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Harvey Mantaco posted:I own all these and the scale is the same. Only model out of any of these sets that is smaller than it should be (for practical reasons I'd imagine) is the flying black dragon in one of the game's. That’s great to hear. Any idea if the Dungeon of the Mad Mage game minis (I just found out this game exists!) are decent as well? It looks like there are some repeats in it, but those zombie beholders look awesome.
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I have a clerical problem, every time I find a cleric mini I like I find another that exists. I'm currently starting to paint again as I found a DnD group to play with. I've never painted reaper minis before and all I can say is wow, they are fun to paint. 
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May 11, 2019 16:05
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Sixfools posted:I have a clerical problem, every time I find a cleric mini I like I find another that exists. I'm currently starting to paint again as I found a DnD group to play with. I've never painted reaper minis before and all I can say is wow, they are fun to paint. Reaper's great if you're playing something with a fantasy setting, as they have a huge range of fantasy minis. So no matter what it is you're playing, they likely have a figure to represent it. 
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May 11, 2019 19:00
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Finished first squad of Certusian Charnel Guard. The Cholercaust Blood Crusade left the Ministorum cemetery world Certus Minor in ruins. Legion of the Damned arriving from the warp annihilated the chaos forces, leaving the ground permanently stained with the blood of millions. However, defeat of the Khornate hordes was not the end of their woes. Returning refugees brought with them xenos and chaos infiltrators. A reinforced Charnel Guard with assistance from Excoriators space marines have kept the enemy at bay, but rumors persist that the Charnel Guard themselves have been compromised.     
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May 11, 2019 19:26
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Who makes a good stand-in for the current Hawk Turquoise? I really like the color but GW nukes their lines way too often and I want something I'll be able to buy in a year or two without paying ebay hoarder prices. It's really hard to tell from online conversion charts, some of them look way too blue and the swatches are rarely even close to the actual color anyway.
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May 11, 2019 20:05
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TTerrible posted:Lmao Yeast posted:That was my original guess, but there’s no way H&S could supply that many units.
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May 11, 2019 20:57
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Are the contrast paints like combining high flow, transparent paints and colors like Payne's grey? I want to be smug about how that's nothing new, but I was pretty excited when I discovered payne's grey too.
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May 11, 2019 21:34
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Serenade posted:Are the contrast paints like combining high flow, transparent paints and colors like Payne's grey? I want to be smug about how that's nothing new, but I was pretty excited when I discovered payne's grey too. They're also heavily pigmented and supposed to be applied over a satiny undercoat, creating natural shading as the pigment pools in the recesses. It's a basecoat, wash, and first stage highlight all in one step (well, two with undercoat). It's launching with 34 colors that replicate many faction colors in 40k/AoS and details like leather, cloth, different skins, etc. It's not a huge game-changer, especially for advanced hobbyists, but can definitely help you save time for horde armies or other stuff you just want to power through. It'll also be great just for seeing less gray plastic on the tabletop in general since basic table-ready paint jobs are now easier than ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIEtAlMSndQ 
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May 11, 2019 21:52
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Imgur gallery with all the Contrast colors in that display case
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May 11, 2019 22:01
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Preem Palver posted:They're also heavily pigmented and supposed to be applied over a satiny undercoat, creating natural shading as the pigment pools in the recesses. It's a basecoat, wash, and first stage highlight all in one step (well, two with undercoat). It's launching with 34 colors that replicate many faction colors in 40k/AoS and details like leather, cloth, different skins, etc. It's not a huge game-changer, especially for advanced hobbyists, but can definitely help you save time for horde armies or other stuff you just want to power through. It'll also be great just for seeing less gray plastic on the tabletop in general since basic table-ready paint jobs are now easier than ever. Draw a few circles > Draw the rest of the loving owl.
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May 11, 2019 22:02
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thespaceinvader posted:Draw a few circles > Draw the rest of the loving owl. How so? Each color on the bottom intercessor is one un-thinned coat of contrast paint, including the normally metallic bits. They didn't show all the steps of painting blue, black ,grey, yellow, red, and bone/parchment, but it's literally spray or brush undercoat on, apply those 6 paints, base, and you're done. There are plenty of examples of it in use over all sorts of models from people that tested it at warhammer fest today if you're skeptical.
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May 11, 2019 22:44
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Preem Palver posted:How so? Each color on the bottom intercessor is one un-thinned coat of contrast paint, including the normally metallic bits. They didn't show all the steps of painting blue, black ,grey, yellow, red, and bone/parchment, but it's literally spray or brush undercoat on, apply those 6 paints, base, and you're done. There are plenty of examples of it in use over all sorts of models from people that tested it at warhammer fest today if you're skeptical. Yeah the technical stuff are things GW have been showing how to do for years.
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May 11, 2019 23:52
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Is this stuff just a one step paint+shade?
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   So i painted this in ~6 hours today. It definitely shows and i'm going to go back and do more (especially with the Ork's head and stuff) but for going from primer to slightly over tabletop quality (for me at least) in an afternoon, i'm happy with it. Especially since i have another one to build and paint. Oh and then i have to do the base.
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May 12, 2019 03:33
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Professor Shark posted:Is this stuff just a one step paint+shade? They’re calling the poor coverage of raised areas a ‘highlight’ which is impressively creative marketing. But yes, in essence the idea is you put it on white, and it’s one and done. It looks like thinned paint over white. Which is because it is.
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May 12, 2019 03:34
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The Jumpoff posted:
Clean work mate!
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May 12, 2019 03:36
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Yeast posted:Clean work mate! It's worse up close but i appreciate the compliment
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Yeast posted:They’re calling the poor coverage of raised areas a ‘highlight’ which is impressively creative marketing. I mean, if it looks like a highlight it kind of is a highlight. I think the idea here is to get tabletop ready miniatures done quickly. I doubt we'll see this a lot in painting competitions, but if I need to paint a bunch of pox walkers or trees or whatever then I might look at it.
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May 12, 2019 03:52
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NovemberMike posted:I mean, if it looks like a highlight it kind of is a highlight. I think the idea here is to get tabletop ready miniatures done quickly. I doubt we'll see this a lot in painting competitions, but if I need to paint a bunch of pox walkers or trees or whatever then I might look at it. That's exactly what it's for; to get models painted and on the table. It's basically equivalent to dipping.
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May 12, 2019 03:55
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NovemberMike posted:I think the idea here is to get tabletop ready miniatures done quickly. Without a doubt. I wouldn't be surprised if all of Games Workshop's 'learn to paint' lessons are now 5 of these paints and off you go.
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May 12, 2019 03:57
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Yeast posted:Without a doubt. The reveal video had Duncan and Peachy sitting there looking sad like they were out of a job. Really though they already do a variety, they have always sprinkled other techniques in certain videos. The ratio may change now of what techniques though.
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I'm even more impressed after seeing these pictures. Even the Dreadnaught looks amazing. Apparently these are all painted with contrasts, technicals and maybe metallics.   
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May 12, 2019 06:34
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The dread looks pretty patchy and pooly to me. The rest look good though!
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TTerrible posted:The dread looks pretty patchy and pooly to me. The rest look good though! A bit, but still a really good result for the amount of effort that would have went into it I also think with careful application of those big flat surfaces you could get pretty convincing blends
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May 12, 2019 07:44
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If the contrast paint saves me a step on painting the eighth skull detail on some chaos infantry model I don’t really care about that much then I’m all for it
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May 12, 2019 08:54
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What's that barnacle troll thing it's a really nice mini?
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Shadespire thing I think.
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Well I guess it’s never too bad to have more colours of ink to choose from.
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thespaceinvader posted:What's that barnacle troll thing it's a really nice mini? https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Gloomspite-Gitz-Dankhold-Troggoth-2019
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May 12, 2019 10:45
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Dang the Sigmar minis have gotten a lot less weird in the last few years.
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This looks great, especially if the bone parts are just washed. Do you think they let it dry upside-down to get the whatever new stuff to pool like that?
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thespaceinvader posted:Dang the Sigmar minis have gotten a lot less weird in the last few years. I feel like they went way too far at the start (but it set the tone of the factions and world) and now that it's a bit settled the content and minis are much better.
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May 12, 2019 13:37
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Painted a terminator standard bearer  
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May 12, 2019 14:11
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Booley posted:Painted a terminator standard bearer Wow, that gun barrel 
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Big Willy Style posted:I'm even more impressed after seeing these pictures. Even the Dreadnaught looks amazing. Apparently these are all painted with contrasts, technicals and maybe metallics. These are fantastic. I can’t wait to try out that new paint. Really glad it didn’t end up being an airbrush, lol
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I’d like to paint a lighter leather, but Citadel recommends buying 4 paints and none of them look good. Any suggestions on what I could use?
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Professor Shark posted:I’d like to paint a lighter leather, but Citadel recommends buying 4 paints and none of them look good. Any suggestions on what I could use? Which paints are you not liking? For citadel paints I like gorthor brown as the base for a light leather
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May 12, 2019 16:42
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Professor Shark posted:I’d like to paint a lighter leather, but Citadel recommends buying 4 paints and none of them look good. Any suggestions on what I could use? P3's Gun Corps Brown is pretty nice for light leather, especially with a glaze of Vallejo Smoke.
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I've got a question about the properties medium. I've got some Lahmian medium as well as Vallejo glaze and thinner medium. In what way are they different? I see different ones used in different youtube videos but there's little explanation as to why you would use one over another.
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chippocrates posted:I've got a question about the properties medium. I've got some Lahmian medium as well as Vallejo glaze and thinner medium. I am not 100% clear on this, but here's my understanding: 1) You've got your acrylic medium, which is just the clear (actually slightly milky before it dries, in my experience) liquid acrylic that makes acrylic paint if you leave out the pigment. This usually comes in matte, satin, and gloss options. 2) You've got your thinner, which when formulated for use in acrylic paints is usually alcohol-based and thins paint but also speeds up drying times, because that's what alcohol does. 3) You've got your flow-improver, which is usually... soap-based? I think? ...and which decreases the surface tension of the paint, causing it to flow more easily but also slows down drying times because that's what soap does. 4) You've got your drying retarder, which I don't know what it's made of, but it increases drying time even more than flow improver does and doesn't increase flow so much, and which generally should be used in even smaller quantities than the thinner or flow improver. ... Obviously, thinner is just thinner. Glaze and Lahmian medium are bespoke formulas by Vallejo and Games Workshop, respectively, that use different amounts of the above materials to achieve different ends. Glaze medium is, I believe, a mixture of thinner, acrylic medium, and flow improver (or possibly all of those and drying retarder) in some specific ratio which is supposed to make good glazes. Lahmian medium is acrylic medium and flow improver in something like the same ratio they use in their shade paints before they add pigments. Lahmian medium is one of the better ones but it's also by far the most expensive, and it comes in a pot which means not only are you paying much, much more by volume, you'll also lose more to drying. Vallejo glaze medium is okay but I find you have to use really small amounts of it. All of them will work differently with different paint brands and also with specific paints within paint brands, and also in different temperatures and humidities, and at different altitudes. You're gonna have to experiment.
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