Bottled 22 liters of Brown ale today and tore a chunk off my hand putting the darned screwtops on >_< d'oh. On the bright side, the beer smalls good. As in not beerlike. I think we made a good choice on the kit. They are now carbonating in the storage room. did I mention we now have a storage room? I emptied out all the modelling and painting stuff ( Read more... )

Why must CanPost only buzz when I'm doing detail work? I had to repaint almost an entire helmet!

GRR.

-Jock

For those who read this journal and are in Regina on Sunday, I'm doing a Starship Troopers demo at Reader's downtown on that day. It'll be downstairs as it's Wargaming day. I have the Skinnies painted up and should be able to demo with them and we'll see if we can't get some plasma bug goodness into the mix ( Read more... )

So, I'm done the figs I was working on and dad needs the camera back.. so of course, it's completely cloudy out and I can't get decent lighting no matter what I do with the flash, extra lights and such. so I present incredibly crappy pics of the finished works. They're a lot brighter and smoother than this in real life, but I'm on a short time span ( Read more... )

He is the Law! But he still needs some blending. I hate blues.
The Infiltrator Bug, after the Gooey Kablooie. The fig of him in power armor is still being worked on.
The Infiltrator's bright pink backside. Go on, I know you're curious.

Why are the bugs so much easier to paint than anything else?
-Jock

I did more painting. I took pictures of the WIPs. These pictures are, amazingly enough, not overexposed ro too bright. I can't upload pics because my webspace is down.

gar

-Jock

http://cultist.demoni.ca/Dreddweb.png
http://cultist.demoni.ca/bikeweb.png

Did a bit more on them today. mostly touch ups. Hopefully next pics will have better lighting control

-Jock

And painting project P is photgraphed. Here it is, the ginormous Plasma Bug for starship Troopers.

A Full Body Shot (110 kb)
With (soon to be ex-living) Private "Link" Shorten (123 kb)
And it Glows! (77 kb)The pics don't really do it justice. The digital format makes some of the shading look blocky and even the size comparison doesn't really ( Read more... )

Meadmaking diary ( Read more... )

Okee, inked my troopers, they're jsut awaiting minor details like adding yellow to the helmet lamps and basing before I seal them ( Read more... )