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I work as a science teacher anyway, so I'd just get my technician to distil me a bottle whenever I needed one. I've already "borrowed" one or two things

Actually my current job is the first one I've had in a very long time where I didn't have a lab at my disposal, so I know where you're coming from. Still, there's nothing about airbrushing that you can't find at your local grocer or chemist... at least a decent sized one. Distilled water and windex will get you through just fine.

Our chemist is Boots big corperat one will have to try the P3 mixing medium if I can find it over here.

sotty git i think a brain squig eat my brain.
i feel deeply ashamed but maybe i now know why i dropped out of lab school. i wanted too become a chemical analystic but i couldnt cope with the teachers so now i am doing animal care I am in fact a sertivite micro biologist analist (or some thing in that direction)

i proofed my point i spelled sorry with 2 t's

No worries fatty. I'm a biologist myself, but it's kind of impossible to be in my field without some chemical knowledge. Just goes with the territory. I was not good at pure chemistry though... just not my bag.

I'm a Physics teacher, but I have never liked Chemistry, despite getting an A*. Always liked Biology, and I had to learn enough Biochemistry to understand a few things about evolution. I've actually had to teach both Chemistry and Biology to a higher standard than I have ever studied them though!

I could never get my head around physics tho physics was needed for machanics.... I skipped the physics class after the 5th lession. It just went over my head,.


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@ Gits if you want the deathwatch helms let me know as I know im not going to use them the ones with the =I=

Gitsplitta wrote:No worries fatty. I'm a biologist myself, but it's kind of impossible to be in my field without some chemical knowledge. Just goes with the territory. I was not good at pure chemistry though... just not my bag.

out of wonderment is it safe for me to ask you what you do as a biologist. I have always been interested in the sciences so like to hear of people in the field.

haha i always had problems with my physics teacher. i have a short attation span (great when painting minatures ) and he had a really short fuse together we where dynamite and i was blown out the classroom . no chemestry is easy for me and i got straight a's and b's i just had a problem with my teachers. and know i am cuddling with donkey's (in a non sexual way)

your all egg heads? well...if it wasn't for rattan I'd have no talent.

PS. this really requires a WM comment! Man where are you when we need you!

Now on subject ... what ratio do you mix the paint/wDex/ water? all 3 items or paint and one of the other 2?

off the rails (OT) here, but oh well. My biology teacher finds me amusing and knows what I'm like- forgetful and cheeky (in a good way). She's nice, but can't keep the class under control, so I learn nothing. Chemistry? I find boring, and as before the teacher can't keep the class under control. I need it for my target job (theatre/film pyrotechnician) but I just get bored with it. Physics- My teacher's great, I learn lots.

Gits, the Sons of Ouroboros marine is brother Felix (unless that name is taken already)
Also, did you ship the bits? I hope they aren't lost

Names updated.

@Sage: PM me, will tell you what I can.

@Solar_lion: I think it's 1:1... at least that's a good place to start.

@battle Brother Lucifer: It's on it's way.

@Solar_Lion: When I airbrush, I thin with windex only until I start to get a slight cloudy look. Much thinner than that, and I get adhesion problems. Much thicker and it wants to clog at very low pressures.

shrike wrote:off the rails (OT) here, but oh well. My biology teacher finds me amusing and knows what I'm like- forgetful and cheeky (in a good way). She's nice, but can't keep the class under control, so I learn nothing. Chemistry? I find boring, and as before the teacher can't keep the class under control. I need it for my target job (theatre/film pyrotechnician) but I just get bored with it. Physics- My teacher's great, I learn lots.

By any chance, are you in my class?

Gitsplitta wrote:Names updated.

@Sage: PM me, will tell you what I can.

@Solar_lion: I think it's 1:1... at least that's a good place to start.

@battle Brother Lucifer: It's on it's way.

Sounds good

Also Gits, you probably saw it on Ice's thread, but you should do an 'Armies on parade' with the MW and your supplemantary squad

There's no GW store within 100 miles of me. Fun idea though.

Gitsplitta wrote:There's no GW store within 100 miles of me. Fun idea though.

Damn. It would have been so sweet

Lol, i love how ot this blog goes Saying that, im doing a Masters in Chemistry at Uni, hate physics and dont mind Bio (but not conservation )

Gits, for the Obj. marker check out GW skeleton warriors. There are a few screaming skulls with skin flaps and hair. Or if you're willing to splash out, this guy from FW would be perfect i think:

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Images/Product/AlternativeFW/xlarge/Rpsyk6.jpg

Solar_lion wrote:your all egg heads? well...if it wasn't for rattan I'd have no talent.

PS. this really requires a WM comment! Man where are you when we need you!

Now on subject ... what ratio do you mix the paint/wDex/ water? all 3 items or paint and one of the other 2?

Well, the only part of the science nerd part that caught my attention was the whiskey distiller, and then kinda zoned out.

But then again, I am in IT, and play with little plastic men, so who am I to judge?

But then again, this is the internet, so I'm actually a space ship driver who has made the Kessel Run in less then twelve parsecs, and am to good to speak with you half witted, scruffy looking nerf herders.

He's good, and the guy he comes with might even work... but I'm not paying $25 for a head. I find some other way to make due. There is a possibility of one of the skulls in the bits auction on e-bay working... but the picture is bad enough I can't tell for certain. Maybe if I can get it cheap enough I'll take a chance on it. Can't have too many skulls lying around after all.

What kind of skulls you need? I missed that part I guess....

I'm looking for a head for an objective. Human, screaming ideally. Sans that, a human skull with mouth open would suffice.

I gotcha covered. I'll send some flavors of both flesh covered and bones sans flesh with squad 1 (which I am going to GS and ship out either this weekend or Tuesday). I also have a skeleton horse if you would have a use.

Lose the internet for a couple of weeks and you find a short novel tagged on the end of gitsplitta's blog I'm exhausted, and can't recall exactly the wonders I have seen, but they were wonders, of that I am certain.

Oh yeah, there were some tanks! Pretty green tanks. And some swords! Big/small/medium shiny swords. And a letter. Important imperial letter.
And some reviews. Kinda weird cathcing up on stuff and coming across a catch-up review message

All-in-all, good stuff Now I need to lie down and assimilate...

Yeah monkeytroll, it's really been active, but then during the whole tank painting process I was posting progress nearly every night, so the comments piled up.


Here's another little pic to help with the whole picture. These are my three objective markers for the Mantis Warriors. You might have seen these earlier at some point but I thought I'd put them together in one shot to document the group.


Left: The infamous "chaos idol". Been fighting over this little dragon statue for as long as I've been playing 40k... 20 years or so, hundreds of games if not over a thousand. Center: Beautiful dead termie made for me by Solar_lion, the guy who got me started in 40k all those years ago. Right: Wonderful little wounded marine diorama made by inmygravenimage, though I ended up re-doing the flocking so it matched the rest of my army. (hope you don't mind graven)

Have an 1850 pt battle set up vs. Thing 1's Necrons. Don't know if we'll get to play this weekend but we'll try. My force is very Adepticonesque... 3 dreads, sternguard and ISS-alpha all with Pods. The 2 razor's with the same squads as in the tournament army, MoTF. Pedro and a Land Speeder bring the list to exactly 1850.

Like the objectives, should spend some time on those as well. Where is that little dragon from anwyay? Looking forward to the batrep!

thats wonderfull the fact that you play with the same objective for 20 years that awesome! for as long as i play dark elfs i have used the same dwarf for my focus familiar and the little bugger is just became a part of my force i never go play a game without him (40k or fantasy). i am now working on my Ork objective the grot-pod

@CK: I think it came from one of the old fantasy dragon series... Ral Partha, Citadel or one other (started with a "G" I think). Each dragon came with a little extra bit. I think the dragon idol was the extra bit for the green dragon. It's supposed to be crystal... while I re-painted the pile of skulls I've never tried to repaint the dragon part... so I guess it's probably a 25 year-old paint job... years before I started playing 40k. Perhaps one day I'll attempt that as well if I can figure out a good way to do it. Or perhaps I'll send it off to Iffy and let her work her magic on it. Something this old and storied needs a little TLC.

@fatty: Yep, it's nice to have odd bits from your past with you... not everything thats great about gaming needs to be "the latest thing". There are times when old and familiar are very, very good.


Good progress tonight... picked up 6 scarab bases and a destroyer Lord for Thing 1 as his last report card was a good one. They're all used (there's a consignment room at our FLGS). Not as cheap as I'd like for used stuff but they were in good shape and a minimum of re-painting is necessary to get them in playing shape (they were painted well enough to start with, just not quite matching his army). So just for fun I repainted the scarabs tonight. No idea if the have any use, but I do like the little swarming bases... they're just fun.

Finished Whalemusic360's ork on the base of his triumphant commander.

I also made very good progress on Pedro. Just some gems and his camo pattern to do... then re-basing (have to come up with something clever, he's the chapter master after all. Might be done by tomorrow depending. While he does not advance my Adepticon army... he's a good addition to my normal force. Suppose I should come up with some decent "counts-as" name for him.

Way past bed time... shouldn't have had that last cup of coffee...
Gits

whalemusic360 wrote:But then again, this is the internet, so I'm actually a space ship driver who has made the Kessel Run in less then twelve parsecs, and am to good to speak with you half witted, scruffy looking nerf herders.

Who's scruffy-lookin'?!?!

Maybe we should all give ourselves a self-imposed rule that we are allowed to go OT in Git's Blog, but we have to say something ON topic in the same post too?

I don't remember ever seeing that dragon-idol statue before. Odd, as I've read this whole blog, but I guess there is so much you have to forget something. I think it is good to have something old in an army. I started with GW 22 years ago, though there was a gap of 14-15 years in the middle! I think that to enjoy a hobby for so long as you have, it is essential to evolve, but also to hold on to what made you enjoy the hobby in the first place. Something like a 20+ year old model can really achieve that emotional attachment, I think.