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Yup, some really nice work in here. The detail on your repainted tie is much better.

GiraffeX wrote:That looks really good Graven.

Thanks mate, just trying to get my groove back gradually.

Solar_lion wrote:I thought they looked good before but you made them pop. nicely done!

As a pickup and play, prepainted, beer and pretzels game, it's great. However it's dangerously addictive. Thanks buddy.

Camkierhi wrote:Been a while since I visited, and I am very happy to see you at it again.

Tea is one of mans greatest finds.

Models are looking brilliant, love the dirty look, funny how space is often depicted as clean! Sure with all the smegg that must be out there from the exhausts, and bodily fluids from the millions of people that seem to be floating around, there must be dirty spots somewhere.

Anyways, brilliant, love it, drink more tea.

Cheers bud. Am supping on Earl Grey right now I much prefer a grubby grimdark, hate factory fresh tanks. I wonder if a few more scorch marks are required, actually?

Gitsplitta wrote:Amazing job on those fighters there graven. A little TLC really makes a difference in their appearance.

Many thanks amigo. I realise that I'd missed the thrusters on the back of the HWK's tailfins so that has now been addressed also.

Llamahead wrote:Good job Graven.
Camkierhi I've always wondered how do Ork ships rust in space?

Cheers mate. Rule of (orky) cool still applies in a vacuum.

Warboss_Waaazag wrote:Ships look great. I echo the love of grimy vessels.

Thanks mate. Might try to make some debris also.

ckig wrote:Repaint looks so much better! Nice work!

Thanks, and always a pleasure to have some new along!

insaniak wrote:Yup, some really nice work in here. The detail on your repainted tie is much better.

Hey, thanks chief, great to have a nod from the mods

Weather's great just now, so as well as a trip to the spongebob movie (mental, although rather wonderful), park, burgers and beer made for a heck of a day - not much painting though.

Still, I feel I should give you all something - not there yet, but further along than anything else:

Don't know why they decided to give the defender a blue tinge, but not complaining - it's a nice variation.

Also, picked up the Reklar, the most recent cardassian ship for trek wing. Whilst it's a gorgeous little beast and adds lots of fluffy mechanics, the model itself is unremarkable, just a repack of models they can't sell any more. Shoddy, WizKids. I told the Mrs I was off to buy myself a tiny space ship that goes pew pew pew, to which she replied by sing pew pew pew to the tune of jingle bells. Ah, the foundations of a marriage
Later dudes and dudettes, more tomorrow,
Graven

Earl Grey? Oh dear, you may need to drink something Decaf when painting. Unless you've just taken aspirin or ibuprofen, then a little caffeine helps to speed it through your system. Me, my nerves are shot already so the caffeine really doesn't matter.

Sadly, the stores around here stopped carrying my favorite tea ( a Rooibos tea called Safari Spice.) Ah, but summer is coming so iced tea time. Orange Pekoe FTW.

The exhaust glow is very cool. I'll need to borrow that idea if I ever get around to making a ship, or dropship. The blue tinge? Maybe because it has better shields? Or just to show up better on the table. Either way, look good.

 Red Harvest wrote:
Earl Grey? Oh dear, you may need to drink something Decaf when painting. Unless you've just taken aspirin or ibuprofen, then a little caffeine helps to speed it through your system. Me, my nerves are shot already so the caffeine really doesn't matter.

Sadly, the stores around here stopped carrying my favorite tea ( a Rooibos tea called Safari Spice.) Ah, but summer is coming so iced tea time. Orange Pekoe FTW.

The exhaust glow is very cool. I'll need to borrow that idea if I ever get around to making a ship, or dropship. The blue tinge? Maybe because it has better shields? Or just to show up better on the table. Either way, look good.

I had too much Rooibos when the mrs was pregnant, although I'm not averse to it from time to time. Good as a marinade also for beef (very afrikaans!)

Glad you like the glow - Vader and the Defender get it too, because they have hyperdrives. Don't actually know where Vader's tail lights are, though... Like your logic about why the blue tinge - shielding makes sense, it's one of the only ones that has them.

So here we are:


Rubbish light, sorry. I will attempt to take proper pics in the light box with a black cloth anon. Cheers muckers!
graven

Promised proper pics:
My lovely empire group -

And individually:


Very challenging to photograph the Defender's hyperdrive, but I think this caught it.



Love Vader's TIE. Tried to make it even cleaner than the others.



TIE engines are TIE-ny!



It's not squint, it's dynamic.

And my Rebel Scum!





Not sure if it's grubby enough tbh, but I'll live.



He's been in the wars...



BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGS!

And of course...


Uncommonly happy with the engine glow. It's the little things.

And finally, my wee fleets so far:


2 playable, 100 point fleets, repainted and ready to go! Very enjoyable.

Anyway, wife's birthday tomorrow: cake made, cupcakes made, and now a beef wellington to do...

Later peeps,
graven

Wow, for someone with a bum paw you're really prolific!

Sore as heck right now after all that and the baking/cooking!

And a quick Galor repaint:

That's a nice couple of fleets you have there Graven.

Fleets are looking very cool

The pre-paints are fairly good, but after your re-paints they're fab, really shows a diiference.

Good job

Hope Mrs Graven's birthday was a success, and much merriment was had by all.


Now we want to see them after being GIMPed or Shopped with stars and pew-pew

gosh... looking at all these repainted beauties... must...resist...argh...no...

apropos of nothing...finally watched by the way into darkness...cool...^^
also... how do you collect and play as one person star wars fleets and trekkie fleets???...there is some heresy looming

also i hope your lil one took the OP in a good way?...and i wish you some more strength for your hand... seeing your work...the world wants to see more cool repaints^^

cheers, vik

Well, you magnificent basterd, now I have "Laser Bells" stuck in my head.

Great work on the fighters!

--B.

Pew, pew, pew. Pew, pew, pew Pew-pew, pew, pew, pewwwww...

Great work on the tiny ships.

Happy Birthday to Mrs. Graven.

Delightful little models.... pretty outstanding to get that amount of detail on such a small model!

Nice stuff.. ( cheering for the Empire though)

You forgot the best part.. eating.. all sounds yummy.

GiraffeX wrote:That's a nice couple of fleets you have there Graven.

Thank you kindly sir! If only I got more time to play them...

monkeytroll wrote:Fleets are looking very cool

The pre-paints are fairly good, but after your re-paints they're fab, really shows a diiference.

Good job

Hope Mrs Graven's birthday was a success, and much merriment was had by all.


Now we want to see them after being GIMPed or Shopped with stars and pew-pew

I don't do GIMP although you remind me of an excellent line from the Spongebob movie: "Welcome to the post-apocalypse, lad. I hope ye like leather." Birthday was a tremendous success, and glad you like my daubings

Viktor von Domm wrote:gosh... looking at all these repainted beauties... must...resist...argh...no...

apropos of nothing...finally watched by the way into darkness...cool...^^
also... how do you collect and play as one person star wars fleets and trekkie fleets???...there is some heresy looming

also i hope your lil one took the OP in a good way?...and i wish you some more strength for your hand... seeing your work...the world wants to see more cool repaints^^

cheers, vik

That's the sound of the Vik opening his wallet... I have a good group at my local club, I just don't get there as much as I would like - but hey, that's what kids are for hand is on-and-off (see below), and Joe did mighty fine with op, ta. Glad you liked STID, I am of the heretical non-JJ hating trekkers, shockingly...

Briancj wrote:Well, you magnificent basterd, now I have "Laser Bells" stuck in my head.

Great work on the fighters!

--B.

Pew, pew, pew. Pew, pew, pew Pew-pew, pew, pew, pewwwww...

All the way

Dr H wrote:Great work on the tiny ships.

Happy Birthday to Mrs. Graven.

Cheers, and thanks for your handy comments on League comp:



That's League Comp 14 folks, click that for details - I may be entering, thinking about making a base holed up in an asteroid or 2...

MagosBiff90 wrote:Delightful little models.... pretty outstanding to get that amount of detail on such a small model!

Lines could be neater, but thanks mate

Solar_lion wrote:Nice stuff.. ( cheering for the Empire thou)

You forgot the best part.. eating.. all sounds yummy.

Yeah, #1 son is thinking the same way. He loves the TIEs, and I can understand the appeal.

Birthday was awesome, cakes were fab - gingerbread/salt caramel cupcakes a bloody triumph, actually - and the beef wellington was rare & tasty. Generally a great time has been had. If you're ever up this a way, I heartily recommend a visit to the Kelpies, 30m high steel horse-head statues. Mental.

Hand has been ok-ish. Managed to jerk as I was pulling my phone out of pocket today and dropped it 3 flights straight down.



But only 2 months left on contract, a £20 buy-out, cheaper than insurance excess or replacement screen, so new phone - same as old but waterproof and with 20 Megapixel camera (we are seriously living in the magic space future here folks), and slightly less per month. Only really downside is my Carcassone seems to have disappeared, along with my runestones from Talisman.

And to cheer myself up:

I swear I am the only person on the internet who doesn't think this thing looks dorky. Love me an E-Wing! (A-wing/X-wing hybrid).

Hey, I resisted the YT-2400, the Slave 1, the Rebel Aces... for now

Later peeps, gonna go watch the force awakens trailer again (soontir fel?!)

graven

I don't do GIMP although you remind me of an excellent line from the Spongebob movie: "Welcome to the post-apocalypse, lad. I hope ye like leather."

Sometimes, I forget gimp means something quite different on your side of the pond. But then , if it is SSC, who am I to judge?

Good to hear about the Birthday, and that you have the addiction under control.

That Disney is making this new SW movie... I shudder. But then I recall what Lucas did.... I shudder again. I wonder if there will be a Frozen cross-over with the SW movie, something on Hoth maybe?

Progress is good on those ships. I have a friend who plays the STAW and re-painted everything of his. Then he started eyeballing his wife's STAW ships. It never ends...

Well, I have (new) hope it can't be worse than episode 1.

A mystery for you all:
What are these for

(hint - trek...)

well, actually i think they´re binders...
but trek related... you could build the neutral zones barrier maybe?

They're flower sticks. Clue 2: part of ongoing trek themed birthday present.

Feel like stumbling through white sands....no clue at all...

Spinning a web?

^ Smart cookie yup, these are the range rulers for the tholian web, I plan on doing them as tholian Web spinners. Next project, has to be done for start of may for birthdays presents. Then on to the next league contest

Very sore couple of days. Back to work tomorrow, too meanwhile, an E Wing:

Some folk find em goofy but I rather like them.

they remind me strongly of the battleship gallactica fighters...the vipers

I like it. Though they all look far better once they've had the "graven treatment ".

It does look a bit like the viper. Just needs the tail fin. And a pilot card for Starbuck

New colors of things seen n the new Star Wars trailer, new T.I.E. fighter paint jobs, etc.

Viktor von Domm wrote:they remind me strongly of the battleship gallactica fighters...the vipers

Totally hadn't seen that!

Gitsplitta wrote:I like it. Though they all look far better once they've had the "graven treatment ".

Thanks mate, although I don't want this to be quite as grubby, the e wing is supposed to be new and shiny.

Red Harvest wrote:It does look a bit like the viper. Just needs the tail fin. And a pilot card for Starbuck

Ooft! That would be neat. Classic or new galatica?

shasolenzabi wrote:New colors of things seen n the new Star Wars trailer, new T.I.E. fighter paint jobs, etc.

Yeah I'm tempted by the white tie I like the blue squad xs too. I'm actually tempted by the Clone war prototype E scheme, which is black with red stripes.

But meantime, I'm redoing the scheme slightly, keeping the leader tags but I think more orange and grey (rogue squadron) than red and white:
.

I know... I'll call it "gravenizing" or "gravenization". Has a nice ring to it.