| Smokey Roan | 20 May 2012 4:16 p.m. PST |
Now that my Orks are painted up (not based, mind you, just painted :O ) I started work on: Ork Fort (20% completed) 2 Looted Razorbacks (40% and 20% completed, respectively) Ork Fighta Bomber (still in box) Ork Stompa Gigant (bunch of bitz and scrap Plastruct in an El Producto Cigar Box) And then it hit me. The Orks are the lowest form of life in the 40k Universe (besides tyranids, and they are about to replace them). In order to build lots of Ork stuff quickly and well, I have to think like an Ork, and whenever possible, look like an Ork. So I traded my ruler for a 12 pack of beer (it's not fungus beer, but close, its Pabst Blue Ribbon), my exacto knife for a pair of needlenose pliers, and my pion vise and dremel for…well, I need my pin vise and dremel, but you get the point. Don't measure, don't plan, just build, in a "jovially imprecise" manner! Seriously. The stuff looks better, and I can build it while drunk, on the living room floor, watching the Heat game! That's the system, baby! |
| darthfozzywig | 20 May 2012 4:48 p.m. PST |
It's become more of a LARP. Seems sound. :) |
| Weasel | 20 May 2012 4:58 p.m. PST |
Now that's what I call dedication to your choice of army. |
 Murphy  | 20 May 2012 6:33 p.m. PST |
this can only end in tears…. |
| Coyotepunc and Hatshepsuut | 20 May 2012 7:09 p.m. PST |
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 miniMo  | 20 May 2012 7:11 p.m. PST |
If you're going to go working-class retro chic on your beer, don't drink PBR. Get Carling Black Label -- now that's a nice malt tonic with flavour :3 |
| dglennjr | 20 May 2012 7:40 p.m. PST |
If there's no pics, they don't exist! |
| 53Punisher | 20 May 2012 8:05 p.m. PST |
Yeah, buddy! That's how I do it too, no better method on the planet. |
 War Artisan | 20 May 2012 8:56 p.m. PST |
PeeBeeArrr is not beer. It is a beer-flavored malt beverage. |
| Anton Ryzbak | 20 May 2012 9:10 p.m. PST |
My method exactly, well I substitute a bottle of Port for the PBR, and I watch old war movies instead of the Heat game, and I am at my workbench…….OK , my method isn't very much like yours except that I refuse to measure anything. Sounds like a great plan though! |
| Steve64 | 20 May 2012 10:53 p.m. PST |
Beer + Powertools = Productivity. |
| kreoseus2 | 21 May 2012 1:57 a.m. PST |
Beer + Powertools , see you on youtube soon, smokey :) |
| tberry7403 | 21 May 2012 4:03 a.m. PST |
After you get out of the hospital. |
| Cherno | 21 May 2012 4:47 a.m. PST |
I'd love to read an article on "Painting under the influence", with plenty of pictures. Who knows, maybe some people actually paint better if drunk or stoned. |
| Lion in the Stars | 21 May 2012 5:22 a.m. PST |
Oddly enough, my ability to paint straight lines improves after a beer. But life is *far* too short to drink imitation beer-flavored products like pee-bee-are. |
| Smokey Roan | 21 May 2012 7:26 a.m. PST |
I'm white trash, and I'm in trouble. :) |
| richarDISNEY | 21 May 2012 7:42 a.m. PST |
Nailed it.
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| nvdoyle | 21 May 2012 9:39 a.m. PST |
I'm white trash, and I'm in trouble. Wasn't that the 'elevator pitch' for Cops?  |
| Murphy | 21 May 2012 2:02 p.m. PST |
Smokeys new phrase… "Hey y'all hold mah beer and watch this!"… |
| Smokey Roan | 21 May 2012 2:07 p.m. PST |
LOL Murphy and nvdole! :) |
| palaeoemrus | 21 May 2012 2:43 p.m. PST |
I dunno, 12 beers + hobby knife sounds like a tragedy waiting to happen. Don't "Frodo" yourself. |
| Anton Ryzbak | 21 May 2012 3:09 p.m. PST |
I shy away from using anything with more of a blade than an Xacto #11 after a few drinks. Heck, I can hurt myself when I'm stone-cold-sober, I would end up an amputee (or worse) if I tried powertools after a few. |
| tberry7403 | 21 May 2012 3:49 p.m. PST |
I dunno, 12 beers + hobby knife sounds like a tragedy waiting to happen. Don't "Frodo" yourself. Don't "Bobbitt" yourself.  Tim |
| Russell120120 | 21 May 2012 5:06 p.m. PST |
Hmm, I have some 20mm apocalyptic bikers. Sounds like a winning technique. |
| Lion in the Stars | 21 May 2012 9:04 p.m. PST |
I dunno, 12 beers + hobby knife sounds like a tragedy waiting to happen. Don't "Frodo" yourself. Frack, 2 beers and a hobby knife is a recipe for some nasty scars! Fortunately, superglue makes an excellent emergency-suture. I think the building while slightly intoxicated idea is how 'Krooza' and a friend of mine both build their orky shenanigans. |
| Condottiere | 22 May 2012 7:24 p.m. PST |
…12 beers + hobby knife sounds like a tragedy waiting to happen. A Geek Tragedy? |
| palaeoemrus | 22 May 2012 9:04 p.m. PST |
I imagine a chorus of twelve old men (one for each beer) calling on the modeler to put aside vain hubris and pursue youthful morpheus to recover his wits before reaching out a drunkard's hand to rudely clasp deceitful clippers and treacherous blades that lust to work their bloody woe upon any careless fools that would in pride and foolishness seek to sacrilegiously presume do the work of Hephaestos while in thrall to bakkheia. |
| Erasmus Philomel | 23 May 2012 4:09 a.m. PST |
palaeoemrus, Such erudtion! I am impressed. And well put to boot! Right Proper, Old Man. |
| Smokey Roan | 23 May 2012 2:36 p.m. PST |
Very good job there, Condo and palaeo |
| palaeoemrus | 23 May 2012 11:09 p.m. PST |
Smokeyroan, Please be safe. Keep the tendons on the inside of the hand at all times. Don't become one a de stumpy boyz. |
| PiersBrand | 24 May 2012 7:21 a.m. PST |
Who knows, maybe some people actually paint better if drunk or stoned. I had a flatmate who reguarly did his hobby stuff while on narcotics. He did some amazing stuff but only managed five models a year… |
| Chris Kemp | 30 May 2012 3:55 p.m. PST |
"I shy away from using anything with more of a blade than an Xacto #11 after a few drinks. ". "Frack, 2 beers and a hobby knife is a recipe for some nasty scars! Fortunately, superglue makes an excellent emergency-suture." I feel duty-bound to point out that for anyone with diabetes, the safer option is to visit your local surgery, and that this is merely my opinion, not medical advice. Life would be so dull without beer and scalpels. :O) |
ponders the woes of a heavy base.
