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Yeah, I'm going to have to ask you to mail that to me once it's done for... eh... quality assurance. Required by law, I'm afraid *innocent whistle*
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Dec 12, 2019 12:07
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 Calling this guy done. Now for the base.
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Dec 12, 2019 13:12
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Max Wilco posted:Is it this one? Looks like it costs a little more than the Tamiya Extra Thin, and it's not rated as highly, but comes with more in the bottle. Yeah, that's the one. Does the same thing, (melts the plastic) and it works great for warhams. I don't like gorilla glue vs loctite, because for some reason gorilla glue gets really fragile on me as it ages, fortunately though, this isn't as much of a problem since I've got pretty much all plastic figures at this point with only a few old lead and white metal minis left to be painted.
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Dec 12, 2019 14:31
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Bistromatic posted:I'm currently converting some Stormcasts to big skeleton warriors. Do any of you have good tutorials or references for Armor damage handy? There's some obvious things I could do with blade, dremel and soldering iron but specific tips on patterns and types of damage would be great. Cool, doing something along these lines to make a Wight Queen out of Neave Blacktalon. Most damage would be piercing or blunt, so typical damage would a smaller hole or rent for piercing and and a crater or dent from blunt. You could also think about what kinda weapons, adversaries, and magic effects they might encounter. These are painted on damage I've done, I wouldn't to any cracking on plate mail, bite marks would be appropriate for AOS too.  Here are some tutorials for how I did some of the effects: https://www.goonhammer.com/author/skails It looks like a piercing blow would also result in a small crater.  These videos from nightshift are how to make impacts on scale model tanks, but some of the techniques could translate. For dents you could use drill bits of various sizes to dig shallow depressions. Plate armor is going to be much thinner than tank armor so the things he does with using putty to make a ridge around the crater would be unnecessary. https://youtu.be/8I3lY0zQPbg https://youtu.be/N9tkYqRLyRY
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Dec 12, 2019 17:50
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I need a suggestion, I want to seal a paper banner and Elmer's glue is a little too opaque. Should I go with mod podge or another way? Gel medium? Clear gesso?
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Dec 12, 2019 18:54
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Cricken_Nigfops posted:I need a suggestion, I want to seal a paper banner and Elmer's glue is a little too opaque. Should I go with mod podge or another way? Gel medium? Clear gesso? Are you watering the Elmer's glue down at all?
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Dec 12, 2019 19:14
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Zuul the Cat posted:Are you watering the Elmer's glue down at all? this but matte medium works too
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Dec 12, 2019 19:19
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Zuul the Cat posted:Are you watering the Elmer's glue down at all? Cricken_Nigfops fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Dec 12, 2019 |
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Dec 12, 2019 19:19
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Water it down quite a bit. I made a Handbook for the Recently Deceased last year for halloween. I just printed out a piece of paper with the image on it then glued it down to the book with watered down elmers glue. It dries clear, you should be good. Let me know if it works!
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Dec 12, 2019 19:57
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Will do, I'll try it again tonight!
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Dec 12, 2019 20:10
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So I bought Aekold Hellbrass but he didn't come with his standard icon. Anyone know where I can find only the icon the sale? Also, I plan on trying to convert a 40k unit into Aekold because I want a melee Tzeentch champion for kill team. Any idea what unit might be a good choice as a base for a conversion? I'd like to use the bigger primaris bodies, but I'm open to suggestion. I plan on using thermoplastic to copy the garb/scaled skirt design and helm, and maybe even the sword (although the chaos chosen holding the big rear end sword with the huge horns from Dark Vengeance might be worth cannibalizing). Edit: I didn't realize just how monopose that chaos chosen model is, there's no way I can use it without destroying it. Pastry Mistakes fucked around with this message at 02:08 on Dec 13, 2019 |
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Dec 12, 2019 20:54
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Ineptitude posted:The plastic cement fumes are dangerous? In my experience the "sunny dry days only!" thing for spray paints is way overstated. I live in Scotland. Its usually cold and wet. I find as long as I warm the cans (put them in a sink full of water you can still put your hands in, dont be daft and use boiling water or anything) and shake them for longer than you think you need to the paint goes on fine. I wouldnt do it while it was still actively raining (or snowing), but in breaks between downpours you can still get decent coverage. I also dont do much to mitigate plastic cement fumes, but then I'm rarely doing more than a half dozen miniatures at a time, and I mainly work in a fairly large room with decent air flow anyway. I put them on the other side of the room while they are drying, but thats about it.
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Dec 12, 2019 21:24
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I have finished Pedro save his back banner. This was fun to build and paint! 
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Dec 13, 2019 05:06
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Does any company other that Reaper make generic Christmas-ey or wintery miniatures?
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Dec 13, 2019 18:00
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Reaper makes a few holiday Sophies, which... eh. But this stuff is good! What do people use for fallen leaves? I've seen punches used, but I also vaguely remember reading about natural dried herbs, tea leaves, or seed pods or something that people use.
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Dec 13, 2019 18:13
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moths posted:Reaper makes a few holiday Sophies, which... eh. But this stuff is good! Rooibos tea makes excellent autumn foliage in my experience. And it smells nice, too 
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Dec 13, 2019 18:15
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Finished up a test ghoul for my Flesh Eater Courts.     My idea is to give the whole army very pale skin tone, with the ghouls having cooler skin tones & the bigger lads having warmer skin tones. This ghoul was sprayed Wraithbone, then glazed with a thin wash of Drakenhof Nightshade + contrast medium with the recesses hit with a secondary coat for shadows.
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Dec 13, 2019 18:24
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moths posted:Reaper makes a few holiday Sophies, which... eh. But this stuff is good! Okay. Christmas Eve and Christmas Knight is a great loving pun. I also never knew I wanted to paint a nativity scene until now.
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Dec 13, 2019 18:26
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Skails posted:Cool, doing something along these lines to make a Wight Queen out of Neave Blacktalon. Thanks a lot for this, this is awesome and useful!
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Dec 13, 2019 18:35
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Oh yeah that Rooibos tea looks perfect. I might mix in some Italian herb mix for variation. Thanks!
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Dec 13, 2019 18:36
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A friend gave me a gazillion Reaper figurines he got from a Kickstarter campaign because he doesn't have time to paint them. So here's a Roman Gorilla. Still a work in progress, like for instance it's a bit glossy because I haven't varnished it yet, and the base is obviously not finished. Any C&C welcome! 
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Dec 13, 2019 18:57
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moths posted:Oh yeah that Rooibos tea looks perfect. I might mix in some Italian herb mix for variation. Thanks! Now that I'm off my phone, and at my keyboard, I could elaborate a little more. I use a mixture of green tea (smells awful), rooibos tea and punched leaves (dried autumn leaves + GSW punches) for my foliage. I don't have any pictures, since none of my projects are completed, but it looks really nice on an earthy base. e: Extremely quick and dirty demonstration 
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Dec 13, 2019 19:09
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I knew my rooibos was good for the garden, I'll have to try it as basing flock too.
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Dec 13, 2019 19:20
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moths posted:Reaper makes a few holiday Sophies, which... eh. But this stuff is good! I have most of those "normal" ones already. I made the mistake of painting up some of the holiday mouselings for my parents and grandparents when cash was tight in college. Now they want something like that every year and I'm running out of options. I avoid the cheesecake or overly fantasy minis because the recipients are conservative Midwestern old people. I'd do the nativity scene option, but the options are to piecemeal it over years one figure at a time or give everyone a full scene at once. Neither seem like good options.
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Dec 13, 2019 20:29
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Instead of going Christmas specifically, you could try some of the other mouslings? Edit: The promotional 12 Days of Reaper minis are also going on sale separately tomorrow, if any of those ones would work. I know it's fantasy, but that cat dragon is heckin' cute.
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Dec 13, 2019 21:52
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Floppychop posted:Does any company other that Reaper make generic Christmas-ey or wintery miniatures?
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Dec 13, 2019 22:35
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moths posted:Oh yeah that Rooibos tea looks perfect. I might mix in some Italian herb mix for variation. Thanks! Birch seeds (of varying types of Birch) are great if you want to have a fall dead foliage look.  Its like five bucks for a bag that big off Etsy.
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Dec 13, 2019 23:26
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Are there any good paint on primers? Canada is very cold.
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Dec 14, 2019 11:40
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Vallejo and Stynylrez.
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Dec 14, 2019 12:02
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Professor Shark posted:Are there any good paint on primers? Canada is very cold. Cat Face Joe posted:Vallejo and Stynylrez. Can confirm. I use both, would recommend using black/grey/or brown- brush on white primer leaves a splotchy finish that takes so many layers to get a smooth base coat.
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Dec 14, 2019 18:42
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Skails posted:Can confirm. I use both, would recommend using black/grey/or brown- brush on white primer leaves a splotchy finish that takes so many layers to get a smooth base coat. Agreed. Also seconding the recommendation for Stynylrez, it's the Badger brand for airbrushes, but it's really good as a brush on primer and my painting buddy who teaches mini painting uses it almost exclusively since he prefers how it sprays and coats.
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Dec 14, 2019 22:33
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Adding a vote for both Stynylrez and Vallejo primers as brush-on primers. I don't have any kind of airbrush setup, and I only begrudgingly use rattlecans, so those primers are great alternatives to use with a brush.
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Dec 14, 2019 23:09
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Any recommended brands for someone wanting to try the zenithal priming/painting method?
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Dec 15, 2019 08:08
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I want to try painting black Orruk armor. Is Eshin Grey dark enough or should I go for Vallejo's German Grey?
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Dec 15, 2019 09:47
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tangy yet delightful posted:Any recommended brands for someone wanting to try the zenithal priming/painting method? Rattlecans? Pretty much any pair of black and whilte (or whatever dark/light combination you are using. For a treeman type miniature I had some success with a mushroom brown pray, zenithally highlighted with a light sand colour) cans will work. Honestly most of the ones I use are car primers from a pound shop If you are using an airbrush, I'm less help as I dont use one myself, but I would imagine its similar; Whatever dark airbrush primer and light airbrush paint you have to hand will probably work fine.
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Dec 15, 2019 10:35
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tangy yet delightful posted:Any recommended brands for someone wanting to try the zenithal priming/painting method? I use black and white or grey and white stynlrez, works great.
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Dec 15, 2019 13:42
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Furism posted:I want to try painting black Orruk armor. Is Eshin Grey dark enough or should I go for Vallejo's German Grey? Corvus Black is the answer you seek.
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Dec 15, 2019 16:03
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Floppychop posted:I have most of those "normal" ones already. Just gonna day, piecemeal nativity might not be as bad an option as you think. Slowly building up their mini-nativity scene over a few years might actually be something they really look forward to each year.
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tangy yet delightful posted:Any recommended brands for someone wanting to try the zenithal priming/painting method? YMMV but after finding it a bit hard to get nice smooth gradients with white primer I've switched to using paint for that layer. I use Stynlrez for black and grey primer but whatever you want to use is fine.
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