[unofficial weekender] Scale and details

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Read all of this before you start as it will save you any trouble later.

First thing you must do is make your “pledge”. It can be anything gaming related, big or small, and you don’t even have to finish it. No, in here, happiness is the road. Have fun doing whatever it is, but it is not a race. Accompany your work with pictures or we might think you are do something sinister and just using us for cover.

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If you have never taken part before we may bark and bite, but we also like a cuddle! It is all done in the best possible taste and it is character building. feel free to give as good as you get.

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Play plenty of music to go with your work. Loud and through proper speakers. Write us a playlist of things we might not have heard before.

Now, after all of that there is only one ‘real’ rule in here and it cannot be broken: NO DICKS! (Exceptions may be made for little fighting men with little plastic/resin/metal wieners)

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Question of the week:

• Scale and level of detail on models: good thing or does it turn you off? The question appeared to me when this weeks Weekender talked about Wyldwood and its huge minis.

And now back to the show.

[sundancer 44858xp 0]

Pledge: finish the Gundam. It’s only 15 more days!

Answer: I don’t like big models with lots of details. When I try to paint such things they always turn out bad. So it’s rather a turn off for me. I am just a bad painter 😉

Some classic music:

[pagan8th 15348xp 1]

Pledge: Try to scratch build a location for my RPG. I’m not expecting to do it on one week… so do hold your breath.

I did buy some 75mm figures. I started them. I tried to do eyes. I can’t even do eyes on 75mm model. Bigger models just mean my mistakes look bigger and more noticeable.

My painted minis are best observed in a dark room, at night, with the lights off and my eyes closed.

[zoidpinhead 13065xp 1]

Pledge:  Gotta get more Orcs done before the next KoW tournament on Saturday.  Should be okay though.  They don’t take long.  Then need to pack for my trip to the Emerald Isle.

Answer:  I don’t mind doing a big model or two.  They can still be done with techniques that I use regularly, like wet blending.  I’m not sure I see the attraction for painters of increasing size.  I can see why designers do it, they can get more detail in and have more volume to make more interesting poses.  As painters though there can be a lot more work and the temptation to try and do them to showcase standard is very strong.  For those of us who game as well as paint that is a major ball ache.  Tabletop standard with such miniatures just takes so much longer to do.

Personally if I get to choose to go big it will always be in volume not scale.  Give me massed ranks every time over bigger models.

Songs In The Key Of Life is fifty on Monday.  Let’s have some Stevie:

[a27cromwell 3236xp 1]

I would rather have an overall correctly scaled figure or vehicle than one of questionable scale  with tons of fussy details to add or paint . I build lots of 28mm tanks and half of them include incorrect or over/under scaled pieces like tools and similar molded on bits . I would rather it was either a separate part or not molded on the kit at all . It’s much easier to add a piece from the parts box , or scratch up a piece needed than trying to remove some wrongly shaped thing wedged between 2 molded on bits you don’t want to ruin .

I spent 30 plus years building 1/35 scale kits and going smaller to 28mm took a bit of getting used to . Not many after market bits out there like in the 1/35 world but there are a few if you look long and hard enough .  Plus I can fit three 28mm Shermans on a shelf where one 1/35 scale tank used to reside . That’s great , tripling my vehicles on display without having to buy / build more shelves

I do have some larger 1/25 Tamiya kits from the 1970s in my stash , including that Tiger 1 with the interior . At the time it came out it was awesome , of course over the last 50 years we’ve discovered how much of the insides are hunches or guesses on Tamiya’s part . But it’s something I’ve always wanted and finally tracked down in an estate sale . I also have a 1/16 full interior T-34/85 from Trumpeter for when my eye sight starts to go

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This week’s pledge is to finish of the Rascaltown minis. I’m also running the 3D printer every day building my pile of potential back up a bit.

 

• Scale and level of detail on models: good thing or does it turn you off? The question appeared to me when this weeks Weekender talked about Wyldwood and its huge minis. – I’m happy to try a variety of scales. 28-35mm are still my default, bit a few years ago I did a 12mm (I think?) army just for the experience, and I’ve done a few figures up to 8″ tall.

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