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Thanks to whoever's recommended these hobbyzone things, got a cool new baby battle station set up. Lots of room for more paints!
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Skyl3lazer posted:Thanks to whoever's recommended these hobbyzone things, got a cool new baby battle station set up. Lots of room for more paints! Nice! I want to upgrade a bunch of my space with a bunch of their stuff, but my ideal setup would be north of $1k.... *gulp*.
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Feb 3, 2020 17:42
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Today is exactly 1 year since I painted my first miniature.  I know my post about it is somewhere around here on this subforum but I can't find it.
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Feb 3, 2020 17:48
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ColonelJohnMatrix posted:The paint is so drat watery that it takes a lot of coats to try and cover something. Maybe that's just how it needs to be though? yes, this is exactly how it should work. multiple thin coats will look way better than one thick one.
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ColonelJohnMatrix posted:So i was working on my first ever figure paint job over the weekend, well, ship, not figure, and my x-wing miniature paint turned out pretty good for a newbie. I used citadel airbrush paints with my hand brushes, this per the local store's recommendation as the paint was pre-thinned. The paint actually felt REALLY thin to me though, so much so that I wonder if using the standard "dry" or "base" paints would be better. Can anyone give advice on this? The paint is so drat watery that it takes a lot of coats to try and cover something. Maybe that's just how it needs to be though? You want the paint to be nearly transparent when you paint it on. If its a solid color in a single coat, its too thick. I've never messed with airbrush paints for brushes, I wouldn't do that. Just water your paints yourself dude, tap water is cheap. And then you can control it so maybe it isn't quite as thinned down as those airbrush paints are. But you absolutely want to use very thin coats and you should do 2+ coats of every color you paint. Else it'll be thick and obscure details and show brush strokes and just be bad.
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Feb 3, 2020 18:06
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a few airbrush ready paints isn't bad especially for difficult colors or stuff you don't use often. i have a vma silver that goes on in one coat and it's nice to just splat a drop out and paint it on real quick
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ColonelJohnMatrix posted:So i was working on my first ever figure paint job over the weekend, well, ship, not figure, and my x-wing miniature paint turned out pretty good for a newbie. I used citadel airbrush paints with my hand brushes, this per the local store's recommendation as the paint was pre-thinned. The paint actually felt REALLY thin to me though, so much so that I wonder if using the standard "dry" or "base" paints would be better. Can anyone give advice on this? The paint is so drat watery that it takes a lot of coats to try and cover something. Maybe that's just how it needs to be though? I've only just started painting myself but I've been following WHTV's advice on thinning paints and its been working pretty well so far https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxWgsqSf74s
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Feb 3, 2020 18:33
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  How do I salvage this chaos giant's skin? I've been getting really good results using GW's Contrast paints to paint skin, so I used that for the giant. Turns out that what is a nice, darkish caucasian skin tone on a regular sized model somehow turns into an awful sunburn on a big one. I guess a big part of it is that it's too big, so Contrast gives a mottled look.
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ColonelJohnMatrix posted:So i was working on my first ever figure paint job over the weekend, well, ship, not figure, and my x-wing miniature paint turned out pretty good for a newbie. I used citadel airbrush paints with my hand brushes, this per the local store's recommendation as the paint was pre-thinned. The paint actually felt REALLY thin to me though, so much so that I wonder if using the standard "dry" or "base" paints would be better. Can anyone give advice on this? The paint is so drat watery that it takes a lot of coats to try and cover something. Maybe that's just how it needs to be though? Some people do like the pre-thinned airbrush stuff for brush painting, but I also feel like it's too thin. It's really a case of trying a few different ways and figuring out what works for you.
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Geisladisk posted:
I kinda like it. Gives him a burnt/beaten/bruised look, like regular troops keep him caged and tortured until they can unleash him on the battlefield.
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Feb 3, 2020 19:38
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Thanks all. Some of the youtube videos I had watched showed paint going on a bit heavier, so that's why I wasn't sure. Regardless, my first paint jobs turned out pretty good! Appreciate the advice!
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Nice! I know a guy 3D printing stuff that would be cheaper  (sorry I'm done spamming for now)
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Feb 3, 2020 19:45
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I got a pot of Corax White today, and its very hardened, thick, and chunky. Is this normal? How am I suppose to work with this?
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Geisladisk posted:
Put down a light brown basecoat before you contrast? Switch to more of a wash? I said come in! posted:I got a pot of Corax White today, and its very hardened, thick, and chunky. Is this normal? How am I suppose to work with this? Unfortunately common with Corax White in my experience. You have two options: 1. Add medium or distilled water and shake the gently caress out of it for like 15 minutes 2. Take it back to the store for a refund and hope the next one isn't the same
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Feb 3, 2020 22:06
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Geisladisk posted:
Thin your original skintone with matte medium, then brush it on over where you'd like highlights. Do that again after that's dry. Mix your skintone with a bone color and medium,and do a third layer of highlights sparingly over the area you fixed. It looks like the problem is contrasts reacting with the model's texture, but the above steps should set it right.
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Its going to be painful waiting for my compressor to come on Friday or Saturday. 
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I actually bought a few citadel airbrush paint pots by accident because I didn't look closely enough at the label and they work just fine for brushes. Basically just pre-thinned and totally usable straight out of the pot - it's almost exactly the consistency I thin to with regular paints but the dry time is a bit faster. Haven't had it behave weirdly or anything yet, and honestly I'm considering buying a few more on purpose because it's nice not to fiddle with getting the ratio of paint to medium just right every time I want to do touch-ups. edit: With the probably major caveat that I pretty much exclusively paint infantry / medium-sized monster stuff because I don't have an airbrush and hate brush-painting vehicles, so this advice may not be applicable to that.
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Grizzled Patriarch posted:I actually bought a few citadel airbrush paint pots by accident because I didn't look closely enough at the label and they work just fine for brushes. Basically just pre-thinned and totally usable straight out of the pot - it's almost exactly the consistency I thin to with regular paints but the dry time is a bit faster. Haven't had it behave weirdly or anything yet, and honestly I'm considering buying a few more on purpose because it's nice not to fiddle with getting the ratio of paint to medium just right every time I want to do touch-ups.  It's funny you bring this up because I was thinking of this very thing a few days ago. I thought though "there's no way these are usable out of the pot, that would be insane, right???" Yet here you are showing differently.
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I said come in! posted:
Yeah, I've got nothing but good things to say about using them so far. The only thing I would caution is that if you're using a wet palette it might end up over-thinning them, but I honestly just use them right out of the pot or dab some onto a cheap plastic artist palette if I need to thin them even more for a glaze or something. They go on extremely smooth.
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Feb 3, 2020 23:56
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I said come in! posted:Today is exactly 1 year since I painted my first miniature. Hell yeah, keep it up!
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I said come in! posted:Its going to be painful waiting for my compressor to come on Friday or Saturday. Do you have tubing? Blow Pen it.
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More assorted gribblies.
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I said come in! posted:I got a pot of Corax White today, and its very hardened, thick, and chunky. Is this normal? How am I suppose to work with this? I've literally never bought any kind of white paint from Citadel where this didn't happen, ever since I started this hobby years ago. I wonder if the airbrush versions don't have this problem...
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I said come in! posted:I got a pot of Corax White today, and its very hardened, thick, and chunky. Is this normal? How am I suppose to work with this? I had this exact thing happen to me and I tried mixing in water and medium and kept going and going because it wasn't getting much better and then I checked on it the next day and it was somehow gluier than when I started
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Cthulu Carl posted:Do you have tubing? Blow Pen it. Yeah that is included in my compressor order that hasnt arrives yet. :p
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Painted up 8 more kobolds. 2 more to go and the horde is done! 
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I also painted up a unicorn  
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R0ckfish posted:More assorted gribblies. Especially nice work on those carapace highlights
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I finally got my nerd cave up and running, so I got started on my fire team for Malifaux. I'm going for a "nothing but OSL"-look, so they only have the light they bring with them, and the weird glowing grass. 
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Electric Hobo posted:I finally got my nerd cave up and running, so I got started on my fire team for Malifaux. I'm going for a "nothing but OSL"-look, so they only have the light they bring with them, and the weird glowing grass. I like this effect, it looks pretty neat
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Electric Hobo posted:I finally got my nerd cave up and running, so I got started on my fire team for Malifaux. I'm going for a "nothing but OSL"-look, so they only have the light they bring with them, and the weird glowing grass. Really cool idea and they look awesome! If you are ok with some feedback, I think you need to go one or two steps brighter on the parts of their bodies being lit by the flames. There's a bit of a disconnect where it doesn't quite read as OSL because the fire looks way brighter than the light it's actually casting. The first dude's face in particular seems too dark for how brightly colored (and well done!) the flames he is looking at are.
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Mikey Purp posted:Really cool idea and they look awesome! If you are ok with some feedback, I think you need to go one or two steps brighter on the parts of their bodies being lit by the flames. There's a bit of a disconnect where it doesn't quite read as OSL because the fire looks way brighter than the light it's actually casting. The first dude's face in particular seems too dark for how brightly colored (and well done!) the flames he is looking at are. The first guy's face is lit from below but you can't really see it here. But I think that I forgot his left thigh!
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Verisimilidude posted:I also painted up a unicorn This is a fantastic 80s-glam-icorn.
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Cross postingZaphod42 posted:I didn't quite finish today but I made progress I wish I had more time. I don't wanna work, I just wanna bang on this brush all day...
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Anyone have recommendations for a D&D miniature carrying case? I need something relatively small that I can fit into a backpack or tote bag, that can hold 10-20 miniatures.
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https://www.games-workshop.com/en-WW/Citadel-Skirmish-Figure-Case This seems to be exactly what you need. GW's cases are quite nice.
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If you don't want to spend that much, I grabbed a little clear plastic tackle box from the craft section at Walmart for a couple bucks. No padding, but as long as you're not throwing it around it should be fine.
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Verisimilidude posted:Anyone have recommendations for a D&D miniature carrying case? I need something relatively small that I can fit into a backpack or tote bag, that can hold 10-20 miniatures. I got this for bringing guys to kill team night: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074FSXMSM Its a sturdy cardboard box with a magnetic closure and a tray of foam. The foam is the softer type and not the scratchy stuff you see in some cases.
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Get a foam lined pistol case from a store like Gander Mountain or Walmart or some other sporting goods store. It's like $5, works great, but the foam can remove paint over time.
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