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Homicidal Veteran Blood Angel Assault Marine





Massachusetts

Thanks guys, I knew you wouldn't disappoint. There was no way I couldn't share this, or at least bluntly point it out after looking through the hobby supplies.

the_Armyman hits it spot on though, this entire hobby is like that. Also, mikhaila, I have to give it up to you. Even paying $4 for 100g of sand when I was selling it for $8, I don't know if I could do that. Still seems so wrong, and the fact people actually ask to be ripped off... In the words of a great man, 'Mind Bogglin!'

P.S.: Luna, I truly hope you were being sarcastic, you were right?... Right?
   
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[MOD]
Madrak Ironhide







Price per Pound of sand from the hardware store: $.11

Price per Pound of sand from GW: $37.42

Figuring out what to do with 49lbs of sand after all you needed was a handful: Priceless.

DR:70+S+G-MB-I+Pwmhd05#+D++A+++/aWD100R++T(S)DM+++
Get your own Dakka Code!

"...he could never understand the sense of a contest in which the two adversaries agreed upon the rules." Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude 
   
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Homicidal Veteran Blood Angel Assault Marine





Massachusetts

malfred wrote:Price per Pound of sand from the hardware store: $.11

Price per Pound of sand from GW: $37.42

Figuring out what to do with 49lbs of sand after all you needed was a handful: Priceless.


Place in here. Fill with 200g! of sand. Sell for $5 at your LGS. Profit!... Feel dirty inside.

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Madrak Ironhide







I was thinking more along the lines of make a giant sand sculpture, but your method works, too.

DR:70+S+G-MB-I+Pwmhd05#+D++A+++/aWD100R++T(S)DM+++
Get your own Dakka Code!

"...he could never understand the sense of a contest in which the two adversaries agreed upon the rules." Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude 
   
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Huge Bone Giant





Oakland, CA -- U.S.A.

notprop wrote:Why so much?

See : Spear of Sicarius

A steal compared to sand.

"It is not the bullet with your name on it that should worry you, it's the one labeled "To whom it may concern. . ."

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Homicidal Veteran Blood Angel Assault Marine





Massachusetts

malfred wrote:I was thinking more along the lines of make a giant sand sculpture, but your method works, too.


Well damn, when you put it like that that sounds pretty awesome.
   
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Fixture of Dakka



Chicago, Illinois

You can actually snort GW sand and get high that is why it is expensive.

If I lose it is because I had bad luck, if you win it is because you cheated. 
   
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Towering Hierophant Bio-Titan





Bristol, England

That really hurt.
Don't try it kids, I'm high but at what cost?

Oli: Can I be an orc?
Everyone: No.
Oli: But it fits through the doors, Look! 
   
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Okok , guys , GW sand must be Regolith . Thats the only valid explanation >.>

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Adrift within the vortex of my imagination.

LunaHound wrote:GW sand is expensive because its sterilized and filtered from all impurities offering the best quality of the finest sand.

Due to the meticulous process , GW sand offers nothing but the best results for hobbiest that is impossible to be reproduced via other type of sand.

I dont always flock , but when i do , i prefer GW's highest quality sand .
Stay baka my friends.


Do you actually beleive that Luna or are you actually a lot smarter and just having a sarcastic moment?


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kronk wrote:I use CLEAN kitty litter. Straight from the package. NOT FROM THE LITTER BOX!

To each their own.


Sounds great right up until a cat uses your box of miniatures.

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n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.

It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. 
   
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Fixture of Dakka



Chicago, Illinois

When I need to game all night I snort Gamesworkshop Brand Sand.

Made from All Natural Ingredients.

Brought to you by Games Workshop the Happy Game Company.

If I lose it is because I had bad luck, if you win it is because you cheated. 
   
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Shas'o Commanding the Hunter Kadre




Missouri

Hollismason wrote:Happy Game Company.


I call bs, GW only spreads misery and pain!

 Desubot wrote:
Why isnt Slut Wars: The Sexpocalypse a real game dammit.


"It's easier to change the rules than to get good at the game." 
   
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Highlord with a Blackstone Fortress






Adrift within the vortex of my imagination.

HOW TO GET SAND

GW modelling sand is ridiculously expensive, but it is to some extent conveneint because you dont need much. sand from a builders merchants is dirt cheap (sic) but only sold in quantities far too large to be of practicle use.

So how do you get sand? You could just dig some up or go to a beach, but there is a difference, the sand will likely be very coarse, though getting some coarse sand for a sprinkle layer over the thin sand is a fairly good idea. In any case rinse out the sand with plenty of water, i suggest afterwards allowing the sand to stand in water and then rinse again overnight. This will clear away all the sand and assorted junk. sieve the sand and pick it clean then dry it and box it up.


However this is still not properly the sand you need. So travel to a building site, choose one with ground breaking going on, you want to catch them while they are around foundation laying stage. If you see multiple stories its likely too late, though that depends on the building type. A concrete multi level car park will have the right materials all through. Remember dont approach the site approach the site office. You wont get very far if you are making a nuisance of yourself by doing silly things like not wearing the hat and high vis in the appropriate areas. The site office will likely be a portacabin, but can be a semi finished property on the development.

Now just ask for sand. Explain that you want it for a potted plant, note singular. If you have lots of plotted plants you will likely be told to go buy a bag, but builders understand you dont want a huge gardening bag for a plotted plant in a small flat. They will understand that and give you sand. Dont tell them its for gaming, not out of shame for the hobby but because you will end up having to explain and it wont look like you really need sand, a potted plant is a good enough reason.

Sand, that is buiklders sand comes in long polythene tubes, likely they will give you the end of a tube. Builders sand is very high quality as sand goes, it needs to be for quality concrete and you need quality concerete for decent foundations. Builders sand is precision loaded, hence the plastic tubes, but by precision I mean builders precision not scientific. so a mix would say be x metres of bagged sand and y buckets of water. This leads to a lot of offcuts, because its simpler and safer to open a new bag and pour x metres out of that than try and judge how much of the current bag is saved by using the last bits of the last batch. So you get many offcut bags of high quality sand just dumped. In any event you get the gist that a kilo of the stuff or thereabouts. Builders sand is expensive enough to have a kilo pricetag, but wastage is not an issue unless measured in tons, even for a small development.

Present a small handy container, get a fill of sand, say thankyou and be on your merry.

A kilo of fine builders sand for concrete making will last you a lifetime of basing, you want about a kilo maybe a little more so they you can box the sand in a small or medium sized tupperware container, with enough depth to submerge a glued base properly and enough length and breadth to dip the base of a big stuff like titans, Valkyries, chariots or *** vehicle, or a terrain piece base. Frankly the GW containers are actually not big enough for the job. Having a bigger contasiner about 6" or so accross is about right even for normal basing you cant get mess everywhere even though you have to hurry with the PVA glue unless you are a real clown. With a depth of 1"-2" of sand will allow you to dig plane and level the base of sceneric bases and allow good coverage. Sanding basing a base is ideally something you want to do all at once to get a good even cover.
Also a kilo is about right for a house plant.

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n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.

It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. 
   
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Orlanth wrote:
Do you actually beleive that Luna or are you actually a lot smarter and just having a sarcastic moment?


I dunno Orlanth , its w/e you guys think it is ^^
works both ways for me.

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