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that would be a major concern for me, the cleaning and the ruining of the brushes...some of mine are like old friends...tho i have to say that the really thin ones dont grow on me cause of short life time they have with me...

vik

Well the painting in bed thing happens because it is warmer in bed and I try and save money on heating! also I live in a one room flat with a small kitchen and a bathroom so everything is my bedroom and my paints are right next to the bed on my coffee/craft/dinner table. If people are comming over I just sweep them into a bag. It all started when I had several large canvas paintings to do and as I did not own and easel I did them on the floor lying down. I found it quite relaxing with a few cushions...

Anyway heres some more minis fresh from the interweb - my orlock, a RT human adventurer with a shrukren pistol and hand flamer, and a cyborg with a very plasma gun like weapon (I-core I think). I also got one of those old psykers with the enormous collar and the swollen head, but he is missing a hand and needs conversion

there are a lot of similar auctions on ebay uk currently for sell, i saw them about 30 min ago...will look after them and post the auctioneer here...


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sadly i was too slow all gone now...

that adventurer is Top drawer. i really miss these types of guys , just regular spacers , i imagine the 40k solar systems are bursting with a multytude of these guys, shipping cargo, or stealing cargo. i like that there is little gothicness about them, but still retain the 40k weapons. i have never seen that one before? looks like a wanna be rogue trader or scoundrel pirate leader, the cyborg is great as well, looks a bit like a vindicaire assasin bot , with custom plasma gun .is that you branching out then? you surely cant have bought every oop citadel guy out there, maybe you should try marauder minatures back catalouge

weetyskemian44 wrote:no more licking the brush,

monkeytroll wrote:and I was certainly a brush-licker back then (Yes, I know that explains so much...).

OMG thank you so much to the two of you!!! My GF had always convinced me I was a freak or something, with my habit of thinning the brush on my lips, but now I can tell :

I AM NOT ALONE !!!!!!

monkeytroll wrote:I was certainly a brush-licker back then (Yes, I know that explains so much...).

Monkeytroll, according to aforementioned GF : "yeah, that probably explains a lot of things..."

i´ve read somewhre that you should actually do so as to protect the brushtip by using the spit it will get its point for longer...

vik

I am all in favour with licking brushes - it defo increases the life of the brush and I cannot think of another simple way to restore the point on a very fine brush (I wouldn't do it with a big brush, mouth full of paint does not appeal) I had some problems in college because I had gouache paints with such appealing names as 'cadmium yellow' and 'mercury white' they must have known what us painters were like as they had clearly printed on the tubes "harmful if ingested"

I'm loving the RT adventurer - I can really picture him as some random rugged individualist taking freelance work for a fistful of credits, trading with the eldar and flying an old tub with a trusty side kick and maybe some fugitive paying passengers (think han solo but with a more cyberpunk dress sense)

Or maybe he can be one of the inquisitors contacts, a man so undercover he isn't even sure who he is fighting for. A man with special skills and a talent for blending in with the mass of humanity, always keeping one ear to the ground for his mysterious master (another film cliche! they just keep popping up don't they)

I don't think its quite time to branch out into other manufacturers just yet but the guy who was selling the adventurer had this one too and it was cheap...

Q: What's blue and tastes like red paint?

I don't know Skalk, what *is* blue and tastes like red paint?

A: Blue paint

Now you're just being silly Skalk, everyone knows red paint tastes fasta.

Weird q...but could you do a compare with the Scrunt Psykers and the the one you just bought...

Defo going to get some scrunts this xmas...but...not sure where I will use them haha.

monkeytroll wrote:Now you're just being silly Skalk, everyone knows red paint tastes fasta.

Consider that sig'd...

here is the handless pysker with a scrunt. I wonder what weapon to give him? I think he had a force rod originally

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The very rare models are too expensive for me, in one piece this model costs like tenner. but you get them much cheaper if they have missing hands/weapons/etc.

Well it looks amazing....maybe some sort of staff with a third eye?

I can see it - It took a little while but I can see it now. I got a bit carried away just now as I found more of the adventures and psykers at a very reasonable price - snapped em up


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I seem to have bought the same psyker but with a staff - He has a rod with a skull on the end - But I will still fix this one and then keep whichever I like best

I don't actually own any psykers....

Something I should remedy because they look cool!

they sit well together, it might be hard getting a arm for him. or are you gonna greenstuff it. i was looking at your green stuff ig banner guy earlier, and was thinking WOW , and you said you were no good at green stuffing..tsk tsk tsk

Its more that I have very little experience as I just don't really know whats possible yet. I dont what to ruin anything so I proceed slowly and cautiously. I was very pleased with his banner butnot so happy about the hand

nah, there was nowt wrong with his hand, especially for first GS use. And what are you doing on at this time of day?

erm - well I was watching carl sagen's cosmos on youtube because I love his accent and he doesn't dumb down the science. Had a friend over for homebrewed wine and burnt pizza with mayonaise on it. We talked bull-sh*t into the early hours.

Going to actually make those mugs today -

lol, okay, that's fair enough
I'm assuming the 'burnt' part wasn't part of the evening's planned activities?

Any ideas on what you're doing with the mugs, or is it just do whatever comes?

well - bullet holes on one or two, some kindof horned skull thing - like the inquisitors chest badge, maybe some eldar runes? I suppose I will do a purity seal as well. Thats probably enough to be getting on with and I will come up with other ideas on the spot hopefully.

No the pizza got burned because we were arguing about who was going to take it out of the oven - Lazyness causes pizza burning

Ahh, a more serious variation of the 'your turn' tea argument

Guess it's time to hit the sack, hopefully there'll be some mugs to look at during the oh-so-exciting night-shift

I will do my best! an take many photos of the proccess

Here is what I got up too today along with a test firing of the kiln. The design on the pipe is definitely not the best i can do but is a start


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The middle pot collapsed because I made it to thin! A bit over ambitious there

Loving your work I'm enjoying seeing all the classic mini's.. brings back lots of fond memories

the bullet holes look very convincing...
too bad that most gameing clubs dont allow smoking, or do the in britain?

and if the middle pot gets burned waht will become of it?
is that then usable?
and a further question. i see and think that this work is rather timeconsuming so i guess the major factor for price is manhours here? what are the actual costs for the materials ? are they too expensive?
note please that these questions are not asked to see pricing to be droped, it is my curiousity that gets the better of me...
i always apreciated pottery and a life time ago i started in primaryschool with kneading claysausages into pots...so i now see your work and i want to know more about the things i have missed out on...

vik

well the materials are cheap - clay is about £7 for 12.5kg or £4 if you dont mind brown terracota clay (very messy). Time is what makes it expensive - I will have to get some plaster and make moulds of popular things as this speeds it up a lot. The pipe was just on a whim... No where in Britain allows smoking anymore - They are even planning on banning people from smoking cigarettes in their own car. Doesn't really bother me as I cant stand smoking when sober so have no need for fags in the car.

The collapsed pot will make a fine ashtray or possibly a dog bowl

yep thought so too on the collapsed pot^^

ban smoking in your own car...well that rules out having sex in the car for so much people...

sometimes i do hate PC ...and i am not even a smoker...i used to smoke too when being pished^^ tho ^^
didn´t make me cough so much then^^


making moulds for deatils sound like very good idea...

and the brwon terracotta clay is smudgy more or why is it messy and what else are you using as it dfoesnt look like your using that terracotta clay above...looks grey...saw that once on a faire...

vik
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