JoeB

It is Demo time again at Jupiter Games, we will also have open gaming available if you already know how to play. This Thursday evening.

doing a Demo on 5/26/2011 5:30PM-9:30PM

at Jupiter Games, 3701 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal NY 13850, 607-729-5910

Thank you

Joe

Looks good keep up the good work. You should put a Shakespeare set on the stage, maybe "A Midsummer Night's Dream". I think that play would be perfect.

doing a Demo on 2/24/2011

at Jupiter Games, 3701 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal NY 13850, 607-729-5910

Hoping to be there from 4pm-9pm

Demo Day at Jupiter Games on October 24th, starting at noon and will last at least 5 hours depending on interest.

Jupiter Games

3701 Vestal Pkwy E

Vestal, NY 13850-2397

(607) 729-5910

I should have at least 2 demo tables running so stop on by if you are in the area.

Seeing as I work in the theater or for a living I am also working on a theater for Colette. I am working on a proscenium dinner theater for her. That would have an arch(proscenium) on the stage separating the house from back stage. I am going with saloon tables for seating as the chairs would be a pain to build and be horrible to move through for terrain. Bar at the back of the house. Box seats at the lip of the stage, and possibly second floor of box seats or a balcony. Backstage area with catwalks and stage rigging, lots of crates and pieces of scenery. Use double doors for entrances into the hall and large loading doors backstage for the scenery. I have also toyed with making a number of different sets to go on the stage so the scenery within the stage can change between battles.

I used sheet plastic which had parallel lines cut into it the right width for floor boards. I cut this to fit the bases and then cut a few cross lines to represent the ends of boards and voila a wooden floor. I also cut some brass tubing and added footlights to their bases.

One of the most important things in painting is being able to control your paint. Make sure your paint is the correct viscosity and that you are using good brushes.

Using the black primer and dry brushing it is a good way to show the detail, I also know people who will paint it white and wash it with a color to show the detail.

The other important thing to remember is that many of us have been painting for years. I have been painting minis for over 20 years and have picked up many tricks over that time. My early minis pretty much sucked but I am a pretty good painter now. Be patient and it will get easier.

For trees go to the local arts and crafts store and buy a bag of pipe cleaners. You can get them in multiple colors, I buy black and give them a rough brown paint job for depth but you could just use brown as well. Take a group of pipe cleaners and twist them together and make the tree trunk and branches out of them. Then pick up some lichen from the local hobby shop, anywhere that has model trains should have it, and stick clumps on for leaves. stick it to a base and you can make a whole forest for only a few dollars.

I love the gremlins

I love the 8 ball, now the question is is it a regular 8 ball or the magic 8 ball?

You can also create some nicer washes with some artist tools. The best recipe I know is as follows, fill half the bottle with liquitex matte medium, fill the other half with a 10:1 ratio of water and liquitex flow aid. After this add a number of drops of acrylic artists ink. Depending on how deep you want the wash you can change how many drops you add but in general for a 1oz. bottle add between 20 to 60 drops depending on the look you want. This makes a very nice wash and artist inks come in numerous colors.

Nice, I really like the cat tails with the piggies!

Nice Work

Do a search on the internet for "Victorian Gothic architecture" and you will find what the buildings in the nicer parts of Malifaux should look like. Or check this link out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_architecture

Yes, the plaid was first done by painting the pants dark blue, then the wide dark brown grid was laid over that. I then put a thin line of brown down the middle of the dark line, and put a touch of lighter blue in the middle of each square. Then finally put a dot of lighter brown wherever the two thin lines crossed. Now he just needs to find some scrap so he can make a set of clubs.

Working on a Ramos crew, since plaids and brocades were popular in this era I thought I would try my hand at some plaid!

Go to Jo-Ann fabrics and buy a piece couple pieces of felt in whatever color you want.

Nice shed, you might also want to look into corrugated fasteners they are small corrugated nails made to strengthen joints and look a lot like what you made. You can also get standard corrugated cardboard box and carefully peel off the flat layer from one side and use the corrugated piece underneath in your model.