Success with homemade washes

Hi All,

I feel like the homemade washes were a success. I'll let you be the judge.

Reference gray primed horses

With washes applied

So as you can see from left to right Black, Burnt Umber, Raw Umber, and Raw Sienna washes were applied. I think the darker two did well on the gray while the lighter two are harder to tell. It is a little more obvious to the naked eye. Obviously the darker washes darken things up a bit. The washes look very dark when poured into the palette, but when you move them with the brush they have the opacity of skim milk.

So let me know what you think.

In other news I decided on a lark to look up gaming conventions, since it is a goal to go to one in the next year or so. I found two in Mesa, AZ and one in Tuscon, AZ coming up. Maricopa Con looks like exactly what I am looking for. Of course it is happening right now and I'm busy this weekend. Copper Con seems less about gaming and more about Sci-Fi, comics and cosplay. Not really my thing, at least not hardcore. Rincon in October and TusCon in November although neither has much info right now.

I also learned of the passing of Michael Ansara, known to many of us as Kang the Klingon leader from Star Trek.

The New York Times did a piece on him here. Rest in peace Kang. leS tam qeng (I wanted to insert Klingon script here but blogger didn't support it.) I used the Bing translator to translate it here.

In upcoming posts I'll have some shots of my Orcs from 20 years ago. It's about 37 figures, that by the look of them, I considered finished at the time. Not totally horrifying, but not as awesome as I remember.

What I won from Doug.

So here are a few shots of what I won from Doug's giveaway on Doug's Land of the Dead.

Two Studio Bergstrom Sing-On Praetor Pocket Destroyers

Six Irregular DY06 Generic Standard Attack Fighter

Twelve dime store plastic ships that will be fun to paint up.

So under the terms of the giveaway I won $10 worth of miniatures. After much agonizing I couldn't resist some faux Klingon vessels. Doug was really cool and threw in the flight stands, fighters and plastic ships. Should help me get up and running with some space battles soon.

And yes. There is a lot languishing on the desk, thank you very much. More painting, less talking.

Where some men have gone before.

And no it is not a setup for "your mother" jokes.

I read this over at the Axis of Naughtiness here. And it looks totally awesome. If I only had some super geek friends to play with. Many of us of a certain age **cough 40+ cough** probably fantasized about being on the bridge of the Enterprise, I know I did.

This would be cool to play, but I find that I need a pause button as real time strategy generally sends me into rage that can be harmful to electronic devices and drywall. I've gotten fairly proficient at repairing drywall, computers, not as much.

I can also see a skype or VOIP session ending up like the infamous DOTS game.

This guy uses normal gamespeak (ie he curses a lot!)

And this remix:

At 16sec sounds like me. Okay the 2nd one is funnier but more explicit.

And welcome to Simon (sorry to welcome you after all the cursing) who is a very talented sculptor. He has several blogs but the most recently active is My Wargaming Corner.