Russ:

Thanks again for another great link...

I'm going to have fun replaying those this weekend.

Awesome process.

Bockscar

Russ:

Thanks again for another great link...

I'm going to have fun replaying those this weekend.

Awesome process.

Gamera

And Russ, nice work there. I've had an airbrush for so long it amazes me what you can accomplish with just an old fashioned spray bomb. 

Gamera

Scorpiomikey

Gamera

Bockscar

Cliff;

don't get a lot of requests for art these days....lol

I'll post this until I can pull some more images out of the stack.

Magneto optical drives, obsolete hardware and software.....

data migration has been a nightmare, speaking of which:

She's in the Bone Yard.....waiting to escape.......

Um, thanks Dom, I think you just gave me nightmares tonight!!! 

Mike: Ouch, hope you feel better soon. Sounds nasty. 

Thanks guys.

Dom. That looks like one of the demons from Hellgate London.

I was thinking it looks like my enemy Irys:

I still haven't forgiven her for what she did to my left arm. Thankfully I've never had to fight the horrible weta yet. 

First time I heard about the weta was Peter Jackson's (The Lord of The Rings movies, the best radiation zombie movie ever Dead Alive) special effects house is named WETA. 

And Russ, nice work there. I've had an airbrush for so long it amazes me what you can accomplish with just an old fashioned spray bomb. 

Ha yeah Weta Workshops. Tehy were working on a Halo movie for a while, then i think bungie pulled the plug.

Hellgate london bloodangel.

Weta workshops Warthog. (Not me in the photos)

Cheaper X-Acto Blades

I was getting tired of spending $3-4 for 5 blades when I discovered a box of 100 for $28. That's about half price over time. I got mine at Ace Hardware, but you could probably find them at any hardware store.

Cheers,

Russ

Dang Mike, I need to get Hellgate installed and running again, I'd forgotten about all the cool monsters. Been messing around with Gothic III and just ordered Two Worlds. We'll see how it goes.

Cool Warthog, guy on the right looks sorta like Jackson himself!

Ooohh let me know what gothic 3 is like. I enjoyed one of the series. forget which one (I think it was gothic 2)

Sitting here watching the olympic opening ceremony. Being a commonwealth citizen it seems so contrite lol. They even have Mr Bean lol.

Gamera

Scorpiomikey

Gamera

Bockscar

Cliff;

don't get a lot of requests for art these days....lol

I'll post this until I can pull some more images out of the stack.

Magneto optical drives, obsolete hardware and software.....

data migration has been a nightmare, speaking of which:

She's in the Bone Yard.....waiting to escape.......

Um, thanks Dom, I think you just gave me nightmares tonight!!! 

Mike: Ouch, hope you feel better soon. Sounds nasty. 

Thanks guys.

Dom. That looks like one of the demons from Hellgate London.

I was thinking it looks like my enemy Irys:

I still haven't forgiven her for what she did to my left arm. Thankfully I've never had to fight the horrible weta yet. 

First time I heard about the weta was Peter Jackson's (The Lord of The Rings movies, the best radiation zombie movie ever Dead Alive) special effects house is named WETA. 

And Russ, nice work there. I've had an airbrush for so long it amazes me what you can accomplish with just an old fashioned spray bomb. 

i sent some of my work to an special effects outfit in California 20 years ago. Never made a dime. One of my pieces was featured in a rock video, but the band never broke out.

An effects guy in Toronto said that when he put the raw video of one of my pieces into his video editing computer, it destroyed the system.......he blamed it on the sculpture.....sure.

Scorpiomikey

Gamera

Scorpiomikey

Gamera

Bockscar

Cliff;

don't get a lot of requests for art these days....lol

I'll post this until I can pull some more images out of the stack.

Magneto optical drives, obsolete hardware and software.....

data migration has been a nightmare, speaking of which:

She's in the Bone Yard.....waiting to escape.......

Um, thanks Dom, I think you just gave me nightmares tonight!!! 

Mike: Ouch, hope you feel better soon. Sounds nasty. 

Thanks guys.

Dom. That looks like one of the demons from Hellgate London.

I was thinking it looks like my enemy Irys:

I still haven't forgiven her for what she did to my left arm. Thankfully I've never had to fight the horrible weta yet. 

First time I heard about the weta was Peter Jackson's (The Lord of The Rings movies, the best radiation zombie movie ever Dead Alive) special effects house is named WETA. 

And Russ, nice work there. I've had an airbrush for so long it amazes me what you can accomplish with just an old fashioned spray bomb. 

Ha yeah Weta Workshops. Tehy were working on a Halo movie for a while, then i think bungie pulled the plug.

Hellgate london bloodangel.

Weta workshops Warthog. (Not me in the photos)

Nice 4X4, like Mad Max, next generation.

Striker8241

Guys,

For those of you interested in the B-52D bomb clips, I added some links to videos which show the entire bomb clip loading process from ship to assembly to aircraft. They're in the Big Belly thread at:

http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/2/p/57110/1589135.aspx#1589135

Cheers

That was awesome man!  I enjoyed watching every second of it!  Thanks for sharing that link!

Ken

Striker8241

Cheaper X-Acto Blades

I was getting tired of spending $3-4 for 5 blades when I discovered a box of 100 for $28. That's about half price over time. I got mine at Ace Hardware, but you could probably find them at any hardware store.

Cheers,

Russ

Hi Russ,

Thanks for the tip!  I am always looking for a way to save some money in this hobby!  Those #11 X-Acto blades go fast.  I also found them on Amazon.com for just under $20 and free shipping if your total order is over $25.  http://www.amazon.com/X-Acto-X611-Blades-Knives-Bulk/dp/B00006ICJV 

Ken

Ken

Son Of Medicine Man

Striker8241

Cheaper X-Acto Blades

I was getting tired of spending $3-4 for 5 blades when I discovered a box of 100 for $28. That's about half price over time. I got mine at Ace Hardware, but you could probably find them at any hardware store.

Cheers,

Russ

Hi Russ,

Thanks for the tip!  I am always looking for a way to save some money in this hobby!  Those #11 X-Acto blades go fast.  I also found them on Amazon.com for just under $20 and free shipping if your total order is over $25.  http://www.amazon.com/X-Acto-X611-Blades-Knives-Bulk/dp/B00006ICJV 

Ken

Ken

i wanted to get a  Airfix Vicker's Valient so i called three LHS's. The first call put me on an answering machine. The second call, the guy was part time and took down the information and my phone number. The third place, the guy asked me to go online and get the Airfix part number for him so he could look it up.

It will take at least an hour to drive to and from any of those shops, plus the waiting for the kit to show up, and the inevitable 'special item' pricing. I can get one on Ebay.

I don't know how these guys pay the rent.

Son Of Medicine Man

That was awesome man!  I enjoyed watching every second of it!  Thanks for sharing that link!

Ken

My pleasure, Ken!

Son Of Medicine Man

Hi Russ,

Thanks for the tip!  I am always looking for a way to save some money in this hobby!  Those #11 X-Acto blades go fast.  I also found them on Amazon.com for just under $20 and free shipping if your total order is over $25.  http://www.amazon.com/X-Acto-X611-Blades-Knives-Bulk/dp/B00006ICJV 

Ken

Hey, cool! I didn't think to check online, but I bought these on impulse while at the store. Next hundred, I'll check this link. Thanks, Ken!

Russ

Bockscar

Son Of Medicine Man

Striker8241

Cheaper X-Acto Blades

I was getting tired of spending $3-4 for 5 blades when I discovered a box of 100 for $28. That's about half price over time. I got mine at Ace Hardware, but you could probably find them at any hardware store.

Cheers,

Russ

Hi Russ,

Thanks for the tip!  I am always looking for a way to save some money in this hobby!  Those #11 X-Acto blades go fast.  I also found them on Amazon.com for just under $20 and free shipping if your total order is over $25.  http://www.amazon.com/X-Acto-X611-Blades-Knives-Bulk/dp/B00006ICJV 

Ken

Ken

Here' why LHS's are going out of business:

i wanted to get a  Airfix Vicker's Valient so i called three LHS's. The first call put me on an answering machine. The second call, the guy was part time and took down the information and my phone number. The third place, the guy asked me to go online and get the Airfix part number for him so he could look it up.

It will take at least an hour to drive to and from any of those shops, plus the waiting for the kit to show up, and the inevitable 'special item' pricing. I can get one on Ebay.

I don't know how these guys pay the rent.

Hi Dom,

Well, here in my town, the only local hobby shop that might carry anything close to what I would look for only really carries radio control cars, planes and accessories.  I went there several times looking for model building supplies but they don't stock it and they had to order it.  So for me, ordering on line is the way to go and I am not hurting any local hobby shop since they do not carry anything that I need.

Ken

Striker8241

Son Of Medicine Man

Hi Russ,

Thanks for the tip!  I am always looking for a way to save some money in this hobby!  Those #11 X-Acto blades go fast.  I also found them on Amazon.com for just under $20 and free shipping if your total order is over $25.  http://www.amazon.com/X-Acto-X611-Blades-Knives-Bulk/dp/B00006ICJV 

Ken

Hey, cool! I didn't think to check online, but I bought these on impulse while at the store. Next hundred, I'll check this link. Thanks, Ken!

Russ

I always find that eBay is a good source for just about anything.  As a matter of fact, sometimes too good a source.  I got a dream Garage sale find the other day, a Stereo system just likie the one I had as a kid (Radio Shack Realistic Clarinette 98), and I need to find some speakers for it.  Ever go through 71 pages of 200 listings each....?  All I am tring to find is a pair of older wood cabinet 2 or 3 way speakers, medium to large size to hook up to it, but I have to sift through all this other junk modern speakers to find anything.  Same with some hobby stuff.  I have one saved search I run every week or so just for the word "Vintage" in the military aircraft section, and I have to go through page upon page of decals, cars, tanks and other stuff that shouldn't even be listed in that category.....  Oh well.  Back to the speaker hunt.

Rich

I hear you Ken:

I would like to give the local guys the business for sure.....but asking me to look up the part number?

I looked it up, I Part # $65US...lol....

-Dom

Bockscar

I hear you Ken:

I would like to give the local guys the business for sure.....but asking me to look up the part number?

I looked it up, I Part # $65US...lol....

-Dom

I am totally in full support of the locally owned business.  I just recently moved my prescriptions from a national chain to a new locally owned pharmacy for that very reason!

Ken

Son Of Medicine Man

Bockscar

I hear you Ken:

I would like to give the local guys the business for sure.....but asking me to look up the part number?

I looked it up, I Part # $65US...lol....

-Dom

I am totally in full support of the locally owned business.  I just recently moved my prescriptions from a national chain to a new locally owned pharmacy for that very reason!

Ken

Dom

Dom: That's cool about sending your work to the FX company, too bad it fell though. But then again when your stuff is so awesome it's blowing up their editing computers Yeah, I'd love to see more of your stuff if it's not too much trouble to find it.

I buy a kit at the local hobby shop every now and again but most of my buying is there is paint. Course paints not cheap anymore so I helping keep him in business.

Mike: Gothic III is ok, haven't played too much of it so far but so far not that impressed. I love Bethesda's Elder Scrolls games, played everyone since Arena back in '91 or so. Gothic III is kinda like them though not as good IMHO. One thing I really hate is it loads stuff all the friggin' time so the game runs really choppy including during combat. At least I think so, I need to check some more sites to figure out what's going on here.

I have Gothic II but haven't been able to get it to run. Seems it doesn't like Win7. Which I can understand in a way since it was written for Win95/98 but still I've got other games that old that still work so I dunno. I've read a bunch of work-arounds on the net but none have worked so far, I'm going to keep at it.

Gothic 2 had a strange install style. It was designed specifically to run with the 95/98 file structure. I managed to get it to run on XP (After hours of jiggering, changing settings etc) but it was really unstable and wouldnt play the videos without crashing. Doesnt surprise me that it wont run on 7. Might have to run it in a virtual window or something.

They have dosbox. Im waiting for win95box. lol.

Here''s the wax before casting, Achilles:

You prawley saw these ones:

Yeah, I made belt buckles.....

And another demon, posted him a ways back, sorry for the replays:

Dusty.....

Hundreds of these....35 years worth.....I have a bone yard.....they wait....

Thats pretty awesome.

How much do you charge for commissions?

Should also mention, the apache has its winter camouflage on (White primer) Waiting for it to dry so i can lay down the OD.

Laid some gray for the cockpit interior.

Poor fit of the belly panel.

Winter Camo (White Primer)

First Coat of OD. Put a white paper towel in the background to so you guys can see if theres any colour issues.

Dom: You're one heck of a sculptor. I tried sculpting a shark once and it was so bad I balled it up and threw it away, I can't imagine how hard it is to do a human. Thanks for sharing them with us, fantastic work there!

Mike: The weird problem I'm having with Gothic II and Win7 is on doing a web-search I found instructions from many people on how to get it to work, but what they're telling me doesn't seem to have any effect. Oh well, I'm going to keep working at it.

Nice work on the AH-64, the OD green looks pretty close to me. Looks like it was a job in itself masking off that massive canopy.  

Bockscar

Son Of Medicine Man

Bockscar

I hear you Ken:

I would like to give the local guys the business for sure.....but asking me to look up the part number?

I looked it up, I Part # $65US...lol....

-Dom

I am totally in full support of the locally owned business.  I just recently moved my prescriptions from a national chain to a new locally owned pharmacy for that very reason!

Ken

I'll call tomorrow, maybe someone will have the sense to sell me something. Otherwise, I'm back to Ebay.

Dom

Hi Dom,

I totally mis-read your earlier post!  Yeah, with service like that, why bother with them.  They have to earn your business.  If they expect you to go the extra mile to give them business, forget it!  Sorry about that, I re-read your post and now I understand what you are saying.

Ken

Scorpiomikey

Laid some gray for the cockpit interior.

Poor fit of the belly panel.

Winter Camo (White Primer)

First Coat of OD. Put a white paper towel in the background to so you guys can see if theres any colour issues.

Nice work once again there Mikey!  Colors look good from what I can tell.     

Ken

Bockscar

Hundreds of these....35 years worth.....I have a bone yard.....they wait....

Scorpiomikey

Laid some gray for the cockpit interior.

Poor fit of the belly panel.

Winter Camo (White Primer)

First Coat of OD. Put a white paper towel in the background to so you guys can see if theres any colour issues.

Looking good, Mikey! Looks like you had one heck of a job correcting the fit on those panels. BTW, you live in Australia? Wherebouts?

Russ