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What I like most about these: the dwarves with the weapons removed would be perfect as blood bowl minis, a blitzer and a trollslayer respectively. The bone caller is nice, I expect to see some painted up for the rotting harvest contest if the mini is released before then.

I like it. And my FLGS has Freebooter minis in stock :thumb: . I´ll pick up this one for sure.

I really like that banner guy. Would be a perfect fit for my BloodBowl human team, as one of the off-field support guys. What faction belongs it to? Griffons or Alahan? The snakethingy is nicely weird. I like it. The others are just silly. The leaping elves would actually look pretty good without the head-supporting thingies ... The top two remind me of the similar overladen GW personalities.

Ok. here we go: Partytime! Me drinking some nice Bourbon while partying with my football (football! not soccer!) team. We got 3 hours of sleep and still beat the opponent up ... Playing my favorite mini/boardgame, BloodBowl, during an official tournament That´s all for now ...

@sp0n: I have seen the reaper zombie wolf as a BloodBowl werewolf. It fits nicely and isn´t too big.

What I like: It´s not just a nude human female with batwings, like some of the DHL succubi frome reaper (Adara is one of them, I think). She has some really nice devilish features, esp. the cloven feet. Sword´s way too big IMO and the horns seem to be attached on, not realy growing out of head. I like the wings and their tattered look.

Hmmm. I entered one of my current favorites (Combichrist) and it came up with bands I already know or absolutely don´t fit. I guess for some styles, listening to a specific streamradio-station makes more sense to get to know new bands.

at first look I read "pawt somethwg", because the "in"-letter combo looks like a "w". Put them apart a bit and you´re fine.

Happy Birthday! ... and welcome to the club!

Mostly Electronic Body Music (EBM): Front 242, Klinik, Nitzer Ebb etc... and its offspring, Futurepop: VNV Nation, Covenant ... plus Electro-Industrial: Hocico, Wumpscut, Winterkälte for example One of my recent favorites is Fixmer/McCarthy. Mindblasting electro stuff from a techno dj and the former singer of Nitzer Ebb. :blowup: I also like some old-style gothic rock (Sisters of Mercy, bauhaus, Fields of the Nephilim) and some synthiepop (Depeche Mode, Joy Division)

I don´t mailorder very often, but my experiences: positive Reaper: Ordered a boxed set there and it got to me in about 3 days. That is a very very very rare super-fast shipment from Texas to Germany. Normally these things take about 10 workdays. I only paid for regular UPS shipping services and not the fastest one I actually got. so-so GW Mailorder Europe: They´re slow, It takes about 2 weeks to get a shipment from UK (where the warehouse is located) to Germany. But I got all my stuff. And this is the only place I know, where you can buy single minis out of boxed sets or multi-mini blisters. Very important if you´re a BloodBowl player, who doesn´t want to blow his money on "team boosters" to get a playable team (and then have a dozen minis or so you don´t need at all). negatives no negative experiences until now. At least none concerning minis or RPGs ...

I´m a roleplayer too. I play mostly fantasy. Currently using only DnD 3.0 as a DM and a player (Yep, that´s right, we never "advanced" to 3.5). I have played some other systems in the past and hope to play sometime in an Earthdawn campaign.

Basically two things brought me into the world of pewter miniatures: - the release of DnD 3rd , because the rules emphasize using minis on some kind of battlegrid. And as a DM you need a lot of minis ... - the BloodBowl game. I got it as a gift, got hooked and shortly thereafter sat there with about 5 teams, which had to be painted. favorites: Reaper and Rackham, no favourite sculptors or lines. Up until now I only did fantasy stuff, because of the games I play. I buy all the minis I can get there at my local FLGS. Sometimes they have to order them. I buy minis online (ebay) if I can get a mini I´m interested in at a bargain price or if it´s not available at a store nearby. Obvisiously you can get GW stuff everywhere, but Reaper, Rackham and Warmachine are easy to come by even here in Germany. Even Celtos minis or shadowforge (alternatives for GW BloodBowl minis) are in stock at my favourite store.

Books to read: Neal Stephenson: "Snow Crash" (has one of the most badass evil guys I´ve ever seen) William Gibson: "Idoru", "Virtual Light" and the short story collection "Burning Chrome" (this one includes "Johnny Mnemonic") Marianne DePierres: "Nylon Angel", "Code Noir" and "Crash Deluxe" (Trilogy set in near future Australia, where the media control everything) Jeff Noon: "Vurt" (That one is just strange ... ) You could also take a look at: Joe Haldeman: "Forever Peace" (not strictly Cyberpunk. Story is about (US-american) people remote-controlling combat drones spending weeks in virtual reality. If I remember correctly. Has been years that I read that one ;-) ) Alastair Reynolds: "Chasm City". Chasm City is the second book in a five-book space opera series, but can definitely read independently. Very nice ideas about genemutation, nanomachine sickness and general societal decay. Story is limited to one planet (with some flashbacks to another planet).

I read mostly SF (my motto is read SF and play Fantasy ...), so my list includes more SF than Fantasy, but anyway: SF Iain M. Banks: He´s my favourite author. His books are Space Opera at it´s best, very imaginative and with a good portion of humour in it. Alastair Reynolds: also Space Opera. Very dark and gritty. Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash is cool, Cryptonomicon is really interesting (and teaches you a lot about encryption methods ...). Didn´t read the baroque cycle, though. I also like "old school SF": Larry Niven, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick Some authors are one-hit-wonders in my mind: e.g. William Gibson´s Neuromancer trilogy is great, everything else is merely ok IMHO Fantasy Robert E. Howard; The original Conan stories are a fine piece of literature. Howard´s really good technically. Didn´t read anything else of his work yet, but it´s only a matter of time until Solomon Kane or King Kull land on my bookshelf. Also fine Sword and Sorcery: Karl Edward Wagner´s Kane stories and Moorcocks Elric books and of course: Tolkien There are some game-relatéd books, which I like: The Dragonlance Chronicles by Weis/Hickman, most books by Elaine Cunningham, the Azure Bonds trilogy by Jeff Grubb. Other literature: I like Franz Kafka. Don´t know if you´ve ever heard of him (he´s a german writer from the early 1900s) and I don´t know if his books are translated into english. Very frightening (not in a horror sense) books. You should check out "Der Prozess" ("The trial"?).