Weekender XLBS: Hobby Burnout Help & A Time Travelling Mind Melter
February 11, 2018 by brennon
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All I get is a message saying “Sorry the video will be available for viewing shortly.”
Damn you vimeo, just as soon as we think we fix the buffering issue you do this to us!!!!! 😉
Yay! It is officially Sunday!
Same!
Well, It’s a “Happy Sunday” nonetheless!!
Happy Sunday,
I’m assuming whatever @warzan had to say about time travel was so on the nose that a time traveller has come back and nobbled the upload.
Someone call Elon Musk and tell him to get on a time machine now that we have proof it’s possible!
Indeed it was only a matter of time before the team said something that would eventually be the cause of the end of the world. Maybe all women have now fallen for sexy furious and refuse to have babies with anyone other than him, meaning eventually the worlds population dies off!
that or something drops off 😉
You do all realize this is what happens when you go too big on the Mind Melter.
OK, while we are waiting, what was your hobby this week? I picked up a new external mix airbrush specifically for priming that I want to try today. I got the ubiquitous portable spray booth off eBay and three bottle of Stynylrez, and I’ve assembled some Deadzone Enforcers to try out with spray priming. I’m trying to get away from aerosol cans (expensive) that require good warm weather to really use. Anyone else doing anything?
finishing off flesh on my Saga Irish and then blocking in some base colours on the clothing, heading up to the beasts later to play Lloydie in Saga 2nd edition.
How are you finding the airbrush, have you broke it out yet?
Still in the box. I don’t have a pressure regulator, which has me a little concerned, but I want to see how it goes today and adjust from there.
you’ll probably find that you will burn through your paint pretty quickly with no regulator, as soon as you press the trigger for paint you’ll be getting the full blast from the tank.if you’ve a sheet of plasticard practice on it. I keep one to hand for checking consistency before I spray now. Dilution of the paint is still my greatest problem, but I’m slowly getting better
It is a compressor designed for airbrushing, so I doubt the mas PSI is very high, but at this point I don’t have a gauge to measure it much less reduce it. I’ll see what happens. Fingers crossed. Well, on the none brush hand, obviously. I imagine trying to airbrush with crossed fingers is like playing nightmare mode in Doom.
A little tip I was given some time ago, when experimenting with volume and spray pattern/delivery distance, use food colouring on a sheet of white paper. The food colouring is much cheaper than paint, so it saves your paint for the actual models. Of course, some additional adjustment for the paint’s consistency may still be required, but that’ll be ‘fine tuning’. Usually, the optimum paint viscosity should be like milk, (full fat, not skimmed)! Happy Painting Sunday! ; )
@beetle How the hell can they sell a compressor without a regulator, unless its an overgrown fish tank airpump…. Easy enough to add one though, soemthing like this will do you grand https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-4-Air-Compressor-Filter-Water-Separator-Trap-Tools-Kit-With-Regulator-UK/361921423540?hash=item544432a8b4:g:tQgAAOSw39FaBWAB may need some 1/8″ to 1/4″ adaptors but other than that just bolts on. When spraying Stynylrez/UMP primer a large needle size is a must, it sprays great undiluted as long as your needle/nozzle is 0.3mm+. But the caveat is you need to really mix the paint well, with a fresh bottle i spent about 7 mins shaking it with 4 marine stainless steel m6 nuts in… Read more »
Have you using the old Army Painter method on them?
Might get the chance later to cash my rain check on Saga at a bootcamp on the sunday later this year, specially know you have 2nd edition.
I may have save enough to actually have some luggage space this year!
If do will bring my already painted vikings.
Finished up two German captured Mark IV’s for FoW Great War using Mig colours ^^
Great War miniatures … this sounds awesome! 😀
I was doing test figs for choosing a color scheme for cell-shading the minis from the Dark Souls board game. Commissioned by a friend.
What colors?
The “bad guys” are base coated with Mournfang Brown and then a fairly heavy dusting/zenith with Mechanicum Gray to desaturate it. Then a generous coat of Coelia Greenshade to give a dark mossy moldy look. Finally a moderate coat of Agrax Earthshade to pull it together and tone it down even more. The “good guys” color scheme is still in development. One version is a base of Mechanicum Gray with the zenith dusting of Mournfang Brown, then Coelia Greenshade and Agrax Earthshade. Surprisingly there is a really marked difference in the look despite the minor difference in process. The other… Read more »
I am currently painting my own copy of DS.
I am using consept art and images on the gear cards for colour inspirations.
Im keeping my palette rather dark, but when a light colour is added, I am using washes to darken them back down to keep them in the Dark Souls feel.
They are some amazing minis to paint, really enjoying them.
Took 2 Opel Blitz Bolt Action trucks to build during lunches only to have the busiest week so far at the place with me working through them all week.
So I had good intentions and carried them to the car and back 🙁
What is melting @dignity s mind ?
Why the video won’t play
I will get my coat
🙂
Haha!
he he
*twiddles virtual thumbs*
Warren is on it….or at least has woken up someone else to make it happen ^^
So is it Warren with a hammer, John with a Dremel, Az with a spreadsheet, Lance with a quiet comment, Lloyd with foam rock?
yup I’ve made it into the studio now, isn’t something I can fix from home. So having a crack at it here, sorry about this folks, this should have been picked up before now 🙁
Warren is cracking it………..oh dear Lord!
lol
It was @warzan, in the hobby hall, with a hammer!
I imagine he shouts Odin with each swing of his mighty hammer!
Try turning it off and on again.
with his hammer…….? 😀
Lol.
Happy Twiddling Sunday!
Working on some mechs?
Sweet what mechs buddy?
I wish! Gotta find some to buy! LoL Adepticon better stock up!!!
It’s Sunday!! Whether it’s a happy one is undetermined yet, but after a night of little sleep (wife has manflu?) and now this …
I’ll just lie in bed and twiddle something!
lol
Remember the podcast version is available and you can lie back and imagine my incredible physique and good looks 😉
You can always apply the wash to the white primed model before you apply your paint. 2a couple of reasons:
1. It reveals the details
2. While painting, the deep recesses are already coloured and it helps reduce the need to go right in with the paint brush.
3. You can ger some interesting paint effects using the wash as a pre-shade (double up with airbrush zenith highlighting if you wish). I recently got the set of Warcolours transparent paints which make an excellent combo with the technique.
You can always do a final wash in selected areas if you wish
This can only be one of three things, Coleraine has finally been attacked by North Korea as feared by Warren and a small mushroom shaped cloud rises over the River House, there is a zombie outbreak there and Justin has turned and eaten them all or aliens have decided it’s time to melt Warren’s mind and unable to tell us humans apart, as we all look alike, they have grabbed everyone and left AI doubles who can’t get their heads around out ancient technology.
I have special sunglasses to tell you all apart 😉
So you know, next week, you have to say, “I’ve come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass… and I’m all out of bubble gum.”
I will be disappointed if you don’t.
I’ve come here to chew ass and kick bubblegum, and I’m all out of ass… wait a second, that doesn’t sound right…
Nope but you were very close, its chew arse and blow b………..okay yeah I think I am wrong too!
Is there hidden x-ray buttons either side of the frame as you keep touching just before looking at sexy furious….;)
Scanner’s?
Justin must have reversed the polarity.
It was an alternate Justin from the BoW Mirror Mirror universe where he has no beard but does have full flowing locks.
I don’t think I’ve twiddled this much since watching Weird Science back in the day. Happy Sunday! I’m off for a smoke.
This may be the first Sunday I don’t burn my sausage due to the XLBS Weekender.
So point proven, didn’t burn my sausage, wrapped them in cheese before squirting my sauce on them. Was tough not to take the whole thing in one it was so nice but took my time and worked my way around it, before licking what was left off of my fingers. Gotta love a cheese and sausage butty with tomato ketchup first thing in the morning.
That sounds horrendously unhealthy…. I think I have cheese…
What is that noise? “Ak! Ak! Ak! Ak! Ak! Ak! Ak! Ak!”
I can see it now @warzan due to the time travel anomaly you created by what ever you did. The studio is now inhabited by several dozen Justins.
“Sorry This video does not exist” at least not in our dimension!
Call tech support:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2F1rFmyQmY
That’s one way to melt Warren’s mind!
I blame the Hadron Collider.
But but…. my oatmeal won’t taste the same without Warren on my 42″ 5.1 surround.
Erm… not good get settled down with my Coffee and already to go and… oh crap someone has nicked the xlbs … it does not exist… will it be like a missing episode of dr who ….
Who would be the Doctor on the XLBS show?
Well they all could be 🙂
Has there been a doctor trapped in a TV set?
is it plugged in?
have you turned it off n then on again
Goin to work on my worm FOR DUNE (not that you think something wrong).
This is a great example of community where there is not even a video to watch and we are over fifty comments hehe love being a part of Beasts of War.
Now hurry up and feed the hamster on his wheel to power that pc tower 😀
Shit we’ve all gone back in time to a world before XLBS
It seems about right that the one time I actually have time to watch XLBS on a Sunday morning is when it’s unavailable 😛
Sorry this is ruining your lie in @Warzan!
HAPPY SUNDAY !!!!! …. *waits …. Well that didn’t work … Best wishes to all in BoW land on this now rather empty Sunday evening. Now I have to find something else to paint to…. but it’ll never match Warren’s melodic voice or that sweet sickly burble as Justin’s mind melts .. ah well
@beardragon14 Perhaps if all the backstagers chant “happy Sunday” together…