Photography: Developing C41 color film

Rotunda.

Earlier this year, I started developing my own black and white film. It is a straightforward procedure that allows me to control the entire photography process, from taking the photos to developing the film and finally scanning it. This pushed me to shoot a lot of black and white film, largely ignoring color film. Eventually, I got the urge to go back to color, but I used a local lab to develop the film. It was only a matter of time before I started thinking about developing color film, namely the C41 process, which is the standard for color negative film. I had avoided it before because I was told it is more temperature sensitive than black and white, which can be done at room temperature. After some research, I learned that many people use a sous vide immersion circulator to create and maintain a water bath to achieve the needed temperature. This sounded like a fun experiment, and I quickly got myself an immersion circulator and some CineStill C41 chemicals and developed my first color film!

Conversion Corner: Bolt Pistol

"We fell into it; like a daydream, or a fever."

It has been a few years since I converted a smaller firearm on this blog for a tutorial or otherwise. While I have converted a variety of boltguns in the past, I never made a smaller bolt pistol. The newer plastic Sisters of Battle have a smaller pistol design than the typical Space Marine one, so I decided it would allow me to convert a smaller pistol for subsequent Space Marine conversions. I could also create a silicone model to create casts of the final creation, so I would not have to convert it each time I wanted one. When working on it, I also made a separate hand with their finger off the trigger, holding onto the pistol grip of a firearm. By making this a separate piece from the pistol, I could create a mold of it, allowing me to use it for future firearm conversions.

Dragged into Turbolasers 124: Chatting with the creators of Trench Crusade - designer Tuomas Pirinen

This is the third episode of a three-part series in which we interview the creators of Trench Crusade. In this episode, we chat with Tuomas Pirinen, the designer of the rules for Trench Crusade!

Conversion Corner: Arco-flagellant revisited

Holy to the Lord.

In 2019, I started converting an arco-flagellant due to dissatisfaction with the models Games Workshop produced. Since then, I have felt more work could be done on the model to further differentiate it from the Blood Bowl Wood Elf model on which I based the conversion. Recently, I decided to revisit the model and add more detailing, mainly in the form of scars on the model and modifying their boots. Rather than painting the model myself, I am excited to say that we are sending the model to Matt (squared_paints) to paint as a collaboration!