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The Colouring-in Room / Re: 15mm Madness...

« on: September 17, 2009, 09:07:13 AM »

Brilliant work so far Inso!   I like 15mm nearly as much as Bungle, so I'm a bit biased, but I'd love to see more of these chaps!

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Questions and Answers / Re: Has anyone painted EM-4 Space Rangers? & Fast painting techniques?

« on: September 15, 2009, 02:00:23 PM »

I painted about twenty of these chaps some time ago for exactly the same reasons, Bahir   This was my result, uniforms are based on the pics on the front of the ICE Box they came in:



All the colours are a single colour with one simple highlight colour. Except the gold and the black, which aren't highlighted.  I spent an excessive amount of time on them, like about 10 hours in total for the 20 figures

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General Ranting / Re: 09/09/09 (the last single digit date until 01/01/2101

« on: September 10, 2009, 12:16:51 PM »

Sorry.  Getting the conspiricy crackpots confused with the Egyptidiots. Again! D'oh!

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General Ranting / Re: 09/09/09 (the last single digit date until 01/01/2101

« on: September 10, 2009, 10:14:59 AM »

I don't know what's more spooky...the whole 09/09/09 thing or the indepth knowledge so many people have where barcodes are concerned .

The number of crackpot conspiracy theorists I have calling me at work with EVERYTHING under the sun involving numbers, barcodes, toes on the vision of Daniel etc. etc. etc. means I have to be pretty up on these things.

You don't work for that Illuminati Call Centre in the mid-west, do you, Darknight?

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Questions and Answers / Re: Highlighting red

« on: September 09, 2009, 03:12:58 PM »

GW, where would we be without them?

Not giving as much of my money as I do to Mike at Black Hat* for Coat d'Arms Paint.

*With apologies to the QoD for mentioning other companies!

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General Ranting / Re: 09/09/09 (the last single digit date until 01/01/2101

« on: September 09, 2009, 12:35:17 PM »

Are you talking about the guard bars that separate number blocks in a barcode?  They look a little like a single digit '6', but the spacing is different.  And I think they're only present in UPC and EAN encodings.

Anyway, like you say, still a good factoid to dole out to the paranoid drunk

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Questions and Answers / Re: Highlighting red

« on: September 09, 2009, 11:44:47 AM »

Depends what "texture" of red I want as a result.  The red on the armour of my space marines I highlight up with yellow as I want something bright, vibrant and bold.  On the jackets of my victorian sci-fi british soldiers, I mix GW Red Gore with Bleached Bone to give a more fabric and slightly faded look.  If I want a pink, I'll mix with white, using the red as the deepest shade. And most recently on a gang of redemptionist for necromunda, I wanted a cherry red leather effect (like cherry red dockers that were a la mode in the early 90s) so I went from black to red gore, with a touch of CdA's desert sand added to the red for the highest highlight.

All that rambling might or might not be of use to you, but I always try and think about what kind of red I want before I start.

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Hasslefree / Re: Kindred Unit

« on: September 08, 2009, 11:10:59 AM »

Thanks, chaps

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Announcements and News / Re: Kids back to school!!

« on: September 08, 2009, 11:08:14 AM »

It is a bit of a release isn't it?  I got home from work yesterday to find that Mrs Keeper had cleaned half the house without the kids to bother her!

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General Ranting / Re: Decals info/resources

« on: September 08, 2009, 11:06:40 AM »

Might not be totally what your customer is after, libertee, but Dom's decals do some nose-art transfers in his 1/300 and 1/600 aircraft scale ranges.

http://www.domsdecals.co.uk/

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Hasslefree / Re: Tally ho, what what

« on: September 07, 2009, 03:17:26 PM »

Great work, voltan   He looks spiffing!

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Hasslefree / Kindred Unit

« on: September 07, 2009, 01:06:36 PM »

I originally painted these little chaps as part of a competition on the Lead Adventure Forum, but I also entered them into the Unit category at Sheffield Irregular's IMP09 event, where they won me the bronze award! Hurrah!

Clearly photography is still one of my weak points, but I keep working on it!   Used a tripod and a white top on my photobox, this time!

Your C&C are most welcome!

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Spyglass and Eolith Miniatures Discussion / Re: Eolith - 54mm Lady Grigoryan in stock and shipping

« on: September 04, 2009, 12:12:29 PM »

Just received her - and she is very lovely!

Thanks Steve!

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General Ranting / Re: latest meal

« on: September 03, 2009, 03:05:07 PM »

cold cup of tea ( forgot it was on my desk), 3 antacid pills and a cream cracker!

Now that sounds like nouvelle cuisine! 

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General Ranting / Re: latest meal

« on: September 03, 2009, 09:34:33 AM »

Unlucky fried kitten zinger meal. I had to eat quick between work and wargaming last night!

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General Ranting / Re: Funny Stuff

« on: September 02, 2009, 02:17:10 PM »

The guy who complained is clearly mental. How is the shop manager to blame for the sweet wrappers. If it was me, and the guy had come up to me, I'd have asked him to explain in lurid detail  what exactly was going on in his opinion, with details, and wound him up to the point of heart attack, then told him he's a pervert and thrown him out. Get a life, Mr Simpkins. Get a life. Same to your wife.

Of course, saying all that, it IS quite hard to explain what the little MAOAM feller is actually doing to the lemon if it's not having sex! The cherries sort of can be explained as over enthusiastic fruit appreciation...

I think I get an idea of why his wife had to have a sit down in the car park.  It is probably something she has to do quite a lot.

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Libertee's Miscellaneous Musings II / Re: What did you do on bank holiday monday?

« on: September 02, 2009, 01:07:43 PM »

Saturday: I went to Sheffield Irregular's IMP event, where I won Bronze in the Unit Category with my HF Kindred Unit! (Pics to follow when I've taken some decent ones!)

Sunday: Discovered the smallest member of the Keeper household has contracted chicken pox. Yay! Had a quiet day in the house playing with the kids followed by almost no sleep

Monday: Kids crashed in front of the TV quite a lot or played quietly with dolls whilst we ripped up plants and moved large stones around in the back garden in an attempt to finally get rid of that ridiculous oversized pond that has been bugging us since we bought the house! However, both kids now know what a Dalek and a TARDIS are. Yay! Dr Who #4 FTW

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Suggestions (HF) / Re: Suggestion: Some reference material for Kev

« on: August 28, 2009, 09:39:57 AM »

Hmm, maybe this is more to everyone's tastes:
NFL Cheerleaders

 

I can't speak for everyone, but I like them! Thanks, Chris

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Announcements and News / Re: Hasslefree Summer bonus Time! ...woohooo!

« on: August 25, 2009, 10:37:12 AM »

D'oh! My order was #12308 - only two away!  Congrats to the winners, though!

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Questions and Answers / Re: Well, I think I just dodged a bullet . . .

« on: August 25, 2009, 10:10:20 AM »

(Though you misspelt the name...)

Ten thousand of my deepest apologies

It can only because I saw your painted minis when I went for the link and got toungue-tied at the sheer brilliance of your painting!

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Hasslefree Gaming and Fluffery / Re: Codex: Demiurg Warhost

« on: August 24, 2009, 11:36:53 AM »

... Simon Cowell ... Jordan's breasts ... zombie plagues ...

Woops, there goes the thread!

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Ideas for New Heresy Models / Re: What next?

« on: August 24, 2009, 11:33:27 AM »

(Don't even get me started on the old adventurers. Ask Craig.  )

Don't need to ask Craig - every time I order one ('cause I like 'em I often add one or two to my orders) I get a hand written note on my slip stating in very clear terms that you wanting to resculpt them! LOL

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Questions and Answers / Re: Well, I think I just dodged a bullet . . .

« on: August 24, 2009, 11:01:36 AM »

A good couple of coats of a decent paint on gloss varnish to seal everything then a couple of coats of Dull Cote lacquer. You won't get a tougher or flatter finish.

  Only I use spray-on craft polyurethene varnish, that I usually get from DIY stores, then brush-on Dull Cote lacquer.

And I remember Ocrtrader always posts this link: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/orctrader/Articles/Varnish.html  (Sorry for the pre-empt OT!)

Everyone else has their own opinions on this tricky matter, though!

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Ideas for New Heresy Models / Re: What next?

« on: August 21, 2009, 03:18:26 PM »

Hürn, followed by Space Rhinos.

The man from down under has the right of it!

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Libertee's Miscellaneous Musings II / Re: things that really p** you off

« on: August 20, 2009, 04:06:55 PM »

Although on one of the other subjects, it's just broken that Plaxico's plea bargained to 2 years prison

Thanks for the heads-up on this one Chris.  I am much less annoyed to hear he is accepting some responsibility for the very silly thing he did.

Remember kids - carrying loaded firearms (especially illegal ones) in the waistband of your pants is a very bad idea!