Lista de regalo de Talty

Written in Spanish because this is only interesting to the people that know me in real life, and they all speak Spanish.

Sé que es difícil darme regalos, me gustan pocas cosas, quiero pocas cosas, y lo que me gusta o quiero es muy peculiar o difícil de saber. Aun así estoy muy agradecida de todos los regalos que recibo, y como bien dicen "la intención es lo que cuenta", sé que algunos sufren buscándome algo y aprecio mucho el esfuerzo.

Este año algunos amigos y familia me pidieron que hiciera una lista de regalos para que no tuvieran que sufrir pensando en mis regalos de navidad y cumpleaños. Al inicio no tenía ganas de hacerla, pero me siguieron insistiendo que la hiciera hasta que Oka literalmente me sentó a escribirla.Así que aquí está.

Disclaimer: Al escribir esta lista no pretendo hacer que nadie se sienta obligado a comprarme cualquiera de estos regalos, o a comprarme cualquier regalo. Estoy escribiendo esto bajo coerción. Además, creo que para ahora todo saben que realmente le doy muy poca importancia a mi poco cumpleaños, y si no me dan regalos realmente no me voy a resentir ni nada por el estilo xD

Mi obsesión número uno: Sculpey!!!

Bueno para ahora todos saben que me encanta la Sculpey, y hay algunos colores que se me acabaron recientemente o que siempre necesito porque uso constantemente. Todo lo de Sculpey se puede conseguir en el Nuevo Fenix.

Bloques pequeños de Sculpey III (2 oz): $23 pesos cada uno, $19 en mayoreo
Colores: Translucent (010), Chocolate (053), cualquiera que les parezca bonito pues todos los uso, excepto blanco. La translucent es muy útil porque la uso todo el tiempo.

Translucent Liquid Sculpey: $86
Viene en una botella blanca con tapa negra.
Bloques grandes de Premo by Sculpey (8 oz): $150 pesos cada uno.
Colores: Blanco!

Calcetines de deditos (toe socks)

No sé porque últimamente cada que los veo me hacen reirme como colegiala. No tengo ningún par hasta ahora pero tengo intenciones de iniciar una pequeña colección xD me gustarían super coloridos, de preferencia en tonos de morado y azul o arcoiris.

Ternurines (Sylvanian Families)

Creo que para ahora ya todos saben que tengo una oscura obsesión con estas pequeñas  figuras, y que llevo un tiempo coleccionandolas. Hace pocos meses salió una nueva colección, así que fui al super a sacar fotos de los que quiero o me hacen falta. Todos se pueden conseguir en cualquier súper, no vayan a Fábricas o Liverpool porque estan muchisimo más caros, aunque los he visto más baratos y variados en Wal-Mart o Chedrahui.

Por cierto estas fotos las tomé con mi celular de la era de las cavernas, así que lamento la pésima calidad. Edit de Oka: Voy a ir tachando lo que Talty ya tiene, para que sea sorpresa y no sepa lo que le van a regalar.

Sets pequeños ($90-$100 aprox)

 

La resbaladilla de Adry (Bebé osito con resbaladilla) y Charly en su carrito (perrito con cochecito azul)

Dany y su columpio (osita en columpio) y Elisa en su cunita (conejita con moisés)

Sets medianos ($150-$250 aprox)

El escritorio de Angélica. Tiene que ser este set, hay otro similar con escritorio pero no tiene tantos accesorios y no me gusta.

La pequeña Paty y su cuna. Set de bebe conejito con cunita.

El refri de mamá Lolita. Refri con mucha comidita!!! amo la comidita xD

 

Tiffy y su baño. Baño con inodoro y accesorio, de hecho este es el único que me falta para completar el baño en mi casita de muñecas! Raro, porque me falta la parte más importante ._.

El pequeño Oscar en su resbaladilla. OSCAR!!  Trae muchos accesorios, soy fanática de los accesorios.

Dany y su trenecito. Hay un set similar (creo) que tiene otra figura, lo que me interesa es el trenecito así que no importa que bebé traiga.

Sets grandes ($300-$390) 

No creo que nadie realmente vaya a gastar tanto en mi regalo, pero ya de por si estaba tomando fotos de lo que quería así que lo estoy tomando también como checklist de cosas que tengo que conseguir xD

Juego de sala Toño y la pequeña Andrea

Por alguna extraña razón jamás compré muebles para la sala, excepto el piano xD así que tengo una elegantísima sala vacía con un bello piano.

El cuarto de literas de Daniel y Paola

Gatitos! Gatitos igualitos a mi Jack y Kira. Creo que este es uno de los sets más adorables de todos los que he visto, tiene literas y miles de accesorios!! Grité como loca cuando lo vi y asusté a Oka. Pobre hombre.

La recámara de Mary y el Pequeño Beto

Recuerdo que este set estaba en display en fábricas de francia y cada vez que lo veía babeaba un poco sobre el acrílico. Realmente no recuerdo porque jamás lo compré, cada que veía las pantuflitas miniatura me emocionaba.

Bueno creo que eso es todo lo que se me ocurre. Realmente no estoy esperando nada de regalo, y la parte de los Ternurines la puse más que otra cosa para recordarme que sets me faltan xD espero que Fotorama saque una colección cada año, el año pasado no sacaron nada y fui muy infeliz.

Me acabo de dar cuenta que llevo más de 4 años coleccionándolos xD que extraño no parece tanto.

Talty's WIP #1 Roses

I realized that some artists make work in progress (WIP) updates, and they're quite enjoyable. It's fun to see what they're doing, how they organize their work area, even how messy or neat they are. Well I decided I would try to make some myself and see how it goes. I decided to start with roses, because that's what I was crafting when I decided I wanted to make this kind of blog entries.

Please keep in mind that my WIP photos will be a bit "raw". I don't want to spend too much time editing them or trying to find a good lighting, so please forgive the relative low quality. Pretty much the only thing I did was crop them so the files aren't too big.

So, this is how my petals start, pretty much a skinner blend bull's eye cane. I don't worry about making it too perfect, roses aren't perfect after all. I cut slices and then cut them in half. I find it easier this way.

Then I flatten the petals one by one. I like to shape them like a real petal, I know a lot of people like to make circles but making petals makes sense to me. It helps me.

Here's a bunch of them ready to be used. I swear that paper is clean! The greasy spots you see is the plasticizer being leeched out of the clay, that's actually a very useful technique for which I plan to make a tutorial one day.

Here's a couple of finished roses, ready to be baked. Notice the tv's reflection in the baking pan, having a good tv show or movie is an essential step of my creative process. My favorite are old movies I've already seen so I don't get distracted, but good enough to get me in a good mood. We also watch re-runs of Friends for the 1000th time.

That concludes my first WIP. I can already tell that it's very poor and uninteresting. I didn't take photos of me making the roses because I can't yet figure out how to do it, making roses requires that I use both my hands all the time. I plan to make a tutorial for this, as soon as I can figure out a way to take photos.

Painting!

Hello there!

It's been a while, but I'm back! And its not that I've been slacking quite the opposite, I'm, as many gamers, constantly juggling the daily chores and professional interests with the hobby, and on that I've been pushing my painting a lot lately.

With my renewed love for my Blood Knights (BAs) I picked my brushes, shacked the slaking and did my best to finish my army to get it ready to the tabletop (Even tho I feel the quality is above just tabletop...) And as I get to a very important milestone on my hobby career, I'll proudly start uploading my work as I take some pictures.

You have been warned!

Grey Knights Ping Pong

Recently I have been talking about grey knights, And its seems that it wasn't been only me, but EVERYONE

I remember back then, when we first glanced the new Grey Knights, we all were like: OMG full army of terminators! Paladins, are undestructables! Draigo and Librarians Melt everything on the touch!

and more blah like that, I clearly remeber just a few of us thinking, ok, they are strong, how do we beat them?, and took a look at our own army, what are our strengths, how about our weaknesses.

I Myself look and compared my Blood Knights, and they indeed shared some similarities;

-Low model count

-Highly Durable

-Lots of Power Weapons

-High Damage output

-Vulnerable to low AP

So I indeed knew their power, but there was one basic and big difference, As Blood Angels I was A LOT more mobile and dynamic

Honestly i hadn't seen all the GK perks and rules but I was clear on that, and I based my counter measures on that.

That was months ago, and since then there has been a lot of talk about the Grey Knights.

First some said, they weren't as good, then suddenly everyone was having hard times against em, and finally they are everywhere kicking everyone's butt!

And for months I've read dozens of articles about it, lately I've rode a couple about "How to finally defeat em!" and you know what, after finely analyzing every aspect and detail of their strengths and weakness..

"Use your own army strengths against their weaknesses"..."If your mobile (like Blood Angels) beat them there"...

At this point, I'm not trying to say "Told you so" but instead, not to get yourself guided by the popular opinion, even when they seem much more experienced or knowing.

Instead trust your insight, know your army, understand its nature, embrace its feeling, trust the Card's Heart.

Just then maybe tons of "experts" dissecting the new army for months get to the same conclusion you got on a moment of insight.

Willkommen nach Baal

Cruor Angelus by MajesticChicken

So, After weeks of doodling around many army options and likes I ended up where I started, with Blood Angels.

When I first started with Warhammer, I liked the IG, and I even started working on em and for some months I was thrilled and even today, I deeply enjoy how on the grim darkness of the far future they are the closes as simple humans, I can understand em.

But then, (and for this I blame all the SM propaganda) I started to like the Power Armored fellas, back then I didn't knew nor was fond about any Chapter, so I started looking on what seemed the most heavily armored units, which lead me to terminators, subsequently Deathwing and Logan Wolfs, but what really got me was the SpaceHulk board game, I loved those Blood Angel terminators, so I decided to go the aesthetic path.

So back then I em went Blood Angel based on the looks, and tho it was a superficial pick, now as a more mature player I find it was right.

Moral of the story, Trust your Instincts.

Inquisitorial Warbands

Last time I talked about Grey Knights I focused on what I knew about them, which basically was the power armored, I mean, i knew about the Inquisitors and their warbands, but didn't really cared, until I heard some bat-reports about them kicking buts, (again, Grey Knights Everywere!)

So I took a dip on the codex again, and review said units, and let me say, they are just as good as their power armored counterpart.

First of all, the inquisitors are their focus HQ, and they can be customized from a Caparace armored mean looking guy, to a fully armed terminator-like killing machine. That itself its something to look for, but then we have the Warbands.

This units are basically the henchmen from the Inquisitors, and anyone who has encountered any Inquisition related data, know that could be almost anything and everything. Dex-wise we can mix from Psychers, arco-flagelants, demon hosts, to the very variably Acholythes (Dark Heresy RPG Characters :D).

For me this opens a whole new world of options, almost as a whole new codex itself, all of that with the option to combine it with the already known awesome Grey Knights.

I still have to review the ramifications of this recent enlightenment, but for sure I'll come back to talk about it.