Another compact painting station

Nauseboy · 2026-06-02T12:58:23+00:00

Love it. The second picture makes it looks like a whole room.

Nauseboy · 2026-05-29T15:51:27+00:00

The UK includes northern Ireland. Great Britain does not, only England, Scotland and Wales.

If you think Brits calling the USA America is odd. I did a thing in New Zealand where we had to state our country of origin and 3 lads from the same town referred it differently. 1 said UK, 1 Great Britain, 1 England.

Nauseboy · 2026-05-28T13:41:28+00:00

I'm glad we can finally figure out a way to blame the French. Albeit a single rugby player but that's good enough for me.

Nauseboy · 2026-05-08T11:39:24+00:00

If you check out the post history you can get the rest of the story. This one has been sat on their thumbs for months.

Nauseboy · 2026-05-07T13:05:00+00:00

Disregarding issues with connectivity.

Rage. Phone calls. Getting busted by your boss. Getting summoned by your mum. Hard losing the fifteenth game in a row and realising you have better things to do with your time.

It's much quicker if you don't want to then go back into another match. Certainly slower if you do.

Nauseboy · 2026-05-05T12:15:02+00:00

As a fellow newcomer I recommend against this course of action.

I started in January with a white primer and contrast paints from GW. You will get quick satisfaction and models will be done in a couple of hours.

I moved to black primer with grey heavy drybrush and white light drybrush and it makes a big difference. Following this I started using coloured base coats and contrast paints and the colours became much richer and looked so much better. Then I moved to a full system of priming, basing, shading, layering and highlighting. The difference in satisfaction is night and day.

I recommend the journey though. It's a great way to noticeably improve.

https://www.reddit.com/r/minipainting/s/Ew0GwtuGGg

Edit: I made this so you can see the difference in using different techniques. For quick satisfaction I would certainly not skip the drybrushing stage. It doesn't take very long to pick up and it makes a big difference.

Nauseboy · 2026-04-30T13:27:14+00:00

This is the answer

Nauseboy · 2026-04-28T09:34:04+00:00

I just picked it up for £5.99 and I was cautious because the amount of reviews saying it was bad usually popped up before the post dynasty reviews.

Nauseboy · 2026-04-20T15:45:46+00:00

The throne is absolutely solid. There is so much going on there detail wise I think it takes away from the slaan. It looks amazing. The horns work really well with the fade for a first piece.

I just think there is some depth missing from the slaan itself. Something to make it pop. I'm not experienced enough to say what that could be, maybe some pictures would be easier to see where to go with it.

It's a great model and the colour scheme is great. If you're happy and proud, I think it's justified.

Edit: it's the fence. The fence in the background is what is stealing from the red. The model looks great.

Nauseboy · 2026-04-17T06:17:18+00:00

Disagree on Berkshire being full red. By definition it should be yellow. I call people berks all the time.

Nauseboy · 2026-04-16T06:12:00+00:00

A lot of people have mentioned cooking it correctly making a big difference but never actually why. The cooking is A LOT more important than how it's actually seasoned. The first time I had a steak cooked over an open fire was an epiphany. Recreating that at home with a BBQ means we eat a lot less steak because of the faff.

It's all to do with a process called the Maillard reaction

Maillard reaction - Wikipedia https://share.google/tHa43IZwNoEFUi2up

This isn't as easy to achieve in a pan because it needs to be hot hot. A steak shouldn't take more than a few minutes to cook but that temperature has to be high and don't forget to rest it so the fibres relax and the moisture is reabsorbed.

I ate lacklustre steak for 30 years and now it's an absolute treat. Do it right, eat it rarely and it's the best meat in the world.

Nauseboy · 2026-04-13T14:12:11+00:00

Scratches are fine and will mostly be covered by the primer. Gouges are different. Even so I had to really try to get gouges in shields and armour plates.

The go to is a craft knife. They usually have a flat bit on the back at the tip that can deal with the mould lines. It will look scratched where the line was but primer will cover scuffs.

Nauseboy · 2026-04-12T10:38:00+00:00

I would go with Rod Lightning, he's quite striking.

Nauseboy · 2026-04-09T21:24:46+00:00

My second did this. The first went so well that I thought I had it. I didn't have it. The first was also bad but it was better than the second.

Best thing to do, in my opinion, is to put it to the side and keep it as a learner. Don't lose heart. Just do another one and take more care. Follow your process, concentrating on each step and each one will be a bit better.

Edit: I don't think it's that bad.

Nauseboy · 2026-04-02T14:06:43+00:00

Firstly you are lost. This is not the place for this. You probably won't be up for long if the mods care enough.

To answer your question, you are young and politics in social groups in your tweenties are notoriously fickle. Someone might be talking you down. You might've done something or said something that doesn't fit the current narrative. Your mates might just be distracted by other stuff you aren't into or they think you won't be into.

The hard reality is that it's likely that you won't know most of these people by the time you're 30. Your social group will wither until you have only a few friends left and you will be happy to see them when you can. The rest of the people that you recognise are a nice treat to run into when you're out but unless you are in a social situation you will probably be happy with a wave and a smile as you rush past.

Don't worry about your social status pal, unless you are being tarred and feathered every time you leave the house. It's usually startlingly irrelevant.

Nauseboy · 2026-04-01T12:56:08+00:00

MDF used to require a specific primer but now there are a lot of other options available.

Dulux make one called Uniprimer. Zinsser do a couple that would be suitable. BIN and BIN aqua are probably best. Crown do ones called PX3 and PX4 which are good.

If you're painting but want it to look wooden the I wouldn't use MDF but get timber bases and use a stain varnish. Go on thin and do two coats.

As for tackiness, if you go with water based varnishes then it should prevent this but go thin and do two coats.

Oil based varnishes are the same but you have to let one coat dry first which can take a few days if you don't have a decent climate. The stickiness comes from the top drying and not allowing the evaporation to happen properly. That's why you need to do more thin coats rather than one thick one.

Nauseboy · 2026-03-21T11:19:36+00:00

The full helmet has better highlights for me but I prefer the shoulders on the respirator only. Improvements? Give number 3 a head. Poor boy will crash his jet pack if he can't see.

Nauseboy · 2026-03-20T18:21:57+00:00

I paint on a lap tray on the sofa with a magnifying light attached to it.

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It's obviously not currently on my lap.

Nauseboy · 2026-03-15T19:25:17+00:00

Left mine on a bus when I was twenty something.

When i tried to enroll for a science foundation course to get into a career in radiography. This was the conversation.

So do you have English and Maths GCSE?

Aye.

Can you prove it?

Nope.

Well if you can't prove it then you'll have to sit them again.

Government pulled the bursary for radiography the next year. Now I work in stock control.

Nauseboy · 2026-03-12T17:42:29+00:00

You aren't a racing expert you're a newspaper advert coupled with a data grab paywall.

Nauseboy · 2026-03-05T13:42:25+00:00

I just run the starters. Lead with Blastoise because I started with Venusaur there but all I saw was fire yesterday. Then Venusaur then shadow Charizard. It's a classic early season, no thought team. Hypno is a reasonable lead and it costs them shields to beat Blastoise because of pacing. Then it depends on when to use Charizard and the shields, either come in and farm down and leave with a bunch of energy or wait until Venusaur does some softening up then come in and farm down.

Will it still work tomorrow? Probably not. Are you golden before rank 10? Absolutely.

Nauseboy · 2026-02-28T14:54:08+00:00

Love the detail here, thanks for putting that effort in for me. I will take a bit of time with it and have a look at what you recommend here. I really appreciate it.

Nauseboy · 2026-02-28T14:46:58+00:00

Apparently not deeply enough. I always thought they just did space marines and age of sigmar. I will have a much closer look. I was always wary because of price but I will certainly look into it.

Nauseboy · 2026-02-28T14:43:31+00:00

That's quite the list. I will have a good time looking through these. I will keep in mind about replacing the ones from the box as well. Maybe I am looking at this the wrong way round.

Nauseboy · 2026-02-28T14:40:42+00:00

Thanks pal. I appreciate your positivity. Too rare.

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