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JackMann posted:Poll up! The Warcry gangs are just so, so loving cool.
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Max Wilco posted:Cool. I've already got Skeleton Horde contrast, so I think I might pick those up when I get the chance. Thanks for the feedback. I've been using Loctite professional for my superglue needs, but you might prefer a gel to a liquid.
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Jun 9, 2020 15:29
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JackMann posted:So, two things. Glad to see my humble suggestion got a lot of traction. Amazon has been listing it (and a lot of the start collecting boxes) for like $80 instead of the normal $95 so I'd grab it before those prices go back up.
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Jun 9, 2020 15:49
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Finally improving on faces. Turns out staring at painting tutorials for hours can get results. 
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Max Wilco posted:Another question (one I think I've asked before): what's a good brand of superglue to get for minis? I ask because previously I got Gorilla Glue, but I remember one of the Goonhammer guides saying that the issue with Gorilla Glue was that it expanded when it dried. I love the Gorilla Super Glue gel, specifically. Cheap, easy to find, bonds perfectly well, minimal mess.
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 I now feel comfortable with zenithal priming, combined with a black wash and dry brushed white, and I'm ready to do all my boyz this way. That being said, I've heard if I want to use contrast paints over this the best thing I can do is apply a satin varnish coat. I have a bottle of liquitex satin, and Vallejo airbrush thinner on the way. Is that all I need for squirting through the airbrush?
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Mistaken For Bacon posted:
This is amazing and makes me wish someone would do a "Grey Plastic" army all in greyscale.
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Iron Crowned posted:So I finally dusted off the bag of Hero Quest minis I bought at a thrift store in the 90's and stripped the previous owner's half-assed paint job. Biggest hurdle now is how to go about basing the things, which I'm currently at a loss for. Base them by painting their bases to look like tiles from Hero Quest! Schadenboner posted:This is amazing and makes me wish someone would do a "Grey Plastic" army all in greyscale. 
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Jun 9, 2020 17:00
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I want to say I saw it done with the terrain for a Nosferatu game once? 
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Mistaken For Bacon posted:
Sorry I'm too distracted by your prescription bottle filled with googly eyes painting handle.
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Jun 9, 2020 17:12
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Furism posted:Can I ask what tones you used for the skin? I'm trying to gather techniques on how to paint non-Caucasian skin-tones and I really like that one. Fitting with the Samoa time-zone It’s a very simple recipe. I used an airbrush for the first two steps but this can easily work with a brush. 1) Basecoat Rhinox Hide 2) Layer Doombull Brown 2) Edge highlight with Tuskgor Fur I also painted a heckin good boi :   
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Jun 9, 2020 17:19
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Max Wilco posted:Cool. I've already got Skeleton Horde contrast, so I think I might pick those up when I get the chance. Thanks for the feedback. I use loctite professional liquid, works great. Also superglue protip: instead of applying the glue directly to the mini from the bottle, use a piece of paper as a palette and a toothpick or something as a "brush". Maybe this method is super obvious to everyone else, but I was assembling minis for about a year before I thought of it, and it makes things a whole lot easier.
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Jun 9, 2020 18:06
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Schadenboner posted:I want to say I saw it done with the terrain for a Nosferatu game once? Oh that would be sweet to see! I'd love to see a Black Templars army painted in the art style of the fan made movie. Terrain and all.
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Jun 9, 2020 20:08
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Only took me the better part of 18 months, but I actually finished painting my knight tonight:  
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Jun 9, 2020 21:42
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inscrutable horse posted:Only took me the better part of 18 months, but I actually finished painting my knight tonight: This is so gooood
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Jun 9, 2020 22:32
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Help, I didn't take care of my brush and now my #2(?) brush with the coarse bristles is all fraying and hard to use! Can I fix it somehow and also how can I prevent this from happening again? I washed and dried it pretty solidly i thought, and kept it stored brush side up in a mug on my work table. My #0(?) brush is fine.
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If the brush is starting to splay you have paint up in the ferrule, and that's very hard to fix. If it's a synthetic then you can try paint thinner, otherwise for real hair brushes you can try a brush cleaner and letting it soak but it's not reliable and will likely never go back to normal.
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Jun 9, 2020 23:24
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Stan Taylor posted:Help, I didn't take care of my brush and now my #2(?) brush with the coarse bristles is all fraying and hard to use! Can I fix it somehow and also how can I prevent this from happening again? I washed and dried it pretty solidly i thought, and kept it stored brush side up in a mug on my work table. My #0(?) brush is fine. Use a brush soap/conditioner at the end of your painting sessions, and you'll be able to keep using them for years, and years. https://creaturecaster.com/us/product/monument-brush-soap-1oz/ https://www.amazon.com/General-Pencil-105-BP-Masters-Preserver/dp/B0027AEANE/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=brush+soap&qid=1591743001&sr=8-1
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Yea, excellent point, there's several things that go into good brush care, and done properly you can use for them for a long long time. Conveniently Vince recently released a video on the topic! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyTJIvTMAIY
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Jun 9, 2020 23:53
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Or, buy cheap brushes, use 'em like you stole 'em, and bin them when they get too messed up to even be drybrushes any more.
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I love cheap brushes because I'll actually toss them when I should rather than using a frayed $15 brush well past its lifespan.
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If I'm 100% honest I still end up using the 5 for Ł3 brushes well past their lifespan, I tend to have a workhorse brush that I do most stuff with and dont really notice when its starting to wear out until its absolutely beyond a joke, but thats a me problem. It does however mean I have zero anxiety about loving up a brush because who cares, they were cheap as hell and I bought a bunch of them.
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inscrutable horse posted:Only took me the better part of 18 months, but I actually finished painting my knight tonight: Well that was 18 months very well spent. It’s gorgeous.
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Jun 10, 2020 00:20
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I did a quick Overlord to test some colours, pretty happy with them.
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SiKboy posted:Or, buy cheap brushes, use 'em like you stole 'em, and bin them when they get too messed up to even be drybrushes any more. This is pretty much my method because I’m pretty darn lazy. A set of three Tamiya brushes runs about $10-12 online and they tend to last a decent while. I think I buy another bag about once a year and my maintenance for brushes is swishing them in water after use. The ones from years back that are too bad to dry brush anymore become applicators for terrain sculpt and glues. R0ckfish posted:I did a quick Overlord to test some colours, pretty happy with them. Your Necrons own. Great scheme with a nice simple execution.
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PierreTheMime posted:Your Necrons own. Great scheme with a nice simple execution. Thank you! I am going for a basic level of detail as I am assuming that I am gonna have a poo poo ton with the up coming releases and I will have them paired with my higher effort salamanders anyway.
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R0ckfish posted:I did a quick Overlord to test some colours, pretty happy with them. God drat the job you did on the blade and orb with that purple is great. How do you have so much time to paint so much so well?
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Werix posted:God drat the job you did on the blade and orb with that purple is great. I just don't spend that long on each model, they were like 2 hours tops? Which is mostly just practice I guess, plus the pandemic has mostly gotten rid of all my social life. 
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If I were to buy a cheap Lightbox for taking better phone photos of my minis, is that a reasonable thing to do? I assume my google pixel and a $25 folding kit on amazon pretty much has me covered right?
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I can't comment on the light box, but your phone should be a perfect way to take pictures. I've tried it with a fancy DSLR and ended up being more trouble than it's worth. Get yourself an app to do photo color correction and things. Snapseed is good.
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Has anyone worked with Wargames Atlantic's Space French? They look (ironically enough, I suppose?) like they'd make p.ace Vostroyans but I have no idea if they're good? 
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Schadenboner posted:Has anyone worked with Wargames Atlantic's Space French? Pete the Wargamer did a video on how to convert/kitbash them with GW parts to make Vostroyans.
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 I got an airbrush. Airbrushes are fun. Went along with Dana Howl's excellent vaporwave nighthaunts tutorial to learn the ropes of the airbrush.
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Schadenboner posted:Has anyone worked with Wargames Atlantic's Space French? The sculpts are quite chunky and lacking in detail in some places but they’re overall pretty great. The rifles look fantastic but the other weapons look weirdly knock off? The plastic on the sprue I got was cheap and shiny as well, but that might be an early run problem.
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Really like this but I think Im gonna go get a lightbox   messed with the typhus corrosion too and Im a huge fan 
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I finished an adventuring party. It's been forever since I've tried to paint human faces, some of them I'm pretty happy with. Others a little less so. Starring: Conan the Barbarian, as himself  Valerielf  Ye Dragonman  The Axecutioner  and Christopher Lee as Baron Kalgoth 
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Not my best work but I love my sweet angry boi all the same. Building this thing was some of the most fun I've ever had kitbashing something.   
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Finished up the largest model I've ever painted, had a ton of fun sponge weathering it. Gotta practice basing more as I think I need to wait longer until I put the varnish on as it ruined the nice snowdrifts I had in this picture, but I can always add more snow I think next up will be the riptide
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Spanish Manlove posted:Finished up the largest model I've ever painted, had a ton of fun sponge weathering it. Gotta practice basing more as I think I need to wait longer until I put the varnish on as it ruined the nice snowdrifts I had in this picture, but I can always add more snow That weathering is cool as hell, and the Ghostkeel is such an awesome looking model.
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