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@woldenspoons Magnetizing gives you fits? It can be a pain figuring the sizes you need but just getting into it isn’t hard. A good thing to do is find a good deal on bulk buys. Depending on how large a force/project you do it’ll be worth it.

@m30wm1x The snow over the dark base was easy with stuf other than paint. I have white flock somewhere in storage and needing to be rescued. I did find that I had the Secret Weapon crushed glass snow material handy. I recommend it for the real glistening effect that it gives. A word of warning, aside from the one on the container, it should be glued down and set aside to dry fully and then hit hit a short blast of canned air away from anything you worry about in order to avoid very small glass particles. I used watered down PVA to fix mine and then messed around touching up a few areas. The residual stuff will stick because of glue but its messy. Better to have gloves on and potentially a respirator/paper face mask just to avoid problems. Overall, a good product outside of white flock. I didn’t get a chance to photo before handing it over but I will see the customer again and add a bit of winter grass tuft gratis (I like the mini and it keeps good business).

Good show of what can be done with the airbrush. So much coverage with little overspray and less cost than a rattlecan. FoW and armor at that scale is interesting but just seems daunting for wash/rinse/repeat for painting. It can get boring. Do you break it up to avoid that?

@sundancer Regarding air compressors and keeping them running I find a sharp pointy stick and a small pig driven engine does wonders. Hamsters just keep failing me. They have such short lives. Who knew?

@blinky465 The wonder of seeing minis being printed, real magic. The stay at home decree hasn’t hurt you at all in this department. I really shiuld hop onto Hero Forge and design like crazy while they have their .stl deal going on.

Thinking about the stay at home orders I am a lucky pleb to have fortune enough to now see my FLGS on the inside and buy some paint and varnish. There’s been a gradual rollback on businesses and I’ve stocked up a little. I have plenty of minis to work on in storage. I will abolish as much of my Horde of Shame as possible. This is of course after finishing more commission pieces. Finish a batch and get another batch right after it.

@crazyredcoat I wondered about the heat as well. Then it all cooled off here in the Rockies and the chill of near winter hit. I’m near the mountains so this is just normal. Carry on carrying on.