Blog Changes

It seems Goggle are making changes to blogger, now as anyone who comes to this blog often will know computers are not my thing & what it all means I've not really sure but it looks like the changes will be effecting Goggle +, anyway below is what the whole thing is about & if anyone could let me know in the comments if there's anything I need to do to my blog I would be grateful.
As always my thanks for dropping in & I hope that after the changes you will still be able to do so.

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Secret of Corpse Diamond Temple Reel 3

Reel 1 & 2 can be found at the links below
https://nickelandimeproductions.blogspot.com/2018/10/secret-of-corpse-diamond-temple-reel-1.html
https://nickelandimeproductions.blogspot.com/2018/12/secret-of-corpse-diamond-temple-reel-2.html
                                               A Nickel & Dime Production
                                              Staring Chip Spud & Tasha Stripov
By various means Chip has learned that a ship has been hired by Archibald Meade to transport equipment & supplies to the island of Devil's Gate, Devil's Gate got it's name after the famous archaeologist  Heinrich Schliemann discovered on it the remains of an ancient temple littered with the bones of humans.Located 150 miles off the coast of Brazil the island is privately own.

                                                                                       

Statures & carvings seem to indicate that the inhibitions were some kind of ab-humans & show them offering normal humans as sacrifice to some large monument they'd built that seemed to suck the life out of them, it from these images that it got the name of Corpse Diamond Temple.

Sure that the Sonic Resonators  are to be loaded onto the ship, Chip plans to try to intercept them on the docks, with the ship not due to dock until the next morning Chip & Tasha have decided to try a little moonlighting.

Up a head they notice a man at the far end of the warehouse & slip around the back of it.

Chip" I not sure what that guy is up to but I don't like the look of him it might be best to give him a wide berth.

Chip & Tasha don't know it yet but there are in fact two guys hanging around.
Chip" You search in there & I'll head over to look at the big pile of crates.

The two goons are watchmen keeping a eye out of anything untoward.

Tasha has no luck in her search but hearing the guard nearing ducks in between the two shelving units, while Chip gets behind some crates & looks around the area but can see no one.

As Chip makes his way over to the big pile of crates Tasha tries sneaking out of the warehouse

But the watchman hears something & turns round, spotting her in the beam of his torch he startled to see a lovely young woman here at this hour of night.
Watchman"Here what are you up to ?"
Quick witted & hoping Chip would hear her, Tasha"I was looking for a light for my cigarette, you wouldn't happen to have a match would you ?

This throws the watchman off & while he's he's searching his pockets for a match Tasha takes off, but he's soon after her blowing his whistle.

This gets the other watchman's attention & brings 3 other man out of the hut, spotting Chip the watchman comes racing towards him & as he nears him swings his club.

Chip dodges  the club & with a quick punch to the gut followed by an uppercut Chip put the guy down, but then feels a blow on the back of the head.

While the other watchman tries to deal with Tasha, the odds are stacking up against Chip

Having grown up in the slums of Hell's Kitchen Chip knows how to look after himself & sends another thug sprawling.

He then turns to face the other attacker who has just landed a blow to Chip's kidneys.
Chip" Lets see if you can land a punch on me now that were face to face"

Before he's time to throw a dig at the guy Chip feels a blade slice him a cross the arm.

Tasha try's scratching the goons eye's but he gives her a prod in the stomach with his shovel taking the wind out of her sails.
Watchman" Look  Miss I don't want to hurt you so if you'll just come a long"
Tasha laughing despite the pain" As if you could, I've dropped bigger then you buster"As she lands a blow in his mid-section

Chip turns to the knife man & gives him a quick one two.

Watchman" I'm finished been nice" & this time hits her a full force blow.

Tasha's eye's water but her's a tuft girl & despite the pain gives him her best smile.
Tasha"That all you got?"

Chip sends a crunching blow into the side of his assailant, but his guy knows how to brawl & launches a kick back which just misses the required spot.

Tasha's badgering has worked as she'd hope & now mad with anger the guy makes a wild swing at her, but she ducks under it & as the momentum of his swing not landing put the guy off balance she smacks him in the side of the head with her pistol putting him out cold.

As the two guys slug it out the thug with the knife spots Tasha & things she looks like easier prey.

The brawl is starting to take it toll on the two lads with the blows starting to lose their venom, but to trying bodies there still having an impact.

Tasha notices the guy racing for her & lets off a couple of shots but her aim is off,

& he covers the ground between them quickly.
Raising the knife an evil grin spreads across his face as he throws it at her, catching her in the side.
Gripping her teeth Tasha" This suit costed me buster & you've just ruined it, so come on lets see what you've got"

Another blow to Chip torso has him just out, I better end this soon he thinks or I'll be done for.

Man"Let see if you're as good as you seem to think you are sweetheart"
Tasha" I don't have to be near my best to deal with the likes of you"

& as he grabs hold of her she's bring her knee up hard into his rocks dropping him on the spot.
Looking down on him she says "Told ya"

With the guy down Tasha takes a look around & not seen anyone else goes about searching  for Sonic Resonators, but does't find them among the crates stack here.

Chip finally drops the last of the thugs & looking round spots Tasha in the light heading on to the pier, now to find these things & get the hell out of here, he thinks to himself.

With so much stuff to look through it's taking time & the first light of day is creeping into the sky.

Then Chip finds what their looking for, Chip" Tasha I've got them come & give me a hand & we'll get out of here.

As they start off with their prize a car comes tearing on to the docks & stops a few years from them.

In a flash four men jump out with a shotgun & a pistol are pointed at them, Chip & Tasha known  the game is up drop the crate.

"Going somewhere ? " asks the man with the pistol ?I think not, now the two of you start heading over for that shed & if you smart you'll won't try anything"

"There you are you idiots, you let one guy & a dame get the better of you, well lucky I arrived when I did, now the ship will be here shortly so get busy"

Turning he went into the shed with Chip, Tasha & two of his men.

Designers Note, I used 45 Adventure rule for the first time in playing out this part of the story & while I did somethings wrong & am still not sure how certain abilities are meant to stack, I found the rules worked very well for what I wanted to do with the only change I made been to how the watchmen/guards worked.

To be continued
As always my thanks for dropping in & if you'd care to be a movie critic you comment would be welcomed :)

Movie Tone News Jay 2019

Hello & welcome to this months news, with Christmas & the New Year fading into the past things are busy at N&D studio's with lots going on & all departments working hard to try to make this year at lest as good as the last but hopefully better.

So what's going on ? oddly enough this year has started like the last one in that another boat has been made by the props team, this one has been in waiting even longer then the one that was done last year.

It's a cargo-ship from TT Combat & I have to say this went together like a dream plus its easily comes apart making assess to the rooms no problem something that couldn't be said for the paddle steamer that was done last year.

I've since taking the pictures gotten some paint on it & was hopping to use it in a up coming release but have decide not to wait, more on the reason why will be explained below

Its a big kit so there's plenty of room for gaming on it, the only draw back for me is the scale is more 32mm or 35mm bu I'm sure the cameraman can over come this :)

The sets team have also been busy & build a nice little park square, these think where quite common in the Victorian days.

sorry about the poor pictures but you get the idea 

It has only one entrance so other then using he gate to enter will require a stunts test also shooters could use it for firing across known that a brawler would have a harder time getting to him/her.

I still want to add a few more details may be a couple of benches & a postbox  

Lots of new stars have also been hired so costume & makeup are flat out as well.

These are but a few of the new stars you'll be seen through out the year, these & some others that are now finished have been put on clear bases

All of this brings me to the main point of this month's news & that is what good is all of this stuff if no movie's are been released ? N&D is no different then other studio's in building up their collection but not getting thing on the screen.

A game within  a blog, what does that mean ? good question, now I made no bones about the fact that the most enjoyable part of this hobby for me is making movie's (playing games & AAR's), looking back over the last year in last month's news I noticed out put of movie's dropped off near the end of the year & that's somethings I want to fix & here's the plan.

Budget, well to say that the budget has been well & truly blown on new stars & props would be an understatement but I'm not going in to all that, so time for them to start earning their living, the plan is to link the budget to movie's.
So when I release a movie I'll check after a month to see how many people have seen it & that will be added to my hobby budget, also for a movie to qualify it must have something new in it, be it a star a set of a prop.

The think behind all of this is simple, 1 if I want to buy something I'll have to make movie's, 2  because there needs to be something new in it it should encourage me to get stuff done & 3 like everybody else in this business I buy stuff & like the ship above it can be left lying around for a long time, so only having a limit on when I can spend & how much should help in getting old stuff done & help cut down on buying on impulse.
Needless to say things like glue, paint &  brush's won't come out of the budget, but everything else will. 

In other news my mate Darra was home for Christmas & is the case when he over we got a game in, this time it was Congo, I had taking a few pictures & had intended to show them here but have misplaced the phone I use for picture's, but luckily Darra  had also taking some & has put up an AAR on his blog, so if you like a look there's a link below.
https://dakeryus-blogofwar.blogspot.com/2019/01/conflict-in-congo-with-studio-tomahawks.html?showComment=1547729140842#c472932281204732621

Well that's it for this month's news, so its a goodnight from me & a goodnight from him, as always my thanks for dropping in & if you'd care to comment it would be welcomed :)


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Movie Tone News December 2018

                                                                                     

This months news is old news you could say as we look back at what the studio done over the last year.

January & February the studio was still operation as If it wasn't for Ones, but January seen the building of the Paddle Steamer, a model I'd had for a long time.
                                      
January also seen the Perilous Island campaign reach the said Perilous Island & was infect the  one & only campaign I ever got to complete.
                                       
The shot above I used as the logo for P.I & is one of my favorite shots, January seen 2 P.I releases.
                                       

                                       
While February seen a remake of the classic movie Murder by Death called Murder by Death the Remake.
                                                             
This movie seen Chip Spud & Tasha Stripvo in their first movie rolls & was also the first comedy I ever tried, if it worked or not only you can say.
                                         
March seen the move to Nickel & Dime studio's & the first Movie Tone News as well as three episodes of P.I
                                                                              
With two of them shot as one.
                                         
                                     
                                          
 March also seen the intro for Outer World Investigations.
                                          
April Had the first two parts of the first O.W.I but the story was left unfinished'
                                         
but hopefully we'll return to it in the Newyear, there was also a Dress rehearsal for Riper Wars but this project was binned.
April closed with the return of Chip & Tasha in the lead rolls.
                                         
May Started with the horror The Dream Stone which I think is the best script I've written.
                                         
It was a short story but the stuff of nightmares, still in May we returned to THSOA & a nice little boat trip.
                                        
As Connie, Taylor & company made their way to Livingston
                                        
June seen the conclusion of P.I as we watched in horror as the Island blew itself apart
                                        
before slipping into the sea,
                                        
with some of our hero's still on it.
There was a dress rehearsal for Congo, now Congo I really like but I need to figure away to do it solo, so this project is on hold.
                                        
June closed with chapter 7 of THSOA as now safely in Livingstone the parties went their different ways.
                                        
July, seen Connie, Taylor & Marco head off into the wilds.
                                       
August, had the crew assembled for 5 Parsecs & a film shot for it but a mishap seen the movie deleted,
                                          
this project will be returned to.
THSOA, brought about a terrible event with the death of Marco Boswell.
                                      
September, & with Marco dead & the party lost it was left to Col Fairweather to lead them out of the mountains,
                                      
but any joy was short lived & after a Prelude & 10 Chapters the tale came to a close with Taylor lying on the ground wounded & Connie been lead away as a captive.
                                     
Also in September I'd my first look at a THW gaming with dress rehearsal for High Moon Dead Reckoning,
                                      
this will be seen action in the Newyear when the casts & sets have be completed.
October, Astounding Tales came to the four-front after many years of trying to work out how to get it to work, with the Phantom Jungle  movie.
                                       
Phantom Jungle seen the biggest star of the studio's take to the screen.
                                       
This movie was hands down the most enjoyable one to make that I've done to-date, from shooting it to doing the script it was a hell of a bit of slap-stick :)
October was to end with two releases, Reel one of Secret of the Corpse Diamond Temple staring Chip & Tasha.
                                                                  & for Halloween The Slave Children of the Obelisk.
                                       
November sadly seen no releases.
December & Reel 2 of Secret of the Corpse Diamond Temple.
                                 

                

                                                                                                                                                                Of coarse the year wasn't just about making movie's as stuff was been done for up coming events, some of which have already hit the screen,The studio's jungle terrain got a face lift.
                                       
While something snaked its way into the studio
                                                        
Remember this clue to what my new project was going to be ?
                                      
All ways reveled as new stars started to arrive.
                                     
                                     
Also done was the first of what the studio's hope to be many.
                                     
Our first set in a box.
                                     
Things like this are imo great & can be switched out to be different places.
                                     
Plus on going work.
                                     
                                     
Over all a very good year, with lots in the pipe-line for the next one :)
That's it from the news team for this year, so it's a Happy Newyear from me & a Happy Newyear from him :) As always my thanks for dropping in & if you'd care to leave a comment it would be welcomed :)