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Your painting skill has improved. Not saying it was bad to begin with, it's just noticeably different. Flesh tones are very well blended, colors subdued but still sharp, very clean and defined lines... great job all around!

Hello - long time since I was ere. I have been ill with the flu. Terrible excuse I know but the constant shivering and strange visual hallucinations threw me off my game. But I feel better now. Whatshername the space pirate lady has a nice new hair colour and I've begun work on her glowing power sword. Hopefully I will get some pics up soon. Sorry for not responding to all your kind comments sooner.

I think I am suffering from rain sickness - is this why people from Scotland are so dour? An excess of wetness? I'm hoping for a drought.

An update of todays painting - major colours done - still can't decide what colours for her clothes and jewellery - going for bright and funky. My hands are not steady enough for the details today and I blame alcohol. New years was fun.

She's coming along nicely, weety.

Very nice indeed. She's going to be a beauty.

Spent a lot of my holidays reading all 146 pages. Some beautiful pieces here Weety your painting was good to start with but the blending has got smoother and the faces more realistic with time.

Great to see so many rogue trader minis painted up. I am a bit of a rt fanatic myself but they are almost all still unppainted. This log may just be the inspiration I need to get started.

Keep the updates coming...

Looking good so far. I'm liking the green inside the coat. Look forward to the details once your shakes have stopped...

Hi mutant dale and thankyou for looking. I always strive for perfection as the title suggests. Its an unattainable goal in reality, but I can always get just a little closer to it.

I wish you luck with your rt minis - leave a link if you get around to starting a thread.

Dr H it is a metallic green although this is not as obvious in the photo as in real life

Looking great so far Weety. I would say that her earings look great white. Very remanicent of 1980's faux pearls. Can remember that my Mother wore them alot back then. Big, dangly and rediculous! On this fig, as white, they are subtle and put the emphasis back on the models face and not on the jewelry. Would still go for gold on the necklace though.

Looking great, weets. Do you always start with preshading now? It sounds like a good way to go. You've probably answered this before but how do you go about the preshade stage? It looks like white bascoat, black wash, white highlight but I could be wrong.

You are correct Casy's law. It seems to be the way to go - has to be done carefully though so as to achieve subtlety.

Not painting atm. Don't know why. I think I'm tired of straining my eyes. January sucks and I just want to hide under blankets and play skyrim.

On skyrim I have a strange way of playing in that when my character gets to level 40 or so I get fed up and start again - I just find the game so much more fun when the weapons look realistic, the bandits are dangerous and the map is full of empty spaces. Also I find being interupted by dragons all the time a pain in the ass so I generally leave the main quest these days. My boyfriend moans at me whenever I start again - he is the kind of player that used the oghma infinium cheat to get max stats and then spent the rest of the game being practically invincible. I like to play on a knife edge where blocking an attack is the difference between life and death.

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
You are correct Casy's law. It seems to be the way to go - has to be done carefully though so as to achieve subtlety.

Not painting atm. Don't know why. I think I'm tired of straining my eyes. January sucks and I just want to hide under blankets and play skyrim.

On skyrim I have a strange way of playing in that when my character gets to level 40 or so I get fed up and start again - I just find the game so much more fun when the weapons look realistic, the bandits are dangerous and the map is full of empty spaces. Also I find being interupted by dragons all the time a pain in the ass so I generally leave the main quest these days. My boyfriend moans at me whenever I start again - he is the kind of player that used the oghma infinium cheat to get max stats and then spent the rest of the game being practically invincible. I like to play on a knife edge where blocking an attack is the difference between life and death.

Yeah I get that. There comes a point where you stand there surrounded by 10 soldiers, 5 stormcloaks, 3 Ice wraiths, 2 dragons, etc... you've not got a scatch and think "this could maybe be a little more challenging".

I will try and max out the stats on the current character (by natural means) and the first few playthroughs I did set about completing all the quests and once that's done I'll go out and try to find everthing on the map. After that it just becomes "collect everything" which I do anyway as it is my natural tendancy.

Hope to see some painting here soon, when you're ready.
If you want some inspiration, and haven't yet, go watch the interview on Ifalna's blog. Edit: I see you have!

I'll be trying the technique out for sure, it'll be tough to get that level of subtlety though. Do you use watered down black wash and layer it up?

I think the best thing for me was having my Xbox break. But then I got a new computer. So... status quo, I guess.

Crickets...chirping in a field...getting bored...piling in to their Dad's car and driving into town...playing a set at the pub on the corner...getting free drinks...playing less and less coherently...trashing the place during a fist, wing, and leg fight...ending up in the lockup with Herman the Bald Kneebreaker for the night.

...when they sober up, they ponder the meaning of life and wonder whether Weety has migrated for the winter...

Just to reassure everybody I am not dead, just hibernating. Recently looked at my collection and remembered vaguely that I used to "paint" them with a thing called a "brush". I even noticed a few under a thick layer of dust, cobwebs and alluvial silt. I can assure everyone that when my fingers defrost in the spring I might just pick up where I left off halfway through a miniature. In the meantime -brrrrr its cold - get my hands back under the covers - wish I could type with chopsticks. Price of gas is up and npower will not have any b*starding money from me. No I will keep it all and put it in a pile and burn it for heat.

Here are a few withnail quotes to illustrate my predicament

Withnail: This place is uninhabitable.
Marwood: Give it a chance. It's got to warm up.
Withnail: Warm up? We may as well sit round this cigarette. This is ridiculous. We'll be found dead in here next spring

Withnail: [after having entirely covered himself in muscle embrocation] Have you been at the controls?
Marwood: What are you talking about?
Withnail: The thermostats. What have you done to them?
Marwood: I haven't touched them.
Withnail: Then why has my head gone numb?

Withnail: How can it be so cold in here? It's like Greenland in here. We've got to get some booze. It's the only solution to this intense cold.

So cheer up and tell the crickets to go on without me, I'll only slow them down.

Widdly-woo widdly-woo widdly-woo .......life signs detected captain.....


Get warm soon.....

Stay warm as you can weets, we can be patient.

What he ^ said. Wear plenty of jumpers. We'll be here when England gets warmer (and starts to rain all the more).

You should try my place ..... 2 wall heaters (Single wall mind) and an oil filled and its still bleeping cold ........

Glad to hear your just hibernating weets . ;-)

HA! we had actually lots of sun today... tho...the weatherman on tv says we are in for cold days next week...again... damn... i want my money back... this winter i haven´t ordered...

It is actually getting warmer over here (and its raining again OF COURSE!!!!) so I no longer have an excuse really - except that I have forgotten how to paint. I will practice on something unimportant.

forgotten how to paint? isn´t it like riding a bike?

Nope its riding a Jet Bike

hurhurhur

I'm still thinking about jumpers

wooly jumpers?

I was wondering if you call it a jumper because of the bouncing effect?

a certain image froms in my mind...




spoilered for those of a more delicate state of mind