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Geoff Zahn posted:Is Ushabti Bone different than Vallejo's Bonewhite, or identical to it? Curious as Bonewhite is slightly lighter than the old Bleached Bone, and not all of the new GW line matches the old despite what the conversion charts say. I can't speak to the Vallejo but Ushabti Bone is a very yellowed off-white and I don't imagine would match up well with any "bleached" paint.
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Re: Rotting Flesh, the GW Nurgling Green is supposed to be the match. It's a bit greener in the pot, though once it's dried it kind of matches better.
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Geoff Zahn posted:Is Ushabti Bone different than Vallejo's Bonewhite, or identical to it? Curious as Bonewhite is slightly lighter than the old Bleached Bone, and not all of the new GW line matches the old despite what the conversion charts say. https://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Paint_Range_Compatibility_Chart VGC Dead Flesh is worth a shot.
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Is this the same table that recommends VMC Russian Uniform (a bit olive-ish but very much green) as the closest equivalent to PP Greatcoat Grey (bluish mid-dark grey)? How can you gently caress up those two with a billion greys in the VMC line is beyond me.
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You want Coat d Arms Putrid Green. Coat d Arms is always the answer for that era of GE paint colour matching.
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Arcturas posted:What's the light blue color? I might steal that for an accent color on some of my spaceships. I used the (new?) GW paints that are meant for thousand sons. Thousand Sons Blue -> Temple Guard Blue -> Ahriman Blue, from darkest to lightest.
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General Olloth posted:
I love the paint scheme, it reminds me of the classic Lego moon base White/Orange/Blue scheme. And not too far off from my own crazy vibrant Tyranids  General Olloth posted:I used the (new?) GW paints that are meant for thousand sons. I used the same colors for the blue on my tyranid, with a couple selective layers of drakenhof nightshade wash, to give a nice gradient and some spots like a poison dart frog 
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Zaphod42 posted:I love the paint scheme, it reminds me of the classic Lego moon base White/Orange/Blue scheme. Yeah I used that wash too. They also used that color scheme for the ice themed sets. Orange transparent chainsaw!
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Yeast, Mango Sentinel, and Beer4TheBeerGod - figured something out. Vallejo Dead Flesh is too dark, but a 1:1 Dead Flesh to Bonewhite is dead on GW's Rotting Flesh. And it seems that Bonewhite is bright enough to be a good highlight color.
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What is the easiest way to paint scrap metal or rusted metal that doesn't involve getting any of the GW technical paints? I have a bunch of Krieg grenadiers I bought which came partly based. Base in question:  Cooked Auto fucked around with this message at 13:32 on Jun 17, 2017 |
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Geoff Zahn posted:Yeast, Mango Sentinel, and Beer4TheBeerGod - figured something out. Vallejo Dead Flesh is too dark, but a 1:1 Dead Flesh to Bonewhite is dead on GW's Rotting Flesh. And it seems that Bonewhite is bright enough to be a good highlight color. Awesome!
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Cooked Auto posted:What is the easiest way to paint scrap metal or rusted metal that doesn't involve getting any of the GW technical paints? Layers of rusty brown, followed with a drybrush of metallic paint along the edges. Washes optional. If you want to add some texture to it, you can use baking soda to get a more grungy effect.
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Slimnoid posted:Layers of rusty brown, followed with a drybrush of metallic paint along the edges. Washes optional. Aight, I'll give that a try. Thanks.
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Cooked Auto posted:Aight, I'll give that a try. Thanks. Oh, you could also try dry pigments as well, totally forgot about those. Either by brushing it on, or mixing it with water to make a kind of wash and apply it that way.
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Slimnoid posted:Oh, you could also try dry pigments as well, totally forgot about those. Either by brushing it on, or mixing it with water to make a kind of wash and apply it that way. I would if I could in that case. Don't really have any of that available. Managed to get something rust looking based on your earlier tip but I'll probably just experiment a bit with the rest.
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What's a good resource for doing your own decals? I have never really messed with them before but was considering doing some on a custom chapter of Bigmarines.
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General Olloth posted:Orange transparent chainsaw! Yesss! I'm trying to see if my cousin can cut me some clear orange acrylic chainsaws for my GSC 
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Slimnoid posted:Oh, you could also try dry pigments as well, totally forgot about those. Either by brushing it on, or mixing it with water to make a kind of wash and apply it that way. Chalk pastels can also be shaved with a scalpel to produce perfectly suitable weathering powders as well. They have the advantage of a greater range of colours and they are usually easier to find.
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Pierzak posted:Is this the same table that recommends VMC Russian Uniform (a bit olive-ish but very much green) as the closest equivalent to PP Greatcoat Grey (bluish mid-dark grey)? How can you gently caress up those two with a billion greys in the VMC line is beyond me. Yeah, there's a few weird equivalencies on that chart that haven't been really addressed. I will say that particular recommendation comes directly from Vallejo, which is why it's weird that they don't really match that well. From what I can gather, that whole page isn't particularly well-maintained, considering the brushthralls link on the bottom of the page redirects to a site that my adblock and antivirus both immediately twigged out on. Personally, I tend to use this spreadsheet here, with the dakkadakka chart as backup. Sure, it doesn't cover washes or metallics (which I do understand, but drat if that isn't something I could've used before settling on a paint scheme), but it tends to give a decent point of comparison across a bunch of different companies. It does seem to have been made a while ago, though, as (for example) I've found that Vallejo Model Color Black Red (70.859) is just a hair off of Formula P3's Sanguine Base. Like, BlackRed is just a little less purple, but IMO you'd need to be a machine to add the minute little bit of extra purple without going overboard. So yeah, take it with a grain of salt, but it's a little more up-to-date than the dakkadakka chart at least.
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Maigius posted:This is going to sound strange, but does anyone have experience using acrylics designed for canvas on minis. I expect we will really have to thin them, but I have a supply of them.      
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 My camera's crap, but I just finished up painting up some Lizard-men (all but the one on the right, that i already had). Now I have a complete lizard-man squad! I found the left 3 in a bargain bin at my LFGS today and just had to get them, since i like lizard-folk.
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Skails posted:I painted these with liquitex heavy body artist acrylics. Holy poo poo, this is beautiful.
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Foolster41 posted:
Your camera is not that bad, but you need to light them better.
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What's a good custom waterslide/transfer decal website? I don't want to hand paint the chapter symbol for my snowflake marines.
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JcDent posted:What's a good custom waterslide/transfer decal website? I don't want to hand paint the chapter symbol for my snowflake marines. Print your own on decal paper?
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Are there any manufacturers who sell 'warbands' ? If you've seen my posts in the Mantic/Mini Wargaming threads I'm trying out a whole bunch of different gaming systems and playing with grotty Dungeon Saga monsters and my four Dwarf independent characters is really dull. I'm not particularly fussed what the dudes are equipped with as long as there's variety (which makes buying a regiment-box fairly impossible.)
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Southern Heel posted:Are there any manufacturers who sell 'warbands' ? If you've seen my posts in the Mantic/Mini Wargaming threads I'm trying out a whole bunch of different gaming systems and playing with grotty Dungeon Saga monsters and my four Dwarf independent characters is really dull. I'm not particularly fussed what the dudes are equipped with as long as there's variety (which makes buying a regiment-box fairly impossible.) The Frostgrave plastic kits let you build pretty varied guys and are extremely well priced.
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Frostgrave has a couple boxes that will give you 20 figs for around 30 MSRP. Soldiers, cultists, gnolls, and barbarians. They all work together too if you want Edit: beaten like crazy
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Any good tutorials about caring for brushes? I seem to wear mine out way too quickly.
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Moose-Alini posted:Any good tutorials about caring for brushes? I seem to wear mine out way too quickly. Don't let the paint cover the ferrule. Get some masters brush cleaner. Those are the main two, really.
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Moose-Alini posted:Any good tutorials about caring for brushes? I seem to wear mine out way too quickly. Ghool has a good tutorial on that.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Your camera is not that bad, but you need to light them better. That might be. I have a LED swivel head lamp that I can never seem to setup at a good angle to get lighting that's not either washed out bright or too dark.
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Doing some planning for Reaper Bones "Goremaw". Any of these thumbnails stand out as particularly good/bad?
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Paolomania posted:Doing some planning for Reaper Bones "Goremaw". Any of these thumbnails stand out as particularly good/bad? Red and purple are most good. Light brown seems a little flat.
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Red or purple with the glow from the bottom right would look ace.
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Paolomania posted:Doing some planning for Reaper Bones "Goremaw". Any of these thumbnails stand out as particularly good/bad? How did you do the red? I may steal that for a Blood Bowl team.
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Bottom middle is pretty good too, but I like the blue lighting effect on the bottom right.
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Lord_Hambrose posted:The Frostgrave plastic kits let you build pretty varied guys and are extremely well priced. Beerdeer posted:Frostgrave has a couple boxes that will give you 20 figs for around 30 MSRP. Soldiers, cultists, gnolls, and barbarians. They all work together too if you want Thank you, I will check that out. After I posted I had a rummage and found a box of Perry War of the Roses Infantry - I've bashed about ten into some discrete types but they are very .. uninspiring, compared to more heroic sculpts.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:How did you do the red? I may steal that for a Blood Bowl team.
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Cross posting from the 40k thread... quote:"Finished" this thing tonight. Real happy with it. May clean up some of the edge highlighting tomorrow. =\
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