Waste of £7.50

[Ron Tamburrini]

Hi guys

In a momentary lapse of reason I bought a figure mag today .
"International Figure"
Nothing wrong with the mag, just nowt in it for me ,is there no oil painters writing stuff anymore.

I really do get fed up reading about paint mixes in percentages, washes ,filters and so on .
I have no bloody idea the difference between a wash and a filter and why the use of Chaos black
for a base considering how thick the stuff is and off course it's tendency to dry with a mild sheen
and if you have a flub up "have you ever tried to get the stuff off.

Won't be buying any more mags thats for sure

mini rant over

Ron

 

[Rich Sculpts]

Hi guys

In a momentary lapse of reason I bought a figure mag today .
"International Figure"
Nothing wrong with the mag, just nowt in it for me ,is there no oil painters writing stuff anymore.

I really do get fed up reading about paint mixes in percentages, washes ,filters and so on .
I have no bloody idea the difference between a wash and a filter and why the use of Chaos black
for a base considering how thick the stuff is and off course it's tendency to dry with a mild sheen
and if you have a flub up "have you ever tried to get the stuff off.

Won't be buying any more mags thats for sure

mini rant over

Ron

What in the blue blazes is "chaos black"?

Is there cosmos white to balance it out?

So many questions - may add a few more ????????

 

[megroot]

Isn't that the same with all the magazine's these days. I gave up Figurine International after number 12, because it whas all Andrea and Acrylic.
I like Scale Modelling Handbook but it's because the pictures are great and there is some information in it that can help with my further painting and basework.
On the other hand it is very acrylic.
So from a member of our club I got some old Figurine's (French) and I cannot read French but that is still one of the best magazine's today. It has oilpainted, acrylic painted, figure news, show report and uniform articles. Yes alot of Napoleontic's but you can turn the pages over if you don't want to read it.
But what a great magazine. Unfortunally no English.
So my hope is that the Scale Modelling Handbook magazine will turn slowly to a English magazine with the example of the Figurine magazine.
I Hope it is readble.

Marc

 

[Ron Tamburrini]

Mark the f

Isn't that the same with all the magazine's these days. I gave up Figurine International after number 12, because it whas all Andrea and Acrylic.
I like Scale Modelling Handbook but it's because the pictures are great and there is some information in it that can help with my further painting and basework.
On the other hand it is very acrylic.
So from a member of our club I got some old Figurine's (French) and I cannot read French but that is still one of the best magazine's today. It has oilpainted, acrylic painted, figure news, show report and uniform articles. Yes alot of Napoleontic's but you can turn the pages over if you don't want to read it.
But what a great magazine. Unfortunally no English.
So my hope is that the Scale Modelling Handbook magazine will turn slowly to a English magazine with the example of the Figurine magazine.
I Hope it is readble.

Marc

Marc French magazine is excellent and the the modellers in France have always been big on oils, but it will never be in English, there is just no need, and i am sure you know they only eat French food
and have no great fondness for us lot over here Scots excepted that is everybody loves us

 

[kagemusha]

Don't know if this will make you feel any better Ron T, but I have been asked to write a couple of articles for a new mag.
It will be about my technique, which you have already seen, but I have refined it so you may find some things of interest for you in them.

Ron

 

[Ron Tamburrini]

Don't know if this will make you feel any better Ron T, but I have been asked to write a couple of articles for a new mag.
It will be about my technique, which you have already seen, but I have refined it so you may find some things of interest for you in them.

Ron

Do I need to by the Mag

 

[kagemusha]

Spoken like a true Scot

 

[Ron Tamburrini]

Spoken like a true Scot

Well we have some guys from Yorkshire "Barnsley" working with us and they would even give the Aberdonians a run for there money " sorry Gells "

 

[billyturnip]

 

[kagemusha]

LOL

 

[Helm]

Isn't Yorkenshire part of Scotland anyway?
Steve

 

[Ron Tamburrini]

Isn't Yorkenshire part of Scotland anyway?
Steve

I thought it was part of Wales

feck it let's just get into everyone tonight

 

[Ron Tamburrini]

Sorry Roger I meant south Yorkshire

 

[billyturnip]

Sorry Roger I meant south Yorkshire

That's better Ron, we're not like that in North Yorkshire.

Roger.

 

[Tubby-Nuts2]

Isn't Yorkenshire part of Scotland anyway?
Steve

Grrrrrrrrr! .. &. 20 x, other assorted, Grrrrrrr's! ... !

Mark

 

[Tubby-Nuts2]

What in the blue blazes is "chaos black"?

Is there cosmos white to balance it out?

So many questions - may add a few more ????????

Citadel primers! ... chaos black, and skull-white! ... I like the cosmos idea! ... perhaps it would be a finer spray!

Mark

 

[Mark S]

I sometimes buy figure mags ..depending on who's around at the time.
I mostly really like the models... ..and sometimes I read the classifieds..

 

[JonP]

Back in the mists of time I wrote a few figure build and paint articles for a monthly modelling publication and initialy I was allowed to give a bit of historical background and some techniques. As I used oils I used to mention the base colours in the text and then say which other colours I added for shadows and highlights. After a time I was asked to drop the historical background as it was a modelling mag not a history book and then I was asked if I could produce colour charts for the paints I'd used! I tried to expalin it was an art not a science and I mixed the colours 'til they looked right and that was part of the fun which seemd to fall on deaf ears! I stopped writing as it all be came to formulaic and then they pretty much dropped figures from the mag; bit of a shame really!

 

[Rich Sculpts]

I sometimes buy figure mags ..depending on who's around at the time.
I mostly really like the models... ..and sometimes I read the classifieds..

I would call that legitimate research of skin tones at least thats my excuse

 

[Tubby-Nuts2]

I sometimes buy figure mags ..depending on who's around at the time.
I mostly really like the models... ..and sometimes I read the classifieds..

Mark S, . I am not sure about your choice of reading material.. .. ... .its just that the 'Couch', colour .. is so wrong! ..

Mark.