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Properly mixed, light blue was more oilers/chargers. Dark was good for the bills. May try to find gloss navy for the Packers.
you can see the powder blue on one sock in the background on a guard figure.
i also painted the sox above the knee for the wide receivers, as is the current trend.
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Thinking about using the dark gloss blue instead.
lighter gloss blue for the Bills.
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Insignia blue is flat, apparently.
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Front arm is light blue. Throwing arm is dark blue. Which for the bills? His back is the insignia blue, for the Packers.
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Got the white on the socks and the yellow down on the packers’ pants, helmets, and shoulder yokes.
going to do the navy first, then the second coat of yellow.
got the pants and socks painted white for the bills, plus the skin as well.
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The Testors also flows so much smoother off the brush. It was pretty easy to go along just the shoe where it meets the platform.
Question: what do you paint the molded support that’s under the shoe but up off the platform? Green, because it’s not shoe? Or shoe color, since you’d see the shoe “through” that? Not sure this is making sense. I kinda split the difference.
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New shoes—black, of course.
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Some little progress. Primed the figures, and painted the platforms.
Testors is soooo much better than craft paint. I picked gloss just because Tudor figures normally came in gloss paint. Covered in one coat. I’m sure I’ll need to do a touch up here and there, but you can see how well it covered.
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When using two motors, is there any concern about phase cancellation? Or do all motors naturally turn at different speeds given the same voltage, so it's not an issue?
Maybe I am overthinking this, but if the weights were turning at the same speed (one controller, so same voltage to both) but on opposite sides of the shaft (180* in relation to each other), the vibrations would cancel where they meet.
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Testors mostly sold out at the Michael’s near me. Looks like I gotta hit up Hobby Lobby. Which is closed sundays.
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I like testors. Last team I painted was with the Apple Barrel type craft paints from Wally World, and it took like three coats for each color to get just decent coverage.
I’m liking the Bills. Think I’ll do them with the red team that came with the ultimate board.
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I’ve only Been to Lambeau twice—first time the summer after the XXXII loss to Denver, when the HoF was still by the practice field. Got to watch practice that day as well
Went back three summers ago to see the new atrium and HoF. They did a nice job with the whole thing.
Seen them play twice—once in Buffalo with Favre (early 2000s), and last Thanksgiving against the Giants. Need to see them in Green Bay, though.
Back to the painting of the new team, I am leaning toward the old navy/gold uniforms—I found a bottle of Model Masters insignia blue. Love painting the guys, but hate the platform. Going to try to spray that, I think.
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AFAIK all ultimate boards are 2x4. Just different field cover options.
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My league played many games on old boards with the click inline switch (early 60s 600 field and a late 70s 660). Then I got the ultimate field, and everyone loved the push button control.
So I made one for the old fields as well. Took an extensions cord, momentary switch, and a box.
Lined the box so it’s insulated
clipped the hot wire of the extension cord about a foot away from the female end
Doubled over the cord at the cut and inserted it into the box
wired the momentary switch into the cut in the hot line.
installed switch in hole in box, and good to go.
plug into the wall, plug game in & leave original switch to on.
works great, and it allows you to pass the box back and forth between coaches.
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Welp, I tried out my punt rules a few times, and it actually seemed to work out pretty well.
The drop is pretty crucial. I think the punting coach’s elbow needs to be on the frame, hand up a forearm’s length, to keep it high and add some bounce to the landing. Only can aim from center of the field to the side with the elbow ( need to move to other side of the board if kicking to that side).
This formation lacks a punt block option, but that’s ok.
some punts bounce pretty far from the intended spot, which adds some realism. Had a few bounce into the end zone for a touchback. And if the ball hits a receiving team player, we have a muff that anyone can recover (happened twice!).
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Pics for clicks
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Rick—I am about to paint a fab-5 team (came with my ultimate field). I only use these figures in my league, since I don’t want a perceived advantage if I’m using mean-13 or buzzball guys and the other coaches all have fab-5.
Which Packers uni should I paint? Thinking the Curly Lambeau one (navy with gold shoulders, pants, and helmet). Not the 1994 throwbacks but just like the originals.
There are other interesting options, like the 60s away uniform, or even the white throwbacks they wore against the bears on Halloween in 1994 (remember Reuttgers with the jack o lantern on the back of his helmet??).
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I was born in ‘68, and my older brother and his friends were packers fans (though we lived in Jersey), so I went along.
I will say my first real NFL memory is the ‘72 Dolphins, which almost made me switch.
Being out of market and not a very good team, it was not very often I got to see them on TV. Then I moved to Indiana in ‘92, and the Colts were always blacked out so I saw a lot of NFC Central games. I was worried when the Majik Man went down, but his backup proved to be a pretty decent QB.....-
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So more like Run & Gun.
To address loopers I will set the dials of the tackles backward so they fade back in pass protection.
A traditional tight end I use primarily as a run blocker, but they can and do get open occasionally. We use passing sticks, so they need to get into space. I find their presence (especially if two men are lined up as TEs) usually makes the defense put more men in the box.
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Ok, first we have throwback Patriots. Couldn’t paint helmet logo well enough.
Then there’s the Bears. Boo.
Packers in the new poses.
Giants—first team I painted. Figures are from an 80s game with the darker green bases, and they are more slanted over than the usual.
Vikings. Grown men wearing purple. Nuff said.
Buzzball Packers in ‘94 throwbacks.
Players from an old set painted as throwback packers.-
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Sorry, I do not. And I never ordered any balls from him, either.
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I like to use two tight ends in certain passing situations. We play that if a man isn’t on the line, he has to be 5 yards off. That extra distance makes it harder to cover them (defense also lines up 1 yard off the LOS). Depending on the look of the defense, I’ll have options.
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13 hours ago, nefgm.org said:
Yeah, I think, the type of football used does make a difference, but then again, every one has there own preferences. I primarily use the 3rd and Long balls in league play but some use the foam rubber balls and some use the white felt. The ball that I prefer above all others is the EFDW - Electric Football Discount Warehouse - (aka "the pill"). This is a ball produced by an independent supplier of electric football products from way back at least 15 -20 years ago. It was banned from league and tournament competitions a long time ago mostly because it was heavier and significantly bigger than the balls that were primarily being used at the time, the foam rubber balls made by Miggle / Tudor. The big concern with that ball was that it could be thrown at such a high rate of speed and with such force that it would dent the metal game boards and knock the players over. This was all at a time just before weighting players, customizing figures and using custom built game boards became so prevalent as it is today. Very limited supply of these balls around anymore. I still have 15 of the original 20 I bought when they first came out, but I don't know of anyone else that might still have them or use them.
I have ordered from Efdw back in the day. They were in NH, close to me. Sad to see they have closed years ago.
looks like the ice cream sandwich balls aren’t available anymore.
I lost my last foam ball a long time ago. Always used a little spit so they would release off the TTQB’s hand. Not covid apporived lol.
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I did spend some time reading about the toepro PAKs. I will try to make some.
do you need the 3rd and Long footballs to get that type of performance? Currently out of stock. I do have the white felt as well as a couple ice-cream sandwich balls.-
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Onsides Kick?
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How do you guys do an onsides kick attempt?
I’m looking for a way that uses the board and players rather than dice/cards.
I’ve been thinking lining up the two teams 20 yards apart (kicking team at their 35, receiving at their 45). Drop the ball along the 45, move it straight up/down the field to the 45 (assuming it won’t land exactly on the 45). Teams angle players, then run the board.
The receiving team needs some sort of advantage—I’d like the results to be successful only 1 in about 4 or 5 tries, to emulate the (older) NFL results. Move receiving team a little closer? Fewer kicking team players on the 35? Other thoughts?