eastman

I was told to seal with a matt spray first, then use the dullcote to take the shine off, the reasoning being that dullcoate is a mineral base product and will easily strip away your very fine layers of acrylic while brushing it on.

I have never achieved a totally flat finish after sealing.

I have some heresey hounds here that have had 3 coats of brush on dullcoate and they still have a shine to them. GGRRRR

The bottled liquid DullCote is intended for airbrush use, not regular brush. Thick layers of DullCote will be glossy. An airbrush (with liquid DullCote thinned with lacquer thinner) or light coats of canned DullCote will go fully matte.

Ding, ding ... Matty guessed it.

What is the longest word in the dictionary? (A clue: The answer is the plural form of the word.)

SMILES because there's a mile between the "S"s

(although antidisestablishmentarianism is the longest real word in the English language)

I'm going to have to try the gallery here for some of my pictures.

I have a few nekkid mermaids and a succubus I painted on my Photobucket page. I also have larger scale nudes from the MMSI-Chicago show (54mm to 1/6th scale) and all of these have been ok there.

As soon as I post pictures of NNN (non-Nekkid Nekkid, or sheer cloth if you prefer), P-Bucket kills my pictures (I can almost understand them doing that to the pictures of the 1:1 scale model, but I can't understand it on the 1/7th scale resin bust with NNN when the nude resin is ok.)

I love it Eastman! That really is great! Congrats on the win!

I have more pictures in Photobucket - http://s30.photobucket.com/albums/c327/east_man/Cthulhu%20Family%20Day%20at%20the%20Beach/

I had one entry place at ReaperCon (a second place in Open)

Cthulhu Family Day at the Beach

Shouldn't they have straightened the bent axe handles before painting?

:vb_devil:

We actually have something like that here, but it's rather informal. A bunch of us who paint get together at a friend's house every Friday, hang out, order pizza, or grill, and just spend 6-10 hours listening to music, babbling and painting. It's great fun.

There's also the local historicals club (the MMSI) that a couple of us go to once a month, but they're much more formal, have actual meetings with presentations and such. They are however fairly supportive of the small scale scifi fantay stuff we do. Mostly they just think we're crazy for working that small.

Personally of the two I enjoy the informal paint nights better, but interacting with the historicals guys really gives a wonderfully different perspective to miniatures painting as a hobby and I definately learn a lot from them.

As a part of both of these groups, I find both to be great while they are very different.

I still love the shocked looks we got at an MMSI meeting the first time Skya & I started painting there.

I like the bull but I'm just partial to those since I'm a Taurus.

Sophie looks pretty cool, from what I can tell. I hope some better angles are put out in the future.

This link to better pictures was posted over at Reaper today:

http://www.razorgeisha.com/RCS07.htm

Just 'cause I'm fricken fascinated with how the hell anyone can sing this song.

Reminds me of "The Bobs"

what you don't get, Jackie isn't the models name...just the nickname for something of hers

okok, baaaaad Eric

Jackie is the name she uses for modeling (she's been in Playboy among other published work). Probably not her real name, but it is the one she's known by.

And for all you pervs, the hand you can't see is resting on her hip.

Where is your other hand exactly ...

At the end of my arm. Where else would it be?

I don't think I've posted one here, so here goes.

This picture was taken of me with a model at a Chicago Irish Pub. We had just completed a photo shoot at a studio a few blocks away. Guinness in one hand and Jackie in the other - life is good.

The sculptor posted this on the garage kit forum I'm on. This is a well done sculpt, and I will be buying one. He has the right look for a warrior angel - after all, the first thing they say to mortals is "be not afraid", so they should look intimidating.