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Quidthulhu posted:Airbrush question! You’re using an airbrush, just try it and see how it looks. Try zenithall too, try basecoating hot pink and highlighting in neon green. TRY ALL THE THINGS. The worst that can happen is you waste a few drops of paint and have to rebasecoat a mini. One of the very best things about airbrushing is that the coats are so thin you can just paint over a mini again and again without needing to strip it. So stop asking if you can do something and just do it.
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Finished my Z-6 clone trooper, and have a full squad + heavy weapon painted and ready to field! I feel like I'm getting better at painting white and not over-washing them now (like I did with the sergeant), although new paints and brushes could also help explain part of that  I'm loving the clones, though. I think I'm going to use their right shoulder pad for squad marks, maybe the next one will be purple or red? Painting their visors has been the most rear end-pain part of them so far, the very lowest part by where their mouths would be is barely bigger than the absolute smallest brush I've got (a 5/0). Going to Oath a full squad of them (and maybe a BARC speeder) next month! 
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Wondering what the thread’s opinion of the scale color paints is. I’ve frequently heard good things and was thinking of picking up the fantasy range.
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DotyManX posted:Wondering what the thread’s opinion of the scale color paints is. I’ve frequently heard good things and was thinking of picking up the fantasy range. Scalecolor is formulated differently from the fantasy range. Scalecolor is ultra matte and thicker. Fantasy is satin and has a different, thinner, consistency.
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Bucnasti posted:You’re using an airbrush, just try it and see how it looks. I appreciate this advice because I didn't know this is how it works! I'm gonna try ALL THE THINGS now! Thanks!
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DotyManX posted:Wondering what the thread’s opinion of the scale color paints is. I’ve frequently heard good things and was thinking of picking up the fantasy range. All of the scale 75 paints are fantastic.
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scale 75 good
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Cat Face Joe posted:scale 75 good Wish I could find these local (Canada). Shipping always gets on the way of me picking up a few of these to try out
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w00tmonger posted:Wish I could find these local (Canada). Shipping always gets on the way of me picking up a few of these to try out I discovered it's cheaper to ship these to Canada from Spain than from the US store, by the way.
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Stephenls posted:I discovered it's cheaper to ship these to Canada from Spain than from the US store, by the way. I found going direct with warcolors to be the same.
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I painted Skaeth's Wild Hunt for a guy I know.    
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Painted our chunky friend Tor Garadon:
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Electric Hobo posted:I painted Skaeth's Wild Hunt for a guy I know. I know your colors are very simple and muted, but you managed to make them look tremendously well-defined and vibrant. Everything stands out perfectly and simultaneously blends in seamlessly.
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Booley posted:Painted our chunky friend Tor Garadon: awesome job, so much better without the bare head too
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Been busy with a new job and stuff, but had some time the last couple of days to play around with purple:  I'll probably do some more Skaven in the same scheme, but it'll likely be over Christmas now.
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Booley posted:Painted our chunky friend Tor Garadon: I gotta say, your yellow Space Marines are my favorite thing in this thread. Great scheme, great weathering, even great photography. Love them!
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:I gotta say, your yellow Space Marines are my favorite thing in this thread. Great scheme, great weathering, even great photography. Love them! thanks!
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Some cracking stuff posted recently! I've just finished off this Hellblaster. Wasn't really sure about what to do with the plasma coils but I'm quite happy with this. 
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Count_Brass posted:Some cracking stuff posted recently! This is one delightful dude.
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Whipped up a test figurine for a new army of bugs. Anyone got any favorite ways to paint black claws?
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I was looking in one of my mini carrying cases and found some experiments from a while back.   This mini is a bit chipped and never got the final details she needed, but I think the NMM came out well. I should revisit it, try some more experiments.   Some experiments with undead flesh. I believe this used Reaper's ghoul flesh, undead flesh, and vampire skin, but I'm not entirely sure on that.  I'm actually kind of mad about this. This is easily the best yellow I've ever done, and I cannot for the life of me remember which paints I used.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Whipped up a test figurine for a new army of bugs. I found this chart of claws a while ago, it's a nice reference. 
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Crosspostin' Finished my Salamanders Aggressor yesterday. For some reason it took me six or seven attempts to apply that Chapter transfer because either it wouldn't come off the paper or it instantly decided to crease due to some microscopic bump or something. Now I honestly want to paint more Salamanders.
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You definitely should, that looks great! Love the base as well
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Cooked Auto posted:Crosspostin' Gorgeous work.
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Count_Brass posted:You definitely should, that looks great! Love the base as well Need to get my hands on more Primaris marines for that unless I dip into my supposedly Blood Raven Tac Marines.
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Hey, I made a short tutorial on putting together a wet palette out of materials you might already have on hand. As someone who is interested in sharpening my painting skills (and can't stand wasting paint) I found it a valuable tool for working with paint. There are probably better ones on the market, but also worse. Anyhow this is any easy way to give it a try for a few bucks. https://www.goonhammer.com/how-to-paint-everything-how-to-make-a-simple-wet-palette/
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painted a few new boys went easier on the dark tone shade for me space wolf this time   also a pox walker    pox walker is much better for someone like me who has just started painting because really the shittier you do, the better they look
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I got some Contrast paints on a whim yesterday (hoping to get through my backlog a bit faster). Should I be hitting all my minis with a coat of white before I use them or something?
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For the paints to work as intended you need to use either Wraithbone or Greyseer as the base coat underneath. You can achieve some interesting results with contrasts over normal paints as well but the coverage won't be as effective.
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The deal with contrasts is that they're more translucent where they're thinnest, so a white undercoat gives a highlighted appearance. Another application is replicating some of the rich brown-greens you see on WW2 uniforms, where the green is more evident in the shade. Just prime leather brown and hit it with contrast Militarum Green.
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Skeleton Horde is a hell of a colour
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Should I prime my space barbies black or white? I’m using rattle can paint and painting their armor Raven guard black if it matters.
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Ropes4u posted:Should I prime my space barbies black or white? I’m using rattle can paint and painting their armor Raven guard black if it matters. If you're painting black, prime black.
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Booley posted:If you're painting black, prime black. Thank you
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Ignite Memories posted:I got some Contrast paints on a whim yesterday (hoping to get through my backlog a bit faster). Should I be hitting all my minis with a coat of white before I use them or something? The way Contrast works is that it's halfway between a paint and a wash. You need some kind of undercoat to provide brightness, which is what the grey and tan colors are for. Contrast will always darken the model so keep that in mind.  This was done by painting the whole model in VMA Bonewhite, washing in AP Soft Tone, and then drybrushing in VMA Bonewhite and then VMA White. Once that is done I applied two coats of 50/50 Contrast Medium and Talassar Blue.
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richyp posted:Skeleton Horde is a hell of a colour That guy is looking awesome. Working on the old Vampire Counts black coach. Finished up the vampire, now to lock him away in the back.  
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Ignite Memories posted:I got some Contrast paints on a whim yesterday (hoping to get through my backlog a bit faster). Should I be hitting all my minis with a coat of white before I use them or something? You'll want a white primer on them, yeah. Wraithbone and greyseer are designed to give the best effect, but any white primer (or even a very even coat of white paint) will give you decent results.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:This was done by painting the whole model in VMA Bonewhite, washing in AP Soft Tone, and then drybrushing in VMA Bonewhite and then VMA White. Once that is done I applied two coats of 50/50 Contrast Medium and Talassar Blue. This is excellent info, I'm about to contrast some nazis and I'm still thinking about how to do my hoarde of space bugs. Thanks!
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