Stitched Together raiding both the sewing matching and knitting basket
Smoky/mirrored Bad Dreams crew. \/\/007!
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Von Schill w-i-p
Lord Chompy Bits and The Dreamer, based in smoke and mirrors theme… this theme will go in all of the Bad Dreams box.
Lord Chompy Bits and The Dreamer, based in smoke and mirrors theme… this theme will go in all of the Bad Dreams box.
Another work in progress…Coppelius.
Been away a while. Got myself Bad Dreams and started with Chompy.
I started work on scene-shopping my Kythera table, based on a gear pattern layout from the Wikipedia on the Antikythera Mechanism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/antikythera_mechanism
This is a basic beginning, and the blue paint tape is WAY liberal for the 3x3 play area. I’m planning lots more for each level, henges, standing stones, flying sky claws, altars. I got a Reaper “Altar of Evil” for just such an occasion.
My former McMourning partner in Malifaux is now running Dark Debts w/ Jakob Lynch. For Brilliance counters, I channeled “Breaking Bad” and did a set of “Heisenberg Meth” counters.
The chips are translucent sculpey baked on cardboard, a little “done” and topped with floral “sea” glass bits.
Paintshop
So I finially got my basement presentable. This means the gigantic crafting table I inherited from the former tenant (probably a good 8’ wide by 12’ long) is now clear enough to run both scene-making/painting at one end and a full complement for Malifaux (or hell, anything really) at the other end. Win!
Also, in the way that I do, I have a ton of Malifaux to paint up. This means that instead, I’ve bought some Reaper and GW stuff (redlined for final clearance at a hobby store!) mostly for the fun of putting it together. It’s weird; I have some kind of preference for assembling Cavalry units. Plus Son-of-Skips loves the horses: much to my wife’s chagrin, his favorite is the Spectral Cavalry from Reaper’s Warlord line: http://www.amazon.com/Reaper-14149-Warlord-Spectral-Cavalry/dp/B000PJ1WFI.
Now that I have the room to, I’m planning a necropolis scene with the Reaper skeletons/Spectral Cavalry as set dressings. And, bonus, I’m gonna do it Terraclips style with cast-off framing mat scraps from a couple local places. KEEN.
The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.
A beautiful 1927 letter of advice from Sherwood Anderson to his teenage son (via explore-blog)
(Source: , via explore-blog)
Happy 2013!
Spent the after-lunch of New Year with SonOfSkips, who acted as color consultant. Most of the Peacekeeper’s body was done based in Modelmaster Jet Exhaust with all sorts of Modelmaster metalics on top of that. Claws are done in Tamiya Gold Leaf and bloodied with Testors Red Gold. “No Daddy, use the GOLD gold; that bronze is yucky.” I can’t make this up. Anyway, his gun needs a) repair since the jerkface harpoon snapped off and b) colored— likely gonna puss out and just run a Gunmetal.
The Warden is Testors navy blue in most places with Modelmaster Gold for the torso, and Testors Broze undercoats on the arms. The copper was dirtied up a little with Tamiya’s version of Bronze (which dulls others wonderfully), and the ARC reactor/hoses are Tamiya sky blue.
Both have Dark Age Groundwerks bases. PK’s the 50mm “Mosaic Temple” and W’s is the 40mm “Sandbagged.” I’ve officially converted to base-insert-love. Next planned crew is Spirits of Vengeance with the Asian Zen bases on clear green Wyrd bases. SNAP.
