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Serenade posted:What's the difference between an acrylic paint and an ink? If acrylic and oil paints are defined by their binders, are inks as well?
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I get better results with washes I make myself, but when I started painting again for shear ease I decided to go GW washes. They're pretty nice and I'm not trying to showcase level paint a whole 40k army. Also, Bulbasaur, what process and materials are you using for your cracked earth bases? You may be able to prevent the radial pattern cracking if you want.
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Booley posted:The gw washes are better, washes in pots instead of droppers are way easier to use, And yet somehow I never see people bitching about knocking over and spilling half a dropper bottle of wash across their table/carpet...
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Gareth Gobulcoque posted:I get better results with washes I make myself, but when I started painting again for shear ease I decided to go GW washes. They're pretty nice and I'm not trying to showcase level paint a whole 40k army. I'm overall happy with them, but I'd be eager to learn about your experience with the cracked earth bases. First, I put down a thick layer of gloss varnish, then I apply this stuff: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CO66JDU After that I seal it up with more gloss. I've found that I can water it down to get slightly different effects, but I can't say I've done a ton with it besides my bases and table:  
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darnon posted:And yet somehow I never see people bitching about knocking over and spilling half a dropper bottle of wash across their table/carpet... I've never knocked a GW wash bottle over, so I wouldn't know.
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Is there a good, cheap alternative to the GW terrain stuff like Astrogranite? Is it just "PVA some sand, paint it gray"? I'm going through it at an alarming rate on my AdMech.
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I've been using Vallejo's texture paints which are very similar and you get a big rear end jar for the price of two of the 'big' bottles of Citadel texture paints.
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I use liquitex gel medium mixed with sand and rocks. Spread it like chunky peanut butter.
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Did some dudes      Close up cameras don't flatter minis one bit. Didn't realize my painting was so... chalky. Harvey Mantaco fucked around with this message at 14:46 on Jan 23, 2019 |
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BULBASAUR posted:I'm overall happy with them, but I'd be eager to learn about your experience with the cracked earth bases. First, I put down a thick layer of gloss varnish, then I apply this stuff: Yeah they look great. I went through a phase a few years ago of doing endless experiments with crackle paints and pastes and mediums, and most of that knowledge is now lost to the sands of time. I don't have any experience with that particular stuff though. Because crackle is typically applied thickly, the edges have additional surface area due to the lip of material and they dry faster from the edge inwards. That's why you tend to get the radial patterns with either cracks going towards the center or in concentric rings. Certain crackle effects like certain under layers more like gloss or satin varnish, pva glue, or plaster which can help alleviate that somewhat. If your crackle isn't that particular about layer thickness then you can do a thinner layer in the middle and a thicker layer on the outside with the goal being that it dries at about the same rate and thus creates a more chaotic and less organized cracking. You can also do it in a couple stages of middle first, wait a few minutes, then do the outside. It's a lot of trial and error though cause every crackle seems to behave slightly differently. They already look great though.
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X-post from 40k threadSkails posted:I saw a few people ask about checkers recently, thought I'd share how I approach it. Link to better pic of sword: https://instagram.com/p/BqsNKLlHttC/ Skails fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Jan 23, 2019 |
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Is this the thread where I can post my poorly painted D&D minis?
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Zev posted:Is this the thread where I can post my poorly painted D&D minis? 
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Made a start on our Discord's painting contest thing tonight. Even by my own hyperactive benchmarks I think for just over 2 hours he's turning out pretty decent. Also Pink and Baby Blue, the true colours of manliness. Going for a super cartoony palette for fun.
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richyp posted:Made a start on our Discord's painting contest thing tonight. Even by my own hyperactive benchmarks I think for just over 2 hours he's turning out pretty decent. Also Pink and Baby Blue, the true colours of manliness. I can see a mold line on the bottom of the bases spear handle really bad, you might want to clean that up before it gets real paint on it for a Competition. Progress looking great!
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richyp posted:Made a start on our Discord's painting contest thing tonight. Even by my own hyperactive benchmarks I think for just over 2 hours he's turning out pretty decent. Also Pink and Baby Blue, the true colours of manliness. 10/10 my friend. That’s an impressively efficient return on investment.
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I wasn't sold on purple washes for non-bruised skin, but this has altered my opinion. Fantastic so far!
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Thanks guys.General Olloth posted:I can see a mold line on the bottom of the bases spear handle really bad, you might want to clean that up before it gets real paint on it for a Competition. Progress looking great! Good catch, the base was more of an afterthought. Ilor posted:I wasn't sold on purple washes for non-bruised skin, but this has altered my opinion. Fantastic so far! It's heavily thinned with Lahmian about 3 parts medium to 1 part Druchi Violet. The skin was: 1) Base Kislev 2) Wash with the above 3) highlight's of kislev + screaming skull, and pure screaming skull.
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  Phone posting so they look extra bad. But better than the pre painted alternative: 
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Inspector_666 posted:Is there a good, cheap alternative to the GW terrain stuff like Astrogranite? Is it just "PVA some sand, paint it gray"? The texture isn't just 'sand' unfortunately, but good news is Vallejo makes enormous jars of the stuff for cheap. https://www.amazon.com/Vallejo-Roug...C29G0X8AHPS9XNE It has consistency similar to astrogranite, but like whipped cream you can sculpt and manipulate the peaks with the handle of paint brush and it'll set how you leave it. A++
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richyp posted:Made a start on our Discord's painting contest thing tonight. Even by my own hyperactive benchmarks I think for just over 2 hours he's turning out pretty decent. Also Pink and Baby Blue, the true colours of manliness. Love it
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Yeast posted:The texture isn't just 'sand' unfortunately, but good news is Vallejo makes enormous jars of the stuff for cheap. This looks very helpful, I assume I'll need to throw a coat over it to match the Astrogranite color though, does anybody know which gray that is?
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richyp posted:Made a start on our Discord's painting contest thing tonight. Even by my own hyperactive benchmarks I think for just over 2 hours he's turning out pretty decent. Also Pink and Baby Blue, the true colours of manliness. Young Skeletor?
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richyp posted:Made a start on our Discord's painting contest thing tonight. Even by my own hyperactive benchmarks I think for just over 2 hours he's turning out pretty decent. Also Pink and Baby Blue, the true colours of manliness. That mini is damned awesome. 
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Gareth Gobulcoque posted:Yeah they look great. I went through a phase a few years ago of doing endless experiments with crackle paints and pastes and mediums, and most of that knowledge is now lost to the sands of time. I don't have any experience with that particular stuff though. Thanks man! I appreciate the details. Definitely learned something from this today. I made about 400 of these bases so far and you're right the effect you get when you cover up something (like black lava, for example) does a lot to break it up into more natural formations
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In between my big projects I've worked on a bunch of small scale things, kill teams and test models and stuff that I didn't really like enough to do a whole army out of. Here are some of my ghosted projects. BlackPink    I like this colour scheme a lot and think the Custodes look good, but I absolutely hate the scion models and never want to paint another one as long as I live. They've got so many fiddly little details and so many different materials they take forever and I burned out on 'em after 10. Maybe I'll come back to this later. Rainbow Ruberics    Similar to BlackPink, I lothed the ruberic marines as models - they're persnicketty jerks who are all about a billion jillion highlights and trim, they're a pain in the rear end, and their poses are incredibly boring and static. I was originally going to do 6 squads, each with a different colour armour pattern and the sorcerer leading the squad from the next colour over, but I gave up after one. The Fall of Man   Harlequin troupe that re-enacts the Fall of Mankind, each player dressed as a different Primarch. This one stopped because I didn't want to paint the boat which has languished in my to-do pile for over a year now.
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I’m new to painting and this is really the first model I’ve spent any time on. I am ok with how it looks so far but what I can do to minimize the borderlands sharing in the future? Water the layer shade down more? Add more dark to it?
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I'm not especially competent so I don't have any actual advice, I just wanted to say that for a first model that looks really loving sweet dude!
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Work in progress. Working on the kill team box set and this ad-mech commander because he looked cool to paint. Last time I painted models I was like 13 (20 years ago jeez!) so this is all new to me. Washes are amazing. And brushes are so much better. (Though I probably just care for them better now.) 
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Harvey Mantaco posted:Close up cameras don't flatter minis one bit. Didn't realize my painting was so... chalky. Is that a symptom of just not thinning paints enough? This happens to me a lot too but I don't know how to fix.
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Sab669 posted:Is that a symptom of just not thinning paints enough? This happens to me a lot too but I don't know how to fix. Doubt it, i'm pretty good about that. Seems like i'm getting poor coverage with my brush, but it's hard to tell.
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And finishedquote:Painted up a Darkoath Chieftain to add some Slaanesh to my Chaos boys and girls.
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richyp posted:And finished I finished up some more Skitarii last night which meant hitting the special weapons with some baharroth blue and it was pretty great.
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richyp posted:And finished Looking good, nice to see a bright and cartoony version of the guy.
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richyp posted:Made a start on our Discord's painting contest thing tonight. Even by my own hyperactive benchmarks I think for just over 2 hours he's turning out pretty decent. Also Pink and Baby Blue, the true colours of manliness. There's a painting discord?
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 I finished the bottle of sotek I was using and when I opened the new one it was a ever so slightly different shade, does not seem too noticeable after washes and highlights though.
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Asmodai_00 posted:There's a painting discord? The 40k discord has a channel.
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Inspector_666 posted:I finished up some more Skitarii last night which meant hitting the special weapons with some baharroth blue and it was pretty great. It's a good colour. I got my smartphone settings sorted out and got a better picture, so you can see Baharroth Blue and the other 7 of the edge colours in their true pastel glory.   
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