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Snuggling is good too!

But don't make me go get the whip it song.

I don't think I know this whip it song?

Devo?

I've been quiet but I've done a few things.

I've been working on one of the mini's that my boss at the shop gave me to paint up for display. It's some elf thing. I'm not totally happy with it but I don't want to strip it down and start over.

I took some pics of the tower that I went a little crazy with and the goblin "horn blower"


Sorry about the sideways pics. I'm not sure how that happened...

I think the elf dude looks alright, yellow and purple can both be a bear without using an airbrush. I do like the colors together though.

Hornblower is red huh, please continue.

I also like the tower thing. Definitely looks like a crazy wizard tower/caught in the middle of a chaos wave or something.

I like him, have always been a fan of yellow and purple. The tower looks like it will be epic once it is finshed.

And how can you not know Devo, them and Neil Young were in a quite terrible film "Human Highway".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEKjXPor6B4

Thanks guys!

The local university colors are purple and gold and the mascot is a pirate. That's kind of what I was going for with the elf dude.

Thraxas, I did know Devo and Whip it. I do not know this "Human Highway" though sounds like I'm not missing much, huh?

Like the towers mate.

Thanks, carlos!!

Liking that tower- has a very Chaosy vibe to it

Can't seem to figure out why it has taken me so long to find your blog and a little while to get through the back pages. Interesting work and I like the non-traditional take on a lot of your models. Really refreshing.

Look forward to joining you on the modelling ride.

angelofvengeance - Thanks! I hope it still looks chaosy and a little magical once I'm done with it.

Archer - Welcome to my Blog of Many Things! I'm glad you like the wacky way I tend to do things. Hopefully I can keep it interesting.

I decided to work on my spear chukkas for the WHFB tournament this weekend.

The weather here is still a little suspect for priming outside so I decided to try some of the Folk Art multi-surface as a brush on primer.

The paint was really thick, I had to thin it a ton before I could use it.

After that it went on fine but brush priming is the devil!!!

I do not see how people do that on a regular basis.

I did not get nearly as much done as I would have like to because I was losing the will to live during the priming process.

Hopefully after a small break I'll feel up to getting back to it.

I'm going to poke around and see what you all are up to and let you inspire me to get back to work!

Oi, Rai! Go Pirates? really, dude?

Gawdam, yeah Pirates!!!


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I need to actually finish that Pirate elf so I can increase my painted model count...

I have always brushed on my undercoats. Not really sure why, just get the biggest brush I can lay my hands on (within reason obviously) and off I go. Not sure why I have never adopted a spray can. Probably scared of my wife losing her remaining marbles when she finds me spraying inside the house (yes I would probably do that, its a long story).

May also be something to do with old dogs and newfangled tricks.

If my office space were appropriately set up, I would use spray cans in the house as well.

I'm sure I will once it does finally get set up I'm going to need quite the exhaust fan in there bc I'm going to do EVERYTHING!!

I don't think my wife will mind as long as I keep it confined to those four walls.

I got a little more painting done last night. Nothing pic worthy though, just got the red skin done on all of the two spear chukka teams.

That sounds horrible, you gotta at least get one of those spraybooth/vacuum-hood things or you'll be poisoning yourself!

Yeah, I'm gonna get some kind of set up so I don't die.

Yes, I agree. Brush priming is the devil. The absolute worst and slowest process of creativity on earth. It's winter here and the weather is bitter cold, so at the moment brush priming is my only option. Good luck my friend. I feel your pain.

It's freezing out here, and we're buried in snow. I'm spray priming miniatures on the cellar stairs with the hatch door open for ventilation.

Warboss - I had never brush primed before. I've touched up the primer layer with a brush but never done the whole thing. The weather is what drove me to try it. I hate weather...

adamsouza - I've never primed outside in super cold weather. Fortunately where I am, near the NC coast, it doesn't stay cold for too terribly long. I'm definitely going to back to spraying.

I know I'm hella behind schedule but I finally started working on the framework for my LoER entry.

I will start adding the clay this week.

Now that I have the framework, the standing stones should be pretty easy. I'll carve the symbols in before I bake them.

The head is going to be difficult. Once I get it covered in clay I may ask my mom for help. (She's an artist so it's not as weird as it sounds )

I also included a pic of the spear chukka crew.

I don't know why these few guys are foiling me so but I've working on them for a few days now and I think I still have a few days left in front of them.

I think it was the brush priming.

Yeah that head is definitely getting there, is it a mold ?

Grim, the head is just crumpled up aluminum foil.

I'll be putting the clay over it and hopefully the armature will have given it enough shape that I can carve mostly details in it and be done.

I've never done anything like this before so we shall see how it goes.

I should have tried to finish this last month. Grad school starts today and I can feel my time evaporating.

I'm not giving up though, I'm just going to try to be a little more mindful of my time so I can still work on all the things that I want to do.

Right, I just wasn't sure if you were makin a mold of it or whatnot. Is there just the one idol head in the middle and the rest are stacked stones? Maybe that's what I'm missing.

Yeah, there's just one head in the middle of six standing stones.

I did not feel up to attempting more than one head on my first really go at using clay.

Makes sense. I've still gotta work on the LoER comp myself =/

So ah can someone tell me what exactly the LoER Comp is?

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/629845.page
This is round 13, there are links to the others in that first post.