RocketShip Games - Latest Comments

Re: Movie Review: Troll Hunter

Streep — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:56:22 -0000

It's not a Range Rover, it's a Land Rover. Different thing altogether.

Re: BFG: 700pts Chaos vs Imperials

Kimberley Obeck — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:14:41 -0000

I am not really into battle games like this but this interests me. What kind of escort ship are you planning to make by the way? Leadership should be there of course. The captain.

Re: Movie Review: Kick-Ass

Courtneywilkins — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:37:51 -0000

hit girl is bad ass

Re: Random Pic: Bad Day on the Midway

Matt — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:30:33 -0000

Hah hahahahahahahaaaa. Cough. Seriously though, remember when my guardsmen drilled your speeder with a melta gun? Yeah. Good times.

Re: Random Pic: Mouse Demon!

Matt Lechtenberg — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:33:18 -0000

LOVE Steve's sculpt. And that's a damn fine 'speeder conversion.

Re: Kids

Jason Woolf — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:11:14 -0000

I make it a point to avoid playing against anyone under 17 or so, and I think I'd go so far as to say I'd refuse such a game. Beyond the reasons you mentioned, I just don't think it's appropriate to be hanging out with children I don't know. Before I quit the hobby, I often found myself stranded in the back of some GW store with a 12 year old across the table, and beyond not enjoying a 3 hour span, I felt fairly uncomfortable throughout the game.

I'm not trying to say they're all bad, and good on folks who can do it, but I've paid these dues.

Re: Kids

tjkopena — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:02:29 -0000

Yeah, I actually wrote this shortly after 'Ard Boyz; just venting a bit. Not that he was a problem or anything, but the game did have some eye-raising moments and I think it's always kind of questionable how to best deal with kids that age.

Re: Kids

Colin — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:15:41 -0000

All good points, Joe, but what prompted this? Just venting from that kid last weekend? He's the last person to be calling anyone out on anything, because his "Sanguinary Priests" were pretty much indistinguishable from anything else in his army, and that's just what stands out in my mind from our game.

Re: First Squadron

tjkopena — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:20:58 -0000

Those Landspeeder bases are really fun to do, with all that room and plenty of visibility.

Re: First Squadron

Matt — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:11:10 -0000

Coherent scheme, solid details, beautiful bases, good load outs… what’s not to like here?

Re: Kingbreakers Rhino Lator

tjkopena — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:50:24 -0000

Scales up well visually. Effort-wise I'm not so sure, though I'm also very happy with the results. I'll still never forgive you for not, immediately upon seeing my first guys, being all "Joe, no, no. There's a reason everybody just sprays their Marines red, gray, or blue and calls it a day... This tricolor thing is going to be a huge pain in the ass."

It's a very dirty strike cruiser.... The weathering needs a little more work, this is just a wash splotched on. The next guy will get some more dry brushed grime first.

Also, the fleet got primed yesterday, so look for them to pop out any day now!

Re: Artist & Craftsman Supply

Anthony Buonomo — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 03:33:14 -0000

I've been missing everything this year. I was dying to go, but had an event scheduled for that day. About a month in advance, the event was cancelled, and I was sorely tempted to throw something together (and thus, build) to do something, but I just couldn't take (or find) the time to do it.To derail further, I don't remember how much you recall about my crazy store idea and everything, but I'm down in Texas, working to make it real. I'm working at Applebee's, getting restauranting experience, in an attempt to con the bank into giving us money (one of the two stumbling points in the business plan last summer was lack of restaurant experience). I just interviewed for a full-on manager position, which while it would push the timeline back another year or so, would all but seal the deal when we re-apply. If I don't get it, we're probably going to try again and reapply for the loan this winter.On topic (a little), my favorite is a store chain down here, Hobby Lobby - it's like a Jo-ann's or Michael's on steroids. Not nearly as in depth as Pearl, or even Blick and them, but you sometimes find weird things. My best acquisition (as yet unused, see lack of time above) was 1' square of Easter grass things. Each square is 6x6 (or 8x8?) of little removable plugs. The plugs have the grass on them (around the edge, really), not the rest of the mat, so you can pop them off and squish/arrange them and have some great looking overgrown grasses, etc. Picked them up at 75-90% off or something ridiculous.Lastly, some whoring:Our solution to the bank's second problem, lack of repayment/business credit/equity, whatever:www.custommetalstuffs.comI know you need some stainless steel Kingbreakers stuff for your walls...

Re: Kingbreakers Rhino Lator

Matt — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:25:56 -0000

I love seeing your color scheme scale up so well as you keep adding painted stuff to your inventory. Looking real good. The grime along the hull is great too, your marines look like they fight, not like they march around the decks of a strike cruiser.

Re: Artist & Craftsman Supply

tjkopena — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 08:10:34 -0000

Hey Anthony! We missed your Tyranids at 'Ard Boyz this year!

The Blick store is pretty solid, as are the Utrechts, and are were I had been going, but I haven't seen brass tubing or thin plasticard at either. Lots of foamcore, thicker styrene blocks, and other useful stuff, but I'd been specifically looking for tubing recently to make a banner for a Librarian.

Hope you're doing well!

Re: Artist & Craftsman Supply

Anthony Buonomo — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 01:40:22 -0000

Have you checked out the one in Center City? Of course, I am drawing a blank on name and location, but it's right there next to Strike Lanes or whatever it is...
Google has it! Blick Art supplies, 1330 Chestnut. They were a decent fall back when Pearl was working its way up to actually closing. Definitely worth checking out.

Re: Random Pic: Predator Loadout

Matt — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:17:20 -0000

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Re: Magnetized Predator Tutorial

Colin — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 02:35:53 -0000

Lookin' good, Joe.

Re: Random Pic: Predator Loadout

tjkopena — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:54:57 -0000

Next project: Put magnets in all the weapons, doors, etc., but use an electromagnet in the hull such that you can tap a switch point on the hull, the polarities reverse, and all its components go flying.

Re: Random Pic: Predator Loadout

Matt — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:23:49 -0000

That's how it's gonna look on the battlefield too.

Re: Random Pic: ‘Ard Boyz Comes!

Jason Woolf — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 10:17:04 -0000

Well, what I mean is, not cool publishing classified information the week before the tournament. Yeah.

Re: Random Pic: ‘Ard Boyz Comes!

tjkopena — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 21:21:29 -0000

I think we all know you had it coming.

The way to play it off is that you're so serious about testing and tuning your list, you didn't want to commit to anything until it was perfect and ready to crush opponents.

Re: Random Pic: ‘Ard Boyz Comes!

Jason Woolf — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:28:53 -0000

Not cool, man. Not cool.

Re: Random Pic: ‘Ard Boyz Comes!

Jason Woolf — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:28:45 -0000

Not cool, man. not cool.

Re: BFG: Cruiser Clash Practice Round

Joe — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:37:53 -0000

Wow, hey do you think you can get Matt to post a tutorial on how he did that Imperial Ship? I posted on his blog but I think he may be away at Historicon! I figured I'd post here too, just in case he missed it :)

Re: WIP: Fleet Liacouras

Matt — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:22:03 -0000

How about you do the hulls in that tan you use on the marine’s armor and then the finial/shields green. Make the batteries blue and silver, accent eagles and the like with gold, add some red running lights somewhere and you've used all your heraldry colors.