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DICKS CURE DYKES posted:Hmmm. Well then. I had heard good things about it from guys at my last store too It's far more sensitive to atmospheric conditions than dullcote, and it's been to my experience that some batches are just plain bad.
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DICKS CURE DYKES posted:Hmmm. Well then. I had heard good things about it from guys at my last store too Was your last store a GW store?  Seriously though, Testor's brand varnish (dull and gloss) work awesome.
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Sole.Sushi posted:Was your last store a GW store? No, it was a local store. But it was also in Fairbanks, AK so whoever it was had probably drank or smoked themselves stupid sometime in the previous months. It was also the only store in town  I'll try and find some Testor's later on, I don't really need it right now. It's just something I thought would be nice as a finishing touch. I'll post a pic once it's complete 
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I got bored of painting Eldar, so I painted this guy for a game of deathwatch next weekend! lovely phone pics incoming  
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Yo dudes, how do you shade red? I'm using the GW Mephiston Red and their new wash? Carrobourg? and it isn't really coming out how I want and just looks a bit poo poo.
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Sep 28, 2012 23:31
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Sep 28, 2012 23:40
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Easiest way is a brown wash, then lighten with orange/red.
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Sep 28, 2012 23:44
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SRM posted:What are these innocuous blobs? Also really jealous of your old tank riders, I'd love to get some Catachan riders for my Chimera. I converted one up as a magnetized "pintle-mounted stubber" for my Leman Russ.  With paint:  And since people mentioned aquarium terrain a few pages back, here's another piece of painted pet scenery.   Also posting this here for anybody interested, and to remind myself in the future - it looks like Playmobil makes some products which would be AMAZING bases for really solid jungle terrain.     Would be really easy to get some, rough them up a bit, base them properly with sand and details, glue everything into position, and paint them. Some of the jungle-themed things in particular are really enticing... my Catachan would be right at home in an overgrown temple ruin, or on a swinging jungle bridge. If I find more space to store things I might have to look into them.
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ghetto wormhole posted:This might be the strangest Russ loadout I've ever seen. I think this is my only fully-painted loadout (which I also rarely use).  Old classic "Arrogant Bastard" still sees the most play, though having to snap-shot weapons is making him a little less enticing. Not like the Lascannon ever hit anything, anyway...  
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War Bull from Scibor I just finished, more pics in the Oath thread. Hard to take pictures of this dude, the bull is looking one way, the dude another. Which is probably why Scibor has all those insert pics on their site.   BALLS! 
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Sep 29, 2012 00:57
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Sep 29, 2012 00:59
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Bachtere posted:BALLS! I came pretty close to buying this for a winter project. How long did it take? Also I have a question guys: My airbrush cleaner disappeared in the move, could I soak my airbrush in simple green to get the dried paint out?
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crime fighting hog posted:I came pretty close to buying this for a winter project. How long did it take? Don't ever soak your airbrush, it's really hard on your sealing rings. Just pull it apart, clean the components with an airbrush-cleaner brush, and then run distilled water/isopropyl through it until it's blowing clean.
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Manifest posted:Don't ever soak your airbrush, it's really hard on your sealing rings. I take it apart and just soak the needle, tips and main housing usually. I take the o rings out first. I'll try this though, thank you.
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I do this for 15mm with old micro machine playsets. I hit them with some weathering powders, washes, flock and sand and they fit in very nicely.
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BuffaloChicken posted:Those are awesome. How did you make them? As for the markers, they're just LED tea candles covered in glue and wrapped with cotton. I then spraypainted them black at the bottom. Stole the idea from  who did the same thing in an oath a few years ago.Also, GW put out a video of the Slayer Sword winner and it's totally boss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hRMUpIkGBc
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BuffaloChicken posted:Playmobil Isn't that stuff a little expensive? I mean for terrain purposes: the hobby is expensive already and "complaining about expense is a bit stupid sometimes" and I get that, but to buy a whole set and just use the terrain, at those prices, seems a bit of a waste. Maybe it's just me, I don't know. Never had Playmobil as a kid, so there's that. crime fighting hog posted:I take it apart and just soak the needle, tips and main housing usually. I take the o rings out first. I'll try this though, thank you. As long as you take out all the rubber components (washers, gaskets, o-rings, etc.) you can soak that bitch in simple green just fine. Simple Green will, however, strip any metal plating you components might have on the outside. My Paasche Talon looks like I spilled LSD all over it. 
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Tim Bisley posted:Thanks so much to both of you! I've just started painting as well - sup buddy! I found that, in the starter set, thinning that green is a bitch to do. It's already one of the thinnest paints (Leadbelcher is pretty thin, I don't think it needs any water at all but what do I know?) but I dip my starter brush in the Caliban Green paint two or three times, wipe it off on my palette, and then add a single drop of water from this chunky syringe I have (left over from when my cat was sick and needed to be force fed water to live, not because I am the sort of person who just has syringes...) and then swirl it around with the brush until it's mixed. CG was ready to go then, and came up pretty well though I did need to paint the same areas a few times to get solid colour. The upside to using thin paints though is if you make a mistake, you can just wash the brush off, and go back over that spot with the clean, dry-ish brush and it'll basically soak up your idiocy. I decided not to thin the Ulthuan Grey/Ushabti Bone first time I used them...they look so crap up close, very uneven. I'll thin them properly next time. By far my biggest problem so far has been overthinning my paints. While I hear that's good for highlights, and getting stuff only in the recesses, you can't do base layers for poo poo.
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Can I spitball a Dark Angels successor paintscheme off you guys? This is going to be for my Ravenwing bikers.  And this will be the Deathwing. If you notice I didn't post anything about Tac marines I was considering only fielding Ravenwing dudes, Deathwing dudes, Sammael, and Belial.
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ImperialGuard posted:Can I spitball a Dark Angels successor paintscheme off you guys? Personally i dont like it. Mostly because i dont like split paint schemes anyway apart from a couple of exceptions. I think the problem is the two halves dont look that distinct, i dont think it is really going to pop when you actually paint them and might end up looking a bit odd on the tabletop. If you like it though go for it.
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Sole.Sushi posted:Isn't that stuff a little expensive? I mean for terrain purposes: the hobby is expensive already and "complaining about expense is a bit stupid sometimes" and I get that, but to buy a whole set and just use the terrain, at those prices, seems a bit of a waste. Maybe it's just me, I don't know. Never had Playmobil as a kid, so there's that. ImperialGuard posted:Can I spitball a Dark Angels successor paintscheme off you guys?
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How hard is it, and how long does it take, to strip the paint off models? I'm looking at some models on eBay, which I really want because a lot of them are out of production (Necromunda ones) but I don't like the paint job on them. If it's fairly easy to strip the models, great, I'll buy them. If it's a pain to do so, eh, I might pass. I'm gonna go ahead and say that these models were painted quite a while ago if that makes any difference.
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Gammon posted:How hard is it, and how long does it take, to strip the paint off models? I'm looking at some models on eBay, which I really want because a lot of them are out of production (Necromunda ones) but I don't like the paint job on them. If it's fairly easy to strip the models, great, I'll buy them. If it's a pain to do so, eh, I might pass. I'm gonna go ahead and say that these models were painted quite a while ago if that makes any difference. If they're metal, throw them in something with some acetone (nail polish) and the paint will be falling off in minutes. If they're plastic, you'll want some simple green/super clean/totally awesome/whatever and it'll take several hours before it really starts to loosen. I'm lazy, so I usually just throw them in a tupperware container and give it a shake a couple times a day for a week or two until most of the paint is falling off.
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Gammon posted:How hard is it, and how long does it take, to strip the paint off models? I'm looking at some models on eBay, which I really want because a lot of them are out of production (Necromunda ones) but I don't like the paint job on them. If it's fairly easy to strip the models, great, I'll buy them. If it's a pain to do so, eh, I might pass. I'm gonna go ahead and say that these models were painted quite a while ago if that makes any difference. Simple green in the US, dettol in the UK.
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ImperialGuard posted:Can I spitball a Dark Angels successor paintscheme off you guys? The problem with 90% of marine schemes I see with those army painters is there's way too many colors. Limit your palette. Seriously.
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I have some airbrush questions. I started using my airbrush and about 20 min in I noticed it would stop letting paint come out until I let go of the trigger and it with spray in a little burst. I do not know if my needle was covered in dried paint or if there was some other issue. I have just started using it and it's a little depressing. Also I noticed that many of you were talking about using alcohol to clean out the color while you were using the airbrush. I tried using water but it never seems a totally get the color out of my air brush and it always be some sort of residue. Is there a certain percentage of alcohol I should be looking for or is it whatever you got on hand? I believe I have 92 percent but I'm not sure if that would damaged the chrome or gaskets inside of my brush. I really like airbrushing so far in seems to be a very effective way of painting my miniatures I'm going to be picking up some of those Aztec pots that way I can swap colors more efficiently. There are many different size Aztec pots but most of them seem to be the same price. Is there a downside I'm not seeing to buying a 10 ml pot compared to a 2.5 ml?
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Before: After:  I gave him a light coat of nuln oil, as suggested in this thread; it made the gold in his eyes stand out a bit more and look more dirty/gritty overall, which I like. He doesn't too much different than before to my eyes though, other than his eyes being better contrasted with the leadbelcher on his helmet.
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Took a break from commissions to paint up some of my own stuff:
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DICKS CURE DYKES posted:Before:  The only difference between the two is a single coat of Ogryn Flesh on, well, the flesh, and Badab Black on everything else.
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I just got my Reaper Bones Kickstarter pledge manager page in an email, and I have a question about the paint sets offered in it. Are they a good deal, $18 for 12 paints in .5oz dropper bottles? What would I pay for those normally otherwise? A lot of my old paints dried up and I need to get some new ones, and this deal seems like a pretty decent one, but I'd like confirmation before dropping 72 bucks on the full set of 48.
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In comparison, 17ml (about .57oz) bottles of Vallejo paint in dropper bottles run $3.50 at my FLGS.
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Tendales posted:In comparison, 17ml (about .57oz) bottles of Vallejo paint in dropper bottles run $3.50 at my FLGS. Jesus. Maybe I'll buy two sets, then.
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Pierzak posted:Actually even the GW employees give a kind of a "we know it's poo poo but we're not allowed to explicitly criticize our product" answer. Some do, yes; the new guy running my local GW store runs the whole, high-pressure "everything we make is the best for miniatures and specifically formulated for them" shtick that really makes me hate life. "Hey buddy, welcome to the Games Workshop store!" "I'm actually a regular. Where's the other manager..?" "Oh he no longer works here. So have you heard of our products before?" "Uh, yes. I'm painting a Grey Knight army at the moment." "Oh man, those guys are so awesome on the tabletop! What do you need to finish the army off?" "Nothing at the moment... Just need some paint." "You know, our brush sets are terrific and made specifically for our paints! And our painting guides can teach you everything you need to know about painting!"
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CrotchPheasant posted:If they're metal, throw them in something with some acetone (nail polish) and the paint will be falling off in minutes. If they're plastic, you'll want some simple green/super clean/totally awesome/whatever and it'll take several hours before it really starts to loosen. I'm lazy, so I usually just throw them in a tupperware container and give it a shake a couple times a day for a week or two until most of the paint is falling off. Man, I had no idea it was that easy. Looks like I'm buying me some acetone, and the painted miniatures. I can't believe just how expensive some individual models are on eBay, even if they are out of production.
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