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This week I've been mainly painting Malifaux, much like most weeks tbh. This time its the Guilds Sonnia Criid, a woman who manages to make me think I've misspelled both her names, but I did check, and her Witchhunter crew. The witchling stalkers are 1e metals, the rest are 2e plastics. Sonnia Herself. I made a discarded newspaper for the base to hide the fact shes an ebay rescue who is missing the front half of her left foot, which worked well. I tried some OSL which... Well, its a learning process and every days a schoolday. Next attempt will be better.  Her totem, who I have been refering to as "Burnnie Skeliington", but I've now checked and it is called "Purifying Flame". This is why I'll never be hired to write fluff for Malifaux. Decided that just coating the model in Hexwraith flame would be a cop out, and that he should be "real" fire. The flames look better in person, but I do kind of wish I'd put some smokey black on the very tips of the flames.  Her henchman, Samael Hopkins. I'm not massively keen on this model tbh, so didnt spend a lot of time deciding on a colour palette. Looked like leather armour to me, so snakebite leather and a drybrush was most of the work. I have no idea what the thing hanging down is supposed to be. Danger Handbag? Combat Sporran? Who knows. It was only when googling him to try and find out what colour it was supposed to be that I found out the model isnt supposed to have a hat, and is supposed to have a mallet, both conversions the seller failed to mention in the listing. Found a suitable mallet replacement in my bits box, but I dont hate the hat and would have been way more work to remove and resculpt the hair that I want to put in.  The Witchling Stalkers. Not much to say tbh, contrasts, metallics, an ink wash and some drybrushing. I'm pleased with how they look compared to how little time they took.  Glamour shot of the team:  Lord Ludikrous posted:Crossing posting from the 40K thread. I’m still painting the Lasher Tendrils but won’t get another chance to take any pictures in anything approaching good lighting until next weekend so gently caress it, here is my almost finished Thousand Sons Maulerfiend. That is a super clean and crisp paint job right there. Looks great.
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just got lucky with the fabled "poorly optimized ebay listing" and am soon to be the recipient of a case of iwata Eclipse BCSes for the price of a single unit i don't expect to need more than one, might have to make a SA-Mart thread in the future. any interest in siphon fed airbrushes, y'all?
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Cat Face Joe posted:How many is a case? Five airbrushes with hoses, apparently I wouldn't be surprised if the seller cancelled the auction rather than ship but here's hoping for the best, haha edit: update for today, package has not shipped yet. I have sent a very polite, super nice email using every customer service trick I know in the hopes that I can overcome the sourness I am absolutely certain they are feeling in the hopes that they will do the right thing Mirthless fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Nov 17, 2020 |
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So due to some personal life stuff I haven't painted in almost two months, but this weekend I got sort of a flash of inspiration, and knocked out this daemon prince from my Thousand Sons Army, as Well as this Tzaangor Shaman, which I got more as a cheap Elite Slot filler, so I didn't put as much effort into him, or taking pics of him. Neither of them are based yet. I am going ot base them when I finish my last two models needing bases, which is a Helbrute and Heldrake.    I magnetized the off hand.   
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Nov 16, 2020 15:47
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Cross posting my latest Star Wars: Legion effortsZuul the Cat posted:Finished up this bad boy over the weekend. Super fun to build & paint.
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I kind of look like a World of Warcraft Raid Boss, I like it.
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Furism posted:I kind of look like a World of Warcraft Raid Boss, I like it. It also looks like its flipping us off with its axe hand, I like it.
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Nov 16, 2020 21:01
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Wyrd has some pretty brutal rules in their painting competitions, but they've finally announced the winners, so I can show what I painted for it without getting disqualified. 
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Nov 16, 2020 21:38
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Electric Hobo posted:Wyrd has some pretty brutal rules in their painting competitions, but they've finally announced the winners, so I can show what I painted for it without getting disqualified. Ghost Rider Ironsides is badass. Also Adze sez trans rights.
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Furism posted:I kind of look like a World of Warcraft Raid Boss, I like it. I'll take that compliment. It's hard not to with the way the base model looks. Also I recognize the color scheme is very much WoW, though not intentionally. The Daemon Prince color scheme is an amalgamation of the Color Scheme my Rubrics had (Kantor Blue and Balthazar gold) and the skin tone of my Tzaangors (Aethermatic blue over grey primer) which meant a lot of blues. Dienes posted:It also looks like its flipping us off with its axe hand, I like it. It certainly does. I did not do anything to modify it, that is GW's sculpt. I don't know why anyone/interdimensional demi-god would hold anything like that if they weren't intending to throw out the bird.
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I think I'm generally happy with the colour scheme on my dominus, but it feels unbalanced somehow: Maybe not enough contrast? Or maybe I need a bit more colour on the lower body?
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Nov 17, 2020 00:11
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Looks good, perhaps you could add some color (orange or purple?) to the base instead of the model itself.
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Nov 17, 2020 00:21
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I think the yellow is quite dark and orangey, preventing it from standing out from the copper that it’s next to. maybe you could try brightening the hood up a bit?
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spiderbot posted:I think I'm generally happy with the colour scheme on my dominus, but it feels unbalanced somehow: Personal opinion would be to brighten up the yellows and then switch it up to a darker color on the lower body.
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Finally figured out what was wrong with my airbrush so I pumped out a few dozen basecoats. I'm not much of a painter, but I do read a lot about it so I how that counts for something. First up is my Iron Warriors Warsmith. I zenithaled the basecoat with liquitex carbon black and titanium white inks, and then went out and bought some Vallejo liquid silver since it was the only thing in stock. Sucks that I couldn't get it thin enough (so the zenithal was useless) but oh well. I also primed a shin for the eventual hazard stripes. I will never do yellow without an airbrush again. Truthfully I only put thought into the model itself, and not the eventual paint scheme. I figure I'll try OSL, and maybe chipping since I have the medium. This is my first time attempting OSL so any and all advice is very welcome. I wanted all glowy bits to be yellow, but I'm not sure about a few things. I know Vince Venturella talks about filtering colors, and that's what I planned on doing with the silver into the yellow to clean up the overspray. I figure I need to gloss varnish this (if I want fry keep the metal shiny) prior to washing though, correct? After that I can use some gloss nuln oil to start building towards the shaded recesses. If I remember correctly you're supposed to pull the wash with the brush to where you want it to rest. I guess I could try weather streaking too? I guess it all depends on if they look worn enough. Maybe I should matte it? I'm not too sure where to go thematically.  https://imgur.com/a/G3cmWRq Basecoated this nice fella as well  https://imgur.com/a/k4PyEqL I think with this one I'm just going to build up to the brightest parts. It's just an experiment but I'm hoping something comes from it.
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spiderbot posted:I think I'm generally happy with the colour scheme on my dominus, but it feels unbalanced somehow: It's the hood. Either paint a symbol or a pattern or even ad a transfer. Maybe do a trim in a contrasting color?
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Nov 17, 2020 13:33
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 Popsicle sticks make great tombstones
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Rakarth Flesh I love this colour as a base for all my blood angel vampire bois, but it's the shittiest grittiest paint i own and i'm sick of seeing tniy little bumps on my minis' faces. apparently VGC's heavy warm grey is the closest alternative. anyone have any experience using it? also, since i've never used a vallejo extra opaque paint before, i assume it just needs a little extra thinning?
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jesus WEP posted:Rakarth Flesh is this your only pot of it? for me rakarth flesh has been very smooth, even airbrushes better than most citadel paints i’ve tried.
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Necromantic Blood Bowl team, the Swartzhafen Swearwolves. Complete with Hasty Crap Lighting.
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Booyah- posted:is this your only pot of it? for me rakarth flesh has been very smooth, even airbrushes better than most citadel paints i’ve tried.
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jesus WEP posted:yeah it is, maybe I’ll pick up a second pot to test it. thanks! if the second is bad then definitely email GW, they are surprisingly good at addressing customer issues like this.
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jesus WEP posted:Rakarth Flesh This is one of the few paints I can't find a direct equivalency for in Vallejo (or any other brand). A close one is Vallejo's Khaki, but it's not quite the same. Haven't tried Heavy Warmgrey but it sounds like a good candidate. All the "Heavy" references are the equivalent of GW's "base layer" (very opaque) so it's probably a better match than Khaki.
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jesus WEP posted:Rakarth Flesh What do you thin your paints with out of curiosity? i find glaze medium helps smooth out gritty/chalky paints pretty well additionally if you have a habit of pot dipping, acrylic paint with resin medium has a tendency to clump when exposed to water, i am not sure of the full composition of citadel paints but if it's smooth for others as reported it may be possible you got too much water in the pot and now you've got microbeads of clumped pigment floating around in there. you can see this the most dramatically in vallejo liquid metal, where pot dipping a wet brush means you have to throw the paint directly into the garbage edit: fwiw: I am aware acrylic paints are water based but that doesn't mean you can't throw off the balance or miss some part of the process they use to blend their paint. I bought a big bag of pipettes recently and if I can't transfer a pot to a dropper bottle I try to use the pipettes exclusively for getting stuff onto the palette now Mirthless fucked around with this message at 14:46 on Nov 18, 2020 |
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Iirc the rakarth flesh was like that when I got it I should mention that I got it as part of a paint starter kit a couple of years ago, and iirc paints in those kits could have been sitting around for who knows how long before it got picked up
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I bought an Age of Sigmar paint set maybe a month ago and can confirm the Rakarth Flesh came out of the box chunky as hell
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Yeah mine has always been kinda off as well. Same with Pallid Wych Flesh. Need to replace them at some point anyway since they're close to separated in the pot.
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Cooked Auto posted:Yeah mine has always been kinda off as well. Same with Pallid Wych Flesh. Yeah both those are probably the worst paints I own. I don't buy gw paints anymore but day 1 they were nasty.
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Harvey Mantaco posted:Yeah both those are probably the worst paints I own. I don't buy gw paints anymore but day 1 they were nasty. I've been slowly phasing out my GW paints for vallejo. I'm trying to source some of the metal color for cheap but everywhere is sold out of them so i'll stick to the GW metallics I have as aside from the GW pots I've been pretty happy with them. However, if Vallejo made a retributor armor replacement in their metal color line I would pay all the money for it.
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Spanish Manlove posted:I've been slowly phasing out my GW paints for vallejo. I'm trying to source some of the metal color for cheap but everywhere is sold out of them so i'll stick to the GW metallics I have as aside from the GW pots I've been pretty happy with them. Yeah, I definitely run mostly P3 right now, but Vallejo is slowly starting to take up a lot more space on my table at the moment. Part of it really is that Vallejo is super easy to find near me, and it's some good paint. I've been using glazes of Scurvy Green over black to create a nice deep swamp water without using water effects and it looks real nice TBH.
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Spanish Manlove posted:I've been slowly phasing out my GW paints for vallejo. I'm trying to source some of the metal color for cheap but everywhere is sold out of them so i'll stick to the GW metallics I have as aside from the GW pots I've been pretty happy with them.
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jesus WEP posted:The s75 metal and alchemy golden series is fantastic for doing any kind of gold ive wanted. thick thick paint though, definitely recommend a bead or two in each dropper Ooooh I check those out. Oh and P3 has a decent representation in my paint box. Their pots are a little bit better than the GW ones but I'm still hooked on dropper bottles.
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I have always struggled with my Rakarth being slightly chunky and maybe it's not just something dumb I'm doing. Still totally possible that it is, though
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Spanish Manlove posted:Ooooh I check those out.
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Crossppsting from the Specialist Games thread I finally got off of my rear end and started finishing my Reaver titans. The first three are now done. They are named The Red Bull, Baba Yaga, and Knochensammler (bone collector) I'm really happy with how they turned out.  The Red Bull. The art on the carapace and the crown around the head are both inspired by The Last Unicorn  I also put a dying/dead World Eater in the canal before I did the water pour.  Knochensammler. It is a bit hard to see due to the vegetation, but it is stepping out of the woods and stomping through an Imperial Guard artillery battery, with figures fleeing in terror.   Finally, Baba Yaga. I had a lot of fun making the train derailment scene. Z scale trains are perfect for Titanicus. 
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I'm generally willing to use just about any paint as long as it looks good and stays on the model but I'll take craft paint over citadel most days tbh as long as the pigment's good the only important thing is using the right medium/thinners and like 3/4s of GW's product line is just paint with more or less medium/flow improver, who cares about lightfastness when we have UV resistant topcoats? (GW's is probably lovely anyway) I just can't get over the price Mirthless fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Nov 18, 2020 |
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Yeah, my FLGS is mostly GW paints, but they did recently get an army painter display, so I really only have AP as an option. I prefer the AP metallic paints over GW mostly. The other big brands I'd have to order online.
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jadebullet posted:Crossppsting from the Specialist Games thread Holy Terra these rule. You should be very proud of your awesome looking stompy bois.
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jadebullet posted:Crossppsting from the Specialist Games thread
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