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Author Topic: Chicken Race on the Arumbaya  (Read 380133 times)

Offline Driscoles

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Re: Chicken Race on the Arumbaya
« Reply #90 on: June 04, 2011, 06:16:00 AM »
very very nice...
Is that a cigar box behind the Indians ?
If so, use it as a dice box for the game.
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Re: Chicken Race on the Arumbaya
« Reply #91 on: June 04, 2011, 06:54:07 AM »
very very nice...
Is that a cigar box behind the Indians ?
If so, use it as a dice box for the game.


It is. I use it to keep my scrap hobby lumber in. Coffee stirrers, lenghts of veneer... I like a whiff of cedar when I build my stuff. Your suggestion is however solid.

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Re: Chicken Race on the Arumbaya
« Reply #92 on: June 04, 2011, 08:16:50 AM »
You got me there. I only ever got into wargaming for all the big black cock.  lol
This thread started to get more interesting!

@Hammers:
Great job, and speed!
I reckon you got rain over the holiday? :D

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Re: Chicken Race on the Arumbaya
« Reply #93 on: June 04, 2011, 09:00:04 AM »
This thread started to get more interesting!

@Hammers:
Great job, and speed!
I reckon you got rain over the holiday? :D

Hell no. Sun's beating down. I have just learnt to be fairly efficient with the time I mange to wrestle from the family. Also I've gotten pretty good at bigging my household chores up to motivate some 'alone time'. This morning I made a big fuss planting the tomatoes, pulling out every conceivable garden implement and engaging all and sundry for about 15 miniutes of real work.  8)

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Re: Chicken Race on the Arumbaya
« Reply #94 on: June 04, 2011, 09:15:30 AM »
Hell no. Sun's beating down. I have just learnt to be fairly efficient with the time I mange to wrestle from the family. Also I've gotten pretty good at bigging my household chores up to motivate some 'alone time'. This morning I made a big fuss planting the tomatoes, pulling out every conceivable garden implement and engaging all and sundry for about 15 miniutes of real work.  8)
I'm glad for you :)
I did plan something like that myself, but I realised that I need to sell the boat for more quality time.
And you can't go a whole summer without freshly caught mackarell now :'(

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Re: Chicken Race on the Arumbaya
« Reply #95 on: June 04, 2011, 09:23:18 AM »
And you can't go a whole summer without freshly caught mackarell now :'(

We don't get mackerel here, just Alzheimer inducing algae, but I see your point. Keep the boat.

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Re: Chicken Race on the Arumbaya
« Reply #96 on: June 04, 2011, 09:30:53 AM »
We don't get mackerel here, just Alzheimer inducing algae, but I see your point. Keep the boat.
If you find some pulp-minis I might send you some frozen ones by post lol

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Re: Chicken Race on the Arumbaya
« Reply #97 on: June 08, 2011, 12:58:43 PM »
A bit of progress with Fate Deck prompted miniatures:



Henri Charrière, Louis Dega, Everrett, Pete and Delmar

The event blurb will probably go something like this:

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You are being hail by a group of escapees from a French penal colony off the coast. If you chose to stop and take them on board they will in gratitude accept to be armed with rifles and fight as Raw troopers on your side and fire at what ever you ask them to. If you chose not to loose momentum and leave them to their fate any other team which  reaches them first is allowed to pick them up.
« Last Edit: June 17, 2011, 11:10:34 PM by Hammers »

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Re: Chicken Race on the Arumbaya
« Reply #98 on: June 08, 2011, 02:02:28 PM »
That's a nice bunch of caterpillars! I am sure they will evolve into beautiful butterflies one day. ;) lol

Excellent work on the jailclothes, and the chain looks great.

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Re: Chicken Race on the Arumbaya
« Reply #99 on: June 08, 2011, 02:20:54 PM »
Ha! Cool idea, Hammers!  :-* And very nicely painted. What did you use for shackles, or did you just wrap the chain around their foot?

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Re: Chicken Race on the Arumbaya
« Reply #100 on: June 08, 2011, 02:29:26 PM »
Ha! Cool idea, Hammers!  :-* And very nicely painted. What did you use for shackles, or did you just wrap the chain around their foot?

So you got the Papillon and 'Oh, brother...') references... They come with chains and shackles. I just added the balls (I cut off the balls on pins). The chain of the chain gang is model ship chain. Not very practical in a gaming context but I think it looks kinda cool.

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Re: Chicken Race on the Arumbaya
« Reply #101 on: June 08, 2011, 02:44:56 PM »
I for one had to look it up. I read Papillon and watched the film in the 90s, so the name Henri Charrière was only vaguely familiar to me.

And now for the past 30 minutes I am struggling to remember whether or not the raw (or was it boiled?) egg eating competition was in Papillon or some other film or book.

Oh and thanks for the reply. The miniatures need to be on my ever increasing pile of lead.
« Last Edit: June 08, 2011, 02:48:02 PM by Remington »

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Re: Chicken Race on the Arumbaya
« Reply #102 on: June 08, 2011, 02:46:09 PM »
Cool Hand Luke.
With Cat-Like Tread
Upon our prey we steal...

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Re: Chicken Race on the Arumbaya
« Reply #103 on: June 08, 2011, 02:51:55 PM »
Indeed!!! Found it on youtube! :) Thanks Plynkes! Papillon was the one with the uncomfortable hiding spots...


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Re: Chicken Race on the Arumbaya
« Reply #104 on: June 08, 2011, 02:55:05 PM »
Cool Hand Luke.

Another great prison flick. Newman's best role IMO. There are few references to it in the Coen film.

 

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