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Sure, once it was in the right place, then it was fine. It was getting it in the right place that was difficult.

"The 'hands' have both a location pip and a recess in the body so locating them correctly is very easy." LOL! I would not call correctly locating the left-front hand "very easy"!

Cheers guys. Here are the finished things, along with some generic Corpse Markers: Sorry it's not a great photo. They're done as follows... The markers come with the design engraved into them, and with a masking film over the unengraved parts (this can be seen around the Phoenix design in the previous photo). I start by cleaning off the dust left from the engraving process, and painting several layers of Vallejo White Surface Primer thinned with Vallejo Glaze Medium and Water, in a 1:1:1 ratio, into the engraving. In the case of the Corpse Markers I then painted GW Bleached Bone thinned with Vallejo Thinner Medium ('to taste') into the skull design. With the Scheme Markers I gave the Phoenix design a couple of coats of GW Skull White thinned with Vallejo Thinner Medium ('to taste'), as the White Surface Primer was a little patchy in places. Then to get the flame effect on the Phoenix I first mixed up three separate wells of Vallejo Transparent Yellow, Vallejo Transparent Orange, and Vallejo Transparent Red each mixed with Vallejo Glaze Medium and Water in a 1:2:2 paint:medium:water ratio. The Yellow mix was then painting heavily into the central area of the design, the Orange around it, and then the Red just touched into the outer most areas of the design. The Yellow, Orange, and Red treatment was then repeated (after the first had dried) to smooth the transitions somewhat. When this was dry I then carefully removed the masking film, touched up any areas that needed it, and applied a heavy coat of Vallejo Gloss Varnish thinned with Water (3:1). I could have repeated the Yellow, Orange, and Red treatment a third time, or more, to smooth out the transitions even further, but the more layers you apply the harder it is to remove the masking without the paint lifting out of the engraving.

Page 33 of the small rules manual: (Emphasis mine)

Not really minis, but a WIP... Kaeris Scheme Markers WIP

I tried it once (assuming you are talking about Eternal Flame, not Emberling). Seemed better on paper than in practice. But I'm quite a noob, so could just have been me.

Oh, and, no that I have the Dawn Serpent glued together and blu-tac'd to a base it's fairly clear how you're meant to pose it. Vaiuri: I could take a photo or two and post them here if you want.

That's what my opponent and I thought.

I'm thinking of using Bamboo on all my TT bases...

1. Can a Metal Gamin use this Action on themselves? 2. If so, do they count as their own 'friendly Metal Gamin within 3"'?

Got a chance to look at her on-sprue tonight. The base is just a plain base, so, as mentioned above it must just be so that she can just be chucked in any box. I didn't get a really good look, but she didn't seem as nice a sculpt as I thought she might be. But, if she ends up in another crew-box at some point, I shall be hoping to get hold of her to add to my M&SU collection.

Yeah, I noticed that whilst I was clipping it off the sprue and dry-fitting various bits. Not sure what I'm going to end up doing.

Is there something on the base that requires it to be on the sprue rather than it just coming with a normal base?

Got my Dawn Serpent from a UK OLGS yesterday.

And that's a bad thing in what way?!

I'm just planning to pin Ratty down next time I see him, and extract whatever information I can, by whatever means necessary...

Can you unlike likes? And, if so, how?

Slowly getting there... WIP Fire Gamin Next stage is to do their loin cloths, then I'll do the hair/flames, then I might revisit the skin, perhaps glazing it with Vermin Brown and/or Vomit Brown and/or either Dark Flesh of Scorched Brown...