Tale of OG Gamers - High Elves

[maelzch]

box 13 please matt!

[Dave]

Wednesday 20th April - WEEK 16
But also it's pretty helpful if I want to replicate any paint scheme at a later date.

That''s why I do it too!

And the stalking thing... Ok maybe not so much.

Finally box number 1  again(even though you ignored it last time round  )

I like the way the budgie looks though, very nice looks like a lot of effort went  into it (carefully phrased statement based off this article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13128701) my one critique would be I think there is too much static grass on the base and clumps in fewer places would have looked more striking.

[StarDragonFTW]

Box Number 7

[cunningmatt]

I'll have a vowel please Carol

Will "A" do?

And the stalking thing... Ok maybe not so much.

I probably should at this point clarify, that this week's post shouldn't at all be used to infer that I am stalker... honest.

Finally box number 1  again(even though you ignored it last time round  )

I'm happy to be proved wrong, but really last month the only entrant I could find was Ritchie's if you can find the post on this thread I will..., what will I do..., errr... be deeply apologetic... good enough?

my one critique would be I think there is too much static grass on the base and clumps in fewer places would have looked more striking.

Cheers for the comments, glad you liked, to an extent I let the already based models in the army dictate the proportion of static grass I used, and I do like my Ulthuan to be nice and grassy. However with static grass it's a bit like the reverse of a haircut - when you get your haircut you let them cut it a little bit short so it grows into the perfect length, when I flock my bases I go a little over the top so that after four trips in an army case when half the grass has fallen off it's about right!

[cunningmatt]

Saturday 23rd April – Easter Special

Happy Easter, hopefully you're lucky enough to be enjoying the sunshine and a full 4-day bank holiday or 11-day super weekend, if not sorry but think of the good you're doing for a fledgling economy.

Easter's a funny old celebration isn't? Religiously speaking, with my very limited recollection of R.E. it's the most important celebration in the Christian calendar. Which you can understand coming back to life is arguably more impressive than simply being born, I mean every single one of us has done the later – and admittedly I was very young at the time, but I don't remember being visited by monarchy or farmers or having a giant star over my crib. Though, maybe that only happens if you were born in a barn? Although that would imply this treatment happens to every sheep ever born, if so I think we'd have notice by now. And all things considered, I prefer the idea of Farnborough Hospital Maternity unit anyway. Even culturally the average Monday to Friday worker is guaranteed a bigger stretch of time off at Easter than Christmas and the same number of bank holidays, but yet Easter has a lot less commercial/non-religious themeing attached to it.

Having worked and written for Children's television for what seems like a lifetime I can tell you that Easter is very hard to be topical about in a comedy/entertainment style (which is probably why this update is so tedious!). Rightly or wrongly Children's TV tends to steer away from the religious aspects of all festivals, and leave that for other more respectable messengers to convey. Let's be honest how detailed can the morale guidance of an art form that primarily revolves around buckets of gunge and custard pies be? So what does that leave us as the topical inspiration (or peg – as it's known) for an Easter-themed show/blog. Typically chocolate flares up, though generally this always goes the way of one presenter has lots of chocolate eggs and hides them, other presenter finds them, eats them all and gets fat – in fact so likely is this story it's been retold more times than the Nativity itself and nearly as many times as Back to the Future II. And with everyone moaning now that kids are getting fat (to be honest I find fat kids funny) people turn up their noses at binge eating of chocolate faster than at an All-You-Can-Sniff-Coke-Bar. Apparently binge eating chocolate is somehow worse to show to the under 8s than Britain's Got Talent. I ask you! The moral compass appears to have gone somewhat of course me thinks.

So what's left for Children's TV writers/wargamming bloggers to theme their Easter based updates about, well there's daffodils (they're funny aren't they? Not.), hot cross buns (hmmm...) or lambs, ducklings, chicks and fluffy-wuffy little bunnies. Which are only funny if there's some suggestion they might die, and apparently the RSPCA disapproves of such things. Incidentally that's the second time this week I've blogged about the RSPCA, how odd.

One thing I can talk about is the new abomination I've noticed connected to Easter and that is Easter cards. It's part of the greetings card industry's attempts to single-handedly support the Post Office by inventing a serious of random reasons for us to send cards to each other or feel guilty as if we don't love our nearest and dearest. I can just about cope with cards for Christmas, birthdays and the odd anniversary/congratulations/new job/sorry you're leaving/sorry you're dead card might make it through (let's not go down the Valentine's route please; presently I'm currently having a good weekend). Suffice us to say I don't think this list needs to be added to, Easter never needed cards, nor did National Secretary's Day, Flatulence Awareness Week or National Send Someone a Card just to keep WHSmith's in Business Day. So why now do people want to send them to me? Sorry but I'm not interested, it's not as if they're spreading a religious message - which is of course fine if that's what you wish to do I'm not denying that. But Easter cards have all got pictures of chicks and Mini Eggs on, nothing vaguely associated with religion. Quite frankly I want an Easter card pushed through my letterbox about as much as a free tester sample of Anthrax shoved there, so terribly sorry but if you've sent me an Easter card you're not getting one back. I even asked our resident four-year old artist what she thought of Easter cards, bearing in mind she was forced to make some at school before the holidays:



Oh dear, that's rather harsh, she's not a fan then. I think social services will be on my back again.
Anyway the point of all this rant about Easter is that it's very hard to do a topical update on Easter because it's simply not very trash-"entertainment" friendly which begs the question why I bothered in the first place, to which I don't have an answer.

However given this isn't Children's TV, and I can be a little braver, and tackle the subject of religion – and of all the religions Christians seem to be one of the calmest religions in terms of their response to vague attempts at satirical nonsense. I will pose a question I have wondered for a long time: Good Friday, the day Jesus died – was it really Good? I mean if I'd been unfortunate enough to be crucified by a Roman emperor, whose first name sounds a little bit like emergency rainwear that they hand out in theme parks, then despite what else had happened that day I'd consider it to be a pretty rubbish Friday. Dying just before the weekend's always got to be annoying, hasn't it? I mean how bad was Jesus's average day, that his death was a Good day? I suppose the catering nightmare of feeding 5,000 people with just hand full of bits you got at the Jerusalem branch of Tesco Metro would try us all, and 40 days and nights alone in the desert wouldn't be the happiest of times – but then we've all stayed in a Travelodge before. Hmmm, it's a puzzler, but a puzzle that's meant in an entirely non-offensive and humorous fashion (thank you very much any readers who may easily be offended by such puerile tosh – I don't want to be eternally damned... again)!

All this pointless ramble hasn't really got us anywhere I feel I've stolen the last 10 minutes of your life. Apologies. Sadly I've got nothing Warhammer related to say – though am making progress on the Jabberslythe this weekend – so hopefully you'll get to see it at some point.

Before I go, I should mention our current What's In the Box competition – keep your votes coming in by replying to his thread. Sky and Virgin Media viewers can push the red button to turn off their TVs.
And I've got a very special Easter competition, with an actual prize and everything, yeah Easter may be a themeing nightmare but the one thing you can do is have a good old Easter Egg hunt. Concealed throughout the pictures of the last few weeks of blog updates are a selection of Eggs – 12 in fact of lots of different kinds. Can you find them all? If you can, you can win this fabulous prize:



Yeah a triple pack of yummy Cream Eggs can be yours if you can spot all 12 eggs. To enter PM your answer of where the eggs are hidden to me (don't post it as a reply else everyone will know!!), a winner will be drawn from all the correct answers to win the prize and it will be delivered to an OG Games' Night of your choosing by the Easter Bunny (me, and the day of your choosing will really be of my choosing). Please note the 3 Cream Eggs above do NOT count towards the 12. And remember they're not necessarily in this entry, you may have to go further back – though I'm not telling you how far!!

Happy hunting and good luck spotting those Eggs. Plus I wish you a very Happy Easter and in fact a Good Saturday, Good Sunday, Good Monday and even a Passable Tuesday. Enjoy that chocolate!

[maelzch]

...fluffy-wuffy little bunnies. Which are only funny if there's some suggestion they might die

ain't that the truth!

[maelzch]

the more I read on this blog, the more I get reminded of this:

[cunningmatt]

ain't that the truth!

Yep nothing funny about white bunnies, except that I've just watched a very odd programme on BBC One called "Don't Scare the Hare", it's so completely oddly random I can't work out if it's genius or awful. Undoubtedly I'll have more to say at a later date!

the more I read on this blog, the more I get reminded of this:

Looks like my perfect job.

And get hunting for these eggs, sorry Lee but 8 out of 12 won't win you the prize - they're all there somewhere!

[maelzch]

Booo! I just watched don't scare the hare too, ended up just being convinced I'd taken something!

[roland murat]

i caught the end before Dr Who came on - I thought is was dire.