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Neddy Seagoon posted:BearGguys are a variation of a conventional Gundam mobile suit (the Acguy) which was an aquatic assault unit. They're mostly from Build Fighters, but that particular one is from an older short series in the same vein as Build Fighters. What he's added to that particular one is the gatling gun. Oh, neat. I've never seen any gundam anything so they seemed to me to be out of left field, haha. They're cute, though, and it looks like they come in lots of colors which make for easy modding.
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punchymcpunch posted:thats amazing, and for some reason the tiny paint pots are my favourite part Me too, they sort of work  (holy poo poo sink mark on the walrus)
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 First batch of tiny books for my tiny library which has also now been fitted with tiny pictures. Also just like in a real library, half of the lighting fixtures are out of order 
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punchymcpunch posted:thats amazing, and for some reason the tiny paint pots are my favourite part Yeah they look awesome! Is that just some painted clear sprue? Greyhawk posted:
That's so cool. I'm really hoping that once my daughter is old enough that she wants a dollhouse so that I have an excuse for making tiny poo poo like that with her.
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Kerro posted:
Fun fact: I was "blogging" about an (abandoned) doll house project on a scale modeller board and I kept getting personal messages by guys about how cool that is and how'd they themselves would never dare tell about their dollhouse projects for fear of appearing not "manly" enough, so they'd only talk about cars and planes and ships and giant robots even though they'd rather like to show off their new doll house kitchen. It was pretty sad. Greyhawk fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Oct 24, 2017 |
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Oct 23, 2017 23:59
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Greyhawk posted:Fun fact: I was "blogging" about an (abandoned) doll house project on a scale modeller board and I kept getting personal messages by guys about how cool that is and how'd they themselves would never dare tell about their dollhouse projects for fear of appearing not "manly" enough, so they'd only talk about cars and planes and ships and giant robots even though they'd rather like to show off their new doll house kitchen. It was pretty sad.  Meanwhile: I'm trying to make a bezel thingy to go around Bearguy's gun. Got tired of filing and got out the power tools.  Progress is slow because I don't want to sacrifice a fingat.
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Blood sacrifice is required to give the model life. It is known.
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Yea; the Huey Hog giveth, the Huey Hog taketh away.
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Cars! The valence on the car on the left needs some more work and a Dodge decal on the nose, but that can wait a few days.
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Greyhawk posted:Fun fact: I was "blogging" about an (abandoned) doll house project on a scale modeller board and I kept getting personal messages by guys about how cool that is and how'd they themselves would never dare tell about their dollhouse projects for fear of appearing not "manly" enough, so they'd only talk about cars and planes and ships and giant robots even though they'd rather like to show off their new doll house kitchen. It was pretty sad. i wish i had a dolls house for this dude to live in 
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Interesting news on the Modeling News website. Looks like AK is bringing out an acrylic lacquer paint range, obviously to compete directly in Tamiyas space. It'll be interesting to see if they offer any advantages over Tamiyas paints. They're also putting out a paint-chip book that is tied to the new colors, but could still be a good general reference for choosing colors among any paint range for a particular subject. I'm excited. Tamiya acrylic paints are basically perfect for airbrushing, but the one thing they've always lacked is exact color matches (like what Vallejo and Model Master paints do) and they almost never come out with new paints. I really hope they have similar properties, because I would basically use nothing else.
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Greyhawk posted:Fun fact: I was "blogging" about an (abandoned) doll house project on a scale modeller board and I kept getting personal messages by guys about how cool that is and how'd they themselves would never dare tell about their dollhouse projects for fear of appearing not "manly" enough, so they'd only talk about cars and planes and ships and giant robots even though they'd rather like to show off their new doll house kitchen. It was pretty sad. Man that's kinda depressing. And a little surprising - I kinda figure by the time you're building tiny anything there's not much risk of appearing 'manly' so would've hoped people would just let themselves enjoy what they enjoy.
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Wow, I will have you know that my meticulously detailed tiny mans are EXTREMELY manly
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Indeed. I build tiny little facsimiles of old vehicles in the most manly way possible. In all seriousness, I'm very much and "I'm okay, you're okay" kinda guy, so this fear of posting about doll houses makes kinda sad. Art is art. Enjoy what you do and gently caress what others think.
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Ensign Expendable posted:Wow, I will have you know that my meticulously detailed tiny mans are EXTREMELY manly
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Speaking of doll houses for a moment  Did you ever finish that crazy "Irish" pub Greyhawk? Also, where did you find it/what was it called? I have a friend in Ireland who'd get a laugh out of it I think. As I just spent a week building a fake nonfunctional exhaust system for a tiny truck, I feel nonjudgemental about tiny things. I will give you the side-eye if you build these in a non group build context, tho
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Oct 25, 2017 01:24
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Cartoon posted:I think you'll find those penises are not to scale.
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Pierzak posted:Um, that's called "heroic scale". I actually laughed out loud at this.
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 Manly submarine update: covered the rock pieces in papier mache so they're starting to look a bit more rock-like. We loosely positioned the Nautilus in the scene to get a sense for positioning and scale. I think I'm pretty happy with this. We intend to paint the rocks a dark grey-blue, which combined with the fact that this will all be inside a box that blocks light from 5 directions will lead to a pretty dark background - so the Nautilus should pop out nicely with the lighting on it. I ordered a bunch of tiny plastic plants from AliExpress which look like they should work well to paint and use as aquatic foliage, and a couple of shark models from Reaperminis to complete the scene. Next step is to attach the rocks to the base and then papier mache the base to blend it into the rocks. I've also been working on building the display box, but that's not super exciting so haven't bothered photographing that.
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Scharnhorst Issue 15 Added a few additional layers to the middle deck structure. Not very exciting. What is exciting though (to me, at least) is that two weeks ago I got my hands on an unbuilt partwork kit of HMS Hood (the original UK edition, not the botched German one) at half price. This gives me the unique opportunity to build both cruisers with aspirations of being battleships in sync side by side and have a look at the differences between them and the way they are built up.  So I quickly went on a building rampage and got the Hood built up to issue 15 too (here in the foreground with Scharnhorst in the back). One can readily see the size difference between both ships. The Hood has the option of being made RC capable, so she features an open design with detachable deck structures, making the build so far more complex (165 parts vs Scharnhorsts 118 at this point). Comparison shots between ships will be made every month. Nebakenezzer posted:Speaking of doll houses for a moment I did actually. Need to look for pictures, it's been a while. The kit was called Greens Bar by a Chinese company called "Cute Rooms". I've not seen their stuff on sale for a while now, so they may have folded. I originally found it on ebay on one of these Alibaba to eBay reseller shops.
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Did not realize that the Hood was that much larger. Cool to see the size comparison like that. Also you are insane and get an incredible amount of building done!
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The Locator posted:Did not realize that the Hood was that much larger. Cool to see the size comparison like that. Also you are insane and get an incredible amount of building done! It may look like much, but the Scharnhorst is so dumbed down so far, it takes up maybe 15 - 30 minutes per week. For at least the next two months this will not change from what I see in the previews. I can only hope this is not a sign of things to come and the complexity will pick up later.
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The Locator posted:Did not realize that the Hood was that much larger. Cool to see the size comparison like that. Also you are insane and get an incredible amount of building done! Hood was enormous. While the contemporary Lexington class carriers were slightly longer, only Yamato and Iowa of the all gun ships exceeded her, Yamato by only a metre. A big compromise in order to attain her speed.
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Exhaust system: done  The original exhaust system was poor in a few ways: it was molded onto the chassis for the most part, and the actual pipe was just a stick with a big hefty molded wedge on it. Worse, though, was that completely anemic: two pipes going to a single exhaust that looked like it belonged on a Gremlin or a Pinto. This has been now replaced with bent sprune of a proper truck thickness, and been made into a proper dual exhaust to boot, with two cads and two mufflers. The muffler is sprune-bits wrapped in a section of a sliced off ginger ale can. The end bits are long so I can work out where the sprune should end, so I can stick on an exhaust tip straw. Routing the thing and not banging into various underparts was not easy, though. First, both pipes have to go to one side as the transfer case for the four wheel drive takes up the rest of the space. Then one pipe has to snake in under the driveshaft and then make a turn to the muffler. Past the mufflers both pipes need to curve again (maybe this is just to keep them away from random road derbies) and then both curve outward at the back while avoiding the rear shocks. My protip to you is this: make one curve per sprune piece. That way if you attempt more maneuvers with the candle and spare sprune and muck it up, nothing has to be redone. Nebakenezzer fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Oct 27, 2017 |
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Looks pretty good, but hopefully constructive criticism - the mufflers don't match. It looks like the black one is longer, and the flanges at the end are smaller (don't stick out from the 'can' as far). Also looks like the pipe size after the mufflers is different, but could be camera angle. Nice work overall, doubt I would have ever gone to that sort of effort on a plastic model. 
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I actually noticed that about the muffler, too - I may have to go back and fix them, IE make them match.
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Nebakenezzer posted:I actually noticed that about the muffler, too - I may have to go back and fix them, IE make them match. It would bug me forever if I didn't, but them I'm pretty OCD. For reference I make my living as a QA Specialist (Quality Analyst). I get paid to look at and find fault with things, and I'm really good at it because minor poo poo that nobody else notices jumps out to me. Sucks sometimes because I can't read a good book without noticing all the editing and spelling errors. Lol..
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Nautilus progress: We finished modelling the base, and now just have to wait for the clay to fully dry so that we can then start painting it, and then detailing it after that. The intention is to darken things up a lot, with a dark blue/grey tone for the rocks and a slightly brown-tinged grey for the sand. I've got the overhead LED array done now and created a perspex layer with patterning to create an underwater effect, so took a couple of photos showing the base with the lighting as a bit of a test. I also got the wood for the box frame now which you can see in the first picture. I also put in a temporary backdrop until we get the proper one printed. With bright overhead fluorescent lighting (workshop lighting):  With no external lighting: 
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That's looking great. The underwater lighting effects really sell it. Can't wait to see the finished product.
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Really is looking great. Wish I could see the finished product in person when it's done! Edit: For any AZ area goons, next Saturday is Modelzona 2017 at the Commemorative Air Force hanger in Mesa AZ. Normally I'd be there, but my house has termites and I scheduled the treatment for that day, forgetting that it was Modelzona. Oops!
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Redid the box and the tweezers, added another paintpot, a dish and some Microsol/set. I think I'm done.   ...actually the table edge looks weird and maybe I can make more tiny sprues for the box? Maybe later.
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Unkempt posted:Redid the box and the tweezers, added another paintpot, a dish and some Microsol/set. I think I'm done. Tonight is the last night of the Hi-Mock model challenge. Better post in there quick to get your gang tag! https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3831570
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Unkempt posted:Redid the box and the tweezers, added another paintpot, a dish and some Microsol/set. I think I'm done. I love the propeller on the floor
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Nebakenezzer posted:I love the propeller on the floor Hahaa... I hadn't noticed that. Great touch!
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That Hi-Mock is a treasure <3 Scharnhorst issue 16  Those parts of the deck structures that will later be "outdoors" are decked with a thin sheet of lime wood (not quite a veneer though). You may notice I have only temporarily fitted the side panels in the middle structure. That is because I have found an error with the precut pieces affecting the entire run which will make installation of a piece of secondary armament impossible/awkward in about two years time. Let's see if you can find it, apparently I was the first/only one in Germany to see it. Hachette has acknowledged and is currently discussing whether to replace the panels or have us do the necessary changes ourselves later down the line. Greyhawk fucked around with this message at 09:59 on Nov 1, 2017 |
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If they handle this like they did the recent misprint problems they'll tell you to talk to your retailer and then never send the retailer replacement issues. I'd just fix it myself.
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SkunkDuster posted:Tonight is the last night of the Hi-Mock model challenge. Better post in there quick to get your gang tag! Aw man, I would have built another crapbot if I knew there was a gang tag.
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Ensign Expendable posted:Aw man, I would have built another crapbot if I knew there was a gang tag. Same. Though it doesn't explicitly say gang tags are new construction only. I can't see gang tags in the Awful app, regardless.
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