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I moths, for the month of May, Oath to paint one box of WWII American Infantry Awwww! a BABY! These guys are Italari 1/76 (20mm) figures. The box says there are 50 figures. Oh god what am I doing. 
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May 3, 2013 01:50
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 Detektuv's Journal 1: There are a lot of soldiers here, and I'm going to be assembly lining them. Which means keeping them in line. This is a photo from last night, after priming. I managed to clip the sprue connected to the head. This should minimize touch-ups later. It's cheap plastic, and the mold lines fray if you trim them. I think at this scale it's a thing you just deal with? Who can say. For Parts List I washed the sprues with dishsoap, and primed with Rustoleum Camoflague spray (sand colored). (I realize Parts List gets posted when complete, but I'm going to have a hard time keeping track if I wait.)
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May 4, 2013 23:42
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Manifest posted:Are those green army men on a sprue? Manifest posted:What are you using them for? Or a diminutive Bolt Action if no better option presents itself.
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May 5, 2013 03:24
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 Detektuv's Journal 2: That... went a lot faster than I expected. The linked image is huge. But the base colors are done, and I just have a few comments about that: First, the colors look lighter than you'd expect. That's because I used the highlight color and will darken them with washes and inks, letting the model do most of the painting. After that, I'll detail with webbing, canteen covers, backpacks, hair, and fix any additional details. Second, that's a lot of white guys. I'm usually conscious of stuff like this and try to avoid it - but the actual US army was segregated until '48. Black and white soldiers couldn't 'officially' fight side-by-side until December '44, when Eisenhower allowed black soldiers to reinforce the lines in the Battle of the Bulge. (I learned about that this morning, this hobby owns.) Parts List Vallejo: 983 Flat Earth - leather and wood parts (scabbards, shoes, 874 USA Tan Earth - trousers 994 Dark Grey - metals, hoses 887 Brown Violet - painted metals (helmets, equipment) 927 Dark Flesh - skin 878 Old Gold - ammo belts Citadel (Games Workshop): Death World Forest - Jackets
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May 5, 2013 19:48
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Can I ask for clarification of theme? Because I'm not sure which of these apply: - Every model I painted this month is a Blood Angel space marine. - I painted Blood Angels this month, next month I paint Blood Angels. The theme is Blood Angels. - I painted Blood Angels this month, next month I paint Salamanders. The theme is Space Marines. - I painted my Blood Angels to look like the cast of Welcome Back Kotter. - Welcome Back Kotter Blood Angels, and Barney Miller Space Wolves next month. The bi-monthly thing makes me think the theme is required to extend beyond a month? I don't know if it's this confusing to everybody else. And should we save up WIP photos for a wall of images accompanying the Oath Complete post? Are more than three WIP shots OK or should those go in the general miniatures / painting thread?
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May 10, 2013 00:01
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Ok that helped clear things up, and gave me some things to think about. Thanks!
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May 10, 2013 00:17
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I didn't realize that was 15mm! I thought they were good looking 28mm figures, but at 15 they're amazing. Some more WIP:   If it ever stops raining I can seal these and start basing them.  Bases for heavy weapons teams.  Next to a modern guy for scale.
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May 11, 2013 14:28
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 OATH COMPLETED!  Groups (Click for massive!)  riflemen  BARs and flamethrowers  NCOs & officers  HMG and MMG  bazooka teams  minesweepers  mortars  a CPL that came out particularly well This was a blast and I had a lot of fun. The photos say everything better than I would, so I'll just skip to the Bonuses: +Awwww! a BABY! +Detektuv's Journal (repeated for reference)  1  2  3+Parts List Primers: Rustoleum Camoflague Sand Krylon Ruddy Brown Vallejo: 983 Flat Earth - leather and wood parts (scabbards, shoes, 874 USA Tan Earth - trousers 994 Dark Grey - metals, hoses 887 Brown Violet - painted metals (helmets, equipment), base edging 927 Dark Flesh - skin 878 Old Gold - ammo belts 988 Khaki - Dirt (highlight) 73301 Lavado wash - darkening bases 72.094 Game Ink Black - lining uniforms Citadel (Games Workshop): Death World Forest - Jackets, weapons Gryphonne Sepia - Faces and khaki Apple Barrel Colors 20515 Burnt Sienna - Dirt (base) 20524 Golden Brown - Dirt (midtone) Woodland Scenics Coarse Turf - Burnt Grass Blended Turf - Earth Blend Army Painter grass tufts Liquitex resin sand Toothpicks as ruined fenceposts pennies, washers, Flames of War bases - bases +Box Art  vs  +Theme Everyone is wearing the same clothes. +Smaller than 25mm +Double the Fun for SGT Night Fever, who gets Box Art, appeared in Detektuv's Journal, fits the theme, and conforms to parts list. e: mortar teams, scale e2: Double-fun moths fucked around with this message at 01:33 on May 24, 2013 |
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May 17, 2013 05:22
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Strangely you need to right-click and open in a new tab / window if you want to view the original massive images. I guess that's a function of TIMG
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May 17, 2013 05:29
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Germ posted:Krylon primer These are three of the most underrated liquids in miniatures painting, and I applaud your demonstration of their virtue. How did you come up with Polyshades and mineral spirits? I've been wondering how to thin it since the first skeleton I ruined in a tin of the stuff.
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May 19, 2013 08:10
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For Alternate Universe Oath, does it need to get completed in any particular timeframe? Like, if I wanted to be crazy ambitious and oath a box of Sedition Wars, Super Dungeon Explore, or two thousand points of tyrranids, that's how I'd do it - provided I still did something else as a regular oath each month?
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May 20, 2013 03:27
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Double the Fun seems like a freebie. I could claim it for box art and WIP, along with almost everybody else who did two or more bonuses. Glad to hear I can start converting though, I have some big ideas for next month!
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May 22, 2013 15:53
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Yeah, they just sold me a few blisters with that too.
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May 22, 2013 18:13
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I'll also claim Double the Fun and get it out of the way. (Editing it into my oath completed right after.) E: Just to be sure, I can make an Alternative Universe Oath at anytime, yes? moths fucked around with this message at 01:49 on May 24, 2013 |
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May 24, 2013 01:31
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I, moths, oath three more sprues of 1/72 Italari WW2 Americans (the retooled 6120 sprue) and one Pegasus Hobbies German casualty with rifle.  That's 18 riflemen, 6 Thompson / M3 SMG gunners, 6 ammo carriers, 3 Browning M1919 gunners, 3 60mm M2 mortar guys, 3 radio operators, 3 Bazooka guys, 3 BAR gunners, 3 tankers, and one German who wasn't even supposed to be here today. (Some of the riflemen are going to end up on heavy weapons teams.)
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Jun 3, 2013 05:33
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Aw yeah a double brush! Can't wait to try that out! Wet...blending?
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Jun 6, 2013 00:31
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I'm also doing a diorama / fancy base - I definitely got the impression that we didn't need to post it somewhere. (Linked to big) Anyway that's where I'm at right now.
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Jun 12, 2013 00:07
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krushgroove posted:Ah, I see, I see. OK, changed it to: So can we get grandfathered in? I've already started converting my alt universe oath, I wanted to see how it would go before I formally oathed it. e: There has been a lot of conflicting guidance whether pre-conversion photos are needed or not. I started to go back through the thread and quote-compile them, but realized I'm not a dick. moths fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Jun 14, 2013 |
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Jun 14, 2013 20:11
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Aren't there 30 days in June?
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Jun 29, 2013 14:18
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The best time of the thread! I love looking at what everybody's done.OATH COMPLETE Original image:  Completed image(s):   This is my Diorama entry and This is my Get Based Out entry:  Fly your (captured) flag!  (Its humble beginnings as cork board, a Starbucks coffee holder, and a Flames of War base.) The flag is converted from a slice of blister pack that I held over a lighter. Is your model smaller than 25mm scale? Yes. There is a theme here, and I hope it's obvious. For the Detektiv's Journal there really wasn't a lot I could do for battle damage (given the scale and subject), so I tried to muddy up the uniforms a bit. I did stuff as much battle damage as possible onto the diorama - I hope it counts! Selected bonus closeups:      edit: Leperflesh posted:Please edit the missing photos into your Oath Complete post. You have my permission to have a post-deadline edit stamp. I've credited you for the conversion work.  Look at this guy. Just shaking his fist at the Axis powers.  This is heat-deformed blister-pack plastic. Yes, that's a paperclip. (1/72 is too small for conversions.)  Trim that plastic down a bit and now he's got a flag! moths fucked around with this message at 10:59 on Jul 1, 2013 |
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Jul 1, 2013 00:04
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I guess it's it's tomorrow somewhere.
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Jul 1, 2013 01:25
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krushgroove posted:Also, a final reminder to POST YOUR FINISHED MODELS ON THE GAMES & GEARS FACEBOOK PAGE to be eligible for more prizes from them! How exactly do we do this? e: That is, where do we upload them to? Just comment on their page with the images? Put them in a specific gallery or message them? e2: ...On second thought, posting a swastika on facebook is potentially troublesome no matter what the context. moths fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Jul 1, 2013 |
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Jul 1, 2013 02:19
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Leperflesh posted:Uhhh. Hey Krushgroove, can someone make a diorama be a get based out? I think that might run counter to the idea of get based out - as a fancy base, rather than as part of a diorama. FoW uses a lot of vignette scenes for commander models, so I took a cue from that. Although I believe it's playable in IABSM (I haven't seen any have any firm basing scheme), it's fragile and I'd be afraid to roll dice anywhere near it. So I'll count it as Diorama instead, if I can. Leperflesh posted:On very close inspection... I'm just not sure. Seems more like weathering, as per OneTrueBru above, but the models are so small I can't really tell. It is legit to just paint on damage. Is anyone bleeding? Any bullet holes? One could argue that foxhole diorama is itself an example of battle damage... It feels silly to miss out points for battle damage when I put a casualty in the trench, but I didn't paint anything extra to indicate damage. Is an intact image of a destroyed thing still damaged? This is a question for philosophers and Krushgroove.
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Jul 1, 2013 04:09
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I'm missing credit for this conversion, but I also didn't post these photos: Look at this guy. Just shaking his fist at the Axis powers. This is heat-deformed blister-pack plastic. Yes, that's a paperclip. (1/72 is too small for conversions.) Trim that plastic down a bit and now he's got a flag! e:(This looked terrible as WIP.) moths fucked around with this message at 04:59 on Jul 1, 2013 |
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Jul 1, 2013 04:57
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Updated my OC post with the conversions photos. (They were left on my phone instead of my camera  ) Man, this month's going to be a rough journal.
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Jul 1, 2013 11:05
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I just realized that Bones are coming this week. That's going to open up a lot of options!
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Jul 1, 2013 11:58
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Great! And I don't mean to push on the journal points, but has there been any ruling? I'd hate to miss out on battle damage because I didn't give a dead body a bloody nose.
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Jul 1, 2013 17:41
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Excellent! That makes me really happy to hear! And organizing this is a mighty undertaking, I don't think anyone can begrudge a delay.
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Jul 1, 2013 18:27
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krushgroove posted:make sure your oath complete pictures are in the photo album before I send it to the judges in approximately 24 hours' time! I hate to keep being a squeaky wheel, but could I get this shot of my problem-child diorama in there? It took a lot of work and I'd hate for the judges to only see it in the overview photo. I, moths, oath for July:  10x Mantic Z-Corp troopers 3x FFG Grim Reapers 1x Mantic Mortis character The Z-Corp models were briefly sold as a conversion kit, where you got equal parts zombies and corporation marines, a sprinkling of ghouls, and good wishes towards finding your own path. This kit was not well reviewed. The marines are cast in an insanely tough resin. Like dog-toy tough. And they sold you a box of 80. I've started building a few in the past, and it cost me some skin from my thumb. (I'll be starting fresh for this month's oath.) The Grim Reapers are from FFG's DUST game. They come poorly pre-painted (as shown) and fairness obligates me to point out that the heads aren't glued on and will require no actual cutting to swap out. They'll be counting-as Warpath Plague Striders. Mortis is Mantic's not-Typhus character that doesn't have Warpath rules and would sit in a box forever if I didn't oath him this month. I won't be converting him, which is slightly ironic because he's already a factory conversion of their Veer-myn warlord.
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Jul 2, 2013 03:53
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Leperflesh posted:This thing is really confusing You got that right! If all I'm losing is one potential point then there's nothing I can do about that. The conversion and better painted models will all get judged eventually - I'm more concerned about breaking my Journal streak. This means I'll need to shoot more photos with username and everything required for the diorama drill? Leperflesh posted:What scale are the troopers? They look smaller than the other guys. The troopers, hero, and undead are all 28mm. The DUST guys are 1/48(!) but I'm using them as huge-rear end 28mm exo-armor.
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Jul 3, 2013 00:37
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moths posted:I, moths, oath for July: Mutants with assault rifles!   The bodies of four marines were painfully bisected and reassigned to undead donors. A leader-type was left in intact armor, and one I ran out of guns and am unsure how that happened. It looks like you only get nine rifles in a bag of resin parts. I'm going to pull an extra from the box unless there's any objections. I can make that single rifle an oath addition if I need to, but that seems silly. Mutants in gently caress-off huge power armor!  I cut the jetpacks off and replaced the helmets* with zombie heads and a blob of putty. (*Which turned out to be glued in place with the weakest hot glue)
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Jul 3, 2013 04:28
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I think each oath breaker should devise their own fun act of contrition and tell the thread about it.
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Jul 3, 2013 14:58
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My god, it will look like a cross between an Eldar Harlequin and a WWI biplane. I would also like to see this penance realized.
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Jul 4, 2013 11:10
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For speed painting, do you need to do the base as well?
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Jul 8, 2013 03:56
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God loving damnit, I just sealed most of my oath and frosted the fuckers. I got to it with a better sealer right after, so maybe that fixed it? Fuuuuck.
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Jul 13, 2013 22:59
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That's good to know. Will brush-on gloss do the trick, or should I use spray? So far the satin varnish I used seems to be mitigating the damage pretty well. I still have a few frosty assault rifles, but I was able to save the mecha suits and most of the regular dudes, and the ones I didn't especially like got the worst of it.
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Jul 13, 2013 23:23
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I didn't even think to do in in AC, but that should work perfectly since AC works by removing the humidity. I live in PA. We have three minutes in September when the humidity dips below 50%, which is when I guess I'm supposed to spray everything I own. But thanks everybody, you'll see how they came out soon! (I hope.)
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Jul 14, 2013 01:34
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 OATH COMPLETE    These are the five photos I'm allowed! And wow, this was a fun trip outside my comfort zone: Huge 28mm models, urban basing, and no prescribed color scheme. I tried some NMM chrome on some visors, had (then fixed) a sealer froster disaster, and played with wet-blending skintones and gore. For bonuses, I can claim: +Speed Painting:  before  after +Themed Group: (Warpath Plague) +The Detektuv’s Jurnal x 13 (I realize it only counts once.) (The only uncut stock model in the group is the special character.) e: Oops, also This is an entry to Manifests's conversion contest moths fucked around with this message at 04:08 on Jul 15, 2013 |
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Jul 15, 2013 03:34
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Swags posted:
Am I the seriously the only one who read the part about doing a different month journal?
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Jul 30, 2013 19:44
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Yeah but you could do a different month's journal if you don't want to chop anything up. It shouldn't even enter the thought process.
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Jul 30, 2013 19:52
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