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Phenomenal job mate. Many congrats.

AWESOME JOB!!!!! on the gold. The painting is just gorgeous my friend.

She read your reply and just laughed she said " He's just like you Michael, easy distracted".

Congrats on the win! She's a beautifully painted mini.

That's amazing work and only 9 hours to boot!

Well done Ramos thats great and she looks lovely.

Congrats on the win! That window effect on that amazing red paint job is really great!

Amazing figure Ramos. Congratulations! Well deserved.

Thanks everyone!

Really gave me some new and interesting goals for the coming year... I want to try to get something in for several of the categories... My eye is on one of the big prizes... a SOPHIE!! Only a few are given out every year, so it's an even higher bar... Heres to the future

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So after catching up with the regular 9-5 job (its a particularly bad week this week D: ), I got back to the piggies.
I decided to join the weird weathered metals club with Gits and Nerdo, and threw some washes onto the big mecha piggy!







Still going to have rusts and such applied to it, but that will be after the piece is varnished!

This is also the debut of my new painting lamp. At Reapercon, all the artists had these lovely full-spectrum LED lamps. Nice and slim, lightweight, and very clean diffuse light. So Sunday I hopped on Amazon and ordered in one for myself! Gotta love Prime... It was waiting for me when I got home!!
This should mean some more evenly-lit studio pictures, too, but we shall see...

Till next time!~

So what does the lamp look like? Brand? Link even???

Whats a SOPHIE?

 Gitsplitta wrote:
So what does the lamp look like? Brand? Link even???

Seconded!

@Gits & wyfox: Lamp can be found here: http://a.co/2Jcx7Xp

As it's piano black and very very thin, it kinda blends in with all my desk junk, so no good pics of it in action
So far, though, its an awesome little lamp!


@WM: A Sophie is reaper's manufacturer awards. Exceptionally fierce competition for them, especially "Best of Show" awards... They give medals and such to everyone, only a certain number of the Sophies! Plus, they're a big damn impressive trophy... so I want one!

Plenty of time between then and now, so in the meantime I've got a fair bit of work to do. Could this year be the one that I get off my butt and get stuff into the Crystal Brush come Adepticon? (Not a snowball's chance in taking one home, buuuut.... Who knows...) Then theres the P3 event at Gencon... Ahhhh This is gonna be an exciting year!

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Pigs continued... Almost done!





Decided to add in a little bit more red than the last one. Scavenged plates, etc. Adds a nice bit of color and breaks up the big areas of metal.
I think at this stage its mostly the bases and horns/hooves, then of course a bit of rust!

Lovely work as always Ramos, I know I dont post much here but I do love to come and see what you are up to. Congrats on the award, well deserved.

Piggie is looking good! The red is a good add too, I just did another piggie for RiTides with that same shoulder in red, so they should tie together nicely!

Congratulations on the win! It is well deserved too; that lass looks very nice! Its funny how you mention the quick, rushed/inspired jobs coming out the best sometimes. I did the same thing with a Commissar a few years... a decade?... back. Had another model I had labored over for weeks, then thought "Hey, I should paint this dude up too." Slammed him out in a day or so. Commissar Big McHugefist ended up being a golden demon finalist and winning a medal or two from Reaper at Cold Wars (I think it was Cold Wars.) Things like that make me think "Maybe I am trying too hard" with most models

That light is very sexy! How well balanced is it? Top heavy, or very stable? I am always looking for new lights. Even though I love my Ott-Light, I don't get to sit at my main painting desk... ever? It's been at least 3 years. So I need a good one to drop on a shelf in the living room.

@Yorkright: Hah, thank you much! Dont worry about not posting often- Its just lovely to see you when you do pop in


@Wehr: Peeeeerfect!!

Haaaaaah! Thanks, and yeah that sounds just about right- Plus there's just no telling what part of a model will catch a judges eye- They might REALLY like an element that you added in last minute, or some random touch that you threw in without a second thought...
Tell you what, though... Those kinda surprises are pretty sweet xD

As to the light, its perfectly balanced. All the electronics are in the base of the lamp, so the main structure of it is pretty much just a hollow box and LEDs. I haven't had it long, but I think it's been solid so far

Looks really good Ramos. Excellent work.

Love the piggies. Beautiful work.

Bit late, but congratulations on the well deserved win. Truly magnificent work on the mini.

Moar delicious bacon! :-)

Oh, I guess it's been a while since I checked in on this blog, and you've been pretty busy. That Sakura model turned out amazingly good, so it's no surprise to me at all to hear that she won the gold in the competition. Congrats on a well-deserved award! I also love how the mecha-pig is turning out. That's a pretty interesting model, and it's going to look amazing when it's finished, I can already tell!

Congratulations on the win... Only up from here.

Just catching up here, and wow!!! Sakura is just awesome, congrats on the awards

And the red on the pig looks amazing, that was a spark of painting genius

Love the windows on the car and the peacock figure. I've never been able to paint that kind of blue myself. Well done!

Thanks everyone!!

@kestral- That blue is surprisingly easy. Just based with Reaper's "Dark Turquoise" from their MSP HD range, then blended with Reaper Surf Aqua and Vallejo Jade Green! All jsut a case of taking the time to blend. I loooove painting robes/cloaks!

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So amid various power failures around here (crazy weather), I got the piggies done!
Had no end of trouble with rattlecan Dullcote, though. I just never have any luck with it. Like in this case, it came out satin-y, and a bit glossy in some areas! I dont really want to mess with it more and risk messing it up, so leaving it as is for now.

First course, BEEF!






Second course, Pork Tenderloin kebabs (cause hes all skewered with machinery! Geddit? Ill go home now... )

(This one got the worst of the "Glossy" Dullcote- A little frustrating!)










And for dessert, Candied Bacon with house-made "green" BBQ!~







Next on the menu are the pair of smaller cars... but thatll have to wait till the storm passes! Dont wanna even TRY cleaning my airbrush in the dark!

You should go on America’s got talent with your comedy routine...I need more gag reels to watch .

These guys are looking great . As I’ve said before your skills have almost sold me on PP minis, but I know I couldn’t match you and the models themselves are not to my fancy.

Ah hey! Thats funny!

You're funny, Theo...

Reeeeeeal funny.... LOOKING!!


Haaaah, thanks for the complements on the minis though... I know they arent to everyone's fancy (some people get tired of farm animals, after all ), but I'm glad to be the voice of Privateer Temptations in your head!

 Ramos Asura wrote:
Ah hey! Thats funny!

You're funny, Theo...

Reeeeeeal funny.... LOOKING!!

Says a man with wallpaper that would only look good on Carrottop .

 Theophony wrote:
As I’ve said before your skills have almost sold me on PP minis, but I know I couldn’t match you and the models themselves are not to my fancy.

Except most of them aren't PP minis but yeah, he does make even the bone grinders look awesome!

Love it all, but especially the paint job on Wehrkind's crazy conversion, you really did it justice!

Awesome piggies!

They are absolutely gorgeous! simply gorgeous dude!

 Ramos Asura wrote:
I know they aren't to everyone's fancy (some people get tired of farm animals, after all ).

Call me out by name please..

They do look great. and you do them justice. I may not go for the 'Farm Amimals' games, but i do appreciate an talented amazing paint job when I see it.