GRG's Miscellany

 I just finished the weapons masters from this GW Necromunda set .  I went with a slightly more colourful scheme than the GW artist did, but I still wanted them to look at least somewhat grimy.  With some of the photos I tried to take the white background out (you can see how lame I am at it), but I didn't bother with all of them.  The first one is the hammer guy.  I had trouble figuring out what his mask was meant to look like - I'm not too happy about that.  I am particularly happy with the hammer head - especially how it came out under the light.  I wanted it to look metallic but also dented and dirty.  I think I did a decent job of it.  The arms look much more gold-y in some of the photos and much more bronze-y in others.  The reality is that they are quite a browny-bronze.  I love the sculpt of them, with the believable exposed hinges. The second one is the cylinder-cartridge rifle guy.  I went with Mechrite Red for him, mixed with a Vallejo German Black-Brown camo to shad

 Ages ago, I bought a Socket 5 Pentium via Ebay.  I had mounted it in a DIY wooden case just so I could use it, but it was always a bit of a pain to fish out a 4:3 monitor, PS/2 keyboard and mouse and connect it all up. So for a long, long while I have had the idea of making it into a 'luggable' machine.  Finally today, I have made it a reality.   I had an ancient monitor kicking around that ran off a 12V input and I had tested powering it from an ATX PSU.  I dismantled it with the idea of using it for video and audio.  Unfortunately while removing it from its case, I managed to damage the cable connection for the speakers, so then I had to dig out an old speaker from a box of scrap. Annoyingly, this motherboard did not have an amplified output - only a line out.  So I bought a cheap amplifier module that works off 5V so I could power it off the PSU's 5V line.  This has led to an annoying amount of noise in the output - I suspect from the PSU. The keyboard is new off Amazon