Closeing Out Week Three

And its not good.
Bloginski:'bout the only thing going right. XP
Minis Painting / writing: 8 minis finished. About three-finity and two for WIPs
Gaming: 1/3 weeks, dead tired last night >:P
Spending: $104ish so far, therefore with a goal of X=$20(N-1), where N is what week it is, I'm ... $64 over

First good news, my Gatling-urai are ready to make a fine paste of the Ten Thunders' enemies. No the kneeling one isn't significantly closer 'e's jes' frigin 'uge! And the colors aren't off one really is pink metallic. That said they were a bitch to get a picture of. Really dark bits + metallics trying to cause burnout +  true, pure, glossy white on the porcelain masks is too much for my dinky little camera to handle.

There should be the results of my writing here, as you can see they aren't here. I realized the character summaries are friggin useless and as confusing as a llama on a pogo-stick in downtown Chicago without any setting. Therefore I need to go sit on my fat-ass and finally write up the damned setting beyond: weird west steam powered mythos (maybe) colonization era NotEarth thing.

As to gaming opening at work fucks me up something fierce by the time I finally get off.

On the monies front I blame Wyrd. They have loads of pretty metal and resin figures that are being discontinued and I just found out some are not getting plastic re-sculpts. So today I went and bought the last of the ones I wanted.

I'd say 90% of the re-sculpts are as good or better and those that aren't aren't bad they just lack the flair the old editions had. The only thins I think are suffering are the Desolation Engine which is purely personal preference and the Avatars. The Avatars are going from a unique sculpt for each one with an ass-load of character to a generic plinth for each faction. I'll admit I only like 4 of the 15 or so enough to buy them but I doubt any 30mm to 50mm plinth/base adapter can stand up to the individual sculpts. Also how the fuck are they going to do the Outcasts and Ten Thunders. The first are the individuals and small groups of Malifaux and the second is made up of agents who've infiltrated every other faction and a handful of Ten Thunder only assets. GRRR.

Phew. Okay, rant and blog post over now.

Running Total and an Admission

Final Tally for January 8-14:
Blogification: Good! :)
Minis Painting / Writing: Slightly low but looking good. :)
Gaming: One 50 soul stone (average) Malifaux game on the 13th, more later but good. :)
Spending: $63ish so far, over by ~$43 therefore not so good. :(
Proof: It is maintained.

Goals for January 15-21:
Finish the 3 Gatling Samurai, type and edit the Rami LeFarve Expedition profiles I have made, get a game in, buy only necessities.

First off My game was lots of fun. I intended to have my crew light the enemy up and then bring the pain. Due to wonkyness in setup we each knew what leader the other brought and he took Kaeris with her upgrade for health from fire. My initial reaction was "well shit, now what the hell am I gunna do?" I stuck with the 35ss core I chose well ahead of time and filled the last 15 with stuff that didn't play with fire rather than scraping and list tailoring. I got my ass kicked but the incidental bad mach up wasn't the problem. He was just a better player who knew how to play his list and the schemes. I took a beating first turn and had lost by turn three but I had fun and learned so it was worth it. As usual though I think I kept forgetting my passive area buff. From now on I think I'll avoid them and stick to single model or active buffs.

And now the admission, as you probably guessed I went way past $20 the first week of January. The reason for that was an order from Reaper. It arrived this week and I am now the owner of 7 British Colonial Soldiers with no claim of accuracy and their (unofficial) "heavy weapon unit" Rhinocerix. Naturally bright red coats, dark navy blue pants, white webbing and gold piping will be their color scheme.

 The 8 members of the Horny 172nd

I really like the pose on this one for some reason.

Even monsters can fight for Queen and Country!

Proof he'll make a loyal Brit from Reaper's own site, painted by Martin Jones

Woo Hoo!

Early blogging due to progress!
Now for the January's running record:
I has blogged to minimum levels :), still no game :(.

Budget: Hoo boy, started not too bad (over by $17.61) but then I realized I donwana sculpterate bases. Also Rathuros is shmexy awesomes and one for the gaming table would be nice. So currently I'm over by $42.67

Now for minis: 5 completed, 11 currently WIP (work in progress) first the three new additions.

Bad Ass Inventor cares not about lost arms and legs.

It's ZapoRay Gun time!

Green hair comes with the territory when you have white hair and spend 8+ hours a day in the water.

It's hard to see but she has polar bear green hair. ... What's that I hear you say? Polar bears are white not green? Having been to Brookfield Zoo in summer I can safely say polar bears can turn green from algae. Proof from the BBC If you want more info you can Google it yourself. I don't know if the BBC is like US media for internal politics, sports etc. but I know their world and science coverage is top notch when it comes to reliability.

Now the before pic-ies:

I promise the Samurai was bare plastic before this week but I was working on that color on the other two.

The white is a primer so the bright yellow on them won't take 5 weeks to finish.

That's all for now, hopefully this Tuesday I can play some Malifaux.

Rasing a Corpse

Blaaargh! 'Oi've failed te maintain tis 'avent oi?

Ok new year time for a new start, a week in.

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DEEEEEEEEM! EEEEET!

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Ok, bug fishing nuts resolution time it is:
1. Update blog once a week minimum.
B. Destroy the world less than a week from now.
3. Average a Minimum of painting 15 minis or writing 1500 words of coherent writing a month.
   C1. Use Gimli rules when counting the minis, No mater how large or how many passengers: It still only counts as one!
   3B. Coherent means one topic, without digressions and not the blogink.
D. Kill anyone who reads this blog more than a week from now.
5. Average a game once every two weeks.
F. Delete this Blogpost.
7. Ignore the crazy ideas in my head. (See #s B,D, and F for proof)
8. Starting this week (Thursday January 8th - Wednesday January 14th) average only $20 stupid a week.
I. Must now scream in terror/pain.
10. MIRRORDOGDAMMNIT! YOU/I? SHOT DOWN ALL MY GREAT IDEAS!
K. Maintain a record (with proof for #s 1,3, and 8 ) of how well I'm doing on trying to kill myself with these resolutions.

Now for the first week of January's running record:
I has bloged :), no game :(, and I exempted last week from budget restictions on grounds of I don't wanna talk about it 8I.

Now for minis: completed, I'm calling these 5 as 2 on the grounds of okysoIstaredtheminlateDecemberbutIdidn'tfinishthemuntillJanuarysotheyshouldstillcount! (first person to decipher that and the first part of resolution # 10 will receive one (ein, uno, 1) internet (a picture of a) cookie.)

From now on there will be photo proof of nada/primer to painted but you'll have to trust these weren't started until this year.

And Finaly the paint que for this week. If I can get 4 a week that will put me at *clickity,clickity,clickity* two oh eight minis painted this year.