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Other Stuff => Workbench => Topic started by: tin shed gamer on May 26, 2015, 09:59:19 PM
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As projects form my own collection move at a snails pace,I thought I'd post a few just to motivate me a little more.
Mark.
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My take on a 'Green knight' to go with my Norman's.
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An old school way to do visors.
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And a couple of Dwarf banners.
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High Elf hero's
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Nice painting - great to see some of these ols models with a slick lick of paint.
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My neck hurts. :-* :-*
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Sorry about the pictures just been informed it's a quirk of the forum when you post pictures directly,rather than use photo bucket .Which is odd as it only seems to effect pictures from my iPad and not my android tablet and phone.But it clearly shows What I don't know,better ask my children lol.
These are projects where I try and limit time or colours .or try out different painting styles and methods.
Most of my personal collection is older figures as I have little love current sculpting .Only because it's what I see all day long,and feel a older figures can be quite a refreshing change,when it's bits for my own collection.
Mark.
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Nice paintwork!
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PS Looking over them again (third time now), the scorch marks on the missle launcher and the Dwarf banners are particularly nice.
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Those dwarf Banners are good, aren't they?
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Mark the photo thing does seem to be an Apple/LAF quirk. Basically, if you change an image in Photos it still saves the original data in the same image file (which is how the Photos edit function gives you a revert option). For some reason the forum software seems to read the revert data rather than the edited data. You can get round this by saving your image via a photo app such as TouchupLite, which will save a new image file that when you post it to LAF will look exactly how you edited it.
Ps: in TouchupLite it's no bother to save the image at 800px wide which will give you a dramatically smaller file data size.
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Thank you,I'll try that app.( See if my Iron Age skills can transfer to silicon wizardry )
aren't they ?'What 'Matt? lol some times I've absolutely know idea what people mean.So these days I just ask.
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I just upload my stuff to imgur. Embeds tend to look a little nicer than attachments anyway.
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Just to see how the app works,and it works well enough for my needs.thank you again for the tip.
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Right I've fixed the photos so everyone's necks are safe lol,and for the hell of it I've added a few more now I've had a play on the app. Mark.
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I love your muted tones!
Nice work.
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Sorry about the pictures just been informed it's a quirk of the forum when you post pictures directly,rather than use photo bucket .Which is odd as it only seems to effect pictures from my iPad and not my android tablet and phone.But it clearly shows What I don't know,better ask my children lol.
These are projects where I try and limit time or colours .or try out different painting styles and methods.
Most of my personal collection is older figures as I have little love current sculpting .Only because it's what I see all day long,and feel a older figures can be quite a refreshing change,when it's bits for my own collection.
Mark.
I'm really quite fond of the older figure, I like the sculpting style. True some are almost unrecognizable but there are a lot of very nice classic mini's to be found. I really like your treatment of them some great painting there.
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That expedition fellow at the top, he one of yours as well?
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Thanks ,Matt lol
Although it's very similar to my style it isn't by me.This is a very rare citadel/GW figure designed for (if I remember rightly) a TSR.in 1986.
Mark.
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It was from the Citadel Gothic Horror range...still full of some classics that stand up today.
http://www.collecting-citadel-miniatures.com/wiki/index.php/Gothic_Horror (http://www.collecting-citadel-miniatures.com/wiki/index.php/Gothic_Horror)
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Well I was half right lol it's scarey how many of those I've got floating around the van.whats worse I can remember buying the explorer and putting the other one back because I didn't like the head and buying the paranoia figures instead.
(It was nearly thirty years ago.) Mark.
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:D so much lead, so little time..............
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You said it and with a show and a bar on Sunday ,there's likely to be more lol
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Thought I was going to make it but got my weekends mixed up and am on night shift. Have fun :'(
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Well the explorer has many comparable figures... the two hobos from that range are sublime though. Damn!
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Rather than answer the pm's.No I can't tell you where you can get the dwarf banners.They are hand Drawn I Do Not Over Paint Transfers/ Or Pre bought Banners!
Here are three different methods for Banners none of which should take more than an Hour.
Mark.
Same your working this weekend.Im hoping for a good show.I'll be dropping of the new drop Shute and canisters / wicker drop hampers.
Fram, there are few similar figures I'm still looking for the Charlie Chan,for one.
Mark.
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Here's a few of the ships hanging around my workshop that people have noticed in the background of other topics and asked to see.
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Plus my basic pulp trawler/coastal puffer.
And my ever increasing pulp Air Fleet.
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I've managed to work myself into a corner,so I spent a couple of hours this afternoon rooting through my bit box and painted these old Partizan freebies while my work dried.
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A little better images of them based up.
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Those Partizan freebies are wonderful. Great paint jobs. I have been collecting them since the early days. Some excellent sculpts in there - my fave being the damsel in distress as per the old classic B&W movies.
(http://www.miniatures-workshop.com/lostminiswiki/images/2/27/NIP20.jpg)
Rest are here (http://www.miniatures-workshop.com/lostminiswiki/index.php?title=Partizan) for anyone interested...
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I must say that particular set is MIA,in my workshop lol,
This is what it's like on good day(and ferret free lol)
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Here's a few simple builds in cereal packet card,Darrell.
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I've recently finished a 'WIP' on pulping a Walrus seaplane,Which ended up introducing me to the Crimson Pig animated planes,which in turn led to a cereal packet card concept,and once painted led me on to staring the next project. Simply because I'd used a lot of red paint and the idea had been floating around in the dark recesses of my muddled mind for some time, a Fire engine loosely based on a couple of real engines to flesh out the airport scenery I'm slowly working on for a pulp game and VBCW games.
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Wow. Amazing work :-*
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Glad you like it,
These pictures aren't the best as I'm using my phone.
This is taking a little longer than I'd normally like to take as I'm only making this while I'm watching tv on an evening(working on your knee isn't quick.)
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Talented work.
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Thank you Karstien,
Just realised that I've not shortened the ladder mounts in picture(done now) I'm in the process of painting it before add the ladder still not set on which type of ladder though with wheels would fun but not sure if it'd be to much clutter on the smaller engine ,not that I'm after an authentic model rather a stylised Everyman ,so it may not matter,
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Great stuff all round 8) 8)
Porco Rosso is tempting for a gaming background (happens to be one of my favorite Ghibli animations as well) :)
cheers
James
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James It's hard to imagine you being influenced by anything from that particular part of the globe lol
I'll have to take your word for it as my copy still hasn't arrived.
Here's a couple of pictures of the thing with paint on,It's not symmetrical but that's the joy of working off you knee and working free hand.
Mark.
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Fantastic.
Tony
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Turned out grand 8)
James It's hard to imagine you being influenced by anything from that particular part of the globe lol
No, honestly ;D
cheers
James
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No I simply can't believe it next you'll be telling me you've got a Japanese range ,and are busy building a piece of Tokyo to game on :D
Joking aside thanks for the comments chaps I've still no idea which ladder would work best.If I'd time I'd mock up both then figure it out. The wheeled would be fun to build but would it be too much ??? I might just put the thing on hold and come back to once I've finished the train WiP.
Mark
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Awesome. Keep the ladder simple I think.
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I'd already knocked up a rough wheeled ladder,before reading your post but I think your right.Also I think I've made the front ladder rest a little to high.
Mark.
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WOW! The stuff you can do with card! :o
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lol There's no model making voodoo .But thank you anyway,card is very fast and once you know what it'll do when you use the evil glue,and more importantly what it won't . Then it's just about shapes,(ciicles will alway be a killer as were wired to see a perfect circle so any deviation is instantly noticeable ) the key is new blades ,ALWAYS use new blades the second you use an older blade (guilty of not tacking mine own advice ) you get dragging and a torn rough edge.
I took a break from the paid work and found a solution that means I can mark this as CBa'd and it still be of some future use.Also I've painted that much red lately that I've used a 3/4 of a bottle of Miniature Paints Bright Red,and a full bottle of Game colour red ink.
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Aces.
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Very good 8)
cheers
James
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The fire truck looks ace Mark! 8) 8)
Come on. Surely the bells aren't made of card too...
Cheers
Matt
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The whole thing is card,the only thing that isn't card is the two lengths of florists wire I used and I only used them because I'd left them out from the Walrus and I was rapidly approaching A state of CBA otherwise the entire build would have been card.
(The bell is nothing more than the light with a wider rim and a cube on top with a thin piece of card pretending to hold it up.)
A'nt voodoo just posh recycling lol