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Scale75 give a gorgeous matte finish. I can't say I've noticed them being any harder to work with than any other paint. They are more expensive in the US, unfortunately. Vallejo metallics are great silvers and dark metals. Vallejo Metal Color is a little fancier and gives an even better tone, and their gold is a lot better than the standard VGC gold. Get the scale75 if you can swing it, but metal color is a good alternative. If you think you're going to be painting anything mostly black, buy a deep dark grey instead of blending your own. I've never been able to get a consistent base color when I go that dark.
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MeinPanzer posted:What's the best place to buy Scale75 metallic paints in the UK? Firestorm Games doesn't seem to carry them Dark Sphere definitely have them in-store, so they should be mail-orderable too.
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MeinPanzer posted:What's the best place to buy Scale75 metallic paints in the UK? Firestorm Games doesn't seem to carry them Element has them in stock: https://elementgames.co.uk/paints-hobby-and-scenery/paints-washes-etc/scale-75/scale-75-paints
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Oct 20, 2018 20:02
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tehsid posted:Been working on my first ork for Kill Team. Never painted an Ork before so C&C would be ace! Job's a gud un
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Oct 20, 2018 22:57
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Working up this scheme for my steel legion troopers.   I want to add some color in somewhere, red or yellow. Thinking of putting some heraldic patterns on the canteen. Plan to put feathers on the helmets of officers, from the old knights of white wolf fantasy kit.
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Oct 20, 2018 23:21
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Skails posted:Working up this scheme for my steel legion troopers. I like it a lot! Slowly plugging away at my Escher guard battalion.   As a slow painter to begin with, the time investment for every 4pts model is pretty nuts, but I like where it's going.
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Oct 21, 2018 01:16
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Skails posted:Working up this scheme for my steel legion troopers. That looks really good. Amazing skull work
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Oct 21, 2018 06:28
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Skails posted:Working up this scheme for my steel legion troopers. drat, that's very cool. How do you do those skulls? Those lines are so tiny.
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Oct 21, 2018 11:56
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 Nearly done! Just pants, highlighting and some more weathering to go! Skails posted:Working up this scheme for my steel legion troopers. These are so god drat cool. I actually love how they look without the dash of colour. I'm not sure its needed. It's very haunting as it is.
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Oct 21, 2018 13:01
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Revelation 2-13 posted:drat, that's very cool. How do you do those skulls? Those lines are so tiny. A few things help me get a fine line: I'm using a brush with a sharp tip- Windsor Newton Series 7 #1(there are probably better brushes for cheaper), reading glasses +2.5 so I can hold the thing closer to my face and still see it, and a painting handle which I find helps to brace my hands. Some of the lines are also thinned out by painting a lighter color on both sides of them. I painted the mask light greyish then did the darker areas between jaws and cheekbones with browns and lightened up black. Some of the texture comes from refining and moving where the bones were. then put spots of white for the teeth. Painting, then painting over it adds to the look too! I'll do a step by step with pictures when I paint a few more and refine the process. Skails fucked around with this message at 15:36 on Oct 21, 2018 |
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Oct 21, 2018 15:33
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I decided to take a break from painting my IG Kill Team and started assembling some Scions for... My IG Kill Team. I also realized I have a bunch of Empire bits sitting around doing nothing and had an idea  They'll need some green stuff work because the Scion heads have necks and some of these heads have very stylish beards, but it looks like it should work.
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I paint space potato...      I've been painting a lot of dudes in furs and shirts lately and just felt like painting something sci-fi and was less than $30 Australian. I did something different this time to challenge myself and tried glazing. I built his armour up from a middle to dark grey and up to a white, mixed some blue with Vallejo glaze medium and hey, we did it  I also tried to keep myself conscious of how thinly i was making and applying my paint, which is probably why the cloak turned up so freakin' well.
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That steel legion dude, I just realized - it reminds me of a cross of romanticism/barbizon/realism type painting, like a grim dark Delacroix, /David/Millet, and that's very cool. Bucnasti posted:Vallejo Game Air and Model Air paints are the same as the Color lines, they're just pre-thinned, so you get less paint overall than the unthinned Color line. Yeah, if possible I'd suggest regular over airbrush paints - same stuff, but you have a bit of flexibility (use straight for drybrushing, thin/brush on normally, thin with a matte medium/flow improver to airbrush). I think you get "more" paint; I mean for airbrushing all those tanks and other things I haven't posted, I'm only just now replacing a couple bottles.
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Oct 22, 2018 08:37
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Skails posted:Working up this scheme for my steel legion troopers. They look perfect as they are.
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What's a good way to shade a lot of sky blue? The blue wash I have has proved far too dark.
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These guys look great with the empire bits. Thanks for the feedback all. VolatileSky posted:That steel legion dude, I just realized - it reminds me of a cross of romanticism/barbizon/realism type painting, like a grim dark Delacroix, Hey thanks, thats cool stuff. I tried loosening up some from the standard base/highlight/shade scheme I've done before and just paint.
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Cat Face Joe posted:What's a good way to shade a lot of sky blue? The blue wash I have has proved far too dark. You can soften the shades by mixing them with 1-3 parts of Lahmian medium.
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What do they call that grid surface in this photo? I see em a lot on hobby tables but I don't know what it's called or why it's so common
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TheBigAristotle posted:What do they call that grid surface in this photo? I see em a lot on hobby tables but I don't know what it's called or why it's so common It's a cutting mat you can get from hobby stores. The lines are for measuring against.
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:You can soften the shades by mixing them with 1-3 parts of Lahmian medium. I have colorless wash base. Would that work similarly? TheBigAristotle posted:What do they call that grid surface in this photo? I see em a lot on hobby tables but I don't know what it's called or why it's so common They're just hobby cutting mats.
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Cat Face Joe posted:I have colorless wash base. Would that work similarly?
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The only weird thing about ork paintjobs for me is in every picture I see them painted with flesh colored lips. Shouldn’t they have some varying shade of green? Though I’m assuming it’s following human rules with green blood showing through skin, it’s an alien so who knows.
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Their blood isn't green anymore, it's red. I don't care for flesh coloured lips, nose tips, but I like to do like to do their gums and tongue purple.
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Badablack posted:The only weird thing about ork paintjobs for me is in every picture I see them painted with flesh colored lips. Shouldn’t they have some varying shade of green? Though I’m assuming it’s following human rules with green blood showing through skin, it’s an alien so who knows. It's painted that way because it makes a nice contrast.
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The canon explanation is that Ork hide is plant-based, containing chlorophyll, while their blood is iron-based red. Though this is often accompanied by an explanation that it's this way because green-blooded orks look like they've been clumsy with pea soup, rather than actually injured.
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But if you have chlorophyl why do you need iron to carry oxygen around? My immersion 
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Badablack posted:The only weird thing about ork paintjobs for me is in every picture I see them painted with flesh colored lips. Shouldn’t they have some varying shade of green? Though I’m assuming it’s following human rules with green blood showing through skin, it’s an alien so who knows. I never understand this line of thinking unless you are trying to paint recreations. Why be reigned in by pointless details like this when painting stuff that is pure fantasy. Personally, my main objective is to make stuff look cool, not to mimic reality, and not to select colors with bad contrast for the sake of adhering to some fluff that is also fantasy. I'm always wildly bewildered when people "hate exaggerated" color and contrast on miniatures and speak down on it. Everytime I see that stuff on the tabletop its a sea of homogenous units that is less visually interesting than a potato. They'll play deathguard and have an army composed of nothing but baby poop green and dark brownish brass. It doesn't look like anything at all. Zero contrast, zero visual interest, absolute bore to look at. If you want to paint Orks with white skin, loving go for it, fluff be damned. However, I'd recommend not painting their blood and lips white as well, because there would be no contrast and it will look boring.
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It’s probably a subconscious association with seeing Audrey 2 from Little Shop of Horrors as a child. Big pink-lipped plant monster scared the poo poo out of me.
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   Finished this dude. Sorry for the spam, I hope yall don't mind. I need the feedback! I learnt a stack from this guy though. 1. My linework needs.. Work. 2. Painting built minis can suck the fun out of painting. 3. Slow down. Even though I took my time with this guy, some parts I rushed wanting to finish it. I think that was a mistake and it shows on my weathering. 4. I tried to copy the model on the GW website as best I could and added a few bits I wanted onto it. That was great fun and an interesting challenge. 5. Typhus Corrosion is awesome. Only 6 or 7 more to go!
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I finished this guy! Excoriators 5th Company, 1st Squad Brother Marine Creon     And thanks to Thanqul for bringing my attention to the eye lenses! tehsid posted:
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tehsid posted:2. Painting built minis can suck the fun out of painting. That really is one thing that I loving hate about GW models. They're all designed with details that are going to be completely obscured by other parts of the model making it nigh impossible to complete when fully assembled.
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I've been transferring my paints to dropper bottles with good results, but is it okay to do that with e.g. 'Ardcoat varnish or will that cause problems?
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Iron Crowned posted:That really is one thing that I loving hate about GW models. They're all designed with details that are going to be completely obscured by other parts of the model making it nigh impossible to complete when fully assembled. Which is why I prefer doing it in subassemblies. Also why I don't really go for auctions with old armies and units. I still have a bunch of stuff I managed to break down but never really gotten off all the paint that I keep putting off to paint and just go for stuff still on sprue or bought in bits.
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Cooked Auto posted:Which is why I prefer doing it in subassemblies. I had really good results with brake fluid in an ultrasonic jewelry cleaner and a little bit of toothbrush work, but those were just Cadians and Chimerae so not a lot of the modern detailing? Also wear goggles if you're going to vibrate a container of brake fluid or scrub a figure coated with that. 
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Another Darkest Dungeon dude:
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x-postingrichyp posted:First stage of my Inquisition force is painted up.
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Skails posted:I finished this guy! That bite mark owns so hard
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Skails posted:I finished this guy! Fantastic work, and I'll second (third, fourth?) the positive Ork comments.
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