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I feel ya..I don't even want to finish my speeder anymore. Comps aren't really my thing.

I have to admit, these competitions are changing my modelling habit's. I usually always start a project and finish that project. Now got a bench full of half finished projects, and not sure which to get on to next, so my mind is wondering.

What ever you do next Dr H, I for one will be following closely.

For now, still admiring that Hut.

 dsteingass wrote:
I feel ya..I don't even want to finish my speeder anymore. Comps aren't really my thing.

Yeah, a competition can do one of two things;
either motivate you to get something done quickly and to the best of your ability,
Or make a fun hobby a bit of a chore.

I had this happen to me at school (many years ago) where I used to spend lunchtime drawing pictures with a couple of friends and so when it came time to pick GCSEs to do, I chose art as one of them because I enjoyed drawing. But when it came to it that I HAD to draw, I couldn't get motivated and ended up just scraping a GCSE (an E) due to a lack of quantity of work even though the few things I did were getting top grades (As and Bs).

I approached this competition like I did any project or experiment I would do in the lab. Set out the time-scale (decided that I was to be painting with at least a week to go to the deadline) and set goals regularly (albeit not all that strict), and worked as efficiently as possible (the next couple of steps were planned out while doing to previous step, if something wasn't working I either changed or dropped it and any added extras were pushed to the end to make sure the important things were done first. Also leaving easier things 'til last to make time to do the harder things first).

Try to look at it as a challenge and not a chore, you can get there Dave, you don't HAVE to do it but lets see IF you can.


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 Camkierhi wrote:
I have to admit, these competitions are changing my modelling habit's. I usually always start a project and finish that project. Now got a bench full of half finished projects, and not sure which to get on to next, so my mind is wondering.

Yeah, I like to finish one thing before moving on. Although I have an added incentive for this in that I don't currently have the space for many unfinished things (don't really have much space for finished things...).

What ever you do next Dr H, I for one will be following closely.

For now, still admiring that Hut.

Thanks, so am I.

Really nice finished project. Looks amazing!

da waaagh orkz wrote:
Really nice finished project. Looks amazing!

Thanks da waaagh.

I'm currently working on a full tutorial for the hut from sprue to paint-job. But it's taking a little time to do.

 Dr H wrote:
Try to look at it as a challenge and not a chore, you can get there Dave, you don't HAVE to do it but lets see IF you can.

Yeh I think this is the best way to approach it. If it's a chore there is no point in doing it in my opinion. Then again I'm not out to win so maybe that requires a different mind set. I just think it's best to see what you can do in the time frame to please yourself and then see if you can do better in the next competition.

 Casey's Law wrote:
Yeh I think this is the best way to approach it. If it's a chore there is no point in doing it in my opinion. Then again I'm not out to win so maybe that requires a different mind set. I just think it's best to see what you can do in the time frame to please yourself and then see if you can do better in the next competition.

Yarp. I was quite impressed with myself for not getting all competitive with this like I do with computer games. I was able to just look at it as a set of restrictions for the model and just work to the best of my ability within those guidelines and had fun doing it. Anything I get on top of that is just a bonus.

That hut must have av 14 on all sides. Amazing work.

Dr. H, you make me cry , that you have so much talent and weren't even trying to be competitive. Some people have talent, you sir have taken more than your share.

Largeblastmarker wrote:That hut must have av 14 on all sides. Amazing work.

I think it's more likely to have AV 1.4 as it's all rotten wood with great big holes everywhere.
Thanks.

Theophony wrote:Dr. H, you make me cry , that you have so much talent and weren't even trying to be competitive. Some people have talent, you sir have taken more than your share.

I didn't say I wasn't trying. I really pushed myself to the limits to get it to look right and I set my standards very high (even by comparison to my usualy high standards). But I still maintain that the actual techniques required for this are simple enough for anyone to do.

I'm just happy to have had the challenge and if I win anything it'll be a bonus.


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I have the first part of the tutorial up. How to build you very own Sprue Hut.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/545398.page#5935106

It will be updated over the coming days, not least of all with the painting instructions.

Nice tutorial Dr. I will be using it in the future at my local club I will be creating.

Cool. Thanks Comrade.

Normal ( ) service will be resumed here once I've finished that and got back to modelling these weapons...

Great tut. Thank you for this masterpiece.

Good job on the tutorial, mate!

I do like the rust of the roof.

Thanks Cam and Casey.

Thanks Shas. I'm pleased how it turned out and it is the next part of the tutorial that I am working on and will be updated soon-ish.

Still waiting on the rest of the village.....but i'll keep looking at the tutorial until then.

so... with the rotting rusty shed all done and wrapped up for the win...

will this mean the army of the second law gets a new member?

after all... the show must go on...!

Theophony wrote:Still waiting on the rest of the village.....but i'll keep looking at the tutorial until then.

Ha ha. I will add more terrain in time. I didn't really intend to build any terrain until I had enough of an army and the space to start playing games.
But more terrain will happen one day and I already have plans/ideas for them. I even have fluff collecting (pun intended) to explain various table layouts and a huge folder for terrain inspiration on my computer.

I do however also have just as many (if not more) ideas for army units. So many ideas, not enough time/hands/money to do them...

The tutorial has been updated recently up to the painting of the rusty roof.

Viktor von Domm wrote:so... with the rotting rusty shed all done and wrapped up for the win...

will this mean the army of the second law gets a new member?

after all... the show must go on...!

The competition's not over until the man in charge says so (whether he chooses to employ a fat lady to sing is up to him).

The show will go on. I will finish this tutorial off first and then a little tidy of the board (which currently has several piles of future basing material laying on it) and then I'll be back to where I left off with the army.

i vote for the fat lady ... you gotta go down with style^^

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
i vote for the fat lady ... you gotta go down with style^^

Well you can talk to Brian about that...

and anyway, I'm still waiting for it to snow on your entry...

*hides in the deepest shadows* um....er....looks at the weather forecast.... winter is not due till...winter?^^

Took me just 16 hours labour to birth my entry, just cover it in talcum powder and call it done, not like we are fighting for first, that's taken by some Hut thingy.........

yeah really... i´ve worked my bum off to make a crisp looking eldar piece and the win gets stolen by totaly ruined and stinking boards nailed inexterly to a shady shed....tststs... some peeps have nerve...

Viktor von Domm wrote:*hides in the deepest shadows* um....er....looks at the weather forecast.... winter is not due till...winter?^^

Camkierhi wrote:Took me just 16 hours labour to birth my entry, just cover it in talcum powder and call it done, not like we are fighting for first, that's taken by some Hut thingy.........

I get the feeling that you'll all be more disappointed than me if I don't win.

Remember that there is more than one prize up for grabs and you have to be in it to win it


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 Viktor von Domm wrote:
yeah really... i´ve worked my bum off to make a crisp looking eldar piece and the win gets stolen by totaly ruined and stinking boards nailed inexterly to a shady shed....tststs... some peeps have nerve...

and who says it stinks... those flowers may add a pleasant smell to their surrounding...

Yeah it's all grey and mouldy and muddy and well smelly....who suggested grey anyways!!! Should be nice Creosote Black or maybe wood stain red.

 Camkierhi wrote:
Yeah it's all grey and mouldy and muddy and well smelly....who suggested grey anyways!!! Should be nice Creosote Black or maybe wood stain red.

I'd have thought a greenskin such as yourself would appreciate that sort of thing... especially the added hint of iron from the blood

and is what I say to that

I don't think the hut is done until you grow a fungus sprout in a corner, the new occupant almost ready to grow up into his future home.

I was tempted to try to sculpt tiny 'shrooms but they would be so much easier to make out of putty and that was outside the scope of the competition (or at least the limitation that I set upon myself).

There will be 'shrooms in the future.

Come on man, take th little round circles off a sprue and carve a mushroom top. Then carve a stalk from the sprue. You can do it you know you want to