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Quidthulhu posted:First squad of Necrons, up and running! These guys were a blast to paint, can't wait to throw more of their friends together. Had a lot of fun experimenting with the basing and glowing crystals, too! Pretty happy overall with how these all turned out~ The glowing cryrals look awesome! Oh crap top of page, here's an old pic of a Minotaur I did. 
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Duct Tape posted:Finished my first Space Marine today. The mini itself has been done for over a week, and I've just been waiting to do the base. Was damned fun to paint this guy, but airbrushing marble on such a tiny mini was tricky. Now I have to stop procrastinating and finish painting my Knight Gallant! This dude looks like he’s about to come out of my Internet browser and murder me. He’s loving awesome.
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Duct Tape posted:Finished my first Space Marine today. The mini itself has been done for over a week, and I've just been waiting to do the base. Was damned fun to paint this guy, but airbrushing marble on such a tiny mini was tricky. Now I have to stop procrastinating and finish painting my Knight Gallant! His eyes... his eyes... https://twitter.com/MrPlinkett/status/1107476472925696000
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Finished a drone for Infinity today. Struggled a lot with the glow/fire effects. After redoing it twice, I'm ok with it, but mostly I don't want to mess with it anymore.   
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Got a nice airbrush coming, who is the best YouTube guy to watch to learn technique who doesn't have a trash personality or the rambling disease?
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Mugaaz posted:Finished a drone for Infinity today. Struggled a lot with the glow/fire effects. After redoing it twice, I'm ok with it, but mostly I don't want to mess with it anymore.
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Harvey Mantaco posted:Got a nice airbrush coming, who is the best YouTube guy to watch to learn technique who doesn't have a trash personality or the rambling disease? Probably Vince Venturella, but you'll have to pick through his Hobby Cheating playlist to find the ones that focus on airbrush techniques. Next Level Painting is also really good but the dude's personality is awful. I usually watch on mute with captions which makes it bearable.
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Has anyone decanted GW paints into dropper bottles lately? I’m looking for a decent source for the bottles themselves, and it seems many of the droppers available on say Amazon have at least a few reports of low quality. I’d be much obliged if anyone could point me to a source they’ve used and are happy with.
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Mar 18, 2019 21:59
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I’ve used “Modelcraft 17 ml 1-Piece Dropper Bottles” from Amazon (UK) to decant to. They’re exactly the same as Scale75 droppers, good quality but maybe a little pricey.
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Mar 18, 2019 23:01
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I use these 20ml bottles as they give a bit more capacity that can fit transferring P3 paints as well.
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What kind of recipe would you guys use to get a muted, brownish yellow like this guy: It looks like a cadmium-ish yellow with a cooler tone and almost a really faint hint of green in the highlights? And the brown shading might have a tiny bit of purple in it, but I can't tell if that's just the lighting / my monitor. A lot of Imperial Fist stuff is too bright for my tastes but I dig this cooler, more desaturated tone and I'd like to try something similar next time I work with yellow.
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Mar 19, 2019 01:07
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Just paint yellow over black and it will be ultra desaturated.I don't see any green or purple myself.
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Mar 19, 2019 01:12
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Mugaaz posted:Just paint yellow over black and it will be ultra desaturated.I don't see any green or purple myself. Yellow over black will almost always look like poo poo, both because of the many layers it'll take to build up a consistent color and because most blacks have a bit of blue in them, which will turn the yellows to green. I would start with something like a burnt umber or a dark tan basecoat, and build up with a yellow ochre color, or possibly scale75 sahara yellow.
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I still cannot get basic loving ink washes to work, I got tide marks again, I am the goddamn worst at this.    What, if anything, will fix this? Drybrushing the original shade? Giving him another coat of the original shade? Just giving up and hoping that between the transfers covering up most of his shoulders and the varnish smoothing everything it won't look that bad?
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CapnAndy posted:I still cannot get basic loving ink washes to work, I got tide marks again, I am the goddamn worst at this. Unfortunately that's just how washes are generally gonna look on something like power armour with lots of smooth surfaces. You can go back with the original blue and neaten up any raised areas, but your best bet is to do it as a pin wash rather than all over, i.e. just paint the shade directly in to the recesses.
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Yeah, washes don't tend to do well in spaces where there isn't any texture for them to interact with.
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Skails posted:These guys looks like they have a solid clean base coat. To push them further you could try some edge high-lighting. A little runefang steel or other bright metal on the metallic bits and some medium grey for the black parts. I'm sure someone could recommend a good citadel or other paint color for edging black. Then pick out some high-lights on the faces, cheek, nose, brow with kislev flesh mixed with your base color and the skull mask with similarly with something like ushabti bone. If you don't have those colors and don't want to buy them mix your base brown color with a little bit of white and red for flesh highlight and base brown with a little bit of white and yellow for bone highlights. Then work the color up by sight. The weather is getting better around here, so I could open up a window and work on it inside. I wear a disposable respirator while doing the gluing as well. What I worry about more is the glue not dispersing outside and stinking up the room. I also have two cats, and I worry about them getting ill from the odor (obviously I can keep them out of the room while I work on it, but still, it's a concern to me). I'll look into trying it inside at some point, though. Odd question, but I was wondering if there's certain steps to take when it comes to doing models/painting. After the Dreadnought and Blood Angels, I have the Start Collecting Skitarii box to put together, which means I'd be doing a non-push-fit vehicle (the Dunecrawler) and a elite/HQ mini (the Tech Priest). What I'm wondering is (provided SOBs haven't released at that point) what I should try next. I figured the next thing I'd do would be some kind of terrain, or maybe a flier. My reason for asking is because at some point, I'd like to work my way up to doing something more advanced, like something from ForgeWorld, or the simple version of the Titan (the $150 plastic one, not the $1000 resin one.)
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S.J. posted:Yeah, washes don't tend to do well in spaces where there isn't any texture for them to interact with. Exactly this, washes are meant for recess shading. If you want to use it on something like power armor you're going to need to paint it in. It is possible to use them over flat surfaces, but you need to feather out the edges and it needs to be done very quickly. You can get some really cool effects with it very quickly, but if you take too long you will get a "coffee ring" that is nigh impossible to remove. Better off just glazing instead. Also, the way you used it isn't really wrong. You can do it that way, but you need to go back in with the base color and go back over the majority of the raised sections. That is a quick way to get all the slightly lower areas darker very quickly with minimal effort.
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Spent tonight getting my evil trees painted up. Having a ball with these guys! 
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IshmaelZarkov posted:Spent tonight getting my evil trees painted up. Having a ball with these guys! What are those from? Those are awesome evil trees! I want to have a bunch of those hanging out in pots in my house.
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IshmaelZarkov posted:Evil trees. You've sculpted those yourself, right? They're super neat!
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crazystray posted:What are those from? Those are awesome evil trees! I want to have a bunch of those hanging out in pots in my house. They look to be Citadel trees with the bottoms replaced with sculpted tentacles. They look drat good!
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I'm making some custom objective markers (various boxes made out of Milliput) that I'm going to base with Martian Ironearth, but how should I go about weathering the boxes, so that they look like they've been outside for a while? I'd guess there'll be some drybrushing involved, but what colours go with the reddish-brown of Ironearth?
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Bulbasaur has some nice weathering tutorials on his website https://www.powerfisted.com/
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Bulbasaur is an anime powered scoundrel, please don't give him web traffic.
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Maybe a dumb question, but I was reading a few tutorials that kept bringing up using a wash as a glaze, and I'm kinda confused as to what that means. Is it just wiping most of the wash off before applying it so that you get a really controlled effect that doesn't pool in the recesses, or is there some additive involved? And what would be the reason for specifically using a wash instead of just thinning down a similarly colored paint to glaze with instead?
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Washes are already about the right consistency to use as glazes. Just get a very small amount on your brush so it stays where you brush it on rather than flowing into recesses. You can use pretty much any paint as a glaze, but some will start to break down before reaching glaze consistency so you'll need to add some acrylic medium. Less opaque paints/darker colors tend to work better in my experience, probably since a lot of lighter colors have white pigment added for coverage.
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gently caress anyone who can paint better than me imo.
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Eifert Posting posted:gently caress anyone who can paint better than me imo. Yeah, this! Also gently caress anybody with good painting motivation this poo poo takes me forever.
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Inspector_666 posted:Yeah, this! Just Paint Every Day!
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TTerrible posted:Bulbasaur is an anime powered scoundrel, please don't give him web traffic. I don't know about that, but the zoom effect on those tiles gives me vertigo, and makes me queasy. Also, those tutorials are ever-so-slightly excessive. I'll keep them in mind for when I want to make a bad-rear end "Behold mortals, and tremble!" model to show off just how much better I am than anyone else, but I'm not really willing to put that much effort into making some goofy objective markers 
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Well yeah I was mostly thinking about the scratchings and similar 
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Inspector_666 posted:Yeah, this! I suck at painting miniatures, but it hasn't stopped me from staying motivated to keep going. As long as I can keep finding new figures to paint that I think are awesome, i'll keep going and keep throwing money down this endless pit.
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I said come in! posted:I suck at painting miniatures, but it hasn't stopped me from staying motivated to keep going. As long as I can keep finding new figures to paint that I think are awesome, i'll keep going and keep throwing money down this endless pit. Ain't that the truth. Plastic crack, not even once.
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I said come in! posted:I suck at painting miniatures, but it hasn't stopped me from staying motivated to keep going. As long as I can keep finding new figures to paint that I think are awesome, i'll keep going and keep throwing money down this endless pit. The danger is when you become satisfied just from purchasing them.
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Is there any reason I shouldn't prime my minis with them on the GW painting handle? I can't imagine it would harm it, but at the same time I don't want to have to buy another one. unrelated - Took a bit of a break from painting the last 2 weeks or so, but now I'm running the risk of not having all my poo poo painted for my next slow grow league, so... Work in progress Knight Incantor! Feels good to paint again 
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The Moon Monster posted:The danger is when you become satisfied just from purchasing them. In the next month I plan on going down the paint rabbit hole. I really want to expand my collection of Citadel paints and then move onto P3 paints.
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What's the magic technique for applying weathering pigments and fixing them? I'm trying to get a dusty dried mud effect and it looks just right after dusting on the pigments, however after using AK fixer it really seemed to just remove the effect I wanted. Would it be a better idea just to hit the model with an airbrush varnish coat?
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There isn't really a way to preserve the just dusted look  Best method I've seen is kind of stippling/jabbing with fixer.
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