What's on your table right now?

[Bison]

It'd be interesting to sit in a room as the designers develop the color schemes used in some games.  There are just some really odd choices out there.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Well hopefully mine looks like it was from the 80's at the least.   

Well, to truly be from the 80s, it could use a few more white-faced-chick-with-black-spiky-hair art from Nagel around the edges.   (Seriously though, it looks very good.)




Eclipse has dice that are the colour of bits of candy corn.  (They look far worse in real life than they do here.)



And the status tracks are a horrid combo of pink, brown, and orange.

[Bison]

The dice well ok weird, but man is that tracker horrible looking.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Yup.  Fugly!  But the game itself is really good.

[GJK]

Ah yes, Nagel's.  A girl just had to know what was up when she went back to the apartment of a guy that she just met at the bar who had a bunch of Nagel's hanging on the wall!

[LongBlade]

Ah yes, Nagel's.  A girl just had to know what was up when she went back to the apartment of a guy that she just met at the bar who had a bunch of Nagel's hanging on the wall!

Truth in advertising. Those were the days!

[GJK]

By the way LB, what are you using for the water effects?  Is this some commercial off the shelf stuff or something that you mixed together?  I'd like to find something that could be used for adobe walls on miniature buildings and that looks like it could certainly be used for it.

[LongBlade]

By the way LB, what are you using for the water effects?  Is this some commercial off the shelf stuff or something that you mixed together?  I'd like to find something that could be used for adobe walls on miniature buildings and that looks like it could certainly be used for it.

The stuff I'm using is from Vallejo. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000PHBH1O

They do make a "still water" http://www.amazon.com/Vallejo-VJ26230-Still-Water-200ml/dp/B000PHBH14/ but honestly I don't know if it will meet your need. Yes, you can mix colors into the blue (so presumably clear, too) but the problem is the blue stuff really does shrink as it dries. So the still water might too. If you fill a mold with with the blue, it will lose about half of its volume after it dries.

There is another brand I see on Amazon but I've never used it and do not know if it works the same way or not. http://www.amazon.com/Vallejo-VJ26230-Still-Water-200ml/dp/B000PHBH14/

I have gone to hobby stores and found some stuff for making molds but haven't used them. (Like games, I tend to buy stuff for projects that never get done)

I'm sure there's something out there for you, and while I'd be happy to dig around for it unfortunately I can't give you a first hand report on how it works.

[LongBlade]

OK, I revisited this and added some more water effects. After letting it dry I added a few layers of dry brush to build up some of the white caps on the waves. Today is cloudy and I don't think the subtlety of the layers is showing through, but I think y'all will get the point. Sometimes with "art" you need to know when to stop adding paint, and I think I'm calling this one done.

[Barthheart]

That turned out really well. I'd never heard of the water effect material you used.
O0

[panzerde]

Came out looking really nice! Even a simple model can make a nice little diorama. Makes me long for my model building days, but I need another hobby like I need a colostomy.

[bayonetbrant]

but I need another hobby like I need a colostomy.

You need a colostomy?!?!

[LongBlade]

That turned out really well. I'd never heard of the water effect material you used.
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Thanks, guys.

I found it a few years ago at the Heat of Battle convention at the WWII Museum in New Orleans. One of those random finds that turns out to be a great idea.

[Bison]

2 1/2 hours playing King of Tokyo this afternoon.  The oldest loves it, the second kid doesn't like to attack unless it's me, and the wife was confused the entire time.  I found it to be a lot of simple and easy to understand fun.

[Jack Nastyface]

Just picked up Poor Bloody Infantry by Minden Games.  A very simple "experience" game that tries to capture "going over the top" and the devastation of No Man's Land in WWI.