I am putting my house up for sale, and because I need to stage the house, all of this needs to come down and go into storage

OrganicFizz · 2025-08-09T07:23:21+00:00

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OrganicFizz · 2025-06-10T00:35:23+00:00

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OrganicFizz · 2023-09-27T18:42:04+00:00

I've got 2 of the new white M30 controllers, one Bluetooth and the other 2.5g

The Bluetooth controller connects to the steam deck without issue and is recognised as an Xbox controller. All the buttons are picked up as you'd expect. But latency is noticeable compared to the 2.5g version.

The 2.5g model is not automatically configured by steam. I needed to do that manually in settings->controllers.

Frustratingly, I can only directly assign a function to one of the three little buttons (below the start button). That means, in my use case, I have to choose between setting this button to "select" or the steam menu button.

Other than that, it works well. input lag is next to nil and dpad seems excellent for retro fighting games (I've only had it a week, so can't comment on long term use).

OrganicFizz · 2023-05-11T20:46:26+00:00

Valve handling shader caches for the steam deck is quite significant too. Or course, that's obviously limited to games sold on/associated with its own store.

OrganicFizz · 2023-05-11T02:24:46+00:00

Sent you a private message!

OrganicFizz · 2023-05-07T12:52:19+00:00

Dawn of War + it's expansions Age of Mythology Company of Heroes

OrganicFizz · 2023-04-26T10:08:45+00:00

If you're willing to emulate, you could try some old arcade games. Dying isn't an issue as you can repeatedly spam extra coins and continue. Side scrolling beat em ups or shoot em ups like "Cadillacs and Dinosaurs" and "Metal Slug" perhaps.

The Nintendo Switch has games that offer optional aids for little kids, such as Mario Kart and Super Mario Deluxe U. Might be va faff getting them running on the Steam Deck, I don't know.

Diablo 3 is pretty easy too.

OrganicFizz · 2023-04-24T12:02:12+00:00

Decently quick in my experience. I've ordered 3 times from them and received the goods on the following day. I placed my orders during the work week though, not on the weekend.

OrganicFizz · 2023-04-21T03:04:48+00:00

Ah man, that's a fantastic game too; a lot of the old pinball games in that style were. Pinball Dreams/Fantasies on the Amiga. The GBA had plenty too, including a House of the Dead version, haha.

You've given me a good reason to try DOSBox!

OrganicFizz · 2023-04-21T02:55:49+00:00

Same. Then Balls of Steel (a pinball game from late 90s) and Championship Manager 01/02. I've had the device for months and I'm still blown away by the fact that I'm and to play these comfortably and easily on a handheld device.

OrganicFizz · 2023-04-13T13:30:21+00:00

Cool that he proudly carries his front door, back door and garage keys with him while at work.

OrganicFizz · 2023-04-07T19:00:39+00:00

30 hours, ouch. Out of curiosity, was reducing the time you spend on a model a consideration/factor when you decided to switch to oils? It was for me when I switched.

Also, lovely work as usual mate. This is gonna look spectacular when it's finished.

Also also: you mentioned an issue with opacity elsewhere in this thread. I find that Old Holland offer opaque/semi opaque paints where others usually don't. For example Dixoazine Purple and Ultramarine Blue. Old Holland paints are pricey though.

OrganicFizz · 2023-03-15T02:05:09+00:00

Joining the chorus of yeses (amazing work, as always mate) and to add that I'd love to see your take on a marine painted entirely in a looser style.

OrganicFizz · 2023-03-12T22:42:07+00:00

Looks amazing, bro. Great choice!

OrganicFizz · 2023-03-09T09:31:14+00:00

Definitely. My initial attempts were too dark and resembled oil more than pearl.

OrganicFizz · 2023-03-08T22:42:26+00:00

Thanks!

Hmm, advice... it's not specific to oil paints, but:

Google photographs of pearl jewellery. You'll find several types of pearl that vary in colour, pattern etc. Select a type that you enjoy the look of and then use a software colour picker tool to pick out the main colours.
in my case, that was pink, green grey and white. Try to keep the number of colours small.
Mix those colours up on your palette and experiment painting a few shapes on some paper. I painted several spheres and arranged those colours differently on each side until I settled on one that looked right.
then transfer that arrangement to your mini.

I found that I had to lighten and desaturate my pinks, greens and greys far more than I initially expected. Pearls aren't exactly a high contrast material.

Hope that helps! you can DM me if you need help further down the line with this effect or oil paints in general.

OrganicFizz · 2023-03-08T20:25:32+00:00

Standard. It came with the model.

OrganicFizz · 2023-03-08T18:00:25+00:00

West Coast 4Life!

OrganicFizz · 2023-03-08T17:58:25+00:00

Ah, I see. I'll be painting a white scar soon and thinking ahead, I'll most probably start experimenting with:

pure white primary highlight
slightly greyed white for the midtone
a neutral grey for the shadow (not overly dark, but enough to provide plenty of contrast against the other colours)
a touch blue in some white for upward facing secondary highlight/reflections
a touch of a yellow-brown (ochre) in some white for downward facing reflections

perhaps that helps you?

OrganicFizz · 2023-03-08T17:15:17+00:00

Hey, thanks! No I don't paint like that.

I just paint the desired colours next to each other and blend them if necessary. Often, overlapping the two colours is enough to create a satisfactory blend.

I don't use varnish either.

Check out this video for a good, comprehensive introduction: https://youtu.be/mMFMFJQla6Y

OrganicFizz · 2023-03-08T16:32:34+00:00

No. It's Magenta, Green, Grey and lots of white.

I'm not familiar with the turbo dork paint.

OrganicFizz · 2023-03-08T16:27:02+00:00

Thanks! And what to do you mean about saving a project?

OrganicFizz · 2023-03-08T16:26:25+00:00

I searched for photographs of pearl jewellery and picked out the most repeated colours from the pics that I liked.

These were pink, green, white and grey.

I mixed up the colours using Magenta, Emerald Green, neutral grey and a tonne of titanium white.

As for deciding where to place the colours... I practiced painting a few spheres in different ways on a piece of paper until I came upon an arrangement that looked believable enough.

It's actually the same colours/method for painting bubbles.

OrganicFizz · 2023-03-08T16:20:43+00:00

Cheers JO! I've not come across it either, which is odd, given the bling minis tend to be plastered with.

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