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Author Topic: Trial By Fire (update for March 2015, page 7)  (Read 32189 times)

Offline Mad Lord Snapcase

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Re: Trial By Fire
« Reply #60 on: March 26, 2014, 04:08:26 PM »
Looking damn good so far!

Thanks, I just wish I could paint faster!


Offline FramFramson

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Re: Trial By Fire
« Reply #61 on: March 26, 2014, 04:12:08 PM »
I doubt you'd be alone in that!


I joined my gun with pirate swords, and sailed the seas of cyberspace.

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Re: Trial By Fire
« Reply #62 on: March 26, 2014, 04:34:30 PM »
In position now (with yet more sand spilt on the floor!). You can see the scaffolding behind it which I have named the 'Phipps Patent Scaffold' in honour of Dave and Mila, as I pinched the idea off them!  lol



Offline blacksoilbill

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Re: Trial By Fire
« Reply #63 on: March 28, 2014, 06:42:32 AM »
Great looking table - I especially like the temple and the compound.

Offline d phipps

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Re: Trial By Fire
« Reply #64 on: March 28, 2014, 08:27:51 AM »
... You can see the scaffolding behind it which I have named the 'Phipps Patent Scaffold' in honour of Dave and Mila...


Hey, I've seen that somewhere before!  ;) lol

Did you make those adobe buildings or buy them?

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Re: Trial By Fire
« Reply #65 on: March 28, 2014, 09:07:40 AM »
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Did you make those adobe buildings or buy them?

The fort/compound I made from cork floor tiles after seeing how to do it at Matakishi’s Tea House.

The two adobe type buildings I made from blue foam.

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Great looking table - I especially like the temple and the compound.

Thanks.
« Last Edit: March 28, 2014, 09:32:46 AM by Mad Lord Snapcase »

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Re: Trial By Fire
« Reply #66 on: March 28, 2014, 10:30:59 AM »
Looks great, Snappy! Can't wait to read the AAR from the game using them. Love the finished temple....

Mike Demana

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Re: Trial By Fire
« Reply #67 on: March 28, 2014, 06:39:46 PM »
Hi, Your Lordship or should it be Madship or just plain Snappy.

Anyway, I just wanted to say how much I liked your adobe buildings, they look very professional with the mud brick showing where the rendering has disintegrated. The blue foam works really well for this.  o_o

Re the Homebase tiles, I still think they look the biz and will look them up when I get a min, I already have them in my sights for the Oxford Blue tiles you used some time previously for water.

On with the game, don't delay we are all waiting.

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Re: Trial By Fire
« Reply #68 on: March 30, 2014, 10:03:33 AM »
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Hi, Your Lordship or should it be Madship or just plain Snappy.

Anything you like really, I won't take offence!  ;)

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On with the game, don't delay we are all waiting.

I'm with you there Vagabond. The main delay is that I decided to paint three new leagues for this game and it's slow going at the moment. This thread is helping to keep me focused, though.

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Re: Trial By Fire
« Reply #69 on: March 30, 2014, 11:00:34 AM »
Chapter V

Willard Cornelius Waterloo Clarence Wooster otherwise known as Mad Lord Snapcase took the stairs three at a time.



Mad Lord Snapcase took the stairs three at a time.


“Help, murder, he’s dead, oh God, quick, help me, murder, bloody murder!” a female voice had screamed and by gad Sir, she was right!

As Snapcase tottered into the bedroom, gasping for breath, he beheld a ghastly sight. Gerry Wade, for he presumed it was he, was lying on the bed with his back arched at an impossible angle, his whole body spasming in violent convulsions. But what made Snapcase start was that a pillow had been strapped across his face, presumably to stop his screaming from being heard until it was too late. Snapcase struggled with Wade’s convulsing body to remove the pillow.



Snapcase struggled with Wade’s convulsing body to remove the pillow.


However, as he succeeded in removing the pillow, Wade’s body heaved once more in a final convulsion and all his limbs relaxed. There was no sign of life as Snapcase listened to his breathing.

“Judging by the convulsions, I’d say he was poisoned by the seed of the nux-vomica tree”.

“Eh?” said Nancy Mitford, for it was she who had given the alarm.

“Strychnine, my dear, strychnine” opined Snapcase sadly. “A very deadly poison to animal and human alike!”

But Nancy was staring at the mantelpiece with her mouth agape. Snapcase looked in the same direction and saw only the alarm clocks as advertised earlier by Nancy's story.

“What is it my dear?”

“There’s only seven” replied Nancy in a dumb-struck voice.

“But what of it?” queried Snapcase, densely.

“I put eight clocks on that mantelpiece when I sneaked in here during the night to play our practical joke on Gerry. Oh God” and with that she burst into tears.

Snapcase’s attention was drawn to the fireplace where there recently been a fire. Wisps of smoke were still rising up the chimney from the papers in the grate. He bent down and gently extracted the only scrap of paper that seemed to have escaped the conflagration. Turning over the burnt scrap of paper he made out the words In Cucullato Horologium Cultus and a strange clock like symbol, but with a thirteen where the twelve should be.



Turning over the burnt scrap of paper he made out the words 'In Cucullato Horologium Cultus'.


Gerry Wade certainly wouldn’t be going to British Somaliland now!




To be continued……………………………….
« Last Edit: March 30, 2014, 03:48:15 PM by Mad Lord Snapcase »

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Re: Trial By Fire (Chapter V added)
« Reply #70 on: March 30, 2014, 01:19:53 PM »
Very nice! Grea story.  :D

I sense one of those epic Snapcase games is coming up.




HAVE FUN

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Re: Trial By Fire
« Reply #71 on: April 12, 2014, 02:08:20 PM »
Not much of an update really, but someone has built a pyre in the Macbudka ah ee Allabari (Temple of Sacrifice), ready to carrry out the threat in the title of this thread;




Offline Valerik

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Re: Trial By Fire
« Reply #72 on: April 12, 2014, 06:00:41 PM »
OH NO!!!

Surely NOT!!

& I had imagined Lady Snapcase's suttee was years off...

Pity, handsome woman like that..

The cad was bound to come to a bad end, we all knew that.


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Re: Trial By Fire
« Reply #73 on: April 13, 2014, 01:09:21 AM »
Very nice. That's a cool looking miniature.

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Re: Trial By Fire
« Reply #74 on: April 18, 2014, 07:52:53 AM »
I've painted some crocs to give the adventurers in this game a bit of a scare! Mum, Dad and Baby Croc are pretty hungry!



 

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