tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57317562920709711562024-03-10T03:46:42.807+01:00Lascannons&LancesBlog dedicated to modelling and miniature painting, Warhammer and 40K, plus historical miniatures at timesveghisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10132210753726774145noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731756292070971156.post-20190712334589110982011-11-20T17:27:00.001+01:002011-11-20T18:52:46.187+01:00Make your own static grass tufts! A step-by-step tutorial<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Now this is something that can potentially cost the manufacturers, and you will probably like it.</div>
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Personally, I love tufts. I really do, but I always felt robbed buying them.</div>
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That's why I make my own, and this is what they look like</div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Step 0 - things you need</span></b></div>
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<li>Static grass applicator - unfortunately it is a must. You can buy one on a riduiculous price from Noch or the wise modeller makes his own. There are plenty of sources on the internet in English, google it. I used a Hungarian description, <a href="http://makettinfo.hu/index.php?jobb=Eszkoz-statikus-fu-szorasahoz&&q=statikus%20f%C5%B1&hash=" target="_blank">this one</a>. All the necessary parts cost less than GBP 10 combined and the machine takes about two hours to assemble. </li>
<li>White glue</li>
<li>A punctured piece of 1 mm plasticard</li>
<li>Static grass - in this case Noch's wildgrass - mittelgrün</li>
<li>A piece of sheet copper, brass, aluminium etc. shaped like on the picture</li>
<li>A piece of plastic foil, sturdier than a plastic bag or foil wrap</li>
<li>I forgot to include a few clips on the picture</li>
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In this case less is never more. You can always recycle the excess.<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Step 2 - Prepare the appliance</span></b><br />
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Stack the plastic foil on top of the copper sheet and then put the punctured piece of plasticard on top. Clip the sheets together. Attach the alligator clip of the static grass applicator to the little ear on the sheet of copper. Turn the applicator on.<br />
A little explanation: in all other static grass tutorials it is said that you should push a needle in and attach the alligator clip to it. Wrong! It is clumsy and not very efficient. I have found that the electrostatic field is much more even, but not less effective this way. The punctured piece of plasticard helps to treat those pieces of grasss that would inevitably lay down otherwise. <br />
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I use it undiluted. I like my tufts a little irregular, but you can make them perfect circles if you like.<br />
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Apply it by gently by tapping and shaking the reservoir from a height of around 1-2 centimeters. I held the applicator a bit higher so that I could take the photo.</div>
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A bit more is applied...<br />
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And it is complete. Turn off the static grass applicator and remove the alligator clip. Carefully turn around the sheets and with a little tapping remove the excess static grass This is how it looks:<br />
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Let it set a few minutes (but not too long).<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Step 5 - Final stages</span></b><br />
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Carefully remove the clips, and the piece of plasticard. By lifting the plasticard you raise those pieces of grass that may be laying.<br />
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Now place the tufts someplace warm to set completely. Then behold your creation:<br />
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Looks professional, huh?<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Some tips:</span></b><br />
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<li>You can experiment with different lenghts of grass, and different colours. I have very nice tufts made of beige and green leaves</li>
<li>Spray or airbrush the tufts with matte varnish. While the tufts are sturdy, varnish makes them hard and quite durable. </li>
<li>Varnished tufts can be drybrushed with Bleached Bone, Iraqui Sand or any suitable colour to imitate dryness in the leaf ends for even more realism.</li>
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Ask questions, and share your experiences with tufts!<br />
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<b>For those of you who are too lazy or motivated, tufts of your choice are available for sale: you get 100 tufts for GBP 5, USD 8 or EUR 6 +PP.</b><br />
<span id="goog_1600785241"></span><span id="goog_1600785242"></span>veghisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10132210753726774145noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731756292070971156.post-53583209864856440652011-11-13T00:44:00.001+01:002011-11-13T01:52:34.998+01:00Myth Busted - Citadel colour mixing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For months now colour mixing charts are circulating on the web about a great chunk of the current Citadel range being possible to be replicated by simply mixing Skull White, Chaos Black, Blood Red, Enchanted Blue and Sunburst Yellow in the right proportions.<br />
The story surfaced first at <a href="http://nesbetminiatures.blogspot.com/2011/04/tutorial-getting-citadel-colours.html#comments" target="_blank">Nesbet Miniatures Blog</a> and months later on the excellent <a href="http://exodites.blogspot.com/2011/10/citadel-color-range-mixing.html" target="_blank">Path of the Outcast Blog</a> that I'm following. After sharing my concerns; Cannonfodder, the blog owner started a <a href="http://exodites.blogspot.com/2011/10/citadel-color-mixing-hoax.html" target="_blank">poll,</a> asking the public what they think. 54% voted that they didn't try it but they thought it would work.<br />
Actually it doesn't.<br />
When I first read the original post at Nesbet's blog I shared the enthusiasm with all the rest, but after a little while things started to distub me a little.<br />
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<b>A little on colours</b><br />
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For three years or so I was an active (and now honorary) member of <a href="http://www.europabarbarorum.com/" target="_blank">Europa Barbarorum</a> a project that some of you may know. It is a hardcore total realism mod for Rome (and later Medieval) Total War. Apart from skinning a few dozens of units in the mod, I was making some research into dyes and pigments, and how they work. (It was important to know what colours could be produced in the timeframe, and what was cheap or expensive.)<br />
A colour has three major attributes: hue, saturation and lightness. It is possible to produce any colour by mixing rays of light in different colour, basically any hue can be recreated this way. What works with light doesn't work with pigments though. Pigments are of different opacity and will not produce all the hues you want. Of course I mean the pigments we modellers use; the cyan-magenta-yellow system for offset printing is an entirely different matter, and even there colours are not mixed, only dots (I know it is a bit more complex then this).<br />
The other important thing is saturation. It is the measure how vivid the colour is. Pastel colours have more gray in them so they are of lower saturation.<br />
The third thing to be taken into consideration is that pigments have personality... some hues you just cannot produce by mixing them. The best example is purple. In the antiquity a few grams of purple dye could feed a family for decades. Don't you think it was easier to mix or overdye madder and woad or indigo? It just did not work. Only purple dye did the job.<br />
The charts don't, or very little address these points and this is the reason why they fail miserably.<br />
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<b>The proof</b><br />
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No research is complete without experiment though, and it was relative easy - as all my readers know - <a href="http://lascannonslances.blogspot.com/2010/01/of-citadel-paint-pots-get-rid-of-them.html" target="_blank">I keep my citadel paints in dropper bottles</a>. This time apart from cropping I did not use any Photoshop goodies and let the image much bigger then usual.<br />
The results speak for themselves:<br />
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As ever, I don't pretend to have a monopoly for the truth, so if you thik that the colours are good enough proxies, or I did something wrong and you had different results, please do not hesitate to comment!<br />
But from my part: Mith Busted.veghisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10132210753726774145noreply@blogger.com39tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731756292070971156.post-29338332540956061682011-11-06T23:17:00.000+01:002011-11-06T23:17:49.907+01:00Dreadnought canopy in 1:16 scaleHi, this is a project I've been working on for a while now. basically I took an unused dreadnought box and replicated the little guy with all dimensions 3 times as big. I used mostly plasticard and spare pats from my scratchbuild boxes (friends and family are always on the watch for interesting pieces of plastic). No GW parts this time.<br />
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The scale is approximately 1:16; if we believe that 40K is roughly 1:48.<br />
Anyway here is a wood elf wardancer for size comparison. Perhaps a marine would serve better, but this was the first mini that came my way.<br />
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The kit also contains a few resin parts where I felt that it was needed for uniformity's sake.<br />
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I'm quite proud of the back part<br />
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Right now the project is stopped because I have to finish a few minis for a local mini exchange raffle and my local Golden Gobbo entry.<br />
After these I will continue with the legs.<br />
At this moment I havent decided on the armament or even the chapter the dred belongs. I don't even know what I'll do with it once it is finished... I'm not the type to put things I do on doisplay back home... Many of my friends still consider me a sane person, and I like to preserve this... :-) I may not even keep it.<br />
Stay tuned!veghisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10132210753726774145noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731756292070971156.post-40972347424434204932011-10-20T01:45:00.000+02:002011-10-20T01:45:35.679+02:00Back again - with a teaserReal life has been a bitch for some time but things seem to settle now, perhaps not the optimal way but at least with much more free time.<br />
Nothing is more pathetic then apologize for your absence on your OWN blog, isn't it?<br />
Anyway, I started a new project that pretty much grown on me. A lot of work, but hopefully a most rewarding result. Can you guess what this WIP part belong to?<br />
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More pictures and an in depth progress report is coming down the road later this week.veghisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10132210753726774145noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731756292070971156.post-28901158968477328912011-07-03T21:00:00.001+02:002011-07-03T21:10:52.083+02:00Castor and Pollux now on e-bay!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR4rfsANr2jjKy63EaLwtrN-qEA7qPEMB3zCdvIwQXu_if9xjLdUhqxSFmyrSDdjcthol4E5zC1z_HFoC1XPWtBkdy0AslTWlQWrOD4lsA01Mjd-CZXLkrfkfsMmpVfwlCIuHidyWEzHU/s1600/2up.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR4rfsANr2jjKy63EaLwtrN-qEA7qPEMB3zCdvIwQXu_if9xjLdUhqxSFmyrSDdjcthol4E5zC1z_HFoC1XPWtBkdy0AslTWlQWrOD4lsA01Mjd-CZXLkrfkfsMmpVfwlCIuHidyWEzHU/s320/2up.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><b><br />
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I painted some of His Majesty's riflemen (from the 95th). Actually I wanted to paint them KGL, but I found out that they had a pommel on the shako and not a plume, but since the figures were already primered I went on with the bit more minstream (boring) choice.<br />
The Perry plastic minis were much fun to paint. I also produced my first ever tree for this little diorama.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This was a fun project, I learned a lot from it. Of course there are plenty of things I'd do differently but overall I'm happy with the way it came out. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Please comment if you have something to share, feedback is always welcome.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://lascannonslances.blogspot.com/2011/01/castor-update.html">Castor & Pollux update</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://lascannonslances.blogspot.com/2011/01/castor-and-pollux-basecoated-sort-of.html">Castor and Pollux basecoated (sort of)</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://lascannonslances.blogspot.com/2011/01/diaskuri-update-ii.html">Diaskuri update II.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://lascannonslances.blogspot.com/2011/02/castor-after-painting-before-weathering.html">Castor&Pollux after painting before weathering</a></div>veghisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10132210753726774145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731756292070971156.post-14741942846263973352011-02-12T23:31:00.001+01:002011-02-13T22:55:22.417+01:00Castor&Pollux after painting, before weatheringI finished painting the details of the predators just an hour ago. I quite like them. I tried some new techniques during painting, enough material for a few quick tutorials. Unfortunately I couldn't use a lightbox for these pictures, which is a shame, for there are some subtle highlights that can not really be seen due to the hard light.<br />
Now the final stage commences, weathering.<br />
I plan to use relatively few scratches and battering on the machines, and no heavy weathering. I preserve these for IG vehicles, marines for me are much better maintained, and their equipment is much closer to parade ground look. It is only a matter of preference.<br />
Don't forget that these models will be for sale once they are finished. If you are interested, stay tuned, and if you have a buddy who is into classic models, spead the word!<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://lascannonslances.blogspot.com/2011/01/castor-update.html">Castor & Pollux update</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://lascannonslances.blogspot.com/2011/01/castor-and-pollux-basecoated-sort-of.html">Castor and Pollux basecoated (sort of)</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://lascannonslances.blogspot.com/2011/01/diaskuri-update-ii.html">Diaskuri update II.</a></div>veghisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10132210753726774145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731756292070971156.post-10869580626377654772011-01-30T22:23:00.000+01:002011-01-30T22:23:05.018+01:00Diaskuri update II.Just a quckie; I made a few photos before I airbrushed the twins (Diascuri as they are called in Mythology) with gloss varnish and used various washes on them. They look much better now, but as usual, documentation is a few steps behind the actual work.<br />
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</div>veghisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10132210753726774145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731756292070971156.post-15678271709472476752011-01-18T22:13:00.002+01:002011-01-18T22:14:50.542+01:00Castor and Pollux - basecoated (sort of)I had some time for the twins lately. I basecoated them dark gray as I usually do and basecoated them with VMC Ultramarine blue. Much to my surprise it turned to be really ultramarine whereas VGC and Citadel ultramarine is not...<br />
Anyway, I continued with adding some shade and zenithal highlight with my airbrush. After this I drybrushed the predators with a mixture of VGC Ghost gray and VMC ultramarine blue.<br />
Unfortunately the pictures with the early stages fell to the warp, but here what they looked like then:<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As you see they looked OK, but there was much chalkiness in the details, especially on the metal parts:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was kind of expecting this and decide to give it a glaze at this point I heavily diluted VMC transparent blue (vallejo's transparent range is excellent, I can only recommend them, they are like heavy glazes) with liquitex airbrush medium and Vallejo's airbrush cleaner (which I use to dilute acrylics with great success) and gave the tanks two thin coats. Here's how they look like:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As you see the chalkiness is practically gone, and most of the highlights are still there. The new colour is much better suited for the mainstream Ultramarines, and since this is a commercial project, I tend to favour the mainstream... :-)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I think, after retouching the most extreme highlights, the predators will be ready for the painting of the details. I can't wait!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://lascannonslances.blogspot.com/2011/01/castor-update.html">Castor & Pollux update</a></div>veghisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10132210753726774145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731756292070971156.post-73725078128972557522011-01-12T02:01:00.000+01:002011-01-12T02:01:18.967+01:00Castor&Pollux updateMy classic predator revamp project progresses steadily, I have just finished the rebuilding and detailing the twins.<br />
Rebuilding the predators was quite time consuming as the models were in a very sorry state, the following pictures may give you some idea:<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I guess most would view these wrecks as waste of time, but for me they are challenge, and I had the metal parts anyway :-) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Sometimes I had to replace damaged sections with plasticard but finally they started to come together. I magnetized the turrets, used a large amount of GS/milliput mix to fill the holes and blemishes and finally, after a lot of sanding started the detailing part.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And this is the fun part of course, details make the model alive, they make the difference between the average and the interesting. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I added extra rivets, and decided to use mark III parts and some imperial guard accessories as the original kit is quite low on details. I also made some tow cables and other appliances. Luckily I also found some old metal tank crew members in one of my bit boxes, that somehow survived the purges.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'm quite happy with the outcome, and I hope that with proper paintjob the twins will find a nice spot in somebody's Ultramarines army - and help to finance some new projects besides.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So here we are now:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6HsT_7cnVugGwGIW2sZRkM9sd9nlS5e9FMAT0DGR1Q81GlwfZZ9kS7klncUd3ay5RcVYxd2_qeIPTCNRSGbS-bi6VeFbThp2smEYtohEOCY-mcLTaJAO7n4zNjGZ47kFuh9fR03V7zIQ/s1600/2up.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6HsT_7cnVugGwGIW2sZRkM9sd9nlS5e9FMAT0DGR1Q81GlwfZZ9kS7klncUd3ay5RcVYxd2_qeIPTCNRSGbS-bi6VeFbThp2smEYtohEOCY-mcLTaJAO7n4zNjGZ47kFuh9fR03V7zIQ/s320/2up.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Update: after the pictures were taken I added some purity seals too - how could I have forgotten?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Update 2: News just in: My librarian <a href="http://lascannonslances.blogspot.com/2010/11/yorias-librarian.html">Yorias</a> has won me the first prize at the converting competition he was built for! I feel some terminators will soon join my forces...</div>veghisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10132210753726774145noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731756292070971156.post-46916528240496787432010-12-31T17:34:00.000+01:002010-12-31T17:34:41.452+01:00December retrospectiveOn the last day of the year it is common to look back to the year, but first I have to look back on December. It's been a busy month a bit too eventful even, as it turned out first of all, my <a href="http://lascannonslances.blogspot.com/2010/06/land-speeder-redux.html">Land Speeder</a> has won a Bronze Gobbo in it's category on the Hungarian Games Day which is quite an achievement, considering that I accidentally applied... (I bought it for to show it to a guy, and he convinced me to enter the competition.) On the same event I won some <a href="http://www.scotiagrendel.com/Xyston/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=2_3_10">Xyston 15mm Hellenics</a> on a lottery game, that made me to order some more on eBay.<br />
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I hope you like it!<br />
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The torso is made from a tactical sergeant's bit, the head is from an old Catachan mini. Instead of the banner, I used some banner-like things from the ravenwing sprue. The legs are repositioned, the feet have lobstered guards. The loincloth is that of an AoBr captain's<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If you are interested in how tis or that detail was made do not hesitate to ask. Comments are welcome too.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Stay tuned for painted pictures.</div>veghisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10132210753726774145noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731756292070971156.post-28060884047850826982010-10-30T10:16:00.000+02:002010-10-30T10:16:30.332+02:00Oriental Orc ArcherI try to make up my lack of posting in the last few months, so this is a mini I painted for a local painted miniature exchange lottery. Yes you pick a mini, paint it to the best of your ability, and a dosen or so guys do the same. The minis then get distributed randomly. Works quite fine if everyone paints on the same level, but anyway, Let us concentrate on my entry:<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I tried to create a mini diorama with some pieces of scenery, since it is unlikely that anyone in Hungary fields an oriental Orc army. BTW if anyone knows the origins of this mini, please let me know, since I don't even know what make it is.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> I'm quite happy with the results, this is really about the best you can expect from me nowadays. These were my first experiments with pigments on the base, and they look quite natural, so I think it is a success.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I made a mistake of posting it on <a href="http://coolminiornot.com/262836">coolminiornot.com</a> but I got what I deserved. A score of 5.1 - just good enough for tabletop is quite depressing, but I asked for it - again :-)</div>veghisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10132210753726774145noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731756292070971156.post-34900320443264449052010-09-07T18:58:00.000+02:002010-09-07T18:58:46.438+02:00Budapest Grand Tournament<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgo5-_b-Nro4hPkFYFz2Liny4yOucpsIA4qTtHPq0SUPiCeQkx15URHFIbaCfvo1ZfWtSM51-aCFLmSCjMWmJTKh4whvC2U1JcLmRtZ4NYfsp-eV5w4R8wnX7XEecfWq995H3aOEelCcg/s1600/Untitled-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgo5-_b-Nro4hPkFYFz2Liny4yOucpsIA4qTtHPq0SUPiCeQkx15URHFIbaCfvo1ZfWtSM51-aCFLmSCjMWmJTKh4whvC2U1JcLmRtZ4NYfsp-eV5w4R8wnX7XEecfWq995H3aOEelCcg/s320/Untitled-1.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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You know, that I don't play, but I have promote this event; if you are have some time drop in. I buy a beer for all my readers who show up. (I come as a spectator.) It will be held on the 16th-17th of October.<br />
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Here is the <a href="http://www.budapestgt.eu/?&lang=en">link </a> Regular tournament prizes, entry fee is €20 that includes luch on both days.veghisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10132210753726774145noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731756292070971156.post-632427393543845782010-08-23T14:33:00.001+02:002010-08-23T14:34:18.291+02:00Saying goodbye to the CatachansFor some time I played with the idea of building an all metal Catachan army (the same way my Bretonnians are being collected) but I have to realize that I will never get to finish them. Facing the fact one has to have a great moral character, that I happen to possess, so here they are for sale.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Meanwhile summer holiday passed uneventful, but I managed to sell a lot of unused stuff to local gamers; and so I invested in a new airbrush+compressor combo. I haven't had much time to try it out (family holiday, canoeing with colleagues etc.) but I'm sure my Mk1 will shine at the time of the local Games Day.</div>veghisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10132210753726774145noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731756292070971156.post-38673950054865740782010-08-03T22:40:00.000+02:002010-08-03T22:40:58.503+02:00The Great Vallejo Wash Review<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Regular readers may know that I'm a bit partial to Vallejo paints. I love the dropper bottles, the consistency and the price/quantity ratio. The only thing I kept buying (of course I still own and use a lot of Citadel paints) from the Citadel range are their very cool washes. Obviously when I learned that Vallejo comes out with a brand new range, I had to have them. This is a humble review of my impressions.<br />
I bought my set from <a href="http://www.maelstromgames.co.uk/">Maelstrom</a>; using their latest voucher the whole set cost a mere <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">£ 12.79 for eight bottles, and let me remind you, you get 17ml bottles for this price, not 10 as for Citadel washes.The Citadel set sells around </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">£15, so per ml you pay twice as much for Citadel.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">The colour range is very similar as for the Citadel washes, the only exception being the lack of violet, where you get the mysterious pale wash instead. This is how the washes look boxed.</span><br />
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<ol><li>Undiluted over <a href="http://www.armorama.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=5176">Vallejo's grey primer</a>. (this is a fine light gray polyurethane resin primer, ready to use in an airbrush, but good to apply with an ordinary brush too.)</li>
<li>Wash diluted with distilled water, 1:1, over grey primer</li>
<li>Wash diluted with Johnson&Johnson Pronto Floor Polish mix 1:1 over grey primer. We have no Future in Hungary. Of course it is not nihilism, I'm not worried about the national debt, but we have no such product, as Future or Klear, or Klar etc. However we have this floor finish that is almost identical, but is not clear but have a pale almond colour. It disappears though as it dries.I mean the colour. I use my mix with 1 part Pronto and 1 part distilled water, so in this case in fact it is 3 parts water, 1 part Pronto</li>
<li>Wash applied over a suitable colour, to show how it fares under real circumstances</li>
<li>In case there is something needs testing, armour, a face etc.</li>
</ol>For a test model I used CW's very fine Cadian standard bearer. Shown below with primer only, for reference.<br />
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Black is one of the basic washes you need and Vallejo's works quite well:<br />
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<ol><li>Nice even finish, it glazes surface, but stays mainly in the recesses. Perhaps a bit too strong. Has a slight brownish hue </li>
<li>Diluted the wash falls apart a bit and the result is rather blotchy, with some tidemarks</li>
<li>Diluted with floor polish the wash performs rather well; remains nicely in recesses,</li>
<li>For the colour test I chose Vallejo's air colour grey primer (not to confuse with the urethane one!)</li>
<li>The result is quite convincing, a tad too dark again</li>
<li>As armour wash over Citadel Mithril Silver: nice gradients, performs quite well</li>
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<b>Conclusion:</b> a solid performer, a bit dark, and I learned not to dilute it with water.<br />
<b>Rating:</b> good <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Another classic. Umber comes in a nice neutral dark brown colour, that I came to like quite well</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><ol><li>Over the primer it looks quite nice, promising</li>
<li>Diluted with water looks much better then black, perhaps a tad too light</li>
<li>Diluted with Pronto it looks OK, a bit light again</li>
<li>The real test is over VGC Iraqian Sand (I know, but they call it like that regardless) one of my favourites nowadays</li>
<li>The colour test looks very much to my taste, exactly what I'd expect from such a colour</li>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Sepia is exactly what you'd expect, a warmer, yellower brown. Less versatile than Umber, but still have it's uses.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><ol><li>Over the primer it looks good, with some of the quality of Umber, but warmer. It glazed the primer nicely</li>
<li>Diluted with water it falls apart a bit</li>
<li>Looks great with floor polish, I guess this is my new recipe for bone</li>
<li>Again, Sepia will be tested on Iraquian Sand</li>
<li>Nice even coverage, but a bit too much. Would look better diluted.</li>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Conclusion:</b> I think sepia will be a good choice for aging gold, bone, cloth, whatever. Good to have on the desk</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Rating:</b> very good</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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Fleshtone is meant to shade human skin, let's see how it fares. The tone is much lighter than the previous colours, and looks very different than VGC Skin wash, which in fact is a dark orange ink, and looks quitre strange on minies (shading flesh I mean).<br />
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<ol><li>Applied over primer it looks exciting. It takes some abstract thinking to see human flesh in the flag, but you can try. A bit reddish where it pools.</li>
<li>Diluted with water it doesn't cover much</li>
<li>Little better with floor polish; stays in the recesses nicely</li>
<li>The test is with Iraquian Sand again, as I use it as basic skintone too, quite often</li>
<li>The result is OK but again one needs some imagination</li>
<li>Helping the thicker hobbyists I painted a Catachan face. I think it looks good, especially if highlights were added</li>
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<b>Conclusion</b>: I'm not yet fully convinced as it needs some more testing but the results look OK.<br />
<b>Rating:</b> good<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Pale wash is a very interesting colour. Actually it is light grey, and it is primarily meant to shade white, which is good news to anyone struggling with that colour (Hey, Island of Blood is coming! Hint, hint... Elves?)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">You can't see much on the first few pictures, as the primer and the wash have similar shade. The difference shows when tested on VGC White Primer; it shades white nicely and evenly. With the proper shading the results can be stunning. Please note that in the latest flag the wash was diluted 1:1 with Pronto mixture.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Conclusion:</b> Pale wash is something new and I'm positive that it will make many of us happy in the future</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Ranking:</b> very good </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Red is what I feel is the weakest link in the range. It has a dark magenta colour, that is great for enriching red though</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><ol><li>Painted on the primer, red wash looks rather weird, but the consistency is OK</li>
<li>Diluting red is a bad idea. the result is a lot of uneven tidemarks looking quite bad</li>
<li>Using floor polish will not solve the problems either</li>
<li>I tested the shading qualities over Citadel Blood Red. Perhaps it was not such a good idea, I should have chosen a less saturated colour</li>
<li>Red wash shades Blood red nicely, but the result is too weak and light to work. As a side effect the magenta of the wash boosts the saturation of Blood red to irrational levels.</li>
<li>With a second coat of wash the banner looks OKish.</li>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Conclusion:</b> Red wash in one layer will not do the trick, it is too light and bright for that. Might work on oranges perhaps. Before I'd bury it though, it must be said that combined with sepia or umber it will work well, and one can find many useful ways to use it. But still no good to shade red.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Rating:</b> below average</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Green is similar to red in many ways but performs better. The colour is quite light and bright, and therefore suitable for lighter greens only.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><ol><li>Applies over the primer I quite like the way it looks, though it shows alrready, that the wash is too light</li>
<li>Diluted with water it is much less blotchy than red wash is</li>
<li>Looks nice, though pale with Pronto too.</li>
<li>I tested over VGC's Scorpion Green (A bit too saturated, but unfortunately I have a limited palette of light greens)</li>
<li>Wow! This looks cool! The paint and wash look great together.</li>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Conclusion</b>: Green is a decent wash, but to wash Orks or any darker green stuff, it is no good. Mixing it with umber or black may worth a try, but in itself it is good for lighter shades only.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Rating</b>: Average </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Compared to red and green blue is a much darker shade that works as expected</div><ol><li>It looks decent on primer</li>
<li>Does not look good diluted with water, does not fill the recesses or builds nice gradients</li>
<li>Looks OK though, diluted with Pronto </li>
<li>For the test I used Citadel Enchanted Blue</li>
<li>I quite like the result, with highlights it would look splendid.</li>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Conclusion:</b> Blue works as expected, and gives a very nice result</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Rating</b>: very good</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">To sum it up</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Vallejo washes are a cost effective alternative to Citadel ones. They are slightly more viscous, and should not be diluted with water. Future or matte medium works fine though. The glazing effect of the washes is nice, but they keep to recesses perhaps very slightly less than Citadel washes do. The gradients the washes create are very nice. Red and green are way too saturated and light for my taste. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The range does not have a purple, and it is a shame, for purple is quite useful at times, but the revolutionary pale wash is a very good trade off. I'm quite happy that I bought the set, and advise all of you the same.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">For the price sensitive ones will be delighted to hear that 200ml bottles are also available for <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">£6.52.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">For Vallejo I'd recommend to sponsor a professional painter, or a blog to help people to use their products most effectively. I still have no idea how to use VGC Smokey Ink (thick brown paste with flakes in it, no ink at all), VMC transparent smoke, the Skin Wash (not Fleshtone) or basically any of their inks. Up until that day it is trial and error, unless someone does the testing, or writes tutorials. But I think it is most easily done by those who designed these products.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">That's all folks, I hope you liked it. Stay tuned there might be a wash comparison one day (including home made wash recipes!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>veghisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10132210753726774145noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731756292070971156.post-6638021515223719572010-07-20T22:35:00.000+02:002010-07-20T22:35:33.791+02:00Tyranids for SALE<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hi Folks,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">a friend of mine asked me to help selling his army as he plans to move to WFB</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The following is a rough list, there is some more (+5-10%) , so I'll update later. All of the minis are mostly unpainted, most have even no primer on, a lot of them still on sprue. Assembled pieces are made nicely/prepared for painting (de</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">-flashed etc).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The seriously interested should drop me an e-mail.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">What the army includes</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">1 Hive Tyrant</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">1 Hive Tyrant OOP</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">44 Termagaunts</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">45 Termagaunts on sprue</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">12 Hormagaunts on sprue</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">72 Genestealers</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">20 Genestealers on sprue</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">13 Warriors</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I also thinking about the chest eagle. Just have seen an excellent <a href="http://masterdarksol.blogspot.com/2010/06/step-by-step-blood-angel.html">blood angels tutorial</a> over <a href="http://masterdarksol.blogspot.com/">All Things 40K</a> and got totally hooked on that shoulder pad. Do you think that a chest eagle like this would look better? Please ignore the paintjob, I spent just about 5 minutes painting the whole thing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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My first homemade decals are finished, in the last two weeks (apart from a small holiday) they were my primary project.<br />
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First I started with the drawing board and Adobe AI. Thanks to my earlier designs, the first draft was created rather quickly. After this the proper sizes for the individual designs were determined and checked against actual minis and shoulder pads. There are multiple sizes, different for scouts and terminators and vehicles.<br />
Once I was satisfied with the result I printed the vector design on decal paper.<br />
Please understand that these are not real decals, and therefore they have limitations. Firstly I cannot print white without access to an ALPS printer. ALPS printers are no longer in production, so buying one - even if buying one second hand is possible -combined with the increasing accessory prices do not make the business case viable. (other possibility could be screen printing, but for such small insignia, and so few copies it doesn't worth it.) So, since I cannot print white, I have to print <i>on</i> white. This means that to avoid a halo of white on the edge you have to print a halo with a colour matching the base colour of the mini or vehicle - in my case VMC Dark Prussian Blue.<br />
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For the best results after applying the decals the traditional way overpaint the edges with the base colour. This will crate a smooth gradient. By the way I almost always overpaint decals a little, so that they would look less uniform.<br />
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Secondly, professional decals come pre-cut. As I have no idea how it is done, so one have to cut out the decals usig a very sharp blade.<br />
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You know by now, that I'm a shameless promoter of my very own Sentinels, you can freely download the decal sheet in .pdf format. Please note that it is in letter format.<br />
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<div helvetica,="" sans-serif;width:127px;font-color:#44a854;="" style="font-family: Arial,; font-size: 9px;"><a href="http://www.filedropper.com/">File Hosting Online Storage Backup</a></div>Since you never seem to get enough numerals on GW transfers, I also created my own number sets. As I previewed in my previous post, the numbers are fully vectorized. As making these astartes numerals was very time consuming, I won't give them away <i>that</i> easily... but they are of course available for all followers of this blog. Please e-mail me if you'd like the file.<br />
Later, upon individual request I plan to produce custom decals, numerals in other colours, and even sell them in printed form, though it may take a little time.<br />
I'm quite happy with the way the transfers turned out, but I was less satisfied with the Holi decal papers I was using. It was rather too thick to my taste. I have to find a different manufacturer for better results. Any suggestions?veghisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10132210753726774145noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731756292070971156.post-37041463368050788842010-06-28T01:49:00.000+02:002010-06-28T01:49:49.329+02:00Little teaserRecently I spent some time with Adobe's Illustrator, and made fair progress on some custom decals for the Sentinels.<br />
I also made some cool stuff:<br />
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</div>Yes. Real, proper vectorized Astartes numerals...<br />
Decals are soon to follow.veghisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10132210753726774145noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731756292070971156.post-68234394323807526212010-06-24T00:42:00.002+02:002010-06-24T10:36:11.698+02:00Land Speeder ReduxSome old time followers might remember one of my first posts back from January; it was about a <a href="http://lascannonslances.blogspot.com/2010/01/wip-landspeeder.html">Land Speeder</a>, full of details that later turned out to be unnecessary. The paint scheme changed too, and as I became involved With my <a href="http://lascannonslances.blogspot.com/2010/05/scratchbuild-land-raider-mki-part-8.html">Land Raider Mk1</a> the work on this little one has stalled. Until last week, when I finished it :-)<br />
Actually it is not finished, as the magnetized parts may get some transfers and freehand, and still need to be weathered.<br />
The model is fully magnetized, all the doors/accessories/weapons can be removed. I'm a big fan of magnetization, both for versatility and portability.<br />
The base is made of a standard AOBR base and a piece of carbon fibre rod, as I dislike GW flying bases.<br />
The junk on the ground are made of plasticard (heated up and bent over fire) pieces of tin sheet and resin parts.<br />
The scratches on the bumper and the hull are the weakest part of the paintjob, hell, next time they will turn pout better. The speeder was given a little coat of dust pigment (dust, dusty green and sand) as I felt that as a flying machine stronger weathering would be out of place.<br />
As always, feedback is welcome.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">These are 1:72 <a href="http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=299">Revell Normans</a> I painted in 1989. This is my second ever paintjob. This crime against humanity was committed with some very poor quality glossy enamel paint. Miniatures were impossible to get in Hungary back then, as far as I'm concerned. I had no idea how to paint minis, and it shows.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Those days I was - as so many of us - obsessed with AD@D, and I was given a copy of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlesystem">Battlesystem</a> rules. I was very excited but found no suitable minies. I even considered making my own of pewter, but at the end of the day these 1:72 ones were the only ones I could put my hands on, apart from some brass knights from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Surprise">Kinder Eggs</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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