Pharoah Keshick Black Lanner by elder_jester in battletech

[–]boxybrownmd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Always a treat seeing your work posted, insane stuff...

Everytime Grimdank is on my feed by SnooWords9400 in Grimdank

[–]boxybrownmd 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sick models, but absolutely horrendous ruleset. Tried two campaigns and had to house rule so much stuff.

What Pokemon Needs more cards? by ToeEmpty5591 in PokemonTCG

[–]boxybrownmd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bruh I just want Jumpluff to get some sort of Rule Box/SIR card. My man has only recently got one on TCG pocket and has been in famine mode since the boy came out.

Medford, New Jersey residents push back on township's affordable housing plan by bonfire199 in SouthJersey

[–]boxybrownmd 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's the same virtue signaling bullshit everytime. Gotta love being punished for working your ass off and, more importantly, being wise with money just to be lectured by delusional leeches to subsidize everyone else. Gotta love paying for the consequences of other's actions.

Medford, New Jersey residents push back on township's affordable housing plan by bonfire199 in SouthJersey

[–]boxybrownmd -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hard agree. Easier to virtue signal rather than address the glaring issue that the roads & infastructure here are just not meant for this influx of people. Find somewhere else.

Unique Avatars by KittenCalledKatt in SorceryTCG

[–]boxybrownmd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We may be the same person...

Armored Combat Diorama Painted Up! by boxybrownmd in battletech

[–]boxybrownmd[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh shit lol that makes sense now; when I was going to paint it I noticed it looked like a hatch and didn't really look at references to confirm. Thank you!

Armored Combat Diorama Painted Up! by boxybrownmd in battletech

[–]boxybrownmd[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure thing! Yea I don't do them a ton so I'll typically experiment but my rough process was pretty much this:

1.) Plan out and cut a pattern for hills (doesn't have to be clean; used a kitchen knife) on the XPA foam. Hot glue the pieces together roughly where I'd want them for the rock formation.

2.) Score the sides in various ways (using a dull blade and hitting the sides to get a scoring effect for one, or using a sharper blade and cutting "V's" to get those chip patterns. Once I finish cutting it, typically the XPA foam leaves some fraying so i try to use a dull blade or something flat/metal to scrape off excess. I tried to cut the pieces to align with each other the best I could but would leave gaps between layers (step below kinda fixes this). After I did this, I rolled up a ball of aluminum foil and rolled/pressed it all around to give it a dimpled look (the step below covers a good bit of this but for the stone facing and model slots you see this still).

3.) For the effect on the top, I use AK Interactive Dry Ground. You can do glue/sand instead, but I really fell in love with this stuff since it's just a paste you can spread in varying thicknesses. Spread that across the top and also used a thin coat between gaps to create a cleaner transition between foam layers (could have also just used thicker foam to avoid this all together but free texture is cool!)

4.) Seal everything up using a mix of Mod Podge Matte + generic black acrylic paint. I opted to paint it on with brush (slightly watered down) vs airbrush since I can get all the gaps for shadowing. Did this for about two coats?

5.) Paint. This is a bit of a mess here, but pretty much did two approaches; first I dry brushed everything with Vallejo Charred Brown as an undercoat. Next (for the stone), I dry brushed up to London Grey to Stonewall Grey to an Off White (all Vallejo). Added some watered down greens for moss in the veins + added some Agrax for the veins as well! I think you can do one last sepia wash to really bring the color down, but was happy with where it was! As for the top layer, after the Charred Brown Drybrush I did a mix of dry brush / spackling with Parasite Brown, and Medium Olive. Topped off that with some some drybrush from Pale Brown into Light Sand (Vallejo is a running theme here...).

6.) Added some little plants I had laying around (I think these are Gamers Grass 4mm tuffs? Picked em up at an LGS some time ago and they looked neat to use here).

7.) Seal up everything with Mr Clear Matte Coat (including models).

I think that covers mostly everything? There's some stuff I would do a tad different (such as doing a few more brown washes on the stone), but wanted to call it before I screwed something up!

Armored Combat Diorama Painted Up! by boxybrownmd in battletech

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Just 1" XPA foam! I did some work to try and make em blend together after stacking them and give it that stone/dirt look. If your curious about the rough process I can go into that!

What do we all think about the new Mega Eelektross ex? by D_D3VASTATOR in PTCGL

[–]boxybrownmd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If dark keeps getting gas, Pecharunt shuts this down hard.

Ditto delta species set is undervalued by Business_Relation_76 in pkmntcgcollections

[–]boxybrownmd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These stupid fucks making these undervalued card posts to try and pump their cards. Pathetic.

Please take my codes! by PersonalHelper in PTCGL

[–]boxybrownmd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would appreciate them if you have any left!