OD's SoB Prep Blog
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10-26-2014, 09:13 PM
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OD's SoB Prep Blog
10/26/14
Well after a year + of waiting SoB first Wave will be here in 4 days. So I'm starting my Project Blog. Pre-Delivery ,while waiting these many months I have: Created some background fluff based on personal preferences. -SoB Timeline -Mine Users Guide -Solo Set Up Guide -Modified Mine Users & Solo Set Up Guides to include just Wave One Core Set Miniatures & Other Worlds. Gathered Supplies - New brushes (regular,detail,super detail) -Plastic Glue -Additional War Master paints (mostly Browns to use for the bases) -organizing some additional GW/Reaper paints I already have to add to the 2 Paint Sets coming with Wave 1. Also getting my clippers & model files together. Found an unused Tube of Testors Modeling Putty (great stuff for filling gaps) & I have some Kraylon Black Primer Spray. Ordering some Pimping stuff -Fire Mountain Amethyst Beads for Dark Stone -XP, Mutation, Money Cards ( Fan Creations ). Project Room Prep I am a Hobby Pig, which is why my wife keeps my Hobby stuff isolated on the 3rd Floors. I'll need to get things in order as SoB will be a major project with larger figs & assembly. The last several Projects have been with 6,10,20mm figs w/o assembly which I've just handled in my east side paint room. Alas my paint room is rather small & filled with stored Board Games & Miniatures stored in Cabinets & plastic Shoe boxes. So there isn't really room to assemble models. I have an Assembly table in the back of my Game Room on the west side ( thanks to the High Victorian sense of whimsy I have 2 3rd Floors & they don't connect. A 2nd Floor landing has 2 sets of parallel stairs going up to each Floor) but it hasn't been used for several years ,not since I finished a GW Lord of the Rings Miniatures Project. Needless to say it was filled with cut up bits from conversions & DUST. So today I cleaned it up to be ready to start on the figures as soon as SoB arrives. I still need to rearrange my paint desk to pack up the GW paints I won't need for the SoB Project. Sighing like the night wind and sobbing like the rain,— Wailing for the lost one that comes not again: |
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10-27-2014, 09:10 PM
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RE: OD's SoB Prep Blog
10/27/14- My SoB prep today is starting the paint room clean up. I've
gathered up some dried out paint pots & discarded plastic/metal bits plus old brushes to toss out. The GW & Reaper paints that might be of use for SoB have been set aside & the other paints sorted by color & boxed. My painting Table (actually a shelf) is 6' long but as I'm using about 2' for storage so I have about a 4' space to work with needs a new matt as the old one is thick in spilled paint & crumpled from water damage. The whole thing needs a good vacuum to get rid of little blobs of dried paint & metal dust from filing. The floor around the paint chair can't be seen for paper towels ,notes & various modeling tools. So I'll need to clean that out & find a better place to put several boxes of bases & bits. I also received the XP Cards I ordered from printer studio so the $ & Mutation cards should be coming soon. I think I did enough today just sorting out the paints so I'll continue tomorrow. Sighing like the night wind and sobbing like the rain,— Wailing for the lost one that comes not again: |
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10-28-2014, 09:33 PM
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RE: OD's SoB Prep Blog
10/28/14-I hit the Paint Room bright & Early (what a Dump)
I got the old Matt off the paint desk & gave everything a good dusting & vacuum. I took all the papers (paint wipes,old notes), dead paint pots & bottle caps I used to mix paint in. Sorted out the various boxes of extra bits & consolidated them. Took the tools I'll need to assemble & base the miniatures over to the assembly desk & then replaced the matt on the paint desk. So I'm basically ready to go & still 2 days to wait. I was hoping my mutation & $ Cards would come today ...but they didn't. I also update the Brimstone Users Guide based on some feed back from Gavin Downing. Sighing like the night wind and sobbing like the rain,— Wailing for the lost one that comes not again: |
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10-29-2014, 09:01 PM
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RE: OD's SoB Prep Blog
10/29/14-UPS sent me an e-mail that my Game will be delivered between 10-2 tomorrow.
So I'm just waiting everything is ready to get assembly & painting started. I checked my War Paints Inks Set & found it included an instruction pamphlet which seems to indicate you use them full strength. I've used only GW Inks before & cut them with water otherwise you got a very fake look so I'm not sure how to handle the War Painter Inks.. guess I'll need to experiment. Sighing like the night wind and sobbing like the rain,— Wailing for the lost one that comes not again: |
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10-30-2014, 02:41 PM
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10/30/14-TODAY IS DE DAY!-of course I'm posting this at 9:30 & delivery of SoB is
sometime between 10-2, however my town is rather at the end of the line so UPS usually delivers in the afternoon. My wife has gone to volunteer at a charity function, so I'm free to devote myself to unpacking my SoB/MC box when it comes. I did discover a crimp in my preparation -What I thought was Black Primer wasn't so I'll need to pick up some. This weekend I'll be assembling & should be ready to base coat by the start of next week. I want to get that completed ASAP as spray base coat & cold temp do not mix. I'll continue with my unpacking adventures after SoB arrives. IT'S Here!! all 23lbs of it & very well packed ,did a quick check & everything appears to be complete. I also got a signed Art Print that I wasn't expecting (maybe it came with the MC & I never noticed). So I'm going to give the figs a mild detergent bath & a scrub with a soft toothbrush so they be ready to assemble tomorrow then I'm going to check out the Adventure Books to see how my "Brimstone Mine Users Guide fluff matches up with any FFP background give. Also the USPS is suppose to deliver my $ & Mutation Cards that were Fan Created over at BGG. The guy who did them was also working on Town item Cards but alas FFP just made him pull them along with the Mutation Cards for violation of their IP Rights. Bummer but I can see FFP point especially as they were being sold. Well off to give the figs a bath. The bath took just over an Hour & it's a good think my wife won't be back until later this evening..there are miniatures all over the kitchen. The $ & mutation Cards also just arrived-too bad FFP put the kabish on the Mutation Cards they look cool. PS-I've heard complaints that the miniatures had flash on them but all of mine did not. PSS- The Miniatures are about dry so I boxed then up in the carton the Games were shipped in separated by game so I can start from the top to assemble tomorrow. I'm taking this evening to go over the Rule Book & Adventure Books There is really a massive amount of material. Sighing like the night wind and sobbing like the rain,— Wailing for the lost one that comes not again: |
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10-31-2014, 01:25 PM
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10/31/14 -started assembly an hour ago & I have only done the 4 SoD Heroes, 6 Tentacles
& 4 Hungry Dead, this does not include the basing. I do a lot of assembly but these figs are a tad more difficult than they appear. I'm not really sure why some of the figs really required separate parts it seems like they could have made it a single cast but it be what it be. So far I haven't had much filing no real mold lines *on the figs I've done so far just need a bit on where they were connected to the holders. The War Paint plastic glue works well , which helps as getting the arms in place can be a tad fiddley. * once I started with the Hell Bats , Slashers & Harbringer I did find mold lines The men's pants on the Hungary dead also have them but nothing major. Also hold on to the part your clipping out..I clipped off an Hungary dead arm only to have it sail off my assembly desk ..never to be found again! I looked but nothing I finally just took the arm of an extra red model. Well back to work ,I want to finish off the rest of the Hungry Dead before I break again. 3 1/2 hours in all the SoD figs are assembled, The Harbringer is massive I'm letting it set a bit before adding the legs & wings( the wings look a bit much for just glue so I have a little plastic cement I'm going to use on them). It does go quicker once you have done a few. I still need to base the figs. 5 1/2 hours & all the SoD figs are assembled & based. I must say the small feet on the human types do make basing a chore. The Slashers barely fit on their bases & you really need to support them until the glue kicks in or they will topple over. The Harbringer besides being massive is one fig. that could have used assembly instructions . I found the best way was to glue the head, arms & tail to the back torso & then glue the front torso piece in place. Once the glue dries good I'll move them over to my paint room & start on the City of the Ancients miniatures. I've started on the Ancient City figs. the 4 Heroes (the gun fighter arms were really fiddley) , the Tentacles , Void Spiders are done & I'm working on the Stranglers(##@@@%&&**) they are bitches!! probably the only figs. so far that I'll need modeling putty to fix up. There Tentacles & tails have some of the worst connections I ever seen . Taking a break before I continue on them. No Mass! it's 5:30 & I'm packing my assembly in for today.I finished up the damn Stranglers so tomorrow AM I'll do the 3 Night Terrors & the Goalith . I figure I can base coat Monday. Sighing like the night wind and sobbing like the rain,— Wailing for the lost one that comes not again: |
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11-01-2014, 11:09 AM
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11/1/14-got up really early (why do old people do that?) & was thinking about SoB now that I had some time to read
the Adventure Book Materials & Rule Book I wanted to see if any radical changes to my Mine Users Guide & Solo Set guide were needed. My Timeline is about 12-15 years ahead of Jason's FFP but close enough & as mine has some bases on actual history I'm keeping my version. I did find that my 13 Mines had to be expanded to 20 to work in the basic Missions from the Adventure Book so I reclassified the Mines as Portal, Lair (the old non-portal) & Mundane (Basic Missions from the Adventure Book + a couple of Fan Missions from BGG). I also made the Hero choice of a starting upgrade a random draw & firmed up the Solo Rules for just the Wave 1 material. I'm also still debating over assembling the red variant monsters that appear in the Ancient City & Swamps (Slashers vs Swamp Slashers, etc. ). On one- hand why would the same fig. change color just because of Location in another world & it's like 24 more figs. to assemble & paint! Then again you could say they adapted to the environment & their cool. I wonder if FFP will include other monster from the Core Sets when they put out the Other Worlds? I will finish assembly on the Core Set figs. Today & by Sunday could have the additional figs ready (thank God no alternative Strangler figs!!! ) & put off a finial decision on painting them up. It's getting cold here in S. Jersey & I'm concerned about getting my Spray base coat done. It works best at 50 F+ & I'm running out of time. Next week each day has at least a few hours when the Temp. should be ok, actually Tuesday Afternoon may be the best day. If I miss this window I'll either have to base coat by hand, wait till Spring or get lucky with an unusual mild day (we've had 65F Christmases).Neither is an option I want. Once I get things base coated the pressure is off & I can set up a painting schedule. So another cup of coffee, read the paper, see if my wife has any Honey-Do's & get back to finishing my Night terrors & the Goalith. Well assembly started out well enough-I used my Testors Contour Putty (great stuff ,easy to apply, dries hard & you can sand it. I (mainly used it for filling the gaps in Slotta Bases) filled in a few tentacle gaps on the Stranglers & The Harbringer had a gap under 1 wing. Then came the Night Terrors (& I thought the Stranglers were a bitch) They made me work-OK I got stupid & put a couple of feet on backwards but those figs are awkward to put together. I finally figured out which half of the torso gets the arms before being put together & the feet all of them needed the pegs clipped down to fit on the legs. The Goalith Tentacles are big & they really take some holding to fasten them to the half torso but that was the only iffy part. So all the City of the Ancients grey Figs are assembled this PM I'll base them up. Tomorrow I 'll fill their gaps with contour putty. I'm aiming for Tuesday to do the base coating. I like the miniatures but I think some were made unnecessarily cumbersome to assemble & feel sorry for a Gamer who has no experience with assembling figs. Nothing like a couple of days spent in a small airless room with plastic clue & beer chasers...........so mellow Anyway all the figs are assembled including the red other world Monsters variants ...the Night Terrors are the worst to put together ,the 3 red ones were as difficult as the previous Grey ones. They are just a bad design (nice fig. but terrible for assembly) even when you get them right you'll still have gaps. I based all the Ancient City Heroes & Tentacles but tomorrow I'll need to put some contour putty on the Goalith, & Night Terrors & then base them. Monday I'll file off any excess putty & that should make them ready for base coating on Tuesday. The red Slashers also need to be based but I've had enough glue for 1 day. Sighing like the night wind and sobbing like the rain,— Wailing for the lost one that comes not again: |
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11-02-2014, 01:15 PM
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11/2/14- Early start again although I didn't mean to- I forgot to set my clocks back an hour when Daylight Savings
ended. I used some contour putty on the 6 Night Terror figs & the Goalith to cover some gaps. Then I filed excess putty off the Harbringer wing connection & the Stranglers tentacles connections. Then I based up the Stranglers, the Red Bog-Bats & the Red Swamp Slashers ,the 6 Night Terrors & Goalith will need to wait for tomorrow after I file off any excess putty before I base them. The hardest figs to base have been the Slashers they are top heavy & have, for their size, small feet so you need to support them until the glue takes hold. The easiest figs. that need to be assembled have been the Hell/Bog Bats the wings & tongue just fit in perfectly ( unlike some of the other figs where I had to modify the connection pegs to get a good fit) they do however require some filing to remove mold lines. So that's about all I can do today for SoB except continue to absorb the Rule / Adventure Books and check out the tiles & markers sheets which I haven't opened yet. I would love to run a few test games but really don't want to play until the Miniatures are painted. It's just my quirk but I don't like to play with unpainted Minatures (of course that hasn't stopped me from enjoying AToE , Gears of War, BL#2 but there the exceptions-my painting backlog is endless) nor do I like to proxy figs. I have tons of painted figs but there mostly 6,10,20 mm strand based figs for Battle Games. I do have a large painted collection of LoTR 25mm figs & WarHammer Quest figs. so I guess I could proxy-but Frodo with a 6 Shooter sort of pushes my suspension of disbelief a tad too far. Just checked out the Tiles & various Table Boards- The Tiles are gorgeous (I don't think pictures do them justice) I noticed that the KO'd Hero Counters seem to be generic man/woman rather than showing the actual Hero however they do provide Counters for each Hero. I came across a Frontier Outpost Board & had a WTF moment! Nothing in the Rule Book but I checked an Adventure Book & it's covered under selling Black Stone (the Outpost Bank is the only place you can sell the stuff). The depth of SoB is just beginning to sink in; I find it a bit like Fortune & Glory nothing is really complicated there's just a lot of things to keep track of during the game. FFP as usual provides lots of "extra" counters for Home Brew stuff but with so much in the Game it will probably be awhile before I experiment with them. Sighing like the night wind and sobbing like the rain,— Wailing for the lost one that comes not again: |
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11-03-2014, 01:50 PM
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11/3/14-Well I guess Stage 1 is done-all the figs assembled (except for some Red ones I don't need ) ,gaps
filled & based. Just ready to move on to base coating. Today is a little to cold to chance spraying but I can pick up some Black Kraylon Primer today. Tomorrow is going to be close to 70F which is as good as it's going to get from now on so I'll do them then. I've checked out the colors for the Ancient Spiders & the void Spiders & as their basically Grey I have some Dark primer which I think I'll use then I can just highlight the Ancients in White & the Void in light Grey. I mentioned I was puzzled by the Frontier Outpost Table I found in the box but later I realized it's a location on the Town Board & not a separate place. Well ,as" they Say about Kansas City, I gone about as far as I can go" with SoB today. I'll finish up my detailed Rule Book Read ( as I've noted before it's not complicated just a lot of stuff to remember). Sighing like the night wind and sobbing like the rain,— Wailing for the lost one that comes not again: |
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11-04-2014, 04:17 PM
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11/4/14- A journey of a thousand paint sessions has begun- Stage 2 Base coating.
The day has warmed up nicely & the basement tool room is warm enough so let the spraying begin. The Targa Plateau alternative Monsters (Snow Terrors & Ancient Spiders, ) I'm doing in a dark grey primer (& also doing the regular Void Spiders in this Primer as well) just because I've found that white paint I'm using on these goes better over a grey primer. The Stranglers also get this primer as I can just do a little inking for depth & highlight & the pinkish parts around their mouths are easier with a grey prime rather than black) I didn't find the Krylon (or Any) flat black primer for plastics at the hardware store a few blocks from me, so fortunately my wife is out getting her nails done just down the road from a Michaels so she'll pick me some up . In another hour I'll need to flip the spiders over to do their backs & check to see if the spray covered all the Snow Terrors under parts. The Spiders have been flipped & the Snow Terrors have their Pits taken care of so in another hour I can put them in a plastic shoe box & send them up to my paint room. My wife picked up the primer I need BUT she ran into friends & their having a late lunch so she won't be home until later so spraying suspended until she brings me the can. She just doesn't understand SoB is a priority ! Well the late lunch is into dinner territory & I've lost the natural light & my tool room only has a single light bulb so no more priming today. Tomorrow is suppose to be warm as well so I'll continue then. The Grey primed figs are back up to my paint room at least. Sighing like the night wind and sobbing like the rain,— Wailing for the lost one that comes not again: |
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