GETTING to KNOW YOU JULY 2021

[Werkrobotwerk]

4 hours ago, TGP said:

QUESTION July 22nd:

If the Pandemic is ever over, will you resume traveling?

What places will you want or  plan to visit if you do?

 

I hope it is over by december so I can go to pax unplugged in philly, if not that, then captain con in rhode island in february, if not either of those then we are likely screwed and it will never truly end

[Jasper_the_2nd]

On 7/20/2021 at 9:50 AM, Glitterwolf said:

QUESTION JULY 20th.

Which material do you like best for dioramas/bases?

( putty/foam/mdf etc etc)

Just about everything.  I like foam board, plaster, apoxie Scuplt, green stuff, milliput, etc.  For bases I like the textured pastes, or the standard sand/rock/flock, or the new cracking paints are neat, or resin or 3D printed bases.

On 7/21/2021 at 4:00 AM, Glitterwolf said:

QUESTION July 21th.

What was the best hobby gift your loved ones/friends ever gave you?

And when did they completely misunderstood and gave you a hobby gift you really couldn't use?

 

NOTE:

I'm going on a little vacation this afternoon, will be back on Monday.

During this time the QUESTOR will be our awesome Griffin @TGP!

Thx..

My wife got me the Clone Wars Star Wars Legion starter for Christmas last year.  I may have guided her towards that......

 

A number of years ago one of my sisters tried.  She new I was painting, so I got a bunch of big bottles of craft paint. Not even colours that would be helpful for terrain, as they were all either bright colours or metallics.

I (of course) still have them, but so far haven't found a reason to use them.

4 hours ago, TGP said:

QUESTION July 22nd:

If the Pandemic is ever over, will you resume traveling?

What places will you want or  plan to visit if you do?

 

Yes.

I'm really hoping there is a Montreal GP to go to next year, and depending on how things are I might start looking at going to ReaperCon or a Con with a Star Wars Legion tournament.

Long term we have lots of places we'd like to go, but that depends on things like finances, the cats, the kid, and how my back surgery goes.

 

[Sylverthorne]

7 hours ago, TGP said:

QUESTION July 22nd:

If the Pandemic is ever over, will you resume traveling?

What places will you want or  plan to visit if you do?

 

Reapercon, obvs. 

Other'n that... travel? Not.. really? It's sort of fun, sometimes, but we have livestock (and cats!), and that makes the notion of traveling very far for very long not really viable.

[Zink]

7 hours ago, TGP said:

QUESTION July 22nd:

If the Pandemic is ever over, will you resume traveling?

What places will you want or  plan to visit if you do?

 

 

We did a bit of travelling even during the pandemic but hopefully more international travel will be allowed soon. No set plans but hoping to go to the west coast (Vancouver, Victoria, Tofino) sometime this fall.

[Chaoswolf]

9 hours ago, TGP said:

QUESTION July 22nd:

If the Pandemic is ever over, will you resume traveling?

What places will you want or  plan to visit if you do?

 

Yes.

No specific plans at the moment.

[Corsair]

12 hours ago, TGP said:

QUESTION July 22nd:

If the Pandemic is ever over, will you resume traveling?

What places will you want or  plan to visit if you do?

 

Yup! Definitely will be traveling as Lady C is now retired too, so we will be all over the place!

[TGP]

1 hour ago, TGP said:

QUESTION July 22nd:

If the Pandemic is ever over, will you resume traveling?

I am not sure the Pandemic will ever be over.  
 

There has to have been a point in the past where early humans were not plagued by “the common cold”. 50,000 years ago? 30,000?? It’s still with us. 
 

Ditto Influenza. 
 

Also German Measles. 
And the other Measles. 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
As for Traveling: I was not doing that before the COVID plague. So, there is nothing to resume. 
 

 

1 hour ago, TGP said:

What places will you want or plan to visit if you do?

The only means of travel I could really tolerate is Star Trek Transporters. 
 

I could maybe see having myself and a Squashy Armchair beamed different places. Maybe the top of the Great Wall of China would be fun. Maybe the ISS…

 

But no realistic travel goals, not me. 

[Rob Dean]

20 hours ago, TGP said:

QUESTION July 22nd:

If the Pandemic is ever over, will you resume traveling?

What places will you want or  plan to visit if you do?

 

 

Shrug.  I’m sure I will, especially if you count heading out to non-local conventions.  But my pleasure in travel, such as it is, is in who I’m visiting, or what event I’m doing.  Most of my “exploratory” travel has been disappointing; I feel like I want to live in a place for a while to get the flavor of it, and dropping in for a couple of days to see the landmark and the museum(s) isn’t that much fun.  My younger son is lobbying for an exploratory trip to the Lake District in England, though, being a Swallows and Amazons fan, and my daughter-in-law spent some years of her youth in the Netherlands while her father was teaching somewhere, and that’s also been proposed as a large family trip.  My wife wants to travel, so I’m afraid that I’m a bit of a disappointment to her in that regard.

[TGP]

QUESTION July 23rd:

Have you ever made minis yourself?

 

(Hand Sculpted minis; Tin Soldiers; Highly involved conversions; Resculpts, Zbrush use, Resin printing…)

 

Where would you draw a line between Making and merely assembling ~or~  Making and merely printing them??

Edited July 23, 2021 by TGP
awkward line breaks are annoying

[malefactus]

58 minutes ago, TGP said:

QUESTION July 23rd:

Have you ever made minis yourself?

 

(Hand Sculpted minis; Tin Soldiers; Highly involved conversions; Resculpts, Zbrush use, Resin printing…)

 

Where would you draw a line between Making and merely assembling ~or~  Making and merely printing them??

 

Yes; I make and/or heavily convert quite a lot of my miniatures.

[Chaoswolf]

58 minutes ago, TGP said:

QUESTION July 23rd:

Have you ever made minis yourself?

 

(Hand Sculpted minis; Tin Soldiers; Highly involved conversions; Resculpts, Zbrush use, Resin printing…)

 

Where would you draw a line between Making and merely assembling ~or~  Making and merely printing them??

Yes, I'm doing so right now with my Iron Maiden mascot figure: https://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/95598-the-trooper/

 

Assembling is just sticking some parts together, making involves cutting, green stuff, parts of other figures, parts of random objects, pinning, glue, and generally a whole heck of a lot more time.,

[TaleSpinner]

1 hour ago, TGP said:

QUESTION July 23rd:

Have you ever made minis yourself?

 

(Hand Sculpted minis; Tin Soldiers; Highly involved conversions; Resculpts, Zbrush use, Resin printing…)

 

Where would you draw a line between Making and merely assembling ~or~  Making and merely printing them??

 

 

Have you ever made minis yourself?

 

Yes

 

Hand Sculpted minis

 

Yes, though my hand is no longer happy about doing it.  I do do enough hand-sculpting still to keep my skills up.

 

Tin Soldiers

 

No, unless you count casting my own sculpts in my lost-wax foundry

 

Highly involved conversions;

 

Yes

 

Resculpts

 

Sure

 

Zbrush use

 

Daily; current project:
 

Spoiler

 

 

 

 

Resin printing

 

Yes, I print both my own sculpts and do the master printing for Dark Sword Miniatures

 

Where would you draw a line between Making and merely assembling ~or~  Making and merely printing them??

 

Making to me implies that you started the mini from an armature and created the whole thing yourself.  Conversion/resculpt is essentially varying degrees of sculpting something new onto an existing mini, while leaving some parts of that mini intact.  Assembling and printing are the preparation necessary to paint an already finished mini.

[Jasper_the_2nd]

1 hour ago, TGP said:

QUESTION July 23rd:

Have you ever made minis yourself?

 

(Hand Sculpted minis; Tin Soldiers; Highly involved conversions; Resculpts, Zbrush use, Resin printing…)

 

Where would you draw a line between Making and merely assembling ~or~  Making and merely printing them??

No, I wouldn't consider anything I've done making a mini.
I've done minor to fairly significant modifications to miniatures.  I regularly expose goo to UV light to produce minis, and melt spools of plastic into other minis.

But I don't consider those really making minis, but altering or producing minis.

Making to me is starting from nothing, or a blank or armature or doll or whatever they are called, and crafting something, either physically or digitally.

There are certainly some remixes or conversions being done digitally that straddle the line as they are so far from the original that they aren't far off from working off a blank.  And I've seen physical conversions that are in that space as well, where significant portions of the model are completely altered and resculpted.

[Rob Dean]

1 hour ago, TGP said:

QUESTION July 23rd:

Have you ever made minis yourself?

 

(Hand Sculpted minis; Tin Soldiers; Highly involved conversions; Resculpts, Zbrush use, Resin printing…)

 

Where would you draw a line between Making and merely assembling ~or~  Making and merely printing them??

 

I guess it depends on where you draw the lines.

 

I have an absurdly large collection of commercial molds for various sorts of toy soldiers. In fact, 15 more arrived in a package just yesterday, including this one:

 

It makes an 18th century grenadier drummer, a marching grenadier, and an officer with a spontoon, which you are apparently supposed to cast onto a wire and then attqch to his hand. He’s shown here with a Prince August figure in process, plucked from my painting queue, since I took the picture yesterday to show the rest of the team that this matched our existing figures reasonably well.

 

 

I’ve done a lot of casting.  I don’t have a full census of how many home cast figures I’ve painted, but it’s certainly at least in the many hundreds. At least two projects (40mm 18th century imagi-nations and 40mm Renaissance) are entirely populated with home cast figures.  The figures shown above are from a casting session last summer and are Prince August 25mm fantasy figures.  It’s doubtful that any of those particular figures have been painted yet, but there are a hundred or so Prince August orcs and goblins ready to go, and that’s what’s left after I sold half of them downsizing 20 years ago.  

 

When the HAWKs started up in 1994, @Chris Palmer was working on 40mm French and Indian War figures he was casting from Nuernberger Meisterzinn and Prince August molds.  I ended up casting a bunch as well, although a couple of companies came out with commercial figures we mixed in.  When it comes to conversions, inspired by Chris, I was having some fun, since the raw materials were cheap.  The Meisterzinn molds yielded separate heads and weapons for conversion fodder.

 

I’ve been meaning to pull this group together out of curiosity for some time, so this question was a good excuse.

 

 

All nine of these guys started out as the same Prince August casting of a frontiersman in a hunting shirt and tailed animal skin cap.  The left most guy is the basic casting, with various levels of simple conversion by filing on the head to give a different look until you get to the first tricorne guy.  I built that up with epoxy putty, and then realized that it would be easy to splice on a Meisterzinn head.  The kneeling figure was less successful, and then you get a guy with the weapon cut away, a head replacement, and the arms reposed to hold a Meisterzinn musket, and finishing up with the officer with weapons and head replaced and an eposxy blanket roll.  Apart from the fact that they all started as home cast pieces, did I cross the line and “make” them somewhere between the left side and the right?

 

I’ve not yet scultped anything starting from scratch.

 

[Cranky Dog]

3 hours ago, TGP said:

QUESTION July 23rd:

Have you ever made minis yourself?

 

(Hand Sculpted minis; Tin Soldiers; Highly involved conversions; Resculpts, Zbrush use, Resin printing…)

 

Where would you draw a line between Making and merely assembling ~or~  Making and merely printing them??

Nope. I don't even consider playdough or LEGO blocks as counting.

 

The only thing that could count as a conversion would be the Bones Mashup sessions during ReaperCon. There are enough Bones bits, sharp knives, blood, and glue for me to have created a few new monstrosities.