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24 point of Poxwalkers ready for my Kill Team! Who the hell decided that such crap units should be covered in details?       
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Took a break from Warhammer to paint a Discworld metal figure. It was almost therapeutic to paint something not covered in 3000 details.
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tangy yet delightful posted:And thanks, a youtube video said to put silver and then the Spiritstone red but I tried that versus a Mephiston red base coat and went with the red, seems to be more gem like to me. I wholly agree. I've been using tamiya clear on silver for my gem stones and found that the GW Spiritstone on silver is a wee bit inferior to the Tamiya. On red though, well, those are nice stones.
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Fyrbrand posted:Some more Marvel Crisis Protocol stuff I've done the past few months: Crisis Protocol looks loving cool as hell and so do these paint jobs.
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Aug 26, 2020 16:26
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Aug 26, 2020 20:18
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Seldom Posts posted:I find the vallejo blacks cover pretty well. I use the metallic air black and it's great. Have also heard good things about the GW contrast black. The GW contrast black is excellent, it gives a super nice finish for black armour, I use it for all of my black legion chaos. Just abaddon or vallejo makes it slightly glossy, the contrast is exceptionally matte and looks amazing.
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Aug 26, 2020 21:36
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These guys still have a bit more work to go, however I'm done for the day (I think) and was so excited about how they're turning out that I had to get some pictures of them:   
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For my Thousand Sons I'm planning on painting Talassar Blue Contrast paint over a silver base. I've seen some pictures of people who have done that and it looks amazing. But what silver spray should I spray on them? I don't own an airbrush. Should I prime them grey and then get a spray can of silver and spray them after the primer dries? Or would that hide the details? Also what silver spray is recommended? I've always used Army Painter primers, but they don't seem to have a silver bright enough.
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Aug 26, 2020 22:22
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If it's gonna be on +50% of the model and I don't give a poo poo about splashing it on other things that are gonna get covered up with other colors: use a drybrush
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Aug 26, 2020 22:51
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I primed my Stormcast Eternals with Army Painter's Plate Mail spray and used the Ork Flesh contrast (or whatever is called) and it worked great. I assume the blue you're using should be just fine that way, too.
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I picked up the Warcry starter set a few weeks back and gave the Iron Golems to a mate who was looking to get back into this, but he's been hit with a huge vet bill and is strapped for cash. His birthday is coming up and I know the GW tools are a rort generally, but how does the value of the AoS paint & tool set stack up? Afaict it's still cheaper than buying all the paints individually, even if some may be smaller, and you get a free brush & nippers?
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Aug 26, 2020 23:52
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It's 13 paints in there and each one is about $4.55 - $6.10 USD individually for a 12mL pot so even lowballing it to $4.55 for every pot you're looking at $59.15 in paints for $40 in addition to $18 mould line remover, a maybe ~$6 brush and the nippers aren't sold on the GW store (the ones they have seem a lot heavier duty) so we'll just say $10. Pretty good deal no wonder it's sold out
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Aug 27, 2020 00:25
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Are they full sized pots or those weird baby starters?
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Aug 27, 2020 01:59
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According to this listing at Miniature Market:quote:Contents: So yeah it's kind of a steal for starting out
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Big Bad Beetleborg posted:I picked up the Warcry starter set a few weeks back and gave the Iron Golems to a mate who was looking to get back into this, but he's been hit with a huge vet bill and is strapped for cash. I actually started my paint collection with this very set. The paints are good value! You get the shade and the texture in the 12ml pot. White Scar is probably the only outright awful paint. The mould line remover is good and I still use. The nippers and brush are pretty awful but they're essentially free.
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The clippers are decent Xuron-clone fare and the mold-line remover is just the one they sell separately without the handle. I used some moldable thermoplastic to form a proper handle and it works good.
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Aug 27, 2020 03:05
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I picked a set up, thanks for the advice!
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moths posted:Are they full sized pots or those weird baby starters? 12ml is full sized, regular versions
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I'm starting up painting again (did a terrible job trying to zenithel highlight some models but I'm sure I'll get better). I have the Vallejo basic Game Colour set, but I also have a lot of old paints from 10-20 years back. Some of the lovely GW pots that are mostly dead, but a few of the really old ones that still seem okay. Also some more recent (but still older) Vallejo pots that might be okay. I've got some ball bearings that I can toss in to try to resuscitate some of them. Does anyone do anything else besides that with old paints? Would adding some matte medium help?
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Dreylad posted:Does anyone do anything else besides that with old paints? Would adding some matte medium help? Matte medium would dilute the color and not really thin the consistency much, if at all. If the paints are too thick, I would try glaze medium (Vallejo's is a mix of matte medium, thinner and drying retarder) or simply a bit of thinner. In a pinch, just a bit of water usually works fine.
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Aug 27, 2020 08:41
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Yeah I got that set and the only color I don't use regular is the dark/green.
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Painted Boomhowler, Solo Artist. Model for Riot Quest and also WMH (does double duty like all RQ stuff). 
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Aug 27, 2020 15:33
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Hell yeah hand painted plaid
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Aug 27, 2020 15:39
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Fyrbrand posted:Painted Boomhowler, Solo Artist. Model for Riot Quest and also WMH (does double duty like all RQ stuff). nice work! love to see textures and patterns
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Aug 27, 2020 15:46
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KozmoNaut posted:Matte medium would dilute the color and not really thin the consistency much, if at all. Perfect, thanks! I got some glaze medium because I was interested in trying underpainting/glazing instead of the traditional layer-shade-highlight. There's a lot to learn since I stopped painting so long ago. My last few models I was just starting to understand shading and trying mixing colours for highlights. Mostly was still priming everything in white, not thinning my paints, and not really knowing what washes/highlights were.
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Does anybody have any advice on developing a color scheme for pale blue or pale grey flesh? I'm trying to paint a pair ghouls and I want their skin to be a light, pallid kind of grey-blue or just cold grey. I'm still trying to get a hang of making my own color schemes so any help on this front would be appreciated. Also does anyone have any good resources on how to use Winsor + Newton Glaze Medium? Its very thick, should I add like water or flow improver to it? How should I thin and subsequently highlight metallic paints?
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What would a 40k collection be without at least one boring rear end Ultramarine? This one was free from my local Warham shop so it was an easy way to spend a lunch break. 
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Dreylad posted:Perfect, thanks! I got some glaze medium because I was interested in trying underpainting/glazing instead of the traditional layer-shade-highlight. That's exactly how I learned about how glaze medium works 
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KozmoNaut posted:That's exactly how I learned about how glaze medium works Yeah, I've got to say I really enjoy blocking in my highlights and shading first -- something about that process is really chill and fun, probably because I struggle to identify where my highlights should be when applying them after a base colour. Being able to apply thin coats of colour afterwards while maintaining the highlights and shading already locked in is pretty cool. Not to mention how easy it is to blend colours on the model. My only problem is I'm still trying to figure out the right ratio of paint to glaze medium -- I've had some attempts that have the paint act more like a wash and make it difficult to control.
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Consider investing in Zenithal Priming if you want to know how light falls on your model!
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adding some more dungeon stuff hero quest cupboard, with frostgrave bits attached to the top   giant flies from northstar  
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loving hell that woodgrain
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the bottom piece with the doors is a cardboard punch out just so everyone knows lol, i didn't paint that
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hah well still impressive but now that you say that I can see the difference taking another look
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So in my quest to get all the stuff needed for an airbrush, I screwed up a bit. I bought this hose from Amazon, but I found out it isn't actually capable of connecting to the airbrush (the Patriot 105) itself (looking at the hose listing again, I think they forgot to include a couple of the connectors). My plan now is to order the Badger branded airbrush hose, since I can't seem to find any definitive info on any other adapters there might be for the Patriot 105. I still haven't gotten a compressor yet. I thought about trying to modify the shop compressor with a moisture trap, but I feel like that would be more of a hassle than its worth. Is there an adapter out there for the Patriot 105 that I'm just not seeing? The Badger airhose is like $30, and I'm not super keen on spending that much if I can find an adapter to fit the hose I already have.
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Apologies for the Canadian links but I'm just grabbing links from my Amazon invoice Badger 105: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B002W84GTO/ref=pe_41291580_475835250_TE_dp_1 Compressor with 1/8" hose: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07HXN2V5B/ref=pe_41291580_475835250_TE_dp_1 Badger to Iwata (1/8") adapter: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B004RM2DIO/ref=pe_41291580_475835250_TE_dp_1 That's all you need (I'm grabbing a quick release adapter cause convenience and I'm pretty sure putting down by airbrush with hose attached still feels like asking for trouble)
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Max Wilco posted:So in my quest to get all the stuff needed for an airbrush, I screwed up a bit. I bought this hose from Amazon, but I found out it isn't actually capable of connecting to the airbrush (the Patriot 105) itself (looking at the hose listing again, I think they forgot to include a couple of the connectors). I use one of these to connect my Badger's hose to the compressor
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Nebalebadingdong posted:adding some more dungeon stuff 
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Eej posted:Consider investing in Zenithal Priming if you want to know how light falls on your model! Oh yeah, already done and practicing, it's an important part of underpainting. I just get lost if I add my base layers and lose that highlight and shading, even when I take pictures of some of the models. One thing I'm excited about with these new models is they're just bigger than the old fantasy models, both in terms of the actual model size and the base. A lot more to paint, but a lot more forgiving on details.
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If you're army painting you can leave one model just with the zenithal priming on as a reference you can rotate and move around while you do everyone else. Then when you're done all the others you can use the completed ones as the reference for your last model.
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