Tales from the front: Miniatures Edition!

[tabletop]

Right, what's everybody up to miniatures wise?

Last week I finished converting and basing my Necromunda Scavvie gang, and primed them all over the weekend. I did these guys because I'm getting sick of Genestealers, so wanted to throw in the odd extra figure I can green dip along the way. These scavvies saw a moderate about of conversion. They're all on custom bases and three have had head swaps that had to be tidied up. I also filed down and sculpted over all their stupid 'smiley face disks'. I mean what kind of gang has SMILEY FACES as the gang symbol? So several figures have blank metal discs handing off them that I'll paint with something else.

Speaking of Genestealers I've got four more on the go, plus my first experiment at dip painting a Space Marine - the dead 'throne objective' guy will be painted red and brown dipped.

[Jonathan]

Well until the house gets back to normal - which could take a month or so, I doubt I'll be able to do any miniature painting...

[tabletop]

Eh? What's wrong with your house? You still dealing with the flooding issue you had?

[Jonathan]

Yeah - flooding has resulted in downstairs area needing to be re-floored and carpeted.... as such, all downstairs stuff - wife's craft stuff and my wargaming stuff plus various storage stuff is now located around the house, as such any possible painting areas are now used for storage.... joy.  That and having to spend the weekends figuring out replacements costs on a 4 page list of stuff that got damaged....  insurance companies don't make it easy when it comes to claiming on your insurance do they!!

[tabletop]

Bummer. Ever thought of building a portable paint station from MDF? Means you can paint anywhere. Just steal the pattern for GW's ridiculously overpriced $70 one . Or hell, pull a Dustan .

Yeah. That's basically an insurance company's job. Take your money and make it almost impossible to get back. Ellen had a prang with an asian driver a couple of years ago that was totally his fault (he turned into a lane Ellen was occupying). Insurance company keep saying 'he says it's your fault', plus of course he had no insurance at all. Eventually it got to the stage where we just rang them up and said you pay the insurance or we take our business elsewhere. Oh and what do you know! Suddenly they're our best friends.

Fucking insurance. Best scam ever. Wish I'd thought of it.

[Daniel]

Bitch bitch bitch there's nothing wrong with insurance it's people who don't read there policy wording or insure with shit companies like State Also please unblock my works IP I is bored at work. Hell I'm even painting 40K stuff!

[tabletop]

Daniel, honestly I have no idea what's blocking you man. I've checked both my forum settings and my web host control panel. Neither seems to have any blocking rules enabled (and I've certainly never wilfully turned any on).

Also, you can't convince me otherwise. Insurance companies are an evil of modern society we have to bear

[Dustan]

Anyone who takes your money incase something happens but doesnt give it back in the case of nothing happening is evil. Its like a pyramid scheme but more like the one in Ancient egypt where everything ends up being the pharos. It only works out for the little guy at the bottom if something realy shit happens to them AND they can prove they deserve what they been paying for.

I have even crumbled (as a family man) and I now pay someone monthly just incase I die in some horrible and likely painful way. Its almost making a bet that I am gunna get killed by stupid and If I win (dont get killed by something stupid) then I loose my wager. If I win the jackpot though well, shit that kinda sucked didnt it.

Daniel, its not your works in house firewall/net filtering hard at work to make sure your hard at work? you could always use an anonymous web proxy, that way whatever is blocking it wont know its you. Google search it and understand unless its in NZ its going to be kinda slow. I havent found any good NZ ones beacause  I am the system admin here and have an account which by passes the restrictions and monitoring lol

OH YEAH

If you want to know your IP I now recomend this site: http://www.moanmyip.com/ It may not be safe for work, particularly if you have speakers on your PC and they are turned up loud, hell it might not even be safe for home if you have Kids or Wives

[Aaron]

In my opinion using an anonymous proxy website at work goes in the same category as looking at porn.  You know that you are accessing something you shouldn't (otherwise why do you need to use a proxy).

[Dustan]

So 'because we can' means any of us using this site during work hours is ok.

[Aaron]

Well I dont know about your work but mine says "reasonable personal usage" is acceptable.
There is nothing objectionable (usually) about this forum so I think its ok.  I have to say I never follow links at work tho.

[Daniel]

It's not work or anything it's your host accusing me of some sort of web attack I emailed them (Orange somethingarather) and they said it was up to you and yes proxy is bad.

[Daniel]

All good now much joy!!! Hugs for my boys anyways yuo guys heard of this game Infinity? It's real fun.

[tabletop]

Wait what? So the problem is fixed? What was it in the end?

Infinity? Vaguely? I want to say it's a sci-fi skirmish game with warbands? Corvus Belli figures?

[Daniel]

The internet blocking cos I'm a hacker thing. yes Infinity seems like a good little game just reading through the rules.