[unofficial weekender] Not that crazy!1!11!!

[pagan8th 14466xp 1]

Whenever I paint the house the I put a 3 hour playlist on while I do it. When the playlist ends I take a rest for food, go for a walk, or just sit down for half an hour and then carry on.

Painting walls is dull and I need something to motivate me.

[grantinvanman 10141xp 0]

I enjoy painting houses inside, there’s something very rewarding about the job when it’s all done. I’ve even had the opportunity to use commercial grade airless sprayers on basement finishing projects, which was a lot of fun.

[limburger 22455xp 0]

the worst part when I was painting nearly my white walls with white wall paint … is that I couldn’t see a bloody thing unless I had really good light …

It was exhausting to do, which is why I skipped doing the kitchen and hallway. The latter mostly because there’s too many hard to reach places that you won’t notice. Painting the bits I could comfortably reach would only highlight the things that weren’t painted.

Anyways … today I shall see if I can do a decent job with the actual paint. The primer appears to be pretty smooth.
Maybe not with a capital ‘Schmooo’ … but more than good enough. The more experienced folk will probably say something to the effect that you really need to use various sandpapers to get it perfect, but they’re not me.
(and it’s not supposed to be perfect when it’s done either … imperfections will be part of the plan, or so I will tell anyone who complains 😛 )

I might post some pictures when I feel like I’m getting somewhere.

[grantinvanman 10141xp 0]

Indeed, I had to rehab a rental apartment for a friend once; the tenant had painted it and let paint drip all over the walls. SO MUCH SANDING. Scraping, too. Then putty work, and more sanding. That was a project.

[limburger 22455xp 1]

The previous owner had glued a big giant poster on those sliding doors.
Initially I wanted to keep that, but then someone accidentally ripped a piece off … so I had to do something.

At least the poster/wallpaper they had used was easy to remove with a bit of help of some wall paper stripper chemicals.
So a light wash with some cleaning / degreasing fluids was all I’ve done.

It appears to do the job. I think the primer and paints I’m using are fairly forgiving as well.
Or I just got lucky and things go really bad when I try the next panels 😉

 

[danlee 22850xp 2]

Just finished the Dungeon faction minis for Heroes of Might and Magic 3.

 

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[sundancer 44403xp 2]

Good morning folks. It has snowed again tonight so I did shovel white stuff. I think I’m done with winter now thank you XD

It’s Wednesday. Humpday for some.

As some may have seen me struggle last night with the Primaris: god these kits are terrible to assemble. I’ll build the rest of the minis and then I will look at what little Space Marine bits I have and add some variation to the squads. At least one plasma gun is in that bag and some “Space Wolf bolters”. With the scale creep they probably will look like guns not rifles XD

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Cold snap is over here. Chance of a thunderstorm with rain next Monday! Every day is now plus 5-7 for a week at least. There will be no snow by tomorrow. Gotta love the Chinook.

[limburger 22455xp 1]

Door number 1 has been put in its place (with plenty of cursing as the bloody thing is not easy to get back into position on the rails).
And door number 2 has been primed. I probably will do a second coat tomorrow and then it’s on to painting on friday.

It sucks that the majority of the time is spent waiting for paint to dry …

Paint rollers definitely make life easy with this sort of stuff, but keeping them ready for use is a bit of a pain in the backside.

[grantinvanman 10141xp 1]

Wrap the roller in a plastic bag, and tape around the handle, the sealed air will keep your roller overnight at least.

[sundancer 44403xp 1]

Wrap the roller in a plastic bag, and tape around the handle, the sealed air will keep your roller overnight at least.

Or just drop them in a bucket with water (if the paint is water soluble)

So last night I finished the assembly of the Spackle Marniez from the Indomitus box plus the three aggressors that I had laying around. Where to start. Trying to stay positive. So the models are highly detailed and plastic glue (Tamiya ultra thin) works great on them. That’s it, that is all I have to say in a positive way. The layout on the sprues is annoying at best, the way the minis from the Indomitus box need to be assembled is hair raising bad and fiddly at times because everything is pegged and slotted. The Aggressors are a bit better in that once you’ve found all the bits for one mini they actually can be assembled without instructions because the pieces are well split and go together nicely without pegs and stuff.

I’m not sure why people keep inflicting this on themselves. XD Well, now they are all build and next step will be a few small conversions and drilling of barrels and exhausts.

Since Indomitus was 9th edition and 11th is coming: have the sprues changed much since 9th? Are minis actually easy to assemble again? I remember that (at least from 3rd to 5th edition) beginner boxes where dead easy to assemble.

Now coffee.

[limburger 22455xp 1]

yep … I’ve done that.
Haven’t used tape, but it keeps surprisngly well.

I may run out of primer before I run out of other supplies, but there’s more at the local DIY shop.

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@sundancer sprues have become far harder to assemble … 11th (is it really 11th this summer, already?!?) will be probably much the same …

super thrilled to know you’re a drill the barrels and exhausts type – small effort, large result; the Blood Angels commission lacks sprue cleaning, and drilling; I can only do so much with paint to make them look “better”.

I too find the build difficulty has massively increased. Saying that, the end result is much better in many ways, barring conversionability of the old sprues. Some good, some bad?

 

[sundancer 44403xp 1]

But shouldn’t starter boxes be easy to assemble for potential new players? I don’t get it.

Anyway. Still contemplating about the colour scheme way down the line.

[pagan8th 14466xp 1]

Blood Bowl second edition starter box was snap together minis. The orcs were very spiky, so it was painful.

I think Cursed City was relatively easy to build. Seems that multipose is more important than easy build. Not sure if that’s because GW cultists want multipose, or GW think they do.

Carneval resins can be a pain to assemble because superglue is involved and pin drill sometimes, but they are smaller bands and satisfying to complete because they look great.

Assembly is just one of those chores you have to do before the fun begins. It just happens to be worse with a big box of sprues.

I’m trying to be upbeat, but I think in this post I’m at best hovering around neutral.

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