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She is happy for someone barely thicker than the stick she's carrying
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Sep 25, 2016 08:37
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Maybe it's just a very thick stick.
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Sep 25, 2016 09:46
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What is it meant to look like? I don't even know what miniature it's supposed to be!
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Sep 25, 2016 12:18
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Irate Tree posted:What is it meant to look like? I don't even know what miniature it's supposed to be! I think that's one of the Pathfinder flagship characters but it might also be a bad bootleg since I can't find one in that same pose. I like how I can identify a Wayne Reynolds character design even from a misshapen mess = p
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Sep 25, 2016 14:17
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I tracked it down. It's the PF iconic Witch, Feiya, from the Pathfinder Battles line. It's prepainted, and the picture Paizo uses on the official store ain't much better than that mess.
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Sep 25, 2016 15:36
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I'm guessing X-wing's mostly flat surfaces leads to much better prepainted minis than typical humanoid figures because I don't think I have ever seen one that didn't look like rear end.
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Sep 25, 2016 15:48
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TheWyrmDude posted:I tracked it down. It's the PF iconic Witch, Feiya, from the Pathfinder Battles line. It's prepainted, and the picture Paizo uses on the official store ain't much better than that mess. Oh my god that's official? 
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Sep 25, 2016 16:17
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Yeah, that's about the level of quality you get from mass-produced prepaints. I'm not surprised except for how terrible the sculpt is.
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Sep 25, 2016 16:21
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mango sentinel posted:Oh my god that's official?
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Sep 25, 2016 16:27
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Chill la Chill posted:I'm guessing X-wing's mostly flat surfaces leads to much better prepainted minis than typical humanoid figures because I don't think I have ever seen one that didn't look like rear end. I've seen ones that aren't THAT terrible though.
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Sep 25, 2016 18:08
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AT-43 had some decent quality paintjobs if I remember right. Though they lulled people into a false sense of security when they shifted Confrontation to prepainted, and those ended up looking half finished.
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Sep 25, 2016 19:55
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TheWyrmDude posted:I tracked it down. It's the PF iconic Witch, Feiya, from the Pathfinder Battles line. It's prepainted, and the picture Paizo uses on the official store ain't much better than that mess. People actually buy this over unpainted? Holy crap.
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Sep 25, 2016 23:22
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Ugleb posted:People actually buy this over unpainted? Holy crap. From my small experience with pre-painted things non-humans usually end up looking way better. Humans end up with like big white bug eyes.
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Sep 25, 2016 23:50
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Ugleb posted:People actually buy this over unpainted? Holy crap. Some (and I use this term cautiously) prepaints actually have pretty decent sculpts (Bones quality) hiding under the gloopy paintwork. The problem with the D&D line is that their paint formulation IIRC can't be stripped off, which means if the Chinese/Indian sweatshop slave who glopped the paint on did it too thick, you're SOL even if you wanted to try a repaint. Having said that, there is massive variety in the prepainted stuff, much more than in better quality unpainted, and you can see lots of people complaining in the boardgame forums about having to actually assemble their miniatures or the miniatures being bare plastic.
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Sep 26, 2016 00:52
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Z the IVth posted:Some (and I use this term cautiously) prepaints actually have pretty decent sculpts (Bones quality) hiding under the gloopy paintwork. The problem with the D&D line is that their paint formulation IIRC can't be stripped off, which means if the Chinese/Indian sweatshop slave who glopped the paint on did it too thick, you're SOL even if you wanted to try a repaint. The only complaint I have when my boardgames need assembled is that if I'm at a con I don't have glue or anything with me. I just want to play my new game drat it!
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Sep 26, 2016 01:36
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start bringing glue with you
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Sep 26, 2016 03:48
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Ugleb posted:People actually buy this over unpainted? Holy crap.
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Sep 26, 2016 06:12
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For reference, here's the Reaper version, with two different paintjobs.
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Sep 26, 2016 06:17
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mango sentinel posted:Sometimes you just want a box of dudes for your tabletop RPG and aren't into assembling and painting. They also generally tend to be in blind boxes either with idealized mockups on the back of box or no actual model photograph at all. That thing is egregious even by those standards. AT-43 had a clear window so you could see how the miniatures look; same with X-Wing. I would paint the poo poo out of my Imperial Assault dudes if I had the game box. gently caress playing in grey.
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Sep 26, 2016 07:14
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I totally get single piece, monopose board game pieces. I don't get why anyone would prefer that quality of painting over just bare plastic.
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Sep 26, 2016 07:25
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Ugleb posted:I totally get single piece, monopose board game pieces. I don't get why anyone would prefer that quality of painting over just bare plastic. This hearkens back to a debate we've had a few times in the Death Thread. The core of it is that unpainted miniatures almost always look better than their poorly painted counterparts and there's nothing really wrong with someone who just wants to play the game opting not to paint their models instead of doing a lovely job of it.
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Sep 26, 2016 07:41
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Eh, kinda. I mean, to be fair, the Feiya mini is pretty much a worst case scenario. I mean, they all look bad, but most of them don't look that bad. And at arm's length, they usually look at least passable. I prefer stuff I've painted, but I can get liking it over bare plastic. Especially if you haven't had a lot of exposure to real painted minis and don't know they can look better.
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Sep 26, 2016 07:44
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Atlas Hugged posted:This hearkens back to a debate we've had a few times in the Death Thread. The core of it is that unpainted miniatures almost always look better than their poorly painted counterparts and there's nothing really wrong with someone who just wants to play the game opting not to paint their models instead of doing a lovely job of it. Don't get me wrong, I'm hardly a painting God myself. I'm not going to disparage anyone's attempts at painting their own stuff as they are at least attempting to put their stamp on their minis even if the result is amateur level. I appreciate that they made an effort and that's cool. I just don't see the appeal of buying something that looks so drat ugly out of the box when they probably paid a premium for it to look like that.
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Sep 26, 2016 10:20
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Pretty sure this belongs here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FayBHOhucf0
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Sep 29, 2016 17:49
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Ugleb posted:Don't get me wrong, I'm hardly a painting God myself. I'm not going to disparage anyone's attempts at painting their own stuff as they are at least attempting to put their stamp on their minis even if the result is amateur level. I appreciate that they made an effort and that's cool. Speaking as someone who's done a fair amount of commission painting, it's because painting things in a clean and quick style is a totally different set of skills than what is normally taught as mini painting. It's a huge problem that's basically a scourge on the miniatures hobby. It's like if you, I dunno, wanted to pick up watercolors as a hobby and tried to learn how to do it using only tutorials about impressionist oil painting. Basically if you want to pick up "basic" painting and not the sort of poo poo that leads to studio figures the following techniques are the MOST important (in this order): -Color/Piece composition: Choosing what colors you're painting and where they go is more important than literally any other skill. -Color area definition: Making sure that all your pieces are extremely segregated when it comes to color application, not placing similar colors next to each other, making sure you have deep yet soft shadows between everything, etc -Using washes and dips: straight up army painter, secret weapon and minwax is what you need. -Layering and highlighting: you should be doing Basecoat, highlight layer, wash, re-highlight. That's it, don't gently caress with anything else. -Every other painting technique. Basically if you want to paint stuff fast and good, invest in dip and matte varnish. Dipping looks like rear end without the matte varnish layer, but once you matte it produces extremely good results. The key to success with dipping lays almost entirely in color composition and so that should be the MOST important step of speed painting.
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Sep 30, 2016 06:41
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*takes notes*
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Sep 30, 2016 06:49
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I took a basic art class as an elective in college. Simple poo poo like rudimentary color theory and design with black and white stuff, all on 2D. That was before I starting painting minis. It's amazing how much I retained from it and use when I paint minis. All because I had to fill a bullshit arts and humanities slot to graduate.
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Sep 30, 2016 09:00
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Flavivirus posted:Pretty sure this belongs here: Oh God he even uses BuyPainted's music 
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Sep 30, 2016 12:36
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adamantium|wang posted:Oh God he even uses BuyPainted's music That video was pretty great. Is this making fun of Buypainter? I'd never heard of him before. Looking at a random videos, his stuff looks not bad to me, but yeah it's the same music.
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Sep 30, 2016 22:10
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Big Ink posted:Pretty clever. Cover it all up with a shield so noone can recognize your amazing talent. lol brutal
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Oct 2, 2016 17:13
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It's pretty rough but I'm trying to dip my toes back into the miniature hobby. Here's my first attempt at making some terrain. http://imgur.com/a/O1fyU Long term I'd like to build a Frostgrave table and talk my friends into playing a campaign.
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Oct 3, 2016 00:05
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Len posted:It's pretty rough but I'm trying to dip my toes back into the miniature hobby. Here's my first attempt at making some terrain. Get cereal box cardboard, some old magic cards and some scissors. You can do pretty decent results by just covering cardboard with cardstock and other cardboard. Slats and tiling are your friend.
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Oct 3, 2016 04:33
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Len posted:It's pretty rough but I'm trying to dip my toes back into the miniature hobby. Here's my first attempt at making some terrain. Is it bad I like the way you did the big tree? I think a whole table like that would be fun, looks cel-shaded!
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Oct 3, 2016 08:11
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glitchkrieg posted:Is it bad I like the way you did the big tree? I think a whole table like that would be fun, looks cel-shaded! Yeah. Getting a kind of Massive Chalice vibe from it, but in a good way.
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Oct 3, 2016 08:46
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I'm trying different things with the trees. I'm on the poor side so my materials are the boxes I salvage from work and construction paper. But I should still be able to make passable things, I hope.
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Oct 3, 2016 12:30
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Len posted:I'm trying different things with the trees. I'm on the poor side so my materials are the boxes I salvage from work and construction paper. But I should still be able to make passable things, I hope. TEXTURE PAINT GOES ON EVERYTHING
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Oct 3, 2016 12:37
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I'm going to pick up a hot glue gun today and try making something nicer. I made the building yesterday with crazy glue.
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Oct 3, 2016 15:50
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Len posted:I'm trying different things with the trees. I'm on the poor side so my materials are the boxes I salvage from work and construction paper. But I should still be able to make passable things, I hope. You should check theDMsCraft on Youtube. He makes really nice terrain with really cheap or even free materials.
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I'll give that a check when I get home then. My favorite part of miniatures was always the building parts. Putting them together, making a thing to play on, and stuff like that. I'm not big on the actual painting side of things but this feels like the proper thread for homemade rough terrain. If you guys don't want me to poo poo it up I won't post things though.
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