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Re: What have you painted/converted today
« Reply #105 on: May 02, 2015, 05:47:44 PM »
Finally did some painting.
This is still WIP, there's still a lot work left and I need to get some yellow paint to actually finish it.  :P

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Re: What have you painted/converted today
« Reply #106 on: July 29, 2015, 03:04:13 PM »
A horrible work in progress shot of my Knights Panther.
Just to keep the thread alive. ;)



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Re: What have you painted/converted today
« Reply #107 on: August 10, 2015, 02:21:32 PM »
A small update.

First of all... My finished BFSP night goblin boss:






Next, my converted (and still work in progress) night goblin warboss and boss:




And finally, some changes I made to my night goblin BSB:




Cheers people!
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Re: What have you painted/converted today
« Reply #108 on: August 10, 2015, 04:23:47 PM »
The pet squig is cute :)
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Re: What have you painted/converted today
« Reply #109 on: August 10, 2015, 07:19:59 PM »
My girlfriend said the same.
She persuaded me to paint the extra boss for her as a gift (which I was planning to sell before that). :P

I have another pet squig, from fanatic sprue. Mounted on a base and painted and placed in a unit of 50 night goblins to make them less monotonous.
I'll remember to take the picture next time. ;D
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Re: What have you painted/converted today
« Reply #110 on: August 10, 2015, 08:49:19 PM »
I think a diorama of a squig pet shop would be amazing to make sometime :P
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Re: What have you painted/converted today
« Reply #111 on: August 10, 2015, 11:03:55 PM »
I can imagine it on a 60x40 base.

A base full of rocks, a tree and a cage or two in the back of the base.
Squigs jumping around, one squig hopper and two goblins running after them, completely unaware of the big squig behind them.

Classic orc humor. :P
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Re: What have you painted/converted today
« Reply #112 on: August 17, 2015, 01:39:46 PM »
Here's the second one, this time for my girlfriend:



I also fixed mine a bit, adding a few highlights. The matte varnish I used really soaked up some of the fine details, so I had to redo them.
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Re: What have you painted/converted today
« Reply #113 on: August 17, 2015, 01:44:19 PM »
Good squigglings, sir!

Here's what I've been up to:

I've always wanted one and now I have one:

It's a pterodactyl!

It's also a hot wire cutter. The design keeps the wire taut even when it expands due to heat. It also folds fairly flat for storage.
The power supply was the biggest hurdle but I managed to get a suitable amount of juice out of an ancient PC power supply that I had lying around.

So. Results. Yes.

Initial attempts:





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Re: What have you painted/converted today
« Reply #114 on: August 17, 2015, 03:00:55 PM »
It won't display the last two pictures :(
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Re: What have you painted/converted today
« Reply #115 on: August 17, 2015, 03:10:36 PM »
I've always wanted to do that.  ;D

I love those rocks. They remind me of the golden age of Warhammer.
Back when The White Dwarf magazine used to be filled with hobby articles and cool battle reports.
I especially like them painted orange, along with a few hills and craters. Like some sort of Mars-like desert planet or fantasy badlands.

It won't display the last two pictures :(

Huh, weird...
I can see them both.
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Re: What have you painted/converted today
« Reply #116 on: August 17, 2015, 03:45:58 PM »
They've turned up now. Weird. IMGUR seems to be a bit erratic as an image host.
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Re: What have you painted/converted today
« Reply #117 on: August 17, 2015, 03:48:36 PM »
I was just getting into it when things like that still existed in 1998. Fairly soon after that I feel like it died on its arse  :-\

There's one piece of terrain that really stands out to me. I really want to create something similar. This:

(Album with more pictures)

I've got some estimates on the dimensions and now I have a foam cutter to make some sort of base. Maybe it'll finally happen?

It won't display the last two pictures :(
They should also be links to higher resolution versions of the pictures. They're thumbnails generated by Imgur as whatever version of SMF we're using doesn't handle that sort of thing automatically.

They've turned up now. Weird. IMGUR seems to be a bit erratic as an image host.
I suspect the issue is more with your connection than their servers. They were built to handle Reddit after all.

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Re: What have you painted/converted today
« Reply #118 on: August 17, 2015, 03:54:30 PM »
It's not my connection - it's my experience of using Imgur. Their server speeds seem fine when images do turn up - it's not a bandwidth issue or anything - but they often seem to be unreliable in just getting the damn images to load, I've no idea why.
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Re: What have you painted/converted today
« Reply #119 on: August 17, 2015, 06:05:29 PM »
On all machines or just your laptop? On all connections or just yours?

I ask because Imgur is the most stable image host I've ever used. The fact that so many wargamers still use the antiquated monstrosity that is Photobucket baffles me on a regular basis!