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Finished 2 more Marines this week.  I intended to be more detailed with the Sgt and less so on the other, but I couldn't help myself. I did skip a couple edge highlights though. Also while painting the head I intended on skipping the eyes since I hadn't done them in such a long time, but said gently caress it and decided to get something simple in there. Things got intense  It looks more humorous when you can see the mouth.
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spilled a bunch of tesseract glow today! good news: it only really got on my hobby board (which is just an old cutting board I've retired from my kitchen) and my fingernails bad news: now it looks like I've been eating mountain dew-flavored cheetos all day
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Sep 15, 2020 10:43
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For GW pots, use those little plastic tubes that come with brushes to hold the lid open. Only cures the symptom, not the cause. But hey, it's something.
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Sep 15, 2020 16:16
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So I want to paint some Black Templars but I've never painted pure black before. I dont like edge highlighting with just grey, it looks flat; I dont like highlighting with blue as it ends up just looking blue, not black. My only other idea is to either start black and layer up with black greys or underpaint with grey and glaze black over. Anyone have any experience with this?
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Sep 15, 2020 16:23
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Usually that causes paint to dribble off the inside of the lid and collect around the rim, which then you can't close the lid properly and the paint dries out quick.
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Sep 15, 2020 16:24
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Phi230 posted:So I want to paint some Black Templars but I've never painted pure black before. I like this method of basing grey and then using drybrushing and multiple black washes, works really well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7o2JUUjDTI
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Sep 15, 2020 16:32
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Floppychop posted:For GW pots, use those little plastic tubes that come with brushes to hold the lid open. Only cures the symptom, not the cause. But hey, it's something. Brilliant lol, I'll give it a shot
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Sep 15, 2020 17:05
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Floppychop posted:For GW pots, use those little plastic tubes that come with brushes to hold the lid open. Only cures the symptom, not the cause. But hey, it's something. All of a sudden my world has changed for the better.
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Sep 15, 2020 17:44
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Phi230 posted:So I want to paint some Black Templars but I've never painted pure black before. I split the difference with a blue-grey. Specifically, I use Reaper Glacial Mist. I think Fenrisian Grey would match.
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Sep 15, 2020 18:17
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Phi230 posted:So I want to paint some Black Templars but I've never painted pure black before. Anything that is pure black or white with no color in it is always boring. Deep blues enhance black a lot. If it ends up looking blue, then it means you used too much blue. Black takes insane levels of effort to get to showcase quality, no way around it. You're going to be highlighting up and glazing down multiple times to get stuff looking good.
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Sep 15, 2020 19:05
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Also, one key to highlighting black and keeping it looking black is to remember that black is the midtone and shadow. Like, if you would normally have 30% shadow, 40% midtone, and 30% highlight, you'd paint 70% of the area black. The same works with white, just with midtone and highlight.
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Sep 15, 2020 19:15
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Silhouette posted:Obviously you've never used the screw-top bolter shell jars from the early 2000s, where you could wind up with a useless jar of paint right off of the goddamn store shelf because it dried up in transit. I was about to post this, these were the main paint types for most of the period I was a kid painting 40k and they sucked so much. they'd regularly get paint in the screw and become impossible to open/close even before the paint in the pot itself dried, too the very first paints I got from them were flip tops (I think the bolter shells came out with 40k 3e?) and I think they outlived all the bolter shells I ever had
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Sep 15, 2020 19:32
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PoptartsNinja posted:The big magic glyphs were a nice touch! I know it was probably unintentional but it feels like you can almost make out what the glyphs are conveying. A tree, two people, and a squiggly line? Gotta be lightning bolt! A bird, a skull, and a snake? Some sort of poison spell maybe? I am afraid not, but i wish i thought about that!
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Sep 15, 2020 19:34
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Are Scale75 paints normally a little watery? Or do I just need to shake the hell out of them more? They seem runny.
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Sep 15, 2020 20:00
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Cross posting from the 40k threadCommissar Canuck posted:Still working on the other two, but I finished the first of the three bikers from the Indomitus box. These bikes have always belonged to the Blood Ravens, what are you on about?
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Sep 15, 2020 20:01
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Funzo posted:Are Scale75 paints normally a little watery? Or do I just need to shake the hell out of them more? They seem runny.
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Phi230 posted:So I want to paint some Black Templars but I've never painted pure black before. Here's a tryhard method: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyXzfVO2Kdw It uses a blue tinged chromatic black for highlights and a magenta tinged chromatic black for shadows. Eej fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Sep 15, 2020 |
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Sep 15, 2020 20:18
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Funzo posted:Are Scale75 paints normally a little watery? Or do I just need to shake the hell out of them more? They seem runny. No, they are thick as hell, if its watery it needs A LOT of shaking.
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Sep 15, 2020 20:35
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Eej posted:Here's a tryhard method: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyXzfVO2Kdw I settled on this method since I can't do NMM yet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPoYkLs8pYI&t=382s
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Anything I need to know for using Army Painter's Quickshade Washes compared to GW's stuff?
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DoubleDonut posted:Anything I need to know for using Army Painter's Quickshade Washes compared to GW's stuff? They're not as strong but operate pretty much exactly the same.
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DoubleDonut posted:Anything I need to know for using Army Painter's Quickshade Washes compared to GW's stuff? I find you really have to shake them thoroughly. It seems sometimes when I use them without shaking as much as I should they dry glossy.
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Sep 15, 2020 21:56
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Painting black update 1: bainting black is hard
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Sep 16, 2020 00:24
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I can't recommend Black Templar contrast paint highly enough if you're painting a lot of majority-black minis. It works incredibly well. The crowman on the left is pure Black Templar. The kobold on the right is an experiment where I painted Creed Camo over a coat of Black Templar to give it an ever-so-slight greenish tint. Black Templar with a Drakenhof Nightshade pinwash for all the deepest recesses, and with some very light yellow highlights (to make it look like the shiny bits of the armor are reflecting something other than pure white light) would probably work really well! PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Sep 16, 2020 |
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Sep 16, 2020 01:44
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i did this with black templar (obviously not finished, but you get the idea)
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:i did this with black templar (obviously not finished, but you get the idea) Please don't upstage my upcoming wraithguard post with a single coat of BT contrast. TIA.
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Phi230 posted:Painting black update 1: bainting black is hard Try Eshin Grey + Dawnstone drybrush + three coats of Nuln Oil. Add a focused Celestra Grey drybrush highlight between the second and third Nuln Oil coats if you're feeling sassy. It looks great and it's stupid easy. There are a couple YouTube tutorials that will walk you through it start to finish. Here's how it turns out:
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tangy yet delightful posted:Please don't upstage my upcoming wraithguard post with a single coat of BT contrast. TIA. Hey man those sexy smooth curves are just askin' for contrast paint
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Verisimilidude posted:For amount of time, energy and money it would take to transfer the paint into droppers you might as well just get Vallejo or Army Painter. I love Vallejo a lot-a lot, but to be frank there's nothing I could find in their line-up that's even close to Zandri Dust. I paint a lot of Orruks and I just love the look of their wrist straps or choppa hilts painted in Zandri + some Sepia shade. I can't seem to find a Vallejo paint that has a look even close to that. I could mix that color I guess but, ugh, I'm not sure where to even start.
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Phi230 posted:So I want to paint some Black Templars but I've never painted pure black before. This is the way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezj-8jFpVwc E: Don't be like me. Actually use black for the base color, not some kind of Corvus Black or German Grey.
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Phi230 posted:So I want to paint some Black Templars but I've never painted pure black before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7o2JUUjDTI This worked great for me
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Yeah it really seems like Black Templar, Apothecary White (for shading white effectively) and Snakebite Leather are top-tier.
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im probably gonna go ahead and buy some or all of the brown and beige contrasts, I’ve been really impressed with black and white so far. Sang guard wings look really good with a coat of apothecary white over a light ivory basecoat
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TotalHell posted:Yeah it really seems like Black Templar, Apothecary White (for shading white effectively) and Snakebite Leather are top-tier. Add the yellow to that, it's magic
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Sep 16, 2020 15:35
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Does vallejo makes brush on white primer?
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Their surface primers are meant for either air or hair brush
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e; nvm i have the dumb
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Spanish Manlove posted:Does vallejo makes brush on white primer? Yes. https://acrylicosvallejo.com/en/product/hobby/surface-primer-en/white-70600/
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Anyone ever paint wizkids minis or the d&d ones? They're made of this poo poo plastic and I'm trying to paint them up for this dungeon of the mad mage boardgame and I can't figure out a way to stop the swords and staves from bending and warping. I hit them with a hairdryer and they keep bending back.
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Spanish Manlove posted:Does vallejo makes brush on white primer? Yes, but Stynylrez is better and is also brushable.
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