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2018/06/08 13:09:47
Subject: Re:Graven's Shelf of Shame June 8th Reassembled Poxwalkers, BMG plans afoot!
I like the green stuff work, you have truly unique poxwalkers (which is always more fun). I'm looking forward to what you have in the works, but more than that I hope you get the chance to be creative on more models soon, like with the poxwalkers.
Falling down is the same as being hit by a planet — "I paint to the 20 foot rule, it saves a lot of time." -- Me
ddogwood wrote:People who feel the need to cheat at Warhammer deserve pity, not anger. I mean, how pathetic does your life have to be to make you feel like you need to cheat at your toy army soldiers game?
2018/06/09 06:30:06
Subject: Graven's Shelf of Shame June 8th Reassembled Poxwalkers, BMG plans afoot!
Falling down is the same as being hit by a planet — "I paint to the 20 foot rule, it saves a lot of time." -- Me
ddogwood wrote:People who feel the need to cheat at Warhammer deserve pity, not anger. I mean, how pathetic does your life have to be to make you feel like you need to cheat at your toy army soldiers game?
2018/06/09 06:52:14
Subject: Re:Graven's Shelf of Shame June 8th Reassembled Poxwalkers, BMG plans afoot!
Can you tell me how tall the average bat-figure is?
Falling down is the same as being hit by a planet — "I paint to the 20 foot rule, it saves a lot of time." -- Me
ddogwood wrote:People who feel the need to cheat at Warhammer deserve pity, not anger. I mean, how pathetic does your life have to be to make you feel like you need to cheat at your toy army soldiers game?
2018/06/09 08:16:48
Subject: Graven's Shelf of Shame June 8th Reassembled Poxwalkers, BMG plans afoot!
Well, 35mm theoretically. It's definitely a heroic scale game. Some female figures are completely tiny, and some are comically (as it were) huge, like Ra's Al Ghûl.
Theophony"... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot."
Solar_Lion: "Man this sums up your blog nicely."
Anpu-adom: "being Geek is about Love. Some love broadly. Some love deeply. And then there are people like Graven.
2018/06/09 13:02:00
Subject: Re:Graven's Shelf of Shame June 8th Reassembled Poxwalkers, BMG plans afoot!
Falling down is the same as being hit by a planet — "I paint to the 20 foot rule, it saves a lot of time." -- Me
ddogwood wrote:People who feel the need to cheat at Warhammer deserve pity, not anger. I mean, how pathetic does your life have to be to make you feel like you need to cheat at your toy army soldiers game?
2018/06/09 22:44:26
Subject: Graven's Shelf of Shame June 8th Reassembled Poxwalkers, BMG plans afoot!
What hasn't been voted for yet? I'll vote for that.
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2018/06/11 18:57:31
Subject: Graven's Shelf of Shame June 8th Reassembled Poxwalkers, BMG plans afoot!
What hasn't been voted for yet? I'll vote for that.
Well, very much inspired by your own take on the poxies, so thanks. Re: Fro thanks, that was the second attempt. Good excuse to watch classic blaxpoitation stuff.
you're a bad person There's always more DC to do. After what's listed there will be animated Bats, Batgirl (who's also a major repair job, as she was a freebie from a friend because she's snapped through the ankles), Raven and Uncle Dudley. So I'll move Raven up the list, there you go. But, anyway, before I start the next BMG wave, I do want the current stuff done.
However, a lovely hot weekend got in the way, and some other RL stuff.
Spoiler:
If you've been around this blog a while, you'll know a few years back I began to experience crippling muscle spasms in my right hand. Not good as a teacher or hobbyist; looked like carpal. Lots of tests later revealed that it's not carpal, not neurological (phew) or anything else - instead, over time the muscles from my right ring finger down through my wrist are very slowly detaching from the bone and ligaments. Not fixable, but manageable in the short-to-mid term with careful pain management, occasional steroid injections and just not overdoing things. Long term, very not good, but hey, that's life and old age. Worked back into painting, gradually, through repainting spess-sheeps and then trying to raise my game through bmg.
It's started being twingey again. Part of the reason I've been away from BMG is not having the level of manual control I need to do models justice - vid. Mayor McCheese; I know I can do better.
Frustrating. But, generally, feeling a bit better, so will get back to the BMG soon (hence, the voting).
Which is all fine - except at the weekend I casually opened a drawer with the ring finger on my other hand, and collapsed in pain on the floor. It's over in an instant, but utterly excruciating, and leaves me feeling nauseous (and whenever I catch it slightly on something, the pain is not as intense but the nausea is very real). So that interferes a bit with doing anything with my hands, as although I'm right handed, of course we always use both when hobbying along.
:Salt:
"Fun" *sigh*
:Violin:
As I say, onwards with the
Tallyman progresses
As does typhus:
I do like the FW powders, the method I'm using (dry powder onto wet wash) gives me a finish I really like; great to finally figure out a way to get powders to work for me. Shame they're stopping doing them, but there's always other powders out there.
Oh, and the Biologus also
Kitbashes always look better with a dash of paint.
And the rest of the
The Blightlords are a step behind, as they've not had powders or next layer of grimy wash (which is Earthshade/sepia/fleshshade in roughly 4:2:1, and I'm out of Earthshade now):
So that's where we are at ttfn
graven
Theophony"... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot."
Solar_Lion: "Man this sums up your blog nicely."
Anpu-adom: "being Geek is about Love. Some love broadly. Some love deeply. And then there are people like Graven.
2018/06/11 19:47:20
Subject: Re:Graven's Shelf of Shame June 11th Progress with rust, muck and filth on the remaining Deathguard
Sorry to hear that you're having renewed issues my friend. I had CT at one time due to my job at the time... that wasn't fun but in the end was easily fixable ("without drugs... life itself would be impossible"). Your long-term prognosis is a lot tougher and its greatly to your credit that you're driving through it. You are inspirational in many ways my friend. Keep at it. Do what you can for as long as you can. You won't get the time back. Wishing you the best... Gits.
You're really doing a number on the Death Guard there matey. Good to see as always. Makes me want to jump in my private jet and pop across the pond for a bit of a to-do.
I'll let you know...
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Hand pain. I have the arthritis, especially in my left thumb. The digit I need to hold things steady while working... I empathize with you. I have found that it pays to be creative with clamps and hold-fasts and that sort of thing. Do not be afraid to experiment and modify your hobby work area.
Remember too, one of the Perry brothers who lost a hand, and yet still found a way to continue. I met them at a Gamesday: Baltimore many years ago. Great guys.
2018/06/12 07:29:56
Subject: Re:Graven's Shelf of Shame June 11th Progress with rust, muck and filth on the remaining Deathguard
Sorry to hear that you're having renewed issues my friend. I had CT at one time due to my job at the time... that wasn't fun but in the end was easily fixable ("without drugs... life itself would be impossible". Your long-term prognosis is a lot tougher and its greatly to your credit that you're driving through it. You are inspirational in many ways my friend. Keep at it. Do what you can for as long as you can. You won't get the time back. Wishing you the best... Gits.
You're really doing a number on the Death Guard there matey. Good to see as always. Makes me want to jump in my private jet and pop across the pond for a bit of a to-do.
I'll let you know...
many thanks old chum. And I hope to get stateside again some time, it's been many years
Red Harvest wrote:Hand pain. I have the arthritis, especially in my left thumb. The digit I need to hold things steady while working... I empathize with you. I have found that it pays to be creative with clamps and hold-fasts and that sort of thing. Do not be afraid to experiment and modify your hobby work area.
Remember too, one of the Perry brothers who lost a hand, and yet still found a way to continue. I met them at a Gamesday: Baltimore many years ago. Great guys.
Yikes. I empathise, that's a nightmare. And I'm aware that folk manage in far worse circumstances than mine. Just having a moan
Anyway, filthed up the Blightlords
Decided to use VJ smoke with the powders. Which seems to have worked.
And started something... Super:
Black Adam and Superwoman. Starting on the joy of yellow.
Woo.
Theophony"... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot."
Solar_Lion: "Man this sums up your blog nicely."
Anpu-adom: "being Geek is about Love. Some love broadly. Some love deeply. And then there are people like Graven.
2018/06/12 13:27:46
Subject: Graven's Shelf of Shame June 11th Progress with rust, muck and filth on the remaining Deathguard
*Bows* I'm biased, naturally The fact that she can still fit into her wedding dress after 12 years and 3 kids continues to impress me.
alabamaheretic wrote:nice start graven. you know they say where theres smoke theres fire...
Cheers. And, fnar.
monkeytroll wrote:Tallyman looking great so far. I never tried the FW powders, but the Mig range is excellent.
Yellow is also looking good And sorry to hear the hand's flaring up, but don't apologise for the moan - better to let it out.
Thanks man. I really did need to let it out, actually; it's reinvigorated me, strangely. I've struggled to get my head round powders for a long time but I'm finally in a place where they really seem to work for me. I've got some Tamiya and Humbrol ones so more experiments may be incoming. And Tallyman will feature powders AND yellow (because tallymebanana). I'm in quite a good place with yellow ATM; I've got to get Batgirl (New 52) right though, I've been putting her off because she demands a very rich yellow.
I decided to crack on with the villainous threesome. In the end, I got fleshy: all primed BMG/DC models got flesh tones done (apart from Monster T, because I wasn't doing dark skin tones), as did 2 of the remaining Warriors and Debbie for Street Wars.
And meanwhile:
Very pleased with how these are coming along, especially all that black. Doing the super ramped highlights with white is always... Fun Tidying up required here and there, especially on Power Ring. But decent progress, and good to feel in a good place again about BMG.
Onwards, if not upwards,
Graven.
Theophony"... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot."
Solar_Lion: "Man this sums up your blog nicely."
Anpu-adom: "being Geek is about Love. Some love broadly. Some love deeply. And then there are people like Graven.
2018/06/13 12:23:03
Subject: Graven's Shelf of Shame June 13th A herd of wild villains appears!
Yorkright wrote: Deathguard looking rusty and crusty, really like how those powders work. I have villain envy, those are very well done.
Thanks on both counts. Next up will be experimenting with other powders, I think. They are very easy to make a mess with though, and I'm not the tidiest of workers at the best of times.
alabamaheretic wrote:Very nice on the dc folks, greenlantern came out ace in my book
Cheers. Power Ring is a deeply weird character, I don't really buy into someone who is complete coward wielding a ring (even if - or especially if - it's the First Ring of Will). But then one of the current Earth GLs has anxiety (not well-written, even with Tim Seeley at the helm), so what do I know? Ironically, the best of the new GLs run has been when they revisited Power Ring as a character recently (any excuse to see Singularity Jane in action is good in my book). Sorry, went full DC Nerd there, didn't I? Any-hoo, happy enough with these 3: Possibly more to do. But I'm going to take a step back before I do anything else with them.
And more progress on Typhus He's going rather well I think. Deliciously crusty. Just to prove, really, that I'm still working on the The next big job with them is adding the lighter armour colour (Flayed One Flesh).
The other big job on my desk right now (of the many) is stripping mould lines from DB teams. Veermyn and Marauders first, because they're getting khaki prime.
Had a lovely moment yesterday. As school winds down for the year, there's very few senior pupils in. Found one lad sitting in class painting Cadian heads (very well, I might add), and had a great chat about the hobby. It's the little things
I've just realised, as I was editing the OP, that today is the 8 year anniversary of this blog. Crikey. Thanks for your unwavering support, whether you've been here since the beginning, are a newcomer or have boomeranged back and forth. You guys are the best.
Hey ho, and to the future, Graven
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Theophony"... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot."
Solar_Lion: "Man this sums up your blog nicely."
Anpu-adom: "being Geek is about Love. Some love broadly. Some love deeply. And then there are people like Graven.
2018/06/14 16:22:49
Subject: Graven's Shelf of Shame June 14th The Villains 3, further Typhus work and... 8th Blog-iversary!
Adam and the CSA looking good, although I was hoping for a more interesting sculpt of Power Ring, maybe cowering down whispering to the ring or something.
I can't tell if she's holding her purse, or her underwear.
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Falling down is the same as being hit by a planet — "I paint to the 20 foot rule, it saves a lot of time." -- Me
ddogwood wrote:People who feel the need to cheat at Warhammer deserve pity, not anger. I mean, how pathetic does your life have to be to make you feel like you need to cheat at your toy army soldiers game?
2018/06/14 23:16:54
Subject: Graven's Shelf of Shame June 14th The Villains 3, further Typhus work and... 8th Blog-iversary!
have begun...
and dribbly 
nice motor pool you have there. And took me a minute to spot the car in... stealth mode.
you're a bad person 
There's always more 
stuff done.
many thanks old chum. And I hope to get stateside again some time, it's been many years 
, thank you 
