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Showing posts with label Hobby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hobby. Show all posts

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Review: Liquid Green stuff

Hello all,
I picked up a bottle of this new product today, and so far I am impressed.  as its name says its Liquid Green stuff, retails here for $4.45 for a GW paint pot sized amount.  I tried it out tonight on a conversion I have been working on and have to say I love it.  If you have seams or small cracks in a model, say where two parts join, then this is your friend.

So here are some Pros and Cons
Cons:
  • Dries fast, leave the pot open and you will ruin it fast.  When I say dries fast I mean minutes after application.
  • Water soluble, this is a double edged blade in this regard, the negative side is water based paints can liquify it again, however your primer should seal it.
  • You can't sculpt with it, don't even try to.
  • Dries a little soft.
  • requires a little clean up and can hide details if you over brush.
Pros:
  • Amazing control over where it goes, you brush it on.  Just use an old stiff brush.
  • Dries fast, speeds up the time from assembly to painting.
  • Is water soluble, I used a damp cloth to clean up an area of over brush.  Also if you spill any its an easy cleanup.  Will stain your brush green.
  • You can file and Sand it.
After a few attempts at using it, like all our tools, you get better at using it.  I find this stuff a wonder, and will be using it to seal seams in tanks, and joints in models.  I recommend you get a pot and try it out, even works with warmahordes (Just clean your resin first).

Friday, April 15, 2011

Salamanders Librarian WIP

Greetings friends and fiends,
Today's post is my Salamanders Librarian, I decided to try my hand at scratch building one and after a week of fiddling around with how I wanted to pose him I finally started to work.  This is my first major work with Greenstuff beyond filling cracks and gaps.  Not to mention my first attempt at reposing a model.  I know I have to learn a lot more on how to do this type of thing, and I welcome comments and critiques on my work.  His backpack and shoulders are left unattached so I can paint him up without them getting in the way.
So here are the pictures after the Jump (I'll post better shots after I fix my camera.)

Monday, March 28, 2011

Herald of Khorne WIP Part 2

Well here he is my completed herald of Khorne with a BSB,  as previously stated I modeled him wearing Armor of Khorne.  A very simple conversion but everyone has to start some place.

I have a few more heralds to construct, namely a second Herald of Khorne without a BSB, a Herald of Tzeentch with winged Horror Gift, and a Herald on a jugger.  So without further text here are more pictures of my herald and how it looks in my nearly finished pack of bloodletters (I still need to try and freehand the standard.)
I am still learning how to use my crappy 4 year old hand me down camera,  Thanks Zerodaimaru For the advice on the little flower icon.

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Lets get this Started.

Greetings,

So this is my first post and I thought I would start it off with my first Salamander Model.  Currently I am using my cell camera for taking pictures, but I will be "Borrowing" my wifes camera to make use of the macro function.

Another thing I hope to do in the near future is build a cheap light box for better picture lighting.  I think I am going to use the one outlined in this post, How to Make An Inexpensive Light Tent – DIY.

So what do I plan on doing with this blog? I want to use it to document my progress in my hobby.  To post images of my models, and as a record of my progression.  I will also be posting experiments I am doing with basing and customizations.  And if your lucky I might even add some interesting code snippets for stuff I do for work that I could not find any reliable up to date examples of on the web.
Thats about all for today.