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replacement gecko arm is on the way , now only to wait 2 weeks for the mail

And this was for the cheap gekko box? Seems worth it. It's not as if you don't have a bit of a backlog like the rest of us right?

What now theo every time I check out this thread you have bought something else, I think you need an intervention

How comes so many of your blisters are either missing parts or have the wrong bits in them

 Theophony wrote:

Okay it was only $20, and I got 270 figures out of it plus 6 painted ones. No pics due to time and these need assembling. But I got 2 of the starter sets and 2 of the Han cavalry expansion boxes.

$20 for 200 minis wut :O. No wonder you have no time lol. That's a lot to get through

Theo, Theo, Theo, be careful, you will turn around in a minute and scare yourself again.

Would love to see all this lot mind you.

I have hundreds of models to paint, and keep making new stuff, and want more stuff and need Infinity and Deadzone and..........

Spend less time in MM and more time making stuff please.

GrimDork wrote:And this was for the cheap gekko box? Seems worth it. It's not as if you don't have a bit of a backlog like the rest of us right?

Yep, replacement for the cheap box , well worth the wait to me.

lone dirty dog wrote:What now theo every time I check out this thread you have bought something else, I think you need an intervention

How comes so many of your blisters are either missing parts or have the wrong bits in them

I do need an intervention . MM get the returned minis they sold, and mark them down really low and put them out on the shelf. They don't have time or patience to go through all of it and order parts from the vendors. So I get a discount, wait a bit, and have a cool set for cheap

ckig wrote:

 Theophony wrote:

Okay it was only $20, and I got 270 figures out of it plus 6 painted ones. No pics due to time and these need assembling. But I got 2 of the starter sets and 2 of the Han cavalry expansion boxes.

$20 for 200 minis wut :O. No wonder you have no time lol. That's a lot to get through

That's not the reason I have no time, it's just my way of compensating for having so little time. I have enough time to unpack stuff, but not enough to play with it, paint it, or even make pew pew noises with them .

Camkierhi wrote:Theo, Theo, Theo, be careful, you will turn around in a minute and scare yourself again.

Would love to see all this lot mind you.

I have hundreds of models to paint, and keep making new stuff, and want more stuff and need Infinity and Deadzone and..........

Spend less time in MM and more time making stuff please.

I go on the splurge buys when my creativity is shot. Like now. One day I may make things again, buy my muse is too busy unspruing arcane legions right now.

Off to church, then in to the hospital early for a long shift . At least me trying this new schedule will give me tomorrow off.....for school.

Yeah sometimes I like shopping and buying, occasionally assembling. They require less focus and concentration than painting/converting, but they do tend to leave you with piles of things clogging up the paint queue.

Lazy morning , got to paint a bit, will be leaving for my sons hockey game soon.

Tried a different wash this time, not sure how it looks compared to the others, I'll need to do a group shot later. Also I need new brushes.

Looks pretty sweet in a vacuum

Hopefully not a dyson though, I'd cry, for both. :*(

Looking good, bud.

Mmm, crisp!

Looks good! It doesn't look too different from the others from what I can tell. But I guess I need a side by side as well to see.

Beautiful crisp and clean job, nice.

Thanks guys, will try and do a side by side shot shortly and edit it in here. Meanwhile my weekend off......well, did more stupid stuff and no gaming , even though the brother in law came over to game. My wife sent us out to pick up a new TV cabinet/ electric fireplace, then there was assembly, moving furniture and breaking down the old entertainment center. I was quite pissed off by the time I was done they were leaving and my wife was all "oh honey wasn't tonight just great!, friends over and we have a new fireplace and the bank account is back down again right before christmas too." more heat was coming off me than off the fireplace which heats up our first floor nicely. Well at least I got something useful out of last night.

All the packing foam from the fireplace. This and the fact my brother in law ordered a copy of mordheim off eBay and wants to try that out. I'll need to dig out my copy from the great storage room abyss. Yes, there is another room in the basement you all have never seen that has really old stuff in it that I never touch.

So off to find that.

Here's the mixed shot, she's the second from the left hand side.

I'd say she blends in well.


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Also, I feel you on the disintegrating weekend thing, happens all the time.

Looks very close to the others. Should be fine indeed.

Nice squad, shame about the weekend. But hey, Mordheim, I'm itching to take that up too.

T minus 1:36 minutes until Miniaturemarkets Black Friday sale begins.......guess where I'll be. Live at the store, or online , maybe online at the store . Can't actually spend much as we just bought a lot of stuff in the past 3 weeks, including most of our Christmas presents.

Might just wind up getting more of the arcane legions stuff, especially if they have it even more money off. Infinity is another option, but the sale would have to be pretty huge for a splurge buy. And since they don't have any GW stuff left I can't get any skaven for my Mordheim warband .

Upside down bases. Baffled me for a moment. But they would be much easier to pick up that way. Nice idea. Nomads look good.

Wasn't Mordheim updated online after it went out of print? Specialist games or something... Since removed of course. No freebies allowed on the Games Workshop web site. I wonder if they will start using a paywall for their website at some point.

upside down bases are only temporary until I decide how I want to base them. The models fit into the slot most of the time without aid.

Well thought I'd key all you terrain guys into this Black Friday sale.

Just got an email from iplasticsuppl.com
14% off all orders starting Friday the 28th through the 30th. Just enter code IPS2014.

They sell bulk sheet plastic (HIPS) and other plastics as well. Think evergreen plastic sheets, but far far cheaper. Shipping is the biggest hurdle, but I ordered 96 sheets of roughly 1'x1' over a year ago and the price with shipping came in around $.50 a sheet compared to evergreens sheets that are normally $3-5 a sheet. Great for terrain builders

Cheap plastic sheets . Dsteingass recommended them to me (because his blog is only for me and no one else )years ago and I placed a big order way back then. It's good timing too as I am starting to run low now, only 20 or so sheets left . If I get a scratch building bug that could be gone in a day or two.

I see the quantity of sheets for the plastic is first, then the size of the sheets and price for those loads. Hmmm, tasty!

Well the kids have a snow day today, well an ice day anyway from school, so they get to sleep in and I get some painting time.

Here's the next nomad guy.




Not as happy with him, not sure why , I touched up the leg around the holster after taking the picture.

Fiddly little mini's Theo! goos job getting them so nicely painted! everything is looking good, I haven't been around as much lately but I'm actually glad to see you haven't been overtaking me in the paint stakes :-) winter making you sluggish dude?

Looks fine to me!

Looking good, just needs lighter green dry brushed on the hair to give a highlights effect.

Looks good theo.

Thanks guys, now for a little break from insanity.."nah, just joking, why would I leave my comfort zone .

I bought these REALLY cheap figures (arcane Legion) to build a Kingdom of Men army for Kings of War. They were dirt cheap from Miniature market, like I have nearly 1000 figures for under $100 cheap. Some are prepainted (not pretty, but at least uniform), and most of the rest are plain plastic (bendy board game plastic). They won't win any contests for style or looks, but they rank up nice, and I think I have a cunning plan. Instead of trying to paint little faces and what not (details ), I think I'll make my army Terracotta Soldiers . Used a rusty red primer for the base coat and then use the airbrush to quickly lay multiple layers of reds, Browns, and grey clay colors. I got to cut out most of the monopose guys as stand them in their bases that came with the game, there's the same number of pikemen in a two piece model that aren't clipped free yet. The wide bases fit approximately 40 figures per base the way they stand.



Any other ideas of how to paint the Terracotta would be greatly appreciated. I'm also thinking of "busting" a few them to look like the real thing.

Well if the layering with the airbrush doesn't work you could always get a nice red/brown base and do a little drybrushing.

Dipping may be beneficial to such a project too, but may e more time than you're willing to put in since there are so many.

Sounds cool Theo, weathering powders might help loads as well.

whoa.... the idea to make these multitude of minis into an army of terracotta warriors is genius!... very cool theme, could be something new and original... beside making it at least possible to retain a wee bit of sanity after that painting...

as the others said...dipping...(my first idea) and a drybrushing... I think weathering powders might work too... but that would take an insane amount to get the whole lot done...could double the prize...hey... its the Christmas season... why not dust the still wet minis with a blow kiss full of cinnamon?...could work...and they would smell nice even...