Magnet paint mixing.

(Disclaimer: Do it at your own risk!)

How to do that?

Recently I came up with a new idea...
Always when you mix a paint you loose a lot of it on the mixing stick...
So I decided to make a mixing stick that stays in the paint...
How to?

Buy a magnet toy...

separate 2 bagnet balls and throw them into the paint.

Now to mix the paint use the rest of the magnet balls and moving it arround the cup you make the paint mix...

Be carefull however - because your paints are now magnetic - that means do not place them near a strong magnet, or something that can influence the balls inside them... it is a good idea to keep a magnet outside sticked to the paint...

If the magnet inside the cup is strong enough... you can use it to fix your paint on a piece of metal (the right type of steel) .. :)

Don't let your paint dry out...

PS.
I tried it with various acrylic paints for models.. it works with most of the paints that have a lid and glass like can / cup... or whatever there is.

For those who like to explore some SPACE HULKS...

I found this on the web, an older remake of SPACE HULK - it seems to be freeware...

It can crash, but still it is a hard and funny game...

DOWNLOAD

Space Corals - base decoration

This will be my first tutorial, about some cheap,
easy and quite nice looking
base decoration.

Ok back to the topic. Often we see a lot of warhammer 40k bases with bushes, grass, plants that normally would grow on terra ;) but what if the flora on other planets would be a lot different from the one we know. A simple Idea I had... Space Corals :)
Space Corals is something similar looking to underwater corals but they grow on some deserted moons. How can we make good size space corals. There is really nothing simpler than that. First of all we need:

1. Scissors
2. Foam - and by foam I mean a specific type of foam, that is quite hard, and has a large "grain" structure - It is hard for me to explain. I figured out to show you a picture of something similar:

 Now if you look close - you will see that cutting small parts of the foam will create a coral - like structure... And of course the color is up to you, but in my opinion blue is perfect for a space coral - btw. it fits my color scheme. If you wan't to see the used space corals watch my blog entries :) I put some on the bases of my eldar.

A little hint: If you are looking for the right foam - try to search out foams for filters.

And here is the result on my WIP Banshees:

Ynneads children

The first post... what should I write.. ?

This blog will be mostly about my warhammer 40k eldar army.
I work slow, but got some nice ideas and plan to create an not so original army.
I am not going for ONE craftworld or one theme! I like a lot of ideas with the eldar fluff, so I thought of combining all what Eldar have to offer.
Initially it was ment to be an Ulthwe army, but it will be a mix of some eldar forces... that form an allied strike force led mainly by ELDRAD... a lot of my units are older models, repaired models or converted from various bits and greenstuff - I like to use old fluffy models that maybe fought thousands of battles :)
I am remaking some old designs to fit new models :D like the famous old mask from the jetbike (vintage) But I will show everything when the right time will come :)

So mainly I plan to make:

1. Ulthwe - section
2. Harlequin section
3. Exodite section
4. The Saim-Hann'like corsairs
5. Aspect Shrines - they simply must be in a eldar army
6. The power of Bonesingers (Wraith)

The colors that connect all the different parts of my army are black and blue...

I try to make my figs look a little bit dark and dirty for an eldar of course ...
Too shiny eldar are a little bit to soft for me after all they were close to vanishing.
Besides I prefer to start with chaos black and go from black to white.

So I hope you have a nice time here.
Lyashk the Bonesinger...