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Personal logo Dentatus Sponsoring Member of TMP Fezian17 Oct 2008 5:48 a.m. PST

It was good of that bottle of Scotch to sacrifice itself on behalf of the gaming hobby. RIP.

Nice piece BTW. I'm intrigued you made it functional by having stories/rooms for figs, rather than leaving it as straight cosmetic terrain.

I've got some Hordes figs that need painting, which means I'll need fantasy themed terrain, with which means I'll be stealing this idea. Thanks.

Personal logo Editor in Chief Bill The Editor of TMP Fezian17 Oct 2008 6:09 a.m. PST

How do you cut the tube?

Alxbates17 Oct 2008 6:23 a.m. PST

How entertaining do the offers have to be? I can sing a little, but my dancing is terrible.

Not "I can make money on America's Funniest Home Videos" terrible, just "nope, he won't get a second date" terrible.

:(

Sometimes I cry myself to sleep at night…

pphalen17 Oct 2008 6:28 a.m. PST

It was good of that bottle of Scotch to sacrifice itself on behalf of the gaming hobby

It took the Example from all of those Crown Royal "Dice bags"

pphalen17 Oct 2008 6:29 a.m. PST

Whaddya need a door for, when Thrud is guarding it?

Lee Brilleaux Fezian17 Oct 2008 7:09 a.m. PST

Since I sent these pics in I have---

A) put the door in place

B) drybrushed the very top bit of wall, where it merges into the roof.

C) Remembered to line the pieces up exactly, which isn't exac'ly so in the pics.

D) Used it as the final scene in a multi-player 'Chainmail Bikini' convention game. You'd be surprised at the number of people you can have squabbling over three floors (plus scaling the walls).

Bob Murch19 Oct 2008 10:02 p.m. PST

Nice work MJS!

I like the fact that one might remove the top portion to be replaced with an alternate zeppelin mooring mast and gantry or perhaps even a windmill section for those Frankenstein scenarions-without having to build a whole new tower!

Bob Murch
pulpfigures.com

Sumatran Rat Monkey20 Oct 2008 5:49 p.m. PST

It took the Example from all of those Crown Royal "Dice bags"

To quote a conversation between my friend Joe and I:

Joe: "Uh, I think maybe you need to drink less, Scott."

Me: "Nope. Just need more dice, 's all."

Sadly, I've got a green bag, too, that came with a bottle of mulled wine. An ex of mine bought it, I swear.

AHEM.

Anyway, awesome work, Meester Squeent. Always cool to take something simple, and craft something unexpected from it.

Might have to dig out my Necromunda Water Still I made out of the base of one of those MentaDent toothpaste pumps and a coke can, someday, and shoot for the vaunted W…

- Monk

The Reverend McTavish21 Oct 2008 5:51 a.m. PST

I bet he enjoyed the whisky as well. It's a great combination.

Gabriel Landowski Fezian28 Oct 2008 7:07 p.m. PST

So let me get this straight…

STEP 1: Purchase bottle of whiskey.
STEP 2: Drink whiskey.
STEP 3: Go back to liquor store to buy a bottle *with* a tube around it.
STEP 4: Drink whiskey.
STEP 5: Sleep it off.
STEP 6: Try to remember why you drank the whiskey.
STEP 7: Ask your buddy who passed out in the bath tub why you drank the whiskey.
STEP 8: Try and figure out how to cut the whiskey bottle.
STEP 9: Argue with buddy how it's too difficult to cut the bottle, and reinforce the creeping suspicion that it's the easier-to-cut tube that you're supposed to be using.
STEP 10: Try and look innocent when the wife shows back up from her mother's house wondering what "you two boys" have been up to.
STEP 11: Take turns helping each other place band aids on each others' cuts from messing up with the Exacto blade.
STEP 12: Sudden remember it's the *tube* you're supposed to be cutting…
STEP 13: Try and remember which project you were building.
STEP 14: Wake up MJS, who is sleeping in the lawn chair out back wrapped in the Mrs' pink bath robe, which project he was telling you about that required a whiskey bottle…

Lee Brilleaux Fezian29 Oct 2008 6:24 a.m. PST

Gabriel, was it YOU asleep under the sofa, then?

combatpainter Fezian03 Nov 2008 12:03 p.m. PST

It's actually a picture of his house. :)

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