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Pakxos posted:Anyone have advice for how to deal with the really thin, highly-detailed models? You didn't do a terrible job. An easy way to get those details to really pop for someone at any skill level is selct a basecoat like bronze or brass, mix in some lighter color paint or white, then do a drybrush from the top down. Angle your brush at a 45 degree slant to the miniatre, and only move the brush from the top of the model towards the base. That will catch on all the exposed bits and bobs and rivets and plates and make it look like light is hitting it. Then take your dark shade like nuln oil (but the carrion-burg crimson wash or the purple one also work marvelously on the red metals like copper) and using a sharp brush, load some up then dab it on a papertowel to get most ofi t off. Chase the little bit you have left on the brush into crevices and seams selectively.
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Anyone know of you can varnish over turbo dork color shift? If so is it gloss only?
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w00tmonger posted:Anyone know of you can varnish over turbo dork color shift? If so is it gloss only? Yes and yes.
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I used to take my toy Spacemans vary seriously.   But then I said, no, let's get weird.  
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Does anyone have experience painting contrast paints over a metallic basecoat or undercoat? I'm looking around for ideas for a slightly different take on Eldar. For whatever reason, maybe all the fluff around wraithbone, few people seem to do mainly metallics on Eldar. I find myself quite drawn to the Alpha Legion look (turquoise/teal metal), and although I'll probably be running Biel Tan for nostalgia or Ulthwé for a 6+++ save, a scheme like that on Eldar could plausibly pass as Iybraesil too. People online seem to disagree as to the easiest and best way to achieve a comparable look. If it matters, I won't have many aspect warriors, this is for Guardians, psykers, and their vehicles initially.
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Vlex posted:Does anyone have experience painting contrast paints over a metallic basecoat or undercoat? If you have an airbrush might I recommend turbo dork? 
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I finished up some immortals!
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R0ckfish posted:I finished up some immortals!
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w00tmonger posted:If you have an airbrush might I recommend turbo dork? A finish similar to that but blueish green is what I'm aiming for I guess, but an airbrush is outside my scope.
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w00tmonger posted:If you have an airbrush might I recommend turbo dork? These look awesome, and turbo dork is awesome. Michigoons, Nankin Hobby in Farmington carries turbo dork, molotow chrome pens, microsol microset, Tamiya cement, amongst a ton of other kinda rare hobby stuff.
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Gunder posted:Beautiful, as usual. I really like the dark tone. What's the metal recipe? The metal is Iron Hands steel washed with both Agrax and Basilicanum grey (it's basically super dense Nuln Oil) followed by a drybrush of Ironbreaker and a edge highlight of Stormhost Silver.
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10x Corpse Grinder Cultists done
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Finally finished up the Lord of Blights for Darren Latham's masterclass. Started this thing in January and worked on it on -and-off but managed to finish before his YouTube goes dark on June 18. Was a lot of fun and definitely beyond what I could have done without guidance. 
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That looks wonderful! And yes, a good guide especially something as in depth as his masterclass is unbelievable in how much it can improve your results. So much of painting is knowledge instead of strict mechanical skill.
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This is amazing work! I never noticed it had a tail, but when I did notice  that's disturbingly well done.Edit: You did a really good job making every aspect of him look heavy. His armor looks real heavy, the wood looks old and heavy, and he t h I c c.
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Skails posted:Finally finished up the Lord of Blights for Darren Latham's masterclass. Started this thing in January and worked on it on -and-off but managed to finish before his YouTube goes dark on June 18. Was a lot of fun and definitely beyond what I could have done without guidance. It looks amazing. Can you post something you did before you did the class? It's always great to see the improvement side by side. This post has inspired me to give his masterclass series on the lord of blights a go.
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Has anyone seen an archived collection of videos from Latham's channel somewhere for preservation?
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Main airbrush work done on Mortarion's body, gonna do some touchups on the interior of the cloak and then I can finally move on to getting some real work done on this cloth. Going to shoot for a dark weathered leather look on the top part. This model is just so loving busy, there's stuff crammed in everywhere it's going to take me forever to finish with how litle I have been painting.
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Booyah- posted:Has anyone seen an archived collection of videos from Latham's channel somewhere for preservation? I used wikihow’s guide to saving youtube videos and vlc. Saving all ten parts took about ten minutes.
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Cinara posted:That looks wonderful! And yes, a good guide especially something as in depth as his masterclass is unbelievable in how much it can improve your results. So much of painting is knowledge instead of strict mechanical skill. This for sure. Knowing things like how much you can thin paint to get the results you want and having an idea of how many layers or steps it's going to take to get the intended final result really make a difference. Beyond that developing a working concept of light and shadow can make a huge difference in results. Kabuki Shipoopi posted:This is amazing work! I never noticed it had a tail, but when I did notice Thanks! He is such a gross dude, fun to paint but not something I'm going to show off to my wife or children. Ez8 posted:It looks amazing. Can you post something you did before you did the class? It's always great to see the improvement side by side. This post has inspired me to give his masterclass series on the lord of blights a go. Sure! Don't get into the series yet, Latham's YouTube account is about to shut down. Apparently there is some conflict with GW proper and him doing his own branding. I hope they show up rebranded by GW at some point, but there is no telling. There are other good series by other artists- Trovarion has an Ogroid Myrmadon masterclass that I would be interested in doing at some point. I've been back to mini painting for 3 years now and leaning hard into spending more time on fewer models. Skails posted:Painted up Gotrek for a friend, what a great model. Took most of the color cues from the studio paint job. Ended up with a satin finish which has a nice effect in person. This was the last single figure I painted before doing the class. However, I spent around 20 hrs on on Gotrek here, and the Lord of Blights probably has over 50 hrs. I quit keeping track after a while. It's definitely more time than I would want to spend on any model but it's fun to dive in like that maybe once a year or so. The last time I put anywhere near the same time in was this Darkoath Chieftan from Feb.2019 Skails posted:Darkoath Chieftain
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I’d like to add more skin tones to my sisters army. Anyone have some guidelines for doing dark skin? Something table quality? If you’ve got multiple guides that would be nice too. Ideally I’d like one for gold/tan tones and another for richer/mocha or coffee skin. If I can get three skin tones on the board that would work well.
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I’m bored and playing around with the Impcat app, brainstorming Space Marine schemes. Made one I quite like based on Goliath beetle colors but the perfect color for the weapon eludes me. I tried a few different ones but still not sure:   Any suggestions?
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Winklebottom posted:Any suggestions? I'm not sure why you're making the weapon a contrasting colour instead of one of the colours from the armour? It's goign to make it stand out over the armour when it isn't the focal point of the mini. I'd do it one of the armour colours - white if you want it to stand out more, red to tone it in, black to make it stand out less.
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thespaceinvader posted:I'm not sure why you're making the weapon a contrasting colour instead of one of the colours from the armour? Eh, thought it might look a bit same-y/drab otherwise, but perhaps you’re right   
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Winklebottom posted:Eh, thought it might look a bit same-y/drab otherwise, but perhaps you’re right Personally I'd go for the red. Spanish Manlove posted:Maybe try a deep royal blue I don't think you want anything too saturate, given the overall relatively low saturation of the rest of the mini - blue could work but keeping it a little more drab would probably tone in better.
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Winklebottom posted:Eh, thought it might look a bit same-y/drab otherwise, but perhaps you’re right I also think the red looks best out of the options you've shown tbh!
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Thanks for the suggestions. I think red might be the way to go too. Now let’s see if I ever manage to put paint to miniature 
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I painted a Death Guard Lord of Contagion as a break from trying to paint all my Dark Elves. I think he turned out pretty okay, but I do need to put some time into my photo setup. If anyone wants to offer some critique or criticism I would greatly appreciate it.
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Winklebottom posted:Thanks for the suggestions. I think red might be the way to go too. Now let’s see if I ever manage to put paint to miniature Personally I prefer the white, or if you want a contrasting color green. Those do make the weapon POP though.
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Gameko posted:I’d like to add more skin tones to my sisters army. Anyone have some guidelines for doing dark skin? Something table quality? If you’ve got multiple guides that would be nice too. Quick and dirty for a dark skin tone that’s done well for me (using Citadel paints): Base in Dryad Bark Wash with Druchi Violet Go back over with Dryad Bark Layer up from Dryad Bark to Gorthor Brown and then Baneblade Brown. But since I don’t actually own Baneblade Brown yet I have been lightening up my Gorthor with off-whites (something like Screaming Skull) and then applying that mix as my top highlight. See if that looks how you want. The trick with dark skin is keeping it warm and not washing it out, so if it starts to feel kinda cold/dead to you, you can try mixing in Druchi Violet again or even Reikland Fleshshade.
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Skails posted:Don't get into the series yet, Latham's YouTube account is about to shut down. Apparently there is some conflict with GW proper and him doing his own branding. I hope they show up rebranded by GW at some point, but there is no telling. He’s been exceptionally clear throughout the entire thing that they will be gone forever. If you want to learn to paint, and you want the Lord of Blights masterclass, follow my advice: Torquemada posted:I used wikihow’s guide to saving youtube videos and vlc. Saving all ten parts took about ten minutes. VLC is safe, download it. Follow the steps on wikihow and you can easily legally and safely keep the ten videos forever.
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tgis but make the helmet the teal from your very first pic
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Winklebottom posted:Eh, thought it might look a bit same-y/drab otherwise, but perhaps you’re right Red for base troops, white for officers/special weapons to better identify and differentiate on the tabletop. Being able to tell at a glance what a model is can't be overstated when you've got a couple dozen of them wandering around.
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jesus WEP posted:tgis but make the helmet the teal from your very first pic  definitely some potential there as well
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TotalHell posted:Quick and dirty for a dark skin tone that’s done well for me (using Citadel paints): Thanks for this advice. The final tip was revelatory to me...keep it warm don’t wash it out. Wouldn’t have thought of a violet was either...
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I'm not doing another one of these ever again. probably eventually i'll go back and touch things up further, but it will look good on the table top, it's ready to play, that is all I cared about. This was fun to paint, and this vehicle is super badass. Worth the long wait for it to finally become available. This took me 3 days of painting or about 15 hours of careful attention to detail and it still doesn't match up to what Games Workshop is showing off on their website. 
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