[unofficial weekender] Yo, I hear you like organizers. So we got you organizers.

[sundancer 42900xp 0]

It’s Monday my friends.

A new week awaits.

Sunday was rather unproductive somehow. I really have a hard time with the minis from Heresy Miniatures. But it’s not the fault of the minis per se but I really lack some serious skills for blending and highlighting… and patience.. I have zero patience.

How do you tackle minis that feel “to daunting”?

[limburger 21668xp 0]

How do you tackle minis that feel “to daunting”?

Easy … I take them to my mind palace where I assemble and paint them to perfection … 😉

[sundancer 42900xp 0]

Well…. you must have a rather large head then XD

[crazyredcoatParticipant 13642xp 2]

Been a while, chaps; sorry about that. School has been really busy and life in general is rather stressful these days, but I had a moment so I thought I’d pop in. No pledge (midterms this week) but I have updated my project with what I’ve gotten done in the past few months. A few pics below.

As for storage woes, I’m currently storing a lot of stuff at my parents just because they have a huge basement for such things and my flat is way too small and cramped. I often just store things in old cardboard boxes that things get delivered in. It’s not great, but it works.

For daunting minis, @sundancer, I tend to find that practicing a technique on a ‘spare’ mini works well for me. I’d rather take my time to make it look good that have to constantly strip it and start again.

[sundancer 42900xp 1]

Welcome back…. weird tank for SW:L there XD

[limburger 21668xp 2]

@sundancer : it’s bigger on the inside 😉

Did I have a plan ?
oh yes … but not really.
Got some of stuff from the OTT store today (got to support OTT, right?).
And got myself a facemask + filters to use for airbrushing, so that stops me from procastinating with that … at least that’s the theory. I think I cracked the code on that one, but not sure if I got the correct bits for everything as they sure like to make things hard for no reason at all. That stuff will have to wait for the weekend though, because I don’t have time to set it all up on a weekday.

Anything else ?
Yeah … people are *beeps*.
The Coven kickstarter was cancelled because some *beeps* kept complaining about a lack of minis … for a game that’s mini agnostic and had a focus on getting the rules done first. It was past the first few stretchgoals too so the book was getting the upgrades it needed (IMHO).

oh … and I remembered that I have a certain secret project that I could spend time on, because it could do with some sparkle and jazzing up. Need to find art that is cheap, public domain and fun.

[sundancer 42900xp 0]

If it’s PD it’s usually free… maybe look on fiver for someone who makes something for a small buck 😉

 

[demonsub 12746xp 2]

The Coven kickstarter was cancelled because some *beeps* kept complaining about a lack of minis

Well, “beeb”!!!

Thats a real shame. Ok they are going to develop more miniatures and bring it back sometime in the future but they could of a least brought what they had out. Why are people never happy with what’s on offer and always demand more with Kickstarters (and most other things). I hadn’t backed it but I was certainly curious and a potential last minute backer just for the book.

How do you tackle minis that feel “to daunting”?

I try to break the miniature down into sections by blocking in some basic colours and hopefully making the miniature simpler to understand. Then I can start on the detail.

 

[danlee 22433xp 2]

Work in progress. I think this will take a few weeks… https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1706063/

 

[limburger 21668xp 1]

@demonsub ’cause people are the Wurst(tm)!

I don’t understand that attitude myself, because often it causes creators to over promise stuff which causes horrible delays or complete failure as they run into too many problems.

I suspect that the creators had a bigger target to reach somewhere amongst the stretchgoals and the numbers weren’t adding up, because I kind of doubt that they actually ‘listened’ to the screaming *beeps*.

otoh … not sure what is worse : their listed target and actual target not matching or their need to please the ungrateful little shits.

We’ll see how it goes when it re-launches.

@danlee is that one of them big toy orks that are somehow cheaper than the official 32 mm plastic character model kits from GW ?

[crazyredcoatParticipant 13642xp 0]

@sundancer I’ll get to the snowspeeder at some point…though it probs won’t be much use on Hoth once I’m done with the camo I’m thinking of putting on it. 😛

[sundancer 42900xp 1]

Since it’s a “T-47 Airspeeder” it can have any paintjob you want… I’ve seen many jungle camos and such things.

[fourtytwoParticipant 12847xp 1]

How do you tackle minis that feel “to daunting”?

 

I paint them.

[sundancer 42900xp 0]

That’s easy for you to say… you can paint 😉

[crazyredcoatParticipant 13642xp 0]

I couldn’t remember it’s technical name; I’ve called them snowspeeders for over 20 years now, I think. Old habits die hard. 😛 I started the base on it. Made sure to not cover the arcs just in case I ever play the game. 😛

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