Conversion Ideas

There is a song by CCR with the words, "Oh someday never comes..." This refers to the promises we make but never keep.

In my case it refers to my ideas that will never come to be but like to think about:

I'm going to have to reorganize this into painting, individual models, armies and full on major conversions/sculp from scratch.

Conversion Ideas:

1. Futurama Cast

2. Battlechasers Cast

3. Necron Army:

A. Cylons (old and new)

B. Droid Army - Star Wars Episode One/Droids throughout the series in a swarm?

C. Penny Arcade: scarabs are Divx players, troops are fruitfuckers, monoliths are fruitfucker primes and the crowns: Gabe as the Destroyer god and Tycho as the Deceiver god.

4. Tenacious D: the Two Tencious Kings of the Underworld: Rage and Cage

5. Darken Webcomic Cast

6. Zebragirl Webcomic Cast

7. LFG Webcomic Cast

8. Tau Army:

A. Mon Calamari as the Tau and that race that lives with them (squid headed) as the Kroot

B. Model the original Gundam ships as Crisis suits

C. Protoss - starcraft, or would they be more like the Eldar?

9. Wookies

10. Dune

A. House Harkonen

B. House Artreides

C. The Imperial House (before and after the first book)

11. Tyranid Army

A. H.G. Giger's Aliens

B. Starship Troopers

C. Metroid Space Pirates and Ridley

D. Zerg - starcraft

E. Pitch Black - movie, whatever those monsters were

12. Space Marines

A. Brotherhood of Steel - Fallout

B. Space Wolves - change to Cats and make all the good characters

C. Chaos Marines - based on Deathklok (Metalocolypse)

13. Fallout

A. Vault Dwellers

B. Deathclaws

14. Imperial Guard

A. Empire

B. Rebel Alliance

C. GI Joe (cast as commanders: Pirate, Ninja Guy, etc)

D. Terrans - starcraft

15. Naga Army - Warcraft 3 expansion

16. Necromunda Army - Chronicles of Riddik

17. Labyrinthe - the movie

18. The Dark Crystal - the movie

19. Demons

A. Silent Hill - video game

B. Legend - Tim Curry's character from the movie

C. Angelic - a full demon army but they look like angels

20. Pirates

A. Davy Jones and Crew

21. Tron

22. Star Trek

A. Scene: Ensign Red Shirt looking at device, BIG Tyranid jumping from above

B. Borg Necrons

23. Chronicles of Narnia

A. Aslan's Army

B. The White Witch's Army

24. Dungeon Keeper

25. Xena Warrior Princess

26. Thundercats? Wait, see Space Marines

27. Villians

A. Skeletor

B. Mum-rah

C. Maleficent + Dragon form!

D. Hades

E. Hook

F. Oogie-Boogie

G. Ursula

H. Cobra Commander (hell + the entire Cobra army)

28. Nightmare Before Christmas

29. Kingdom Hearts

30. Final Fantasy

A. 3 (6) - Magitek Armor

- Kafka

- Setzer's Airship

- Maybe the whole cast based on the artwork?

-The um... Whatever they were called, at least Shivah and Ifrit

B. 7 - Cast? ugh... maybe not

- The elemental things sent to destroy all life on the planet

- Jenova, in all her glory

31. Dark On

A. The different Kingdoms?

32. High Elves

A. Kestrel Army

-Based off the blood elves, mounts are Hawkstriders

-Spellbreakers, etc. Kael as the leader?

B. Find all of the old Heroes

-Imrik

-Queen Arliel

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C. Western themed - Ellyrian army

33. Tremors - the movie

34. Gorillaz - the band

35. Metroid - the game

A. Samus

B. Metroids

C. Ridley

D. Space Pirates

E. Mother Brain

36. Dungeons and Dragons - old cartoon show

37. Legend of Zelda - game

38. Galactic Civilization - ship conversion ideas

39. Eldar

A. Avatar

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B. Circe De Sole - a harlequin-colors and style themed army

40. Alice in the Looking Glass

41. Lullaby - wowio comic

42. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

43. Scene

A. Dante's Inferno - book

B. Florence - city

C. Clerks - movie

44. Flight of the Navigator - movie

45. Gods of India

46. Battle Angel Alita - comic

47. Akira - comic

48. Ghost in the Shell - comic/show

49. Vampire Hunter D - movie

50. Ghost Rider - comic/movie

51. Hellboy - comic/movie

52. Spawn - comic

53. Penny Arcade - webcomic

A. Cardboard Tube Samuri

B. Arcadia

54. The Black Cauldron

55. Xenogears/saga - games

56. Shadowhearts - games

57. Starslip Crisis - webcomic

58. Half Life

A. Portal

-GLADOS

-Chell

-Turrets

-Weighted Companion Cube

-Cake

B. Half Life

-Gordon Freeman, Gman, Etc.

-Army: Combine and Rebels

59. The Old Game

A. The Cast

60. Id

A. The different Tribes

B. The Red Machines - though how do you make them different then dreads?

62. Japanese Ghost Stories

63. Western/Native American

A. How come there are never any cowboy elves? Or dwarves?

B. Ok, ok a western fantasy. Like all the races from the old world found a 'new' land and went over there to settle it in a group. So elves, humans, dwarves, etc. all living in the area. With guns and such too.

64. Vodou

65. Skaven

A. The Secret of Nyhm

B. Albino Army

C. Future Rats?

66. Firefly/Serenity - show/movie

67. Pitch Black/Chronicles of Riddik

68. Dogma - movie

69. Magic - card game

A. Leviathan

B.

70. Disney (see also, Kingdom Hearts)

71. The Wizard of Oz

72. Phantom of the Opera

73. Heman/Shera?

74. The Brain Spawn

75. Quagmire

76. Mafia - like the old suit wearing kind, with the tommy guns

A. Along those same lines fantasy mafia, like the elf mafia, etc.

77. Planet of the Apes

78. GWAR - a band

79. Colonial-Looking Fantasy - with the wigs and everything (I'm thinking an orc in the wig)

80. The Adams Family - show/movie

81. The Munsters - show/movie

82. Sherezadne's One-Thousand-and-One Nights

83. Evil Dead/Army of Darkness - movies

84. Predator - movies/comics

aaaaaaand we'll organize and add to this as we go.

Games workshop shop

So there happens to be a games workshop not in a mall somewhat nearby my house. Usually these places repel me because of, and I hate to admit it, the younger crowd. I can't believe I feel that way. Well this place had a calender of events and the guy there said the older crowd usually plays fantasy warhammer on Tuesdays. Older crowd? Warhammer Fantasy? I might just feel comfortable enough to try this out.

World of Warcraft

It was bound to come up.

Yes, I do play World of Warcraft (WoW).

Bloodscalp Server (PvP) - Horde - Level 70 Troll Hunter named Quetzalcoatl.
Engineer - Mining

There are several things I could say about this game. I've never played any other multiplayer online game like this (multiplayer first person shooters but this is a 'role playing game'). WoW is a lot of fun when you have goals. When you stop having goals the game stops being fun. For example, I hit level 70, bought my flying mount and then really did not know what to do with myself. My guild is a great bunch of people but most of them are really getting burnt out over the game. There is an expansion on the horizon that may break several players of the game.

I'll rant about expansions later.

Recently I discovered (well I finally looked into after much prodding) Daily Quests. You can perform these everyday for money and reputation with certain factions. Up until now I had a difficult time getting money. With these quests I have no problem at all. As my guildmates aren't on in force right now I realized that my gear was going to have to come from somewhere other than dungeons. So I sat down with some data bases and plotted out the items that I needed. This means I will need lots of money, which should not be a problem because of the daily quests. So I'll have moderately good equipment. I guess I could PvP in the Arena but I would more than likely get rolled over because of how far I've fallen off the PvP horse.

All-in-all I have to: level up my engineering, fishing, cooking, get 5000 gold for my epic flying skill, decide if I want a Netherdrake or a personally built gnomish flying machine for an epic flying mount, get all of my equipment, enchant all of my equipment and then start to stock-pile equipment for when the next expansion hits, if I want to play it...

Now expansions... World of Warcraft costs about $50 to buy the game. Then you have to pay $13-15/month to play. On top of that now are the expansion content. To play 'the Burning Crusade' (expansion 1) you need another $40-50. Well 'Wrath of the Lich King' (expansion 2) is coming out soon. A lot of my friends are debating on continuing to play or just calling it quits. I really don't know if I want to keep playing but at the same time, after taking a break from the game, I really get back into it. The other problem is this: when I bought the burning crusade I never played it when it first started. So I missed out on all of the fun and all of my guild was already far along though the game. Now if I play the next expansion when it comes out I might have a better chance of actually getting into the game.

Well, we'll see. In the meantime I also have my Warhammer/Privateer Press/Wargaming Miniature hobby too. Additionally Valve is coming out with 'Left 4 Dead,' you play as one of the 4 survivors against a zombie horde in a city. It should be fun... if I can get a computer that can run it.

Photoshoping Fun!

At the moment I am in the 'pre-contemplative' stage of painting. Meaning that I have a rough idea of what I want but no idea how to go about it.

My current idea is the phoenix. The High Elves are led by the 'Phoenix King' and the 'Everqueen.' Their banners typically show a phoenix rising from the ashes. Their homeland Ulthuan is metaphorically a phoenix. One of their new special hero units is a fiery 'Dragonmage.' They have a special unit called 'Phoenix Guard.'

With all of this fire you would think the High Elf world would be very red, orange and yellow. No, people keep painting them green and blue because they are on the ocean all the time. Well I want a red army (Ulthuan is more akin to Atlantis than Russia in terms of location and presentation, so not a pinko commie army).

So I took a picture of one of the basic high elf warriors: a spearman, unpainted, unprimed. I used photoshop to select the details and then painted them. I'll be honest it is not very detailed but it gives me a better idea of what I want.


Original A B C D

The problem here is that... I like the green one better. What the hell? That was not what I wanted to happen. Now I do like the B, however I wonder if the gold/bronze would be too much? This is the basic unit, maybe I should use C to make them a little more bland and not detract too much from the main army? Also if I painted my whole army with gold/bronze armour then it would look rather bland. I want each unit to have a distinct feel.

Now here is the other problem: I am a 'beginner' painter. I am thinking: 'Should I go for the unified look and just paint every model the same in one unit or should I give each one a little variability?'

Perhaps, for now, I'll stick to the unified feel and then add in details as I get better. That way I can develop my skills between units and get the basics down before I attempt something too outrageous.

I think C for the spearmen/archers and B for the Phoenix Guard. I'll have to decide on my cavalry and White Lions later.

Introduction

Hello,

This is going to be the site where I will post progress on my miniature painting. At the moment I am in the early phases of merely getting the figures together.

For now I am collecting from Games Workshop but will be adding to this as we go along.

Currently working on: Color Scheme.

Army: High Elves.

I took a picture of a basic High Elf Warrior with a spear and then edited it using photoshop. My idea is that I can group certain parts of the warrior and color it in photoshop so I can select a color scheme before I start painting. At the very least I will have some ideas of how I want to paint the figures.

Additionally this is giving me some other ideas: should I paint the basic soldiers in a more simple color scheme so the special troops stand out more?

What is the basic unifying color of the army?

I am also wondering how I should go about making the banners. I could pain a unit banner for each unit but attach the banner itself via magnets. I could them make the magic banners for each banner in the Armoury and then swap them out as I need them.

That might be a project for a later date.

Next post: Color Schemes.