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OptimusWang posted:Sorry if this is a really basic question, but do plastic minis just kind of suck to paint vs metal ones? Or is that mostly a Reaper issue? Bones figs are in some ways easier to paint, but you have to know how to handle them. First off, like everyone said, wash them first to get the release agent off. This honestly isn't a terrible idea with metal or hard plastic figures either. It's just more noticeable with Bones because they're hydrophobic to begin with. This will also remove any skin oils they've picked up from being handled. Second, some rattlecan primers will react poorly to them, leaving them permanently tacky due to solvents in the primer. There are a few ways to solve this. The first is to know which primers react well. If you go to the first post of the Reaper Owns Bones thread, you'll see some info that talks about which primers are good and which ones aren't. Second, you can use brush-on primers, like the ones Vallejo makes. These will basically never give you issues. The third is to ignore the primer requirement. One of the things that makes the Reaper plastic different from hard plastic or metal is that it doesn't really need to be primed. If you go this route, do not thin your basecoat, as bones are hydrophobic. Finally, you can prime them with something that isn't paint. I've seen people use matte sealer (especially on translucent bones figures) or Reaper's liner paints (which also help draw out the detail of the figure, making it easier to paint). Once they're cleaned off and have a layer of something down, they paint up just like any other mini.
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 Finished that Kanren, pretty happy with it overall. Definitely kind of messy as a result of being a color test, the glowy bits went through like four different colors before I just gave up and made them bright gently caress-off green. The NMM is also kind of janky because I've had basically no practice at it, but such is life, forcing myself to do it on a bunch of models is the best way to get better at it. Very happy with the way the face turned out, it's slightly less orange than the pictures portray, squarely in the "moderately realistic southeast asian skintone" box. I went in wanting the turquoise to be slightly more green and the red with slightly more blue to it, but I can't say I'm unhappy with where I landed. Now I just have to figure out what I'm doing with the more heavily armored models in the faction.
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I started reading the Best of the Worst thread and whoooo boy tgat BTP stuff made me feel a lot better about my own attempts 
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For me, it was the D&D prepaints I had from my 3.5 days. I'm still a lovely painter, but at least I can consistently crank out better paintjobs than that.
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 Finished another 5-man squad of Blood Ravens that I finished last week but didn't get around until getting good photos until this week. Need to improve at painting the shoulder pads if anything. But the bases ended up looking nicer than expected. Even if I need to either do them separately or learn not to smear texture paint on the models feet by accident. Next project is an understrength troop of Krieg Grenadiers.
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May 30, 2017 11:26
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I figured to start off with my massive block of Stormcast, it'd be best to just do 5 Liberators and one of my 3 Lord Celestants on Dracoth. Managed to get the basecoats, shade and some highlighting done on the Lord. Gotta add the details, and brighten up the yellow.     Bonus group shot:  Hopefully I can get all these guys done by the end of the summer!
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JackMann posted:For me, it was the D&D prepaints I had from my 3.5 days. I'm still a lovely painter, but at least I can consistently crank out better paintjobs than that. Imagine if you had a quota of 1000 a day, tho. Pretty drat fine brushwork IMO.
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They still look like poo poo. Like, it's understandable that they look like poo poo. I agree I couldn't do any better if I was mass producing them. Doesn't mean mine don't look nicer on the table.
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May 30, 2017 16:55
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I've been painting a lot but very little of it has been for myself. Finally got to work on something of my own last night and I'm pretty happy with how this dwarf lord on flying mount is looking    
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Slimnoid posted:I've been painting a lot but very little of it has been for myself. I really dig that gryphon model; it's one of my favorites in the Bones line. Looking forward to seeing how it turns out with the rampant dwarf! How are you planning on painting it? I've done one for this month's Oath:  (I intentionally painted it in the general look of a bluejay. Thinking of doing more of these in the future, but themed after common songbirds, your cardinals, robins, etc.)
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May 30, 2017 20:36
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I'm going to be painting some Yu-Jing for infinity. I've decided on doing a fairly bright gold for the armor plates and blue/teal for clothing/etc. For the glow/lens effects on the helmets and various other places, what would be a good color? I feel like red wouldn't look right alongside gold, so green? I could just do blue to keep it a little simpler, too.
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Dr. Gargunza posted:How are you planning on painting it? I honestly have no idea. The army it's going with has a yellow color scheme, but I don't think I want to make the bird yellow. That'd just be inviting Big Bird jokes on myself. Edit: That said, I'm open to suggestions. Slimnoid fucked around with this message at 21:23 on May 30, 2017 |
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Slimnoid posted:I honestly have no idea. The army it's going with has a yellow color scheme, but I don't think I want to make the bird yellow. That'd just be inviting Big Bird jokes on myself. Embrace the bigbird-ness! And set you cool yellow gryphon on anyone foolish enough to make the joke.
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dmnz posted:Embrace the bigbird-ness! And set you cool yellow gryphon on anyone foolish enough to make the joke. Well, a friend of mine had a suggestion: base it on real birds. Specifically, the oriole.  Got enough yellow to match the army without being tacky as poo poo. I'm gonna roll with it.
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May 30, 2017 23:11
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I agree with this. The last few monsters I've painted have had colour schemes based around real world critters and I find it gives a neat effect.
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May 30, 2017 23:24
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E; whoops wrong thread. Major black, minor yellow is confirmed best colour scheme though
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S.J. posted:I'm going to be painting some Yu-Jing for infinity. I've decided on doing a fairly bright gold for the armor plates and blue/teal for clothing/etc. For the glow/lens effects on the helmets and various other places, what would be a good color? I feel like red wouldn't look right alongside gold, so green? I could just do blue to keep it a little simpler, too. Green would work, but red will work too. If you go red you'll want to push it more, maybe a lot more, towards violet red than a pure bright red.
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Gareth Gobulcoque posted:Green would work, but red will work too. If you go red you'll want to push it more, maybe a lot more, towards violet red than a pure bright red. Yeah, doing purple is another option too, and that might work better. I feel like red won't stand out enough inside of a gold framing.
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These are my next painting project: My colour scheme is that light-blue/orange division. For my 'modern' terminators I did a Deathwing scheme with just the shoulder-pads. Any thoughts on these? I was thinking a jade green and checkerboard chapter colours on the shoulderpad.
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May 31, 2017 11:03
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Started work on a veteran scout sergeant conversion.  The mould lines on the resin shoulder pads is loving atrocious.
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Isn't that a full size Marine shoulderpad too? Not that I'm worried about keeping things in line, but maybe worth changing the other one too? I have a small question around conversion: will
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Southern Heel posted:I have a small question around conversion: will Waaay to big for Gors. If you're looking for bare human arms, Catachan ones would probably work.
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Slimnoid posted:Well, a friend of mine had a suggestion: base it on real birds. Specifically, the oriole. Oh man, that's gonna be sweet. Looking forward to the pics! e: Southern Heel: Seconding the Catechan arms, but you might also try Kroot arms if you're looking for thinner but still bestial-looking. e2, what's wrong with me today: A halfway decent recipe for a vibrant yellow I've used is P3 Sulfuric Yellow washed with GW Lamenters Yellow. Really brightens it up, and since the P3 is already lighter, you can focus the GW glaze towards the recesses for instant highlights. Edge highlight with a mix of P3 Sulfuric and Vallejo Pale Sand. Use your favorite yellow-orange in the shadows, going all the way to browns for really deep contrasts. Dr. Gargunza fucked around with this message at 18:00 on May 31, 2017 |
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Slimnoid posted:Waaay to big for Gors. If you're looking for bare human arms, Catachan ones would probably work.
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Ok thanks! People tend to have spare ork arms but not many catachan plastic spares...
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I wanted to try something with greens since I'm poo poo with them, but can't decide on highlights. I've whipped up two test Enforcers: one with grey/green (left) and the other with yellow/green (right) highlights. I didn't like the right one at first, but seeing them together makes me think it's the better option. Thoughts?  
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I'm liking the yellow green more. They pop better. That said, if you could find a lighter gray-green, it might give you the best of both worlds.
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Southern Heel posted:Isn't that a full size Marine shoulderpad too? Not that I'm worried about keeping things in line, but maybe worth changing the other one too? Yeah, that's on purpose. Was going for the asymmetrical shoulders. Sgt. Telion seems to have 2 different shoulder pads too, though maybe less stark.
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Still have a lot to learn about painting, but here's some recent Infinity stuff  (Basing is WIP)     I gave Mr. Yuan Yuan a golden gun because he has a ridiculous body count so far throughout my games deploying him.
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May 31, 2017 20:55
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I finished Grak and Crumbleberry!
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The Sex Cannon posted:I finished Grak and Crumbleberry! Looking good! I guess you'll be picking up Slart too sometime?
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MG42 posted:Still have a lot to learn about painting, but here's some recent Infinity stuff I'm confused... What is it you have to learn? Also, teach me? Haha. These are badass.
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Zark the Damned posted:Looking good! Do you mean Glart? Then yes, I will! He's one of my absolute favorite Star Players. I'm planning on buying and painting all of the Star Players so anyone can use them in my league. Next up: Mighty Zug. Then: Griff Oberwald. Then: Hakflem Skuttlespike. Hopefully after Skuttlespike they will have released some more for me to paint!
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How important is model height in 40K? I just magnetized my first Raider, and didn't think to account for the magnets or the insert post when I measured my support dowel. It's about .5" too high, I think. Do I need to cut it off the base and cut the post down? 
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bonds0097 posted:Started work on a veteran scout sergeant conversion. Please leave the codpiece bright red and paint him black.
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Oath Thread crosspostin' time!Dr. Gargunza posted:Oath Complete! MG42, what models are those? You're doing some nice work on them. (Curious 'cos I have an Operation Red Veil just sitting around, haven't even opened it yet to look at the models.)
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Crosspost over from 40k thread: Okay so it's not finished but it looks finished from this side and I'm so  over how it looks in person.
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Thanks  Your Yuan Yuan looks great! From top to bottom, left to right they are the following models: Hassassin Govad HMG Djanbazan box Tariqa, High Rank Counselor Murabids Tuareg Hacker Limited edition Yuan Yuan from the Operation Red Veil set. Faces, blending and getting a clean look are still things I just can't get right, but like I said, still learning!
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I've only painted a handful of miniatures so far, so I'm still learning a lot. I want to try to paint some Black Legion WH40k units. Most people use grey highlights and some of them turn out okay, but I absolutely love this paint job: I think the key is that there's a lot of detail that isn't black which makes it visually more interesting than 90% of the paint jobs I've seen, but the blue highlights are something I think looks awesome and haven't seen elsewhere. Can someone tell me which citadel paints are used for the blue highlights on black armor? I'm no good at recognizing colors yet. Paints tend to look different than I expect them to on my models. edit: I think it's Dark Reaper with either Thunderhawk Blue OR Administratum Grey. Thoughts? a7m2 fucked around with this message at 07:23 on Jun 1, 2017 |
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a7m2 posted:
I'd slap that all-black mini on the right on the table and call it an Imperial Fist during a night op.
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