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Fyrbrand posted:Here you go. That shows all the colors they used. Just ignore the advice about the spray gun. I actually have that page bookmarked. Didn't think of it. Thanks! Aha! Camo Green. That's the one I need. Going to pick up the IG Codex tomorrow so I'll get that paint too. Good to know that I won't have to spend time mixing the highlight color. I'll stick to tallaran flesh when it comes to their faces. I mean, do I really need three different skin colors focused on an area that is so tiny. Will it look bad if I use badab black as a wash for their faces instead of Ogryn Flesh? Boar It fucked around with this message at 18:34 on Aug 29, 2011 |
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It'll look different, and you'll probably want to drubrush it with flesh again, afterwards to make it look a little less like they're powder monkeys or chimney sweeps. \/\/\/ Racist.
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Aug 29, 2011 18:36
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Badab is probably too harsh. Ogryn is a reddy brown that gives a much softer shade over Tallarn. But yeah, Tallarn, wash, Tallarn should be enough for basic troops. No one looks closely at individual Guardsmen because there are so many of them.
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Aug 29, 2011 18:36
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Indolent Bastard posted:Resist the overwhelming desire to pop it in your mouth I work retail. I can barely afford to feed myself and pay rent. That mini is looking tastier every day. I think I got some gloves, and I do have a balcony... this is going to be interesting. Is it fine once it's been primed?
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Aug 29, 2011 18:37
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Gonna cross-post this because it was such a bitch to upload and because I'm an attention whore :bigtran: great weapon made from a marauder flail and dwarf axes    One of the masks I sculpted myself (  )
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Aug 29, 2011 18:43
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Is it fine once it's been primed? Yes, it's fine. Seriously man relax, it's not like some sort of creepy tree-frog nerve poison that will leech into your skin and kill you. There are thousands (if not millions) of buildings and houses in the US with more lead in the walls than in a hundred miniatures. And its fine as long as the paint stays in place and no one chisels bits off to eat.
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Aug 29, 2011 19:23
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You've been exposed to 100x more lead in your life up to this point. Holding a miniature wont matter at all stop being a baby.
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Aug 29, 2011 19:47
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Eating a Rogue Trader era Dreadnought will actually bring your average lead content down. Thank the chinese.
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Aug 29, 2011 19:50
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Lethemonster posted:I got the Vallejo liquid gold paints - has anyone used them before? I'm having trouble with the fact that shaking them doesn't help with the fact all the actual paint is at the bottom. I keep having to mush the end of my paint brush in their each time, but I'm wasting loads each time I do. quote:Also any tips on when to use matte/gloss/glazing mediums? I need to stop being such a gadget freak and buying stuff before I learn to use everything I've got :ohnoes: Matte medium: when your paint is separating because of all the water you're thinning it with, or when you find that your water-thinned paint is too uncontrollable on the miniature. Also useful to add just a tiny bit to washes for transparency purposes. Glazing medium: basically a substitute or supplement for water when making super-thin glaze layers. My advice with most paint additives is to play around with how you use them until you find something that works for you. Worse comes to worse, you end up throwing a test model in simple green.
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Aug 29, 2011 19:56
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Bhyo posted:You've been exposed to 100x more lead in your life up to this point. Holding a miniature wont matter at all stop being a baby. Nice Scourges, and great colour choice  Also I've been licking my brushes like a pro on lead models for years, in fact I just realised the Infinity stuff I'm painting is lead too so if I die overnight I'll get someone to post on here to confirm it.
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Aug 29, 2011 19:59
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stabbington posted:Get a toothpick or similar to stir them with instead of shaking, you'll waste a lot less that way, and keep yourself from ruining brushes in the process. Thin/clean up with alcohol as needed, obviously. Thank you! I made a thing   Having trouble painting my wood to look like wood but I'm happy with my shack made from slats of brown atm.
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So I'm thinking about giving my LeMan Russ a nice paint job as I wait for my money to come in so I can buy more paints/glue, but there's a few things I'm not so sure about here. The guy who runs the local Sci-Fi City basically gave me this LeMan Russ for free, along with a shitload of attachments. I am assuming it's all of them, because there are many different kinds. My main problem is I have no idea what the hell any of these do or even what some of them are. The meltas and flamers are obvious, but the rest are just tubes of varying length. But that's more of a gameplay thing, and not much a mini-painting thing. Anyway, does anyone have any tips for painting tanks and other large vehicles? I'm going to prime it here in a bit, just using some black spray paint and touching up areas I missed with Chaos Black. I planned on making it black plus a tiny bit of boltergun metal, with some simple highlights, as the primary color, touching up the rivits and various other bits of metal with Dwarf Bronze to match my Guardman. Throw in a thin, orange stripe asymmetrically down the middle and try my best to write some tiny latin words and phrases on the sides and on the barrel just to give it a used and experienced feel. After that, I'm going to wait until I pick up my black wash to do some heavy shading.
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Aug 29, 2011 20:45
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Nothing constructive to add just wanted to point out it's Leman, not LeMan.
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Aug 29, 2011 20:49
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I think deep down, I know this, but I use LeMan so much in my day to day life I just started lumping it all together.
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Aug 29, 2011 20:50
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Those Chaos Dwarves are ballin' and I'm jealous because my sculpting skill end at cramming greenstuff into a hole badly.
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Aug 29, 2011 22:55
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Hey, so did mine until I built nine chaos dwarves! I cheated by searching YouTube and making a mold from chaos warrior helmets 
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Aug 29, 2011 23:03
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Lethemonster posted:I got the Vallejo liquid gold paints - has anyone used them before? I'm having trouble with the fact that shaking them doesn't help with the fact all the actual paint is at the bottom. I tried storing mine upside-down. It didn't work, but storing them on their sides (like wine bottles) could maybe do the job.
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Aug 29, 2011 23:30
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A pretty Stegadon! More pics in the Oath thread if you are interested.    
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Holy poo poo. That stegadon is loving incredible. I mean, when I saw the first picture I actually said 'holy poo poo' out loud. Have you ever looked into how much money studio painters make because that's better than most of the example models I've ever seen. I love everything that I can see about that acid trip of a model.
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Aug 30, 2011 02:01
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bachtere, stop making me want to buy expensive gw kits, I'm a poor Australian
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Aug 30, 2011 02:08
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What are those little bits of coloured debris supposed to be, and what are they actually made of?
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Aug 30, 2011 03:16
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I love everything about that stegadon.
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Shadeoses posted:What are those little bits of coloured debris supposed to be, and what are they actually made of? They are painted rocks. I'm not sure what they're supposed to be, I guess painted rocks.  I did the same thing with my poupchamps to make them more "fantastical", I thought I'd try it with a bigger piece, my bases are normally pretty bland. 
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T-4 days, a.k.a we're making a fuckin' rice field:   Remaining now are various greenery, water effects, touchups and a ton of work on the houses, miniatures and scenario.
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Aug 30, 2011 05:40
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Very Seven Samurai.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Is it fine once it's been primed? All those warnings I gave you were true, and more than a little severe. Really though, just use some common sense and you'll be fine (no eating, keep dust outside, wash your hands, etc). Once you get primer over that, you can treat it like any other metal model. I do apologize if I have instilled tremendous fear into you. Well, I'm not really sorry about it; it's a heartwarming thought to picture a poor Goon crying himself to hyperventilation under his painting desk, staring at a single lead mini. 
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On lead minis: I got some old old Wood Elves a while ago, and some of these spears I could bend in a circle without even trying. Is there any way to like, make them more rigid?
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FROOOOOOOOG posted:On lead minis: I got some old old Wood Elves a while ago, and some of these spears I could bend in a circle without even trying. Is there any way to like, make them more rigid? Drill them through and pin them with a steel wire (idea not tried). If the shafts aren't ornamental, just replace them with steel ones. Failing that, give them some Viagra.
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Link from the OP: http://salmondworks.com/blog/?p=278
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Aug 30, 2011 10:18
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This page is pro as fuckkkkk
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lilljonas posted:T-4 days, a.k.a we're making a fuckin' rice field: Your skill, dedication and speed disgust me. I couldn't ever be that fast & skilled; my fast would look sloppy, my skilled takes forever. I hate you. Good work.
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Over the weekend I was at the NOVA Open as a volunteer, and one of my jobs was being an appearance judge. There were some pretty amazing armies (and a hell of a lot more mediocre ones). If you guys want I can talk about my experiences, and provide some tips on what we looked for in terms of judging.
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I'm not really gunning for any sort of competition with my army or anything, but I am very interested in what you'd have to say. It fits the theme of the thread, as well, so I doubt you'd get any arguments from anyone. Please, spill the beans! It sounds great.
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If googly eyes and glow in the dark paint doesn't get bonus points then idkwtt
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This is Warhammer 40k we're talking about here. We can't have the silliness of exaggeration or ridiculous color schemes.
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Indolent Bastard posted:Your skill, dedication and speed disgust me. I couldn't ever be that fast & skilled; my fast would look sloppy, my skilled takes forever. I hate you. Good work. We are two people working on it  but thanks! Oh, and today I ordered materials from the States for the last time. First I got shafted as they only let me choose the most expensive insured postal service, and then it got stuck in customs. So I'm looking at 70ish dollar S&H for 50 dollar of products, and I'll have to go all the way across town tomorrow to pick it up. Ungh! Gotta drybrush the poo poo out of some roofs as anger management.
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UnsubRedun posted:
Cook them thoroughly to deactivate the lectins. (also want to hear b4tbg talk about things)
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I have finally realised I just don't really like sisters of battle anymore. Really been cramping my ability to paint. Time to strip and photo 100+ models *sigh*. Going to look for some better sculpted things to paint. Anyone had any anima tactics or the mantic games sets and can say anything about their build quality?
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Buy Infinity. Don't think I could bear going back to painting Space Marines after painting just a basic ORC Trooper.
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Bachtere posted:A pretty Stegadon! More pics in the Oath thread if you are interested. I think the Skink shaman is amazing, and the technical execution on the Stegadon is amazing as well. What I'm not too sure about is how it comes together as a figure. Photos make it easier to focus on things vs real life. Mistakes show up better, finely done paintwork pops out. But when you've got that thing on a table, or even in a display cabinet, won't it look just like a LSD-fueled smear of colour? It just feels too colourful, all around, and there isn't any point of focus or contrast that makes any of it pop. The fact that everything was done with the stippling effect, and the skinks are in a rather bland shade of beige doesn't help.
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