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Mango Polo posted:This one plus some glass doors. Rapey Joe Stalin posted:Yeah that one, and a 40cm wide Billy alongside it. Doors are, I think, 'Morebos'. They come with black/white removable card inserts so may not be immediately obvious on the website.
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Hellbeard posted:
Another step-by-step? Make it so.
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Mango Polo posted:This one plus some glass doors. http://www.ikea.com/ca/en/catalog/products/10208472/ is a better option. The extra 4 inches of depth really help. It's what I have in the room next to me.
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Z the IVth posted:Yep, and I sell them in my little shop of horrors: http://z4miniatures.blogspot.com I smell a team-up...
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 I tried out vermilion on the Myrmidon, and pink on the Dasyu. I went with pink in the end, and here's my first completed Infinity model!
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Anyone else remember these little assholes?  drat, taking hi res shots of these things is really demotivating 
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Jun 10, 2012 11:48
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Looks like a reticulan from UFO aftermath/aftershock/afterlight
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My simplegreen bucket is a soft cooler that I had closed but unzipped. Last night one of my cats tried to stand on it and it collapsed and her front half and stomach got soaked. Should I use this opportunity to recolor her?
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Naramyth posted:My simplegreen bucket is a soft cooler that I had closed but unzipped. Last night one of my cats tried to stand on it and it collapsed and her front half and stomach got soaked.
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Simple Green isn't the best tool for removing super glue. What you might try is sticking the cat in the freezer to weaken the bond. After a couple of hours, let the cat return to room temperature (it will be too brittle and you might snap it in half otherwise) and try to break the cat along the joins. If this doesn't work, try some non-acetone nail polish remover on metal cats. The glue will soften and go gummy in about ten minutes. It's not the best thing for plastic or longhairs though.
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If you use a stiff bristle brush, you will remove the cat hair most effectively. Make sure to rinse it off before painting
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Does anyone have any tips on casting? I uh, I broke my bengal kitten and it was the last one on the sprue. I really don't want to pay another $3199 for a two-pack of kittens when I just need one.
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HardCoil posted:Anyone else remember these little assholes? Awesome. I love it. I know about the thing with the macro photography and here are some tips to help you out. Use good lighting- lots and lots of light. I have one of those drafting table lamps that I position directly over my work space. Use vision enhancement. I use magnifying visors - the cheap rear end China made ones (seriously it was like 9 bucks). It's awesome and you get to see those imperfections that come up later on macro photos. Work in stages: First do basic shapes during the 15-40 minutes first stage of curing. Then smooth things out from 40-80 minutes. Then do fine details in 80-120 minutes. Another awesome trick is after you take the photo and see the glaring flaws on your screen, nothing is stopping you from going in and trying to fix them and take another photo! The best tip I got was to use only very very light touches to sculpt with the putty. VERY VERY LIGHT. It's been described to me as butterfly farts. It does wonders to the smoothness. Other than that I think you can do more to position the pose more dynamically before you start applying the "stuff". You can always remove material with a sharp modelling knife and then re sculpt unsatisfactory areas. I know it might be disheartening to not reach the level you were aiming for but the only way to overcome it is work more and know that with each session you are improving slightly. In the end one of the key ingredients is experience both in working technically with the material and with the increased understanding of the artistic expression that comes from learning lessons by trial and error. Now let's see the next one. Edit: adamantium|wang- you got it.
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Thanks, I'm trying to do as you describe, but I guess it's fair enough not to be a world class sculptor in your first couple of tries  I've been thinking about magnifying glasses. Some of the pros advice against them, but it feels like it would really help...
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Does anyone have any tips on casting? I uh, I broke my bengal kitten and it was the last one on the sprue. I really don't want to pay another $3199 for a two-pack of kittens when I just need one. You could try that Chinese web site KittyCastSupreme. I would link it but you know, 
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I'd like to solicit some opinions on this warpwolf I'm just getting going with. The lighting in my house is difficult today but hopefully you can get an idea.  Obviously it's very early stages but what I'm wondering about is this. Originally I was going to pain the wristguards and the hood a forest green to match up with colours I have used with the rest of my Circle stuff, but I'm now wondering whether something lighter might be better with the sort of ghostly look the model is getting. Or grey. Maybe grey. Anyway, ideas welcome.
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If you think this is sexy: Then take a look at the Dropzone Commander thread
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I dunno, it doesnt look all that great to be honest. At least its not as anime as gently caress like infinity, so it has that going for it. It kinda looks like a tabletop adaptation of command and conquer.
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Mephiston posted:I dunno, it doesnt look all that great to be honest. What?! I'm about to check it out now but this confuses me... 
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Took some time this afternoon to kitbash a Gorrillagon and some random household bits together to make a Big Mek for fun. It cost me about 4 bucks to make so I'm happy with it. I wish the photos did it justice but my set up stinks.  
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I spent a few seconds trying to figure out why a ship would need such sizeable legs.
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Miles O'Brian posted:I spent a few seconds trying to figure out why a ship would need such sizeable legs. Same here...then why they were oriented to make a sort of Mecha-Pushmepullyou.
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This was probably addressed somewhere in the 671-page thread, but I've been looking online for a few days and haven't managed to dig up anything myself. I'm just getting back into D&D as a Real Adult with money++ and time--. I would like to purchase a fair number of random neat-looking miniatures to use in the games. Anything fantasy-like is just fine; I'm starting from scratch and so don't have any specific requests. The problem is, though, I have neither time nor talent to paint my own miniatures. Most of my searches turn up either the boxed D&D sets of plastic ones (which I already bought from Amazon), or, they turn up random websites of dubious security. Looking on the vast majority of the random sites that are still relatively current (read: have been updated in the past year), the models come unpainted. Or, in some other cases, it's not clear whether they come painted or not. I'm assuming they don't, though, since these sites are also selling paints. I'm not too keen on spending hundreds of dollars per figure, but I could easily see spending $20-$40 per. More for the player characters. Does anyone know of a good site (or artist, or whatever) to buy painted miniatures? Apologies if this is off-topic in the thread about actually doing the painting; figured this question wasn't major enough for its own thread.
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I think what you really want is to look into commission painting.
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Red Robin Hood posted:What?! I'm about to check it out now but this confuses me...  Like I said its not as terrible as Infinity, but its not grabbing me like it has say Rapey Joe Stalin up there. Just screams command and conquer 3 + 4 to me, which is nice i guess if you like that sort of thing.
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Question about air dry modeling clay: I bought a small block of it to get started but I've never used it before. I want to make little sculpts of terrain items like wheels, barrels, crates, etc. - will it stand up to being used as a master model, or should that be for Green Stuff only? Is Milliput silver a good stand-in for Green Stuff?
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Signal posted:I think what you really want is to look into commission painting. Sounds good, do you have any links / know anyone who'd be interested?
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There's this guy who did this DVD video tutorial. Another review here. Samples here.
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krushgroove posted:Question about air dry modeling clay: I bought a small block of it to get started but I've never used it before. I want to make little sculpts of terrain items like wheels, barrels, crates, etc. - will it stand up to being used as a master model, or should that be for Green Stuff only? Is Milliput silver a good stand-in for Green Stuff? Air dry clay is pretty awful from my experience. I think any of the non Yellow/Gray Milliputs are roughly equivalent to Green Stuff in the ability to hold detail.
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OK - was just wondering, it was cheap and I'll just use it for practice, or for making one-off stuff that will go into terrain pieces, I guess.
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Mephiston posted:Like I said its not as terrible as Infinity Sorry about your terrible opinions about cool things.    Infinity is pretty anime but you can mitigate the worst of it if you are clever
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Yeah, I was joking for the most part, I wrote a whole bunch of words about how terrible some Infinity figures are. Back on topic, but in a similar vein, does anyone have a source for Infinity-scale arms, or even hands? There's plenty of places that sell GW-style bits, but Games Workshop and their imitators tend to sculpt fists the size of people's heads.
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Hyzenth1ay posted:
Look at Reaper's Legendary Encounters line. http://www.reapermini.com/legendaryencounterspre-paintedplastics Also look on eBay for Mage Knight lots. You can get a shitload of prepainted figures dirt cheap there.
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Hyzenth1ay posted:This was probably addressed somewhere in the 671-page thread, but I've been looking online for a few days and haven't managed to dig up anything myself. There are few. A whole bunch of places sell unboxed, nonrandom DDM minis. A few other vendors exist - pathfinder, reaper legendary encounters - and WotC are purportedly going to start selling a nonrandom small-squad minis game soon. But in general, your options, particularly for specifically D&D stuff, are buying ex-DDM minis, buying the board game sets and painting them yourself, or buying Reaper (D&D with the serial numbers filed off) minis and painting them yourself. It's a truism that prepainted minis are generally painted terribly, and I say that as someone who paints terribly; they're worse than my stuff by a long way, usually. Rarely more than flats+ink if you're lucky. You'd be better off learning to paint and painting them yourself.
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PaintVagrant posted:Theres an infinity thread, its definitely a place where non-infinity players go to start arguments
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Mephiston posted:
Thankfully, they have been learning the error of their ways and also getting better at sculpting. They replaced that catgirl doctor with this one.  Nope, nothing anime there. Er...
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And yet the master artist who created this piece felt the purple hair was necessary.
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Yes, it was. These are Nomad minis, they're basically "4chan in space". They thrive on being weird and provocative. One of the basic soldier's concept art says: "has green skin because he wants to". And that was Corregidor, the most tame. Don't even ask about Bakunin. That said, if you don't want anime in your Infinity, just play Haqqislam or Ariadna (ignore the lovely werewolf minis though). Speaking of Infinity minis: Anyone know how to transport assembled CA drones? The tendrils/wing covers break at the slightest touch. Epoxy glue doesn't help. I'll have to pin them  but I doubt it'll help much transport-wise.I dread the time when I paint them and attach the acetate wings 
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