifes Dwarf and Wizard playing his wifes Elf. Quite disheartening.

*sigh* I had high hopes.

I'm naturally cynical and have found that by putting my hopes far below where they should be ends up having it seem like it turned out much better than it really did. Just keep at it and when they get old enough hopefully they'll be interested in gaming an not in girls, cars, fashion, or any of that other non important stuff.

Edit:Sarcasm: I think it just may be a children's problem now that I think about it... /Sarcasm

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Used some greenstuff to try and make a Chaos Warlock look like he had a 'crown of flames' or some sort. If'n I ever get to paint him I'll show the results. Right now I don't think it looks too bad, but I know I've said that before...

[Sydcomebak]

Iven, sounds like you've been there!

Here's how far I got in production:



For scale:



I'll take more pics today when I get more magnets for the in-production stills. Everyone act like they're from a couple days ago, K?

Also, I promise to rotate the tiles to the correct positions so the corridors don't look so funky.

[Maike05]

Here is my next to do

[Sydcomebak]

So the first thing you need to do is get all your tiles printed out onto 110lb cardstock. I went to Staples and brought my own paper, so it was $.49 per page. If I had it to do again, I would combine more tiles per page to save myself money.

Next, find self-adhesive rolls of magnet backing. I went to Hobby Lobby and got 4 rolls for $9.99 each. You can probably find them online for much cheaper, but I was in a rush.

Get a decent pair of scissors.

Cut out all your tiles and corridors leaving a little bit of edge remaining. I ignored the white walls that separate the tiles, so I will have gaps, but because it will be on a black-painted steel plate, It should look fine.

Lay out your tiles to get a good idea of what will fit and try to make the best use of your space so you don't waste magnet. If you do need to have wasted space, leave it on the edges so you can line those up later and maybe combine them into a smaller tile backing. The flat edges line up great for this.

Peel off the backing and lay out your tiles again.

Cut your tiles out to the size you need.

Here is the completed board. I was playing with the center area to see about using tiles for the HQ25th Anniversary tribute quests on it as well...

Here is a look at what I still need to do to make a fully compatible HQ25 magnetic board.


I hope you all like it!

[IvenBach]

Did a little more painting today. I must say that HOLY CRAP I PAINT SLOW! Couple more barrels finished. Added a magnet to the base of my fountain of Chaos with some greenstuff. I mixed up too much GS and used the extra to mod 3 Chaos Warriors. They now look like they have flaming horns and weapons, at least they do to me. Hopefully they come out good when I finally paint them up. Any tips for painting fire are welcome.

[Spiky]

I've been suffering from painter's hiatus lately, which is a chronic condition and causes dryness especially in GW paints. The main cause of this bout is that I offered to paint some models for a friend as a Christmas present, and he gave me a High Elf bloodbowl team, which I am really hating painting!

That said, my Foldio kickstarter studio came through last week - here's one of my test pics I took using my smartphone!



Overall I'm quite happy with it

Cheers
Spiky

[Thantos]

my Foldio kickstarter studio

Wasat? Sound like something i need .. photo too many minis xD

[Spiky]

my Foldio kickstarter studio

Wasat? Sound like something i need .. photo too many minis xD

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/orangemonkie/foldio-the-1st-foldable-studio-for-smartphone