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Very Cool tiles, Dave. Me likey a lot.



BTW, I'm Sigging this:

dsteingass wrote:Vik is a Cult Leader

Viktor Von Domm wrote:Cult Leader..... Hmmmmm......

dsteingass wrote:Oh yeah! They are just kind of expensive. Whatever you do, don't go too cheap. I have heard that the neo by Iwata is the best china knock-off airbrush out there. And you can get parts at Hobby LObby. But if you go to Michaels'- do not question getting the Badger 150, the manual sucks, but it is a great General Purpose ab. The Badger renegade Krome that I ordererd is a detail ab, meant for very small lines. This must be why airbrush holders always hold 2- I guess it is pretty common for hobbyists and pros to have two abs.

Great food, great day, great pile of goodies to show for it too.

That SHE bought me. You are the first person ever to think I'm rich Vik, but with her around, I'd definitely say I'm Richer than most guys I know

Excellent advice! I'll have to check out the badger ( http://www.badgerairbrush.com/Badger_150.asp ) at Michaels as soon as possible! I might just do some shopping around online and see what I can get cheap. I've got a big air compressor in the garage, so I think that might be too much, but we shall see! Online prices seem fairly reasonable when doing a google search for Badger 150, bout $120 or less for the kit. http://www.michaels.com/ has a 25% off coupon on their website.

Michaels just has some tutorials, no prices.. and they keep sending me to a copic airbrush page, nothing about a badger..
http://www.michaels.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-Michaels-Site/default/Search-AdvancedSearch?cgid=entire&simplesearch=Search&q=badger

http://www.michaels.com/Airbrushing/products-artsupplies-airbrushing,default,sc.html

Congrats on having someone who shares your hobbies and interests with you, that is awesome! Those pics of the GW grand opening are awesome, I'll admit to being spoiled as I've been to GW stores from Houston to Los Angeles and many game stores the world over, but they're all unique and awesome!

I can't wait to see what you do with those new models! Lots of options for converting Finecast stuff, but its all very soft plastic, so be careful!

capn...that isg is so priceless...and mx...i feel honored!

as for the recent work dave...that is your true modus operandi! making it like you are used to...and it already looks stunning... i saw long ago a tutorial of making such tools from scratch... guess i have to look again for these...there was even one where one made a tool for cutting 45° angles in materials so in essence doing a milling look for foamboard...

Awww it is nice that you have a lady who shares interests with you - very important. Gotta have a partner who respects the hobby. Mine spends more on his XBox360 than I do on minis anyway

I think you are right - having a hobby is so much cheaper and more fulfilling than living the corporate sponsored dream of mortgages, yearly holidays, overpriced products etc. Live cheap and buy lead! Your minis will probably be worth more in years to come but your starbucks coffee will be long digested.

As always looking forward to seeing what you can do with your materiel's!

dsteingass wrote:
That SHE bought me.

You are the first person ever to think I'm rich Vik, but with her around, I'd definitely say I'm Richer than most guys I know

You are defiantly have more money than I do! I'm fething jealous! D:
So much awesomeness!

I know a lot of people who have had problems with Finecast- I've already built/primed a few, and have had no problems with them so far. I got lucky I suppose.

Like ths scrach building!

dsteingass wrote:HAHA That sig cracks me up capn!

I try

dsteingass wrote:Thanks man! GMTA I told you this will be cool.

I didnt feel like going to bed then, so I made the double-wide and the maximum size, quad-tile. (That is your spec. yes?)

They fit well IMHO.

Perfect.

Roger, proceeding with diamond-platization and rivetization then

RIVETED...

Drain



I hope the drain mesh texture casts well


Hatch


Drain, Hatch, and plain -rivets still to come

Nice stuff! Keep it up!

Dont forget to fill all the little gaps, far easier to do that for one, than for every cast

They look awesome though, really cool.

Don't we want the little gaps? I've never made masters for molding before, what do you mean?


A Vent.

Woops sorry maybe i didnt make myself clear.

If you were gonna do this anyway then apologies!

I was intending them to look like seperate plates actually, iEach tile will be riveted around the edge. I was contemplating using a saw to widen the 45 degree cracks uniformly.

You think I should fill them? Yes, I will def fill the diamond plate bitz tho.


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I need to know before I can go any furthur.

They're looking great dstein! They should look great when painted

Oh ok, yeah i see where you are coming from

I say keep them as is, separate looks good.

dsteingass wrote:

Looking great here! Sorry if this is repetitive, but I missed what these are for (I got the fact that you will be casting them, I just don't know why )

Galorn is making molds for them. Why? Well, because I can

Galorn gets to use the casts commercially, and I get free molds for my madness.

Wow, the liquid green stuff really works well!

very, very good work mate... that will be a new area...fisrt there was hirst arts... now will be daves munda casts...if you stay around 15- 20 bucks ...then you will be a rich man!!!

HAHAHA THanks Vik! But I'm just the design studio, Galorn is the production manager. I'm anxious to get his mold in the mail and cast some up! He builds them with the best stuff there is for mold-making.


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FRESH Rivets....

Galorn is very good. You have an amazing eye for what looks good, though, too Dave. I really like the snap fitting that you are using for a hatch spinner. Is there a brand name for that?

THanks Max, I don't think there is a brand, it's just a sprue of them I found in the sewing section of Wal-Mart many moons ago. THe metal snaps look better, but they would cause an undercut and that's not easy to cast.


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Here, I thought that this little triangle piece could be a useful addition to the set.



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Yep, the more I look at the versatility here, the more I like it. Simply casting each of these tiles twice, gives a lot of possibilities.

Dave, one of your shots of the Marauder made the Dakka front page a few days ago.

How do you get your stuff to show up there?

Oh really? I have no idea


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I know my blog only shows up there if I host a pic on the gallery- they won't put most of mine up b/c I use Photobucket.

See, this one is hosted in the Gallery

They Look AMAZING. They should mold/cast up no problem too the only one Im a little worried about is the drain. It should be fine tho, especially as it looks like you "sealed" it with liquid GS.

Nice.


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Viktor von Domm wrote:very, very good work mate... that will be a new area...fisrt there was hirst arts... now will be daves munda casts...if you stay around 15- 20 bucks ...then you will be a rich man!!!

Hmm not a bad idea... I'd be up for it. Dave you?

dsteingass wrote:HAHAHA THanks Vik! But I'm just the design studio, Galorn is the production manager. I'm anxious to get his mold in the mail and cast some up! He builds them with the best stuff there is for mold-making.


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FRESH Rivets....

Nice.

Of course! Can you make that many molds?

dsteingass wrote:Of course! Can you make that many molds?

Easily.