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Sunday, July 18, 2010
Sculpting Spirit Stones
Method 1: "Gem then Casing"
This is a two-step method. To start, you sculpt a protruding ovoid that becomes the gem. Let this dry. Then come back with a rolled out string of putty. Work it around the gem in a "C" shape to create the casing. Clean and smooth as you go until the ends meet. Remove any excess and then go back to clean up and shaping.
I find this method works best when you're sculpting the underlying layer and want to add a gem at the same time. It is mediocre for adding onto an existing layer as there isn't much surface area for the gem to stick to... even sculpting the casing can be enough pressure to break the bond.
Here's a straight shot...and an isometric.
Method 2: "Casing then Gem"
This is also a two-step method. Here you start with a flat circle of putty. Form your casing shape using a rounded tool, such at the top end of a small pin or a circular shaper. Press it into the center of the cicle and then rock the tool up and down to create your dished oval. Clean up as desired and allow this shape to cure. Then roll out a small ball for the gem and squish it in the center. Use a flat buffing tool to smooth the gem into place. If you squish too close to the casing, the blade point can be used to pick that back out.
This method is meant for applying to an existing surface, as it has maximized surface area. It is possible to do at the same time as an underlayer, but can be tricky as you have to press in and can easily mar the whole piece.
The two-step method does mean you have to wait to finish the piece. It is best for when you're creating several stones at the same time.
Here's a straight shot...and an isometric.
Method 3: "All at once!"
This is a single step method. Start with a protruding ovoid slightly larger than you would for Method 1. Then use the tip of a very sharp tool to press in around the edges to create the casing. Start at one side and work in both directions, so that you don't skew the shape when tooling. Once you've shaped the casing, go back to clean and smooth the piece. Be careful during this as it is easy to ruin the piece.
This method is only for applying to an existing surface. You CAN try doing this at the same time as the underlayer, but it will give you headaches.
The main advantage to this method is that it is done in one go. However, it is MUCH more difficult than the other 2 methods. It requires careful tooling and some sculpting experience to pull off.
Here's a straight shot...and an isometric.
Cheers and hope you enjoy!
As a personal note: No, I am not dead. :-p Life has been very busy both normally and at work. My 40k time has been cut drastically and my blogging time even more. I'm slowly getting back into the swing of things, but I expect the rest of the summer will still be slow. I hope to be more prolific after that!
***I'm sure the image is copyright someone, but I'm currently too lazy to hunt the name down... Used without permission, blah, blah, blah...***
Friday, May 14, 2010
W&N Matte Varnish
Why did I care? Because there's certain things you can do with brush application that just don't work with spray. You can hit (or avoid) specific parts, control the thickness of coat, and get a LOT more coverage for your buck. On the downside, it requires a more time to apply and can be fiddly. But I figure that after I've spent *mumble mumble* hours on my average fig, what's an extra 5-10 minutes to hand apply the lacquer?
Eventually my quest washed my up at my local fine art store. Alas, they did not have what I was looking for. However, they did have a 75ml bottle of Winsor & Newton Matte Varnish. At only $5 after my university discount, it wasn't that much more than a spray bottle.
So here's Before:And After:About 5 minutes work and an hour or so of drying. Interestingly, my camera saw a large difference in saturation and muddled some of the colors... especially on the lighter yellow tones.
I've now done several figs with this product and have been very happy. It applies smoothly, tones things done VERY well, dries in a reasonable amount of time and doesn't leave the "grainy" feel that I've seen with sprays. It also thins out quite nicely.
However, do NOT mix it with other varnishes. The glossier a varnish is, the tighter and stronger a coat you get. Thus a gloss is much less likely to chip or flake compared to matte version. I normally do a base seal of gloss and then matte over that to the desired veneer. A couple days ago I started applying a bit of the matte to a fig when I realized I'd forgotten to do the base gloss. So I switched over, not thinking of what might happen... Yeah, it turned milk white. I should have taken a photo as it would have been an excellent example of what not to do.
Other than that, I have been quite happy with this product. I expect you'll see (or not see, as it is clear) this product on my figs for many, many posts to come.
Cheers and see you later!
***I'm sure the starter image is W&N's, but the others are my work...***
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Space Hulk Genestealers
If you've seen the Broodlord I did, you might know that these guys have a non-standard color scheme. The reason for this? I'm painting them for a friend so that they can also field in his Tyranid army. He loaned me a couple sample figs to compare against. Note that these were NOT painted by Mark or myself. They were done by a friend of his up in Portland. First up was a simple Genestealer:Each major color was a simple basecoat, drybrush or heavy edging, and then maybe a wash. The application was... generous and layering non existant. I knew I could just slap something out at the same level pretty quickly... or I could challenge myself to paint better. I opted for the latter.
I do have to give the guy some credit: the paint job is fine tabletop quality and there are a lot of great conversions conversions and base work, as evidenced by this Warrior:The very first thing I did was nix the big green accent marks and large purple gun. I did keep them as accent tie-ins on eyes and tongues, but desaturated so that they wouldn't mar the overall effect. This brought the main colors back to a split compliment balance of true red, brown-white, and blue. Go read Sandwyrm's excellent series on Color Theory for a more detailed explanation. Then I did the guys a little something like this:There are 22 Genestealers in total. I did a test piece to see if the re-color and concept would work. Then I did the rest in sets of 7.The red is Mechrite Red darkened with Black, midtones of Red Gore, highlights in Red Gore mixed with Bleached Bone, inked in Black and washed with Red. Most of the base=>mid=>high transitions had 2-3 mix steps in between as I was thinning for translucent layering. This was an experiment that more or less worked, but was time consuming.The bone carapace was a base of Khemri Brown, midtone of Graveyard Earth mixed with Bleached Bone, highlights of Bleached Bone and then a couple washes and inks of Sepia and Devlan Mud. When I say "ink", that's usually undiluted ink or wash deliberately placed into recesses. "Wash" was usually a thinner version that was applied to the whole area to blend the color layers and darken the tone.The claws were based Regal Blue, midtone Ultramarine Blue, highlit with Ice Blue and washed with Asurmen Blue. I deliberately used a a non-transitional set of color here to make them look like they were glowing or powered rather than just claw.These guys were all sealed using diluted Future Floor Wax, to give that nice "new floor or wet Genestealer" sheen!
As a break from just painting bugs, I also knocked out two of the objective markers
Ironically, the Genestealers and Screamer-Killer I did ended up being about 1/2 of Mark's army at a recent torunament. Why ironic? Mark won "Best Painted"... and his idea of a complex paintjob is to touch up the drybrushing after dipping the model in wash. Even better is that in all my years of playing, I've never won Best Painted. I've gotten every other top laurel, but it's just never worked out for me to get that one. Heh.
Cheers and see you next time!
*** All images taken by ME! Use them at your peril...***
Thursday, May 6, 2010
B2B: Wound Allocation
So what is Wound Allocation? Simply, after a unit has received wounding hits, the owning player needs to distribute those hits among members of the unit. These rules exist to instill some structure to the process. They mainly focus on evenly distributing wounding hits (and casualty potential) throughout all members of the target unit.
Do we really need these rules? Yeah, sadly. When given the choice of losing a pawn or a rook, what one would you usually choose? Early 40k editions had fairly crude rules about how evenly wounds were allocated. It wasn't too difficult for for a decent player to shield their star models with the bodies of lesser troopers. Later turns of a game often devolved into a scrum of Captains, Sergeants, and special weapon troopers trying to beat on each other amid piles of rank and file corpses.
Now I do have to give the game designers some credit though... ... if you left all your dead models on the field, it really did start to resemble a lot of the old hero-centric artwork.
But as the game (and many players) grew up and got through puberty, the common desire shifted towards a bit less game and a dash more war in this wargame. Torrent of Fire, direct targeting effects (like Vindicaire Snipers or Mind War) and other rules started making it a bit harder for upgraded models to hide behind bullet shields. One of the effects of this evolutionary trend resolved as the current 5th edition Wound Allocation rules.
Okay, nice segue... but how does all this work then? The rules for Wound Allocation can be found in the Big Red Rulebook (aka Warhammer 40k 5th Edition Rulebook, or BRB for short) starting on page 24. Buy and RTFM for full details. But as a general look, these rules cover 3 types of targets: Simple Units, Complex Units, and Multi-Wound Models.
Page 24, Simple Units: A simple unit is when every model in the unit is exactly the same. Some units start the game this way, such as many Tyranids and Necrons. Others can start off as a complex unit and revert to a simple unit due to casualties. These are good rules to know and understand. Not only will you see this type of unit on the field, but it's also the basis used in more complex versions of the system.
When a simple unit is wounded, the owning player simply tests the number of wounding hits against the unit's best applicable save. The player then removes a number of models equal to the number of unsaved wounds. As all of the models are interchangeable, any model in the unit can be removed as a casualty.
Page 25, Complex Units: A complex unit occurs when one or more models in the unit is not like the others. No, we're not talking about the one guy you converted to making an obscene gesture. Checking to see if a model legally differs from his fellows checks 4 specific items: statline, wargear, weaponry and special rules. A unit can become complex simply by taking a Sergeant, buying a weapon upgrade or even just giving a single model a different type of grenade. Games Workshop designers are very fond of using limited upgrade availability as a method of keeping units balanced and varied, especially with Space Marines. Thus most units you will see on the field will be complex.When a complex unit receives wounding hits, the first thing to do is group the members of the unit into wound groups, as if the unit was comprised of multiple simple units. For example, a complex Marine Devastator squad breaks down to:
Grouping 1: 5 Devastator Marines with Bolters (the baseline)
Grouping 2: 1 Space Marine Sergeant with Bolter & Signum (different statline & wargear)
Grouping 3: 2 Devastator Marines with Missile Launchers (different weapons)
Grouping 4: 2 Devastator Marines with Lascannons (different weapons)
The owning player can now allocate any wounding hits between the different groupings, in any combination they prefer. This often allows the owning player to skew the odds so that members of a particular wound grouping will have a higher or lower amounts of risk.
The big catch is that you can only assign one wound per model in the group. Then you have to move on to another grouping. It isn't until all models in the unit have been allocated a wounding hit before you can "wrap around" and put a second wound on the model. This (usually) keeps the owning player from saying something like "Corporal Cannonfodder jumps on the Void Grenade and takes all 120 wounds!". Instead, they have to spread those wounds out equally to all members of the unit.
So how can we use allocation to affect the odds? Say the above Devastator unit takes 12 wounding hits. Everyone in the unit must be allocated one wound each and has a 33.3% chance of failure.
You can modify the odds of a wound group surviving based on how you allocate the additional 2 wounds. Say you want to preserve your heavy weapons? The additional 2 wounds can be placed on the normal Bolter Marines. This forces that wound grouping to take 7 total saves. It increases their individual risk of failure to 46.7%, but leaves everyone else at a simple 33.3%. In reverse, say you don't need the Lascannons any more? The extra two wounds can be tucked into that wound grouping. The Lascannons then have a 66.7% chance of dying while everyone else stays at 33.3%.
Multiple Wound Models Some models are just bigger and tougher than the average bear... and this is represented by having multiple wounds in the statline. These are often heroes, veterans, monsters, daemons, mecha or other such hard to kill beasties.
Since these models can be wounded one or more times before being removed from the table, their wounds are organized into wound groups exactly the same as a complex unit. You can then allocate one wounding hit to the group per model. Unsaved wounds to a wound group cannot be spread among the group with a "these 3 Obliterators each take one wound each." Instead, whole models are removed within each grouping.
With the basics now established, I'd like to point out a few places where people often make errors or get confused about Wound Allocation.
1. Wound Allocation works the same in Shooting and Close Combat. Page 39 of the BRB wastes two full paragraphs to say that simple sentence. It's also the default mechanic for "No Retreat!" wounds, as that affects the unit and not individual models.
2. Dangerous Terrain tests are NOT subject to Wound Allocation. BRB, page 14, Dangerous Terrain, notes that each test is checked against the model. So these wounds CANNOT be allocated to other members of the unit, even ones of the same wound grouping. Be aware of this subtlety as many players will try to remove casualties to their greatest advantage. If it is feasible, I recommend having your opponent rolls for each test individually. It can really put a crimp in someone's day when they want to assault and their only models in range get eaten by a tree.Yeah, it looks a lot like that. Especially their horrified facial expressions.
Okay... but isn't the B2B series about taking basic rules and using them for all they're worth? Well, yeah! Let's also talk some advanced use of Wound Allocation:
1. Excess unsaved wounds in a wound group are lost. It doesn't matter if Sergeant Dies Horribly failed all four of his armour saves, it still only counts as one kill. This can really be fun when combined with...
2. Wounding hits that reduce or ignore armour are allocated (and can be stacked) into wound groups per the choice of the defending player. Take the above example of the Devastators, but consider what it would look like if 2 of those 12 hits were from a power weapon. Both of those could be stacked onto the Sergeant. Yeah, he'll "die twice", but only count as one actual kill and protect someone else from auto-failing their save.
Wrapping wounds onto auto-killed models is also a nice way to reduce the risks to the rest of the unit. Say you don't need those Lascannons but really want to keep the Sergeant's Power Fist alive long enough to hit back... You can dump the 2 power weapon hits onto the Lascannon guys, put normal saves on everyone else, then put the 2 wraparound saves onto the already dead Lascannon guys.
Enjoy this while you can as I suspect that this mechanic will change in 6th edition. I forsee it becoming like the Instant Death rule for multi-wound units, where you will have to allocate all wounds that ignore or reduce armour (or are of a specific AP value) at the same time. This would mean that you can't stack multiple on one guy as easily.
3. Units that diversify their wargear when purchased can abuse Wound Allocation by increasing their number of wound groups. Single wound units can benefit from this by wasting the wounds as mentioned above. But you see this most commonly with multiple wound units like Nob Bikerz or Thunderwolf Cavalry. The idea is to get the unit to have as many wound groups as possible, so that you can spread out multiple wounds without having to remove whole models.
4. Unsaved wounds can be put on any model in the unit of that wound grouping. Casualties can be taken on models that were out of Line of Sight, out of range or even such that it puts the unit out of coherency. This can be used and exploited to such extent that it probably deserves an entire article. For a few quick ideas: casualties can be pulled from the front ranks to deny your opponent the charge, they can be pulled from the back to make sure your front line is as far forward as possible for charging the enemy, or they can be pulled from models out in the open to put 50%+ of the remaining unit in cover.
Whew. I think this wall of text has gotten more than long enough and it's way past my bed time. Hope you folks have picked up a useful idea or three from this.. Cheers and catch you next time!
***Images from a Shooting Gallery game, Games Workshop and the old RTT Hero-Hammer artwork, Simple Jack is proof you should never go full retard, f33r teh LOLm33rCats, and the creepy-awesome Mark Ryden. WARNING: Searching for post images with SafeSearch off can be very... distracting.***
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Space Hulk Librarian
Continuing show & tell time, here's my recently finished Space Hulk Librarian. I still want to go back with DullCote to tone down the shine on much of him, especially the recesses of the tabard. But I'm currently out of DullCote and the photo setup was ready, so I decided to go ahead and get some pics. Here's what he looks like, in all his flaws and glory:I'm not ecstatic about his face. It seems my limited selection of flesh tone paints had died and dried up over the years since I last used them. As it's tricky to get good artist paint late at night and I wanted to be done with this damned project, I mixed this and the highlighter up from a couple brown, a red and a white.
I am underwhelmed with several things about this sculpt. There's a number of little details that fell victim of the CAD sculpting process. There also the super-sized axe he's holding up like he's selling it on late night TV. But I've realized the part I hate most is the sculpting on his eyes... or, I should say, the utter lack thereof. They are these huge featureless orbs bulging out of the caverns under his mighty jutting forehead. They look like a normal human had his eye sockets staved in with a sledgehammer and some joker stuffed a pair of golf balls into the cavities. It looks better once I freehanded eyelids, but the effort was probably more than it was really worth. I understand now why many people don't bother to define his eyes or do them with a glow effect.
As if all that weren't enough, I got inspired by the work of several other bloggers and decided to try my hand at doing his shoulder heraldry...It's not a well known thing, but the entire reason I taught myself to sculpt is because I hate doing freehand. Attempting this took me a number of tries... It was bad enough that I had to just scrape the surface clean a couple times. (Yes, I know how bad that is to do... the alternative was worse.) It didn't help that the first time I tried doing it all in metallics. Wow, was that a mistake. Guys, please note that layered metallics do not allow for a clean definition of shape nor blending of tone. Trust me on this mistake.
Still, I'm glad I persevered. I certainly learned that I need to have a better idea of how I want it to look before I start. Also, I need to replace my flesh tones and build a decent wet palette. The end result isn't great work, but it's decent and it's mine. Plus, I'm tired of working on him. It's time to work on some other projects now.
***All images are MINE! They are my precious... and totally posted on the internet. This makes them about as protected as your average Taiwanese hooker. Have fun and don't complain to me if you catch a virus, you perverts.***
Friday, April 23, 2010
Nid Screamer-Killer
So today's post is on an old Tyranid
Then per the best laid plans of mice and men, I got sick with a nasty upper respiratory infection. I spent a couple days doing nothing more complex than sleeping and coughing. I wasn't able to focus on the fig until some time Friday evening. I should note that I'm not a fast painter; glacial might be a better label. I over think things, apply more layers than most people will ever notice, get easily distracted and generally move projects along only when the muse is with me. But I was down to the wire for this guy. I threw on the main basecoat of color in about an hour. This ended up being a good thing as I got a call from Mark as I was just finishing a wash of Devlan Mud. Seems he wanted to get a full night sleep and could he pick them all up in an hour? Silly Mark, sleep is for the weak! So I spent the last hour doing highlights (while avoiding the still-drying wash), picking out details, and fixing any glaring mistakes. The end result was this:And from the back:I have to say, I'm pretty damned happy with the results for only 3 hours at the painting table. Also, yes, these were taken with the new lightbox setup.
***All images are MINE! What am I going to do if you borrow them? Throw a hissy because you like my work?***
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Lightbox Adventures
I'm not really a big painter or photographer, so I've never invested in a lightbox. Typically I'd just put the fig on a white backdrop, make sure there was some decent ambient light and take a few snaps. It was never great, but it wasn't horrible either. Yet occasionally I'd want a nicer base pic for a contest or something. So I'd set up extra lamps, offer some voodoo sacrifice, play with the camera settings, take a lot of source pics and generally do a lot of dancing around and playing with variables. All this extra work would get me pics that were slightly better but never drastically so. I even built a standard do-it-yourself lightbox with wax paper filters, but was underwhelmed with the improvement in lighting compared to the headache of storing that extra junk. I figured my main problem was my antique, crappy digital camera.
Then a couple weeks ago I ran across a post on a different lightbox approach from Corvus Miniatures. The main point was to use direct or strong ambient lighting, but diffusing it across the miniature by having the side walls of the box covered with aluminum foil. I figured I was capable of doing something similar... and if it didn't work, I'd learn something and only be out a couple sheets of foil. Might as well try it out and see what happens! Being the penurious sort that I am, I didn't even make mine as complex as his. I simply covered two pieces of cardstock with aluminum foil. The foil was held in place with duct tape. The rest of the setup was one piece of white printer paper, my usual lamps and lighting, a stack of hardback books to be the framework, another book to raise the camera up a bit, and the lid of a Play-Do jar to angle the camera. The end result looked a little something like this:But how to really compare any difference? I'd recently put up some pics of the Space Hulk Broodlord I recently finished, so I "volun-told" him to present for a mug shot. A couple pics were made and I opened them into Photoshop to see how much work they'd take to correct... and I was blown away by what I was looking at. Here, have a side-by-side comparison:The one on the left was with bright ambient light and no redirect. The one on the right is with the aluminum foil lightbox sides. Click the image to see a larger version... the difference is even more notable. Same lights in a similar setup, same crappy camera, same background paper, same miniature... but OH, what a difference! The pic almost looks better than the real model. There's still a bit of light glare cropping up, but it is a high-gloss model and I kinda expect that. What I didn't expect was how much of the shading and color tone would appear. Wow.
There's an old saying I recall, "There's none who cry louder than a thief accused of a crime they didn't commit or a sinner who has just found God." Well, I'm a convert. If you've been being lazy and just snapping shots of figs on your table, STOP! Spend a couple minutes to put up some aluminum foil and a backdrop and you might find some amazing results. With the way I built mine, it even goes nicely flat back on the book shelf.
Hopefully this has given you guys some ideas and inspiration. Cheers and see you soon! I'm off to work on my super secret BIG project...
***Starter image grabbed from a blog for audiophiles and may or may not have been theirs in the first place. The usual standards apply. The rest of the pics are MINE! Use them as you wish.***
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
How many Troops are "Enough"?
Cruising around the interwebs yesterday, Sildani asked me to take a look at his armylist on Warseer. Some of the comments made me shake my head in despair, but one in particular caught my eye: that Eldar should have "one Troop per 500 points".
This comment pained on several levels. Not only did was I misquoted, but he also called it an "adage". Ouch. All things considered, there's worse rules you could follow when building a list, but it's mediocre to use such a generic formula. Not all Troops choices were created equally. There's massive differences in cost, stats, offensive effect, battlefield role and other special rules. This diversity means you need to apply more complex analysis.
Troops are often the bland, common, grunt soldiers of the army. Everything Troops can do, selections from other Force Orgs do larger, faster, stronger and louder. For example, compare to the basic Tactical Marine. Assault Marines are faster and better in assault, Devastators get more heavy weapons, Terminators tougher and better in assault... heck, even most Troops Transports are outclassed by dedicated platforms such as the Predator. But there's one thing the humble Tac Marine has that they don't: Scoring status.
Now what does Scoring really mean? In 2/3's of normal games, living Troops will be critical to winning the game. It only takes ONE guy to survive and be standing next to that objective. The likelihood of a unit surviving is mainly a factor of Toughness, Save, Wounds/Unit Size, and Cost. Low survival units like IG Troopers or Eldar Guardians balance out by having a cheap cost and high unit size. While high survival units like Plague Marines balance with a high cost. How you play, how aggressively the unit is used, the unit's maneuverability, the necessity of having them on the board rather than in Reserves, and even their perceived threat level can affect overall survivability too.
A unit's overall value should also be rated against what is needed to protect them versus the amount invested in them versus what is needed to make them actually "do something" other than Score. For example, Dire Avengers as a Vehicle Upgrade are a durable Troops choice because they're cheap enough to not care about ever getting out of their tank. Plague Marines are also a good Troops choice because they're extremely durable even without the a protection of a tank, meaning they're happy to get out of the tank and zap with a couple meltaguns.
So the truth is, there's no one "perfect" system for figuring out what is "enough" versus "too much" or "not enough". You'll have to find that sweet spot based upon your own army and playstyle. However, I'll share my general formula for Eldar:
5 Guardians, 5 DA or 3 Jetbikes = .5 points per multiple
10 Wraithguard as Troops = 3 points
Non-mechanized but with FortuneSeer = x1.5 points
Mounted in a Tank = +1 point
Tank has Holofields = +1 point
Unit designed to not leave their Tank or hide in Reserves (ex: DAVU) = +1 point
Mechanized with FortuneSeer = +1 point
A force should have a minimum of 1 point per 500 points of game. Optimal seems about 1 point per 275-300 spent. More than 1 point per 200-250 spent and you're probably overspending on Troops. So at 1750 you want a minimum score of 3.5, optimal is about 6-6.5 and going much over 7 is questionable.
2x10 Guardians or 2x3 Jetbikes? 1-2 points and asking for trouble.
2x DAVU Falcons? 7 points... viable but a little limited.
1x10 Wraithguard w Eldrad and a 9+Jetbike squad with Fortune Jetseer? 6.75, fun, durable, and surprisingly effective.
2x Storm Squads in Serpents and a DAVU HoloFalcon? 7.5 points and so solid that more Troops will often be a waste.
Hrm... for more articles on list building, check out Sandwyrm's "4 Things", Raptor1313's "Opportunity Cost", Stelek's "Unit Redundancy", Kirby's "Army Composition", and TheKingElessar's "Dropping the Metaphor". These authors all have some excellent articles on the subject if you poke around a bit, but the ones linked are items I think every 40ker should read. Cheers and see you next time!
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Sculpting 202: Layering
Layering is comprised of two key concepts:
1. You don't have to do every little detail in a single go.
I consider this THE biggest tip anyone can receive when getting into Sculpting. For any sculpt more complex than a simple fill or small detail, you should build up the piece in small sections or layers. Then allow each stage to fully cure overnight before working on another. (This can be cut to about 2 hours if you use a cooker.)
Why do things in stages? Because there's few things as frustrating as getting a sculpt just right, starting on something else and accidentally obliterating or marring the first sculpt. By allowing each stage to fully solidify, you don't have to worry about an errant thumb squishing your prior work. To quote my grandfather, "If you can't take the time to do it right the first time, how do you have time to do it twice?"
So once you've finished a layer, set the piece off to the side and work on something else until the work is cured. This is a large part of why I typically have 3-6 different sculpting projects on my desk at the same time. As a bonus, doing it in layers also means you're (probably) not staring at the same fig for hours and hours!
2. It is much easier to make the outer layer look "right" when you are building onto a correctly shaped underlayer.
In the same way that armature becomes the miniature's skeleton, the underlayer is their flesh. These layers don't have to be perfectly detailed and 100% anatomically correct. After all, you're just going to be covering it up. But it is good to have the general shape and size of the muscles and flesh defined. This will greatly assist you in keeping the miniature's overall proportions and mass correct. It also makes it much easier to gauge the correct shaping for covering layer(s). This is particularly critical for clothing, but also applies to armour, jewelry, decorations and even bare flesh.
For a great example of layering and underlayers, I again recommend checking out Klaus' Ogyrn. It's an excellent example of generally defining the basic musculature and bulk before adding the final layers of clothing and armour.
Another good example is Colonel Corbane's recent Sergeant Harker conversion. For the shirt, he's used the original bare-chested sculpt for his underlayer. The cloak is also built up in several layers to achieve the correct shape and look.
To show you how a project breaks down for me, I've dusted off my photo library from when I'd first planned this article 8 months or so ago. This part of the project was specifically done to show the concept of layering in stages. Originally I meant to just put a pickelhaube helmet on an Assault on Black Reach Ork, but my muse struck and it developed into a little bit more...
Here's what the ugly little blighter looked like to start. This was just after I'd modified his neck for the "Simple Fills" article. Note that I've stuck a length of pin into his skull to act as a basic armature and mounting point for the eventual helmet spike.Then I added my first layer of Green Stuff. I took care to get the right thickness for the dome of the helmet and smoothed the layer, but didn't bother making the edges all neat and proper.On the next application I cleaned up the edges and added the basic temple guards. There's a few tool marks here as I knew I'd be adding some more layers later. I could just as easily left them as he's just an Ork... they're not exactly known for their studious maintenance protocols.It was about this point that I realized he really needed an iron gob! So the next layer spent some time on that. Note that I only did the right side on this step; the left was added in a later step. I also added a small line of putty around the front of the helmet to start defining the brim. It didn't seem like this helmet should be "pretty", so I made sure there were some dents and scratches on the final brim.It looks like I skipped a session or two between this picture and the last. Those saw the sculpting of the left side of the gob, defining of the brim, and the addition of a rivet hinge for the gob. This shot was right after rolling out the putty for creating the helmet's crest.Once the crest was sculpted and cured, I finished him off with a spike stolen from somewhere. I think it was a Fantasy skeleton's spearhead or something...
Anyways, that's it for today. Hopefully you've gleaned something useful and/or inspiring! Cheers!
***Starter image borrowed from this site on CSS tables and randomly found via Google. As usual, it will be removed on request. The rest of the pics are mine.***
Off-topic note: Due to life, distractions and other whatnot, I promised this article "next week"... something like 8 months ago. :-p I find much more enjoyment from blogging when I write about what's on my mind at the time rather than trying to force an article. I hope you guys don't mind, but the quality seems much better when my muse is present.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Space Hulk Broodlord
Also, we have a cameo by my fearless helper!I also did up a little something for my wife:I found this wee beastie in a bargain bin a while back and have been meaning to do it up for her. She's doing her PhD in NeuroScience and has a thing about brains...
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Brush Cleaner
Now after ruining my first few brush sets, I picked up the normal care stuff like cleaning and rinsing as I go, cleaning with a bit of soap at the end of the day, storing them so that the tips don't get smooshed... all that. But I'll admit, over the years I've mainly bought GW brushes. Their drybrushes are pretty nice and the normal ones aren't that bad. Even better, they're readily available and not too expensive. So if one died, it wasn't any big deal. While "art store" brushes might be nicer or hold a point longer, the costs never balanced out. They would be three times the price to only get twice the longevity. So I only bothered with a nicer brand for my detailing brush.
Then Thanksgiving '09 rolls around and the family is headed out of town to spend the weekend with the in-laws. Now an evil thing about Tucson is that my favorite art supply shop is right next door to my favorite coffee shop. It's a dangerous combination for my checkbook... If you're ever in town, swing by the area. It's worth the time. They get bean from Intelligentsia and have a pre-Starbucks Clover! There's also a large used bookstore about a block away. It's not Powell's, but decent and local. Also cruise across town to stop at Hat's Games and drop me an e-mail if you want to arrange a game!
Ack, back on topic! Faced with the choice of several days socializing with my in-laws or sitting on the porch painting minis, I needed a new detailing brush! We stop to get coffee for the drive and I pop into the art store. A master of swiftly grasping the obvious, the big neon orange "30% off" sign on Escoda brushes eventually catches my eye. I decide to splurge and pick up a few brushes, including a size 6 shader. (I've been VERY happy with it.) Ironically, due to an error on my part, the detailers I picked up were actually watercolor brushes. Thankfully, my wife and some friends do watercolor Illumination and can use them.
Anyways! While I was standing there in line contemplating how to tell my wife that I just spent the cost of a sushi dinner on three tiny brushes, my eye falls upon this:Yes, a jar of "The Master's" Brush Cleaner and the eventual topic of this post! I figured I was already spending too much and remembered that article I'd recently read... so I tossed in a jar to try it out.
This stuff is AWESOME.
So awesome, I was tempted to make "AWESOME" animated with sparklies...
One of the color shifts I've always hated switching between is from painting red to painting white/bone. Yes, the same colors as my Eldar army. Why do I hate this so? Because despite how transparent GW red is, the damned pigment is PERVASIVE. You can clean your brush obsessively and it will STILL creep back in and tint your clean white lines an annoying pink! I already get enough guff for being an Eldar player, I certainly don't need them PINK!
So how awesome is this cleaner? Let me tell you... no, no, let me SHOW you! I did a bunch of Mechrite Red on a Broodlord for a friend and then cleaned my brush. The brush was dipped into clean water, spun at an angle against the side of the water cup to open up the bristles, and then the head and ferrule were press wiped on a napkin. Here's what the napkin looked like after cleaning with water:I did 2 sets of wipes with 6 on each row for a total of 12 wipes. The end result looks pretty clean, right? Well, then I immediately took the "clean" brush and did the same process with brush cleaner. Here's the result:All the pink you see is what came out AFTER I'd already "cleaned" the brush with water. How about an overall shot:With the brush actually clean now, I was able to immediately switch to working with white and didn't have any pink discoloration. Even better, this stuff can help restore old brushes and helps your current brush keep it's shape longer.
So pick some up and try it out. You won't be disappointed. Just don't forget to rinse your brush before sticking it in your mouth... this stuff tastes almost as horrible as GW's Foundation paints. (You should never stick your brushes in your mouth... don't ask me why I know how these things taste. :-p )
Cheers and hope you've enjoyed my mad ramblings this afternoon! I needed something to do and knew better than to try and paint fine detail when doped up on cough medicine. Maybe I should apply that rule to blogging too...
UPDATE: It looks like I'm not the only one shilling for General Pencil this weekend... The esteemed Colonel Corbane also posted on how awesome this stuff is. Great minds think alike or simple minds seldom differ? :-p
And no, I didn't receive a dime for any of the links in this post.
***Images grabbed from this site, General Pencil and my camera.***

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by Kelly
Fresh from the Red Heart blog, here's a bit of local news. On Saturday, June 4th, the Double Stitch twins will be at the Michaels craft store to demo a scarf and sign copies of their new book.
The address is 3131 N. Clark. St.
Go on over to the Red Heart site for more details and a video.
Red Heart also has a new yarn line coming out, and an interesting video on how to hand chain a scarf without a crochet hook or knitting needles. Check that out here.


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Early Summer Sale!
I know it's not officially summer yet, but we've been having some amazingly warm and sunny weather lately here in Seattle, so it sure feels like summer. It's supposed to be almost 80° tomorrow, and if you know anything about Seattle, you'll know that's pretty unusual. Normally we don't get long stretches of warm, dry weather until…August, maybe? But it's been a beautiful June.
One of my favorite summer flowers is crocosmia. It blooms here in Seattle around mid- to late summer and has the longest lasting blooms, and hummingbirds love it. In the garden at my last house, I had lots of Lucifer crocosmia, named for its fiery red color.
I love the way the flowers look before the blooms open, so I molded some of the stems and cast them in sterling silver. Here's a crocosmia ring I made with one of those castings, below. There are a few other pieces in my Etsy shop made from crocosmia castings. Check them out here.
© Sarah Hood Jewelry
June is also my birthday month! My birthday has come and gone, but I thought I would invite everyone to celebrate with me all month long by offering a sale in my Etsy shop! Right now, all Ready to Ship items in my Etsy shop are a whopping 50% off. There are lots of one-of-a-kind pieces, some small experiments, and many pieces with very beautiful, unique stones. Check out some of the images below and check out my Etsy shop to see lots more!
© 2013 Sarah Hood, Botanical Ring Set in size 6.5, sterling silver
© Sarah Hood Jewelry


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The path of holistic harmony is virtually the same as the ancient wisdom of the aboriginal, indigenous, and native Peoples. Their knowledge is sacred and to be revered, not commercialized or turned into a social media meme. It is the higher wisdom that all seekers seek, but it protects itself behind a locked door. The key is silence and reverence, patience, and connection to your spirit. The words we use to verbalize and convey their sentiments automatically degrade the truth which they carry… these sentiments are meant to be experienced, not just read, so they can be known to each individual as their living truth.
Many people ask, "What now? What do I do? How do we go about raising kids in this degraded society?"
The following excerpt is to help answer that question.
From "Medicine of the Cherokee: The Way of Right Relationship," by J.T. Garrett and Michael Garrett:
The Medicine Way is based on an unwritten "code of ethics" that honors the natural laws of Creation to guide our way of life toward harmony and balance with all our relations – personal, social, and environmental. The "Way of the Circle" is passed down from generation to generation, from Native American Elders to the children in the form of stories, traditions, customs and teachings. What follows is a general collection of these teachings, which can be embraced by anyone seeking the way of harmony and balance:
1.When you first arise in the morning, give thanks to the Creator (Great Spirit), to the Four Directions, to Mother Earth, the Father Sky, and to all of our relations, for the life within you, and for all life around you.
2.Remember that all things are connected. -All things have purpose, everything has its place. -Honor others by treating them with kindness and consideration; always assume that a guest is tired, cold and hungry, making sure to provide him or her with the best of what you have to offer.
3.If you have more than you need for yourself and your family, consider performing a "giveaway" by distributing your possessions to others who are in need.
4.You are bound by your words, which cannot be broken except by permission of the other party.
5.Seek harmony and balance in all things. -It is always important to remember where you are in relation to everything else, and to contribute to the Circle in whatever way you can by being a "helper" and a protector of life. -Sharing is the best part of receiving. -Practice silence and patience in all things as a reflection of self-control, endurance, dignity, reverence, and inner calm. -Practice modesty in all things; avoid boasting and loud behavior that attracts attention to yourself. -Know the things that contribute to your well-being, and those things that lead to your destruction.
6.Always ask permission, and give something for everything that is received, including giving thanks for, and honoring, all living things.
7.Be aware of what is around you, what is inside of you, and always show respect. -Treat every person from the tiniest child to the oldest Elder with respect. -Do not stare at others; drop your eyes as a sign of respect, especially in the presence of Elders, teachers or other honored persons. – Always give a sign of greeting when passing a friend or stranger. -Never criticize or talk about someone in a harmful, negative way. -Never touch something that belongs to someone else without permission. -Respect the privacy of every person, making sure to never intrude upon someone's quiet moments or personal space. -Never interfere in the affairs of another by asking questions or offering advice. -Never interrupt others. -In another person's home, follow his or her customs rather than your own. -Treat with respect all things held sacred to others whether you understand these things or not. -Treat Earth s your mother; give to her, protect her, honor her, show deep respect for those in the animal world, plant world, and mineral world.
8.Listen to guidance offered by all of your surroundings, expect this guidance to come in the form of prayer, dreams, quiet solitude, and in the words and deeds of the wise Elders and friends.
9.Listen with your heart.
10.Learn from your experiences, and always be open to new ones.
11.Always remember that a sole is something sacred, to be shared.
12.Live each day as it comes.


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My kids' 3rd birthday was round the corner. We had huge plans for their birthday. Last two years' celebration was restricted to just family, prepared some good food and 2 cakes! Ever since they joined the crèche, they had been part of their peers' birthday celebration and would come home with return gifts. They would ask me when they would be celebrating their birthdays. This year, June 8th was going to be a Wednesday. They joined school starting June 6th. Their birthday was celebrated in advance at their crèche where they had lots of friends. It was on 3rd which was their last day at the crèche before hopping on to school. After a lot of brainstorming and surfing around the blogosphere, I finally went with my very trusted Zebra cake. I topped it with some Chocolate frosting and concluded with a note 'Happy birthday Mantam' using whipped cream.
Second celebration was on 8th where we had them distribute toffees at school. Sticking to traditional values, I made a Payasam / Payesh on that very day.
Final celebration was at home where we had a small get-together with friends, colleagues and relatives. Unfortunately there were no kids in the guest list. So we had organized a few games for adults. We did all the decorations and preparation ourselves. Abbas suggested that food and cake will be brought from outside. I somehow couldn't give in to the idea of people coming home for lunch and not eating my cooked food. We ended up in a win-win negotiation. I could cook a few dishes which would be easy for me to rustle up and not dedicate huge time in the kitchen. Rest would be outsourced. Finally we had Naan, Matar Paneer, Dal Makhani and Kheer ordered. I prepared Mint Coriander Ghee Rice, Methi Murg, Tomato Chutney, Boondi Raita, Salad, Papad at home. Last but not the least was the birthday cake which I was adamant on baking on my own. I intended to stick to the protocol of baking 2 cakes but on second thought stuck to just one. I'm glad I chose the 'Celebration Chocolate Cake' by Hershey's. It truly was decadent and won me accolades. I must say it was one of my best after Chocolate Honeycomb Cake.
Hershey's Cocoa – ¾ cup
Boiling water – 1 cup
Butter or margarine – ½ cup+ 2 tbsp
Sugar – 2 cups
Eggs - 3
Vanilla extract – 1 tsp
All-purpose flour – 1 ¾ cups
Baking soda – 1 ½ tsp
Salt – ¼ tsp
Milk – ¾ cup
Dairy sour cream – ¼ cup (Can be substituted by yoghurt)
1. Heat oven to 350°F.
2. Grease three 9-inch round baking pans. (I used rectangular pan and halved the batter and baked twice in it. I ended up with a 4 layer cake)
3. Line bottoms with wax paper-grease and flour paper.
4. Mix cocoa with boiling water in small bowl-stir until smooth. Set aside to cool.
5. Beat butter and sugar in large bowl until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
6. Stir in vanilla. Gradually add cocoa mixture, beating well.
7. Stir together flour, baking soda and salt- add alternately with milk and sour cream to butter mixture, beating until blended.
8. Pour batter into prepared pans. Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
9. Cool 10 minutes. Remove from pans to wire racks; carefully peel off wax paper.
10. Cool completely.
Perfectly Chocolate Chocolate Frosting
Perfectly Chocolate Chocolate Frosting
Butter or margarine – ½ cup
– 2/3 cup Cocoa
Powdered sugar – 3 cups
Milk – 1/3 cup
Vanilla extract – 1 tsp
Melt butter. Stir in cocoa. Alternately add powdered sugar and milk, beating to spreading consistency. Add small amount additional milk, if needed. Stir in vanilla. Makes about 2 cups frosting.
- I baked 2 square cakes. So I horizontally cut each cake midway to get 4 layers.
- Place one layer on serving plate. I uniformly drizzled 3-4 tbsp of aerated cola (I used coke) This step ensures that you get a moist cake. Some use sugar syrup but I prefer cola.
- Spread the frosting uniformly with a spatula. Place the next layer and repeat the steps.
- Once all 4 layers are in place. Cover the top and sides with the frosting.
- I garnished with almond flakes and piping birthday note using whipped cream.


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Well I have to say when it comes to Baltimore classic style; a signet ring or family crest ring is a popular option. These rings are usually seen around the preppy areas on both men and women. Men tend to carry the family crest rings, while women have their signet rings on hand. Anything family/monogrammed is a hit with the Baltimore prep. Even some schools around here have their school rings that look a lot like these rings. Garrison, Oldfield's, and St. Paul's are some just to name a few.
I wear my school ring still especially when I have my silver jewelry on, it is white gold.
I personally have had my wonderful signet rings since I was in eighth grade. I wear mine every time I have my gold jewelry on. I couldn't live without it. I have loved mine so much that when my husband and I were picking out our wedding bands, he decided to go with a family crest ring. I was so excited because I am not a big fan of men wedding bands and that just really isn't his style. Plus my dad wears a family crest ring so I was excited to see my husband opt for the idea as well. (It is said that most girls marry someone like their father!)
Classic prep is what really comes to mind when I think of these rings. You can't go wrong with a little classic touch to your everyday style.


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A fusion of cajun, caribbean and international flavours served up fresh everyday. Live music monthly.
Two pan-fried Flying Fish fillets served with Bajan Macaroni Pie and spicy mixed vegetables.
Hand-cut and breaded strips of chicken breast, cooked to a crispy golden brown. With fresh cut fries and a scotch bonet aioli.
Pan-fried Flying Fish fillet on a toasted bun with lettuce, tomato, house sauce and fresh cut fries.
Two pan-fried Flying Fish fillets served with Sweet Potato fries and chipotle mayo.
Traditional Bajan cod fritters served with a Scotch Bonet aioli.
Crisp romaine, parmesan, home-made croutons and a creamy garlic house dressing, topped with a juicy Cajun-BBQ'd chicken breast...hot off the grill.
Grilled Tilapia with a pineapple salsa and curried vegetarian fried rice.
Spicy crab leg meat with baby greens and tomatoes, sandwiched between layers of chicken, bacon and white cheddar, grilled in a roti shell.
One pound of large wings, rubbed with a blend of herbs and seasonings, deep-fried to a crisp golden brown and served with fresh cut fries or veggie stix & blue cheese.
Two pound rack of our succulent baby back ribs, with fresh cut fries.
A tender chicken leg baked in a unique union Cajun and Bajan seasonings. Served with herbed potatoes and spicy mixed vegetables.
Chicken, shrimp, sweet peppers and spicy sausage tossed with al dente penne in a devilishly rich tomato-cream sauce.


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actually-- i don't know how many cameras are here-- they are coming back today- and i will get out my trusty index card and do a flow chart.
i think most will not have sound... i don't know where that decision rested.
at any rate no cursing in the horse alley- we need a sign to that effect.
the bad news is -- i heard a nasty remark about "passwords"
that "passwords" has caused much of my equipment to be un useable.. most notably my iphone which jade and megan set up--i can not go purchase an "ap" because of an unknown/ forgotten password.
26 letters and 10 numbers + another 26 letters that are capitalized-- the permutations and combinations approach infinity.
things that are usually simple--
what is your mother's birthday? well--my mother had 2
one in may -
the second 3 months later in July -- which was in better agreement of 9 months after the wedding.
?what is your mothers middle name? "francis... or frances"?
i have too many of those things.
raises heck with things like social security...passports etc...
the ultimate password?? .....i have a friend who refers to her husband as 56342-- which is his prison number-- he did not pay child support.
but back to the dogs...
teal has had a problem-- i think it is a question of too many people handling him-- service dogs have to receive 99% of their care and fun/affection from their partner-- you can not take shortcuts/ i think between their travel plans and her age-- we may have got into a bind of bonding... looking back to the file-- in April - there were emails question the time availavble for bonding.
therefore fiona and vanilla are in the back room - with chaos..
they carry things-- chaos stays on her sofa while her 2 children carry large and noisy things around---buckets.. dishes....pieces of the .bed--- very noticeable in a very quiet house.
when i go out to scold them chaos ducks her head with a "not me" look.
i want to go check the pups-- so this will be short
today schedule
camera lessons
teal at 10:00
janine said sometime today our new web will be alive..
. i will send that around too..


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5 Tips for keeping a positive mental attitude.
1) look for the happy in everything you do. I like to think about the good things that come from everyday tasks such as cleaning the house - seems laborious at first but think about how nice it will look when its done.
2) don't dwell on the not so nice things. There's no point dwelling on things you can't change, say for instance if your running late and miss your bus to work, what's the worst that could happen - you may get a scolding from your boss, its not like there going to sack you! (Hopefully not anyway).
3) chilltime. Remember to find time for a relax and unwind session each day. Even if its only five minutes out of your day! Breathe! ;-)
4) keep pushing through any bad stuff. Remember that things can only get better!! If your having a crappy day try and think about something nice you have planned. (An evening out with my lovely boyfriend usually helps me focus again, but it could be anything, a shopping trip even).
5) don't worry. I'm the biggest worry wort I know, so I know first hand this isn't easy. But try to live in the moment not in the past - you can't change whats already happened. Also don't beat yourself up if things haven't quite worked out the way you had planned!! When I was 16 I'd made a list of all the things I was going to have done by the time I hit 25, I'm 29 now and let's just say things haven't quite gone the way I was imagining but I'm glad really!
Love my life! ;-)


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By Eric Thomas: Trainer Freddie Roach is saying that the mega fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao is currently being put together and will likely take place in October or November of this year. In an interview at 790thezone, Roach said that the they will be meeting Mayweather half way for the Olympic style blood tests that he wants. Previously, Mayweather wanted the blood tests to go up until 14 days before the fight. Pacquiao wanted the tests to go until 24 days.
However, Roach says that they'll be meeting Mayweather half way at 17 or 18 days. Roach says "Yes, it [the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight] is going to happen. I just talked to [Top Rank promoter] Bob Arum yesterday, and Arum is flying to the Philippines today to make Manny the offer…We're going to meet in the middle. They wanted 14. We offered 24. Yeah, it's going to be 17 or 18." This is great news, because a lot of boxing fans were beginning to think the fight wouldn't happen, as there a lot of talk about Pacquiao still wanting the testing to stop at 24. It's good to know that they'll meet Mayweather half way on the blood testing.
Roach was somewhat impressed with Mayweather's performance the other night, saying "He can't punch. Speed factor. He's a little slower. You saw the other night that his legs aren't there anymore. H can't change his style because he can't move like he used to. That why he's more flat footed, and that's why Shane [Mosley] did hit him in the first two rounds. But Shane got old overnight, but that happens. Mayweather is pretty much managed by Richard Schaefer [of Golden Boy Promotions], and he's negotiating for him with Golden Boy."
Roach is correct about Mayweather's lack of movement against Mosley. However, that seemed to be more by design than because he couldn't move. Mayweather appeared to be want to punch with Mosley and really didn't need to use his legs much because he was so effective at leaning away from Mosley's punches when he would throw a rare shot. Mayweather was quick to counter Mosley every time he would try to throw a punch. This had the effect of making Mosley gun shy.
Roach says the fight will be taking place in Vegas, saying "I would love to go to Dallas to sell that place out, but Mayweather has a big issue. His home is Vegas, and he sees it as a Vegas fight. We have no problem with that. It will be the biggest fight of all time. There talking about it taking place in October or November, definitely by the end of the year. This is a big challenge cause with Mayweather, I have to come up with the perfect game plan. This is a big challenge to get this win. Mayweather is very good at what he does. He got caught a couple of times early in that fight [Mosley bout], but if Pacquiao gets him hurt, he will finish him. He doesn't have movement like he used to. He's a lot more flat footed – the weight and the age. The style he fought the other night is very good for the fans, because he didn't run and he did come to fight. It's unfortunate that Mosley didn't have more in the tank, but Pacquiao will. We will knock him [Mayweather] out."


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Dog park to be considered for Warwick
A WARWICK dog park will be up for consideration by Southern Downs councillors this week.
Councillors last month reviewed a petition to bring a dog park to the Rose City.
Three recommended locations will be discussed at tomorrow's council meeting in Stanthorpe.
Petitioners asked the council to consider Federation Park on Victoria St, Mel Gibson Park on Bracker Rd and Victoria Park on the New England Hwy.
The estimated cost of building a dog park at these locations is between $15,800 to $25,500, depending on whether benches and water fountains are to be included in the design.
A fourth option has also been noted at Griffith Estate, where a section of the park is already mostly fenced in, and a dog park could be constructed for $4800-$16,000.
The full details of the proposal are available in the council agenda from sdrc.qld.gov.au.


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Beauty In Solar May 24, 2007Posted by solarpundit in Solar News.
John Coulthart's art blog caught my attention this afternoon. He features a picture of the London Oasis which is a beautiful (and functional) sculpture made of solar panels in The Clerkenwell Green in London. Here is a link to the streaming film of the sculpture in action
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Kevin and I have been making a list of where we want to go when we return to Taiwan. Here's the list for my reference and to share with others.
must (new places):
Taiwan Indigenous Cultural Park
Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines
National Palace Museum
Longshan Temple in Taipei
must (do-overs):
Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall - photo op
Sun Yat-Sen Memorial - photo op
Din Tai Fung for dumplings - yummy!
go up Taipei 101 with Hudson
would like to (new places):
Snake Alley
Jade and Flower Market
Taipei Zoo
Ping Hsi railway line
Taipei Eye
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Ever since Charlton Heston hurled those stone tablets down from a papier-máche Mt. Sinai at some disobedient young Hebrews, audiences have thrived on the misadventures of rowdy young rebels. It's a hormonal line that stretches from Our Gang, the Bowery Boys, and Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney musicals to such films as The Wild One, Rebel Without a Cause, West Side Story, I Was a Teenage Werewolf, and most significantly, Bye Bye Birdie.
We now have Eric Bogosian's SubUrbia at the Cleveland Public Theatre (through December 12). Hanging out in front of a convenience store in suburban Anywhere, U.S.A., is a group of twentysomethings, desperately in need of a good spanking. These Generation X-ers, who once would have been concerned about doing the Varsity Drag, getting asked to the prom, securing tickets for the Sinatra concert, putting on a swell show, buying war bonds, terrorizing "squares," pirouetting at the rumble, or being kissed by Conrad Birdie, are now dealing with an advanced case of nihilism.
Playwright Bogosian specializes in paradoxically likable angry diatribes that give voice to the dispossessed. Like David Mamet, he creates an entire universe out of stylized profanity, yet his work is blessedly free of the ellipses and rank pretentiousness of his theatrical colleague. He can make the inarticulate as joyfully expressive as a Sheridan rake or Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat.
SubUrbia picks up on that same old gang that has been hanging about since someone invented the first Coca-Cola. The handsome misfit, the blighted rosebud, the poetess on the way out, the visiting celeb, and the jealous hero are all immersed here in ennui and Jack Daniel's.
Where playwrights of the generation of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams showed characters dashed against smothering and unyielding social mores, Bogosian writes of a wasteland sans all rules, as desolate as T.S. Eliot's and Samuel Beckett's. Here all destinies, successes, or failures seem as arbitrary as the spin of a roulette wheel.
Unless one checked one's ticket stub, he might almost believe himself at some chic little off-Broadway theater, watching the latest batch of prodigies from New York's toniest acting schools. Even while speaking dialogue that would give that little old lady from Dubuque a conniption, these sweet earth angels are talented and supple enough to turn the verbal vinegar into sweet cider. An evening to turn under-thirty theater virgins into full-fledged aficionados.
Director Agnes Wilcox, all the way from St. Louis, has applied a sure, commanding hand to these cunning cuties and has fully earned her round-trip Greyhound ticket to Cleveland and back. However, earning a first-class ticket on a Boeing 707 to Baden-Baden and back is set designer Oliver Sshngen, the true star of the evening, for his inspired convenience store set built out of milk cartons and fast-food paraphernalia.
For all of the reasons stated above and for giving young people--even those younger than this critic--a good excuse to attend live theater, SubUrbia is a blessing out of disguise.
SubUrbia, through December 12, Cleveland Public Theatre, 6415 Detroit Ave., 216-631-2727.


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Something.. Something… Cloning…
By googling the cyber zone I have enough time to refer a article in a website which is all about a cloning. You may very aware about cloning. But news is published on the month of July.
Here I am going to paste the story for you…
Disgraced South Korean stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk said on Tuesday he spent part of private donations for his research in failed attempts to clone mammoths, extinct members of the elephant family.
Hwang, once celebrated as a national hero, was indicted in May on charges of fraud and embezzlement after prosecutors said he was the mastermind of a scheme to make it look like his team had produced stem cell lines through cloning human embryos.
At the third hearing in his trial in Seoul, Hwang said his team was given a 1 billion won ($1.05 million) grant from South Korea's powerful SK Group in 2005 and the money was supposed to be used for "peripheral activities related to the research."
When a prosecutor asked Hwang if the money landed in a personal account, Hwang did not deny the possibility but said: "I did have the money managed separately."
Hwang also said he used the names of seven junior members of his team to set up bank accounts. He controlled the money and used part of it to clone tigers, pay for a junior scientist's housing, overseas trips for team members and for a scientist's wedding.
"We secured mammoth tissues from glaciers and tried cloning three times, but failed," Hwang said.
He also admitted to often withdrawing tens of thousands of dollars in cash at different bank branches and carrying it in suitcases that contained his surgical gowns because "some of it had to go to uses of a highly classified nature," he said.
In February, South Korea's Board of Audit and Inspection said in a report more than 1.8 billion won from private contributions was deposited into Hwang's personal accounts and Hwang drew from the accounts for non-research purposes.
Hwang again apologized for the fraud in his team's work but said he was duped by junior researchers into believing the team had made breakthroughs.
"I apologize 100 times over for the trouble (I) caused. But I was cheated and I cheated, and I am as sad about it as anyone," he said.
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I have decided not to write about the crisis in Iceland until I am back home in three weeks, but today I watched this video and somehow it touched me a lot. It is about the protests that have been held every saturday for the last past weekends. Iceland is my home now... it is where I have my family, my friends, our home, my college and my life. It is sad that I will be back to a different country. When I left Iceland in May everything seemed to be fine and now everything is uncertain. The mood is different. Is it worse? I don't know... I am not there yet.
BUT I have been reading Iceland Weather Report blog and Vida na Islandia. It is a great way to keep updated! Alda, from Iceland Weather Report, is a brave and intelligent woman. She writes about her personal experience connected to Iceland and not only news.
I am definetly looking forward to go back home, to go back to Iceland!
... and finish all the endless projects at Edinburgh Academy of Arts!
Sunday, November 23, 2008
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- dulla said...
Hi Aline, thank you for the postcard. Great idea and thouthful ;) I´m drowning in work in school and looking forward to finish this season.
It will be great to have you back in Iceland.. it is not the same Iceland as you said but still...
Contact me when get here :)
- Nov 25, 2008, 5:30:00 PM
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The Adobe Portable Document is a widespread standard that ensures the recipient will see the file the same way you did. PDF is standard format that is device independent. It allows you to send files that everyone can read and that can't be edited. The full Adobe product is comprehensive and expensive. An alternative is to use a PDF Print Driver to produce PDF documents.
One such product can be obtained at no charge from http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp
Download CUTEPDF Writer and Converter. Install the Converter first then CUTEPDF. You will now have a new driver and may choose it to create a PDF file. You will see a Save As dialog box to specify the name of the PDF file.
If you have the newest MS Office 2007 you can click Save as, then "Find Add-Ins for other File Formats" from any MS Office program. An Office Help menu will open and it will contain a link to the download page. The Microsoft Genuine Office validation will be invoked to ensure you have a properly licensed product on the PC you are downloading too. This requires that you use Internet Explorer and Allow an ActiveX to be installed. After your license is validated you will be returned to the download page and can download and install. Installing this update once applies to all Office products. You can then Save As in PDF or Microsoft's XPS format (competition to PDF). PDF is much more widely available than XPS.
The advantage of the PDF Print Driver is that it works with any product.
I'm thinking out loud, letting you know what I figured out. If you have some information or understanding I don't, please comment and add your experience.
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Another alternative, for the real hardcore nerds amongst us, is to use LaTeX to write resumes and generate PDFs.
All the tools are open source and free. LaTeX gives you ultimate control over formatting and typesetting. You can organize snippets from your resume in separate files and generate custom resumes by writing a short master file to include the appropriate bits tailored for the audience.
Of course, the disadvantage is that this is really only useful to the hardcore nerds amongst us: if you do not know what LaTeX is, then you really, really are not interested.
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Well, I haven't written much this week. S was sick until yesterday, and E developed a "surface skin infection" and now has a rash from the anti-biotics leaving, her home with me. Needless to say it's been busy at my house.
Tomorrow is Halloween and we are preparing costumes for the party that S and A are attending. L went to the pumpkin patch with her class yesterday and is ready to decorate a pumpkin after school today. K is also dressing up for a party with her friends at school. Everyone at my house enjoys the "dressing up" aspect of Halloween for sure.
This morning A posted this on her face-book...so enjoy.


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My girls love pink colour.They want everything to be in Pink.And this is the only reason why they love to have beetroot.I had already posted Pink Poori which is my gals favourite breakfast..So wanted to try a rice recipe too with this vegetable and in this regard here comes the pink rice or the Beetroot rice.They are very apt to pack for lunch box.
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2 Cups of cooked rice
1 No. of Big Beetroot,peeled n grated
2 Tbsp of chopped onions
1 Garlic pod chopped finely(Optional)
1-2 No. of green chillies,Sliced and deseeded
1 Tbsp of Cashewnuts
1 Tbsp of groundnuts
Few curry leaves(Optional)
Salt to taste
1 Tsp of fennel seeds/saunf/Sombu
1 Tbsp of ghee/Oil
Peel the Beetroot.Cut it into medium sized big cubes.
Boil water and cook the beetroot.Don't cook it too much too.
Chop the onions and keep it aside.
Grate the cooked beetroot and keep it aside.
Heat oil in the pan and fry the cashewnuts and groundnuts.
Keep the fried cashews and groundnuts aside.
In the same pan add oil.
When it gets heated add fennel seeds/saunf/Sombu.
Then add curry leaves.
Then add sliced green chillies.
Add chopped onions and saute it.
Add grated beetroot and saute it till the mixture becomes dry.
Switch off the flame.
To it add cashewnuts and groundnuts.
Add the cooked rice.
Add salt.Mix well.
Serve it with fried appalams or vadams.
- Cook the rice in a way that the grains don't get stick.To enable to get it cooked in that way add a drop of oil when u cook the rice.
- U can do many variations in this by adding garam masala,tempering it with cinnamon etc.
- Don't cook the beetroot too much.
- Fennel and beetroot goes well.So don't omit the fennel part.


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The not-obstructing-the-field saga
The sight
Two slips only until the second over of a Test match. The pitch was flat as promised, and Umesh Yadav didn't get off to an accurate start, conceding 12 in his first over. The stand-in captain, Virender Sehwag, reacted promptly, and took out one of the slips. That's how it stayed for most of the day.
The chase
In that second over of the day, David Warner drove Yadav down the ground, between the stumps and mid-off. R Ashwin, from mid-off, started slow, hoping it would go for four, but the ball held up just inside the long straight boundary. It was one of the rare cases in modern cricket when the batsman ran all four, but still would have kicked themselves for not running enough.
The sight II
Sehwag was not shy of eyebrow-raising moves. In the fourth over of the first day of a Test in Australia, he brought on the spinner, R Ashwin. And it worked. Ashwin began with back-to-back-maidens, some control was reassumed, and India got the better of the first session with three wickets. Two of them, Shaun Marsh and Ed Cowan, went to Ashwin.
The MS Dhoni moment
In the 45th over of the innings, Michael Clarke cut at a short and a wide delivery, edging it between the keeper and a wide slip. It was strictly a half chance for the keeper, but Saha didn't even go for it, in homage perhaps to the keeper he is replacing who makes it a point to not go for catches between keeper and slip unless they are dying. At least Dhoni usually has the excuse of a slip standing close to him. For Saha, though, the slip was fairly wide, and if any man was going to catch it, it was Saha.
The appeal
Just before tea, Clarke stole a single to square leg, from where Ashwin shied at the stumps at the non-striker's end. The throw hit Clarke's bat, and ricocheted towards the straight boundary. Ashwin showed presence of mind, and appealed for obstructing the field. As per the revised rules, a batsman can be given out if he changes his direction to come in the way of the throw. Replays, though, suggested that Clarke was in the right, and never changed his line of running. Perhaps miffed that the appeal was made, Clarke chose to run overthrows off his bat, which batsmen usually turn down. Later, he apologised and asked the umpire if those runs could be revoked. He just did it instinctively, he said, and would like to undo it if he could. Of course, he was not allowed to do so.
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Philips Announces New Trimedia CPU Optimized for Mobile Media Processing Applications
Royal Philips Electronics today introduced a new TriMedia CPU to be used in a wide range of Philips' Nexperia media processing solutions. Philips says its new TM3270 TriMedia CPU combines the performance needed for processing the latest audio/video formats with extremely low power operation.
The TM3270 TriMedia CPU is a fully synthesizable design allowing easy integration into Nexperia SOC (System on Chip) designs. Utilizing new, patented instructions for H.264 video processing and voltage-scaling capabilities, it is able to decode full D1-resolution H.264 video with CABAC while consuming under 100mW typical power consumption. It supports the encoding and decoding of all leading audio and video formats including H.264, MPEG-1/2/4, Windows Media 9 and DivX. Support for programmable image-enhancement optimizes video quality for sharpness and clarity on next generation displays. The CPU is fully C-programmable, maintaining backward compatibility with previous TriMedia CPUs, and ensuring compatibility with future evolving standards.
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The lives he touched through the work of the Operation 55 foundation he started during his five seasons as a starting middle linebacker for the Detroit Lions mean as much to him as the players he tackled.
And there were plenty of both. He hit hard on the field, and he worked hard away from the field to help those in need.
Head coach Jim Caldwell referenced a quote by the legendary baseball Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson in paying tribute to Tulloch's work on and off the field at his retirement press conference Thursday.
"A life is not important except in the importance it has on other lives" was Robinson's quote.
"I think that without question, Stephen's life personified that particular quote," Caldwell said. "Nobody impacted more people in this community than he did.
"I think it says a lot about Tully that he wants to make his announcement here, where he made a difference in the community. He impacted so many people.
"Not only was he an outstanding player, he was a better man off the field."
Tulloch, 32, played 11 NFL seasons, from 2006-16. He spent the first five with the Tennessee Titans, who drafted him in the fourth round out of North Carolina State. Tulloch signed with the Lions as a free agent in 2011. He was released after five seasons as a co-captain and four-time team leader in tackles.
Tulloch's last season was 2016 as a backup with the Eagles.
It was fitting, and more than symbolic, that Tulloch wanted to announce his retirement as a Lion in a touching ceremony Thursday afternoon at the team's Allen Park headquarters.
His gritty style as a key member of a group of players who made the Lions a relevant contender in the NFC North matched the turnaround of the city's fortunes.
"My heart is here in Detroit," Tulloch said, his voice heavy with emotion as he referred to his former teammates and the team's fans. "I know how much these guys put in to their craft, and how much they mean to me. To be able to come back here means a lot to me.
"I love Detroit a lot. Not just the organization, but the community."
In addition to Caldwell, members of the coaching staff front office were in attendance at the press conference. Also with them were Tulloch's mother, Mercedes, and a number of people – either cancer survivors, or relatives of those who've been struck by the disease – who have been assisted by Tulloch's foundation.
Operation 55's mission is to provide educational assistance to Detroit's public schools, and also help families who are affected by cancer.
Tulloch's efforts reach beyond Metro Detroit. He was scheduled to fly to Haiti on Friday to help build schools with former Lion and current Seattle Seahawks defensive lineman Cliff Avril, and running back Marshawn Lynch, who is in the process of returning to football after a one-year retirement.
"That's what motivates me," Tulloch said of his foundation's work. "It's not all about the accolades. It's about the impact you have on people's lives. It's about the legacy you leave behind. When you go, you leave a legacy behind. That means more to me than anything.
"I'm able to say I gave everything I had, on the field and off the field. I want to make a difference. I don't want to just talk the talk. I want to walk the walk."
Tulloch had good memories on the field.
He joined the Lions in 2011 and became part of a group who led the team to a 10-6 won-lost record and the team's first playoff appearance since 1999. The Lions started that season with a five-game winning streak.
The biggest moment for Tulloch was the victory over the Chargers in Game 15 at Ford Field that clinched a playoff berth. He felt the joy of the fans matching the team's emotion.
That first year in Detroit was the beginning of a career-long connection.
"The people of Detroit are first class people," he said. "They have your back. I'm glad I made the decision to come here. From the front office down, it's awesome.
"I played a long time. I know class. This is a class organization."


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Over at the Daily Kos blogsite, mcjoan has brought up an excellent point: The process by which the Senate Finance Committee is approaching its work is deeply flawed. She and I may disagree on the merits of the "co-op plan" that they favor, but we share a couple of serious process concerns that have been raised by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV).
First, Rockefeller and most other committee members have been shut out of the discussion, which currently involved only six members. The other 19 members are hopefully getting more information than the public (which has so far seen only a mid-June leak of a first-draft outline), but they've been excluded to the point that some are making noises about ousting committee chair Baucus. That is a sign of a degraded process for decision-making, which will make later work more difficult.
Another concern is that the gang of six appears to be pushing forward in the absence of reliable data on what impact a co-op plan is likely to have.
I don't believe that we can really tell the future from the past, because a nationally coordinated, government capitalized cooperative development initiative is very different than the regionally concentrated grassroots initiatives started in the 1930s and 1940s. Nevertheless, we need to know everything we can about what has worked and what hasn't. Otherwise, we risk repeating the mistakes of those co-ops that have failed. And we cannot afford to do that.
Fortunately, Sen. Rockefeller has contacted the GAO to request any information they can provide. I'm anxiously awaiting their response, and will appreciate any hot tips about that information when it comes.
When we are tackling such an enormous and important issue, we need to do it well. If a co-op plan is going to succeed, it will rely on the goodwill of enough people to become members and make it viable. If the plan is rammed through somehow, it will reduce the likelihood of its success.


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|You can see an alleged ghost in the window.
The house and grounds are reported to have seven ghostly residents, although there could be more.
The most dominant ghost according to psychics is Mrs. Crawley herself, which isn't at all surprising since she was known to rule Monte Cristo with an iron fist. During the first few years she spent a great deal of time in the Drawing Room. However, after Mr. Crawley passed away she spent most of her time in the newly converted Chapel. It is here that she is seen most frequently, dressed in black and carrying a large silver cross. Her ghost has been known to order people out of the Dining Room and her presence is felt when a room suddenly becomes icy cold.
The apparition of a woman in period dress has been seen walking along this verandah. You could be excused in thinking that she was a guest at the period ball that is held annually at the estate, however when this apparition passes in front of the windows the light shines right through her! The identity of this woman is not known.
A maid fell to her death from the balcony. The blood stained steps below were cleaned and to this day, you can still see the discolouration from the bleach. Could she be the mysterious woman who still walks the balcony?
There have been at least three deaths on the second story of this beautiful homestead. A woman died giving birth on one of the beds, and Mr. Crawley himself died as a result of blood poisoning from his starched collar in what is now known as the Boys Bedroom.
Footsteps have been heard walking through empty rooms, along the hall and down the stairs which is strange in itself. However, what is even stranger is that the steps sound as though the person is walking on hard wood or lino floors even though the entire house is now carpeted!
Faces have also been seen peering through second story windows even though there is no balcony or support outside. In the Drawing Room, objects such as vases move around. A tapestry hanging on the wall was often found undamaged on the floor the next day. This strange occurance continued until Reg moved the tapestry to another wall and there is remains today, undisturbed.
One of the most disturbing accidents occurred when the Crawley's baby girl fell from her nanny's arms and down the stairs. She subsequestly died from her injuries. The distraught maid claimed that the baby had been pushed out of her arms by an unseen force (which of course was never proven). Today, young children become very agitated and unruly near or around the staircase.
The surrounding grounds have also had a fair share of tragic deaths. The Coach House/Stables was also the sleeping quarters for a stable boy named Morris, who was one day too ill to rise for work. The boss did not believe the boy, and set fire to his bedding. Unfortunately, Morris was too ill to escape and was burnt to death.
A mentally retarded man named Harold, the son of a housekeeper working at Monte Cristo, was kept locked in shackles in the Caretaker's Cottage for forty years. He was found curled up at the feet of his mothers dead body, and sent to a home for the insane where he died shortly afterwards.
The most recent death at Monte Cristo occurred in 1961 when caretaker Jackie Simpson was murdered by a local youth. After watching the movie Psycho several times, the boy made his way up to the grounds of the homestead with a rifle and shot the caretaker dead in his cottage. It is believed that he then scawled the words "DIE JACK HA HA" on the wooden door, a macabre inscription that can still be seen to this day.


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In my storage locker, I have two boxes full of little scraps of paper, half-filled notebooks, computer printouts and all kinds of things, all filled with my writing from the last 20 years or so. I even have old computer disks.
Every so often, I try to sort them out into some sort of order, and throw away what I really don't need. The problem is, I realised I need them all.
In the book I am almost finished with, I have used images that I came up 20 years ago, and ideas I had 10 years ago, and lines I've found written on scraps of paper from goodness knows when.
I've realised nothing I write is wasted. Even if it's just one line in a notebook, or an idea I had discarded, it all gets used one day. When I have the right story, all those little scraps of paper find a place.
Don't throw any of it away. Keep it and read it and go over it and one day, even if it's decades later, you will use it.


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