The first of a few posts for Azazel's Squaddie/Scenic September Hobby Challenge. It's taken me way too long to get this stuff photographed and ready to post, but now it begins.
First off, no, that isn't a typo in the title. When I was a kid back in the early 90s, one of my favourite cartoons was Darkwing Duck, and as soon as I saw the name "Negavolt Cultists", I knew I was going to have to do them up as a tribute to his longest-lasting and most persistent nemesis, Megavolt.
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| Megavolt Cultists attempt to hunt down Beastmen within the corridors of the Blackstone Fortress, but are outflanked and ambushed in turn. |
Also, on a totally different note, this was supposed to be part of my last post, on my Death Guard army. I made up some "souvenir" copies of my Army List for the event, but it turned out that almost no one wanted them. One guy wouldn't even pick it up. All that, despite the fact that it was just done with coffee grounds and used tea bags and they actually smelled quite nice.
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| It amused me to wait a moment after handing these across and then say "And here's a copy you can actually read" and give them a non-aged sheet in a much more reasonable font. |
I have the same problem with my camera phone with white backgrounds. They look great in the 'action shot' though.
ReplyDeleteLove the Nurgle army list and I would have been more than happy to receive one. I've thought for a long time now that GW's release schedule has promoted a more disconnected approach to an army's background and character within the competitive scene. Most gamers are only interested in the armies effectiveness and don't really care about the aesthetics or the feel of an army these days. Not all gamers are like that though, there are still some who appreciate the effort that people take to embellish the character of their armies, so keep up the good work ;-)
Oh, no, the issue wasn't that they didn't care. It was that, even knowing they were made with innocuous stuff, they still looked gross enough that people didn't want to put them in with their things! :D
DeleteLol, bunch of scaredy cats!..Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering....Job done, they're already on the path to the Grandfather ;-)
DeleteHa! Indeed, one of my goals for my Nurgle Daemons is to someday gross someone out so much with the Army that they won't play it ;)
Deletenow that would be a sight to see :)
DeleteMy army lists are generally only worth writing down on used toilet paper. I may steal your idea. I've never heard of Darkwing Duck tbh but the 90's were a bit of a blur for me overall. Thank God my liver was still regenerating for most of that decade.
ReplyDeleteHa! My handwriting is shitty enough that if I don't have a chance to print them out, the effect is roughly the same ;)
DeleteAs a borderline Gen-Xer/Millennial, I didn't start fucking up my liver until after the turn of the century, so I got the early 90s cartoons. There was some good shit. The Batman series from around then was great, too. Well, Darkwing Duck was basically Ducktales crossed with Batman, so it kinda fits in there anyhow. The X-Men series was a really weird mix of absolutely awesome and absolutely awful.
hehe, that reminds me of an opponent I played once. He handed me his list which was illegible with no punctuation, no points values and no paragraphs. He also appeared to have been using it as a coaster for the entire tournament. My short term memory is so bad that it made no difference anyway.
DeleteHa! Mine are at least organized. It just doesn't matter because they're illegible anyhow.
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