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2011/02/05 03:20:00
Subject: Rebuilding the Mantis Warriors (1/4: Mk-4 Iron Clad yellow paint finished)
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Incorporating Wet-Blending
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Yup yup! Vallejo makes a ton of OOP citadel colors.
As to the Rhino, Ill get a pic or two together when I get home.
This'll be interestin as I dont have the net at my place anymore
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And finally, priming. Blast ><
Ive no real place to do winter priming, especially cause im livin in a condo... Ill have to hunt alternatives :/
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2011/02/05 03:33:46
Subject: Re:Rebuilding the Mantis Warriors (1/4: Mk-4 Iron Clad yellow paint finished)
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Stormin' Stompa
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Well... First is the worst, second is the best 
Also, I gave up on winter priming. Too hard
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2011/02/05 03:39:19
Subject: Rebuilding the Mantis Warriors (1/4: Mk-4 Iron Clad yellow paint finished)
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Nurgle Chosen Marine on a Palanquin
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Its so wierd to hear you guys talking about being unable to prime in the cold, I just spent the afternoon painting a baby's crib in 32 degree heat (celcius!) while my little girl sprayed me with her water gun from the paddle pool....thats a good girl!
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2011/02/05 03:40:08
 BobtheInquisitor wrote:I tend to glue metal models with a combination of BSI cyanoacrylate and my tears of frustration.
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2011/02/05 03:45:20
Subject: Rebuilding the Mantis Warriors (1/4: Mk-4 Iron Clad yellow paint finished)
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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I'll be honest... I primed in the winter when I lived in apartments too... just never thought about it.
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2011/02/05 03:45:47
Subject: Rebuilding the Mantis Warriors (1/4: Mk-4 Iron Clad yellow paint finished)
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Blood-Drenched Death Company Marine
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BLACKHAND wrote:Its so wierd to hear you guys talking about being unable to prime in the cold, I just spent the afternoon painting a baby's crib in 32 degree heat (celcius!) while my little girl sprayed me with her water gun from the paddle pool....thats a good girl!
I am so unhappy with you right now blackhand. I was excited today that my local meijer finally got a new shipment of salt and I managed to get a hold of some to thaw my drive way meanwhile on the other side of the world you were playing in a paddle pool, how unfair.
Congrats on 100 pages, by the way.
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2011/02/05 03:47:53
Subject: Rebuilding the Mantis Warriors (1/4: Mk-4 Iron Clad yellow paint finished)
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Incorporating Wet-Blending
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BLACKHAND...... You make me weep. 
I curse this icy weather.... no painting at all unless you either stockpile primed models, or devise an elaborate scheme of spraypainting indoors....
Protip- HOLYCRAPLOTS of overspray. dust will get EVERYWHERE if you spray inside. Say, for example, a white-tiled and furnished bathroom.
And WHOO!!! 100 Gitsplittastic Pages!!!
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2011/02/05 04:01:48
Subject: Rebuilding the Mantis Warriors (1/4: Mk-4 Iron Clad yellow paint finished)
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Guys, just get a large old box, cut it in half on the diagonal, and you have an instant spray booth. No over-spray... problem solved. Then all you have to worry about are particulates in the air. My airbrush spray booth is exactly that. Works perfectly well.
And thanks for the milestone... though I'm thinking some folsk were posting just to get me here. Well, on to the next 100!
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2011/02/05 04:35:09
Subject: Re:Rebuilding the Mantis Warriors (1/4: Mk-4 Iron Clad yellow paint finished)
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Thunderhawk Pilot Dropping From Orbit
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Congrats on page 100 Gits, I think it really shows just how much you have done to help bring this community together. Here's to the next 100 pages.
 Now keep it a secret guys, but I hear in the next 100 pages Gits scratch builds a Titan! Remember now mums the word.
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2011/02/05 05:05:29
Subject: Rebuilding the Mantis Warriors (1/4: Mk-4 Iron Clad yellow paint finished)
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Crazed Cultist of Khorne
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Congrats on page 100 git. Is that some kind of dakka record?
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2011/02/05 06:13:32
Subject: Rebuilding the Mantis Warriors (1/4: Mk-4 Iron Clad yellow paint finished)
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Liberated Grot Land Raida
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Grats on page 100, and I second the spray booth comment. just do it in a room you can ventilate afterwards 
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A Squeaky Waaagh!!
Camkhieri: "And another very cool thing, my phones predictive text actually gave me chicken as an option after typing robot, how cool is that."'
Meercat: "All eyes turned to the horizon and beheld, in lonely and menacing grandeur, the silhouette of a single Grot robot chicken; a portent of evil days to come."
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2011/02/05 07:31:15
Subject: Rebuilding the Mantis Warriors (1/4: Mk-4 Iron Clad yellow paint finished)
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Battle-tested Knight Castellan Pilot
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the banner is click able. it takes you to a magical country. if you don't believe me click and see for your self
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2011/02/05 11:10:04
Subject: Rebuilding the Mantis Warriors (1/4: Mk-4 Iron Clad yellow paint finished)
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Fixture of Dakka
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warriors of mayhem wrote:Congrats on page 100 git. Is that some kind of dakka record?
nope. the OT thread " WAR!" currently holds the record at over 200 pages, though "beat this unit" is gaining on it. There have also been mentions of a uber-long thread in the DCM forum...
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JB: I like the concept of a free Shrike roaming through the treetops of the jungle. I'm not sure that I like the idea of a real Shrike sitting on my couch eating my Skittles.
corpsesarefun: Thank god I missed be nice to shrike day.
greenskin lynn: because of all the skittles and soda, you basically live off sugar water, like some sort of freakish human-hummingbird hybrid. |
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2011/02/05 12:06:49
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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shrike wrote:warriors of mayhem wrote:Congrats on page 100 git. Is that some kind of dakka record?
nope. the OT thread " WAR!" currently holds the record at over 200 pages, though "beat this unit" is gaining on it. There have also been mentions of a uber-long thread in the DCM forum...
LOL! Yeah... don't even go there (739 pages and climbing). I'd like to think that this blog has the most consistent high quality over time thing going for it. It certainly has one of the most involved group of participants... that's why it's so big... it isn't just me showing off what I've done. There are tons of reader generated original content posts throughout! That's also what makes good. It would be a lot less interesting if it was just my stuff... but it's OUR stuff, with our various talents and stills, all organized loosely around a general principal (the Mantis Warrior concept).
So contratulations to us all, we made it to the century mark and in spite of BBL... did it with some useful content!! (poke, poke)
"Barkeeper, Canfields for everyone!"
(Mr. Magoo/Jim Bacchus reference for those of you too young to know.)
Back on topic...
I'm not sure what my goal for the day will be... Thing 2 is coming off a long punishment for misbehavior in school and I promised I'd work on his Warrior squad with him. I think going in and picking out all the metal parts in black would be an achievable mark to reach.
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2011/02/05 12:14:36
Subject: !
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Fixture of Dakka
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Gitsplitta wrote:shrike wrote:warriors of mayhem wrote:Congrats on page 100 git. Is that some kind of dakka record?
nope. the OT thread " WAR!" currently holds the record at over 200 pages, though "beat this unit" is gaining on it. There have also been mentions of a uber-long thread in the DCM forum...
LOL! Yeah... don't even go there (739 pages and climbing).
what is this monster of a thread about?!
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JB: I like the concept of a free Shrike roaming through the treetops of the jungle. I'm not sure that I like the idea of a real Shrike sitting on my couch eating my Skittles.
corpsesarefun: Thank god I missed be nice to shrike day.
greenskin lynn: because of all the skittles and soda, you basically live off sugar water, like some sort of freakish human-hummingbird hybrid. |
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2011/02/05 12:45:56
Subject: Rebuilding the Mantis Warriors (1/4: Mk-4 Iron Clad yellow paint finished)
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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That's the funny part... and the DCM secret!
;-)
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2011/02/05 19:03:03
Subject: !
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Longtime Dakkanaut
The ruins of the Palace of Thorns
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Gitsplitta wrote:LOL! Yeah... don't even go there (739 pages and climbing). I'd like to think that this blog has the most consistent high quality over time thing going for it.
Your implication that that DCM thread is not high quality is baffling to me... 
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2011/02/05 21:07:39
Subject: Rebuilding the Mantis Warriors (1/4: Mk-4 Iron Clad yellow paint finished)
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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@ fifty: snigger.
@ gits: I am totally inspired by your Ironclad, and am now assembling parts furiously. Curse for distracting me from painting by giving me ideas!
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Theophony"... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot."
Solar_Lion: "Man this sums up your blog nicely."
Anpu-adom: "being Geek is about Love. Some love broadly. Some love deeply. And then there are people like Graven. |
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2011/02/06 14:05:35
Subject: Rebuilding the Mantis Warriors (1/4: Mk-4 Iron Clad yellow paint finished)
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Fixture of Dakka
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Gitsplitta wrote:That's the funny part... and the DCM secret!
;-)
aw, I hate being left out of stuff...
is it about 40k, LOTR, fantasy, general or OT?
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JB: I like the concept of a free Shrike roaming through the treetops of the jungle. I'm not sure that I like the idea of a real Shrike sitting on my couch eating my Skittles.
corpsesarefun: Thank god I missed be nice to shrike day.
greenskin lynn: because of all the skittles and soda, you basically live off sugar water, like some sort of freakish human-hummingbird hybrid. |
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2011/02/06 14:17:11
Subject: Re:Rebuilding the Mantis Warriors (1/4: Mk-4 Iron Clad yellow paint finished)
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Stormin' Stompa
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Its probably DCM's mocking everyone else and being allowed to break all the ToS
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2011/02/06 14:27:50
Subject: Rebuilding the Mantis Warriors (1/4: Mk-4 Iron Clad yellow paint finished)
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Longtime Dakkanaut
The ruins of the Palace of Thorns
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DCMs have all forgotten what ToS even stands for.
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2011/02/06 14:28:04
Subject: Re:Rebuilding the Mantis Warriors (1/4: Mk-4 Iron Clad yellow paint finished)
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Fixture of Dakka
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JB: I like the concept of a free Shrike roaming through the treetops of the jungle. I'm not sure that I like the idea of a real Shrike sitting on my couch eating my Skittles.
corpsesarefun: Thank god I missed be nice to shrike day.
greenskin lynn: because of all the skittles and soda, you basically live off sugar water, like some sort of freakish human-hummingbird hybrid. |
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2011/02/06 14:29:56
Subject: Re:Rebuilding the Mantis Warriors (1/4: Mk-4 Iron Clad yellow paint finished)
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Stormin' Stompa
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It makes sense too. What else could go on for that long?
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2011/02/06 15:21:30
Subject: Rebuilding the Mantis Warriors (1/4: Mk-4 Iron Clad yellow paint finished)
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Thunderhawk Pilot Dropping From Orbit
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You know there is one way you could all find out....
...become a DCM 
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2011/02/06 15:25:16
Subject: Rebuilding the Mantis Warriors (1/4: Mk-4 Iron Clad yellow paint finished)
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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If the only reason to become a DCM is finding out what this long, long thread is about, then it's most probably not worth your 25 bucks...
Just saying...
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2011/02/06 16:48:28
Subject: Rebuilding the Mantis Warriors (1/4: Mk-4 Iron Clad yellow paint finished)
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Thunderhawk Pilot Dropping From Orbit
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25 Bucks I don't even have one. What does dakka do with all those deer anyway?
Just saying if they really want to find out, that's the easiest way, lol.
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2011/02/06 16:54:25
Subject: Re:Rebuilding the Mantis Warriors (1/4: Mk-4 Iron Clad yellow paint finished)
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Fixture of Dakka
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that won't happen for a while. What do you get for your money, apart from a new forum?
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JB: I like the concept of a free Shrike roaming through the treetops of the jungle. I'm not sure that I like the idea of a real Shrike sitting on my couch eating my Skittles.
corpsesarefun: Thank god I missed be nice to shrike day.
greenskin lynn: because of all the skittles and soda, you basically live off sugar water, like some sort of freakish human-hummingbird hybrid. |
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2011/02/06 17:28:38
Subject: Rebuilding the Mantis Warriors (1/4: Mk-4 Iron Clad yellow paint finished)
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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That was going to be my point... it's easy to find out what's on that thread... just become a DCM!
Made good progress on Thing 2's tyranid warriors yesterday. 4 are done, last 3 about half-way done. Might make a little more progress yet today but I have a lot to do so probably not too much. Worked a bit on Thing 1's Nightbringer too.
Dread project will resume tomorrow.
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2011/02/06 17:32:24
Subject: Rebuilding the Mantis Warriors (1/4: Mk-4 Iron Clad yellow paint finished)
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Hey, Gits, are you having any difficulty keeping Thing1's nightbringer together? Have you found it necessary to pin him at the waist?
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2011/02/06 17:42:40
Subject: Rebuilding the Mantis Warriors (1/4: Mk-4 Iron Clad yellow paint finished)
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Thunderhawk Pilot Dropping From Orbit
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Thing2 need any more nids? I may have some lying around.
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2011/02/06 17:44:45
Subject: Rebuilding the Mantis Warriors (1/4: Mk-4 Iron Clad yellow paint finished)
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[SWAP SHOP MOD]
Decrepit Dakkanaut
OH-I Wanna get out of here
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Or more likely his warscythe that is often a warstick? And by stuff to do tonight you mean watch the Stealers walk over the cheeseheads?
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