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[android1966]

Had a bash at making some model houses for wargaming terrain. These are roughly fitting for 25/28mm figures. Some are modelled on houses in my town and some made up. Used matchsticks,cardboard and polyfilla as the main building materials, though the roofs are moulded plastic sheets.

http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/tt82/android1966/005.jpg

http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/tt82/android1966/006.jpg

 

[catalina_francisco]

There are a lot of creative people here!! MAybe we should start up our own online company!! I am sure I have posted some of my stuff somewhere here before, but here goes...

Some of my knitting....

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/117/307024237_d6be048950.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/106/315665459_6dc9f8261f.jpg

Some of my sketching....

this first one has had a hard life...

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/156/351825634_1327eaf9cf.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/41/98893069_5769a61cc9.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/19/98893070_b6b87ab982.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/30/98893065_2ed16363c0.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/38/85366933_5c8f92f33a.jpg

Also have done a sculpture which I keep meaning to photograph, embroidery, cross stitch, dress making, macrame, cane making, and of course my photography....a couple of my more interesting still life shots...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2321/2038285476_4d5ef327d4.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2233/2052066401_8ab24a8aa0.jpg

Catalina

 

[Homburg]

Had a bash at making some model houses for wargaming terrain. These are roughly fitting for 25/28mm figures. Some are modelled on houses in my town and some made up. Used matchsticks,cardboard and polyfilla as the main building materials, though the roofs are moulded plastic sheets.

http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/tt82/android1966/005.jpg

http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/tt82/android1966/006.jpg

Some good stuff there. I'd stick with the plastic sheeting for the roof. Having made shingles before by hand, it's a nightmare.

About the only thing I'd say insofar as constructive criticism is that I'd dampen down that white a tad. It may be your flash in action, but it looks supremely bright.

 

[Nina327]

yay.. awesomely crafty people around here.

 

[Yasashii_Kaze]

I made both homemade gnocchi and lobster spaghetti this week and they were delicious. I'll take pictures next time. I am really starting to get braver with my cooking. It's difficult with the lack of ingredients around here, but my experiments and substitutions mostly work. I seem to have a knack for knowing what will taste good. I'm saving up for a set of decent stainless steel cookware for Christmas and I'm hoping to get a starter set of Wusthof knives, but those might have to wait until next year.

Sloooooowly making progress on my knitting. Not so much the learning part as I've discovered I am a snail's-pace knitter. Finally finished the belt I was working on. I'm eying a pair of fingerless mittens as my next project, so maybe I'll work faster when the item is more engaging. I'd really like to do socks for Christmas stocking-stuffers, but I don't know if I'll be able to get them done in time or when to start or if I'll even be pleased enough with the outcome to give them away.

 

[Primalex]

Some of my sketching....

You need to check the proportions of the limbs more carefully.

General guidelines:
Elbow to fingertips, knee to sole of foot, knee to hip joint and hip joint to shoulder are all approx. twice the length of the head. The hip has the same width as the length from the scrotch to the knee.


*imagines at least 5 readers now measuring themselves to prove me wrong...*

 

[where]

You need to check the proportions of the limbs more carefully.

General guidelines:
Elbow to fingertips, knee to sole of foot, knee to hip joint and hip joint to shoulder are all approx. twice the length of the head. The hip has the same width as the length from the scrotch to the knee.


*imagines at least 5 readers now measuring themselves to prove me wrong...*

what's a 'scrotch'?

I took the kneeling one to look a bit out of proportion because of perspective. The others weren't that far off.

my hips are narrower than from crotch to knee though, even to the top of my knee. I suspect the hips of most people in Huston are more like from crotch to ankle as well.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

You need to check the proportions of the limbs more carefully.

General guidelines:
Elbow to fingertips, knee to sole of foot, knee to hip joint and hip joint to shoulder are all approx. twice the length of the head. The hip has the same width as the length from the scrotch to the knee.


*imagines at least 5 readers now measuring themselves to prove me wrong...*

At least *one* reader now wondering when you're going to post your sketches to show how much better they are than the lovely works Cat posted, which look very much in proportion to this reader, especially given that human bodies vary widely IN their proportions.

 

[Etoile]

I didn't even notice the proportions of the figures. I was too busy thinking about those naughty apples.

 

[catalina_francisco]

You need to check the proportions of the limbs more carefully.

General guidelines:
Elbow to fingertips, knee to sole of foot, knee to hip joint and hip joint to shoulder are all approx. twice the length of the head. The hip has the same width as the length from the scrotch to the knee.


*imagines at least 5 readers now measuring themselves to prove me wrong...*

LOL, I prefer to not concentrate so much on trying to reach perfection (as there is no such thing), and more on achieving something which resembles what it is meant to. More power to you for being able to produce perfect proportions, but in rl, not all of us have been so blessed. Actually, 2 of the sketches were reproducing from photos and I did measure the photo, then drawing, as I did feel proportion could be better, but remarkably, my measurements matched the proportions of the models in the photos, so I will blame them for being abnormal despite one being a world gold medal winning athlete.

Catalina

 

[catalina_francisco]

I didn't even notice the proportions of the figures. I was too busy thinking about those naughty apples.

LOL, doesn't it just make you want to bite them!!

Catalina

 

[Primalex]

what's a 'scrotch'?


my hips are narrower than from crotch to knee though, even to the top of my knee.

I take it that you were smart enough to identify the typo. So why do you ask in the first place?

 

[Primalex]

LOL, I prefer to not concentrate so much on trying to reach perfection (as there is no such thing), and more on achieving something which resembles what it is meant to.

I'm sorry, I thought you tried to mean humans.

Actually, 2 of the sketches were reproducing from photos and I did measure the photo, then drawing, as I did feel proportion could be better, but remarkably, my measurements matched the proportions of the models in the photos, so I will blame them for being abnormal despite one being a world gold medal winning athlete.

Maybe badly photoshopped. They do this all the time. So maybe you were correct when you thought the proportions are wrong.

 

[Keroin]

Cat, I can't even draw a crooked line. Your sketches are lovely.

That said, your photos are what really turn my crank - not just these here but others I've seen. You have a natural eye for it.

 

[Primalex]

At least *one* reader now wondering when you're going to post your sketches to show how much better they are than the lovely works Cat posted,

You know what is funny about your postings? If those sketches would have been from..let's say BLoved or maybe myself and someone with boobs like SatinDesire would have written what I wrote, then you would have agreed with her and if the artist would have complained, you would have written something like:"Hey, they just wanted to help. You should handle critique better."

I wonder why your opinion changes so often depending on the gender of the author. It has been quite blatant the last few months. Do you think you get laid as reward? Is it your education that makes you believe that women always have to be right? Or that they need protection from the evil Primalex and that, because they are women, they just need you to step forward?

 

[Sir_Winston54]

You know what is funny about your postings? If those sketches would have been from..let's say BLoved or maybe myself and someone with boobs like SatinDesire would have written what I wrote, then you would have agreed with her and if the artist would have complained, you would have written something like:"Hey, they just wanted to help. You should handle critique better."

Umm, no, not so much. Having no talent of my own to produce any type of drawing/painting that resembles *any*thing, I am just about always on the side of a person who can, regardless of their gender -- or lack of it.

I wonder why your opinion changes so often depending on the gender of the author. It has been quite blatant the last few months. Do you think you get laid as reward? Is it your education that makes you believe that women always have to be right? Or that they need protection from the evil Primalex and that, because they are women, they just need you to step forward?

Hmmm. I don't see any trend of change in my opinions over the past few months or even years. I've always liked, respected, and yes, felt somewhat protective toward women. That comes from the milieu in which I was raised: military life in the '50s and '60s. Have I been unduly harsh toward males in general of late, or even of you individually? I don't think so. I just happened to run into a string of posts from you that - as has happened before - made me wonder why I didn't just put you on ignore; posts that revealed an underlying negativity in you toward others and toward things about which they were happy. They annoyed me. I voiced that annoyance.

As far as protecting the ladies here from "the evil Primalex," don't make me laugh. Most of the ladies here could and would chew you up and spit you out with little or no effort, should you annoy *them* sufficiently. If I might try to protect them from anything, it would be the slings and arrows of life, which again can be attributed to the time and culture in which I grew up.

 

[catalina_francisco]

Maybe badly photoshopped. They do this all the time. So maybe you were correct when you thought the proportions are wrong.

Nah, don't think so as both shots were from well known professional photographers on a world scale.

Catalina

 

[catalina_francisco]

Cat, I can't even draw a crooked line. Your sketches are lovely.

That said, your photos are what really turn my crank - not just these here but others I've seen. You have a natural eye for it.

Thanks, I haven't picked up a pencil for a few years, but hope to again sometime...photos also have been scarce of late, but I am working on it.

Catalina

 

[where]

I take it that you were smart enough to identify the typo. So why do you ask in the first place?

because it's fun pulling your pigtails?

 

[Yasashii_Kaze]

Crappy cell phone picture, but here is my first knitted project! It was supposed to look like this but it's my first one, so of course I screwed up on it a few times.

http://i525.photobucket.com/albums/cc336/Yasashii_Kaze/Miscellaneous/IMG00034-20101030-2110.jpg

 

[Etoile]

Looks good to me! You just used a bulkier yarn than they did for the demo. I like the buttons you coordinated with it!

 

[Yasashii_Kaze]

Looks good to me! You just used a bulkier yarn than they did for the demo. I like the buttons you coordinated with it!

That, and they called for a sporty yarn and I used a 100% cotton, and I'm also pretty sure I knit loose, which is weird because I crochet too tight.

Also, this is my next project, but it calls for 10.5 needles, and my biggest ones are 10s (in bamboo; I have 10.5s but I find knitting with steel/aluminum literally impossible). I have no way of getting 10.5 bamboos around here other than ordering them on Amazon and I'm too impatient to wait that long. What can I do to ensure that my 10s will still work for this pattern?

 

[Etoile]

Swatch repeatedly! Maybe step up your yarn size too. It's calling for 2 strands of worsted held together, so I would try either one or two strands of bulky (Homespun is easy to find) or even a single strand of super bulky (Wool-Ease Thick & Quick is easy to find, but if you're making for a baby, may not be the texture you want). Can you tell I'm a Lion Brand fan?

I should mention, though, that my knowledge is only from crocheting with needles in a size smaller than the pattern suggests. This may not apply to knitting - I don't knit, so I don't know!

But needle sizes are in millimeters anyway, right? Is half a millimeter going to make a huge difference if you're a loose knitter? Another thing I don't know due to not being a knitter...but when I do swatches I find that just changing my tension can match the gauge even without changing hook/yarn sizes.

 

[the captians wench]

Swatch repeatedly! Maybe step up your yarn size too. It's calling for 2 strands of worsted held together, so I would try either one or two strands of bulky (Homespun is easy to find) or even a single strand of super bulky (Wool-Ease Thick & Quick is easy to find, but if you're making for a baby, may not be the texture you want). Can you tell I'm a Lion Brand fan?

I should mention, though, that my knowledge is only from crocheting with needles in a size smaller than the pattern suggests. This may not apply to knitting - I don't knit, so I don't know!

But needle sizes are in millimeters anyway, right? Is half a millimeter going to make a huge difference if you're a loose knitter? Another thing I don't know due to not being a knitter...but when I do swatches I find that just changing my tension can match the gauge even without changing hook/yarn sizes.

Yup same aplies to knitting in everything here. Swatch until you get the right gauge for your project. The difference between 10 needles and 10.5 is not that drastic, but it will make an impact very quickly if you try to do it exact.

My sugestion would be the first Etoli mentioned, try a heavier yarn. I think that would lend the best results. I know I have a hard time adjusting tention, so I tend to change needles or yarns instead.

 

[Stella_Omega]

wanna buy a wand?

I've shut down my custom work for a while, but I have a lot of already-made ones, and I'm putting them on etsy;
http://www.etsy.com/shop/dragonmotherwands
The pictures are fun to do, too, but frustrating. It's hard to format a long skinny thing in a square format. Here are some of my solutions;

http://ny-image0.etsy.com/il_170x135.190592436.jpg

http://ny-image0.etsy.com/il_170x135.190203776.jpg

http://ny-image3.etsy.com/il_170x135.189672983.jpg