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mistressofmuses) wrote2024-02-21 08:31 pm
mistressofmuses) wrote2024-02-21 08:31 pm
Tiny plastic horse progress + my "weekend"
This is what I got done last night:
I got the pencil lines painted over. The color I chose is about a 50-50ish mix of "pewter" and "carbon black", to mimic the color of the lead between stained glass pieces. It's a lot of tiny lines! I'll likely go over these a second time at the end, once the colored sections are done.
Verdict on the longer fine-tipped brush that I was using? Mixed. It did hold more paint, but even quite thinned, the paint didn't "flow" well through the brush? The paint higher up the brush would just stay there in a droplet about halfway up, not coming down into the tip, unless I used so much pressure it lost the fine line (at which point it would blob out, and I'd have to stop to clean it off.) Not sure why that was as much of an issue as it was. It's not one of the ultra-nice (expensive! so expensive!) sable brushes or whatnot, but is a mid-quality brand. It's a brand new brush, so not at all worn, and I made sure it was clean, so not getting caught on anything coating the bristles or anything. Possibly it's just because I am using cheap craft paints, which can have uneven pigmentation, but I did thin them, and the paint that was going onto the model didn't have any gritty or goopy bits. Ah well. I may go back to a shorter brush.
Going to hopefully work on colors for an hour or so tonight!
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Spent my weekend with Taylor. We finally finished all of the "A Realm Reborn" base game for Final Fantasy XIV. We'd finished the main quest line a while ago, but there are two additional "parts" after that serving as a sort of epilogue/segue into the later expansions, plus they wanted to do some of the "optional" side material, either because it's fun or because it's only technically optional, but leaves gaps in the lore if you skip it.
The writing quality definitely started to climb as the game went on, and I appreciate that it did sort of... explore some consequences of things that were initially played straight. (Hey, maybe building your own extrajudicial militia force that answers to no one is... not a great idea, even if it's dressed up as "putting together a force to support your good intentions to help the kingdom!")
We also got through the first part of the "Heavensward" expansion, which is quite good so far. (I definitely appreciate that monsterfucking is a canon plot point. Get it, Shiva!)
(Lots of Realm Reborn feels fairly generic fantasy RPG, but I will say that watching the documentary on how they did this full reboot of the game from the ground up really makes me appreciate it more, haha. The original incarnation of the game was *rough* from all accounts, and having to support it while also rapidly trying to just build a new game from scratch [but good this time!] in secret was quite a thing to have to do, haha.)
We also finished watching Bodies, which I quite enjoyed, and I think Taylor did too. We did our usual insufferable mutual bit about comparing it to comp titles in a snotty film snob voice. "We *get* it, you watched The Prestige, Predestination, and Cloud Atlas, and you played AI: The Somnium Files. Wow, how original. *eyeroll*"
I got the pencil lines painted over. The color I chose is about a 50-50ish mix of "pewter" and "carbon black", to mimic the color of the lead between stained glass pieces. It's a lot of tiny lines! I'll likely go over these a second time at the end, once the colored sections are done.
Verdict on the longer fine-tipped brush that I was using? Mixed. It did hold more paint, but even quite thinned, the paint didn't "flow" well through the brush? The paint higher up the brush would just stay there in a droplet about halfway up, not coming down into the tip, unless I used so much pressure it lost the fine line (at which point it would blob out, and I'd have to stop to clean it off.) Not sure why that was as much of an issue as it was. It's not one of the ultra-nice (expensive! so expensive!) sable brushes or whatnot, but is a mid-quality brand. It's a brand new brush, so not at all worn, and I made sure it was clean, so not getting caught on anything coating the bristles or anything. Possibly it's just because I am using cheap craft paints, which can have uneven pigmentation, but I did thin them, and the paint that was going onto the model didn't have any gritty or goopy bits. Ah well. I may go back to a shorter brush.
Going to hopefully work on colors for an hour or so tonight!
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Spent my weekend with Taylor. We finally finished all of the "A Realm Reborn" base game for Final Fantasy XIV. We'd finished the main quest line a while ago, but there are two additional "parts" after that serving as a sort of epilogue/segue into the later expansions, plus they wanted to do some of the "optional" side material, either because it's fun or because it's only technically optional, but leaves gaps in the lore if you skip it.
The writing quality definitely started to climb as the game went on, and I appreciate that it did sort of... explore some consequences of things that were initially played straight. (Hey, maybe building your own extrajudicial militia force that answers to no one is... not a great idea, even if it's dressed up as "putting together a force to support your good intentions to help the kingdom!")
We also got through the first part of the "Heavensward" expansion, which is quite good so far. (I definitely appreciate that monsterfucking is a canon plot point. Get it, Shiva!)
(Lots of Realm Reborn feels fairly generic fantasy RPG, but I will say that watching the documentary on how they did this full reboot of the game from the ground up really makes me appreciate it more, haha. The original incarnation of the game was *rough* from all accounts, and having to support it while also rapidly trying to just build a new game from scratch [but good this time!] in secret was quite a thing to have to do, haha.)
We also finished watching Bodies, which I quite enjoyed, and I think Taylor did too. We did our usual insufferable mutual bit about comparing it to comp titles in a snotty film snob voice. "We *get* it, you watched The Prestige, Predestination, and Cloud Atlas, and you played AI: The Somnium Files. Wow, how original. *eyeroll*"