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Cool Mini or Not seems to have their database down, can't even get to the main page. Does anyone have any news? Are their forums up? Does anyone have a direct link to their forums? (Never needed it before)Thanks

I would disagree. It is neither superior nor inferior, but being based on water and on base ten units it is definitely convenient.

Absolutely fantastic! I'd say more but it would be just repeating "fantastic" over and over and over. I do want to mention the hair, as it is a perfect example of how black hair should be painted. Oh and the photography is also fantastic as well.

By the way, I've shown you weathering heights, I should show you weathering lows. This is what I once did either in High School or before, I can't remember, so let's say some time in the 70's. It's weathering at its worst. It's so bad it's EVIL.

Thanks, like I said, I almost didn't notice the problem with CMON because it was all on the same computer, but when I logged to the Nifty message boards and noticed it as an x I put the two together.

Quick question, the IMG feature of the gallery images. Does that work, or is there a block against other sites using images there. I posted one of my images onto a bulletin board site. When I went to the page from a different computer all I got was a red x. I went to the site to check the image link in case I used the wrong name and when I returned there was the image ... proof that it was using my image cache. If the IMG feature doesn't really work because it's blocked it's no big deal, I have picture trail, but I want to make sure this is the case before I start duplicating my image there. Thanks, chris.

:dong: You realize that the current theory is that ulcers are caused by bacteria, not by worrying, or having to constantly approve gallery comments.

It's hard to say if the gun is too large. The Kentucky Longrifle was occasionally over four feet in barrell length.

Well since the rabbit died (being dead it must have died) my darker side is suggesting an expentant mother to be as the mini. Meanwhile this is probably the last WIP. The next mini will be the real thing baby.

Just wanted to know you were still alive. Yes GD's are clearly more important. You can't depress me because if I win then I win, but if I loose ... then you're getting this mini and I certanly want to give the winner my very best. :fest06: You're not doing an "Elmer Fudd's Revenge" by any chance.

The mini is now attached to the base. I added the first layers of mud and rust on the blade. Honestly, this has been the best contest so far. Keeping mum about what I am doing. Not that I have any chance of winning mind you (well except for forfeit, Wargriffon post something!) but I think I used to suffer from pre-mature photo shooting. Shooting all these WIP pictures has eliminated my need to call something premature finished. By the end of the week I should have something almost mediocre. This is also my first attempt at using a mirror because I'm too lazy to combine the images. The unpainted Saxon King and Queen are just waiting to judge Wargriffon's mini, assuming he's working on a mini. We don't know because he hasn't posted yet!

I added a little thinned ink to give the cloth some depth, then covered a thin covering of the base coat to tone down the general problems of using inks. I added some details as well. Then I started on the base, adding some green ink to the grass areas and a little gray to the rocks. Also in the photo are two unpained Saxon dogs. They come from two minis, Saxon King and Saxon Queen, and at the moment I forget the manufacturer. So let's let loose the Saxon dogs of war against WarGriffon! POST SOMETHING! Next steps get the mini on the base and actually start doing the weathering thing; Rust on the blade and dirt on the clothes.

I am uploading the pictures to the Gallery but I'm also uploading them to my picturetrail account. These are from the picturetrail account, same pics but there might be a smaller resolution as the picturetrail will trim based on height. Primer, everything primed and ready to go. Base included. Plus a Penguin! Base Coat, the first coats of paint are on the mini. Bleached bone on the bone, ivory for the cloak, brown for the wood, and gunbolt metal for the metal. Oh and WarGriffon, Mr. Gnome has a comment about your lack of posting your WIP. *Mr Penguin and Mr Gnome are not a part of the actual mini. They just like to hog the WIP camera.

Yea, I'm getting killed for the mold line. (Why can't I get grilled for missing that one spot next to her left hand and how she doesn't look like her right hand is on the wood. No it's the mold lines.) They only show up on the first photo. Had they not been on the boardwalk I could have faked silk stockings on her, after all, it's only a tear in the stocking right? So I suppose my next thing on my to purchase list is mini surgical equipment.

I always say I paint minis for OFE - Old Fart's Eyes. So here is my latest submission on CMON, the girls on the beach. http://www.coolminiornot.com/132418 Unfortunately I didn't notice the mold line until after the primer paint went up and at the moment I don't have the tools to eliminate the problem. Reaper master series triads for the skin and hair, my first attempt since the Hair with Sue class I took at Gen Con. First time for static grass as well.

I'm reminded of the infamous "Sedusa" from the Power Puff Girls. (Yes I know I should really be sticking to painting minis and stop watching that stuff. It will rot my brain or some such nonsense.) Of course she maintained her hair through special hair gel, which unfortunately was water soluable. After the swimming pool fight scene with the Mayor's secretary, her hair stoped to function, whereupon she uttered a classic line, "You broke my hair!"

According to the rules of heralry, black is a color, and white is a metal. Not that has any bearing on minis, unless of couse you wanted to use the rules of heraldry when painting the mini. Hey that's a bizzare challenge in and of itself!

Time for me to enter the stadium in grand style. Or just with a brush, paint pot and glasses.

And of course you definitely need some photos of the Iron contestants marching into Painting Stadium with brushes in hand. I'll probably have a photo of me with my goggles, which as we all know. THE GOGGLES ... THEY DO NOTHING! Still you should fear the goggles. Nothing can stop them from doing ... NOTHING!

Yes the 2004+ models went hatchback and have more room in the trunk. This is what the 2002 model looks like. As you can see the trunk is smaller. Compare this to the hatchback version.

You realize that face is so well beyond cute it's downright scarey. The details are so fine that I want to see the electron microscope you used. I would love to give it the CMON rating it deserves but I can't select "12."

I bought my Prius in 2002, before it became a fad but after the 2001 model so it had cruise control. It replaced my Geo Metro, which I originally used in Key West, but having moved to Long Island and faced with a 50 mile one way commute meant I had to fill the gas tank every 1.5 work days. Not only was I getting far better MPG with the Prius but it had a bigger gas tank. Extreeme happiness was in returning from Upstate New York, filling up at the Throughway and getting over 50+ MPG going downhill to Long Island. I have a GPS system as well, although the DVD hasn't been updated since 2001. I also have a EZ Pass device. But the big thing is that now I can drive in the HOV lane with only myself in the car. My current 30 mile one way work commute can be done in 35 minutes as opposed to an hour. It can seat four comfortably, a pitty it can't hold four people's luggage comfortably. Favorite comment when at a store, "Oh *BEEP* we took you car didn't we, well I guess that limits how much we can buy."

The '74? Man I could only dream of the '74 because that was my parent's car. Those cars could easily go over 100,000 miles, and the engines could probably go over 200,000 assuming you could keep the rust bucket together past 150,000. We used to drive everywhere in the old white '68 and the brown '74. From Buffalo to Boston and all points inbetween. No, it was the post gas crisis Dodge Darts that were crap cars. The '82 had the talking warning lights. "A door is ajar." The car cought on fire at one point. (Electrical from going down a bumpy concrete road.) It was the car that made my Dodge Dart father buy a Toyota! (And he hasn't stoped buying them. My current car is a Prius.)

I had just started my senior year of high school. I had my parents old Dodge Dart ('68) whic as a senior I could drive to school with. I was going to the state university for advanced classes where I first got hands on experience with the commorode PET computer, with the calculator style keyboard. Painting wise, you really don't want to know. Mostly model railroading at the time, applying rust techniques to Lionel bridges and poor attempts at puting buildings together.

The more I think of it, the more I see a fundamental paradox in camo mini painting. Normally you want your mini to "pop" to be visually striking to the eye, so that every detail there and not there (the stuff in freehand) is clearly and beautifully presented to the eye. But the purpose of camo is to make sure that the object doesn't "pop" in the slightest. There's really nothing to see here ... these are not the tanks you are looking for ... move along. :laugh: