Just tell the image generator the details of the physique and attire. Add a background and it´s done. This worked for me in the past though some AI generators have deep-rooted concepts when you mention themes. In that case you need to be more specific.
What's on your mind?
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I tried. I have specific look in mind. I m going to post on my gallery what i got and what i want soon.
You might also want to try different AI image generators. They tend to have vast differences in styles.
(rules) I'm working on a few mordheim dramatis personae concepts, atm....
some of styro's template for mordheim could be applied to necromunda as well.
(but ideally write a story/character... use as much pre-existing content as you can, add 1-2 specific mechanics to create something more personalized)
some of styro's template for mordheim could be applied to necromunda as well.
(but ideally write a story/character... use as much pre-existing content as you can, add 1-2 specific mechanics to create something more personalized)
So if you like the clamp type but don’t want to support the other one… maybe AK have a product for you?? They also do an XL!!
It's what you do with it that counts...
Wasteland´s book club is open again. Grab a mug of coffee and sit down:
I have recently finished "The things they carried" by Tim O´Brien which is a series of short stories based upon his experiences during the Vietnam War. This book was an odd duck for me as all the previous Vietnam War related books I have read were historic accounts of what happened or a chronological history of unfolding events. First about the good aspects: It delivers what it promises with the title very early in the book. You will learn what gear a soldier of a platoon would carry and this might change due to the mission. Furthermore it highlights the idiosyncrasies of the platoon members and this reminded me of my own time in the German Bundeswehr as someone who had served for ten months (W10) though I was never involved in an real combat situation. Nonetheless I still remember a lot of guys and their corresponding quirks as you would see them each day for the first two months even on weekends as you weren´t allowed to leave the base.
And now for the bad part and why this is so far the least favoured of the books I have read. The author talks about writing war stories. At first glance this doesn´t seem to be off until he explains there are two different kinds of happenings as he would phrase it. One would be true happenings and the other version story happenings. I am paraphrasing here as that weren´t his exact words. So to make it clear he is adding content to a story which may never have appeared in the exact way he described. This realization left a sour taste in my mouth. So what content can I truly believe? What content has been enriched? And what content is just conjured out of thin air?
Well, lets go through some of the incidents described in the book and see for ourselves, if something like that could occur.
SPOILER WARNING!
I will now describe content from the book in detail. If you want to read the book in the future yourself then stop reading now.
1. Instant Death:
The platoon is currently resting and one soldier seeks privacy to relieve himself. When he joins the squad he suffers a head shot from a sniper.
Very plausible. Back in my day we had a military exercise in Hohenfels/Germany. The whole squad has disembarked from the Marder APC and would have a smoking break. As a non-smoker I would always eat a CORNY candy bar and thus I gained the nickname of Corny Man. So we were standing there and gossiping about stuff. Suddenly all of us were beeping. A referee near us said: "You are all dead." In the evening we learned from one of our officers that an artillery barrage was fired on our position. The officers were playing C&C LARP and we were the cannon fodder.
2. Bivouac:
It´s monsoon season and the rivers are flooding the adjacent landscape turning the earth into a boggy muck. The commanding officer gets told by the local populace, two old women, not to set up camp in that place but he does anyway. This fact was hard to swallow as it reeks of idiocy. Even if you have zero knowledge about the country, which could be applied to most American troops, you still know not to set up camp in such an environment. This was the first mistake and it will get worse. The field in which they camped was not any kind of field. It was the village toilet. When the rain started overflowing the field it reeked first of fish. Minutes later it smelled of excrement. And the squad was directly in it.
Now that was the second mistake and it will get even worse than that. Soldiers were paired in their tents and one of them had the bright idea to show off the photograph of his girl friend. So he used a flashlight. At night. In enemy territory. True Darwin moment. Minutes later the squad gets mortared and one soldier gets killed. During the barrage the corpse get sucked into the mire. After the one-sided firefight five soldiers were unable to pull out the corpse by hand. So they had to dig with their shovels. In the aftermath the guy who showed the pic to his pal was still searching for the photograph as he has lost it during the firefight.
You learn in the first two months, this would be boot camp, to never create a light source in enemy territory. It is drilled into your head ALL THE TIME. This guy must have been the most stupid soldier who got sent to Nam or the whole story is fictional.
3. Hot Potato:
The platoon is resting in the evening. Two soldiers have the brilliant idea to play hot potato with a smoke grenade. The commanding officer/sgt. does not interfere and thus is indirectly responsible of what is going to happen. The two soldiers toss the grenade to one another until one of them steps onto a mine. Moments later the rest of the squad is tasked to scrape his remains out of a tree. Strangely the other soldier with whom he played hot potato doesn´t get a scratch.
You learn in boot camp that weapons and other wargear are not toys. You are not even allowed to point an unloaded gun at a person. It is an inexcusable offense. Now I get the feeling these guys are the village idiots and I lose any sympathy for their ordeals. Sounds harsh but you just don´t behave like an imbecile. Unless of course the whole incident didn´t happen as the author pointed out previously when he made a fine distinction of his short stories.
4. Twilight Zone:
The platoon is sent into a mountain range to function as a listening post. This works as it is written. You hunker down upon arrival, don´t say a word and listen. When you hear enemy movement you radio in the coordinates and the full might of the American war machine rains down on the target. So they are sitting up there in the mountains and a grey misty fog is their sole companion. Voices and sound get muffled and what followed reminded me of a ghost story from the D&D Ravenloft campaign. Stuff which you wouldn´t expect in a Nam book.
The platoon heard classical music played by Vietnamese. The origin of the sound was supposed to come straight out of the mountain. The soldiers couldn´t believe their ears.
The music would not stop and they simply lost their nerves. As a result they requested a barrage near their location against imaginary foes though they claimed on the radio of course that there were real enemy forces present. As it was routine after the barrage you were sent to the spot to do the body count but you just shelled the mountain. The commanding officer of the artillery was not too happy when he found out that a lot of money had been blown out of the window for nothing.
I did not believe a single word here. This is all fabricated nonsense. As the title says: Do a Twilight Zone episode for TV and it would have been fine. Next story will be even worse.
5. Wonder Girl:
What do you do as a grunt when you are lonely in enemy territory? Any ideas? Well, just invite your girl friend to visit you. It´s as simple as that. From the USA to Japan, then to Bangkok and then to Vietnam. Into a war zone. No sweat. She is a high school sweetheart and good-looking. And she is popular with the other squad mates. So at first she is enamoured by the exotic culture and the beautiful landscape. But what is she doing all day as an untrained individual? Right, she helps out as a nurse without education. But hang on, it gets worse. Adjacent to this particular outpost is a single fortified bunker which acts as a refuge and staging point for a group of Green Berets. These tough hombres don´t interact with regular grunts and are only seen when they either depart or arrive at their location.
And what is our sweetheart now doing? She is being invited into the abode of the Green Berets. Riiiiiiiggghhhht! And she breaks up with her boyfriend. And...she joins the Green Berets on their missions from now on. Without any military training...I am not making things up, it is written in this stupid way. And when you thought it can´t get any worse than that then...you are wrong. On one trip she never came back and it is hinted that she became ONE WITH THE LAND as you could sense a pair of eyes and a shadow following your every step while on patrol in the vicinity.
What are we doing here?! I grabbed the book and turned it around to look at the description. There was not a single mention of the term "science fiction". Utter nonsense from beginning to end.
And that´s all, folks. Even though the book is well written it features fantastical elements which jar with the serious content of a non-fiction book about the Vietnam War. Or maybe I am not the target group and every story within needs to be taken with a fistful of salt.
I have recently finished "The things they carried" by Tim O´Brien which is a series of short stories based upon his experiences during the Vietnam War. This book was an odd duck for me as all the previous Vietnam War related books I have read were historic accounts of what happened or a chronological history of unfolding events. First about the good aspects: It delivers what it promises with the title very early in the book. You will learn what gear a soldier of a platoon would carry and this might change due to the mission. Furthermore it highlights the idiosyncrasies of the platoon members and this reminded me of my own time in the German Bundeswehr as someone who had served for ten months (W10) though I was never involved in an real combat situation. Nonetheless I still remember a lot of guys and their corresponding quirks as you would see them each day for the first two months even on weekends as you weren´t allowed to leave the base.
And now for the bad part and why this is so far the least favoured of the books I have read. The author talks about writing war stories. At first glance this doesn´t seem to be off until he explains there are two different kinds of happenings as he would phrase it. One would be true happenings and the other version story happenings. I am paraphrasing here as that weren´t his exact words. So to make it clear he is adding content to a story which may never have appeared in the exact way he described. This realization left a sour taste in my mouth. So what content can I truly believe? What content has been enriched? And what content is just conjured out of thin air?
Well, lets go through some of the incidents described in the book and see for ourselves, if something like that could occur.
SPOILER WARNING!
I will now describe content from the book in detail. If you want to read the book in the future yourself then stop reading now.
1. Instant Death:
The platoon is currently resting and one soldier seeks privacy to relieve himself. When he joins the squad he suffers a head shot from a sniper.
Very plausible. Back in my day we had a military exercise in Hohenfels/Germany. The whole squad has disembarked from the Marder APC and would have a smoking break. As a non-smoker I would always eat a CORNY candy bar and thus I gained the nickname of Corny Man. So we were standing there and gossiping about stuff. Suddenly all of us were beeping. A referee near us said: "You are all dead." In the evening we learned from one of our officers that an artillery barrage was fired on our position. The officers were playing C&C LARP and we were the cannon fodder.
2. Bivouac:
It´s monsoon season and the rivers are flooding the adjacent landscape turning the earth into a boggy muck. The commanding officer gets told by the local populace, two old women, not to set up camp in that place but he does anyway. This fact was hard to swallow as it reeks of idiocy. Even if you have zero knowledge about the country, which could be applied to most American troops, you still know not to set up camp in such an environment. This was the first mistake and it will get worse. The field in which they camped was not any kind of field. It was the village toilet. When the rain started overflowing the field it reeked first of fish. Minutes later it smelled of excrement. And the squad was directly in it.
Now that was the second mistake and it will get even worse than that. Soldiers were paired in their tents and one of them had the bright idea to show off the photograph of his girl friend. So he used a flashlight. At night. In enemy territory. True Darwin moment. Minutes later the squad gets mortared and one soldier gets killed. During the barrage the corpse get sucked into the mire. After the one-sided firefight five soldiers were unable to pull out the corpse by hand. So they had to dig with their shovels. In the aftermath the guy who showed the pic to his pal was still searching for the photograph as he has lost it during the firefight.
You learn in the first two months, this would be boot camp, to never create a light source in enemy territory. It is drilled into your head ALL THE TIME. This guy must have been the most stupid soldier who got sent to Nam or the whole story is fictional.
3. Hot Potato:
The platoon is resting in the evening. Two soldiers have the brilliant idea to play hot potato with a smoke grenade. The commanding officer/sgt. does not interfere and thus is indirectly responsible of what is going to happen. The two soldiers toss the grenade to one another until one of them steps onto a mine. Moments later the rest of the squad is tasked to scrape his remains out of a tree. Strangely the other soldier with whom he played hot potato doesn´t get a scratch.
You learn in boot camp that weapons and other wargear are not toys. You are not even allowed to point an unloaded gun at a person. It is an inexcusable offense. Now I get the feeling these guys are the village idiots and I lose any sympathy for their ordeals. Sounds harsh but you just don´t behave like an imbecile. Unless of course the whole incident didn´t happen as the author pointed out previously when he made a fine distinction of his short stories.
4. Twilight Zone:
The platoon is sent into a mountain range to function as a listening post. This works as it is written. You hunker down upon arrival, don´t say a word and listen. When you hear enemy movement you radio in the coordinates and the full might of the American war machine rains down on the target. So they are sitting up there in the mountains and a grey misty fog is their sole companion. Voices and sound get muffled and what followed reminded me of a ghost story from the D&D Ravenloft campaign. Stuff which you wouldn´t expect in a Nam book.
The platoon heard classical music played by Vietnamese. The origin of the sound was supposed to come straight out of the mountain. The soldiers couldn´t believe their ears.
The music would not stop and they simply lost their nerves. As a result they requested a barrage near their location against imaginary foes though they claimed on the radio of course that there were real enemy forces present. As it was routine after the barrage you were sent to the spot to do the body count but you just shelled the mountain. The commanding officer of the artillery was not too happy when he found out that a lot of money had been blown out of the window for nothing.
I did not believe a single word here. This is all fabricated nonsense. As the title says: Do a Twilight Zone episode for TV and it would have been fine. Next story will be even worse.
5. Wonder Girl:
What do you do as a grunt when you are lonely in enemy territory? Any ideas? Well, just invite your girl friend to visit you. It´s as simple as that. From the USA to Japan, then to Bangkok and then to Vietnam. Into a war zone. No sweat. She is a high school sweetheart and good-looking. And she is popular with the other squad mates. So at first she is enamoured by the exotic culture and the beautiful landscape. But what is she doing all day as an untrained individual? Right, she helps out as a nurse without education. But hang on, it gets worse. Adjacent to this particular outpost is a single fortified bunker which acts as a refuge and staging point for a group of Green Berets. These tough hombres don´t interact with regular grunts and are only seen when they either depart or arrive at their location.
And what is our sweetheart now doing? She is being invited into the abode of the Green Berets. Riiiiiiiggghhhht! And she breaks up with her boyfriend. And...she joins the Green Berets on their missions from now on. Without any military training...I am not making things up, it is written in this stupid way. And when you thought it can´t get any worse than that then...you are wrong. On one trip she never came back and it is hinted that she became ONE WITH THE LAND as you could sense a pair of eyes and a shadow following your every step while on patrol in the vicinity.
What are we doing here?! I grabbed the book and turned it around to look at the description. There was not a single mention of the term "science fiction". Utter nonsense from beginning to end.
And that´s all, folks. Even though the book is well written it features fantastical elements which jar with the serious content of a non-fiction book about the Vietnam War. Or maybe I am not the target group and every story within needs to be taken with a fistful of salt.
He looks really cool. What is it that you want to change?
Yes. It's what I want to change. I listed the change I want. I saw that 3d print can make a model our of a drawing. That's why I try to make it as faithful as possible. Once this one is corrected, I will do the other three carrion eater.
I read The Things They Carried for a class in university or high school. I can't remember when I read it, but I remember despising it. If you want to hear stories about Vietnam without all that added literary fiction crap the American Veterans Center channel on Youtube has more than you'll ever want.
American Veterans Center
The mission of the American Veterans Center is to guard the legacies and honor the sacrifices of all American veterans. Through oral history preservation, educational programs and civic events, we pass their stories on to the next generation so that they are never forgotten. For footage...
youtube.com
My Jungle Fighters from Wargames Exclusive have just been sent out. Approximate time of arrival would be Saturday. I am hyped!
I just came across pictures of the old Skeleton Horde box on eBay. This particular box was a bit before my time, though I had some of those same models that were later sold in newer packaging (and smaller quantities).
Several things struck me:
They describe their range as 25mm model kits. (Scale creep anyone?)
They advise washing plastic sprues in warm, soapy water. (Does anyone do that these days?)
They recommend enamel primer before painting.
Several things struck me:
They describe their range as 25mm model kits. (Scale creep anyone?)
They advise washing plastic sprues in warm, soapy water. (Does anyone do that these days?)
They recommend enamel primer before painting.
I had that box set, it was ace! Beautiful art from John Blanche on the front (though I didn’t know it was his at the time - or even who he was!).
The early stuff was 25mm. If you find the 1980s era models they’re really tiny compared to the 90s which moved to 28mm.
I have an Imperial Guardswoman who could pass as an Escher Juve!
Nope, never washed a plastic sprue ever, though it’s entirely possible that they could be covered in mold release.
* Interestingly in my recent Warlord Games factory tour the chap explained that metals used a kind of powder as release, used to be a talcum sort but that added to the toxicity of the lead so they use cornstarch Instead. Same goes for the Warlord Resin or Siocast - so all those are worth washing too as the powder might affect paint adhesion.
Enamel primer was common; Humbrol did little metal tins of super matte Enamel. The stuff is nasty to use though, smelly and pretty toxic - people did get good results but once acrylic became easier to get hold of… it kinda went out of fashion. Then GW started recommending acrylic car primer and it took over really.
I never used any back then - just put chestnut ink straight onto the bone coloured plastic!!
Interesting you didn’t mention the line about cutting the parts out with some scissors!! I think I twisted most of mine off back then.
Ah, the old days.
i still always use humbrol matt black for primer , but yes its stinky (smells like victory)
Why?
www.warhammer-community.com
Citadel Colour is becoming Warhammer Colour
Same paint. Obvious new name.
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