Pledge of the week is get an adventure ready for Achtung Cthulhu tomorrow and it’s almost done. I’ll finish work on the second adventure next week hopefully.

I bought a pack of acrylic paint pens from amazon. Total of 68 of them of £16.99 in a case.

Pleasantly surprised by the results. They won’t replace paints completely, but they’ve done an…[Read more]

I mostly forget I’ve got them to tell the truth

I feel that’s something that happens way to often in our hobby.  “Oh shiny, I need”. *buys* Weeks later “Oh shiny, I need!” *buys* And then come home to find out: already have it. Doh! XD Same with tools like the marker pens.

I picked up a half dozen of the AK Playmarkers ,Black , White , Wood , Leather , Steel & a German Camo Red Brown. I’ve used them on 28mm troops to paint belts and straps . Used the wood & steel on a few 28mm  rifles , the steel & black on a  PSC 15mm tank painting the track & rubber tires  with good result. IMO they work pretty good , just ne…[Read more]

The paint markers do appear to be interesting.
I’ve seen similar stuff in a dedicated art-shop.

Two things stand out as potential negatives :

– tip is too large for the kind of minis we use

– no refill ?

What’s the point of replacing the tips when you can’t refill the pen itself ?

Pledge: “do stuff”. I really am slacking. Need a “lake” for the Frostgrave game on the 4th September.

Answer; Haven’t tried yet. I am tempted to grab the Army Painter ones once they appear in my FLGS. So far Army Painter stuff hasn’t let me down really. So here is hoping they work well?

Music:

Anyone had any success with markers?

I will put that question into THE NEW THREAD!

[unofficial weekender] Paintpens!

Pledge updae: I finished my entry for the PaintComp and predictably did some dwarves.

Has anyone else ever gone back to somewhere meaningful and been left confused about how it makes them feel?

I went back to look a house that I grew up in and on another occasion went to look at the first house we owned when our kids were very little.  Both times…[Read more]

I got me some AK Real Colours paint markers for edge highlighting before I went away and they arrived yesterday (on my last day off work). I’ll be honest, they’re not as easy to use as I thought they would be!
I might just go back to edge highlighting with a brush.

Sure, they’re quicker – just wipe the tip along an edge and you’re done (coverage…[Read more]

calling this one done (as done as it’ll ever be)

not sure why my drybrushing on the rocks on the base appears like a solid grey colour in the photo – they’re much more defined in real life! (you’ll just have to take my word for it). In fact, maybe it’s my eyesight (shot after all these years of using crappy plastic magnifiers instead of proper…[Read more]