OD's SoB Prep Blog

[Old Dwarf]

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.