Rikk

While searching online for suitable materials for the board itself.... I’m now a bit lost, I’d like to make a 3.5 x 3.5 foot board or maybe a 4 x 4 to give space past the play area for putting down cards, etc.

The board itself needs to be fairly thick as to take all the terrain and be able to last, I’d also like to build around the edge of the 3 x 3 feet play area so I can fill inside with cork and make some inbuilt rivers/wetlands.

With this in mind, I have no idea what type of wood to get, shops in U.K. have Hardboard, mdf, chipboard, etc.

Could I ask everyone for advice please?

thanks

Hi all,

So I would really like to make my own board to play on.

I have a nice board that I got on an old Kickstarter and I’ve been glueing and painting lots of pre-bought mdf buildings and crates to make a city/dock theme, but I’d really like to make a board from scratch.

Something I can really get creative with and hopefully have a lot of fun making.

As I’m also playing and really enjoying Gremlins this year, it only seems right I should work on a Bayou swamp themed board.

EDIT: I’m going to keep this section of the first post with WIP to date pic

In preparation I have made some attempts (still WIP) of small hazardous terrain swamps as a bit of a tester.

 Here is a cut of mdf which I will add air dry putty to (uhu glue to mdf)

The putty then gets pressed down (A little water helps smooth things out)

I then got a bit carried away and painted a dark brown and added some resin water effects 

So it’s not a bad start, I will get out the dremel and file down the sides, paint, add texture and flock before adding more resin to top up the water level.

I went for a murky brown water colour that matches the bases of my Gremlins.

Paid 😀

Let’s see if this works...

WIP for the month, very little progress and I need these for a tournament in a week....

14 hours ago, Amdor said:

@Rikk Icarius suggested https://imgbb.com/ and it has worked fine for me. It's free, easy to use and provides a link the forum converts directly into an image.

Thanks muchly, will give it a try later 😀

Lots of really great models being painted up this month from the WIP people are posting.

I’ve literally not done anything yet.

I’m also having an issue uploading pictures to the forums.

Could someone please point me in the right direction for a free to use picture hosting site?

thanks

Here’s my photos for Feb completed work, will also post my stuff to do for March in March post now I’ve got light and a camera phone to hand.

lighting and camera not the best, I’m happy with results even though pics are not the best.

Have already submitted point cost that is on the spreadsheet so I’ll not put here to save confusion.

For March I shall be pledging (And sticking to);

Ulix (15)

Penelope (2)

Piglets (4x 1-7) - at least 1, possibly more....(happily got a box from a friend and then one turned up in LGS, they are difficult to track down at present)

Total of 21-38 ss depending how I get on

Hi,

monthly tally for February for Rikk

Total 26 ss

wong 15 ss

wild boar 5 ss

Raphael 6 ss

Fair bit more very far into WIP so good head start for March

pics likely tomorrow as sooo busy at work (hospital) and wife now oncall tonight so have kids dinner, bath, story, bed etc to do

@Burnin' Coal wow, as others have said amazing, also very much like the shirt colour

@Franchute Hi, posting pics tomorrow, busy month at work, birthdays and inlaws visiting.

finished Raphael, wild boar, Wong

still working but likely finish Merris

carrying into next month as ongoing WIP Gracie, survivor

supringly loads done

So having had a mad bit of inspiration I have almost finished Wong already.

also working on a young LaCroix and Raphael.

pics tonight when I get home.

bit concerned I’m now painting mini s from 3 different crews so need to calm down and get one finished and then move to the rest or else I’ll be gaming with half painted crews all year.

@Franchute Hi, mulligan for me for month one please.

Have managed to get about 160 SS worth of Gremlins built and sprayed black, some with gremlin skin as a base layer (as min requirement for tournament last Sunday).

Have also almost finished one wild boar and also working on a display base for an Ulix theme swamp crew.

All in all a positive start if no completed miniatures just yet.

Struggling quite a bit this month.

work has been a nightmare and I’ve been cutting and glueing models ready for tournaments.

have almost finished one boar and making a start on Ophelia later.

May just get a model done this month but then with upcoming tournaments and two crews worth of models glued and undercoated I should be fairly motivated to paint.

Hi all,

thank you you for the feedback and useful advice.

I have a tournament this weekend where I’m looking to learn more, try out and see how things go.

a generic list that I’m not constantly changing models and just learning gremlins will be the plan.

Im thinking of going with

Ophelia with full 7ss cache and useless junk upgrade

Fingers with stilts and dirty cheater (haven’t read cards yet to check all this is legal)

Burt with dirty cheater

taxidermist 

slop hauler

survivor

survivor

young la croix

 young la croix

9 models some heals and hopefully a bit of longevity to get some VP

i seriously cannot locate my Franc and Raph models hence why they haven’t made the cut (sock gnomes have grown tired up hiding my socks and upgraded to plastic)....

Are there any other suggestions to swap models out/in?

thanks

Payment sent, thx

Wow, didn’t realise they could do all that, esp to heal themselves, thanks for the info. Def keeping one in the crew now 😀

Thanks all, really appreciate the responses.

I think against Sonia I need to be less nervous and can bunch a bit closer than I did.

will try hiring a stuffed piglet as well as a Taxidermist and throw both into combat ASAP.

hopefully having the crew closer together will assist putting out burning.

we were fairly close together starting off on flank deployment and Raph and Rami in addition to poor flips and bad hand on my part didn’t last too long. I think a gremlin gun line could probably deal with the witchling stalkers reasonably well.

thanks

Hi All,

bit of background, I’ve been playing for 2 years but only get games at tournaments and probably 4-5 tournaments a year, so learning curve is interesting. Especially first ever game (didn’t get spoon at that tournament).

i usually finish bottom or close to bottom table but have more fun playing than trying to win games, and with such a great community it’s not difficult having fun.

Im switching from Ressers to Gremlins this year and a friend has started playing Guild, so I’ll now get regular-ish games in.

last night first game I beat Sonia with ophelia 6-4 in a game that felt I was on back foot whole time while only pulling off a win taking Sonia out turn 5 (leadership) and denying him picking up evidence markers.

i really struggled against burning, he also summoned about 3 models (stalkers) which from turn 3 was out activating me.

(sorry for long intro)

so so my questions are;

Slop haulers, I don’t see how they are that good having such a low healing per 2 AP, unless I bunch my models up, are there better healing options to consider?

burning, was horrible, I had an upgrade to remove conditions but my models were being burnt after they had activated. Any models/upgrades good for this?

i had spread my crew out a reasonable amount as I was nervous about blasts, should I keep closer together and focus on taking out enemies nearer to me before going for schemes?

taxidermist, until I committed to throwing him into charges he was pretty useless. I didn’t hire any stuffed pigs and couldn’t get to a corpse marker to summing one until turn 3. Would you hire any or have tricks to get them in quicker?

sorry for daft questions, rereading seems I’m more whining than asking questions.

have had a good read of most of the posts in the past few months and will be listening to schemes and stones pod casts later tonight.

any help, pointing in right direction would be much appreciated.

i don’t have a huge amount of gremlin models but could get hold of things fairly quickly.

thanks

rikk 

Woohoo sorted out photo issue, here is Ulix and of time Penelope will get done too

I’m pledging Ulix, glued together and a nice little base made, painting to start tomorrow.

annoyed my phone photo is too large so will have to log onto laptop to resize before posting un-primed starting point

Ophelia = Wicked Witch

Franc = Lion

Rami = Tinman

Pere and pig = Dorothy and Toto

Raph = Scarecrow

Young La Croix = Winged monkeys or my personal favourite = Munchkins

20 hours ago, Reservoir Dog said:

What about some kind of wizard of oz style? Mah (or trixie) could be Dorothy, little lass (or old cranky) could be Toto, sparks could be tin man, Francois could be scarecrow and Burt cowardly lion? Wong is fan as is for the Wizard!

Yes to Wizard of Oz theme, unsure which models I would like to see, think one of the master boxes rather than mixes, Ophelia could be good

Can only make Sunday event 😪

funds sent 😀

Hi please sign me up for Henchman, epic fail on it this year but have loads of masters to put together and paint, so one a month should be doable.

thx