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McFarlane Toys Fortnite Ragnarok Figure Review

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I came across two more Fortnite toys I liked so I figured I'd do some more photography. I don't know anything about the character so here is what the wiki says: "Ragnarok is a Legendary Outfit in Fortnite: Battle Royale that can be unlocked by reaching Tier 100 in the Season 5 Battle Pass. He is also a character in Chapter 2: Season 5 that was added into update v15.00. Ragnarok first appeared in Season 5, having been pulled from his own viking reality, along with his Viking Village. He appeared once again in Chapter 2: Season 5, appearing at the Superstore next to Holly Hedges. (Formerly Hey Boo! Megastore), now turned into Viking Vessel." Here he is in his shiny new packaging. McFlarlane continues with the nice box art. Here is the contents of the package. I like the way the pick looks, but the shotgun is kinda lacking. The cape attaches by a slot in his back. For some reason his knobby elbows keep catching my eyes. And now for the action shots. Ov...
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Meet The Monsters Of Kingdom Death - The Gorm

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For our first creature feature I give you everyone's favorite baby faced hippo monster, the Gorm! "One day, great woe fell upon the settlement. Unrelenting storms raged overhead. Out of the squall, a giant beast came to gobble up the strongest and most beautiful, then wandered back into the darkness with a lonesome cry, searching for a mate." Official artwork of the Gorm. While not the most difficult monster to wound in the beginning the Gorm quickly becomes problematic when hitting it causes it to projectile vomit on you dealing wounds that ignore armor to everyone in front of it. The higher level Gorm hunts hit you with permanent injuries, debuffs, and can leave you crippled before you even start the fight. But wait, it gets better. Just having the Gorm expansion in your game causes severe acid thunderstorms that can cause a survivor to ram a stone into their eye socket, severely hinder your settlement's growth, or destroy half of your settlement's reso...
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Meet The Survivors of Kingdom Death

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My group has been focusing a lot on Kingdom Death over the past few weeks so almost all progress on my other projects has come to a screeching halt. Hobbying is still being done so there is that at least. For those who haven't heard of it, Kingdom Death in a nutshell is a board game where you build a settlement and fight monsters. The summary from the Kingdom Death wiki describes it as follows: "Kingdom Death: Monster is a strategy board game designed to be played by four players. In Kingdom Death: Monster, players take on the role of adventurers who barely survive an attack by a monstrous lion. Forming a settlement nearby, they celebrate this victory with a yearly lantern festival followed by a ceremonial hunt against another monster. The game is a story-driven campaign that takes place over approximately 30 of these "lantern years". Most lantern years are divided into three phases: the hunt, the showdown, and the settlement phase. As a complete game is esti...
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The Nightmare Before Krampus Day Pt4

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So after much procrastination and waiting for things to come in the mail I have finally finished the Witches And Woes crew. I used the Secret Weapon Miniatures Field of Screams Bases (which can be found here ) for all of the crew because I thought the jackolanterns fit quite well with the flaming pumpkin headed sorrows. So now without further ado, I present to you the crew. Sorrows A, B, and C. Next up we have the Poltergeist. The ever loveable Baby Kade. The sweet and sour youth, Candy. And lastly the bringer of misfortune herself, Pandora. This crew was a little challenging to paint at times, but overall I enjoyed painting them. My wife started doing the base coats on a few models and I took over everything else as well as the detail work. Lets just hope that New Model Syndrome doesnt stirke when they play their first match against the Rasputina crew.
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The Nightmare Before Krampus Day Pt3

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Over the last few days I've been getting back into the swing of painting and made some more progress on the Nightmare Before Krampus Day project. On the left we have the newly repainted Poltergiest and on the right we have one of the Sorrows. Both are from the Witches and Woes alternate Pandora Crew.
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How to strip plastic models with LA's Totally Awesome

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I was painting up the Poltergeist model for our seasonal battle report and I just wasn't feeling the colors so I decided to strip the paint and have another go at it. I'm still learning the ins and outs of stripping models so I decided this would be a great thing to show to others that are in the same spot as I am. Here we have the bottle of LA's Totally Awesome that will be used for this demonstration. As far as chemicals go it's not too expensive. I've seen the smaller spray style bottles being sold for a dollar in some stores. And here we have the happy little poltergeist in question. I filled a leak-proof container (most tupperware with the snappy lids should work fine) with enough liquid to fully submerge the model and then plopped it in. Make sure you snap the lid tightly though or you will have some splashing in a little while. I let him sit for about three hours and then gave the container a good shaking for about twenty seconds. You probably don...
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The Nightmare Before Krampus Day Pt2

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After much delay we were able to finally finish the core of the nightmare Rasputina crew. Below you can see the alternate Ice Gamin (or as we refer to them the Derpy Gamin) Next up you have the Beast-in-a-box (alternate wendigo) and the alternate Rasputina Lastly you have Krampus (alternate Snow Storm) and Festivus Aborus (alternate Ice Golem) And here we have the group all together. As with the last batch my wife did the painting on everyone and I just did the basing.
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The Nightmare Before Krampus Day Pt1

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My wife and I are working on two seasonal crews for a special game of Malifux. One player will be playing the nightmare Pandora crew and the other will be playing the nightmare Rasputina crew. In this battle the holidays of Spookmas and Krampus Day are going head to head to see which is the best holiday once and for all. Below you have the Festivus Aborus on the left (alternate Ice Golem) and the Beast In A Box on the right (alternate Wendigo). Both were painted by my wife, I just did the basing.
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