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 Prize Alert! We got our goodies from German brush manufacturer Springer Pinsel today!  There are 12 packs of Kolinsky sable brushes (seriously, the best artist's brush hair you can get) in various sizes that are perfect for basing and detail work of miniatures - one for every month! The brushes in each pack are: size 2 size 2 flat, synthetic size 1 size 0 size 2, triangular ergonomic handle size 2/0 size 2/0, triangular ergonomic handle ONE random person each month will be getting one of these sample packs! The letter reads: quote:Dear Mr. Krushgroove, (slightly edited for the German-to-English translation) How nice! I met this lovely woman in person and she's been really good about getting us these brush sets. I use these and Winsor & Newton brushes exclusively, so I know these are top-notch brushes and are a great tool in the painter's arsenal. Also - we'll be having ANOTHER prize alert later today! Can anyone guess who it is? You get special, non-refundable, non-redeemable internet points if you can...
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Does it actually say Dear Mr. Krushgroove?
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May 16, 2013 13:25
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Nah... it says 'KG'
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May 16, 2013 13:29
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Oh I know who it is, it's Canon right? They're giving away cameras so we can get some beautiful photos of minis this year.
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May 16, 2013 15:46
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Mind-boggling prizes in this here thread! Got more work done on the Death Korps. All basic colors are on there and washed where appropriate. Now comes layer after layer (after layer) of greys and whites. God I hate painting white. 
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May 16, 2013 16:48
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Oath update, finished the Goliaths for this month:    I've got some goodness planned for their WIP pictures that I'm putting together once I have the time. Next up is those three bikers!
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May 16, 2013 19:03
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Oath Complete Click to embiggify:      I reserve the right to un-complete if thats not enough for the bases bonus point. Parts List  Paints used, from left to right: Vallejo Model Color Lime Green, VMC US Dark Green, VMC Natural Steel, Vallejo Game Color Elf Skintone, VMC Beige Red, VMC Gloss Black, VMC Foundation White, VMC London Grey, VMC Neutral Grey, P3 Cygnar Base Blue, Liquitex Matte Medium, Liquitex Gloss Varnish, Citadel Badab Black, Citadel Khemri Brown Detektuv’s Jurnal!  Gigantic originals always at http://tabletopstandard.blogspot.com/
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May 16, 2013 20:07
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Dagon, I've gone ahead and given you the point for basing. Krushgroove, please override if you feel he hasn't met the standard. krushgroove posted:
This alert relates to a box that arrived at my house yesterday! It was full of something great.
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May 16, 2013 20:14
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I, Brock Samsonite, OATH TO PAINT ALL THESE 10 ELDAR GUARDIANS FROM GAMES WORKSHOP. Awwww, it's a baby! They're a squad so I suppose this qualifies for theme as well? All based black. I use Krylon Fusion for plastics, which is why they're so drat shiny.
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May 16, 2013 20:14
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Red Shoe posted:I add the following models to my May oath: 10 Death Guard (Games Workshop), 1 Mind Flayer (Reaper), 1 Dire Troll Mauler (Privateer Press) Accepted. Brock Samsonite posted:I, Brock Samsonite, OATH TO PAINT ALL THESE 10 ELDAR GUARDIANS FROM GAMES WORKSHOP. Awwww, it's a baby! Also accepted. As a judge, I have no obligation to warn you that using Krylon Fuzion might destroy some of your model's details, but I just did anyways! 
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May 16, 2013 20:42
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Sole.Sushi posted:Also accepted. As a judge, I have no obligation to warn you that using Krylon Fuzion might destroy some of your model's details, but I just did anyways!
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May 16, 2013 20:44
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SRM posted:It's also pretty much impossible to completely remove, as I learned during a brutal commission I did a while ago. Krylon's regular spraypaints/primers are perfect though. Yeah, it's the paint equivalent of plastic glue, chemically bonding with the plastic. It's intended for lawn furniture and poo poo you leave outside, I wouldn't recommend it for minis.
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May 16, 2013 20:46
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WIP update on the Mammoth: Arms and head are all done, now I just have to get going on the body
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May 16, 2013 22:13
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JoshTheStampede posted:Yeah, it's the paint equivalent of plastic glue, chemically bonding with the plastic. It's intended for lawn furniture and poo poo you leave outside, I wouldn't recommend it for minis. I've had most luck with (in the UK at least) Halford's primer. Can obscure a bit if used imprudently, but bloody excellent painting surface and sticks to resin like a dream. ... Now just to start my oath, delayed by what might be (best case) early-onset arthritis...
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May 16, 2013 22:28
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I've had trouble with primer coming off in the past and been painting over Fuzion for awhile. It's generally worked ok, but I can see what you mean about the loss of detail. Would there be any decent spray primers you can recommend me instead? It might just be a lovely batch or something, but the Citadel stuff I had always seemed to come off really easy.
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May 16, 2013 22:28
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Leperflesh posted:Dagon, I've gone ahead and given you the point for basing. Krushgroove, please override if you feel he hasn't met the standard. quote:This alert relates to a box that arrived at my house yesterday! It was full of something great. I got a bit busy tonight so I ran out of time, but one prize show-and-tell per day should be the limit anyway! I'll post them pics tomorrow.
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May 16, 2013 22:32
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Brock Samsonite posted:I've had trouble with primer coming off in the past and been painting over Fuzion for awhile. It's generally worked ok, but I can see what you mean about the loss of detail. Would there be any decent spray primers you can recommend me instead? It might just be a lovely batch or something, but the Citadel stuff I had always seemed to come off really easy. That's because citadel primer isn't really primer, its just paint. Anything that is a regular brand and says primer on the can should work fine. Krylon, Rustoleum, stuff like that. I would avoid generic brands like Valspar.
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May 16, 2013 22:41
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Alright, I've got a question. I oathed 4 models originally, and I took photos of them for the Detective's Journal. Now I want to add a 5th model to my oath. Will it need it's own set of WIP shots for me to get credit for the journal? Because if so, I'll probably just skip oathing it and just paint it on the side.
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May 17, 2013 01:24
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SRM posted:Oath update, finished the Goliaths for this month: Love them! I'm a big fan (and practitioner) of high contrast shading, and I love to see other folks doing it. On a side note, my oath is complete, but I reckon that doesn't matter until I get photos uploaded. Soon!
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May 17, 2013 01:43
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I, DamnitGannet, oath that I will paint this Ravener from GW.   Awwww, it's a babby! How is it formed?? 
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May 17, 2013 03:10
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krushgroove posted:Oh no, I love those bases...so it's fine as long as Dagon tells us how he made those papers and things! They are fictional magazine covers from Blade Runner, Magazines from the Future, and Cut-Rate Books, shrunk to a quarter inch tall in word and printed on my color laser on semi-gloss paper. I fit a ton of them on a page, along with some signs and posters and graffiti and such for later use, and just snipped them up and glued them on. Future litter! Dagon fucked around with this message at 14:52 on May 17, 2013 |
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May 17, 2013 04:11
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Brock Samsonite posted:I've had trouble with primer coming off in the past and been painting over Fuzion for awhile. It's generally worked ok, but I can see what you mean about the loss of detail. Would there be any decent spray primers you can recommend me instead? It might just be a lovely batch or something, but the Citadel stuff I had always seemed to come off really easy. This is a question better directed to the Painting and Modeling Megathread, if only to reduce clutter in this thread. Having said that, any auto-body primer will be as close to perfect as you can get without diving into more complicated processes. DamnitGannet posted:I, DamnitGannet, oath that I will paint this Ravener from GW. Awwww, it's a babby! How is it formed?? Accepted.
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OATH COMPLETED!   Groups (Click for massive!)  riflemen  BARs and flamethrowers  NCOs & officers  HMG and MMG  bazooka teams  minesweepers  mortars  a CPL that came out particularly well This was a blast and I had a lot of fun. The photos say everything better than I would, so I'll just skip to the Bonuses: +Awwww! a BABY! +Detektuv's Journal (repeated for reference)  1  2  3+Parts List Primers: Rustoleum Camoflague Sand Krylon Ruddy Brown Vallejo: 983 Flat Earth - leather and wood parts (scabbards, shoes, 874 USA Tan Earth - trousers 994 Dark Grey - metals, hoses 887 Brown Violet - painted metals (helmets, equipment), base edging 927 Dark Flesh - skin 878 Old Gold - ammo belts 988 Khaki - Dirt (highlight) 73301 Lavado wash - darkening bases 72.094 Game Ink Black - lining uniforms Citadel (Games Workshop): Death World Forest - Jackets, weapons Gryphonne Sepia - Faces and khaki Apple Barrel Colors 20515 Burnt Sienna - Dirt (base) 20524 Golden Brown - Dirt (midtone) Woodland Scenics Coarse Turf - Burnt Grass Blended Turf - Earth Blend Army Painter grass tufts Liquitex resin sand Toothpicks as ruined fenceposts pennies, washers, Flames of War bases - bases +Box Art  vs  +Theme Everyone is wearing the same clothes. +Smaller than 25mm +Double the Fun for SGT Night Fever, who gets Box Art, appeared in Detektuv's Journal, fits the theme, and conforms to parts list. e: mortar teams, scale e2: Double-fun moths fucked around with this message at 01:33 on May 24, 2013 |
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May 17, 2013 05:22
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Strangely you need to right-click and open in a new tab / window if you want to view the original massive images. I guess that's a function of TIMG
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May 17, 2013 05:29
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Good job Sergeant Night Fever
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Oath Complete! This is also a successful Awwww, a BABY!  We're big King's Field fans here, so I bought this model as an excuse to paint a Moonlight Sword. The rest of the color scheme followed from there. Detektuv’s Jurnal: May Fun fact: I reused these pictures to write a short 'how to' for some of my friends. They bought into the Reaper Bones Kickstarter and are starting to get nervous over just how many minis they'll need to paint.     And on that note, now to move onto the remaining several hundred solo figs I have in storage somewhere. 
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May 17, 2013 05:42
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A bunch of us live in mixed fear/anticipation of the bones kickstarter arriving. Nice work on that reaper fig! Have you compared paining Bones to reaper's Pewter version of the same fig?
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May 17, 2013 11:27
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nathonicus posted:Nice work on that reaper fig! Have you compared paining Bones to reaper's Pewter version of the same fig?
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May 17, 2013 12:17
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Pierzak posted:If you're talking about general Bones quality and not that particular mini, a poster on the Reaper forum did exactly that - painted a metal mini and its Bones equivalent in the same color scheme and put up a poll which is the metal one. Opinions were divided. Most people in the thread could not tell a difference between the two painted, but then after they were told which was which some miraculously found flaws in the Bones one.
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May 17, 2013 15:34
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JoshTheStampede posted:Most people in the thread could not tell a difference between the two painted, but then after they were told which was which some miraculously found flaws in the Bones one. Could you link it?
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May 17, 2013 15:51
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Indolent Bastard posted:Could you link it? I can't find the thread right now, but it was a mind flayer, in metal and bones, that he painted with the same scheme. The only real hint was the staff was slightly more curved on the Bones one. Bones is legit not quite as good at detail as metal can be with really really good casts, but Reaper casts are not cutting edge amazing to where it would make a difference.
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http://www.reapermini.com/forum/index.php?/topic/47477-bathalian-bones-vs-metal-challenge/ I think this is it. Interesting stuff. I may have to replicate this experiment. I agree that for most Reapers, the level of detail probably transfers really well. There are some figs that I know will be nicer in Bones from a breakage standpoint.
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May 17, 2013 19:51
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nathonicus posted:A bunch of us live in mixed fear/anticipation of the bones kickstarter arriving. Thanks! The fig in question is actually Ironwind, but I have tried painting 3 Bones figs before now: a purple worm, a gnoll, and a ghost. I'm pretty pleased with the 2 larger figures. The ghost is okay, but honestly, I think I might not really like the sculpt itself, rather than how it transfers to plastic. I'm still optimistic for the Kickstarter.
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May 17, 2013 21:13
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JoshTheStampede posted:Most people in the thread could not tell a difference between the two painted, but then after they were told which was which some miraculously found flaws in the Bones one. He should have said the metal one was the Bones one. Then after all the "oh yeah, you can obviously tell because..." posts, been like "  guess what..."
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May 17, 2013 22:57
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Going to have to drop out this month. Really annoyed because I've done everything accept actually finished painting the models, but there's no way I'll have time. Stupid exams and uni dropping coursework bombs out of nowhere 
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May 18, 2013 00:11
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I, Signal, do Oath the following models: One Corvus Belli/Infinity 28mm Auxilia, lightly converted to be an Order Sergeant specialist.  Ten Games Workshop Rhinos, eight of which have been converted to be Predator Destructors for Epic, a 6mm scale game. These have been primed red because that's the color of primer I had, and I'm too cheap to get more gray. The Rhino in the back is just poorly primed. These will be a Themed Group. In the future, if I'm doing 6mm vehicles do I still need the full 10 to qualify? To showcase the conversion, I've taken a picture with an unmodified Rhino, the source of the turret, and another Predator which I completed last year: 
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May 18, 2013 02:01
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I, Dagon, Alternate Universe Terrain Oath: This thing! I have no idea who made it - a buddy got it from ebay, and there are no clues on the sprue or anything. It is about 6" by 3" by 4" tall, so it should count by itself, right?
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May 18, 2013 02:23
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I Counterspin, add a Kuldun Lord from Privateer Press to my oath for may. counterspin posted:I, Counterspin, oath 4 Iron Fang pikemen from Privateer Press for May.
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May 18, 2013 03:50
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God drat son clean your monitor.
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Your monitor needs a good cleaning sir! Here's another progress shot - I finished highlighting the green carapace and did some red bits, but I think I'll be switching off the airbrush and move on to typical paints for the rest. 
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