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Thanks Vik

I just use a Wacom Bamboo one with Gimp software
basic stuff but enough for my needs. I thought it would be a waste to go for a more expensive tablet.
Am slowly getting a feel for it and it is becoming more natural to use.

Gimp is free to download so I can't complain about that! It is possible to do a lot of stuff with Gimp (oo-er) with just a mouse.

i use gimp whenever i need to do some graühics on my pc. how much did it cost you? i know that company and indeed i was going to purchase one of them in the future...i think your doing very well with it by the way^^

Hi Vik
iirc It was around £30 maybe £35 with postage tops

quick Google suggests that is the case.
eek! £55 on Amazon.
best as usual to shop around.

great artwork mate .. i like the idea , did you say your going to make the pool in front of the building?

Am thinking as usual in Moduular terms so basically it would slide up to the building


in theory!

i will get into a search myself and will see what i can salvage for me^^ sometimes i get lucky...would you actually suggest buying a used one too, or would that be a bit daft as you never know how much it was mistreated? it is a rather frail too so to speak...

That's a tricky one. Maybe if you know someone.
Can be a false economy if it goes wrong.

Maybe possible to get one in the Christmas sales?
refurbished ones don't look that cheap as I guess they are more powerful tablets.

Looking at some prices for the second hand ones they look the same sort of price range. One for windows 98 was £20

I would say shop around for a new one Vik
hth

i thought so myself...but it is always helpful to get ones thoughts verified^^

thanks^^

vik

Before I forget
Many thanks again for the interest in the project and the encouragement.

There is a good buzz going on around some posts imho
As I will be signing off soon for the hols I would just like to wish you all a Very Merry Christmas and look forward to seeing more of your excellent projects when I get back!

No probs Vik
Hope you get a good deal when you manage to get around to it.

thanks man and have a good holiday too^^

merry christmas and be back soon^^

vik

Looks like an interesting idea with the Pool of Gunge. Have a good chrimbo and all that jazz


Bah Humbug!!

Happeeee New Year!

Haven't done much since getting back except for preping some sprue for pipes.
Didn't get much drawing done either over the hols and will keep the pool in obeyance as the main walls and walkways need sorting first. Still keen on the idea but have a lot of other things I want to do as well!

Will try and get some stuff posted soon.
Am doing some sketches for a Steampunkish gang.
Going slightly mid-nineteenth century influence with a hint of the Wild West as that is the vibe I get from Necromunda !

Sounds great good luck

steampunky necromunda is right up my alley, i cross all possible fingers for soon to be posted updates on that, and happy new year to all here!

From sketchbook to laptop via Gimp and Bamboo

Ganger concept.
comments welcomed please.

Gas-mask and top-hat is THE look this season

Definitely like that vibe from this design.


Ohh, and neil - I didn't recognise anything in Forbidden Places 2 from off the website, all fresh stuff to me.

the art is outstanding. really looks mole like as i recal you wanted it to be...one thing tho, i would add a cable to the gun. the backpack is for its energy or rather life support?
but i guess since it is a revolver gun there is no need for a powercable...

vik

Hi Vik
Great minds think alike
I just sketched a stub gun for this chap but will be adding cables for Laspistols/guns for sure.
Have just been imagining a burnergun with pipes too.

Am going to have a sort of sawn off water cooled Vickers for the Heavy
might replace the belt feed with a drum though.
Standard back pack will probably be life support I think, as the underhive is not a nice place to be!

i just had a "bits flash" as i read about that wicked vickers,... there is one heavy gun in the aobr orks sprue thats looking like a vickers if i recall correctly... i love gatling and vickers, i might have said that sometime ago^^ (actually i lkie to come up with that as much as possible...^^)

and burner gun would be a good choice as in colse quarters a flamer gun works wonders i would guess...

by the way like waht you did with the light colored touch you did, warms the pic up a treat^^

vik

Check this project out for a lark!
http://forum.gn15.info/viewtopic.php?t=2849&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=175

have you seen the "caution living haggis" crate?

i am at a totally loss of motivation...that guy...whoa no, now my motivation has to double on my projects, heck he even scratch built his men models...out of papermache`...

man this will be something to be remebered...

vik

lol
You have to be careful with them, they are fearsome wee beasties!

Had Vegetarian Haggis for New Year! yum yum!

Glad the link was of interest, and such good fun too!

mini update:
Have put some insect netting on the foam board walkways.
Initial results while it dries is promising.
A few patches where the glue was a bit thick may cover the texture, but hopefully it will allow for some wash and drybrushing to bring out the detail after priming!
Was a great tip off thanks Vik!

well your doing a kind of testrun for me so to speak, i always wanted to do that but never came round to do it myself...

lol your not vegetarian too? (well not me but i seem to bumb in them more often now...)

vik

When I visited Germany,the concept of vegetarianism consisted of insisting on the inclusion of finely chopped up meat!

I see, so I'm the guinea pig with regard to the insect netting!?
Will try and get some pics up soon to show you how it is going.
Am concerned about making the railings robust enough for over enthusiastic youngsters! But I think I may have a solution and in anycase, breakages could always be treated as battle damage!

lol too true about the battle damage...

chopped meat for veggies^^ lol... there are some food lies i know of that raise quite some neckhaires for me...pork in beefsausages....and my sis told me her boss tended to make gulasch (hungarian dish) normaly made from pork with chicken liver...she learned to be cook and her boss made the gulasch in the cellar and one day a customer complained about the chicken liver in it...seriously that could get you out of business...so vegetarian food with meat...omg some people ahve somefuzzy ideas...

and if your indeed a begetarian then the term guinea pig is somewhat fitting?...lol you have to know i am a big time meatconisseur...

lol
I got the impression that eveyone in Germany is a connoissuer of meat!

Seriously, we had a lovely salad for the veggies in our group one evening, served with plenty of mayonaisse...
and garnished with finely chopped ham!
Also in Stuttgart a dish claimed to be vegetarian had finely chopped pork which i didn't discover until it was too late!

well i think it gets better, but normaly i would only think in a vegetarian salad there would be only walnuts and stuff like that...*shrugs* my wife was a former vegetarian up until she met me^^ i only would give up eating meat when i had to hunt it myslef...couldn´t bring myself to even kill a fish...less a bird or even a pig...i had a hard time when i saw that piglet babe movie...about two weeks no meat for me...well eventually it went back to normal then but ...

but the good thing in germany is you have the most bread and bun range in the whole world...öast time i heard about 3000! different sorts...so that is a big achievment for your taste...are you by chance even a lacto vegetarian? then the mayo would be an afront too...man they really didn´t want british vegetarians to stay too long here^^

cheers mate, i´m off to some wee hours of sleep^^
have yourself some too^^

vik

A quickie that took too long so am calling this sketch done

Though it needs a lot of correcting and may get touched up if I can find the time and energy

cool pic, i love it, very dynamic, the shelss flying around...

did i read that right? he ain´t heavy, he´s my brother? lol

by the way, did you brits use the term "ain´t" ? never thought you did...it´s so rude like my teach told me off when i used it...

and one of these days i have to think about a pic you could paint for me^^...


and still another thought popped in my mind: i sincerely hope thes models do come one day in the third dimension too...^^

vik

I really like those sketches you did. Makes we wonder what the gang leader will look like.

I've never seen a steampunk gang before, so this caught my attention.