Rainmaykr

My body is ready.

Got my GenCon score framed and delivered today. I got to talk to Natalia Rojas, art director for Wingspan, and convinced her to sell me the original art for the Ruby Throated Hummingbird, a powerful and popular bird in the game - It's also on the box spine. It's now hanging in the entryway into the game room. I could get used to having original game art on the walls...

Got bit by the upgrade/mod bug.

Installed Glen's drop-in trackball replacement and it works like dream. How fast and well supported the A1U upgrade cottage industry has become is something I've never seen before. I think I'm going to Sanwa up the SF2 cab but completely Pi and hardware mod the Rampage cab. TMNT and Star Wars WILL be added to the collection. My life is incomplete until then.

Also, also wik: There is precious little information regarding many of Tower Rex's inserts, so I made my own video with some thoughts on one of their products for which there is almost none. Who knows, might help someone make a decision...

Minis deployed! Does anyone have a source for worker replacements? I have all the other upgrades MeepleSource sells, but I'm not feeling their worker replacements - They dont match the aesthetic of the game, imo.

Heh. Waiting.

I'll stop spamming the board with my Scythe nonsense after this quick update! So the base game came in this afternoon and I immediately picked a fraction and got to work. Painting mechs is pretty simple, so I started there. Now that I'm warmed up, on to the character. Damn, though, those faces are bitty af. Pray for me. Edited to add the character. I might have missed my calling, y'all. Gluing little tufts of grass onto bases is therapeutic.

Those are included Meeple Source's complete promo set. That would suck. (Played a little on PC but at this point I've watched so many tabletop playthroughs on YouTube, and for Gloomhaven, too, I don't THINK I'm in for any big letdown.) Everything is ordered. Now we wait.

Aight, it's about to go off. Scythe Invaders from Afar Expansion Wind Gambit Expansion Rise of Fenris Expansion Encounters Expansion Legendary Box Broken Token base insert Broken Token Legendary insert Realistic resources pack Metal money pack Complete Promo Set (from MeepleSource.com) MeepleSource Component Upgrade Complete Set, including Fenris Expansion Sleeves for all 3 different size cards Will get modular board when it launches, and probably the extension for the sake of completeness. I have a bunch of Vallejo textures, Army Painter tufts, and other such supplies already inbound to do the miniatures up. Missing anything?

It'll probably be Scythe, but after some quick Amazon cart math we're talking about $450 for EVERYTHING. And I'll still have to paint about a thousand miniatures. But when complete, man, it'll be something to be proud of... Side note: Any experience with Tower Rex on Etsy? They produce some clever inserts, even for some games that Broken Token and others don't, like Wingspan, for a reasonable price. I ordered a few last week, so I'm about to find out how long it takes a package to arrive from the Ukraine (speaking of Scythe).

Gloomhaven or Scythe, that is the question of our time... I'd like to get an "epic" game and create an heirloom-quality set out of it - with inserts, upgraded components, all cards sleeved, painted miniatures, the works. The two that interest me are Gloomhaven and Scythe. Both seem to be this generation's standard bearers for deep, beautiful, and well-realized large game worlds, so both seem to make great examples for what I'd like to do. I'll end up getting both games, but I want to go "all out" with one of them. My heart is telling me Scythe, a lot having to do with the gorgeous artwork and the possibility of creating a HUGE-er set with all the expansions. I really like the idea of filling the Legendary Box with 80lbs of over-wrought gaming goodness. I've been practicing my miniatures painting technique on the Mice & Mystics set and I think I'm already ready to tackle a project like this. Even ordered a bunch of textures and tufts in preparation for taking the bases to 11, too.

Oh, and here's an update that shows why I can't be trusted as I have very little discipline regarding a game I've played maybe 5 times so far: And the custom DM screen came in!