Dungeons & Dragons
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Yeah, those are meant to be thinned and then applied in many coats. One thing that might help is to take the black and thin it a LOT, and use it as a "wash" to settle into the nooks and crannies, to give the impression of shadows. (Normally you'd want to use a darker shade of the same color, but let's focus on really basic stuff to do with what you have.) You could also try mixing your light primer with brown or with skin red to make highlights.
Keep in mind, you do NOT need to prime a Bones figure. One of their selling points is that they come pre-primed.
---Dave
Keep in mind, you do NOT need to prime a Bones figure. One of their selling points is that they come pre-primed.
---Dave
I gotta admit, this isn't quite what I meant. But I got a good price for it on Amazon, so I went for it.
There's some included feet so she can walk on all fours, but switching things out on these D&D figures makes me nervous.
And here they are together. Anyone want to guess who my favorite movie character is?
Can't stop collecting. Can't stop, can't stop.
I got these from Amazon today. Die.cast.metal!
I really like these D&D toys, but I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
I guess you could say I'm becoming a serious collector, though some might say it's a tiefling affair.
I had some of those game minis. I think they came out circa 3rd Edition. The came with stat cards and you had a certain amount of points to spend on what minis you wanted to bring into the game and battle it out. I use to have a bigger collection, but held on to a few of my favorites.
I'd like to comment on these, particularly that Icing Death, but this post is starting to be dragon along.
I'm glad I found these. I thought I displaced them. But they were dridering along with my other minis.
I like these. They really demonstrate how good they were with textures.
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I...I've got nothing for these.
I got these from Amazon today. Die.cast.metal!
I really like these D&D toys, but I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
I guess you could say I'm becoming a serious collector, though some might say it's a tiefling affair.
I had some of those game minis. I think they came out circa 3rd Edition. The came with stat cards and you had a certain amount of points to spend on what minis you wanted to bring into the game and battle it out. I use to have a bigger collection, but held on to a few of my favorites.
I'd like to comment on these, particularly that Icing Death, but this post is starting to be dragon along.
I'm glad I found these. I thought I displaced them. But they were dridering along with my other minis.
I like these. They really demonstrate how good they were with textures.
...
I...I've got nothing for these.
And these just arrived today.
Look, I know my puns can me Drizztful in their ranger. And I really shouldn't be dragon what I was born to do down with clerical mistakes. But I am just a human, fighting to stay mindful of my flayer for the comedic.
Ollie's has the two Campaign Cases for $3 each. Creatures case has a bunch of plastic disks and Colorform-like clings you can put on the disks and then remove to swap out. The Terrain case has a big cardstock folding grid map and a bunch of interlocking map grid squares, and then not-Colorform sheets of scenery and terrain and stuff. They are HEAVY.
---Dave
---Dave
I like kitties. I think I'll call this one Salem.
Say what you will about WotC and their ethics, and I totally would not disagree. But they do put some quality into their products.
Like, I thought that owlbear was hefty (and it is), but look at this beauty! Gah! I absolutely love this thing!
Okay, so quick history of the Displacer Beast.
It started as the alien menace called the Coeurl (yes, Final Fantasy grabbed the name) from A.E. van Vogt's short story "Dark Destroyer." Felinoid with tentacles and the ability to extract potassium from living things as it fed, not to mention other atomic-manipulation tricks that made it hard to contain. This was the inspiration for the Displacer Beast, but ALSO the inspiration for Mughi, the companion of the Dirty Pair. (The anime made him more of a furball, but the original light novels and manga had him pretty closely modeled on the Coeurl.)
---Dave
It started as the alien menace called the Coeurl (yes, Final Fantasy grabbed the name) from A.E. van Vogt's short story "Dark Destroyer." Felinoid with tentacles and the ability to extract potassium from living things as it fed, not to mention other atomic-manipulation tricks that made it hard to contain. This was the inspiration for the Displacer Beast, but ALSO the inspiration for Mughi, the companion of the Dirty Pair. (The anime made him more of a furball, but the original light novels and manga had him pretty closely modeled on the Coeurl.)
---Dave
Huh! Now that you say that, I can totally see the connection between the coeurl and the displacer beast. Of course, it's not the first time FF used D&D monsters with little more than a name change, so it's not that surprising. I just never made the connection before.
I've never seen Dirty Pair.
I've never seen Dirty Pair.
From the pre-anime design, one of the novels from about 1980. Mughi-as-Coeurl postdates the earliest Displacer Beasts, but it seems to be a parallel evolution rather than van Vogt -> D&D -> Dirty Pair.
Here's the Marvel adaptation of the 1939 story (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Destroyer), published in 1974 (I have a later reprint of this, IIRC):
This interpretation of the Coeurl probably inspired the Displacer Beast directly, given the timing and the general Fandom Culture crosspollination.
---Dave
Here's the Marvel adaptation of the 1939 story (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Destroyer), published in 1974 (I have a later reprint of this, IIRC):
This interpretation of the Coeurl probably inspired the Displacer Beast directly, given the timing and the general Fandom Culture crosspollination.
---Dave
S here's my haul f this week.
I'd already been reading this on Kindle app. But I wanted a physical version.
I already had Drizzt, so of course I felt compelled to get Catti-Brie.
And out of the box. The others will probably go into mini-storage. I really just wanted Catti-Brie.
I'd already been reading this on Kindle app. But I wanted a physical version.
I already had Drizzt, so of course I felt compelled to get Catti-Brie.
And out of the box. The others will probably go into mini-storage. I really just wanted Catti-Brie.
So I found the original novel on Ebay. I'm kinda used to reading things digitally, but I'll give it a shot once I'm done with Druids Call.
BTW, this is an actual novel right? As in not a comic? Because, you know, books without pictures can be a real novelty for some people.