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Hi all, I forgot I’d never shared my first extensive foray into greenstuff sculpting, turning Reaper’s sphinx into a mummy. This was for an NPC in a Pathfinder Society adventure. It’s funny what can inspire a mini, particularly as the NPC never saw combat. 🙂 Thanks for viewing!

For some reason I just had the urge to paint some ghosts, so these were what I was able to dig up out of my loose figure bin. I wanted to try to do them each in different styles, of course had to keep the duplicate the same.

Like no one I know 👿

Hopefully no one has already posted this one, only went back five pages to check.

This started off as a color technique test and then I decided I liked how it was working and finished it. I primed black, drybrushed the whole thing white, and then used the Reaper purple super wash. Then painted the reds. I would hit the highlights with white between coats of red to add extra punch. The swords were given the purple super wash treatment. The face is really deep in the hood so it is challenging to take a picture of the face.

Been unable to type or paint much 😞 so thought I would try a quick rescue job on this gargoyle? we've had for ages ( my other half admits he can't paint -but is better now than he was then). He did want him still to be usable separately but coincidentally in his game a player has got extremely pedantic about gargoyles and grotesques - hence base with downspout! Which I'm fairly happy with. Now I say its a gargoyle but I cannot trace the manufacturer so it might be a demon? Anyone got any ideas please? It is metal and the base has C FP(F?) 96 on one side and WK on the other if that helps?

Having worked in warehouses and factories all my life, I won't spend more than ten dollars on a shirt or twenty dollars on a pair of jeans, but I'll instantly drop twenty dollars for a single package of socks or one pair of underwear, and a hundred and fifty or more on a pair of work boots.

I don't have one currently, but a 3D printer. They seem kinda fun/useful, but they also sound like a LOT of work and seem really fiddly to get good prints out of. Besides, do I REALLY need something to help me produce even MORE figures to add to the backlog?

Using isn't the frustrating part, the frustrating part is when something breaks down, I'm no tech person so it usually results in having to call someone and pay for repairs.

For non perishables I buy bulk. When Covid Hit I was not worried about toilet paper or paper towels. In fact I haven't bought any toilet paper since shortly before covid, and I still have a decent supply on hand. Anything that will not spoil within a year or more I buy as much as I can store. I seem to have this same attitude toward miniatures too sadly. I dislike dealing with the public. On a good weekend I won't leave the house between Friday night and Monday morning, so being stocked up helps.

I am a bulk buying Guy. I like being overstocked...it's a security thing.

I get the vast majority of my miniatures from kickstarters and such. I consider that buying in bulk. Otherwise, not too much. However, my union just subsidized a Costco membership for us and I'm looking forward to checking it out. Not sure I'll be buying anything yet, but it's free, so might as well look.

I'm a rather practical sort, so I prefer to purchase in whichever quantities make the most sense. Unfortunately, it's Mrs. Strawhat that does the lists. She's a bit less practical than I am, but still tries to purchase wisely based on price, longevity, and need.

This was a great "mini" to paint. The detail is very clean and no mold lines to speak of. The swords are "Ruin" and "Pestilence" and a friend helped me find the correct kanji for it. All Reaper paints.

To be honest, I'm baffled by most modern tech these days.

My 3D printer probably tops the list. When it works it's a beautiful thing. Trouble is I often have strange issues that come and go without ever finding a solution. The 2nd would be out main TV. 5 year old daughter likes to watch cartoons on youtube. Because the tv is 6-7 years old the youtube app is out of date. This means it continually stalls or wipes out her choices and there's no fix other than a newer TV.

Most everything that is more complicated than merely off & on.

Both some things are bought in bulk due to how quickly we will go through them and others as needed. If we are talking miniatures; bulk I have enough to last me years if I did nothing but paint, decades at my current pace. My 3D printer, I need to strip the software from it and reload it. I'm not expecting it to go smoothly or on the first try and have been putting it off. I also have had problems with the dual printhead during printing when the second printhead runs into previously laid layers of a print.

My wife and I both grew up in the country, back when a weekly or bi-weekly trip into town for groceries were the norm, and ordering something meant calling Sears and picking up the order in a week or two on the next trip to town. So we both come from families that generally stocked up on anything important. We still do that. My wife still plans "CostCo runs" every few weeks (our CostCo is 5 minutes from the house, it literally sits next to our grocery store that she goes to multiple times a week). I tend to buy a lot of things in large quantities, especially hobby stuff, usually based on "plans". So sometimes this works out, like the 10 kgs of filament coming today, as I only have 3 spools left. Sometimes no so much, so I need to find somewhere to store the 10 kg of resin coming, since I've not been printing the stuff I'd planned on, so I still have almost all of the last 10 kgs still sitting there under the table. Minis, well, I do like my kickstarters. 3D models? So many patreons..... Everything else, well, we have a storage room and 3 freezers. We could certainly stockpile less, and we talk about that, but a whole childhood of "if we don't have it, it could be a 4 hour round trip to go get it. Assuming we don't need to order it" makes it a hard instinct to suppress.

I sometimes buy in bulk, but only as needed.

I'm both. If it's filament, I'll order 5-10kg at a time because it just makes life easier, same with things like toilet paper (I'll buy the 24 pack of Mega rolls). Also technically order pop in bulk, because it makes life easier... But a lot of things I tend to lean towards an as needed basis, because there's only so much shelf space, and especially fridge space is limited.

I keep losing my USB drives. Otherwise I am good.

Modern cars. It seems like some computer controlled thing is always failing, or even just a sensor. But because of the complexity and computer control, you can't really work on them yourself anymore.

Um....

Hi all, I’ve finished a project I started a while back, making a Pathfinder mammoth rider. I decided to combine a pygmy mammoth and the amazingly cool Kjell Bloodbear. I also, perhaps foolishly, decided to paint up mounted and unmounted versions. 🙂 Thanks for viewing! Greenstuff is scary but fun 🙂

[snip] All of them . . . I recently spent twenty minutes I will never get back trying to figure out how to set the time on the stupid microwave. And it is an old one. Also, it does 99 second long minutes, except when it does 60 second minutes.

Our tv/cable/dvr setup. It's not a standard plug-and-play device from our service company, it's one DH designed to go on our network. There are 3 remotes and my eyesight is bad enough I can't read any of the text on them, and half the symbols are meaningless to me. The remotes have to be used in a certain sequence to turn everything on and then navigate the menus. That's assuming all the batteries are working and the various devices are cooperating. Consequently, I don't watch much tv or streaming or whatever it's called these days.

Yeah, they like to try to get you to buy a new tv. If you have an extra hdmi port, you could get a firestick, or equivalent, and run youtube through that. Although then you will get the frustration of it wanting to update your firestick remote as soon as you want to watch something.....

Depends on what it is. Food that can store like freezer meat and dry goods I do bulk. Most other things I buy as needed. Miniatures are definitely a bulk item.

Both, depending on the particular item.

It depends, but we do less bulk now without mom around. Dad and I only manage to share meals about half the time. He's an early bird and doesn't eat as much, I'm a night owl and have meds that must be taken with food. Different tastes to a degree too. So the old habit of getting a whole pork loin or half a eye of round and cutting several roasts out of it is a bit of a waste. We weren't using the Sam's club membership enough to justify keeping it. I sometimes end up with semi bulk quantities by accident when ordering groceries for pickup. If they claim quantities are low for something we're pretty brand agnostic on, like paper goods, I order everything I have a coupon for, 2-4 brands or sizes. Started with the pandemic. Means I'll probably get at least one. Sometimes I get all four.

And it's time for another episode of "True Confessions of a Food Hoarder". I buy lots of food, but I don't usually buy family sized packages. Mumsy bought me this really great Tupperware pump, so I stopped buying water in those little bottles and now have a giant jug in the kitchen. The only Costco-sized thing I buy is feminine hygine products. As long as you store them away from water, they keep forever. The store in the village is under new management, and everyone loves it. I buy a lot more in town now, so I don't need to buy for weeks at a time. When we go to the city, we buy lots of meat, as I can usually find it at a discount and the local store doesn't have as many cuts to choose from. Anything that requires paying for shipping, I buy in hundred dollar plus amounts. Once you cover that flat rate shipping, it's not much more to make a huge order versus a more modest one.

This question hurts a bit. I'd like to be an "in bulk" shopper, but a combination of limited storage space and my wife's overly-broad definition of "clutter" makes me more of an "as you need" shopper. I like to have extra stuff on hand, which sometimes annoys her. I can't wait to see her reaction when my Bones 6 shipment shows up; it will probably cause some tension, but that was something I just had to get in bulk. When it comes to groceries, though, the two categories are the same; I have four kids, two of them teenagers, so I have to buy in bulk just to keep up with their appetites.

"As you need it". Going to the grocery shop every day gives the Housemate and I an excuse to go for a walk.

Not so much a piece of technology, but in that general spirit... I loathe having an app for everything. No, I do not want to download your app to shop at your store. Yes, I hate that your store offers exclusive deals to app users. Yes, it makes me not want to shop there anymore. If there were any stores left that don't even have apps, I would take all my business there.

FDM printers are often my main nemesis. I think it is just that combination of computers and physical components, and a price point that doesn't allow for sensors that would tell the hardware exactly where everything is all the time. I'm curious if the LIDAR on the K1 will be better at actual bed leveling. Forced app usage is another one I find frustrating. The park app is one. They seem to be updating it almost constantly, but it's still crap. A few weeks ago it would only put in 15 min, no matter what you picked on the pop up, the first time you selected. I wonder how many people got tickets because of that..... And I just had to install an app on my phone to assign my flex seat I'm booking for tomorrow, my first trip into the office. Not really looking forward to that..... Someone told me the first gen of touch screens on one of the Fords had the cabin temperature controls as a touch screen, so below a certain temperature you couldn't turn up the temperature since the touch screen wouldn't work.

I'm generally not too annoyed or frustrated with most technology. Not counting nearly everything we have to use at work. But that's the result of a terrible IT department and not the technology itself. But there is one thing I really can not stand that I'm forced to use on a regular basis, and that's app based parking. Our city removed all the parking meters from downtown and now to park you have to either have the app on your phone or find a kiosk to pay. The kiosks are few and far between and the app crashes at least once a month. When it crashes you have to either go find a parking garage to overpay at or constantly check the app to see if it's come online again and then pay your parking fee. And if you're not quick enough when it comes back up then you risk getting a ticket. And if you don't have a smart phone, or are at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder and don't have an active bank account, then you better hope you don't have business downtown. Even worse, the street signs that tell you what zone you're parking in so you can pay the app or kiosk don't always match what the app says. So you have to double check every time you park somewhere new to make certain you don't get ticketed for paying to park in the wrong zone. Also, the kiosks are routinely vandalized and have a habit of not working when it's freezing cold out. I'm not sure what brilliant mind thought this was a good idea, but I'm guessing there is a special place in hell for them.

Question, Wednesday May 10th. As I sit here trying to get my 3D printer to print, you know, like it was 10 minutes ago, and ponder the actual meaning of "self leveling" since it doesn't seem to mean what you'd thing, what piece of modern technology do you use, or would like to use, that you find frustrating in one manner or another?

Started to work on the RCON game minis today. The whole keep them on the table on the off-weeks & off on the Saturday game week start anew. Allot more minis this year then last, thou it doesn't help I added a 6th game this year, but overall though there is allot more. I hope I can finish em all in time. I mainly did sorting via game & gluing steps today. I need to hit Home Dewpah for some more UV glue as I'm about halfway through & I don't want to run out of that glue. Sadly that glue started to give me problems, so hopefully it's not starting to fail me, as that is about the only glue I've found that'll glue up Sunlu resin. Overall thou I think I can get some painting started this week. I think what I'll do is go by game in the way I'm running them at the Con. I guess it keeps them organized when I'm painting & putting them somewhere to dry & such.

We saw Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3. And it finally happened. The credits started rolling and nobody left their seat. They had the mid-credit scene, and... nobody left their seat. Not a single person left the theater until the credits had finished rolling - Marvel has... taught us well.... The Auld Grump

Surprisingly comfy all year round, too.

Although I do stock up on favorite foods that have a history of shortages.

As needed.

Both. Groceries like non food, canned stuff etc that's on sale..bulk. Fresh stuff, limited shelf time, as I need it. 3d files/minis...eehhhh I need those large sets, okay?

Like others have said, it depends on what it is. When 16oz bottles of 70% IPA went on sale for 25c after COVID I bought 24 of them for DH. When butter is 1.99 instead of ~$5 per pound I buy as many as my freezer will hold. OTOH, I go out weekly for milk, bread, and fresh vegs. Very often if budget allows and we have space to store it, we buy in bulk.