Dave's new Hobby Adventure thread | More buildings for the Building God!

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**alabamaheretic**

yea i been there and done that...the only good thing i can say about the vidya games is its a one time purchase...until the dlc comes out and its even more money i stopped consol gaming many years ago (actually after i beat both kingdom hearts for the ps2) if i play the "evil" its star wars with the g/f occasionally, a little blood bowl and a lot of last stand mode on DOW Retribution actually any of the DOW games are great...then there is company of heroes....nuff said

**dsteingass**

The Steam version of Space Hulk is not very fun, I know that.

naa..I rotate hobbies from time to time

I have a "Shaun" and a "Columbus" mini primed and ready to paint, I might as well build an "Ash" figure too (complete with Chainsaw hand)

I will disagree with you a bit though Cam....Thinking like a corporate executive, You fail to place a value on unquantifiable intangibles like inspiration. It's not just a poster on Barney Stinson's office wall you know...

Some of my best hobby work has been inspired from my wrist-numbing hours

**Valhalla130**

I love your Fallout mini's. They make me want to play FO3 again. I never really got into New Vegas as much.

**dsteingass**

Thanks Val!- They are my favorites too!

I need to do more.

**Camkierhi**

I too love those models, they are brilliant, and I admit the inspiration that can be gained from many different media sources, including video games. But they are a drug, an insidious infection upon humanity, that should only be prescribed and regulated by granny's.

**dsteingass**

I know you have firsthand experience, but You sound a lot like the old IPMS-USA guys who blame video games for the decline in scale modelers, not the fact that Old guys ONLY model Cold War airplane models and no one else wants to build those because they've all been done before

I've been proving them wrong with an occasional pic of my minis, they seem clueless about gaming models, but a couple other IPMS-USA guys have been doing 40K stuff too and posting it to the site. I had hundreds of hours into the Fallout games before I built any of those, this recent run was probably my third or fourth re-roll.

On the Ash front, I ordered this:

along with a female Dwarf Blood Bowl team for Ladygeek.

**Valhalla130**

Did you make those FO figures or buy them?

**dsteingass**

The Super Mutant with sledge and the Brotherhood figs are Brother Vinni's from Russia, converted slightly. The Behemoth is a Dark Age Mongo converted, The Vault Dweller is converted from a cop, My Raiders (not pictured) are converted from all sorts of ranges, The Nuka Cola and Sunset Sarsaparilla machines are my design, and casts are available at www.rivetzone.com , The Corvega is a one of a kind scratchbuild

**Galorn**

dsteingass wrote:
The Super Mutant with sledge and the Brotherhood figs are Brother Vinni's from Russia, converted slightly. The Behemoth is a Dark Age Mongo converted, The Vault Dweller is converted from a cop, My Raiders (not pictured) are converted from all sorts of ranges, The Nuka Cola and Sunset Sarsaparilla machines are my design, and casts are available at www.rivetzone.com , The Corvega is a one of a kind scratchbuild

Both are currently out of stock on the online shop but I will cast them to order as needed (just shipped a set to japan as a matter of fact.)

**dsteingass**

Really? That's good news that people are buying them!
Have you seen anyone's painted examples yet?
I need a resupply of them too, cast about 4 of each for me.

**Scarper**

Dave! I promised a little while ago that I'd find those cargo containers for you, but I don't think the original seller is doing the plaster ones any more :(

I did find a gent here selling what look like exactly the same casts in resin for a really good price though! Unfortunately it's UK based so might be a bit more pricey to get over to you, but they're there if you're still interested

**dsteingass**

Scarp! Those are great, but yeah, shipping is as much as 4 of them.....

**shasolenzabi**

Camkierhi wrote:
I avoid gaming at all costs, far too addictive. Takes you away from what's really important, things like modelling. I have lost weeks, months and on one occasion years to the devils own work that is electronic gaming. With it's shiny screens and dazzling graphics, luring grown men to there deaths, with the inevitable controller flying across the room. Or the £50 mouse of doom that given enough time wears away your wrist. Yes I have a callus on the point of my wrist from mouse action, and at least one keyboard with blank spaces where WASD used to be. And sleep deprivation from gaming online with people from 4 different time zones at once. Watching your friends run off into the distance and fly off a cliff because they fell asleep with their head on the keyboard. It took years of training to break myself away, to find a place of solitude, a place were people of a kindred spirit, people who know about real things, like modelling, could talk freely and be beyond the evil menace of console, or worse gaming PC. But even here I find it, taking the life from my new friends, truly great men who model, crippled by the worst evil to have ever been brought forward from the hells pit that is Bethesda, FALLOUT 3, NEW VEGAS. Curse it's name.

No worries Cam, the times happen when the modelling can hit a block idea wise and killing pixelated idjits helps clear my head a bit.

I do have a few xboxlive friends that make the game somewhat fun in spehs muhreen, true it is not well supported, and the two dlc I need are gone, making it hard to follwo when the guys head to chaos incursion or dreadnought assault.
That is why i like the target curor Dave, the thing lights up whe the enemy is in the right spot, but as they move about it gets hard to shoot and kill, so in mass games I die a lot as I prefer using a jump pack and thunder hammer

**dsteingass**

You'll be pleased to learn that I've been painting all day

My take on Shaun, Using the parts from Wargames Factory survivor sprues. He hasn't got red on him yet

Still needs highlights, and the beard needs fixed.
Right sleeve...I see all sorts of stuff that needs fixed now that I've posted this macro pic

**Camkierhi**

How much is the shipping on those shipping containers, to you in US Dave. I could purchase here and send them cheaper probably.

And I love your work, and have not made a Airfix kit in 20 years.

Oh that's the guy, gods I hate when I forget a name, from Evil Dead 2 isn't it?

**dsteingass**

Ash..yeah

It was 20 GBP, same as 4 crates

Beard is tricky

**Viktor von Domm**

Does Shaun get his red stain on his shirt too?
The model tho has a bit too much hair on him...

**dsteingass**

Yes, red stains will come

Yeah well, that's what I've got Vik

If you saw a sprue with a Cricket bat, a tie, and a head with a little swoop of hair, you'd glue them together too!

**Viktor von Domm**

You bet I would

**Valhalla130**

I can't wait to see Ash. I've thought about ordering that faux Scooby gang. I forget the company but it might be Hasslefree Mini's.

**dsteingass**

That would be cool! Armorcast did a Mystery Machine

**Valhalla130**

This is someone's painted version of them. I can't get to Hasslefree's website at work. Hotlinked.

**Theophony**

They are hasselfree minis. They have the gang for 16.50€, and I saw the clue contraption a few weeks back and almost ordered it.

**dsteingass**

Zoinks! Like Far Out Scoob!

**Scarper**

Love the woodgrain!

Dave, PM me your address and I'll do what I can to get something to you, okay? It's my brother's birthday this month so I'll be sending a package across the pond anyway

Automatically Appended Next Post:
Also, Hasslefree make some fun post-apoc versions of the mystery crew as well - might be worth a look if you're into that kind of thing!

**Alpharius**

Pretty cool!

Now just apoco-up the Clue Contraption and... boom, instant awesome!

**nerdfest09**

good to see you painting Dave! good job on Shaun so far :-) for his beard i'd just mix a slightly darker flesh colour and paint the shape then just inside the beard line mix your flesh colour with the beard colour and highlight with pure beard colour!

I love the post appoc Scooby gang! are they metal or resin? I also nearly bought the Clue Contraption when i placed my first Armorcast order last week! :-)

**Alpharius**

You jerks just made me buy the post-apoc Scooby gang and Mystery Machine...

...thanks!

**dsteingass**

I think you mean "Pesky kids"

**Galorn**

I almost got away with it...