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Airhead recommended the Iwata for me nearly 10 years ago(!) and it's still working perfectly. I got the HP-C.

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One of my favorite bands. I went crazy on iTunes a few months ago with Blackfield, Steven Wilson's solo music as well.

I encourage checking out Riverside as well. 02 Panic Room runs shivers down...

I'd be a bad employee if I didn't mention D&D 4e downloads; here are the basic 4th edition rules and a couple of starting adventures:

http://www.wizards.com/DnD/TryDnD.aspx

Porcupine Tree has definitely become one of my favorite bands of late as well. I picked up In Absentia a few years ago and recently went on a buying binge on iTunes and followed up with Deadwing and...

I can has googlefu?

http://www.soifound.com/tag/sara-watson/

(I found an alternate angle)

There\'s also packing labor, shipping, the \"little extra packaging\" which isn\'t as little as you might think, storage space, etc. If they could profitably sell those 5 goblins for the half the...

Happy birthday!

You\'re missing it; there is a \"WOTC\" manufacturer.

Yup, I\'m still here. It\'s been an extremely busy couple of days, obviously.

By the way, one figure that I had to first strip was Icingdeath, which I stripped by lightly wiping the figure with acetone soaked cotton balls. I certainly didn\'t remove all the paint, but a lot...

Most of the official trophies that I painted for them started from unpainted versions; probably half of the plastic WotC figures in my galleries. Those were supplied to me by WotC for prizes in...

Well, I have to admit that some of the figures were given to me in unpainted form by WotC to paint -- that helps with some of the quality.

Stripping with Acetone is extremely dangerous --...

Congrats!

Heh, and I\'ve mostly migrated over to the WotC boards. Especially now that they pay my rent...

I think Sivousplay was the moderator before me, and he was the first. He did it for about a year before I did it, and I was also about a year.

Guy\'s been done as the official rules rep for a while, so it\'s not really a surprise at all.

As for flat additions of points, it doesn\'t quite work as well as you might think. Let\'s take...

Here\'s what I meant about the difference between point balancing for constructed format and a limited out-of-the-box format, and why this might be a problem.

Let\'s say piece A has a strong...

Oh, I have a photobucket account. And I\'ve been using it more and more for miniature display -- which is not good, considering that the purpose of this site is for displaying miniatures and I\'ve...

My day job is now miniature related, and I don\'t feel comfortable logging into this site at work because of these ads. And while I am a paying member, the ads do seem to get through every once in a...

Well, here\'s the \"riddle\": (from http://www.fun-with-words.com/word_gry_angry_hungry.html )

1. Think of words ending in \"-gry\". \"Angry\" and \"hungry\" are two of them. There are only three...

This is the article where I learned how to do it:

http://www.hirstarts.com/moldmake/moldmaking.html

So, will there be some sort of RSS feed? Will there be an option for submissions to cmon to be automatically rolled into the blog? (Could I set up a syndication on Livejournal referencing my cmon...

yup, very very cool.

One suggestion for the site -- I think you need a page that introduces yourself! (A tag under \"About\" labelled \"Me\" would work.)

Yup, shrinky-dinks are pretty cool. Made a stainglass golem a few years ago:

http://www.coolminiornot.com/39610

It gets about 1-2mm thick when it is done. It can curl a bit, but if you put...

I remember elouchard had a good tutorial:

http://www.lonebrushman.com/dry_lake_bed.htm

Torchwood seems to be similar to the X-Files (and I\'m sure I\'m greatly simplifying things...) I\'ve had to live vicariously through YouTube with the previews and web content. I\'m very curious to...

I agree that the basic rolled milliput method is lacking in detail, but if you use a method that you can peel apart layers (either with a knife or fingernails) you can get some extraordinary texture...

my problem with real slate is that it\'s wrong in scale. You don\'t have the right scale detail. Also, you can\'t be as precise with a hammer as you can with a pair of pliers. Finally, it\'s a lot...

One thing you want to get is some sort of layered look. I found a way with two oven-baked clays with different properties:

http://www.coolminiornot.com/article/aid/367

There\'s probably a way...

Hmm, would it be worthwhile to add a page -- something like \"http://www.coolminiornot.com/random.html\" that would just redirect a person to a random page?

Just thinking out loud here.

matty1001, check to see that you\'re not restricting your category and manufacturer. That will be a bunch of pull-downs to the left of the image.

I\'ll be there; I\'ll be a judge at the WotC mini events for the majority of the weekend.

Immersing something in a cold liquid will chill it much faster than a cold(er) freezer where it is only chilled by a cold gas. It\'s true that the freezer will chill it colder, but I suspect you\'ll...

If very very very careful, you can heat a tool and melt it.

Also, consider chilling the model and then cutting it; I\'ve often stuck a model into ice water for a few minutes before removing mold...

I guess I\'m one of the people most biased towards D&D Miniatures; I actually find the skirmish game quite enjoyable. (To be honest, I\'ve found it to be the most enjoyable miniature game that I\'ve...

Acetone didn\'t work? I\'m surprised. For the ones I\'ve done Acetone has worked fine. I bought it from the hardware store; probably cheaper than what you\'d find at a pharmacy.

Hadn\'t thought...

I might; I\'m working on an entry (already!) but it\'s going to take a while and I may not get a chance to have it finished. I\'ve never been to a Games Day before.

An interesting aside; this technique may be able to help people visualize how to paint a figure. Pop it into photoshop, color it up in 20 minutes, see what you like. Tweak the colors, try again,...

I\'m no longer just liking pie.

http://www.wondermark.com/d/123.html

Dammit. My first instinct on seeing this thread title was to come in a post \"I like pie\", and somebody already beat me to it...

To be honest and with respect to the artists that use it, I\'m not very happy with this current cork trend. It was okay the first couple of times, but it\'s starting to be really overused. And the...

I\'ve found that picking out an aspect of something that you can do in one sitting can really help with inspiration. You start getting excited about doing the face, the armor, the base, etc. If you...

Oh, I never really left, but I\'ve been too busy looking at all the image submissions and not the message boards... ;)

Sivousplay was a moderator around 2002, and I was around for 2003 or so.

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Way to go; I would have thought that you hit 100 months ago! ;)

Definite improvement. Imagine what your stuff will look like in two more years! :)

Thanks, all!



There was a thread a while ago talking about anagrams, and \"Ace MN Peter\" is an anagram of Temperance... My name is Peter, and I was born in MN... So if I took another name,...

I broke 100!
Okay, 102, actually. I had to delete two.

Last night I submitted my 99-102nd miniature to CMoN, which happened to be a set of four trophies for the WotC D&D Miniatures game Sealed...

That would be a fun one. Difficult to cast; the arm tentacles are pretty thin and they\'d to reinforce each other. How large is it?

put a < in the front and > in the back.

philologus,

try
IMG SRC=http://www.coolminiornot.com/rank.php?name=phil%6Flogus

where \"%6F\" is the html/hex representation of the letter \"o\".

Horse hair and an acrylic gel at the tip?

http://www.coolminiornot.com/6263

No IRS problems; just in the past year I\'ve had the 1-2-3-4 punch of most of my friends leaving town, my boss\' legs paralysed in a motorcycle accident, my gf leaving me, and the stress of possibly...

I resigned last September; it just took a while for Chern Ann or Borg to remove my name.

Yup, I plan on going as well... Hopefully we\'ll have more than 3 at the miniature group this year. ;)

I grew up on that show... Man, I wish there was a US distributor.

I\'ve repainted a few WotC prepainted Star Wars figures, including minor conversions. I haven\'t had any problems with paint flaking off or anything.

I dip them in an acetone bath and scrub them...

\"The dwarfs are thrifty and can afford to pay such taxes!\" That line became a running joke for hypnotism for years to come...

That was probably our favorite RPG back in high school... (12 years ago now...) I remember playing it more recently and I was a bit disappointed with the skill system, something that I used to...

can\'t sleep... might miss update... can\'t sleep... might miss update...

I got my three entries in. The contest really pushes me to do my best work -- last year my entry ended up getting an CMON 8.2 or so. My entries probably aren\'t that good this time, but I think I...

For rope, consider three very very very thin wire, put three strands in the mouth of an electric drill, and let \'er rip. You\'ll twist up the wire and make it look uniformally twisted. When I say...

Hmm, neat idea.

Is this water stuff the little plastic pellets (EZ-water?) or the gel that comes out of the bottle (water effects?)? I can\'t remember the exact names of it.

I am guessing that...

Consider a small amount of flock over the water to make it look swampy; I did something similar with my Black Dragon.

http://www.coolminiornot.com/article/aid/244/page/4

The picture near the...

Hmm. I\'m Tootie Girdle<array index out of bounds>

Stupid three letter last name...

Heh, I\'m a huge prog guy too. My name (Pete Lee) is in both of Marillion\'s last two albums (Marbles and Anoraknophobia) as those people that pre-ordered the CD. I\'m going down to Chicago in...

Any chance for some sort of subscription service? Buy now, and they\'ll send you x figs every other month...

They look wonderful. I\'m still a bit of a casting neophyte, and I think what you have are great results.

I\'ll just be over here in the corner crying in a fetal position, that\'s all...

I\'ll be there, but 90% of my time will be with helping WotC with the D&D Minis and Star Wars Minis. I hope to meet a couple of you people there!

I agree with finn; these are huge pictures (I assume that you\'ve linked them from an external website.) I had one image time out as a broken link because it took so long.

I just thought it stood for \"Thank Finn17 it\'s Friday\"... ;)

I would prefer it if pictures like that are linked with a warning and not inline.

Let\'s see if I can get this to work...

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v310/Temperance/pete.jpg

Are there any planned get-togethers for cool mini or not people at GenCon this year? It looks like I\'m actually going to make it this year. One panel is the \"how to become a professional mini...

I used to be able to keep up with all the submissions, but I\'ve fallen behind and have lost touch. The main reason that this makes me unhappy is I used to be pretty on top of entries from people...

I assume that any casting is done using source materials created by the artist.

You may have better luck doing resin casting.

Hirst Arts has a great introduction to mold making:

http://www.hirstarts.com/

Click on the \"mold making\" button. They also have information...

A medium sized character for D&D needs to fit within a 1 inch square. I typically use the GW round bases. They also have large bases that are useful for Large creatures, or those that need to fit...

A while ago someone posted an interesting illusion on how the brain could be fooled in thinking the same color shade was different depending on the surroundings.

Here are a few more:
...

They will if they do it again in the next two weeks.

I recently tried cat tails inspired by this figure:

http://www.coolminiornot.com/6263

At the top of the hairs, he mixed up a gel and paint to get the wheat effect.

My version is here:
...

The picture is a bit dark, but here is the base that Airhead is talking about:

http://www.coolminiornot.com/?id=52602

The grey part unscrews from the wood base for RPG use.

Well, you could try sculpting some sort of smoke-like object and cast it in clear resin, and have the figure is inside the smoke. Here\'s an example of clear resin air/smoke:
...

Yup, I have this book. It\'s a good one.

Heh. Thanks for the advice, Airhead. I guess the 20-25 psi I\'ve been setting myself at has been a bit much... ;)

I\'ll probably be making my own masks with clear transparency plastic. The fingernail ones seem a bit to concrete.

I have a decent vise, but then I need to keep adjusting it for new angles, and...

Yup, I\'m definitely looking for softer effects. I\'ve found that if I try to spot a miniature I end up with spidering (I don\'t know if that\'s the normal name for it -- it\'s too much paint and...

Hey airbrushers, I have a question for you guys. I\'m wondering if there exists some sort of mask that you can attach to the airbrush.

My idea is something about 6 inches from the nozzle and you...

I think borg is also one of the owners (only owner?) for New Wave Games.

There was a recent burp with the scores that I think is all settled now. (You\'re there now, with #38- 9.07)

I first saw the commerical as the window breaking the cat\'s neck -- making it seem 100% realistic. That\'s what made me sick to my stomach.

(Thread Closed)

I\'ve made my point that you\'ve acted immaturely. I gave a warning that any more threads similar to the WA thread would be shut down, and you\'ve been very aggressive towards me since I shut down...

The way I typically attach static grass (which I first read from Haley\'s website)

Step 0: Put the static grass in a small covered container, like a margarine container. Shake it up well before...

Thank you -- you now understand my state of mind.

We actually figured out that this was not directly related, but more because of Finn17\'s 2000+ posts. When Finn18 was logged in, he suffered no more slowdown.

Finn, what do you expect me to do? You were posting in several threads of your hatred of the WA -- basically flooding the forum. This I would categorize as \"Noisy, attention seeking behavior,\"...

Did I close atacam\'s thread? No. You\'re right -- I voiced my opinion. I think it\'s a tasteless movie, I don\'t think it belongs at CMoN, but I didn\'t close it.

I closed the AWA thread...

Closed at the request of the users.

I see, so it \"officially\" does come from Ford:

http://www.adrants.com/2004_03_28_archive.php
http://www.marketingwonk.com/

And they had a version that was shown with a pigeon?

Huh. How...

I\'m sorry, but can you explain then how you know it is faked?

CCG?

Collectible Card Games?
Chemical Computing Group?
Christian Churches of God?
Centre of Computational Geography?

That\'s horrible, tasteless, and certainly doesn\'t belong here.

Fortunately, it\'s an incorrect link. I hunted the proper link down, and I really recommend that others don\'t.

Frankly, it\'s...

Ultimately, a thread where every post is indentical can be summed up in one post. At least the WA thread evolves. Do I think it\'s stupid? Yes, but if I closed every thread that was stupid... ...

And perhaps you missed the point of me closing the thread. How many people would complain if I closed the WA thread? (Actually, not too many because I think it\'s run it\'s course.)



You say...

When a thread degenerates to people posting empty posts, I\'m going to end it.

When there is a duplicate thread, I\'m going to end it.

When people are abusive in a thread, I\'m going to end it....

No, but having two identical threads are silly and so far obviously confusing.

Instead of posting to this thread, please post to:

http://www.coolminiornot.com/forums/viewthread.php?tid=3993

;)

There\'s always a first time...

purpose

Geez. With this, the \"Please Ignore\" thread, and the word association thread, I\'m seriously rethinking my lax attitude to moderating and I may start closing absolutely pointless threads.

A...

Sivousplay recently put up a good glowing sword:

http://www.coolminiornot.com/index.php?id=43762&c=All&m=All&nm=none

http://www.coolminiornot.com/index.php?id=43763&c=All&m=All&nm=none

You should paint a little goatee on your Finn18 icon so it represents the evil Finn from the parallel universe.

Well, admittedly I\'ve been on vacation for a week, but I wouldn\'t have done anything about it had I been around. If people really want me to start closing more threads, I can, but I prefer it when...

Can you tell that I do bug testing for a living? ;)

Do you get them when logged in under Finn18?

Finn, I\'m not getting the \"website not responding\" messages, and any of the Tech things fall to Chern Ann\'s hands. I can\'t prove that the thread is or is not causing the problem -- if it is a...

There are a ton of off-topic discussions -- why should the line be drawn here? What about the smoking thread? Should that be deleted? (I haven\'t touched it because I have a hard time reading it...

Oh, note that I\'m extremely lenient with threads like this. If they start to interfere with the purpose of the forums -- to talk about miniatures -- I will need to start closing them down. I...

Idle

I won\'t shut it down unless I have to.

It\'s sort of like a garbage can -- all the trash in one location. ;)

Heh. You know that I have one... :)

Anyway, I haven\'t had too much chance to use it -- way too busy to do much painting. I did do the skin for about 25 bugbears in about an hour, but I need to...

And lo! The thread is closed.

That\'s enough!

This thread is about the people who lost their lives in Spain and those people who lost friends and relatives. To them, I give my condolences.

This is not about how to deal...

I like to see when a possible bad environment gets sorted out without a flame war; thanks.



That\'s one of my favorite phrases. Accessing my colo-rectal knowledge base is another. (In other...

It\'s listed at the top of the \"Your Account\" page, but you need to have 5 figures with at at least 50 votes each before your score is calculated -- it\'s the average score of your top 5 figures.
...

It\'s probably the biggest ego burst that a mini painter suffers... ;)

One can only be dethroned if one has a throne to begin with.

;)

lol

I\'ve been a little disappointed with the grain size of my vallejo metals as well. What have people been using instead?

I personally don\'t like the oversized breast sculpts -- mostly because of the totally unrealistic nature of them -- but don\'t insult the artist.

You can catch more flies with honey than with...

I wrote an article on how to sculpt a WotC style Shrieker mushroom:

http://www.coolminiornot.com/go.php?go=articlephp&aid=65

I\'ve done some, and they\'ve all been pretty simple. I\'ve...

The original Displacer Beast from WotC was pretty bad. It had a split right up the middle of the body, and the two parts don\'t fit together very well... It\'s a very skinny, light model that fits...

Yeah, I agree with Ange on this one. I\'ve done about an hour of dremel work on my two WotC Black Dragons and they\'re still nowhere near ready to be put together. Beautiful figure; pain in the...

They\'ll probably be posted when the figure is ready to be sold.

Hey, let\'s keep the personal attacks down -- even if the target is not around and being hostile to others in one way or another.

--

On a non-moderating side note, I sometimes have to bite my...

My concern with a game 100% faithful to 40K rules is that it would be rather simplistic. Miniature games by nature are simple -- roll a few dice, apply damage, etc. A computer game can be so much...

As long as you get permission from the artists in question, I\'m sure there won\'t be a problem.

I\'m not sure what\'s going on here, but I do know it\'s between OrForAwesome17
and klute_in_the_valute.

Since the original submission with comment from OrForAwesome17 is no longer here, I can\'t...

This is in reference to the comic \"Doomed & Doomer\".

How does Chrispy know about the Bookshelf (tm)? The bottom shelf is storage, the 2nd shelf is assorted D&D books from 1st ed to 3.5 ed, the...

Actually, WotC is putting out the prepainted collectable Star Wars miniature game based off the D&D one. I believe it\'s coming out in May.

The one I have is made using Scott\'s article:

http://www.coolminiornot.com/go.php?go=articlephp&aid=198

I haven\'t used it much recently, but then I haven\'t done a lot of painting in the last...

Yup, I agree -- Reaper is the way to go, especially if you want to paint them. Another option is the Wizards of the Coast Chainmail line -- they\'re now out of production, but you might be able to...

I\'m sorry you feel that way.

I\'m not sure what you mean by a \"climate\" change. The only change that I\'m noticed is that figures that would have gotten a 5 vote 2 years ago now get a 3 or 4...

There are also some slight differences in the highlights of the NMM mask that makes me think they\'re two different yet similar miniatures.

Wonderful work from both of them. (I think Shroud\'s...

Well, if it\'s any sort of D&D stuff, you could make a post in their Marketplace.

I don\'t know the rules of what is or is not allowed there.
...

Sunday nights have been Battlefield 1942 at a friend\'s house with four networked computers. We\'re fighting 8 to 1 odds at 60% skill these days.

For some reason I\'ve been spending a lot of time...

I have the start of a home made D&D Tarrasque. I don\'t think that\'s gonna get finished any time soon...

Well, I\'m going to be playing money-grubbing devil\'s advocate. Right now it\'s what; $1 a month? Perhaps it\'s worth while to have a Silver subscriber and a Gold subscriber? The current...

If you don\'t get an answer here, you might want to ask in the Wizards of the Coast miniature board:

http://boards1.wizards.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=384

Well, I hate to say it, but there isn\'t a name change ability. I once created an account for someone I met at a convention and mistyped the name -- in the end, I just had to remove all the pictures...

There\'s a way to pay for an increased limit (200, I believe); Phillipe may have done that.

Hmm, you may think this is cheating, but when I did the Gelatinous Cube I wanted free floating coins in it. The simplest solution was to go down to my local craft store and search through the...

29. Honestly!

Where\'s the entry for the coffin dodgers? ;) I don\'t think 40+ is enough. :)

Another idea; Wood/barkskin.

I\'m not sure if it\'s a good idea to insist that 100% of the figure is done that way; 50 silver surfers will get old pretty quickly. (Even though it\'s an excuse for...

Not really. If one or two people did go through all your minis and give them 1s, they would be noted as being way too off the figure\'s average and removed. It\'s a safety procedure that Chern Ann...

I\'m also against reducing the limit of submitted pictures. It\'s already limited to 100, and I think that\'s a fine number.

I don\'t think this is enough. I think 300 pixels is a better value.

You may want add a rule of not allowing pictures that are large but the subject of the photo only takes up a small fraction of...

I received issue 2 with a large whole in the envelope and the bonus figure missing. Fortunately the magazine was in one piece and I\'ve since had the missing figure replaced (and I\'m very happy...

I seem to remember it being Gael\'s mounted figure, but the plastic parts need to be removed so it\'s taking a bit of time.

I also heard it would be that mech pilot, but I\'m not sure Borg ever...

Daylight is the best; that\'s what I exclusively use. It can be a pain in the winter, but you can\'t beat it. The day-light bulbs are nice, but nothing beats natural indirect light.

Heh; you replied while I was writing. For backgrounds, I suggest going down to an art supply store and buying a large colored sheet of paper. A popular color is light sky blue, I use a tan marblish...

Yup, it\'s the picture.

Slightly out of focus (I\'ve seen much worse...), a distracting background, and an unflattering angle to the shot all hurt. It\'s too bad that you\'ve sold the figure.
...

I don\'t believe this is the case. I think only the best 10 get minis. [/quote]

Close; I think it\'s actually the 10 best as well as 10 random submissions.

The WotC board has a thread which says that you want to use Model Master Acryl Dried Paint Solvent (#50495). I haven\'t tried it myself, but here\'s a link:
...

It\'s a funny cartoon talking about the new prepainted D&D minis. I\'m a little biased -- I\'m two away from a full set.

As a miniature painter, I gotta explain myself. I\'m been holding out on...

You mean asking him if you can get pants?

(see La Vaca sin los Pantalones..)

If it\'s a choice between one new sculpt and three conversions, I think I\'d be more interested in the new sculpt. I\'d leave the conversions up to the rest of the community.

*Dons the administrator hat for the first time*

I\'m glad you guys are keeping this thread civil. One of the good things about CMoN is that you guys are well-behaved in the forums. This thread...

Are the photos hosted by CMoN or on an external server? If it\'s an external server, if there are problems with that server CMoN may boot the image because it\'s bad.

You could try sending Chern Ann a private message as well.

Yup, as Taer says.

From the main page (assuming that you\'re logged in) there is a link on the right side that says \"Your Account\". Click on that, and each of your submissions are listed below...

Je signale souvent à l\'aide d\'un traducteur d\'ordinateur. Je ne parle pas un mot de Français. Je ne me rappelle pas beaucoup allemand. Le traducteur d\'ordinateur me permet souvent de comprendre...

You can try getting some depth through using washes. The skin on the mounted figure would help from this. Try mixing paint and water in a 1:8 mixture or so -- one part paint and eight parts water....

hey ya sulaco. Welcome to the forums. ;)

I second the use of Testor\'s Dullcoat. I\'ve used it nearly exclusively for two years. It can even cut the gloss of an ink wash. The only problem...

I believe the 50 vote guideline is because Chern Ann wanted enough votes to get a decent distribution. For example, say a mini gets a 1 vote, a 5 vote, and a 9 vote. Which one(s) do you remove?
...

Well, I don\'t suggest that a spread should be made for each figure. I\'m really only interested in the spread for my own figures, but I\'m curious for a couple.

Perhaps a better answer would be...

Don\'t worry about it. Any scores too far out of the standard deviation will be thrown out of the mix. Chern Ann has an algorithm that takes care of it, but it doesn\'t work until a figure has at...

Is this a 120mm tall figure in 28-30mm scale (a really big monster) or a person in 120mm scale?

If the former, I\'m likely to get it. I\'ll probably pass on a 120mm scale piece.

Heh; if these miniatures keep climbing, we\'re gonna need to pull an AD&D rating system...

That\'s a 10/55! No, it\'s the best ever -- it\'s a 10/00! ;)

I\'ll quit geeking out now...

I really, really, REALLY don\'t think any miniature should be removed without the permission of the submitter.

If you only want to see the \"good\" miniatures on the site, you can restrict your...

Well, the mean for the site is currently around 6.4 . So for every score above that, there\'s one below that.

Only 32% of all the figures have a score above 7.
Only 10% have a score above 8....

Yeah, we\'re on opposite sides of the world and we\'ve still got the same weather problem. The weather gods are against us, Corvus! :mad:

That\'s obviously not me because he doesn\'t have a goatee. It must be the alternate universe Temperance. (Or perhaps I\'m the evil twin... Hmm, not sure how this works out.) ;)

Joking aside,...

You can\'t use oils on resin? Even after priming? Huh. Didn\'t know that.

I\'ve done quite a bit of casting with resin in the last year, and if you\'re going to do that you\'re really going to...

With a title like this my \"Moderator\" Sense was going into overdrive...

I wish that more people would write a decription on their figure, doesn\'t matter which language. I think I\'ve written...

You could paint the edges of the eye with dark red and the center of the eye orange, so it gradually gets brighter towards the center of the eye. (You\'ll want several layers, depending on how large...

If the miniature is drastically improved, then replacing the miniature will cause it to still have the lower votes points. I\'d resubmit the picture entirely.

I think it was more that it was the first time that I had strung a miniature bow. I think that\'s more my fault than the sculpt. Anyone have better experience stringing miniature bows on how it\'s...

I can\'t believe I\'m doing this... Normally, I\'m a patient man and I can wait for a comment, but here\'s a fig I\'m quite happy with and I\'m impatiently looking for some comments. It\'s one of...

**Zzzaap!** Whoops, I gotta be more careful where I leave that thing... ;)

Hey, I\'ll be happy if it\'s business as usual. Just play nice. :)

I feel dirty.

I got mine last night. The mini is great, but I have a few comments on the magazine once I get time to write a review.