Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Everytime I want to spray minis this summer it rains.

I have 5 more Fish painted up and I cannot varnish them in this weather. Grr. Arg!

Then some Pic's.....Damn Rain!

Took some pictures of the Fish I painted and finally got sealed and based. They should be playable now and not pop a whole bunch of paint off all of the time.

The pictures are pretty trash, but the end result is as per the standard I was looking for: Done.

The otter is my favorite! Very nice work all-round though. Well done!

I agree with Gitsplitta. You killed it on the Otter. For some reason all the other guys seem to be shouting about food, in my mind. The big dude I keep hearing, "Oi! Wheres my sandwich?!" And the other guy with his fingers in the air, "Two orders of chips mate"

I do not know why.......

That's exactly what I was going for!

Holy crap! Necromunda!

I know right, in plastic no less!

Gotta love that otter!

EDC

It's otter this world.

I'm calling PETA, Because you killed the otter .

Yes, Necromunda .

Thanks for the otter love, guys. It is much appreciated. It's only a little disappointing because I spent less than 20 minutes painting it. The steamforged official scheme is like blue or gray or something but that's more artistic license than I was willing to take.

@Knightley - right!?! I've wanted multi part plastic gangs for 2 decades now. I'm trawling for rumors about every hour. I'm going to make sure to thank everyone at the gw/fw booth this weekend at gen con.

I was going to complain (it's my thing, deal with it) about the bases looking like sand. Then I realized that was the point. Look good, and always interesting to see dude painted up in skin tones other then "we're all white".

Yeah. I get it they're British but aren't there not white people there too? No way that big dude is white. Heck they didn't even paint their otter brown...

And good catch on the sand being sand.

Long time, no bl0rg!

So, Necromunda is out and I can't be bothered to talk, think, or do anything not related to that.

Necromunda has always been my favorite, so I broke my hobby hiatus to dive in.

Without further ado....

Pics or it didn't happen:





What you are looking at is the bulkheads and barricades or whatever. Also, my stacks of random hobby crap in the background. Luckily, I don't think I snuck any undies in the pic.

I used Liquitex for the most part. It's black undercoat, silver, then a wash of carbon black acrylic ink mixed with glaze medium and water and flow aid. I did black, then burnt sienna, then burnt umber. In there I mixed in some Golden texture stuff that I won't use for that purpose again.

The flow aid is supposed to break the surface tension of the paint, but it seems to bubble up like soap. This would obviously be the exact opposite of what I want it to do. It may just have been the way I applied it - aka with a big fat crappy chip brush. I ended up blowing on it to try to break up the bubbles, but it wasn't perfect.

I'm not totally pleased with the result, but I'm not totally unhappy either. It looks like it has years of nasty on it and started to give me an idea of what could and could not work with large scale weathering.

Putting together a serious looking 3D Necromunda board is for sure the hobby project that is consuming my thoughts right now. It has always been at the back of my mind. Like, if I have ever had an ABC prioritization of projects, then Necromunda Board has lived at B or C for about 20 years now.

Also, I have to paint up the gangs. I built them to the book, so I could learn the models and learn/teach the game with the provided cards from the box.

Getting a campaign going has me super fired up. I'm hoping that Ice or I could arbitrate something. We are planning to play on Tuesday night.


On the subject of Ice, I snapped a pic of us doing some painting the other day. You'll notice in this picture that Ice is using the palette that I bought for him to hold his paint bottles...not the paint he is using mind. Where is that eyeroll orkmoji?



All of these are just smart phone images.

The bulkheads have a gloss finish to them now, I am about to kill that with some matte varnish very soon.

Hope you all are doing well and staying healthy.

Ha!

First of all, I had just used the palette to carry my paints down stairs. You can easily see paint on that page of palette, thank you very much.

Second, I love how technical you have become with your painting. Its a whole new level of grime you're creating. Its awesome. I need to grab a better picture of the sigmar cabin you did.

Ice, you really need to exchange your rinse water more often. Good Heavens that stuff is bloody awful!

He's had that same water since '89, you are speaking blasphemy.

@Ice-Can't give up an opportunity to give you crap, can I? As to the grime, I was thinking, is it too grimy? Then I thought, Is that possible?

@whale and gits- I appreciate you guys making this about Ice. Thanks.

Can I just not go to work today? Can I just keep watching BSG and assume that everything will be fine? It's like the last decent day this week go spray outside and I'll be writing a showclock for the least busy week of the year...

I was jumping on the make fun of Ice bandwagon that you started. Give me some more gooder pics of your bulkheads and I will find something to give you crap about too.

OG BSG or the newer one?

The long awaited, much anticipated WIP shot of my Goliath has arrived!

Ok, so none of you were looking for it, but here it is:


Trash shot and I don't think I painted them all that well, but they have paint on them.

I have marginally better shots on my phone that I will maybe grab later.

I tried to matte varnish them and didn't totally destroy them. So, it's been worse.

It was good seeing everyone at Adepticon!

Mr combat shotgun should get some extra kill markings or something. Homie killed half a esher clan solo.

Awesome.

@whale: Yeah, that gun is no joke.

@Gits: Thanks, man.

Right on for getting on it so fast. It isn't even a work day...

You want more awful pictures, well here they are:





The last one was cropped. I feel like I have to post the original, because I just look so dumb in it:



I got that hoodie for $5.00. How nice is that?

I will try to varnish them again sometime maybe it isn't freaking snowing in freaking April.

Wonderful to see you back at it. Gang are looking awesome.

Very nice moonie, well done.

Very nice. Seeing the figures you showed at Adepticon we're awesome and really damn good. I thought your face came out particularly good.

Lol, your face in the last pic is great. I can almost hear the "How the hell do I get good lighting, hold this thing still and take a picture that isn't blurry?"

Coming along nicely!

How does the game play? Is it good/worthwhile?

Ahhh Moonie, class buddy, all class! Looking good btw, I'll you decide on what I'm commenting on