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Do you play tabletop wargames?
No, of course not. Tabletop wargamers are so nerdy they make PC fanboys look cool and studly. 34%  34%  [ 25 ]
Yes. I love my little painted figures. I give them all names and stroke them every night. I live for weapons damage charts. 5%  5%  [ 4 ]
I used to, but discovered girls. 52%  52%  [ 38 ]
What are you talking about? 6%  6%  [ 5 ]
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So don't PM me if you want a copy, because I don't have one. Of them. For you.

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This thread's just full of disappointment, and I'm upset for both of you that you don't get to share that cool book.

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GW must be shitting themselves.

http://www.gambody.com/blog/top-10-warh ... ing-files/

The WH40k Titans and knights cost more than a 3D Printer itself!

I know up close there's not the same detail but that's surely only a matter of time.

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I'd like a 3D printer, but realistically what I want is a 3D printing service, where I send them the files and they send me a "thing".

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I'd like a 3D printer, but realistically what I want is a 3D printing service, where I send them the files and they send me a "thing".

http://www.3dhubs.com

I used this for printing extra plates for my TH8A gear shifter.

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Will they baulk at printing copyrighted stuff, though? Let's find out!

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I used this for printing extra plates for my TH8A gear shifter.

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Will they baulk at printing copyrighted stuff, though? Let's find out!


Well one of the sites listed on there has example of BB-8s and that snowman thing from Frozen. Would be interesting to see where these companies draw the line - giant sex toys? 3D swastikas?

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Will they baulk at printing copyrighted stuff, though? Let's find out!


Well one of the sites listed on there has example of BB-8s and that snowman thing from Frozen. Would be interesting to see where these companies draw the line - giant sex toys? 3D swastikas?


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Are you saying that you want a 3D-printed version of you and Julia or that you're both giant sex toys?

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GW must be shitting themselves.

http://www.gambody.com/blog/top-10-warh ... ing-files/

The WH40k Titans and knights cost more than a 3D Printer itself!

I know up close there's not the same detail but that's surely only a matter of time.

Sort of but once you get into it you realise that there are limitations to what you can actually do vs injection molding. e.g. 3D printers cannot print onto thin air so you end up having to tell the slicer software to print supports but then removing these always leaves a mark. You can mitigate it by printing in multiple pieces or placing the model on the bed so as to minimise the number of supports needed but there are things they do really well and others that they just don't.


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Will they baulk at printing copyrighted stuff, though? Let's find out!

What is it you're after?


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Will they baulk at printing copyrighted stuff, though? Let's find out!

What is it you're after?

Space Marines, innit.

I have built the Grimlet up with HeroQuest, Space Hulk and Star Wars X-Wing, and I think he's nearly ready.

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If it's just lots of the little plastic space marine guys then I'd doubt that it would be worth getting them made vs just buying them but if there's something in particular I can have a look. Have you seen something on Thingiverse or somewhere?


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Nothing really, I was just thinking out loud, and I know how spendy GW are.

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What is it you're after?


He's building BeexQuest

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Will they baulk at printing copyrighted stuff, though? Let's find out!

What is it you're after?


He's building BeexQuest


Is that instead of starting Sim Beex brother?


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What is it you're after?


He's building BeexQuest

Already did.

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Is that instead of starting Sim Beex brother?

Yeah, work's getting in the way of that :(

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40K books in the Humble Book Bundle right now:

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I paid £12(ish) and got:

Horus Rising
False Gods
Galaxy in Flames
The Flight of the Eisenstein
Fulgrim
Descent of Angels
Legion
Battle For the Abyss
Mechanicum
Tales of Heresy
Fallen Angels
A Thousand Sons
Nemesis
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But you get a fair wodge of books for $1, too.

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Read half of those, you're in for a treat.

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Making progress with the current project, which will be modern warfare with The Russkis invading Germany.

Russian soldiers: they're 20mm tall and based on 1p coins (to give you an idea of the scale), so if the painting looks rough up close it's because they're bloody tiny.

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The US infantry just started:

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Some vehicles on the go - the Abrams and BTR-80 are prepaints which need repainting.

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I've also got a few more to build (plus an AH64, an A-10 and a Mig-23):

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A couple of model railway buildings built and undercoated - there are another 3 now done since these photos with 2 more to do:

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And I scratch built a garage - can't really see due to my shit photography but it's cladded with small wooden planks, made from coffee stirrers. Took a sodding age to cut those up.

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The plan will be to have 4 landscape tiles, perhaps 18 or 24 inches to a side. I have loads of trees to go in as well.

I will be bringing this to Cott8ge :) There are some relatively fast play rules I've dug out which with a bit of modification will make for a fun game.


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How would the A-10 and Mig work on a tabletop war game? I can see how the choppers can hang about but the planes wouldn't like that so much.

Looking good btw!

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They'd more be a one turn deal, so the model would be there simply to indicate an airstrike that turn, I think. Fuck's sake man, any excuse for a bloody warthog model.

I'm making some flying bases for the vehicles - CD base, with a large washer and nut, and then an extendable aerial type thing with a magnet on the top glued into the nut. The aircraft will then have magnets or steel washers on their undersides to connect up. The base will of course get all tittivated up.

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Flying bases:
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The paint job? A lot better than I could do but it's not particularly great compared to any of the stuff you see placing in miniature painting competitions

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The paint job? A lot better than I could do but it's not particularly great compared to any of the stuff you see placing in miniature painting competitions


I'm more impressed with the opening doors. My Heroquest set has only got cardboard doors.


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Work continues slowly on this - the buildings have been built, more stuff has been bought (lots of greenery, flowers, plants, trees etc), the flight stands have been made. I'm now in the process of painting some diecast cars as part of the scenery - I'll post pics soonish depending on how much progress I make. Alongside that, I'm writing some reasonably simplistic rules to use at Cottage - working title is "Battlefield: Beex Company 2". It's based loosely on a game of similar name :)

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I saw Bloodbowl in a charity shop on Sherwood high street for £15 on Saturday.


You should have snapped that up - I'm currently doing a Dwarf team in the colours of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union. I'm terrible at the game, so you'd easily win.

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You should have snapped that up - I'm currently doing a Dwarf team in the colours of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union. I'm terrible at the game, so you'd easily win.

I might pop up and see if it's still there - I was on the way to the pub at the time.

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You should have snapped that up - I'm currently doing a Dwarf team in the colours of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union. I'm terrible at the game, so you'd easily win.

I might pop up and see if it's still there - I was on the way to the pub at the time.

It's still there. No figures though, so doesn't seem such a bargain now.

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Hmmm... might be the time to delve into the 40k game then. Harrison is intrigued by the painted miniatures in my den, be a good excuse to paint and build up a few squads with him.

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Hmmm... might be the time to delve into the 40k game then. Harrison is intrigued by the painted miniatures in my den, be a good excuse to paint and build up a few squads with him.

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I've had a look through the most recent rules, and I wasn't that impressed. I've still got Rogue Trader and the 40K Compendium book if I need them, though.

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 Post subject: Re: Tabletop wargaming - nerdlinging to the max...
PostPosted: Fri May 19, 2017 14:18 
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Ah, Rogue Trader, when the Imperium were Nazis, the Space Marines were drugged up crazies, Chaos was interesting and had a point, rather than being panto villains, and the excessive grimdark was satire, rather than being 100% serious.


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 Post subject: Re: Tabletop wargaming - nerdlinging to the max...
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My 6yr old son has become obsessed with the box of White Dwarf magazines that Dimrill sent me ages back, and I've promised him we'll set up a game board and buy the new Dark Imperium box set when we move house. I thought it might be a good idea to make up a simpler game first though to see if he gets how it all works, and it's been great.

Armed with cheap plastic army men, (£2.99 for 100 - Fuck you Citadel) two 30cm strips of paper and a single D6 I came up with these simple rules and we've played a fair bit over the weekend.

All Army men have 2 wounds.
Squads of 5 (that once down to 2 need to join with nearest squad). We usually have 3 squads each to keep things quick.
Army men move 15cm (the paper strip folded in half) and shoot a distance of 30cm.
Wounded Army men move 7.5cm (strip folded over again)
A roll of 6 is a KILL, 3,4,5 is a wound and 1 or 2 is a miss. If the dice falls off the table it's a miss too!

Now that he totally gets these rules I'm going to add Grenade rules with an blast radius token, terrain* height advantages of +1 to rolls and maybe medic / leader rules too.
Even with these plastic army men we could have rules for Heavy Machine Gunners and Bazookas too, but didn't want to take the fun out of it with too many rules at first.

Tempted to paint the faces and guns of these soldiers now too and stick them on proper bases...

*Box of fire lighters and sanitary pad box :DD (we'd just got back from shopping), plastic cups etc

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