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MaksimSmelchak	Post subject: Maksim's Blog: Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 8:53 pm
Brood Brother Joined: Sun Feb 16, 2003 4:43 pm Posts: 7258 Location: Sacramento, California, USA	Hi Guys, Some of you might have noticed that I've been around the lists a little less lately. That's because I'm feeling a little burned out with gaming lately and am taking it easy for a few days. So that explains things... Shabbat Shalom, Maksim-Smelchak. _________________ 6mm Sci-fi: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/6mm ... nWarGames/ My Personal Blog: http://6mm-minis.blogspot.com/
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Tas	Post subject: Maksim's Blog: Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 11:52 pm
Brood Brother Joined: Thu Mar 06, 2003 10:01 am Posts: 7823 Location: Sydney, NSW	Hope the recuperation plan works out mate - its a poorer place around here for your absence _________________ Tas My General blog: http://tasmancave.blogspot.com/ My VSF Blog: http://pauljamesog.blogspot.com/ My ECW Blog: http://declaresir.blogspot.com/
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Legion 4	Post subject: Maksim's Blog: Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 4:48 am
Brood Brother Joined: Thu Feb 13, 2003 5:13 pm Posts: 36989 Location: Ohio - USA	It happens to us all ... stay frosty ... _________________ Legion 4 "Cry Havoc, and let slip the Dogs of War !" ... "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
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dafrca	Post subject: Maksim's Blog: Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 5:37 am
Brood Brother Joined: Thu Feb 13, 2003 6:02 pm Posts: 10956 Location: Burbank, CA, USA	It will get better. I know there is lead in those veins... ... well not real Lead as that would be toxic, some safe alloy instead.   dafrca EDIT: dafrca can't spell and Maksim should not have to edit dafrca's posts to his own thread.   _________________ "Every Man is a But Spark in the Darkness"               - Cities of Death, page 59 Come fight me, if you dare...... http://dd-janks.mybrute.com
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vanvlak	Post subject: Maksim's Blog: Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 7:49 am
Brood Brother Joined: Fri Oct 31, 2003 7:52 am Posts: 10348 Location: Malta	A bit of R&R will get you back in shape, Maksim. _________________ Back from oblivion (again)?
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Post subject: Maksim's Blog: Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 5:35 pm

Brood Brother Joined: Sun Feb 16, 2003 4:43 pm Posts: 7258 Location: Sacramento, California, USA

MODELLING: 6mm Wildlife = Toys and Trinkets! --- In 6mm_Miniatures, Ady Arnold wrote: Hi all, I'm after a little help trying to find some 6mm scale wildlife, in particular Arctic/Antarctic creatures, for an 'evil penguin army of doom.' I'm planning for 6mm Hordes of the things. *** Anyone have any suggestions as to where I may get figs for it from? *** Cheers, Ady. Hi Ady, The first thing to do when looking for 6mm scale minis is not be too concerned with scale... many "6mm" miniatures are actually closer to 8mm or even (Alas, oh my!) 10mm. Being a little flexible with scale really helps out the selection. I've been working on a 6mm (Really 10mm) miniature gaming set to run a Star Wars Battle of Hoth game. I eventually settled on the 10mm scale because the model availibility was better in this range. Most of the vehicles (Rebel Snowspeeders, AT-ATs, etc.) are still scaled much closer to 6mm than 10mm, but I digress... Secondly, don't think that you can use items designed as miniatures. Toys and trinkets are very foten just as good as miniatures and often much less expensive. Charms (those items for lady's bracelets), animals toys for doll houses and even cereal item premiums often do the job. Bears are easy to come by. - I see little bear trinkets (charms) at the bead shop my girlfriend goes to. - The Warmaster line also has 10mm bears availible for their Kislev army. Penguins are a little harder. - There used to be a board game I occasionally see in second hand shops/thrift stores that has little penguins just about the right side. - I can't remember the name of the game though. - You might want to settle for an army of "GIANT PENGUINS" so you can use slightly larger plastic toys for your army! Fish (sea life) are easy to come by. - There are lots of little plastic toy sets that come with these as well as toy trinkets. - You can find all kinds of fish and other types of sealife including crustacians, octopi, whales, etc. Lots of other animals are easy toc ome by as well. I see African animals all of the time. I also see many of the more common temperate zone animals. As a final note, you should take a look at the HOTT galleries at The Stronghold web site. I seem to recall that they have an Inuit (Eskimo) army there that would be a good source of inspiration for you. Shalom, Maksim-Smelchak. P.S. This post was taken from the Yahoo E-group: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/6mm_Miniatures/ _________________ 6mm Sci-fi: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/6mm ... nWarGames/ My Personal Blog: http://6mm-minis.blogspot.com/

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primarch	Post subject: Maksim's Blog: Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 7:01 pm
Brood Brother Joined: Fri Feb 14, 2003 12:46 am Posts: 27069 Location: Edmond, Oklahoma USA	Quote (MaksimSmelchak @ 09 2005 July,15:53) Hi Guys, Some of you might have noticed that I've been around the lists a little less lately. That's because I'm feeling a little burned out with gaming lately and am taking it easy for a few days. So that explains things... Shabbat Shalom, Maksim-Smelchak. Hi! Its a common thing for us all. My last "burn out" lasted almost three years. Take a rest, there's more to life than gaming.. ..although if you ever say I said this I'll deny it....   Primarch _________________ Primarch The Primarchload Magnetized Titans Tutorial Net Epic Gold Heresy Rules
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Dwarf Supreme	Post subject: Maksim's Blog: Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 3:11 pm
Brood Brother Joined: Fri May 20, 2005 8:45 pm Posts: 11149 Location: Canton, CT, USA	Quote (MaksimSmelchak @ 09 2005 July,20:53) Hi Guys, Some of you might have noticed that I've been around the lists a little less lately. That's because I'm feeling a little burned out with gaming lately and am taking it easy for a few days. So that explains things... Shabbat Shalom, Maksim-Smelchak. Don't worry about it, Maksim. It probably has happened to all of us. I'm sure some R & R will be beneficial. It's funny how our hobbies can require so much work sometimes.   _________________ "I don't believe in destiny or the guiding hand of fate." N. Peart
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Post subject: Maksim's Blog: Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 4:08 pm

Brood Brother Joined: Sun Feb 16, 2003 4:43 pm Posts: 7258 Location: Sacramento, California, USA

WARGAMING: Collecting Armies? Hi Dafrca, Dafrca: I found this interesting, not good or bad, just interesting. As I am doing my recount of the Imperial Stuff, I realized I tended to go for the Iron Fist tactic with my Guard. Lots of Tanks, Super Heavies, Mech Infantry, and such. Small numbers of the RR, snipers, and other lighter style formations. But when it came to my 15mm stuff, it was like a 180 degree flip. Mostly light Infantry, droppable troops and equipment, and overall lighter style formations. Very little in the way of ?Heavy? armor (well not counting my OGRE). It was like as I moved worked on the two collections, I was following two very different tactical ways of thought. *** So it made me wonder when you all build an army, do you just collect or do you formulate a basic tactic and buy to that?*** Hi Dafrca, I've found now that I prefer themed armies, but I general modify my theme a little to encompass existing models. My Epic-Armageddon Jopalli IG force, for instance, is designed to be a mechanized force and has very little heavy armor. The Jopallis were also designed to use mostly proxy models and a lot of anti-armor troops with support weapons. Even their Thud Guns, Tarantulas and Mole Mortars have used proxy models so far. Adding a theme to an army really helps to make it happen. It gives directions and keeps some kind of plan or inspiration around. After playing the army for awhile, I start adding units to make the force more effective rules-wise. My Star Wars Hoth force, for instance, is a very theme-oriented army, but as I play with them, I can see myself adding in other vehicles, troop types and characters that never appeared in the movies. The original Dirtside II conversion I found for the Battle of Hoth had a number of non-canon vehicles. I'd definitely like to include some non-orthodox equipment and troops in the future, but right now, I'm concentrating on getting the movie canon forces ready. Shalom, Maksim-Smelchak. _________________ 6mm Sci-fi: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/6mm ... nWarGames/ My Personal Blog: http://6mm-minis.blogspot.com/

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MaksimSmelchak	Post subject: Maksim's Blog: Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 8:23 pm
Brood Brother Joined: Sun Feb 16, 2003 4:43 pm Posts: 7258 Location: Sacramento, California, USA	NOVEL: "Gates of Fire" by Steven Pressfield. Hi Guys, I little blew through "Gates of Fire" by Steven Pressfield. It took me just three days and was just as good as I remembered it from the first time I read it. "Gates of Fire" is about the Battle of Thermopylae that took place in 480 BCE. In 480 BCE, a hand-picked force of three hundred Spartan warriors along with their auxilia and allied forces (Numbered around 5,000 combatants) took on the nearly two million troops of the Persion despot, Xerxes the Great, and brought the advance of the despot to a stop for nearly a week valiantly sacrificing their lives in an action which saved the Peloponesse (Greater Greece) and very likely saved democracy and modern society as we know it. Pressfield's prose is very engaging and he manages to bring the battles of history alive in a way that endears the protagonist to his reader and makes the reader want to know more. Amazon.com book reviews: http://www.amazon.com/exec....=glance A Wiki entry on the Battle of Thermopylae: http://battle-of-thermopylae.wikiverse.org/ "Gates of Fire" is a great book and I highly recommend it. Shalom, Maksim-Smelchak. _________________ 6mm Sci-fi: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/6mm ... nWarGames/ My Personal Blog: http://6mm-minis.blogspot.com/
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MaksimSmelchak	Post subject: Maksim's Blog: Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 11:27 pm
Brood Brother Joined: Sun Feb 16, 2003 4:43 pm Posts: 7258 Location: Sacramento, California, USA	Hi Guys, I found a link or two that I wanted to share: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~ancientp ... g_frm.html http://www.wikiverse.org/dune-novel Shalom, Maksim-Smelchak. _________________ 6mm Sci-fi: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/6mm ... nWarGames/ My Personal Blog: http://6mm-minis.blogspot.com/
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Tas	Post subject: Maksim's Blog: Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 2:04 am
Brood Brother Joined: Thu Mar 06, 2003 10:01 am Posts: 7823 Location: Sydney, NSW	Thanks - back at you: http://the-war-of-the-worlds-novel.wikiverse.org/ _________________ Tas My General blog: http://tasmancave.blogspot.com/ My VSF Blog: http://pauljamesog.blogspot.com/ My ECW Blog: http://declaresir.blogspot.com/
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MaksimSmelchak	Post subject: Maksim's Blog: Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 7:07 pm
Brood Brother Joined: Sun Feb 16, 2003 4:43 pm Posts: 7258 Location: Sacramento, California, USA	STAR WARS: How many troops in a squad? Hi Everyone, I was working on some miniatures for a Battle of Hoth game I have been planning and realized I have no idea how many Star Wars troops constitute a squad or platoon... So... ------ *** How many soldiers are there in an Imperial Stormtrooper squad? *** *** How many soldiers are there in an Imperial Stormtrooper platoon? *** ------ *** How many soldiers are there in an Rebel trooper squad (As in the ones at Hoth or elsewhere... )? *** *** How many soldiers are there in a Rebel trooper platoon (As in the ones at Hoth or elsewhere... ) ? *** ------ *** How many soldiers are there in a Clone Trooper squad? *** *** How many soldiers are there in a Clone Trooper platoon? *** ------ This question was first posted at this E-group: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/SSSW/ Anyone interested in Star Wars, Star Wars miniatures or Star Wars gaming is both welcome and invited to join the group. Shalom, Maksim-Smelchak. _________________ 6mm Sci-fi: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/6mm ... nWarGames/ My Personal Blog: http://6mm-minis.blogspot.com/
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MaksimSmelchak	Post subject: Maksim's Blog: Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 10:15 pm
Brood Brother Joined: Sun Feb 16, 2003 4:43 pm Posts: 7258 Location: Sacramento, California, USA	Hi Guys, I was doing a little web-surfing and wanted to share these enjoyable Star Wars links: The rare and very widely despised Holiday Special: http://www.starwarsholidayspecial.com/ A cartoon that is a new favorite of mine: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shuttle/6886/ATST.html And a guy who clearly favors Star Wars over Star Trek: http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/index.html What Stormtroopers should look like: http://www.rebelscum.com/photo.asp?imag ... n/h11a.jpg Enjoy! Shalom, Maksim-Smelchak. _________________ 6mm Sci-fi: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/6mm ... nWarGames/ My Personal Blog: http://6mm-minis.blogspot.com/
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Post subject: Maksim's Blog: Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:20 pm

Brood Brother Joined: Sun Feb 16, 2003 4:43 pm Posts: 7258 Location: Sacramento, California, USA

E-A: Another Round of Thoughts Regarding Epic-Armageddon... PART FOUR - INCOMING INTERVIEW ------ Hi Doug, ------ Q. Which E-A units do you think Fanatic will be able to create as new models? It sounds strange but as a collector I knew the restructure would change how releases and new models are introduced. Doug, I'm simply not sure what is going to happen. Fanatic / Specialist Games is underging even more change and GW appears to be losing a lot of market share. Right now, I wouldn't hold my breath for any new miniatures. However, I do believe in Jervis and think that will all portents being positive, Jervis will see a new E-A Tyranid codex as well as a chaos one published along with accompanyiong miniatures by next year (2006). I'm guessing thatmost of the miniatures will be rehashes of the old E-40k line, but I'm guessing that we'll see a few new sculpts. I'm not making any promises though! What I can so for a certainty is this: - Jervis has opened the flood gates to having custom or home-made minis in lists. The new 'Nid list will likely have several scratch-built items included and I beleive the new chaos lists also have units designed to have scratch-built miniatures. ------ Q. So for those who may not know, what was Fanatic's intention for up and coming new models? Or at the very least, have any upcoming miniatures been mentioned so far?

Fanatic (Or, at least, Jervis... ) had intentions to turn out a very large number of new models, but it looks like limited time and resources will keep new releases to a very small number.

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Q. Knowing that you collect Epic models yourself, are you aspiring to Primarchian levels or just enough to field every army?

To be honest, I have no intention to ever compete with Primarch's incredibly huge collection (Although, my collection rivals his... ).

I have a force for every army ever published except chaos. I don't like the chaos concept very much and never wanted to encourage nose-picking and silly chaos war cries (Although I sort of like the funny Ork war cries... ).

I even have armies for a few forces never manufactured such as Necrons and a very small and developing project to create an E-A Sisters of Battle army... I'd also like to build an E-A Inquisitor, Daemon Hunters and Ordo Xenos forces.

Among my favorite non-canon armies is a Space Skaven AKA Hrudd army that I won in an E-bay auction. ?

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Q. Obviously the next question has to be do you have any photos of your Epic miniature collection?
I think that the your collection and that of and Legion-4 have got to be the most sought after collections in existence!

Yes, I do!

I have sent a number of my photos to the NetEpic De'Aynes galleries.

http://netepic.org/GALLERY/

I've also published a number of photos of my proxy forces on various Yahoo E-groups in photo albums.

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/6mm ... nWarGames/

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/6mm_Miniatures/

And I've also published several photos at the Epicomms forums.

http://www.epic40k.co.uk/

Additionally, I've sent several photos to Jimbo's web site "Felix's Gaming Pages" for publishing.

http://www.ifelix.co.uk/epic40k.html

And lastly, I'm finally mastering my digital camera ad will be able to photograph my entire collection when I've mastered the device.

To my knowledge, Ralph/L-4 has yet to turn in a single photo or draft of his rules so let's give him a hard time!

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Q. What are your current Epic projects?

What a loaded question!

TYRANID MINIATURES ARMY:
- I have been continually building and modifying a "bio-bug" Tyranid army for use with Epic-Armageddon, DS-II and other 6mm sci-fi game systems.
- I've been including a number of proxy figures from other miniature systems so my Nid army is pretty nonstandard!
- This is a very active project.

E-A TYRANID PLAYTESTING:
- I have have been working as the champion/lead designer writing the E-A Tyranid Playtest Army List.

IG JOPALLI MINIATURES ARMY:
- I've been working on this army for some time and have most of it built and primed.
- The Jopalli IG army unts are originally from a poor overpopulated planet and wear a swamp-type camouflage. They are known for their cunning and deviousness.
- I have been building them largely as a mechanized unit with Chimera APCs.
- I currently have two regular line infantry companies and a heavy (support) infantry company built.
- I also have several vehicles primed for Jopalli use.
- This is an active project.

CRIMSON FIST SPACE MARINES MINIATURES ARMY:
- I built and primed a large group of SMs earlier this year and they are in a project box.

SILVER SKULL SPACE MARINES MINIATURES ARMY:
- I have a large number of these guys already built and intend to add some vehicles to them later this year.

NECRONS MINIATURES ARMY:
- My Necron force grows little by little. I have some more chaos Androids waiting to be built in my Necron project box.
- I have also been sculpting a Necron Monolith using plasticard. I hope to eventually mould and cast it. Scribing takes a lot of time.

ORKZ MINIATURES ARMY:
- I started a new Ork force back during the beginning of Epic-Armageddon playtesting a year or more ago. I boxed this project up after being frustrated with the direction the list took. I'm tempted to resume this project as well as get some Feral Orkz built.

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Q. Are there any scenery or backdrop companies that you would recommend?

There are a very large number of companies I would highly recommend including:

- Hovels
- Iron Wind Metals
- Leva Productions
- Mainly Military
- Old Crow
- Timecast

Links for all of these companies can be located here:

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/6mm_Miniatures/

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group....5335008

I'm not sure about where to find good backdrops. I've seen some made for railroad hobbyists but haven't bought one yet.

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Shalom,
Maksim-Smelchak.