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Re: Hobby: Weathering 101

Sam_B — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:24:33 -0000

* Oil paints of choice (W&N Lamp Black and Burnt Umber)
* Artists White Spirit
* Hairdryer
* Pledge: Future Floor Wax
* Daler Rowney Matte Varnish
* Sponge (from blister packs)
* Airbrush

List appended because you can get the solvent and the heat source cheaper, and DR matt varnish is the total shizzle.

and Lubdinder1, the heat source isn't to cure the paints, it's just to dry up the solvent, leaving the oil in the right place to dry out. ;)

Re: Lone Wolf Issues C&D to Privateer and Others

Sam_B — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:31:23 -0000

Dear Hivemind,

As long as there will be Zoatebix, I'm there!

Longingly,
Gruffty

Re: Lone Wolf Issues C&D to Privateer and Others

Sam_B — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:08:02 -0000

Dear Games Workshop (Copyright of Games Workshop all rights reserved, no copyright infringement intended),
Around 300 million years ago I bought the mechanical rights to light. This of course means that every time you look at something, you're incurring royalties. Given that you have hitherto incurred upwards of 7 billion republic credits worth of charges, I have no choice but to send the Death Star (copyright of Lucasarts all rights reserved, no copyright infringement intended) to the Galactic location known as "Yer ass" (copyright of Molochi's ass all rights reserved, no copyright infringement intended).

Sincerely
Gruffty McWiderthantall, Squat Empire. (Copyright of Games Workshop all rights reserved, no copyright infringement intended)

(All Pixels in this missive copyright of Your Mum (Copyright of Tycho the Death Company Dreadnaught(Copyright of Games Workshop all rights reserved, no copyright infringement intended) all rights reserved, no copyright infringement intended) all rights reserved, no copyright infringement intended)

Re: Lone Wolf Issues C&D to Privateer and Others

Sam_B — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:07:50 -0000

Dear Molochi,
I just filed a patent on the use of "your mom" as an insult. Please pay me 500$ for each usage of said insult.

Regards
Tycho the Death Company Dreadnaught

Re: Lone Wolf Issues C&D to Privateer and Others

Sam_B — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:16:58 -0000

Dear everyone.

Please note that I just copyrighted every single word in the English language.
So shut the hell up.

Love,
Thropeafexagon Thropeagonafex.

Re: 40K TACTICS: Using Jaws of the World Wolf

Sam_B — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:36:57 -0000

Don't do it, you'll roll a 1 to hit!

Mkerr, is your purpose in life to always come to the most rules-lawyering conclusion possible?

Re: First 1850 40k Tournament

Sam_B — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:55:28 -0000

Well, I gotta say... Best Appearance, Best sport... and you even gave your prize away?

I'd say in the spirit of the hobby, you were the real winner anyway. :)

Re: New army or new approach?

Sam_B — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:14:38 -0000

I second the custodes. At some point last year there was a great white dwarf feature on a custodes army and sisters of silence allies.

Using Grey knights as custodes will also work quite well for you as GK can ally with your templars even though they're psykers. Do a 1.5k custodes army (which really isn't very many models at all, especially if you do some Gatekeeper dreadnaught conversions) and you can combine with your templars for a cool Apoc force.

if you want more details from that WD article let me know, I'll see what I can do.

Sam

Re: FtW Round Table: Must have units

Sam_B — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:24:04 -0000

My army list completely changes every week.

Basic troops choices like SM and Chaos Marauders are the only real constant.

Re: My Latest Project ( completely off topic!)

Sam_B — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:15:50 -0000

Jesusssss, glad you came out the right side of that episode!

Also glad you didn't have to get, "cut for the stone", as they used to say.

Is this some kind of medical problem you have or something to do with the local water?

Also, Kudos on the new kid, may s/he have a happy birth and grow up to be a geek of titanic proportions. (See what I did there?)

Re: Reaver Titan Pt 10 (Banner Mock Up)

Sam_B — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:36:37 -0000

Hey Geek,

you better not be dead or anything! I want to see this finished!

Re: FtW Blogger Group... coming soon

Sam_B — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:08:50 -0000

I actually lolled at that. :D

p.s. you got my vote for the Autarch, as to be fair, it is the best entry.

Re: FtW Blogger Group... coming soon

Sam_B — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:09:51 -0000

I thought it was more MLB. :p

Re: What is good painting and conversion work?

Sam_B — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:46:28 -0000

The golden rule: Does it fit neatly into the background of the universe and/or immediately appear to be what the sculptor/painter intended? Everything else is just gravy.

After that:

How good technically is the paint job or conversion?
Does the completed work have a strong theme, how effective is this?

The ultimate arbitration:

As the judge, are you thinking "Damn, I wish I'd thought of that!"

It probably goes without saying, but also you need to take into account the experience and ability of the person involved. I.E. A kid from our store showed me his dark angels dreadnaught holding an ork in it's powerfist a while back. It wasn't a superb painting job, or perfectly converted, but it did jump and provide some good laughs whilst achieving what he set out to do.

Re: Reaver Titan Pt 10 (Banner Mock Up)

Sam_B — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 02:58:37 -0000

Totally ninja'd me on the opening comment! ;)

Looks great this way.

Re: "Titanicus" book review plus news...

Sam_B — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 05:38:47 -0000

Nice, nice and... nice!

*goes back to assembling new space marines stuff and giggles insanely*

Re: Emperor's Children banner ideas

Sam_B — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:44:49 -0000

The first is kinda Cthonic, which I like. Maybe you should work some bullheaded type look into the face a little more to make it more slaanesh. Although, to me it doesn't look Khornate at all. Maybe slightly similar to the world eater logo but there's nothing a champion of slaanesh would enjoy more than perverting their imagery into slaaneshi stylings!

Second and forth are fine as is imo.

3rd looks something like a piece of perverted harlequin imagary, which also works for the reasons started above.

One idea I just had for the banner mounts themselves... how about sculpting a few stolen spirit stones they've nabbed off the Eldar and tortured a bit?

Re: Reaver Titan Pt 9 (In Color!)

Sam_B — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:23:50 -0000

hmm, it's always difficult to tell with forgeworld... because they use non-gw paints and stuff sometimes.

It might be burnished gold, highlighted with burnished/mithril, shaded with scorched brown, and I think I can see a touch of green in the shade too. Then i think it's been glazed a few times, maybe with yellow.

It may be a non GW gold colour at least tho. Anyone know any other brands of gold like that?

Re: Reaver Titan Pt 9 (In Color!)

Sam_B — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:39:58 -0000

By mono colour do you mean the ghost flames or just one warm colour?

If you mean the ghost flames then just doing the border you've done bronze in silver instead will work, like on the example wienas has shown.

If you look at the forgeworld example too, Phil did the gold in a very pale sort of yellowish gold.

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk...

It's a nice contrast against the royal blue of the carapace along with the yellow cockpit. Not that I suggest using yellow unless you're completely comfortable with working with that colour. It'd take a LOT of coverage to get the whole cockpit that yellow!

I digress however.

http://www.swintonsart.com/...

The old colour wheel suggests red as a compliment to the blue.

Re: Reaver Titan Pt 9 (In Color!)

Sam_B — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:05:21 -0000

I agree with Ron.

The trouble is, the bronze is warm and the ghost flames are cold as ice (ice baby!). So you have a little bit of an odd contrast going on there. Warm plus warm is always going to be the more pleasing effect.

Also, I should mention... those are reverse flames. ;)

Check this out to see what I mean!

http://hot-lead.org/advance...

Re: Using a wash, a quick guide

Sam_B — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:01:34 -0000

Which is why I paint them into the recesses. ;)

A really nice fine detail brush is handy for that.

The best thing about those citadel washes is that they don't just stick like mud in the gaps, so you can use them for far more than just the extreme shading.

As to your question, there are far more colours/effects than just those you get in the citadel selection.

One thing I've been doing lately is oil on ork machinary, which I want to be far more shiny and resinous than the matte finish you get from the citadel washes. So I mixed half a bottle of peat brown ink with water and some FFF, added chaos black to taste and ended up with a very naturalistic result.

Other things include making washes with metal flakes for pearlescent effects, seeing as I can never find any pearlescent medium anywhere.

Re: Using a wash, a quick guide

Sam_B — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:56:23 -0000

FFF is basically a dirt cheap way of getting matte medium really... not exactly the same thing, but it works, and it's helluva cheap for the amount you get.

I usually get an empty jam jar, add 5-7 tablespoons worth of FFF and then top it up with water. Sadly tho, there are no hard and fast rules to what ratio you'll prefer, but that'll get you started.

Re: Using a wash, a quick guide

Sam_B — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:03:04 -0000

Personally, I paint washes into the recesses like i would with any other technique... I always thought having an overloaded brush was just asking for a big mishap, but maybe it's different for other people.

As regards the wash coming off the model issue, when homebrewing washes i mix a little bit of future floor finish/johnson's klear into the mix, which makes it stick into the recesses pretty well and also makes it behave almost exactly like the citadel washes. (Suspiciously like them!)

Also, I'm going to have to disagree with your comment of black washes. I use black washes constantly and all over the place for various different things. Most especially for black, oddly enough. Other than that, absolutely every time I do any silver metal or areas of red.