(Painting) Steel Wool Smoke

Clearing the blog of an old placeholder, and all for two bucks or so. 

Making smoke out of steel wool is an ancient technique, and with the amount of games we play with people who pretend their arsonists through their figures, it was time to make some more smoke counters.   

Of course, my biggest  Finding plain ol' steel wool!  Supermarkets, department stores, pharmacies, dollar stores?  All soap-infused brillo-esque products.  Swinging by my local hardware store, I finally found a bag... and twice as much as I needed.... for two bucks!

I originally used the post from Armored Ink for guidance, all the way from 2010, even thought I've already made smaller smoke clouds.   Alfrik ran a great blog, full of quirky subjects that I am most certainly the demographic for.  Then, one day in 2015, he posted about the Conan boardgame and never posted again.  All the posts are there, but the pictures have erratically shown 

And the best thing, I have a very useful box screaming out my name to store there's things, plus the tiny smoke counters from before, plus some other cumbersome stuff, as we go along. 

In the Queue:  Gnomes, Zulus, and Miscellany.

Project 350: Finally, a big drop, almost getting under 500 with 501 (319/182)  from 513 (324/189)