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lol

none of those pics showed for me :/

So...feel I have made a real dent on my modeling backlog. I am finding the painting a bit laborious, but, my que system seems to be working.

I am really looking forward to getting some plastics, gs and doing some converting after xmas!

Anywho:

Very delayed photos...where I can remember how long they took I'll put painting time...


I know I know. I need to buy washes. And more colour.

But I'll do that when back home and go back and wash everything....

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Thats my favourite thing about ratlings, halflings and squats - they are really quick to paint. The chaplain looks really neat, jetbikes are pretty cool - I like the flames hot rod style! I miss the idea of occasional imperial jetbikes. Think I might get one or two when money picks up. Do you have a rider for the other one? I often find that a bikeless rider can be picked up very very cheap as most people wont consider buying it.

I would agree about having a glowing blue instead of the glowing green occasionally as variety is the spice of life - I'm thinking of doing a bright pink plasma glow for a slaneesh beastman!

i am a bit torn in your very variing paintjobs... some of your models look really nice , the jetbikes spring to my mind here, and then i see the apothecarius and the ccw SM with the shield and i think whoa the paints look seriously old...how come? or is that just me?
i think the LOTD are also looking better and your IG models look very much superior to your Sm models. do you fancy Imps more over SMs? please dont feel offnded as i know that my comment is far from beeing nice...
its just that i normaly dont see so much different styles from one hand...and so it seems you worked for the ccw SM more tan any other model...

again sorry for the harsh comments.

vik

jet bikes are cool! neat work Manoknok, have you considere making your own wash from diluted paints you already have?

@ Von Domm....no worries at all. After all that is why we have blogs to get feedback right! I do enjoy the IG more to be honest - but also - I think the paints that I am using are going off. I know my gold is off and my Terracotta (primary colour of SMs) is basically solid. I think it may be the tropical heat. My room can get over 30c during the day as it gets the sun most of the day. My flesh colour is also going off. It seems to be the colours I use the most.


@ Weety I have a squat in the pipeline will try and finish him up. Need to buy some paints when home....to be honest I don't really know what exists anymore. Pink plasma sounds cool....


@ Neil - yes I have tried that...but I think I will get the pack when home. Inco thanks for looking at the other blogs...over to yours now.



General update: i only have 2 days left in Manila this year, so have a huge amount of work piled up. May not be able to update till home - when I will show you the rest of my collection (not much but it is pretty valuable - thats why I left it at home!)


Mano.

when i begun recently with painting (about a year now) i used to have my painting gear on a podest high up near the ceiling in our living room. my paint dried almost instantly on the brush...that way it was very hard to paint something. also the paint in the bottles got very thick quite fast...now i moved down to floar level and since then my paintconditon has radically improved... i know that probably wont help...well you could open the fridge while painting...nah, that would not be a very economic solution...

vik

Here comes Sigmar's Cause, Here comes Sigmar's Cause,
Ride down on Sigmar's Cause plane.
Dicing and Blitzing with all his Space Marines
Pullin out peoples brains
Bells are ringin, children screaming
All is hellish and blight
Hang your head and say your prayers
Because Sigmar's Cause comes tonight

...

So I am heading home tonight...I will post in a couple of days from the UK and show you what things I have there...

Merrry Xmas.

Manok

have a good flight

are you going to stick him to a base? he looks a little unsteady! Cant have the primarch falling over all the time...

safe trip mate prepare your self fro the cold ,and does that mean washes and all other gw bits and bobs.

@ Von Domm...thanks. I actually get really agitated before flying...and during take off. Then when up in the air I really enjoy it. Its a great excuse to watch 16 hrs of movies, and drink a lot of 'free' booze.

@ Weety. Yes. I think I will put him on a big scenic base. He is not very stable at all. It is hard to tell as its all white metal...the the facial expression and the sculpt is pretty good...

Though I found this model today which might have been better.....maybe next time I have a friend in the states...and have some money to spare.

http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/Chronoscope/latest/50180


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Haha. Yes it does Neil! My town finally got a GW store after I left...so I may pick up a few bits and pieces. Expect to get everything from the 'generic' model shop though.

And I hear its freezing. My warmest clothing is currently a pair of jeans and a very thin 'fashion' cardigan...which I wear in the office if the a/c is a bit much. Its about 35c here now at 5pm in the afternoon.

by the way what do xyou do for a living if you can afford coming back to the uk for holidays?

just curious

vik

OOO are you comming back to blighty now! If you are comming to the south west it will be cold, any other part of the country expect snow... I recomend longjohns/leggings under the trousers, several vests, two pairs of socks, a jumper and a coat, two scarves and a hat.

Also the tories are back in again so make sure you act british at the airport or they will deport you for being a foreigner come to steal our (non-existent) jobs and commit acts of terrorism.

Haha. Well. I am a only child...so I can't really 'afford' to come home but I kind of have to. I have my own little project management and policy formation company. Its very small. Its just me. I just started it this year about 6 or 7 months ago. Before that I worked in BPO but I decided I didn't like it so...sort of took a leap of faith which seems to be working.


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Haha Weety...just saw your comment. I am actually going straight to Devon to see my mum's bride of honour and best friend who I have seen in years but who is now quite old (she is about 20years older than my mum I think). I can tell you the thought of 18hrs flight then a 5 hr drive, and then the next day another 5 hour drive to the land of hobbits is not appealing.

Don't get me started on the Tories.

Voted Green in last election...though...my postal ballot didn't arrive...so...erm. Mentally I voted green...technically I was disenfranchised.

yep thats what i would asociate with being a child is^^

by the way for a non brit whats BPO stand for?

and thanks for the insight

vik

Ah.

BPO is Business Processing Outsourcing, and KPO is Knowledge Process Outsourcing.

Think call centres for BPOs, and call centres full of accountants for KPO.

It is good for both economies (say US and Philippines, or UK and India) no matter what people say. There aren't a finite number of jobs...the difficulty comes in creating new ones...in new industries. So call centres are old industries for Europe/US but new for Asia...the trouble being the new industry for Europe/US is supposed to be the 'Green Revolution' but it didn't materialize...Interesting area of business...


Sorry getting a bit carried away there...:-)

nono thanks for the explanation!

i´ve often thought i might go to ireland to do just that and get rid of germany...well now with kids i grew more and more hesitant...

vik

To be honest I am not sure about the German BPO market...but I imagine it is niche, and therefore might be worth a go! :-)

nono what i´ve meant was joining an irish callcenter...they are constantly on the lookout for german native speakers to work there...so i´ve heard...

here in germany the costs for working on your own and also for emplayment is to high, thats why callcenters go to india and all them other places in the first place...


vik

Oh I see....haha.. that makes more sense! :-)

HAHa call-centers. Well I can't laugh I work in discount retail.

Devonshire - land of cream, custard and scones. my family used to go dartmoor regular for holidays. Very pretty.

It will probably snow in devon.

speaking of winter, now i have to tool up to get out into the cold as i want to do some christmaslastminute shopping...

and boy is it cold here...tho only -1 c but snow everywhere and ice to boot...

boy i really begin to hate winter...

Well, I'll join all the others in wishing you a safe flight and a magical warmth generating blanket for when you arrive in balmy Britain. look forward to seeing some of the stuff you have in a box under the bed

Yeah Good luck 'Knok, have fun in the snow

Well...

I am home. if I had left a day later I wouldn't have been able to make it...well..not with a car journey in single figers!

sorry for the lack of update...I am a bit stressed. Whilst I have found my jetbikes, I cannot find my riders or beastmen!!

Crud!

The only place they may be is in the shed...which is currently -9 so I am not too tempted to go out and explore.

On the plus side I found a necromunda Juve I never new i had.


Blackhand...I found my rat comic, will scan you a pic of some of the art....

Snow! welcome back to the UK.