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First time I've ever painted an entire model in a single day! The Cybernetica Datasmith is on the smaller end of my Admech models, but he's got a ton of little details I'm really happy with (especially for being about 5 hours of effort in a single day). In particular, the lantern over his right shoulder, purity seal by his left foot, cable bundles on his back and face, and the good ol' Skitarii red cloak!
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 Morning off work today so I put some paint on glow boy to the right here, he's supposed to be some dark admech henchman guy for his inquisitor boss in the middle. Not afraid of using Xenos poo poo, necron glowstick blah blah.
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My Gal Vorbak Hell project is finally over: Here’s the last 2 I just completed:     And a group shot: 
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Hixson posted:My Gal Vorbak Hell project is finally over: Gorgeous. Or visceral and horrifying, but in a good way. What do you use for your basing materials? Painted cork sheet on top of, what, some type of texture paint?
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It’s cork with sand glued to the base/sides of the cork
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Is the red glazed/blended or airbrushed? Looks like three distinct shades but the transitions look great.
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bonds0097 posted:Is the red glazed/blended or airbrushed? Looks like three distinct shades but the transitions look great. Thanks! It’s all wetblended. I have my base red, a highlight, and black. I lay out the highlight, a 50/50 highlight basecoat, the basecoat, a 50/50 basecoat and Black, and black on the model and blend it together with a brush
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Wow looks great, I def thought it was airbrushed on first glance but upon closer inspection it's much better than your run of the mill airbrush fade.
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I guess this is as close to a "General Modeling" thread as we have so I should ask this here: what ever happened to Lead Adventures? It looks like the site has been down since like late May. I'm not talking about the forums (those apparently moved over to North Star (the Frostgrave guys)). If they're really gone I'll be sad, Ratnik Miniatures had awesome civilian 40k stuff, as good as Colony 87 even. Very Blanchitsu. 
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Sep 25, 2018 13:42
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A friend who I painted a big model for is now asking me about more painting and conversion work. Painting I know the general rule of thumb for costing, but how does conversion work get priced out? This would be Infinity so mostly weapon swaps.
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bonds0097 posted:Yeah, the ROI on those things would take forever once you factor in time making your own bases and the cost of greenstuff. I'd rather just buy from Dragon Forge or Elriks or one of the other US-based basemakers. You can get some textured rollers from Greenstuffworld. Six come in at about 50usd.
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Z the IVth posted:You can get some textured rollers from Greenstuffworld. Six come in at about 50usd. Very true. Two Beans makes some awesome looking bases for his dusty bois with those.
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Pyrolocutus posted:A friend who I painted a big model for is now asking me about more painting and conversion work. Painting I know the general rule of thumb for costing, but how does conversion work get priced out? This would be Infinity so mostly weapon swaps. How much conversion experience do you have? Is the it old style with mostly separate arms or new ones cast in as few pieces as possible?
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     My Exalted Tomb King in Royal Chariot conversion. Or as I like to call him Ahomtep the Golden Vulture of Vengeance. Took me ages(about 7 months) to finish but I’m super stoked on how well he’s turned out. Used about 7 different kits to make this fever dream become reality.
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I don’t know what this is but it’s incredible!
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bonds0097 posted:I don’t know what this is but it’s incredible! Thanks dude! It’s my take on this 
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Horace-Noah posted:Thanks dude! It’s my take on this Ah, i see. Your take on it is much much cooler. Very excellent use of color throughout with nice crisp highlights. The red on the vulture face draws the eye in nicely.
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Your mummy lord also looks more like Eddie from Iron Maiden.
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dr_ether posted:Kingdom Death Gold Smoke Knight Since you don't have PM's, what paints did you use for this mini? I'm thinking of using a similar scheme for my Nighthaunt army.
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bonds0097 posted:Ah, i see. Your take on it is much much cooler. Very excellent use of color throughout with nice crisp highlights. The red on the vulture face draws the eye in nicely. 😎 I’m really happy with that red, might be some of my best brush work ever. Stoked you picked it out. Badablack posted:Your mummy lord also looks more like Eddie from Iron Maiden. Hell yeah.
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Have some more progress pics on the Chieftains, going to wash and highlight the details next then probably matt and weather I think.  
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Does anyone have much experience with Kobra sprays in the UK? Normally I use colour bases like army painter but I got a coupon...
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I finally got me a good airbrush (H&S Infinity). Anybody got decent tutorials about stripping/cleaning/maintenance so I don't turn it into an expensive piece of junk by accident? I know my way about a cheap airbrush but I realize I've probably picked up a few bad habits, so I might as well check if I'm doing stuff properly. Painting tutorials will be appreciated too.
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Regular cleaning after every session will solve the majority of issues with any airbrush. Some Teflon tape on the seals, a very fine sanding of the needle tip, some lube on the needle, then you’re good to go. I made a flare stack for my plasma generator. I’m gonna assume giant plasma conduits on buildings would need flare stacks too for overheating. 
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Badablack posted:Regular cleaning after every session will solve the majority of issues with any airbrush. Some Teflon tape on the seals, a very fine sanding of the needle tip, some lube on the needle, then you’re good to go.
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Okay then. You apply a tiny bit of lube to the needle itself, and push it in and out of the airbrush to get it all over. This keeps the trigger action nice and smooth. Anything that screws into place, you can tear up a little strip of Teflon tape and wrap it up, the part at the front that screws off is the most important. Needles aren’t perfect and they can have tiny microscopic barbs from the machining process on their tip, so a superfine grade (like buffing nails) sanding of the tip will make paint come out smoother and reduce clogs. As far as cleaning, I like generic ammonia-free windex, big bottle of the blue stuff. Vallejo airbrush cleaner is probably better but it costs more. When you finish painting and between colors you squirt some in the cup and run it until it’s just cleaner coming out. You can also put your finger over the nozzle and backwash it to get any gunk out of the tip. When you’re done, wipe down the needle as well, and wipe out any dried out crust from the cup. Every now and then, you’ll want to take the thing apart and soak it in cleaner to clean out any built up gunk but with regular cleaning it’s less necessary.
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There's a long rear end video in the op that is worth watching when you have the time, but the previous post covers most of it. Don't use pipe cleaners or other metal based "air brush cleaner" sets. They can scrape up the tubes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsW-vN0_lHw
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I doubt that you'd need teflon tape on any part of the H&S Infinity, though you could use some where the air hose connects. I'd really recommend looking at teardown videos or diagrams of your airbrush before you attempt a thorough clean. The easiest way to damage a nozzle is by inserting the needle too forcefully when putting it back together, just make sure that you're always as gentle as can be. A good trick for this is to insert your needle almost all the way in without locking it in place, put some water or thinner in the cup, depress the trigger without pulling back so the water is atomized, and slowly push the back of the needle forward until the water stops flowing. After the position is set, you can lock the needle in place and use the airbrush normally. As far as cleaning solutions, it really depends on the type of paint that you're using.
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Horace-Noah posted:
You have every right to be proud of that. It's a wonderful piece, but also a painful reminder of the criminally bad treatment the Tomb Kings got from GW. The foot TK models (both the generic one and Settra) could be worked into some really easy and effective conversions. I went for an Exodus theme for mine, so they were all cavalry and showed signs of having been immersed in salt water:  
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On the plus side it’s not like GW threw away their thousand dollar steel molds for all the plastic tomb king kits they made...at least I hope not.
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big_g posted:Have some more progress pics on the Chieftains, going to wash and highlight the details next then probably matt and weather I think. These are sweet. Badablack posted:On the plus side it’s not like GW threw away their thousand dollar steel molds for all the plastic tomb king kits they made...at least I hope not.
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Anyone any hands on experience with Iwata Neo airbrush, compared to others? I've yet to actually try out my crappy no-brand airbrush that came with the compressor, though I've run out of excuses as I have a batch of genestealers ready to go and also now have all the cleaning, thinner, mask, booth etc... as well as realizing the airbrush is actually dual action where I presumed it wasn't). The only thing is that the brush is suction fed only which I read is not really optimal for models. Is the Neo good enough as a starter or worth ponying up a bit more? Also, are there any good retailers (particularly around Europe) that regularly do sales? When discussing airbrushes previously people mentioned Badger patriots etc regularly go on sale but I've yet to see any without a horrendous markup...
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berzerkmonkey posted:Nah, they didn't But it would be difficult for them to come back and admit they made a mistake. Also, they are obviously trying to phase out the old sculpts for AoS, so TK wouldn't have a place. Finally, if they brought back TK, they would have to bring back Bretonnia, because all of the neckbeards would have a hissyfit and declare a fatwa on GW. I don't really get why they phased out stuff like Tomb Kings or Bretonnia for Age of Sigmar. I was going through GW's site, looking through the AoS stuff, and I saw that some of the WHFB stuff is still there: Empire units are now 'Freeguild' and I discovered that they still sell Lizardmen, only now they're 'Seraphon'. A lot of the old stuff seems like it's still there, but now with all the dumb trademark-able names. Admittedly, I'm not really well informed on all of GW's changes and whatnot, so I assume it was an issue of the armies not being popular or not selling very well. However, I thought with how popular Total War: Warhammer was, they'd reintegrate them back into the game. I mean, the Sisters of Battle are getting plastic models next year, so Tomb Kings don't seem like they'd be that big of a challenge. Hell, bring back Chaos Dwarves and Squats, too.
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IPA Regulations posted:
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It's a bit difficult to recommend an Iwata over something from the Mr Hobby/GSI Creos airbrushe line. Depending on pricing in Europe, something like the PS-274 or PS-289 (my airbrush) may be a better value. https://www.amazon.com/GSI-Creos-Procon-Platinum-Airbrush/dp/B0030AO94U Reviews of the 0.2mm version of the PS-289: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DmMrS27sZo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCLj3wbeQq8
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w00tmonger posted:Just buy a badger patriot The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Games > Traditional Games > Miniatures Painting - Just buy a badger patriot
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always be closing posted:Tough call, that hp-c plus is almost 4x the price. w00tmonger posted:Just buy a badger patriot  My options here are a bit restricted. I'm not against the idea of getting one, but I'd need to snag a hefty deal to make it feasible. The cheapest badger 105 here shows me about 130 GBP, which after postage and conversion is gonna be almost or over 200 euros or definitely over 200 dollars, while the Iwata Neo would be around 50 all-in. Symetrique posted:It's a bit difficult to recommend an Iwata over something from the Mr Hobby/GSI Creos airbrushe line. Depending on pricing in Europe, something like the PS-274 or PS-289 (my airbrush) may be a better value. I'm looking into this now and it seems a bit more reasonable. Annoyingly though it seems like amazon.co.uk doesn't list the PS-xxx model numbers on the listings. This one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Procon-Dou...+crios+airbrush has FWA in the name and PS-267 stamped on the body in the pic, does it differ a lot from the one you linked, apart from the nozzle size? I could possibly qualify for free shipping on that one too plus the hose is the right size for my compressor so I'm leaning towards one of these, thanks for the info! I can also see there's a PS-289 there as well but for whatever reason it doesn't have free shipping which adds nearly 30 pounds to the listing and puts it almost the same price as the vaunted Badger 105 (if I got it at it's base price).
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