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It's like when bears get their head stuck in value jars of peanut butter.
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Horace-Noah posted:
Try to find a set of genestealer arms and tack them on, I think he would look splendid.
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Then paint them skin colours.
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Paint 'em pink and BOOM Possessed marine, Slaanesh style
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I thought at first that was a straitjacket.
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Arr! That's Handsome Pete; he dances for nickels.
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:For anyone who doesn't know that an MLP high school AU exists: Because bronies are weird gross perverts. EDIT: Here's someone not following the an important rule of painting models:  Kaiju Cage Match fucked around with this message at 13:37 on Apr 23, 2016 |
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If I wanted to start learning to paint minis on the cheap how would I go about doing it? Start with lovely plastic toy soldiers? I want to get back into the miniature hobby and I've never actually painted anything I own and I want to start.
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Len posted:If I wanted to start learning to paint minis on the cheap how would I go about doing it? Start with lovely plastic toy soldiers? I want to get back into the miniature hobby and I've never actually painted anything I own and I want to start. Get a big pack of cheap white plastic spoons from the supermarket.
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Len posted:If I wanted to start learning to paint minis on the cheap how would I go about doing it? Start with lovely plastic toy soldiers? I want to get back into the miniature hobby and I've never actually painted anything I own and I want to start. I've been trying to get into painting, and I've found my old Heroclix miniatures to be perfect for this. They're prepainted comic book figures with sculpts a little above plastic army men on round bases. I've been able to paint directly onto them (no primer) without issues. Plus, most of the old common figures can be had for around a quarter (okay, maybe 50 cents), even less if you pick up a bulk lot. FlyFishinInnuendo fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Apr 23, 2016 |
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Len posted:If I wanted to start learning to paint minis on the cheap how would I go about doing it? Start with lovely plastic toy soldiers? I want to get back into the miniature hobby and I've never actually painted anything I own and I want to start. Grab some Reaper Bones minis. They are cheap as hell and you have a huge range of different types of minis available to paint. Decent enough quality too, especially for what you pay for them. You don't even need to prime them before you paint them, just give them a scrub with some warm water to get the releasing agent off and you are good to go.
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Len posted:If I wanted to start learning to paint minis on the cheap how would I go about doing it? Start with lovely plastic toy soldiers? I want to get back into the miniature hobby and I've never actually painted anything I own and I want to start. https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Space-Marines-Starter-Paint-Set-2016?_requestid=28478312
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Cross posting from the Warhammer Fantasy RIP thread.KingFisher posted:4th ed Archaon looked better:
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Len posted:If I wanted to start learning to paint minis on the cheap how would I go about doing it? Start with lovely plastic toy soldiers? I want to get back into the miniature hobby and I've never actually painted anything I own and I want to start. Get a bottle of black, white, red, yellow and blue acrylic paints (£10 in UK for my personal favourite Vallejo Model Colour). A reasonable quality (don't buy a super expensive one until you're comfortable painting as it wont help at the early stages) size 0 brush or a 2 and a 0 if you want to base large areas of the same colour. Vallejo Game Colour might be a better choice for starting out as they're harder wearing. In which case here's what I'd get:  Black,White,Red,Yellow,Blue, a cheap but effective brush and 5 Goblins to mess about with and change from £20. You can always add Green and Brown if you don't want to have to mix them each time. With those you can make any (non-metallic) colour until you're comfortable spending more, then just add in colours you use a lot. Alternatively: http://elementgames.co.uk/paints-hobby-and-scenery/paints-washes-etc/army-painter-warpaints/warpaints-starter-set Will get you a brush and the main colours + 4 more and a wash (no idea on the paints though, but a few game companies seem to be putting out starter sets with their paints). Or for £20 you could get one of the two GW starter sets with the base brush and 3 models but they do only contain 3ml paint pots vs the 17ml dropper bottles in the other brands. Also they're not great starter colour choices unless you want to paint an Ultramarine or gold Sigmar guy. TLDR; buy the stuff in the image for starting out.
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The Army painter kit is what I started with and is pretty okay. The red and yellow are kind of thin on pigment so a bitch to get coverage on black with. The shades kit they also sell is good and will net you another bottle of strong tone as well as dark tone wash. Compared to the cost one might inevitably sink into various minis buying a good brush sooner rather than later actually isn't a bad idea. I recently ponied up the whopping $25 for a W&N Series 7 size 1 and 0 and am a total convert. The degree of finer tip/control one gets let me shelf a bunch of smaller, cheap brushes. Of course having some cheap brushes you don't care as much about has its uses for drybrushing or larger work.
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darnon posted:Compared to the cost one might inevitably sink into various minis buying a good brush sooner rather than later actually isn't a bad idea. I recently ponied up the whopping $25 for a W&N Series 7 size 1 and 0 and am a total convert. The degree of finer tip/control one gets let me shelf a bunch of smaller, cheap brushes. Of course having some cheap brushes you don't care as much about has its uses for drybrushing or larger work. Totally agree that a series 7 is a nice step up, after I made the switch myself many years back and using the 7 for detail work my painting did improve a lot but I think earlier on it wouldn't have made much of a difference especially compared to a reasonable quality sable. The second part of your comment is another reason I recommend a cheaper brush to start with as it can be relegated to base coating/drybrushing etc.. later. Even today I still only really dig out the series 7 for the last hour or so on a model as everything else I find much faster with my cheapo size 2 brush. The brush I linked isn't too bad for its price, it's a sable and for the first few mini's will be fine for getting used to paint thicknesses, layering and highlighting etc.. and once it gets wrecked or replaced it'll work fine as a small drybrush or as a PVA spreader for basing.
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Put your stuff in the oath thread each month and you will be eligible to randomly win a nice set of brushes from our beloved sponsor springer pinsel. The point of the oath thread is to get people painting regularly and to learn/practice so don't worry if your stuff looks a bit sub par. It really is about the taking part.
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Please drop link, I might rejoin next week. I having some infinity manz giving me the stinkeye.
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3717315&pagenumber=1&perpage=40 We are now in the final week of the season, but the whole thing starts over on May 1st. Each month has different challenges and there is a set of annual/monthly prizes that you can win by just taking part or by earning enough points over the year from regular oathing or judges points. I'm a fairly average painter and have managed a couple of 3rd place monthly judge points so you don't need to be enviably good like a few of the participants manage to be.
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I placed an order for some brushes and found some of my old Urban War and Starship Troopers guys. I'm going to get the P3 faction sets from a friend who bought them and never opened them. Hopefully sometime next week I'll have something to post in this thread.
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Ugleb posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3717315&pagenumber=1&perpage=40 I might get back in depending on rules and/or my ability to actually be able to paint things in my current and future domiciles. If I hadn't relocated two years ago, I would've started to experiment with airbrushing, and would really like to do so again, but I fear I won't have any place to do so. Also, spray can primer might be right out as well; though maybe I can sneak up onto the roof of my apartment building when nobody is looking... Seriously, though, I would love to get back to get back into this, especially with the Dropfleet Commander kickstarter due to ship within the next two months. But again, availability of a place to actually paint is an actual issue for me.
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Here's some Battletech minis I painted when I was like... 8: I'm a big fan of the patriotic Phoenix Hawk and the Wasp I wanted to look like Bumblebee. The third guy is unpainted but a... special sculpt on its own.
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I can't not see the unpainted mini as a semi wearing a beanie and poofy sleeves.
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That describes like 80% of Battletech minis so you're not wrong.
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SRM posted:Here's some Battletech minis I painted when I was like... 8: that middle one is a robotech. an anime. Explain yourself
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Herr Tog posted:that middle one is a robotech. an anime. Explain yourself So is the Wasp on the far left. In the 80s, they licenesed a bunch of mech designs from Robotech, but then the rights expired and they couldn't renew them. Because of this, they're "unseen" mechs and they don't make them anymore. There were some that were even more overt: 
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SRM posted:So is the Wasp on the far left. In the 80s, they licenesed a bunch of mech designs from Robotech, but then the rights expired and they couldn't renew them. Because of this, they're "unseen" mechs and they don't make them anymore. There were some that were even more overt: ha ha! Wonderful! Please post more!
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SRM posted:That describes like 80% of Battletech minis so you're not wrong. It really bugs me that, AFAIK, there aren't any Battletech models based on MWO redesigns. So many of the original mech designs look like rear end.
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SRM posted:So is the Wasp on the far left. In the 80s, they licenesed a bunch of mech designs from Robotech, but then the rights expired and they couldn't renew them. Because of this, they're "unseen" mechs and they don't make them anymore. There were some that were even more overt: Isn't it a bit more complex than that? I was under the impression that Harmony Gold, who owned Macross, and FASA both licensed the designs from the same company. Or at least FASA thought they had. Harmony Gold have may been the exclusive holder and FASA had no idea it was infringing. This was fine for years until Harmony Gold caught wind of it, possibly because of FASA's own aggressive protection of the designs, and decided to put the legal boot to FASA. This lead to a years long legal dispute between FASA and Harmony Gold which FASA simply didn't have the money or expertise to deal with. In the end, it was easier to remove the designs from future publications.
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Atlas Hugged posted:Isn't it a bit more complex than that? I was under the impression that Harmony Gold, who owned Macross, and FASA both licensed the designs from the same company. Or at least FASA thought they had. Harmony Gold have may been the exclusive holder and FASA had no idea it was infringing. This was fine for years until Harmony Gold caught wind of it, possibly because of FASA's own aggressive protection of the designs, and decided to put the legal boot to FASA. This lead to a years long legal dispute between FASA and Harmony Gold which FASA simply didn't have the money or expertise to deal with. In the end, it was easier to remove the designs from future publications. Also for some reason they didn't just redesign the robots so there are a bunch of semi-popular mechs that just aren't allowed artwork anymore
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Improbable Lobster posted:Also for some reason they didn't just redesign the robots so there are a bunch of semi-popular mechs that just aren't allowed artwork anymore This is half-true. Some of them did get new designs and others got an updated version with new stats in Project Phoenix. So I have mechs that are technically in the Warhammer and Phoenix Hawk families that aren't the "classic" Warhammer or Phoenix Hawk. But unless you're playing with the groggiest of grogs, you can point at your mech that is basically a Warhammer and say, "This is a Warhammer, not a Warhammer IIC" and no one will give a poo poo. I actually like these designs better than the originals.  
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Improbable Lobster posted:It really bugs me that, AFAIK, there aren't any Battletech models based on MWO redesigns. So many of the original mech designs look like rear end. I don't know why they haven't gotten Warlord or Prodos or one of the bajillion other miniatures companies around to make new mech models based on the designs from MWO and the like. All the existing models are these blocky old chunky dudes, even the newer plastics.
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 This isn't really a bad conversion. I mean, unless you've got a problem with chopping up a $60 unreleased prototype figure.
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Atlas Hugged posted:Isn't it a bit more complex than that? I was under the impression that Harmony Gold, who owned Macross, and FASA both licensed the designs from the same company. Or at least FASA thought they had. Harmony Gold have may been the exclusive holder and FASA had no idea it was infringing. This was fine for years until Harmony Gold caught wind of it, possibly because of FASA's own aggressive protection of the designs, and decided to put the legal boot to FASA. This lead to a years long legal dispute between FASA and Harmony Gold which FASA simply didn't have the money or expertise to deal with. In the end, it was easier to remove the designs from future publications. You do not want to get into that can of worms.
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Kwyndig posted:You do not want to get into that can of worms. Yeah from a bit of googling it seems a lot of it is hearsay and rumors stitched together from contradicting insider statements and legal documents.
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SRM posted:I don't know why they haven't gotten Warlord or Prodos or one of the bajillion other miniatures companies around to make new mech models based on the designs from MWO and the like. All the existing models are these blocky old chunky dudes, even the newer plastics. 
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moths posted:
I'm just glad that they didn't decide to model clunge into that thigh gap. Also, is it bad that I want the figure that that head came from? It's the DE codex head, right?
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jadebullet posted:Also, is it bad that I want the figure that that head came from? It's the DE codex head, right?
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What's the unreleased model? Kruellagh the Vile (still my favorite 40K special character name  )EDIT: Oh, wait, Kruellah the Vile did get a model, didn't she? Then what's the unreleased one?
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