Hi Exmouth; I found myself missing Berkeley; maybe next year. I'm rather bogged down with my Dissertation with a delivery date looming.
Congrats on the best army! I was thinking abot the Broop this morning. My thought process ran something along the lines "if we had about a 1000 Broop and the Bat we'd have a Salute game that would look bloody brilliant." I don't suppose you fancy painting 970 more?
If I enjoy the Zama game in April, I might do an even bigger Ancients miniatures games in 2011. I have one in mind that would use most of the Zama figures, the same terrain with new bits added and which would be generally pretty easy to put together.
9 September 2009 at 10:00
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I realised on Saturday that it is exactly 5 years since I launched the Bat that gave me its tag name, and I thought it might be fun to give him an anniversary outing on the blog.
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"Batty" was built (over a period of 3 months) for the Berkeley HoTT contest in 2004. He represents the feared Crimson Bat, Weapon of Mass Destruction of the Lunar Empire.
The base he flies over is 6x10 cm. To keep him upright, I cast the core of the burning cottage of solid lead; a hundred or more little lead men gave their lives to keep Batty in the air. The crewmen are mostly Ral Partha 28s. His illuminating eyes were LEDs taken from MacDonalds toys.
[Image]The photos are hurried, and not the best, but are clickable. If you look closely you may be able to see the swarm of bats on the magus's staff, and the victim wrapped in Batty's tongue.
He doesn't get out much, but has featured in a number of games at Salute over the years...
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Close this window Jump to comment formso you melted down minis to make the cottage?
7 September 2009 at 03:59
Yes; a sacrifice seemed appropriate!
However, they were all either very old or broken. I poured the molten metal into a metal junction box and built the cottage around it.
Cheers, Simon
7 September 2009 at 08:37
Magnificent. Bonkers, but magnificent.
You missed a healthy ammount of Gloranthan fun this time - my Delecti army won best 15mm army, and there was a 25mm big battle in the evening.
7 September 2009 at 13:57
Hi Exmouth; I found myself missing Berkeley; maybe next year. I'm rather bogged down with my Dissertation with a delivery date looming.
Congrats on the best army! I was thinking abot the Broop this morning. My thought process ran something along the lines "if we had about a 1000 Broop and the Bat we'd have a Salute game that would look bloody brilliant." I don't suppose you fancy painting 970 more?
Who won BTW?
7 September 2009 at 14:12
Pete Duckworth won, Benedict was second. A very good weekend.
8 September 2009 at 11:35
Aw, I wish I'd been there. Maybe next year!
So I presume that's a "no" on the 970 Broop? ;-)
8 September 2009 at 11:40
That's a no... :-)
9 September 2009 at 09:41
Aw...
If I enjoy the Zama game in April, I might do an even bigger Ancients miniatures games in 2011. I have one in mind that would use most of the Zama figures, the same terrain with new bits added and which would be generally pretty easy to put together.
9 September 2009 at 10:00