Dark Angels

WIP Dark Angels

WIP, Terminators

Started on the Terminators.  Have a base color.  Sorta playing around deciding on what the other colors will be.  I tend to just play around with colors till it comes together.  If I don't like something, I'll clean paint from an area, cover, and restart. 

Picasa Fun

I've been having trouble taking good pictures lately.  Colors are "washed out", and don't accurately depict the paint colors.

I was trying to get a good picture of Dark Angels, Land Raider Crusader, and came up with this instead...

Glowing Skull

 I max out the shadow setting, which obviously darkens the colors to the extreme, however it does more accurately show the true colors of the Skull itself.

I need to take time to learn how to use my wife's camera.

Painting Updates:

I'm a bit all over the map... I get a squad 95% done, and start another.  Right now, I nearly have two Dark Angels Tactical Squads completed (including bases).  I'm about 50% done with Deathwing Terminators.

Bikes are primed, Land Raider has base, shadow, highlight, matte varnish, and one almost complete skull.  Debating doing a Lions Head on the other side.

./peaCe

Dark Angels

Some final details to wrap up... Bases, not sure how to paint Plasma, "To Glow, or not to Glow.. that is the question".

I really go for a subtle look.  While the extreme contrasts maybe eye-catching, I don't care for extreme highlighting that contrasts.  I like darker and grittier looking marines.

I may give battle damage a go, but it's too easy to overdo it.

Sorry for the bad pics, need to start using my wife's Nikon.

NMM Chrome

Still rusty, but practicing new stuff helps.  This one needs some work, but looks good from table point of view.

yea, needs some work.

Dark Angels

Red/Green colorblindness makes these guys a bit tough!

WIP, Dark Eldar

Not much to add.  Practiced a lil' glaze blending.  Painted stuff black, and some metal bits.  Painted the flayed skin Tallarn Flesh and gave it wash.

Yellow too thin, glyph on helmet took like four layers.

Next time I'm using the Retarder, water dries too quick

WIP, Dark Eldar

Another pic.  Gonna wash, and touch em' up.  I have no idea what to paint/color the rest of the scheme.

WIP, Dark Eldar

Using these guys as practice, sorry for the bad pic just wanted to get something up, it's been a few days.

First Sale Feedback

Kharn

"Dear doomicon,

got the guys today mate.

they look amazing. "

So glad made someone in this hobby a bit happier!  The enjoyment of having a fully painted army to call your own is something everyone needs to experience at least once. 

If we could just get the painters and the gamers together for a weekend and just paint and play :-)

I would definitely go for a convention where I would just paintup someone's army, and take breaks to play.  Can ya tell I enjoy the painting :-)

Now if I could just get a bit better and more patient ;-)

Ready to Start

Well awaiting for my Airbrush to arrive, finished prepping first batch of models.

Dark Vengeance, Dark Angels

Stocked up on supplies

Question, International Shipping

Looking for input on International Shipping.  I've been using USPS Priority Large Flat Rate.  My issue is with tracking.

They don't offer "complete" tracking of the item.  Essentially they give you a tracking code that tracks the package via Customs.  Code starts with a "Cxxxxx".

I can tell when the package leaves, arrives in customs destination country, and leaves customs destination country.

Is this cool?  I'm not familiar with International shipping, so not sure if this is the "norm".

Better alternatives?

Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Ebay Fail... Again ..

UPDATE!  Just realized this is still going to the wrong email address!  My email address in eBay is "doomicon.painting@gmail.com", and the payment is being sent to "doomicon@gmail.com", with the incorrect "bogus+ebay@gmail.com" as the payee..

I'm about ready to offer free database support and/or framework development to eBay.. sheesh!

So sold my second painted army, yay!  Got everything going, was hoping for smooth sailing...

nope.

Ebay did it again.  After the first issue I created an email address that was according to eBay standards.  Changed my email in eBay, and also added that email to my wife and I's paypal account.

So now I sell my Black Templar Army, I follow all the steps, send an invoice.. Great buyer, pays quickly.

I get a copy of the invoice this morning to the correct address.. AND  yup, you guessed it.. First line...

"Hello bogus+ebay@gmail.com"

ARGH!  I checked account settings in Ebay and the address doesn't exist!  I did take the step of ensuring my paypal account was linked.  It appears it was linked for buying, but not for selling.. Ok, that's fine.  I forgot to link my paypal account, but c'mon.  Still sending payments from an email address that is no longer registered.

So offering free shipping again, customer comes first :-)

Just a lil rant.  Hopefully this will go better with my Orks. 

Ebay: Orks For Sale

Broke these up into smaller auctions.  Paintjobs are TT quality only.  If you followed 1G, these guys were my bane!

Warbikes

Nob, Boyz, Trukk

Stormboyz, Kan, and Buggies

Ork Boyz, Nob, and Old Trukk 2

Cool People

Just had to drop a note that my buyer has been really cool about the situation!  They're down under, and will get an awesome Wolfie Army :-)

Hopefully, they'll send me some Game Photo's to post here!

Ebay + Paypal = Expensive!

So things worked out, customer didn't seem to read the email to clearly, just canceled and paid the invoice I sent.  He was confused about the lack of shipping costs, had to explain again that I would pay shipping.

Everything worked out, taking the package to work with me so I can ship it out at lunch time and update customer with a tracking number.

How much did I make?  What does Ebay and Paypal charge?

Let's see.

+$535   Sold
-$21.17  (Paypal charge for the $535 transaction)
-$49.54 (Ebay Charge)


Left over... $464.29.  Now minus the shipping I had to pay due to my eBay account error.

Grand Total $403.34.

Yikes.  Last time I sold something on eBay (it's been yeeeeears), no matter how much you sold it for, you were charged things like 18 cents a picture, a buck for the listing... so you had more control over the cost, and it would come out to be $12 max daddy with pics.

In the future I won't be selling painted armies, only individual units or battleforce sized.  Starting bids will be alot higher.  Would've been better to learn this monetary lesson with my Orks, however no worries I'll keep trucking forward.

Footnote, I now understand why sellers cannot possibly give the discounts on 40k that I think they should give.  If ebay is charging 10% (9+listing fee) of the sell price, that's a 10% discount that you can't get.

Ebay Fail!

So I was really thinking about doing painting part time to make some cash.  I enjoy painting more than playing, and I like playing.

Instead of selling for ridiculous prices, I want to fill a middle ground.  Offer well painted units, for reasonable prices.. No Golden Daemon $500 figs, but squads painted really well, for a good price.

I wanted to start off on the right foot... and I've already stumbled.

See back in 2007 ebay changed policy stating that your login and email can't be the same, because of scammers.  So sometime around 2009 I logged in to "impulse" buy an item, and it prompted me for a new email.  I put in my doomicon gmail address, and it was denied.  So I just threw in a temp address "bogus+something@gmail.com"  (note, bogus+something isn't the real address, using as an example as if someone were to magically access the address, they'd get the money) and used that and purchased the item.  Heck, my paypal email address is the first one, no issues...

Fast forward to 2012 and SELLING (not buying).  So I sell my first item on eBay.  It moves to "pending payment" status... only I don't get an email?  I login to Paypal.. nothing .. nada.

I started searching and found this:

http://reviews.ebay.com/Changing-your-email-address-to-receive-payments?ugid=10000000004224189

I checked my email, and lo it was the broken one.  I changed it, and as SOON as I changed it, I received an email that payment was sent to...

"Hello bogus+something@gmail.com,

You've received new funds!

Simply click the link below and complete PayPal's one-page registration form to claim your money:

https://www.paypal.com/au/links/uni/email=bogus+something@gmail.com

So yup.. the funds are waiting for "bogus+something@gmail.com" .. an email that is bogus (yes it has a "+" sign).

So I had to send a 'I completely fail' email to my first customer, and explained the situation.

Technically the customer can just give me a negative ding.  Hopefully they won't.  I offered to send a bunch of SW sprues on my dime.  Since the box is packed so tight I couldn't fit a Bolt Pistol if I wanted to.

So sold for $535, cost me a little over $50 to sell on eBay, and I'll have to foot another $60 to send sprues.  But .. if it keeps my first customer happy, I'll fly to Australia with the package, and tell my wife I always wanted to take her to Austrilia :-)