prototype_X wrote:Hey guys! Not sure where to post this, but they are all essentially the same conversation.. over 6-7 different blogs
I am looking at giving scratch building a go. And who better to ask than the leauge. Do you guys have any ideas on a small progect that could get me started? Im far too good at thinking up LARGE scale things.
Cheers.. proto
A little more info would help what kind of thing you into (keep it clean now) what materials are you looking or thinking of using, what do you have to work with.
Give us a little background knowledge and I am sure we can point you in the right direction
Ok I am a marine player. I really like the steampunk/cyberpunk stuff around here. I want to get into =I= munda. Inspired by all of the awesome stuff done around here. Materials wise I have plasticard, and can get anything else I may need. Im on the look out for some rods ATM so I can make rivets etc.
Yes, try something simple not a large project, this way you can get used to working with different materials and if it goes wrong (which something will ) it will not cost you to much.
Plus you will get better with practice and don't be afraid to ask any one for help or advice, and check out the net for hints and tutorials there are loads out there.
But most of all just have fun with it
I like the dreadnought idea or steam punk up a rhino, both are small enough and blocky to work with easily.
I have a lot less 1/2 finished projects on deck right now, and very few of them need rivets. However, I may make another pledge attempt to join the LoER. I have a lot of new ideas and they all will need rivets to complete the look I am going for. Will re-read the whole "how do I make rivets" part of this thread becasue it's been covered more than once.
Hmm. Maybe a senior LoER officer should post a rivets tut?
@LDD- the yard is cleaned up finally- now I need to get this damn diorama done and a few other "have to's" out of the way- then I don't know..I need motivation or a fire under my ass
max wanted to make such an article ... i think he said he was already halfway through the basic outline of such a thing... tho inbetween all his chicken construction i fully understand that he is a bit preoccupied
dsteingass wrote:...Someone once suggested I build something mediocre, well here it is
Well I'll be damned...
well, glad you've got it finished dude, if not for your sanity (what little there is left). Now enough of this vac formed GAK when are we going to see more Necromunda terrain or even a 4 legged steampunk walker??? *crackswhipcozyourkinkylikethat*
hell yes dave! that is looking quite good actually ... like the package suggested^^ wich the content didn´t really hold up to... but i dont think it is really mediocre... so you still owe us such a job
Automatically Appended Next Post: and where is now the overgrown vine and such things?
Yes you turned gak into a pretty dam fine diorama piece (although it still needs debris ) good job but no way does it qualify as mediocre I stand with Vik on this
I like the plaster walls sections was that just washes or some other technique
@Childe- you don't get to ask for any more projects until you finish 1 thing
@Vik- Yes I painted it just how I interpreted the box photo (there were no painting suggestions)- and yes, this is as mediocre as I'm ever going to get. You bitched repatatively that you didn't like the overgrown idea
@LDD- buy the kit and add your own debris if you want it -I don't understand your question about plaster?
dsteingass wrote:yep, basecoat drybrush over the black primer, then inks and washes (you can't use just one despite GW's new formulas), and then drybrushed highlights.
Ok, complete derail of this thread, but I don't know where else to share this. What I am about to show you is 100% real, there's no photoshop or any other alteration of the photos other than I edited them to fit together into one image for comparative purposes.
You've all come to know and love me as the mighty Skalk Bloodaxe, self-appointed Chaos Lord and scourge of the Imperium. IRL I work in a technical field and I'm somewhat of a spaz when it comes to security, especially old devices that I am removing from use.
Today I decided to officially "retire" my old Samsung cell phone. In keeping with tradition I tore the device apart to retrieve and completely destroy the important bitz so I could satisfy my barely managed borderline OCD conspiracy theory paranoia. Imagine my surprise when I found THIS:
THe ruin looks great, Dave! I would say you've done it justice, but that would really be an insult to how good you've made it look Far from 'mediocre', at any rate!
Any plans on what you're up to next?
As to Skalk's find - I was going to say that the Inquisition would never be so unsubtle in their surveillance, but then I though about the armour that =I= members wear Great find - any plans on what to do with it? Other than maybe clearing your house of any demonic artifacts before someone shows up...
Well the joke is on them then. The last time I used that phone I was still in Segmentum Obscurus and it was deactivated and partially dissembled before I returned to Terra. And my new phone was invented by the Tau so no worries there.
Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:Why does this thread keep trying to put things into my body? Inquisitorial brain chips, 39" long submarines... what's wrong with you people?
Because your kinky like that?
Automatically Appended Next Post: P.s. I could always assimilate you into the hive fleet... we always need more mass
That is the Seaview, the Atomic sub from "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" on TV and one movie with the sexy Barbara Eden in a tight military skirt and blouse! (She was in "I Dream of Jeanie")
Yep, my review is submitted...who knows when it'll get published???
Title: Diorama with Ruins
Scale: 1:35
Reviewer: Dave Steingass IPMS #47624
Product/Stock #: 36039
MSRP: $33.50
Review Type: OOB Build
Product Type: Scenery
Company Info: Miniart
Company Website Title: Miniart Models
Company Website URL: http://miniart-models.com/ Provided by Title: MRC- Model Rectifier Corp
Provided by URL: http://www.modelrec.com
Miniart has released a huge number of diorama and scenic kits, designed with the scratchbuilder and kitbasher in mind. This kit is a simple unreinforced brick building ruin, suitable for almost any era or location in the world that has used this type of construction technique.
This kit consists of 35 parts, including a vacu-formed base measuring 238x170mm, one sheet of vacu-formed walls, and one sprue of injection-molded styrene accessories (the accessory sprue seems to be the compulsory treat included in all Miniart kits), and a one-page, double-sided instruction sheet.
The vacu-formed walls are two-parts each that need cut out of the sheet and joined together along the length of the brick walls, however the fit of these wall parts is atrocious. Huge gaps are evident immediately, and brick and mortar lines do not match up. This required me to use almost an entire tube of Squadron green Putty to make it presentable, and then once the putty was dry, I had to file and sand the brick lines back into place. This is a lot of work for such a simple kit, so because of the required filling and filing/sanding I could not recommend this kit to anyone but an experienced modeler.
With the exception of the walls, the detail in the vacu-formed parts is very well done. I wanted my ruin to have more of a bombed-out industrial building look, so instead of using the parts on the injection-molded styrene sprue representing wooden residential windows and doors, I made my own door jambs and window frames from strip styrene, and used some clipped ¼" square chicken wire for window frames.
I primed the entire ruin with flat black rattle-can primer, and painted it with a mix of Vallejo, Polly-S, and Citadel acrylic paints and Secret Weapon washes, and Didi's Magic inks.
Many thanks go to MRC and IPMS-USA for the sample kit.
...And then the pics scroller thing at the bottom of the page....
well as i stated... you could have justified used a quite more negative tone for that one... i mena... where is the point to pay around over 30 bucks for such a kit and then have to file back in the brickworks on the top of the walls? if it were for a cheapo kit from the poundshop i would call it a fair bargain... but 30 bucks are not cheap really...
at first i would have thought of stephen king... but that B&W movie... ? what is that suppposed to be? sorry mate... i guess it is an educational gap again^^
Not that I remember them all specifically, but it was interesting when one of the zombies picked up a handgun and started learning how to use it; different movie but same series.
Personally, I think Romero is a little over rated... I like my horror Japanese (Ringu, The grudge, The eye etc.) or 80's style... (Hellraiser, John Carpenters the Thing etc.)
hmmm... i only recently found my way to zombie movies... so that might have to be taken into account too... and as i am atm the only one at home i wint rent any movies because renting a movie and watching it alone is crap... you need a juicy pizza and a coke to go with a good movie... tho i think...tasty food and zombie movies might be a challenge^^
sidequestion: does anyone know where to downlad the DLC stuff of new vegas? i only yesterday went to my tech shop and they had the "only" new vegas game for a tenner... i might get that one through the wife radar...^^ but i wouldn´t want to start the game without said DLC...
and ...for the record... looks promising dave... what will it be...now spill the beans...:
AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:Personally, I think Romero is a little over rated... I like my horror Japanese (Ringu, The grudge, The eye etc.) or 80's style... (Hellraiser, John Carpenters the Thing etc.)
I'm sorry..I have to unsubscribe and unfriend you now. goodbye Childe,
None of the other zombie movies, none of your other styles would even exist if not for George Romero.
Why don't you just commit full-on blasphemy and say that "The Beatles" are overated.
Hell, why don't you just say that "the Apollo Missions were overrated" while you are at it!!
AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:Personally, I think Romero is a little over rated... I like my horror Japanese (Ringu, The grudge, The eye etc.) or 80's style... (Hellraiser, John Carpenters the Thing etc.)
I'm sorry..I have to unsubscribe and unfriend you now. goodbye Childe,
None of the other zombie movies, none of your other styles would even exist if not for George Romero.
Why don't you just commit full-on blasphemy and say that "The Beatles" are overated.
Hell, why don't you just say that "the Apollo Missions were overrated" while you are at it!!
People are allowed opinions you know Anyways, sure the Beatles were influential, but they are over-rated. There is more to music than the Beatles or the Rolling stones... for eg, Imelda may, Dionne warrick, Nina Simone, The Kinks, Bill Hayley and the comets, Elvis Presley, Oasis, Nine inch Nails, Frankie goes to hollywood, and so on and so forth.
The point is, music was around before the Beatles, and better bands had a bigger impact than they did as well. Just because the Beatles and Romero define music and Zombie horror for you doesn't mean it should for everyone else. I've grown up on a steady diet of everything, and as such I view things differently than the herd.
Also, you can't compare social phenomena such as music and cinema to an event like the Apollo missions...
You sir, are a poopy pants
Automatically Appended Next Post: Also, I don't think you ever added me as a friend
hahaha, that is what I dont miss about being with someone tbh... I like to be able to choose what I watch the few times i'm in the mood for it in fairness. So I feel your pain... and I shall mock you
A band that influenced every single band/artist that you listed (including Elvis-yes look it up) is not overrated. A director whose film influenced all other horror films since cannot be called overrated. This is not a matter of opinion, it's historical fact, since without A, there never would have been a B, or C.
No one is saying you personally have to like them, or your opinion is wrong. I am saying that they are fundamental influences into everything that you do love, and therefore cannot be discounted as "overrated" since they influenced everything since.
Opinions and tastes are not in question here. Quit trying to spin the discussion to become something it is not. This is a logical fallacy.
Had you simply stated your opinion as your opinion- that would have been a different story.
"I don't like Marines"- is my opinion, but I cannot say "Marines are overrated" because without the Space Marines I would not have my beloved Guard.
The real fight is the slow zombie vs fast "zombie" camps anyway.
Personally I think the zombie should indeed reflect its current state of decomposition, though with rigor mortis at least they'd start shambling probably quickly. Then again that's taking it all a little too seriously and like Return of The Living Dead has shown seriousness is not required when it comes to zombies.
ok, so how is it that we rationalize that the speed at which reanimated dead flesh has a direct relation to the decomposition of that dead flesh, yet we accept that skeleton warriors just move?...They have no muscles to move the bones? lol
I usually stick doctor who on tbh... but I have to wait until august for it this year :(
You just became really cool in my book. Go for the complete win and tell me what you think of the previous Doctors.
@ Dstein- Didn't MadMarty have some iron fences a while back (meaning many months ago, I'm still trying to remember that my most recent memories of Dakka are everyone elses ancient history). Where did you get those?
Wait. Don't answer that. I don't need any. I don't.
Also, wanted to share this with you guys, since I think of you all when I find a cool terrain thread:
I'm building the fence kit for review- I'm not really using them yet, just trying to get my last 2 review backlogs done so I am ready for the big-ass submarine model
You are quite welcome. He deserves more attention for such an amazing project and you deserved to know that you're still a major inspiration to people.
dsteingass wrote:A band that influenced every single band/artist that you listed (including Elvis-yes look it up) is not overrated. A director whose film influenced all other horror films since cannot be called overrated. This is not a matter of opinion, it's historical fact, since without A, there never would have been a B, or C.
No one is saying you personally have to like them, or your opinion is wrong. I am saying that they are fundamental influences into everything that you do love, and therefore cannot be discounted as "overrated" since they influenced everything since.
Opinions and tastes are not in question here. Quit trying to spin the discussion to become something it is not. This is a logical fallacy.
Had you simply stated your opinion as your opinion- that would have been a different story.
"I don't like Marines"- is my opinion, but I cannot say "Marines are overrated" because without the Space Marines I would not have my beloved Guard.
Besides, Im just giving you gak Childe, relax man
lols I know, my main argument against what you've said is that something is always influenced by something else. Without 50's Rock 'n Roll you wouldn't have had people like the beatles
Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:
AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:LDD don't watch itv then
I usually stick doctor who on tbh... but I have to wait until august for it this year :(
You just became really cool in my book. Go for the complete win and tell me what you think of the previous Doctors.
My favourite is and always will be Matt Smith and Tom Baker. Tom baker is quintessentially the doctor, from his scarf to the jelly baby fetish he seemed to have. But Matt Smith has taken a lot of his predecessors mannerisms on board, most of which were Patrick Troughton's. who was not only quirky but lovable and insane lols. I especially love the fact with Matt Smiths scripts they seem to have tipped their proverbial hat a lot to Troughton, especially In "closing time"
Just the first post of that thread looks promising Skalk, I'll have to check it out later too. Lot s to do before the weekend!
I wanted to touch on the Zombie theme for a minute. I don't actually belive the Zombies will be slow at all, or dead for that matter. The dead coming back to life was always a bit hard for me to swallow. However, that doesn't mean they couldn't be BRAIN dead! I think with all of the contagions and super bugs and methods for making super soldiers that I'm sure the Governments (that's right, plural) are working on, there are any number of scenarios where "Something Goes Wrong" and the Super Soldier Syrum is mixed with a Super Flu, and you get super strong, super fast, hyper agressive, brain dead cannibals that can spread thier condition by contact with their saliva. (They would be brain dead because the super flu gave them a fever that got so high, it damaged their brains)
There might be some of these monsters that have been physically damaged, or the super syrum has worn off, and they can hardly move. These might be more like the drooling slow-moving "shamblers". And why in movies are animals hardly ever affected? The only ones I can think of that show animal zombies is the Resident Evil ones.
Just my two cents.
But my version actually scares the crap out of me, and I think it could happen at any time. I need to go to the Sproting Goods store this weekend!
There was a show on the History or Science Channel about that very thing..They say a purposely-manufactured Prion could actually cause that very thing Jake...stranger than fiction I tell ya!
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean nobody is after you.
Bat, no. But I have a Machete in my car and two at home. I'm a Land Surveyor by trade, and we need them to hack through the brush. By now I am very proficient with a machete! Check.
Pistols, Check.
Shotguns, Check.
Scoped Rifles, Check.
Survival equipment, Check, but I can always use more.
Well, I'm outta here for the long weekend. I'll see you all in about 6 or 7 pages!
Automatically Appended Next Post: ..As far as TV..there is some GOOD shows on amidst all the gak, you gotta admit, Fringe, Game of Thrones, I am sad that House M.D. is over, Top Gear UK,
and I think the only comedy show on worth a damn...
Thanks for the Link to the reviews. I've read the Iron Man one before, so I must have come across them in the past.
As for TV shows, I am bit easier of a critic. If it revolves around Super Heroes or the Supernatural I'm watching it. (Supernatural, Vampire Diaries, Teen Wolf, Amazing Spider-Man, Avengers, etc...)
will you add rivets to the aquilla too...? could look quite good too... and yes... a serious lack of rivets i have felt in my life recently... seems i need to scratchbuilt soon something... but for now i still have my painting mojo... if that runs out i think building something will happen!
well i can only encourage you on this one... i bet it will look very good... maybe this even calls for a different aproach? you could do some glue rivets? like shaso does? either with PVA or super glue... just slightly raised areas... later on to be drybrished for highlights...
I like the look of the fence with the aquilla works great and the riveted panels was a nice touch, I did not mean to sell them but that they were that good you could
mxwllmdr wrote:Seriously, you could at least do a little research on the original films before you go spouting that new release redux crap movie stuff....
Dave, the originals by far, your heretics statement stands....
Also, no one worth their horror movie salt could fail to recognize that still frame in a split instant.....
just wanted to point out i only asked if it was this one, never said it was any good.. because it wasnt.. my sister and her close friend work with haunted houses and such with makeup, and my sister has a really bad liking for horrible horror movies
Automatically Appended Next Post: btw dave that gate looks amazing!
hmm, i personaly love the way one big base looks, but i think the linear type might work better for actual gaming, plus if your picky and dont want your fence on grass (example of course) to be in the middle of your concrete, you wont half to
I'd vote linear, but enough support to be free-standing. If you build a big base, then you'll need to scenik that big base, and you'll end up building some sort of Imperial Graveyard, with Aquila headstones and that giant Space Marine statue in the center, except you'll covert it to be a working water fountain.
What started and never finished I did paint a fantasy building once turned out pretty good I thought god knows where that is now,I even painted bird poo on the roof
Briancj wrote:I'd vote linear, but enough support to be free-standing. If you build a big base, then you'll need to scenik that big base, and you'll end up building some sort of Imperial Graveyard, with Aquila headstones and that giant Space Marine statue in the center, except you'll covert it to be a working water fountain.
Briancj wrote:I'd vote linear, but enough support to be free-standing. If you build a big base, then you'll need to scenik that big base, and you'll end up building some sort of Imperial Graveyard, with Aquila headstones and that giant Space Marine statue in the center, except you'll covert it to be a working water fountain.
here is a thought that poped up in my mind... if possible... magnetize the fence at the bottom... thus you could do swapable bases... for different terrain? sounds too expensive? would give you plenty of options tho...
combination looks quite good dave! well if it is as seen... then i think you should do a big base for everything... at least what we currently see... after that other segments in whatever size you might need...
How about I build it simple and linear corner peices for the purposes of the review..then later, I can "liberate these parts easier for greater manor house, or castle project????
remember, time is of the essense here...
Automatically Appended Next Post: No Vik..they have all the correct shapes of pin and reciever..just like the fence in my backyard!..But they arean't load-bearing..the styrene reciever would have to be made of ABS or something that takes friction better than styrene
oh... color me confused... didn´t knew you were on a schedule here... must have over read that this needs a review too... is that allowed to add the aquilla ? i mean it will be seen later on on your review pics too...
dsteingass wrote:Hmmm....IMHO, to rivet the aquila properly with the best pattern, I think I'd need some styrene rod smaller than my smallest in-stock which is 1mm.
I make my rivets with a 1/16th" punch and some thin ploystyrene sheet
Automatically Appended Next Post: Here I try out some of the new Citadel texture paint
Adam..1/16" is stil la bit too big.
Automatically Appended Next Post: MOAR spikes
Automatically Appended Next Post: With the Wayward rivet replaced, a light sanding on the rivets in the morning and she'll be ready for the simplest paintjob ever now we sleep
I wasn't so excited about this project when I saw the sprues, but you're turning into something interesting, Dave! Excellent work!
Any thoughts of adding some techy bits? I'd like to see some sort of security or keypad panel or something, either attached to the actual fence or on it's own post.
dsteingass wrote: Yes, everything that changes the entire fething world is overrated.
Sigged
AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:
dsteingass wrote:
AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:Personally, I think Romero is a little over rated... I like my horror Japanese (Ringu, The grudge, The eye etc.) or 80's style... (Hellraiser, John Carpenters the Thing etc.)
I'm sorry..I have to unsubscribe and unfriend you now. goodbye Childe,
None of the other zombie movies, none of your other styles would even exist if not for George Romero.
Why don't you just commit full-on blasphemy and say that "The Beatles" are overated.
Hell, why don't you just say that "the Apollo Missions were overrated" while you are at it!!
People are allowed opinions you know Anyways, sure the Beatles were influential, but they are over-rated. There is more to music than the Beatles or the Rolling stones... for eg, Imelda may, Dionne warrick, Nina Simone, The Kinks, Bill Hayley and the comets, Elvis Presley, Oasis, Nine inch Nails, Frankie goes to hollywood, and so on and so forth.
The point is, music was around before the Beatles, and better bands had a bigger impact than they did as well. Just because the Beatles and Romero define music and Zombie horror for you doesn't mean it should for everyone else. I've grown up on a steady diet of everything, and as such I view things differently than the herd.
Also, you can't compare social phenomena such as music and cinema to an event like the Apollo missions...
You sir, are a poopy pants
Automatically Appended Next Post: Also, I don't think you ever added me as a friend
Oasis sucked balls.....
Automatically Appended Next Post: Very nice fence, BTW, Dave......
Automatically Appended Next Post: Wait..... How he feth did I miss FGTH on that list? Are you serious with that one? Seriously? May have well said that Richard Cheese should get Grammies (multiple) every year.......
Automatically Appended Next Post: Oh, yea, I know my opinons suck....
But when many, many millions of people hold the same ones I do it sorta lends credence to the opinon.....
Automatically Appended Next Post: Like the fact the Beatles fething rock forever....
Still love you and all, UAC, but Simon Cowell is the only brit I have ever seen that is a blatant douchebag....
No tech bitz yet. I just need to get it done and reviewed. I'd love to just stash the sprues away until I needed them to go whole hog, but I can't I have to get it done. I can easily dissasemble it then if I want to reuse it, since it's just hot glued to the base.
Automatically Appended Next Post: I'm pretty excited about the new plastic Ork Bomma kit!
They look like MIGs to me!
I hope this means a plastic Thunderbolt is a potential!
I like to leave Thursday open, that is when I like to spend as much time as possible rummaging through the glorious bins in the dealer area!!! It is my personal HEAVEN DAY of the GenCon experience -
My GF calls it "Daycare" when she attends chainmail dice bag-making classes and such -She gives me a wad of cash and knows where I'll be 6 hrs later
well i looked at the flyers email i got from GW and i have to say they all look pretty mehhh to me... and i particular find the lack of any IG small flyers a bit stressing the limits... why orks, SM and ´crons but no IG??? unfair i call this lot!
and max:
Oasis sucked balls.....
so seconded for the truth mate! *brofist* i can´t stand them and their supposed to overshining lennon artistic ways...eh??? who´s buying that here? not me!
and the based and now primed fence looks very good... will there be weathering at all? or as you stated this will be the simplest paintjob of all times... will you just drybrush metall over it?
and the schedule of your convisit looks great... hirst arts workshop? cool... end products for you to keep? hope so!
by the way dave... we ´ve been recently on a fleamarket and got ten of these orange clone troopers... does someone that watches the tvshow know what is the name of the orange clone trooper?... thought you would like to see a lil groupshot of these^^
Automatically Appended Next Post: i need to get one day some cheaper molds for terrain making to get into the how to for starteres... hirst arts are for now too expensive for me... tho they still rock in looks!
bomb squad? hmmm... the guy we got them of (by the way... 1.50€s only each...) said he got them by exchanging them with others... before we cae he even had the same amount of blue clone troopers too... that guy must have been either a genius for swaping stuff or beeing a mad buyer of lots of kits...^^
Viktor von Domm wrote:well i looked at the flyers email i got from GW and i have to say they all look pretty mehhh to me... and i particular find the lack of any IG small flyers a bit stressing the limits... why orks, SM and ´crons but no IG??? unfair i call this lot!
Well the Necrons needed the Scythes as they are standard codex stuff. the SM flyer was needed as they didnt have one (only blood angels and grey knights have them so far), Orks didn't have standard dex fliers either. IG have the Valkyrie and the Vendetta so quit ya moaning
The SM Looks cool and all like a mini Stormbird and quite pre heresy imo... So I'll be buying one to rivet up and pre-heresy-fy it
They do look pretty doable, though if you put soil onto them they may look a little buried in. Sort of adds to a wet/muddy appearance as the still "living" zombies could trample the parts of the more dead ones as they march on. I wonder if people have thought to do it with DKoK as I'd expect the same of them a bit.
my sculpting for humans needs work, but I could try... but Ihonestly don't mind saving time buying their bases, as to me they are dirt cheap.
n0t_u, the point of the "corpse fields" bases is to use wet effect for blood or water to fill the different. the blasted wetlands bases use the same idea. which reminds me, i need to order some wet effect next weekend
No need to sculpt them if you can get a hold of a box of zombies cheap enough. Cut them right and you could get them sunk in and two uses out of most parts.
n0t_u wrote:No need to sculpt them if you can get a hold of a box of zombies cheap enough. Cut them right and you could get them sunk in and two uses out of most parts.
Sorry dude, I would never do that, as for bases, I'll either go the whole hog and sculpt them myself, or buy them.
woot!
I just got the last ticket for this class at GenCon!
Game ID: MHE1229613
Title: Introduction to Green Stuff Modeling
Short Description: The class will be taught by Joe Orteza, 14 time Golden Demon winner and formally trained art instructor. Students will learn to utilize green stuff for miniature model embellishment and sculpting.
Long Description: This class will focus on figure conversion and the use of “green stuff” Kneadtite sculpting putty. Students will learn different aspects of figure conversion, from basic to advanced. The class will touch on the pose of the figure, basing, and the theme of model. Joe will discuss different techniques from single display models to large units. Students will learn to utilize green stuff for figure embellishment and sculpting. Students will receive four hand picked sculpting tools, tweezers, pen, glass sculpting surface and an instructional pamphlet as part of the course fee. Also Joe will demonstrate some new techniques exclusive to the class.
dsteingass wrote:don't hate the playa, hate the game
woot!
I just got the last ticket for this class at GenCon!
Game ID: MHE1229613
Title: Introduction to Green Stuff Modeling
Short Description: The class will be taught by Joe Orteza, 14 time Golden Demon winner and formally trained art instructor. Students will learn to utilize green stuff for miniature model embellishment and sculpting.
Long Description: This class will focus on figure conversion and the use of “green stuff” Kneadtite sculpting putty. Students will learn different aspects of figure conversion, from basic to advanced. The class will touch on the pose of the figure, basing, and the theme of model. Joe will discuss different techniques from single display models to large units. Students will learn to utilize green stuff for figure embellishment and sculpting. Students will receive four hand picked sculpting tools, tweezers, pen, glass sculpting surface and an instructional pamphlet as part of the course fee. Also Joe will demonstrate some new techniques exclusive to the class.
Automatically Appended Next Post: I wanted to show off the awesomeness that arrived in the mail yesterday..
Jake's Stuff!
I cannot begin to explain how fething awesome it was to open this box! All 100% Jake-Made stuff!
To see these steampunk weapons and boilers here on my bench after watching them go from suggestion to idea to reality right here on Dakka....This is just the greatest feeling ever!
The Heads are an awesome bonus I wasn't expecting!
...But the coolest thing ever in the entire world are these Nuka Cola bottles and caps!!-
THIS RIGHT HERE..is what Dakka, and the P&M blogs, -=]_,=- and all of the silliness and OT stuff is all about, like-minded, talented people, talking about ideas, and making them happen!! This is why we are all here!
Jake..you are a completely badass person, an amazing sculptor, and a great friend...Thank you for the bottom of my heart man!
briancj wrote:
Dave, I'll be working with my friend Thom to run Artemis: The Spaceship Bridge Simulator. http://artemis.eochu.com
We will have a total of six starships running, including two 'immersion' bridges with touchscreen control panels.
Oh Yeah..I was reading about that..is it pretty cool?
If you have ever, and I mean EVER, wanted to sit on the bridge of the USS Enterprise, and man one of the consoles, to fly a starship? Yeah. It's hella cool. Six people working together (Captain, Helm, Tactical, Science, Communications, Engineering) to fly a ship. And each position is equally important!
PS: THIS WAS POST 1111 for me. I'm going to DRINK, HEAVILY.
And who is this jake man?! Thats really cool stuff he has made. Amazed, but not entirely surprised dakka has the capability to encourage things like that to be made and shared
hey dave... sorry to have let everybody down a bit...family and an enlarged yet again weekend took it´s toll...and my right eye got all mushy over the weekend too... so a tear is these days always stuck in my eye too...(no pun)
the fence looks really well...the added ivy looks very cool...the last wash brought the details out a treat... with the grass flockings this piece declared to be a quick job nevertheless looks awesome!
and then the GS workshop... that is something you really need to do! try to get some work on weapon details and such things... i bet if you can master this the sky is the very limit!
and wow... seeing jakes stuff in your paws i am really edgy when on the gods forsaken world the postman will turn up with my package too... i bet i still have two week more time to wait this glorious day... he even got you his selfmade boilers? how cool is that?...brilliant!
and i thought if vader was a guitar man...i thought he would rather play leadguitar than bass... well^^
i step out for two weeks and all this awesome happens what the hell? any rate great to see your fence done. though i was a tad confused by your thread name it said mega man and i thought you got a model of mega man to do. teaches me not to get my hopes up. guys in the us hope you had a good memorail day weekend vik and others hope you had a great monday.
and as of tomorrow im heading back to my sludge pit.
true but with out little gems like dakka beer and the ocasional stripper lifes kinda boring. and there is no sex in the champaign room. *nods matter of factly* but the biggest problem is the lack of funds and a craptastic economy i dont know hows is going but ours still sucks.
As Daves thread seems to be the place to ask questions lols, here goes...
Does anyone have, or know of any examples of how to sculpt capes? tis something I'm considering for my pre heresy tru-scale Chapter-master I'm going to build ^_^
I cannot begin to explain how fething awesome it was to open this box! All 100% Jake-Made stuff!
To see these steampunk weapons and boilers here on my bench after watching them go from suggestion to idea to reality right here on Dakka....This is just the greatest feeling ever!
The Heads are an awesome bonus I wasn't expecting!
...But the coolest thing ever in the entire world are these Nuka Cola bottles and caps!!-
THIS RIGHT HERE..is what Dakka, and the P&M blogs, -=]_,=- and all of the silliness and OT stuff is all about, like-minded, talented people, talking about ideas, and making them happen!! This is why we are all here!
Jake..you are a completely badass person, an amazing sculptor, and a great friend...Thank you for the bottom of my heart man!
Dave, your amazing comment choked me up a bit. I almost heard patriotic music in the background too...(actually, it was Stevie Ray Vaughn, so, pretty close.) You my friend are also very much the awesome one! A lot of my products, the bottles for instance, are a direct result of your amazing work. If you hadn't made the Nukka Machine, would I have ever even attempted the bottles? The answer is no.
If El Vik, and the -=]_,=- hadn't been interested in Steampunk Weapons, would I have made them? No.
So thank you, and thank everyone in the -=]_,=-, and everyone who follows the -=]_,=-'s insane ramblings.
I'm really glad you like the stuff. Now, in the next few minutes, I'll have an update on my blog with pics! I know you'll like some of them!
And later, I have to catch on this blog, it may take a while.
sounds like you three have a conspiracy in the making. oh yea i got a tad bit more done on my sludge pit so go me go i really should go get more work done on that thing well, i am off to go take care of that. i'll be on later to show my progress and what not until then have a good afternoon. and if you were wondering my appt went really well clean bill of health so no more excuses of putting the awesome off.
last time i had a spelling mistake in the title of my thread... if you typed that word...i tried to spell "swelled" and failed... then you could see all my pics of my thread...it was most hillarious^^
So thank you, and thank everyone in the -=]_,=-, and everyone who follows the -=]_,=-'s insane ramblings.
I would, but the warranty expired on my Flux Capacitor
I just finished ALL 5 of my outstanding reviews for IPMS-USA finally today. I wrote up my review of Sci Fi and Fantasy Modeller Vol. 25 and submitted it. I have some breathing room now, until that big-assed submarine kit arrives of course
what kind of thing you into (keep it clean now) what materials are you looking or thinking of using, what do you have to work with.
whats next on the work bench 
