[unofficial weekender] Friday…. finally!

[sundancer 42900xp 5]

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First time visitor to OTT? Then please introduce yourself in the New Member Thread and look around in the Project System. Then come back and read on…

Read all of this before you start as it will save any trouble later.

First thing you must do is make your “pledge”. It can be anything gaming related, big or small, and you don’t even have to finish it. No, in here, happiness is the road. Have fun doing whatever it is, but it is not a race. Accompany your work with pictures or we might think you are do something sinister and just using us for cover.

You are also presented with a few questions. It is to get the conversation started. Try and keep your answers ‘conversational’, no text speak, and certainly no “basically”. This is how we all get to know each other better. While you are here feel free to tell us a story, show a picture, joke, tales of love or woe, or just add your own little bit. This is the whole point…in here it is just us.

If you have never taken part before we may bark and bite, but we also like a cuddle! It is all done in the best possible taste and it is character building. feel free to give as good as you get.

A few other things to note: NO RELIGION & NO POLITICS! Glasgow pub rules are in effect. If you need to make a better point then it is fine, but don’t take the piss. And always keep it civil.

Play plenty of music to go with your work. Loud and through proper speakers. Write us a playlist of things we might not have heard before.

Now, after all of that there is only one ‘real’ rule in here and it cannot be broken: NO DICKS! (Exceptions may be made for little fighting men with little plastic/resin/metal wieners)

And don’t forget the highlights of the weekend: The Weekender on Friday and XLBS on Sunday. And the little show that is the unofficial Hobby Hangout over at twitch.tv

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Questions:

No questions from me this time. Talk amongst yourselves. Totally knackered… might throw questions in later.

Discuss!

[demonsub 12746xp 5]

Going to try to finish my Barbarians on foot this weekend so I’ve only got the guy on the woolly rhino to paint next week, I’ve been looking forward to painting him for weeks.

Also I finically got my noch trees in so it’s finishing the bases off, sealing everything and maybe start painting the bases. I’m using the 4Ground bases both large and small.

 

[thedace 9993xp 4]

Morning folks

My Pledge –

My actual pledge is to put a few more projects on the site.

I put one for a Billion suns up the other day and will be starting one for my Kings of War.

I will finish my milestone for Conquest this week although this only means completing a few bases.

I also intend on getting another couple of ships painted for Billion Suns.

Music ….

Have 10 hrs of the Klendathu Drop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPefJdjzoy0

 

I really like soundtracks from Basil Poledouris

Conan

The hunt for Red October

Robocop

Starship Troopers

To name a few of my favorites.

Have a great weekend everyone.

[sundancer 42900xp 2]

Wow…. no one ever thought of “pledge” before XD Kudos *g*

[bali 3441xp 3]

Happy weekend all! (Well almost at this point)

Pledge wise I should have the Frostgrave rule book showing up today so I pledge to get my first games in this weekend!

If it’s not overstepping how about these for questions?

1. When painting do you start with a plan in mind for your color scheme, go with the flow, work off reference material, enjoy the look of grey plastic/metal to much to ever cover it, etc?

2. What’s your favorite month and why?

3. Do you have a permanent spot to hobby at, setup and tear down prior to getting your craft on, have a mobile station to take your creativity on the road, leave a trail of rubble in your wake, etc?

 

For me…

1. Usually I paint Sci-fi/Fantasy so I pin down the main colors in my head along with a rough idea of where they’re going and then go with the flow from there.  At this point I have a lot of “go to” colors for accessories (ex. leather bags, weapons, etc) but I try and mix it up too.  For real world stuff, usually animals, I’ll check out some reference materials so I’m in the right ballpark.

2. Going with March for this one.  Feels like the world is waking up after winter (here in the northern side of the marble anyway) and those sporadic first warm days each feel like something special.  It’s also unpredictable and you can be out in a tee-shirt one day and getting snowed on the next.  Oh and it’s named for a war god.

3. I’ve got a spot I setup in the basement but these days never use it.  I’d say I’m a nomad in that I’ll find a spot, cover it in project parts, paints and other stuff and then eventually pack it all up and move somewhere else.

[rayzryrParticipant 22010xp 3]

Happy weekend…

My pledge is the terrain, still working on it. I’m happy with the base so far, just need to work on the rest ?

[flatbattery 8265xp 4]

Happy weekend all (I can fully appreciate them now i’m back at work).

Pledge: Hoping to add a small tutorial on my project regarding a camo scheme that seemed to be very well received. I’ve stripped and base coated an old Ultramarine scout cloak ready to go.

As for questions, I’ll answer the ones posed by bali.

1. When painting do you start with a plan in mind for your color scheme, go with the flow, work off reference material, enjoy the look of grey plastic/metal to much to ever cover it, etc?

A. I usually work everything out beforehand, often using reference material and change on the fly if needs be.

2. What’s your favorite month and why?

A. September. It’s when my birthday is. I used to book a week off to do my own thing, but now working in education it’s not possible. Although that feeling of September being special still stands for now despite it being an exceptionally busy month.

3. Do you have a permanent spot to hobby at, setup and tear down prior to getting your craft on, have a mobile station to take your creativity on the road, leave a trail of rubble in your wake, etc?

A. Yes, a desk in the corner of the living room permanently setup. The wife has a craft room upstairs which we plan to move to a bigger room, so the desk will be moved up there at some point in the future and also a permanent airbrush booth installed.

[sundancer 42900xp 3]

If it’s not overstepping how about these for questions?

Nope, totally fine. Everyone can ship in.

1. I have a cunning plan to use as much reference material as I can find… (in SW:L mainly). Other systems… I tend to go nuts. (see: my sparkly space marines)
2. August. It’s warm, summer holidays and it’s my month of birth.
3. Uh sore topic… mobile pain(t)station that goes on and off the workdesk in my office (note: it’s not home office as such because one is self employed) But normally my PS sits on top of m Legion transport boxes and gives me bad looks because I havn’t painted in what feels like ages….

And it’s finally weekend…

[bali 3441xp 4]

Since Free finally got her announcement (long ago scooped by @sundancer) perhaps we should dub today Free-day 😉

[blinky465 17027xp 3]

I wandered over looking for this live Inifinity Playthrough that was trailed on Twitter and stumbled on the forums instead. Everyone seems to be saying “hi” to @fcostin and it’d be downright rude not to – welcome to the party, Free. Where all the cool kids get to hang out and talk about cool stuff like the cool cats we are; no, it’s not an online collection of Roy Croppers – *we* are the cool kids. The rest of the world just doesn’t know it yet….

@bali has stepped up nicely this week to keep the conversation going

1. When painting do you start with a plan in mind for your color scheme, go with the flow, work off reference material, enjoy the look of grey plastic/metal to much to ever cover it, etc? Sometimes I go with the flow, but it invariably ends up disappointing so, where possible, I slavishly follow an existing design – usually GW box art (those guys seem to know what they’re doing)

2. What’s your favorite month and why? May. It’s (usually) the month of Brighton’s Fringe Festival, artists open house weekends, it’s still spring so everything is new and fresh, but it’s also quite warm (and on a good year, warm enough even to take the first dip in the sea of the year) the days get longer, everyone just seems happier and friendlier when the sun is out. Having a nice day out in May, knowing you’ve still June, July, August and September still to come is a real spirit-raiser!

3. Do you have a permanent spot to hobby at, setup and tear down prior to getting your craft on, have a mobile station to take your creativity on the road, leave a trail of rubble in your wake, etc? I have a (permanent) shelf set up with paints and lighting etc. in my wife’s “artist studio” (it was a downstairs bedroom for when her mother came to live with us, but having built an extension on the house it seemed silly to have an empty spare room once she was no longer with us, so Nick turned it into her art studio). I have a workshop at the bottom of the garden where I do 3d printing and laser cutting and terrain building, but for mini painting, nothing beats sitting indoors in the warm with the radio on!

Pledge – I’m working on something electronic for a project one of the other nerds OTT members is working on, so I reckon it’s only fair I get that finished this week. Spoilers? Nah, you’ll see…..

Music? It was very nearly Soul Asylum and yet more 90s rock. But I’ve been playing guitar this week and really listening – like actually listening, almost note-by-note – to a lot of bluesy tunes. So here’s just a lovely tune:

 

[demonsub 12746xp 3]

Ah, questions.

1. When painting do you start with a plan in mind for your color scheme, go with the flow, work off reference material, enjoy the look of grey plastic/metal to much to ever cover it, etc?

1. Bit of a mix for me. I usually go into a paint job with a rough idea of a colour scheme, and then work it out with my brush and adapt as I go. If I’m painting, say a goblin riding a giant pug, then I’ll look up pictures on the web to get the pug right, such as what areas are dark on the pug’s face.

2. What’s your favorite month and why?

2. May I think, because it’s not too hot yet, not freezing cold, Easter is gone and Christmas is ages yet so plenty of time to get on with things.

3. Do you have a permanent spot to hobby at, setup and tear down prior to getting your craft on, have a mobile station to take your creativity on the road, leave a trail of rubble in your wake, etc?

3. I have a permanent spot for the time being and for the last year or so. I use my wargaming table which I set up soon after lockdown to paint at in the front room. When all this madness ends and we can Wargames again with real people I’ll have to occasionally move my hobby stuff but it’ll be back the next day.

 

[crazyredcoatParticipant 13642xp 5]

A little bit behind again this week, chaps. Busy week with assignments and such. Pledge, I guess, is to weather my Panzer IV. All the details and decals are done, just needs a bit of beating up in the paintwork now. I might put up a project log of the basic paintwork later this evening, but I might save it, too. Not all the decals are on there, just because I do HAVE the schurtzen (my apologies for a misspelling) I just left it off for painting and didn’t prime it yet. It will have the numbers on it, though.

As for questions…

1. When painting do you start with a plan in mind for your color scheme, go with the flow, work off reference material, enjoy the look of grey plastic/metal to much to ever cover it, etc?

I usually ALWAYS work of reference material…sometime to the point that I will delay painting by months or more just to get all the details that I inevitably can’t fit onto the mini at the scale I have… I am not a fan of metal minis, mostly (shock horror!) and if you leave them un-primed they do start to oxidise somewhat…

2. What’s your favorite month and why?

Don’t have one. Time is time. One moment is the same as another.

3. Do you have a permanent spot to hobby at, setup and tear down prior to getting your craft on, have a mobile station to take your creativity on the road, leave a trail of rubble in your wake, etc?

I have a small folding table that I work on. I got it for drawing diagrams and sketches on for school…then immediately took it over with hobby…I do need to sort out my supplies a little better…

Here’s the Panzer IV, thus far:

Went with a cross for the aerial identification, for reasons.

[thedace 9993xp 4]

Morning folks.

1. When painting do you start with a plan in mind for your color scheme, go with the flow, work off reference material, enjoy the look of grey plastic/metal to much to ever cover it, etc?

I will normally have an idea in mind but a lot of the time this can change. A prime example of this was on an Abyssal Dwarf I recently painted.

I started off trying to do a hologram effect on the cloak but to my eyes it just didn’t suit the model.

I started over and did a red and black clock which I thought looked a lot better for the model.

2. What’s your favorite month and why?

Can I have June and July? Lots of festivals, UK games expo and my Birthday.

3. Do you have a permanent spot to hobby at, setup and tear down prior to getting your craft on, have a mobile station to take your creativity on the road, leave a trail of rubble in your wake, etc?

I have a hobby room but it’s always an absolute mess and crammed full with minis and games.

 

 

[danlee 22433xp 4]

This week’s pledge is to paint my last Dweghom model and then to finish the basing for the army.

 

1.  When painting do you start with a plan in mind for your color scheme, go with the flow, work off reference material, enjoy the look of grey plastic/metal to much to ever cover it, etc? – I always plan out the colour scheme in advance. I find if I don’t I waste most of my painting time trying to pick the next colour to apply.
2. What’s your favorite month and why? – I don’t have one. Each stage of the year has its won strengths and weaknesses for me.
3. Do you have a permanent spot to hobby at, setup and tear down prior to getting your craft on, have a mobile station to take your creativity on the road, leave a trail of rubble in your wake, etc? – I have a painting station that I can move between a high shelf (above children/cat access height) and my desk.

[irredeemable 3742xp 3]

Hails all,

Pledge for the weekend is to continue the glacial progress being made on my Reikland Reavers. However, the end is now actually in sight. The painting itself has been finished and I’m moving onto transfers today. Transfers are something I’ve had mixed results with in the past but I was really happy with the finish I got on my Admech after using Microset and Micrsol. This time I’m putting transfers on some quite uneven surfaces so I’ve decided to paint the areas with Ard Coat beforehand and then give a coat of Lahmian Medium afterwards to tone down the gloss finish. I have a test piece drying as I type this so I’ll give it a look shortly and see how I feel.

Questions:

1. I paint a lot of different minis for different games so in the name of consistency I usually stick with set colour schemes. When I work on something more individual like the Batman Miniatures Game then I get a bit more playful. I’ll still have an overall idea of where I want to go but I experiment a lot more on the way there as I know I won’t have to remember what I’m doing to match another mini six months later.

2. December. I’m a Christmas nut and I love the whole buzz of it all month.

3. I’m currently set up at my gaming table as it’s been sadly ungamed on for months but usually I have a table set up in a room upstairs that I work from. Only time I move is when I have a lot of airbrushing to do as I don’t have proper ventilation.

@crazyredcoat

That tank looks stunning. That sort of historical gaming is something I constantly have to hold myself back from. My housemate is a war history geek and it would be great to have a game he wanted to play but I already play so many things.

Sounds…

Aside from mundane stuff like work and training, generally the only thing I regularly go to is live music and it has been sorely missed this year. I’ve bought tickets to loads of streamed gigs and I love how many musicians and bands are getting together (digitally at least) to play music.

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