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XPost from the Oath thread, have some terrible pics!Zark the Damned posted:Early for me this month, but Oath Completed. Had trouble with lighting and levels were all over the place, so apologies for the worse than normal pics. Will be spending time this month assembling and prepping stuff to paint (whatever free time I have that isn't eaten by Nuclear Throne anyway...)
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They look great, just needs a contrasting color on things like the pouches. Grey, black or brown would look fine. Or purple... Marines that are tall and not power squatting, unf.
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# ? Mar 14, 2015 19:56 |
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New thread! drat, I need to paint more models...
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# ? Mar 14, 2015 21:57 |
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Post 9-11 User posted:They look great, just needs a contrasting color on things like the pouches. Grey, black or brown would look fine. Or purple... Thanks, that's a good idea, I'll try something like that Legs are based on these, really good quality: http://evilcraft.eu/product/chaos-legs-mixed-set-no-i/
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# ? Mar 14, 2015 22:13 |
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I made a thing. Fully magnetized. I have the other two weapons as well, but still painting them up. I'll likely go back and add a few details here and there, but I just wanted to knock it out into tabletop condition quickly.
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# ? Mar 15, 2015 14:57 |
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Fantastic! I love it. Looks better than tabletop to me. My (well-off) friend who has me paint much of his stuff wants to get a Titan...I'm seriously considering just having him buy a Chaos one as payment for building and painting a loyalist one for him.
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# ? Mar 15, 2015 15:21 |
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HardCoil posted:Awesome new OPs OP these are amazing! <3 tacticool marines What model are they? Lord Humongus posted:I just want to wow people. you need to rebase, the model is 100x better than the quality of the base imo
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# ? Mar 15, 2015 15:58 |
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Moola posted:these are amazing! <3 tacticool marines Thanks. They are Evilcraft legs converted to have pants on the upper part. Torsoes and mag pouches are sculpted from scratch and greenstuff cast. Shoulderguards and guns are Puppetswar (shoulderguard has greenstuff cast insignia added). Heads are FW Night Lords heads. Arms are from scratch. So quite a bit of work to make 5 guys :/ They were supposed to be a Kill Team squad, but the game I was in seems to have died
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# ? Mar 15, 2015 16:11 |
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nice! in the same boat too, hard to find kill teamers
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# ? Mar 15, 2015 18:23 |
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Did somebody say Kill Team? I'm looking forward to finishing these legionnaires up; once I wash up the metals and hit all the details I'll honestly be perfectly happy with them.
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# ? Mar 15, 2015 21:21 |
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Here's one of my Kill Teams:
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# ? Mar 15, 2015 22:49 |
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Great thread. I was going to start painting minis with the intent of getting into playing warhams eventually, but not any time soon. I have a squad of Tau fire caste mans on the way, and I need to get the bare bones basics in terms of brushes, paints, and tools. I know I don't need $65 worth of CITADEL WEB BUNDLE BRUSHES! but I also don't want a 12 pack of garbage Testors model sets either. I'd like a happy medium of brush quality, somewhere between an angels pubic hair to a skavens taint pubes. ESSENTIALS: A #2 sable brush for base coating, a #1 sable brush for detail, and a #0 for fine detail. These will all be sable hair brushes. A wash brush, dry brush brush, and maybe some other utility brush I'm not aware of. These will by synthetic hair. A pair of dikes for cutting parts off sprues. A hobby knife. Does this sound like a good basic kit to start painting when my space mans get here? EDIT: What is a less expensive alternative to the $30 diagonal wire cutters GW offers? Snap On makes tools that expensive. lite_sleepr fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Mar 16, 2015 |
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Got my airbrush back from repairs this Friday so I've been working on Stormtroopers from my Imperial Assault box and decided to redo Darth Vader as well though I'll need to build the highlights back up on him.
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# ? Mar 15, 2015 23:52 |
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Bachtere, how did you get that mossy rock effect for that boar mini? I've got a few minis set up for that it I didn't know how to go about it.
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 00:18 |
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Dr. Red Ranger posted:Bachtere, how did you get that mossy rock effect for that boar mini? I've got a few minis set up for that it I didn't know how to go about it. The actual technique for the basing is layered cork for height, something called Sculptamold for the generic texture of the ground, and super-glued flock on top of that. I snapped this picture of the Maggoth Lord I'm working on, same idea. I like Sculptamold a lot, I want my bases to be very organic, it does that naturally. Same stuff I used for the entirety of the griffon/cockatrice diorama base. As for the painting, a lot of washes, and I wasn't too concerned with getting the green of the moss on the non-flocked portion of the base. I went back to the original picture and cropped out the base, and only resized it a little so you could look at the painting in detail.
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 01:12 |
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Thanks! I started with the cork like you, but I used some ballast for texture. It's probably too large but I'm learning basing so no big deal. Do you glue down your flock before painting the base?
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 02:06 |
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big_g posted:I'm currently working on a 1:48 scale WWII Corsair. Could you go into more detail about how you got this look above? I am new to painting but this is exactly the blue I want to get for a model I have.
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 03:01 |
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New tank for a new thread! It's a Hobby Boss 1:48th scale T-34Sorry about the shittastic photo quality. Sadly, all the decals that came with the kit were wrong, either completely made up or meant for a different model of T-34, and I don't usually do 1:48th, so I ended up with no decals at all.
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Ensign Expendable posted:Sadly, all the decals that came with the kit were wrong, either completely made up or meant for a different model of T-34, and I don't usually do 1:48th, so I ended up with no decals at all. You paint the internals but don't hand-paint the markings to make up for the bad decals? It's like you don't even care about history. (satire) It looks good.
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 03:58 |
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Tuxedo Jack posted:I made a thing. This owns and is one of the best titan legions (besides Crucius, which owns the hardest) Sulecrist posted:Here's one of my Kill Teams: These also own
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PRESIDENT GOKU posted:Great thread. I was going to start painting minis with the intent of getting into playing warhams eventually, but not any time soon. I have a squad of Tau fire caste mans on the way, and I need to get the bare bones basics in terms of brushes, paints, and tools. That sounds like a good starter setup there, although you don't need the sable hair brushes to get started. You can use normal natural hair brushes for your normal painting duties. I also like natural hair for a wash brush, it seems to hold the liquid better for me. X-acto knife is your go-to hobby knife. You can get cheap side cutters from any train, model or hobby shop, just don't cut right up to the part with them and use your knife to trim away the nubs. As long as you're careful you can use a big Stanley blade to do the cutting off the sprue, then use your smaller knife to get the nubs off. See the first part of the OP for a longer list of things you might want to consider getting, there's a few things you haven't mentioned, like glue, etc.
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 11:00 |
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PRESIDENT GOKU posted:EDIT: What is a less expensive alternative to the $30 diagonal wire cutters GW offers? Snap On makes tools that expensive. I use a pair of $3 cuticle cutters from Walgreen's.
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rantmo posted:I use a pair of $3 cuticle cutters from Walgreen's. I use Radio Shack clippers because they have a lifetime warranty (lolololol). And I usually paint with Testors brushes these days. Sometimes I break out a Windsor and Newton Scepter to do detail work but things under a 1 or 2 usually don't hold enough paint for my tastes. Also Faust did some videos on starter hobby stuff that are good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2y8wIJCS-k
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Paolomania posted:How is the color scheme looking on this Old One? I'm freehand painting (this is a sloppy tonal blocking - blending to come later) and going for vibrant / high contrast because I will be varnishing for table top use (which always mutes everything). Finished the free-hand base coat with some two brush blending.
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 14:12 |
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That blending's looking pretty great! Where's that mini from?
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 14:32 |
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That is Mashaaf from the Reaper Bones 2 kickstarter.
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 14:47 |
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Does anyone make a set of UV Phosphorescent model paints? Bonus points if I can push them through an airbrush? I have ~*IdEaS*~
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Hubis posted:Does anyone make a set of UV Phosphorescent model paints? Bonus points if I can push them through an airbrush? I have ~*IdEaS*~ Vallejo. And you can airbrush them, but fluo paints are utter assholes to work with, each in its own individual way.
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 16:18 |
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Going to pick up some paints for my Space Hulk minis later. I haven't tried painting anything in forever, so looking forward to it, thanks to the guide in the OP.
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 16:42 |
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El Estrago Bonito posted:Also Faust did some videos on starter hobby stuff that are good: I've added this video and a few of his others to the OP in various places (basing, oil washes, washes, painting 15mm, etc.) - we're getting there with the content!
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 17:05 |
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wondering if anyone had a good tutorial for painting white hot metal? have a couple models I want to get stupid with.
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# ? Mar 16, 2015 21:24 |
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I finished painting and basing all of the armies for the battle of five armies last week. I'll put pictures up of them all once I finish the last 9 heroes for the set. Wanted to post now because an awesome storage solution arrived for me last week and I love it so far. It's using gem trays and gem transportation cases for miniatures, taken from this blog: http://belchedfromthedepths.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-quest-for-perfect-miniatures.html The hard cases are a little over $60 for an aluminum one that holds 12" worth of trays. The trays come in 1,2 or 3 inches and you can combine them with a little extra effort if needed. The 1" trays fit most of my 10mm, the 2" trays fit most 28mm minis and the 3" fit most 28mm cavalry. I just added some flex metal I had around to the bottom of the trays and everything holds fast and transports great, and it is helping organizing things for painting/basing/organization workflow. The vendor gems on display was great as well. Two of the 2 inch trays were shattered and the corner cracked on the case by FedEx when shipping and they just sent me free replacements that arrived today.
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# ? Mar 17, 2015 02:13 |
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PRESIDENT GOKU posted:EDIT: What is a less expensive alternative to the $30 diagonal wire cutters GW offers? Snap On makes tools that expensive. I used to work in an electrical engineering lab and stole many pairs of side cutters made to cut and strip wire. The ones Gale Force Nine make are a little pricey, but not 30 dollars, and they are actually very good, unlike the GW ones which nick up and become lovely after snipping a few metal models.
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# ? Mar 17, 2015 02:25 |
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nesbit37 posted:Amazing poo poo What is are the dimensions of those trays X x Y x Z? That thing looks amazing.
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# ? Mar 17, 2015 02:28 |
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Thanks for all the critique especially thecosmicmuffet for his detailed one!!!! I tried some new stuff with this guy is it working did I get what you guys were saying? Also white highlights so you can really see how sloppy I am!!!!!!
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# ? Mar 17, 2015 02:43 |
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The internal usable dimensions of the trays are about 7.75 x 14 inches and they come in variable depths.
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# ? Mar 17, 2015 02:45 |
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dexefiend posted:What is are the dimensions of those trays X x Y x Z? Huzzah!
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# ? Mar 17, 2015 03:22 |
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nesbit37 posted:I finished painting and basing all of the armies for the battle of five armies last week. I'll put pictures up of them all once I finish the last 9 heroes for the set. Wanted to post now because an awesome storage solution arrived for me last week and I love it so far. It's using gem trays and gem transportation cases for miniatures, taken from this blog: http://belchedfromthedepths.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-quest-for-perfect-miniatures.html I love this kind of storage hack. Clever, DIY, and an awesome hard case that cost less than the cardboard boxes you'd get somewhere else. Ace!
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# ? Mar 17, 2015 03:28 |
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Now I'm thinking there should be a storage/transport section of the OP...considering this is thread is mostly about wargaming painting!
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krushgroove posted:Now I'm thinking there should be a storage/transport section of the OP...considering this is thread is mostly about wargaming painting! What could be more suitable for protecting your precious jewel like creations of magic, than actual jewel cases? It's brilliant. But yeah, transportation and storage becomes a big issue once you go past your initial couple of boxes of minis. It is one of the reasons why my two next projects are in 6mm.
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