Project Card (Updated 06-20-07) - New Card: Brute Squad

Andrew said:
BuShips said:
ScipioAmericanus said:
BuShips, those pods are just too cool!!!
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Um, Wargamer issue #26 has stats :wink: .
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Yes but how do actually build the things/find them, and what did you use to light them up?
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Follow these instructions, implicitly :lol: :arrow:

Step 1- Proceed to a local hobby/toy/craft store that stocks those "plastic critters" in a bin that include dinosaurs, insects, cows, alligators (you get the idea).

Step 2- Standing in front of the store display (mine was in a US Michael's Craft chain store location) and find the bin containing what they call a "Jellyfish". Actually, they've labeled it incorrectly, as the model is that of a Portuguese Man-of-War (just me picking nits off here, never mind).

Step 3- Buy one (or several, up to what your tabletop-ambushing-terrain-humor allows for). I think they were like $3-4 US, each.

Step 4- With a #11 X-acto blade (preferably attached to a handle), detach the "dreadlocks/tentacles" just under the "umbrella" part by cutting a circle pattern. By studying the finished model, you should see what has to be cut off from the rest, and where.

Step 5- Flip the detached dreadlocks assembly over and using super-glue (if I remember correctly- geeze, I could have used "iirc" but now I'd have to erase what I've already typed- meh :lol:), attach it to the top of the main model. The lateral ring of smaller feelers should now lay flat on the table, forming a six-inch circular template (these are stinger/stunners that allow the main triple tentacles to bend over and grapple the prey. You are now finished with my "mousetrap" unit, unless you want to follow optional step 6.

Step 6- To fit an LED light to the model, find something in a hardware store that has a combined LED light source, batteries and switch as small as possible. I found what I used in an Ace Hardware store. It was one of those decorations that hangs off of a car rear-view mirror. The one I modified was a butterfly actually. I clipped its wings off. These were clear plastic and were outside of the light device I wanted to salvage. Other ideas for lights might be flashing LED earrings (I've used these in some of my structures like my VSTOL/Helipad model very effectively). As the "jellyfish" model was a translucent pink, I left it alone, but picked out a blue LED for the inside light feature (and what a color combination, aiyee!). In the hollow area that was created when I glued the detached part to the top of the model, I created an access by cutting a small hole under the main umbrella-shaped piece, from the bottom. I then stuffed the modified LED light source into the hollow area through the opening, but left the batteries and switch under the larger umbrella body. I attached this with a hot glue stick gun. This left the switch easily available. I lit up maybe three of the models, and left the others without a light option. The theory is that these critters only glow when digesting their food. Even though becoming a large and glowing orb on a flat desert-like plain seems rather obvious, it doesn't matter once they've started eating :!: . In fact, anything that is repelled by the sight of it might just flinch it back into an as-yet un-glowing (and hungry) member of the cluster. These KBT's do not move btw (I remembered a typing acronym here- yay!), and are anchored deeply with roots.

Troopers have labeled these "neutral but nasty" terrain units by the nicknames "Crab-Crackers" or some call them "Crunch-and-Munch" mousetraps. The general idea here is not to become a mouse... :wink:
 
Hiromoon said:
Your hydroponic pods, Buships. And when I get a chance, I'll fix that.
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Ahhh... yup. K. :wink:

You didn't know about my Mahogany pods and my Lotus pods. Stay tuned... :lol:
 
BuShips said:
Hiromoon said:
Your hydroponic pods, Buships. And when I get a chance, I'll fix that.
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Ahhh... yup. K. :wink:

You didn't know about my Mahogany pods and my Lotus pods. Stay tuned... :lol:
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oooohh, I wanna see, I wanna see! :P :lol: , heh heh heh hydras, your so evil :twisted:
 
rico's roughnecks said:
oooohh, I wanna see, I wanna see! :P :lol: , heh heh heh hydras, your so evil :twisted:
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You'll just have to wait and see what I can do with dry flower arrangements, MuaHahah! :twisted:
 
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Skinnie Cabal will be out before the end of the month, since I can't seem to meet a weekly deadline set by my own lazy self...
 
Hiromoon said:
No problem at all...now will Taco stop calling me in the middle of the night and demand cookies?
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Dream on! I got awakened this morning at 5am with bells jingling and Taco saying "Breakfast! Breakfast!" So...I had to trudge downstairs and make Taco her breakfast just to shut her up. I don't know what was up with her. Usually she sleeps until I get up. Crazy bird, must be the heat.

I wouldn't hold out hope for the phone calls stopping, although I have taken away her cell phone.
 
Hiromoon said:
Maybe she was just happy over having her card and wanted to start training for her first real game?
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Could be, could be.

Playing agaisnt her as a Bug player could be problematic, however: she uses "house rules: "...any bug on the table can be chomped at any time."

She seems to have no interest in MI or Skinnies, but definintely goes to town on Bugs.

I'm working on a Cities of Death modular table right now. I can just imagine her perching on a ruined building and going "chomp, chomp" reducing my painstakingly crafted rubble to...well...rubble. :lol:
 
ScipioAmericanus said:
I'm working on a Cities of Death modular table right now. I can just imagine her perching on a ruined building and going "chomp, chomp" reducing my painstakingly crafted rubble to...well...rubble. :lol:
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Well, she's just "accurizing" the rubble, don't you know? :wink:
 
BuShips said:
ScipioAmericanus said:
I'm working on a Cities of Death modular table right now. I can just imagine her perching on a ruined building and going "chomp, chomp" reducing my painstakingly crafted rubble to...well...rubble. :lol:
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Well, she's just "accurizing" the rubble, don't you know? :wink:
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Good point!

I think I'm just going to give her sprues and let her chomp away...
 
ScipioAmericanus said:
I think I'm just going to give her sprues and let her chomp away...
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Now you just know she's too smart to fall for cheap imitations. Taco must have the real deal! :lol:

Face it, you're "sprued" ! Bwahahah!
 
BuShips said:
ScipioAmericanus said:
I think I'm just going to give her sprues and let her chomp away...
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Now you just know she's too smart to fall for cheap imitations. Taco must have the real deal! :lol:

Face it, you're "sprued" ! Bwahahah!
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*sighs*

You're right, of course. Taco is so smart that it's a constant battle to try and stay ahead of her.

I've been trying for months to get her to say "Airborne!" and "Ranger!" and "Rangers Lead the Way!" to no avail. She just looks at me.

This afternoon we were watching Band of Brothers and what did she pick up? "That's my own p*ss!"

Now, she won't stop saying it: she'll whistle the Andy Griffith song and then say "That's my own p*ss!" She's said "Taco Good Girl that's my own p*ss!" about 20 times already.

I have no idea how I'm going to explain this to my mother on her next visit, or to house-guests.

Damn! She's doing it now! "That's my own p*ss! That's my own p*ss!"

*shakes head*
 
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