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Viktor von Domm wrote:thanks mate... the hardest part was the golden paint... when i try to dilute it with water it is all runny... no coverage at all... so i have to use it staright from the bottle... and thus i have to be very careful....not to ruin model/brush and paint...

flu... yeah... hopefully i am all fit and about tomorrow... hardest part is when you and your wife are all sick and the kids are steaming with power.....pfffffff.....

I dont have that worry thankfully …… all though the dogs do need to be walked thats fun when you feel like crap

Have you tried adding a retardant to your gold it stops it drying so quickly and thins it without colour loss You get it in most art shops also great to help with blending colours

retardant i should really look into... as the work specially with gold is thus a bit straining to say the least...

oh...if i had to walk a dog yesterday... that would have killed me... tho i was out on a playground with the kids yesterday and i felt like... well gak^^... but sice you have to almost three times(?) walk the dogs... that would be a bit more...

Viktor von Domm wrote:retardant i should really look into... as the work specially with gold is thus a bit straining to say the least...

oh...if i had to walk a dog yesterday... that would have killed me... tho i was out on a playground with the kids yesterday and i felt like... well gak^^... but sice you have to almost three times(?) walk the dogs... that would be a bit more...

Tell me about 3 times a day they have to go …….. thats if they want to go sometimes they just dodder about and takes hours mind you my nephew was a handful when he was little, so I can only imagine how much harder it is for you with kids 24-7 LOL

Invest in the retarder but make sure its acrylic retarder,it does help and once you get used to it you can get some nice results

i think i also need to get me some pipettes... to better get the mix done one the marmelade screw i use as a palette...


well they are developing quite alright the two of them... it just is a minor drawback when you feel all wrenched out...that is the moment where you really look forward to the week...as then they are at the kindergarden and all cared for

Looking good Vik! hope you and the missus get well soon.

did i mention that my missus was ill too? well she was/is still...but she had to shlep herself to work... whereas i still can rot here^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:did i mention that my missus was ill too? well she was/is still...but she had to shlep herself to work... whereas i still can rot here^^

Just don't become zombies!

hmmm... no zombies here... by the way... this weekend the walking dead was aired in tv in a three days feature... first season... i taped everything... will digest that later...

thats one nice looking rivetto!

I can't help but to think about that Disney/Pixar film with Robin Williams (Robots) everytime I see these. My wife loves these, Vik.

Me, too, just thought you'd get a kick out of the fact my missus (who hates the modeling thing) loves these.....

lol well in robots they lived in rivet town, and i assume the rivettos live in some form of rivet domain

Rivetia, the rivet country?

Flag is made out of brass and has a picture of a rivet formed out of rivets on it.

Why would a robot cling to our bass-ackward, outdated ideas of nationalism?

I really sort of picture them as being what we would consider the one world government.....


Speaking of OWG, who saw the Eureka Marathon yesterday? They replayed a bunch in sequence from this season and My favorite, Where Deputy Andy and Sara, the smart house took over GD, played like twice......

Ok, so it was only in a virtual reality world but still cool...

mxwllmdr wrote:I can't help but to think about that Disney/Pixar film with Robin Williams (Robots) everytime I see these. My wife loves these, Vik.

Me, too, just thought you'd get a kick out of the fact my missus (who hates the modeling thing) loves these.....

definatly gives a big boost mate... send my deepest regards to your better half max! and cuddos to you for showing her them... i seldom do this too as my wife feels the same way as yours... she tolerates it but keeps as much out of the hobby...well... it is the same for me with her knitting... i hate knitting... all those knots... gives me the creeps^^


the OWG idea i like... being a left winger all my life this is of course right up my alley too

at not_u... rivetia... i think i will use this... dunno how...but it sounds good... maybe for a queen or a sort of civilization idea...


and thanks RW!


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by the way... never did i watch an episode of eureka... somehow it never came to that...? hmmm...

Viktor von Domm wrote:definatly gives a big boost mate... send my deepest regards to your better half max! and cuddos to you for showing her them... i seldom do this too as my wife feels the same way as yours... she tolerates it but keeps as much out of the hobby...well... it is the same for me with her knitting... i hate knitting... all those knots... gives me the creeps^^

My Fiancée knits and mocks me for wargaming. I mock her for knitting. It is a true sign of a stable relationship.

As for the Robots, they are looking pretty good. Gold is a strange paint, it is very thin both in pigment and consistency. It might help to apply it in a few thin layers.

well... that is the main problem here... i have little patience... so doing the gold in thinned out multiple layers comes as a very hard deed for me^^...

It is a true sign of a stable relationship.

you think so?...hmmm... then dave is in trouble^^ as his better half is kind of in to his own hobbies too^^

I don't have any of these problems anymore...I used to, I've done my time . not anymore. I wouldn't trade her brains and tolerance/enthusiasm for my hobby for all the hawt chicks on the planet. And I mean that 100% seriously!

hmmm.... that sounds a bit unfair to your GF... i mena she doesn´t surley look like a grandmother, now does she... better give her a quick hug for that one

that's not what I meant Vik ...

The ONLY thing I have to do that I don't want to do is sit through Survivor on tv...and I don't even have to be in the room, it's not like she makes me ;

???? survivor? what´s that?

It's stupid..don't worry, you're not missing anything.

well.... anything you come up with we will have to swallow in the fullness of time too... we lag behind about half a year till your tv shows get an airing here...

last weekend they showed the walking dead... i still have to sit down and watch it in full...


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oh...had a look... is it a sort of big brother show on an island? that one got copied i think two times already... dumb... the only show that comes close is next top model...my wife watches that... i hate it... the whole show is so fethed up and totally scripted... but oh so often my wife fall for it...

They have been playing survivor for like 12 years, it's just drama bullshhit, people screwing each other over -brain-rotting junkfood tv.

aye! ....and a totally old concept and always bring forth the feeling of shame for someone else... which i can totally do without...

I had a concept for a TV show that I would watch, but it would never get air time I'm sure, because there would be no interaction between the teams, so no (fake) Drama.

You have teams, doean't matter how many, but let's say 12 teams. There are 4 people to each team. They are from all walks of life, City, Country, Bankers, Farmers, Oil Riggers, what have you.

You set each team down in an isolated portion of a certain type of terrain, with one gallon of water, to share between them, one small book of matches, a small amount of food, a knife, a map and a compass. There are 10 checkpoints they have to reach in a certain amount of time. But distances are far enough that they will not be able to get to the end with the supplies they have and will have to fend for themselves, or become too weak to go on. They won't die of course, they will have GPS tracking units with them so they can be picked up if they get too dissoriented or injured. There would be cameras attached to them, and cameras in the trees and stuff.

Kind of a cross between "The Amazing Race" and "Survivor Man".

I would watch it.

actually that sounds a bit like football to me...(soccer for you amricans)... which is better to be played by yourself than watched on telly... your show idea souds like a cool trip...tho wathcing others do all that survival stuff...hmmm wouldn´t reach me... and also you would get drama too...because the teammates would have the drama built in in the teams... drama is self fuling...

Well sure, that kind of drama I can deal with, but there wouldn't be "voting people out" kind of drama. But there could be I guess if it needed it to get bought by the networks.

Actually I had to soften the concept from what I orriginally had, mostly due to modern "Don't want the idiots to get hurt" / Pollitically Correct crap.

At first I wanted there to be the possibility of people getting killed by wild animals or poisonous vegetation. But people that I talked to about it thought it was too harsh.

But really, the world could do with a little "thinning of the herd".

Or, you could have the game run by inmates on death row, and actually have it be life or death. The winner gets pardonned or a reduced sentence.

I absolutely love your scratchbuilt robots, vik! They're adorable, and so unique - the latest painted guy looks ace. And the dog-type one is awesome! No idea how I've missed this thread for so long, all - 277 pages? Seriously? Dammit, I'm supposed to be studying!

But really, the world could do with a little "thinning of the herd".

watch your step...slippery when wet...

and mate...hate to break it to you... but there was this nice book...of king? or Philip K. Dick?... dunno for sure... but runing man...that was done a bit before your time already^^


and yeah... the more sicere idea i bet would sell better...but i think too that peeps would object about having to look at rotting gamers^^.... some peeps get so affected by such things these days...^^


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scarper at my lair....*bows* mate... if it weren´t for your lots of totally suerior stuff i haven´t been latley to keep up with i would have been a regular for long...i need to so desperatly read thorugh your wonderful thread...


and thank your sir... for that big compliment...! well to be fair... i bet now with the filter function i think there is not much as a mere 30 pages worth of input truly about models and painting in this thread