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2014/11/19 02:12:55
Subject: Eyeamrai's Blog of Many Things
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Near Golden Daemon Caliber
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I don't know your home life, i've got a toddler and have found having a mobile painting station really helps me get little bits of work in. I still have longish droughts of inactivity, but I still get more done than I used to.
I like to take photos outside in daylight, usually my best results.
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2014/11/19 17:59:09
Subject: Re:Eyeamrai's Blog of Many Things
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Speed Drybrushing
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Thanks for the advice Grimdork!
I have a mobile painting station that I can put to use and I will definitely try taking some pics outside and see how that works out.
I really appreciate your continued responses to my plog. I hope to get on a roll and have more things to share.
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2014/11/22 21:05:19
Subject: Re:Eyeamrai's Blog of Many Things Sidelined for the moment
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Speed Drybrushing
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So the backache I had a few weeks ago has turned out to actually be a FANTASTIC kidney infection.
I'm not feeling up to much hobby stuff right now. Hopefully these antibiotics will knock this out pretty quickly so I can do more with my life that spend all day running to the bathroom.
Anyway, that's my current status. I'm still watching what everyone else is doing and hope to be back at it soon.
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2014/11/22 22:11:11
Subject: Eyeamrai's Blog of Many Things
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Near Golden Daemon Caliber
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Gah lame! I hope you get to feeling better soon!
I'm like a bad chest cold, I root deeply into your blog and it takes concerted effort to shake me out Just let me know if I respond too much, I get the feeling me bouncing around to everyones blogs can get a bit annoying at times
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2014/11/22 22:38:46
Subject: Eyeamrai's Blog of Many Things
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Speed Drybrushing
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I'm very happy to have you here! Respond more if you want! It's absolutely fine and encouraged even. I'll do my best to give you more to respond about.
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2014/11/22 22:58:02
Subject: Eyeamrai's Blog of Many Things
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Near Golden Daemon Caliber
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Well there aren't too many nerds hereabouts so I tend to crash in on people's blogs alot
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2014/11/23 00:20:36
Subject: Eyeamrai's Blog of Many Things
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Speed Drybrushing
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While I am sorry that you don't have many gamers around where you are, I'm happy for the company here on the blog.
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2014/11/23 01:04:42
Subject: Eyeamrai's Blog of Many Things
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Near Golden Daemon Caliber
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There can be both!
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2014/11/23 02:18:06
Subject: Eyeamrai's Blog of Many Things
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Speed Drybrushing
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Yes! I hope you find more people for gaming.
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2014/11/25 23:52:04
Subject: Re:Eyeamrai's Blog of Many Things
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Speed Drybrushing
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Got some paint on Skarsnik and Gobbla.
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2014/11/25 23:53:30
Subject: Eyeamrai's Blog of Many Things
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Near Golden Daemon Caliber
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Hah sweet, that is an impressive hat.
Squig also looks quite demented, good work
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2014/11/26 00:05:47
Subject: Eyeamrai's Blog of Many Things
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Speed Drybrushing
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Thanks. They've been pretty fun to paint so far.
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2014/11/26 20:17:56
Subject: Re:Eyeamrai's Blog of Many Things
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Fixture of Dakka
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Well, I for one am happy to see you take up the holy exacto and start chopping up your little plastic dudes Gobbo's are a good place to start as you can get away with a little bit of a ragged look to the work, and as you pointed out, you have loads of the little buggers so messing up a few isn't a major heart-ache.
GS skills will come, just keep playing with the stuff I'd recommend getting a couple of sculpting tools and a couple of clay shapers if you haven't already.
Hope the antibiotics are kicking in.
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2014/11/28 06:26:45
Subject: Re:Eyeamrai's Blog of Many Things
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Speed Drybrushing
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Thanks for stopping in Monkeytroll!
I haven't tried chopping up any additional gobbos yet. I got some paint on the one that I made. His torso is quite... awkward...
I have some of the really old night goblins that are a little bit bigger and the feet, torso, head, and arms are all separate. I think I'll start with one of those as the base for my next experiment.
I think the antibiotics are working? I'm not in nearly as much pain as I was. But I'm just about through my run of the antibiotics and I'm definitely not cured. I'm pretty sure my wife is going to make me go back to the doctor's office next week.
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2014/11/28 20:43:43
Subject: Re:Eyeamrai's Blog of Many Things Update to the Original Post
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I just did a little update to my original post with a list of my current and future projects.
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2014/11/28 21:07:13
Subject: Eyeamrai's Blog of Many Things
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Near Golden Daemon Caliber
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Dag, sounds like you're gonna be busy
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2014/11/28 23:52:13
Subject: Re:Eyeamrai's Blog of Many Things
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Regular Dakkanaut
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The fluo green spider is one of my favorites
Also great work on Skarsnik and Gobla
Keep up the good work!
Grtz
Mark
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2014/11/29 05:32:20
Subject: Re:Eyeamrai's Blog of Many Things
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Speed Drybrushing
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@Grimdork - Yep, that project list is going to keep me busy for sure. Each of those list items is a pretty big undertaking. I'm sure I'm going to come up with several more projects as well.
@ayoku - Thanks for stopping in! I love that green. It's a color I mixed up myself. Of course I didn't write down what went in the blend...
I probably won't get any modeling time in this weekend. I work all day at the FLGS and it's my wife's birthday. She wants to go bowling and boozing tomorrow night so that's what we are going to do! Well, she and some of our friends are anyway. I will mostly be drinking water and watching. Stupid kidney infection.
Then on Sunday, I have a couple of assignments for school to turn in. It wouldn't be too bad except I procrastinated all week. Oops!
I'm sure I will be around here though. Can't. Stay. Away...
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2014/12/05 01:10:46
Subject: Re:Eyeamrai's Blog of Many Things
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I'm still running super behind on schoolwork. Ugh.
I'm in the last 16 days of the semester and they are doing their best to kick my butt.
Of course, if I stopped procrastinating, my butt would be taking much less of a beating.
All that to say, there's a 2000pt WHFB tournament on Sunday!
I really want to play but there is absolutely no way I can do it if my school work isn't done.
Now I just have to convince myself to work instead of thinking about army lists...
My best bet will be to come up with my list Sunday morning and spend the time between now and then doing school work, right? Right??
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2014/12/05 01:12:13
Subject: Eyeamrai's Blog of Many Things
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Near Golden Daemon Caliber
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Yeah it gets harder and harder to not procrastinate as deadlines loom.
Probably best to do work. I have been known to cram, it works... but you don't retain the info nearly as well after the test.
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2014/12/05 01:17:55
Subject: Eyeamrai's Blog of Many Things
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Speed Drybrushing
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Fortunately I'm not too worried about retaining this stuff.
It's just an English and a Communications class that are requirements for graduation.
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2014/12/05 05:20:09
Subject: Eyeamrai's Blog of Many Things
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Near Golden Daemon Caliber
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Ahh yeah I've never used that stuff (course I don't work in an office with memos and stuff either), cram away and don't look back!
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2014/12/05 16:58:03
Subject: Re:Eyeamrai's Blog of Many Things
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Hissy likes your stuff Eyeamrai.
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goobs is all you guys will ever be
By 1-irt: Still as long as Hissy keeps showing up this is one of the most entertaining threads ever.
"Feelin' goods, good enough". |
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2014/12/05 19:45:18
Subject: Re:Eyeamrai's Blog of Many Things
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Taking a break from the cramming.
So far I've managed to keep myself from starting to build army lists. It's been hard work!
I need to keep working though. I promised that I would take a friend's son to play in the Magic tournament tonight so I'm going to lose a few hours.
@Ratius and Hissy - Thanks for stopping in and commenting.
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2014/12/09 23:36:17
Subject: Re:Eyeamrai's Blog of Many Things
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After all the rushing around last week we did not have enough people show up for the WHFB tournament.
While I am disappointed, I'm glad to have more time to work on the army.
There isn't a painting requirement but you do have to meet the minimum 3 colors plus basing if you want to be considered for the Best Painted Army prize.
My army isn't anywhere near where I want it to be but I always want to be in contention for the prize if at all possible.
My friends have convinced me that I should make a 5 Knight army to play in the monthly 40k tournaments.
Playing with just 5 models sounds amazing! I'm feeling a little oppressed by my billions of goblins right now.
I'll probably buy my first Knight some time later this month.
I did a little painting today. I worked on the bases for Skarsnik and Gobbla and the Goblin Warboss on gigantic spider. No pics of them. They're pretty boring.
I also worked on a few of my characters and command models.
That's all for now!
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2014/12/09 23:37:47
Subject: Eyeamrai's Blog of Many Things 9 Dec 14 Update with Pics!
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Near Golden Daemon Caliber
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Goblins are looking good.
FIVE KNIGHTS? That seems ridiculous. Of course 40k is kind of ridiculous anyway so go for it if it sounds fun
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2014/12/09 23:52:47
Subject: Re:Eyeamrai's Blog of Many Things 9 Dec 14 Update with Pics!
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Speed Drybrushing
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Five Knights is TOTALLY ridiculous!! I am happy to accept the challenge!!
Of course if I hate building and painting them I would not feel bad about moving on to a different challenge...
For now I'll keep working on the orcs and goblins. Once I get the 2000pts for the campaign and the build I want to use for the store tournaments all painted up, I'll probably just keep painting them unit by unit while I'm working on other stuff.
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2014/12/16 17:29:51
Subject: Re:Eyeamrai's Blog of Many Things 9 Dec 14 Update with Pics!
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I'm getting ready to go battle the Vampire Counts.
I know she has drastically increased the amount of magic in her army since the last time we played.
I'll try to get some decent pics of the battle.
Wish me luck!
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2014/12/16 17:52:26
Subject: Eyeamrai's Blog of Many Things 9 Dec 14 Update with Pics!
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Near Golden Daemon Caliber
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Luck!
I fear for your goblin lack of leadership against the fear causing undead... make sure you grind them into dust out of sheer spite
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2014/12/17 02:01:16
Subject: Re:Eyeamrai's Blog of Many Things 9 Dec 14 Update with Pics!
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That was some battle!
We had some snow situations to deal with as part of the campaign. Blinding snow limiting movement and all that.
The goblins did fail their fear tests and fight at WS 1 for more battles than I would have liked.
The fanatics were really devastating in this game. Devastating to me!
They did manage to kill her general who was an awful beast of a thing.
They also killed MY general.
I rolled animosity only once during that game but once was enough!
I ended up having to charge the nearest enemy unit with a unit of Night Goblin archers. I had to release the fanatics hidden in that unit. There were three of them and they went 3, 4, and 7 inches. My charging unit had to run through all three of them which killed half the unit.
It was a mess!!
My MVP of the game was the Goblin Big Boss on Gigantic Spider. Zixit and Grelynx kept her unit of Black Knights from running down my flank. They finally charged into the knights and, although it took two rounds of combat, killed them.
She won but it wasn't a massacre. My general took a permanent wound to his left arm. Good thing he just passed down his great weapon to pick up Skarsnik's prodda this round. My main shaman now has Hatred for all Vampire Counts. I wish those wounds had happened the other way around! The Vampire general got a head wound and will now have to roll for either Stupidity or Frenzy before each game.
I took a few pics. None of them are that great but I'll put them up here none the less!
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