Pegazus's Pile of Pminiatures (WIP)

[PegaZus]

Got a coat of paint slapped on the stubby bushes, and the start of some bulking out. Surprising, the 15 year old paint still has it. Course, it's been in a huge tube all that time as well. Good to find uses for it. Really actually helped that it was scorched Sculpty. Only needed two coats.

The flash on the camera makes it look at lot more brighter green that it really is, but without the flash it was a big dark green blur. Having a horrible time getting the clumps to stick, but I may have been overly ambitious with how much I was trying to put on at a time. Doing one clump at a time is really slow, but its working.

And I'm really itching bad for an airbrush. Don't need one. Not even close to needing one. Still, the wallet! It burns so!

+1 pts for 30 total.

 

[PegaZus]

Been a while hasn't it? Well, super stressful situations tend to do that. Now, I can't claim anything other than laziness for the last two weeks of February. But, March 1st I got pulled into my boss's office first thing bright and early to be told I was being laid off at the end of March, if I couldn't find another job inside the corporation. So began a mad scramble at anything and everything, with little luck. Had one small interview that went nowhere, and several other groups absolutely upset at the whole situation since they had been screaming for extra help for months and now the program was letting go an experienced engineer with 15 years of solid service. Problem always boils down to one thing: budget. And for all the work they wanted done and extra hands on deck, unless the money is there, you don't get anyone. And so, I sadly signed my acknowledgement that I was getting laid off in two weeks (my boss had given me an extra two weeks heads-up, you see).

So I resigned myself to my fate, and did my best to wrap up all the work I needed to get done. All the corporate clap trap of annual training, and other such cubicle life style paperwork. Packed up two boxes of personal stuff a day until I was down to a single box: the last box. That's the box you take on the way out after they strip you of your computer log-on and your corporate ID. A few pens, photos of the kids, and what was left of my notepad. Ready to go, on to the next adventure.

And that's when the email came, cancelling the layoff. Now I'm working for another group, for a different project. Not exactly what I'd planned on doing a year ago, but still doing design, so can't really complain. Paycheck comes in, so what you gonna do? I know what you're gonna do:

What is that? What's it look like? It's a cardboard box.

Silly.

And yes, it's covered in 14 year old acrylic paint. But the key here is how it was done. You see, I'd gotten an airbrush for Valentine's Day, and I'd been putting off buying all the bits that were needed to actually hook it up and get it to blowing air. What with the impending unemployment, I couldn't really see making those purchases at the time. Didn't feel right. But, now that the monkey is off my back (well, for at least the next two months, if I believe my old boss; or longer if I believe my new one), I got all the pieces in that I needed.

Sort of.

I was sent just an 8' hose rather than the 25' one I ordered. Reason being is that I've hooked the airbrush up to a 10 gal shop compressor, and having it a bit away from where I am painting I saw as a benefit. Reason they sent me a 8' hose? The warehouse must have been out of stock, so they sent the 8' instead. For the price of the 25'. Uh, idiots. I've already been given the option of returning it for a full refund, or keep it for a $6 refund. Not sure which one I'll take. Probably should refund it fully and send them back the 8' one. Then avoid that seller like the plague (Amazon partner).

Anyway, managed to break some time away today and play around with it. I've still got the training wheels on it (this little guard thing that keeps me from crashing the needle), and needed something to practice on that I could throw away. So, cardboard box it is. Tilt your head to the left, and you can see the stick figure and teddy bear I drew while sitting in the driveway. Neighborhood kids were making requests and begging to try it themselves (oh HELL no!). Very surprised at just how thin a line I could make. Well, "line" in the very loosest sense of the word. Spline or random line noise would probably be more specific. But not bad for a first out having never touched one before.

I should be able to get back around to doing some regular stuff soon. Been wanting to write this and get it out in the open for a while, but my heart just wasn't in it for the last month, and I'd been too busy this week to do much else besides working and sleeping. Amazing how stressful the potential end of a career can be!

 

[Dragonsreach]

PegaZus; glad the layoff got cancelled, I guess someone 'upstairs' might have pulled the "Fairy Godmother" card on your behalf.

 

[10 ball]

Well it's the time of year for miracles
It's strange how you can send an email with good news and everything is good but if you sent an email
with bad news it's classed as heartless and cold .
Messages that involve people's lives (good or bad) should be said face to face or at least by phone.
God bless emails

 

[Meph]

Good to hear you got a lucky break, mate! Yeah, financial crises are not good for long-term innovative management... Must budgets are controlled by Excel-fetishists who like numbers, graph's, and percentile margins. So they cut, cut, cut, not fully realizing that they're trowing a lot of their knowledge base, and often not realizing that the remaining people can not operate efficiently for a long time at 'high performance'. Short term, sure, everybody can sprint a little bit, but not everyone can run a marathon at that speed, and that's when quality of service & - product starts to drop. It happens a lot everywhere, when you let numbers-managers on the loose without any decent people-managers to temper the first ones...

 

[PegaZus]

PegaZus; glad the layoff got cancelled, I guess someone 'upstairs' might have pulled the "Fairy Godmother" card on your behalf.

No kidding! My wife's fellow Buddhists are always agape at the karmic deflections that happen to me. They figure I must have suffered a previous life with enormous grace to have built up that much. I like extrapolating from a story she brought from Japan. The story goes that you shouldn't feel any pity or remorse at any animal found dead along a road, or else their spirit senses the feeling and attaches itself to you. I just figure I've got a spirit shield of hundreds of formerly furry creatures.

Well it's the time of year for miracles
It's strange how you can send an email with good news and everything is good but if you sent an email
with bad news it's classed as heartless and cold .
Messages that involve people's lives (good or bad) should be said face to face or at least by phone.
God bless emails

And it gets even more impersonal than that. They scheduled an appointment through the Outlook calendar for the final paperwork. I was notified that I was saved by having that appointment cancelled. No email really, just an email notification that the appointment had been cancelled. Corporate life is so weird. The only one who made it personal was my direct task boss (again, corporate life! I've got three boses: tasks, corporate central, and group), and he even worked over his vacation to find the spot.

Good to hear you got a lucky break, mate! Yeah, financial crises are not good for long-term innovative management... Must budgets are controlled by Excel-fetishists who like numbers, graph's, and percentile margins. So they cut, cut, cut, not fully realizing that they're trowing a lot of their knowledge base, and often not realizing that the remaining people can not operate efficiently for a long time at 'high performance'. Short term, sure, everybody can sprint a little bit, but not everyone can run a marathon at that speed, and that's when quality of service & - product starts to drop. It happens a lot everywhere, when you let numbers-managers on the loose without any decent people-managers to temper the first ones...

What's sad is that they even made a formal written risk analysis of exactly what's going on, and so they've known that this was going to start happening. The form even has a mitigation plan. It was blank. Sheesh! I used to work in a different division, and they'd protect for dips by holding money back earmarked for internal research projects. They hadn't had a formal layoff in 30 years, until this last year when so many long term projects finally finished. My new division? "What's IRAD?" I was warned before I came here about their tendency to hire-n-fire. Squeaked by so far. Now it's going to be an adventure to see how many times I can walk the tightrope successfully.

Anyway, thanks for the well wishes. On to minis! Oh, wait. Sort of. Daughter needs to make a diorama for her mammal report on black bears. Really pushing a bit to do a bear with Sculpty. She's more excited about flocking some trees and bushes.

 

[cfwheeler58]

Glad to hear the broadaxe missed you.
Now back to work at having some fun.

You have 2 beautiful children, btw.
To enjoy ones hobby with one's children is one of life's true graces.

 

[PegaZus]

Worked a bit this evening on some things that had been a road block for me. Finished up the last large bush, which isn't in the pictures below as its drying. I'm going to have to try something on the foliage. It's just too uniform. I'm thinking of giving it some dusting of yellow flock, or if it is different enough, another green that I've got. Something. It needs to be broken up quite a bit. But, all the pieces are nearly complete. I'll be masking off the three locations onto the wooden display base so I can start working hard on it.

*snicker* Yeah, me work hard. Sure.

Then, I've got the three players all based now. I still need to paint more on the fighter, but figure I should base it while I'm basing everything else. Shown below is what they'll eventually look like all together in the display base.

+1, so now at 31 pts. So slow. So slow.

 

[PegaZus]

I still didn't manage to purchase a 25' air hose like I'd wished. Found a couple that I thought *might* work, but decided to not buy online. Found a 10' hose at Hobby Lobby, with a 40% off coupon dropped it down to what I'd be paying online anyway, so just made the purchase. Didn't return the 6' hose that I got sent instead of the 25' (never going to buy from them again!), and so just got a refund of the difference. Trip to the local Home Depot, and I'll now have a 16' 2" hose. Eh, close enough. The two inches is from the brass nipple I bought to union the two hoses together.

But! That's not tonight's update. First one is that you might have noticed the previous posts have been edited, but more than likely you haven't. Which is good. Realized I'd left the photos from the two previous updates sitting in just a general album on Photobucket, which is NOT where I wanted them. Moving them breaks the links, so I had to do that.

Now to the good stuff. I solved the issues of the monotone flocked bushes! Notice how monotone the below bush looks:

Dull, dull, dull! I'd thought about trying to add some other colors of flock to it, but really didn't think that'd work out. And searching the Repository of All Knowledge didn't seem to bring up any useful website or technique that was at all relevant to what I was trying to do. And then it hit me! Dry brush the damn thing!

Okay, kinda sorta. I tried dry brushing it, but it didn't work. Wet brushing it and smashing the El Cheapo Brusho into the foam did! Below is the results of putting some thinned Apple Barrel Nutmeg Brown (20521; no sense using something nicer) Magic Wash (water and Future) on the foam:

The first picture's bush is on the left, and on the right is an unpainted one. But that's really too much brown, although as it dries, it does shrink back and isn't as splotchy. But I was under a imposed deadline of shopping-to-do, so didn't let it dry before taking the picture. But it still was too much brown. So time to highlight it up some, this time with Reaper Pro Emerald (18010), thinned with water and Future again. And the final result is below!

The four bushes now look a lot better to me, and aren't so monotone. I'm sure the monotone works when they're supposed to be smaller scales, such as HO trains and such, but it was too much for my purposes. Very happy with them now, so just need to solve the base issue. I'm wanting to sculpt some slight terrain into the diorama's base, but still leave the figures as removable from that on their own bases. I was going to use some Milliput, but realized it was going to be an awful mess. I'd use plaster of paris, but I've tried that before with mixed results. Don't really want to gloss coat it to seal it first, me being the lazy SOB type. So I may try some air-dry clay I've got.

Wait. Do I have it? Aha! There it is. Some Crayola stuff. Sure, it'll be a little craggy, and probably crack in spots, but figure I can get it to work. Reason I bought it in the first place. Also found some cork tiles I'd bought a while ago. Might do the little cork wall saw in an article here a bit back. Might make something nice for the werewolf to be up against. Eh, maybe not. Too concealing. Figure I've got a week before I get more time... oh damn. No, going on a trip. Guess I've got two weeks to think about what I'm going to finally wind up doing.

Gotta love these glacial WIPs, right?

+1, 32 pts.

 

[PegaZus]

Had a good idea. While out waiting for the garden to water (first hosing of the year; gonna take time), I'll work on the base. Pulled out the Crayola air-dry clay, the base board, Crocs and the hose and off I went. It's been drying for little more than four hours, and already cracking. And I already expected that, so I'm not disappointed. Figure I'll just squish some more into the cracks once it's good and dry.

And the garden was good for other things too. Had water readily available for the fingers, and hey, that rock right there would be good for some texture. It's an odd day that I get something done during the work week, but there it is:

I've avoided the three areas where the three minis will be placed. Far left is the Wolfen, fighter in the middle, and wolfy on the right.

Guess I could have taken a shot from an angle, in order to show the unevenness of the "land". Eh.

+1, 33 pts.

 

[PegaZus]

No pictures today, but the drying has not been kind to my base. Cracked so badly that pieces came off. Large chunks, fortunately, so I think I can glue most of it back together then fill in the cracks. Should be fine.

Right?

Right?

Also, dodged a bullet today on eBay. I know I shouldn't, but I've got a daily search set up for Tau Gothic Fleet spaceships. I loves me some spaceships. I'd been high bidder for four days, then finally got let off the hook this afternoon. By a single cent. And that had my bidding fingers twitchy again. Luck would have it that work got me busy, and the auction did finally climb higher. But that temptation is super strong, and I'm lacking the points to justify a purchase.

Bad painter! Bad bad! Too many other things to paint!

 

[PegaZus]

Left things be over the weekend to fully dry (okay, took a family trip), and got back to the base tonight. Originally, I'd superglued the three big pieces that broke off. As I was checking the repair work, I tilted it to one side to look at it from an angle and the other half of it slid off. Jigsaw puzzle time! I make it sound like a disaster, but it was only four or five large chunks, with about the same small chunks. And it all slid off together and landed in order. Rather than super glue this time, as that had everything raised up and was the reason I had it at an angle, I just used regular white glue (PVA). Repair work on the cracks is drying now, and only the larger repairs show much initial cracking. Suppose I'll see more in the morning, but this was an easy fix.

Not exactly sure that I'll ever use this stuff again. Oh, who am I kidding. I'll forget. Hopefully I can at least remember to maybe work with smaller sections and let it fully dry between applications. That would probably do quite a bit towards not having the issues.

Picture time!

+1, 34 pts

And because her older brother was being mean (not showing her his "top secret" paper that he was sharing with a friend), daughter followed me down. Luckily, I was able to have her "help" me by sacrificing some clay and letting her sculpt. He, of course, came down in the middle of all this, and after a large round of sibling favor trading, was allowed to do one too. Front, lower right is his dragon, while center is her panda and left of that is Puppy Cow (google it, video associated slightly NSFW, but the google page is cake).

So I'll let the base dry for a day or two, then check it again. Then I've got the task of painting it, and I really have been too busy with other things to even ponder what I'll try to do there.

 

[Meph]

There's some talent developing there, mate. Nurse them well, and your pension is safe!

 

[PegaZus]

There's some talent developing there, mate. Nurse them well, and your pension is safe!

No pension is ever safe! But they were very excited to hear that. Course, the poor clay figures didn't stay together very well. I've got all the pieces, but they'll need some gluing. Nothing they can't handle, though.

On to the update! It's not a large one, but the base is ready to be primed. I've repaired all the cracks, and trimmed out the holes where the figures will sit. Gave it a really good coat of clear gloss as a sealer, so the primer should go on fairly well. Had an epiphany tonight, too. I'm planning to paint the ground, and realized... I can use the airbrush! Won't be much, just a couple shades of brown, and maybe some green, but I can get the base colors down that way. It'll probably be much faster and look better than brushing it on too. Still have to place the large bushes, and before that put down a good layer of flock in spots, but it is coming together.

Guess I should also finish painting the fighter, too, huh? He's got some detailing work that needs to be done.

I'd hoped to do all of this tomorrow, as I've got the day off, but turns out its the kids' field day at school. She's in the morning, and he's in the afternoon, so I might be there all day. Had really hoped to go run some errands, and make it over to a hobby store to buy minis. Yes, yes, I don't have the points yet. But these won't be minis for me, so they don't count! (Why? Because I say so!) Both kids have really gotten into a dragon game on the phones, so figure if I can find a small dragon figure for both of them, they'd enjoy it. They twisted my arm, too.

Pics:

+1 pts, 35 pts total.

 

[PegaZus]

I'm a bad, bad, WIPer. You're suppose to decrease the number of miniatures to paint. And sadly, a leisurely trip to the hobby store might as well be a trip down to the local dealer on the corner.

Today's purchases:

Box of five Star Trek ships.

And next are four dragons. Two for the kids (Young Fire Dragon and Young Swamp Dragon), one for the wife (Oriental Dragon), and one for me (Brood Dragon). I couldn't stand leaving that there at 1/3rd off for someone else to buy my dragon. *sigh* And even worse, we got home and discovered that the fire dragon is missing its head! But, I've got an email fired off to Reaper, and I've got faith that a new head will be headed our way shortly.

Little frustrating to increase in number when I'm trying to drop how much I've got to paint. But just had to have my fix today. And as long as I'm in a confessional mood, I acquired another boxed Tau set plus some extra Tau ships over Christmas. Bought it off of a friend in order to help them during a little crisis, but I'd tucked it away and pretended that it didn't happen. I'll update the first entry to be accurate. And as an aside to that, I came >< that close to buying Monkey with a Flamethrower after seeing it on the pegs. And I think I've already got it. I called it Monkey with a Gun, but I wouldn't be surprised I've got it already. Getting bad when I come close to unknowingly buying a duplicate.

However, in between shopping, elementary school day, wrapping gifts and other hectic dad-of-today type things, I did get the primer put onto the base. As Derrick's got a sleep-over birthday party he's going to tonight, it may just be me and Rianne, which means I'll probably be able to paint a bit tonight. Thinking I'll be doing the fighter and save the base for tomorrow.

Picture for the base primed:

+1 pts, 36 pts (although, shouldn't I put that into negative territory? ... nah. When I get my points, I get to buy a mini GUILT-FREE; yeah, that's the ticket).

 

[PegaZus]

Productivity is so much fun! Maybe I feel guilty about buying so much yesterday.

First off, I'd got the base primer coated and sealed it with clear gloss. Took it outside to the air brush to officially use it for the first time. Figure doing a forest like base would be absolutely hard to screw up with the air brush and would be great practice just getting the feel of how it works. So mixed up some old Liquitex paint (Raw Umber and Light Green, Permanent) to get a really nice brown-green. Sprayed it on, and it was a lot greener than I'd anticipated. I was actually worried it was going to be too dark. White primer is probably the culprit. However, disaster struck!

The paint puddled. Well, not puddle, but sort of tortoise shell. This had happened once before, to the "swamp monsters" I made from scratch when I was first starting out. They're in my gallery if you want to see what I'm talking about. And while nice for a swamp like feel, I'm going for forest. But, since this happened to both those swamp monsters and this base, I'm pretty confident pointing the finger at putting water based acrylic paint over enamel based clear gloss. So, should any of you want to make a swamp base, there's a good recipe.

But, got to KCCO, so I let it dry and then went over it again with just straight pure Raw Umber. I'm happy with the base. Not a great picture, but good enough for WIPs.

It's got a real nice natural look to it, in my opinion. Just gave it another good coat of gloss and will follow up with matte in the morning, then I'm going to be flocking parts of it, and placing some small foamy bushes and the large bushes I made. But this is a great big step towards wrapping this whole thing up. It's been too long as "in work", and I'll be happy to see it sitting in the display. Hmm. I should take a picture of the display case some day.

My saga with the Amazon air hose continues, too. I'd bought a 25' air hose and received an 8' one instead. Rather than get my money back, and ship it back thus losing that money, I just got a partial refund. I've hooked up that hose and a 10' hose... although I may be off on both lengths... with a simple brass nipple. And it works fine. Except that Amazon air hose is now leaking horribly! One of the fittings on the end is blowing air hard if it isn't perfectly straight and pulled taught. Even then it blows quite a bit. Rotten junk. However, I can sit around the corner from the garage and don't get startled by the compressor going on, so right now I'm okay with it even if it means the compressor runs more often than it should. I don't run it enough as it is, so it probably doesn't hurt it.

Now, in between this, I decided to sit down and help Derrick pick out colors for the other thing I bought yesterday but didn't mention because it was a car model. I suppose that counts as a mini, and I did put some into the list of what I need to complete, but that's not the story. The model is for a 1953 Hudson Hornet (*cough* Cars nut *cough*) from Moebius, and the instructions are very nice. They've got all the colors listed that it was produced in, along with the two tone colors available to it then. Spent about an hour going through each color and showing him what it would probably look like using the whole transparent image with color layers in the background trick. So he'd picked the colors and was happy. So here's where it gets to the point.

My color matching website is gone! It was Color Match, and hosted on a website called silicon-dragons or something. The website exists, but it's one of those link collector websites now. NOOOOO!!! I've used that website so much, and now it is gone! I've got an inkling of what I need to do to replicate the data, but I'm not that excited to sit down and do the work. For him, I'm sure I can go to an automotive store and just buy the paint straight from the automotive codes, but now I'm hosed on trying to match colors for my minis! It came in so hand for the two Soda Pop contest entries I've done, what with trying to match candy wrappers and cola logos. I'm devastated.

But on with the show! Put the kids to bed early tonight, for a weekend at least, and sat down ready to paint the last bits of the fighter. Got the claws, his hair and beard, and the little broach completed. I also realized I'd managed to skip over his back skin completely! Luckily, that's all in shadow and looked good with the single color. Not sure what I was thinking there.

So while painting that, I realized I'd zoned on something else. The bases of the figures! I didn't save any of the paint I had mixed up for the base! Only thing to do then is to duplicate it. And the result is that all three figures for this diorama are painted!

And as I took this picture, I realized I'm probably a day away from completing this! I've got to gloss coat and matte coat these figures, but that's fairly routine. Some flock and bush stuff... and it's done. I'll have to take really nice gallery pictures of it, hopefully tomorrow night! I'm stoked! Nothing like getting something done to make me want to paint more. I'm actually stumped as to what I should work on next. Might do something simple. I'm thinking of the Disney characters. Too late for Mother's Day gifts, but the kids already did that for her, and her birthday isn't until December. I'll have to think.

But the good thing tonight is that there are THREE figures updated! Woo hoo!

+3 pts, 39 pts total.

EDIT: Forgot to jot down the colors. The broach's center jewel-thingy was Carnage Red (9135) and the claws and hair were 2/3 Stormy Grey (9088) and 1/3 Pure Black (9037). In the process of doing this edit, I remembered I was also going to write about Reaper changing their paints. At least, that's the way it looked to my yesterday visiting their website. Turns out, it's just they changed the labels. So the numbers are still good for now. But, verifying that right now I found out that Reaper sells little robot and spaceship minis. I'm so boned if I ever buy online from them. I'm such a sucker for stuff like that.

 

[PegaZus]

Okay, first, go to this CMON thread about a little trick that Zaphod Beeblebrox learned: Contrast - Black & White

So, just for fun, let's dump a couple of my pictures into photobucket, then hit the Old>Henry effect and see the results.

Overall, not entirely bad. Spots of dark here and there, but looking at this, I probably could have made the weapon handles and leather straps a lot darker than what they are. Most of him is skin tone, leathers, and fur, so those would be where I could see to add some of the overall contrast he talked about.

Let's try the Wolfen.

I was very happy to see that I did add a lot more contrast to him. Light gray and medium gray. Not a lot of dark, but as he is the hero of the diorama, I'm satisfied that it is fitting.

One last one just for fun. Kit and Kat (I was able to get the flickr picture quick, so good enough).

Other than the cringe-worthy face (I was shocked seeing the picture again after a while), I'm happy with the contrasts.

So, interesting little technique, and something to play with. Cheers!

Oh, I suppose I might as well update things. I've painted the two clears on the figures, and just waiting for things to dry. Now I've got to go make bacon and eggs for breakfast, but hope to get to things later today. Remembered that I'll probably go to Home Depot to buy some tomato cages, for tomato plants and a display for the wife's hair bows. Craft show season is coming up, and she's wanting something better than what she's got now.

Hmm... crafty family. *shrug*

 

[PegaZus]

And the Wolfen is finished! Woot Woot Woot!

And here's the gallery link, awaiting approval: Wolfen Saves A Wolf From The Big Bad Hunter

So endeth another chapter, and a new one begins! Just have to find where those pages were.

Oh, and if you can't be bothered with the gallery link just yet, here's a tease. Top pic of the ... gah. Midnight brain lock. The top pic from the lots-of-pics-put-together.

Collage! I need to go to bed. *sigh*

EDIT: Oh, and forgot to put the points up, plus took a picture of the display cabinet. It's from IKEA. Little crowded right now as I brought home all the little toy airplanes and BSG that I had at work when I thought I'd be losing my job. Haven't taken them back because I'm camping in someone else's cube for the foreseeable future so no room.

Gallery pic posted, +10 pts, 49 pts total.

 

[PegaZus]

When I wasn't trying to nod off from lack of sleep last night and the scant four hours of sleep I got, I have given some thought over the day of what I shall do next. Thought I'd try something a little light hearted (wait, spell check doesn't like "hearted"? lighthearted ... aha! One word!)... a little lighthearted, so I'm going to paint Monkey with a Flame Thrower. Thought it was a monkey with just a gun, but I turned him over. Yup. Tanks. Flamethrower.

And just had the weirdest thought, which probably means either I'm asleep and writing this, or it could be a really cool idea. What to put on his base? Lessee.... monkey... flame thrower... monkey... banana! How about some bananas on a stick, a little singed and maybe one aflame. Maybe a little pile of flaming poo behind him. Hmm.... the thoughts coalesce... and I'm sure I mispelled coalesce but looks like I didn't. Gah! Four minutes to go before my wife makes me go to bed. Type faster, you eejiot!

Anyway, while I was rifling through the drawer looking at things to paint, a thought occurred to me. HOW MANY FRIGGIN' MINIS WITH FUR DID I BUY?!? I mean, come on! It's practically everything! The three minis from before all had fur, and now I picked a friggin' MONKEY? FUR FUR FUR!

Which reminds me. I'll have to grab Kathy to point to some tutes on horses. Found the pegasus mini, and she'll be able to point me in the right direction on that. NOT NOW! NO FUR, hair, or scales. And that's a scant few of my minis.

So, Jeeves, Clockwork Robot will be in the mix on this round as well. No idea what to do for him. Maybe a flaming oil can and a flaming pile of robot poo behind him. Yeah, time for bed. But, I think he'd be great for trying out some of those powders I'd bought.

Oh, and one thing did cross my minds to paint to practice some blending (which I think I need) was a couple of flats we picked up a long time ago. A doll house store maybe? Anyway, thought about that for a bit, then discarded it.

Fur. Lion and a bear. No fur. No fur. No fair. Wait. What?

Yeah, bed.

 

[Meph]

lol! Insomniaaaaaaaa nana nana nana nana nana nananaaaaaaaa *twisting hand in the air*
Go for banana's, that sounds cool. And buys some Space Marines in case you want to get rid of your fur-itis.

And wait, whut? You had all those mini's sitting around your desk at work? Noice!