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with your dollar all low... it looks like a bargain even...(just teasing...^^)

and i just like that figure of speah dave... my wife wants to sit on the money and me i want to spend it.... argh... we are truly yin and yang...^^

AND...It has a RIVETED CASE!

well...looks like said like a "Q" based weapon... sleak and rivetd case... that inspires a certain authority even unopened...

Viktor von Domm wrote:well...looks like said like a "Q" based weapon... sleak and rivetd case... that inspires a certain authority even unopened...

I wish I had one But, I went to hobby lobby today and bought: http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/public/LVTyd-DMBV6OLtpLZScHW-6ZW2IcK5hq-5GV_WcTAFyo6_gp9TpmNNXQOPIqJ0IHcBIP3pyvAcI4dQM_p9krRI9OMEs0pROpgmxI5aJz64fv5fIsPxqW020xbrKO_R4sEOpgKWx_NgG_614_EL4U6EDxs58jcZo6T-XvPw
I have a feeling that this will be a piece of crap, but whatever.

Noo Cap'n, that'll work great for nice, smooth basecoats, camoflage, and any other general purpose painting. Paasche is a great brand, don't knock it till you try it! With a bigger needle, you don't have to use as thin of paints as with a small needle.

Awesome, that's good to hear
Its just that when I saw $35 I was like, This is too good to be true!

I use an el-cheapo air compressor, it's noisy as hell, but it works. It's pressure regulator/gauge doesn't read very accurately, but you'll never need more than 20 PSI max with an AB.

I got one at home already, I was amazed at all of the old air brush stuff I found from my dad

Rogue Wolves wrote:aannd.. BAM heres where the movie begins... now we will skip ahead to where i kidnap your precious plasticard, and those awsome brass clamps. now either you make the terrain or we replay the whole Taken movie.. but let me warn you, you are definatly not QuiGon......

http://warfrog.blogspot.com/2011/09/full-auto-shotgun-aa-12.html

This is how riveters and resin addicts protect the workshops.

That is me in the videos last year and about 50 pounds ago.

@ Unicorn..>That is badass sir!

So, to FULLY test this gift from Q, I chose...

The reinforced walkway. ANd the Vallejo Air Gunship Green.



That stringy thing is about to aid in the weathering process later on




I cannot begin to convey how completely impressed and awesome feeling I am right now after using this tool. When you place your finger on the trigger and push an pull and find the sweet spot for the size of spray you want, set the limiter, and I SWEAR....A Neural link opens to your brain and it is thought-controlled. You feel like the Princeps of a Titan, the thing is wired to your will!

Sounds like someone has the airbrush jitters

You know how hard it is to shoot a pic in digital macro with the left hand while trying not to puddle with the airbrush right hand?

Haha, you'll be an ab master in no time.

Maybe its time to try zenithal either on minis or some terrain?


edit: Just realised how big this thread is getting Dude! You're gonna have to start summarising like Gits soon

Thanks Vit! We'll leave the chronicalling to later scholars, this thread is real-time, 30 pages in the middle of blabber and all

Haha, that 30pgs of blabber wasnt that bad, quite entertaining really. Plus you had all those cool munda minis in there somewhere as well

The bridge is coming along nicely!

Thanks Shas! Your rivet-fest of tank-painting is kicking ass as well!

Vit, think of this thread as the unedited footage from a camera mounted high on the ceiling of a nuthouse activities room

*turns to the wall*

Who you callin Nutter ?

Looking good there with the AB. Maybe i've overread, but what do you use for airsupply? What type of compressor?

Just an El-Cheapo brand noisy $60 5-gallon tank. It runs maybe once an hour, because it has a moisture trap that works at the tank level (the brass grenade pin-looking bit), and spitting water out lowers the tank pressure a bit, other than the noise, and inaccurate regulator gague, I have no complaints with it.

Thanx

Gotta look in to getting an airbrush... My birthday is coming up next month, so i'll present that as an excuse to the missus

Molds have cured. a few minor issues (bleed under in a few spots, adhesive failure upon demolding.) all relatively easily corrected. (re-glue parts that popped off when I extracted the mold, trim off bleed under then seal the master)

here are the freshly decanted molds.



Closeup of some bleed under...


On the whole very satisfactory first pour. I'll tweak a few things then make another pour tomorrow.

Nice buy on the airbrush the fine line on that is bitching …… cant believe the level of control you have on that and no overspray must invest must invest ……. that will cut down your painting time for sure plus you have started that walk way which must be finished now

$119 a steal at that price dam you and all your toys ……. nothing better than having that parcel turn up on your doorstep like Christmas


As for the window mould I would build a basic frame (for gap size) then build detail around that so you always have the same overall size to fit the gap on the basic building section, plus you can alter other details around the window by making a detail mould brick or stone style ledges arches ect that can be stuck on to the building section as well (parts that are protruding from the building) its just an idea

daaaamn thats a tiny sprey, nice find there dave. those molds look awsome galorn!

As I remember I think it was Langley miniatures (railway miniatures) did a similar thing with some flat back factory and shop buildings, a basic design and you added what you wanted to them.

The first pours look pretty decent so far some minor faults with a little adjustment should be fine……. reminds me of my old Linka moulds now where are they

dsteingass wrote:You know how hard it is to shoot a pic in digital macro with the left hand while trying not to puddle with the airbrush right hand?

Use a tripod and timed exposures.

Galorn the molds are looking awesome! Do you think the blank space next to the triangle piece can have another triangle piece there in the final mold? It looks to me that the bleed under the vent piece might just be able to be cleaned up with a knife? I did that with the wall mold you sent me, and the riveted window sills casted up nicely.

MAx, that's unpossible where my painting bench is unfortunately, just enough room under there for my legs/ass and the trash can for spraying cleaner, not a floor tripod, and not enough room on the bench for a tabletop tripod. I was rather impressed that I got those shots as-it-is

That is unacceptable, Dave. A man of your ingenuity can make something as simple as that happen. Get it together man, you have high quiality photos to snap.....

Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerer's ways, Lord mxwllmdr. Your sad devotion to that ancient religion has not helped you conjure up the stolen data tapes, or given you clairvoyance enough to find the Rebel's hidden fortress..."

I am not the driod you are looking for, Dave......


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dsteingass wrote:Galorn the molds are looking awesome! Do you think the blank space next to the triangle piece can have another triangle piece there in the final mold? It looks to me that the bleed under the vent piece might just be able to be cleaned up with a knife? I did that with the wall mold you sent me, and the riveted window sills casted up nicely.

MAx, that's unpossible where my painting bench is unfortunately, just enough room under there for my legs/ass and the trash can for spraying cleaner, not a floor tripod, and not enough room on the bench for a tabletop tripod. I was rather impressed that I got those shots as-it-is

That would require a little jiggering as I currently don't have a second piece to glue into the master.... I intend to add another triange in if it casts well enough.

mxwllmdr wrote:I am not the droid you are looking for, Dave......


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First one Starwars (new Hope)

Second one... 2001 a Space Odyssey