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Homburg said:
Those are cool. I like the one made of wood salvaged from a 140yr old house. Groovy.
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yeah.. I had red fir from that house too. Those were old trees when they were cut down in the northern forests, taken by horse and steam to Chicago...

Such romance...
 
Stella_Omega said:
yeah.. I had red fir from that house too. Those were old trees when they were cut down in the northern forests, taken by horse and steam to Chicago...

Such romance...
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I bought an old pocketknife today because it reminded me of one I used to borrow from my dad when I was a kid. It's not a particularly cool knife, nor do I need another frikken pocketknife. But the memories it brought back were potent, and I consider it $5 well spent.

When I walk into the sort of place like you describe, I just imagine those very same sort of memories playing out.
 
Etoile said:
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.
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the captians wench said:
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.
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Good ideas. I've postponed that project to do a "quick" garter stitch scarf for someone's birthday present. I'm a really slow knitter, though. Much slower than I am a crocheter.
 
Okay, for those of you who both knit and crochet, is it just me or does knitting take longer than crocheting? I've been working on this scarf for FOREVER!
 
I'm slow at both, only slightly faster at crochet.

They both take for ever to me. That's why I don't do a lot of either, even though I do enjoy it for a period. I just can't seem to finish a project.

Which is really funny because I worked on my "big" costume for months and never got bored with it. *shrug*
 
Homburg said:
Post some of your stuff, bro. Geek solidarity.



Thanks. I'm 99% commission these days, but I do occasionally mess around with stuff for myself.

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These are some dwarfs (yes, I know, I hate that spelling too) that I did on a lark. All of them are speed painted. (These guys are right about an inch tall.)

This is a Mordheim priest that I did as a study on source-object lighting. I wanted to get the colouration from the yellow-orange light of the torch on his face and clothes, and lightened up the armour where the light would touch it. Not speed-painted.

An Empire wizard I did a year or so ago

A marine commander I did for one of my kids.

Here's a serious kit-bash I did somewhat recently, speed-painted. I decided that I liked the Penitent Engine from the Witch Hunters line, but that I wanted a more impressive model. I really wanted the pilot to look truly wretched. I had a lot of dark fun with this model, and there are a lot of little details on it that make me happy.

And for those who wonder at all this fantasy and sci-fi stuff, http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/moonduck/Modelling/royalmarines.jpg
here's a small squad of WWII British Royal Marines[/url] that I did just because I liked the minis.
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Hey, Homburg, what's the state of Warhammer these days?
 
Stella_Omega said:
Hey, Homburg, what's the state of Warhammer these days?
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From a player's standpoint, or from a painter's?

40k has been dumbed down to levels previously unheard of. A rhesus monkey with a lazy eye and ADHD could very likely learn to play reasonable well.

Fantasy Battles has been kicked around, beaten, and finally subjected to genetic re-allocation to radically modify the game. The usual tactic these days would be armies made of enormous units of low-point models, which means GW sells more models to the WHFB players.

From the player standpoint, it seems like most are excited by the changes. It's a shot in the arm that the game has needed for a bit to gussy it up. But the cost to rejigger so many units has caused the hobby to shed more players. GW's prices have climbed even more unconscionably than usual, with cans of spray primer going for something along the lines of $17 a can. I can buy krylon at the hardware store for about $5-6 and it will have actual etching agent in it, and thus will be an actual primer, unlike GW's garbage.

From a painter's eye view, the models are even more worky and fiddly than ever, thanks to Rackham and Privateer. Instead of going for good design and artistic vision, they're trying to out-gubbin the gubbin-masters down at Privateers figworks. It means the models are more difficult to paint.

They've also done a 180 fromt he 90's and are all doing work on black basecoat. Their explanation is that it promotes deeper shadows, but really it is because black base requires more coats to cover, thus selling more paint. Being the noncofrmist I am, I painted on black during the white primer madness of the 90's, and now paint on white during the gloomy black basecoat doldrums of today.

In either case, I don't play any more, and have been selling off my prodigious collection (going back over twenty years) because I need the money, and, moreover, I need the space. If you know anyone what wants Rogue Trader era 40k Imperial Guard or an Empire army so old that much of it is lead, send em my way (loads of other stuff as well, all going reasonably priced)

Hope that is the info you were looking for. If not, I'll answer whatever questions you have.
 
That pretty well answers my question! :D

My son found WH about six years ago, sank some money into it (3K version, I think) and then his natural snobbishness got the better of him and he has a box of parts and some assembled dudes gathering dustcicles while he went on to do kitbashing on small-company resin-cast truck and tank kits. I would love to unload the damn things somewhere.:rolleyes:
 
I'm thinking about doing the ugly and hitting Ebay. Done it many tiems before, but I grow weary of the whole mileu. Mostly because people refuse to read the details in your description, and expect store perfect brand new shit when you tell them it's used. But I need the space in my garage, and money for other projects.

I'm slowly selling it off to local guys I know, but some pieces are rare enough to warrant introduction to a wider audience. i've got a coupla pieces that even old crusty gamers like me look at in confusion and try to identify. Those tend to do well.

I had one once, a female Imperial Guard mini with an autocannon whose tab read "Vasquez". She was VERY obviously done after Vasquez from "Aliens", and GW actually got into some licensing trouble over it. I posted a pic of her on a message board to quell some non-believers, and shortly had a chap from the UK mailing me an entire army in trade for that one mini. Got to love fiddly collectible stuff and the fiddly collector types that buy them, eh?

If you need help identifying stuff, take some pics and PM or email me. I'll try to give you an idea of what you have and what it might be worth.
 
Food art. :)

The only thing I hate about this is that people usually think it's so cute or pretty that they are afraid to eat it. :rolleyes:

Veggie Christmas tree "planted" in a dirt cake

Cheeseball turkey
 

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the captians wench said:
Food art. :)

The only thing I hate about this is that people usually think it's so cute or pretty that they are afraid to eat it. :rolleyes:

Veggie Christmas tree "planted" in a dirt cake

Cheeseball turkey
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I would gobble (heehee) the turkey, but you're right-- the tree is adorable!

it actually looks like a fairytale illustration.
 
Homburg said:
This is a Mordheim priest that I did as a study on source-object lighting. I wanted to get the colouration from the yellow-orange light of the torch on his face and clothes, and lightened up the armour where the light would touch it. Not speed-painted.
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Is this one inspired by Victoria Lamb's prizewinning dioramas? I love those ones, she was so damn good.

I am totally cold on the changes to points costs (trending down) and unit size (especially for my skaven). Also the change in philosphy by the game's publishers, but there is enough complaining about that to fill the internet.
 
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I'm having waaay to much fun with photoshop lately.

I use the handle probablepossible for a lot of things, including an etsy store, and a blogging community website. Now I've turned the main blog into an editorial outlet for the etsy store;

It's very silly! so far the posts are turning up image heavy.

I want to feature other craftspeople and their stores and stories, as well. I think there will be a lot of interview type posts.

http://probablepossble.com take a look!
 
Stella_Omega said:
I'm having waaay to much fun with photoshop lately.

I use the handle probablepossible for a lot of things, including an etsy store, and a blogging community website. Now I've turned the main blog into an editorial outlet for the etsy store;

It's very silly! so far the posts are turning up image heavy.

I want to feature other craftspeople and their stores and stories, as well. I think there will be a lot of interview type posts.

http://probablepossible.com take a look!
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Fixed the link. You left out the "i". Interesting site. Those are interesting moon pics, ...kind of spooky :eek:, since tonight was a full lunar eclipse. But, it was cloudy here, so didn't see a thing. :(
 
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Stella_Omega said:
I'm having waaay to much fun with photoshop lately.

I use the handle probablepossible for a lot of things, including an etsy store, and a blogging community website. Now I've turned the main blog into an editorial outlet for the etsy store;

It's very silly! so far the posts are turning up image heavy.

I want to feature other craftspeople and their stores and stories, as well. I think there will be a lot of interview type posts.

http://probablepossible.com take a look!
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I love the moonshow!

And Wench! love the tree!
 
So this weekend it was binding books, I'm not sure why;
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One is a pad with (I hope) tear-out sheets
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And the other is a Sort-of Moleskine style project workbook;
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I really love those odd sort of Thirties graphics. Even when I was a kid-- now I get to design them and implement them for myself. :)
 
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Stella_Omega said:
So this weekend it was binding books, I'm not sure why;
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One is a pad with (I hope) tear-out sheets
DSC05633.jpg


And the other is a Sort-of Moleskine style project workbook;
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I really love those odd sort of Thirties graphics. Even when I was a kid-- now I get to design them and implement them for myself. :)
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Those are both very nice work. Stylish.
 
There's a crafty pay it forward going around facebook. I signed up under a friend who had no participants, and now I find myself with out any participants.:rolleyes:

Some one mentioned that the reason she was having issues with it was because people wanted to send things back to her, more like an exchange.

This got me thinking, that would be a really cool idea, and why do we have to wait for Christmas for Secret Santa type games.

Would anyone be interested in a craft exchange type thing?
 
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