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YES I am Weets! and you can't make me grow up neener neener

Dave, you just made me go spend money. Operation Cerberus, and three of one of the walkers. The deal off the day at miniaturemarket.com $11.00 each. Pics later.

Dang! wish I had that money rolling in now!

 shasolenzabi wrote:
Dang! wish I had that money rolling in now!

Me too. A job would be nice to support my addiction to plastic crack.

more money would be nice to support my addiction to plastic crack

corrected that for you

who needs work when you have so much hobby work to fo?

and dave... i see lots of possibilities in these models... i am quite surprised tho that you got yourself the axis army first? dust has some amazing american troops! tho... in the first comparrision pic you showed the catachan and the german are together with an american? this one tho looks way bulkier than the german dust model? or is it just me?


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oh.. and nice to see your steampunk walker again!... i was thinking of starting my own competition soon... it has a lego and a modeling challenge to it... and of course it will dwell in the lands of steam!

The Core set has both Allies and Axis Vik
Green primer are Allies, Gre primer is Axis
The book is for building armies tabletop style

ah.... i see the epic conflict then^^

Just stoped to say "Hi" while I'm chewing through all the 80 pages...
Speaking about Dust; I really liked the new heavies, made me consider trying it out. How's the rule set? What's it like?

I'm not sure of the rules yet, I can leave you this though




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And theo in turn makes me go spend money there to get that $11.00 deal! But I got the Allied flier, because it looks too fun to paint!

Yeah, the primer/paint will block poly' cement, especially if it's a complete coat. Scratching some/most/all of it off would solve that problem, assuming that it is polystyrene underneath.

It's a bit bendy for styrene. Not toy-soft, but it's softer stuff for sure.

So its only superglue then?

Curious, I wonder what it is...

Yes, CA is the thing that works

I'm not sure what it is, but the primer they use almost makes it stronger. Perhaps it's similar to heroclix-type figures? I don't have any to compare it to.

 dsteingass wrote:
Yes, CA is the thing that works

I'm not sure what it is, but the primer they use almost makes it stronger. Perhaps it's similar to heroclix-type figures? I don't have any to compare it to.

Very Interesting. I will be following this because the terrain seems nice.

Yes the minis are made of a odd plas-res that is bendable, and heat helps it do so. Makes me think it is more like the stuff GW could have started making their failcast from but then went to the chalk like brittle stuff

Well, I've got to get a MiniArt 1/72 Railroad Station kit painted ASAP for IPMS-USA. The mortar lines in the brickwork are giving me fits. This entire project has been a mess since it began. At first I had incorrect instructions, so MRC sent me an entire new kit. I worked on it yesterday, but nothing worthy of a digital pic yet...

Must be terrible to get sent free stuff , I know it's a pain when you don't have a desire to paint it up, or fix the problems with the kit though. Good luck getting motivated and completing it.

Well, it's a double-edged sword, temptation of all sorts of free stuff, until you realize you have a deadline



This is me experimenting with thinned white India Ink. This is my third attempt. The first time, I didn't let the base red dry completely, and everything had a horrible pink tint to it. White Gouache worked like a charm for Bag-End's floors, but it didn't work at this scale. Not enough surface area on the bricks to support the wet-scrubbing I usually do...

Wow, that kit is nice looking, too bad it's not necromunda scale. Well it could be the right scales for squats, but as they are gone, I guess an empty building is appropriate.

Don't you think those few spots where the ink didn't settle is throwing the look off though?

I think it looks like a lot of the older homes around me where in some spots they used extra mortar and it bleached the red brick a bit more than other spots. Or it could be an area that just got retuckpointed and you have the dust from removing the old mortar lightening the spots. Plant some shrubs or trees in front of it to camouflage the areas you don't like. Battle damage would also work some wonders.

I think my iPads been used on dakkadakka too much, every time I type "work" it autocorrects to "ork"

Haha at least Apple recognizes the GW spelling

hmmm. Perhaps you're right. I dunno. I Just washed the stone window inserts (primed light grey) and other greeblies with Secret Weapon concrete wash. we'll see how it looks with those on.

Brickwork is looking pretty good. Looks like quite a few buildings I've seen out in the real world.

Free is one of my favourite words.
Deadline is one of my least favourite words...

Thanks!
Moving right along then...

i agree brickwork looks stunning, and where the white ink(?) didn´t settle i would just add a simpe diluted wash of hawk turquois? for that ruined and recaptured by nature mossy look?

You think? Thanks. It looks better in the macro pics than it does sitting 8 feet away from it

Loking good Dave, what color slate roof are you going to do?

I was thinking black/grey. Blue would be too much eh?

Black/grey sounds sweet, I was also thinking green, but that might be too Christmassy.