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Oh dear, I wish you the best of luck with those micro-beads. It looks hellishly difficult to do a proper job when placing them. I hope I'm wrong

And I recommend Xenogears if you are incline for a JRPG. It's a JRPG with badass giant Mechs. Glorious

The beads are tricky, but that little bead-tool thing makes it fairly easy. Just need to paint a few things with them and see if I like the look.

Badass giant mechs, awesome combos and a fairly interesting plot (though a bit heavy on the exposition). I played it to like the last boss years and years ago, but didn't end up finishing it (common with me and RPGs lol) then I lost one of the discs. I think I have the isos though so I may load it up emulator style for some mega-nostalgia! Running through at least one armored core game first though :p

In other news, I got the leather done on the dwarfs, now just metal skin and beards before dipping. Woot.


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Alright small update time. I gave myself about an hour tonight after the little one went into snoozemode. She's been getting me up in the middle of the night so I can't risk staying up too late and jeopardizing my precious sleep Anyway, instead of being a good, diligent painter... I decided to let myself get swept up in the current of DZ excitement again. With all of the new beta faction decks, missions, new units to try out, mercs and everything else, I decided that I would need a board... even if I have to play both sides myself! I made a really really shoddy alpha/beta board with buildings in foamcore, but it is just too lame to use. I decided to use plasticard (or something fairly close) to make my own crude tiles and to then quickly build a static 2x2 deadzone board with them. I may give it a quick dusting of grey too, just so it isn't too drab.


To save time, I cut carefully measured out the 3x3 grid onto one sheet of plasticard (good old garage sale signs ftw) and then put the two sheets together with tape.


I used scissors for speed, though some of the edges are a little wavy or warped, ultimately they will be close enough for what this is.


And here you can see the stack of 48 tiles -- not quite 2 BZ, but then again a BZ doesn't get 8 full tiles, there are lots of halves and those I can make out of remaining card -- as well as the left-over card, some sprue and craft sticks for underlying support, and some found items to add interest.

I intend to bust it out Souza-style, implementing some found items to make the board a tad more interesting. So far I've got some spray can lids which may serve as generators or vats or what have you, and the fairly dangerous looking (recently defunct) coffee grinder of doom may have a part to play as well. I'm thinking hot glue with clipped sprue for supports to make the buildingish sections, with sprue or craft stick reinforced bridges here and there. I may make some detritus/barricades as well to add some scatter. The intention is to dust it all with black, and then mix up some gray out of my lesser favored airbrush paints (spectra tex) doing it all rather quickly. Maybe a quick quick drybrush, maybe not.

Preferably, I'll work on my dwarfs the next time I sit down, but sometimes I'm just too out of it to paint. Sometimes I still feel like hobbying in those situations, and coarser stuff like this can always be done when a bit tired.

That is all, be back soon, hopefully with some painted dwarfs, right?

Eh, it happens, sometimes when we try to pick up a brush to paint it's just not worth it or we aren't "in the zone". Usually that's when I get my "clean up and remove mold lines" session or gaming You, you create cool lookin' and easy to store boards for another game.

Btw, did you get to try out Infinity this weekend?

Yes we did. A reasonably short 150 pt game between proxied and modified c army and corregedor starters. I led corregedor to a route of the c army with 4/6 troops remaining. Lack of terrain left his Lt too close to a spitfire that eventually trained him down and his impetuous witch soldier got himself into trouble. My sin eater was positively mean on board control with his beastly mk12 getting full burst on around due to his special rule.

We had fun and I think my buddy wants to get into the game, meaning my deadzone terrain may be seeing a lot of use in the future.

Hurray! Glad you guys enjoyed it! This means we'll eventually see painted Infinity figures here too

*WHIP CRACK* Now get back to the "TODO or Die" work!

Yeah, I doubt I'll be able to keep from getting at least a starter if my friend buys some actual infinity models. I'm more inclined to proxy right now what with all of warpath minis I've been working on as well as my incoming deadzone goodies... but I doubt I'll be able to say no to a Bakunin starter if my opponent has real infinity models too

Still hoping to put in a little time on those dwarfs tonight but its getting late, we'll see.

Grim dork, I just got micro beads this week also, easiest way I Lund so far is to use an old brush with a good tip, lick the tip of the brush and touch it to the bead. The saliva is tacky enough to hold the bead until you place it in the glue which will hold it tighter. DO NOT LICK THE TIP AGAIN OR HE GLUE WILL STICK H BRUSH O OUR TONGUE. yes I did it, it's funny now, but then not so much. I just slip a little on a small scrap of plastic card and when the brush stops picking up dip it into the spit again. Sounds gross but speed everything up ALOT.

That sounds pretty doable. But, I beg you, for the sake of your tongue; try the wire blue tack tool I mentioned. I haven't done a lot of these yet, but it seemed fairly useable, and there is zero chance of having to give yourself minor tastebudectomies if you get into the groove and forget

I will try it your way though, I have plenty of old brushes, and I plan to do some more work with the beads soon.

In other news, the dwarfs are painted to the point I can dip them (hooray!). I'm tired, but I would love to finish them tomorrow so I think I'm going to go dip them anyway. Tomorrow I can do the bases and wait for the dwarfs to dry, and finally seal.

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All six dwarfs got dipped and cleaned. I don't think I've mentioned it before, but the few minutes after you dip a model are pretty stressful. You've got to go around really quickly and find all of the heavy pools of wood stain (or army painter, I would assume), and siphon them off with something. I use little bits of paper towel rolled up so there's a point on both ends, lets you get into creases where the dip is too thick. But you've got to do this fast, especially on larger and flat surfaces, because the dip sets fast... it doesn't touch dry very quickly at all, but it gets too tacky to work with fairly quickly. Priorities are the flat parts, because the thinner (yet still too thick) dip will dry there the fastest, but the deeper pools in creases are also of concern.

Let's just say that I'm glad when the batch of models are cleaned as well as I could manage, and they're happily drying, awaiting their matte sealer to bring them to the right tone. Since that's where we are now, I'm gonna go read and sleep, with every intention of finishing up the batch tomorrow.

Good (timezone appropriate section of day) folks, and happy hobbying!

Alright, a triumphant return!

Got all 6 dwarfs done, 5 steel warriors, and what may end up being the first of 5-10 Thorgarmin. I'm really happy with the bases, I went back to a simpler and less cluttered look, but primarily its the addition of black. Its hard to express just how much I like the addition of the black (asphalt i guess?). It brings just enough contrast to help make the models and other base colors pop. At least a couple of partial asphalted bases are mandatory for any batch of models I do in this style from now on.

I think I was a little slow cleaning the dip this time around, but overall I'm pleased with the dwarfs. There are a few things here and there that I would like to fix later, like the heat hammer and not-so-glowly heat gun coils, but I'm going to wait until after the TDOD list to go back and look at stuff like that.

This batch of eyes came out pretty well, I'll take some more group and solo shots when I get some time on a nice sunny day, took just a few to get by on early. I'm also happy with the lenses on the Thorgarim, usually these give me a lot of trouble, and the layering is still very rough but I've always had trouble with such small areas. Its one thing that I really like about working on the steel warriors, their eyes, lenses, and several other details are larger than normal.. and it really helps me make them look a bit better than my usual.

Gah, getting a headache =/ I picked up a TV to replace my dying monitor (takes it more than a minute to come on, every time it comes on, seems like it only has a few more ons in it...), but I didn't do enough research and the quality is just unacceptable. I'm gonna have to downgrade the size back to the 22-24" range and make sure its one of those razor sharp led tvs or something, the text on the one I just got is killing my brain, even armored core 1 (ps1 game) looks bad on it! I could just get a monitor, but I want something with HDMI input for my phone to take over. Only problem with the razors/etc is they usually only have one hdmi port =/. Anyway enough off-topic, time for pictures!


New avatar, not so much because it is an incomparable work of art, but cause it looks silly and i like it


More of the same dwarf, I got a lot of shots of him to find a couple that worked.


Last of the mad hammer dwarf on his own, promise!


I noticed this while I was doing the eyes; that helmet, color scheme, and blank white eyes... SCORPION! I may have to get my lawyer out, smell a C&D coming


And here's the only shot of everyone so far. I'm fairly happy with the results, especially in the time it took. I love the black sections of the bases adding contrast. I want to fix the hammer, heat gun coils, fancy up the fuel/power tanks for those weapons, maybe do a little other fixing, but I'm gonna wait on that for now.

I've already got my next 5 corporation marine veterans lined up, two are primed white from before, gotta finish clipping off the mini-bases of the other 3 and get those onto nails to match the first two. I plan to employ the airbrush just as much on these guys as I did on the rangers, but no masking the white, I'm just going to repaint anything I overspray onto. Hopefully I can get those five cranked out well inside of two weeks, but who knows, I tend to drag on that color scheme. After those, its just 16 zombies and 5 more rangers.

Still gotta update the TDOD graphic, but I'm running on my little 15" or something backup monitor and don't feel like it :p Gotta return this poorly researched TV and get something more in line with a proper monitor or my eyes are going to get even worse from all of this squinting!

That mad dwarf looks freakin' crazy. I sure would hate to have that guy staring at me with those buggy eyes of him. I think the hammer could use some brighter and warmer colors to represent the heat but I see you already considered this fix, together with the gun coils.

Scorpion on the other hand just looks awesome

About your TV problems: yes, please do that. It's already bad enough what we do to our eyes when we have a decent monitor, never mind that apparent monstrosity that's causing you discomfort and headaches.
About the HDMI problem, right now I have a TV with 2 HDMI ports (and is wonderful, unlike your... monstrosity), but, before I only had 1 port for both the Xbox360 and PS3, and both of them needed that port. The solution? Something like this:

I figured such a thing existed, just hadn't looked. That looks like my answer.

The hammer, coils, and some other things here and there will get revisited whenever the steel warriors get their own project time. Its tabletop passable now and that's all I have time for. When I devote some more time to the FF, I'll do some research into making the hammers etc look good and hot.

It occurs to me that I haven't painted even a small vehicle over the span of this blog. Mantic doesn't have many, of course. Maybe if I turn up some decent wheels on toy trucks in the dollar store, I'll try my hand at the speeder buggy. Of course, now that marines may be getting less as scout DTS....may have to not use those. We'll see!

Yep, ordered one of those splitters. Very reasonable, maybe 8 something on amazon, so I should have it a day after the hdmi cable itself arrives. Got a new TV, the letters are just the slightest bit off-putting. I know if I got the razer 22" it would be as sharp as I want, but this one is a bit bigger and has some extra (somewhat) desirable features, so I'm gonna give it a few days of evaluation. Probably keep it unless I start getting headaches for no other reason

Now, on to actual business.

New TDOD graphic, updating the first page imminently.


Feels pretty good to be halfway there. I know there's an odd model keeping it under 50%, but I also did an extra dwarf so nyar!
Doing some calendar math, I've got a little shy of two weeks left for this month, and then September/October/November, so 13-14 weeks remaining before December hits. Given 5 more batches of models and allowing 2 weeks for each, I should only need 10 weeks to get done. I know that I will drag a bit on the marines and rangers, but its entirely possible I could batch paint the last 10 zombies in one go as well. There may also be some time in December before Deadzone arrives, but I'm reserving that time for a break or additional side project action. Hopefully I beat my estimations and have nearly two months to work on something else. As long as I get a couple of weeks of downtime before Deadzone, though, I'll be happy. I'm going to need to clear off my desk for once, and to get all of my models either packed away in storage/travel containers, or prominently displayed to moralize my continued efforts. I may need to get a new bitz container (or three) to temporarily store my Deadzone goodness, we'll see.

On another note...
It totally says "dipping with wood stain" under my portrait..
AND THATS EXACTLY WHAT I'M DOING!!!
...Ahem. Kind of creepy, kind of awesome, you decide


Really feel like I should do some work on the marines, but it was too hot today. Gonna relax with a bit of Armored Core, and see about some more progress tomorrow.

Thanks for reading, more hobby action shortly!

Good, good, get your R&R because we want to see more progress. That "TODO or Die" list is going great and we don't want any slip-ups. We'd hate to see you "Die" before you got the chance of painting other cool stuff besides the list

Yes, dying at this point in the game would be...unfortunate.

Will have a shorter day today, so hopefully I'll have some energy left to paint when I get back from a late start at work.


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Bah, energy was spent elsewhere. I did manage to get the marines onto their nails though:



Just to prove that I'm not doing nothing

There is a post on the Mantic Deadzone forums asking how people are going to paint their battlezone tiles. I've been giving it a lot of thought as I have ever so many incoming, and would like to keep the terrain paced with progress on the minis. That said, I would really like to dip the tiles, or at least apply the stain with a brush (they probably won't fit in the can of stain!). This brings up a dilemma though. All of my good woodstains are brown since, well, wood is tan/brown. My bases and game mats are going to be various greys, so grey for buildings seems natural, however... Grey dipped with brown is typically questionable at best. So, either I have to find a earthy tone for my buildings that easily accepts a brown/red-brown tinted stain, or figure something else out. I would really like to dip the tiles as they will ideally be seeing a lot of dis/assembly, and the extra polyurethane shell would be nice (as long as it doesn't make the fit too tight for the clips to work, a little more snug is probably good... but won't go in is bad!).

My only other option (that I've come up with so far) is to try to use the BLACK STAIN OF DEATH ! This is minwax polyshades satin black. I got it originally thinking that it would be the end-all of everything, the ultimate black wash (which makes everything look better). The first poor, (forcibly) brave goblin that got dunked came out pitch black. I had to quickly attack him with paper towels to get any detail to show at all. This stuff is just thick and nasty! Meh, even I am getting tired of me being long-winded.

TLDR: Black stain super strong!

Anyhow, I did quickly throw together a test piece using one of my temporary makeshift deadzone tiles, sprayed it with VMA light grey, then dunked it. Let the stuff drip, slung it around, the thing was totally black. I grabbed a paper towel to try to salvage it a bit and got the following:



I actually kind of like it. Its a bit nasty looking, but possibly in a good way. Now, this is just on a flat piece of plasticard with a few raised details. It will probably nuke the finer details of the deadzone tiles, but on the chance that it does not...

What do you think?

It seems to dark and grimy to be a recently constructed habtainer cityscape look. But I dunno, I guess habtainer cities probably stay up for awhile. The grimy streaks are definitely giving me a necromunda vibe, which may clash with the fancier/cleaner look of most of the new deadzone minis... but maybe not. I will probably try at least a couple of tiles like this when I get them, I think if I were to go back in and paint metal and pick out a few other details, it could look alright.

Feed the mighty decision engine (I guess that means my brain? actually, its pretty bad at making decisions you know!) your thoughts that I may digest them and extrude the truth!

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I actually kind of like it. Its a bit nasty looking, but possibly in a good way. Now, this is just on a flat piece of plasticard with a few raised details. It will probably nuke the finer details of the deadzone tiles, but on the chance that it does not...

I honestly believe that the possibility of any detail nuking is good reason enough to believe it's a bad decision. Loss of detail is a

Also, are you more inclined to a clean environment or the dirty look you got? Your bases suggest a city that looks clean and fairly advanced, so that grimy and dark look doesn't really adds up. damaged and stained because of weapons, yes, it's a battle after all, but dirty? Nah, I don't like it.

Just my 2 cents

I tend to agree. I just wonder if there is a tan or brown that will go with my based or deadzone mats. Will probably end up doing a light grey a wash and dry brush. Like my bases, maybe a tad lighter. Maybe I just hit them with two layers of sealer to get them to hold.

Now if I were making a necromunda board... but I'm not, and deadzone and infinity both look good on clean boards.

Good call. I may do my temp dz board like this, but may be too much trouble.

Alright alright, I'm still here!

It seems as though I'm in between computers at the moment (more spoilered below, kinda boring though!), so lengthy updates may be slightly less common, and properly edited photos vastly more so. We'll see.



Ahem, but I'm still plugging along just fine on the models end of it. I have been moving a little slowly, but things are getting done. From a comment that I saw on one of the deadzone update pages, it sounds like they're planning to ship in november, likely for a first week of december type of thing. This means no extra wiggle room, I've gotta be done by December 1st 2013, OR DIE TRYING!

AHEM! Anyway, I haven't painted on those marines yet, but I did get the second batch of rangers up on their nails. I also swapped out one of their heavy rifles with another special weapon (initially, was going to have 3 for a IG vet team, but I'm not as worried about that now...and rangers can have 2 specials in a 5 man :p). I also got the first zombie weapon team up on nails as well. Today I managed to get two more zombies, another weapon team, set up. I think I may push to get everything assembled and ready to paint for the last big push to finish the project. I was hesitant to do this before now because it would be demoralizing what with the to do pile being bigger than the done. This is no longer the case, however, and I think having stuff ready to paint can only help. I may undercoat all 10 corp marines, and maybe paint some bits on the rangers extra while painting the marines, same with the zombies. Best to encourage enthusiasm and painting binges where possible at this point!

Oh, I've been working a little on my makeshift/found items terrain as a bit of a procrastination/diversion. I give you, the still very WIP, SPACE LASER TOWER!


As you can see, its just the basic shape, I still need to add a bit of plasticard to make it look more like a laser tower and less like what it is Still, though, it totally spins around and swivels back and forth, very space lasery if you ask me!

And if you can't tell what it is... Its my defunct coffee grinder, which was featured earlier. I tore the heart out of it, and was greeted with some really neat looking guts! My limited electronics experience would seem to suggest electricity being used to do some magnet-like stuff to make the top thing spin and push the choppy bit around to chew up the lil coffee beans. So not only did I get that sweet part up top that I'm pretty sure looks like a sick-ass laser cannon with zero modification, but I got a big gribbly metal thing with bunches of wires going into it, so thats probably going to be some kind of generator or alien artifact for objectives.

I want to dress up the crude mechanism I have holding the (rather heavy, relatively speaking) laser cannon and its mount, and make it look less obvious and more structurally stable. I also need to take care of the holes left by the lever and button on front. It won't fall over easily, but I think I'm gonna glue it down to an old CD for a base anyway. I think I'll work the on button into some kind of entryway, I'm not sure if I imagine it as manned or not, but surely someone has to get into it for maintenance.

With any luck, tomorrow I will get some more zombies assembled, and will start painting my corporation models.

Till then, happy hobbying!

Oh man, sorry to hear that :( that's such bad luck, I did wonder why you were so quiet these last days, you usually post the current status of the project. Well, at least you aren't completely off the Interwebz, nor PS1, so you can still relax, but man, always a bummer :/

Nice looking tower. It almost needs no extra work to make it look like a retro Death Ray Tower 50's vibe I get!

But it's great to see how that bummer didn't discourage you from completing the project! No extra wiggle room, it's the final stretch *insert epic music here*

Ehh I'm sort of mellow these days about that kind of stuff. And now that I think of it... the only reason I stopped using my old rig was persistent heat issues, had to replace its gfx card too. I don't think it would do much gaming, but if its still good and works out, may give me a little more power behind that little 15" monitor by reviving the current rig :p

Will be updating with images today. Gonna have a few hobby hours while baby is being watched. Almost done with all six weapon team zombies, leaving just the last 10 zombie marines to go assembly-wise. Going to use the solid uninterrupted time to put down some under/base coats.

The tower is part of my quick and dirty terrain, though I may keep it for later too, its more than just a cardboard box. Mostly wanna fix up the points where it swivels and the holes in the tower.

I also think I found my reward for completing theTDOD list on time, but more on that when I'm at my computer where its easier to link stuff!

Good, good, I want to see what's that reward you mention!

I'm not sure how big of anime fans the folks reading here are, but I've been known to watch a few in my time. One of my favorite shows from back in the day was the later run of bubblegum crisis tokyo 2040. my first search of the internets awarded me with This site.
Selling these:


The quality seems a little on the poorer side, but I was thinking to myself how I liked the stats for the infinity Riot Grrls, but didnt like the models at all. 28mm BGC hardsuits would solve all of those problems I still want to fish around for somewhat better sculpts, but they're like 6 pounds for the set which seems pretty snazzy. Need to see if they ship here otherwise I'll have to go to ebay or keep searching. Though, these may be as close as you get without making your own!


I think I can make something out of this without much effort, some kind of generator maybe.


Here we have 5 marines, 5 rangers, and 6 zombie weapon team members all ready for their base/undercoats.

The baby should be getting picked up soonish, which will allow me to get down there and spray those suckers down.

For now though, I'm gonna see about making some food so I don't have to do it later during prime hobby time! Apparently, taco bell's fire sauce still comes in a little glass bottle, so I'm looking forward to some tasty tacos. Painting fuel weee!

Should be back in a couple/few hours with more wips and such.

BUBBLE GUM CRISIS MINIS?! Damn you to the 9 Hells! Here I am doing my best to resist buying more minis and you show me this magnificence! They would look glorious together with my Ghost in the Shell minis!

Oh man, you just gave me yet another miniature site to explore and think "I totally want to paint this!"

Nice to see you are in a full frenzy mode 16 minis ready to paint, tacos for some fuel, IT'S CLOBBERING TIME! err, I mean, PAINTING TIME!

I dunno, I get pretty rough with the brush, it may be clobbering time

And....

GHOST IN THE SHELL MINIS!? Damn you to the abyss! Here *I* was doing my best to buy as little as possible and you hint at such a thing! Speaking of, who makes the aforementioned minis, and are they in 28mm?

Its going to be burritos anyway, i always say tacos but if you roll it up its a burrito by definition i think :p

Why, our friendly Hasslefree Miniatures! (Don't go the site, seriously. You'll want to buy oh-so-many...)

But here's "Tomoko" (Resin is out of stock, but there's the white metal one. And the Clear resin one for extra geekness )


And "Capt. Isseki":


And yes, 28mm

Hmm, how did I miss those on hasslefree.
Neat.

Now, if they only had a tachikoma!


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Of course I could just...

Paint one of these blue

Ahem...


Got the next 16 models undercoated.

Gonna kick back for a bit and refuel with another burrito and some mt dew (gotta stop drinking soda =\), while scheming/clipping bits for the last 10 zombie marines. Needed a break and to let it air out a bit downstairs. Think I'll watch an episode of bubblegum crisis too, yay for netflix adding it on!

More to come hopefully. If I get any zombies assembled, here they will go, as well as any not-insignificant painting progress.

Happy Hobbying!


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I was gonna update with progress... but I'm too busy working! Thanks to TDL linking that song over at TDLs painting den, I've got Pandora playing a hatsune miku channel which has 100% more dub step stuff than I expected! Its all very poppy and fast, I can't get these done and sleep, but I'm way further already than I expected!


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WUT?! UNPOSSIBLE!

They must put audio crack into that j-pop stuff. After listening to TDLs song I switched Pandora from Kamelot radio to hatsune miku radio and you can see the result! Way more dub step and techno than I figured, even got some bass hunter and Lindsey Sterling of all things.

Well... no bases ready as I didn't expect to have a fuggin unit done today! Not only that, but what I consider to be one of two of the harder units left to boot! I'm quite stoked at this point. More later, phone is tiring to type on and such.

See?! It works! It's freakin' mind blowing how good those musics are for your painting speed

Awesome progress for one night

And yes, you should get one of those and paint it blue. I'm tempted as well!

The stock color scheme is pretty nice, really. I may just get some of those sputniks instead, I rather like them too. That, and they go in the same list as riot grrls which are solid stats for Knight sabers

Greetings!

Well, I was too tired to paint tonight, was much too hot out today to have any energy left.
I did play around with some of my found items terrain though. In attempting to fix my computer, I nabbed both of my old rigs from where I was storing them, but didn't end up needing either. (turns out the gfx card was fine, but the slot it was in no longer was.. go figure ) So now I'm still down 5" of screen real estate on the new main monitor, but there's a small TV on my desk to keep the smaller two screens in line. Its a bit much, but there's no way I'm retiring one of them now!
Anyway... I'm getting off-topic as I usually do. While I'm a little hesitant to completely break down my more recently retired computer (been down for a few years, and was almost 5 years old before that) it may still run with a little heat-sink/fan work, and you never know when it could come in handy... I did have no qualms stealing parts with abandon from my 10-ish year old dell. Of course the newer rig has neater bits I could (and may still) salvage, but I found some neat stuff in the old dell.


After carefully removing the guts, this old power supply makes for an interesting building. I may cover some or all of it with plasticard both to help with painting, and to ensure a more uniform look across the project.


This funky thing was sitting over the CPU and its heatsink, and previously included a fan, I think it was meant to help direct heat away from the CPU etc. As to what its going to be... I'm not sure yet. It has a very interesting shape though. Its whispering to me that it should be some kind of access to the underground, maybe a subway entry, or the surface gate to an underground bunker... this one will need some plasticard to look right, possibly a door on front as well.


The two pieces may have a future together, actually. They would need some work to be a proper fit. The green bit actually flips upward, so it could be designed as some kind of garage or vehicle launch area. Thinking on it.


I think I first saw this type of thing when I was browsing a thread about some quick/easy/cheap terrain options over on the infinity forums. Various types of plastic bottle caps, if it wasn't obvious. The thinner (and more abundant) kind come from water bottles, and we go through way too many of those at work, could cover a board with them eventually Anyway, they're meant to be some kind of drum/canister/container. They are the right height to give cover but still allow LOS for shooting. A little hot glue and a strip of plasticard makes for a very easy to handle and place piece of scatter terrain.

Alrighty, out of pictures. Hopefully tomorrow I can get back to painting, I'm definitely ahead of the game now thanks to yesterday's painting frenzy, but I still wanna make steady progress so I can have a break or squeeze in a mini project before DZ.

Happy hobbying!

Ahoy there Grim! Sorry I'm late! I'm always ready to comment on your adventures but today work had other plans for me

It's nice to know your card is still up and running! Minus one expense!

Ah, amazing how your quick/easy/cheap terrain looks damn nice. A bit of extra work and you'll have a cool Infinity table in no time! The idea for drums and cannisters is a genius one. With a bit of paint and some details they'll look like futuristic storage units. The future is round! No more cube-like boxes!

Keep it up, I want to see tonight's progress!

Long work? I wouldn't know how that is

Yeah, I saw the bottle cap trick elsewhere and had to steal it.

Its good I saved that expense, I may have just found another! The minitaire full set is ba k up on amazon for what comes out at $2 a bottle. I don't think I can pass it up.

More later I gotta get home and cool off but not before snapping up that paint before they run out again!


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Yep... just ordered the 84 piece minitaire set from amazon. Sigh, I wanted it when I had my tax return, but its almost half off and I never have gotten an entire range of colors in one go. So, had to do it :p

A bit miffed that my amazon prime shipping benefit isn't going to get it here by thursday/friday, they want a couple of extra days for processing which means I'll get it eventually. As long as its before Deadzone shows up! I just hope I jumped onto the wagon before they sold out again, they've been out since august.

Oh well, that bit done, time to cool off... and then see about some more hobby action.


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This... is probably going to be awesome.

There are some pretty great color names, such as:

Brass monkey

Orc Complexion

Blood Stain Mud

Badger Fur

Bile

Innards

Ecchymose

Lust Pink

The rest are sort of more normal, but still