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This might be common knowledge, but I just figured it out, so I thought I'd
throw it out there in case it's helpful for anyone else. A friend of mine
suggested temporarily mounting old 35mm film canisters to the bases of my
minis to make it easier to move them around while painting without sticking
one's fingers in the wet paint. The problem with this otherwise brilliant
idea was that I could only round up 4 or 5 of them here in the house. Well,
today I was in the camera store buying a memory card for my digital camera,
and I thought I'd ask if they had any of the old 35mm canisters laying
around. The salesman went to a supply closet and handed me a grocery bag
full of them for free - more than enough for my painting needs, with a hell
of a lot left over, possibly to acheive a new life as terrain features. I'm
not sure quite how many it was, but conservative estimates put it at "an
assload," and the salesman said they'd have that many again in about two or
three days.
Now for all I know, everyone else on RGMW has already done this ten or
eleven times and has a closet filled with these little bastards, but
hopefully this is useful news to at least one person. Like I said, it had
never occurred to me until today.
--
Ken Coble
Will you still have a song to sing
When the razor boy comes
And takes your fancy things away?
Will you still be singing it
On that cold and windy day?
--Steely Dan, "Razor Boy"
This might be common knowledge, but I just figured it out, so I thought I'd
throw it out there in case it's helpful for anyone else. A friend of mine
suggested temporarily mounting old 35mm film canisters to the bases of my
minis to make it easier to move them around while painting without sticking
one's fingers in the wet paint. The problem with this otherwise brilliant
idea was that I could only round up 4 or 5 of them here in the house. Well,
today I was in the camera store buying a memory card for my digital camera,
and I thought I'd ask if they had any of the old 35mm canisters laying
around. The salesman went to a supply closet and handed me a grocery bag
full of them for free - more than enough for my painting needs, with a hell
of a lot left over, possibly to acheive a new life as terrain features. I'm
not sure quite how many it was, but conservative estimates put it at "an
assload," and the salesman said they'd have that many again in about two or
three days.
Now for all I know, everyone else on RGMW has already done this ten or
eleven times and has a closet filled with these little bastards, but
hopefully this is useful news to at least one person. Like I said, it had
never occurred to me until today.
--
Ken Coble
Will you still have a song to sing
When the razor boy comes
And takes your fancy things away?
Will you still be singing it
On that cold and windy day?
--Steely Dan, "Razor Boy"