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bird food bathtub posted:I guess I don't understand how to get it into the ribbed parts without making the area around it look like rear end. The really diluted purple I put in there trying to wash it into the cracks ends up drying funny where the outer edge of the area that got anything put onto it (like what would be the edge of the 'drop' if it was on a flat surface) seems to dry funny and leave a ring of more intense shading on the outer edge than the deeper parts of the cracks. It's almost the exact opposite of what I want it to look like and quite terrible. So you just put straight paint into all those nooks and crannies? Using medium instead of water to dilute helps this. I've heard that some people also use a very tiny amount of dish soap to help break the surface tension as well, but I've not tried it.
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Bad Munki posted:I’ve been wanting to paint this dude for a while so tonight I finally decided to just knock him out. I’m trying to focus more on just getting guys done than making them perfect, I think that’s been blocking me from even bothering to paint for a while, so the goal was just “get it done.” Even so, I’m pretty happy with how he turned out. This is one of my all time favorite minis to paint, there's so much character and there's so much you can do with simple techniques to make him look great.
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Aniodia posted:Reposting this because it's been a week, and I suck so bad at making a choice here that I'm hitting some analysis paralysis, which leads to not getting the rest of the ridiculous backlog painted up. Unfortunately, I'm also pretty terrible when it comes to using stuff like GIMP to mock up a design, so I can't really even go that route. All I'm really asking for is someone with a better eye for color composition to give me a foot in the rear end in the right direction. I'd love to help - I enjoy giving colour composition advice - but the photo is sufficiently bad quality I legit can't make out enough detail to offer good advice. Post a higher quality photo and I'll see what I can do!
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Mar 11, 2018 09:18
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Mikey Purp posted:Super cool, what model is that? Reaper Minis Large Earth Elemental - https://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/stone%20elemental/latest/77185
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Mar 11, 2018 10:46
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Workspace organisation is a thing that comes up every now and then. Because we're all massive nerds that can't stop buying hobby poo poo it can often just pile up. I came across a company that makes specialized furniture for sewing/arts and crafts type of stuff, which of course also fits nicely into our hobby niche have a youtube video of their flagship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRisNZfdsLs their website is at https://theoriginalscrapbox.co.uk/ or .com for you american types. I really really want one!
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Mar 11, 2018 13:31
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Zark the Damned posted:Reaper Minis Large Earth Elemental - https://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/stone%20elemental/latest/77185 Thanks, I actually had no idea except “it came from one of the bones boxes” 
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Bad Munki posted:I’ve been wanting to paint this dude for a while so tonight I finally decided to just knock him out. I’m trying to focus more on just getting guys done than making them perfect, I think that’s been blocking me from even bothering to paint for a while, so the goal was just “get it done.” Even so, I’m pretty happy with how he turned out. I had the same epiphany last month. I was frustrated with some shadespire minis not coming out the way I wanted so I started working on some Death Guard I had lying around neglected and suddenly I was having loads of fun.
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Mar 11, 2018 16:36
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Any recommendations for a filter mask to use when airbrushing acrylics? I’ve got one I bought years ago when doing some home remodeling stuff and working with nasty adhesives, but it’s uncomfortable, needs new filters and is probably overkill for airbrushing.
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Mar 11, 2018 17:29
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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004Z4EB/
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Bucnasti posted:[Amazing post on thinning] This is tangentially related, but what is your preference for cleaning your airbrush? I have been using off the self airbrush cleaner but I am nearly out and would be interested to hear if there are 'better' alternatives before I buy any more.
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Mar 11, 2018 17:57
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Felime posted:Using medium instead of water to dilute helps this. I've heard that some people also use a very tiny amount of dish soap to help break the surface tension as well, but I've not tried it. That sounds like a perfect solution and I'll have to give it a try. Is something like this what you're talking about? https://www.amazon.com/Liquitex-562...=acrylic+medium Says acrylic flow aid medium and I don't completely understand all the sciency bits and terminology behind paints yet.
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R0ckfish posted:This is tangentially related, but what is your preference for cleaning your airbrush? I have been using off the self airbrush cleaner but I am nearly out and would be interested to hear if there are 'better' alternatives before I buy any more. The same isopropyl alcohol I mix with water to make thinner. Get yourself some of these things: Squeeze Bottle Fill one with pure water (filtered is ok, distilled is better), one with isopropyl alcohol (91% is best but 70% will do) and one with a mix of 9:1 water/alcohol. Use the mix for thinning your paint, use the water for flushing the paint out of your airbrush when changing colors and the alcohol to clean it after use. Don't use a stiff brush or one of those reamers that they sell for cleaning your brush, those will damage the inside of your brush and cause premature wear. Instead use a Qtip or a Micro applicator brush. I learned all this from CK studios intro Airbrushing class at LVO this year. He recently made a video demoing a lot of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6ccZA1XXxE Unfortunately some of it's hard to see in the video.
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Thanqol posted:I'd love to help - I enjoy giving colour composition advice - but the photo is sufficiently bad quality I legit can't make out enough detail to offer good advice. I appreciate it, however the only cameras I have are on my 1phone 4 (which that picture was taken with) and my 3ds, which is even more potato-quality. I did try to take a better picture, throwing paper over the lamp I use and dropping a flipped playmat over the workbench, but it just seems that the light I have is a little too strong for adequate photos. If it helps, the purple is GW Naggaroth Night, the red is P3 Sanguine Base, blue is GW Sotek Green, the flesh P3 Ryn Flesh, the leather belt VGA Leather Brown, and the staff is GW Karak Stone. No washes, no highlights, just two thin coats of each.  I will say a friend of mine suggested going with a gold, as darker metals would just get lost in the whole thing, while a brighter metal would stand out.
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Mar 11, 2018 19:00
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Gold seems like a good idea because a yellow/orange is an obvious complimentary color to the more dominant purple and blue. If you're saying the belt and shoes are brown, they are coming across as yellow in the pictures, so I'd knock those way down in terms of brightness; Make a nice uniform dark piece with the brighter gold baubles to contrast.
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Frobbe posted:Workspace organisation is a thing that comes up every now and then. Because we're all massive nerds that can't stop buying hobby poo poo it can often just pile up. I came across a company that makes specialized furniture for sewing/arts and crafts type of stuff, which of course also fits nicely into our hobby niche  That is ridiculously cool, seems like it would take a while to put together. Also, $2,455.35 
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I painted another Night Lord guy. He's supposed to be Kheron Ophion: a guy in HH who doesn't have a model.   
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He looks super cool! That's by far some of the best lightning work I've seen. Real nice osl on the axe too. Is that a custom backpack too? Nice work all around.
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Aniodia posted:I appreciate it, however the only cameras I have are on my 1phone 4 (which that picture was taken with) and my 3ds, which is even more potato-quality. I did try to take a better picture, throwing paper over the lamp I use and dropping a flipped playmat over the workbench, but it just seems that the light I have is a little too strong for adequate photos. Cool, the picture is still pretty unintelligble, but I can mention that Sycorax Bronze actually works pretty well with bluegreens and purples. I'm doing something similar with my Alpha Legion where I'm using leadbelcher for main metallics and sycorax for detail metallics. Consider trying sycorax bronze on stuff like those gemstone-bumps, small trinkets etc, and go with a more regular silver for the main metallics. I think a warm gold would be a bit too dominating; it's a whole extra color. Silver is similar to white and black in that it's a 'free' colour you can add to anything without cluttering it IMO.
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Is this instead of a booth or combination? Could you spray inside with this without a booth?
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goodness posted:Is this instead of a booth or combination? Could you spray inside with this without a booth? Sure, but it won't stop paint from going places (other than into your lungs)
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Kabuki Shipoopi posted:He looks super cool! That's by far some of the best lightning work I've seen. Real nice osl on the axe too. Is that a custom backpack too? Thanks bud. The backpack is standard Mk3
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Victory Lap!Beer4TheBeerGod posted:5 Hellblasters done. 26:44 total time spent, including a couple hours spent figuring out the plasma coils and red glow. Overall I'm pretty pleased.
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I loving love your army so hard. That color scheme is total eye-sex.
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Hixson posted:I painted another Night Lord guy. He's supposed to be Kheron Ophion: a guy in HH who doesn't have a model. So much attitude in this guy. My favorite part is that pistol. You don't see those khorne bits used often, but it has this brutalist feel that just oozes Night Lords
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But where's his shield?!?
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Bad Munki posted:Okay, then what about reaper’s “liner” line of paints? Wtf is even going on there? Because they sell washes as a separate thing like everyone else. Reaper's Liners are extremely dark paints packed with extra flow improver, designed to be able to draw thin lines and/or paint directly into recesses and between panel lines and things like that. You aren't meant to wash them over the surface, you're meant to use them to, well, line things. They work great, btw. I have and use all three with regularity.
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So it's like an acrylic paint created for pin washing. Pretty cool
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How does it compare to a traditional ink?
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Future floor finish will turn just about any ink into a pretty good panel liner.
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BULBASAUR posted:So much attitude in this guy. My favorite part is that pistol. You don't see those khorne bits used often, but it has this brutalist feel that just oozes Night Lords This looks great. So, with Night Lords - is the lightning supposed to be painted on in actuality, or does their armor crackle with energy?
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Zuul the Cat posted:This looks great. So, with Night Lords - is the lightning supposed to be painted on in actuality, or does their armor crackle with energy? Holographic projection, IIRC
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I've always loved this Chaplain mini, and I happened to see him at my FLGS. I'll probably never use him but he looks cool. Also the flag halving is a little crooked, which means the decal is too, but I wasn't going to repaint it after I got the transfer on.    For when I want to run my Neophytes as Scout squads with various equipment, plus more chumps with basic gear.       
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SRM posted:Sexy Black Templars This is seriously one of the coolest looking Black Templars Armies I’ve seen, and I hope to play against you at some point at a con. The flames on the guns is just aces.
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Not so much a painting technique, but I was going through my paints for the first time in like 3-4 years (I've been busy) and found that a lot of them had separated, particularly my old-rear end Vallejo Game Colors that were some of the first paints I ever bought, circa 2010. Instead of just replacing everything altogether, I picked up one of those cheap ultrasonic cleaners that you can get off amazon for like 30 bucks and started chucking paints in. The paints take 2-3 8 minute sessions in the cleaner depending on how separated they are, but now everything looks like the day I bought it. I had a bottle of Bloody Red that was basically just medium no matter how hard I shook it with my hands, but now it's perfect straight out of the bottle. Highly recommended if you have more than a handful of old paint you'd like to keep using, especially if they're in good dropper style bottles so they're not dried out.
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X-post from the good threadHixson posted:4 more bois for the pile
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:Not so much a painting technique, but I was going through my paints for the first time in like 3-4 years (I've been busy) and found that a lot of them had separated, particularly my old-rear end Vallejo Game Colors that were some of the first paints I ever bought, circa 2010. Instead of just replacing everything altogether, I picked up one of those cheap ultrasonic cleaners that you can get off amazon for like 30 bucks and started chucking paints in. I hadn't considered using the cleaner as a mixer. That's brilliant. They work really well for cleaning airbrushes.
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:Not so much a painting technique, but I was going through my paints for the first time in like 3-4 years (I've been busy) and found that a lot of them had separated, particularly my old-rear end Vallejo Game Colors that were some of the first paints I ever bought, circa 2010. Instead of just replacing everything altogether, I picked up one of those cheap ultrasonic cleaners that you can get off amazon for like 30 bucks and started chucking paints in. I assume you don't put any water in there? And how does the label on the bottle hold up after being in the cleaner?
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Basically you just need something that can shake paints harder than is possible by hand (and that doesn't get tired or sore over time, either). I've seen videos of people using a jigsaw, with the blade replaced by one of those trigger-adjustable clamps to hold the paint bottle, which proceeds to just mix the hell outta the paints when it's fired up.
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Sydney Bottocks posted:Basically you just need something that can shake paints harder than is possible by hand (and that doesn't get tired or sore over time, either). I've seen videos of people using a jigsaw, with the blade replaced by one of those trigger-adjustable clamps to hold the paint bottle, which proceeds to just mix the hell outta the paints when it's fired up. That's what I use, although it turns out the model of jigsaw I have has a mounting assembly too small and fiddly to fit a clamp. My solution was to wrap tape around the jigsaw blade, and then just tape a bottle to the taped blade whenever I need to shake it. It's annoying, but it works.
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