Oh that's not too bad then (the overdraft that is), 8 months interest free is not to be sniffed at. I'm sure you'll do fine.

And for some reason I've only just noticed the base on the Inquisitor - pretty cool

I think I'm still thinking checkers on the shoulder pad rims and maybe checker the purple on the inner hood with the creamy white - thats what the colour is; creamy Beige (bailleys). Started out a pale vellejo flesh tone but I have highlighted with white and used some washes to give it the impression of being some kind of ceramite material. I've done more to the metalics and the hood but no updates till tommorow He needs his face picking out and his chest jem doing - checkers and stuff maybs.

"I've done more to the metalics and the hood but no updates till tommorow" Ohh, you big tease you!

Definitely like the idea of checks on the shoulder pads, just seems to have that old-skool feel to it, and that's never a bad thing

Coming to an LGS near you - Weety's alco-paints: Guiness Black, Old Grouse Amber, Bailey's Beige, Limoncello Yellow, Creme de Violet, Creme de menthe Green and of course Cranberry Wine Red !

sounds delicious, and a whole lot better than blood red and snotgreen...

Yep. Sloe gin crimson. MMMM

The shoulder pads are confusing me - I've done one but the other is a different width as it is not his original arm. So It might not look right - I'm tempted to do something different on the other pad and go for the asymmetrical look, which is kinda oldschool too. Nearly finished but I have to go to smelly old work soon

love the shoulderpads...they look very good in its checkered style...
one thing so, the barrels i would drill out more, for now the holes look to tiny...

vik

I love all the freehands you did on that mini : checks, =I= symbol on the hood, etc... The purple looks damn good too!

As for the shoulder pads, from that perspective you cannot really tell there's a difference in scale, so for now it doesn't bother me much...

But think that an Inquisitor is a powerful character, whose armour has probably seen centuries of battle (and damage). Maybe one of its shoulder pads was replaced for a temporary repair, then became an icon of that Inquisitor. Or a grateful AdMech Magos offered the Inquisitor a revered relic from his order & integrated it into his armour... Or any other good reason you might make up in the grim darkness of the 41st millenium...

the chequers look good, as does the darker book and purity seal text, infact it all looks good , the purple is really becoming a focal point with that highlighting, i also like his dirty boots and i agree with monkey i also just noticed the base, i think thats a good compliment though, to have something blend in seamlesly. he is starting to look ancient

Well as always with macro photography the camera sees flaws where the eye sees only perfection. After all the way our brains are designed when we look at something very small the brain is probably filling in the gaps untill we really concentrate. Weras the camera just faithfully copies.

This is probably just obsessive of me but I have seen people paint minis which even close up just look impossibly smooth. I mean how do they do it? magnifying goggles? or maybe they just spend to long on photoshop smoothing out the kinks

But even so he is looking very sharp - a bit more work on the checkers, the chest jem, the face and the base and he is done - probably finished tommorow - I've spent enough time on him now.

One last thought on what yggdrassil said. The other shoulder pad should have some kind of personal insignia as he has enough =I='s allready. But what kind of insignia would an inquisitor have? answers on a post card.

a quick antidote to inquisitors. Thought I would do this guy as he has been without a weapon for ages. I Like buying models with missing arms as they encourage me to conve

actualy i´m not sold on the mace...if he was holding an old german WWI handgrenade that would be a whole different thing...the rest of his pose looks very promising...
sorry for the harsh critics...

vik

I have actually got one of those and considered using it for this but I changed my mind! Oh well you cant win em all.

yep thats true and after all its your mini...just posted my two cents here^^

vik

Maces are fine, you can't go wrong with sticks and spikes

Inquisitors looking fine, maybe check out some heraldry for ideas to a personal symbol.



'This is probably just obsessive of me but I have seen people paint minis which even close up just look impossibly smooth. I mean how do they do it? magnifying goggles?' I reckon it's because they use demon blood for pigments. Or maybe they just sacrife stuff to the paint god, you know, like all those speedy painters do.

monkeytroll wrote:

weetyskemian44 wrote:This is probably just obsessive of me but I have seen people paint minis which even close up just look impossibly smooth. I mean how do they do it? magnifying goggles?'

I reckon it's because they use demon blood for pigments. Or maybe they just sacrife stuff to the paint god, you know, like all those speedy painters do.

Ha ha ha... Now I see why I envy guys such as grey_death, Raff or Son of Orar... They have a magic recipe!!! Thanks monkeytroll, I'll ask them for a ounce or two of "Demon Blood", hope they still have some available lol...

That latest guy's awesome, awesome base too.

hey weety , that juve looks cool, dont think i have ever that model before. your conversion is cool ,a custom mace , is it made from sprue and greenstuff? so is it just the mace that you added, and if so i wonder what he had before? looks like his hand position suggests a spear or lance to me. the lasgun over the shoulder is nice , as is his stub gun. i really like the proportions of this guy, our necromundan gang has some nice characters.

son pf orar is one of my favs too. Will have to check out grey death momentarily! Hope I can crack the demon blood formula. But really I have bigger ceramic fish to bake so i'll proabably never get to the golden demon competition, let alone the finals. I will know I've arrived at the top when empchild starts giving constructive criticism!

Ha ha, don't misjudge yourself, you paint really nicely!!! If not, do you really think your blog would be that popular?

Thanks dude!

Hey my kiln is arriving early if anyone wants me to do a novelty mug I will have a whole pile of examples done soon

Congrats , will keep an eye out.

if i say yes to two of your mugs, then what would you charge +p&p to get them to germany? all in all? some grimdark angles^^ would be nice...would also be giving them a nice xmasy look too...

vik

Will let you know - I should weigh a mug before I say for sure.
Have a think about what kind of design yoiu want because tommorow I am going to add some experimental decoration to the first batch of 6 mugs. And maybe I can do a test piece?

i dont want to suggest a complete design as i respect your work as an artist...when i want some mugs from you they should represent your work by your design...i want to give them both to my wife as a xmas gift...so she isn´t in to 40k or anything wargames really but a good design that has a slight foot in the matter isnt going to hurt? doenst it?^^

cheers and may the clay be with you^^

vik

well we will see what comes up - maybe some eldar jewels carefully hand painted. or some kind of hereldry.

- Inquisitor is done except for the personal insignia but I am away from home at the mo and cant update - staying over near the studio as the kiln is arriving tommorow

Bonus on the kiln

I'm hopeful my funds will stretch to a mug, need to build up my stock of early weety work so when you're famous I can stroll around shows and talk down to the snooty gallery owners

'Oh yah, I see you have some later weety pieces. Hmm, weety? Oh yah, that's what I've always called her, I have a good selection of her early work, much better than this commercial stuff you're selling. Oh, totally, I recognised her work early on, even got some of her college era works. Seems you guys have finally caught up. Have to go, got a important meeting at the Tate in a bit, ciao' Delivered in a very snooty manner of course, all the time looking down my nose at them. Just for a giggle...

Lol monkeytroll... I want to own something from the rising star as well!

Well I said I would finish some mugs today but it took a lot more time and hastle to get the kiln in because some **** parked his ****ing car in the ally, blocking all access to the studio and we had to find him by asking in all the nearby shops. We did find him eventually but then I had to rip the doorframe out of the studio to get it in - thankfully its such a badly put together doorframe that it was easily taken out and put back so no worries.
Finally to cap it all off it came with a continental plug so I couldn't do a test firing.
After all that I couldn't be arsed to finish the mugs and they will keep till sunday. Might do some theraputic warhammer painting and updates on that tommorow.

That's quite a day.. i suggest you get some of that theraputic Single malt as well... i have heard its good for stress relief.
So ripping off of door frames .. is that a local custom, or is it because your studio is a squat studio , made for the tiny people, that you have chained beneath your desk?

Well its always fun to rip off a door frame. My studio is maybe an eldar studio - made for skinny things, weras the kiln is squat, literally squat!
I didn't get to do any of this ripping - I had a friend helping who is very macho about anything involving tools, he can't watch a woman do a job involving tools without saying "your doing it all wrong let me do it" but I get free help so I mostly don't mind. Mostly....

Its built into our genes i think , men have to take over from any women in eyesight or earshot at physical work otherwise we have no real use in life .. Even if we are no good at the physical things we are trying to do , But as you say , Women do tend to take full advantage of our inherent Machismo, and then complain after wards I remeber last Christmas , there was a Lady on my street and her car was stuck, in the ice, and there's me , fresh from a invigorating jog , pumped full of testosterone, offering to help, but she really didnt want any of it , untill her husband came out and he was like , come on then lets move this car, not wanting to be outdone by a neighbour, ( men and pride and Machismo , its a powerfull mix)
so we moved the car together ... only to get it stuck in a far worse position than when we started She wasnt happy ! and i skulked off home rather sheepishly... lesson learned i think Women are never in distress ! , even when your alpha male meter is flashing alert alert!

so its a webway portal your studio then... very nice!

I hate it when Im cooking and my man watches everything it does my head in.

i have to admit i am a total control freak...and i do understand your comet miss dee....thats the way my wife must have felt before i took over the complete kitchen...its even worse when she wants to use the computer then the silence i produce is killing small insects and birds around the block...
but to tell you all something, such a manly work a s ripping doorframes and pulling or pushing big stuff around i would also not only ou of machismo but also because it feels grat to let the hounds of hell loose... we men are sometimes caged animals. we want to be running around chsaing stuff, wrestle it to the floar and feast on its belly...even if it is a big wooden box or a bike that has to be carried four storey up....

you do realize now that men cant be truly civilized no matter hw old inteligent or educated we are ....do women understand that...i doubt that...

vik

Well that all sounds about right! Relationships - how do they ever get off the ground I will never know... Like the bumble bee; some how they fly.

I really should paint some thing as this is getting off topic and straying dangerously close to a discussion of gender politics.

Also tommorow I have to get finished on the first six mugs so I will try and remember to take my camera and get some shots of the warhammer themed ones.

I Know a guy who does that rubber sword roleplay in the woods stuff who says he wants some dark age style table ware for the after fight feasts - I did a whole project on dark age and medieval pottery so that one is in the bag. Just gotta get some brown clay - messy stuff.

Think I'm going for something chaosy

iam a big fan of ancient meso armerican eathern ware myself.. the olmecs and maya , made some wonderfully diverse utensils

I know the ones - have you seen the erotic ones? they are a laugh a minute - dont click on this link unless you are ready for ancient meso american filth - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fellatiomoche.jpg
But yes in all seriousness I do love a nice bit of meso-american pot...

I've started painting a mini who was sold to me as "the first ever space marine scout" but he looks more like a proto - goliath. I cant find him in stuff of legends.

i like your comparisson with the bumble bee...lol and oh so true...

no we dont want that kind of discussion...well if so over to my place^^

with the meso american pot...well i have that image of two of these mugs sitting on the kitchen breakfast table next to our three kids and possible me giggling and the oldest son looking shocked and my wife unable to say somthing, desperatly trying to ignore them...or even better have a compete set and invite my inlaws for tea...now thats a way to get inlaws to shut up on a whole new level...

vik

More cream ma lady... lol can you sculpt one of those , on second thoughts never mind its no doubt a fertility jug , 3 is more than enough for me. the 1st scouts did look like goliaths they had mohawks and huge knives, but they also had the bell bottom boots that sp wear. albeit a little smaller.

More cream ma lady

you sir are anaughty school boy...consider yourself in deep trouble, the teacher will use her ruler for correction on you...

tststststs

vik

This is the guy - he doesn't look like a scout to me but I don't mind - I'm in two minds as to if he is chaos or merc.

I have a history of slightly erotic ceramics - I'm happy to sculpt filth if anyone wants any? Lol

That doesn't look like an early SM scout to me - possibly one of the Confrontation (Necromunda before it was Necromunda) figures.....

He is a scout i remember him.. but not the ones i was thinking of though
http://www.zachary.org/games/gw/scout.jpg

definately proto goliath as well .

FILTH FILTH FILTH FIL..okay now its getting off topic
I have a friend who is a sculpter called bob , and he can sculpt anything , he specialises in historic samurai and stuff like that, but he makes a living selling naked busts and 80's style amazonian chicks with erotic weapons.. like the heavy metal comic. i cant help but think , what a waste, he could make some great sci fi models

he is making great models...at bust level anyway or not?
on which scale does he work?

your scout weety looks brutal in a good way^^ your totaly into cyberpunk now, am i right?

vik

cyberpunk, cyber-goth, cyber-psychedelic! Yeah I think I like that. I'm going to paint him now hopeflly

oh i thought he was done already^^ for me the coloured hair of you minis was something of a giveaway^^

vik

oh no I couldn't bear to leave a mini so colourless -thats just the under washing - I've started painting and he has vibrant green hair, dirty yellow armour and a few red details for contrast. he looks kind of like a judge dred style gang member.

ah the fond memories that comments brings...

you forgot cyber psycotic.

I have the Shuriken scout...

I have never seen any of the others before...thanks for the link.

Heres my cyber punk, proto goliath, scout(?) of slightly mysterious origin - He has a bolt pistol with a chain-bayonet on his back so he is almost certainly warhammer related


I had a go at ying-yangs - they always look nice on a mini and are definitely old-school these days

no i have seen the error of my ways...how far was i from viewing this mini as completed...what had we all missed^^
looks very good,
the string from the eyepatch looks very vibrant between the equally glowing and living looking green hair.

have i asked you before what brushsize you use when doing freehands?

cool work.

vik

I use the army painter insane detail brush - its their second smallest and the most reasonably priced sable brush of this quality I have found so far - but it doesnt say what size it is? its very small and pointy.

hmmm there are some items i still refuse to buy via internet...funny as i spend /t millions^^ on minis so far via ebay. but i was always hesitant to buy me brushes over ebay...
in germany i havent seen anywhere armypainter products so far...we do have however brushes with sometimes rather sad quality in sizes down to 0/10 so this so far the smallest size i had optained so far. i have however heard from a dakka member there are brushtips size 0/20...

but all in all its true to the saying size doesnt matter, i have done on numerous acounts details with just a 1 or 0 size brush and i have to say that the smaller the brush is it cant hold enough paint in its hairs to get a good line...

do you see those problems with your small size brushes too? and if yes how do you cope with it?
for me to get on another painting level really boils down on how to do highlighting and other detail stuff i am currently not able to do so, come to either tool or thechnique...

vik

i like your yin and yang , your right that is very oldschool, i was looking at it painted on an old eldar model a few days ago. Remember 80s. video games, every bad guy looked like this .

Cyber-punk guy looking good, love the greens, and nice work on the yin-yang.

Yeah I have problems with the very small brushes and running out of paint - but if you really want to do very small details you just have to keep recharging the brush with paint and occasionally washing the brush to prevent build up of dry paint ruining the smoothness of brush strokes. I've always loved this kind of really fine detailed work - you were saying in your blog about the zen-like meditative state you get into when modelling. Thats why I got into the crafts like pottery and jewellery.

Speaking of crafts I'm afraid there are still no updates on the warhammer themed mugs - they have needed me in work due to seasonal busyness - but I can get back to it on wednesday hopefully

no need to rush as i said before, there lots of ocasions to need a new gift mug...^^

your absolutly right about the paintbuild up and the constant recharging of the brush when doing details. i just think one could get more better results if the brush could hold more paint, yet stay undried...well i know its not going to happen as i dont want to use chemicals when painting.

vik

Thats the thing - I hear through others that before I ever raised a brush people used to use oil-based paints originating from model train and aeroplane painting. But if my experience with artists oil paints are anything to go by it must have been dire, no more licking the brush, newspaper everywhere to protect things, stinky turps or linseed oil for cleaning or thinning - I wouldn't be able to paint in bed anymore thats for sure - but the paint certainly wouldn't dry on the brush in a hurry

YOU PAINT IN BED????? omg thats either dedication to the max or something truly insane...am i guessing right that its something close in between?

so if you wake up from a paintsession in bed your the one who is guilty of painting yourself a mustache on?^^

jep i would never ever use any other color than waterbased colors. not even for household uses would i use wax or any thing like that. after all i got kids running around and stuff. and the smell would make my wife nauseous and i cant have that for sure....she tolerates my endeavors for now but would totally go spare if i started smelly things...i used epoxy once, four hours before she returned from work and all she said was: "what has died here?"...

who said the cure is smetimes worse than the illness?

vik

heh, I was one of those who started off using mainly Humbrol enamels, I can't recall having newspaper everywhere, and I was certainly a brush-licker back then (Yes, I know that explains so much...).
In some respects I found it easier to paint with them, no thinning and even for someone with my sloth-like painting speed blending was easily achievable, however cleaning brushes was a pain, and easier to ruin brushes too.

that would be a major concern for me, the cleaning and the ruining of the brushes...some of mine are like old friends...tho i have to say that the really thin ones dont grow on me cause of short life time they have with me...

vik

Well the painting in bed thing happens because it is warmer in bed and I try and save money on heating! also I live in a one room flat with a small kitchen and a bathroom so everything is my bedroom and my paints are right next to the bed on my coffee/craft/dinner table. If people are comming over I just sweep them into a bag. It all started when I had several large canvas paintings to do and as I did not own and easel I did them on the floor lying down. I found it quite relaxing with a few cushions...

Anyway heres some more minis fresh from the interweb - my orlock, a RT human adventurer with a shrukren pistol and hand flamer, and a cyborg with a very plasma gun like weapon (I-core I think). I also got one of those old psykers with the enormous collar and the swollen head, but he is missing a hand and needs conversion

there are a lot of similar auctions on ebay uk currently for sell, i saw them about 30 min ago...will look after them and post the auctioneer here...


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sadly i was too slow all gone now...

that adventurer is Top drawer. i really miss these types of guys , just regular spacers , i imagine the 40k solar systems are bursting with a multytude of these guys, shipping cargo, or stealing cargo. i like that there is little gothicness about them, but still retain the 40k weapons. i have never seen that one before? looks like a wanna be rogue trader or scoundrel pirate leader, the cyborg is great as well, looks a bit like a vindicaire assasin bot , with custom plasma gun .is that you branching out then? you surely cant have bought every oop citadel guy out there, maybe you should try marauder minatures back catalouge

weetyskemian44 wrote:no more licking the brush,

monkeytroll wrote:and I was certainly a brush-licker back then (Yes, I know that explains so much...).

OMG thank you so much to the two of you!!! My GF had always convinced me I was a freak or something, with my habit of thinning the brush on my lips, but now I can tell :

I AM NOT ALONE !!!!!!

monkeytroll wrote:I was certainly a brush-licker back then (Yes, I know that explains so much...).

Monkeytroll, according to aforementioned GF : "yeah, that probably explains a lot of things..."

i´ve read somewhre that you should actually do so as to protect the brushtip by using the spit it will get its point for longer...

vik

I am all in favour with licking brushes - it defo increases the life of the brush and I cannot think of another simple way to restore the point on a very fine brush (I wouldn't do it with a big brush, mouth full of paint does not appeal) I had some problems in college because I had gouache paints with such appealing names as 'cadmium yellow' and 'mercury white' they must have known what us painters were like as they had clearly printed on the tubes "harmful if ingested"

I'm loving the RT adventurer - I can really picture him as some random rugged individualist taking freelance work for a fistful of credits, trading with the eldar and flying an old tub with a trusty side kick and maybe some fugitive paying passengers (think han solo but with a more cyberpunk dress sense)

Or maybe he can be one of the inquisitors contacts, a man so undercover he isn't even sure who he is fighting for. A man with special skills and a talent for blending in with the mass of humanity, always keeping one ear to the ground for his mysterious master (another film cliche! they just keep popping up don't they)

I don't think its quite time to branch out into other manufacturers just yet but the guy who was selling the adventurer had this one too and it was cheap...

Q: What's blue and tastes like red paint?

I don't know Skalk, what *is* blue and tastes like red paint?

A: Blue paint

Now you're just being silly Skalk, everyone knows red paint tastes fasta.

Weird q...but could you do a compare with the Scrunt Psykers and the the one you just bought...

Defo going to get some scrunts this xmas...but...not sure where I will use them haha.

monkeytroll wrote:Now you're just being silly Skalk, everyone knows red paint tastes fasta.

Consider that sig'd...

here is the handless pysker with a scrunt. I wonder what weapon to give him? I think he had a force rod originally

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The very rare models are too expensive for me, in one piece this model costs like tenner. but you get them much cheaper if they have missing hands/weapons/etc.

Well it looks amazing....maybe some sort of staff with a third eye?

I can see it - It took a little while but I can see it now. I got a bit carried away just now as I found more of the adventures and psykers at a very reasonable price - snapped em up


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I seem to have bought the same psyker but with a staff - He has a rod with a skull on the end - But I will still fix this one and then keep whichever I like best

I don't actually own any psykers....

Something I should remedy because they look cool!

they sit well together, it might be hard getting a arm for him. or are you gonna greenstuff it. i was looking at your green stuff ig banner guy earlier, and was thinking WOW , and you said you were no good at green stuffing..tsk tsk tsk

Its more that I have very little experience as I just don't really know whats possible yet. I dont what to ruin anything so I proceed slowly and cautiously. I was very pleased with his banner butnot so happy about the hand

nah, there was nowt wrong with his hand, especially for first GS use. And what are you doing on at this time of day?

erm - well I was watching carl sagen's cosmos on youtube because I love his accent and he doesn't dumb down the science. Had a friend over for homebrewed wine and burnt pizza with mayonaise on it. We talked bull-sh*t into the early hours.

Going to actually make those mugs today -

lol, okay, that's fair enough
I'm assuming the 'burnt' part wasn't part of the evening's planned activities?

Any ideas on what you're doing with the mugs, or is it just do whatever comes?

well - bullet holes on one or two, some kindof horned skull thing - like the inquisitors chest badge, maybe some eldar runes? I suppose I will do a purity seal as well. Thats probably enough to be getting on with and I will come up with other ideas on the spot hopefully.

No the pizza got burned because we were arguing about who was going to take it out of the oven - Lazyness causes pizza burning

Ahh, a more serious variation of the 'your turn' tea argument

Guess it's time to hit the sack, hopefully there'll be some mugs to look at during the oh-so-exciting night-shift

I will do my best! an take many photos of the proccess

Here is what I got up too today along with a test firing of the kiln. The design on the pipe is definitely not the best i can do but is a start


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The middle pot collapsed because I made it to thin! A bit over ambitious there

Loving your work I'm enjoying seeing all the classic mini's.. brings back lots of fond memories

the bullet holes look very convincing...
too bad that most gameing clubs dont allow smoking, or do the in britain?

and if the middle pot gets burned waht will become of it?
is that then usable?
and a further question. i see and think that this work is rather timeconsuming so i guess the major factor for price is manhours here? what are the actual costs for the materials ? are they too expensive?
note please that these questions are not asked to see pricing to be droped, it is my curiousity that gets the better of me...
i always apreciated pottery and a life time ago i started in primaryschool with kneading claysausages into pots...so i now see your work and i want to know more about the things i have missed out on...

vik

well the materials are cheap - clay is about £7 for 12.5kg or £4 if you dont mind brown terracota clay (very messy). Time is what makes it expensive - I will have to get some plaster and make moulds of popular things as this speeds it up a lot. The pipe was just on a whim... No where in Britain allows smoking anymore - They are even planning on banning people from smoking cigarettes in their own car. Doesn't really bother me as I cant stand smoking when sober so have no need for fags in the car.

The collapsed pot will make a fine ashtray or possibly a dog bowl

yep thought so too on the collapsed pot^^

ban smoking in your own car...well that rules out having sex in the car for so much people...

sometimes i do hate PC ...and i am not even a smoker...i used to smoke too when being pished^^ tho ^^
didn´t make me cough so much then^^


making moulds for deatils sound like very good idea...

and the brwon terracotta clay is smudgy more or why is it messy and what else are you using as it dfoesnt look like your using that terracotta clay above...looks grey...saw that once on a faire...

vik
vik

Its white earthenware, when it dries its white anyway. Well off white, but it shows up the transparent colored glazes nicely. I can do various colours and I also have a lovely celedon crackle glaze. Google it it is lovely.

terracota has brown because it has a high iron content and it stains stuff

pots and pipe look nice weety

ourgh that understandable then...
and done the google hit and run and as it happens to be the aforementioned faire i also baught me a mug back then which happend to be of that celedon crackle material/color tone something^^, which i actually really like...saw some like bonechina thin cups once in a shop window...really nice stuff...

vik

Well, if you're going to smoke a pipe on the battlefield you really should expect to get shot at See that glow from miles away.

Is it that lovely green celadon that you have?

well I havent tested it yet but its meant to be a very very pale green - it is nice on the pictures.

Similar to a lot of Chinese pottery? Very nice.

Take it the test firing went well?

Yeah it works anyway - It went up to 1050 degrees, just to make sure it works and burn off any remaining moisture and chemicals. So next time I can actually put ceramics in it! I will do more work tommorow and at the weekend and hopefully have finished stuff

Cool, all good to go. look forward to seeing some completed stuff soon(ish).

You're not watching Sagan again are you ?

monkeytroll wrote:Well, if you're going to smoke a pipe on the battlefield you really should expect to get shot at See that glow from miles away.

Is it that lovely green celadon that you have?

so may i ask if you ever served? i was specially told how to hold a cig and how to use it when in full gear in the night. and if done right noone will see it...and with a pipe its way easier to conceal the glow...

honestly even if i am not really a smoker whoever is unable to outwit an enemy from afar (if he is known that is...and in darkness the night is full of enemys...period!) is supposed to be shot...

vik

Heres the days progress - these should be fired late tommorow and then glaze fired on sunday maybs.

The pots look really good , i like them all , but i think if i were pushed i would purchase the purity seal one. they really aer nice, and i like the fact that each one is a diffrent shape. look froward to seeing the rest of the process.

Wow great job!!!

I feel the same about everything neil101 said, though I prefer the Elf / Eldar one...

The eldar style symbol could do with being neatened up so I might go back to it tomorrow and carve it a little, and the skull too. But I'm right pleased with the purity seal.

as every one is entiteld to his/her own opinion there lies the dangerzone...

i do like the aplication of the prity seal the best too...i think the skull with horns look good but couldn´t imagine myself drinking from something with or made from a skull...so thats something i would rule out...but i guess most people wouldn´t object to that...
the eldar/elf design is to my opinion not done yet too...dont ask me what to do or add as whimpy elfs never were something for me...
but to make it all the more complicated i like the sahpe of the eldar mug the most...
see what can be made more complicated? individuality is something that the emperor has clearly spotted as a heretic behavior and thus suspended ond abolished...and rightly so...

good art weety nevertheless my meekly comments^^

vik

Let me know if you have any ideas which you would like to see on a mug. Its early days yet and these are very quick sculpts so critisism accepted - the shape of the edar mug is my fav too. It seems everytime I am up at the studio somebody wants me though - I feel busy for the first time since uni and it will be hard to spend as much time up there as I would like. My dream is to have a studio down the road so I can walk to it and back. Petrol will only get more expensive. Need to do some painting now... Maybe an adventurer.

i always loved her character when i was addicted to marvel comics...



when i discovered 40k for me the chapter symbol of the DA i saw the similarities there...

if i was to suggest a totally new design then i would strongly suggest dark phoenix´s symbol...on a mug!

vik

I'm on it like a car bonnet

and again this is such a nice figure of speach i cant understand...man you have to either live your life on an island for understanding that or.... what?

by the way this was rather siggworthy again...

Heheheh! Its not a common one, I think my friend may have actually made it up and begun spreading it about, one day everyone will be saying it maybe!! and the very west of cornwall might as well be an island sometimes

ah and i was thinking of the entirety of old britain when typing island^^

and will you flesh out that story or will you jsut smile inwardly by being the only living soul here on dakka who knows the full story baout that proverb?

i know some people would actually do that...

I suppose the phrase relates to my friends habit of getting on car bonnets for ermmm sexual activities when a teenager. Errrrmm but I'm only guessing

hmmm i take your word for it^^ i have also only heard from the differntly usage of bonnets for those matters....seems they are more uses to a thing than just one^^

Good stuff weety

Personally I like the shape of the purity-sealed one, looks like the kind of mug to cup in your hands on a cold day, has a more tactile feel to it (or at least that's the impression I get from a photo on t'internt ) Having said that, in the last pic with them all upside down I prefer the shape of the eldar one, guess I'm just a contrary SOB (err, not the adeptus sororitas)

All sorts of things you can use car bonnets for - just ask an ork

Vik - don't think I can honestly say I served, a couple of weeks basic in the RAF, then 6 months flat on my back in the med centre.

My nights work - he is done with washes (except the face and eldar pistol) he will ben done with some highlights - and I'm thinking of giving his boots red laces


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His cod piece appears to have camel toe

Red laces would be cool, I'd suggest one set red, one set green, but doesn't look the sort to me

Well, are you sure it's a he then

Well no I'm not sure at all... not overtly female (unlike the usual) but I think I can see a suggestion of boobage

at monkeytroll...six month in med centre? whoa tht sounds like it got to hurt...

or were you just avoiding marches?

and for me it looks rather like a half opened trouser with a bit of fleshy bit hanging out to see some fresh air...not really a cameltoe...the face would be from a hell of a ugly women besides...
by the way what stand green and red laces for? here in germany they either wear red or white laces...either way you get hit or kicked if you ask why^^

vik

Vik - fethed my knees up, still not completely right 20 years later, c'est la vie.
Err, the red & green laces don't really stand for anything as far as I know (Although no doubt someone somewhere believes they do) More a kind of obscure reference to peeps wearing different coloured laces back in the 80's, maybe with a dash of punk thrown in to liven up the mix

does a little fem now its painted. purple jock strap lol he /she is a kinky one..! myabe a hermaphrodite inquisitor seeking out mutant heretics because he she is secretly ashamed of he she's own bi gender. the purple and midnight blue sit well together, i like the bone one the shuriken pistol and flames style colours on the flame pistol, for some reason i can immgaine stars and cresecnt moons on its hood or pants.

neil101 wrote:does a little fem now its painted. purple jock strap lol he /she is a kinky one..! myabe a hermaphrodite inquisitor seeking out mutant heretics because he she is secretly ashamed of he she's own bi gender. the purple and midnight blue sit well together, i like the bone one the shuriken pistol and flames style colours on the flame pistol, for some reason i can immgaine stars and cresecnt moons on its hood or pants.

thats secretly the whole point about the inquisition...
did you know that the SA was lead by homosexuals mostly? the comitted atrocities on a dayily basis and all because secretly they craved free live of sexual freedom for themselfs...
its always the ones that sceams the loudest against defferencies who are the weirdos themself...

blimey! I'm going to nip this one in the bud - The character is hence forth to be refered to as captain Ellen von Genera, and she is skipper of a small rogue salvage ship the "Xenophobe" and she keeps her crew in order by being a hard ass bull dyke and taking steroids.... She is both worshipped and feared by the crew, whos female members are often invited to dine at the captains table.

Except Saturdays, when she likes to be called 'Erik'

Is it something about the way I painted the scarf? I think I need to make it a bit darker, and possibly GS that camel toe...

It really is amazing the strange details you get on these old minis

no i guess it goes with the long contact you have with a mini. on this close distance you spot so many details no one else is spotting. also the mind gets bit fuzzy and you see and try to figure out things that might not be there... had this a couple of times on my minis too...not in the area of sexual uncertainities but the general idea is valid tho^^

vik

weetyskemian44 wrote:blimey! I'm going to nip this one in the bud - The character is hence forth to be refered to as captain Ellen von Genera, and she is skipper of a small rogue salvage ship the "Xenophobe" and she keeps her crew in order by being a hard ass bull dyke and taking steroids.... She is both worshipped and feared by the crew, whos female members are often invited to dine at the captains table.

Very good so now your models have fluff you could say she is a fluffy transgender..er sorry i mean Captain Ellen Von Genera She's hard on the pirates but harder on her crew.
well i wouldnt mess , well not without a reach a round anyway i think the scarf is completely awesome in a way only oop citadel models can be..., a scarf and jockstrap just ..random

"Hood" "Pants" "Jocktstrap" - Yeeh-haw!

Weird figure, I like the pose and the dual hand-weapons.

well here is the finished uncertain mini. I've toned down the colours a little and defined the face. Great model yes although it has encouraged people to talk nonsense on my thread damit!!! Did give me a good chuckle though.

She looks great, the eye shadow def makes her gender clear!
the addition of laces, ties the scarf together is nice as well. and i have to say out of all your models i think this one suits the backdrop the best. she was obviously made for you weety!

i really like what you did with HER face... now it is for me too unmistakingly a female character. all in all a very dark figure but with taht scarf she looks a bit as if she might be shopping for christmas gifts and expects some nasty chalange on the last remaining bits of bargains for her loved ones...

vik

Agreed, the shemale definitely is a SHE!!! Nice job weety, as usual...

Like the guyliner on that bloke

weetyskemian44 wrote: Great model yes although it has encouraged people to talk nonsense on my thread damit!!!

Hmm, a quick browse through the blog shows a fair bit of nonsense, none of which was connected to this mini

Looks good, the scarf sets it off nicely. Did you darken the flamer too, or is that due to the lighting and changes in the other colours?

Nothing like a little nonsense. But I really liked this mini and thought it was just a guy who was a little metrosexual in his choice of clothes and now I'm confused and so is the mini....

The scarf does remind me of Christmas shopping mind you.

I think its time to paint something else! except its saterday night and me and the dudes are drinking some expensive wine we found on special offer. Dont expecyt sppeeedy progress


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But seriously you guys crack me up and make the thread interesting with your fluff and nonsense


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But more seriously going back to mr von doms comment about the Nazi SA I'm not sure that that gays will be happy being compared to hitlers second finest and I'm not sure that they were predominatly gay - Many of them were probably Bi-curious or just playing along

weetyskemian44 wrote:But seriously you guys crack me up

That'll be the wine kicking in, soon enough it'll be 'Yoush my beshtest buddies..'

Can people please STOP using shemale as it is offensive or you will be reported the the higher ups.

@ Weety how much for a 40k sized Stargate? please PM me.

I could av a go at that mish dee. but lestsh me sober up and cinshider my GShhh shkillsh witha more shber hed on.

AH Nissed as a Pewt.... Have a few for me as I had wisdom teeth out on Tuesday.

i think secretly bi-curious man that are afraid of their supposed to be unwanted interests are very dangerous...to make it a bit better understandable...ever watched american beauty? the father of the neighbor? rings some bells?

and the SA was saturated and i heard of ogies in the deeper structures even in schooltime...and i talk about teachers taht are not known for their imaginations...

vik

Man iam sorry weety but your thread has decended in to the dakka equivelant of Sodom or Gomorrah i can never tell those too apart. and now your phisshed! ..your setting a bad example to the kiddies . Keep it up

jep, raise the gross national product by beverages^^

Im just here for the minis, fantastic work here Weety sorry if I got a little p"£$% with some guys gender comment.

Lets not have a controversial debate! There are forums for that...

I Have a nice orlock baking in the oven.
And some more adventurers arriving on monday - they have some bizzare dress sense. I love it - did anyone see that film with sean connery. err Zardoz. Similar style of thing

Ha ha ha...

Maybe Mr. yakface should use this pic as his avatar?!? That'd be nice!!!

was this film and this dress the cause for his succes or a possible early end of his carreer?


this is at least the second time i see this pic here on dakka...odd as if the web wants us all to teach something by showng this...i´d be damned if i know what tho...

vik

Minis sound interesting weety. and isnt that sean connery outfit the prescursor to the borat mankini? although i have worn something similar in my early dancing career lol but less nipples and more buck rogers spandex!

1970's that movie.

Weety, I posted that on FB a year back or so and we never pinpointed where it came from. I need closure so badly.

I was thinking about the metallic medium from vallejo, you could add really funky stuff to these dudes, like metallic lilac codpieces or metal plaid kilts. It would be stunning.

As Weety said , the movie is Zardoz , a bizzare 70's missodginistic orgy of phillosophy and luddite sci fi , Spoiler warning..." Wi zard of Oz " the big floating stone head and the dodgy porn flick the decadesnt ruler force him to watch before throwing him in a cell with a naked girl where by try to prove he is a barbarian because he cannont control his sexual urges , is all i can remeber from this flick.

Apparently it was terrible film but I just can't get enough of his outfit! Its kind of sexy but he is too pale to really pull it off - they should have given him a week under a sunbed first

I want that Zardoz outfit. In my size.
Weets - are there any specific plans for the bases on these figs?

Yep, definitely a terrible movie Not even Mr Connery's presence helped it.

Maybe I'm just confused due to just getting up, but you're baking an Orlock?

Metaphorically speaking... He is all ready now - Him and the other one have got great gang potential and I want more orlocks now. I dont like to posta pick until sunrise though - better light.


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Oh - and I am basing them with sand. About half are done, but I haven't been bothered to paint the sand yet as it looks quite nice unpainted

Ahh, OK. So it was just me being fuzzy-headed in the morning Err, that is 'morning' in the fact that I'd just got up, not actual time of day outside.

I can well imagine - my work offered me 70 squidsfor 6 hours a night to help supervise a refit of our shop but I said no thanks I'm sure plenty of other people need the money. I really didin't fancy having my body clock turned upsidown for a week! It takes just as long to get back to daytime as it does to get used to the nights in the first place! good luck with it all I hope they are paying you more for it...

I don't mind switching my body clock for a week or so, as long as it's not a regular occurence, my body almost prefers a kind of night shift, but having to switch back to do Saturday day, then back to nights on Monday - Ughh!

Money will be good, but tbh myself and the other manager really need to be there to make sure it get sorted the way we want it. But this time of year, with a boat to dry and frozen water pipes again it's not pretty (Nasty cold weather - since November I've already spent more days with no water than in the previous 5 years)

/whinge mode off
/Stiff upper lip mode on

Time for a cuppa

Some minis. Necromancer is just a cool model and he can be chaos sorceror. Two really old khorne marines. And The finished orlock. I really like my orlocks and want more.

You guys were taking the piss out of my slightly gay model are going to love my latest purchases - I have a model which describes itself on the base as a 'Space Eunuch"

thats hurting even when only reading....*sits crossleged*

Wow your finished orlock is a very high standard weety.
and i cant wait to see what you do with that chaos sorceror. i am keeping schtum about your minis sex this time.

I'm eager to see those Chaos minis painted as well...

Nice Orlock!

at neil that would be "stumm" as in quiet...its however pronounced "schtumm"... thats a very difficult sound in german as you english talking ones have only the s-t sound as i gather...as in stop...

the guy in the middle is a Necromancer

Orlock turned out nice again Those orlock models are pretty cool, several made their way into various guard squads of mine.

Love the two old chaos renegades, those models rock.

Is the space eunuch the guy with the zardoz attire and a chainsaw over his shoulder that later just got called 'Scum' ?

yes thats the chap. In the stripper now being stripped.

There is a wargames retailer in the US that actually made 28mm minis of Zardoz (Sean Connery and several Exterminators). Unfortunately (or fortunately) they sold out of the Sean Connery minis and just have exterminators left.

Can't imagine why anyone wanted those...

for the lulz.

I think just having sean connery in a mankini made it worth a model!

I have the three new adventurers and another old bob olly sculpted imperial psyker stripped now - will post pics when I can get out of bed - feeling sick from excess of roast goose

lol, now I'm going to have to search t'internetz to find a Zardoz mini.

Not reached Christmas yet and you're already OD'ing on the grub. Eyes bigger than your belly

monkeytroll wrote:lol, now I'm going to have to search t'internetz to find a Zardoz mini.

Ha ha, save me one when you get them!

monkeytroll wrote:Not reached Christmas yet and you're already OD'ing on the grub. Eyes bigger than your belly

What does "grub" mean?!? The only previous place I heard it was in the video game Gears of War : "One dead grub!!", but always thought it was a nickname or short for "grunt", or something like that...

http://www.thewarstore.com/TheWarStoreMiniatures.html

This is the store that sold them. Maybe someone will sell one on Ebay some day?

grub is soldierfood...nasty, tastless and better to be exchanged with all other things in my book^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:grub is soldierfood...nasty, tastless and better to be exchanged with all other things in my book^^

True...but there is one thing worse than grub and that's having no grub when you're hungry. I'd even eat SoS when the weather was cold and damp and I was hungry.

ähem... whats SoS then?

Yggs - haven't played Gears but I'd guess in that context it's being used to refer to maggots or the like, but in the UK we refer to food as grub (pub-grub for a start ), and army rations as scran. Although obviously, as anywhere there's a whole bunch of regional variations.

Someone metion food sniff sniff...

neil101 wrote:Someone metion food sniff sniff...

NO SOUP FOR YOU!

monkeytroll wrote:Yggs - haven't played Gears but I'd guess in that context it's being used to refer to maggots or the like, but in the UK we refer to food as grub (pub-grub for a start ), and army rations as scran. Although obviously, as anywhere there's a whole bunch of regional variations.

I like 'pub-grub', I guess that's close to when we French say: "Wow, bad face this morning. - Yeah, I've been *eating liquid* yesterday evening.."



Thanks for the explanation !

We say "I've been on a liquid diet" which explains all kinds of indigestion, headaches and foolishness


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Je Mange le liquide hier soir....

"liquid diet" is funny, I'll try and suggest that to my teammates...

And you're nearly good, we'd say "J'ai mangé liquide hier soir" ('Je mange' is present, and 'liquide' is used as an adjective here, so no 'le').

I'd love to hear you guys (well, guys, you get me uh) speaking French, it's so ... Cute?

I will try it more often - will probably learn more than I ever did in class. Eventually I plan to go on holiday in france and see my cousin in paris. She is a linguist, which is just not fair.

Cute as in very badly done but endearing?

weetyskemian44 wrote:I will try it more often - will probably learn more than I ever did in class. Eventually I plan to go on holiday in france and see my cousin in paris. She is a linguist, which is just not fair.

Cute as in very badly done but endearing?

Yeah, linguists usually have a knack for learning all sorts of languages in a short amount of time, that's quite infuriating...

And, erh, yeah, should I have known this word 'endearing', I'd have used it in place of cute... But it doesn't need to be 'very badly done' to be 'endearing'... All English native speakers (male or female) have a really charming ( ) tone when they speak French..

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"Your post title is either all uppercase or contains too many explanation marks. If you want your post to be taken more seriously we recommend editing your title to be mixed case and not full of explanation marks. People are more inclined to read a post that has a nice title and will be less inclined to judge you negatively before reading your post. If you want to re-edit your message then click cancel."

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[2nd edit : on the Dakka front page, we can see that mini as a preview of your blog : .

Usually the preview pic is the first one of the last post with pics, but for you it's the Orlock ganger, whereas this looks like a CSM... And I don't remember seeing a CSM in your blog, what's wrong?!?]

Its from way back halfway through and I cant quite figure out why it stays there. Maybe one of the mods really likes it? Who knows.

AAAHAHAHA TO MANY CAPITAL LETTERS AND TO MANY EXPLANATION MARKS MAKES DAKKA VERY SAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But no that is a good thing as people do that too much these days.

here in germany we also speak of liquide food...we call it "flüssiges Brot" traslates to liquide bread as most of the ingriedients found in bread are too in beer...cheers...


vik

We also have something close, it's the "slice of hop" ('tartine de houblon'), as in "slice of bread & butter", but just with one of the special ingredients of beer...

Aber 'flüssiges' Brot ist ganz gut also!!!

Join Dakka and become multi-lingual. (as long as ytou want to talk about food and drink)

I think the csm is showing as that's the last one you loaded to the dakka gallery?

i think pub language is crosscultural ^^

MMM Beer. Merry Chitmass everyone I'm off to drink, eat and be merry with friends. Like everyone else I will not be getting much painting or modelling done for a while. All that wine and turkey and still more goose sandwhiches followed by goose soup and washed down with a chicken, quail and slice of beef. I am in charge of pudding at our feast tonight - Brandy, clotted cream and plum pudding I think

Do I detect an emphasis on the brandy part of that recipe?

Beer and Ice cream diet ... Not a bad idea there.

Clotted cream.... *shudder* ...it's scary stuff.

Lager and macaroni and cheese.

Any new (old) minis?

no not clotted cream Ice cream...

you know I scream, you scream we all scream for Ice CREAM!!

my old eglish teach said there was a cause for the word cuisine in english language is borrowed from the french...he meant english cant cook....but if i read weetys party menu then i am thinking i will definatly celebrate xmas in the wrong country...all that food makes me old carnivore drool...hmm we do will have some duck for feasting as my second son asked specially for that but in the end he will not even eat that...guess i am raising a veget.....cant bring myself to say it...

if we all see ourself not before the next booze infested celebration starts i wish all of you a merry christmas and don´t get to heavy on cholesterol and alcohol...

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miss dee, thats a very nice one...will tell that to my wife...she will like that^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:my old eglish teach said there was a cause for the word cuisine in english language is borrowed from the french...he meant english cant cook...

I guess your English teacher was full of wisdom...

I mean, I never suffered from starvation in the UK, but I saw some of the weirdest meals in my life... As in, pizzas drenched in soup (who does that?) or the infamous 'fudge' : 1/3 butter, 1/3 sugar, 1/3 sweetened condensed milk (how can you imagine that)...

But I have to admit, the English breakfast is far better than ours (yum, yum, bacon, beans, eggs, toasts... )

my wife would probably like spanish food or italian more as it has much more veggies in it, but me i stick to the meat stuffed with meat and put between two equally sized pieces of meat as a wholesome meatsandwich...

all things with a face makes me happy^^

Yggdrasil wrote:pizzas drenched in soup (who does that?)

I don't know, I'm not aware of anyone that does that, don't think you can call that a typical british meal

Not that I'm trying to defend our cuisine, 'bit more lard I think, now some more sugar, and a touch more lard to finish. Well, maybe a little sprinkle of sugar on top..'

Oh, actually, I forgot cucumber sandwiches, Cucumber sandwiches with the crusts cut off, see what marvels we're capable of..

The British are the clear winners when it comes to little sandwiches.

However we concede to you Americans in the 'general sandwich' category for peanut butter & jelly.

Well, some of us do, there are still a few heretics around who fail to see that it really is a winning combination.

In sweden we also got some odd pizzas. An example is the pizza with beef tenderloin and béarnaise.. no comments.

monkeytroll wrote:

Yggdrasil wrote:pizzas drenched in soup (who does that?)

I don't know, I'm not aware of anyone that does that, don't think you can call that a typical british meal

Well, that was during my first trip to GB, back in... 1995? Something like that... The family who hosted us had weird ways when it came to 'cuisine'...

Viktor von Domm wrote:ähem... whats SoS then?

American soldiers frequently use the term "grub" for food - similiar to the English.

SoS is an acronym (the US Army loves acronyms) for Sh*t on a Shingle which is a piece of bread or toast with a greyish looking gravy on top. We used to get it in the old days, but I don't think I've seen it anywhere in recent years except for breakfast.

And to get back to Weety's blog...I really like the Necromunda figs. I have a warband of something or other that is unpainted - the guys with the masks but not the religious pointy hat guys. I'm saving them for Inquisimunda or a 40K skirmish game.

Peace on Earth and Goodwill toward those that deserve it...for everyone else...there is only War! Hope you get a good drink of something you like. I'm hoping to try a good Scotch or Brandy.

My variation on the peanut butter ansd jellly sanwhich - I'm not really into jelly so - lightly toasts the bread, peanet butter then crush cheese and onion crisps into it, then a slice or two of proccessed ham, then mayo.

favourite pizza - curry pizza with bannana slices...
I have been known when poor to put anything on toast to make it go further. noodles, curry, stirfry, leftovers, soup.

But if given the opportunity and the budget I make a good roast.

I think I might have both the time and the inclination to paint today! who knows...

merry christmas to ye all, and don´t over do it with the food and beverages...^^

cheers, vik

Merry Xmass!

Heres some more old school stuff recently arrived

Two psykers. V old.
three guys from the RT adventuers pack, space eunuch on the left - a pirate in the middle with missing gun and some random armoured dude.
Traitor marine, communist hat squat and my fav, the confessor with his big chainsaw

Peanut butter and cheese - preferably a nice strong cheddar - is another good one. Soup on toast ? How's that work ? I'll sometimes have a pot noodle sandwich at work, towards the end of the month

Nice haul there, don't remember that renegade marine. Do remember thinking the pirate was fun to paint -and to re-paint, never actually finished the armoured dude, think I may have stripped him recently.

monkeytroll wrote:

Yggdrasil wrote:pizzas drenched in soup (who does that?)

I don't know, I'm not aware of anyone that does that, don't think you can call that a typical british meal

Not that I'm trying to defend our cuisine, 'bit more lard I think, now some more sugar, and a touch more lard to finish. Well, maybe a little sprinkle of sugar on top..'

Oh, actually, I forgot cucumber sandwiches, Cucumber sandwiches with the crusts cut off, see what marvels we're capable of..

Another Cucumber sandwich vicker??


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weetyskemian44 wrote:My variation on the peanut butter ansd jellly sanwhich - I'm not really into jelly so - lightly toasts the bread, peanet butter then crush cheese and onion crisps into it, then a slice or two of proccessed ham, then mayo.

favourite pizza - curry pizza with bannana slices...
...

You aint preggers are you?

Nice new bunch , really like the space eunuch, i have never seen the middle left 2 or the bottom eft 2 before , where do you dig 'em up from, some long forgotten gw store that has re-emerged from the warp in you attic, resplendant with blue and yellow jumper wearing staff , and a full catologue of blister pack metal minis from 1987 . Merry Xmas to you too!

ähem, seeing your supposed space eunuch, he does raise a question...was he just recently put in his "recent" position or why is is codpiece so darn big? either he has some pretty thick bandages under that or he is just sporting something that when erected will create a big diversion ...

just asking and speculating...

by the way we have survived the christmess...pun intended...

so here is hoping you survive your tomorrow too..^^
you brits are celebration in the morning of the 25th, dont you?

vik

perhaps he has had things down there replaced with some important piece of battle tech - like maybe a vacuum attachment for picking up crumbs...
Or an underpants bomb.

or maybe something like that..for a little extra attack when needed...:



(if unknown its the huy from the movie from dusk till dawn...)

vik

morning...afternoon..evening....depends on when we get up really vik Glad you survived though

Very handy having a multi-tool attachment on your eunuch. Keeps the crumbs off ones uniform with the vac, keeps the shirts crisp with the starcher-iron, and the immersion heater's just the ticket for brewing a good cuppa whilst one watches one's troops go at it.

*cough* he still has to wee from that spot, you know, so some of the tools you mentioned might be at a bit unhygenic spot...just saying tho...

Well I've heard that some uncivilised folks don't bother with re-plumbing their eunuchs when they get done, might as well do a proper job whilst you've got the tools out though, as our good doctor likes to say.

ohoh...i think i leave that discussion to someone better fit in plumbing matters than me...

by the way...*yawn* will go now to bed...to avoid more saucy comments...

Hahahahahaha. The immersion heater!! I'm sure he has been replumbed - maybe he wee's out of his big toe.

Merry christmass and all that jazz. I'm off to hunt in the fields I was walking through yesterday for my bloody phone. Damn and blast.

Ahh, the joys of christmas - trudging through fields looking for stuff lost the previous night

Well, hope you find the phone, have a good one.


edit: there's 2 o's in good

Found it encrusted with frost next to a frozen puddle I remember jumping over - phones should be secured before leaping anywhere! Still works though

You mean your phone's not tied to a bit of elastic that goes up your sleeve and...oh wait, that's not phone's is it?

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last year i lost my keys in the snow, i found them when all the snow was gone, about 3 months later...talk about a happy ending...

A communist squat!! It looks like he has a chainsaw not a chainsword.

Ahh, comrade shortstuff, I see you have added the runes of cutting to your chainsaw.

Good job, nice face and a cool hat

My partner left his phone in his pocket and it went through the washing machine .....






and still works.

I've done that twice now - a nice dryin in the airing cupboard (or do I mean brewing cupboard) is all it takes.

Painting that confessor model now - he is great, such a mad monk.

Is the mirrored runic a dalecarlian rune on purpose? If so quite awesome especially since you at least if transcribed to standard/modern swedish named the guy or he's chainsaw to frö (seed)

Overall I really Like your paintjobs (and the minis)!

What colour(s) did you use for his face?

I have to say it is a coincidence - I just remember the runes from a history book on vikings!

The face is white primer followed by privateer press armour wash, over that highlighted layers built up with vallejo flesh tone with a mixed wash of red and tan over the top.

Planning anything interesting for the confessors scroll?

Did that psychic scrunt ever get his tat by the way?

Vacuum attachment? Like Kryton out of Red Dwarf... one of the greatest visual gags ever.

Those recent minis are so weird, I have never seen any of them, they must be ancient!

They are bulk old. One of the first ranges done for RT. Except the psyker with the big peacock collar and the confessor - they are early second ed. I think I'm beginning to turn into a nerdy collector. I got an ebay voucher so I went and purchased two very very old inquisitors with power armour.

Kryten yes he was the inspiration for the vacuum attachment! loved that scene.

the scrunt will get his tattoo when hell freezes over, so some time in January or February.

"As the days go by, we face the increasing inevitability that we are alone in a godless, uninhabited, hostile and meaningless universe. Still, you've got to laugh, haven't you?"

There's an old android saying which I feel is particularly relevant to this situation. It goes: '00101010110100101101001111001010101001011011000101010'


Has anyone else here ever used the word 'Bulk' in a gratuitous way? Its very satisfying, in fact it is bulk satisfying. Q: 'How much did you drink last night?' A: 'Bulk'

Ahh, You gotta love Kryten.

weetyskemian44 wrote:the scrunt will get his tattoo when hell freezes over, so some time in January or February.

LOL

Has anyone else here ever used the word 'Bulk' in a gratuitous way? Its very satisfying, in fact it is bulk satisfying.

Not aware of having done so, but I suspect it's now wormed it's way into my head and will get used

Off to friend's for a couple of days, hope to see some nice old-skool stuff here when I get back

Apparently there's no upper-case letters/too many exclamation marks in this post

confessor Jupitous Sarck, Cleaver of the Heretic

How on EARTH do you paint these things so well so fast?!?! By the gods - to have the time you've got... great job on Leatherfa... I mean Ol' Jup'.

Well I should make better use of the time really - I mean what the hell am I doing right now? lying in bed playing cityville and solitaire...?! But then when I am busy I pine for my bed and laptop combo. Valuable time well spent.

Thanks I am really pleased with how this mad monk came out. It really was quick too. Washes are the key to fast lazy painting - but you have to be careful how you put them on cos they end up where you didnt want them if your not careful.

Ths guy was washed all over with armour wash (I do that with all of them now as it really helps.) flesh tone for the skin, and a mix of brown, purple and white for the robe. brown on the strap, flesh tone with white for the parchment. Then watered down armour wash on the robe and parchment, undiluted armour wash on the feet and chainsaw, red and brown wash for the face etc. finally chainmail on the chainsaw, eyes, teeth and blood (more red and brown wash)

I agree about the washes being quick but it does take an experienced colorist to know what base colors are going to look great in combination, after the successive washes are done. Tou definitely have that ability, I love how these things are turning out. Can't wait to see the next minis.

Love the mad monk. He looks at least five times better than my priest and has more personality.

He also looks like he knows how to use that Eviscerator!

Thanks guys - I do love colour. Your compliments made me think I should stop playing stupid facebook games and paint another - here's Mistress Morgana. There is something slightly wrong with her lip - I think it might have been dented or something - looks ok though

Wow she is great Weety , really great the white and red are cool but your metals look fab, nice purple topknot and buckle too , seems like i missed a few, christmas is always a long affair in my family , the squat is cool , nice runes as well, and your Redemtor has some nice scroll work.

Thanks dude! I have really enjoyed doing these. They cost a bit more than the run of the mill stuff but far more interesting to paint. I heart tiny art.

All that food'n'booze slowing you down over christmas?

Mad monk Jupe looks good, nice simple, effective colour scheme

Morgana (Yes Mistress, certainly Mistress, sorry Mistress) is top-notch (even allowing for my predilection for gun-toting redheads ). Nice crisp white (always tricky), and good choice of colours for the rest. Great job on the face too.

About time you started basing some of these guys isn't it?

Well in my defense a lot of them are based but I'm lazy about doing it so the photos get taken before they get based. Doing it with sand from the beach. Really cant be bothered to paint them either as the sand has a nice color.

Christmass is screwing with my productivity - I should be up at the studio getting mugs ready for people whove asked but I'm afraid it might have to wait for new year as I'm busy watching columbo... Maybe their will be daytime films later. And I am painting the space eunuch. He is bred for strength and has had his organs replaced with bionic enhancement implants...

"One last question...."

Just one more thing.... and he always says stuff about his wife but we are sure he is single. MMMM comfort TV.
Heres that space eunuch - Thats meant to be a bar-code on his thigh...



look you can see his rosy cheeks

This stuff is great do you ever plan on using it in games?

columbo is married, for long, one episode even features a would be murder of his wife, he in deep mourning but in the ned is was just a fraud to lure the murder out...

really you have to see them all...^^

I must of seen a dozen - but I missed that one. I think you are meant to be suspicious about the things he says about his wife as they are just to put the suspect at ease and give him an excuse to ask awkward questions - I will google it and find out what the one with his wife is and watch it.

Chocolategork As for playing with them I don't have the space. I used to hang out with some guys who played and its great fun - specially necromunda. Used to be best at winning w40k with an ork speed freak army - but this was all back in 1990s and all the rules have changed, I've grown up and my friends have moved away. If I ever get a bigger flat I might have a go at necromunda again




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Or if I meet someone who is really into it and fancies a game

Look at them buns of steel.. Jealous.... great painting weety love the arrow, as for gaming i think some your collection could make for a great comedy roleplay scenario. , does comedy and 40k go together.. ?

see season 9 episode 4, "Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo"
:

Vivian Dimitri (Helen Shaver), a real-estate executive and wife of a recently deceased man Columbo sent to prison years ago, seeks revenge on Columbo by first killing his wife, then poisoning the detective. First she must do away with her boss, her husband's partner in crime, who skipped jail by ratting out his partner. Columbo begins investigating that murder, while Vivian moves on to her next target: the detective's wife. Written by Peter S. Fischer, directed by Vincent McEveety.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Columbo_episodes

see^^ if you can there are options to view that via internet...but i guess you just could wait an airing for this particular episode^^

vik

They do seem to be repeating it mornings - and I work afternoons so with any luck...

well, concerning colomba there is little doubt you will miss it totally as here in germany it its ever in a sort of rerun...til eternity^^ but our family recently (about a year or so) bought a digital recorder, so know we cant miss anything worthwile and even the not worthwile crap thats usually filling the program...

vik

I think it has cross generational appeal. The joy lies in the intricate and devious ways the murderers concoct their crimes and then the equally devious ways Columbo talks them into a trap...

i think it is something to do with the total different surroundings and the things colombo learns and how he tries to blend in, thus giving the viewer the chance to see new ways of life, hobbies and things in that manner, he is an icon of tv civilization...sounds odd but peter falk is an institution. cant think about tv and my youth without him...not to derail even further but even more impact had mac qyver on me...there where times when i wouldn´t leave the house without swissknife and tape...sounds like i am a serial killer...

vik

Ahh, that's OK if it's Columbo taking up your time I always thought he was making Mrs Columbo up, but then saw a couple of episodes in which other people talked about her - think there was one on a boat and one where some other cops mentioned her.

That eunuch's got some awesome eyebrows, I reckon he's a distant relative of The Hood from Thunderbirds. And you really should have put a handprint on one of his cheeks

That eunuch is exactly why old GW stuff was so great. Let's see the produce a eunuch fig now.

weetyskemian44 wrote:Thanks guys - I do love colour. Your compliments made me think I should stop playing stupid facebook games and paint another - here's Mistress Morgana. There is something slightly wrong with her lip - I think it might have been dented or something - looks ok though

As someone about to paint this exact mini I applude you putting it up. A scheme I would have thought of but so effective thanks.

I need to dig out my rouge trader marines and see if there is anything there that interests you.

Angus

Thankyou - I think it works rather well -she is inspired by the gothic fashion. Red, black and purple were pretty much team colours back in college amongst the goths and metalheads. If she was wearing a tee-shirt it would have 'cradle of filth' or 'motorhead' written on it...

You're really good when it comes to painting those Necro minis... Especially the girls!

How about "A perfect circle." good band.

oh yes - and their other band Tool.


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Happy new year to all and sundry

Happy New Year, and may it be a prosperous one for you (I'll be adding to your prosperity around the end of Jan )

Awsome - I will endevour to get it all running smoothly by then - still need that spray gun for the glaze.
Well I'm off to the beer pit to listen to hard rock band sinpusher fronted by legendary crusty penzance rocker Mr T. He has hair down past his ass and I am really tempted to ask him has he ever accidently soiled it while answering a call of nature. But that would be cruel so I won't

Nah, you just pull it into a top knot first, at least that's how I dealt with my dreads when they were that long Or you pretend you're a Star Wars twi'lek and wrap it around your neck

Have fun, I'm playing sad and lonely boy tonight But I expect I'll make up for it over the rest of the weekend

awww. Well I walked all the way down there only to find they don't open till 9 tonight! bummer. And its not sinpusher playing its 'Broken' and 'Anima' which is nice cos I know those boys. I love local bands. They are more approachable (they dont have minders).

Good times. Still riding the tail end of the buzz. I will probably feel it later on. I'm getting to old for that kind of dancing etc etc

Heres some more christmas bargains. Had to pay through the nose for these.

More recruits for my gang, a squat with some kind of shoulder mounted mortar. Two ancient ancient Inquisitors. Like gold dust they are. And the piece du resistance, A very old tech priest - a better model than the other one I've got.

Ohh, you poor old thing you Personally I like to take my zimmer frame with me when I go out these days

Some nice acquisitions there, I love the way I keep seeing mini's I have owned for years (sometimes decades) getting painted up whilst mine are bare metal, primed or have a base coat. Doesn't make me feel slow at all Those Inquisitors turned to chaos I think, have to dig them out but fairly sure I gave one a horn from his forehead and ripped an arm off the other, have a couple of those ad-mech, I know they're still bare.

I believe that's a Blood Bowl Dwarf by the way.

that would explain why I cant find him in the catalogue. And why his mortar has a football in it... But I'm painting it squat.

Those poor rare minis, stuck unpainted in boxes, arms ripped off. Horns stuck to their heads. Its like the toy mutilating boy in toy story!! No I take that back cos you do such fine work with the mutilations. But you should get some out and paint them.

I'm not old but approaching 30 makes me nervous. My life crystal is flashing and the sandman cometh.

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain....

Time to die."

I'm such a nerd!!

He is a Bazooka Dwarf for Blood Bowl I remember the chainsaw loony dwarf.

weetyskemian44 wrote:I'm not old but approaching 30 makes me nervous. My life crystal is flashing and the sandman cometh.

Clearly, I have found my future ex-wife. Now, I have to move to the UK.

Lastday, Capricorn 11's. Year of the City: 2011. Carousel begins.

If you've got a steady enough hand to paint a Cradle of Filth logo on a mini's shirt...

Cool bazooka dwarf. I love that detail encrusted marine with the battle-axe type thingy.

weetyskemian44 wrote:oh yes - and their other band Tool.


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Yeah, Tool FTW...

And happy new year to you as well...

I will have to keep an eye out for the chainsaw loony dwarf miss dee. That sounds hilarious.
And I will try and paint the cradle of filth logo! I will!!


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or maybe just a pentogram/anarchy symbol

Oh update. (monkeytroll you will be annoyed again) I have nearly finished all those orlocks. Just got highlights to add. Will have to wait till morning as having a film marathon and drunk again

Good luck on the COF logo - as a youth I could barely get a proper 'Anthrax' logo scribbled onto my grade school notebooks. But subsequently at art college I made a specialty out of studying black metal logos, they're quite fun.
Even if the music tends to be awful.

Seriously - a plain old anarchy sign here and there would definitely harken back to the old Rogue Trader days, I recall seeing plenty in the old White Dwarf Golden Demon photo spreads.

I can't wait to see that tech priest painted up, that's a awesome sculpt!

there are a tone of cool oop blood bowl minies like a cyborc, frankinstene, death roller.................

Ahh, just cover the life crystal with an elastoplast, no-one will notice

But if you're a replicant then that explains the speed painting

Look around, we celebrate nerds here

Anarchy symbols definitely As Ambull says, they have a real old-skool feel on minis.

And Miss Dee, I don't remember the cyborc one, that's one I will have to look out for now

where do you get them from?

Generally I don't Most of my collection is from back in the day. I'll occasionally have a flick through e-bay, but I know that I'm liable to just start a spending spree I really can't afford when I do that (Same as most of us I suspect) Something like that grabs my interest though, so I'll have a few trawls sometime when I'm feeling flush.

The orlocks are really on the brink of being finished but I got distracted with some old wartrack and some vehicle crew I found lying aaround. Its meant to be like some kind of reconaisance Vehicle thing - might give it a rocket launcher

I may end up on ebay today...

nice was eager to see you making some bigger stuff finally...
will be nice to see you do some vehicles now.

vik, and happy new year to ye too!

Wow lots of cool stuff weety , i like your inquisi's they are pricey ! and rare , do you remember the one with a round hat and drapes down the side,your atv looks good too. are we going to see a pink and purple or blue and red camo scheme for it ;-)


courtesy of Kid kyoto's rt gallery



Will remove pics or make just links if you wish.

I love that drawing, so weird, so ancient-feeling.

He looks like he has got a VHS slot in his cheast and he is about to stick a video on his built in projector.
Orlocks are done and they look proper. Waiting for better light to do photos.

I think I'm going for a conservative paint job on the atv. a few checkers and insignia, bit of red here and there. Maybe a little flag

lol. The secret History of the Inquisition wars shows that they were fought betwen the 2 factions favouring Betamax or VHS

That'll make a nice little scout buggy for your mercs

qoute "He looks like he has got a VHS slot in his cheast and he is about to stick a video on his built in projector."

Imperial guard , me and my penal slave would like to return this how to mistreat your penal trooper tape , sorry its late and we forgot to rewind it .

Inquisitor just pop it in the slot boy and pull my finger,... next

Enter the "west-hive crips" Complete with gang jackets, colors and bling. I need some Honeys and Ho's to go with this gang - and maybe a car so they can do drive bys

The 40k version of soundwave.

weetyskemian44 wrote:Enter the "west-hive crips" Complete with gang jackets, colors and bling. I need some Honeys and Ho's to go with this gang - and maybe a car so they can do drive bys

Why does he have to wear a Skaven T-shirt?!?

Ahh well that was meant to be an anarchy symbol but I got tired and didn't finish it.

Miss Dee what is this 'soundwave' you speak of?

The transformer from the comic books. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Soundwaveboxart.JPG

I getcha! Good old tapes. All worn out now...

Wazzup West-hive crips? Looking goood dudes

Do want to see them with honeys, a limo and a couple of vans

Like the tartan on the ganger, and the faces on all of them.

Yggdrasil wrote:Why does he have to wear a Skaven T-shirt?!?

weetyskemian44 wrote:Ahh well that was meant to be an anarchy symbol but I got tired and didn't finish it.

Hope you didn't take it seriously uh, that wasn't a criticism at all...

oh well try I never to take things people say in blogs too seriously (except this one time some hater said that squats were stupid, and deserved to be extinct, I got a bit heated over that), and it was a valid critisism as I was being lazy there - but it kindov looks cool unfinished - maybe he is a fan of skaven and so has the tee-shirt.

It would be cool if they had a vehicle or two but thats a pipe dream - honeys on the other hand must be done - I have been trawling the internet for some appropriate minis and I found one on hastlefree and a couple on em4 miniatures But I would love some suggestions as I'm sure there are better ones out there

i saw some corporate chicks once, maybe hasslefree too, they looked hot in their miniskirts and businessatire and also with their mac-10s^^

Now I'm thinking about a diorama showing some hive gangers at a rave One van with the sound-system in, two vans with fold down sides with the hasslefree pole dancers inside

mind cinema at its best^^

Nice work! I often pop in to see how this blog is progressing and you sure do churn out a lot of fantastically painted minis!

Keep up the good work.

Cain

weetyskemian44 wrote:oh well try I never to take things people say in blogs too seriously (except this one time some hater said that squats were stupid, and deserved to be extinct, I got a bit heated over that), and it was a valid critisism as I was being lazy there - but it kindov looks cool unfinished - maybe he is a fan of skaven and so has the tee-shirt.

It would be cool if they had a vehicle or two but thats a pipe dream - honeys on the other hand must be done - I have been trawling the internet for some appropriate minis and I found one on hastlefree and a couple on em4 miniatures But I would love some suggestions as I'm sure there are better ones out there

Copplestone Castings in the UK. Look at their Future Wars line.

http://www.copplestonecastings.co.uk/range.php?range=FW

Thanks they are cool - I'm not sure if I have exhausted the search yet though. If I do go with those or many of the others I've seen then I will give them more warhammer sized guns as theirs are not enormous enough


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Oh and I'm very tempted to buy the armoured rolls royce in the high adventure section and pimp it up, redo the body work, few extra spoilers and such like, stylish paintjob, LED underlighting, alloys, built in jakuzi. Well Maybe not but definitely pimp it up

Nice gangers , the faces of the juves are really expressive !
A few Girl gangers could be conveerted from these ..
http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/Chronoscope/latest/50194

http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/Chronoscope/latest/50176

http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/Chronoscope/latest/50179

http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/Chronoscope/latest/50153

http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/Chronoscope/latest/50163

http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/Chronoscope/latest/50149

http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/Chronoscope/latest/50133

and armorcasdt do some nice urban scenery also
http://armorcast.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=884&osCsid=e7839a886a03e202eb921de784763cd4

and bobby Jacksonsons Thugz

http://www.fantization.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=7745

http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/Chronoscope/latest/50024

great minds think alike because I have just this second purchased the modern day heroine and the biker chick from reaper because I love their flared trousers!! Very 1970s and goes with the style of my gangers (they were kindof inspired by 'the warriors' 1970s gangsta film)

Aha she was my favourite as well , and i love that film i even played the rockstar game , very true to the film btw , i have a ever longing dream to go to Cony island because of that film! and clang cheap beer bottles on my fingers under the train tracks whilst listening to the Eagles

Sorry about the shocking lack of painting - I have a stiff neck and I'm making mugs for a few peeps too.

Also I am waiting for the gang honeys to arrive as I am on a roll. I want to get them a car and pimp it right up - grafitti paintjob maybe - with flourescent colours and big stylised writing

That's OK, once you start again we know you'll get more done in the first day than we've collectively managed in the meantime

Nice 2CV

Hope the neck's nothing too serious.

This is what I'm going for at the mo - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150464834928&fromMakeTrack=true&ssPageName=VIP:watchlink:top:en but to save money I'mgoing to think long and hard about making one. The dread turned out ok (still not painted though) so I think I can do it. I really want to paint some miniature graffiti too.

Sounds interesting, go for it.

Some great stuff going on here as usual...

Make sure you weather the vehicle!