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I am just now realizing how specific the example on this page is.

Just an update on the event now that I'm finally getting out of my work slog for the week. It was a ton of fun overall and some good learning passed around like a dutchie on the left hand side. Meanwhile, everyone under 30 is scratching their heads... There was some demoing Some good painting times The rare opportunity to learn you have been doing things in the most complicated possible way Yes there was even the worlds shortest tutorial on the "GhettoJug" and the painting contest was a good time all around. Photos are in order of Prize level.

As long as it's full and cold when you get there, it shouldn't be a problem

If you get a chance to bring an old Milk jug tomorrow you can walk away with your very own GhettoJug™ [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_symbol]And bring your best painted Malifaux Mini for the contest! 5 Bucks per tiny dude! 1st and 2nd prize split the pot.

You can argue it all you want tomorrow.

Painters Workshop 6 - pm 11pm January 31st RIW HOBBIES Livonia MI 20% OFF ALL PAINTS, BRUSHES, AND MALIFAUX PRODUCT Learn with a Local Master Go over the basics of Painting theory with fellow painters and local celebrity “Nerdelemental” •Priming? How does it work? •Picking your palette •Big Brushes are your friend •Making a homeade lightbox •...and more! Prepainted Mini Contest $5 entry fee per mini. Minis will be judged by everyone attending on multiple criteria! Try the game Have a friend tip-toeing around the concept of playing? Bring 'em down! Flyer-WEB.pdf

Now with 12% more "sandpaper" . Absolutely Sir! Also on the 31st we're doing a painting workshop. It would be a great to have you out and get you started on that crew!

Well, I actually set it as a recurring event on the Wyrd Calendar that clearly no one else uses. But just because I love you, I fixed the post. if you think that's bad you should read the synopsis. Also, the document of stat tracking is available for all to view HERE. Negative number= Your Current Handicap. Obviously, more games will be necessary before proper averaging can be implemented. For all you out of towners, I'm looking to run a painting workshop on the 31st, a themed Valentines Event on February 7th, and the first Tournament of the year in late February. More details as we get closer to the days. Cheers!

Greetings Malifaux dwellers! Tuesdays FROM 6 to Midnight at RIW Hobbies In Livonia Michigan. Thar's a new Henchman in town and we're going to start this Malifaux tumbleweed tumbling on the right foot. First an foremost, our benefactor Pam has seen fit to continue the time honored tradition of giving us sweet discounts on all Malifaux product while we play in the Green room. That's 20% off all your necrotic needs. So for Gods sake, come on by, make some crude jokes, complain to local developer Nerdelemental about the fluff, shoot our zombies, and cash in on some sweet sweet loot. Second, we'er going to try something new here. Starting tonight I will be collecting data on all of the games, and players that show up. Why? "Why is the league prize always chloroform?" Seriously though, I am setting up statistics tracking to create the worlds first Malifaux Bowling league. Regular players scores will be tracked and eventually a handicap system will be put in place to help low scoring players compete in a league with the local hotshots. Eventually this will pave the way for more competitive play and even.. brace yourselves... a full on Malifaux Campaign: "Battle for the City." Worried about book-keeping and writing everything down? Don't worry, that's all on me. All you do is show up and play three games to set your average. Pandemonium guys? Shenanigans Players? East siders? C'mon over and give it a go. If nothing else you are guaranteed the chance to beat the tar out of that idiot from the pseudo-painting thread.

You should come down to RIW one of these Tuesdays! A little extra-practice never hurt! Also I could use another Rezbian to play against

... Before you even ask, "Skyrim and Saints Row." Ooooh Moira.. you little minx you... So, where were we? Oh... putting these blasted things together. A quick note on past results. The green stuff you have to remember sets over time, so the longer it sets, the more brittle its going to become. My bad. But lets be honest, I am not formally trained in doctor science, nor doctology. So, to recap, there a ton of bonding options out there, and I know I could say with a ream of evidence that the ONLY option to stick your minis together is coconut milk and egg yolks, but there is a reason they don't sell two part coconut-milk, yolk apoxy at the hobby store. (Yes, hobby store... because I live in the 50's apparently.) Gussy it up all you want man, If you put that Ice Pillar on the treasure token I am going to dump a Josta down your pants. So continuing on here, cyanoacrylate is just dandy, but there is a distinct problem we can have all run into here. Try typing a blog entry with Mortimer's shovel glued to your index finger... lets see how fast YOU update. There has GOT to be a way to get this stuff to dry faster right? Well a quick poll of the internet reveals a gamut of methods that frankly, make coconut milk and egg yolk sound way less crazy. So Three drops of blood... and spin counterclockwise.. then Hecubus will appear before me.. and hold the f-ing thing together while it dries. Here's a quick mythbusting history lesson: In 1942, a couple dudes were trying to make a clear plastic for cheap gun sights. What they did instead is glue "man to metal, sight barrel to man, site barrel to table, man to table, man to man...," basically everything but "make clear plastic lens that doesn't instantly bond to my bidness." Seeing an opportunity for the burgeoning "adhesion play" fetish market, they sold the rights to Loctite, and 'lo super glue was born. Contrary to popular belief, It was not developed as a medical adhesive, and wasn't passed for medical use in America till 1998 when they released "Dermabond" which was a slightly different formula that didn't irritate skin as badly. The most common use of cyanoacrylate was in veterinary medicine, mending turtle shells, stitching lesions, and occasionally to help setting bone. Did somebody say Donkey Bone? So weeding out some of the more crazy theories, lets try to stick to the ones at least somewhat grounded in fact 1: Use a thicker Glue. Sounds fair.. Thicker glues would have less water/alcohol to dissolve, and probably set faster. When the nozzle is clogged... do not squeeze the bottle to "unjam it..." Unless ectoplasmic bukkakke is your bag... 2: Spit Gross. I spend all day telling my kids NOT to put things in their mouth, now here I am sticking something that was until recently "mostly lead bits" in my craw and giving it the ol' Jolly Rancher. I understand the theory is that because cyanoacrylate bonds instantly to skin you are actually scraping dead cells off your tongue to act as an accelerant, but what would my kids think? "What a hypocrite! TIME TO MAKE IT RAIN!!!" 3: Baking Soda Makes a fair amount of sense here. it's a superfine powder that absorbs liquid rapidly and gives your glue something to cling onto. Hell, sounds great. Lets throw it in the pile! Cocaine? What Cocaine? 4: Fixer What is this black magic in a bottle?! I have heard nothing but terrible reviews about this stuff, "It weakens your bonds!" "It eats paint!" "It will sneak into your house at night and steal all your rum!" Well, I spent 5 bucks on a bottle, and damnit I'm going to try it out. It's Public Enemy, Number One! Women Cry For It - Men Die For It! The Sweet "Pill" That Makes Life BITTER! Adults Only! Drug Crazed Abandon! Sin - degradation - vice - insanity! SEE youthful Glue victims - what actually happens! So I ran a series of five tests just to make sure I got fairly reliable data, and also I wanted to clean as much human error out as possible. I averaged the drying times of the glues, and then did a manual 'break test" to get a feel for how brittle the glue was after a 24hour set, just to see if there was a difference between all these crazy "dryin' methods." Here are the results. Hunh. Well.. that's crappy. So short version... ANYTHING you add to the glue to make it dry faster is in fact going to dramatically weaken your bond. What really got me was that the "spray fix" that I was told would have it's way with my mini like Ender Wiggins in the shower with Bonzo, seems to be no worse for my little mans than regular "licking and sticking." So all this effort, and what have we found? Just do whatever you're most comfortable with, and don't harsh on someone elses style.. unless of course you know a weirdo from the internet Next time: Pinning...for the fjords

Run Ramos with a couple Coryphee's. That should up your speed at grabbing objectives.

You know how when you're working on something a long time, and your brain starts to make weird connections... 5 hours of testing glue bonds, and this happened. Having found my notebook and prying myself away from the holiday game releases I am finally getting around to posting the results of my pseudo-science. So without the usual mucking about. Lets look at the setup: Science often necessitates the use of a claw hammer. Alright, so a quick recap: I'm testing 6 bonding agents against ease of use, set time, and durability, in the attempts to find "the best one." I figure the best way to tackle this is category by category. Ease of Use & Set Time: First and formost, glue stinks. Some of this stuff is fairly noxious, however I am using it a small enough quantity that I didn't really notice a distinct smell unless I set up too large a sample. For purposes of the test below I put a dime sized drop of glue on a piece of cardboard and used that as the basis for comments of "Fumes." Standard Commercial Grade Superglue [Loctite] This stuff has the consistancy of skim millk, it gets into everything, and it's cousin is used as a liquid bandage. We lovingly refer to this little guy as 2 part finger epoxy: One part finger, One part Clear runny fluid...instantly bonds forever! The fumes on this will burn the crap out of your nostrils and also light cottonballs on fire... Suffice to say, a bag of Nitrile gloves from the paint aisle is a two dollar investment against gluing yourself to everything/one you know... The set time on untreated superglue is in the neighborhood of 20 seconds with adequate pressure/heat/humidity. Things I learned the hard way: Capillary action, the ability of a liquid to flow against gravity where liquid spontanously rise in a narrow space such as between the hair of a paint-brush, in a thin tube, or in porous material such as paper or in some non-porous material such as liquified carbon fiber, or in a cell. So when you squeeze the forearm of your little metal dude against the elbow socket of your little metal dude, those little cracks? Those are your finger tips sucking up all that industrial grade loving... If it feels hot, that's your skin melting. "I totes just got my Khador Behemoth in the mail. Assembling tonight. Let you guys know how it goes, lol. ;)" Gorilla Super Glue [Rubberized Cyanoacrylate Compound] Alright, instantly this stuff smells way way better... ...for glue.It still smells like glue. It will still make your face and throat go all Ralph Wiggums, so don't go nutty. Tests are going great hon... just having tea with Mrs. Garret and Tutti.... on the Bagger 288 Despite starting off as a gel the set time on this stuff is physically numbing. if you put glue right on the model and stick the pieces together, you are going to be sitting there like a stool for over a minute. Good times. Unlike the regular superglue though, once it starts to set up it does so pretty quick. I've started setting a sample aside and mixing it with a wire for a couple seconds till it starts to harden. It's the same principle as when you change your brake-pads. [Cue flame mail from the motor-heads] The sportos, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, and dickheads – they all still think I'm a righteous dude. GreenStuff [Reaper Brand] This stuff looks pretty innocuous in the tube untill you try to mix them, then you might as well be trying to recreate choice scenes from "Ghost" with the Tar Monster from Star Trek. Why won't you be my Patrick Swayze? Misgivings aside, It wasn't really designed for this, like a McWorld commercial though it can happen and is stable enough to hold a light weight after about 5 minutes. e-600 Metal [industrial Rubber Cement] Hey cool, Mustard gas! Even in small doses this stuff smells like your grade school rubber cement gone rancid. You remember Venkman collecting ectoplasm in the library? Yeah... exactly that. 10 minutes and a fumigator later... we're ready to move on. Liquid Nails [Household Do-All] Well, it smells like cardboard and feels like gritty toothpaste. I had it holding it's own right away. JB Kwik [Cold Welding] This two part deal is made in Texas, and one of Maverickman's buddies uses it to field repair his engine block... so this has to be solid. Let us discourse like gentlemen on the nature of hornless Texan exports. Well it smells like a scrapyard, and even has notes of dog urine. Tangy ones. Other than that not bad. It has a definite grit too it, imagine working with the insides of a Stretch Armstrong. In miniature scale. "Hey guys is that Nine Inch Nails? I love...wait... why is Se7en on? Guys?" Hmmm took that too the darkest possible place... anyway, The stuff adheres pretty well, goes on like spackle and in a little under a minute it is holding on solidly. Durability: I decided to test this in the two most common ways I see minis break. 1. Falling off the table 2. Regular handling and being placed and removed from their case. So the shock test was really easy. I dropped the samples of equal weight from 33 inches and marked how many drops it took them to split. Stress was a little harder. I made a rig out of some wire and 10 gram nuts/magnets to make sure there was no human differential between tests. Also, the samples are each connected with a 2mm x 4mm contact point. So here are the results averaged after 3 runs. It would probably be easier to just make meth in my freetime... Standard Commercial Grade Superglue [Loctite] ShockTest: 2x StressTest: 310g Gorilla Super Glue [Rubberized Cyanoacrylate Compound] ShockTest: 1x StressTest: 500g GreenStuff [Reaper Brand] ShockTest: 20x StressTest: Never broke but bent in half at the contact point after a 24hour set. e-600 Metal [industrial Rubber Cement] ShockTest: 20x StressTest: 10g Liquid Nails [Household Do-All] ShockTest: 6x StressTest: 15g JB Kwik [Cold Welding] ShockTest: 4x StressTest: 310g Hmmm... so fast results... glues are either resistant to shock or stress. It looks like the harder the bond your glue is making, the more brittle it becomes. Like the difference between a dinner glass and my 2 year olds tumbler. I can live with these results. JB weld is cool, but a little rough on your hands, and the regular superglue is good, I just with there was a way to make them dry faster. BUT WAIT you say... there is a whole internet full of ways to make your glue dry up faster than Donovan at a grail party. Well, lets see what sort of damage we can do! "I cannot disapprove of what you are doing any harder."

That is some stellar work man! Best of lucks with the hands :/

I think "Somewhat Informative" is an apt descriptor of the whole "plog" there chief. That said, If I had the soldering gear i would try it, however it's a royal pain with high detailed small scale work. A quick note on the "Resin/Metal" debacle: I like the weight of the metal. It feels classy. I worked with my dad with it, so i have all sorts of swirling nostolgia associated with it. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH46SmVv8SU]Just be happy I didn't pull something from CATS[/ame] All that aside. I honestly prefer dealing with resin. I like the weight and I'd rather repair a break than having tiny pewter bits get all gumby on me. Also there is the matter of those test results on the pewter bonding (which I am going to post as soon as I find where my daughter put my data) As for company transitions from pewter to resin... well we aren't exactly in a heyday for tabletop gaming, so as long as the resin molds are tight and professionally done I am all for it.

As always I am thrilled about the feedback! Hey I actually know something about this! So my dad is a sculptor, and for a spell he was doing small runs of pewter jewelery and casting figurines, (before either of us realized there was such a thing as miniature wargaming.) So here is what I learned from working with pewter, and my own experience with welding. And you thought I just made silly captions all day... The problem with pewter is it is a fairly soft and a low temperature melt. Why is that a problem? Well when you normally are brazing metals (what you're talking about doing) you want to get both surfaces hot enough to accept the brazing medium (in this case pewter solder wire.) Copper is usually pretty standard, and can usually get to about 1000°C or (2000°F) before it liquefies on you. Pewter on the other hand has a melt point of about 200°C (400°F.) So you don't get a big temperature window to work with before your awesome miniature turns into "molten slag" Short version... If you want to use the solder you're going to have to be really careful, and do something called "stitching" which may be more frustrating than you're willing to deal with on the scale of Wyrd miniatures. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wf3ZmhXuOc]Here's a link to show what I'm talking about, and if you try it by all means tell me how it goes! I'm short a solder station at the moment.[/ame]

... Alrighty.. Looks like I am ready to go here! Everything is squared away, and I even have a workshop at the new digs! It smells of rich mahogney...and the litter box So now i just need to crack those boxes open, and start assembling me some Minis! ... Well folks we all knew this was going to happen... at some point all the non sequiturs in the world couldn't save me from.. you know... the hard part Alright. Lets do this! [Faints] So to get me going down the Sapphic road to Rezbian-ism I picked the Nicodem CQ box, which as far as I'm concerned is just a rad collection of models. I also got my man-feelers on a blister of Canine Remains and a blister of Necropunks (Pictured above), because who really wants to spend five points on Samurai when you're just going to rez them in a couple turns later anyway. AmmIRight? When even Nikki Minaj thinks your buying strategy is whack, you know you've done something terribly terribly wrong....Yeah that's the super bass. So, now that i think about it, How do you you really do this? Seriously. How many of us have started from scratch, wandered into the store after playing a demo game to buy our first box of "Starter," and gotten home to find a baggy full of disconnected metal bits, and pokey bits on sprues that are barely differentiated from casting flash? There is no in store demo of "Oh hey let me show you how to put that together." and if you're anything like me you buy pretty much whatever the guys at the store tell you too. Now compare that to rolling up to NerdHerd desk and asking for help building an "internet computer." At that point you might as well walk up with your pants down and your wallet open. "Sooo this will be this many dollars.... and you can just put your tatoo n' that sh-- Where's your tattoo? Tattoo. Why come you don't got this?" Now here is a dirty secret. [Ron Perlman voice] Crafting never changes. No matter if you are making Craypaper baskets, or finishing off your 6ft tall Necron Sphinx tomb. When you ask for advice you are going to run into 3 types of people: The Noob. The Vague Advice Giver The Verbal Diuretic. Lets face it, any advice when you're starting from scratch is great, but you're only really going to get help from the Diuretics, and then you have to isolate them from any other advice givers, otherwise they may smell eachothers craft musk... and that's when Sh-- gets real. How dare you invoke the name of Armory Paints in my presence! I SHALL SLAP AT YOU UNTILL THE CHEETO DUST FALLS FROM YOUR VERY FINGERTIPS! The problem I keep running into with the very basics of minis is Glue. You know, attaching one ting to another ting. It seems to be a bit of a sore spot, because people get really defensive of their choices. Whenever you try to dig deeper though, it turns into Rovian miniatures. I dug around, and for the life of me could not find a single side by side comparison of products, just heresay, and blanket statements. Before you eve ask, of course I did a pseudo-scientific study to get some hard answers. So here's what I got: Standard storebrand superglue cyanoacrylate [Loctite] Gorilla Super Glue Reaper Green Stuff JB Weld Kwik E-6000 Commercial Epoxy Liquid Nails Science isn't cheap... but replaceable lead pencils from when you were a kid? those are bloody priceless. I happen to have a couple dozen old sprues lying around in the tackle box in a "in case of science break plastic seal" drawer. (You all have an "In Case of Science" drawer right? ...Guys?) So I set up making batches of equal sized pewter rods connected with equal size points of contact, then color coded them for easy reference. Just be happy I stopped before I scenting them... Elle Woods lives in uncomfortable parts of my psyche. So now I it's time to get my glue on. For this I am testing each group in terms of Smell, Consistency, Application, and Set Time. ...Stay tuned for results!

Well I was going to make a tumblr, but I don't fit into my skinny jeans anymore and I'd have to trim my nerdbeard down to an ironic moustache. I run a Dreamer list because they are so underground. Dad jokes folks.. they don't get any better.

Tremble mortals and despair... for I am the... dude with the thing... good heavens that sounded better in my head. MOVING ON! Some of you may be wondering where the deuce I've been, or more perhaps even what the deuce I've been up to, or terrifyingly enough, there is probably a one person in the world who just want's to know more about my deuces. Tell me everything... starting with crystals. Yes... Superman Returns. I just went there. Anyways, there is no fast answer except to return to the preface of this whole experiment. I am someones dad, a bunch of someones dads as a matter of fact, and that eats up a tremendous amount of time and energy! Sometimes you can't even take a damn shower without hearing the blood curdling scream of the marauding infant hordes... their teeth that gnash, their claws that catch.. Sometimes one man has to stride out of the shower and regulate Warren G style! Okay this looks worse than it was. But I got a sweet statue out of the deal. [Peering around looking for the media and or a rabble with pitchforks] Are they gone? Thank god... sorry about that. Seriously, I was unpacking, "Again, anytime you can remember where you put the diapers..." then I made some halloween costumes for my kids, who I adore, please no comments about the statue, please no comments about the statue, No joke here, These really are my kids Halloween Costumes. then I remembered that I own Saints Row and well... just watch... It's the trailer for the new one, you can thank me later. I'm more excited than a sissy in a wiener factory. So all in all, no, I don't really have a good excuse at all. ON TO THE REPLIES! Awesome! Thanks for the ups playa! Also, to everybody, I keep hearing "I am totally stealing that idea." I am dying to see some GhettoJugs™! ... ... let's just move on. Mangustheix, Ghiest1, Guild Monkee, Daemonkin, Odin ? Thanks guys. Seriously! I siphon motivation from compliments like a salt vampire from a yeoman. You probably have no idea how much this comment means to me. The whole purpose of this experiment was to try to help someone/anyone have an easier time with the hobby side of things. So this is just flat out awesome. One last bit of book keeping before getting to business here. Thanks to all the positive feedback I've gotten from my nonsense here, I've actually started a blog to detail more of my hairbrained schemes and family schenanigans. Spoiler.. It's almost identical to what you see here. Alright, So let me get some coffee in my system and we can talk SCIENCE.

GREETINGS PROGRAMS! Well the family has landed, and sometime this week I will bust out the "craft working paraphernalia" for some high quality "sprue removal" and "green stuffing" from the depths of my new workshop. Firstly, a Correction: I may have commented on a dwarf swimsuit calendar a while back... I have been corrected as to the destination of the provided URL and you can find the proper destination here............... Onwards to the comments! I am in the process of making a larger scale diffuser.. I don't want to blow your mind, but I may use in excess of THREE milkjugs... Eat faster ye thankless cur! We have craftworking to be done! No not like the robot song! Aaaaaaaaaaand? Don't leave a cracker hanging man! I dunno, i think you could make that work. You think Pollock would've been a Tyrannid guy, but nope... straight up Salamander Drops..go fig. Stern, CrazyCarl, Dark Alleycat? Onwards! So This weekend I moved the family to more stable digs, seeing as our starter home fell upon some unfortunate circumstances beyond our control. Moving is always a bit of a rough deal, especially with kids, but you get the chance to learn a lot about yourself, like peeling an onionskin timeline until you get to the warm nougaty infant core. Oh man... My Funkadelic Barbarian phase... *sniffle* Good times. Very quickly you tire of meticulously going through each wonderous nugget of your past, and things quickly devolve into wild shoveling and sleep deprived tape plastering. At this point all you really want is just to have everything in boxes and be ready to deal with 'the truck.' Try all you want... he's not going in that box without a fight. I took the latter part of the week off to pack things up. Thursday, just packing, and Friday, sloughing my things off at the new place, much like Hannibal crossing the Alps. "He told me I had a willpower duel when I activated, or I would be slow and take 4 wounds... I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti." So really instead of elephants, it was a "Grand Caravan" and instead of the Alps, it was I-696 north of Detroit, but still a light Herculean effort on my part to get in two full loads. "During rush hour? Yeah.. No thanks man, I'll just give this Lion the Stamos Snuggler." This was about the point I remembered I had a bachelor party to go to..the night before a big move. My wife joked with me that I would have one beer and pass out, I joked that I would be trying to rim the grub in the bottom of the Mezcal bottle, and still be aching. What really happened was pretty much a sausage fest house party with a bunch of swarthy Euro-dudes. Not pictured: A bachelor party... :twitch: So....skipping to the next day, I roll full of cheer and menthol fumes into the U-Haulery, which for you non-American's, it is a sizable rental truck to haul our oversized american things..including, but not limited too my fat American In your face Language filter. These things are expensive, rickety, and no matter how much pruning you've done of your personal effects, they are exactly like rope. "You always have 6 inches too little, or 6 feet too much." So of course I underbooked, and now I am on a timeline when this thing has to be back, while trying to optimize the packing arrangement inside the truck. A normal person might have a problem with this..... I however have spent decades training... EVERYONE STAND THE F--- BACK! I GOT THIS! Or, if you'd rather yes this was the most ridiculous dub of this scene i could find. So some back pain, a couple near death experiences and a family sized case of Sam Addams later, we have landed, safe and sound. Now we just have to unpack... "Hey honey? I can't get this one open!" NEXT TIME! Actual Malifaux stuff! I know, I'm shocked too.