What's the one item on your painting desk which you come back to over and over again? A handy pair of clippers, a little stirring stick, or an old plastic tub for holding stuff?
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Scalpel, 10a blade, number 2 & number 00 brush, super glue, bottom half of a tub of aftereight mint sticks with all my brushes in, ipod! :-\
God that's a tricky one :-\. Given that model making is my trade as it were, I have so many indispensable tools, but the one constant on my painting table is an old saucer that I use for mixing paint on etc.
Miniature curved needle-nosed pliers - ideal for straightening out bent bases and other small parts. With their associated miniature side-cutting snips for cleaning off casting debris.
The major one I dont have - MONEY :'( :'(
IanS
(and just a minor Shout :d :d)
Self made mini 'dental tools'.....Swann Morton eye surgery scalpel blades + handle....Wax carver five....Colour shapers.....Green Stuff/ Pro Create/ Magic Sculp....Blah, blah, blah.... (:|
But the one particular item I'd be completely lost without...whether for making the wee chaps, or trying to paint them, would be my Optivisor.
Cheers - Phil. (Please sir, Ian's being loud again !) ;)
Yep optivisor for me
The one dental tool/sculpting tool I possess.
Optivisor! Me too! I wouldn't be able to get a paint brush near a figure without one and a couple of trays or desk tidy 'things' to house all the paints, brushes, glues etc
The main 3 are scalpel, needle file and super glue. I only discovered needle files a few years ago and they make life so much easier.
A good light is very important - took some figures away with me last holiday, and couldn't paint them as all the lights in the holiday cottage were very low energy.
Great question...mine would have to be:
- my painting station / board: portable and solid: made from at least 50p's worth of offcuts from B&Q + 10p's worth of No Nails c.2000 8)
- CDs - my preferred mixing palette: free & easily stored - and labelled for future reference
- my hardback booky-wook: for notes as I go or referring to research
- laptop / netbook / tablet: for 'live' research / music / video / totty inspiration
Oh - and some knives & brushes & stuff :d
Army Painter: Gives character to my simple block colour painting
Good variety of flock for basing as probably spend as much time doing the bases as the figures
Bernie
Hmm...good question.
Actually i don't have anything like that. The 'tools' seem to get used up fairly often, or are entirely functional.
I suppose i do have a small purple plastic cup that i use for brush water. It came out of a camping canteen set from my feral days back in the 1990's.
The metal spatula I never returned to science class when I left school. Lost my 10p deposit 30 years ago. Great for opening Humbrol tins, stirring paint and basetex :)
Another vote for Optivisor.
Chad
The password for my paypal account! =)
Nik Harwood and his posse
tape measure
For me it's that thing that I can't find when I need it most. It always turns up tomorrow.
Quote from: robert on 24 April 2012, 10:52:00 AM
Nik Harwood and his posse
Hahaha - just spotted this :D
Quote from: Dave Fielder on 22 May 2012, 10:28:45 PM
For me it's that thing that I can't find when I need it most. It always turns up tomorrow.
Ah, the Book of Cyril, all life is there. :D
Definately my GF9 fileset. Followed by my bookmarked assortment of wargaming websites :D
my Optivisor - with one blind eye, and the other being a bit crap, I couldn't paint without it.
I was going to say my girlfriend, or rather her patience & munificence, for letting me have the 2nd largest room in the house as my gaming/painting lair, but I don't think she'd see "useful hobby item" as an accolade in the same way that I might..
Another vote for the dear old Optivisor....Huzzah !!
Cheers - Phil.