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I'm with Neil on this one, maybe done washing inside the helmet? Love v2 servitor, really gritty.

Always a joy to see more old models get some paint!

The space skeleton is cool.

Hey slow-poke

I was expecting to find several squads of completed minis on this thread when I caught up

Oblivion is going to suck your life away

Last time I checked I think I was at about 150 hours.

Anyway, liking the rhino and the technical, and the Mk II servie looks suitably gritty and grungy. I still like the first one, but he's a cheerful clean servitor type.

Thankfully, I am not into any video game right now.

Like monkey i just fished up Deus ex , absolutely stunning game , jaw was agog several times

It was a great game, and I will be replaying it slightly differently, but I was a bit disappointed in the ending mechanics. Like the first one the only decisions that seem to alter the ending are the ones right at the end (bar one possibly - I'll try that on another run). I won't know that for sure till I have replayed obviously, but the choices were laid out and the ending voiceover didn't really gel with some of the choices I'd made.
Was still quality though

Thanks for your feedback monkey, I think its worth having my life ever so slightly wasted for such an epic game! Busy being a cat burglar and general cut-throat at the mo.

I might have a new studio soon - might be able to wrangle it rent free too.

Yeah definitely a lot of fun to be had in Oblivion.

Good news on the studio front, and even better news on the rent front

Good luck with the studio weets .
@ monky , yep it had its flaws like you say , but the feeling of depth and the amazing environment work kept me glued to the screen for a solid week, loved the combination of deus mgs syndicate and blade runner. better then the original i thought.

now can both of you stop tempting me with oblivion, i just lost a week and would rather not loose another 3 months !

Oblivion or Skyrim? I've been playing a lot of Skyrim as a dual axe-wielding Viking. Love it. I wanted to post this here because I'm darn proud of it. Sorry to hijack the thread again..

I had a pretty productived weekend. I finally finished restoring my demolisher to it's pre-theft glory. Heck, some of it's better than it was. It is the centerpiece of my Valhallan army.



Then another Space Marine Iron Fist (my own pre-learning GW had one, scheme) actually painted last week.


And then, after reading some threads on the subject, and attempting some washes on some fantasy figures, and seeing just how good Asurmen Blue looks when using it as a wash for white Valhallans, I've decided to wash all my IG forces going forward.


Edit: And just to make sure I don't continue to hijack Weety's thread, I made my own here:

http://theindependentcharacters.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2764

Very neat painting vallhalla, but I'm glad to hear you are getting into washing as it adds so much depth to a model (you probably should water the blue down for the vehicles).

The white looks great against the 'snow' background in your blog, very camo!

Go on Neil you know you want to... it will make you 'oblivious' to everything else...

I have a finished 80x60' garage, insulated, heated, and air-conditioned for my studio that I rent. Oh yeah, I guess the house I live in is attached too

I could get my entire home (complete with decking) in your garage dstein Twice.


What you really want elder scrolls wise is Morowind on your pc, with a great selection of mods fitted.

Oh yeah, I guess the house I live in is attached too

i bet your pc is located in the garage?

How did you guess? It is just to the right of my hobby bench, and my painting bench is just to the left. I have a U-Shaped command center really. Tv and easy chair are behind me.

and a bunk too? also...where the heck did you store your GF for emergency needs? those moments sure are not too seldom in a modlers life? i sincerely hope so^^

no, silly, the bedroom is in the house part lol
She sits in the easy chair most of the time. The garage is used more as a living room than our living room does

lol... sent my best regard to that nice lady^^ and if you are not using the room... then rent it out^^

I'll rent out your living room! I need a larger work area!

haha, there is room enough in my garage for 2 or 3 more workbenches! I know, I have measured and schemed!

well... i guess there is no delaying then to get that multistoreyed board built...am i right?^^

Lumber, I need lumber, plywood or hardbord or MDF.

aye! shush...here is your axe and now get going...

Ask a shop if you can have their delivery pallets, cheapest way to get wood.... (in your endo)

Believe it or not, in the US we produce millions of tons of corn, which gets sold to Venezuela at market price, We then import foreign corn at 20% over market price for domestic use. In this fashion, pallets we get are almost ONLY made of some evil, rock-hard, sappy Chinese wood, which is damn near impossible to cut or work with.

Makes you wonder how we could ever go broke eh? lol
It works because the American consumers pay that extra unnecessary 20% on food.

how long will the states go on working that way... i hope no one i know is alive at this time anymore when all falls down to pieces...

I have no idea, we have apparently turned from a manufacturing nation to a finance nation. I guess that means that we just gave up and started using monopoly money, I dunno.