Orctober 2025

[ManicMan]

What spraybooth do you use?
What do other people recommend? I only have limited desk space and it is my partners work space when I am not cluttering it up, so would need to be compact and easy to dismantle…
Sorry that a little off topic folks!

It calls itself "HS-E420DC'.. cheap generic ^_^ full extended size 48x42x36. it folds up and has a fairly nice carry handle on top to 42x15x24 in size. does have an external tube you can connect to the extractor fan which just twists off (for better or worse, I don't use it these days but mine I have set up near a widow and it doesn't matter too much about the extraction that way cause its just gonna blow out the window) has some foam thing filters and a turn table, all of which are stored inside, and like i said, a bit for the power supply to go when not in use. so it's easy to set up and move etc. apart from the hose, it just folds up

 

[Fimm McCool]

I had to paint this unsavoury pair quickly to get them in the webstore for Orctober. Does that count?!

 

[Eric]

Absolutely counts!

As to the digression onto spray booths I think I have the same model as Manic. I did swap the fan out in mine for a quieter one (slightly lower CFM), perfectly good spray booth, does the job! Changed the filter a few times over the years (just chopped up some industrial HVAC filters a client gave me)(. Was fairly cheap when I bought it, but for some reason they all seem to be expensive these days and often marked up to mad prices. I don't think I paid more than £30-40 or something, but now they all seem to be twice that at least. As manic says it's nice because it folds up fairly neatly - which if you don't have a good spot for it 24/7 is useful.

 

[Mostyn]

I had to paint this unsavoury pair quickly to get them in the webstore for Orctober. Does that count?!

Absolutely - they look like proper nasty orcs to me (and a lovely evil paint job with those red battle marking). Unless you painted them in Skavtember in which case you are a very bad person, because who would do a thing like that and then post the pictures.

It is possible, that I'm only taking the moral high ground because I have now painted an Orc in the greenskin-est of months. A Warhammer Regiment Orc:


I like these challenges as they normally provide that little bit of motivation to paint something that's been languishing in the queue for a while. Although it's probably indicative or my scattergun approach that I always seem to have a figure primed and based or even half painted ready to go in the drawer under my painting desk.

He's actually got 2/3rds of his friends to hag out with (Another not quite finished yet mini project). I actually started well but hit a wall at the orc and dwarf which aren't the most inspiring figures. The goblin is great and holds up next to the metal minis very well.


And obviously if I do finish the dwarf this month I won't corrupt this thread with an image of the bearded g*t!