tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48371742096666109392024-03-04T12:23:30.986-08:00Rovanite's BlogFeaturing news from Grekwood Miniatures, and random stuff from RovaniteRovanitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04237141363161464934noreply@blogger.comBlogger90125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4837174209666610939.post-57899902291281656932015-12-22T11:41:00.001-08:002015-12-22T11:41:42.427-08:00Dragons Teeth Tank Traps<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ31IpCxmW1pHIdwQdajBCVaUspg5RnbrX226H4mTnsQgCA2TshzjtocQ1KV0J9xiQRdbkixNjdMU42RWJo7nbVqfe1DKzIoH4psWlXg0JlJAaV9wUpnkXKw1vTNXtTnBGY_rThg9-R7Q/s1600/P1070419.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ31IpCxmW1pHIdwQdajBCVaUspg5RnbrX226H4mTnsQgCA2TshzjtocQ1KV0J9xiQRdbkixNjdMU42RWJo7nbVqfe1DKzIoH4psWlXg0JlJAaV9wUpnkXKw1vTNXtTnBGY_rThg9-R7Q/s400/P1070419.JPG" width="400" /></a>A month or so ago I used some 3D software to design some tank traps aka "Dragon's Teeth" and I gave some to my dad who built some scenic pieces. I've been casting those up and I must say they look pretty cool when all stuck together!<br />
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There are straight sections, and corner sections. Each corner section is made up of 3 pieces, one being 15 degrees, another being 30 degrees and the final one being a 45 degree angle. There is also an outside corner piece for curving the other way (makes sense when you see it).<br />
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<b><span style="color: orange;">The Casting Bore...</span></b><br />I get bored of casting as the first cast is always held back as a "master" as the original piece sometimes gets broken when de-moulding. I then need to cast up a set for painting/displays, and then I need some to "destroy" a bit with weathering, war stuff etc. Finally after all those are cast I can start casting for selling... It's a lengthy process and not too bad if only one cast is needed, but when a set include 4 or 5 of the same item, it means I have to cast up tons before I can even start casting items to sell. Gahhhhhh... gotta get done!<br />
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<b><span style="color: orange;">Season Greetings!</span></b><br />
Finally I'd just like to wish everyone who stumbles across this page a Merry Christmas or happy holidays for whatever you celebrate this time of year. ...and if you don't celebrate anything this time of year, then I hope you have a great few days anyway!<br />Rovanitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04237141363161464934noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4837174209666610939.post-90094062372242505102015-11-14T03:28:00.001-08:002015-11-14T03:28:15.432-08:00Barriers, Barrels and a Vacuum Chamber<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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Ok, so over at Grekwood Miniatures I've been learning to use 3D design programs as I thought it would be a good thing to get into. I started off with basic shape items that I thought would work well for an apocalyptic style world and therefore came up with the below items.</div>
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Before I write about these items, I just want it noted that most of these items have been done by other companies over and over. So while it's nothing "new", the dimensions will be different, plus what I plan to do with them (and their prices) will also make them unique.</div>
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<b style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: orange;">Tall concrete walls</span></b><b> - </b>I made walls which are 55 (or 60cm, can't remember!) high. I plan to destroy some to have bullet holes, cracks etc. I also plan to do extreme damage, like broken ones which can all be replaced as and when they are destroyed in games.</div>
<br /><span style="color: orange;"><b>Jersey Barriers</b></span> - I originally made these to scale, but realised that since the figures are on bases, it made them look small. So I scaled them up a bit to compensate the base, and now they look more "correct". I have made the main barrier and a sloping end piece.<br /><br /><span style="color: orange;"><b>Tank Traps (Dragons Teeth)</b></span> - I decided to do these as they were simple shapes to get used to using the 3D programs. I also noticed that many companies only do one or two shapes which can look a bit boring. After some quick research I saw that there were many shapes and sizes, so I thought, why not do them all! Variety is good, right? There are 6 varieties.<div>
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Good news is, everything is casting up well, so hopefully they will all be available later this month as I need to build up a large enough stock. </div>
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<span style="color: orange;"><b>15mm</b></span><br />Other good news is all these items will be available in 15mm scale. Again, I thought I may as well produce stuff in 15mm if I can.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: orange;">Pinzguaer</span></b><br />Oh it's probably worth mentioning, for those that don't know, I've been making a Pinzguaer model (6x6). I also plan to make a shorter 4x4 version. Hopefully these will be available soon too. Depending how they sell, I may make more as the vehicles I used to stock from S and S Models have all been discontinued.</div>
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I bought one! After a few years of struggling with air bubbles in resin, I finally had the funds to buy a vacuum chamber. It's basically a glorified cooking pot, with a thick acrylic lid, some funky pipes/gages and a pump. The good news is it seems to work really well!<br /><br />I used to have tons of trouble with the hospital beds I made. Casting them was a pain as there was always an air bubble somewhere because of the fine detail. But after a few tests, the chamber seems to solve the problem!<br /><br />Right Oh, as always thanks for stopping by, and apologies for the absence of posts!</div>
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Yesterday we headed to Bristol for a new wargames show called "Blast-Tastic". It was a show purely about Sci-fi, which was cool to see as so many have historical figures everywhere.<br />
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Overall it was a decent day. We left Cardiff around 07:20, and got there around 08:10-20 which gave us plenty of time to set up our stand (see image right). As soon as we finished setting up, we got our first order, and from then on there was a steady flow of customers throughout the day. There were a couple of quiet moments, which were welcomed (always nice to have a sit down!), but in general it had a nice relaxed atmosphere which was great from a traders point of view.<br />
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Amongst greeting customers, I finally met Colin from "<a href="http://downamongtheleadmen.blogspot.co.uk/">Down Among the Lead Men</a>", he's been a great supporter of Grekwood Minis, so it was cool to meet him. We started to have a chat and then I had to deal with a customer, so we only had a brief chat, but I'm glad I finally met someone from the blogs!<br />
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There were quite a few games going on, which we slowly watched from behind our stand. My dad (who is in one or two of the photos) had a look around and said he saw some pretty cool stuff happening. I didn't really get a chance to have a close look around, but I guess there's always next year! The table next to us (<a href="http://precinctomega.co.uk/">Precinct Omega</a>.. above photo) had developed some rules for the Dreamforge figures which we stock, so that was pretty cool!<br />
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So yeah, great day! We'll definitely be going next year. I just want to say a big thank you to Michael Stockin of <a href="http://www.angelbarracks.co.uk/">Angel Barracks</a> who organised the show. Also to everyone who bought from us or came along to say hi, thank you, your custom is always appreciated!</div>
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<span style="color: orange;"><b>Lets start off with some Grekwood Minis stuff!</b></span><br />
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The armoured guys are the regular infantry, whereas the claw guys are more expendable and are there to cause disruption amongst the enemy. I'm not sure whether they would be clones or not yet, but then i guess that's not for me to decide!<br />
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I started discussing things with Simon a few months ago, but wasn't in a position to buy in new stuff. So a few months later, I have some extra cash and started to stock some of PZM's figures! I thought they were pretty cool, and sell for an extremely good price, so why not!<br />
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I'm sure most on here have already seen them, but here they are on the right!<br />
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I believe they are most perfect for post apocalyptic games, or even during a virus outbreak! I really do like the SWAT/Security team!<br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><b>My first Pistol Prop!</b></span><br />
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Once built, I used grey primer to show up any flaws, sanded it down, resprayed etc etc.<br />
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I decided it wasn't good enough as it is, so I decided that I was going to introduce electrics to it! Towards the front (on the sides) there's a groove where a light should be, so I will wire up some LED's and add a switch so they can be turned on or off :)<br />
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I plan to make a resin mould of this, so I can make more than one if needed ;)<br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><b>Captain Hook:</b></span><br />
I also made a cosplay costume based on a TV show called Once Upon A Time, and a character named Killian Jones/Captain Hook! I think I have posted the costume before, but just in case you haven't seen it, here's some photos (click to enlarge).<br />
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I realised a couple of days ago that I was missing the necklace which he wears, so I sculpted that too, and I think it turned out pretty well:<br />
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Rovanitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04237141363161464934noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4837174209666610939.post-52815081320186917632014-05-20T05:01:00.000-07:002014-05-20T05:01:26.161-07:00Ritual/Summoning CirclesHi everyone,<br />
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It's been a while again since I wrote a blog. I don't really come here much any more as I get occupied with Facebook or other matters, so apologies for not "getting involved" with things.<br />
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I uploaded a few more items to our website. So here they are:<br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><b>Ritual Circles (http://www.grekwoodminiatures.co.uk/RitualCircles.php)</b></span><br />
These come in 3 sizes (S M and L), the smaller ones are perfect for markers or for placing underneath a characters base. The M and L ones are perfect as more of a centrepiece or something eye catching on a table. They can be used to summon demons/spirits, cast spells, make sacrifices, or even used as teleportation devices to get from one realm to another... or just to get from one part of the table to another.<br />
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For all you zombie fans, maybe it could be a place where the darkness originated and spawns from?!<br />
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So anyway, here's some photos (Click them for size info and bigger pictures).<br />
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Below is a clear resin police box. The clear resin means the it can be painted and the windows can be left clear to give a "real" glass effect.<br />
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Also below is a nicely detailed UK post box! It's a perfect combo along side out telephone box, so go check it all out!<br />
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<b><span style="color: orange;">Grekwood Minis is 2 years old next month!</span></b><br />
Yup! I've managed to stay around for 2 years! Huzzah! Hopefully there's another year or two in it. I've expanded like crazy over the past 2 years. I started with only 25-ish minis (as you may remember) and the site has grown considerably, which is awesome!<br />
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I am trying to increase the number of followers on my Facebook page since it's where I do most of my advertising/updates. I tried posting a message for people to share, but only a couple did (which I thank those who did), but it only generated about 6 new likes. So I think the only way people are willing to "share" something is if there is a chance to win something. So I'll have to think of something to "give-away" to a winner...<br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><b>1. Police Boxes and Telephone Boxes</b></span><br />
These were released last month. If you haven't seen them then they are very worth checking out. They are larger than the Fenris/Hasslefree one, but about the same price I believe. They come in blue resin, so with some blue highlights they can look pretty amazing! The telephone boxes are extremely accurate, and even have hinges, door handles and a solid pannel at the back where the telephone goes. Again, a great piece of scenery.<br />
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March saw the release of some Shadowforge miniatures. 10 individual characters which are spread out across the different categories of our website. They have been around a while, but there are some great minis in there.</div>
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Rovanitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04237141363161464934noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4837174209666610939.post-78042186995424377052014-02-07T05:33:00.000-08:002014-02-07T05:33:15.832-08:00It's been a while...So it has come to my attention that I haven't written a blog post since December when the "Zombie & Survivors" rules went online (which are still free by the way!). So I thought it was about time to write a blog and do a little update on me, the business, and aliens....ok, less of the aliens!<br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><b>Business Stuff:</b></span><br />
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On January (25th) we (my dad and I) went to Crusade Wargames Show/Convention! We originally bought a 12' table, but the guy next to use didn't turn up, so the guys who run the show gave us a free table! We now had 18' of table space. We already had out display almost set up (it was about 30 minutes before opening time), so we had to re-juggle everything to make it work.<br />
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Anyway, the whole day was a success! We had a turnover which was almost 3 times that of our first year (last year) and we had double the amount of orders. We were able to meet new customers, and existing ones (which is always good!), so overall it was a great day.<br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><b>Future:</b></span><br />
Currently I'm looking at bringing some more minis to the UK from outside of Europe. There are roughly 100 figures all from one company. The minis I am going to stock have been around for a long time (some not so long but the majority a long time), but I like some of them, and my dad likes some of them, so why not stock them and have a set for ourselves! I'm mainly hoping that some people are unaware of them. But even if everyone has them, there will always be new customers and our website gets to grow even further. I plan to sell them cheaper too...that's always good...right?<br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><b>Personal Stuff:</b></span><br />
Nothing much is going on with me really (I'm boring!). I have started making a long leather coat (it's not real leather). It's meant to be like the one "Killian Jones aka Hook" wears in "Once Upon A Time" TV show. It's cool, so I thought I would try and make one. Maybe even sell them if I find it easy enough. Below (left) is the WIP so far (with a dodgy photo of me pulling a face for no real reason).<br />
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Also the Mass Effect armour is coming along nicely, but I lost my "mojo" with it a bit, so I need to get back to finishing it off... But here's how it looks at the moment (right):<br />
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Apart from that nothing is really happening with me. Just plodding along doing this and that, and shouting at the xbox when I get shot on Battlefield 3... Good times...<br />
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Anywho, cheers for reading, and I apologise for not getting around the blogs much at all. I do most of my online stuff through Facebook!Rovanitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04237141363161464934noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4837174209666610939.post-56447490314736670642013-12-23T16:44:00.000-08:002013-12-23T16:44:32.674-08:00"Zombies & Survivors" RULES now available for FREE!Hey all!<br />
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First of all Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays to you all!<br />
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I have finally finished checking over the zombie rules we have created, and they are now available, for FREE on the website right here: <a href="http://www.grekwoodminiatures.co.uk/Rules.php">http://www.grekwoodminiatures.co.uk/Rules.php</a><br />
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<b>...and so it continues...</b></div>
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<b>TURN 7:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj56ek88BrzfFB46_MS4XXcI4yKYI9tAPQu0QbwAN7nH8oKl6mtOQXUE4g-Yn8wvORLPxq1pyKorpAivM-CJVwG2QpgiW1mzyn9sw6XpSAUkV4ipawQCyt6JIAWwXA69HWOD5AenpVvN4I/s1600/11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj56ek88BrzfFB46_MS4XXcI4yKYI9tAPQu0QbwAN7nH8oKl6mtOQXUE4g-Yn8wvORLPxq1pyKorpAivM-CJVwG2QpgiW1mzyn9sw6XpSAUkV4ipawQCyt6JIAWwXA69HWOD5AenpVvN4I/s320/11.jpg" width="320" /></a>All four members cautiously move forward into the gap
between the lorry and the red car, while Xavier protects their backs. Gina,
Adele and Ben decide to reduce the number of zombies coming from down the road
(which are now visible to all) , but they ALL miss (terrible shooting and I
feel another wave of panic begin to spread!!). Xavier tries to slow the mass of
party zombies coming down the and shoots the maid zombie reducing her to a
stumbler. <span id="goog_1428090048"></span><br />
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Since the survivors are moving around a vehicle, some
zombies cannot see the survivors any more, so the zombies who are closest (coming up from the local store)will head towards
the last place they saw the survivors as they don’t know where the survivors
plan to go. Well they don’t have much brains!</div>
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Finally, luck is on our side, we rolled a 19 which means no new zombies appear!!</div>
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<b>TURN 8:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuV8-oBM-ay1cN7w6V4-X69u51MFTyvdWLvx35TmXKPCUCJrP9HXC4-uI9VY3njoaayN9enGPrCCDPyQygPUW1mzhbVcbKQkekm0cVllE2BmAZ176ixD0Gk1JcLiNIp2TwEqMjHky7aE8/s1600/12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuV8-oBM-ay1cN7w6V4-X69u51MFTyvdWLvx35TmXKPCUCJrP9HXC4-uI9VY3njoaayN9enGPrCCDPyQygPUW1mzhbVcbKQkekm0cVllE2BmAZ176ixD0Gk1JcLiNIp2TwEqMjHky7aE8/s320/12.jpg" width="320" /></a>All the survivors continue to move <u>extremely </u>cautiously.
Gina moves through the gap in the vehicles and around the back of the lorry,
while Ben moves around the red car to protect Gina’s back. Xavier and Adele cover the others whilst
moving backwards. They all shoot…but miss!!! Arghhh Now’s not the time for bad
shooting with all those zeds getting closer!!<br />
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7 more zeds appear at 2 different locations… will this town
ever run out of zombies?!<br />
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wooded area (aka Dragon Park) is relatively clear/empty. They need to increase
the distance between themselves and the zombies as there are just too many of
them, so they decide to leave the protection of the cars, pick up the speed,
and jog into the park. They don’t run as the view isn’t 100% clear as zombies
could be hiding behind trees.</div>
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Since they are jogging they get a negative modifier, and
unluckily everyone misses yet again, what’s wrong guys? Good job there’s now
some distance between them and the approaching hordes! </div>
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The zombies creep forward, but luckily no new zombies
appear. Maybe the town has finally run out of zombies (yeah.. I doubt it…).<br />
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Since there is a little more distance between the survivors
and zombies, the survivors decide to stop jogging, and walk deeper into the park,
while heading towards their primary objective, Grekwood General Hospital. Both
guys manage to hit and kill oncoming zombies, while both women score hits which
only wound. But at least that’s better than the misses they have all been
having lately!</div>
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As the zombies move in, 7 new zombies appear at locations 1
and 3. Luckily 3 is on the other side of the table so it most likely won’t
affect them.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBjNU4Lp7RLuxqCt2wDexacvMBCGg1UTnWCzaCLV6pZ5G9OxZi6YxW5o9IMxR8DniGinGaSm4Dh7l4XsXPCPu-Hhe9XV_dGLlJfp2ii3ngK6KnaZw0LWiA6ARjAwvJ8KvxRxF7cqtp5BE/s1600/13-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="129" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBjNU4Lp7RLuxqCt2wDexacvMBCGg1UTnWCzaCLV6pZ5G9OxZi6YxW5o9IMxR8DniGinGaSm4Dh7l4XsXPCPu-Hhe9XV_dGLlJfp2ii3ngK6KnaZw0LWiA6ARjAwvJ8KvxRxF7cqtp5BE/s320/13-4.jpg" width="320" /></a>The survivors see that the Hospital fire escape is close, so
they head straight for it. Xavier and Adele both miss. Ben searches for a shot
through the woods, sees a nurse, shoots, and kills her… “yes!” he says under
his breath. Gina sees the pregnant zombie, and hesitates, but realises she has
to shoot, and ends up killing her.</div>
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and take a quick look to see if there are any zombies present. Luckily it’s
clear. Knowing there is nothing on the stairs, all turn their back to the fire
escape for one last shot. Ben quickly fires, but misses everything…he doesn’t
even hit a tree (it was that bad!). Xavier and Adele both shoot and kill 2 more
unlucky zombies. With no zombie too close, Gina searches for a visible shot,
and amazingly she spots a zombie through a tiny gap in the trees! She raises
one of her guns, looks down the barrel and through the gap in the tree, and
pulls the trigger. Boom! It’s a kill!<br />
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This is our favourite photo (to the right) of the whole game. We used
“line of sight” a lot to determine who we could see, or what we could shoot,
and this just takes it to a whole new level of “real” line of sight! The gap between the trees was SO small, but enough for Gina to see a potential kill.<br />
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Because the survivors have reached the base of the stairs,
this now activates the zombies in the hospital wards closest to the survivors
(the zombies we placed on the roof when setting everything up). We do the location
rolls using a 6 sided dice, and determine that there are 4 zeds on the middle
floor in the ward, and 5 zeds in the middle floor day room. Now the hospital
entry points are activated, it means there are now 8 entry points total.<br />
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point 7, 2, 5 and 7 again. 11 zombies total with 2 being on the ground floor of
the hospital.<br />
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survivors go up the first flight of stairs to increase the distance from the
zombies. A “normal” walking pace takes you up 1 flight of stairs per move. They
see that the day room on that level 1 is full of zombies, so they have a
choice, either fire, OR use the rest of their “move” to get to the bottom of
the second flight of stairs. Since they only moved 4” it meant they could
either shoot, or turn their move into a run and move a total of 8”.<br />
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Not wanting to get trapped by the zombies coming from the
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The survivors scrambled up the stairs. Amazingly, the day
room was empty which allowed the survivors to gain access to the hospital. …and
so the game had ended!<br />
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Overall not bad! It’s the first game we have done where we
have actually reached the primary objective and the first game where we never
had any injuries!</div>
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The game turned out to be a rather strange one for most zed
reinforcements all seemed to come down the back alley where the party zombies
came from. I suppose [in reality] that’s where the housing estate is so the
game actually gave a ‘real’ result. <br />
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When we started we thought we would have been forced more
toward the general store, rather than the straight line option we actually got.
If more reinforcements had come in at the back edge, then everything may have
turned out differently.</div>
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With our survivors entering the hospital, the next game will
be to get the meds and scarper! (when this game will happen I don't know... so for now, that's all folks! Hope you have enjoyed it. Stay tuned for the rules which will be posted up on our website in the next week. Everything has been delayed as I have been ill for about 2 weeks, but I am finally starting to do better, so apologies for the wait!<br />
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All comments as usual are welcome.</div>
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Rovanitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04237141363161464934noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4837174209666610939.post-38966034230890609472013-11-24T15:01:00.001-08:002013-11-24T15:01:38.734-08:00Testing Grekwood Zombie Rules PART 1<div class="MsoNormal">
My last post showed how we roughly set up the table, so now
we’re all ready to go into action. Using
our FREE downloadable fast play rules (which will be online in the next few days), we
mention that any zeds in the open on the playing surface would automatically be attracted to the survivors. I’m not going to give a play by play account
of what happened, so I won’t bore you with all the specifics, but you can get
all those from the rules! For ease of
play we assumed all the starting zombies were walkers.</div>
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Our four heroes: Adele, Ben, Gina and Xavier pulled up in
their car, with their head count trophies neatly stored in the back. The actual street seemed quiet. Everything
seemed clear but there was an almighty ruckus coming from the back alley behind the houses to
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The group moved cautiously down the road. But unknown to them,
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We rolled for priority using a 20 sided dice, and
unfortunately the zombie was first to strike. This meant he caught the
survivors by surprise (never good on your first move!). The house zombie
therefore entered the street but luckily he was rubbish and failed to bite
Ben [the closest survivor to him].</div>
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the noise of the approaching zombie, manages to spin around and clobber him with his bat and lands a critical hit! The zombie is no more… One down 7 billion to go whoo hooo!</div>
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Meanwhile…. the zombies in the back alley have sensed there
are survivors near, and begin to pile into the back gardens and rear of the
nearby houses (You can roll to see if doors are open/unlocked, or you can
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The rest of the zombies on the playing
surface now move towards the survivors, in as straight a line as possible. Since the survivors were taken by surprise by the first
zombie, we needed to see how it affected their morale. So we rolled, and
everyone failed!!!. The gang, now scared, automatically started to run away…
well, that was a quick game!<br />
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Rather than running off the board or jumping back in their
car [as would be normal], we decided to leg it down the road towards the petrol
tanker (which appeared clear).</div>
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Since our survivors are routing, they have to be dealt with
first. Being startled they ran down the road at maximum speed towards the lorry which meant they are unable to shoot. </div>
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All the zombies therefore continue to head directly towards
the survivors. The party zombies in the alley way continue to move towards the
survivors previously known location as they can’t see them. This means they are now moving through the houses!</div>
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We now checked to see if more zombies appear on the board…
but luck is on our side, and no new zeds appear!</div>
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Morale is tested once again at the end of the turn to check
if the rout is stopped. One zed is within 8”, but there are obstacles
in the way and nothing to “startle” them. No survivors are injured, so using
the necessary modifiers (please see rules) every survivor manages to recover
from the rout. Yay!</div>
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Having recovered from the rout, the survivors get their
bearings and become aware of the party zombies piling out of the house by their
car. Nooo!! That’s the get-a-way vehicle is now compromised! (Photo left)</div>
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The gang of survivors
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Using the cars as a shield, they decide to shoot at the closest
zombie to them, the “shopping lady zed” (image below). Adelle from Admin is quick to
fire but misses, but Ben hits and wounds the zed. He turns to Adelle, smiles,
and says “Yeaahh! That’s ‘ow it’s done”. Being wounded the shopping lady zed is
now reduced from a walker to a stumbler as the shot didn’t kill her. Gina 2
guns attempts to finish the zed off but also misses!! Luckily Xavier shoots and
kills. Yep… the men saved the day (the women had better stats on paper!) So that's two zeds down!! </div>
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The zombies all move at a regular zombie pace and the new
arrivals are calculated using the zombie reinforcement table. Zombies will
enter the board at 5 locations, these being location 5, 1, 5, 3 and 3 again.
Rolling a 6 sided dice, we determined how many turn up at each location. 12 new
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After the combined successful killing of the shopping lady,
the survivors continued to walk cautiously up to the next car (the black one),
where they were faced with more zombies coming from around the corner of the
local store. Adelle decides to shoot first at the female zombie which is
getting a little too close. She manages to wound her, and Ben quickly follows
up with a killing shot. Xavier tries his luck and shoots at the other close
zombie... He scores a critical hit! </div>
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Gina “2 Guns”, with
no zombies too close, decides to go for a long range shot, and unbelievably
scores a hit which kills a zombie all the way in Dragon Park! Seems like the
girls are getting their own back on the lads!!</div>
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The zombies all move closer again, with more zombies
appearing on the table at 4 different locations, these being locations 1, 1, 4
and 3. A total of 11 new zombies appeared. 4 appeared at location 1, 4 at
location 4, and finally 3 at location 3.</div>
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The party zombie horde behind the survivors seems to be
growing quickly, so the survivors decide that they desperately need to put some
extra distance between them. They move to a jogging pace which gives them a negative
modifier when shooting. They see that there are zombies to their right coming
around the side of the local store so they have 2 options:</div>
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to kill the oncoming store zombies and get to the local store (plan B) with no
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After some quick thinking, they decide to head towards the
clearer area by the left of the lorry
and take out some zombies. Since they are now jogging, they have a -1 modifier
to their skill level. We rolled to see who gained priority and who was able to
shoot first (this isn’t essential, but it can help if you are keeping score of
zombie kills/ammo etc). Gina and Ben both shoot and miss by a mile! (Gina
rolled a 20, and Ben rolled 19!). Xavier managed to kill the male zombie
sporting the yellow tank top, and Adele managed to wound another. </div>
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The zombies etch closer and their groans become louder and
louder. Fresh zombies appear at 2 locations, bringing a total of 8 new zombies
to the board.</div>
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Adele decides to move cautiously to the corner of the houses
to get a better look of what lurks around the corner. It’s not good…there are
more zombies coming from the 5<sup>th</sup> entry point. Xavier slowly walks towards the lorry, with
Gina closely following behind. Ben moves in-between both Adele and Xavier. </div>
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Xavier and Ben both shoot but somehow miss!!! Noo!!!!!!! Luckily,
Adele (with a + modifier since she’s moving slowly), and, Gina save the day and
both score hits which kill. Another one for the girls!</div>
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The zombies all move again, but only 4 new zombies appear at
2 different locations.</div>
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I don't want to make these posts too long, so in a day or two I will post another with the second half! I will leave you with a photo of the party horde coming up the road from the rear as you can see the side horde in the above photo.</div>
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Cheers to everyone who has taken the time to read this so far. Any comments are welcome!</div>
Rovanitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04237141363161464934noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4837174209666610939.post-6512198187694392472013-11-16T08:55:00.001-08:002013-11-16T08:55:57.578-08:00Setting up: Using Grekwood Zombie Rules<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Some of you may know that we
(Grekwood Minis) have created some zombie rules. So last week we tested them
out and played a demo game. I will use this post to explain how the
demo game went, and how we set everything up!</div>
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So here we go, (Click all images to zoom)</div>
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The first thing we did was lay
out the game surface (right), then select the type of game we were going to play. This
may sound a reverse way of doing things, but it actually stops you introducing
preconceived ideas into your layout as you have no idea what scenario you’re
going to play during set-up.</div>
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We wanted to keep things random,
so we rolled to see which of the five game styles we would play. We got the
Salvage and Scavenging scenario. Therefore the aim seemed quite simple. We had
placed our hospital building PDF in the top right corner of the table so it
seemed logical to mount a scavenger raid on it. </div>
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Our earlier helicopter recon showed the ‘Zed Zone’ to have a low level of activity
and since the copter was low on fuel we’d have to go in by ground transport. Since we’ve played a couple of
games before we knew that the chances of success for our Plan A was usually
quite low (we like a challenge!), so we always do a back-up plan. So Plan B was
to visit the local store “Greksco”, grab a few beers, toilet rolls, toothpaste
and some tins of grub if we get blocked in!</div>
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how many player characters [survivors] we were going to have. We chose four,
two men, two women (we wanted to keep things even!). So here's a photo of them: </div>
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We did all the roles for skill
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<b>Xavier</b> is the ‘extrovert’ of the group. No-one knows his real name,
and no-one cares to push the issue. He’s the third most skilful being a tad
above average, but despite his flamboyant nature he’s suffering some chronic
health issues which means he doesn't like to close on the ‘zeds’, preferring to
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the ‘team’ in place. Since the prime objective is to reach the hospital, we
inserted the group on the left edge of the playing surface. Like I said, we wanted to make things difficult and that’s the furthest away from our
objective. From looking at the table, we were able to identify four insertion
points here – two roads [A & C] and two alleyways [B & D]. So we rolled
the die and found they enter at C, allowing them to drive the vehicle onto the
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where the ‘zeds’ are and how many. So we do our rolls and find we have 20
‘zeds’ on the access/entry points and a further 28 on the ‘grid’ (rest of the
playing surface). Luckily we got some really low rolls here which meant there weren't many ‘zeds’ on table at the start…always good news! The ‘zeds’ have five
entry points [1-5], they can’t use alley B as it’s been fenced off and they
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reinforcement table (in our rules) we rolled a 6 which means the ‘zeds’ appear
at three separate entry locations. Rolling for these we find they are points 2,
4 and 4 again. With 20 ‘zeds’ we split these between the three entry points as
best we could, giving 7 at point 2 and 13 at point 4… umm maybe there’s a party
or something happening?! Here's a photo:</div>
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Next we have 28 ‘zeds’ to go on
the ‘grid’. The grid is formed by the basic tile system we use [at Grekwood
Minis]. These tiles form a visible grid on the playing surface and by using a ‘battleships
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Our table was 8 tiles by 13, but
we ignored the far right column as it was far away from our entry point and
makes rolls easier as most gamers probably have a 1d12 [if not a random number
generator on the internet will do the roll for you]. We used a 1d8 for the
depth (8 tiles) and 1d12 for the front edge of our area (12 tiles). Once we
pinpointed a tile, we rolled a 1d6 [for the number of ‘zeds’ present per tile)
and placed the resulting number on that tile. We did this until we used up all
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Rovanitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04237141363161464934noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4837174209666610939.post-51569769271257022692013-11-05T15:11:00.000-08:002013-11-05T15:11:06.979-08:00Please vote for my small business!It's been one month since my last blog post, so here's one!<br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><b>VOTE FOR MY SMALL BUSINESS... please??</b></span><br />
A friend of mine who runs a small illustration business entered a give-away the other day. It's for Small UK Businesses, and there are 10 prizes of £1000 and 1 grand prize of £5000. The 10 x £1000 prizes are being given out throughout November and December, with the final 3 and the "grand prize" being given out on December 11th.<br />
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So, being a very small business which is very much in need of help, I decided to enter. So please could you vote for my business?<br />
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The link to vote is here (it's not spam...despite looking weird... but it is safe I promise): <span style="color: orange;"><b>http://bit.ly/1hJSoKW</b></span><br />
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You don't have to sign up to anything, or provide any details or do anything. You just load the page, scroll (if you need to) and click the button which says "vote for us". It's that simple!<br />
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You can vote <b>everyday </b>if you want. You don't have to, but it would help increase the chances :)<br />
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Oh and I uploaded an unedited photo...urgghh, and I can't change it...so that kinda annoys me, but it's my own fault for not paying attention!<br />
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It should look like this:<br />
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I painted both of those... it's some of my best paint work :D</div>
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<b><span style="color: orange;">If I Win?</span></b><br />
I've pretty much assumed I won't win the £5000 grand prize. I think I'm unlikely to win the £1000, but it's more likely than the £5000. If I won anything, it would help fund some more miniatures, and I may venture into the whole digital "sculpting" thing which many companies seem to be doing... even though they don't really need to as they have plenty of real sculpting talent anyway. I personally don't class it as "sculpting", but more as "computer design" as you are not physically sculpting any more, but yeah, maybe i'll be good at that since I am a computer geek lol<br />
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<b><span style="color: orange;">PDF Houses</span></b><br />
If you haven't already seen, I've been working on some pdf houses. They are small, and mainly for scenery, but the roof can be taken off if you want for figures to be places inside. But it's not big enough to play games inside, it's purely for show and reference.<br />
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Rovanitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04237141363161464934noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4837174209666610939.post-83800387110046238072013-10-05T02:51:00.000-07:002013-10-06T08:58:42.223-07:00Painted Zombies and Armour<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I finally finished painting the new costume zombies. I decided to base them on clear bases/counters as they interfere less with the scenery and overall look of the gaming table.</div>
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Speaking of counters/bases, I decided to buy in some transparent coloured counters/bases, as I thought they might be useful as either coloured bases, or markers/identifiers in games. They can easily be painted on, or scenery can be glued to them, so they can be customised to whatever you want.</div>
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I have been busy building my Mass Effect armour. The frame for the mannequin was built using plastic tubes, and then a stand for it to "stand up".</div>
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Rovanitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04237141363161464934noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4837174209666610939.post-11884372058969398562013-09-23T11:34:00.001-07:002013-09-23T11:34:53.467-07:00New Zombies, Painted Zombies, Armour, and a Manikin.Hi everyone,<br />
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I've been a bit quiet around here so here's a large-ish blog for you :)<br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><b>Miniature Stuff</b></span><br />
The "Costume" zombies are now available on the website!! Yay! I was excited when sculpting these as they were kind of fun. I'm currently in the process of painting some up for the website, and here is a WIP photo of what I have done today :)<br />
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I have also been painting up all of the WGF zombies over the past few weeks (I haven't touched them in about a week or so), which were also fun to make up. Below are images of the male horde and then the zombie vixens. The male horde come with tiny bases, so they have been based on 30mm to in-keep with our zombies.<br />
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I have been building some Mass Effect Armour for fun using a combination of EVA foam tiles and "funky foam" sheets.<br />
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Finally... Kate (my wife) helped wrap me up in duct tape. That is me in the photo, but I covered my head up with that of Commander Shepard from the Mass Effect games...as my face looked weird. However, I chose an equally weird face to cover mine up with (it's been comically morphed...not by me..).<br />
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This isn't some weird fetish, I am making an Mannequin/Manikin of my body so I can easily fit the armour onto it.<br />
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You wear old clothes, you wrap yourself (or get someone else to wrap you up) in duct tape. That person then cuts your clothes off and you struggle/slide out of the "duct tape skin".<br />
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Now I have to build a "skeleton" so that it can "stand up". Once that's done I can pack it full of stuff (newspaper, old clothes, whatever you want), until it is all "tough". I will make a blog of the next steps :P<br />
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Once this is done I can continue with the rest of the armour.<br />
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Cheers for reading as always :)Rovanitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04237141363161464934noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4837174209666610939.post-46858502453967226192013-09-03T15:25:00.000-07:002013-09-04T03:46:36.085-07:0010% OFF Most AccessoriesI have decided to give a 10% discount (through email order, not through the website) on most of the accessories I stock.<br />
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When you hover over "Accessories" on the menu, you will see sub sections called "Scenery", "Sculpting" and "Other". I have decided to give a 10% discount on everything under those 3 sections (apart from putty).<br />
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September 30th is the last day of the deal. You MUST email me with your order and I will send you a payment request, as it is not available through the website. Any website orders will NOT get the discount.<br />
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Apart from sculpting the latest batch of zombies, I have been busy painting up the Wargames Factory Vixens and Male horde. In the photos below you can see the progress so far.<br />
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Apart from the zombies, I also have to paint up the survivors and the Dreamforge guys. I might leave the Dreamforge guys for a Christmas thing if I get bored lol<br />
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I should have my new zombie range sorted this week, so off to the casters by the weekend. Hopefully they will be back in my hands around mid to late September, so in time for some Halloween gaming!!<br />
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If any of you guys are interested (or know of anyone who might be) I also decided to get in the Zulu wars range from WGF too. I have to order a certain amount of items each time I "re-order", so sometimes it's easier to buy a whole new range to make up the numbers. I do love the Zulu Wars though, so it worked out well, but that will be the last of the WGF stuff, as I don't want it taking over the website... like it's starting too!<br />
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Kinda thought the zombie bust would make a cool zombie t shirt. I may be alone in that thought though!! haha Maybe I might do it... I dunno lol With a bit of photoshop i think it could work...<br />
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I thought I would start by letting everyone know that the WGF Female Survivors are on their way to us, so if you would like to pre order them please send me an email to carl@grekwoodminiatures.co.uk or grekwoodminis@btinternet.com and I will reserve a pack for you. They will cost £15.50 so quite cheap!</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">I know everyone here who has Facebook probably already "likes" my <a href="http://www.facebook.com/GrekwoodMiniatures">Grekwood Miniatures</a> page, but I thought it would be worth posting here just in case someone didn't, or you think someone might be interested in this mini give-away.</span></div>
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On sculpting front, I have been busy sculpting a new batch of zombies!!<br />
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It's assumed that a deadly virus hit whilst some people were at a party, or trick or treating, or whatever you like really! I don't have any WIP at the moment, but some costumes include a witch, French maid, ghost (one with a sheet over them), and a guy dressed as Frankenstein monster :P<br />
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Ok that's all for now, go check out the website, it's growing all the time, and fast too :)Rovanitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04237141363161464934noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4837174209666610939.post-46173636657919358502013-07-07T01:40:00.000-07:002013-07-07T01:40:21.020-07:00Dreamforge now available! (and more zombies)So this month (July) I have uploaded the Time Lost investigators, but I have also released a number of plastic figures.<br />
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They are known as the "Dreamforge Stormtroopers". I saw these a month or so ago and thought they were pretty awesome. So I picked up some for myself, and some for the website!<br />
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I stock all the main troop/accessory packs:<br />
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So I will post those up next week too. I was going to wait until August to try and spread things out a little, but though, why not!<br />
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Anyway, that's all for now!Rovanitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04237141363161464934noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4837174209666610939.post-65574637072238153142013-06-23T03:04:00.000-07:002013-06-23T03:04:19.926-07:00Redesigned Front Page<div>
I decided to change up the front page of the website. I thought that people may not scroll down to read the "What's New?" section, so I have decided to bring this to the top of the page. I also wanted to keep the large "promo" photo at the top too. So, I have shifted it all around as shown below:</div>
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A few days ago my wife went into hospital to have a second/final operation to put everything right. She's doing well and should be home in the next day or two. So yay!</div>
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Apologies for the delay in getting a Blog out there and for not getting around the blogs as much as I should!! I've been very busy with personal things as well as the business stuff.<br />
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I have been up to quite a bit, which most of you probably know already through newsletters or Facebook, but here it all is for the past month-ish with some future plans:<br />
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<b>6) Zombie Bust (possibly)</b></div>
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All items can be found on our website: <a href="http://www.grekwoodminiatures.co.uk/">www.grekwoodminiatures.co.uk</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: orange;">Win a Painted Hasslefree Resin Master for Charity:</span></b><br />
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Finally, but by no means least, Hasslefree have donated a resin master figure and Ben Brownlie, has painted it up (to a very high standard) and is now auctioning it off in memory of my brother Gareth (aka Grekwood). All money raised will go to the CGD (Chronis Granulomatous Disorder) Society Charity, which deals with research into cures and medications to help people with CGD.<br />
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CGD is a rare immune system disorder which leaves the individual unable to fight certain infections and can often be life threatening.<br />
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A £5 donation gets you 1 ticket in the "hat", and a donation of £10 or more gets you 3 tickets. Auction will take place on the 24th of June (i think), but you have until the 23rd to donate.<br />
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All donations can be made here: <a href="http://www.justgiving.com/Gareth-K-Sutherwood">http://www.justgiving.com/Gareth-K-Sutherwood</a><br />
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Before I sign out, I would just like to wish Bryan (aka Vampifan) a speedy recovery, and I hope we will see him back very soon!<br />
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Cheers everyone :)Rovanitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04237141363161464934noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4837174209666610939.post-14955388656813311342013-05-12T00:04:00.000-07:002013-05-12T00:04:48.107-07:00This Months Releases!It seems like ages since I have posted anything here, but I guess it was only about 2 weeks ago!<br />
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1) All 4 interchangeable werewolves have now been released on the website. They retail at £7 each or £6 if all four are bought. They are priced so because they are 40-45mm in height and quite "bulky" in build. They are meant for 28mm scale, so in real life terms they are about 8 to 9 feet tall...so big and scary!</div>
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I am pleased to finally announce that The Tenderiser will be released tomorrow (Monday 13th May). He will retail for £8.25 as he is the biggest figure (weight/metal wise) on my website!<br />
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Bexi and the Space Ranger will be up either later this month or early June. This is because I am going to paint up some of the Bexi character as commissions for some people who are not really into the hobby, but would like one as they know the person it is based on (so cosplayers).</div>
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Rovanitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04237141363161464934noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4837174209666610939.post-54637503604823940942013-04-20T14:35:00.000-07:002013-04-20T14:35:44.361-07:00Grekwood Miniatures 1st Birthday!It's apparently been over two weeks since my last post... crazy! I just thought I would talk a little about what will be going on in Grekwood Minaitures over the next few months. Before I start, here's a fun photo some of you may not have seen:<br />
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Recently I launched the expansion pack for the hospital. It's been a long time waiting so I am happy it is finally out there! I also uploaded the mini dinosaur I sculpted to the website. He can be found in the "Critters" section.<br />
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<span style="color: orange;">Birthday!</span><br />
On the 27th of this month it will be Grekwood Minaitures 1st birthday! To celebrate this, I will be releasing the "Grekwood in a Fez" tribute figure (sculpted by <a href="http://insosworld.blogspot.co.uk/">Inso</a>) on Monday the 22nd. It will be a perfect way to celebrate the 1 year birthday and it will also serve as a reminder to everyone of why Grekwood Miniatures is here.<br />
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<span style="color: orange;">Grekwood Minis is Growing!</span><br />
I have quite a few figures coming out over the next few months. These include the one's mentioned above, along with "The Tenderiser" (marketed as "Hammerman"), Bexi Warrior Princess, and Alliwen the Space Ranger!<br />
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I am also working on some extra figures for the Bioblyte range. This will involve one pack of figures similar to the armless guys, but this time less bulky torsos, and arms which have claws on the end. A second pack will be like the Bioblytes themselves, but holding weapons rather than them being integrated. They will also be less bulked out.<br />
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I am finally working on building/altering the buildings for 15mm scale. This means reducing the files sizes by roughly 60%, and then tweaking the files to make them more suitable. As the walls are not as long, it means some walls can be connected together making less parts. They will be based on 3mm foam board which is weirdly super cheap on eBay. I found 10 A3 sized sheets for £9.99 (bargain!).<br />
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So if you know of anyone who is wanting some 15mm stuff, then send them our way!<br />
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Here is a promo photo from above. I have put the car park and some roads out around the hospital to make it look "real".<br />
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I'm pretty happy with how it has turned out. hopefully it'll be ready in the next week or two :) I still have to take some photos (tomorrow) as the battery ran out whilst photographing it the first time.<br />
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Ok, that's all I have to talk about at the moment, apart from... HAPPY EASTER!!! and if you don't celebrate it, then have a great weekend as always!<br />
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My next blog will hopefully have some info about up and coming figures ...<br />
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