I have done them with a deep or metallic purple base coat, topped by sponging
black over the top (with the most open sponge you can find). Gloss everything.
Heavily.
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> On 1 Mar 99, at 11:54, Robertson, Brendan wrote:
> I have done them with a deep or metallic purple base coat, topped by
Mine are a purple base with varying drybrush highlights (lots of green or
yellow + purple) going out to pure yellow/green at the spine tips.
Mottled with whichever of the two highlight colours I used least on the
particular model. With, agreed, a couple of layers of gloss varnish. They
actually look
errr... pretty gross. Which I suppose is the effect I would be after - I
wanted them to look organic. If you're going for the 'ancient alien stealth
spider' look I think yours would be pretty close.
New catalogue arrived this weekend (Ta jon!) containing the news that FB
2:
Aliens wouldn't be ready for Salute. I am desolate.
Can someone give me cost/date/location for Salute BTW? I may go anyway,
see what GZG's trade booth has to offer...
TTFN
Jon
> New catalogue arrived this weekend (Ta jon!) containing the
This is *really* bad news as its launch there has already been announced and
would be a major reason for going...
> Can someone give me cost/date/location for Salute BTW? I may
24 Apr 99: Salute '99. Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall, Hornton St, London
W8. Contact: John Merritt, Tel: 0181 301 4544 or Declan Canning, Tel: 0181 772
0099.
See latest UK-WG mags for prices (about 4.50 gbp IIRC) and getting an
early entry Q buster badge.
> New catalogue arrived this weekend (Ta jon!) containing the
Well, we'd actually said PLANNED for Salute launch..... in the end, the
schedule was simply too tight to do as good a job as we want to, so we've
taken what is hopefully the sensible decision of putting it back till it is
properly ready rather than rushing it out half-finished.
Trust me, there is still a LOT (from us and others) that will make Salute well
worth going to!
Jon (GZG)
> Can someone give me cost/date/location for Salute BTW? I may
> Well, we'd actually said PLANNED for Salute launch..... in the end, the
It actually said "to be launched at Salute 99" which I took to mean it was a
slam dunk (nearly print ready etc), but if thats not the case, no worries.
> taken what is hopefully the sensible decision of putting it
I'd agree with your rationale. Probably reason you are *so* busy these
days...
Its a lot to do.
> On 1 Mar 99, at 12:27, Tim Jones wrote:
> >taken what is hopefully the sensible decision of putting it
It's becoming an increasingly common thing in publishing (books, music, video
games, whatever) and it's something I wholeheartedly agree with -
"When is your new book/game/movie out then??"
"When it's finished. and not before."
Although some people (e.g. Stanley Kubrick) do rather take it to extremes.
TTFN
Jon