What have you painted/converted today

[Silver Wolf]

Actually Jubal, I'm using Photobucket.

And yeah, it's clunky.

[Jubal]

I don't use any other machines really... it's entirely possible it's some software-end oddity or internet service provision issue on some level, but I'm sure it's not the connection speed and there's nothing singularly odd about my setup, so I imagine it could be something that affects a certain minority of users perhaps.

Hm - on further research, apparently the i.imgur.com domain reacts badly to some otherwise normally set up firewalls and DNS settings and suchlike. This is annoying, as all that sort of stuff in this house is under my Pa's thumb and he's too busy to get round to making tweaks like that if I want them.

SW: Yes, I can see all your pics, it's FK's that I'm having issues with!

[Silver Wolf]

My soon to be mounted Empire BSB.



Still waiting for some parts to arrive.
These two, to be exact:

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I'm going to scrape off the Blood Angel insignia from the banner. Possibly even some of those blood drops.

[Jubal]

I don't see why companies insist on sculpting insignia onto banners, it looks weird when they're supposed to be a flat sheet of cloth!

[Silver Wolf]

Probably because it makes painting easier...
Sometimes it looks good too, but it is sort of weird.

I was going to take this Space marine company banner, but it was too expensive:

[Pentagathus]

Why not jus make your banner from a wee bit of cloth or paper?

[Jubal]

Did you always use the word "wee", Penty, or have you picked that up from spending too much time in Scotland?

[Silver Wolf]

Why not jus make your banner from a wee bit of cloth or paper?

I don't like the look of cloth and paper banners.
Plastic banners look much better in my opinion.

Plasticard is the only possible alternative for me.

[Jubal]

A cloth one could surely look good if you stiffened the cloth? I can see why not having folds/wind effect would be bad, but I think if you treated the cloth right you could fix that. A plastic banner is probably simpler then doing that though!

[Flamekebab]

A cloth one could surely look good if you stiffened the cloth?

Not necessarily. Usually it ends up looking like a small scrap of fabric rather than a huge banner shrunk down.

As a greenskin player it's thankfully an easy issue to avoid!

[Jubal]

Interesting. Why do you think that is? The size of the weave?

[Flamekebab]

Something like that, yes. Perhaps a sufficiently thin micro-weave would look right but it seems a lot of effort to go to when green stuff or plastic works just as well.

As for why companies mould details onto banners that's an easy one. Free hand painting banners is pretty much an art form in and of itself. Moulded details can be painted in the same way as normal models.

[Jubal]

I'm just the awkward type who never actually wants the moulded details because I've come up with some complex backstory that demands a new banner

[Flamekebab]

A sharp knife and a file would be what the doctor prescribes then!

[Jubal]

I would generally just buy a different plain banner - I'm too cack handed/impatient to make a neat job of filing off fine banner details!