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Neil this is looking really good! Keep it up!

Wow... good going! The flames from the Flamer squad look great! Nice idea.

Dude, I often think that people with those sorts of personality traits are drawn to hobbies like this, dunno why they just are.
I think maybe a similar reason I love programming so much, you start with a blank sheet, type some words on it, compile and bingo you've got a result, but it's cool cause most people haven't got a clue how you did it.

I was talking to a mate at work the other day and lamenting how we'd love to have the time to do something /create something that defines us. Something you can always fall back on and say - "I did that"

Something a bit like this
http://www.buzzfeed.com/eduardoleon/insane-graffiti-true-colors-ga9

So what i'm trying to say (badly) is make the most of your time to do something amazing - which btw I think you're well on your way to doing.
I'm sure being unempolyed sucks big time, but well, sometimes being employed sucks too.

p.s. forgive my lack of knowledge but who are the chapman bros?

pps. more comic??????

at hangfire, did you had taken part in that movie? was that from you as well? cool, cant really belive its not done in parts by cgi tho, but i got next to nothing knowledge of that stuff...
whoa, truly great art man. must have taken ages to do that all. if you did it only by stop motions then how many frames did you make for one sec? 24 or more? gosh thats some dedication...

really liked it, if waht i said above didn´t let my admiration show through^^

astounded vik

Hey Neil I am touched that it helps you to be here and communicate with the rest of us - and to be honest I feel the same way about having this wider group of pen-pals as we would of called each other back in the day - It really helps - especially when your 'real life' buddies don't really appreciate what your doing (they saw wow thats really detailed and small, followed by what the hell is it meant to be, followed by NERD! when I explain usually). I think I might have to find a blog for ceramic artists when I start making stuff because it really helps with motivation and inspiration.

And I really hope you can get everything sorted with jobs and stuff. Bloody government isn't really helping much at the mo.

Wow don't know what to say ... so heres something i made whilst at uni , think this says it all


and one for fun , not mine of course, wish it was though.



@ Manoknok thanks mate , chugging along nicely ,should be done by tommorow.

@ Regnak , cheers mate , just thought it would add a bit of movement to the models

@ Hangfire , those are nice words and i appreciate it mate iknow what you mean about wanting to define yourself with something , and that Video is completely Amazing, but correct me if iam wrong ... but you didnt make it did you? it's what you aspire to be able to do right , or something as original and immpressive! I completey understand, I had a workman around the other day, fixing a fire, and he saw all my crap out on the table , and wanted to know what it was for? i told him I AM an ARTIST! and he said " what do Artist do then" ( not taking the piss though) i tried to explain what i do and what i try to do , but i found it very difficult, i said , I try to reveal the hidden truth in things , to show that whilst we work to live , we live for something more, To show the beauty in the forgotten and every day , to be a modern day magician and turn the mundane and fogetable into something new and special. to look at the world anew everyday with child like eyes, to look up to the sky and clouds when eveyone is looking at there feet. to challenge the status qou and become immortal without actually living forever! to capture moments and feelings , to inspire and aspire, and he said " Does it pay the bills though"
The truth is Iam selfish and immature , i know there is no hope for a stable future in the arts but i refuse to give it up, its who i define myself by now, i dont even want to earn a living from it anymore, just create for pleasures sake , and to bury my head in the sand but the fact I am able to live off my partner without too much shame or guilt speaks volumes about the man i have become , I am Good father but a terrible partner. i feel sorry for my fiance though , having to put up with my manic moods , but enough wallowing , god iam becoming a maudling old bugger.

oh and i will prob do soem more illustrations on praxus in the next few days , glad your still interested! i promised to have the next paragraph out on the 13 , but thats not gonna happen this bloody gun took longer than i thought.

I was in a shopping centre today , buying more paint primark is doing great jewelry colour combimations , turquise and puple and brown peacock feathers with spots and roal blue and gold bangles, told ou i was getting into colour again. when it was anounced that they would be having a two minutes silence in respect of the two world wars and for the ongoing casualties in afghanistan, but being me as stubborn as i am , refused to be told what to do, thinking i can show my respect to dead soldiers in my own way , through my art and in private if i so wish. so i casually continued shopping, although not speaking , whilst everyone , and i mean everyone stopped , now i know what i did could be considered disrespectfull , and i got plenty of eyefulls of disgust i can tell you. and i wasnt feeling too proud about it at the time ,but i cant abide being told what to do sometimes , and i convinced myself , that by doing as everyone eles did , doing what your told, i reasoned , this is how wars start, by not standing up and saying no , no matter how difficult , and by following the majority out of obedience and fear , you give other people power over you! i know go figure , but i still dont know how to feel about what i did and why i felt compelled to do it, and it was hard , having every one think , you know what, but i just couldnt bring myself to follow the crowd ,no matter how many people are doing it!
as a footnote it caused a holy hell of an argument with my partner , who stoicly did her duty , . anhow just wanted to get that off my chest. sorry its a bit long.

@ weety , again i appreciate your comments, i took some balls to post that comment last night i can tell you alot of my friends are Geeks but still dont get my facination with 40k , not sure i do really , i suppose its just escapism right!
and as for your pottery , it's a good idea to surround your self with creative people , ideas bounce around like pinballs, remember to post a link though , so we can gate crash your new high brow friends , with snotling nosed gretchings and and a big hop splat gun


have you being a potter for a while , or is it a new thing?

@ Vik get back to work , you slacker , more pics please.

so i ordered some more perry minis today , some horesy ones , an early xmas gift when the arty is finished, should be tommorow , will start the rough riders , thinking of cutting off the high hats of the line infantry and sculptig some ww2 style german helmets , i still think they look too napoleonic. must buy guitar strings.
oh and i picked up some water effect stuff to put on the arty,
okay i think my post are getting longer .. is that possible?

No no no no no, sorry didn't mean to imply I'd made that video, way too artistic for me!

Hah, will make sure I explicit in the future.

I just meant it was cool and probably someone's masterpiece, I watch it every now and then when I need a bit of inspiration.

My 1 hour day would never let me do something that cool.

Although I do have today off work - time to get painting or programming nah painting nah prorgramming......

if i may join the recent discussion...

to the visit of your workman, neil. when sensitiv people get in contact with non- sensitive people, for a lack of a non insulting word the sensitive ones tend to think they have to act like the non sensitive ones. thats a shame, cause as you can be sure of the nonsenitive wont feel obliged to act like sensible people. goes with being nonsensitive... logs are logs and can´t become brians, there did it insulted a whole range of people in one go...

personaly i´m not a material man. money is for spending not for having. it´s the same with boots. when you start getting a kick out of boots then you start getting serious...well actualy i quite like boots so put in a better image that fits in this fetish like behavoir concerning money. maybe my take on with money derives from beeing poor all my live and i guess i will always be poor. but thats ok for me. as long as my children don´t have to starve (which they wouldn´t no matter how poor we might get, i would steal rather than let them hunger...) material thoughts are well past me.

as for the logvisit at your place, the only error comitted by you was telling the log what you do. with those people simply(thats the key word here) say it´s my hobby. they are so packed up with their own super high tech car music bulk that they probably wouldn´t understand art if you hit them with it...

second part of my rant against humanity:
that respectful silence and stillstanding? do you know what that should achieve? well one thing is for sure, the dead wont rise by standing still, what i´ve heard you have to speak in tongues and have to drink blood or something. so that cant possibly be the thought behind it...
so what then? i tell you cause no one asked me^^
to show you your place in society. like a dog has to know its place. sit! bark! play dead! this is a way of the ruling parties to show us mere mortal insignificant ones how to behave. and no goverment punishment can ever be that cruel than the bileful views of the bystanders when your not acting your part (yeah right acting the lot of them do that anyways...). deep down there is a place where THEY have achieved that you feel a slight pang of guilt for not standing still. believe it or not it is there. struggle all you like but if we don´t shoot our way free the have won even now. slice by slice. the main word for this is called Hypocrisy. argh...

god better end this as i lost my temper and my red line , so i don´t know anymore what else i wanted to add...

for better times, vik

2 minute silences blow, suck and really creep me out - The last time I was caught up in one I was talking drunkenly to a friend about something rude and everyone in tesco got to hear two minutes of that conversation cos they were all being silent. Embarrassing but funny as hell.

Freedom of speech right. sod em.

two thumbs up for that comment!!!

one thing to add tho. has it been noticed that what makes us think we´ve done wrong mostly comes from the views of total strangers, whom we probably won´t ever meet again? and we still feel that slight pang of guilt? civilization is making us insane...

mad vik

The mud on that gun emplacement looks pretty good.

wow, that space marine really got served! :( My favorite piece out of all of this is the dreadnought in the background of the pic....looks awesome!

Hi , peeps , time for another update, the on rails Artillery Gun is just about finished ,Finally , quite happy with it for my first time painting proper in while , learnt some new tricks , objective light sourcing , wet blending, and some colour theory, as well as using wet water effect type stuff for the first time.( although i can hardly say i mastered them ) thanks for all the input on the beast and encouragement especially colour scheme wise! , felt like a long two weeks, 4 days to build 10 days to paint ! now i kbnow why i avoided painting minis for so long! but no turning back now, i am in for the colour all they way now! , looking forward to painting up something a bit simpler now , maybe my nice Antal Adalais mini. If the comic lets me free for a few hours. And i know i promised an praxus update yesterday , but this took more time than expected so i am quite a bit behinde schedule regarding that, but have no fear , i am sick of scratch building for the moment , so back to the drawing board
so i know there are lots of mould lines and the finish is not very high standard , but i kinda got sick of it , so i may come back to it and finish to a higher standard later , but probably not , this diorama , was for me a test board for the colour scheme of the praxian guard, now i know they will be in knee deep mud with a dirty green and grey weapon scheme. the pics are of a low quality , i think because we only have a few hours of good light these days, .....and i missed them

@ Element206 , cheers mate , so all this i did for nothing! , and that dred will get a lick of paint someday! thanks for popping in!

@ SilverMK2 , cheers mate , just airdry clay and liquid nails..... oh and paint obviously

Looks great, lovely detailing

Water and mud effects are very realistic!

@ Kenshin620 , thanks mate, the vid camera does not do it much justice , but its also quite forgiving
@ Weety do you mean in my garden or on the model as you can see , i dont have to look far for inspiration

Hey neil, glad you feel you can unburden yourself on us, the dakka community does seem to be just that - a real community. Long-term unemployment sucks, assess your self-worth on the love of your family not your job status. I'd guess the trick is to learn to forget everything except the potential hobby-time

As to the arty piece - lovely, excellent work on the basing, if you keep that up on the troops the force will look superb. Love that last shot 'Ceiling light spotted at 1 o'clock, sir. Permission to fire?'

Great work! Now I know why the mud looks so realistic, you just dug up a bit of your garden and slapped it on the base!

Love all the little details like the glowy bits and water effects.

Hi neil,

i think you should do more outside pics. the ligh is jsut fine.
also the contrast to the garden in the back gave the model a very living realistic look. and as others siad before. your mud looks exellent. soacking wet mud. you jsut can taste the diarrhea that comes with such a scene...
poor soldiers that has to fight under these circumstances...
the detail put in this scenic diorama is truly that of an humanist...
i see many different kinds of weathering techniques. so you should definatly paint more. the talent is there. sometimes its really good to wait with painting. i have the theory that painting can even get better while not painting at all. you see your surounding world during those years of non painting and you learn about light and shadow and color nevertheless. the eyes get better or more mature... so when you finaly pick painting up again its far better when you left it....

so i will be waiting for your Antal Adalais to get some good paint on his behind^^...

good work mate have a half free holiday and back to your damn painting desk^^

cheers to you man, you deserve it!

vik

I would agree with that - didn't paint for ages but the difference between my old painting and the new is noticable. Shame I don't have any pictures of my old minis cos they all went before the age of digital cameras

@ Monkey

" Permission Granted Guardsman"
" wait thats no ordinary ceiling light.." its Vik Von Doms Steampunk Airship.... FIRE AT WILL!


@ Commander Cain My secrets are out, and i thought i threw you guys of scent with that airdry clay herring!

@ Vik You have some great insights mate, i think your right about learning more about paint and colour etc , without actually painting, just getting into the groove again , and it feels good! bring it on Antal... Now back to your Airship! quick smart.

This project scratches my mad scientist itch.

yeah yeah yeah, the airships building is on the way...not much work doen, after all i got two guestvisits this weekend...
so not much done in taht department. but a lot of thoughts involved... follow me on my own thread (sorry for the shameless thread hijack^^)

vik

It's an airship!!!

monkeytroll wrote:Hey neil, glad you feel you can unburden yourself on us, the dakka community does seem to be just that - a real community. Long-term unemployment sucks, assess your self-worth on the love of your family not your job status. I'd guess the trick is to learn to forget everything except the potential hobby-time

Yah, don't sweat it Neil. There are millions of folks out of work these days...I happen to be one of them as well!

Learn to gauge your life by the positive aspects, not just the negative aspects you don't like. Plus, gives you ALOT of time to develop l337 modeling skillz.

Thanks guys i really appreciate that, and i do have a fantastic family so , in them terms i am rich already
Edit oops sorry didnt notice that comment, sorry
@ agroszkiewicz he he he , you know you wanna build something...... do it soldier, and make it barmy , thats an order!
Direct hit sir he comming down on in the biscuit barrel!

Not on the biscuits!
First platoon, save those digestives!

ach me aching bleading heart, ye´re a cruel git man, doin´something fierce to a mans work e`en if he hadns done it yet...seems like clobbering times set maan. so `em kids glooves `re off. prepare yuirself fer some rottin barenuckle fightin yer nutter!

i will avenge m men, be sure of that...

vik




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may the servants of the wrong ruler rest in pieces...

vik

Recovered vid-pict from survey-skull 57351-gamma12 showing orks attempting to cyberisea chocolate wafer looted from Praxian regiment during the chaos caused by a massive airship explosion.

cyberised chocolate wafers? yummy , my favorites...

vik