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VolatileSky posted:Finally stopped adding small poo poo to everything and got around to priming. Hey, as one conversion loving dude to another- your poo poo is excellent. That valdor is superb. I know how much time it takes to do those kinds of conversions and this poo poo right here is dedication 
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A silly mod to my air compressor set up so my regulator/moisture trap isn't just sitting around collecting dust: It's literally just a brass nipple from Lowe's, meant to give me the clearance to screw it on. Plus, it's a much more precise air regulator than the knob on the compressor itself. Jury's still out on how well it works in practice, but it holds air without leaking, so it should be okay.
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Eh! Frank posted:Testing out a photography setup with a couple of miniatures I painted a few years ago Much better with white light rather than the yellow. You seem to be applying washes too thickly, and when you do that I think you'll see a great effect from going back and doing a fixing layer- you want the shadows in the recesses, not the everything. To me, I think of painting as Basecoat>Wash>Fixing>upper layer(whether highlighting, drybrushing, blending etc.), so start adding in those steps!
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What's the best way to use Vallejo Flow Improver vs Airbrush Thinner?
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:What's the best way to use Vallejo Flow Improver vs Airbrush Thinner? I don't touch anything but Vallejo flow improver nowadays. Literary just take that and whatever paint your using, thin it till it's the consistency of milk, and spray away
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:What's the best way to use Vallejo Flow Improver vs Airbrush Thinner? I do around 1:1:10 flow improver/thinner/paint as per the instructions on non-airbrush paints. I just eyeball it to milk though.
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Does anybody know of a cheap set of either generic elves or dark elves/drow? Wanted to pick up minions for D&D. I have a set of orcs and skeletons from Wargames Factory/Warlord Games where you can build up several guys. Is there something similar it should I just grab up something from Mantic or some other Wargame?  Meantime, progress on these gobbos.
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Jul 15, 2017 06:13
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At some point I will run out of bases for my Napoleonics, and the manufacturer I've bought from has gone out of business. Anyone have a tip for where I can get 30 mm by 25 mm rectangular bases? They look like this: Edit: sorry for the crotch photo 
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Jul 15, 2017 10:42
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They're not plastic, but they're the same dimensions, since it looks like it's closer to 1.25in instead of 35mm http://www.litko.net/products.php?product=Rectangular-Miniature-Bases%3A-1x1.25-in
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Jul 15, 2017 10:47
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They look perfect. Too bad they're from Litko and I'm in the EU. 
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Fish and Chimps posted:At some point I will run out of bases for my Napoleonics, and the manufacturer I've bought from has gone out of business. Anyone have a tip for where I can get 30 mm by 25 mm rectangular bases? They look like this: Find a local Makerspace with a laser cutter.
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Indolent Bastard posted:Find a local Makerspace with a laser cutter. I don't know what a Makerspace is, but I'm gonna try one of my old Warhams buddies who did laser cut MDF bases and templates at one point.
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Fish and Chimps posted:I don't know what a Makerspace is, but I'm gonna try one of my old Warhams buddies who did laser cut MDF bases and templates at one point. A Makerspace is where a collective of people come together to use various Technologies to build stuff. Frequently you will find that they have 3D printers and laser cutters. There used to be one at the University that I attended it was great. They are all over the world if you look up the term Makerspace you'll probably find a map that will find some in your area or close by if you were in a large enough City.
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Fish and Chimps posted:I don't know what a Makerspace is, but I'm gonna try one of my old Warhams buddies who did laser cut MDF bases and templates at one point. abort: yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy I just ate breakfast and your avatar is making me rather nauseous.
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People painting miniatures and bases separately, do you use super glue to assemble them afterwards? How do you get a decent bond, I would imagine glue on paint isn't that strong?
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Ayn Marx posted:People painting miniatures and bases separately, do you use super glue to assemble them afterwards? How do you get a decent bond, I would imagine glue on paint isn't that strong? I think generally people either pin their minis down on the base or scrape off the bottom of their man's footsies for a clean contact point.
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I painted some more Black Templars, still trying to figure out a good photo setup at my new place:         
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Ayn Marx posted:People painting miniatures and bases separately, do you use super glue to assemble them afterwards? How do you get a decent bond, I would imagine glue on paint isn't that strong? I just use super glue and sometimes they pop off if I didn't get enough on there, and I glue them back on. I can't pin it very easily because the models I've done this for are necrons with wafer thin feet, so them's the breaks.
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Fish and Chimps posted:At some point I will run out of bases for my Napoleonics, and the manufacturer I've bought from has gone out of business. Anyone have a tip for where I can get 30 mm by 25 mm rectangular bases? They look like this: You could always make a simple one-piece mold of some of the bases and cast your own. It's stupidly easy for something like bases, and you could make as many as you like for very little investment.
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Is there some way I can dilute a paint to being translucent without decreasing the viscosity? I'm trying to give stuff a glowing effect but my paint keeps running into low points.
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Jul 15, 2017 20:24
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The Moon Monster posted:Is there some way I can dilute a paint to being translucent without decreasing the viscosity? I'm trying to give stuff a glowing effect but my paint keeps running into low points.
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The Moon Monster posted:Is there some way I can dilute a paint to being translucent without decreasing the viscosity? I'm trying to give stuff a glowing effect but my paint keeps running into low points. You just have too much paint on the brush. Using a glaze medium to get thin layers and then making sure your brush is wet but not overloaded will allow you to paint thin glaze layers to achieve the glow effect without flowing like a wash would.
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Yeah. If you only have a very little amount of paint on the brush, it'll stay where you put it even if it's fairly diluted. I like to keep a piece of cardboard on hand to wipe off excess paint. I used to use paper towels, but that'll dry out the paint on the brush, making it too thick again. Also, I may be a little nuts because I just rode 14 miles to pick up some Reaper MSP Walnut Brown. At least I have my favorite off-black.
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SRM posted:I painted some more Black Templars, still trying to figure out a good photo setup at my new place: Super good poo poo here.
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Just finished up this guy. I got the Goff Rockers for two reasons. First is that they're friggin sweet. Second is that the Weirdboy model is hard to find and I don't like it much. So this is going to be a Weirdboy on the table. Since the Rockers are shorter than the weirdboy model I decided I needed something for him to stand on.  I have two more I need to finish up. I'm debating if I want to keep the same style of speaker.
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Big arc of LED strip aside, what desk lamps does everyone use? In the market for something inexpensive.
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mango sentinel posted:Big arc of LED strip aside, what desk lamps does everyone use? In the market for something inexpensive. I use this, does the job pretty nicely: https://www.amazon.co.uk/TaoTronics...words=desk+lamp
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Sharkman posted:Does anybody know of a cheap set of either generic elves or dark elves/drow? Wanted to pick up minions for D&D. I have a set of orcs and skeletons from Wargames Factory/Warlord Games where you can build up several guys. I think that depends on how many elves you need. If you're doing a few distinct characters, and cheap, Reaper Bones has about a dozen designs with a particularly pointy aesthetic. (They've also got more in metal, but those are obviously a bit more expensive.) If you're looking for more of a small army, Mantic makes troop/regiment boxes for regular elves. (Nothing on their webstore yet for "Twilight Kin," their dark-elf equivalent, so you might have to fall back on Games Workshop for that. Neither Warlord Games nor Dreamforge seem to have any dark elves on their websites, so I guess Wargames Factory never made them.) e.: Seconding that TaoTronics lamp, I've got one and it's incredibly useful and very portable. e2: Nice work on the goblins!
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Thirding the Taotronics lamp. Brought it with me on deployment. It was very handy for making a portable set-up (so long as I had an outlet available).
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mango sentinel posted:Big arc of LED strip aside, what desk lamps does everyone use? In the market for something inexpensive. Two IKEA Tertial lamps with 6500k daylight lamps in.
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Is there some kind of magic translucent black paint I can apply to clear parts, to get at consistent look? I'm looking for kind of a tinted window / sunglasses look. I tried washes and inks, and also attempted to just airbrush a very light coat of black, but none of it really looks good.
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HardCoil posted:Is there some kind of magic translucent black paint I can apply to clear parts, to get at consistent look? I'm looking for kind of a tinted window / sunglasses look. I tried washes and inks, and also attempted to just airbrush a very light coat of black, but none of it really looks good. I'd say washes really are the best bet.
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HardCoil posted:Is there some kind of magic translucent black paint I can apply to clear parts, to get at consistent look? I'm looking for kind of a tinted window / sunglasses look. I tried washes and inks, and also attempted to just airbrush a very light coat of black, but none of it really looks good. As you have an airbrush try some of the tamiya clear paints, clear smoke might be what you're after.
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Thanks. Clear Smoke seems like exactly what I'm looking for.
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HardCoil posted:Thanks. Clear Smoke seems like exactly what I'm looking for. Sweet, just be aware that as far as I recall you can't thin them with water, so you'd need some of their X-20A thinner.
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I've been toying with making my own Dropfleet Commander bases for a while. The game tracks a good bit of information for each ship and the stock bases are okay for that but not great. I figure it's close enough to mini painting that i might as well crossquote it here  Bistromatic posted:I had the opportunity to make another prototype today. There's a few minor tweaks that i'd like to incorporate but i'm definitely getting close to what i want. 
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Bistromatic posted:I've been toying with making my own Dropfleet Commander bases for a while. The game tracks a good bit of information for each ship and the stock bases are okay for that but not great. I figure it's close enough to mini painting that i might as well crossquote it here  Man, I wish people in my area played Dropfleet Commander. I've seen a bunch of neat ships in this thread already, and now you've got a really neat base design there too. Like drat, you've got a kickstarter-ready idea there, if you only had the means to mass-produce those bases.
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Aniodia posted:
In the whole chicago area I've only seen one dude post about it on their forums. That's ok though cause it's kinda pricey and 40k just became relevant again so it's time to update that army. And I'm probablly gonna build a bunch of Romans for Adepticon. So that's my game budget for this year.
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The best thing I saw was here in this thread: car aerials for orbital layer. I think just a custom D4 with silent/normal/low/high spike would be much better than dial bases... I ended up using tokens the whole time. In fact one of the issues with the game I've found (and dicussed in the main thread) is how 'gamey' winning is - the mechanic is all around dropping paper tokens on specific other paper tokens on the board with mechanics completely divorced from the ship-to-ship combat.
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bonds0097 posted:You just have too much paint on the brush. Using a glaze medium to get thin layers and then making sure your brush is wet but not overloaded will allow you to paint thin glaze layers to achieve the glow effect without flowing like a wash would. Electric Hobo posted:You can use glaze medium, matte medium, gloss medium, matte or gloss varnish in a pinch. You can use straight water if you don't have too much paint on your brush. JackMann posted:Yeah. If you only have a very little amount of paint on the brush, it'll stay where you put it even if it's fairly diluted. I like to keep a piece of cardboard on hand to wipe off excess paint. I used to use paper towels, but that'll dry out the paint on the brush, making it too thick again. Thanks guys, that was definitely the problem.
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