Good news and bad news...
First the good: I have received a large box in the mail, which instinct tells me is from my Secret Santa here. Well, instinct and the fact that I've not ordered anything for a while...
The bad news is that I won't be able to open it until tomorrow, as tonight is my brothers birthday so I have to head out now-ish, after that I have to go to work (hooray for mondays that happen thursday night...ugh). At least I'll have a box of awesome to look forward too for the next 16ish hours.
So, 16ish hours later, and I'm home.
Sadly, no camera to take pictures so if you've got some pictures Santa they'd be mad appreciated.
Anyway, I got a kickass PoM Reckoner, and what looks like half a phone book for packing material.
Also a note, transcribed below in the hopes it makes up for my lack of photos.
See317,
Enjoy your Reckoner! I was looking around the Privateer Press website for stuff that looked cool, (this is my primary decision making tool when buying stuff for myself ~See) and this guy jumped out at me. Hopefully he at least semi-matches your scheme (I wanted to get away from the studio theme but still be sort of in line with Menoth stuff) and will get some good use. I mean, hey, he has a big fuckin' cannon for an arm, how can he not kickass, right?
-Matt (MadJazz)
Any misspellings are my fault. I'm not typing so well right now. <- I had to type that sentence three times to make it look right.
He did get a bit bunged up in transit, with the condmner cannon popping out of joint and the consecrator getting a bit bent. Nothing that isn't fixed easily.
Seriously though, if you took a picture MadJazz, please post it cause this guy is awesome.
Still waiting to hear from my Santee on if my gift got there or not. I should be picking up the second part of the gift later this week (after it finally comes in), and if they'd like to provide an alternate address for me (in case the first one doesn't work out), I could send it there.
EDIT: Tracking number says it was delivered yesterday to the provided address.
My office's mail guy just dropped it off! I'd post a picture, but my phone is not complying with my requests to email the picture to myself, so it'll have to wait until I get home. :?
Needless to say, the gift is awesome and I'm amazed to hear there's even more coming. Thanks JaysonFour!
Finally managed to con my phone into emailing me the picture:
Unfortunately I was so focused on getting dude finished and sent out, I totally neglected to snap any pics with my shitty iphone camera. Glad you like him though, and I hope he sees some use (even if only as a threatening display).
I'm going to be out of town next week, so unless my gift shows up Monday I won't be posting about it until Friday night. I haven't given up hope yet, Santa.
I got my gift, and hilariously enough, on my birfday and considering I have family in the area I honestly thought it was a long lost relative, but my eyes did behold the grandest box of marines evar.
Glad it got there despite the weather, fallaxdraco! I quite literally had an extra copy of Let The Galaxy Burn, so I included it. There are a couple of good stories in there if you've not read it. And some really terrible ones too!
As you may have seen in the paint thread, that's my very first painted miniature. I think it came out ok. Did the packing rub off any of the paint? I didn't seal it since I felt you might wish to strip it and do it much better, but I was worried what travel might do to it.
I'm terrible at painting so I don't think I COULD do better, and it looks fine.
Thanks very much for the book, as well. I've been sick for weeks and I am tearing through them, so I've already started it.
I got my gift, and hilariously enough, on my birfday and considering I have family in the area I honestly thought it was a long lost relative, but my eyes did behold the grandest box of marines evar.
What an awesome coincidence! Honestly I'm kinda glad I procrastinated because Santa sent me a new address pretty much just before the deadline. Hope that's a good start.
Maelstorm games sent me an email this morning letting me know they finally got the second part of your gift in stock. It should ship today or tomorrow.
[GHSC]Ryctor on
You'd be surprised the amount of damage a hauler can do in the right hands ~ Istvaan Shogaatsu
My santee should get their gift tomorrow, unless the Snowtorious B.I.G. has messed that up somehow.
Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! :P I'm off, too!
Nax on
The following people are amazing and I love them: Wildcat, Timspork, Kias, Denada, susan, Sharp101, [GHSC]Ryctor, Matev, Matrias, ItBurns, Slapnuts, Dayspring, see317, and the unknown poster that sent me a box of Death Company! If you get them as Santees you should buy them amazing things!
I guess it didn't come? I didn't get the tracking number from them, but they estimated a Thursday delivery. Then we had another blizzard, so I guess things could be later than expected.
Nothing yesterday or today What shipping service did you use?
If UPS, there is still a chance of it arriving today, as UPS often delivers to my house rather late in the evening
Nax on
The following people are amazing and I love them: Wildcat, Timspork, Kias, Denada, susan, Sharp101, [GHSC]Ryctor, Matev, Matrias, ItBurns, Slapnuts, Dayspring, see317, and the unknown poster that sent me a box of Death Company! If you get them as Santees you should buy them amazing things!
So I just got home from work to find a missed-delivery note in with my mail. Unfortunately the post office is already closed and I work early on Monday, so I won't be able to pick up the parcel until Monday afternoon.
Nothing yesterday or today What shipping service did you use?
If UPS, there is still a chance of it arriving today, as UPS often delivers to my house rather late in the evening
It was UPS. He'd said it would probably get there by Thursday. I remember why I hate UPS so much.
Apparently it might be coming FedEx. I shipped through UPS, but I shipped another package at the same time, which arrived at its destination late today via FedEx for some reason that I don't understand. I guess maybe the blizzard screwed things up somehow.
The following people are amazing and I love them: Wildcat, Timspork, Kias, Denada, susan, Sharp101, [GHSC]Ryctor, Matev, Matrias, ItBurns, Slapnuts, Dayspring, see317, and the unknown poster that sent me a box of Death Company! If you get them as Santees you should buy them amazing things!
The following people are amazing and I love them: Wildcat, Timspork, Kias, Denada, susan, Sharp101, [GHSC]Ryctor, Matev, Matrias, ItBurns, Slapnuts, Dayspring, see317, and the unknown poster that sent me a box of Death Company! If you get them as Santees you should buy them amazing things!
I'm trying desperately to find my camera cable, because this Piranha is gorgeous. I couldn't have had a better Santa for my Tau aesthetic - It Burns paints the cleanest damn tech I've ever seen. So, so sexy.
But wait, there's another layer of padding? Underneath... sprues! Fire warrior and kroot squads! Holy shit!
Seriously, Burns, this is fantastic and totally worth the wait. Thank you so much. You've gotten my army off to a great start.
I'll get these pics posted as soon as I can find that blasted cable.
Glad to see it survived the trip. I didn't glue the crew because I tought they'd get less damaged on the trip this way. Tought everyone likes Farsight Enclaves so i went with that since you didn't have a set paintscheme at the time.
I took some pictures before I packed it I'll get them in here after they upload.
See, I moved in the middle of January, so the package was actually delivered to my parents house. Since I knew I'd get it either way, I didn't trouble Santa with updating my address
Anyways, I don't have a camera at the moment, so I can't post pics, but this is what I got!
First a note, scrawled in handwriting that looks surprisingly like it was written by an old friend of mine (Kyle, is that you?! :P)
Sorry this comes to you so late. Hopefully it will excite. First, you have a Grey Knight Justicar with a nemesis axe, a weapon style he learned from a force of Space Wolves he served with. Next, you have two vortex grenade templates, one for you and one for your fiancee. Congratulations on that! Lastly, you have a Forge World imperial pilot. This guy came from Games Day '08 I think and is pretty rare. I figure he'll make a cool officer for your IG, or a badass objective marker. Hopefully you enjoy the haul.
Game on!
Darkewolfe
The Grey Knight is actually a Grey Knight Terminator, and not just a Justicar, so he's actually much cooler! And man, did you have to say it was from the Wolves? Now Altmann and Scurvy are going to give me shit about how the GKs needed help from the Wolves :P
I honestly don't know how much use I will get out of the vortex templates, cause I pretty much never play Apoc, BUT! I like to write crazy scenarios for regular games, so something tells me they are going to start to include gaping holes in the warp!
And the Elysian Thunderbolt Pilot is just awesome... I'm thinking he may end up as an Officer of the Fleet or something. I think that would be fitting
Thanks, Darkewolfe!
Nax on
The following people are amazing and I love them: Wildcat, Timspork, Kias, Denada, susan, Sharp101, [GHSC]Ryctor, Matev, Matrias, ItBurns, Slapnuts, Dayspring, see317, and the unknown poster that sent me a box of Death Company! If you get them as Santees you should buy them amazing things!
And with that, ladies and gentlemen, we have successfully completed CF Secret Moses 2009. I'd like to thank you all for participating, for sending each other great gifts, and for the first time for a few years for not having a single deadbeat Santa.
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So might you!
First the good: I have received a large box in the mail, which instinct tells me is from my Secret Santa here. Well, instinct and the fact that I've not ordered anything for a while...
The bad news is that I won't be able to open it until tomorrow, as tonight is my brothers birthday so I have to head out now-ish, after that I have to go to work (hooray for mondays that happen thursday night...ugh). At least I'll have a box of awesome to look forward too for the next 16ish hours.
Sadly, no camera to take pictures so if you've got some pictures Santa they'd be mad appreciated.
Anyway, I got a kickass PoM Reckoner, and what looks like half a phone book for packing material.
Also a note, transcribed below in the hopes it makes up for my lack of photos.
Enjoy your Reckoner! I was looking around the Privateer Press website for stuff that looked cool, (this is my primary decision making tool when buying stuff for myself ~See) and this guy jumped out at me. Hopefully he at least semi-matches your scheme (I wanted to get away from the studio theme but still be sort of in line with Menoth stuff) and will get some good use. I mean, hey, he has a big fuckin' cannon for an arm, how can he not kickass, right?
-Matt (MadJazz)
He did get a bit bunged up in transit, with the condmner cannon popping out of joint and the consecrator getting a bit bent. Nothing that isn't fixed easily.
Seriously though, if you took a picture MadJazz, please post it cause this guy is awesome.
Finally managed to con my phone into emailing me the picture:
I'm going to be out of town next week, so unless my gift shows up Monday I won't be posting about it until Friday night. I haven't given up hope yet, Santa.
A box of Dwarf Warriors, lead by a Dwarf Champion with a SWEET-ASS AXE!!!
Awesome, you can never get enough of these warriors
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I'm terrible at painting so I don't think I COULD do better, and it looks fine.
Thanks very much for the book, as well. I've been sick for weeks and I am tearing through them, so I've already started it.
What an awesome coincidence! Honestly I'm kinda glad I procrastinated because Santa sent me a new address pretty much just before the deadline. Hope that's a good start.
I can has cheezburger, yes?
Maelstorm games sent me an email this morning letting me know they finally got the second part of your gift in stock. It should ship today or tomorrow.
Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! :P I'm off, too!
If UPS, there is still a chance of it arriving today, as UPS often delivers to my house rather late in the evening
It was UPS. He'd said it would probably get there by Thursday. I remember why I hate UPS so much.
Can't wait!
Apparently it might be coming FedEx. I shipped through UPS, but I shipped another package at the same time, which arrived at its destination late today via FedEx for some reason that I don't understand. I guess maybe the blizzard screwed things up somehow.
All these caps make me fearful of disappointment.
Oh. My. God.
I'm trying desperately to find my camera cable, because this Piranha is gorgeous. I couldn't have had a better Santa for my Tau aesthetic - It Burns paints the cleanest damn tech I've ever seen. So, so sexy.
But wait, there's another layer of padding? Underneath... sprues! Fire warrior and kroot squads! Holy shit!
Seriously, Burns, this is fantastic and totally worth the wait. Thank you so much. You've gotten my army off to a great start.
I'll get these pics posted as soon as I can find that blasted cable.
[Edit] - Hi5, Nax! Woo, Fat Tuesday Xmas!
I took some pictures before I packed it I'll get them in here after they upload.
Part of me wants to mod this guy into throwing up the horns:
"Woooooo!"
See, I moved in the middle of January, so the package was actually delivered to my parents house. Since I knew I'd get it either way, I didn't trouble Santa with updating my address
Anyways, I don't have a camera at the moment, so I can't post pics, but this is what I got!
First a note, scrawled in handwriting that looks surprisingly like it was written by an old friend of mine (Kyle, is that you?! :P)
The Grey Knight is actually a Grey Knight Terminator, and not just a Justicar, so he's actually much cooler!
I honestly don't know how much use I will get out of the vortex templates, cause I pretty much never play Apoc, BUT! I like to write crazy scenarios for regular games, so something tells me they are going to start to include gaping holes in the warp!
And the Elysian Thunderbolt Pilot is just awesome... I'm thinking he may end up as an Officer of the Fleet or something. I think that would be fitting
Thanks, Darkewolfe!
See you in May / June for CF Secret Summer Santa!