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85. The Legions Con 2024 First Alliance (Anthony Houseal and Kris Farone) · The Euro Legions Podcast

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  My wallet is sobbing. I can hear it.
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  I can hear it in the hall now. It is breaking down crying.
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  It turns out that Attila the arrogant so and so he's got a
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  fake hammer. Oh.
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  A fake Whoa. As I say.
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  So welcome to episode 85 of the Relations Podcast, and this week
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  we have the 1st dinner interviews for the Road to
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  Legions Con, which is a little bit shorter this year.
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  We're starting it a little bit later on purpose for our own
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  sanity and we also decided to try and we did a lot of shows
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  last year with crossing over with, you know, other shows and
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  stuff like this. This year we're going to focus
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  on actual people at the con and not and people, if they have the
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  other shows, they can do their thing on their shows and we can
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  do crossovers with them out of legions Con season maybe.
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  So first up we have our main man, the leader of the first
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  Lions, Kings under the mountain, Anton of the Forge.
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  It's Anthony. How seal?
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  How are you, Anthony? Hey guys, How's it going?
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  I'm doing pretty good. And Mal, we got, we got no rich
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  this week. Mal, it's just you.
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  We haven't. I heard his teeth chattering
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  when we mentioned Anthony was going to be on and then I don't
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  know, he's just not showed up. It's.
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  There may have been a picture that was submitted in our little
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  chat group that may have just reawoken some old fears.
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  Yeah, I should. Oh, I should have actually.
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  I should have actually brought that picture on on for the
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  screen. Maybe I'll pop it up on the
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  screen in the editor. But yeah, there's a, there's a
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  yeah, Dwarf loving man with the sword, Yeah.
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  And rich somewhere in the background.
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  Whether he's in this photo or not, we're not sure, but he was
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  definitely in the vicinity. We know he was in the room.
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  Yeah, he got the stink eye later with the sword, so yeah.
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  So yeah. Anthony, how are you all
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  prepared for Allegiance Con? Are you ready to go?
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  If you would have asked me before Retro Con I would have
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  said yes. I was surprised and very happy
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  with the support from the community that came out to the
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  the retro Retro Con show just a few weeks ago.
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  So now I I've really taken a point to not get worked up
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  anxious anything like that towards the show this year.
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  But I won't lie, I feel a little jittery needing to get caught
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  back up on some stuff. I, I thought I was further ahead
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  and things, so I, I taken on some, some subcontracting work,
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  some farm work for some guys to get some things squared away.
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  I'm like, OK, I'll this one's done.
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  This one's done, this one's done.
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  Now I'm going all right, now I need to hurry up and get these
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  guys done because now I need to kind of jump back in and get
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  some more stuff ready to go for the show.
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  I need to finish up a few more customs and things like that.
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  So I'm not not panicking, but I'm definitely going, Oh, it's,
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  it's getting a little closer than I thought.
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  So we're OK this year. And and how did Retro Con go?
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  I guess it was quite good. Retro Con was awesome.
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  We had the Mid-Atlantic meet up. The Mammu or a lot of people
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  have now since called it Jesse Con on on the Sunday.
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  Yeah, yeah. So we had the Purple Gang gang
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  up, we had Wolf King Customs, we had Pat Boyle, we had Nate
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  Armstrong, we had Hedgehog Action, Joe Vassapolo or
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  Vassapolio as they now are calling him in the gang gang
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  group we had. Who else did we have?
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  We had Guy segue Echevarria there as well.
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  I'm. Glad you said that.
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  We had dub dub there. It was a, it was a whole lot of
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  people. I, I, I'm, I'm going to forget
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  names, so I'll just leave it at, you know, at that.
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  But we had a huge, a huge turn out, great support for for all
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  the tables that were there, some paint sessions by Pat Boyle,
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  some part swaps they had their people are able to bring stuff
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  and swap things around. So it was really, really, really
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  great time for everyone to be there.
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  And it's one of my not counting Legions kind because Legions
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  kind is more of a specific niche kind of a show.
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  But if I were to look at the general spectrum of the shows
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  throughout the year that I'm able to go to retro con is my
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  favorite just because of the location.
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  It's it's proximity to me and just what's available there
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  between retro and modern stuff. And then us able to set up our
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  legions, our little corner, because they literally gave us
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  the corner of of the of the hall to be able to set up the door
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  stuff and be able to have the the tables there for the meet
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  up. So it really, it really is
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  something I look forward to every year.
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  Awesome, I guess we were sitting over here in jealousy Mal, huh?
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  Yeah, yeah, right. Well, a friend of mine went to
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  Retro Con last year, but, you know, I couldn't afford to go.
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  But here's one I'd like to get to at some point for sure.
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  Well, now, when you come over and you land hotel house seal,
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  we'll have a vacancy for you. We'll have candy.
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  We'll have candy on the pillow. I mean, you know the song.
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  You just have to say, hey, Anthony, and here I come.
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  So you can say no to that. Yeah.
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  No, that's probably. Some you know, the apart from
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  the flight, that's the most expensive part in the trip, so
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  you know if you can get that sorted.
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  Yeah, it helps. It helps out, you know.
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  Anyway, Anyway, the community, the community can help out each
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  other, whether it's something as simple as, Hey man, I got a
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  place you can crash, you know, for a night or two, or, you
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  know, we, we really try to make things, you know, home,
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  especially when you're at someone else's region of the, of
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  the country. The, the best thing that you can
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  do is just try to make it, you know, as, as home or comforting
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  or extend whatever kind of local things that you can to them to
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  kind of really have them appreciate.
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  Cause the show's hard 'cause you you're spending all the time at
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  the show and then you're doing whatever, you don't really get a
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  chance to go see some of the other sites in the area.
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  So like I try to bring. The.
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  The doughnuts, the tomato pie, you know, all that stuff that
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  we, you know, we go out to a local cuisine or something like
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  that to experience some of that. And so we really make up for a
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  lot of that short period of time.
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  But you know, if you were to say, hey, I'm going to be here
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  for a couple days, take it up Valley Forge Park or, you know,
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  some of the other things around the area, you know, But yeah, I,
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  I, I really would think about Russia.
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  I know it's too close is real close to legions time, but think
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  about that for for next year. Yeah.
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  Yeah, sounds awesome. I mean, that is the that is the
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  single best thing about being involved in all this is the
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  people you meet along the way and just the how nice people are
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  to each other. Yeah, once they, you know, once
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  you get to know people and, you know, there's a level of trust
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  built up, you know, I mean, you obviously had meeting them in
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  person is the best way. As soon as I went to Legions
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  Con, my experience with the community after that was
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  completely different because people are like, it's that guy,
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  he exists. He's not, you know, he's not
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  this just bubble on the Internet.
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  You got you guys know about my story with Pat Boyle in the
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  first Legions con, right? Yeah.
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  Yeah, yeah. For for those that are not aware
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  of it. Yeah.
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  Yeah, Pat Boyle reached out in the community and said, hey, I
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  need a lift to get to the show. And I looked to see where it was
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  on the map and I said sure, no problem, I can do that.
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  So the night before, I wasn't even giving much thought about
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  other than just helping someone who I'd never met before.
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  Not really a lot of communication or anything like
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  that. Laying in bed the night before.
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  My wife goes, what if this guy is like a serial killer or or a
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  murder or anything like that? I go, well, we're both at least
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  going to go to the show first because we're going to at least
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  enjoy the bulk of the show. So if my last memory is is the
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  first legions con, then so be it.
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  And but from that moment on, you know, Pat Pat's become a
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  lifelong friend. I chat with him every day.
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  If you know, beyond the plastic. So if there's something that's
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  going on or whatever, I know I can reach out to him to just
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  kind of like bend an ear and likewise.
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  So we've, you know, just kind of been there for each other.
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  So that's what that's what this does.
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  It's it's the fellowship beyond the plastic.
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  Yeah, I think there's, there's, there's at least as many people
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  in America now I communicate on a regular at least weekly basis
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  than than there is on this side of the world, you know?
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  Yeah, so. And that would never have been
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  the case before so. Yeah, it's really cool.
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  It's really cool. And it just even even people
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  from different parts of America, you just get different
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  perspectives from each other, you know.
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  You know, you're from Pennsylvania, then there's
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  somebody else from the West Coast at the West Coast that's
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  completely different part of America.
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  It's like there are different type of people, you know?
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  Oh yeah. Even though they're still
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  Americans, you know? It's definitely a melting pot.
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  Yeah, so that's really cool and and how do you approach retro
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  come then with legions can't come in up.
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  Do you do you bring like different stuff?
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  Do you maybe focus on just 3D parts or?
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  So last year, I, I, I had this, I don't know, crazy notion where
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  I wanted to do 23 customs specifically for Allegiance con
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  23. So I, I put them all together
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  and I just, I had them on display last year at retro con
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  and there was a lot of interest in wanting to get them or what
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  have you. And I was like, no, no, no, no,
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  we're just going to, we're going to wait to the show and, and
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  everything like that. And, and it did well at the
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  show, but this year I just decided that we're going to, I'm
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  going to be seeing a lot of new people for the first time.
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  And the, and the last thing I want to tell someone is, Oh
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  yeah, you want to buy that? That's great.
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  No, you have to come to a show two months from now.
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  So I have been making customs throughout the year and I had
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  stuff of it. I even had some older ones that
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  just may not have, you know, caught certain people's eyes
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  that were there. And some of those older ones
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  went too. I just put everything was
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  available. I did take a lot of old toys.
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  I sold AGI Joe, Real American Hero, Killer Whale Hovercraft,
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  like I was just taking. I was trying to empty up some
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  space because you know, the problem is the collectors that
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  we collect and we collect and we collect.
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  So. Then after a certain point
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  there, you start, you start to figure out going, OK, I, I don't
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  have room to collect anymore. And, and, and other people are
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  going, hey, you've got a lot of stuff here.
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  What are, what are we doing with all this?
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  So in order for me to continue to collect stuff, I need to do
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  away with stuff that, you know, doesn't bring me joy anymore.
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  So I got rid of a bunch of old stuff.
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  So I had a full table of older toys I got rid of and, and that
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  was that was nice. So between painted parts,
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  customs, unpainted parts, and then I had the, the, the
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  beginning of the new Kings under the mountain display this year.
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  Had that all together. Still working on that for, for
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  November. Yeah, it was a, it was a, it was
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  a nice sized table and was able to get rid of a lot of stuff and
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  move things along. So, but yeah, it was now, like I
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  said before, I'm going all right.
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  Well, I need to paint some stuff because that went away.
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  So, yeah. And are you, are you doing the
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  thing are the kings under the mountain doing the thing where
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  people can, you know, give you bring a custom and you display
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  absolutely on the table. Absolutely.
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  If if someone wants to, Yep, If someone wants to bring a bring a
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  custom that they want to show up because they don't have a table
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  space or even if they have a table space and they want to put
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  it together, they want to they want to take pictures with other
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  customs or some of the diorama stuff that I'll have there more
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  than welcome to do that. And I've even gone so far as if
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  someone brings something and they go, hey, is it possible I
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  could, you know, maybe put a price tag on this?
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  I, I, I'm OK with that. You know, that's, that's a deal
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  that they will have specifically with that person.
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  Yeah. I take my Commission.
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  It's, it's the King's cut. It's fine.
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  It's. Automatic.
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  Yeah, Yeah, we supposed to get them.
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  Right up the top because then I'll start working the deal and
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  I'll I'll I'll take their number and I'll you know I'll add X on
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  it and that's my that's my cut asked Steve Bischotti about how
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  he couldn't sell dwarf at his table last year and then 5
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  minutes of it sitting at my table it was already gone and
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  sold so brilliant yeah so we'll yeah we'll have that on display
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  as well so I welcome people to bring them all yeah bring them
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  that there it's it's a way for us to get together you know and,
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  and really take in and. You've.
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  Made something that you're really proud of and you don't
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  have a table to display? Well then, might you know then
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  that area is for you. If as long as you're a dwarf.
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  Yeah. So that's just small little,
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  yeah, small little precision there.
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  As long as it's yeah, yeah, I think that's fair.
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  You know, there's, there's also the malignancy.
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  I think that are they going to do something similar?
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  That's correct. The malignancy they have their
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  area as well. So goblins and dwarfs are are
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  available at people's disposal to, you know, display.
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  I won't speak for Dan on what their plans is or what their
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  plan is for that, but they can, you know, I'm sure they'll have
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  something together, so. Yeah, absolutely.
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  So wanted to bring this up here. So this is our little area.
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  So we are in where the Horseman was last year basically and then
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  backing on to as well where the likes of Trevor were last year
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  and. I think the malignancy side of
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  the table will be facing, they'll be facing Dennis Derby
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  and Noah and all those guys. So we're we're in, we're in a
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  really great area of amazing talent and artist.
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  So thankfully we are the first things that people see before
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  they get to Dennis and Noah so that we have that to our
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  advantage. And explain a little bit here
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  why we're going to have a little sure area in the middle is where
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  people go. Through.
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  So what's the vision there? So what I did last year was when
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  I first got to the to the area, when I saw the size of the
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  booth, I saw a lot of people were putting their tables up
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  against the edge so that people could so that the vendors could
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  sit behind the table, put whatever.
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  And I felt like that was a lot of lost space.
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  So what I did was I flipped it the other way.
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  I put the table inward and then create a, a whole open area so
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  you could walk through and interact with everyone.
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  No chairs, no sitting. I want to be one-on-one with the
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  people. I want to talk with the
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  customers. I really want to get to know
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  them, find out what their wants, their needs are, and create
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  communication and new friendships along the way.
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  So in doing so, Christopher Own and I were talking going, this
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  was fun. Like the way we set it up.
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  I was with my buddy Stefan from Detour.
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  We did the same thing for him where he had plenty of room too.
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  So we created this huge open area and the thought was, what
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  if we could get a whole area like this?
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  And then once the determining factor was that the horsemen
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  were going to go to the other room, that was, wow, there's a
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  whole open island. Well, what if we were to start
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  getting some names together and figuring out if we could do
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  something like this? So we started talking with a
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  couple people that we felt as though we could really work
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  together. And there are a couple people
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  that we wanted to, you know, potentially elevate from where
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  they were last year to to a higher spotlight area.
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  They could be seen a little bit more.
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  I know the Borderland Horde guys, they were stuck further in
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  the back, so you know, good opportunity for them to bring up
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  stuff to the front because they have a plethora of amazing parts
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  and pieces. I know they just showed off
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  their, their, their Gundam dwarf cosmic stuff.
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  And as a, as a Gundam fan, I am just thinking, well, I was
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  really trying not to spend money on a lot of third party parts.
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  But now that I'm literally diagonal from them, it's going
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  to be very hard to not go over and say, guys, give me this.
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  Kind of thing. Yeah, we're we're going to have
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  them on in this run up and whatever about Rich hiding from
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  you, he has to be there for that because he's you know what?
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  Maybe he should invite. Me.
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  I have the wallet, I have the wallet crying button.
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  Like literally going to be hammering on it the whole way
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  through that. You should invite me for that
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  one too, and I'll just sneak up as a surprise guest on that one
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  Off guard. Yeah, well, you know, I'll keep
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  you in the loop. So, so, yeah.
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  And then a perfect example of last year was like the
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  malignancy. So the the malignancy, Dan Tobin
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  and a couple of his of his buddies were in that other room
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  last year and and no fault of their own.
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  It seemed like that room didn't get as much notice as as
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  everyone else because the horsemen were over here.
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  And then so people just kept wanting to go where where that
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  was. So definitely wanted to get Dan,
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  who's an amazing painter. I've been watching his evolution
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  through the years get better and better.
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  I know originally he had issues with eyes and now he's taking
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  that on, you know, head on and he's doing some amazing, amazing
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  work. And I'll have obviously the, the
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  goblin stuff. And as people know, my, my top
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  two favorite people in all of mythos are the dwarves and the
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  goblins. So I thought it was just better
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  to have us right there. And, you know, my brother's a
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  goblin guy and, you know, having that all there kind of work
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  well. You got to put up with him.
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  Yeah, you'll put up. Yeah.
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  But if you bring some of his friends in, then you don't
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  really have to deal with them as much, you know?
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  Yeah, then they can put up with them.
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  It's perfect. It make there's there's forward
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  thinking. So what we wanted to do is we
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  wanted to have a good mix of things.
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  We wanted to have talented painters.
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  So Giovanni, I mean you really can't get much more talented
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  than than it comes to Giovanni. So he, he is going to bring a
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  huge amount of painted heads and parts and I, I don't know what
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  his custom count's going to be, but I can almost guarantee you
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  if you want something from Giovanni, you're going to want
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  to go there first. So go there.
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  Immortal Customs. They were in our same row last
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  year, so we wanted to bring them on.
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  They have a nice mix of soft goods and their sculpts are
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  amazing. They have quite the blend of of
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  different topics and themes. So it it really creates a nice a
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  nice mix to that. He Mike is such a great
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  customizer. He's also really good friends
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  with with Matt Stein 13 Z customs.
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  So it made sense to have all those guys together.
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  So we have some great customizers that are there as
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  well. Again, mythic bits, Chris and
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  Shane, they are, I feel like I've almost become like the the
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  third, the third member in that little group there of the week.
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  We're constantly putting together ideas like the Garrison
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  Greybeard last year for the the dwarven towers, like that was
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  just an absolute blast to put together.
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  So they'll be there as well. And then I thought, you know
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  what, we want to make sure that when we have a nice mix, there's
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  a lot of mythic media people that are out there.
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  So who better to have than the European, you know, Regency of
• 19:42
  the, of the mythic media. So you know, I asked you guys
• 19:44
  and, and you were, you know, quickly on board to jump to jump
• 19:47
  on with that. So we went with that.
• 19:49
  And then of course, Stefan, Stefan, Stefan and I have known
• 19:52
  each other for a long time. He is such a talented designer.
• 20:00
  His ideas for going big and large just blow me away every
• 20:05
  year and some of the things that he has in store this year.
• 20:08
  I'm not going to spoil anything, but I think people are are once
• 20:12
  again going to be amazed and blown away with what he has.
• 20:15
  So and and and of course, like we said and Mark.
• 20:19
  And Mark, yeah. I'm sorry, it's Mac and Mac.
• 20:24
  And you've mentioned them already, but so Matt Stein and
• 20:27
  you are in the same kind of section or?
• 20:29
  Matt and Matt and I are right there together as well and
• 20:31
  Matt's stuff is I I don't know if Matt's kind of have anything
• 20:35
  available for sale at the show. The way things have been going
• 20:38
  in, in pre sales. He might.
• 20:41
  I was joking with him the other day.
• 20:43
  I said you might just be an exhibitor or less of a vendor by
• 20:45
  the time it comes around, people are just going to come and pick
• 20:47
  up your orders. By Saturday afternoon I just
• 20:50
  might have more room to spread my stuff over into your area.
• 20:52
  He's. Going to be doing in the mail.
• 20:54
  Wickman, is he? Yeah, but you know what?
• 20:58
  Matt's stuff I have, I have one of his earlier patina armored
• 21:02
  pieces and it's to have a piece of his work is, is definitely
• 21:09
  something on that level of a Giovanni, of an Emil of, of, of
• 21:13
  something like that. And he's come through and
• 21:16
  evolved so fast that that's what blows me away.
• 21:20
  So. And he is recently appointed the
• 21:23
  brand ambassador of the Toy Forge as of as of a dinner I had
• 21:27
  with him last week in Atlanta. That post actually, yeah, yeah,
• 21:31
  that's all. Yeah, yeah.
• 21:33
  I mean, painting is, it's boring to say, but painting is
• 21:35
  definitely practice. And the one thing you saw with
• 21:39
  Matt immediately when he started was he was very, very, you know,
• 21:44
  he did an awful lot of stuff. And obviously you get better
• 21:48
  quickly then. Yeah.
• 21:49
  And then it's just about your own, you know, obviously there's
• 21:52
  a little bit of your own talent and, and stuff to to, you know,
• 21:56
  finesse things. But a lot of the basic stuff
• 21:59
  like eyes and stuff like that, it's just practice, isn't it?
• 22:02
  It's just kind of doing it, doing it.
• 22:04
  People are always scared to do it.
• 22:05
  And I think thing to do is to just do it.
• 22:08
  And if you go to Legions con and if you're someone that's a kind
• 22:11
  of AI would say, you know, maybe just started customizing this
• 22:14
  year or you want to get into it, you get a lot of cheap 3D parts.
• 22:19
  And maybe, you know, there will be tables that have a deals,
• 22:22
  deals going with them on 3D parts.
• 22:24
  Yeah. And go and get there, you know,
• 22:27
  5 or whatever or 10 for whatever.
• 22:29
  Even if you don't like all the scopes, loads of stuff to
• 22:32
  practice on there and you don't mind messing them up then if you
• 22:34
  got them for, you know, very cheap price, you know, yeah, you
• 22:38
  can post to win. Sorry, Anthony.
• 22:40
  Yeah, little guy place. I'm sorry.
• 22:42
  Yeah, as opposed to when, you know, when you're buying them on
• 22:45
  the Internet, they're obviously going to be the, you know, 12 to
• 22:48
  1520 maybe sometimes for certain scopes.
• 22:51
  And that's the point when, yeah, you don't want to be messing
• 22:53
  that up you. Know right well.
• 22:56
  What I was going to say is if you get some of those large
• 22:58
  orders, you could dedicate some of the heads you may not be as
• 23:02
  interested in in on. Like you said, the practice
• 23:04
  stuff, the dry brushing. You could practice your dry
• 23:06
  brushing on those heads. Like I for what I do is when I
• 23:09
  do my painting, I have a small warhammer like a tree of like
• 23:15
  I've stuffed like all still factored together.
• 23:18
  And I, I do all my extra brushing off on that and then
• 23:21
  work on whatever you can start using some of those parts for
• 23:24
  those things to get the different textures and figure
• 23:26
  out where exactly how much you want to put to apply before you
• 23:29
  put it on your $1520 parts. So.
• 23:33
  Totally. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 23:35
  With dry brushing, you really want to know how much paint you
• 23:37
  have on the brush, right? It's good if you do it on the
• 23:41
  like, yeah, a piece of plastic or some sort of a head that
• 23:43
  you're not using. That's very good.
• 23:45
  But to, to go back to your original question, as as I
• 23:49
  described everyone that we have there, the way we're going to
• 23:52
  set this up is similar to how I set it up last year where it's
• 23:54
  going to be like an open marketplace.
• 23:56
  So we're going to utilize every square inch of our booth.
• 24:02
  So we'll so if anyone's looking at the pictures from YouTube and
• 24:06
  we can show this at a later point as well.
• 24:09
  The areas in blue will be the display area.
• 24:12
  So you'll be able to walk for around the outside of the island
• 24:15
  and see everything. And then on the inside, the Gray
• 24:18
  area. So you'll walk in from the two
• 24:19
  sides. So you'll walk in from the toy
• 24:22
  forge in the malignancy side or immortal customs and Giovanni
• 24:25
  side and then be able to walk through the center of it and
• 24:28
  then interact with all this almost like its own, like I
• 24:31
  said, like a marketplace. So that'll that'll create a
• 24:36
  fully immersive experience. And again, like I said, no
• 24:39
  chairs. We're not going to be sitting
• 24:40
  around. We're going to be chatting and
• 24:41
  talking with people. So this is this is definitely,
• 24:45
  you know, a capitalist, uh, engaging, you know, moment I see
• 24:51
  it. I see you getting a little
• 24:52
  concerned there, Mal. We're going to.
• 24:53
  I like a good seat, a good sit down so often.
• 24:57
  I, I can, I can confirm, Anthony, I did not sit down once
• 25:01
  at my table last year. But yeah, Mal was Mal was in the
• 25:04
  middle, but it was me and Rich with the stuff to sell, you
• 25:06
  know, Mal was there. For cover to be fair, which is
• 25:08
  going to be very yeah, I. Can't, I can't.
• 25:10
  I can't stand that. I can't sit at the table trying
• 25:12
  to sell because it just it. It doesn't work like.
• 25:15
  It does it, Yeah, I. Understand you're standing up.
• 25:17
  Someone coming so long and you're like, hey, how's it going
• 25:19
  on? So any kind of you're reaching
• 25:21
  over the table, going out there, what about that one?
• 25:23
  Oh, you're looking for dwarves that went over there.
• 25:26
  You know exactly. Just it doesn't give the right
• 25:29
  impression. Now I understand the certain
• 25:30
  people, if they have a bad knee or something, you know, all that
• 25:33
  kind of stuff, that's understandable.
• 25:34
  But. Sure.
• 25:36
  Do your do your squats anyone on the 1st alliance do your squats
• 25:41
  in November up to November. You're, you're going to be
• 25:44
  watching me throughout the day just doing these random like
• 25:47
  Hindu squats and stretching and, and leaning here and leaning
• 25:51
  there and just trying to keep working out my, because it's
• 25:53
  always my back that gives out first.
• 25:54
  So always trying to work and, and keep that stretched out.
• 25:57
  I'll probably end up just put, throw a brace on and just call
• 25:59
  it a day. And, and you know, that'd be
• 26:01
  fine. But yeah, that, that's the whole
• 26:04
  idea. And, and you guys know, you guys
• 26:06
  have known me now long enough, you know that by Saturday
• 26:09
  afternoon, my voice will probably be gone because I just
• 26:13
  really want to engage and be a part of it because it's, you
• 26:16
  know, for a lot of these people, it's for a lot of, it's their
• 26:19
  first time seeing stuff. Or for a lot of us, it's like
• 26:21
  homecoming where we get to see people we haven't seen or
• 26:24
  interacted with all year. So we want to get caught up with
• 26:26
  them. Yeah, we message with them and
• 26:27
  everything, but it's different when you get to talk and
• 26:30
  physically engage with them. So my voice will be gone before
• 26:33
  the weekend's out. Probably before, maybe even
• 26:36
  before Saturday is out. I'm going to have a little bit
• 26:38
  of recording gear, our desk, because last year I focused just
• 26:41
  on, you know, trying to sell the stuff and, you know, I'm trying
• 26:45
  to make my life more complicated this year.
• 26:47
  I think I can manage. So I'll get you on the mics
• 26:50
  early in the day early. That's the note.
• 26:53
  We'll keep, we'll keep a recording of the degradation of
• 26:56
  my voice as it continues to rode away Friday, Saturday and
• 27:00
  Sunday. What I want to do is just give a
• 27:02
  little like, even if I get like a total of 1/2 an hour of stuff
• 27:06
  out of it, it's just an impression of what I was like to
• 27:08
  be there selling. I don't know, it's an idea.
• 27:12
  It might work out differently, You know, we might end up having
• 27:15
  lots of chats with different customers.
• 27:16
  I don't know. But it's more just to give
• 27:19
  people an impression of what it was like to be there in an audio
• 27:22
  form. So let's see.
• 27:23
  Well, you know, and as a as a podcast and that's, you know,
• 27:26
  their main source of, you know, where you guys are being known
• 27:30
  from having the podcast stuff set up there.
• 27:32
  I think that'll set you apart from a lot of the other guys
• 27:34
  because anyone that's media related, they're doing stuff
• 27:38
  afterwards, so you're doing it in the heart of the show.
• 27:41
  I think that's amazing. I think it's a splendid idea.
• 27:43
  I'm trying. To do a bit of both, you know,
• 27:45
  we have we're trying to and we're.
• 27:47
  So are you going to intern Anthony or are you still?
• 27:50
  No, I did intern two years ago and it was quite an amazing
• 27:56
  experience. And is this the first time for
• 27:58
  you guys? Yeah.
• 28:00
  So last year, but the first time, yeah.
• 28:04
  So I will tell you my two favorite experiences of the
• 28:09
  whole show was the sculpting session with Eric.
• 28:13
  That was really cool because you could tell when he gets into it
• 28:17
  because he keeps going and like starts doing more and more and
• 28:21
  more. And we and, and, and our
• 28:23
  session, we had done a female fuzz monk that we had deemed the
• 28:26
  dragon rider. So fingers crossed that we see
• 28:28
  some sort of fuzz monk dragon rider in the years to come.
• 28:31
  But the the more interesting part was Jim's tour.
• 28:37
  Take. Jim's.
• 28:38
  Tour that some. Someone else said that, yeah.
• 28:40
  Jim's tour was my favorite. Like if I could go just to do
• 28:45
  Jim's tour, I would go and do Jim's tour.
• 28:48
  The way he shows you around with what's going on.
• 28:51
  And like when we went, that was when they were still building
• 28:54
  the Kurzog Ogre. So they were like the day
• 28:58
  before, still putting parts and pieces, trying to make it all,
• 29:02
  all fit and work out and, and it was great.
• 29:06
  So yeah, do do the tour and, and really, really soak it in
• 29:11
  because you see a lot of really interesting things that are,
• 29:14
  that are done. Like he'll show you the floor,
• 29:16
  he'll show you the, the, the studio, but then he'll take the
• 29:19
  prop area and you start going around seeing all the other
• 29:22
  things. You'll see the big foam CNC
• 29:25
  machine that cuts all the like a big giant square foam block into
• 29:29
  all this. Like Curzog wasn't hand carved.
• 29:31
  It was done through a, a CNC machine that did all the carving
• 29:35
  for it. And it's, you know, it wasn't
• 29:39
  easily my favorite part. I'd go back for that one.
• 29:41
  Like I, I would love to schedule like a one-on-one session with
• 29:44
  Jim and have him like do a private tour to walk me through
• 29:47
  that place. It was so crazy.
• 29:49
  I like Jim because I feel like he's a bit like you.
• 29:52
  He's this practical bloke that like just knows a bit of
• 29:55
  everything and kind of can throw his hand at most things, you
• 29:59
  know? And if he doesn't, he'll ask you
• 30:01
  about it. And I want you to explain to him
• 30:03
  so that he knows about it in the future because he's always, you
• 30:06
  know, always wanting to learn. So that that's what I really
• 30:08
  love about my conversations with Jim.
• 30:10
  So ask, he'll ask the thing like, what do you do for a
• 30:12
  living? And then I'll start asking you
• 30:13
  about it. And, you know, allows him to
• 30:15
  just kind of put a little that in his memory bank for later.
• 30:18
  I love it, I love it. Yeah, we'll have to try and get
• 30:21
  a chat with Jim as well, maybe not as intern, but see the
• 30:25
  better, that's the best thing about going to intern than
• 30:27
  flying a day earlier even than last year.
• 30:30
  So we will have a little bit more time, you know, like we
• 30:35
  arriving Wednesday, so maybe Wednesday night we can do
• 30:38
  something Thursday night after intern.
• 30:41
  Then there'll be a chance to maybe have an hours recording at
• 30:44
  some point. Whereas last year it was just a
• 30:47
  blur. You know, it was literally I, I
• 30:50
  my plane was late my own and then and then by the time I got
• 30:55
  there was late in the evening. Then it was kind of, you know,
• 30:58
  socializing and then up G con everything was a blur after
• 31:02
  that. Then it was set up.
• 31:04
  You know I should get G con and set up your boom.
• 31:08
  Oh yeah, that's it. I, I showed up late Thursday
• 31:10
  night. It was like 1030 eleven O clock
• 31:13
  and got, you know, caught up with a couple people and that
• 31:17
  was right before van disappeared for 36 hours.
• 31:28
  So I, you know, then then went to bed, got up and I got up
• 31:33
  early, went to the gym and then I had breakfast.
• 31:36
  I met up with Jeremy for a couple minutes and then G con
• 31:40
  start and it was G con all the way up until like midnight and
• 31:44
  we were done setting up and everyone's still wanting to hang
• 31:47
  out and party. And I was like, I'm going to
• 31:49
  bed. I'm just, I'm, you know, just
• 31:53
  you only run so hard and it catches up with you and it's so
• 31:57
  much and so little of a time that you really start to, you
• 32:01
  have to, you have to kind of give in to that.
• 32:04
  I think after. Being like, I would do this, I
• 32:07
  would do the same, absolutely as you, you know, I'd pick a night,
• 32:10
  maybe, you know, maybe I'll say right.
• 32:11
  Saturday night. I can manage the Sunday, but
• 32:15
  because it's the only time we get to see the people currently.
• 32:19
  Yeah, You know, you could possibly go to the retro cons,
• 32:22
  maybe. What's that one?
• 32:23
  Zolo Cons? Zolo Con Yeah.
• 32:25
  I get to at least you might easy more easily get to see the
• 32:28
  person. So I'm trying to kind of do it,
• 32:32
  you know, all in the weekend and then pay for it badly for the
• 32:35
  two weeks. Oh yeah, we all end up sick
• 32:37
  afterwards. That's the the illness is always
• 32:40
  the con exclusive that we get after the show.
• 32:42
  Yeah, I, I can't imagine because this year I've been ill since
• 32:47
  1st of August and I got a relapse there this week.
• 32:52
  Yeah, I could hardly talk on Thursday.
• 32:53
  So I'm happy that I'm back, back on antibiotics and all sorts
• 32:57
  steroids. Yeah, he says he thinks it's a
• 33:00
  throat thing and it's just won't move out of the throat.
• 33:03
  I've had X-rays, blood tests. It's nothing like major, but
• 33:06
  it's not going. So it sucks, but hopefully it'll
• 33:10
  be gone for allegiance con and then it can come back after, you
• 33:12
  know, so sad that's what you're aiming for.
• 33:15
  Just as one weekend. It's like it's a lot of pressure
• 33:18
  on one weekend in a way. I just need 72 hours to be
• 33:21
  healthy. That's all I'm asking for.
• 33:22
  The rest of the year I can be, you know?
• 33:25
  Yeah. Exactly.
• 33:26
  In terrible shape. Yeah, right.
• 33:29
  Let's move on a little bit with the with this stuff.
• 33:31
  So I wanted to go through, you sent me over a few pictures that
• 33:35
  we can go through with various things you wanted to highlight.
• 33:39
  And obviously this isn't all of what you'll have, but it's what
• 33:41
  you wanted to highlight for. Yeah, so we're so we're debuting
• 33:44
  a couple new parts for legions kind.
• 33:48
  Obviously I am a huge fan of the Purple Gang gang and, and Glampi
• 33:54
  was was quite a big fan of Globia because he don't play no
• 33:58
  games. And unfortunately while I was on
• 34:02
  vacation this year, he met his untimely end on the show due to
• 34:07
  a a chorizo cruiser incident with George Gaspar and one of
• 34:12
  Pat Boyle's clones. And all I all I know is I heard
• 34:16
  George and next thing you know, I, I Sunday morning I wake up to
• 34:22
  find out that Clumpy had passed. And there's currently a campaign
• 34:27
  right now, if we can get 1000 subscribers to the Purple Gang
• 34:30
  Gang YouTube channel, the miraculously maybe he'll come
• 34:35
  back to life. In the event that he doesn't, we
• 34:38
  have the Glumpy skull. Swap out all your Glumpy.
• 34:41
  Customs. To be able to put a skull on
• 34:44
  there instead. So with the new skeleton bodies
• 34:46
  coming out and everything, it, you know, it definitely could
• 34:49
  work in between there. And we also have what I'm
• 34:52
  calling the inevitable gauntlet, because some bloke with a lot of
• 34:57
  free time on his hands had nothing better to do but decide
• 35:00
  to be on every mythic media show that you could think of.
• 35:04
  Oh, we had Demon. Yeah, Curtis.
• 35:05
  Yeah, we, we, we. 1414 different related at the series over the
• 35:13
  course of, I don't know, 38 days or something.
• 35:17
  I forget what the record was. I don't know.
• 35:18
  He makes he makes a new number every day.
• 35:20
  It gets larger and larger. It's so we have a we have a
• 35:23
  gauntlet that's got 14 small little stones on there that you
• 35:28
  could paint whatever colors you want and you could slap that on
• 35:31
  there for whatever your your, your inevitable custom wants to
• 35:37
  be. So yeah, we're we're those are
• 35:38
  two new things. We I am.
• 35:43
  Well. I don't, No, no.
• 35:44
  There are greenstones on there somewhere.
• 35:46
  So that might work for for most of you guys, right?
• 35:48
  I don't know. OK, OK, there we go.
• 35:52
  So you can. Let Curtis choose the stones,
• 35:54
  you know? Yeah.
• 35:54
  And you can choose as well whichever 1 you want it to be is
• 35:57
  your favorite show can be the big stone in the centre and then
• 35:59
  the rest of them just kind of all.
• 36:01
  Fall then We've got it. Sorry.
• 36:03
  There's a big stone in the centre, then to the right
• 36:06
  there's two small. There's 2 medium sized ones and
• 36:08
  then a lot of smaller ones in between, so you can just kind of
• 36:11
  go crazy with that. It's just amazing how how it's
• 36:14
  grown because when we started the show, so a year and a half
• 36:17
  ago, it was kind of because there wasn't a lot of right and
• 36:21
  with I mean legions cast, which was the podcast that was really
• 36:25
  not not going much. And you had Trevor with his show
• 36:29
  and obviously Jeremy with his shows and Jesse and Curtis and
• 36:32
  that was it. And yeah, and it wasn't the
• 36:35
  regularity wasn't as much. I mean, I think Jesse and Curtis
• 36:39
  and Jeremy obviously were quite regular, but the other shows
• 36:41
  were very hit and miss kind of with their timing.
• 36:46
  And since then, it's just like there's an everyday in the week
• 36:48
  coverage. You could, you don't need
• 36:49
  Netflix anymore. You could just watch Legions
• 36:52
  Yeah TV on YouTube, you know? And what, what's great, you
• 36:56
  know, and this isn't, you know, blowing smoke up your asses or
• 36:58
  anything, but what I, I am, I am a podcast fan.
• 37:02
  I prefer my my my format in pot because I do a lot of traveling
• 37:06
  on the road and it's easier to just listen to what's going on
• 37:10
  because if there's video content makes it a little hard to be
• 37:14
  driving and trying to see what they're showing off or what's
• 37:17
  going on and, and everything in between.
• 37:19
  Like even this like I understand.
• 37:21
  But that's that's why I try and, you know, describe what it is
• 37:24
  usually so. Yeah.
• 37:26
  And you do a great description of, of describing everything of,
• 37:28
  of what exactly it is. So I'm able to kind of visualize
• 37:32
  what's going on. And plus as long as you are
• 37:34
  paying, you know, 10% attention in the community, you have a
• 37:38
  general idea what's going on. So when you describe stuff,
• 37:41
  absolutely, yeah, it's, it's kind of easy to keep up.
• 37:45
  So yeah, so there is for you guys, I feel as though.
• 37:50
  There you go. Closer picture.
• 37:51
  Yeah, I just put them all into one picture.
• 37:54
  So that's the skull, obviously, and that's the awesome gauntlet.
• 37:58
  Very cool. So, so the skull, what, what I
• 38:01
  did with Thiago is that we, I wanted to create my own skull,
• 38:05
  something that could be dwarfish in itself in the, and what I, I
• 38:09
  debuted the just the clean shaven skull at retro Con and
• 38:14
  this is the first one with hair on it.
• 38:16
  So going forward, I'll be able to take many of my older sculpts
• 38:20
  that I've done and take the hair from that and put that on there.
• 38:24
  It's kind of like how what the Necronomicus wave was, was to do
• 38:28
  the skeleton version. I'll be able to do the same
• 38:30
  thing with a lot of older things and just say, hey, let's take
• 38:33
  the beard off of this head and put it on here and, and, and
• 38:36
  kind of go from there. So that that should be fun
• 38:39
  throughout the year because it's definitely going to be a
• 38:42
  skeleton based year. And I'm not the biggest undead
• 38:47
  fan and many people know that already.
• 38:50
  So I'm trying to make this my my new Taylor Swift era of
• 38:55
  skeletons where it's going to be my tailor era of bones.
• 38:57
  So I'm kind of trying to embrace it a little bit more.
• 39:01
  There will be dwarf scale bones to use though.
• 39:04
  And there will be dwarf scale bones to use.
• 39:06
  Yes. The only thing that we're
• 39:07
  missing now will be dwarven forearms and dwarven shins.
• 39:10
  But we can. That's doesn't mean that that
• 39:13
  won't be happening before the year is out.
• 39:15
  I can. I can, at least on a third party
• 39:17
  basis. So I'll just leave it at that.
• 39:20
  Oh, there you go. Nice little tease.
• 39:22
  And yeah, when Necronominus arrives, there's going to be the
• 39:26
  community is going to be gone skelly crazy.
• 39:30
  Yeah, definitely. Undead legions will be running
• 39:34
  wild for a while here. And I'm sure All Star 6 is
• 39:38
  coming shortly. I wouldn't say it's going to
• 39:40
  take too long after SO. I hope not because I really want
• 39:43
  that scally. Yeah, I was thinking, that's why
• 39:46
  I mentioned I was thinking of of that guy Scally bones.
• 39:49
  Well. And and really with that scally,
• 39:52
  I plan on getting a lot of them because of that chest plate,
• 39:55
  because I just can't justify getting a lot of poxis, pox, eye
• 40:00
  pox. I don't know what the plural of
• 40:03
  him would be. So Poxisis.
• 40:04
  Poxis toxis my leg. Yeah, it just sounds.
• 40:07
  Weird, my plethora of epoxys is not on my To Do List because of
• 40:12
  the price point, because it's just, you know, I really want
• 40:17
  that. That chest plate is just awesome
• 40:19
  and I have one or two of them, but that that's good enough.
• 40:21
  But when Scally comes out, I'll be able to utilize a lot of the
• 40:25
  older chest plates and swap parts in and out and create, you
• 40:29
  know, a lot of other a lot of other bodies, but then use that
• 40:32
  new torso for other projects coming out.
• 40:34
  And the heads are are really, really great.
• 40:38
  That's awesome. Just got a message from Rich.
• 40:40
  He's visiting the castle, so he's doing his little outdoor
• 40:42
  mythic stuff with his family today and he says he's missing
• 40:46
  you, Anthony. He is full of shite because he
• 40:51
  knew he invited me. I got the message from him to be
• 40:55
  on this show. He knew what time it was.
• 40:57
  He intentionally went to that castle as opposed to he put a
• 41:01
  castle between us. The whole.
• 41:04
  Ocean and a castle between us. Hopefully he ends up in the
• 41:07
  dungeon. Yeah, and you see next week
• 41:10
  badly lit guy on a on a really bad connection.
• 41:14
  Hi. Hi.
• 41:14
  Yeah, that's just riches connection, isn't it?
• 41:17
  Here's yeah, true, that's normal.
• 41:19
  Just switch the light off when you got the bad.
• 41:22
  So this is a is a cool display I guess from one of your recent
• 41:26
  conventions. This was this was at Retrocon,
• 41:28
  Yeah. So I this is the the onset of
• 41:32
  what we're going to do for Kings Under the mountain.
• 41:34
  This is the Garrison great beard that we had last year as well,
• 41:37
  but we were with our diorama display behind it.
• 41:41
  As we are talking, I am working on a right?
• 41:52
  Oh wow. Piece that will.
• 41:55
  Smokes lock. Into the.
• 41:57
  Front of that. So we'll have a.
• 41:59
  We'll have a go on there, Anthony.
• 42:00
  Yep, sorry mate. We'll have a whole display
• 42:05
  thing, wow, that will eventually lock into the.
• 42:09
  We're going to do this as long as it go all out, right?
• 42:15
  It's going to look impressive. Wow.
• 42:26
  OK, gotcha. So it's so smart.
• 42:34
  Yeah, a battlement attached to the the shelf.
• 42:38
  But you know. Because, you know, I want a lot
• 42:44
  of dwarfs on display. In order to do that, I need to
• 42:47
  be able to have that. And really when you look at that
• 42:50
  display, the, the Garrison really knocks out a lot of the
• 42:54
  first shelf behind it. So I'll go up and then higher
• 42:58
  and then out. And then I have to go and grab
• 43:00
  some, some pillars, some dowel rods to create additional
• 43:04
  support. Because I'm hoping, you know,
• 43:05
  once you put 10 dwarves on there, it'll get kind of heavy.
• 43:08
  And I want to be. Able to a little bit heavy,
• 43:09
  yeah. Support that so I'll have that
• 43:11
  and probably a small saw to have to cut to measure depending on
• 43:14
  what we're doing for for everything at the show and
• 43:17
  detours adding some some additional parts and pieces to
• 43:20
  it and I've working on a few things so this is just the rough
• 43:24
  prototype version one for this year but looks.
• 43:28
  Great. We'll have the we'll have the
• 43:30
  forge in there, we'll have a throne room, we'll have weapons
• 43:32
  racks, we'll have all that stuff.
• 43:34
  So if everyone will be able to have a good time, be able to
• 43:36
  take some some cool photos and things in there.
• 43:39
  So yeah, so there you go. You have an idea of what what
• 43:42
  kind of some of the the display in the area is going to be like.
• 43:45
  And here's some 3D heads that Yep.
• 43:49
  You're going to be Jason, Jason Rodriguez.
• 43:52
  I don't know what deal with the crossroads devil that he made
• 43:56
  this year, but the, the the dwarfs that he's been putting
• 44:01
  out have just been absolutely amazing.
• 44:06
  And Giovanni, who is not a big dwarf guy, even said, I want a
• 44:11
  couple of these dwarf heads to paint.
• 44:13
  So that that, that, that tells you something that we're that
• 44:17
  you're definitely hitting the mark when you're when you're
• 44:19
  capturing the the eyes of of non dwarf fans.
• 44:22
  And even Mark Calvo has been taking a lot of these and using
• 44:26
  them in a non dwarf scale for a lot of the Game of Thrones
• 44:30
  stuff. So yeah, which is really cool.
• 44:33
  Weird tastic, I'd say. And Anthony does great prints,
• 44:37
  people. So Anthony's printing our
• 44:39
  sculpts as well for the show. So really exciting.
• 44:44
  Here's a bunch of customs. So I guess some of them are sold
• 44:50
  already, Anthony. Yeah, I, I have a couple guys
• 44:53
  that have been incredibly supportive throughout the year
• 44:57
  that I wanted to give them an opportunity to kind of like a
• 45:02
  first look over and, and some of those have been picked up along
• 45:07
  the way. But, and my price points, they
• 45:10
  range anywhere between $130.00 and $300.00.
• 45:15
  And when I say $300.00, it really, I put that price out
• 45:19
  there because that is a number that like if I don't sell it, it
• 45:23
  doesn't hurt my feelings that it gets to come back home with me
• 45:26
  because it's a really good one. So I, you know, I have a, a fun
• 45:31
  name for that. That I, I, I call it my, I call
• 45:35
  it my FU price because someone says FU that's too high, then
• 45:41
  I'll go, OK. But if they say OK, I'll buy it,
• 45:43
  then I'll go, well, F me, I have to sell it to you, even though I
• 45:46
  didn't necessarily want to get rid of it.
• 45:47
  And then we have to ask Doctor Brent about that.
• 45:49
  He knows a couple of those. He's he's, he's.
• 45:52
  He's called my bluff on a few of those so.
• 45:55
  But yeah, we've got yeah, no, and and and that's what I mean,
• 45:59
  you can tell based off of my and it's not value based off of like
• 46:03
  which ones I like more or less, but there are some that I put a
• 46:06
  lot of. Parts.
• 46:08
  Parts time commitment above and beyond it where it's like, all
• 46:12
  right, you know there, there there's more than just the the
• 46:16
  time and material in that price. There's just a little bit of of
• 46:20
  extra love on those so. And here's here's the dwarf he
• 46:25
  used the the NECA body, the. Yeah.
• 46:28
  So I, I took the Elkhorn body and I heated it up to where I
• 46:34
  was able to peel the soft torso off of it and then remove the
• 46:40
  upper body, stick a lesions torso in there.
• 46:44
  And then I added some mass to the to the waist ball.
• 46:50
  And then because I knew I was making cut, I just ended up just
• 46:53
  gluing it in place because really there's enough the
• 46:56
  mobility and the, and the freedom of the way that figure
• 46:59
  works that it could just be like 1 torso to waste as one solid
• 47:04
  piece. And then I was able to plug in
• 47:06
  the mythic arms, the mythic head and everything like that.
• 47:09
  So, and then I just, you know, chopped up a few of the weapons
• 47:12
  and made them a little bit more, you know, in scale to the to the
• 47:17
  Legion hands. Excellent.
• 47:20
  Really nice. There's another guy with a
• 47:23
  beard. Yep.
• 47:24
  Is this is this mythic bits beard or is this the beard?
• 47:29
  No. No, this is a.
• 47:31
  Arzak is it? Or Arzak beard.
• 47:33
  I have another one here that eventually at some point will
• 47:36
  end up on there. So I pulled the beard out of the
• 47:40
  the the cavern dwarf and then it put in there.
• 47:43
  And then there might have been a little bit of the green stuff,
• 47:46
  the needite to just kind of blend in a couple spots here and
• 47:49
  there. And then I took the Torgen
• 47:52
  Mohawk and I implanted that in the top of the helmet.
• 47:56
  And then from Elkhorn, because no parts are left behind, I took
• 48:00
  the ponytail out of that, and that's plugged into the back of
• 48:03
  that character. And then there's some rogue
• 48:05
  printing pauldrons. That's the Gallus Waste piece.
• 48:11
  There's some soft goods, some fur that's integrated in there,
• 48:15
  the Elkhorn axe and then I made a small axe knuckle duster kind
• 48:22
  of hand weapon there. So and then I used the a black
• 48:27
  series backpack. So he's got a fully, you know,
• 48:30
  just kind of throw it together and then just some light paint
• 48:32
  apps on on the rest of it to kind of blend it all together.
• 48:34
  So. Yes, it's a lot of stuff he's as
• 48:36
  you can hear. Who are those soft goods from
• 48:38
  the The little skirt piece there looks really cool.
• 48:41
  That is, that was a piece I got from Josh Campbell was he was in
• 48:50
  and out of the community in a in a little bit of a quick, quick
• 48:53
  spurt there. He did a bunch of the dwarf
• 48:55
  pants and this was a one off piece that he had taken.
• 48:58
  I end up cutting and trimming it because it's actually covers the
• 49:02
  whole the whole torso and then the the skirt the waist as well.
• 49:08
  Awesome. Some cosmic dwarfs we've been
• 49:10
  talking about smile. We're very excited for cosmic
• 49:13
  dwarfs, so. I.
• 49:16
  Want somebody who's got a lot of cool ones?
• 49:18
  Yeah, so I went ahead and I started making what I call the
• 49:22
  Dwarf Star Mining team. So it's going to be a group
• 49:25
  project that I'm going to be working on as I started already,
• 49:29
  and we'll probably be continuing to make a few more.
• 49:33
  I feel like a good squad would be like 6 six of them to work
• 49:37
  together. So I'm just kind of coming up
• 49:39
  with the different assignments and roles.
• 49:42
  I have 3 Dunn. I have the the supervisor who is
• 49:46
  the older gentleman with the with the Olek Dome.
• 49:50
  He has a a light up feature in the back of the helmet there
• 49:53
  where you can twist that and it lights up inside the helmet so
• 49:57
  you'll be able to see his face. Then we have our minor who's got
• 50:01
  a think it's a Marvel Legends Warlock, I think.
• 50:07
  Is it Warlock? I forget what it was a building
• 50:09
  figure. The the the buzz saw that's just
• 50:12
  attached to one of the plugs to the, the the small rocket plug.
• 50:19
  And then I just added some. Yeah, lightning effect.
• 50:22
  Isn't it some sort of lightning effects?
• 50:23
  And then my my my pick? But then at the chest there
• 50:28
  those two domes, they light up as well.
• 50:30
  So all these characters will have various light up features.
• 50:36
  And here's me with my with my fluorescent paint.
• 50:39
  Oh, well, fluorescent paint's cool as well, John.
• 50:43
  Yeah. Yeah, so dwarf with a, is it a
• 50:47
  goblin with a bear? Goblin.
• 50:48
  It's a. It's a it's my frost goblin.
• 50:51
  Frost Goblin. Yeah, so I took the naughtier
• 50:55
  nice barbarian Santa that came out last year.
• 50:59
  I used that and then I came across some, I think it was DC
• 51:03
  Primal was the line that came out a couple years ago where
• 51:07
  it's like 5.5 style. I took the ice claw from that.
• 51:11
  That comes from Yeah. And then I took one of the
• 51:16
  Staffs that have been out with legions and took one of the axe
• 51:18
  heads and, and merge that into almost like a long Dane axe of
• 51:21
  sort. And then I took some of the
• 51:23
  skull pieces from the the elephant poacher character from
• 51:32
  McFarland and then put that in there and then gave him the bone
• 51:35
  necklace and things like that. So then gave him his gobbling
• 51:41
  thighs, but then dwarf shins and feet to kind of, you know, pat
• 51:45
  him out a little bit more. So he's got a lot of different
• 51:47
  sizes. And then I took the Zilarian
• 51:50
  Guard visors and then mounted them on top of the pauldrons as
• 51:55
  well. They're the that's that's what's
• 51:57
  on the pauldrons. Yeah.
• 52:00
  Very cool. Who's this guy named Lovely?
• 52:02
  This is just our Doorstar mining company.
• 52:04
  This is just our logo. I just got stickers made for it
• 52:07
  as well. So you'll have some small
• 52:08
  stickers it'll. Excellent, you'll be picking one
• 52:11
  of them up. Yep, Yep.
• 52:13
  And I went with the the union local because of 99 because
• 52:17
  that's, you know, whereas we're celebrating the, the anniversary
• 52:20
  for the, for the studio. So that's why I went with 99. 25
• 52:24
  years, yeah. And I, and there's my, there's
• 52:28
  my driller. So before you know, in my, in
• 52:32
  one of my previous jobs, I actually for a living cut
• 52:36
  concrete. So that meant I was either slab
• 52:39
  sauling with large saw blades or core drilling.
• 52:43
  So, you know, we would core drill with 68 inch core drill
• 52:47
  bits. So we're talking like almost 5
• 52:49
  foot in diameter bits over 5 foot diameter bits, you know
• 52:53
  that you'll be drilling in the concrete.
• 52:54
  So this is a 2 inch in diameter bit, which you know, in
• 52:58
  comparison to that, you know, kind of means it's a, it's a
• 53:01
  large, large drill bit for this guy.
• 53:04
  And then that's all integrated with light.
• 53:06
  It has its own drill rig, which is its own separate piece that
• 53:09
  has its own lighting up parts. And then the, the driller
• 53:13
  himself has its own separate light up feature as well.
• 53:16
  So you'll have the supervisor telling the, the guy where to
• 53:19
  drill, He'll drill, get it, get a section opened up.
• 53:22
  And then then you have the miner going in there doing the mining.
• 53:25
  And as I showed you guys earlier, I'm working on the, the
• 53:28
  engineer, the female engineer slash repair, repair dwarf, you
• 53:33
  know, to fix the stuff. If a, if a wrench won't work,
• 53:36
  then we'll use the hammer, the, the smash it into place and you
• 53:39
  know, kind of go from there. So I'm hoping, like I said, I'm
• 53:42
  hoping to have like 6 and then I have to figure out a really for
• 53:46
  this will mainly be for for legions con 25 next year.
• 53:49
  So I'm already planning for next year.
• 53:51
  I really want to have a really cool open diorama space where
• 53:55
  they could be working on as well.
• 53:59
  That's brilliant. So I mean, there you go
• 54:01
  listeners, if you if you just hear the you know, the kind of
• 54:04
  stuff that's you're going to see at Legions con.
• 54:06
  I mean it's just incredible. And we're only starting on the
• 54:09
  road to hearing you're going to get.
• 54:12
  So you've got light up stuff. You've got, you know, all sorts
• 54:15
  of creative use of parts and amazing.
• 54:19
  So before you go and we go on, we're going to talk to Chris
• 54:22
  Peron in the second-half of this episode.
• 54:24
  I wanted to talk quickly about the drop that we had this week,
• 54:28
  which was the Frankenstein's creature, because.
• 54:33
  How amazing is that? Yeah, we won't get to have a
• 54:36
  separate chat this week with Rich so let's cover it here for
• 54:41
  the moment. Yeah, it's my first and very
• 54:46
  short summary is amazing figure what whether you want to
• 54:50
  Frankenstein or not just look at all you know what we're talking
• 54:54
  about here now is customizers even just doesn't from that
• 54:57
  angle. I mean give me the jacket give
• 54:59
  me the you know all the the pants.
• 55:03
  Yeah, when you were, when you were talking about the pants
• 55:06
  there for the, you know, for dwarf customer, whatever I was
• 55:09
  thinking it can be easily modified of this guy.
• 55:13
  Oh yeah, I'll be. I'll be snipping a pair down
• 55:15
  real short, don't you worry. Bitter hot pants.
• 55:20
  So Mel, firstly, you, you, you're a big figures Obscura
• 55:24
  fan. You're a one.
• 55:25
  You're a one in the box, one out-of-the-box.
• 55:27
  Yeah, yeah. And.
• 55:29
  It was that what you got or did you get any?
• 55:30
  Yeah. Yeah, I I did.
• 55:32
  I got one extra because I've already got some ideas for a,
• 55:36
  for a cosmic custom that I'll use the pants, boots and jacket
• 55:40
  on. So, yeah.
• 55:42
  So which will go with my little Space Pirates collective that
• 55:47
  I've got. But yeah, it's absolutely
• 55:49
  fantastic figure all round. Yeah.
• 55:51
  It's one of those that makes you want to find things to do with
• 55:55
  the parts because they're so cool.
• 55:57
  Yeah. And, and it's getting here.
• 56:00
  We've already gotten near to it with some of the other figure
• 56:03
  obscure, but I mean, it's as close to a playset as as we're
• 56:08
  getting at this point, isn't it? It's fantastic.
• 56:12
  Yeah, that table and everything. I mean, you could do some funky
• 56:14
  stuff with that in terms of DWARF, you know, maybe your
• 56:18
  space dwarfs, maybe you can use the rig that comes with that or
• 56:22
  something. Yep, Anthony.
• 56:24
  Oh yeah, the the gears were turning.
• 56:26
  I was at my son's baseball game yesterday morning and had the
• 56:31
  alarm set and it timed out perfectly where he was up 4th at
• 56:35
  bat. So I had enough time to get in
• 56:38
  and grab what I needed and then was able to watch him, you know,
• 56:42
  you know, go ahead and hit everything.
• 56:43
  So I ordered, I ordered 2. I I always, I always get the all
• 56:48
  in because I am, I become the mug collector.
• 56:53
  So. And that mug is.
• 56:55
  Yeah, I mean, we need to talk about the mug like that one.
• 56:58
  I really hope that becomes the new standard because that looks
• 57:02
  sturdy. It looks like as I'm drinking
• 57:04
  from my as I'm drinking from my Marley one this morning.
• 57:10
  That should hold temperature really well.
• 57:12
  So like the the Marley one gets a little toasty on that handle
• 57:14
  when you put your hot coffee in there.
• 57:16
  But I think this, the way that it's shaped and designed like
• 57:20
  that, that's that's really cool. And it's funny, here we are at
• 57:22
  this point we're talking first thing I want to talk about.
• 57:25
  Is about mugs, yeah. The mugs are crazy.
• 57:28
  The accessories are so cool that the non figure accessories are
• 57:32
  so cool. Yeah.
• 57:34
  And that's, and that's really what comes to mind is that when
• 57:37
  you're when you're buying these things like when I look, I'm
• 57:39
  looking at Monkey King right now and I'm looking at Anubis and
• 57:42
  Bastet. Like the the accessories that
• 57:45
  come with them are are so crazy that at this point now the the
• 57:51
  playset that you could just build with all the different
• 57:53
  parts that could intertwine. Now keep in mind some things
• 57:55
  will and won't, but like the small vases from from the
• 57:58
  Egyptian stuff, you'll be able to use some of that for a nice
• 58:01
  display stuff. So you could really build a cool
• 58:05
  diorama piece with some shelving and stuff that you know, have
• 58:08
  that all in place. And the tables it, it definitely
• 58:11
  has that steampunk retro sci-fi vibe that you could use for a
• 58:15
  lot of different themes depending on what you want to do
• 58:19
  and, and all the different accessories that come with it.
• 58:21
  Like it's just like, I'm, I'm really excited for this one.
• 58:24
  I showed Tony after the game was over and went ahead and got a
• 58:29
  second one because I knew we were going to need one.
• 58:31
  Because really the, the obscure stuff is interesting because a
• 58:36
  lot of it's seasonal based. So Father Christmas and Krampus
• 58:40
  only come out at Christmas time. Red Death, Headless Horseman and
• 58:44
  Frankenstein, you know, are are probably going to be Halloween
• 58:48
  things, but like, I'm going to want an extra 1 of or two of
• 58:53
  these just for the extra customization that you could use
• 58:57
  for other stuff. Like, you know, I'm already
• 59:00
  thinking Frank and Dorf or Dorfenstein or whatever I got to
• 59:03
  do to make that work because, and it'll be cool because once
• 59:07
  we get some of the skeletal pieces, you could really go
• 59:10
  nuts. With.
• 59:12
  You know, parts that you know. Yeah.
• 59:14
  This in A tuberculae together. Yes.
• 59:17
  Oh yeah, And like there's your box and Lego.
• 59:20
  Have fun, you know. Yeah.
• 59:23
  And yeah, like if I, if I, I'm a customizer and I'm at the
• 59:28
  Legions con and I've got a couple of £100 maybe that I've
• 59:32
  made-up my table to spend at the Horseman booth.
• 59:34
  And I'm saying, right, I'm going to get figures to make customs
• 59:38
  for the next year. Maybe I just get a load of
• 59:40
  figure obscure us and, you know, unbox them all, you know, throw
• 59:45
  them into a, a small box and throw them into my luggage
• 59:49
  because the parts that come with them, I mean, and to get them,
• 59:53
  you know, without postage and without anything.
• 59:55
  And they're expensive figures compared to say, a standard
• 59:58
  figure, but they're not expensive for what you get, so.
• 1:00:01
  As long as you keep the backgrounds because Nate Barts
• 1:00:04
  his background. Of course.
• 1:00:06
  Create instant photography because the Monkey King.
• 1:00:10
  One out in the luggage. Yeah.
• 1:00:11
  Oh, there you go. The Monkey King one I use as the
• 1:00:14
  backdrop for all of my photos when I take stuff and display it
• 1:00:18
  to me personally. Because when it comes to
• 1:00:21
  legions, I collect all my mythic legions and I also customize
• 1:00:24
  legion cosmic. I'm at a point now where I'm
• 1:00:27
  just customizing cosmic stuff. I'm not really collecting
• 1:00:30
  anything in its original form. Figure obscure.
• 1:00:33
  I'm buying and then to keep its collection and then customizing
• 1:00:37
  because it's still early enough in its infancy.
• 1:00:40
  But I personally believe that the Monkey King is probably the
• 1:00:43
  greatest figure that the studio has ever made.
• 1:00:46
  Just when you compare the the parts that were involved, the
• 1:00:49
  sculpting, the options, the the different face plates, the chest
• 1:00:53
  plate, that that can, you know, the, the size change from the
• 1:00:56
  dwarf shin to the regular, the soft goods that were involved.
• 1:00:59
  Like I keep looking at like, I can't help but just keep getting
• 1:01:02
  amazed by it. That really set the standard for
• 1:01:06
  what Obscura needs to be. And they've just keep setting
• 1:01:09
  the bar above and above and above every time, so I'm very
• 1:01:14
  happy. Watching Director's review, I
• 1:01:17
  mean, it's basically an entirely new figure.
• 1:01:18
  It's this. There's no reuse here.
• 1:01:20
  It's just the Hagnon head, the skull, the hands, and pretty
• 1:01:24
  much everything else is new, you know?
• 1:01:26
  Because it's a taller one point O body.
• 1:01:28
  It's not a brute, but it's a taller one point O, which when I
• 1:01:32
  so when I first saw what the count was the limit for
• 1:01:34
  characters, I figured someone's going to order a whole key.
• 1:01:37
  So what fits in a case? So a standard figure, I believe
• 1:01:41
  it's 24 to a case, bigger figures like a A2 pack or
• 1:01:46
  whatever would be 12 to a case. But when they said 16, the first
• 1:01:50
  thing came to mind was brute scale.
• 1:01:52
  But essentially you're, when you factor all that together, I
• 1:01:56
  mean, that makes sense where that that goes through.
• 1:01:58
  So once again, you think you know the answers and then they
• 1:02:01
  change the question on you. Yeah, totally.
• 1:02:06
  Righty ho Well, we're going to get over and chat to Chris
• 1:02:09
  Anthony. It's been awesome to have you on
• 1:02:10
  again as always, and can't wait to see you in November and hang
• 1:02:15
  out. And one of the best things about
• 1:02:18
  being in the row, which of this year is that I'll get to chat to
• 1:02:21
  you more because in the chaos last year, I was over to you a
• 1:02:25
  couple of times, you know, to buy stuff and to say hello, but
• 1:02:28
  didn't get to see each other that much so.
• 1:02:31
  Yeah. And it was nice to having the
• 1:02:32
  option to pick. Yeah, well, I was able to pick
• 1:02:36
  some people that like I go. Well, I had to spend a weekend
• 1:02:40
  with a bunch of people. Who would I want to spend?
• 1:02:41
  Yeah, maybe. Yeah, maybe that's the best way
• 1:02:43
  to do it. All right, You're right.
• 1:02:44
  Yeah, right. So cheers, Anthony.
• 1:02:46
  Thanks all. Right, guys.
• 1:02:47
  Thank you so much. Have a good one.
• 1:03:03
  So Chris Ferrone, great to have you back.
• 1:03:05
  And you were with us last year on Episode 33, so almost a year
• 1:03:10
  ago now in October. So this is this will be in
• 1:03:14
  episode 85. So wow, we've done a little bit
• 1:03:17
  little bit of work. We've been busy.
• 1:03:19
  Just put in a lot of work. And how are you doing all the
• 1:03:22
  way over there in Washington? I'm doing.
• 1:03:24
  I'm doing great. You know, this was, I was going
• 1:03:26
  to get up it originally when we planned this like an hour before
• 1:03:30
  hour and a half and then, you know, the FO drop happened.
• 1:03:33
  So I've been up since like 5:30 so.
• 1:03:35
  Bye time. That's right, we got Figure
• 1:03:38
  Obscura today as of recording. And how did you find that?
• 1:03:42
  Pretty cool, I thought. Yeah, I thought it was pretty
• 1:03:44
  cool. I grabbed a couple.
• 1:03:46
  I'm figure Obscura usually for me is like a a lot like Red
• 1:03:51
  Death. Bought a lot, Marley bought a
• 1:03:53
  lot. This one too.
• 1:03:55
  I'll probably go back for a couple more later.
• 1:03:59
  I buy them, you know a lot of it because of the bunch of the last
• 1:04:01
  few FO drops. The new parts have just been
• 1:04:05
  crazy, right? Absolutely.
• 1:04:07
  Yeah, The coat on this one today is that.
• 1:04:10
  Coat and it's broot scale trench coat, right, So it's way bigger
• 1:04:15
  than Marley's. So seeing its broot scale trench
• 1:04:19
  coat, I was like, oh man, well, I probably should have got more
• 1:04:22
  let me go back and I because I mean like I got an extra I got 2
• 1:04:27
  on the initial drop just because one I'll display regular and
• 1:04:30
  then one I'm going to totally paint flesh and turn into a
• 1:04:32
  flesh column like I'm sure half of the rest of the customizer
• 1:04:35
  will do right. That's like guaranteed
• 1:04:37
  everyone's going to make. Yeah, you, you, you won't be
• 1:04:39
  unique on that one. That's for.
• 1:04:41
  Sure. No, I wanted the hagging on head
• 1:04:43
  for some red some red death bodies I still have because I
• 1:04:46
  don't have extra hagging on heads and I didn't want to buy
• 1:04:48
  the I don't like the figure that much so I didn't want to buy
• 1:04:51
  extras of them. Agreed.
• 1:04:53
  Yeah, not not my favorite, but the head is awesome like the
• 1:04:55
  head is. Yeah, it's legit one of the
• 1:04:58
  coolest heads in the line. That's for.
• 1:05:00
  Sure, one of the coolest heads. So then I thought about it.
• 1:05:03
  Then I watched Dork Layers video, which I should have
• 1:05:05
  watched first because I would have.
• 1:05:08
  Bought. That's when I realized the scale
• 1:05:10
  of the figure. Yep, Yep, totally messed.
• 1:05:13
  Me up so that was that was pretty sweet and the amount of
• 1:05:16
  new parts because I had just assumed kind of quickly browsing
• 1:05:20
  to the pictures that you know, the bits with the stitches on
• 1:05:22
  it. Yeah OK, clearly a new torso and
• 1:05:24
  then I thought new forearms and lower legs because that's what I
• 1:05:27
  could see in the pictures. But it seems like everything,
• 1:05:30
  even the feet, have these stitches on them and the upper
• 1:05:33
  arms around the back. And it's new boots.
• 1:05:36
  Yeah, yeah. The uppers look like the new
• 1:05:39
  uppers. Arms and legs look like the new
• 1:05:41
  muscle, but like the new muscle lower new ones we're getting in
• 1:05:45
  gas bar. The arms look new new.
• 1:05:48
  I don't know if those are like it looks smaller than the new
• 1:05:51
  muscle arm. So the uppers might be new as
• 1:05:54
  well. I think the lower arm's actually
• 1:05:56
  extended as well, isn't it? Over overlay along whatever you
• 1:06:00
  want to call it for a human arm to get that gorilla hanging arms
• 1:06:04
  lifted in a monster. Really cool, Yeah.
• 1:06:07
  And they started doing that with cosmic right?
• 1:06:08
  Where they would take a 1.0 body and extend the lower limbs to
• 1:06:12
  give you a weird size. Monkey King did that too with
• 1:06:15
  the with the longer forearm. So, so it's a great way to have
• 1:06:18
  existing library and kind of change the look of the figure.
• 1:06:22
  I like that. I like the hair head the second.
• 1:06:25
  One there too, yeah. Hairs getting ripped off for
• 1:06:26
  sure. I don't know who's going on
• 1:06:31
  going on somebody. Yeah, you're, as we, as we get
• 1:06:34
  to see you are someone that does a lot of that type of
• 1:06:37
  customizing. We're cutting bits off and the
• 1:06:39
  Dremel is out and the, you know, the file is out and there's lots
• 1:06:43
  of sandpaper involved and glue and all that kind of stuff.
• 1:06:45
  Yeah, I'm not just a painter. My favorite part of customizing
• 1:06:49
  is slicing and splicing. It's my favorite even before
• 1:06:52
  mythic legions when it was GI Joes, even when I was a kid,
• 1:06:55
  like I used to saw off like one of the forearms and then glue it
• 1:06:59
  on to another one. I, I, I like seeing things and
• 1:07:02
  going, I like you. So it's weird because I 3D, you
• 1:07:05
  know, obviously I own half of a 3D printer company, right?
• 1:07:08
  That's right. I think total this year in my
• 1:07:11
  customs. This is going to sound bad
• 1:07:13
  because like bad promotion, but I think I'm using like ten 3D
• 1:07:16
  prints of the custom. Not a lot, not a lot of 3D
• 1:07:21
  prints. That's kind of cool.
• 1:07:23
  Then it, you know, it shows the kind of creativity because it's
• 1:07:26
  not just like often when I do a custom, I'm more focused on the
• 1:07:30
  painting. So if I have something unique,
• 1:07:33
  it'll be like a 3D printed head or, you know, maybe a unique
• 1:07:38
  paint on a on a part, but I generally don't tend to cut them
• 1:07:41
  up. And there's lots of guys like
• 1:07:43
  you that do that and you'll be looking at a picture and then
• 1:07:47
  they'll be like, you'll be reading the text and they'll be
• 1:07:49
  like, oh, it's all legions parts.
• 1:07:51
  OK, now I need to go back and look at this and try and figure
• 1:07:55
  it out before reading on. Yeah, I really like that.
• 1:07:58
  It's, you know, it's cool that everyone is kind of got their
• 1:08:01
  own little way of approaching. And actually think, and this is
• 1:08:05
  no disrespect to anyone who doesn't do it because I don't do
• 1:08:08
  much. I'll do it a little bit, but not
• 1:08:10
  to level like yourself. And some of those I actually
• 1:08:13
  think it's even harder. It makes that custom even just
• 1:08:17
  slightly next level above one that just uses printed parts,
• 1:08:20
  because people can buy printed parts and paint them up.
• 1:08:23
  It's harder to accurately cut things in just the way you want,
• 1:08:28
  glue them to hide the seams, and so on and so forth.
• 1:08:32
  It definitely takes some time. I would say practice.
• 1:08:37
  I, I'm better, way better now than I was previously.
• 1:08:42
  I used to kind of screw things up.
• 1:08:44
  It would take me sometimes two tries on certain heads, but what
• 1:08:47
  happened? So two years ago I did a head
• 1:08:50
  and I the only thing I've ever regret selling allegiance con
• 1:08:54
  all these years because I sell every custom I make comes
• 1:08:57
  allegiance con for sale. Once I'm done with a custom, 99%
• 1:09:00
  of the time I don't care about it anymore.
• 1:09:01
  I'm I'm in love with the process of customizing, not the figure.
• 1:09:05
  I like writing the back story. I like making the custom.
• 1:09:08
  Once the figure is made, I'm kind of like whatever and the
• 1:09:10
  next set of customs, but a couple of years ago, Travis
• 1:09:16
  Canning. Bought this for me.
• 1:09:17
  I took. A old Attila head that I had
• 1:09:20
  ripped out of the lion. It took a Grisha a little face
• 1:09:26
  thing and I took a Vidis Topper. Off of his gladiator.
• 1:09:30
  Helmet and made a gladiator Attila and I got the cuts and
• 1:09:34
  glue like I'm not going to say perfect, but.
• 1:09:38
  They were damn close. And that's the he bought just by
• 1:09:42
  the rest of the figure. He just made me a great offer on
• 1:09:44
  that. And I was so like, it was the
• 1:09:46
  first allegiance that I'd been to.
• 1:09:48
  I was the first time as a vendor and I was just so happy that
• 1:09:50
  people like my stuff. I'm like, I'll sell it.
• 1:09:52
  It's the only thing I regret selling in three in.
• 1:09:57
  Going on three years. Ago on the show because I'm like
• 1:09:59
  damn, I don't think I'm ever going to have an extra Grecia
• 1:10:02
  head and I had where the part came from.
• 1:10:04
  I had started another custom with that head and totally
• 1:10:07
  botched it and instead of throwing that little piece.
• 1:10:11
  Out. I was like, I'm going to.
• 1:10:12
  Save this maybe someday. And then I even part of it too.
• 1:10:16
  I took a fury or like an extra Fioric head.
• 1:10:20
  I had the helmeted 1 and I cut the face off and I glued the
• 1:10:24
  Attila onto it so I had a stock fit and it's probably the best
• 1:10:28
  even to this day, it's the best licensed place I've ever done.
• 1:10:31
  Well that's so this is your third legions con, isn't?
• 1:10:34
  It yeah, this is number 3 so. We met you in the.
• 1:10:38
  Watching G Con on the project, famous projector.
• 1:10:42
  The projector where I got where I got no sleep.
• 1:10:44
  Yeah, that. Was your that was your first
• 1:10:46
  legions? Con as a vendor and our first
• 1:10:48
  legions con full stop yeah and and things have evolved for
• 1:10:53
  them. So how has it evolved for you
• 1:10:55
  over the, over the kind of three or you know, obviously you've
• 1:10:58
  had two now and we're planning for number 3 in 67 weeks time I
• 1:11:03
  think you know. It's interesting from.
• 1:11:06
  We set out. When we so mythic bits, is the
• 1:11:10
  company a Co run? I don't know.
• 1:11:11
  You probably should have said that and.
• 1:11:14
  Yeah, Chris is from. Mythic bits, don't you know?
• 1:11:17
  We just assume your knowledge, listeners.
• 1:11:19
  Sorry about that. What that really is?
• 1:11:23
  Is it's anything Shane man who owns 3D man creations.
• 1:11:27
  He does printing outside of mythic legions.
• 1:11:28
  He prints for companies, he prints for other people in the
• 1:11:32
  like he does like he prints, he has a a little farm and he we,
• 1:11:36
  he owns a lot of large printers. He prints in masks anytime.
• 1:11:39
  So he so that's a good part of his income.
• 1:11:41
  Then like you would say or yeah, Yep.
• 1:11:43
  And I believe he's kind of a job is.
• 1:11:45
  Three, he does 3D printing for dental.
• 1:11:47
  Stuff. Like he OK?
• 1:11:48
  Oh right, he works at a 3D print.
• 1:11:50
  Studio and He 3. D prints at the house, right?
• 1:11:54
  Anytime we collaborate, we call it mythic prints, right?
• 1:11:58
  We're cool anytime. We do something together.
• 1:12:00
  What's changed is originally I had an idea of when like I would
• 1:12:08
  do something, I would have my own brand and I just got caught
• 1:12:11
  up in the mythic bit stuff and I never really did it.
• 1:12:14
  So you'll buy custom. We post it on our Instagram.
• 1:12:17
  I actually have an Instagram called Pharaoh's Forge that I
• 1:12:21
  think before we own mythic bits. I've had that forever, never
• 1:12:24
  used. But what's evolved is this year
• 1:12:28
  we expanded, right? So we do, we have a channel,
• 1:12:31
  have a whole table full of resin parts and we have, we are
• 1:12:37
  fingers crossed going to have another new playset this year
• 1:12:40
  like we did with the dwarf one we are working on.
• 1:12:43
  We're working on it. It's not done yet which it was
• 1:12:45
  done and I can show you guys samples.
• 1:12:47
  It is currently in the machine, in the machine.
• 1:12:50
  So we're going to try and bring that.
• 1:12:53
  We'll have a. Bunch of heads and, you know, we
• 1:12:56
  always try to be the most affordable place.
• 1:12:58
  So this year instead of four for 20 on heads, it'll be 5 for 20
• 1:13:02
  on three branded. And our heads, I'm going to say
• 1:13:06
  most of them, I'm sure we have worked in a a sculpt owned by
• 1:13:09
  other people. But most of the heads on the
• 1:13:12
  table, I'd say 90% are unique sculpts.
• 1:13:15
  So that's what's a little different about us.
• 1:13:17
  Usually. Like the universal sculpts like
• 1:13:19
  that Jason does or Thiago does, like the kits, everyone will
• 1:13:22
  sell those for 5 or 6 bucks now, which has changed a lot over the
• 1:13:24
  years that prices come down. That's come down, yeah.
• 1:13:28
  And market forces, you know? I love American.
• 1:13:31
  It's American. In a bottle.
• 1:13:33
  When I came in the game three years ago, I was like, hey.
• 1:13:36
  Stuff's a little overpriced. Let's let's pretty.
• 1:13:37
  Yeah, true, it was. Yeah, I I bought a few scopes.
• 1:13:40
  At my first Legions con that I was kind of like, oh, I paid a
• 1:13:43
  lot for them. There's a lot, right?
• 1:13:44
  And a lot of work goes into it. I get all that.
• 1:13:46
  But Oh yeah. Absolutely.
• 1:13:47
  I know how the sauce is made now, so I'm like, OK.
• 1:13:50
  And then we've always been on the lower end of what stuff
• 1:13:54
  costs. When heads were 12, we were at
• 1:13:56
  8, right? Yeah.
• 1:13:57
  Umm, what's different is every a lot of people, their unique
• 1:14:01
  sculpts or more 'cause you got to pay your artists.
• 1:14:03
  And how are they got it set up right?
• 1:14:04
  Well, we figured it out. We bought the bigger machines.
• 1:14:07
  The bigger machines let you run off 4050 heads at a time, right?
• 1:14:12
  It brings cost. So all of our sculpts, whether
• 1:14:15
  it's universally sold or not, at Legions Con, Legions Con only we
• 1:14:19
  do. We'll do 5 for, we'll do 5 for
• 1:14:21
  20. So you pay for guys, whether you
• 1:14:24
  whether you want the. Sculpts for the sculpts or
• 1:14:26
  whether you want to get a batch and, you know, level up your
• 1:14:28
  painting by, you know, not fearing it.
• 1:14:31
  It's, it's, it's not as it's not as bad to mess up in a $5 sculpt
• 1:14:34
  and a $20 sculpt, you know, right.
• 1:14:37
  And maybe have to strip the paint or, you know, at 5 bucks,
• 1:14:39
  I'd probably just, I don't know, do about a damaged version if I
• 1:14:43
  messed it up. 4 bucks a 4 bucks sorry.
• 1:14:46
  Sorry, sorry. 5 for 20 Oh my God.
• 1:14:50
  So what changed this? Year.
• 1:14:52
  We added. Because we started most people
• 1:14:54
  when they 3D print, start filament then they go to resin.
• 1:14:57
  We were the reverse. We started at resin and I
• 1:15:00
  decided to pick up some filament machines this year.
• 1:15:03
  So I'm I've got 4. Bamboo.
• 1:15:06
  Labs, printers at the house and I've been last four months
• 1:15:13
  working on different things for filament printing.
• 1:15:18
  So they're they're good for like stuff like Dial.
• 1:15:20
  Pieces and more of this kind of less organic stuff if you know,
• 1:15:24
  yeah, less organic stuff, yes, less organic is the correct.
• 1:15:27
  That is the very correct term. More more like if you were to do
• 1:15:31
  a house or something in. A in a like a miniature house
• 1:15:33
  wouldn't be ideal house. Little dial piece so.
• 1:15:37
  Earlier this year I did flag stands for the banners, the
• 1:15:41
  little standard saw those. Yeah, you can plug in the middle
• 1:15:44
  banner. Section plug your banners in.
• 1:15:46
  But one thing I've so everything for 3D printing, it's always
• 1:15:50
  something like I want this for me and then oh, maybe other
• 1:15:54
  people will like it. And, you know, we kind of go
• 1:15:56
  from there. Right.
• 1:15:57
  Yeah, So what I've always wanted.
• 1:15:59
  Is a non. Masters of the Universe weapons
• 1:16:03
  rack 'cause that's the only one floating around.
• 1:16:06
  So bring you up big here. Exactly, yes.
• 1:16:09
  I sat down in my. Little Cave.
• 1:16:12
  And this is, this is except for the texturing, which I'll show
• 1:16:15
  you a painted version in a second.
• 1:16:17
  Yeah, minus the texturing. I designed the whole thing from
• 1:16:20
  scratch. First time I've ever, I guess
• 1:16:23
  cadded something. So that was that's in a in a
• 1:16:27
  program like. CAD or you know, this is
• 1:16:29
  actually in the program that comes with the printer.
• 1:16:32
  They give you like some basic. Some basic modeling.
• 1:16:35
  Tools and it's amazing what you can do with some basic modeling
• 1:16:37
  tools, so. It'll hold.
• 1:16:41
  Well over 25 weapons and this is what.
• 1:16:47
  It looks like it will paint so. One myth about FDM that I
• 1:16:50
  thought is that it doesn't paint well.
• 1:16:52
  Yeah, and it paints pretty good. Yeah, it looks great.
• 1:16:56
  Yeah. Yeah, really.
• 1:16:57
  Good, SO paints up really well. That FDMS and we thought that we
• 1:17:03
  couldn't do that with resin. It's just it's not the same,
• 1:17:06
  right? And sorry, I didn't show this
• 1:17:08
  part. So the way this works is you
• 1:17:11
  actually get it. Two back up there, yeah.
• 1:17:14
  We're going to. Oops, not prepare.
• 1:17:16
  For this part, that's my. Bad.
• 1:17:17
  Do you feel like this shit? No problem.
• 1:17:18
  Like I'm on QVC and I messed this up.
• 1:17:21
  Could have been prepared. So what it does is you're going
• 1:17:26
  to get it, it comes it, you take it apart.
• 1:17:30
  So it's multiple parts. And.
• 1:17:32
  Then just put it together. Oops.
• 1:17:36
  You assemble it through. These posts, the posts hold it
• 1:17:38
  in and you're good to go. That's it.
• 1:17:42
  Yeah, and that the FTM. FTM is a little, it's not as now
• 1:17:47
  you know, resin is quite, you know, the quality has always
• 1:17:51
  going up these days, but it's not as breakable as resin.
• 1:17:55
  I think it's not as breakable as resin I have found.
• 1:17:58
  The precision at least for cheap resins, right?
• 1:18:01
  Cheap resins you have a shrink rate filament.
• 1:18:05
  The shrink rate is much, much less, like if I put something to
• 1:18:10
  a 10th of a millimeter, it's right there.
• 1:18:13
  So getting things to fit quickly, being able to yeah,
• 1:18:17
  like those plugs now you showed with the with the thing.
• 1:18:20
  With that, that might be a bit of a a few failed resin prints
• 1:18:23
  before you get that dialed in resin.
• 1:18:26
  We would probably print this thing in one piece, right?
• 1:18:27
  But. Then shipping it, you know, you
• 1:18:31
  got some, you got some, some wiggle room there.
• 1:18:34
  So the other thing so that's one thing we're I'll bring I'm going
• 1:18:37
  to have the all the FDM stuff will be the way our table set
• 1:18:41
  up. Chain's got his own super cool
• 1:18:42
  mythic bits table that'll have a bunch of crap on it.
• 1:18:45
  And then Giovanni and I split a table that's right.
• 1:18:48
  You're kind of behind us, but we're we're.
• 1:18:50
  All in the one section which is this first alliance that we
• 1:18:52
  talked to Anthony about and yeah, So yeah, anyway, continue.
• 1:18:57
  Sorry, I'll be sharing table Giovanni and.
• 1:19:01
  All my little filament stuff will be right there.
• 1:19:04
  Speaking of First Alliance, so we can, that's a good segue.
• 1:19:07
  John Ellison. Yeah, I've done this before.
• 1:19:11
  You guys are you guys are veterans at this I.
• 1:19:13
  Was not prepared you've heard you know 3033 to. 85 If we
• 1:19:17
  haven't learned what, ten or two by then, then we're not doing it
• 1:19:19
  right. Huh.
• 1:19:20
  So the first we can, can we park on the 1st Alliance?
• 1:19:23
  For a minute, yeah, of course. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:19:25
  So yeah, first ally so. Everything in our row, right?
• 1:19:28
  If you look at that on a map, yeah, if all you guys that are.
• 1:19:31
  Listening at home? Go look on the map. 1st where
• 1:19:34
  where the horseman table was last.
• 1:19:35
  Year if you were there. Isn't that right?
• 1:19:37
  That's right, we all, a bunch of us, decide.
• 1:19:40
  We, we've decided everyone on our row should do, we should do
• 1:19:42
  something fun. So we kind of name the row the
• 1:19:44
  first alliance, right, spearheaded by Anthony
• 1:19:46
  Household. So as our contribution, as my
• 1:19:50
  contribution to that, we're going to run a fun promotion.
• 1:19:55
  So. Any customers who buy from a
• 1:19:59
  First Alliance table. If the if the vendor decides to,
• 1:20:02
  they can give them. One of these coins and everyone
• 1:20:04
  will have a different color. Everyone will have a certain
• 1:20:07
  amount of coins. If you bring your coins to the
• 1:20:10
  First Alliance Mercantile Exchange, that's me.
• 1:20:14
  Bring me two coins, two different.
• 1:20:15
  Coins you. Will get a random 3D print for
• 1:20:19
  free. Wow.
• 1:20:22
  Here's the kicker. The 3D prints.
• 1:20:24
  That will be available for this promotion.
• 1:20:28
  The only way you can get them is this one.
• 1:20:30
  Oh. Wow, so they'll.
• 1:20:33
  So there'll be some alternate. There'll be some.
• 1:20:35
  Alternate versions of heads that we weren't even selling.
• 1:20:38
  Like there are some heads, there are some heads that I can't sell
• 1:20:41
  right. I've talked to the whoever owned
• 1:20:43
  the original sculpt that we modified or whatever and they
• 1:20:45
  said, hey, you can use it for giveaways, but you know, no OK,
• 1:20:49
  cool. And I'll have extras like it's
• 1:20:51
  like. Extras I print 6.
• 1:20:52
  For me for customs, and then I have a couple extra, right?
• 1:20:55
  So there'll be some of those we're also doing I'm also going
• 1:20:59
  to be selling some key chains or bag tags this year and brilliant
• 1:21:05
  everyone going back from legions con that we just you.
• 1:21:07
  Know if you're in I don't know if some random airport in
• 1:21:10
  America and you'll see a bag tag that and you'll be like, oh, he
• 1:21:12
  must be a legions can too. So we're these are this is what
• 1:21:15
  FDM is good for. So the machines.
• 1:21:17
  I have are two color so these print this is flat.
• 1:21:21
  So for the for the audio listeners there, Chris Tell.
• 1:21:24
  Us which, what, what the different keys are We we do
• 1:21:26
  YouTube as well, of course, but for the audio, for the audio
• 1:21:29
  listeners. So we've got the kings under the
• 1:21:31
  mountain. Represented the brew.
• 1:21:33
  People don't know little. No, there is a barbarian group
• 1:21:36
  called Pillage and Plunder. Oh, I didn't know that.
• 1:21:38
  Nobody. Knows that need.
• 1:21:41
  To get. By.
• 1:21:43
  Illustrious Pat Boyle. Oh, that's.
• 1:21:46
  Group OK. We got the crypt, the horde,
• 1:21:49
  the. Malignancy And then there's of
• 1:21:51
  course an extra dwarf one which is #decade of the dwarf, so
• 1:21:56
  certain ones of these colors. So if you look at the horde, the
• 1:21:59
  green horde, the green malignancy, the white crypt, the
• 1:22:02
  colors you would expect, those are going to be for sale at 2
• 1:22:05
  for $5.00. So you get 2 bag tags for 5
• 1:22:09
  bucks the other colors. Like the the.
• 1:22:13
  Fury Horde colors and the alternate brood.
• 1:22:16
  Those are only available through that Mercantile Exchange
• 1:22:20
  program, and it'll be a random. Pull out of the back.
• 1:22:25
  There'll also be heads in there. You can't get anywhere like.
• 1:22:28
  There'll be some stuff you just some stuff that's on my customs
• 1:22:32
  that will not be for sale to Mythic Bits too.
• 1:22:34
  Got you. So, so fun.
• 1:22:36
  I thought that was a cool. Way like we're collectors,
• 1:22:39
  right? It's.
• 1:22:39
  Fun to collect. Yeah, of course.
• 1:22:40
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know it appeals.
• 1:22:42
  Straight away to to collector mindset, you know inventory
• 1:22:46
  would be limited. I thought the bad tags would be
• 1:22:48
  a fun idea so I went to all the groups and said hey can I do
• 1:22:52
  this are. You cool with me?
• 1:22:53
  Selling them too for like every hear, I always hear people or I
• 1:22:57
  get feedback that, you know, I came leaves con I spent a lot of
• 1:23:00
  money to get here. I don't have I can't buy
• 1:23:02
  anything at the tables right and I'm like, man, that's you know
• 1:23:05
  that always. So we always try to bring prices
• 1:23:07
  down to a certain level. These were just enough.
• 1:23:10
  It's 5 bucks you get 2 right. So you got a couple people or,
• 1:23:15
  you know, I think for $5 you get pretty cool things to just, you
• 1:23:19
  know, put on your backpack, put on your key chain, however you
• 1:23:21
  want to set it up. Awesome.
• 1:23:24
  The other thing, the last thing about that.
• 1:23:26
  So yeah. But I was going to say actually.
• 1:23:28
  That yeah, if you want to go away from legions, come with
• 1:23:30
  lots of stuff. I think your table is going to
• 1:23:33
  be a good spot. You got to get shot and it's you
• 1:23:35
  got to shop the first alliance. Folks, right?
• 1:23:37
  And then you're going to be able to get free stuff.
• 1:23:41
  Like who doesn't love free stuff Totally.
• 1:23:44
  So I don't have an example. With a first.
• 1:23:46
  Alliance. One, but all the key chains will
• 1:23:48
  also come with a little oh an. Actual there are going to come
• 1:23:53
  with that yeah, you're. Going to get.
• 1:23:54
  You're going to get a. Key ring and a clip on your two
• 1:23:57
  for $5. I mean that almost is like a
• 1:24:01
  dollar or two value. In itself, you know, So I
• 1:24:05
  thought this was a way to kind of, you know.
• 1:24:08
  Obviously recoup everything, but a way to like if someone's going
• 1:24:11
  and they're saying, hey, it's going to be rough.
• 1:24:14
  You know, I don't I, I, you know, I spent all my money to
• 1:24:17
  get there or an extra 5 bucks like, you know, I think that's a
• 1:24:21
  good way to do it. And you guys were so gracious
• 1:24:24
  the whole group of you right detour.
• 1:24:27
  He might borderland horde you guys funhouse Giovanni toy Ford.
• 1:24:34
  Who am I missing? Who am I missing?
• 1:24:37
  Immortal collections. Immortal Collections.
• 1:24:41
  Everyone was cool enough. To like, think this idea, the
• 1:24:44
  first alliance thing would be a cool way to do it right?
• 1:24:46
  And I appreciate that. And I can't.
• 1:24:49
  Thank you guys enough for taking a risk and wanting to do that.
• 1:24:53
  No, it's it's awesome. You know I was, yeah.
• 1:24:55
  Thank you. Definitely last year, speaking
• 1:24:58
  to a few people and especially Anthony, it was like, I'd love
• 1:25:01
  to be involved in something like like what Len and his kind of
• 1:25:04
  yeah, you know, Corner did and a little bit what Anthony had
• 1:25:07
  done. There was a bit of a section
• 1:25:08
  there as well with Steph and Mark.
• 1:25:11
  And so it's cool that yeah, kind of like similar minded kind of
• 1:25:15
  groups who kind of get on and and have a similar kind of
• 1:25:19
  theme. And a lot of like it is going to
• 1:25:21
  be dwarfy in some of the tables for sure.
• 1:25:24
  And but that's what you gotta expect.
• 1:25:26
  But there is still a lot of variety.
• 1:25:27
  You know, it'll be Dublin as well.
• 1:25:29
  We have the malignancy, forgot the malignancy and Danto and
• 1:25:32
  Tobin. That's true.
• 1:25:33
  Yeah, yeah. Max, Dean, Maxine will be there.
• 1:25:36
  Yeah, yeah, absolutely. He's down.
• 1:25:38
  I think he is sharing with Mark or Anthony.
• 1:25:41
  Yeah, I think they're in the same little cluster.
• 1:25:42
  Yeah, Yeah, it will be. Very dwarfing in that section.
• 1:25:45
  Not that there's anything wrong with that.
• 1:25:46
  That is no, I think you know a lot of the.
• 1:25:48
  Coolest customs I've seen are worse.
• 1:25:50
  I mean, we were, I was talking to Mal probably on the show and
• 1:25:54
  off the show over the last while there's been a few cosmic dwarf
• 1:25:58
  customs now that have been really, really good from
• 1:26:01
  different customizers fighting the urge and because there
• 1:26:04
  isn't. That there isn't that many.
• 1:26:06
  Dwarfs in cosmic, I think that makes them even more like, oh,
• 1:26:10
  you know, this is cool because you don't have much to compare
• 1:26:13
  them with in terms of the line itself.
• 1:26:16
  You know, looking at my notes to make sure.
• 1:26:19
  I have one more. Thing totally free, yeah.
• 1:26:21
  So other thing that will be at the table, you can see them
• 1:26:25
  behind me if you see. The.
• 1:26:27
  Red Templar, The White Templar set up.
• 1:26:30
  So those are 3D printed backdrops.
• 1:26:34
  I actually have a Dwarf 1 handy. Oh yeah.
• 1:26:37
  Oh wow, there you go. Yeah, a lot that's.
• 1:26:39
  Amazing. So it's.
• 1:26:41
  Basically like a giant key chain, right?
• 1:26:43
  Like that's. Really what it is the way this
• 1:26:44
  works is when you put it in the printer, you put it this way
• 1:26:47
  face down and it builds it and the 1st 2 layers have all the
• 1:26:51
  designs and then everything else does it.
• 1:26:53
  So you get to build and then you just paint.
• 1:26:55
  Over the Nope, no paint. Oh no, it's just a different
• 1:26:58
  color. Yeah, it prints this way.
• 1:26:59
  It's just two different colors of filament.
• 1:27:02
  Brilliant, so the machines I have can do up to four?
• 1:27:04
  Colors of filament. Well, technically up to 16, but
• 1:27:07
  the way I'm set up four. So basically it prints it, it
• 1:27:10
  comes pre colored in. You don't got to paint it.
• 1:27:13
  I thought these would be kind of neat as I'm just trying it out
• 1:27:17
  right, like I'm those will be super limited, like think two or
• 1:27:21
  three first time, right, Like I don't know if people will like
• 1:27:27
  it. I'm not positive.
• 1:27:29
  Yeah, yeah, it's it's tricky to people will.
• 1:27:33
  We'll see. I don't know we'll.
• 1:27:34
  We will see I. Don't I don't know, right, I
• 1:27:36
  hope I hope they do, but I want to see legions con for me every
• 1:27:41
  year is always we always like to bring stuff to test it.
• 1:27:45
  Like do they like it? OK, cool, like it.
• 1:27:48
  Or sometimes they think someone's going to think they're
• 1:27:51
  going to like something. And last year we brought these
• 1:27:54
  circle dwarf stands. I thought for sure at 10 bucks
• 1:27:57
  they were going to be gone. I went, we put we'll be bringing
• 1:27:59
  them back this year and they'll be on clearance because they
• 1:28:01
  didn't do well, right? We don't know.
• 1:28:04
  We don't know. Yeah.
• 1:28:04
  So. Oh.
• 1:28:05
  Talk to me about it like. It's even like our episode.
• 1:28:08
  Sometimes they go, oh, that's, that was such a brilliant
• 1:28:10
  episode. You know, it's going to, you
• 1:28:12
  know, people are going to love this.
• 1:28:13
  And it's like you get hardly any feedback.
• 1:28:14
  And, you know, then another episode, it's just kind of we
• 1:28:17
  didn't prep that much and we just kind of did.
• 1:28:19
  And you're like, oh, that was OK.
• 1:28:21
  We got away with it. And it's like everyone's like,
• 1:28:23
  oh, I was so good. And you're like, OK, I'm.
• 1:28:27
  Never going to figure. This out.
• 1:28:28
  So yeah, then that's the that's the thing.
• 1:28:30
  So I I've been. Doing these for my display, you
• 1:28:32
  can see it behind me. Obviously the one sons of the
• 1:28:35
  Red Star one will not be coming because that is a no, no.
• 1:28:37
  That is for Chris only. But the Templar ones, I'll have
• 1:28:41
  Templars in every single color a couple.
• 1:28:45
  And then I've got some of my own designs, like I did a custom one
• 1:28:48
  for Gadriel that's like Angel wings and sword.
• 1:28:51
  All that stuff will be there. And, you know, we're we're
• 1:28:56
  talking like, you know, that dwarf one will be like 20 bucks,
• 1:28:58
  25 bucks. It's not like it's gonna be
• 1:29:00
  expensive. Yeah.
• 1:29:01
  So that's crazy. That's what's coming.
• 1:29:03
  I wish I could show you more mythic bit stuff.
• 1:29:05
  I only thing I had to show for those yeah, is we got a couple
• 1:29:09
  of examples of the heads we'll have now this heads, who's your.
• 1:29:14
  Who's your sculptors? That you use or Diego mainly and
• 1:29:18
  then. This head's a Jason head.
• 1:29:20
  He let us modify and put a pirate head on.
• 1:29:22
  Oh cool. Very cool.
• 1:29:23
  So that's that's the Ansel. Dwarf Pirate.
• 1:29:26
  There's a couple of those. Coming this head.
• 1:29:29
  So if you guys, did you guys, did you guys play video games at
• 1:29:31
  all? When, when I had time, I did.
• 1:29:34
  Yeah, I know who it. Is or I think I know who it is
• 1:29:36
  it Doctor? Who is it?
• 1:29:38
  It is similar to Doctor Robotic or Doctor No.
• 1:29:42
  Is he used to be? No, but that's a good guess.
• 1:29:45
  The. Minds of Moria video game I've
• 1:29:49
  heard about. Oh man, we played that as a.
• 1:29:50
  Character creator, so. What I did was I went and made a
• 1:29:54
  few dwarfs and I went to Thiago and said, hey, can you make me
• 1:29:56
  something inspired by this? Because it's like it's a
• 1:29:59
  character creator for dwarfs. That's very cool.
• 1:30:02
  Through AI, this thing is cool. So I made a bunch of characters
• 1:30:07
  and I said, hey, can you do something inspired by this,
• 1:30:08
  right? Not exactly, but do something
• 1:30:11
  inspired. So a lot of the new head
• 1:30:13
  offerings this year. We're bringing back a lot of
• 1:30:15
  old. Favourites.
• 1:30:16
  We went through what sold last year, what was good.
• 1:30:19
  We're going to reprint more of what was good and then a lot of
• 1:30:22
  the new ones. This for sure this year.
• 1:30:25
  It is dwarf centric Awesome. Like a lot of different.
• 1:30:30
  And. There's still some.
• 1:30:32
  Or there has been I think the Dwarf Legion builder possibly
• 1:30:35
  sold out now than was on storehouse or if we can build,
• 1:30:38
  I'm sure they'll have them there.
• 1:30:39
  But yeah, Dwarf, yeah, we. Sold out.
• 1:30:41
  I think that Legion builder sold out twice.
• 1:30:43
  Yeah, I think so too. The Deluxe.
• 1:30:45
  Ones sold out, then they brought a couple. 100 back magically
• 1:30:48
  appeared in inventory. Those are gone.
• 1:30:50
  Again, I'm just saying, not saying that we a lot.
• 1:30:53
  I'm just saying there's other them out there, other fans.
• 1:30:58
  Yeah, that. For sure aren't buying.
• 1:31:00
  Enough of their. Bar.
• 1:31:01
  Buying enough stuff I see them white.
• 1:31:02
  Templars are still there. Yeah, that's true.
• 1:31:04
  They they, there was a lot of. Them.
• 1:31:06
  But yeah, I. Think the vampires are almost
• 1:31:08
  gone too. That is a yes.
• 1:31:10
  That's a great body. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:31:12
  Speaking of license place so. For those you don't know, you
• 1:31:17
  can totally cut up this vampire hat.
• 1:31:21
  Yeah. Oh, wow.
• 1:31:23
  Put it on the Wizards. Oh.
• 1:31:29
  Wow, I see. Wow.
• 1:31:29
  But that's that's like a Arzak or one of the Poxus.
• 1:31:32
  Wizards. Basically there is a Yep.
• 1:31:34
  Wow, that's good. Pronounce his name's all right
• 1:31:37
  now. No problem, No problem.
• 1:31:38
  That's. What we're here for.
• 1:31:40
  And awesome. So yeah, I think.
• 1:31:43
  Our favorite Welshman. Going on not not rich.
• 1:31:46
  He was definitely a big fan. I remember talking to him about
• 1:31:48
  the mines and Mario game that I must play it.
• 1:31:50
  But I think the last game I got a chance to play was probably
• 1:31:53
  God of War. The for I wanted to play the
• 1:31:57
  second one, but I it's just too much, just too much going on
• 1:32:01
  with the kids and the podcasts. And so it was like, kind of
• 1:32:06
  can't choose video games at this point of time, but it'll be
• 1:32:09
  there, you know, in the future, always there for you when you
• 1:32:12
  need it. Yeah, exactly.
• 1:32:14
  Right, Chris, So. How about we get out of this
• 1:32:17
  interview with looking at some of your customs that you sent.
• 1:32:20
  It's over and we can talk through a few of them.
• 1:32:22
  And so these are all on your table for sale.
• 1:32:27
  Yep, these are all my table for sale.
• 1:32:30
  My customs range average between to the.
• 1:32:34
  Lower ones will. Be about will be 8000 ish and
• 1:32:40
  then the middle is like 1:25 to 1:50 and then if you see
• 1:32:44
  something over 200 usually that means I really I I would prefer
• 1:32:50
  to go home with it could say 200's my top.
• 1:32:53
  The way I price my customs. So one usually I'm listening.
• 1:32:57
  To an audio book. When I'm doing my customs, we do
• 1:33:01
  this to relax. This brings my blood pressure
• 1:33:02
  down. Very healthy, so my time I don't
• 1:33:06
  really charge. For a lot.
• 1:33:07
  Of it is parts. What parts did I have to use to
• 1:33:11
  make this? Thing.
• 1:33:12
  Right. Yeah, the builder customs, I did
• 1:33:14
  those last year. I did the Templars last year.
• 1:33:16
  I think I was doing those for like 75 bucks.
• 1:33:19
  Awesome. You know, one color.
• 1:33:21
  So this is in that. Lower this guy's in that.
• 1:33:23
  Lower scale, Yeah, little bit of detail work.
• 1:33:26
  Flop out beard this is. A dwarf?
• 1:33:28
  Are you still doing the beards with mythic?
• 1:33:30
  Bits or do they? Yeah.
• 1:33:31
  Beards are coming We I Rita. It's funny, last year we.
• 1:33:33
  Weren't going to bring them, Yeah, 'cause we were like, all
• 1:33:35
  right, this fat has passed. The pet rock is.
• 1:33:37
  Over. We're good.
• 1:33:39
  And we again last year, everyone like it's like everyone restocks
• 1:33:44
  at Regions Con. I'll have people walk up.
• 1:33:46
  Yeah. Can I get like the beards you
• 1:33:48
  always buy from us online? Yeah, I just restock at Legions
• 1:33:51
  Con. OK, so we're going to bring
• 1:33:53
  them. We got 2.
• 1:33:54
  Varieties, right? We got the clip.
• 1:33:55
  ONS for the armored face, and then we got these, which peg in
• 1:33:59
  to the barbarian head and the dwarf head.
• 1:34:04
  Oh, from the deluxe wave? Yeah, Yep, Yep.
• 1:34:06
  And these honestly of the. Two products, the Peg beards are
• 1:34:09
  better products, like they're scaled better.
• 1:34:12
  Like the clip beards are awesome for what they were, but they
• 1:34:15
  were a little big, you know, because yeah, they're kind of
• 1:34:17
  bombastic. I like them though.
• 1:34:19
  And they can. I use them in one of my customs
• 1:34:22
  last year. And it was cool.
• 1:34:24
  Yeah. Like, I love this tour helmet.
• 1:34:26
  Yeah, it really is. It really is cool.
• 1:34:29
  Yeah, and right. We got a couple of ladies here.
• 1:34:32
  Yeah. So these are my twins.
• 1:34:34
  Umm. So this head is a not for sale
• 1:34:38
  head. It will not be for sale on the
• 1:34:39
  table. Is that one of the ones that you
• 1:34:42
  can? Get in the drawings.
• 1:34:43
  Then there'll be a couple I I have a couple leftover prints.
• 1:34:47
  That will be then. These are the ELF versions.
• 1:34:49
  So there is a human version of this head that exists that was
• 1:34:52
  prototyped. It will not be in anything
• 1:34:56
  except someone else's table at Legions.
• 1:35:00
  Con in the 1st. Alliance might have a custom or
• 1:35:03
  two with the human version of this head because these are two
• 1:35:06
  hot I. Think you might have seen?
• 1:35:10
  It might have seen it so these. Are these are going to be?
• 1:35:14
  Sold as a pair I don't want to split.
• 1:35:16
  Them up, you know, so good. So this is a kind of black skin.
• 1:35:22
  Toned head person woman I guess with this really cool kind of
• 1:35:29
  almost kind of flip over long curly hair that just kind of
• 1:35:31
  flips over to one side. Yep.
• 1:35:33
  And half healthiers you can't see it from.
• 1:35:36
  The picture, but OK, they're half else and how did is this as
• 1:35:40
  some sort of a? Transfer this thing on the this
• 1:35:43
  kind of symbol on the chest. It's a permanent vinyl on the
• 1:35:46
  chest because I got lazy and. Didn't want to airbrush it and
• 1:35:50
  so in case anyone I wouldn't say duna, you have to do.
• 1:35:53
  A vinyl design and print it. That's not really that lazy.
• 1:35:56
  I designed it, printed it, cut it, laid it.
• 1:35:59
  Down Also, in case anyone was wondering so they don't feel
• 1:36:02
  like they're cheated, the body tone is not the stets original
• 1:36:06
  skin tone. I repainted the head to toe.
• 1:36:08
  Oh wow, it's a head to toe repaint.
• 1:36:09
  It's a custom skin tone. I mixed myself.
• 1:36:12
  Awesome. And and there's.
• 1:36:14
  A little little cut work, because you can't really.
• 1:36:16
  Have a Chris Custom and you can't have a premium custom from
• 1:36:19
  the Pharaoh's forged out of cut work.
• 1:36:21
  The belt on the girl with the white hair I believe is from
• 1:36:24
  Olivia's headdress. That's awesome.
• 1:36:28
  The bird from Olivia's headdress?
• 1:36:30
  Yeah. That have a little belt.
• 1:36:32
  Buckle. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:36:33
  The belt buckle. 'S headdress.
• 1:36:35
  Yeah, that's. That's amazing.
• 1:36:37
  They're my favorite thing. These are of the things.
• 1:36:39
  I've done this year, they're in my top couple.
• 1:36:42
  Like I really enjoyed this one. There's not.
• 1:36:46
  It's a smaller market, the female.
• 1:36:47
  Customs, I think, A because it's difficult, and B, because I
• 1:36:52
  think people, there's probably less people just doing it, you
• 1:36:56
  know? Kind of.
• 1:36:58
  They're more attracted to the 1.0 scale.
• 1:37:00
  It's just a thing. So funny.
• 1:37:02
  Funny story real quick, my first year.
• 1:37:05
  I actually had a customer give feedback.
• 1:37:07
  They were at my table and I only had like one female custom and
• 1:37:10
  she was she said I wish you had more girl customs.
• 1:37:13
  And I was like, it's the last year I did more and like this
• 1:37:16
  year I'm like that stuck with me.
• 1:37:18
  That just stuck with me. I'm like, so I think I think
• 1:37:20
  this year of the 40 I'm bringing, I think 10.
• 1:37:24
  So a full quarter are female customs.
• 1:37:27
  Awesome. That's.
• 1:37:29
  That's. Open the quota and good.
• 1:37:32
  But as I say, if you don't see many female customs, the
• 1:37:36
  different tables, half of it is not because it's female, it's
• 1:37:39
  because it's difficult because it's a smaller scale and that's
• 1:37:43
  a bit more tricky. Now here's another awesome
• 1:37:45
  female with it's a it's a with a load of skeleton heads coming
• 1:37:52
  out of the what looks like the weapons are the kind of wizard
• 1:37:57
  kind of effect pieces. So there's my necromancer only.
• 1:38:02
  Difference with the one that'll be there.
• 1:38:04
  I've. Swapped those solid heads out
• 1:38:05
  for two blue clear Haginon heads.
• 1:38:08
  I thought that looked way cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:38:11
  Those are the wizard. Spell effects.
• 1:38:13
  I heat gun those. And I rewrap them around her and
• 1:38:16
  cool. That's a genius idea.
• 1:38:18
  So they're. Yeah.
• 1:38:19
  So they're. Completely wrapped, but it's
• 1:38:20
  like they're. Meant to go that way.
• 1:38:21
  Now there's some glue on them. Getting the figure apart is
• 1:38:24
  going to be a really big pain in the butt, so whoever hopefully
• 1:38:26
  whoever buys it doesn't try to take it apart.
• 1:38:30
  Xerian head from Cosmic. My one of my favorite heads of
• 1:38:34
  the paint looks super elf looking staff.
• 1:38:38
  You know another one cobbled together that's a regular
• 1:38:41
  skeleton with the part on the top cut out so it can fit in the
• 1:38:44
  circle of the staff that used to be the the Basilia.
• 1:38:47
  The new Basilia staff we got. Favorite belt?
• 1:38:52
  Probably. Favorite new belt from the
• 1:38:53
  Cosmic from the cosmic alien guy.
• 1:38:54
  The grey alien belt is awesome. Oh, that is yeah.
• 1:38:58
  I wish they would put it on. Some mythic figures.
• 1:39:01
  But she was fun build, you know, went really dark around the skin
• 1:39:05
  tone. So I thought that was like a
• 1:39:08
  cool, I don't know, Necromancer. I just want to make it
• 1:39:10
  necromancer. Yeah, It looks almost like
• 1:39:12
  there's a. There's almost.
• 1:39:14
  Like a bit of green in the skin tone.
• 1:39:16
  A little bit. Yeah.
• 1:39:17
  Yeah, it makes a little bit. It's the way the when I matted
• 1:39:21
  it and then put another finish on it, it kind of gave that vibe
• 1:39:24
  to it. Plus I think the it's the main
• 1:39:27
  effects also just kind of maybe. Brings it.
• 1:39:29
  Yeah, Cool. Next one.
• 1:39:32
  This is a dwarf for the cool. Beard and yeah, I guess this is
• 1:39:38
  one of your kind of more lower tier customs, yeah.
• 1:39:42
  Basic, basic. Custom.
• 1:39:44
  So it's a cavern dwarf. With a bit of.
• 1:39:46
  Paint work, a little bit of paint.
• 1:39:48
  And whose beard? Who guys whose beard that is?
• 1:39:51
  That's ours, isn't it? Yeah, yeah.
• 1:39:54
  So that's one of the beards. Off the wind.
• 1:39:56
  Yep, one of the beards off the. Wizards I transplanted.
• 1:39:58
  That. Got it to fit on a peg to stick
• 1:40:00
  it up inside the helmet. So even though even though Chris
• 1:40:03
  does. Beards is part of mythic bits.
• 1:40:05
  He's still slice and beards off figures.
• 1:40:08
  How do that's a cool? It's a cool beard, man.
• 1:40:11
  Like it is. Yeah, Yeah.
• 1:40:13
  The best paint on this figure is.
• 1:40:14
  Probably I should have. Taken the picture, the shield is
• 1:40:17
  fully repainted. That oh awesome, so that's that
• 1:40:20
  dwarf shield that we would have got. 1st with Bromden, yeah,
• 1:40:23
  people know which one it is. Yeah, fully repainted Shield.
• 1:40:26
  So this is one of those lower. End you know eighty $100 like
• 1:40:29
  this is what I this is like an awesome custom yeah I mean.
• 1:40:34
  This fire, dude, I love it. Red Death.
• 1:40:36
  You did. I remember around the time of
• 1:40:38
  Red Death this out and you you did a good few customs with the
• 1:40:42
  Red Death parts and I was like, well, yeah, I should have bought
• 1:40:45
  more Red Deaths, but you know, I also had other things going on,
• 1:40:48
  so I just wouldn't have had the time.
• 1:40:50
  This is amazing. This is my pyromancer.
• 1:40:53
  But it's funny, I brought those. Red Death customs last year so
• 1:40:56
  leaves Cotton didn't even get a second look at the table.
• 1:40:59
  They're all coming back this year cause none of them really.
• 1:41:01
  I think it was such a new figure.
• 1:41:03
  Nobody really realized what was going on.
• 1:41:04
  But this one with the twins my one of my favorites a lot.
• 1:41:10
  Of it is. The fading is all hand painted
• 1:41:13
  and some days you just get really lucky with paint and it
• 1:41:17
  all works out and I. Think I did a pretty.
• 1:41:19
  Good job on the fading of the fire effect like the fire.
• 1:41:24
  It is head, so it's not just Red Death pulled out, it's a head.
• 1:41:27
  So repaint the fire colors are painted inside of all of his
• 1:41:31
  skin openings. Brilliant.
• 1:41:34
  It's painted on the inside. For fire.
• 1:41:36
  On those it's like he's smoldering it.
• 1:41:39
  You guys know where his horns are from and looks?
• 1:41:43
  Familiar, but no So. And that's a pox's head, is it?
• 1:41:47
  Yeah, Pox's head. No, Don't know who.
• 1:41:50
  That horns from believe. Those are from Novine Lean.
• 1:41:54
  Oh the that if I'm not mistaken. Oh, the little.
• 1:41:58
  Mandible things are. Is it?
• 1:42:02
  Are they not? I think so.
• 1:42:03
  Is it not umm Tiger? Like tiger, is it not his bits
• 1:42:08
  thick? Oh, no, Tiger, you're right.
• 1:42:09
  Tiger, Tiger, Tiger. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:42:11
  That's I don't do cosmic, so I don't.
• 1:42:12
  Really know their names, I just use.
• 1:42:14
  Them for father yeah tiger so those are those are off the
• 1:42:17
  tiger so also. This is.
• 1:42:22
  A Novian Lean. Head on a tiger.
• 1:42:26
  And so the Novian Lean head is painted to match the tiger, and
• 1:42:29
  it's got these awesome horns coming out the side of the the
• 1:42:32
  novian lean head Marvel Legends build a figure.
• 1:42:36
  King Thor or Odin, whichever one they called it from way back in
• 1:42:41
  the day, I had that helmet. I ripped the horns off and I
• 1:42:44
  thought I had to cover up the tech.
• 1:42:46
  And so I pulled the tech out of his face, made a little hole.
• 1:42:49
  I thought the horns gave it that aliens like, you know that.
• 1:42:51
  Yeah, that that, that kind of Predator look.
• 1:42:55
  Yeah, I thought that was kind of what I was going for.
• 1:42:58
  I know this came out pretty cool too.
• 1:43:00
  Absolutely superb. And and what are the upper legs?
• 1:43:04
  There are they? Some sort of Yeah, it's cloth
• 1:43:08
  pants. I can't.
• 1:43:10
  Remember cloth pants? Yeah, cloth pants.
• 1:43:12
  OK. Cool.
• 1:43:14
  Here's a bunch of customs so. You don't do cosmic but you
• 1:43:18
  still have by cosmic figures for customs.
• 1:43:20
  It looks like I do I do. So this is like pirate crew
• 1:43:23
  from. The last lucky that's the name
• 1:43:25
  of their ship, the. Cosmic Guy is like so long have.
• 1:43:30
  You guys ever played D&D back in the day?
• 1:43:33
  No, there is a setting called Spell.
• 1:43:35
  Jammer. It was about like.
• 1:43:36
  Going into space and stuff I just thought it'd be cool to use
• 1:43:39
  a cosmic cus he's really nothing special.
• 1:43:41
  Like he's just some fur and some cloth kids.
• 1:43:42
  I don't really do anything to him, but I thought it was cool
• 1:43:46
  to have like. An alien as.
• 1:43:48
  The ship. 'S mage pirates, obviously a lot
• 1:43:52
  of Marley parts with some McFarlane Jack Sparrow parts
• 1:43:57
  thrown in there or Diamond, Diamond select one of those two.
• 1:44:01
  I think it's I think it's McFarlane Jack Sparrow on a
• 1:44:04
  that's a barger head. I was going to say it looks like
• 1:44:09
  a barger head. It's Barger.
• 1:44:10
  Head the female. Is another female costume which
• 1:44:14
  you can't see with her, which you'll see when you get there.
• 1:44:16
  I took the lower legs off of a McFarland Wonder Woman.
• 1:44:20
  She's rocking. No, I'm sorry, not lower legs.
• 1:44:22
  The Gauntlets, Ralph McFarlane and then the.
• 1:44:26
  Dwarf is, you know, it's a. Dwarf, it's got Calavius's
• 1:44:28
  helmet with the thing taken off and routed down and turned into
• 1:44:32
  more of a hat with a, you know, hook arm and stuff like that.
• 1:44:36
  So pretty cool. I, I, I just want to do a pirate
• 1:44:38
  crew. It was when Marley came out, I
• 1:44:40
  went pirate. I was like, everything has to be
• 1:44:43
  in the Pirates. Absolutely.
• 1:44:45
  Yeah, and that's what we need. In mythics, anyways.
• 1:44:47
  Pirates. Oh, let's go right.
• 1:44:49
  Here's another guy with the Marley coat.
• 1:44:51
  Marley coat. There's like 1/2 dwarf so he's a
• 1:44:53
  little. Taller than a dwarf, shorter
• 1:44:54
  than human. Monkey king lower legs there.
• 1:44:57
  Looks like monkey king lower legs.
• 1:44:59
  Everything repainted again. Yep, the.
• 1:45:01
  Forearms are from those are. Those are using.
• 1:45:05
  We actually make forearm blanks so you can flip on fodder.
• 1:45:09
  Those are from croc master from GI Joe classified.
• 1:45:12
  Awesome Torgon. Head and a hat is from.
• 1:45:16
  AWWE Sheamus figure. Oh, no way.
• 1:45:19
  Yeah Yeah. Fits on Torgon.
• 1:45:23
  I don't know, I thought I. Wanted to make like a.
• 1:45:26
  I'm sitting there and I'm like, I really want to use this coat.
• 1:45:29
  How do I do it so I it's not the?
• 1:45:31
  Marley Blue. It's my own.
• 1:45:32
  Blue. But I like the blue because it's
• 1:45:35
  like, yeah, it's I don't take blueberries.
• 1:45:37
  Yeah, it don't take blue. So I might find the same.
• 1:45:39
  Yeah, my Blues are probably one of my least.
• 1:45:42
  Used paints and I try to use them a bit more so this one of
• 1:45:46
  my I I really enjoyed. Making this custom with the
• 1:45:48
  Monkey King legs. He's like a collector, you know?
• 1:45:51
  He's obviously got a ring of keys and stuff like that.
• 1:45:53
  So I love the ring. I love just the ring of keys
• 1:45:55
  hanging off the belt, you know? Everyone kind of can relate to
• 1:45:58
  that, yeah, as a type and that ring is from I want.
• 1:46:02
  To say one of those import tiger martial arts tiger figure, I
• 1:46:07
  think it's like his place or something like that turned to a
• 1:46:10
  key ring. I know right?
• 1:46:11
  Let's I just pick random parts from stuff but he's a fun figure
• 1:46:15
  to love him. This is left theory over from
• 1:46:18
  last year. So.
• 1:46:21
  Gladiator. Used it right there.
• 1:46:23
  The thing? With this figure.
• 1:46:24
  So those. Forearms slip on.
• 1:46:28
  Those are not. Those are slip over, so they
• 1:46:30
  slip. Over the red desk, he drilled
• 1:46:32
  through the the forearms. Yeah, to get the same thing with
• 1:46:36
  the lower legs, I cut the lower legs I.
• 1:46:38
  I howled them out and I took the chest, the old OG chest straps
• 1:46:43
  and reform the back of the leg using straps so those are
• 1:46:46
  actually removable too. So underneath this is a fully
• 1:46:49
  painted red death body for and a gladiator.
• 1:46:54
  Brilliant. Very cool, really nice.
• 1:46:57
  Next we have two more Red Death customs.
• 1:46:59
  Yep, green and green. 1 is great, repaint the other.
• 1:47:04
  One is McFarlane Baraka's head on a red depth and then I use
• 1:47:11
  dye. Remover to change.
• 1:47:12
  The color of the robe from Oh I remember you posting the the die
• 1:47:16
  removed. Goat.
• 1:47:17
  Yeah. What courtesy is?
• 1:47:18
  He'll call it the P. He'll call it the PP.
• 1:47:20
  Robe. Yeah, it is.
• 1:47:23
  You. You were kind.
• 1:47:24
  Of it, it was kind of a roll the dice, see what happens, kind of,
• 1:47:28
  yeah, this is what you got. It's like choose your own
• 1:47:29
  adventure. I actually have a bunch of.
• 1:47:31
  I have a bunch of that. Stuff I haven't had time to take
• 1:47:34
  a bunch of other soft goods Yeah and I really want to try it on
• 1:47:38
  Calazier stuff because it should keep the IT should keep the
• 1:47:42
  vinyl stickers but change the color.
• 1:47:45
  I really want to try it ontology or stuff that'd be fun.
• 1:47:48
  Have you ever done anything with the clocks that?
• 1:47:49
  Come with Red death, I gave a bunch away last year.
• 1:47:53
  Gotcha. Like so I think I put.
• 1:47:58
  This picture on accident. I think this figure is.
• 1:48:00
  Gone OK, we could go pass the coop.
• 1:48:02
  I don't think she's a. Dwarf.
• 1:48:04
  There we go. Yep, this dwarf.
• 1:48:06
  So this is my. I call her the Reforged.
• 1:48:10
  So Chris does not like skinny, Ragna does not I?
• 1:48:15
  Do not like skinny Ragna. I think the character, but yeah,
• 1:48:18
  I, I, I think this. Is a better representation I
• 1:48:21
  think this is so I wanted to make when I when we did the
• 1:48:24
  female chest. Plates last year my idea was it
• 1:48:28
  was female dwarfs right like let's be honest, like that was
• 1:48:30
  the main reason I did it right. So when I the first female
• 1:48:34
  custom I made, I was like I got to do Ragna I so I really
• 1:48:39
  studied the colors wanted to get that sky tealish blue metallic.
• 1:48:46
  But she comes she'll be at every legions con until someone buys
• 1:48:48
  her. She's on one of those I, you
• 1:48:51
  know, you know, she's priced like.
• 1:48:53
  She's like I. Don't really want to sell her
• 1:48:55
  price, yeah. She's like 225.
• 1:48:56
  Like she's like she's. Not worth.
• 1:48:58
  Here's the thing to be honest, it's a black painted figure.
• 1:49:01
  It is not worth 225 bucks right? If you pay that cool, but like
• 1:49:06
  there are other customs on that table that are cheaper than her
• 1:49:10
  that you should definitely spend your money on.
• 1:49:12
  But she's one of my favorite. So she gets brought every year,
• 1:49:15
  but it's it's what you like. You know I don't as well.
• 1:49:17
  You know, and yeah, and actually I was, I guess that dwarf Tupac
• 1:49:23
  is, is probably your most anticipated thing coming.
• 1:49:25
  I mean, you're, you're one of the the characters and isn't
• 1:49:29
  that right? I am.
• 1:49:30
  I got designated. I'm the bald guy with the beard.
• 1:49:33
  So that's fine. That's that's everyone that
• 1:49:35
  legions con. You know, I'm the weird, I'm the
• 1:49:38
  weirdo with. No beard and a bit.
• 1:49:40
  Of hair, Jeremy let us choose. Jeremy kind of let us.
• 1:49:43
  Choose which builds were. Hard.
• 1:49:44
  So obviously they were look, when Kevin and Anthony looked at
• 1:49:49
  me, they were like, really? Come on, God, come on, man.
• 1:49:51
  And I'm like, yeah, OK, I'll take I'll take the swarthy guy
• 1:49:53
  with the beard. It's fun.
• 1:49:55
  So yeah, when those parts, like I've got a bunch of those on
• 1:49:59
  pre-order, like yeah, the allegiance con following that 2
• 1:50:03
  pack is going to be, I might go. I don't know if I'll have
• 1:50:07
  another thing but a dwarf on my team.
• 1:50:11
  That's cool. I mean.
• 1:50:11
  There's there's going to be a lot of.
• 1:50:13
  People, I mean, I I definitely am looking forward to those
• 1:50:15
  parts as well as the figures themselves.
• 1:50:18
  Think about the dwarf customizers we have.
• 1:50:21
  The Kings of the Mountain is going to be.
• 1:50:23
  Crazy I mean and also for make. I was thinking for making cosmic
• 1:50:27
  dwarfs. Those types of parts are much,
• 1:50:30
  much easier to integrate into Cosmic with a bit of a paint job
• 1:50:33
  or whatever. He has to love that for his
• 1:50:35
  Cosmic minor crew. Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:50:38
  Well, he might be, Might be. Swapping out a few, that's it.
• 1:50:42
  Like mix and match with the Novian Lean.
• 1:50:44
  Body and uh, you know, you got basically a dwarf Novian lean.
• 1:50:48
  So, you know, that would be that'd be really costume.
• 1:50:51
  Yeah, yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:50:53
  That's going to be. Actually really cool.
• 1:50:55
  Right we. Have a bear a.
• 1:50:57
  Guy with. A bear hat and a wolf.
• 1:51:00
  Yeah. So this is my most recent custom
• 1:51:02
  I'm calling on. My quarter frost giant.
• 1:51:05
  So brute scale. First time I did a brute scale
• 1:51:07
  custom. I repainted a calzier marvel
• 1:51:11
  legends donated a lot of parts to this custom.
• 1:51:13
  The shoulder pauldrons, the waist piece, that's all Marvel
• 1:51:19
  legends. The head is a Marvel legend
• 1:51:22
  scar. The new scar that came out this
• 1:51:24
  is an so this was this will be a pricey custom, but mainly just
• 1:51:28
  cause of the parts I had to use. So I paid 50 bucks for a scar
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  just for that home. OK yeah, so right.
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  I knew it. I was like, I need that head.
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  The bare piece is from the fresh monkey fiction Santa Santa
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  Claus. That's where I recognize it
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  from. I just didn't.
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  Want to be lazy so I painted it brown instead of.
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  Leaving it white, the wolf is obviously GI Joe timber
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  repainted into a Frost Wolf. So this will be officially the
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  most expensive I've ever asked for a custom at Legions Con.
• 1:51:59
  It'll be like 300 for the combo. So it's for me for me.
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  That's a lot like that is a lot in general, I know.
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  That some. People charge not I, I, I
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  understand, but it's very, you need to find that if you're
• 1:52:15
  going to sell it. It's going to be just someone
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  that just flips. Yeah, got to be someone that's
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  worth it. And listen if he comes home with
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  me. Not going to be upset.
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  Like I was very excited. I worked that's and then it's
• 1:52:25
  got a fur. The fur, the fur Cape is real.
• 1:52:28
  The cool thing with the fur Cape, it's on another part.
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  We make Jeremy choose them this week for a custom.
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  They're like black shoulder blades, so you just glue stuff
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  onto them or put fodder on them so you can take the tape off.
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  You don't get a fidget with it. It just unplugged from the back.
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  Brilliant. And there is a.
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  There is people that are really into the frost figures, I know
• 1:52:46
  that for sure. I love as well myself and that
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  is the thing right? A bit of lights going on here
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  with a dwarf, a little bit of light so.
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  This is a fairly basic door. I won't say base of repaint.
• 1:52:59
  I everything is head to toe. Re.
• 1:53:00
  It's head to toe repaint. Yeah, but the gold's all done.
• 1:53:04
  The golds and army paint are gold.
• 1:53:07
  All the dots have been painted. Every single hammer, stroke and
• 1:53:13
  the custom pauldron were a gift from Anthony.
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  Haussel. And I decided to install some
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  lights in them so you can turn them on and off with magnets.
• 1:53:19
  Pop a magnet to it, turn the lights on.
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  I thought it was pretty cool, like a dwarf palette.
• 1:53:24
  Yeah. That's so cool.
• 1:53:26
  And the head, the head is from, that's a mythic bits beard.
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  I recognize that is a mythic bits beard.
• 1:53:31
  Yep, that's a mythic bits plug beard.
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  And I. Am running low on those horns.
• 1:53:34
  I think that's my second to last pair of those horns they have go
• 1:53:39
  to Chris James's pop and swap. I know I'm I'm bringing so much
• 1:53:44
  cosmic to that. Pop and swap.
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  Oh, Chris is your man. Mythic for cosmic.
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  Malice already mentioned. It I need to find people that
• 1:53:53
  swap mythic for cosmic, Well, there's guess.
• 1:53:56
  Guess what our days are going to be?
• 1:53:57
  Spent doing I've got these if you're.
• 1:54:00
  So that's like that's, that's that dwarf.
• 1:54:03
  Just in there with a much better photo.
• 1:54:05
  Obviously that's so. That's really nice, actually.
• 1:54:08
  Yeah, yeah. Thank you.
• 1:54:09
  That's cool. But this?
• 1:54:10
  Like I said, the gold head to toe.
• 1:54:12
  Full airbrush job on the base coat.
• 1:54:15
  Is that the new Army painter? Gold?
• 1:54:17
  Yeah. So army painters I use I use
• 1:54:19
  almost. Exclusively Army.
• 1:54:21
  Did you get the new Fantastic paints?
• 1:54:23
  I've got a mental speed paints. They're they're supposed.
• 1:54:26
  To be good. They're not, they're not good.
• 1:54:27
  They're incredible. Are.
• 1:54:29
  They the first dwarf you showed, the one that's got the shiny
• 1:54:32
  finish to him. Yeah, that's out of the bottle.
• 1:54:35
  Just hand. Wow, awesome.
• 1:54:37
  They hand. Or airbrush.
• 1:54:39
  They are worth. Every dollar, yeah.
• 1:54:41
  Because I, I I. Think the one that's that they
• 1:54:45
  compare closest to is the metal colour from Vallejo.
• 1:54:48
  The you know the ones in the bigger bottles because I have
• 1:54:50
  Vallejo metal colours. They're.
• 1:54:53
  I would say they're better because they they, they.
• 1:54:57
  Finish with a candy coat. That's already have some
• 1:55:01
  durability built into it. Oh yeah, yeah, versus the
• 1:55:04
  Vallejo where I still. Have to add that.
• 1:55:06
  To it furnish I have found with the metal speed.
• 1:55:09
  Paint you really. Don't need to add the varnish
• 1:55:11
  the same way. Oh sweet.
• 1:55:12
  Yeah, that's good. Because, you know, then you're
• 1:55:14
  not. Worried about the finish as
• 1:55:15
  such. Yeah, and does and I think I
• 1:55:19
  mentioned. Before the metal color.
• 1:55:20
  Doesn't have a good gold, so you can already say here the three.
• 1:55:25
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's it's I.
• 1:55:26
  Would highly recommend them. So this is my vampire.
• 1:55:28
  Dwarf. Speaking of metal speed paint,
• 1:55:30
  Yeah, well, we're sorry Rich isn't here, but.
• 1:55:33
  Otherwise he would love that, but he's hiding from Anthony so
• 1:55:37
  I. I thought this was I always.
• 1:55:40
  Want to make a vampire dwarf? When I figured out the helmet
• 1:55:46
  could be cut off someone showed the vampire helmet with I can't
• 1:55:50
  remember who and I want to give them credit.
• 1:55:52
  Whoever you are that showed you can pull the vamp.
• 1:55:55
  I don't know how I never thought about pulling the face out
• 1:55:57
  because like usually my first thing but never did.
• 1:56:01
  Someone showed that months ago on the cabal and I they deserve
• 1:56:05
  all the credit in the world and I wish I wrote their name down
• 1:56:07
  but they deserve credit so no problem I.
• 1:56:11
  Was like oh crap. Well.
• 1:56:13
  What else can I do with this? So I cut the chin strap off,
• 1:56:15
  figured out it fits perfectly with the head pack.
• 1:56:20
  Jordan bootleg Jordan head. Oh cool, and it covers up that.
• 1:56:25
  Unsightly hole. That's left by Jordan's helmet.
• 1:56:29
  So we did that. And then from there, I'm like,
• 1:56:30
  well, it's a vampire helmet. Let's take a bargain.
• 1:56:33
  Make a vampire dwarf. Superb.
• 1:56:36
  Yeah, very. Cool and cat cavern.
• 1:56:38
  Dwarf repainted? Yeah, using Mcfarland's
• 1:56:41
  McFarland. Batman's big old honkin
• 1:56:45
  barbarian. Batman's bat built.
• 1:56:47
  Brilliant. It's good, yeah.
• 1:56:50
  Yeah, I'm going to be enjoying looking at the stuff in your
• 1:56:52
  table. So we've got 2 more left.
• 1:56:54
  This is another awesome female sculpt head sculpt built on an
• 1:57:00
  Artemis it looks like to me. Artemis, I want to say I.
• 1:57:04
  Repented the arms. I did repaint the arms because
• 1:57:07
  they matched the face. So the arms are repainted.
• 1:57:10
  The face is Thrace, the hairs for Marvel legend she.
• 1:57:14
  Hulk, the new one. That just came out.
• 1:57:16
  Looks really good. Brilliant, it looks.
• 1:57:19
  Yeah, she is. So I've already had someone.
• 1:57:22
  Is already trying to work like a pre buy like he.
• 1:57:26
  I think this figure after my. My wife.
• 1:57:28
  So she's on the higher end, but he's like, I want So what?
• 1:57:33
  So this so for the for the people listening on some if you.
• 1:57:38
  Want to walk up to me with one of those?
• 1:57:41
  Red Knights from the Armory experience that's got the exact
• 1:57:45
  build I'm looking for which is the Templar build they showed in
• 1:57:48
  the box. Work out of store credit
• 1:57:51
  situation. Nice, There you go.
• 1:57:54
  You know what would it take that?
• 1:57:55
  Until I got enough of those. You know those could be used as
• 1:57:57
  currency. Just DM me before to find out.
• 1:58:03
  So that's a good idea. Another one I was.
• 1:58:07
  Again, feed pill figures are hard to paint, Speed paints make
• 1:58:10
  them easier. This is fully speed paint.
• 1:58:13
  I had bought the Thor Destroyer pack because I'm going to dye
• 1:58:16
  the destroyer red the whole armor, so I didn't put a Thor
• 1:58:20
  with it. Thought the helmet was cool.
• 1:58:22
  Thrace again repainting the hair.
• 1:58:26
  I thought it'd be a cool avatar for like a Thor type custom and
• 1:58:29
  just a cool way to repaint the phenol.
• 1:58:32
  Yeah, it's really nice. Really.
• 1:58:34
  Braces have so. Good.
• 1:58:35
  So useful, yeah. Just so it sure is.
• 1:58:39
  You got those magnifying? Glasses, Chris, roll that small
• 1:58:41
  details. No, Bob, yes, I have.
• 1:58:45
  Magnifying glasses. I paint most of stuff without
• 1:58:49
  them. Unless I have to do eyes.
• 1:58:51
  I do my dots without it. I mean like painting for me,
• 1:58:58
  Like the way I classify everything, right?
• 1:59:00
  I look at the community in tears.
• 1:59:04
  Right? That's new.
• 1:59:05
  People and then you got like your big giant middle class and
• 1:59:09
  I feel like I'm in the middle class.
• 1:59:10
  And then you got like your your Eric Miller.
• 1:59:14
  'S your Giovanni. 'S your meals that are just I, I
• 1:59:18
  like, you know, the Sistine Chapel where like it's the
• 1:59:20
  perfect mural. They they hit that almost every
• 1:59:24
  time, right. And some of the other guys hit
• 1:59:27
  it like I think I hit it once in a while where I'll hit something
• 1:59:29
  and I'll be like, damn, that was really good, but firmly in the
• 1:59:33
  middle class, right. I'm, I'm forgetting top tier
• 1:59:36
  painters. You know, they're a bear blaze.
• 1:59:38
  Oh yeah, it does loads. It does like loads.
• 1:59:41
  You know, we, we can't aim them all.
• 1:59:43
  What I think makes mythic lesions different than other
• 1:59:46
  customizing? Groups.
• 1:59:47
  We have a thriving middle class. Yeah, I mean, and it should.
• 1:59:52
  Yeah, and people. Shouldn't shouldn't feel bad
• 1:59:54
  about not being able to paint like Eric, for example or
• 1:59:57
  whatever. And that's a lot of practice,
• 2:00:00
  you know. Yeah, I mean you think about I
• 2:00:02
  got displayed my customs next to Joe.
• 2:00:04
  So yeah, that's, that's a tough station.
• 2:00:06
  Yeah, it's a tough Rd. It's a tough Rd.
• 2:00:08
  To hell that. The only hope you have is that
• 2:00:11
  Giovanni. Normally doesn't have that many
• 2:00:13
  because there's such high quality.
• 2:00:15
  He sells out enough hours. He sells out and there's not
• 2:00:18
  enough hours in the day to do that good at customs.
• 2:00:22
  They they they aren't done quickly.
• 2:00:25
  Well, Chris, this was an awesome chat.
• 2:00:28
  I can't wait to see you in legions con in a couple of weeks
• 2:00:31
  time. But seven weeks time, I suppose
• 2:00:33
  around the time of this recording 6 maybe by the time we
• 2:00:36
  released this Yeah. So it's it's amazing.
• 2:00:40
  Absolutely. Amazing.
• 2:00:41
  Thank you guys for having me. I really, really, really, really
• 2:00:43
  appreciate it. No, I really appreciate you
• 2:00:45
  taking the time is. Superb.
• 2:00:47
  Cheers, Chris. Yeah, stay safe.
• 2:00:51
  Out there.