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Miniature Market is having an Army Painter "sale" but it includes the strong, dark, and soft tone inks for $1.50.
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Sep 5, 2019 18:52
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Thanks for the heads up, I love the strong tone and have been using a ton of it on buildings lately
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Sep 5, 2019 19:04
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XPostin from the 40k thread.Cooked Auto posted:
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Sep 5, 2019 20:23
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Grundma posted:Thanks for the heads up, I love the strong tone and have been using a ton of it on buildings lately They need to start selling Strong Tone in 200ml bottles. (no, dip cans don't count)
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Sep 5, 2019 22:18
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Cat Face Joe posted:Miniature Market is having an Army Painter "sale" but it includes the strong, dark, and soft tone inks for $1.50. Thanks for this! I grabbed some AP paints I didn't have already, along with extra bottles of the aforementioned inks.
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Sep 6, 2019 07:12
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How are Army Painter paints? I’ve only used their inks but never their paints.
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Sep 6, 2019 08:36
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VoodooXT posted:How are Army Painter paints? I’ve only used their inks but never their paints. Nothing to write home about. Their wash/inks are some of the best in the business, tho.
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Sep 6, 2019 09:18
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VoodooXT posted:How are Army Painter paints? I’ve only used their inks but never their paints. Some colors are the equal of or better than citadel equivalents but a lot are not as good. Still usable but you definitely want to put agitators in their bottles and I had a bottle of Alien Purple solidify into goop after only one use and a couple of days.
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Sep 6, 2019 13:22
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My general approach is Vallejo paints, Army Painter washes, and Liquitex inks.
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Sep 6, 2019 13:29
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Been making steady progress here and there on the multitude of plastic shame I own, and taking bad pictures to prove it! Pay no attention to my attempt at caution stripes, merely bask in the cheeto dust basecoat  
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Sep 7, 2019 01:22
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KING OV HELL posted:Been making steady progress here and there on the multitude of plastic shame I own, and taking bad pictures to prove it! Pay no attention to my attempt at caution stripes, merely bask in the cheeto dust basecoat That orange is rad.
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Sep 7, 2019 02:10
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Cheetos Marines. Lookin good though.
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Sep 7, 2019 02:11
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:My general approach is Vallejo paints, Army Painter washes, and Liquitex inks. What's your opinion on Vallejo's metallics? I've been using some of the Game Color metallics, and I find I don't care for them, but it occurs to me that I might not be thinning them properly.
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Sep 7, 2019 02:59
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Vallejo Metal Color is (apparently) one of the best metallic ranges out there. I probably wouldn't bother with VGC metallics, personally.
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Sep 7, 2019 03:42
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Avenging Dentist posted:Vallejo Metal Color is (apparently) one of the best metallic ranges out there. I probably wouldn't bother with VGC metallics, personally. I bought metal color this week and it's miles ahead of anything else. Have run some pale burnt metal through the airbrush and applied with brush, it's amazing.
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Sep 7, 2019 03:57
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I really like the Mr Metal Color line of metallics from Mr Hobby. A little hard to find, but they brush on great, airbrush even better, and they're buffable after they dry. This was part of a project I did a while back, and I think they look drat good for brush application. 
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Sep 7, 2019 04:18
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JBP posted:I bought metal color this week and it's miles ahead of anything else. Have run some pale burnt metal through the airbrush and applied with brush, it's amazing. I guess there's also Vallejo Liquid Gold, which I've heard works phenomenally. With Liquid Gold, though, you have to thin it with paint thinner or something, because it contains actual metal flakes, and water rusts/ruins the paint. I haven't tried it, but if I ever get to the point of doing Adeptus Custodes, I'd want to try it. Can Metal Color be thinned with water? Also, how well does it work with a brush? The website description makes it sound like it's only intended to be used with an airbrush, which I don't have. Also, how do Citadel metallics hold up in general? I think the only metallic I have is Retributor Armor, but it seems to work pretty well. Bloody Hedgehog posted:I really like the Mr Metal Color line of metallics from Mr Hobby. A little hard to find, but they brush on great, airbrush even better, and they're buffable after they dry. That looks really good!  I looked it up, and the polishing effect seems really neat, though maybe difficult to do if applied to minis. It looks like you can get it from Hobbyworld USA.
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Sep 7, 2019 06:12
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Max Wilco posted:I guess there's also Vallejo Liquid Gold, which I've heard works phenomenally. With Liquid Gold, though, you have to thin it with paint thinner or something, because it contains actual metal flakes, and water rusts/ruins the paint. I haven't tried it, but if I ever get to the point of doing Adeptus Custodes, I'd want to try it. I've thinned metal color with water and applied it by brush. It's great, no issues at all. The "base" citadel metals are good imo. The higher brightness ones are lovely.
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Sep 7, 2019 06:36
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Metal color can be thinned with water but you probably wouldn’t ever need to, it’s very thin as is. It’s fine with a brush, though you’ll have to be careful of overloading your brush due to its aforementioned thinness. As far as citadel metals, all the stuff in pots with a white top are excellent with some new formula. Other metals can be hit or miss, someone else can go into the specifics of the goods and the bads. Liquid gold has to be thinned with alcohol, needs fresh alcohol constantly applied to keep it from drying out on a palette, and is generally a huge pain in the rear end but it gives amazing results.
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Sep 7, 2019 06:39
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My bottles of vallejo metal colour leak like the clappers though I have no idea why. Anyone else get this with theirs?
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Sep 7, 2019 09:55
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So after using Army Painter Quickshade Wash Mixing Medium for a while, I used it recently and discovered that it was really thick and white (heh...), so that when I mixed it with a tone or wash it made it really cloudy and also went on kind of lumpy. I thought my bottle had just gone off, but then I ordered another and it's doing basically the same thing. I feel like I'm going crazy, because I remember that first bottle working well before, but now the results look drastically different when compared with earlier minis I used it on... Has this happened to anyone else? Also, what are you best recommendations for other mediums or flow improver to use with AP washes?
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Sep 7, 2019 10:43
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You've been shaking that sucker thoroughly before use right?
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Sep 7, 2019 11:29
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Yep, and it doesn't make a difference. In fact, shaking actually makes it more homogeneously white, instead of mixed clear and white :/
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Sep 7, 2019 15:03
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So since the Warstore is dead, does anyone have any recommendations for US-based online shops that sell Vallejo paints? (Mainly Model Color, though I use bits of their other ranges here and there.) Bonus points if the website isn't infuriating to navigate when all I want is to pick up some specific individual bottles by looking up their product code.
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Sep 8, 2019 01:27
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Miniature Market has a pretty huge selection of Vallejo.
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Sep 8, 2019 01:45
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Avenging Dentist posted:So since the Warstore is dead, does anyone have any recommendations for US-based online shops that sell Vallejo paints? (Mainly Model Color, though I use bits of their other ranges here and there.) Bonus points if the website isn't infuriating to navigate when all I want is to pick up some specific individual bottles by looking up their product code. https://www.michtoy.com/series-Vallejo.html
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Sep 8, 2019 01:51
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Cool, Miniature Market looks like they have pretty good discounts, and Michtoy should be a good backup if anything is out of stock at MM. Thanks!
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Sep 8, 2019 01:57
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MeinPanzer posted:Has this happened to anyone else? That sounds really hosed up. I haven't had that happen with quick shade mixing medium and their washes, myself. Are you conditioning your brushes with something that's reacting with the medium/wash? Is your water non-potable? I know that sounds insane, but I have zero idea why that would be happening. Other than you somehow got 2 bad bottles of QSMM
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Sep 8, 2019 02:26
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MeinPanzer posted:So after using Army Painter Quickshade Wash Mixing Medium for a while, I used it recently and discovered that it was really thick and white (heh...), so that when I mixed it with a tone or wash it made it really cloudy and also went on kind of lumpy. I thought my bottle had just gone off, but then I ordered another and it's doing basically the same thing. I feel like I'm going crazy, because I remember that first bottle working well before, but now the results look drastically different when compared with earlier minis I used it on... Has this happened to anyone else? An chance it's a change in your local weather causing the issue? Paints/mediums can react very differently during hot and humid periods than during colder months. If your local weather has a sudden change one way or the other, it could be causing the mixing medium to react. Saying that, have you tried any other mediums to see if they will thin your quickshade? Maybe a do a few small spot tests with some Lahmian medium, or airbrush thinner/medium from companies like Vallejo, Golden, or Liquitex.
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Sep 8, 2019 05:59
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Avenging Dentist posted:So since the Warstore is dead, does anyone have any recommendations for US-based online shops that sell Vallejo paints? (Mainly Model Color, though I use bits of their other ranges here and there.) Bonus points if the website isn't infuriating to navigate when all I want is to pick up some specific individual bottles by looking up their product code. Why did the War Store close? I never ordered anything from them. Were they a good site?
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Sep 8, 2019 06:21
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Max Wilco posted:Why did the War Store close? I never ordered anything from them. Were they a good site? They were good. They hired some people on work release from prison (iirc) who ended up defrauding them to the point they could no longer stay in business.
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It should be noted that said people were child molesters, and all the theft ultimately got found out after the WarStore owner's adult son found child porn on a thumb drive: https://suffolktimes.timesreview.com/2017/12/sex-offenders-hired-through-church-program-allegedly-stole-from-southold-employer/. I didn't realize that was what led to the closure of the store though. WarStore was good, although the site was pretty old-school and I think they updated inventory manually so sometimes you ended up with a big delay if an item just went out of stock. Avenging Dentist fucked around with this message at 07:23 on Sep 8, 2019 |
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Sep 8, 2019 07:14
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This is not the first time I’ve heard this story but it never fails to amaze. It is the most Trad Games thing of all time.
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Sep 8, 2019 09:39
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It's the grognard's campfire tale now, unbelievable stuff.
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MeinPanzer posted:So after using Army Painter Quickshade Wash Mixing Medium for a while, I used it recently and discovered that it was really thick and white (heh...), so that when I mixed it with a tone or wash it made it really cloudy and also went on kind of lumpy. I thought my bottle had just gone off, but then I ordered another and it's doing basically the same thing. I feel like I'm going crazy, because I remember that first bottle working well before, but now the results look drastically different when compared with earlier minis I used it on... Has this happened to anyone else? Are you 100% certain you have a bottle of 'quickshade mixing medium' rather than 'warpaints mixing medium' ?
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Sep 8, 2019 11:55
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See you gold cowboy...
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Sep 8, 2019 14:54
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So I finished*, a set of tac marines for Salamanders test models, to see if I can improve/speed up my scheme from years ago. * Pending transfers whenever the supplement releases
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Sep 8, 2019 14:59
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Avenging Dentist posted:It should be noted that said people were child molesters, and all the theft ultimately got found out after the WarStore owner's adult son found child porn on a thumb drive: https://suffolktimes.timesreview.com/2017/12/sex-offenders-hired-through-church-program-allegedly-stole-from-southold-employer/. I didn't realize that was what led to the closure of the store though. Oh poo poo, I saw they were closing but assumed it was just typical business stuff. No idea all this was behind it, that's really lovely and horrible for Neal.  He ran a good store and I was always happy when I bought things through them, it really sucks he got sunk trying to help people out. The article says that he lost something between $100-$200k in theft. I'm guessing it was a typical small business situation where the inventory was not closely kept and tracked and they were able to steadily swipe stuff out from under him.
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Sep 8, 2019 15:12
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Avenging Dentist posted:It should be noted that said people were child molesters, and all the theft ultimately got found out after the WarStore owner's adult son found child porn on a thumb drive: https://suffolktimes.timesreview.com/2017/12/sex-offenders-hired-through-church-program-allegedly-stole-from-southold-employer/. I didn't realize that was what led to the closure of the store though. My favorite part: quote:Federal Elections Commission filings show Mr. Wolm identified himself as the internet sales manager at thewarstore.com in a series of donations to Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign.
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R0ckfish posted:So I finished*, a set of tac marines for Salamanders test models, to see if I can improve/speed up my scheme from years ago. very cool and good
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