Mosch

I don't know who sent me the mail with the codes but thank you all the same I now have a shiny Junior Adventurer's Kit.

Thanks a lot! I would happily take as many codes as possible to distribute among those who also want one (primarily sakura - she plays too )

I obviously live in the wrong country... have fun at Gencon everybody! I'd love to be able to attend one day...

OK, this may sound a little stupid, but here it goes. Keep in mind I have no idea how GenCon is actually run. I play a browser game called Kingdom of Loathing (It's a great game by the way and if anybody starts to play too I'll gladly accept them into my clan and help them get started ). Now rumour has it that you get a redeemable code in your "GenCon Indy goodie bag" that gives you an ingame item. I have no idea what goodie bag or you would go about receiving one but if anyone has a code they do not intend to use... I would be very thankful for one. Regardless of what the outcome of my request may be I hope everybody has a great time. Meh... I want to go too...

First of all, thanks to everyone who commented on my pictures. I read every single comment of course and I will try to get better http://wyrd-games.net/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=1645 Henrik, evil Warrior, is my first entry. As I said I was going for a comic look. First of all, after about two days I noticed that his right leg looked kinda thin. It seems I have off a piece of his leg when I added the gradient in the background. I also left a white "extension" on the shoulder skull. I missed both problem when I sent the picture in and really have to do better next time. Now about the "paint chips".... there actually aren't any. My primer seems to have introduced little white spots - there are more than those mentioned, look closely at the base, the cloak and the wristband on his left hand. I don't know why this happened... sometimes it's all fine, sometimes it does this. I had no time to correct it, so I just left it as it was. I'm using model master dullcote, by the way, so if anyone has an idea on how to solv that problem just tell me... it annoys me to no end. lizcam, about the eye... I did this on purpose. I agree it seem as if I just can't do eyes, but I just thought it would be funny in a dark way if he lost his only good eye About the skin... those are Reaper paints, the triad ones. I went from the dark skin triad to the tan skin triad to the light skin triad and I think it worked very well. There was not much definition, I agree, but it's not that bad... I've seen worse. http://wyrd-games.net/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=1644 The other one is the Warsmith. This is actually one of the Mini Exchange miniatures I received. I always thought metal is simple. Well, it's not. Giving attention to metal means going over the are again and again while seemingly nothing changes. Personally I am quite proud of the burn marks on the gun barrel and the rust in the recesses - this was actually a lot of work, I used several shades of brown, purple, yellow, red and Vallejo smoke. The oil is black, smoke and green. I know it sounds like a stupid excuse, but it works a lot better in person, when the lightsource moves and reflects differently from the areas. By the way, there was not single drybrush stroke used Some people wondered what the base is supposed to be. Well, the part epople wondered about - the yellowy thing on the edge - is supposed to be asphalt with a small concrete wall thingy... I saw this in actual German barracks and it seperated an area for military trucks from the surrounding field. I have no idea how it is called. I agree that the asphalt sucks though Thryth asked what I used... The rocks are cork, the basic dirt is ground up pumice. The asphalt is thin cardboard, glued in several layers. The wall thing is a piece of plastic - don't know where I got it from, it was in my "looks kinda interesting" - bin. The sunken in barrel is actually part of my old, broken chair. It covered the screws. I just sawed off what I did not need. The sludge is Vallejo gel stuff... forgot the name and I'm too lazy to get it out of the basement I added some neon green paint to dye it. The tubes are really bright to provide a very strong contrast to the metal, but I did not want them to gleam so he won't look too cheery. About the barrel... it just caught all the light "automatically" so to say. I just now wondered if maybe I forgot to dullcote it.... About the metals bluring into one another... I kinda desired this effect, but not to the point that it made details hard to see. I'll try even harder on my next mini Once again, thanks to everyone for the comments! They will help me win next time

True. First thing I thought when the page loaded was "Oh, a Necron"...

http://www.lawforkids.org/toons/browse.cfm Now this is just cringeworthy. I think these cartoons are actually considered child abuse and the voice actors are obviously threatened with violence. Also, watch the Beer trouble animation. No comment at all, just watch it.

I'm more of a Syntha guy usually but the hairy one.... man, he's nice. Also, looks kinda like me, handsome devil that I am

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for emancipation. Come join the army, you hormonally different people The whole Gleichstellungsgesetz ("Same position law") in Germany is utter crap. Full stop. There is nothing left to discuss.

In Germany, every male 18 year old will have to serve some time in the military or do civil service. Of course nobody really wants to. The only thing it really did for me was cost me one year I could have spent studying and of course some stories to tell. Also it reinforced my old opinion about genders being not equal - women do have more rights and chances than men, especially since they have to be prefered to men by law (when applying to a job, a woman gets the job if the man does not have a very large advantage over her one way or another) and do not lose a year as they are not slapped with military duty. It was kinda fun, I admit it, and I have utmost respect for most of the Bundeswehr, but this system really sucks.

Well, Sha Idiot was not. Pigsy, who knows, didn't come across this nickname in the legend. But I kinda thought they were the same person too.... Making him a girl would create the first openly homosexual, lust driven heavenly entity though, wouldn't it? Hm.

It's not his avatar, it's the green dots. I fixed the problem by completely clearing my cache. Best guess I have is that for some reason the page stopped loading exactly when the green dot graphics should have loaded and cached an incomplete image file that could not be rendered as an image, thus displaying the alternate text every time after trying to load it from the cached gave an unexpected result. I base this on absolutely nothing except the fact that clearing the cache has solved my problem. ... I could have thought of that sooner.

"Ritual is a jewel in the rough" seems to be the alternative text to the green thingies he has under his post number and unfortunately this is what my browser displays instead of the picture. I only have this problem with Ritual and reloading the page does not help it in any way. Am I the only one with this problem? If not, could you check the code on your side, Nathan? As a little help, I use Firefox 1.5.0.12.

...did they censor their own images? With octopi?

The trailer MIGHT look a little better than all the rest he has produced, but let's face it, this is UWE BOLL we are talking about. I am sure he will be able to disappoint everyone with yet another cinematic excrement. However, he has already severely beaten up four of his critics, so I guess I'll better say I'm optimistic and the movie will be great! ....DAMN, I can't do it. Let's agree on "cautiously optimistic". (WHY did he choose to be a director? He would probably be one of the best producers ever, but he just had to go for director....)