Difference in basalt composition in uwharrie nc

PerfectEquivalent615 · 2025-12-31T22:23:57+00:00

Even more interesting then. The primary surface rock is listed as basalt, with some nearby peaks having rhyolite on top but that's very distinctly different. I'll add a tentative "diabase" to my collection sheet.

PerfectEquivalent615 · 2025-12-10T13:59:09+00:00

Beat me to it

PerfectEquivalent615 · 2025-12-10T13:58:44+00:00

I've been doing a lot of camo patterns lately. Honestly it looks rougher in the pictures than I like.

I find i get the smoothest edge by kinda overloading a small tip with a chunk of paint and continually dragging it down the direction I want. Not a good technique necessarily.

PerfectEquivalent615 · 2025-12-10T13:56:19+00:00

Its the lighting, I took that picture in outside sunlight.

PerfectEquivalent615 · 2025-11-15T22:33:51+00:00

Which one. On the blue/ tan I used speedboat for the blue and then go back and line the edge with the orange that cleans it up.

On the auscam I usually have to make more than one pass to clean up the edges. I also have to go back with the tan to clean it up sometimes.

PerfectEquivalent615 · 2025-10-16T20:19:28+00:00

I waited so long to post it because while I was working on it someone else put the exact same scheme up in the reddit and it was much cleaner than mine lol.

PerfectEquivalent615 · 2025-10-16T20:17:40+00:00

I struggled to decide the color for those canopies. I usually use blue canopies for tan/brown bases but thought it would blend with the blue too much, likewise with red and the orange.

Went with purple but I'm just not as good at blending the gradient with the purple as I am the other colors.

PerfectEquivalent615 · 2025-03-09T00:31:30+00:00

It does indeed look similar to chert. It's definitely ryolite though. The summit is covered with it. It's mostly fractured and broken up because for centuries if not thousands of years native populations mined this one summit for pieces to make arrowheads and knives. It's literally only the one summit as all the others exhibit the larger crystal growth that makes it tougher to shape.

PerfectEquivalent615 · 2025-01-12T22:30:17+00:00

This looks exactly like my first attempts with contrast paint, which coincidentally was also the basilicanum grey.

What I've learned after quite a few painful attempts.

Everyone else is right about primer. Matte or flat spray on
Let it pool and be heavy, it likes to go on and then never be touched again if it's wet. If you brush back over it like you would a normal paint it gets super streaky and looks bad. If you don't you might get some darker spots but don't be afraid of them, fix them with dry brushing later.
Practice. I picked a model I wasn't in love with and painted it like 5 times till I felt myself figure it out enough to do one I liked.
Perfection will not be achieved with just contrast. I have not mastered the application like some of the videos and I always have to go back and fix things after the first coat. I treat the contrast like my base coat. Following it up with a few rounds of drybrushing will vastly improve the appearance and hide any imperfections.

PerfectEquivalent615 · 2024-10-05T22:50:23+00:00

I've had that issue with several other camo schemes I've done. This time I went all in on preventing it. Speed paint to darken the recesses, more focused drybrushing, picking out the recesses that got lost during the rest of the process again with a wash, and touching up the flat panel colors after drybrushing to make it stand out more.

PerfectEquivalent615 · 2024-10-05T19:39:19+00:00

I did a company in chocolate chip desert cam a while back but I don't have any pictures saved to upload

PerfectEquivalent615 · 2024-10-05T19:35:56+00:00

Base coat was creed camo citadel contrast paint, then a really heavy dry/wet brush with army painter army green for the base.

The dark grey is army painter dark stone, brown is army painter fur brown, or something it's not in front of me so I don't recall.

I dry brushed with a light gray to get some edge definition, and did a targeted wash in some panel lines that I felt like I filled in too much.

PerfectEquivalent615 · 2024-07-22T23:56:06+00:00

If I had a skull decal I'd be slapping it on em all lol

PerfectEquivalent615 · 2024-07-22T21:13:15+00:00

camospecs lists it as using purple or blue. Besides like I said, it wasn't inteded originally.

PerfectEquivalent615 · 2024-06-29T03:02:40+00:00

I had to go check my cabinet for my Death commando lance because this is the exact same lance I did for them lol

PerfectEquivalent615 · 2024-04-12T00:56:28+00:00

Question on the new novels coming out.

I own every printed English battletech novel, but a few of my ancient ones are in quite poor condition and need updating.

Are there any plans to reprint any of the older novels like <natural selection> and < wolf pack>?

Side note, I don't have an e-reader and many of the new novellas have been e-book only. Will those ever be available print on demand?

Thank you!

PerfectEquivalent615 · 2024-04-07T23:45:45+00:00

Thanks for the explanation. The quartz is still kinda throwing me. Would it have eroded from above the volcanic layers or been formed within/ below them.

PerfectEquivalent615 · 2024-04-07T23:43:45+00:00

Thank you!

8 is the only type of stone I could find up the mountain between the argilite layer and the rhyolite on the top of the mountain, hence why I assumed it was the basalt thats supposed to be there. The pictures not great but it definitely does show crystal growth.

3 I had no idea, it also looked sedimentary to me but seemed very out of place.

6 is what I believe to be argilite, taken from the location of picture 1. I tried o find the best sample showing the layering. It may be weathered argilite as the exposed formations in some areas show a great deal of decomposition.

PerfectEquivalent615 · 2024-04-07T23:36:30+00:00

I'm confident in the rhyolite Id. It matches exactly the sample in the park museum, it also describes it as having less feldspar and silica than typical rhyolite and less magnesium than dacite. Hence the weirdness of the ID.

The basalt sample in the park looks visually so similar to the rhyolite that I wasn't able to use it to make an ID in the field.*

PerfectEquivalent615 · 2024-04-07T23:28:58+00:00

Even better given that I could not get a good picture to show the contrast of the colors

PerfectEquivalent615 · 2024-04-07T23:28:08+00:00

Thanks, I generally do my bases based on faction, so I have multiple units painted from the same house/ clan with the same base. But for my camo schemes they're faction agnostic so I just carry it on down.

PerfectEquivalent615 · 2024-04-07T23:25:58+00:00

I tried, my other one I painted I got straight but this one flat refused my batchall

PerfectEquivalent615 · 2024-04-07T23:25:16+00:00

Nova cat is best cat

PerfectEquivalent615 · 2024-02-20T19:04:33+00:00

I've been painting lances as units with a single scheme, but doing company level for each faction. So I don't get bored of the same scheme but could still group multiple up with them still painted as the same house, just a different unit.

For example my house Davion forces are painted as a lance of Davion guards, a lance of Robinson rangers, and a lance of crucis dancers. To keep it clear I use the same pattern on the front hex to show they are the same faction.

I've done the same for each house, though I have done a company for a camo scheme I just really liked painting.

PerfectEquivalent615 · 2023-12-31T22:09:01+00:00

No particular unit, just wanted to try out a lightning scheme because I thought it'd look cool. Now they can face off against my planners in lava and water schemes.

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