vtsaogames | 22 Apr 2014 5:52 p.m. PST |
The evil politician Frank Underwood portrayed by Kevin Spacey on House of Cards paints Civil War soldiers using a magnifying glass. So did the main character in 40 Year Old Virgin. I guess any portrayal is better than none. Any of you guys use that big magnifying thing to paint? People always assume I use one to paint 'anything that tiny'. |
Brian Smaller | 22 Apr 2014 5:59 p.m. PST |
I have one, but I found it incredibly annoying to use. |
John the OFM | 22 Apr 2014 6:03 p.m. PST |
MAGNIFYING GLASS? Oh, wait
. Magnifying glass? |
MAD MIKE | 22 Apr 2014 6:09 p.m. PST |
Never used to use magnification, but aging eyes have made it a necessity. Took a little getting used to but I use it for almost everything hobby related now. |
ming31 | 22 Apr 2014 6:16 p.m. PST |
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nnascati | 22 Apr 2014 6:17 p.m. PST |
Reading Glasses (3.25 magnificaton), and a good light. |
Extra Crispy | 22 Apr 2014 6:49 p.m. PST |
They also paint with terrible posture. I cup my hands and rest my elbows. Otherwise it's too hard to hold everything steady. |
jowady | 22 Apr 2014 7:09 p.m. PST |
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Privateer4hire | 22 Apr 2014 7:29 p.m. PST |
Bought a glass with a built-in stand about a month ago. Didn't want to get the visor but the stand alone magnification isn't doing what I need. Will wait till we're done with our move this month and possibly pick on up we've settled. sigh. |
cavcrazy | 22 Apr 2014 7:31 p.m. PST |
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lewis cannon | 22 Apr 2014 8:47 p.m. PST |
Have you ever seen the diorama at the Sentinel College? |
Grelber | 22 Apr 2014 9:27 p.m. PST |
I have an Optivisor, but I don't use it that often. I never use the magnifying glass/light combo I bought. I take off my glasses to paint because I usually paint closer than I can focus with them on. In the movie Groundhog Day, Bill Murray points out one of the townsfolk he has come to know and says the guy paints toy soldiers and he is gay. Grelber |
UpperCanada | 22 Apr 2014 9:55 p.m. PST |
Doesn't Joubert (Max von Sydow) in Three Days of The Condor paint miniatures between hits? |
Texas Jack | 23 Apr 2014 2:27 a.m. PST |
About four years ago my wife, of all people, bought me a magnifying glass with a built in lamp, like the one in 40 Year Old Virgin. Due to my aging eyes it was a much needed addition, and there is no way I could paint without it now. |
Joes Shop | 23 Apr 2014 5:23 a.m. PST |
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Frederick | 23 Apr 2014 7:25 a.m. PST |
No so far – down to and including 6mm Is Frank Underwood evil? I thought that was sort of par for the course |
dBerczerk | 23 Apr 2014 8:00 a.m. PST |
Higgins, the acerbic caretaker of the Robin Masters' estate on "Magnum P.I." painted MINIFIG 25mm French Old Guard Grenadiers in at least one episode I remember. |
Dye4minis | 23 Apr 2014 9:00 a.m. PST |
Higgins is a spitting image of Mr. David Higgs
.of Minifigs! Makes one wonder
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x42brown | 23 Apr 2014 9:38 a.m. PST |
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leidang | 23 Apr 2014 12:50 p.m. PST |
I have an optivisor but I use it more for sculpting than painting. |
vtsaogames | 23 Apr 2014 1:28 p.m. PST |
Is Frank Underwood evil? The plotting and back-biting is par for the course. The murder isn't. Really. Whenever these guys get caught at white-collar crime they sing like canaries and implicate their cohorts left and right. |
Supercilius Maximus | 15 May 2014 2:15 p.m. PST |
Interesting to see how wargamers are portrayed in American film/TV drama – clearly there is a perception of them being "not quite right" (although Wesley Snipes in that White House murder mystery had something going on in his living room with ACW figures, IIRC). I actually have a bit of a "thing" about how wargamers are portrayed in British films and television – the scripts of which are overwhelmingly the preserve of the politically left-of-centre (and I mean REAL lefties here, not the slightly more liberal wing of the Democratic Party). Typically, British wargamers are depicted as boring, petty, an*lly retentive, sexually dysfunctional (if they do have a partner, she'll be sh*gg*ng someone else out of boredom), and invariably far right politically – which is ironic as about half the gamers I know read The Guardian. Yet, strangely, never fat or smelly. |
OSchmidt | 16 May 2014 9:28 a.m. PST |
I cringe whenever ANYONE brings war games into ANY public media production. It NEVER ends well for us. Even when they're covering something like Historicon or a big convention the result is never a plus. It always winds up as a "tee-hee-- look at the geeks! Now listen up to what I'm going to tell you because I was a reporter for a major metropolitan newspaper through the 60's and 70's and my wife an editor in papers from the 70's to 2009. Ready?? TO REPORTERS WETHER PRINT, RADIO, TELEVISION, OR INTERNET, WARGAMERS ARE IN THE SAME CATEGORY AS THE FAT LADY AND JO-JO THE DOG FACED BOY!-- CARNIVAL SIDE-SHOW FREAKS. Oh they're very nice to your face, and quite understanding and excited, but my wife told me stories of what they said about a local LARP group gamers among themselves. Back in the 60's and 70's we were all portrayed as psychotically unbalanced war mongers who any moment were going to bag up their guns and find a tower somewhere. I suppose Jo-Jo the Dog faced boy is better than that, but I really don't see it as an improvement. You have basically a hostile entity reporting on something they have almost complete contempt for to a public who is little better and not interested by going out and hanging around with Jo-Jo and the fat lady. My wife got the job of editing one of these stories and did a nice job, selecting pictures of the game and some of the better looking gamers. The Editor in chief pulled the pictures and told her to "use the pictures of the big fat slobs." The media is not your friend. Remember that. |
Etranger | 17 May 2014 6:44 a.m. PST |
SM – Callan was the exception that perhaps proves the rule. His mate Lonely was reminiscent of the stereotypical gamer though
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Supercilius Maximus | 18 May 2014 10:58 a.m. PST |
Yes, Lonely was the ultimate soap-dodger that we've all been trapped behind at the B&B stall, wasn't he. That said, Callan was a killer with mental issues (and no wife/girlfriend, IIRC), so perhaps not such an exception – more a prototype maybe? |