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| mgentile7 | Mar 17 2010, 04:37 AM Post #21 |
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That reminds me of some old GW stuff. What a great Idea for a board. Especially for those with limited space issues. |
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| v_lazy_dragon | Mar 17 2010, 10:46 AM Post #22 |
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But Tink, whats' wrong with TLA's? And come ot that, how about PTLA's? (TLA = three-letter-acronym; PTLA = Pointless-three-letter-acronym ... sorry, really couldn't resist it!) |
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| Mr. Clean | Mar 17 2010, 02:05 PM Post #23 |
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Wasteland Legend/Cat Skinner/Bad Speller/Super Nice Guy B^)
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The hard thing about building a tower like this is the planing.A few test games on it after building and before painting would help find any trouble spots in the way of game play.It could get quite maddening to have the board be less playable than it could have been. Brian |
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| tinker | Mar 17 2010, 02:38 PM Post #24 |
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CEO of "Rat-on-a-Stick" Industries
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Xander, My major problem with acronym's is the usage without knowledge of what it is an acronym for... I've been in numerous situations I felt my knowing what the acronym stood for was relevant and the answer comes back as, "I don't know?" Easy to encounter these working in a technical field. Edited by tinker, Mar 17 2010, 02:39 PM.
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| Mal | Mar 17 2010, 02:46 PM Post #25 |
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Hehehe you should try working for the government for a while... they speak a whole other language... It sounds like english, reads like english... but nobody but people who've worked there for a couple years is capable of understanding it. |
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| tinker | Mar 17 2010, 04:29 PM Post #26 |
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CEO of "Rat-on-a-Stick" Industries
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Mal: Oh, I did my time as a member of the military I was in the USAF, working in AMS on A/C OJT... Since then I had to deal with EOM, and EOY, BOM's etc... Mr. Clean: Understand what your saying completely about spending too much time working a project that ends up not being usable due to poor planning. For a usable terrain piece like the Vertical Terrain what designs features MUST be preplanned? Me first; Proper room for big hands to move figures, to check distances, and Line Of Sight... Next...? Edited by tinker, Mar 17 2010, 04:34 PM.
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| v_lazy_dragon | Mar 17 2010, 07:07 PM Post #27 |
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Tomo, I can whole heartedly agree with you. Analytical science is very much like this (I was working on the MALDI-TOF/TOF-MS this morning & fitting a vaccum pump to an FTICR-MS yesterday) . As you say, the actual meaning of the acronym is usually completely irrelevant and often buried. I was mocking acronyms in general, not really trying to imply anything at your expense. Sorry if it didn't sound like that. Edited by v_lazy_dragon, Mar 17 2010, 07:13 PM.
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| mattblackgod | Mar 17 2010, 07:28 PM Post #28 |
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Big boss warlord dude!
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I work on Eurofighter....you have not experienced acronyms until you have worked there. It is alphabet soup. Four years in and I know what the thing is, I know what it does, I can work it, fix it....but do I know what it stands for? It gets more entertaining when some berk comes along and changes half of them without telling any one. Or in the case of some of our designers....trying to make acronyms into rude words deliberately. Toilet humour is alive and well!
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| v_lazy_dragon | Mar 17 2010, 09:08 PM Post #29 |
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The best rude word acronym I came across was for Copper nano-tubes, which abreviates down to CuN.. well, you get the drift. Apparentyl it was coined by some chinese chemists who didn't speak english as 1st languages, and their paper had the misfortune to include the acronym in the title.... (and on the cover page, with an arrow pointing to a daigram.) I wish I was making this up! |
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| tinker | Mar 17 2010, 10:32 PM Post #30 |
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CEO of "Rat-on-a-Stick" Industries
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Leave it to the Chinese to create an Acronym to sell a Science paperXander... no offense taken!! |
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| Mr. Clean | Mar 18 2010, 05:34 AM Post #31 |
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Wasteland Legend/Cat Skinner/Bad Speller/Super Nice Guy B^)
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Tinker~I would think about dead ends,spaces bigger than a standard hall way and areas that are hard to get to.Dead ends would be annoying,bigger rooms could be added at the center and edges ,and make sure that it would not be impossible for figures to move around easy. Alot of ladders and a few eleveators could help. Just wondering, where are you at in Indiana at Tinker? I'm from the Chicago area. By the way i have the articles in WD and The Journal that cover the tower terrain.It was a fan made piece from Australia and i think the same guy worked for Specicalist Games for a some time .I could scan and post them but would the GW police come to get us all? Brian
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| tinker | Mar 18 2010, 01:04 PM Post #32 |
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CEO of "Rat-on-a-Stick" Industries
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Brian, Good ideas about the terrain features. I think the GW Gang of Lawyers might be a small issue some how, but there are many ways to skin a cat... BTW I'm in Indianapolis! |
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| kfc v lot | Mar 18 2010, 01:09 PM Post #33 |
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Hmm all I can add really is that if I was making one i'd be tempted to magnetise the lot ie magnetic sheet, just in case the whols thing gets knocked over in some terrible disaster. |
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| Mal | Mar 18 2010, 01:53 PM Post #34 |
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Road Warrior
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Tink GW can only get you if they can prove it... im not saying you should... in fact, offically you should definately not... But remember your innocent until proven guilty.... |
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| tinker | Mar 18 2010, 01:56 PM Post #35 |
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What ya don't want to see a five foot vertical drop happen to a possibly expensive model painted to the max? Me neither, then again I don't have have any figs like that Magnetizing is a good idea
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| RavenFeast | Mar 19 2010, 12:22 PM Post #36 |
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Mutant Hunter
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A sheet of headliner - a thin layer of foam rubber with a cloth backing - is my game mat of choice in such instances where gravity tempts the figures. Won't save spears, swords or bayonets from kinetic transfer's less than tender embrace, but most survive the plummet unscathed. Good, old felt works well, too. Both found readily and inexpensively at fabric stores in a variety of colors. As for project planning - yes, getting it on paper and building a mock up followed by a bit of playtesting would be the way to go. |
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| Mal | Mar 19 2010, 04:34 PM Post #37 |
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Road Warrior
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Thats what I like about creating detailed 3d models, you can get in close and view the construction from perspectives that you normally wouldn't be able to. Its really good for spotting problem areas. |
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| mattblackgod | Mar 19 2010, 10:59 PM Post #38 |
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Big boss warlord dude!
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I am tempted to dig out my old autocad program for when I build my one (when ever that will be). I used to be a demon on it in 2D. I had seven years of producing working and assembly drawings for various engineering projects I was designing at work. These days I visualise what I am going to build and let my hands sort it out. Come to think of it, thats how I used to build my custom bikes!
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| Mal | Mar 19 2010, 11:21 PM Post #39 |
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Road Warrior
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Thats how I do my scratch built vehicles... I've even got a part built 28mm scale warlord titan built purely from an image held in my head. But for something as intricate and that will see as much use as a piece of terrain, then going that extra mile and getting it right first time is worth the effort. |
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| tinker | Mar 22 2010, 05:41 AM Post #40 |
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CEO of "Rat-on-a-Stick" Industries
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All, I have been following a build on the TerraGenesis Forum that relates to this discussion and I feel that that project has progressed to the point of directing your attention to the build.. http://www.terragenesis.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6150&sort=0&start=0 |
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It gets more entertaining when some berk comes along and changes half of them without telling any one. Or in the case of some of our designers....trying to make acronyms into rude words deliberately. Toilet humour is alive and well!

Magnetizing is a good idea
5:37 PM Jul 13