What did you do today.

[kojibear]

Nice work on all the painting everyone.

I'm looking forward to getting paint to minis soon as my 6th Airborne Recon are waiting and the Gladiators for Hunter of Ruin.

To get back into the groove, two DnD minis are on the table right now - my rogue and a friend's halfling warlock.

[Lovejoy]

In the middle of some time off before September 1st, seem to have spent the last couple of days in Skyrim which won't do. Hobby room is a mess since I'm finding room for the boxes from the UK which recently arrived, but I really should do some painting while I have a bit of time.

Watched a highly convincing argument for the notion that Daniel in Karate Kid was the real villain of that piece.
http://hedonistica.com/movies/the-karat ... eal-bully/

[me_in_japan]

hello! Good lord - almost 3 pages with nowt said by me. What have I been doing?

well, being burgled, mostly. We got back from Scotland relatively unscathed (although our luggage did end up in Helsinki while we were in Nagoya, but I cant be too miffed - it was a 45 min transfer.) Anyway, we get back to sunny Tsu and upon getting into the house I was greeted with the sight of every.single.envelope.i.own spread over the living room floor. part of me (the bloody-tired-after-a-long-flight part) said "eh? Thats weird" but the more rational part said "bugger, we've been burgled," and indeed, a closer inspection demonstrated that the back windows had been smashed, opened, and infiltrated. Clearly the work of pros - as I mentioned, all envelopes and any other sources of cash had been efficiently lifted from wherever they were in the house, divided into 3 piles around the ground floor and separated into cash and not-cash. The feithy bastichs then made good their escape out of my back door. On the one hand, it could have been worse - they didnt take the TV or PC or owt, and neither did they damage anything except the windows, but on the other hand, they nicked my kids' birthday money from their grandparents. That earns a special kind of disdain from me, lemme tell you.

Anyway, police were called, forensic shenanigans was carried out (no prints, of course. Pros, as I said ) and small children were prevented from interfering with a crime scene. Mostly, anyway...

From here on in, it's just a matter of gathering documents for the insurance people, who have said it should all be fine. So, there y'all go. Actual crime in Japan. Whoda thunk? Probly foreigners wot done it

Other than that I've been busy as a badger at work. Havent been getting out till 7:30 this week, leaving little time for hobby stuff. All my lovely buildings are still in their bags I did, however, make a start on assembling the Lynch crew for Malifaux. This is the first time I've really worked with the Wyrd plastics, and theyre overall pretty nice. Only issue I have with them is, while they do fit nicely, there are always gaps between parts. Not mould-slip kind of gaps, but gaps that seem to have been engineered into the mini. This is a particular bugger on organic joins, and necessitates green stuffing. Further complications ensue on minis that I'd really rather paint in 2 or more parts, as they have to be completely assembled before painting, making it buggersome difficult to get into hard-to-reach spaces. Anyway, that minor gripe aside, theyre very nice. I'd post pics of both minis and gaps, but my phone just crapped out on me and needs charging.

So, anyway - that's what I've been up to

[Lovejoy]

@MiJ, jeez, that's really nasty. My sympathies for what they're worth, which ain't much. Terrible thing to come home to.
But you're in the hobby saddle pretty sharpish with that Lynch Crew. I'll get my newly arrived puppets done before Xmas, really love the aesthetic! (MiJ gently nudged me towards a small Malifaux starter crew). But some WotR and Oldhammer need to get underway too.

[job]

@MiJ: Sorry about the break-in. That is just plain unfortunate. While it is good your home furnishings were not taken, but I hope you didn't lose that much in the way of money. Hopefully they are run down by the law, however unlikely it is.

My GMB flags came in, but I am too tired to attach them. I only arrived home about 11:50 and then ate dinner, so I have no time and should hit the sack.

[Primarch]

@M_i_J - Sorry to hear about your break in. Hopefully it all gets sorted out and cleaned up ASAP.

@Lovejoy - Another Malifaux player? Excellent! When you get those painted up, let me know.

I've managed almost no hobby stuff at all this week. A combination of events have led to me getting home just a little too late or a little too tired to be bothered about picking up a brush. Next week my schedule is much lighter, so fingers crossed I'll be able to get stuff done then.

[Auxryn]

@M_i_J - Sorry to hear about the break-in! That's horrible.

I finished up another terrain piece today.

tower.jpg

Starting to work out a method. Experimenting with ways to disguise the telltale pattern of white styrofoam. Need to buy more paints again but it will have to wait until after this weekend.

[me_in_japan]

Cheers all

@auxryn - I like how you're using some kind of fabric to give a rougher appearance to te rock. Maybe you could use a rougher fabric? You'd have to be careful not to end up with thread lines and suchlike, though. When I do hills I tend to use blue styrofoam covered in a mix of paint (big cans of wall paint), PVA glue (you can buy a litre for cheap in a hardware store), cement and sand. Mix it all up and you get a nice paste you can scrape over the surface with a trowel. It'll mask the texture nicely, and has the added benefit of not needing much painting afterwards. Only issue is it's basically sandpaper, so woe betide any mini that falls over onto it.

One thing I have found, btw, is that hills and suchlike look much nicer if you add a few strategically placed clumps of rubble around the edge f layers, in places rocks might reasonably gather in real life.

Anyway, the hills are looking good, and for what it's worth, more practical than mine

[me_in_japan]

righty - some pics of malifaux minis. Not painted, or anything like that - that'd be silly Nah - I post these to illustrate a point. Basically, I really like the Lynch crew minis. Take this guy, for example...



I mean, this is a pretty cool concept, yeah? Well executed, too. Apart from one thing - gaps. There's a loooootta fillin' on these bad boys...


Also, how, exactly, is one supposed to attach this chap to his base?



i appreciate this sounds a bit gripey, but I actually really like the minis. I just feel the designer got a teensy bit carried away with the 3d scultping tool he/she was using. I mean, this mini's face is in 4 parts! I've never had to assemble a 28mm mini's face from 4 parts before, especially ones with gaps between em...



Anyway. I do like em, really I do. For what it's worth, here's the otehr 2 minis I've been building so far: Hungering Darkness (odd mini, big gaps)


and Lynch himself, who is an ace mini, imho.

[Konrad]

@MIJ- damn man We can only hope they took their shoes off before they came in the back window.......scumbags

@Aux- that's a big old rock son. In addition to MIJ advice, I'd dry brush some different tints here and there and throw a few different shades of wash about. Just so it's not such a uniform color. It looks like new concrete at the moment.