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    Stan Johansen

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    in reply to: Salute 2019 Video! #112227
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    The moon base looked really cool.  I liked the Back to the Future tables.

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    in reply to: Higgledy Piggledy? #112035
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    I guess I prefer a lived in imperfect look for desert style, but i’ll choose pre-painted every time.  I like your stuff better but the Battlefront stuff is pre-painted so I have Battlefront.

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    Better still they are out for delivery! Voot voot!

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    in reply to: Black Tree Design #111837
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    I got a shipping notice yesterday for my order from Jan 30.

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    in reply to: Burning Sands #111622
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    You will create more long run value for your customers and business with the long explanations.

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    Nice job there.

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    in reply to: 15mm Red Rocket Filling Station #109686
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    It’s very cool, the size is good, and nicely done.  Thank you for sharing.  I do have one question.  Where is Dogmeat?

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    in reply to: Vikings! #108729
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    The availability and cost of various fabrics and dyes is the issue, not whether people liked color.

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    in reply to: Vikings! #108677
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    Nice work.   If I may suggest the orange lichen isn’t working.  Top notch otherwise.

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    Very cool.  Somehow the black foam core just works.  Implies the walls well enough.  I might paint the edges if I ever did it.

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    Economies

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    in reply to: Do You Keep A Painting Log? #105128
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    Mine is the recipe book for the painting schemes, not the figure inventory or competition record.

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    in reply to: Thud & Blunder – progress report #105102
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    That sounds great, count me in.

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    in reply to: Falsification of Reports #104574
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    When I get home from game night my wife will ask “How did you do?” or “Did you win?”  Those reports to her are always perfectly factually accurate.

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    That’s a really nicely designed and executed project.  Instead of having tons of tiles and bits it seems like you have more manageable set pieces that still offer the ability to customize with modular internal parts.  Well done!

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    in reply to: Luck as a character trait? #101240
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    Sounds fine to me.  If it’s a game no problem.  If one was trying to create a simulation, kriegsspiel, or fiction (I shudder at the thought of any of them) then luck may be inappropriate.

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    in reply to: Biblical Sands, or Samson the Barbarian #101130
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    Nice vignette!

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    in reply to: Message to Michael #100765
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    Coming from someone who does at least half of the parenting, good on you.  You get a huge pass.  Hope you get caught up soon.  Families with “present” dads are resilient as heck.

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    I think its fine.  It’s the nature of coupons.  Sometimes you have them sometimes you don’t.  No rage from me here even though I trust FB nilch.

    On the other hand good companies like Northstar have a nice email newsletter that would usually keep me current on all their offers.

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    Not so much people complaining that a game is broken but more along the lines of “this game needs that”.  One of our local fellows is obsessed with opportunity fire from all the ASL he plays and if its not in a game you bet we hear about it.  Granted he has softened on the matter after much teasing.

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    in reply to: Is Saga Fantasy? #99514
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    Pretty much.  The battle boards are more magic than fighting tactics.  I love Saga and Saxons.

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    in reply to: Crom’s Anvil – 15mm Fantasy #99260
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    Kinda big in my mind.  Those are entire trunks.  I’d just leave it off.  People can drill and add their own stakes.

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    What about a camouflage spider?  I creeped myself out looking for an image, you are on your own.  It would have little rocks all over it.

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    Those guys are cool.  That should be a full range.

    I’ll give you a pre-order or kickstarter for them.

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    They do look good! You know, you could not just put them out as tiles, but could probably even make some different edges to represent walls and doors and windows without having to go full height. So you could use them to make huge palaces for our heroes to sneak through.

    I do think the 2.5D system is better than full height walls.  Easier to reach in and move figures about.

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    in reply to: Don't get caught on the burning sand #98974
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    Yes, yes.  Kids started school, had to finish taxes, and am launching a new business imminently.  Just got back to the painting table after spending a couple nights cleaning up the game room and catching up on all my painting notes.  I write everything down that I do.

    I also shifted lanes to start working on Sons of Mars.  I have a few figs to finish today tomorrow then I’ll change lanes back.

    I have ~10 characters ready to go for Burning Sands which I hope to start into this week.  I also ordered an Oasis from Battlefront.  Once I have that together I should be back at Burning Sands.

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    He forges mighty heroes with that hammer, for swords and armour he uses his fists!!

    Now I understand,  It is ‘Mike’s Mighty Hammer +5’.

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    I know its fantasy but that’s a 2 handed hammer.  A smith would typically have a one handed hammer with the other used to hold thongs.  Perhaps he has some thralls holding the piece of work and he needs the large hammer to forge it.  I think of that hammer as the one he wields when the Picts invade, not so much smithing with.

    These 2 are your finest figures to date.  Great show!  I’m seeing a whole range out of the spearman.

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    Water elemental.

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    in reply to: Blogs or forums for project logs? #97931
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    Interesting how we each can have a different experience.  I’m almost the opposite of Phil.  I find myself looking through my Feedly feeds and more or less checking as read 75% of the posts after having looked at the loading screen.  Same old boring stuff or lousy pictures I just don’t have the time or interest.  If I go through a forum and someone has taken the time to promote the post and, hold your breath Norm, embedded a decent image then I am twice or more likely to go to the site and read the post.  If I see some replies on the forum to the blog post announcement then I can surmise there is some interest and perhaps some worthiness.  I have my own personally biased measurement system for worthiness.  One mans trash is another mans treasure.

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    Did you send a message to the Kickstarter asking for an explanation?

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    I think either are fine.  I don’t think there is one answer.  Mike has TWW so its kinda of like his own blog so I can see his preference to post then tweet.  I have my google account and everything linked to it.  As long as they stay in business and I continue to want to use their services I’m very comfortable with them hosting the blog.  I could put it on my NAS but I’d rather not have internet traffic making requests onto my personal storage device.  If I was running my own company I’d consider hosting on my own device.  I can leave blogger at anytime I want, taking the code to host it elsewhere.

    Some advantages of a blog are you can draft your posts, you get a little bit more robust html or BBcode editing, and usually hosting the images with the blog.  It just feels like you own it more even though you may be paying for it or at least agreeing to its terms of service.  You have to do that (ToS) on forums as well so no difference there.

    Not too many people are using RSS feed readers anymore so you pretty much have to advertise your latest post on TMP, TWW, Facebook, YouTube if you want traffic.  Ever since Google killed Reader I suspect most bloggers don’t have gains in followers.  That’s really a dead metric.  Pageviews is a better one.  I use Feedly for my feeds though I liked Google Reader better.

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    Everyone Gets a Trophy Syndrome symptom. Piffle…

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    in reply to: An Efficient Hobbyist? #97492
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    One possibility is that you are not thinning your paint enough.  If you put it all on in one layer then if it’s the wrong tint/tone/shade you have to repaint.  If you put it on thin you can correct.  Of course when it comes to efficiency thinning paints or basically more work on painting decreases it.  Laffer curve.

    What you need to do is get it right the first time, so I would suggest also picking up “Pocket Guide To Mixing Color”. I don’t use this much because the shading comes more naturally to me, but I wouldn’t be without it.  Both the color wheel and guide together shouldn’t run more than a single Osprey.

    Sorry for the complete Hijack, Mike!

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    Red-orange is the complimentary color to blue green so the shield does not look out of place.  If you throw in the yellow then its close to a red/yellow/blue triad.  There will always be the guy who has no style.

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    Uniforms always seem easier to paint because you can usually find lots of nice pictures and blogs where people give their formulas.  Tints, Tones, Shades of early Persians who could really say?  I suspect most folks paint too colorfully.  I don’t blame them or mind.  It looks good on the table or display. I doubt heartily all the fancy and intricate shield designs of the dark ages where the norm.  Archaeologists and historians tend to dig up a relic and that gets modeled as standard when we really don’t know the frequency of what the common soldier looked like.

    Monochromatic schemes are fun to paint and forgiving.  Went too light or dark in a spot, no problem, its a shadow or a glint of light.

    One last thing.  When you use the color wheel you are not only trying to make each figure have a harmonious color scheme but you want to be harmonious with the feller he/she is standing next to or grouped with.  The unit above is designed to be in the orange to yellow-orange to yellow analogous scheme while the individual figures have a mixture of schemes some as analogous some with various complimentary schemes.   You’ll see when you get the wheel.

    Let us know how it turns out.

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    The color wheel was extensively used for me to paint these guys.  It can’t be used alone.  I first researched what fabric colors where available then created the schemes based on what I thought would be the frequency of the fabrics and colors.  The color wheel helps with picking the eye pleasing combos from the period colors available.

    Read about them here: http://moveshootassault.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2018-02-03T01:11:00-07:00&max-results=1

    These guys benefited from the wheel as well.  I’m terrible at color theory but there are ways to overcome it.

    Here: http://moveshootassault.blogspot.com/2015/04/woodland-warrior-villagers.html


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    You don’t need to be sorry.  If you play historicals, such as myself, most of the time there probably is an Osprey that gets you most of the way there plus Google images.  But if its something that is lost in time or vague then you will still have a lot of decision making to do.  Rhoderic’s comment was not really about when you had all the colors already determined such as standardized uniforms.

    I swear by the color wheel.  It has taken my painting to places I had only wished for.  Here is a WIP.

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    • I similarly experiment with colours on figures which I then strip again. While I have my painting style well formalised, I still constantly struggle with colour choices. No matter how much I try, I don’t seem to have an artists’ eye for colours or a good grip on colour theory.

    Do you have a color wheel? That helps me a lot.

    TBH I’m not 100% clear on what precisely a colour wheel does, in an advanced sense. But I’ve seen them around and have often meant to delve into the matter.

    Get one. You will spend less time getting the colors wrong.  Search Color wheel on Amazon.  Should come up in the first few results.

    You can spin it around to play with different combos that look good.

     

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    • I similarly experiment with colours on figures which I then strip again. While I have my painting style well formalised, I still constantly struggle with colour choices. No matter how much I try, I don’t seem to have an artists’ eye for colours or a good grip on colour theory.

    Do you have a color wheel?  That helps me a lot.

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