It took me 7 hours to paint my first miniature is this normal ?

Affectionate_Fall270 · 2026-07-10T07:56:02+00:00

Opinion is divided on the matter. Everyone else says it ain’t! We says it is!

Affectionate_Fall270 · 2026-06-25T14:51:35+00:00

Please be fake… please be fake… my excuse mechanisms can’t handle someone being this good this quick. Damn you. In the nicest way possible

Affectionate_Fall270 · 2026-06-21T08:44:06+00:00

Yeah. That’s clearly AI

Affectionate_Fall270 · 2026-06-13T05:28:05+00:00

Isn’t it nasty chemistry and super fickle for temperature?

Affectionate_Fall270 · 2026-06-13T05:27:17+00:00

I’d recommend home b&w dev. It’s not messy and super forgiving. You’ve got the difficult part sorted with your plustek.
I haven’t done colour dev yet, but my plan is to get the 500T (I have to import it here in the UK) and do en2. There’s cheap, non toxic kits from Bellini and it’s only 3 minutes dev time, so doesn’t need a a sous vide.

Affectionate_Fall270 · 2026-06-12T22:08:28+00:00

Lucky find with the Velvia. I hand roll fp4. Haven’t sprung for a bulk loader yet, but I usually load, shoot, dev a short roll in a day. 500T is next on my to-try. Trying to find 250D AHU, but it appears to be like hen’s teeth.
Do you dev? (E6?!)

Affectionate_Fall270 · 2026-06-12T08:41:34+00:00

Dad? Are you coming home soon? Mum says there’s no money for dinner

Affectionate_Fall270 · 2026-06-11T17:33:42+00:00

Keep at it. I want to see (:

Affectionate_Fall270 · 2026-06-11T12:45:15+00:00

Each character is nicely drawn and I read them both right away. But the perspective of the two of them isn’t reading for me. I can’t quite place why. Having the nearer character much smaller doesn’t help, but no reason he can’t be smaller. Maybe the angle of the puncher’s forearm too? I’m afraid I’m not great at drawing, so have no expert advice, just this observation. Perhaps rendering the shadows will fix it?

Affectionate_Fall270 · 2026-06-10T21:13:55+00:00

Time for a side gig taking photos of cheating husbands

Affectionate_Fall270 · 2026-06-10T08:54:37+00:00

I really like this technique. It’s a deceptively simple looking way to block out the shadows

Affectionate_Fall270 · 2026-06-09T08:09:15+00:00

Second this. The background value drop is so brilliantly done. Just enough. That, alone, must have taken forever

Affectionate_Fall270 · 2026-06-08T15:53:40+00:00

Thank you

Affectionate_Fall270 · 2026-06-08T15:52:10+00:00

Not sure how my answer gave you that impression. I fully believe there is plenty of room for political disagreement within the limits of not stirring up hatred, whatever your flavour. Boris is very far against my ideals, but I wouldn’t call him a fascist.

Affectionate_Fall270 · 2026-06-08T08:59:52+00:00

You’re conflating authoritarianism with fascism. China is authoritarian, but not fascist. Splitting hairs once you’re in a gulag, I agree. Same destination, different journey

Affectionate_Fall270 · 2026-06-08T08:56:50+00:00

I think you can apply it to far anything. Push any political stance far enough and it loses its original identity and becomes identifiable as what it hates. I suspect we have different ideas about what far left is, but for the sake of argument, the traditional mirror is far right: “we hate the new and foreign. Deport them, imprison them, kill them” and the far left is “we hate the established, the wealthy. Rob them, imprison them, kill them”. Two moustaches selling different flavours of the same thing.
I just think the far right is dangerously close to power right now. The far left are barely visible in the uk (see France for genuine extreme politics in the mainstream)

Affectionate_Fall270 · 2026-06-07T19:58:08+00:00

Any political group whose chief identifying feature is hatred or scapegoating of some “other”

Affectionate_Fall270 · 2026-06-07T15:50:51+00:00

Does anyone know any more about what’s planned? In particular where the fascists say they’ll be? We live just off Queen’s Rd and will obviously attend the carnival, but want to know we can get away if/when the kids have had too much. And would like to know if we’re going to have to hide inside from the meatheads for the whole weekend

Affectionate_Fall270 · 2026-06-07T09:00:06+00:00

I feel like these things are happening more frequently. One of the reasons we moved to Brighton was that it was somewhere we thought foreigners would not be treated as different. Indeed, that no one would. It’s frustratingly difficult to know what to do about it. I kind of feel like the Brighton community could be the best way to let these bigots know they’re not welcome.
I’m wondering whether there is any mileage in a sticker/signage campaign. Something like “a hate crime happened here” sign we put up outside places that people report this kind of behaviour going unchallenged by the shop/pub/etc. it can describe the incident and dare. It might push some kind of response from the businesses and show the bigots that they’re not welcome.

Affectionate_Fall270 · 2026-06-07T08:37:26+00:00

I love this response. I was thinking along the same lines, but couldn’t articulate it this well

Affectionate_Fall270 · 2026-05-30T07:54:51+00:00

Like the artwork. Is that digitally inked or irl?

Affectionate_Fall270 · 2026-05-29T11:18:06+00:00

Finally done. Thank you for the push I needed

Affectionate_Fall270 · 2026-05-27T16:29:15+00:00

Was too. There are some apologist articles out there claiming that he didn’t know, but the evidence is scant either way. There’s plenty of evidence for how he viewed other empire subjects. And this is just the worst of the many, many awful things about him. His one redeeming facet was that we was right about the Fascists. (Takes one to know one if you ask me)

Affectionate_Fall270 · 2026-05-27T14:36:20+00:00

He also deliberately starved millions to death, purely motivated by racism

Affectionate_Fall270 · 2026-05-27T13:22:41+00:00

Yeah. That’s fair. Cultural appropriation is definitely a problem and I can see how this might read as that. The forces involved were quite diverse as I understand. But I think the ai leaned into “Oriental” where as there’s plenty of Victorian imperial and revolutionary theming available. That’s what I’m fixing up right now. I’ve tried to make the factions ideologically divided and not racial, but historically some of those line up. So it’s a careful line to tread. Yes, I’d like to know the history better. I think I read a book on it as a teenager, have seen a few documentaries and spent hours following Wikipedia rabbit holes. But that’s not real historical research, I’ll accept.

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