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PierreTheMime posted:Working on some fantasy models for once. Painting ghosts is sure fun and fast! Awesome job! How did you do the rusty metal?
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Professor Shark posted:Awesome job! How did you do the rusty metal? Just a bit of Fire Dragon Bright (or your own preferred bright orange color) heavily watered down and applied in thin layers. For best effect, apply it before shading and then do a few more touch up layers afterward.
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May 24, 2020 14:52
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Froggo done! This fella makes me want to avoid finecast even more, it was pretty gross and I was not gonna attach its banner thing with that tiny little edge of resin.
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May 24, 2020 17:04
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R0ckfish posted:Froggo done! This fella makes me want to avoid finecast even more, it was pretty gross and I was not gonna attach its banner thing with that tiny little edge of resin. That is a real nice frog. I have a finecast Eisenhorn lying around (had to get a replacement since the first had large craters in the face) and I'm not looking forward to assembling him 
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May 24, 2020 17:15
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R0ckfish posted:Froggo done! This fella makes me want to avoid finecast even more, it was pretty gross and I was not gonna attach its banner thing with that tiny little edge of resin. Looks awesome!
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May 24, 2020 18:09
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Geisladisk posted:
I'm soliciting advice for adapting this approximate scheme, which is: quote:The armor is Army Painter Skeleton Bone, then a wash of Agrax Earthshade, then a coat of Karak Stone, being careful to miss the edges of the panels and recesses to keep them darker. I'm sketching out a Thousand Sons concept army of animated statues. I'm sure the above would work as-is, but I think it would be cool to convey an "angry spirit barely contained in ancient armour" vibe by making the panels of the armour appear to glow. Would skeleton bone base > biel-tan green wash > karak stone layer work, or be completely crap? How would I go about making armour joins glow if so?
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May 24, 2020 18:10
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Vlex posted:I'm soliciting advice for adapting this approximate scheme, which is: I think washing it with green would just make it look like a mossy statue. You could try painting the glow directly into the joints, using a thinned darker color for the glow around the area, and a lighter, more intense color in the joint itself?
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May 24, 2020 18:28
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Winklebottom posted:I think washing it with green would just make it look like a mossy statue. You could try painting the glow directly into the joints, using a thinned darker color for the glow around the area, and a lighter, more intense color in the joint itself? Interesting, the darker colour outside the crack goes against my instincts, but makes sense if there's an intense green inside the crack. I mean, I guess it wouldn't be dark green outside, more like a vibrant, lush green?
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May 24, 2020 18:32
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Vlex posted:Interesting, the darker colour outside the crack goes against my instincts, but makes sense if there's an intense green inside the crack. I mean, I guess it wouldn't be dark green outside, more like a vibrant, lush green? Yeah, I meant darker as in dark-than-the-lightsource dark. Something like Warpstone Green vs. Moot Green for example. I did some rudimentary glow on this guy using thinned Warpstone Green around the flame, with Moot Green on sharp edges where the light would catch, such as the pauldron:  On your model it would be sorta like this (only not 2 min in MS paint )
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May 24, 2020 18:42
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Winklebottom posted:That is a real nice frog. I have a finecast Eisenhorn lying around (had to get a replacement since the first had large craters in the face) and I'm not looking forward to assembling him Good luck with that guy, may the bubbles be kind to you. NAGA LIU KANG posted:Looks awesome! Thanks!
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May 24, 2020 18:44
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Winklebottom posted:Yeah, I meant darker as in dark-than-the-lightsource dark. Something like Warpstone Green vs. Moot Green for example. Makes sense to me, thanks friend!
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May 24, 2020 18:45
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So I think I'm falling off the wagon again and may be resuming Ork production. It's been years. There's been at least one Citadel paint range revamp I know of, and significant expansions. All my old Foundation paints are 100% rubberised and about 90% of the normal paints in old black-lid hex pots too. Surprisingly most of the washes were fine. Of course all my Vallejo, P3 and random other stuff is fine so it's not a total restart. With the current situation, I'm going to try to stick to GW replacements so I'm not ordering a handful of pots from a scattering of different websites. How does the consistency of the new paints compare? I assume Base is the same as Foundation (but with annoying omissions from the old range of colours.) Is a Layer paint basically the same as the old regular paint or is it specifically formulated to be useless unless used as described? My old Ork flesh recipe was based on the previous paint generation's obnoxiously bright Goblin Green which had really solid coverage even on black primer and this is one of two I'm iffy about getting a good equivalent for. I've had a pot of the old VGC equivalent for a long time and it wasn't as good. It looks kind of like Moot Green is closest but is it going to cover well enough? Annoyingly it looks like all the new Base paints have no replacement for Gretchin Green. I think Ogryn Camo is the closest shade since this was a pretty muted brownish green. Tl;dr: What're the best GW equivalents to Goblin Green and Gretchin Green that would cover OK on black primer?
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May 24, 2020 23:15
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Can anyone recommend an airbrush paint brand to replace my vallejo paints with? Inevitably every Vallejo Model Air bottle I get has strings of congealed paint in them that get into my airbrush and clog the whole thing up. I'm sick of it. I mostly use it to paint terrain so lots of greys and browns.
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May 24, 2020 23:19
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 Wip of a Nurgle guy. I got this guy purely as a mercenary for Warcry but he's so much fun I might need to do an army of gross fat guys.
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May 25, 2020 00:17
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Finished up my Thorns of the Briar Queen. These were such a nice break from my other models.   
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May 25, 2020 00:57
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PierreTheMime posted:Finished up my Thorns of the Briar Queen. These were such a nice break from my other models. some fantastic gradient work there. Also breaking my painting between fantasy and sci-fi can be very refreshing, so I know what you mean.
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May 25, 2020 05:57
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Mugaaz posted:Any recommendations on the lighting? I don't personally own any, but you could always ask Rhyno or Captain Invictus in the Transformers thread in BSS about their setups. Rhyno has an entire room of Detolfs with light kits installed.
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May 25, 2020 06:08
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Haven't felt like doing much since that tank's stripes, but i decided to bake some cookies (finished on the left)
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May 25, 2020 13:00
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:Haven't felt like doing much since that tank's stripes, but i decided to bake some cookies Looks good. Cork and crackle paint?
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May 25, 2020 13:09
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Winklebottom posted:Looks good. Cork and crackle paint? Yep! it's shockingly easy and effective
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May 25, 2020 13:43
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:Yep! it's shockingly easy and effective Indeed, although I haven't used crackle paint on my cork bases yet. Mostly because my pot of it is starting to run out. No idea how texture paints work on it. Will have to experiment at some point.
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May 25, 2020 13:47
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 So no 'before' picture, but I think I got a better-than-decent flat, red coat on those carapaces. Thanks The Moon Monster!
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May 25, 2020 13:48
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inscrutable horse posted:
Man that is a super-clean finish.
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May 25, 2020 15:24
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Speaking of, how long does it take crackle medium to go bad? I've had a jar open for about a year, though pretty tightly sealed, and it's way less crackly than it originally was. I'm going to feel like a real rear end in a top hat if I used a couple brushloads out of a 120ml jar before it went bad.
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TotalHell posted:Man that is a super-clean finish. Thanks! I, uh, might have issues with the whole "good enough" concept 
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I haven’t painted properly in years and haven’t ever finished a model. I’m trying to get back into the hobby with Salamanders but I’m having a lot of trouble with layering Warpstone Glow. Torso and arms of an easy-build aggressor. The torso has about 8 coats of Warpstone Glow over Waagh Flesh, the arms perhaps 5-6. It’s really not covering very well for the time spent.   This leg has about 3-4 coats. I’ve missed a few spots around the toes, but you can see a lot of the darker green still showing through. I’m very much a novice, I have a friend who’s very talented but I don’t want to pester him too much. I’m told that green is a difficult colour, and I’m trying to thin my paints sensibly. It’s just taking frigging ages. There’s at least 20 hours spent on green above, including the other leg and the head, and I’m mindful I have like 40 assorted space marines who’ll need painting. At this rate I’ll have lost my sight before I’m finished, and I feel like I must be doing something wrong. Is there anything I’m obviously doing wrong that people can deduce from these photos? Or is this as expected?
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May 25, 2020 20:17
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Experimented with a new scheme for my Drukhari  
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idk if it’s the weather or what but I was having a hell of a time getting the right consistency for green today   
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Scandalous posted:
Could you maybe take a short video of laying down a coat? This reminds me of problems that I had starting out, but I can't be certain it's the same thing. In my case, I was thinning my paint well enough, but overloading my brush and applying thick, sloppy coats. Maybe you could also take a pic of how you typically load your brush? If you were able to put eight coats on that torso and retain detail, it sounds like the paint is thin enough.
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:Haven't felt like doing much since that tank's stripes, but i decided to bake some cookies  ++++BAKING COMPLETE++++
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May 26, 2020 02:46
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:
Noice. What you gonna attach to those bases? How are you gonna attach the models to those bases? Super glue? Paper clip pinning?
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May 26, 2020 04:51
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:
Nice! Could I get a half dozen with walnuts, and another half-dozen with icing?
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May 26, 2020 05:13
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TURGID TOMFOOLERY posted:Noice. I think my rusty death guard boys are going on there, and I might make some with still running water and green grass for the space marines from the set
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WT Wally posted:Could you maybe take a short video of laying down a coat? This reminds me of problems that I had starting out, but I can't be certain it's the same thing. In my case, I was thinning my paint well enough, but overloading my brush and applying thick, sloppy coats. Maybe you could also take a pic of how you typically load your brush?
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Over the long weekend I did a lot of building & painting but don't have too much to show for it, unfortunately. But here's what I do have to show off! Built & painted up a devilfish:   And here it is with some fire warriors:   I also mostly completed up this commander:    Not pictured is 9 drones, 3 stealth suits & 3 crisis suits that I got built & panel lined the white armor on.
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Painted some things!    All Reaper stuff I'd had on my unpainted/half-painted shelf for a while and which I finally decided to finish.
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May 26, 2020 20:29
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Zuul the Cat posted:Over the long weekend I did a lot of building & painting but don't have too much to show for it, unfortunately. But here's what I do have to show off! How did you achieve your weathering effect? It looks great.
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Muninn posted:How did you achieve your weathering effect? It looks great. Looks like the "hairspray and chipping" method. You do a coat of one color, then give it a varnish with a non-acrylic varnish (enamel or, as the name suggests, hairspray), then paint another layer of paint over that and 'chip' it off with a wet brush or q-tip.
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Muninn posted:How did you achieve your weathering effect? It looks great. Thank you! Yeah, it's the hairspray chipping method. I primed the model with black then grey. Once that dried I airbrushed certain parts of the model that would get worn out over time with a dark grey color (the nose, the sides, raised points, etc). Then spray those parts with hairspray. Once that dried I painted the entire thing with Corax White from citadel. To chip it, I just dipped my brush into some lukewarm water & pulled the brush along the hull as if it was moving forward. The water reactivates the hairspray and removes the paint on top. The final step is to just highlight the chips with white scar!
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I've been working on my first real attempt at NMM gold, and would appreciate some critique - not sure if I'm not quite getting it, or if I've just been staring at the drat thing until my eyes go funny. Only finished the breastplate and front of helm so far, and the left side of his chest is going to be shaded by his left arm when I glue it on so that's deliberately pretty dark. It feels like I need bigger highlights or brighter mid-tones, but I've been back and forth a lot and can't nail something I'm happy with yet. Any advice from people who've done this more?
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