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Cat Face Joe posted:Yes. Neat, when I get some contrasts I'll give this a shot too
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Spanish Manlove posted:Neat, when I get some contrasts I'll give this a shot too I can never get the Valejo primer to brush on evenly, but I'm also very impatient.
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Sep 16, 2020 17:08
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Iron Crowned posted:I can never get the Valejo primer to brush on evenly, but I'm also very impatient. The black does this a lot, it'll look spotty but then once you get an actual base coat of 2-3 thin layers of your first color it's fine.
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Harvey Mantaco posted: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. I've heard that if you heat them (hair dryer or hot water) and then straighten them out and then immediately plunge them into very cold water (like ice cold) it helps them set in the new, straighter, shape. Cant verify this myself, never done it, but I've heard that from a few people.
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I've read that as well, particularly for Reaper Bones
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Hot water then cold water works very well for Privateer Press plastics. Literally they turn almost comically floppy.
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grassy gnoll posted:Yes, but Stynylrez is better and is also brushable.
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Furism posted: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. Have you tried Vallejo's Game Color Khaki? The color sample pictures look maybe a smidge darker but pictures of it on actual minis look very close.
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Grizzled Patriarch posted:Have you tried Vallejo's Game Color Khaki? The color sample pictures look maybe a smidge darker but pictures of it on actual minis look very close. I think I have, but I'll give it another shot. Thanks for the reminder!
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SiKboy posted:I've heard that if you heat them (hair dryer or hot water) and then straighten them out and then immediately plunge them into very cold water (like ice cold) it helps them set in the new, straighter, shape. Cant verify this myself, never done it, but I've heard that from a few people. I boil a pot of water first and I don't even turn it off before I pop 1 dude at a time in, I keep them in there for a tiny bit. Be cautioned though! It can warp citidel style plastic bases a bit. Then I plunge them in water with ice and leave them there for a bit. I've done it a number of times, it works well.
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more 10mm dwarfs i'll be painting them using "half bases" from now on so that i can paint them better  
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How much should I water down a citadel shade so that I get the coloration without the glossy pooling? Thanks.
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Dr. Red Ranger posted:How much should I water down a citadel shade so that I get the coloration without the glossy pooling? Thanks. don't water it down, use a brush to remove pools. shake it before using to reduce gloss
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Nebalebadingdong posted:don't water it down, use a brush to remove pools. shake it before using to reduce gloss I see. I'll keep that in mind.
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Nebalebadingdong posted:more 10mm dwarfs These are great. Well done
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Did the thing where I went from thinking I was doing ok at painting and maybe getting better right to "I suck at this, I'm throwing out all my paints and never touching a brush again." I think maybe it's time to quit for the day.
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Crossposting from Historicals. I don't mind the highlight brush strokes, but I really need to remember to thin my paints out wayyyyy more when building up highlights. And match hues a little better on highlight colors. Just mental notes for later.NUMBER 1 FULCI FAN posted:Paint 15mm minis they said... they'll go quicker they said...
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NUMBER 1 FULCI FAN posted:Crossposting from Historicals. I don't mind the highlight brush strokes, but I really need to remember to thin my paints out wayyyyy more when building up highlights. And match hues a little better on highlight colors. Just mental notes for later. I think it looks awesome and I love small scale stuff
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Anyone have good examples of blue - purple - pink gradients? I've been trying to do it with drybrushing, but it's not looking how I want. Has anyone had any trouble with Scale 75's customer service? I was missing a paint in my order and they're denying it. It took them two of my emails to respond, and the second one they said they'd already responded to the first and - oh yeah - I must have thrown out the missing paint. They didn't send the email, and I didn't throw anything out. Now I've got four other paints I just won't use because I'm not giving them money for more when I run out.
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LifeLynx posted:Anyone have good examples of blue - purple - pink gradients? I've been trying to do it with drybrushing, but it's not looking how I want.  Something like this? (Not mine)
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LifeLynx posted:Anyone have good examples of blue - purple - pink gradients? I've been trying to do it with drybrushing, but it's not looking how I want. Dana Howl's tutorial looks like just what you need.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VeWI5KRAok
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NUMBER 1 FULCI FAN posted:Dana Howl's tutorial looks like just what you need. Oh hell yeah. I don't have an airbrush though. 
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LifeLynx posted:Oh hell yeah. I don't have an airbrush though. She has some other videos about how to glaze and stuff with brushes I think... one of her newer "hobby basics" videos I think?
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LifeLynx posted:Has anyone had any trouble with Scale 75's customer service? I was missing a paint in my order and they're denying it. It took them two of my emails to respond, and the second one they said they'd already responded to the first and - oh yeah - I must have thrown out the missing paint. They didn't send the email, and I didn't throw anything out. Now I've got four other paints I just won't use because I'm not giving them money for more when I run out. That's pretty crazy, and not a bad reason not to use their paint.
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LifeLynx posted:Anyone have good examples of blue - purple - pink gradients? I've been trying to do it with drybrushing, but it's not looking how I want. I've been messing around with this and getting OK outcomes with glaze medium. Base coat with the lightest colour. With darker colour, Mix it 50/50 with glaze medium and do a poo poo load of thin coat and build the gradient that way. Not the exact colours in this picture, but I have been messing with purple and green as well as yellow, red and pink. Will post more pictures soon https://www.instagram.com/p/CEvCBOMBZrk/?igshid=ytapekqi0sk
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Sep 17, 2020 04:25
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Full command base done!  The two guards went way quicker considering I could just batch the colors together.
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Furism posted: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. You have checked the Vallejo model color line right? Seems like they have 3005 different shades of “sand” one of them has to match.
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NUMBER 1 FULCI FAN posted:Full command base done! Looking really good! Those little faces are so tiny. I think you're using the bright blue and red really well to make the shields and capes really stand out. I think the faces could use more contrast to really sell their features from a distance, especially at that scale. One thing that has stuck with me from basically every painting tutorial ever is "you want more contrast". If I like how something looks up close, I'll put it on the table and look at it from a ~metre away under normal lighting, rather than the super bright work lights. The important features and characteristics should still be clearly visible under those conditions. If they aren't, you need to add more contrast, even if you think it looks excessive up close. That can either be light/dark or warm/cool or complementary colors, depending on the overall look, if you want something more realistic or something cartoony that really pops. One of the reasons why Neb's paintjobs look so awesome is because he uses contrasts and blacklining (basically built into the technique he uses) to really mark out features and make them distinct, and also his use of bold highlights and shadows. His colorschemes are also very well balanced IMO, in order to make features visible, making sure to have differing colors on adjacent features, in order for them not to blend together.
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NUMBER 1 FULCI FAN posted:Dana Howl's tutorial looks like just what you need. drat this video makes me want to paint Nighthaunts. I've been having a lot of fun with my airbrush and I want to use my regular brush as little as possible now 
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Funzo posted:Did the thing where I went from thinking I was doing ok at painting and maybe getting better right to "I suck at this, I'm throwing out all my paints and never touching a brush again." I think maybe it's time to quit for the day. This happens to everyone; at every level of experience. Take a break, relax, and come back and jump back in.
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I am at a level where I feel ..this is battleready and I can't be asked to put in twice the amount of time to improve the mini 10% more. But then I paint to play. I always aim to be able to come back and do some more improvements later though when I have nothing new to paint and the urge strikes me.
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I like trying to balance effort vs reward where I try to put in more effort on important models like characters and vehicles as opposed to regular infantry. It doesn't feel worth it to meticulously edge highlight a random fire warrior but highlighting a few edges really makes it look so much better so I'll do that amount of effort. But a space marine captain who's gonna punch a carnifex in the dick or the coldstar commander loaded with fusion blasters? Hell yeah those guys are getting at least a full weekend of effort. Or at least I want to do this to what I think are more important models because the last game I played the mvp was the swarm of drones I lazily batch painted with overbrushing and sponging being the main techniques. Little jerks just were everywhere.
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Yeah, that's how I got when I was working through my Saga warband. Warlord? Hell yeah, lots of effort, he looks great. Hearthguard? Okay there's 8 of these, gonna put in decent effort, they look pretty good. Warriors? Ah jeez there's 16 of these, gonna batch paint them, ah poo poo this isn't looking great, ah this looks dull. It's fine I guess. You know what, gently caress it, no more effort, I hate this. And now I'm switching gears to something else and I'm excited again. Take breaks, don't burn out, don't get overwhelmed.
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Is it possible to paint with metallics without it clumping up your brush? I've just come to accept that when I paint with metallics I'll just end up with a clumpy frayed brush while I'm painting, no matter how much I twist the tip on my palette. Doesn't matter if I thin it out either, all that does is make a bad-looking translucent metallic.
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What paint are you using? I also still use my crappy taklon brushes, even with AV metal color, which is nicer to paint with than some of my non-metallics
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I use to have this problem until I started buying the fancy real animal hair brushes. The GW brushes were getting ruined extremely fast no matter how careful I was.
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I've had the same problem with both Vallejo silver and also Citadel Leadbelcher. The synthetic brush may be the issue, I didn't want to ruin my good brushes with metallic paint! Ha.
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NUMBER 1 FULCI FAN posted:I've had the same problem with both Vallejo silver and also Citadel Leadbelcher. The synthetic brush may be the issue, I didn't want to ruin my good brushes with metallic paint! Ha. this silver or this one? When I first tried duraluminum from the metal color line, I was amazed. They flow amazingly well from the brush, and clean off perfectly. It costs a little more, but it's worth it imo.
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I thin my metallics just slightly and never have an issue. I also clean the brush in the water pot a lot when I'm working with metallics.
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I am going to call myself out and say that sometimes I will start brushing on paint right after gluing a model together. Don't do this, ever.
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