For someone who doesn't enjoy painting terrain you made a cracking job of it. Almost tempted to pick the game up myself, I'll see what things are like payday.

@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. It's a really fun game, and you get stacks of terrain. It's all on the hex bases, but I don't think that would stop it being good useable terrain in other game systems as well.

@madmerlinsart

2 жыл бұрын

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring OK I may have just ordered the starter set and both the first expansions... What? I've had a hard day fencing on the farm, I need a treat, lol.

@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring

2 жыл бұрын

I hope you really enjoy it.

@madmerlinsart

2 жыл бұрын

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring Me too. I never got into the original 80's version but loved the early 2000's revival series.

I was pretty shocked to see you painting red directly over black like that. That Mephiston Red must be something else.

@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring

2 жыл бұрын

Mephiston Red is magic in a bottle. I love it.

Nice! Good stuff

@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

I've jist gone all in with Battlegrounds and these tutorials of yours have been great. Can we get a Beast man paint tutorial soon

@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. Beast Man is actually next in the paint queue but it will probably be a couple of weeks before the video goes up.

Thanks a lot for the guide sir.

@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching.

Good job on the terrain. It looks great. I probably would have done the terrain walls in “Castle Grayskull” greenish tint…certainly I will do the ruins from CMON’s Clash for Eternia, when I get that in December…

@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I mentioned this in another comment, actually. It was my first thought to do it like the green from the original Castle Greyskull playset, but I decided the blue had a better contrast with the yellow sand. Also, I'm doing a lot of the pipework in yellow, and again, I though that looked better against the blue.

Nicely done!

@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

Great work! 👍

@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring

Жыл бұрын

Thanks.

wolf gray,,, army painter got some really unique colors.

@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring

2 жыл бұрын

Ha. It's purposefully named to be an obvious alternative. The name makes it pretty clear would it could be used for.

Looking good

@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

Very nice paint job, simple but effective 👍 I was lazy and used contrast paints 😉

@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, whatever gets the job done. There's so much terrain in the box, and they've got another terrain set on the way.

That looks really good. Once I'm done with my Catacombs terrain, then I'll get cracking with my MOTU terrain, and probably go for this style.

Those all look really good great job

@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. I have a video going up on the channel tomorrow where I show all of the terrain laid out on the battlefield. There is a surprisingly large amount of it!

@robertlykins728

Жыл бұрын

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring I will definitely be watching my friend!

@robertlykins728

Жыл бұрын

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring would absolutely love to play a game with you sir excellent stuff!

Much better visual impact than the somewhat greenish walls we can see here and there imho...

@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring

Жыл бұрын

The green tinged walls are a bit more accurate to the Castle Greyskull look, but I was happy with how these turned out.

Seeing all the great plastic in this set has kinda made me question why I backed the CMON Kickstarter

@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring

2 жыл бұрын

It's a shame the two companies are both restricted in where they can distribute their games. I probably would have added both to my collection otherwise.

Looks great. I probably would not have resisted my urge to do these in dusty greens and purples. I always highlight desert sand with a bright or ducky yellow, even for historicals, because it's far to drab otherwise. It helps to simulate some of the reflected sunlight gleam without doing multiple offwhite to white buildups, which inevitably ruins models boots and such. There are lots of metallics in the toy range. Just off the top of my heard you have ram Ram, battle armour he-man, Robototo's weapons had metallic flake in the silver plastic. They there's the chrome plating of Fisto and Jijitsu. Dragon blast Skeletor even had an actual metal chain. My original he-man has a silver gray weapons. Granted the cartoon doesn't show metallics, but that's likely due to limitations in colors due to photographic requirement rather than artistic desire.

@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring

2 жыл бұрын

Originally I was going to shoot for that sickly green of the original Castle Greyskull playset, but in the end I decided the blue would be a better option with the yellow bases. I shouldn't have said there were no strong metallics in the toy range (comes from speaking without a script). But when I think of the toy range, and especially the weapon accessories, I don't really think of a lot of chromed or metallic items. I think of the things like the purple, yellow, plain grey, and green weapons and armour - the single-piece plastic elements without paint. I mean, even though jitsu had a gold chopping hand (and I think he may have had some metallic on his chest plate?), his sword was just orange. That's the sort of thing I meant. Regardless, metallics weren't really a thing in the cartoon, and as I said in the video I'm trying to capture something of the essence of the toy line and the cartoon all at once, and for the characters I'm using source images lifted from the cartoons rather than the toys. I'm probably going to spend far too long arsing around trying to colour match things!

@johnmiddleton4291

2 жыл бұрын

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring Yeah, the cartoons didn't use metallics because of photography requirements. Fisto would be a good time to break out some of that Greestuff World chrome paint! That's be fun to to try and film under lights. You can practice your SOS signal mirror skills at the same time. I fully agree that most of the weapons were just bright, and some not so bright, colored plastics. They did have an accessory pack of recolors than were more metal and grey too. I'd probably go with the toys over the cartoon, as the multiple toy ranges seem to be the design inspirations for most things and modern cartons are all computer colored with layered transitions which might make you crazy.

@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring

2 жыл бұрын

I'd probably have to put some kind of warning on the video. I haven't started the characters yet. I've just been looking for good source images and thinking about paint options. I wasn't allowing myself to touch them until the terrain set was done. My next big problem will be deciding what order to paint the characters in. I mean, after painting Orko, of course... And leaving Stratos to last...

@johnmiddleton4291

2 жыл бұрын

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring Are there scenarios that use specific dudes in them? I'd start with what you need to play those and expand from there.

@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring

2 жыл бұрын

Not as such. There is a "first game" setup that recommends He-Man, Stratos, and Man-at-Arms versus Skeletor, Mer-Man, and Trap Jaw, but that's just to teach you a bunch of the different game mechanisms. Other than that the game is very much geared towards tournament play with 100 point forces. I am probably going to make a bunch of my own narrative scenarios to play through though, and I do hope they explore that avenue in the future, although I understand that isn't what they are going for right now. At 100 points you are pretty much running four to five characters per side anyway. If you have less you have so many leftover points you get a bit overloaded with special upgrades. They don't really have any "filler" characters at the moment, or characters who are so overpowered they take up a huge chunk of your points.

Are the pieces larger or smaller than HeroScape?

@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring

2 жыл бұрын

I like your thinking, but the scales don't match up. Battleground uses 1-inch hexes, while HeroScape hexes are something like 1.75 inches.

I have a question; 😁 how many takes did it take for you to get a shot of three dice each coming up 1?

@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring

2 жыл бұрын

I actually did a video about it when I made the new intro. I don’t have an exact figure but it was over 100 rolls and 40 minutes of recording. I rolled triple 6 three times before I got the triple 1.

@HivisoftheScale

2 жыл бұрын

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring lucky!

Was that a small army painter dry brush that was too scratchy by any chance? I love their regular brushes but their small dry brushes are rubbish imo.

@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. It was one of the D&D branded drybrushes from Army Painter.

"As close as shown on the boxart" two minutes later; "Yeah light bluish grey is close enough from turquoise, let's do this"