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lol I'm pretty dull on facebook too. I'm not sure I even log in once a month, and when I do log in, I'm not sure what I'm doing there so I log off. Good times. I use to be a big fan of Myspace back in the day though, before everyone left.

OK, JB, Terntadust is up.

The last time I logged on was about a year ago and I think I had 3 friends, was a member of 1 group and had zero photos up

What I found most amusing was I set up an account using my avatar - a character I played in Eve, for the purpose of corp communications - it never got used for that but the account had about a hundred friend requests from complete strangers all over the world in a few months

Dysates - Is all your stuff going on the showcase now? I wondered why I hadn't seen any of your stuff for some time.

[With apologies to Ifalna, as I seem to be accidentally hijacking her blog]

Yes, monkeytroll - I'd found that my blog was getting a very low response rate, even when updating at the weekly level. I was getting a fair few views, but no-one seemed to be taking much of an interest. Now, the fact I paint to a TT standard, rather than a show standard, and tend to jump around from subject to subject may have had something to do with that.

Either way, with a fairly hefty drop-off in painting in Q4 last year, I decided to make a clean break of it and start with a new thread in 2012.

JB wrote:
You live in a floating domicile. That is already 10 times cooler than me living in a cozy village where the highlights are bakeries and a cuppa tea.

What? That sounds like an amazingly intense life. Cakes are serious business and only for the truly hardcore. Cuppa tea's are totally out of my league, way too extreme for me to possibly handle.

Lt. Coldfire wrote:lol I'm pretty dull on facebook too. I'm not sure I even log in once a month, and when I do log in, I'm not sure what I'm doing there so I log off. Good times. I use to be a big fan of Myspace back in the day though, before everyone left.

I think its such a big deal for me as I live in such a quiet area, actually managing some socialising online is important to keep me sane. Hopefully that will change when we move to a village in the near future, I don't want to end up a crazy hermit lady.

Dysartes wrote:[With apologies to Ifalna, as I seem to be accidentally hijacking her blog].

No apology needed, good to see nice conversations going on

My weekend has ended and the housework is done, getting to grips on some mini's now. Updates soon!

We're all still here. I think everyone has the Saturday "busies". I am wraslin' (as we Americans sometimes say instead of using the word "wrestling") with whether to paint, drink a cuppa tea, or do some required reading. I think the tea will win.

I'm currently enjoying an "Irish Breakfast Tea" my original selection for the day has failed to wake me up... Turns out I didn't buy something that came from a "tea" plant, instead I purchased a Rooibos tea, which contains no caffeine.

I've been helping run a Legend of the Five Rings CCG event at my FLGS - though I did manage to finish off three Stormsmiths before I went.

Currently trying to decide whether to work on my SS Vampyr, Mariner heavy warjack, unit of 6 Stormguard, Baldur the Stonecleaver or Gudrun the Wanderer next - or to assemble the Swamp Troll I picked up yesterday.

JB wrote:
We're all still here. I think everyone has the Saturday "busies". I am wraslin' (as we Americans sometimes say instead of using the word "wrestling") with whether to paint, drink a cuppa tea, or do some required reading. I think the tea will win.

Book on monitor, mini on desk, tea in mug by hand! If you want to relax to the max, you gots to multitask.

Alfndrate wrote:I'm currently enjoying an "Irish Breakfast Tea" my original selection for the day has failed to wake me up... Turns out I didn't buy something that came from a "tea" plant, instead I purchased a Rooibos tea, which contains no caffeine.

I love herbal and fruit teas, but marketing something as a breakfast tea with no caffeine is surely sacrilege?

Dysartes wrote:I've been helping run a Legend of the Five Rings CCG event at my FLGS - though I did manage to finish off three Stormsmiths before I went.
Currently trying to decide whether to work on my SS Vampyr, Mariner heavy warjack, unit of 6 Stormguard, Baldur the Stonecleaver or Gudrun the Wanderer next - or to assemble the Swamp Troll I picked up yesterday.

Oh wow, you have been busy! You should start on all the mini's and you will find one is holding your attention more than the others, thats how I decide if I have a couple to go at the same time It could work for you too.

I finished off the Astropath for now, may well be more changes to come if JB would like anything altered



Happy that I kept him relatively dark while getting some nice rich tones, his staff is quite nice but the metals just don't show that well in photos sadly. Sliiight additional shine on him, but the varnish will dry nice and matte by tomorrow.

Oh no, I bought two types of teas yesterday. An Irish Breakfast tea, and a Vanilla Rooibos tea... Much like with my harder drinks, the Irish provided what I wanted. The rooibos tea is not real tea, but it smells awesome


And now for a little on topic talk

That astropath looks awesome. The purple looks really great against the green.

The blind man looks like he sees a lot, Ifalna - including a need for an amended thread title

Haha Dysartes, totally done.

I am painting a goblins tiny golden shoes as we speak.

Tiny. Golden. Shoes.

Dysartes wrote:The blind man looks like he sees a lot, Ifalna - including a need for an amended thread title

Perhaps he doesn't know that she thinks he's a little monkey man? Well, he can thank the Jokero for that!

He looks good, Ifalna. The robes look velvety. The staff looks very nice - almost warm.

The only bits that seem off are the aquila belt buckle and the skulls below on the bottom of his cords. In the photo, they almost blend (color wise) in with the cords. I'm torn. On the one hand, that allows the Astropath's face and hands to really stand out which is something that appeals to me. His face almost has a saintly quality. It "pops", which is exactly what I wanted. On the other hand, my tinkering nature makes me wonder how it would look if the aquila had a sepia wash over it (to give it more of a golden look) , and if the skulls had a green or blue wash to make them look like a metallic color rather than silver. Would that end up detracting from his face by being too busy?

Go ahead and move on to your next project. I'll have to mull over this and if I ever make up my mind, I'll try it out myself much later. I may have to test some washes over metal.

Haha, swag! Is he gonna rival the horsey?

JB wrote:
The only bits that seem off are the aquila belt buckle and the skulls below on the bottom of his cords. In the photo, they almost blend (color wise) in with the cords. I'm torn. On the one hand, that allows the Astropath's face and hands to really stand out which is something that appeals to me. On the other hand, my tinkering nature makes me wonder how it would look if the aquila had a sepia wash over it (to give it more of a golden look) , and if the skulls had a green or blue wash to make them look like a metallic color rather than silver. Would that end up detracting from his face by being too busy?

His silver bits are Mithril over darkened Boltgun, they don't show very well I agree, because my camera just plain cannot-into-metals. They really do stand about against the white cords, they just come across quite flat white in the shots :( Ill get you another shot tomorrow in day light and you can have a look, I will have no problem altering them if they still look off

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Haha, swag! Is he gonna rival the horsey?

No one can rival that horse. He is my greatest masterpiece.

Shplendid Mish Moneypenny

Uh-oh - weety's been on the sloe gin again...

Tiny golden shoes, for tiny goblin feet, Ifalna

to the contrary I have just discovered underberg. Victor might know what that is - after all it is in Deutschland hergestellt

I have to admit that the anticipation for a Goblin with Golden Shoes is killing me...and he's not even my mini. Dysartes, I have to admit that I keep thinking of flying monkeys every time I see that metal goblin and I have no idea why. There's no logical connection.

EDIT: And I had to look up Underberg since Weety mentioned it. I have no idea why anyone would drink a digestif bitter though.

I was in an experimental mood and it was on special - The bitter herbs make one feel high... mmm

another succesfull mini iff, nice job!

Methinks, that Ifalna had troubles with golden slippers.

My god, I am busy for a day and the thread degenerates into a boozefest? Fantastic

JB wrote:
Methinks, that Ifalna had troubles with golden slippers.

Haha, the wee golden shoes are done! I took shots but having only the gold finished on a very early WIP mini looks, em, terrible. He is far more progressed now but is in his early messy skin stages so actually looks even worse. Early highlight stages for my detailed work always look complete gak, almost disheartening, but hey, just have to keep building on it, haha!

JB I took some shots of the Astropath to try and show the silver better, but my camera just aint up for it. Even with the flash I'm still getting a flat finish, it is so strange, I have no idea how to get the metals to reflect nicely. If you want me to go ahead with the washes then its no problemo!

Ifalna wrote:
My god, I am busy for a day and the thread degenerates into a boozefest? Fantastic

I get the feeling that not much of an excuse is needed

And you're hoping to improve your social life when you move to a village? Are you that far out in the sticks?


The robes on that astropath look gorgeous, lovely highlighting on the torso.

Ohhhh I will never dink again!

The astropath is lovely - his robes look so velvety

Ifalna wrote:
My god, I am busy for a day and the thread degenerates into a boozefest? Fantastic

JB wrote:
Methinks, that Ifalna had troubles with golden slippers.

Haha, the wee golden shoes are done! I took shots but having only the gold finished on a very early WIP mini looks, em, terrible. He is far more progressed now but is in his early messy skin stages so actually looks even worse. Early highlight stages for my detailed work always look complete gak, almost disheartening, but hey, just have to keep building on it, haha!

JB I took some shots of the Astropath to try and show the silver better, but my camera just aint up for it. Even with the flash I'm still getting a flat finish, it is so strange, I have no idea how to get the metals to reflect nicely. If you want me to go ahead with the washes then its no problemo!

No worries. Don't change a thing. I'll wait until I see the Astropath in hand. I'm not sure I want more varied color distinction anyway since I want all attention focused on the upper part of him.

Ifalna wrote:Oh my god, had such a good laugh reading through this

I won't have any mini's up tonight (looking at you, Wehrkind) as I am on my "weekend" and enjoying fine dining of too much whiskey and fancy crisps while playing Minecraft with my little bro and laughing at the BFs Skyrim adventuring.

If anyone enjoys such riveting conversations as " Which ape is touching who's bottom", " The cat that is a dirty rock star", and massive art rants from a drunken Irish person, feel free to add me on Facebook for a whole new world of swearwords-not-allowed-on-dakka. I'm the admin of the page in my sig, just message me with who you are on Dakka so I'm not clueless.

Weety did, and I can guarantee she regrets it every day ;D

It gets better than this? How could Weety even regret the choice for a second?

I came here for a quick look at some nice painting and have lft with a silly grin Your work is done! hope you are enjoying your weekend!


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JB wrote:

They look great! Your Gibbon scheme turned out to be very striking - almost classy. I definitely won't confuse those two chaps on the tabletop, and perhaps I can convince my opponents not to shoot at them. After all, how can you look into their eyes and think of violence. Even a World Eater would blink a few times before whipping his chainsword around.

logg_frogg wrote:They are just so damn expensive everyone does conversions for them.

Says the man who builds Rhinos by the stack!

Are you talking about my latest conversion:



The Chaos Rhino Tower of Vindication! Cower in all it's glory!

I think this is what happens when a monkey touches a Big Mek's bum....

logg_frogg wrote:

JB wrote:
Says the man who builds Rhinos by the stack!

Are you talking about my latest conversion:



The Chaos Rhino Tower of Vindication! Cower in all it's glory!
I think this is what happens when a monkey touches a Big Mek's bum....

Got slapped with a migraine earlier today that took out 6 hours, so just catching up on housework now and Ill get some shots of this little WIP gobbo up. He surely is gobtastic.

lol I always get a big kick out of that GIF.

that is quite funny