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Words fail me.
I’ve been the recipient of some generosity in the past.
Today...I’m kinda stunned as you can tell.
Chris Wheeler

Yes that’s right I’ve finally managed to get my second book up on Amazon for Kindle.
Same characters, different situations and this is all short stories.
It’s taken nearly two years with...

Simply put , Yes.

Yes and a slight No.
If YOU Like the figure there’s nothing to stop you buying it and removing the iconography of XXX chapter and then using it as you want.
if you leave the iconography on and...

Nope.

Nothing to approve.

Yeah sorted that sometime early this morning.
The reason is that we still get some asshats posting porn instead of minis.........at least that makes sure I’m awake.

A little different from my usual “Bah Humbug” mentality.
2020 being the Dire year it has been, here’s a little Dragon to cheer you all up.
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PLEASE REMEMBER A DRAGON IS FOR LIFE NOT JUST FOR...

never gonna happen.

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Spot on there Lee, classic representation of the illustration.

:sad:
The Poor Little Baby.

They’re waiting on some old git (me) wandering along and approving them.

Nice stuff.

Backed her.

Welcome back.

You’ve been told before about visiting ‘those’ sites, you’ll go blind.

Welcome Mila.

Revitalising Rackham or Revisiting Rackham

Oh Yeah!

But I can!

Drop me a PM and let’s see if we can work something out.

I do run an adoption agency for homeless figures you know.

Hold out your bread at arms length, I’ll let the mother-in-law breathe on it for you.

That’s a classic paint scheme for sure.
ok so the considerations to take into account;-
current eBay value (if you could find one),
rarity,
age (25)
Golden Deamon Gold

I’d be thinking that...

Welcome aboard.
(Hope you’re ok with me tidying up the surplus code.)

Nice one John!

Yeah you can tell you ‘dipped’ that one :giggle:

You are not the only one with problems using EDGE, unfortunately.
Go for Firefox for better stability.

Very good, but I don’t know if it’s the photo or not but both the Flamer marines look as if their loin cloths need ‘adjusting’ to match the others.

Found this this morning, Two of my favourite things;

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Ahem, there are several painted ones you know.

Damn fine work there John.

I’m not counting the ones I’ve got the 3D files to print yet.

Well after having my Dad stay with us while shielding and lockdown for four months, he decided he wanted to go back to Newcastle.
He managed a Fortnight before his 4th visit to hospital this year! ...

Welcome.

Those look nice pieces.

Congratulations, you had a sniper.

Well during this wonderful Lockdown period I've been keeping busy(!) looking after my dad who's been sheilding with us and a couple of projects (one of which went to 'hell in'a handbasket).
So...

Nice work Bullfrog.

Shit I’m too old, but I’ve a couple of friends I’ll contact who are Of Asian families.

Welcome.

So you're from the Big Apple.
Keep an EYE out for BloodasMedium I think here's from there as well.........one of the other 8 million people.

Aww, Thank you guys.

Nice to see you back Supervike.

It’s worth the effort To get hold of a copy.

For speed you can mix thin strips of tissue into a UV curing resin to shape into waves/splashes.
Vallejo water effects can be used with this concept as well they just take a lot longer to cure....

It’s to prevent Spammers and Porn merchants slapping their crap up on here...and yes that does happen. (The stuff I’ve seen<shudders>.)


That’d be me.

For posting pictures in the forums...

Isharin Tidecaster from GW might suite the Dragon riding pose.
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From what I’ve gleaned a lot of people are using Kickstarter to provide not only funding but an indication on the viability of their product.

If for example you were to build up a stock of 600...

Hola!

Yeah 3d Printing is pretty addictive, I’m aiming for an Elegoo Saturn later on in the year.
As for sculpting and selling go for it, usually Kickstarter stuff goes in the ‘News’ forum but...

Not got much to offer you here, but I’d suggest that if you’ve a spare shoulder pad or two practise on them before going full scale.
oOnly advice I can offer is pick out the edges and make them the...

Yeah missed that...My Bad.

Sorted now though.

Sorry to hear this Lee.
I wish there was something I could do, words themselves feel powerless in a situation like this.

Marcel don’t believe him we’re a bunch of evil sarcastic gits.
Well I am at least.

Welcome and have fun painting.

Welcome to the
Hotel California
you can check out but you can never leave.

One of the best pieces of advice I can give you is to carry around a few small plastic bags in your pocket when out for a walk. Look at leaf litter and twigs after a really windy day and if anyone...

Genryu, Hi We’re almost neighbours, I’m in Bolton.

Managing the lockdown OK, looking after my dad who I brought down to be with us is taking up a lot of time (you think keeping kids occupied and...

Can't add anything to that analysis, execpt keep it away from my clumsy hands.

Thread is now closed.

Have a good one, not gonna say a good what though.:quiet:

I've been struggling with my Camera. (She's getting old and beginning to show a couple of faults.)
But still managed to take a few snaps this morning.

http://www.coolminiornot.com/447198...

This thread was more appropriate to the General Discussion Forum so I've moved it here.

Be safe; Stay well.

All members of this site will be aware that the terms and conditions of usage of this site forbid harassment of any sort.
This includes coming from another site to continue any argument.

IT WILL...

Hey I'm married, of course I’ve learned the virtue of patience. (And keeping out of Fran’s way)



Surprisingly the removal of the supports is rather cathartic.
They are only 0.2mm thin...

Just a smaller (40%) version of the Red Dragon.
35 hours of printing to get this.
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2hours of cleaning away supports to this..
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Minor fixes to be carried out.

...And I can’t paint without magnifiers because I’m an Old Fart. :silly!:

I’ve been trying to understand so much of the background on this.
IF I’ve read things correctly (?) this is not like ordinary ‘flu, but a Novel virus..ie a completely new strain of virus which...

I was trying to read an online piece from a Doctor in France, but I was struggling with some of the terminology.
But one of the things that she was suggesting (I think) is that there is a possible...

Well in the UK
Sword and Lance - Suspended until October (ish)
Salute - Cancelled
London Toy and Model Show - Cancelled
Several IPMS shows - Cancelled

That's going to hit the business side of...

It’s a lousy situation.
And the whole management of it isn’t really helping.
So many rumours and misinformation about things isn’t helping anyone.

Sorry Phil, no she’s the main manager of Rosemary’s brushes.
I’ve just got to know her from a couple of symposiums and sharing a few drinks.

Well Phil, good to see you still popping in occasionally.

In regard to paints, Vallejo and Scale 75 are just about the best both in terms of quality and Value for money.
And if you are still...

Measure Twice, Cut Once!

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Yeah this baby..The Red Dragon
Well I started printing the body section on Sunday at 08:00.....It just finished printing 10 minutes ago at 11:50 on Monday. (28 Hours)
No hiccups, no...

Sounds like you might be getting some moisture coming out of the airbrush.
if you haven’t got a moisture trap, get one. If you have add a bit of cotton wool in it to increase its efficiency.

There’s always eBay;-

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l2632.R2.TR2.TRC1.A0.H0.X28mm+bases.TRS0&_nkw=28mm+bases&_sacat=16486

Or as an adjunct to what Beatnik 59 has said spots of PVA glue placed on via a cocktail stick could give you the texture you need.
Allow to dry then prime and away you go.

I ‘started’ on Miniatures back when I was about 14/15 so that’s 50 years ago. (Fudge!)
Historex French Napoleonic's were my thing, delighted to find that they are still in business and trading at...

Yes.
Newer stuff has not got the moulding release agent issue mentioned above.
very little flash either.

I was going to say that I was surprised that you’d printed the Decimator vertically, but then realised it might not have fit on the bed.
I’ve taken to printing as much as I’d possible in the...

Ever since I bought the Dragon from this thread:-
http://www.coolminiornot.com/forums/showthread.php?68495-Dragon-and-monster-minis

I’ve been tinkering to get the settings right to do the Baby...

Thanks to the Universities of Google and YouTube I',m now 4 hours into the printing of the first pieces.


If anyone is considering buying a 3d Printer here's a few thoughts,;
PLA (extruded...

Of Course, just got to get the printer to behave.
Not sure what I’m doing wrong.

Silmarillion, thanks but despite the inevitable ageing process I’m in pretty good shape health wise.
Which considering the abuse this body of mines had is a bit surprising.

OK.
I gave in and bought one, all I have to do is print it now.
See you in about 90 hours (+/-)

Consider making friends with someone who has a 3D printer, it might be more cost effective to purchase an STL file and bulk print.

Look at my Alias and there’s your reason.
(Plus I have a LARGE collection of PETS.;) )

P.S. Your Artstation address in your signature doesn’t work. I think you’re missing a ‘T’ out of your alias.

Babies!!!!

Is that a euphemism for ”While you’re down there....”

Just turned 64.

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So while visiting my dad this last weekend I wasn't sure if it was the Floorboards in his house creaking or my Knees.
Watching woodworking YouTube videos has become...

Try this, it works wonders on old paints. Even citadel hexagonal bottles....

A little something that I’d planned for a competition, only to find there was no suitable category.
<Facepalm>

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Lighting’s good but your point of focus is off.
What camera are you using?

And another Dragon joins the Horde.
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Sigmar3, no apologies necessary.

‘Neverwhere’

WHAT?

Neil Gaiman...........

AMERICAN GODS
ANANSI BOYS
CORALINE
GOOD OMENS
THE GRAVEYARD BOOK
THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE

Well I can take no credit for the verse.
It’s courtesy of NEIL GAIMAN either from “Neverwhere” or “Stardust’ about a ‘Babylon Candle.’
(The figures ‘Mourn’ from Guild Ball.)

Keeping me OUT OF TROUBLE.......... we’ll I suppose there’s a first time for everything.
:in-love:

I’ve got my camera on charge to do some pictures for the gallery.
Yep that’s Sharpe (aka Sean Bean) from Mitch’s Military Miniatures.

When to a ‘Well regarded show yesterday” the White rose Christmas bash over in Headingly, Leeds.
Got a great an warm reception for being a ‘virgin’ to the show.
Put some stuff out on Display and...

Ekipage......cracking link mate.
Never heard of that company before.

Try doing a search for snake ornaments instead of miniatures. You might have more luck that way.

like this....

Hi everyone;
After Photobucket changed their sharing policy to charging an Arm and a leg a lot of images are getting ‘borked’ and coming being reported.
Now I check as many as I can and try to...

There’s some great stuff here.
I wish I’d had more cash available at SMC, still I picked up a superb piece from you.

Fran and I got married.


Don’t know how she’s put up with me for so long.
Love the old Broomrider.

Here are the photo's I managed to take through the crush.
Close to 1400 competitors and well over 1800 (if not 2000) pieces in the comptetion.

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Try going into the Work in Progress forum you’ll get all the suggestions you’ll ever want there.

I’m being very careful about who is following me around at the mo’.
Keeping an eye out for little red laser dots.

Or to not let me anywhere near one!
CONFESSION TIME!

One of Andy’s minis was damaged on the way over. I gave him the use of my Emergency Repair Kit to fix the sword back on Conan.
BUT when I was...

Avicenna, his first time there as well.
Mally took a Silver in Masters Flats....Bloody Hard Category as well.

I’m DELIGHTED to let you know ANDYG picked up a ​GOLD.

Here be Dragons (and some other stuff)
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Well it’s that time of year folks I’m off to Eindhoven for one of the best shows around.
And this year guess who’s about to lose his ‘virginity’ ......ANDYG

Here’s hoping he does well.

It...

How did you find the cast?
Mine’s got a few air bubbles which are going to be a git to fix.

There are two considerations you’re missing here, Experience and Workload.
Lets take experience first:-
for someone starting out and unsure of whether an airbrush will suit there needs it’s an...

That's quite an open question; What is your problem and what camera?

Jen Haley has been a long standing member of this site for more years than I have (*) and has been highly regarded as an excellent painter.
She's also been the head painter for CMON's line of...

Following a complaint Brother Vinni’s Last submission has been deleted for breaching community guidelines.

Have you tried to contact Creature Caster?

And Arrived this morning.

By the sounds of that you might have the airbrush primers.

I had a trip down to a gaming convention yesterday; Chillcon Derby and seeing as they had a painting competition I thought I’d take a ‘punt’ not expecting anything. The ‘swag bag’ was incredible I...

Just ca heads up Scale 75 paints are Very Matte and some colours do require heavy agitation prior to use, like ‘Rainy Grey’ as they separate easily, but they are good with some colours that are well...

You’d be correct.
Candles mights be a yellowish cast all around fading out, but for the centre of the light from the sconce hitting the stone it’d be the stone colour much lightened towards white...

Just as a suggestion if you have an airbrush hit the two areas with a mid to light grey starting close, then pulling away so that you get a key point and then a fade.
That way you can work the OSL...

Well she arrived today.
Tiny, but beautifully done.
Some serious hard work ahead.

As an ‘Oldie’ I’m going to agree with the use of the GW holders, by far the best ‘accessory’ they’ve produced.

Me too.
now Night Shift often uses chipping medium a soluble layer airbrushed on in between coats of paint which can be worked off using a combination of water (to soften the paint) and a...

I’m interested in Demigods Evolution - High Elder.
PM me please so we can sort out.

Just what he said.

No I went for a difficult one....the Midas Nymph.

:claply:

Hello temptation my old friend,
I’ve come to spend with you again,
For a vision nicely sculpted,
I’ve become bankrupted.

Please keep an eye out for these two pieces stolen from the painters during Dragoncon.
As I understand it they were 1st & 2nd places in the painting comp.

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I've had a look at your gallery, for someone who's been painting around 2 years those are some good pieces.
If I were to give you one piece of advice it would be to ease up on dry brushing...

http://www.coolminiornot.com/artist/Silmarillion?browseid=8279776

Until now No, not seen any.

That might change after pension day.

Just did a quick check (15:00 GMT) and it looks as if everything is showing up in your gallery.
Quite nice work there.

Both are there and have been voted upon.

EDIT:-
I’ve gone in and manually reset the images.
if they aren’t showing by tonight (GMT) go in and add some additional text or other alteration which...

I've just been to a Model Kit swap today and in discussion over a brew with a couple of the more senior present (read old grumpies like myself ) were several topics about aging and being a painter...

46...Bleeding amateur.
My next birthday I’ll be reversing those figures. After all 60 is the new 40.
:rotfl:

Keep painting John and I hope you had a Hippy Brushday!

I could do it easily (less than 20 mins work) over here, but the postage might be a b*tch.

His name:-
“
Arrosa beltza”
Black Rose’ in Basque

Gohkm has done me a solid!
Another Dragon Bust arrived this afternoon all the way from down under.

Pretty soon I’ll be sprouting scales myself.

That could be difficult to do, does it have to be resin or could you get MDF cut to size and edge routed to shape?

I May have a bit of a problem.
Another one added to the collection......

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It’s almost like I’m breeding them.

In answer to your questions;
Yes,
Yes,
and Oh Yes.

Well I’m going to stick my head above the parapet here and say I don’t like Blanche’s stuff. Never have. Always thought it was slapstick, scruffy, dirty and badly painted.

That contention aside...

Try this one by Iguazzu, it may be long-ish but it’s of great help.
https://youtu.be/tzlcesM3-f0

CONGRATULATIONS, that’s one hell of a leap.
So several things to think of since I’m primarily working on larger figures (old age means I need to see a little bigger these days.)
contrast isn’t as...

Welcome to the madhouse.

Moved this to the W.I.P’S forum as it’s better suited there.

:)

Someone else had this problem.

http://www.coolminiornot.com/forums/showthread.php?48436

Problem is Dameon, is trying not to sound like a whinging git explaining what’s going/gone wrong AND maintain a bit of privacy at the same time.
A bit of a juggling act, I think.

If you were a subscriber to hasslefree’s email’s you’d be aware that Dameon has had a lot of external problems including a loss of key staff and a destructive flood to deal with.
That has impacted...

Beinvenue Damien

Fixed it for you.

For what ever reason you don’t want to use sable, please consider this, brushes are our primary tools and like any good craftsman will tell you, buy the best tools you can afford.
Buying cheap...

Yes.
The experience I have with it has put me off it completely.

Army Painter Primer that I’ve tried was a rough as a badgers bum.

General Rattle can primer I used to use was an Automotive grey primer, pretty good but I've switched to priming via Airbrush using...

As everyone has said paint as you want them, there is no ‘hard and fast rule’.
My Sisters of Battle are in a bone/tan colour scheme never had anyone hinge at me about them.

The only ‘gripers’ You...

Well that’s an absolute load of bollocks.
IF it were true eBay would have no market place for second hand miniatures or “Pro-Painted” figures.

If you bought it, painted it and now want to sell...

In regard to the Yellow, here’s what I used:-
Basecoat = Scale75 Sahara Yellow (took three or four thin coats over Vallejo grey airbrush primer)
Highlighting = Vallejo Model Colour Yellow Ochre...

Really good Andy....in fact it’s given me inspiration for a one I buggered up and abandoned a couple of years ago.

He’s ‘Little King’ from Greg Girault’s sculpting.
http://Www.cop-project.com.

Really great quality stuff, although I was a little concerned about the quality of the resin at first once primed it...

Since April I’ve done 2 Dragon busts, part way through another one(not working as well as I want it to be) bought 2 Dragons Kickstarter’d 2 with Dragons (painted one of those) done a deal to get...

I think I might be starting to get the hang of this painting gig.
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I’ve just found out that long timer here AVELORN, just got married.
To Sven and Hami many, many, many congratulations.

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Make a start with a dressmakers pin, that gives you a ‘key’ for the drill point to bite into.
Helps to stop ‘wander’.

”enough dragons”......Sorry Even Google translate can’t help me make sense out of that.
:angel:

EDIT: just as I posted this the postman (mailman for the US) turned up with my new baby.
:clap:

What can I tell you?
\...:).../

Big Cheesy grin.

You have NO idea.
:eyeroll!:

Basically it was a very good (simple) system but allowed to collapse because of limited support from GW.
I still have my copy somewhere. Somewhere

Going back through this thread and the concept behind it I realise I’ve fallen back into a ‘work mode’ we used to use.
It’s called PITFALLING.
Basically looking at what might be, or might not be,...

Firstly let us see what you can produce, then we can offer advice.

BUT...

The Model Painting as a Business world has been, and still is to an extent, flooded with “studio’s’ producing armies of...

Hmmmn, going to say no to that.
Having painted for several collectors, they DON’T want anything stuck on the underside; cards with the details yes, but something that encourages extra handling and...

Sorry I missed seeing this post yesterday, I was kind of occupied tidying up the painting room (a very great rarity.)

Looking at the pictures you’ve shown I’m leaning towards suggesting no OSL at...

That’s not all that uncommon amongst ‘veteran war gamers’.
A couple WW2 players I know have Division level armies of both Axis and Allied powers.

My Sisters of Battle army consists of some 200...

Well this baby needs some serious lovin’

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Send her to me, I’ll provide her with a warm welcome and a new family.
:clap::clap::clap:

8000 + Minis ........ain’t gonna work for me.

Klimbo.....Don’t EVER post anything like that again!

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Exactly what MAXXxxx has said, getting the pressure/dilution right is crucial. Practise on cardboard or something you can afford to strip later.
My airbrush has been a serious boon for me...

Could you be more specific please?
What type of models, scale and budget are you looking towards?

This young ladies voice really hits the spot (ear wise) for me.
Hope some of you others enjoy as well.

https://www.londongrammar.com

Lee, not ALL the Dragons,....... well not yet.

There’s a very good reason for my name.

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It’s sorted now.

Are you looking for someone to do it for or for advice/instruction on how best to do it?

I think that might be bit far.

You waste too much space, the video is meant to be about painting, you figure only is in 1/3rd of the screen.

After 79 views on this thread and no-one has bothered to comment it looks like it’s down to me.
This might be hard for you to hear but I have to say that if you want to be regarded as a...

A while ago I bought a nail varnish shaker. (£22.0)
Easy little gizmo to use, strap in the paint hit the button and off she wanders across the desk.
For some Scale 75’s (Rain Grey) you need about 5...

There’s a metric fudge tonne of material suppliers out there, Ainsty Castings have a huge catalogue of pillars flagstone floors etc.

Do a google search on Model scenic materials, but don’t forget...

Nah, I like Spiders and I’ve done a kids book on Bunnies.....In fact I took Bunny to Salute to work on a second one.
(Yeah I’m all kinds of weird.)

And just Kickstarted for another Dragon.


Did someone say obsession?

Errr, kinda like bought another Dragon.

Now how to tell Fran?

Serious OUCH!

Series 7’s run about £7-8.00 here.

CMON Staff have been busy tied up with Adepticon and its recovery.
Please allow a bit of time.

You can’t.

The only way round this is to put the correct vote and text in a new comment, alert me that you’ve done that and I’ll delete the ‘incorrect’ comments

Few people realise that they are a ‘re-incarnation’ of Ral-Partha miniatures, which had their heyday 20 years ago along with Dragon and Dungeon magazines (Bleeding miss them.) Plus they don’t have a...

Yes I was gifted a set a while ago. They are like any other paint we use, very helpful in the triad groups are well.

Vallejo have a more consistent colour range than Citadel, (plus they don’t change the blasted names every five minutes) but recently I’ve been using Scale 75 which I’m finding to be a great paint and...

Someone say Dragon?
As you might guess I’m a bit of a Dracophile.

So some suggestions, there’s a lot of texture in the body which could benefit for judicious application of washes/glazes to...

Vallejo do a Verdigris paint in their Model colour range, it’s quite effective.
But I’ve ended up with some lengths of old copper piping from where I work as a caretaker and they have areas which...

DID I STUTTER.......
Behave with respect towards one another and take into account that some people’s first language is not English, which could be a factor in the confusion.

NORMALLY I’m checking pictures 3 to 4 times a day.
However the last couple of weeks I’ve been nursing my father (87) back after being hospitalised so it’s not been quite as often.
(plus I lost...

Size references do help, not necessarily coins but with smaller scale vehicles a ruler does help people.
Thinner coats do help as does weathering techniques and for really small miniatures increased...

...to do today.

1) Smile at a total stranger, and mean it.

2) If you buy a cup of coffee, Drop your change in the tip jar.

3) Hold the door for someone.