Out Of It

So my first week off study and I get struck down with a head cold, which in turn (due to weak lungs from long term Asthma) ends up infecting my chest. Good news is recovery is going well, but bad news means nothing has happened.

Well, that's not entirely accurate. I did get the epoxy resin done, but since the plastic meant to contain it fell off, it's turned into a real mess. Fixed most of it, but due to some issues I have had to finish the last parts off using GW's water effects. For some reason however, the blasted stuff isn't drying fast enough. Two days since the last batch and it's still sticky and I can't work on finishing them until I get the water parts done, so I must continue to wait for the stuff to dry.

With any luck, I should have them done by next week, so we'll see what happens.

Supanova Brisbane 2016 Update

So I did go this year, part of my personal treatment to get out of the house and partly to help with my Bro, who's going through some hard times himself. Gotta say, it just felt really disappointing with the event this year. Can't put my finger on why, but it was so bad that I didn't even take any pictures this year and I don't know why I didn't myself.

Wasn't all bad though as we did get to meet Jason Hayes, one of Blizzard games composers and his band Critical Hit. Their music was rather refreshing and picked up our moods greatly and we got a chance to speak with him during the signings, probably to the annoyance of those behind us. That alone saved the event for us and even the nasty storm we had to walk through to get back home didn't faze us (well, not that much at least). I do hope their turning romantic game music into rock songs (romantic rock as he calls it) goes well, but I would love to hear more of his rock versions of game tavern music as that was probably one of my favourite ones (they did a rock version of a Hearthstone music bit). I do suggest you go check them out if you can.

Malifaux: Dem Gators

I personally don't do things like unboxings or the like unless it's something really special, but occasionally there is something that really catches my eye and I just have to point it out. McTavish is an generally a good model to use in a Gremlins or Swampfiend crew, but miniature wise he looks much like most human characters do, so he looks much like I expect him to look. What I was not expecting was just how nice looking his Gator was. Not only was the model one of the easiest and well designed to put together, but it just looks terrifying given it's size.

I am overall impressed by it, mostly cause I didn't expect it to look as good based on the 3D pic on the boxes back. That said, it stands out more when you compare it to the miniatures from the Bayou Gators set.

Not only is this thing a beast, it's size really gives it the advantage over the other gators. I feel somewhat disappointed that fro the base size (40mm) the gators aren't that big. Compared to the average human size, I feel it's swallow whole trigger on it's basic attack makes little sense unless the model it was against was height one, and even the Gremlins on the gators are smaller then most Gremlin miniatures.

Once I'm done painting them, I'll do another epoxy resin batch to match the other Gremlins water bases, though this time I'll probably do it with a mix of the green/brown wash to show as if they had more mud around them, as opposed to my first few batches which were more teal (I later justified it by saying the water had Soul Stones at the bottom which were glowing and given how many Gremlins seem to die there, it does make some sense). I'm almost done painting and hope to start the epoxy by the weekend.