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Eye Candy / Re: New Etched Brass

« on: August 24, 2011, 04:30:44 PM »

will you be adding the manhole covers as well later? they should go well with the gears 'n' cogs you're selling.

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Sneak Peeks / Re: Sharclon Warrior wip

« on: August 23, 2011, 01:28:08 PM »

no idea what sontarans are, but this looks quite promising.
agree with caerban on the feet being a bit on the small side though

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Heresy / Re: First post, first Heresy minis

« on: August 23, 2011, 01:20:37 PM »

they do look a bit glossy- maybe add another layer of matt varnish.

out of curiosity: what are the purple and red bases for?

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General Ranting / Re: Sheesh

« on: August 22, 2011, 11:50:38 PM »

funny thing is, in my experience it's the customer service reps that are the ones that should get a good kicking in the head - at least twice, with big fat steel toecapped boots.

never listening to what customers say, cheating & lying, refusing to help, making up facts and so on. it's a bit hillarious when they insist that extra parts of a lamp ain't extra parts of the lamp actually and never were meant to be anyways, when you got three others of the same kind where that exact part is in the kit, where the extra part is listed in the instruction menu and on the website as part of the kit... or when they pretend you never ordered that book that arrived in a very misserable state and that you definitely never placed a call with them to get a replacement... and so on and so on (and that's just some  -fairly tame and managable- examples, and i'm talking about big multinational companies not some tiny mom-and-pop shops)

almost nothing but bad experiences with 'customer service reps' - they treat me like feckin' bumfudge, i sure ain't gonna treat them any better.

.:edit:.
kebab (with no lettuce)' swear filter, had forgotten about that ickle bastard completely

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Suggestions (HF) / Re: Carlo Spencer and Terrence Girotti

« on: August 21, 2011, 08:37:33 AM »

Would never have recognised their names or faces. Western 'stars' always seemed identical, except ule brenner, clint eastwood and john wayne.

you'd have been much better off suggesting 'generic cowboy/western stereotypes' instead. I would be in favour, but they're already all available from Black Scorpion's Tombstone range.

thing is they haven't just played in westerns, like the first post says: everything from cops to pirates would work. i grew up with the movies, used to watch them with me grandpa (these and kojak, streets of san francisco, starsky &  hutch... damn nostalgia)

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General Ranting / Re: Help identifying please

« on: August 19, 2011, 03:22:24 PM »

was hoping you had more luck than me...


@libertee: any idea if the mini is converted a bit (thinking of the legs mainly)?

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Fenris painted stuff / Re: Starter(s) for ten....

« on: August 17, 2011, 03:54:24 PM »

had completely forgotten about the rhino, despite thinking it'd look interesting painted/ converted as a steam-powered mechanical beast when i first saw pics on frothers.
were they ever released properly?

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Suggestions (HF) / Re: FoD Member Too Lazy To Do His Own Armatures Shock! Also Demands Boobies!

« on: August 17, 2011, 01:53:28 PM »

no arms really isn't much of a problem - like bergil i most often cut them off.
see, you could even say you're making life easier for some of us since we now no longer need to snip off the arms!

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Suggestions (HF) / Re: FoD Member Too Lazy To Do His Own Armatures Shock! Also Demands Boobies!

« on: August 17, 2011, 08:45:59 AM »

the main problem we have with armatures is casting them, we get so many miscasts whatever way they are in the mould where the metal isnt flowing in the right direction to fill and when the caster either ups the temp or remoulds then we get a new set of problems.

out of curiosity: how badly miscast are they? just wondering if you could sell them at a discounted price anyways - just insist it's zombiearmatures 

regarding soldering: can only speak for meself obviously, but not everybody likes soldering. (plus in my case there's so much stuff cluttering my 'workspace' that it would make soldering a bit too dangerous.) i've started leaving the wires for arms off and adding them later by drilling holes into the somewhat bulked out armature instead.

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

« on: August 08, 2011, 10:01:21 PM »

wouldn't have thought their customer service was that bad. maybe they just had far too many people taking advantage of the sale (c......art - i guess that's what you're talking about)?
still, even an automated response would've been more polite than no reaction at all.

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General Ranting / Re: unsolicited E-bay bidding!

« on: August 08, 2011, 08:25:02 PM »

(...) The best strategy is to wait until the last minute and then bid the maximum you are willing to pay. If you bid too early, the other possible bidders get nervous and start bidding higher than they would have.

well, that just means that if i can't get stuff cheap, then at least  the seller gets a bit more money then he would've got otherwise.

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Questions and Answers / Re: Motorcycles for minis.

« on: August 05, 2011, 10:05:53 PM »

for the sake of completeness:
reaper

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Heresy - Announcements/News / Re: Server died...

« on: August 02, 2011, 09:01:20 AM »

seems to work now

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Heresy - Announcements/News / Re: Server died...

« on: August 01, 2011, 10:37:11 PM »

tried it several times (cleared the cache as well), but it's still not working for me/ same error message

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Heresy - Announcements/News / Re: Server died...

« on: August 01, 2011, 09:33:30 PM »

'Error An error occurred when we tried to contact the payment processor. Please try again, select an alternate payment method, or contact the store owner for assistance. (81002) 81002 Unspecified Method - Method Specified is not Supported'

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Heresy - Announcements/News / Re: Server died...

« on: August 01, 2011, 09:03:22 PM »

seems fine over here, can log into my account as well. was like that an hour and a half ago as well.
(for both http... as well as https... if that's any help)

.:edit:.
must learn new ways to say 'as well'

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Heresy - Announcements/News / Re: Server died...

« on: August 01, 2011, 02:13:48 PM »

that's what i get, when trying to access the site:

An error occurred during a connection to www.heresyminiatures.com.

SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.

(Error code: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long)

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Non-FOD minis / Re: Sasha...

« on: July 31, 2011, 08:20:04 PM »

She looks great!!!

I just recently stumbled into Ma.K.'s line of figures, and now I really REALLY want a Takako Lopez and a Mercenary Mechanic (b), but they're sold out everywhere I look (understandably so!) Except for some reproducers in China, but I'm not about to buy from them.

might be worth watching this space on hobby link japan

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Questions and Answers / Re: Help with some aliens

« on: July 30, 2011, 07:32:55 AM »

black scorpion had some nice aliens (that i never got round to buying)


four a miniatures has this guy:

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Heresy - Announcements/News / Re: New Shopping Cart

« on: July 28, 2011, 08:11:18 PM »

i couldn't find the seperate heads (blightheads and so on) on the new shop, have they been forgotten or am i just being thick and looking in the wrong category?

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General Ranting / your worst decision regarding paintjobs/ colour schemes?

« on: July 27, 2011, 09:55:25 PM »

the one i regret most must be this - i hate painting eyes, i don't know what made me think it'd be a good idea... and i'm not even close to finishing painting that damn shoggy anytime soon!




so what turned out to be your worst decision when it comes to painting minis?

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Random Chat / Re: The 1st ever Heresy dragon. A big one. [UPDATED Halloween 2010] DONE!!!!

« on: July 25, 2011, 09:26:40 PM »

my worst paintjobs/ ideas usually aren't alcohol  fuelled...

no idea when i will paint the dragon. probably should go hunting for my airbrush and get some practice first (and possibly decide on a colour scheme).

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Random Chat / Re: Favourite trenchie?

« on: July 25, 2011, 09:19:27 PM »

tiny. shortly before the first of the gangers was released, i started doodling some bogeyman-like creatures.
this was one of them (not that i ever did get very far):


not that long afterwards, tiny got released and i always thought he would be the perfect victim for one of my rather random conversion projects...

.:edited because of lousy spelling:.

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Random Chat / Re: Re: The 1st ever Heresy dragon. A big one. [UPDATED Halloween 2010] DONE!!!!

« on: July 25, 2011, 04:25:01 PM »

I was thinking of doing one... its always interesting to see that sort of thing - especially if the casting is as good as its rumoured I'm #39 (i think) and I'll get it up on my blog as soon as I get a chance.

It'd be in pics as I dont think you'll all want to see my ugly mug

my dragon arrived today, trust me the casting really is quite good. sure, you'll have to clean up a few bits (but honestly - people not expecting/ willing to do that on a kit this size probably should buy into diecast cars...)

from what i can tell so far it should fit together well enough- only had time to roughly clean up/ test fit left + right body/ wings/ legs/ arms/ tail bits so far, but: quite impressive quality (both the sculpting + the casting)

nobody seems to have mentioned it thus far: the hole thing is very carefully & securely packaged as well!

excuse my even worse than usual english, but on top of being stressed and tired i'm also slightly drunk(ish)

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Heresy - Announcements/News / Re: New Shopping Cart

« on: July 23, 2011, 02:40:06 PM »

here seems as good a place as any other to ask: Valkyrie - Heidi Sigrsdotter Sculpted by Shane Hoyle is it that one?

(just in case anyone's wondering about the seemingly random question)