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This is a great comparison, but is there any particular reason you've not looked into 99% isopropyl alcohol? It's plastic safe and strips things in an hour or so. My nuclear option for metals is dichloromethane (plastic weld). It will remove all the paint present in about 10 mins flat.
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Harvey Mantaco posted:Th-th-they came w00tmonger posted:These are the poo poo! Where can I buy them? Full set is available here: https://store.steamforged.com/products/dungeons-and-doggies-kickstarter-version Yes I signed up for email notifications for them.
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Painted up a 250 Reknown Skirmish Warband for Sigmar. Mostly Wanderers, but I added some Sylvaneth for flavour. Most of those I've posted the other day when I painted them, but today I added the 6 Elves, 3 Sisters of the Watch (on the left) 3 Shadow Warriors (on the right), and added a couple of light sources to make them seem more magical and to add to the winter theme.  Really happy with how they turned out, for how quick they were to paint up. They'll probably get destroyed when the meet their opponents though.
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Took the advice and had another go at painting up Battletech minis. I think they came out much better?
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Taintrunner posted:Took the advice and had another go at painting up Battletech minis. I think they came out much better? Paint the rim of the base black. Trust me. Everytime you post you're visibly improving. That's the dream.
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Aug 1, 2019 23:48
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Taintrunner posted:Took the advice and had another go at painting up Battletech minis. I think they came out much better? They definitely look better. Some suggestions: 1. See the flash on the leg? Get in the habit of cleaning those off before you paint. It will make the end result look much better. 2. Consider applying a wash to add shading and detail to the models. 3. Always try to be as clean as possible with your brushwork. It takes practice but is the foundation to all other painting. 4. Be proud of yourself!
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Taintrunner posted:Took the advice and had another go at painting up Battletech minis. I think they came out much better? In addition to what everyone else has said, binge-watch the WarhammerTV YouTube painting videos. They are excellent for beginners and they will teach you all the relevant techniques. Painting a Battlemech is essentially identical to painting a Space Marine so everything they say goes. Avoid painting tutorials made by other youtubers until you're comfortable with the basics, they're generally good but very few take the time to properly explain the how and whys which is essential when you're just starting out. From an educational perspective the WarhammerTV ones are really well made and will hold your hand until you're ready to move on.
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Aug 2, 2019 00:06
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A friendly reminder that you can, in fact, do it. 
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Aug 2, 2019 00:24
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Cool poo poo as usual BigA, what’s the armour recipe?
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Aug 2, 2019 00:33
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Probably a long shot but does anyone know of any minis with an at least loosely African-inspired fantasy aesthetic? The only one I know of is Reaper's vaguely Zulu avatar mini, but that's an Elephant-man and I'm hoping I can find some actual humans.
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Grizzled Patriarch posted:Probably a long shot but does anyone know of any minis with an at least loosely African-inspired fantasy aesthetic? The only one I know of is Reaper's vaguely Zulu avatar mini, but that's an Elephant-man and I'm hoping I can find some actual humans. Frostgrave Ghost Archipelago has a Tribals boxset - i'm not sure if thats the kind of thing you're after but hey, maybe it is.
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Harvey Mantaco posted:Paint the rim of the base black. Seriously, if you paint the rim of a base black the worst case scenario is that it looks good.
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Whats a good way to deal with mold lines on softer plastic minis? The citadel mold line remover works great on hard plastic like citadel and warlord multi part kits but for gloomhaven minis it seems to just make a mess.
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Z the IVth posted:This is a great comparison, but is there any particular reason you've not looked into 99% isopropyl alcohol? It's plastic safe and strips things in an hour or so. I'd forgotten about isopropyl, honestly. Though, I also can't seem to find anything higher than 90% locally, so that may have contributed to me forgetting about it.
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Taintrunner posted:Took the advice and had another go at painting up Battletech minis. I think they came out much better? That's definitely an improvement with the wash added for shading, it always makes details stand out more. If you want to add more grime or push the shadows even further you can always add a thinned down dark wash like Citadel paints Agrax Earthshade. If you want some "dust" on your models around the feet where they'd be stomping around you can apply a drybrush of a light sand color. Also, this is just me, but I wouldn't use static grass at that scale since it tends to make your mechs look human sized. Grundma posted:Whats a good way to deal with mold lines on softer plastic minis? The citadel mold line remover works great on hard plastic like citadel and warlord multi part kits but for gloomhaven minis it seems to just make a mess. If they're anything like Reaper bones minis a medical scalpel blade is pretty much your only option, unfortunately. You could try very carefully and gently shaving away at the lines with the scalpel in a forward position using the sharpest point rather than scraping with the reverse which works on harder plastics. Propitious Jerk fucked around with this message at 01:51 on Aug 2, 2019 |
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Diamond files work sorta okay on Bones material, as long as it's a reasonably solid piece and not something flimsy like a really thin blade. You definitely need a few different file shapes / sizes though, and there are still gonna be a few spots where you'll probably need to get in between some details with an x-acto. Related, but man Reaper puts their mold lines in some baffling places sometimes. I know they're pretty much doing things as cheaply as humanly possible and that's basically the entire selling point, but once in a while it honestly seems like the placement is less efficient than it would be to just do a regular sandwich mold. Stuff like horizontal mold lines across the front of a mini wearing robes so that you have to spend like an hour scraping at all sorts of different angles.
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I've had good results using this seam scraper on Bones models. Gets pretty close to the surface and I don't have to use an x-acto nearly as much as I used to.
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Gunder posted:Cool poo poo as usual BigA, what’s the armour recipe? Thanks! Straight Contrast apothecary white over wraithbone. Was really surprised how well it worked. The other contrast was the cloak and the yellow on the shoulder. The rest was a combination of contrast and normal paints. I'm just impressed I only had to do a small touch-up on the eyes. Those goddamn things are tiny. At this point I still don't bother with whites on eyes. In time
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TheBigAristotle posted:Straight Contrast apothecary white over wraithbone. Was really surprised how well it worked. gently caress outta here, really? I've been doing white robes for my Warmaster high elves going Celestra Grey/Nuln Oil/Ulthuan Grey/Ceramite White, and it works, but that just looks so clean with so little effort. I wasn't too keen on dropping the like, $15 per pot, but with results like that I might just have to pull the trigger.
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Yeah, there was some cleanup of grey pooling but not too much, just have some white scar, or in my case, corax  and some grey.Apothecary seems like one of the easier ones to control. Some of the reds really sink in fast and Iyanden is a labor to keep clean. I had to and still have to clean up pooling on this makeshift Imperial Fists smash captain I'm whipping up
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richyp posted:Painted up a 250 Reknown Skirmish Warband for Sigmar. Mostly Wanderers, but I added some Sylvaneth for flavour. Can you get the hell out of here with the extremely nice OSL? Good grief.
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Grizzled Patriarch posted:Probably a long shot but does anyone know of any minis with an at least loosely African-inspired fantasy aesthetic? The only one I know of is Reaper's vaguely Zulu avatar mini, but that's an Elephant-man and I'm hoping I can find some actual humans.
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Booley posted:Painted up a second executioner just in time for the nerf: This is incredible. What colour you using for the black?
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Miles O'Brian posted:This is incredible. What colour you using for the black? Black primer then a heavy airbrush coat of Vallejo model air black grey, leaving just a bit of the black visible. Then a dark brown oil wash.
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Richy we need a timelapse of your paint table for one day, no, one week, tia
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So, I picked up my first light box for my minis off of Amazon, and my current Oath is nearly complete.  The e-web on the left is part of my oath this month, as was the 3rd squad (in the back). The ion cannon trooper and the e-web blaster are all that’s left to do, aside from basing. Does anyone have any suggestions on basing for snow/winter? I want this whole group to be as Hoth-like as possible. It’s General Veers leading it, 4x snowtrooper squads (each with an extra guy, and a flamethrower guy), 2x e-web blasters, and an AT-ST to finish it off. It’s a legal list for Legion too (800/800 points spent), so I can’t wait to crush some rebel scum and look good while doing it 
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Icon Of Sin posted:So, I picked up my first light box for my minis off of Amazon, and my current Oath is nearly complete. Could you get a closeup of one of the hoodi snobois?
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 First one. He was my test scheme, and I just ran with it. e: they had more colors than they had any right to, for a trooper unit. Zandri dust (boots, backpack) Pallid Wych flesh (primer) Celestra grey (body, except for armor and boots) Mechanicus standard grey (armor) Abaddon black (weapons/eyes) And of course, nuln oil to seal it off. Icon Of Sin fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Aug 3, 2019 |
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Schadenboner posted:Could you get a closeup of one of the hoodi snobois? Could you contribute a single thing other than a question?
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General Olloth posted:Could you contribute a single thing other than a question? Could you tell me about the Palatine Aquila?
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That marine comparison made me wanna compare my stuff, I think the Stormcast might be from may, but the earliest photo I can find of me having finished him was dated as June.  Getting less bad one mini at a time.
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Thanks everyone for the tips on dealing with moldlines on soft plastic. I'm ordering that scraper and will give it a try. Of course I was too excited to paint the new class we unlocked so there's a little bit of moldline on these guys but not that bad. Gloomhaven has been fun to paint since Im not committing myself to doing squads of models in the same scheme. Photos linked since they're spoilers for the two-minis class in Gloomhaven
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Schadenboner posted:Could you tell me about the Palatine Aquila? I was just wondering, idly, do the Emperor's Children have a different aquila from the rest of the imperium? Do they have solar auxilia allies as well as militia as well as sisters of silence? Could I ally custodes with a baneblade? Just wondering I'll never actually contribute to this hobby but if you could answer all my questions that would be awesome (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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X-postin from the Oath thread, my first finished minis for my Tzeentch army!Mikey Purp posted:10 blue horrors and 10 brimstone horrors. Here's everyone together (and sorry that I didn't have time for better pics):
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Mikey Purp posted:X-postin from the Oath thread, my first finished minis for my Tzeentch army! Those look great! How did you do the colour transition (particularly the blue -> purple)?
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thats a cool basing tip. May make some small fire craters like that? I like the idea of energy weapons making weird craters.
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Mikey Purp posted:X-postin from the Oath thread, my first finished minis for my Tzeentch army! The colors hurt my eyes but in, like, the BEST way. Really well done!
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One shouldn’t be able to look upon a proper demon without feeling a burn in the eyes  Dienes posted:The colors hurt my eyes but in, like, the BEST way. Really well done! So, essentially this. Those look great!
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Mikey Purp posted:X-postin from the Oath thread, my first finished minis for my Tzeentch army! all this is great, but man do I love the color on your base rims. I feel like 40k is Far Cry and this is Far Cry: Blood Dragon
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