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nice take on the model! really interesting! love it

Thank you kindly!

It won't be too long now until she's all done!

I'm sorry to have to tell you this, because I think your conversion is awesome, but aPandora is on a 40mm. Sorry.

No worries. This has already been brought to my attention and I am just about finished with preparing the model to be set into a 40mm base.

Only Rathnard is cool enough to pull this sorta nonsense off!

I dig the original attempt to capture the rules manual pandora look. I think leaving the suction cups off to distinguish yours further from the default sculpt will not only save you effort but also look interesting - not convinced 'tentacles of madness' would actually come from an octopus!

Rathnard does make pink look so good.

I like the way you think! You bring up a good point about creating a distinguishable difference while, at the same time, saving me labor!

I'm still undecided as to whether I want to include the suction cups or not, but you certainly offer something else to be considered.

(Is the text better bold?)

I'm not offended by it, but I certainly won't try to read it. I, at least, post on public forums mostly so that other people would read and perhaps react to what I've written thus resulting in a change of ideas. Were I to randomly choose a colour for my text that would make reading said text an unlikely event in the case of many, I would certainly reconsider.

But yeah, keep on doing what you're doing if you feel that it's the best way forward to you. Also, don't bother responding to this with blue text if you wish to engage me further. If you want to write for your own pleasure, then naturally feel free to do so.

That's fair, that's fair.

I can see where you're coming from, and I certainly do hope that I've not upset you.

Henceforth, when interacting with you, I shall then use something a little more bold. If others approach me with the same sentiment I may just make the change more permanent.

(I do so enjoy that particular blue though...)

Perhaps it would be better if I made the text bold in conjunction with that blue?

Well these are absolutely brilliant!

I must say, I have been wanting to see something similar to a traditional deck and you have that here! Very nice!

I'm sorry to have to tell you this, because I think your conversion is awesome, but aPandora is on a 40mm. Sorry.

Well I do believe you are right. The image I have shows her on a 50mm. It would seem that the Internet trolled me without even trying.

This shouldn't be too complicated to fix, though, seeing as the inset in the 50mm base is 40mm in diameter. If things work out as I hope them to, I should be able to recover the basing from inside this base and either sand it down to fit inside the 40 or mount in on top of it. Or, if my basing proves too sturdy, I'll just cut away the plastic base and mount that.

Thanks so much for bringing this to my attention! I quite appreciate it.

OP. Cool idea...looks good so far. Any chance you're going to attempt suction cups on the tentacles.

Thanks. At the time I made the tentacles I didn't have an image to work from, and I hadn't though of putting any on, but including those suction cups shouldn't be too difficult of a feat. I could quite easily make a bunch from the flour paste which I will be sure to do shortly.

Thanks for bringing that up!

Light blue text on white background??? Dude. You really think that's 1) a good idea and 2) somehow cool?

At least it's not white on white. And yes, blue does fall into the category of cool colors.

Seriously, though, I don't see it as such a bad idea. I have yet to meet anybody offended by the color, and, quite simply, I enjoy it. I do not choose this color for others' satisfaction, but rather for my own pleasure. I'm sorry that it irks you so, but at the same time it strikes me a quite the inconsequential thing to worry about.

You've got quite the splendid group of minis here, whether their respective crews lay incomplete or not.

You're Cherub's bow looks good and, despite your lack of enthusiasm for painting the Austringer, he came out well.

All-in-all, nice work! I look forward to what you have to come in the future.

If only Tucson wasn't so far away~ T-T

Can we just build a Breach between Glendale and Tucson?

I got a 15, but I'm going to attribute some of the inconsistency with having grown bored of it and rushing.

I was never really a fan of Seamus, so I may have a bit of a negative bias towards him and his models.

That being said, I am going to offer you some praise in painting this beast here; the effect you were going for was, I think, well-achieved! Very nice!

Absolutely incredible! Very nice work!

I love how you've gone about painting the vortex of the doorway.

The chair is really well made and positioned cleverly on the base so that the whole thing doesn't look overbalanced. But I'd recommend going back over the wood with some overbrushing. Real old wood like that just isn't brown. It's grey and white and orange and black and even a bit green, but it just ain't brown. An overbrush of lightening shades of grey and perhaps some stippling would make it look a bit more like it had actually spent a few decades sitting on some Bayou porch.

R.

While I do agree that the color is somewhat improper (I had not considered the affects of aging prior) I do not feel that your choice of color is what is right here. My Ortegas are all based with elements of the Arizonan/Mexican desert. The old wood that I see around here, depending on type, is either a dark brown or a faded yellow, greying in the most extreme cases, and I do now intend to revise the porch to mimic such.

Thank you very much for the feedback; I do appreciate it. I do so welcome any future criticisms that you may have to offer, or any others, perhaps, of Abuela?

Do you feel at all that the hue of her hat is too pure or does such a strong red seem appropriate for such a strong personality?

I am seriously considering having mine in front of a rocking chair now as well. Maybe If I were feeling really adventurous,do some cutting and greenstuffing and having her actually IN the rocking chair lol.

I would like to see that!

If you were to give your chair arms, too, that could help to hide the cute you make in the model's back side. I would very much enjoy seeing that!

So do you want to know what's cooler than crazy Mexican grandma?

Hm...?

That would have to be Abuela under a blacklight. It's pretty intense.

Your choice of font colour makes my eyes bleed!

Yeah, sorry about that. ;

Other than that, I really like the piece. The rocking chair is a stroke of genius!

Excelent work my good fellow. I do enjoy the skulls the most I would say, the fact that you have tied in a very culturally rich and quite interesting holiday to your piece speaks volumes to the attitude of the model herself. Well done.

Thank you both so very much! I'm glad that you both enjoy.

Thanks you all, I am glad that the rocking chair went over so well!

So, the product! I painted much of the details with a toothpick (I so need to look into getting a good detail brush to replace my last one...) here is what we have; the rocking chair has been painted in Guild red, faded at the butt and back to imply being worn and the skulls have been done in the style of el Dìa de los Muertos.

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The dark colors look good together and the cactus, though unusual, suits this piece well. It makes sense given the theme of Western expansion.

So I have just recently received Abuela Ortega as a gift and the painting and basing of her shall ensue. This thread shall follow that.

-Abuela has been primed in a white acrylic and, here, I have begun painting her skirt blue.

-Painting has progressed to leave me with the whole of her clothes (save for her hat) complete. Her skirt is blue with an implied floral print about the fringe, her shirt is pink, and her jacket is a sort of dark beige.

Her base has also been constructed out of polymer clay and gravel from just outside my door. The gravel will go unpainted, but the brown plastic will be given color in acrylic. I am thinking that her chair is going to be done in a manner to look like wood with red paint and a ram's skull worn off.

-So, the product! I painted much of the details with a toothpick (I so need to look into getting a good detail brush to replace my last one...) here is what we have; the rocking chair has been painted in Guild red, faded at the butt and back to imply being worn and the skulls have been done in the style of el Dìa de los Muertos.

Your dark color scheme works well for your crew.

As for the flames, a pale purple, I think, would look good, but I think it may also be interesting to have these purpled flames fade into a darkness or blackness at either the flames' core or edges. Just a thought.

Sorry that I could not make myself present today. I am just a bit occupied today watching after my little sister. ;

To my understanding, a morale duel is one that, if lost, will result in a model falling back, as in Terrifying.

A WP»WP duel is not necessarily a morale duel.