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well, I've had some good-ish news today, my sister is out of the bushfire danger area, I do have other family members (aunts and cousins) in the bushfire danger areas, but they are all ok at the moment (I'm not as worried about them as I was about my sister) We'll see what happens over the next 48 hours

Just finished painting my largest model - it took me 4 different epoxies and 3 different glues but I finally found something that kept him together (JB Weld SteelStik) Not the most realistic model, but I think it has character! Hopefully I did it justice.

I totally agree with you in that those particular exaggerations are not very realistic in function. This was a challenging character/figure to create because I wanted her to read as feminine but also formidable and capable. There are some key features that allow a figure to read as feminine from a distance. Large breasts, tiny waists, flowy/curvy shapes, and thin joints (elbows, wrists, ankles). Since the costuming (and the character in this case) largely hid her chest and waist, and casting issues prevent me from making overly thin joint areas, I had to get creative. One of the ways I approached problem solving this was to include lots of flow, curl, and curve shape language throughout the figure. The way the cloth moves and the sash tails sway. The curls in her hair and the voluminous softness of the feathers in her hat. All of these design decisions were made to support the character personality within the limitations of production and art direction (which in this case was already provided). The one area I could exaggerate to help sell the femininity was in her lower legs. Exaggerating the backwards swoosh of the calf and a tall heel go a long way to communicating that effectively. As I said earlier the ankle joint itself couldn't be *too* thin due to production limitations but creating an exaggerated swooshy zig zag all the way down the lower leg (out for the calf, in for the ankle, out for the heel, in for the arch of the foot and back out for the toe) allowed me to give her some recognizable femininity easily read from a distance. A lot of miniature character design MUST focus on these types of exaggeration over realistic rendering in a lot of cases. We all try to create a good balance so that nothing feels "off", or breaks the suspension of disbelief, and we're always trying to improve. :)

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The two minis from the bones IV core set just look like they want to battle, so I made them ;) Griffin, Wyvern ... Bones IV core set Hiding Halfling ... TTCombat Hill ... XPS

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There's a thought! Use the BIG Bones fire giant king for a statue of the fire giant king, and the smaller Boned fire giant king for the king himself. He's COMPENSATING!

This one was pretty fun to do! :)

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Internet shipping manager, second of her name, shipper of mini's, and raccoon lover! Manager of our US based internet fulfillment department! Three rotations around the sun, and many moons spent being a Reaper!

The Screaming Antelope is one of the core monsters of Kingdom Death: Monster. And the fact that you can get so many fine resources from it makes it one of the most hunted creatures in the setting. For this paintjob, I wanted to move away from both the grey standard color scheme for the antelope and away from the red "skinned antelope" look I've often seen. All together, I feel like this came out really well. The base is constructed from apoxie sculpt and green stuff.

Howdy, Dark watcher uses... Halitosis! Kev!

Take it as an incredible compliment. It means they feel safe around you and trust you with their life. This is one of mine. His belly is his favorite petting spot. And he's got a lot of belly to pet. This is actually somewhat true. One of the friends at the party comes down from Canada. He used to get stopped every time he was coming across the border. When he was told that he has to get government approval to come to these parties, he went "so that's why ever since I started coming I've been able to breeze through the border..." He said it's gone from the full battery of questions every time to "have a nice trip" and a wave through. And the one host pretty much confirmed it.

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The additives in the candy are working I see.

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Howdy, Wow. tiny... Kev!

From what I understand, it's the taste of the yeast that make some cats love bread. Bread and toast have to be jealously guarded in this house, lest it fall to the questing paw of Loki Every single feral cat I've adopted came with the "Is it vaguely edible? That's good enough for me" attitude. Super smart little critters too- one in particular figured out how to open the child lock on the fridge and gorge himself on roast chicken. I really miss that little guy. Best, most adorable, little glutton ever.

We had a new visitor to the back deck this evening. At first I didn't notice and then I realized there were TWO dark brown tabby kitties instead of only one. The second one ran off as soon as he spotted me. I fed the three girls who live here now and put a bowl out by the side of the deck in case the visitor came back. He did, and very cautiously went for the food. And then the girls noticed there was a 2nd bowl of food and that was enough to scare him off again, but I saw he only went as far as the stairs. I'm calling it a "he" because it is larger than the girls, and about the same size as the other young male in our colony. So now we will be watching to see if he comes back. If Mama kitty approves his presence, he will be #6.

I blame Grump. That's what 7D6 of damage looks like. A Ref save would have prevented half.

I was briefly a US Navy Corpsman attached to Fleet Marine.

No one else’s answers reminded me of anything recent. (I did this Inktober Project recently but that wasn’t really much of a battle. That was so much in my wheelhouse it just meant finding the time...) A long time ago there was this technical drawing I had to do, but you kinda had to work there to understand why it was a problem. Short Version: I basically aced the technical drawing but they never really planned to let me know about it. But I found out later anyway. Christmas Eve I went over to a cousins house as a volunteer to help wrap presents. I wrapped about two dozen presents for kidlets of various ages. (At most I only wrapped one third of the total present haul—my cousin has 13 grandkids.) They have Disney+ on their TV so while we wrapped, they put on the first seven Mandalorian episodes (which I had never seen at all.) That was easily ^ the most fun I have ever had on a Christmas Eve: lifetime.

RNVR from 1979 to 1992, ended up as Lieutenant- Commander (Engineering) I've still got my sword at the back of a cupboard, somewhere...

Yup, I joined the RNLAF ( Royal Netherlands Air Force) in 1988, as things are I will probably retire in 2024. Warrant Officer/Chief, my field is Logistics and I'm kind of the troubleshooter, I work at the staff of the base. When things take too long or are no longer availabe, it's my job to get it anyway. Of course there are some sidejobs and the younger generation can ask me anything about how they should do things, and they often do.

I managed to rip the back end off of my brother's tonka dump truck when I was about three. He didn't make me mad when I had one of his toys again for several years.

Couldn't pass up on Bombshell's December special so picked up a few things. The candy, and everything to the right, was a Christmas bonus. I'm attaching some shots of his latest bust. The bust is gorgeous, and a little smaller than Morihilda, so I'd say she's 1/10 scale. No cleanup, and really no assembly either. 75mm Betty and Shrapnel: I also received an order from El Greco in England with some more 54mm Landsknecht and a 75mm Limited figure.

Special delivery today! A big thank you to @Glitterwolf, who always sends the best care packages. This year I got a special Christmas card, a Dutch Air Force sticker, and some of his special mind-control stroopwafels! (Thanks to the long-standing relationship between our two countries, all Canadians are immunized from the brain-whammy part of it). Again, a big thank you to a great friend!

But a meringue would dissolve in the water. Hard candies and chocolate sound like the way to a mermaids heart!

yes. USN from 1984 to 1990. Ended my military career as an Electronics Tech First Class. Technically, I'm a Gulf War Veteran because my service extended a couple of weeks into the gulf war, which is a large part of the reason why I got out. I had been planning on continuing my career in the Reserves, but there were rumors the reserve unit I would have joined was going to be deployed, so I held out to see what was going to happen, as I didn't want a deployment to interfere with my college plans. Sure enough, they were deployed a few weeks later.

No. I come from a long line of Quakers and conscientious objectors. My great-great grandfather volunteered as a Private in a home guard unit in the Union Army during the American Civil War even tho he was a Congressman & exempt from service. My grandmother, an Englishwoman, traveled on her own dime to Spain to fight fascists and then when WWII broke out she fled to the US with a dead man's baby. My other set of grandparents did classified communications stuff.

This is weird; it's Friday, and I'm happy for it, but it doesn't feel like it should be Friday. I've only worked 3 and 1/2 days this week. I'll take it, though! Have a good day!

Meanwhile, on the other side of the great pond, I'm fairly thrilled that this year, not doing monthly orders from the US does not mean missing out on cool stuff. Promos like this are also going to mitigate the impact of the EU store being out of 'current' promo items issues. (The cat in a tree dragon never actually was available when I tried ordering during the 12 Days 2019. I missed day 1&2, so maybe there was extremely limited stock that ran out; maybe it didn't make it to the UK at all.) Less exclusive bonus items might be better for strengthening international operations, because us Old Worlders won't need to feel left out as much.

Add $40 worth to your cart and you'll see there are 12 metal figures available this month, one of them a new sculpt, the others all released previously. On Reaper Live, they said each month, they're going to add one new sculpt to the free list, and remove one of the old ones. 11 old ones, 1 new one this month; 10 old, the new one from January, another new one in February, etc. So, in December of this year there should be 12 minis on the free list, one new one from each month of the year. They said they'll change out the old ones each month as well, but I'm not sure that was a definite.

Because I haven't seen it mentioned on the forum, the ReaperCon FB page announced today that hotel reservations go live on Jan 10, at noon CST.

The deft way his paw comes over the edge of the table when he thinks no one will notice. He snags it, then carries his prey off to a hidden place to eat... most of it, (He has a bad habit of snagging more than he will eat.) The Auld Grump

Gonna re-answer/add to this question - Won the ReaperLive giveaway this evening. Frost Giants I think? Not 100% sure since I only caught the last 15-20 minutes of the show.

I never served, was going to, but it was under Carter and my Dad told me not to. He was decorated in Korea with the Silver Star and we never knew until after he died.

Was the huge honkin' sword not enough?

I suppose it's time to return to work next week. It was a nice break (sort of, at least I didn't get called that much...) wish my meds had been more forgiving though would have been nicer to have been rested. Next week I get to see if they are actually working or if the last few weeks were in vain I also actually started considering what to do next year at work for both me And my group so I guess I'm ready to think about work again, but I could really use another month to consider it...

Never have. The closest I got was being a civilian employee of a Defense Contractor. I worked with a lot of guys who were Ex-military. Which was interesting... Former US Air Force Lt. Colonels who used to fly B-52 bombers can very, very, very picky when signing off on new USAF technical drawings. Guys who used to be B-52 tail gunners have some fascinating stories to tell.

Spent the last few days researching shipwrecks, dolphin attacks, and various other horrors of the deeps. I now find myself wondering what the crush depth is for a bagel or a donut. The idea being that if mermaids attack the submersible, launching a couple dozen of these into the water might distract them. Possibly even a way to bribe them into not sinking the boat/sub. "See if you don't kill us, you get tasty snacks!"

Just looked on the front page, and in both the Reaper News and Reaper Discussion areas of the forum... There will be a new figure for January. But, someone making a purchase could choose from 11 of the 12 figures from 2019 instead of the new January figure. They announced/strongly hinted at/confusingly said ...this on ReaperLive this evening.

Getting back into hobbying in the first place. Trying to find a job had left me with a lot of time, but very little ambition. At the beginning of No-Excuses-vember I decided to do a little bit each day, and I still am continuing the streak.

Today was DEFINITELY a day for coffee. Long long day at work, reorganized and reprioritized to do list. Unfortunately, I still need people that aren't back till next week. Good news, today's Thursday, and next week isn't as far away as it seems. CPA studying continues. And thank goodness for people who make videos explaining difficult concepts. At some point, probably Saturday morning, I'm gonna try to pull out all my painted minis from 2019 and take a picture of them... NYE was spent watching Fellowship of the Ring. NYD was spent watching The Two Towers. We'll finish up the trilogy Saturday evening. It's been a while since I watched them all. Years... Makes me want to paint some LotR minis. Especially some of the big ones... That'll have to wait though, for a couple of reasons. One, they aren't here. Two, CPA exam... Time to walk the girls. Gonna go to the park since the weather is about as warm as it's gonna be for the next week.

Aqueduct that's MOSTLY blocked, but only mostly, and storm drains that empty into it. Twenty feet deep and occupies about half of a city block. Brass sluice gate, warped enough to be hard, but not impossible to open, originally with sisal and asphalt seals, but those have turned into a sodden mess that leaks all around the gate. The cistern was for a dwarven canal system that was never completed. The gate they opened was only supposed to be used for cleaning, when the cistern had only a few inches of water. It was originally designed to open INWARDS, so it couldn't be opened without draining. By the time the PCs found it the dogs were the only thing holding it in place. A really big rainstorm or two would have done for it. Grump has these paper models for a dwarven canal system, complete with locks. So, we had 'em and I used 'em! The dwarven canal is the REAL dungeon, like investigating stations on an abandoned subway line.

We have one cat who is more likely to take your hand off if you don't rub his belly.

Happy New Year! Here's some goblins to help you kick it off in style. They're a day late, but that is early for goblins. Individual selfies in the thread. Enjoy! I swear this guy is half-orc, half-goblin. He is huge and rather imposing. Lots of great little details on this mini. I'm assuming this gut saw a monk once and decided he was a samurai. Pleased how the armour turned out. Looks (to me) even better in person. Tried my hand at NMM on the sword. It is actually MNMM, don't tell anyone. The casting on this lad's eye was weird, or maybe it was meant to be like that. Either way, I decided he needed a cool scar more than his eye. His catchphrase: I shall spear ye no mercy. I like the gladiator look of this one. The only issue I had with all these minis was the chainmail on his face though. I just couldn't get it to where I was happy with it. And the last one. I think the swords turned out well on this one.

Curious, so I tried a ghost order, that is, I just tossed a Pathfinder paint set into my cart & "checked out". The figures I could have gotten were all former metal releases in both the Dark Heaven & Warlord line ups. It was a variety of minis, including the current release from Dark Heaven (the male barbarian). Seems like a decent promo this year but if nothing is a really new or limited, I don't see myself ordering every month vs the 25th anv or Bones Black freebies from previous years.

I think something is wrong with my cat. I just rubbed his belly and he didn't even try to make me bleed. Instead he purred. This is not normal.