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Aramoro posted:Is there any firm word on what the Jump Master 5000 will be like yet, and the other pilots. Other than the fact it's got a white S-Loop. As far as I know, this is all we have. https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2015/7/31/xwing-out-of-hiding/
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Admiral Joeslop posted:My collection is relatively small so everything X-wing I have fits. Someone I know just got one of these carriers and it looked loving enormous to me.
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Pyronic posted:Someone I know just got one of these carriers and it looked loving enormous to me. I use one for my 40k minis, and it's pretty big. i think i have six rhino tanks up top.
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I use a few of these: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005QWYF?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00 since they have removable compartments they can be reconfigured fairly easily and it's also easy to just pop the ones out for whatever tokens you need. I used this guide as the idea: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/943758/love-gaming-x-wing-storage-solution-acrylic-templa but I never bothered actually doing the part where you cut up the ship packaging and make safe little berths for them since I don't really travel with my collection. They're handy enough for holding a billion dials and the like though.
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Tryin a weird list today: Guri (34) Bodyguard (2), Autothrusters (2) Boba Fett (47) Calculation (1), Recon Specialist (3), Engine Upgrade (4) N'Dru Suhlak (19) Wired (1), Inertial Dampeners (1) Boba and Guri wanna tussle with as many dudes as possible as fast as possible, and N'Dru will hang back and try to nail whoever tries to escape. mostly trying out "Popping Inertial Dampeners to turn on Wired" to see how effective it is.
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Here's my Plano: The top compartments just have extra baggies and duplicate tokens. The big main compartment holds my Tantive and Transport, along with all the rule-books and lists I've printed out, range rulers, and a card box with all my cards in it. Box is starting to get over-full and it's not the quickest to search through, even though everything is sorted into baggies. The side trays have my movement templates and rules cards/dial sheets. The two smaller plastic trays hold tokens. The one on the left is my game kit which contains everything I need to play a tournament style game. The one on the right is extra and mission specific tokens.   I've got one tray for each faction. Didn't show scum because I don't have much yet, just Most Wanted, one Star Viper, and Boba. Most my ships are snuggled into their original molded plastic packaging, cut out to fit in the tray spots. Because of that, I'm able to stack some of the slimmer form ones without much worry, so my X's, Z's, Interceptors, A's, and Interceptors are stacked together. The standard TIE Fighters are jammed together without plastic to save space and because they keep each other from rattling around.  
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If there's anyone from Australia ITT, they have these at Bunnings: I find it's perfect to bring everything I need for league games and tournaments and the plastic dividers are customisable to a certain degree.
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Kai Tave posted:That'd be awesome, thanks. There's a guy I play with who also uses a 732 but I'm not gonna be able to game with him again for another two weeks or so, and I need to figure out a good way to store the bigger and more awkwardly shaped ships like B-Wings, Y-Wings, HWKs, K-Wings, Starvipers, etc.   Bit more space than I thought there would be, especially once some of the models start sharing spots. EDIT: 100 points Etahn A’baht [BB-8, Outmaneuver, Advanced Sensors] (40) Dagger Squadron Pilot [Fire-Control System, “Mangler” Cannon] (30) x 2 Is this too much of a one trick pony? Probably too vulnerable to swarms? Admiral Joeslop fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Nov 17, 2015 |
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Endman posted:If there's anyone from Australia ITT, they have these at Bunnings: Oh hey, which state? May've played with you at one of the local events, if you're anywhere near Adelaide. Also, I've been thinking about getting a smaller case (right now I've got the mandatory double-sided Plano case for my ships and tokens, along with some other double-sided case - also from Bunnings - for all the cards, etc.) for events, so I might need to check that out!
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Man, my local game store is having a flash sale on X-Wing and I can't think of any ships I can justify having one more of. I'm telling myself this means I'm being responsible now, but really it just means I've been grossly irresponsible in the past.
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Major Isoor posted:Oh hey, which state? May've played with you at one of the local events, if you're anywhere near Adelaide. Tasmania, I'm afraid. I imagine these things are pretty popular though, so I'm not surprised to hear someone else has the same kind of setup.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:
Thanks. I repacked my Rebels last night and it's a bit more cramped because I have more ships (3x T65, 2 Y's, 3 B's, 4 A's, 2 K's, 1 E, a HWK, Falcon, and Outrider) but the solution I hit upon was standing a number of the ships on their engines, and if you do that then the X-Wings, A-Wings, and E-Wing will all fit in the narrowest divider space you can make while also holding a single base and pegs. I don't have the large space as neatly divided as you do, the Falcon, Outrider, and both K-Wings are all sharing 2/3rds of the space with bases while the last chunk has the large ship base inserts plus all my Rebel dials, and then I had just enough space to fit the small base inserts. Of course I have zero room left over for any further ships, but that's what those two boxes in the side compartments are for. The Hound's Tooth is gonna be the bitch of the bunch, though. Even if I carve out some of the built-in dividers there's nothing that really holds it like the last case I was using did, so I may just have to keep it in the top compartment for now. edit; lovely phone pic ahoy, also I forgot Headhunters too 
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Nov 17, 2015 22:58
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Kai Tave posted:Thanks. I repacked my Rebels last night and it's a bit more cramped because I have more ships (3x T65, 2 Y's, 3 B's, 4 A's, 2 K's, 1 E, a HWK, Falcon, and Outrider) but the solution I hit upon was standing a number of the ships on their engines, and if you do that then the X-Wings, A-Wings, and E-Wing will all fit in the narrowest divider space you can make while also holding a single base and pegs. I don't have the large space as neatly divided as you do, the Falcon, Outrider, and both K-Wings are all sharing 2/3rds of the space with bases while the last chunk has the large ship base inserts plus all my Rebel dials, and then I had just enough space to fit the small base inserts. Of course I have zero room left over for any further ships, but that's what those two boxes in the side compartments are for. One of the guys at league has a Hound's Tooth; he cut a hole in the top of the container (similar containers to the ones I pictured) so that the top of the ship sticks out. You can also try prying the fins off to be able to lay it down sideways.
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I thought my Stressbot Y-Wing wasn't scary enough, so I gave it an evil-looking paint scheme:
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Endman posted:I thought my Stressbot Y-Wing wasn't scary enough, so I gave it an evil-looking paint scheme: Nice one, looks good! Speaking of painting, this reminded me - what kind of paints do you guys use, for giving a ship an entirely new pain job? I ask because I'm completely new to painting models, however I plan on getting the Hound's Tooth in the near future, and would like to paint up a Z-95 to actually look like the Nashtah Pup to use with it, seeing as I have an abundance of Z-95s. Any info/brand recommendations would be greatly appreciated! EDIT: Oh, and maybe also that Scum Z-95 ace's (don't recall the name) flame job too, after gaining confidence with the brush...drat, really wanting to start now, after seeing all these pics and thinking about the possibilities... Major Isoor fucked around with this message at 09:50 on Nov 18, 2015 |
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Nov 18, 2015 09:40
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Major Isoor posted:Nice one, looks good! Speaking of painting, this reminded me - what kind of paints do you guys use, for giving a ship an entirely new pain job? I ask because I'm completely new to painting models, however I plan on getting the Hound's Tooth in the near future, and would like to paint up a Z-95 to actually look like the Nashtah Pup to use with it, seeing as I have an abundance of Z-95s. Any info/brand recommendations would be greatly appreciated! I mostly use Citadel paints, particularly the layer paints because I like how they flow.
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Endman posted:I thought my Stressbot Y-Wing wasn't scary enough, so I gave it an evil-looking paint scheme: Looks nice. The structure is either bone, gold, or silver but I can't tell from the lighting. I hope it's gold. Major Isoor posted:Nice one, looks good! Speaking of painting, this reminded me - what kind of paints do you guys use, for giving a ship an entirely new pain job? I ask because I'm completely new to painting models 
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Admiral Joeslop posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTVSuD-MUrc So is their schtick being deliberately bad at games like some sort of YouTubr let's-player or what?
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Kai Tave posted:So is their schtick being deliberately bad at games like some sort of YouTubr let's-player or what? They have a ton of 40k videos, one of the Fantasy dudes is in love with AoS, they backed Blue Table Painting during that whole fiasco, and all their videos seem to be devoid of rules knowledge. Miniwargaming 
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Admiral Joeslop posted:They have a ton of 40k videos, one of the Fantasy dudes is in love with AoS, they backed Blue Table Painting during that whole fiasco, and all their videos seem to be devoid of rules knowledge. Man, some people are just really committed to making terrible decisions.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:They have a ton of 40k videos, one of the Fantasy dudes is in love with AoS, they backed Blue Table Painting during that whole fiasco, and all their videos seem to be devoid of rules knowledge. Dare I ask?
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bunnyofdoom posted:Dare I ask? Some guy paid around $5,000 for Blue Table Painting to paint an entire army of Chaos Dwarves. He got them back in a very sorry state; some things only had primer, only 1-2 colors total, lots of bare plastic showing. BTP went out of their way to not offer to help the guy ("We'll send someone out to your house to paint them") and maintained the entire time that they had done nothing wrong. Something like that. EDIT: http://www.somethingswrong.sg/2014/10/blue-table-painting.html EDITx2: He's taken down the initial review video after he got the army back. Here is one where he goes over the army after it has been repainted by another company. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rknAwo9O7Pk The one by BTP doesn't look *bad* but he paid for the utmost quality level and got somewhere around tabletop level. Admiral Joeslop fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Nov 18, 2015 |
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Admiral Joeslop posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTVSuD-MUrc They're really, really awful
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Admiral Joeslop posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTVSuD-MUrc These videos are magical, I just cant stop watching the X-wing videos they put out just to see the nonsense builds and bizarre rules interpretations. kingcom fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Nov 19, 2015 |
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Endman posted:I mostly use Citadel paints, particularly the layer paints because I like how they flow. Chill la Chill posted:Vallejo personally, but I'll vouch for any that come in dropper bottles. It's both easier for newbies wrt amount and doesn't dry like citadel does. I'm using paints I bought 10 years ago when I last dropped the model painting hobby. GW washes are great, though. I must have the last remaining sepia washes they made from back then. Highly coveted, people love them, and I have 3 pots. Thanks for the info you two, I'll have to check those out! Also, would you advise just painting over the top of the Z-95's coat (which would be the 'black sun soldier' scheme, rather than the rebel one), or should I see about removing it, then re-painting it from scratch? (Although I would need to redo the canopy, etc. that way, which I'm not particularly confident about...) Apologies about all my (no doubt simple) questions on this topic; this will be the first painting I've done in years, and my first model-painting ever - so I'm a touch out of my depth 
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You can try stripping the paints off (pop by the mini painting thread to find out how, the best stuff to use will depend on your location) but it's reasonably likely they use enamels for a lot of it which don't come off, so you might just need to paint over. If you do, probably best to prime first.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTVSuD-MUrc gently caress, I just realized this is dumb on two levels. First, obviously Experimental Interface by itself is worthless, but second of all Experimental Interface is a unique upgrade so you can only have it on a single ship.
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Kai Tave posted:gently caress, I just realized this is dumb on two levels. First, obviously Experimental Interface by itself is worthless, but second of all Experimental Interface is a unique upgrade so you can only have it on a single ship. Also  at Expert Handling on Jake Farrell. Just, why?! Why when you could just Focus instead, barrel roll, and not gain stress. These guys are loving terrible.
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Chill la Chill posted:Looks nice. The structure is either bone, gold, or silver but I can't tell from the lighting. I hope it's gold. Steel, I'm afraid.  I thought a bare-metal look would add to the Y-Wings existing "junky" appearance.Also, I did a little more highlighting work on the engine nacelles to bring the detail out more, so now it looks like this:  Gold is a really great idea though. I think my next one will have a blue cockpit and nacelles with gold structure! Endman fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Nov 19, 2015 |
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bunnyofdoom posted:I stopped watching when he started tossing the focus from Kyle onto Jake right after Kyle shot. Also Jan is apparently a recon specialist so Kyle gets double focus? Nah, pretty sure that was a focus token from the first turn he forgot to put on because of moldy crow. He only ever puts one on for the rest of the game. Still got the timing completely wrong on the ability though. Those guys are trainwrecks. The battle reports are tragedies but I just can't look away. At least it makes my own awful decisions seem like masterstrokes in comparison.
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I watched until I saw the rebel player bump all his ships on his second turn and the Imperial player countered by parking an Interceptor on top of an asteroid. That was some spectacularly bad flying.
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Kai Tave posted:gently caress, I just realized this is dumb on two levels. First, obviously Experimental Interface by itself is worthless, but second of all Experimental Interface is a unique upgrade so you can only have it on a single ship. Ding ding ding! You guessed correctly and won the prize: an updated (lovely) picture of my Rebel ship container!  So much room for activities! ------------------ League game tomorrow night; I bought an E-wing a while back and haven't used it in anything but a round of Hunger Games. 100 points Etahn A’baht [Push the Limit, Fire-Control System, Stealth Device] (40) Prototype Pilot [Proton Rockets] (20) x 3 I figure maybe Etahn lumbers along the sidelines then comes in hot when the A-wings are in range of something juicy. Maybe switch out PTL or Outmaneuver or something to do more damage? Endman posted:Steel, I'm afraid. This looks really good; I've been getting the itch to paint minis again and you might be motivating me. I'm considering a black or really dark gray K-wing with yellow instead of red markings. Any thoughts?
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Admiral Joeslop posted:This looks really good; I've been getting the itch to paint minis again and you might be motivating me. I'm considering a black or really dark gray K-wing with yellow instead of red markings. Any thoughts? Thanks! I think Y-Wings and K-Wings look really good in darker colours. For yellow I reckon dark grey would look great, and it would be a bit easier to highlight than black. Yellow can be a bit of a pain to paint, so I'd recommend lots of really thin coats over a grey or even white base. Alternatively you can just paint over the existing paintjob.
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I find the miniwargaming battle reports are doing wonders for my confidence in preparation for my first tourney tomorrow. Yes, I epically hosed up against a Chewie/Leebo combination when I playtested it earlier this week (note to self: focus on the Outrider & plan accordingly for when the opposing player drops to 1-moves so I don't smack into the Falcon), but at least I'm apparently able of making a semi-competent list and maneuvers otherwise (I successfully beat a scum headhunter/glitterstim/assault missile swarm for the cost of Tycho). I look forward to exploding gloriously in the name of the Rebellion!
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Yvonmukluk posted:I find the miniwargaming battle reports are doing wonders for my confidence in preparation for my first tourney tomorrow. Yes, I epically hosed up against a Chewie/Leebo combination when I playtested it earlier this week (note to self: focus on the Outrider & plan accordingly for when the opposing player drops to 1-moves so I don't smack into the Falcon), but at least I'm apparently able of making a semi-competent list and maneuvers otherwise (I successfully beat a scum headhunter/glitterstim/assault missile swarm for the cost of Tycho). I look forward to exploding gloriously in the name of the Rebellion! Chewie/Leebo is a tough list to chunk through, there's no shame in losing to that the first time or three you go up against it. I do recommend focusing on the Outrider which you've figured out on your own, and yeah, one thing to watch for is when those big ships decide to drop speed if they catch you riding on their rear end, especially the Outrider if they're running a Heavy Laser Cannon since they know you'll be trying to stay in that dead zone at range 1. It's one of those things that just comes with practice as you get a better feel for flying against things like the Falcon, being able to intuit how they're likely to move and respond accordingly.
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Kai Tave posted:Chewie/Leebo is a tough list to chunk through, there's no shame in losing to that the first time or three you go up against it. I do recommend focusing on the Outrider which you've figured out on your own, and yeah, one thing to watch for is when those big ships decide to drop speed if they catch you riding on their rear end, especially the Outrider if they're running a Heavy Laser Cannon since they know you'll be trying to stay in that dead zone at range 1. It's one of those things that just comes with practice as you get a better feel for flying against things like the Falcon, being able to intuit how they're likely to move and respond accordingly. Yeah, the guy who ran the list very kindly pointed that out - embarassingly he'd left his own ships at home so he kicked my rear end with the ships I lent him. That stung my pride more than a little.
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