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mango sentinel posted:On HeroClix: the paint jobs don't help, but I think the sub Reaper rubbery plastic defies any attempts at holding fine detail. Yeah, I bought some heroclix for a kid once and I think they're garbage.
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Ah, shame to hear, since Heroclix really does have just about every possible license available in one game. On Reaper: I actually think bonesium's resistance to paint is useful to newbie painters; it means you can identify top highlight areas just by playing around with the figure after priming it 
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Red_Fred posted:Can anyone recommend some good mini brands/lines for D&D 5e? I want to pick up some unpainted minis for our games to contribute but I'm struggling to choose. Ideally they would be good value but high quality plastic and of course unpainted. If you're looking for NPCs, try here: http://otherworldminiatures.co.uk/shop/product-category/npc-series-non-player-characters/
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bonds0097 posted:Finished my second 165 point Batman crew, the dynamic duo in bright colors! Adam West would have been proud!
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I don't know how the current iteration of Heroclix is but the first iteration had laughably bad paint jobs. It was very common to get figures that had blotches of paint where their eyes were and to be missing paint in awkward places, such as the crotch area for flying lady characters. The machine painting them in the factory was the paint equivalent of the makeup gun from the Simpsons.bonds0097 posted:Finished my second 165 point Batman crew, the dynamic duo in bright colors! These look really good. I like that they have a good gambit of Batman sculpts and Batman villain sculpts. It's a shame they lost the Marvel license.
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Pendent posted:Hixson, I'm sure you've talked about it before but I absolutely love that red. What are you using for a recipe? Hey thanks, i dont know if I've shared the recipe or not Its vallejo heavy read over a black primer with a grey preshade. Then highlighted with vga bloody red, then a bloody red line highlight and a black pin wash. It's all airbrushed except for the wash and line highlight
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Nurgle knights tend to be overdone so I wanted to do one right.
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bonds0097 posted:Finished my second 165 point Batman crew, the dynamic duo in bright colors! Im Batman's eye-line right to Robin's rear end.
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Schadenboner posted:Im Batman's eye-line right to Robin's rear end. I mean, that's literally why the Comic Code Authority exists.
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+3 speed whenever Batman has LoS of a pantsless Robin's rear end.
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Ghazk posted:Nurgle knights tend to be overdone so I wanted to do one right. This is fantastic. I've never described anything Nurgle as 'tasteful' before but this somehow counts.
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Ghazk posted:Nurgle knights tend to be overdone so I wanted to do one right. You should be painting for money.
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Not wanting to shell out 5200 yen for an apothecary for my Marines, I instead bashed one together with a spare primaris dude and some bits and bobs I had lying around. (Looking at it, I need to touch up the red studs on his right shoulder a bit.) No way was I painting a guy all white, so I basically just swapped out most of the yellow on the standard scheme you can see on the command group below with white, giving a manageable - but still annoying - white surface area. His kit looks enough like something that could be a space med kit that I can call it a narthecium, and his color scheme further sets him out - job's a good 'un, I think. Here he is with the whole command group so far. I'm on the hunt for an appropriate sword bit to bash up something I can paint with blue and call a librarian next. 
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Ghazk posted:Nurgle knights tend to be overdone so I wanted to do one right. This is lovely.
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Stephenls posted:
Thank you for doing this - I’m really interested in potentially blending these with an airbrush for simple but funky x-wing repaints.
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Crossposting from the 30k thread:Hamshot posted:
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Ghazk posted:Nurgle knights tend to be overdone so I wanted to do one right. Having just finished reading Dark Imperium which had a lot of Nurgle (No knights, though), this guy is exactly how my minds eye was seeing the troops. So many good painters here! Philthy fucked around with this message at 07:47 on Dec 24, 2017 |
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Hamshot posted:Crossposting from the 30k thread: loving  That is incredible. I love this loving game. It's name is just bananas awesome.
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Hamshot posted:Crossposting from the 30k thread: The whole thing is impressive as hell, but what really makes it for me is the banners. They really add a sense of scale and even dynamism to the thing, if that makes any sense.
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I painted Valka, a Trollblood solo who wanders from battle to battle in the frozen north, wishing for (but never achieving) a glorious and heroic death. That's christmasy, right?  
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Crap pics alert, been painting this while house-sitting and I would like some advice:    - Should I push the contrast between the darks and highlights of the flesh? - Is the brown dark enough for the bone chitin, or should I go towards a more black direction? - Do the pustules stand out as such well enough like this, and is the purple wash too sloppy/distracting? Star Saga (and Deadzone, dirty reusage!!!) Plague Aberration, if anyone's curious. Also considering trying for a dual topcoat; testors matte on the chitin and future on the flesh, for a dry 'n wet effect.
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Here's my take on the same guy. I struggled to increase contrast on the flesh. I picked out the veins with brighter red and chose to put some color on the chitin on the details where the flesh was poking through. There were a few pustules on the chitin so I hit them with an electric blue but I dislike how flat they look. I suck at eyes. Chitin was based in bone, washed with a medium brown, highlighted with bone again, then white drybrush, I like how it turned out I love the head on yours and I'm going to try the wet/dry look, that's a great idea!   
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Philthy posted:Got a light box for xmas, and a buddy got me a Scibor Cthulhu egg. 
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Painted up my first batch of Batman Objective Markers. These were a lot of fun.
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Godamnit stop making me really want my a knight which I can't afford, those look so goodHamshot posted:Crossposting from the 30k thread: Amazingggg. How did you do those banners? I've had similar in mind buy now to get that quality I haven't been sure of. bonds0097 posted:Painted up my first batch of Batman Objective Markers. These were a lot of fun. Where's Mr freezes' marker? 
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VolatileSky posted:Godamnit stop making me really want my a knight which I can't afford, those look so good Just place an actual ice cube on the table
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This one was simple, but it looks like I'm off to a decent start with doing these from scratch! Just shame my bases took so long to get here.
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I was looking through some old photo archives for something for a friend and found a few minis I painted, one a few years before the last mini I ever painted, then one a bit later, then the last one I ever did. An old Vermin Lord, the classic metal one, where I had no concept of shading or lining stuff. The black on the warpstone orb on the staff end was supposed to be "highlighting" but  no(also Paperclip Terminator for some reason I forgot). Oh, also, painted on bare metal. a few years later, a step-by-step attempt at shading, inking, highlighting, etc on a space marine armless body  a second practice marine shortly after, a damaged one without a backpack I decided to paint in a semi-2nd-edition blood angels style  the last miniature I ever painted, a space marine terminator I worked my rear end off on, especially the helmet, shield and hammer. Unfortunately the crux got a bit hosed up during highlighting and some paint got into the crevices, which super sucks. But the helmet, hammer and shield I am really happy how they turned out.  Soon after the terminator was finished, my little sister was killed, and I never felt the desire to paint again. Someday I hope I will be able to, but we used to paint together, so it's particularly hard to go back to that.
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Captain Invictus posted:Someday I hope I will be able to, but we used to paint together, so it's particularly hard to go back to that. I hope so too.
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It's so hard not to spend ages painting these death guard from the Dark Imperium box. Each one looks fantastic as has as much detail as a $25 character model or whatever.
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Ordered one of the Kingdom Death recasts off Aliexpress for shits and giggles.
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Philthy posted:Ordered one of the Kingdom Death recasts off Aliexpress for shits and giggles. I only ordered one so far, but they're pretty nice quality. My only real complaint is that they come in fewer pieces than the real ones, so some areas can be tricky to paint + harder to customize (I wanted to make a headless horsewoman Percival, but her head is merged with the body in the AE recasts).
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Philthy posted:Ordered one of the Kingdom Death recasts off Aliexpress for shits and giggles. Could I get a link?
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Beast Pussy posted:Could I get a link? I dont think TG is cool with linking recasters, but there's not much policing of KD recasts on Aliexpress; just search for the mini's name and you'll get most of them. Personally, I don't feel bad about it because they dont come with any of the game materials, and great presentation is a huge part of KD's price. Neurolimal fucked around with this message at 12:45 on Dec 27, 2017 |
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Off topic but is there a dedicated Shadespire thread? I can't see it.
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Reince Penis posted:Off topic but is there a dedicated Shadespire thread? I can't see it. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3837620
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So I watched this video on how to paint Salamanders. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-Wv1Ppp_ww I really love how simple it is and the color that the guy ends up with. But this technique clearly won't work with vehicles. Does anyone have any idea of a way that I could get a similar color without using a wash?
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Captain Invictus posted:Soon after the terminator was finished, my little sister was killed, and I never felt the desire to paint again. Someday I hope I will be able to, but we used to paint together, so it's particularly hard to go back to that.  Holy poo poo, man. That's loving heavy poo poo to deal with. Is it something you'd mind sharing, or are you gonna keep it close to the chest? Either way, I'd at least try going to a therapist if you haven't already, as it's still something that's affecting your life enough that you're avoiding a hobby that you two used to share, and talking to someone (whether goons or a professional) can definitely help the healing process.
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Buddy of mine is a big fan of the Goon. Got some fun minis in... Did some really basic shading on the skin and blocked in colors elsewhere, but he's starting to come together.
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