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Bucnasti posted:Every time compressors are mentioned someone will say "get one with a tank" regardless of what brush you're using or your situation. A third thing you didn't mention is that most compressors are not designed to run constantly for any real length of time. If mine needs to run constantly for an hour it'll often overheat, having a tank lets it alternate being on and off.
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I own a patriot, an Iwata HP-C+ and a H&S infinity. The patriot’s a really solid, relatively inexpensive airbrush. It’s the AK 47 of airbrushes. If you have access to a model plane store, see if you can hold one. If it feels good in the hand, have at it.
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Bucnasti posted:Every time compressors are mentioned someone will say "get one with a tank" regardless of what brush you're using or your situation. lmao get one with a tank
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Tiny tanks nerds: I'm looking for a way to speed up painting 15mm tanks for desert war stuff. In the past, for soviet tanks, I've used GW's Typhus Corrosion to simulate caked mud. It looks like a more scale appropriate mud effect than the GW battlemire, and it has the benefit that I can cake the track and roadwheels in it to make it look like the tank's been in muddy ground without making it look like it's just been towed out of a bog like the grittier effects stuff does. A quick look at reference photos and photos from more modern conflicts says the same sort of thing happens in deserts too but with sand and grit, instead, leading to the track and roadwheels rapidly taking on a grey-yellow sandy tone instead of the existing camoflage and metal details, but I'm somewhat at loss on what to use for this because my local store's selection of paints is relatively poor. I'm assuming I need to venture out into more speciality retailers and I think possibly the thing I'm looking for is pigments, but I'm not entirely sure; some of them look like they have texture to them that'd parse as gritty caked-on dirt in 15mm, while others seem to be a very nice but not useful to me fading effect. Can anyone help me out with this? I basically want a sand-coloured texture paint to cake up tracks and roadwheels with so I can expedite painting seventy trillion T-55s.
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Do the same Typhus corrosion, then hit it with a sand coloured pigment. The typhus will give the pigment the texture it needs to hold on to on flat panels. Experiment with and without the typhus, as 15mm is decidedly small.
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Finished up a model, which hasn't happened in a very long time.       
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Dec 26, 2018 23:22
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That's ridiculously gorgeous my man.
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Crosspostin' from 30kGeneral Olloth posted:
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Working my way through the Gloomhaven box! Gonna do me a group shot with my light box when I’m done but here’s the first tiny dude:
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ijyt posted:Finished up a model, which hasn't happened in a very long time. Jesus Christ that’s a good looking tank.
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ijyt posted:Finished up a model, which hasn't happened in a very long time. Xenomrph posted:Jesus Christ that’s a good looking tank. Wha...  I was just skimming through and I thought it was just a 3D render posted as a reference or something. That's an amazing paint job! 
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ijyt posted:Finished up a model, which hasn't happened in a very long time. This is gorgeous, dude
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General Olloth posted:Crosspostin' from 30k Heeeeey purple and gold buddy!    My dude is from a different universe though.  ijyt posted:Finished up a model, which hasn't happened in a very long time. What the gently caress tell me how you did that weathering immediately.
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Trip report, it turns out airbrushing yellow armour is easy and basically cheating, however doing the black shoulder trim next to it gives me an insight into how a bomb defuser one day from retirement feels. 
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Magic Rabbit Hat posted:Heeeeey purple and gold buddy!  Best colour combination.
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Mr Teatime posted:Trip report, it turns out airbrushing yellow armour is easy and basically cheating, however doing the black shoulder trim next to it gives me an insight into how a bomb defuser one day from retirement feels. Latex masking goo is a huge pain in the rear end, but it's still less awful than trying to touch up airbrushing.
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Cross-posting:  The whole crew: 
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I finished up a warboss, really fun model to paint! 
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The Attack Squig turned out great!
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ijyt posted:Finished up a model, which hasn't happened in a very long time. Every time.
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Our group is trying out Gaslands so I'm trying to convert some hotwheels. I painted a minimally converted hot rod to try and get an idea of how to weather it and I like how it turned out.  
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Chance II posted:Our group is trying out Gaslands so I'm trying to convert some hotwheels. I painted a minimally converted hot rod to try and get an idea of how to weather it and I like how it turned out. 
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So I got my airbrush stuff in, but I am having an issue with the converter. I have tightened it as far as it possible can go, but it seems to be leaking. Would some kind of epoxy work for it, or is the conversion adapter faulty and just be sent back? Using this: https://www.amazon.com/Master-Airbrush-Fitting-Conversion-Adapter-x/dp/B0038NJYHG E>> Went as hard as I can with pliers to tighten it, it helped quite a bit, but still a tiny bit of release coming out. Is it normal to lose a little between the hose and brush? Slandible fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Dec 28, 2018 |
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Slandible posted:So I got my airbrush stuff in, but I am having an issue with the converter. I have tightened it as far as it possible can go, but it seems to be leaking. Would some kind of epoxy work for it, or is the conversion adapter faulty and just be sent back? Are you putting PTFE tape on the threads?
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I really tightened it up with pliers and dropped the psi to where it should be and it seems fine now.
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 My ghetto-setup for getting straight and uniform lines. White tack, compass lines and dad's old slide-rule.
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Slandible posted:I really tightened it up with pliers and dropped the psi to where it should be and it seems fine now. Metal to metal fittings that wou want to be air/water tight should nearly always have ptfe tape on the threads.
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So how does the Badger airbrush anniversary sale usually work? I heard that last year every model was $54 so if they follow suit with that pricing I'm definitely going to be looking to upgrade from my patriot to a Sotar. Is it usually like only a certain amount are available at the anniversary price so you have to be quick, or nah?
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Mikey Purp posted:So how does the Badger airbrush anniversary sale usually work? I heard that last year every model was $54 so if they follow suit with that pricing I'm definitely going to be looking to upgrade from my patriot to a Sotar. Is it usually like only a certain amount are available at the anniversary price so you have to be quick, or nah? No, if it's the same as last year it's a shitshow involving you emailing them and then they send a PayPal invoice and your airbrush gets sent to you some time (theoretically). I never actually got my sotar from last time...
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 Need some advice, anyone know how model scale banners nicely? I want to hang something under the barrel length ways. Was thinking of braiding golden thread for the rope but I want something that I can paint on to hang from it.
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Cross-post from the 40K thread, because I'm a big dumb, and got my threads mixed up  inscrutable horse posted:
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lookslikerain posted:
Quoted because I need to know the answer too, and to tell you your knight absolutely fucks
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lookslikerain posted:
This guy on shapeways has bunch of different banners for knights, including several under-barrel ones.
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I'm putting together the Primaris Redemptor Dreadnought, and I just realized that the little slot on the face-plate is actually cut-out of the model, not just a recessed bit. Why is that? I get that's where the marine inside is supposed to be looking out of, and that it would be dark, but it just seems like a odd modeling decision. I'm actually tempted to put something inside of it, like an extra space marine head or something. EDIT: Oh wow, the face plate just pops right on-and-off easily, and there's a big gap on the top of the main body. It seems like you are meant to stick a marine head & torso in there if you have one. Max Wilco fucked around with this message at 03:45 on Dec 29, 2018 |
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Eh just get some plastic sheeting, cut out a shape, heat it up with a hair dryer and bend it so it looks like it’s waving and save yourself $17 + shipping
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Booley posted:No, if it's the same as last year it's a shitshow involving you emailing them and then they send a PayPal invoice and your airbrush gets sent to you some time (theoretically). I never actually got my sotar from last time... Yeah my Krome was delivered to somebody, but not to me, and after a couple months of waiting for them to track things down (after waiting for almost two months to get it shipped in the first place), I finally gave up and bought one from Amazon for like $85. The next week they got back to me and were like "yeah it's gone, but we'll sell you another one at the anniversary price and throw in some extras". I honestly doubt they'll do the same thing again, it sounded like it was a lot more trouble for them than it was worth. In the end I don't even like the Krome, and switched to Sotar.
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No they are definitely doing the same thing again this year. They've been making count down posts on their Facebook page and everything. Maybe they'll be better prepared this year. I'll keep these anecdotes in mind when deciding if the sale price for the sotar is worth it, tho.
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Bucnasti posted:Yeah my Krome was delivered to somebody, but not to me, and after a couple months of waiting for them to track things down (after waiting for almost two months to get it shipped in the first place), I finally gave up and bought one from Amazon for like $85. The next week they got back to me and were like "yeah it's gone, but we'll sell you another one at the anniversary price and throw in some extras". Wait, did they at least refund you?
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lookslikerain posted:
Knight's looking good so far. Re Banners, if you want sculpted ones there are the shapeways options already mentioned, you could also use bitz sites and track down stuff like the high elf banners from WHFB, they may be of use. Alternately you can go the traditional route of using paper, paint your design, cut it out, carefully roll/fold it and varnish it to keep it in position. You can do the same with the thin tin sheeting from stuff like tomato puree tubes. The tin stuff keeps its shape better but be careful with sharp edges. For hanging it, you can wrap it around a cocktail stick and attach some fine jewellers chain to the ends, a bit of superglue will fix it in position if you don't want the banner swinging around.
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Mr Teatime posted:First time builder/painter looking for some basing advice. I have the death guard from dark imperium and I had planned to do their bases in the method the Warhammer TV guy demonstrated here: So I posted way back in June about starting out with these guys, ended up working away for a few months but they are now finished. Here are the results of a couple of them, really pleased how they came out. I especially like the nurglings on these guys.    I've also ended up buying a bunch more stuff to do so here are some WiP shots of more death guard stuff that I've now decided to try painting by a different method and the imperial fists from caving in and buying the supremacy force box. Kind of wish I had done crimson fists because they dont have shoulder pad trim to do, you can see how rough the first guys ended up being, guess I'll try some masking tape on the rest. The yellow still needs a wash too.   
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