Hi Trinkets! When I get the painting station finished, I'll post a pic of it. Definitely going to take a bit of time for us to get it together, but it will be done. That way, if I get busy with other stuff, I can leave it there without having to worry about needing to move it when we have company over.
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2016-08-29T13:45:51-04:00
I added a 1/4" sheet of white pvc board to the bottom part that. Then that part slides into some grooves, vertically, and holds all the paints in place so I can move everything around. I also have to paint on the dining room table and needed a good storage and movable setup. Couldn't find anything I liked, so I made it.
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2016-08-29T13:51:05-04:00
@Trinkets: Currently, nothing. Open to suggestions on what works best based on experienced people's insight. Also as to what brushes I should get, then there are the types of paints...so much to figure out before we get the room ready for painting.
...My lunch is so bland. I want to trade it in for a burger...but I need to start eating healthier. =/
Lord Zombitten 2016-08-29T13:59:29-04:00
I use an inexpensive assortment that I got at Wal-Mart. They have triangular handles. I also use acrylics from the same store.
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2016-08-29T14:02:34-04:00
Years ago, when i startes out, i went with the cheap ones from Walmart. Then after I decoded I was going to get more into painting, I grabbed a few different brands and sizes from a craft store. Either Hobby Lobby or Michaels, I can remember which. Then I broke down and got a series 7 Winsor & Newton size 1. Many people said it is one of the best brushes out there. I like it and everything, the tip is dangerously sharp, the kolinsky sable wears fantastic, holds paint great, and just feels like it is worth every penny (and it was a lot of them). But I seem to enjoy the Winsor & Newton Cotman 00 more. It was about 1/3 of the cost. It was early on in my painting that I got it and didn't take the care of it that I should have. It no longer has a pointy tip, more of a curved flat tip. The hairs, even though deformed, have not frayed. I'm not sure if it is the size, 00 vs 1 that I like more or what it is, but I like that little W&N Cotman.
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2016-08-29T14:05:05-04:00
Definitely get cheap brushes to start with until you know how to clean them, store them, and use them properly. Then, you can move up to higher quality ones if you want to.
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2016-08-29T14:06:27-04:00
I don't think we have triangle handle ones at my Walmart. They did get some new Folk Art brushes a little bit ago but I haven't tried them.
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2016-08-29T14:10:24-04:00
I mainly use sizes 00, 0, and 1. I have a decent size 000 for really fine work. There was a set of 3 brushes that came with the Vallejo paint set that I used. They were good brushes, but 2 of them didn't last as long as I would have though. I am still using the one for dry brushing. But I will need to replace that soon. It is getting really frayed. But that is expected when using a brush for dry brushing.
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2016-08-29T14:13:24-04:00
I used to use the Apple Barrel, Americana, and Folk Art paints from Walmart. They worked just fine. But my buddy, who has all the minis I paint, wanted to spring for the Vallejo set. So I didn't argue. They are fantastic paints. And for washes, I use the Army Painter washes. I really like them. I have used their paints as well. They were also good.
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2016-08-29T14:13:49-04:00
I'll shut up now.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-08-29T14:30:42-04:00
Trinkets, that's a nice setup there!
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Hope the new job is treating you well, Geist!
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LZ, dodging difficult questions with the skill and finesse of a politician. ;)
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-08-29T14:32:01-04:00
Dang it, GM, your lunch made me notice that mon., wed., and fri., I don't eat until around 2! It wasn't surprising before that, somehow, but now I'll always think it's so late and "finally!" when I do get my food!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-29T14:37:45-04:00
When I started out, I used Citadel, I made friends with some guys that could buy stuff at wholesale prices, and they hooked me up. I had the entire set. Then I got out of painting for a while, when I got back into it, everything had changed, Citadel had changed thier bottle style and size and the price had almost tripled! So I bought the game colour series from Vallejo, and haven't looked back. Their paints are some of the best I've ever used. I still use some Citadel inks, washes and glazes, but have all the Vallejo ones as well. Army painter has decent paints, but they cost the same up here as Vallejo, so for the price, I'll stick with Vallejo. For brushes, I've bought all kinds, and had all kinds of results! I had the same issues with the Vallejo brushes, wouldn't buy them again... My current favorite are the P3 studio brushes from Privateer Press. High quality, sable, and durable! They have held up quite well to the work that they've been put to so far, and I can't see changing anything till the quality drops or the price increases too much. I have a huge assortment of sizes, and styles, but mostly use a number 2 for big areas and a number 1 from finer areas, but I have 18/0 for spotting (eyes) and pretty much everything in between! ;) I have always found when it comes to painting that you can get good results with less expensive products, but not consistently, which to me is everything. When I'm doing rank and file, I want them to all look exactly the same, thats the point! I've always regretted buying things based off of price only, and I do find that at the end of the day, you get what you pay for.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-29T14:42:35-04:00
@Trinkets, your paint station is awesome! I wish I was handy like that! I'm great in a kitchen, but put me around power tools and I'm likely to lose fingers... ;)
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2016-08-29T14:53:38-04:00
With the rank and file, I always try to have little differences between them. That way they all feel special ;-)
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-29T14:55:07-04:00
@Trinkets, they always do, I mean with the uniforms though. I most notice inconsitancies with paint on larger areas, such as the back of a uniform. They'll always be special to me... ;)
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2016-08-29T14:55:14-04:00
Using power tools = using kitchen utensils. Have a healthy respect for what they can do to you. And practice makes perfect.
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2016-08-29T14:58:00-04:00
I usually go for different color hilts or some sort of staff. For the cultists in Mansions of Madness, they are all holding daggers. I painted the daggers all silver, but washed each on the their own color.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-08-29T15:07:34-04:00
Ooh, GM, you're lucky I was so close to lunch as it was! Making me that hungry out of the blue can be dangerous!
When I start painting all the "minion" classes, they will each be different(especially things where they used to be individual humans - i.e. zombies/corrupted people). But when I get to the Endure The Stars game(when it gets here) there are mechanical enemies, which will all be painted exactly the same(with little "dings" where they were shot placed randomly).
@Zem: I had salad, an apple, a few slices of cucumber, and 4 slices of cheese with 4 multi grain crackers...I am still hungry. T.T
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-08-29T15:30:36-04:00
Note to self: when the boss is paying for lunch, don't order a small salad.
I was still hungry when I got back to my desk. Good thing I had bought a pork chop smothered in mushroom gravy with rice. Snarfed that down when I went to the break room.
Lord Zombitten 2016-08-29T15:53:05-04:00
2016 has claimed another victim. Goodbye, Gene Wilder. You will be missed.
DAMNIT 2016! I thought we had agreed that Kanye, the Kardashians, and Justin Bieber were next on the list!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-29T16:12:19-04:00
Well, at least Gene lived to be 83, given all the shinnigans that he was upto in the 70's and 80's I think thats pretty good! Still, he will be sorely missed. Good bye Gene, you'll always be my favorite Willy Wonka!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-29T16:13:38-04:00
*shenanigans
Lord Zombitten 2016-08-29T16:15:22-04:00
Did you know that, not only was Gene's grand Willy Wonka entrance (the fake out with the cane) Gene's idea, but it was one of his conditions for playing the part?
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-08-29T16:17:14-04:00
What GM said! Why are you taking the good ones & leaving the trash?
So...I just did a quick look, and it seems that with 2/5 of the remaining games with miniatures, I have ~300 minis on the way...then there are three more games I will need to figure out. @_@
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-29T16:36:37-04:00
So I finished off the rest of my regular zombies for Z:BP yesterday, and the alternate Wolfbomination. So all (mmmyeah) I have left there is all the NPC zombs, the rat and alpha bominations, the dead eye walkers, and all the heros not in the base set. Thats it! >.> Then I have all the stuff that I never finished from before, the stuff for TO:7S (everything), and all the stuff coming in.... ;) Yep, I'll be painting forever! ;)
@BaKhan: Me too. But it will give me more things to keep me busy.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-08-29T16:45:00-04:00
Really, 2016? Gene Wilder?! What's next, Bill Murray?!
I'd say don't even joke about something like that, but we all know Bill is immortal. Pretty sure there's a curse on him that he can't die before Steven Tyler or Queen Elisabeth II.
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Me and my big mouth. Watch 2016 be so heartless as to take all of them in one month. December, too, just before the year is out. It's going out with a bang, isn't it? Oh great, now I gave it the idea to blow a whole bunch of celebrities up!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-08-29T16:45:43-04:00
BaKhan, he'll always be my favorite Waco Kid.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-29T16:54:34-04:00
@Zem, he was good in Blazing Saddles, but nothing (for me anyways) will top his performance of Willy Wonka. He played that role perfectly, and it was one of his favourite characters. Anything he did with Richard Prior was pretty epic as well! Haunted Honeymoon was one of my wife's favorites. Damn, I have to tell her he passed tonight, thats gonna be rough. :(
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-08-29T16:58:22-04:00
Mmmm... getting a quart of chocolate chip cookie dough italian ice and a pint of chocolate frozen custard from Rita's was the best idea I had all week! Man I love that place too much! I'm so, so glad someone franchised one in Lincoln!
It'll never be as good as anything even remotely cold on a day when you've been walking for 5 or 6 hours in 111 degrees, but it's still some of the best!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-08-29T18:10:53-04:00
I guess Mother Nature is saying in her own subtle way that tonight is more of a ramen and tea night rather than a dining hall kind of meal. It is really cool to watch the rain fall down in near waves off of the building across the street. There's a big open area, and then a sudden building, so the rain all smacks into the wall and cascades off of it in interesting ways, making sorts of waves falling the length of the second tallest building on campus.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-08-29T20:31:09-04:00
Maybe almost 2 hours of nap wasn't a good idea... now hear me out! ...... Yeah, i got nothing. Though I did it because of a severe lack of sleep last night (couldn't fall asleep), so now I can stay up later and get things done, though it likely shot my sleep schedule.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-08-29T20:40:11-04:00
I originally meant it to be actual sleep, and now I'd do stuff and sleep again before school, but that's not how it worked out.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-08-30T02:51:42-04:00
I almost missed a really helpful study session, but randomly checked my email just as it started. I'm only still up because I got done a significant portion of sleep already.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-08-30T08:32:47-04:00
Morning kittens. First day at new job was great! Today is when I start training. Looks like I can learn this pretty quickly.
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2016-08-30T09:15:19-04:00
Good morning, all.
Geist, that's great news.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-30T09:33:54-04:00
Good morning kittens!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-30T09:34:35-04:00
@Geist, thats great news! I'm glad you're doing something that you like! Makes for a much better time, which you deserve! ;) Huzzah!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-08-30T09:39:40-04:00
Howdy Trinkets & BaKhan! Yes, this is looking like a much nicer assignment. Too early to see if this is the brass ring I was looking for but it sure feels that way now.
The great part is that I will not only be able to make it to the Kitten Con but visit Universal Studios with you guys next year!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-30T09:44:16-04:00
@Geist, Huzzah! Much of the halloween celebrating this and next year! Yippie! Nothing makes me happier than dropping all pretence of adulting, and just having fun! Oh, and rollercoasters too, of course! ;)
So, I spent a good two hours last night organizing the store room, and we have the two tables set up...still a little tight in there, but just need to actually get the lamps/tools and such in there now.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-30T10:18:01-04:00
@GM, thats awesome! A friend of mine stopped by yesterday to pick up his dog that we were baby sitting (an awesome 95lbs pitbull named Mocha, total sweety), and we took a look at the wall I want to remove in the basement. The only downside, is it may be load bearing... I hope not, I so want to take it out without needing an engineer. >.>
@BaKhan: Shouldn't you be able to remove all but the one support beam(the main load beam)? That's my un-educated estimate of what you might be able to do.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-30T10:35:17-04:00
@GM, it all depends on the construction of the wall. there should be a post (several 2 x 4's) in that wall somewhere thats carrying the load of the beam, but I won't know for sure until I get the dry wall off. I'm going to start inside the room first so that the mess won't be visable to the outside until I'm ready for it. It should be ok, but I'm not doing anything to jeaprodize my house! ;)
@BaKhan: Fair enough. I know when we opened up part of the wall leading into our basement, we left the load bearing beam at the bottom of the stairs, and opened up the stairwell a little. It was easier for us since my dad had actually designed the house, so he knew where everything was supposed to be.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-08-30T10:44:05-04:00
@BaKhan: You still adult? I try not to as much as possible
@Geist: I do what I can not to adult...I'm sitting here having my coffee, listening to FFXIV soundtrack, with Pokémon Go playing on my phone....to balance it all out, I am waiting for the branch manager for this weeks' payroll to get back to me.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-30T11:05:24-04:00
@GM, is your dad an engineer by any chance? ;)
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-30T11:09:04-04:00
@Geist, sadly, as much as I try not to, I am forced to adult way more than I like. As much as I dress in Disney clothes, drive fast and listen to loud music, play in a rock band, collect games and enjoy being silly, life gets in the way. I very much have a take charge attitude, I just can't sit back and watch people doing dumb things, or letting dumb things happen by inaction. This ocpd I have is the sh*ts. I want to chill but no! I'm compelled to (insert corrective action here)! Sigh. Thats why I love being on vacation, I don't feel any of that, I can just focus on having fun! One of the reasons why I enjoy my herbal refreshments is that they help me chill out, and actually turn my brain down to low gear for awhile... ;)
@BaKhan: Nope, he was a draftsman. Drew up house plans for a living.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-30T11:34:26-04:00
@GM, well there you go then! ;) I was hoping I might have been able to rope him into taking a look at my wall... ;) Its all good though, I do know a couple of engineers, occupational hazzard... ;)
@BaKhan: My dad is retired now, and has been having a hard time getting around more and more as of late...so not too sure how well it would be for him to check out something like that.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-30T12:17:06-04:00
@GM, its all good, I wouldn't want to put him out in any way! He's worked hard enough!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-08-30T14:48:37-04:00
Wow, today is full of surprises! My first roommate works at the sandwich-shop-style dining hall on weekends, but he was here today. They had a special sandwich, so I got one different from the one I get 5 days a week and he was there on a weekday for the first time ever, so we threw eachother completely off balance. It was kinda funny.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-08-30T14:48:40-04:00
Then I walk into my dorm and the elevators completely changed! It took me 2 seconds, but I paused just as I was about to push the button and wondered if I was even in the right building! I just stood there for 10 seconds, thought I should go up anyways and act natural (not the first time I've doofed up like that), then I realized they just took the padding off the walls of the elevator they had so you didn't bang up the walls on move-in. They look completely different now, though! Really surprised me.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-30T15:10:17-04:00
@Zem, its funny how much a little change, can screw you up! I find the same thing when I'm going somewhere at a different time of day than I normally do, it looks different at night! ;)
The farmers almanac is saying it will be one hell of a winter this year.
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2016-08-30T18:29:17-04:00
People said that for last winter and it was actually a fairly mild one here. Lots of snow, but the cold and icy stuff was minimal.
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2016-08-30T18:31:12-04:00
Usually, but not always, if a basement wall runs perpendicular to the floor joists, it is load bearing. If it runs parallel, it is not load bearing.
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2016-08-30T18:32:43-04:00
Not all walls perpendicular are load bearing, but you rarely find parallel ones that are.
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2016-08-30T18:33:40-04:00
Just clarifying my previous statement by making an almost identical statement, lol.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-08-30T18:37:31-04:00
Yeah, the last 3 times I've heard the Almanacs say it was going to be a hell of a winter, it was actually really mild, and in fact pretty warm, with little to no snow for virtually the entire time. Maybe 2 big snowfalls all winter that melted within a week because nobody *actually* wants a white christmas, amirite?
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2016-08-30T21:40:28-04:00
Christmas should most definitely be snowy. It can show up Dec 18 and go away Jan 1
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-08-30T23:09:50-04:00
I'd rather 3 feet of snow showed up Nov. 1 and went away in early April, but that there was a nice, thick, warm, quilt-like blanket of it the rest of the time. Just to mock people for feeling cold in literal freezing temperatures who go and get a blanket. Also because I love snow and we never get hardly any here. I don't remember the last time we had a significant amount of snow on Christmas.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-08-31T01:28:49-04:00
I stay up late at night pondering the mysteries of the universe...
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... mostly because they're assigned questions due for next P-chem class that aren't even posted until the afternoon the day before they're due, and so I do them the night before. That and the fact that these questions SHOULD have been over chapter 2, but only one might have been. I could tell they were in fact still over ch. 1 for some reason because they didn't have 90% to do with the derivation of Schrodinger's equations or eigen functions, and only the third question might have involved ch. 2 at all.
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In short: God, I hate P-chem, but it's also interesting and I have to take it.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-08-31T01:29:12-04:00
3 day weekend... 3 day weekend... just a few more days until a 3 day weekend.............
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-08-31T02:57:26-04:00
Morning kittens! Happy Hump Day. It feels so good to leave the house later to get to work. Now I just have to convince my body to stop waking up at 3a.m.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-31T09:14:06-04:00
Good morning kittens!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-31T09:14:59-04:00
@Trinkets, yeah, its hard to say for sure as the ceilings are finished, I won't really know if its load bearing unitl I get some dry wall off... ;)
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-31T09:15:42-04:00
@Geist, its so nice to see you in a better mood! ;) I hope that this one works out for you! *fingers crossed*
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-08-31T09:58:16-04:00
@BaKhan: You getting your drywall off again? PERV!
Kidding!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-08-31T09:59:26-04:00
@BaKhan: so do I. If this works out, the Halloween trip next year is a guarantee.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-31T10:15:02-04:00
@Geist, I have no shame! ;) I'm gonna strip off all that dry wall, and take a good long look at the post! ;) hehe
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-31T10:15:21-04:00
@Geist, that would be so cool! I'm excited already!
@Geist: YAY! Happy mornings always make the day better.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-08-31T12:23:05-04:00
Which reminds me: I gotta order a KC t-shirt before I come up to Canada
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-31T12:24:29-04:00
@Geist, can we still get those? If so, me too, me too!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-08-31T13:03:32-04:00
@BaKhan: I have the link to the Cafe Press site on my tablet. I'll post the link here if not this week, than next week
Lord Zombitten 2016-08-31T13:11:34-04:00
Is there a word for worse than abysmal?
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-31T14:27:44-04:00
@Geist, that would be super! ;)
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-31T14:27:55-04:00
@LZ, damn, that bad?
Eric 'Trinkets' Baumgarten 2016-08-31T14:31:44-04:00
Abysmaler? Abysmaliest?
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-08-31T14:32:36-04:00
Trumpiest? (sorry couldn't help myself...) ;P
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-08-31T14:39:26-04:00
Damn, I hate connectivity problems. No idea what caused it this time, but thankfully restarting my computer works most of the time.
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This one, Geist? This was the cafepress link from kittencorps.com, and both the site and the store still work. Still got my KC mug!
http://www.cafepress.com/kittencorps
Lord Zombitten 2016-08-31T14:46:26-04:00
@BaKhan, yes. That's how bad my softball team did last night. It was embarrassing.
http://i.imgur.com/ASe59la.jpg
Hi Trinkets! When I get the painting station finished, I'll post a pic of it. Definitely going to take a bit of time for us to get it together, but it will be done. That way, if I get busy with other stuff, I can leave it there without having to worry about needing to move it when we have company over.
I added a 1/4" sheet of white pvc board to the bottom part that. Then that part slides into some grooves, vertically, and holds all the paints in place so I can move everything around. I also have to paint on the dining room table and needed a good storage and movable setup. Couldn't find anything I liked, so I made it.
What does everyone use for brushes?
@Trinkets: Currently, nothing. Open to suggestions on what works best based on experienced people's insight. Also as to what brushes I should get, then there are the types of paints...so much to figure out before we get the room ready for painting.
...My lunch is so bland. I want to trade it in for a burger...but I need to start eating healthier. =/
I use an inexpensive assortment that I got at Wal-Mart. They have triangular handles. I also use acrylics from the same store.
Years ago, when i startes out, i went with the cheap ones from Walmart. Then after I decoded I was going to get more into painting, I grabbed a few different brands and sizes from a craft store. Either Hobby Lobby or Michaels, I can remember which. Then I broke down and got a series 7 Winsor & Newton size 1. Many people said it is one of the best brushes out there. I like it and everything, the tip is dangerously sharp, the kolinsky sable wears fantastic, holds paint great, and just feels like it is worth every penny (and it was a lot of them). But I seem to enjoy the Winsor & Newton Cotman 00 more. It was about 1/3 of the cost. It was early on in my painting that I got it and didn't take the care of it that I should have. It no longer has a pointy tip, more of a curved flat tip. The hairs, even though deformed, have not frayed. I'm not sure if it is the size, 00 vs 1 that I like more or what it is, but I like that little W&N Cotman.
Definitely get cheap brushes to start with until you know how to clean them, store them, and use them properly. Then, you can move up to higher quality ones if you want to.
I don't think we have triangle handle ones at my Walmart. They did get some new Folk Art brushes a little bit ago but I haven't tried them.
I mainly use sizes 00, 0, and 1. I have a decent size 000 for really fine work. There was a set of 3 brushes that came with the Vallejo paint set that I used. They were good brushes, but 2 of them didn't last as long as I would have though. I am still using the one for dry brushing. But I will need to replace that soon. It is getting really frayed. But that is expected when using a brush for dry brushing.
I used to use the Apple Barrel, Americana, and Folk Art paints from Walmart. They worked just fine. But my buddy, who has all the minis I paint, wanted to spring for the Vallejo set. So I didn't argue. They are fantastic paints. And for washes, I use the Army Painter washes. I really like them. I have used their paints as well. They were also good.
I'll shut up now.
Trinkets, that's a nice setup there!
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Hope the new job is treating you well, Geist!
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LZ, dodging difficult questions with the skill and finesse of a politician. ;)
Dang it, GM, your lunch made me notice that mon., wed., and fri., I don't eat until around 2! It wasn't surprising before that, somehow, but now I'll always think it's so late and "finally!" when I do get my food!
When I started out, I used Citadel, I made friends with some guys that could buy stuff at wholesale prices, and they hooked me up. I had the entire set. Then I got out of painting for a while, when I got back into it, everything had changed, Citadel had changed thier bottle style and size and the price had almost tripled! So I bought the game colour series from Vallejo, and haven't looked back. Their paints are some of the best I've ever used. I still use some Citadel inks, washes and glazes, but have all the Vallejo ones as well. Army painter has decent paints, but they cost the same up here as Vallejo, so for the price, I'll stick with Vallejo. For brushes, I've bought all kinds, and had all kinds of results! I had the same issues with the Vallejo brushes, wouldn't buy them again... My current favorite are the P3 studio brushes from Privateer Press. High quality, sable, and durable! They have held up quite well to the work that they've been put to so far, and I can't see changing anything till the quality drops or the price increases too much. I have a huge assortment of sizes, and styles, but mostly use a number 2 for big areas and a number 1 from finer areas, but I have 18/0 for spotting (eyes) and pretty much everything in between! ;) I have always found when it comes to painting that you can get good results with less expensive products, but not consistently, which to me is everything. When I'm doing rank and file, I want them to all look exactly the same, thats the point! I've always regretted buying things based off of price only, and I do find that at the end of the day, you get what you pay for.
@Trinkets, your paint station is awesome! I wish I was handy like that! I'm great in a kitchen, but put me around power tools and I'm likely to lose fingers... ;)
With the rank and file, I always try to have little differences between them. That way they all feel special ;-)
@Trinkets, they always do, I mean with the uniforms though. I most notice inconsitancies with paint on larger areas, such as the back of a uniform. They'll always be special to me... ;)
Using power tools = using kitchen utensils. Have a healthy respect for what they can do to you. And practice makes perfect.
I usually go for different color hilts or some sort of staff. For the cultists in Mansions of Madness, they are all holding daggers. I painted the daggers all silver, but washed each on the their own color.
Ooh, GM, you're lucky I was so close to lunch as it was! Making me that hungry out of the blue can be dangerous!
When I start painting all the "minion" classes, they will each be different(especially things where they used to be individual humans - i.e. zombies/corrupted people). But when I get to the Endure The Stars game(when it gets here) there are mechanical enemies, which will all be painted exactly the same(with little "dings" where they were shot placed randomly).
@Zem: I had salad, an apple, a few slices of cucumber, and 4 slices of cheese with 4 multi grain crackers...I am still hungry. T.T
Note to self: when the boss is paying for lunch, don't order a small salad.
I was still hungry when I got back to my desk. Good thing I had bought a pork chop smothered in mushroom gravy with rice. Snarfed that down when I went to the break room.
2016 has claimed another victim. Goodbye, Gene Wilder. You will be missed.
DAMNIT 2016! I thought we had agreed that Kanye, the Kardashians, and Justin Bieber were next on the list!
Well, at least Gene lived to be 83, given all the shinnigans that he was upto in the 70's and 80's I think thats pretty good! Still, he will be sorely missed. Good bye Gene, you'll always be my favorite Willy Wonka!
*shenanigans
Did you know that, not only was Gene's grand Willy Wonka entrance (the fake out with the cane) Gene's idea, but it was one of his conditions for playing the part?
What GM said! Why are you taking the good ones & leaving the trash?
Now I have to watch Blazing Saddles tonight
So...I just did a quick look, and it seems that with 2/5 of the remaining games with miniatures, I have ~300 minis on the way...then there are three more games I will need to figure out. @_@
So I finished off the rest of my regular zombies for Z:BP yesterday, and the alternate Wolfbomination. So all (mmmyeah) I have left there is all the NPC zombs, the rat and alpha bominations, the dead eye walkers, and all the heros not in the base set. Thats it! >.> Then I have all the stuff that I never finished from before, the stuff for TO:7S (everything), and all the stuff coming in.... ;) Yep, I'll be painting forever! ;)
@BaKhan: Me too. But it will give me more things to keep me busy.
Really, 2016? Gene Wilder?! What's next, Bill Murray?!
I'd say don't even joke about something like that, but we all know Bill is immortal. Pretty sure there's a curse on him that he can't die before Steven Tyler or Queen Elisabeth II.
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Me and my big mouth. Watch 2016 be so heartless as to take all of them in one month. December, too, just before the year is out. It's going out with a bang, isn't it? Oh great, now I gave it the idea to blow a whole bunch of celebrities up!
BaKhan, he'll always be my favorite Waco Kid.
@Zem, he was good in Blazing Saddles, but nothing (for me anyways) will top his performance of Willy Wonka. He played that role perfectly, and it was one of his favourite characters. Anything he did with Richard Prior was pretty epic as well! Haunted Honeymoon was one of my wife's favorites. Damn, I have to tell her he passed tonight, thats gonna be rough. :(
Mmmm... getting a quart of chocolate chip cookie dough italian ice and a pint of chocolate frozen custard from Rita's was the best idea I had all week! Man I love that place too much! I'm so, so glad someone franchised one in Lincoln!
It'll never be as good as anything even remotely cold on a day when you've been walking for 5 or 6 hours in 111 degrees, but it's still some of the best!
I guess Mother Nature is saying in her own subtle way that tonight is more of a ramen and tea night rather than a dining hall kind of meal. It is really cool to watch the rain fall down in near waves off of the building across the street. There's a big open area, and then a sudden building, so the rain all smacks into the wall and cascades off of it in interesting ways, making sorts of waves falling the length of the second tallest building on campus.
Maybe almost 2 hours of nap wasn't a good idea... now hear me out! ...... Yeah, i got nothing. Though I did it because of a severe lack of sleep last night (couldn't fall asleep), so now I can stay up later and get things done, though it likely shot my sleep schedule.
I originally meant it to be actual sleep, and now I'd do stuff and sleep again before school, but that's not how it worked out.
I almost missed a really helpful study session, but randomly checked my email just as it started. I'm only still up because I got done a significant portion of sleep already.
Morning kittens. First day at new job was great! Today is when I start training. Looks like I can learn this pretty quickly.
Good morning, all.
Geist, that's great news.
Good morning kittens!
@Geist, thats great news! I'm glad you're doing something that you like! Makes for a much better time, which you deserve! ;) Huzzah!
Howdy Trinkets & BaKhan! Yes, this is looking like a much nicer assignment. Too early to see if this is the brass ring I was looking for but it sure feels that way now.
The great part is that I will not only be able to make it to the Kitten Con but visit Universal Studios with you guys next year!
@Geist, Huzzah! Much of the halloween celebrating this and next year! Yippie! Nothing makes me happier than dropping all pretence of adulting, and just having fun! Oh, and rollercoasters too, of course! ;)
Morning kittens.
@Geist: Awesome! Enjoying the workplace is 3/4 of the battle!
@GM, good morning sir!
So, I spent a good two hours last night organizing the store room, and we have the two tables set up...still a little tight in there, but just need to actually get the lamps/tools and such in there now.
@GM, thats awesome! A friend of mine stopped by yesterday to pick up his dog that we were baby sitting (an awesome 95lbs pitbull named Mocha, total sweety), and we took a look at the wall I want to remove in the basement. The only downside, is it may be load bearing... I hope not, I so want to take it out without needing an engineer. >.>
@BaKhan: Shouldn't you be able to remove all but the one support beam(the main load beam)? That's my un-educated estimate of what you might be able to do.
@GM, it all depends on the construction of the wall. there should be a post (several 2 x 4's) in that wall somewhere thats carrying the load of the beam, but I won't know for sure until I get the dry wall off. I'm going to start inside the room first so that the mess won't be visable to the outside until I'm ready for it. It should be ok, but I'm not doing anything to jeaprodize my house! ;)
@BaKhan: Fair enough. I know when we opened up part of the wall leading into our basement, we left the load bearing beam at the bottom of the stairs, and opened up the stairwell a little. It was easier for us since my dad had actually designed the house, so he knew where everything was supposed to be.
@BaKhan: You still adult? I try not to as much as possible
@Geist: I do what I can not to adult...I'm sitting here having my coffee, listening to FFXIV soundtrack, with Pokémon Go playing on my phone....to balance it all out, I am waiting for the branch manager for this weeks' payroll to get back to me.
@GM, is your dad an engineer by any chance? ;)
@Geist, sadly, as much as I try not to, I am forced to adult way more than I like. As much as I dress in Disney clothes, drive fast and listen to loud music, play in a rock band, collect games and enjoy being silly, life gets in the way. I very much have a take charge attitude, I just can't sit back and watch people doing dumb things, or letting dumb things happen by inaction. This ocpd I have is the sh*ts. I want to chill but no! I'm compelled to (insert corrective action here)! Sigh. Thats why I love being on vacation, I don't feel any of that, I can just focus on having fun! One of the reasons why I enjoy my herbal refreshments is that they help me chill out, and actually turn my brain down to low gear for awhile... ;)
@BaKhan: Nope, he was a draftsman. Drew up house plans for a living.
@GM, well there you go then! ;) I was hoping I might have been able to rope him into taking a look at my wall... ;) Its all good though, I do know a couple of engineers, occupational hazzard... ;)
@BaKhan: My dad is retired now, and has been having a hard time getting around more and more as of late...so not too sure how well it would be for him to check out something like that.
@GM, its all good, I wouldn't want to put him out in any way! He's worked hard enough!
Wow, today is full of surprises! My first roommate works at the sandwich-shop-style dining hall on weekends, but he was here today. They had a special sandwich, so I got one different from the one I get 5 days a week and he was there on a weekday for the first time ever, so we threw eachother completely off balance. It was kinda funny.
Then I walk into my dorm and the elevators completely changed! It took me 2 seconds, but I paused just as I was about to push the button and wondered if I was even in the right building! I just stood there for 10 seconds, thought I should go up anyways and act natural (not the first time I've doofed up like that), then I realized they just took the padding off the walls of the elevator they had so you didn't bang up the walls on move-in. They look completely different now, though! Really surprised me.
@Zem, its funny how much a little change, can screw you up! I find the same thing when I'm going somewhere at a different time of day than I normally do, it looks different at night! ;)
Is today over yet?
@GM, 35 mins to go for me... >.>
@BaKhan: I might jump out at about the same time...I was just outside to go to Timmy's for a snack...and wow is it beautiful out!
@GM, yeah, thankfully its decided to hold off on fall for a few more days, I was getting worried there for a while... O_o
The farmers almanac is saying it will be one hell of a winter this year.
People said that for last winter and it was actually a fairly mild one here. Lots of snow, but the cold and icy stuff was minimal.
Usually, but not always, if a basement wall runs perpendicular to the floor joists, it is load bearing. If it runs parallel, it is not load bearing.
Not all walls perpendicular are load bearing, but you rarely find parallel ones that are.
Just clarifying my previous statement by making an almost identical statement, lol.
Yeah, the last 3 times I've heard the Almanacs say it was going to be a hell of a winter, it was actually really mild, and in fact pretty warm, with little to no snow for virtually the entire time. Maybe 2 big snowfalls all winter that melted within a week because nobody *actually* wants a white christmas, amirite?
Christmas should most definitely be snowy. It can show up Dec 18 and go away Jan 1
I'd rather 3 feet of snow showed up Nov. 1 and went away in early April, but that there was a nice, thick, warm, quilt-like blanket of it the rest of the time. Just to mock people for feeling cold in literal freezing temperatures who go and get a blanket. Also because I love snow and we never get hardly any here. I don't remember the last time we had a significant amount of snow on Christmas.
I stay up late at night pondering the mysteries of the universe...
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... mostly because they're assigned questions due for next P-chem class that aren't even posted until the afternoon the day before they're due, and so I do them the night before. That and the fact that these questions SHOULD have been over chapter 2, but only one might have been. I could tell they were in fact still over ch. 1 for some reason because they didn't have 90% to do with the derivation of Schrodinger's equations or eigen functions, and only the third question might have involved ch. 2 at all.
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In short: God, I hate P-chem, but it's also interesting and I have to take it.
3 day weekend... 3 day weekend... just a few more days until a 3 day weekend.............
Morning kittens! Happy Hump Day. It feels so good to leave the house later to get to work. Now I just have to convince my body to stop waking up at 3a.m.
Good morning kittens!
@Trinkets, yeah, its hard to say for sure as the ceilings are finished, I won't really know if its load bearing unitl I get some dry wall off... ;)
@Geist, its so nice to see you in a better mood! ;) I hope that this one works out for you! *fingers crossed*
@BaKhan: You getting your drywall off again? PERV!
Kidding!
@BaKhan: so do I. If this works out, the Halloween trip next year is a guarantee.
@Geist, I have no shame! ;) I'm gonna strip off all that dry wall, and take a good long look at the post! ;) hehe
@Geist, that would be so cool! I'm excited already!
Morning kittens.
@Geist: YAY! Happy mornings always make the day better.
Which reminds me: I gotta order a KC t-shirt before I come up to Canada
@Geist, can we still get those? If so, me too, me too!
@BaKhan: I have the link to the Cafe Press site on my tablet. I'll post the link here if not this week, than next week
Is there a word for worse than abysmal?
@Geist, that would be super! ;)
@LZ, damn, that bad?
Abysmaler? Abysmaliest?
Trumpiest? (sorry couldn't help myself...) ;P
Damn, I hate connectivity problems. No idea what caused it this time, but thankfully restarting my computer works most of the time.
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This one, Geist? This was the cafepress link from kittencorps.com, and both the site and the store still work. Still got my KC mug!
http://www.cafepress.com/kittencorps
@BaKhan, yes. That's how bad my softball team did last night. It was embarrassing.
@Zem, thanks buddy! I just placed my order!