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I love the goofy dumb ork faces of the boyz kit, I even like their silly hunchback butt-sticking-out pose. Whenever GW releases a new boyz kit, I hope they don't make them too serious looking like the AoS orcs. They look great but the faces seem to be generically angry-aggressive (I'm thinking of savage boys box) which is cool but has way less character
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Every move or(ru)ks make away from comic relief is a step further from God. They’re supposed to be fun 
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Yeah the most recent 40k ork releases (like the speed freak buggies) have more serious faces than I prefer. Thankfully I have at least 3005 extra ork boy heads so I'm not in danger of ever running out.
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Nov 25, 2020 19:26
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Chainclaw posted:Vallejo has a white wash, it's OK. This one's probably out for me just because vallejo's in short supply in these parts lately I have a few options here - I made a white wash a long time ago using a standard dip recipe, a testor's off-white wash that might work but is really fidgety, and an oil wash I have a lot of room on the scales to patch test and oil is the most forgiving of the washes, so that's where i'm starting.' edit: might need to adjust consistency but it's hard to get the recesses of the scales without slopping it all over. this one's a puzzle! I might just abandon ship on the idea and do a darker wash to make the details pop and accept that we can't always have what we want. white washes, ugh. Mirthless fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Nov 25, 2020 |
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jesus WEP posted:Every move or(ru)ks make away from comic relief is a step further from God. They’re supposed to be fun  i love the psychic gestalt "our junkk werks cuz we sez it does" lore as much as it grinds some people's gears and every stupid thing orks do that works just makes them funnier and more appealing the 40k universe is full of bleak lovely garbage, please just make one thing fun, just one thing space orks were always a stupid and funny idea and if you're gonna have them at all please just keep them goofy psychic teddybears who want to rip off your arms, not out of malice, but because fighting is fun and they don't grasp the concept of mortality. if there's no hilarious gonzo scifi bullshit it's just a really boring space opera at the end of the day Mirthless fucked around with this message at 19:57 on Nov 25, 2020 |
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Nov 25, 2020 19:54
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jesus WEP posted:ork faces are my favourite thing in the world to paint. i think gw do a great job of putting character into them and i love working on them You might find this 3D printable face practice tower to be of interest, then: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4645368
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Nov 25, 2020 20:17
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i got such a huge pile of things i wanna buy but man a 3d printer is pretty high on that list lately i know you can just order off shapeways or whatever but i've already got so much crap to paint i'd rather just save for the thing that makes new crap to paint
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Nov 25, 2020 20:29
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Mirthless posted:This one's probably out for me just because vallejo's in short supply in these parts lately Games Workshop's contrast paint Apothecary White diluted with contrast Medium can serve as a white wash in a pinch, but contrast paint can be rough to work with as a wash, it can pool and leave some nasty rings.
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Nov 25, 2020 20:33
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Chainclaw posted:Games Workshop's contrast paint Apothecary White diluted with contrast Medium can serve as a white wash in a pinch, but contrast paint can be rough to work with as a wash, it can pool and leave some nasty rings. I'm not really wanting to get into the contrast paints personally, I've got some good wash consistency paints I've mixed myself and the contrast line is a little pricy for me. I'm making a trip to one of our more niche stores (historicals and large scale boutique minis) in the area probably today and I'll see if they have anything that'll work. For now, my best results have oddly come from Testor's FX driftwood acrylic wash. This line is pretty garbage for the most part and I'm not sure if it's what I'll ultimately end up using but it'd be nice if I could find one thing it was good at
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Nov 25, 2020 20:38
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I'm actually going to get some of the liquitex titanium white ink today to test out making my own white wash. Also so I can do freehand with white a lot easier.
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Nov 25, 2020 20:43
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Spanish Manlove posted:I'm actually going to get some of the liquitex titanium white ink today to test out making my own white wash. Also so I can do freehand with white a lot easier. I use it in my airbrush and it's fuckin incredible, I might have to try making a wash from it myself
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Nov 25, 2020 20:44
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Mirthless posted:I use it in my airbrush and it's fuckin incredible, I might have to try making a wash from it myself I made my own black/blue wash the other day to test out and I don't think I made it thin enough so I'm going to keep messing with the recipe.  The one on the left is just straight drybrush layers over dark brown and on the right is white then wash then a little drybrushing. Honestly I way prefer the brown one so I'll keep playing with that recipe too. Like doing a light brown then drybrushing up to dark on the fur or something idk yet.
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Mirthless posted:
I really like Fun 40K 
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Bucnasti posted:If you’re looking for vibrant colors also check out the Vallejo Mecha line, should be available in nerd stores that sell a lot of Gundams. I've had good luck with paints actually being in stock, or fairly quickly restocked, from https://www.scalehobbyist.com/. e. I particularly like how their search engine will let you drill down to a brand, and then colors. "Show me all the Model Air Greens" has been very useful. Also, lol, I got drunk and ordered paint again. mllaneza fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Nov 26, 2020 |
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Nov 26, 2020 01:31
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yum posted:I love the goofy dumb ork faces of the boyz kit, I even like their silly hunchback butt-sticking-out pose. Whenever GW releases a new boyz kit, I hope they don't make them too serious looking like the AoS orcs. They look great but the faces seem to be generically angry-aggressive (I'm thinking of savage boys box) which is cool but has way less character I really like to the Ardboys though. They look kinda serious and scary but then in the same sprue they have their helmets which are maximum Orc goofiness
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Spanish Manlove posted:I'm actually going to get some of the liquitex titanium white ink today to test out making my own white wash. Also so I can do freehand with white a lot easier. I said this in the Battletech thread, more people should go buy real art brand paints. The hobby branded stuff is ludicrously expensive and tends not to use the finest or highest quality pigments. Artist grade fluid acrylics (thin with thinning medium or water in a pinch) from your local art supply store should generally both be cheaper and of higher quality than the hobby branded stuff. Also treat yourself to some good brushes from said store, you won't regret it.
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The Demilich posted:I usually prime pink or magenta for the basecoat, zenithal titanium white, then blast it with yellow. From all the testing I did for my Ironjawz, this is the Correct Way. It also happens to be the Easiest way. It's not often that the Easy Way is the Correct Way. You could also shoot darker pink from below to reinforce the shading. I'd use ink for the yellow.
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Bucnasti posted:If you’re looking for vibrant colors also check out the Vallejo Mecha line, should be available in nerd stores that sell a lot of Gundams. I never got the point of those paints. Is the goal to have colored metallic paints? So you could paint "realistic" giant robots (maybe space crafts I reckon) ? I tried their Gunmetal and I found it inferior to even the regular Game line Gunmetal, when it came to weapons anyway.
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Nov 26, 2020 10:55
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My Space Hulk - Deathwing project continues. 
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Professor Shark posted:I really like Fun 40K the thing that i like the most about orks is that, if they actually grasped death on a fundamental level, they might be hesitant to just go around killing people it's a very weird juxtaposition between being good natured and absolutely murderous, it makes terrible grimdark characters actually likable and fun because they have such positive attitudes about the things they're doing with a rebel yell she QQd posted:My Space Hulk - Deathwing project continues. extremely sick how did you do the white armor, and what wash did you use? I just got a set of terms myself, i'm just not a fan of the smaller marines generally but I've always loved the terminator models. Mirthless fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Nov 26, 2020 |
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Nov 26, 2020 18:08
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Finally got some nail polish displays to tidy my paints The steps aren’t quite big enough to make it convenient to see what dropper bottle is behind what, but it’s way better than the random pile
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Nov 26, 2020 18:45
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Mirthless posted:extremely sick Thank you! I primed Wraithbone and washed Sepia to have a base colour, and then covered most of the areas in Bleached Bone (Ushabti Bone now in current range I think?), highlighted with Pallid Wych Flesh, and the final highlights are Corax White/White Scar. And careful with old terminators because I wanted mine to be from the 94 range, as these, but then I got some from 89 and now I want to paint those as well. I don't know where this madness will stop.
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Finished Lord of Pain for AoS this morning. Had a lot of fun playing with contrasts with this one.  
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Tried out painting camo for the first time today. I think it came out well but I can do better. Mostly doing more random shapes in the stippling and maybe a tiny bit of dark blue instead of just greyscale. 
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I can't update my LP, but I can still paint. Finished a Gnoll cackle leader and her husbands:  As well as their daughters and sons:  Gnolls in my setting are very fastidious, and touching raw meat with their bare hands is a cultural taboo. Only the truly desperate, like aging males trying to prove their virility, actually fight with their claws. They'd probably get along pretty well in the First Cities but they hate lions and exterminate them at every opportunity; and there are lion people living in the cities. Edit: and some more random tavern terrain bits. 
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Noticed this recently and thought I would mention it. There's a big box retailer in the US that specializes in clearance, last season and closeout goods, called Ross. They're affiliated directly with the craft store Michael's, the slightly less evil competitor to hobby lobby. I think there may have been some Michael's closures recently because every Ross in my area is flooded with very cheap art supplies right now. I really recommend dropping by if you have one in your area, most of what they have is just cheap crap from the bargain bin, but this is maybe the cheapest way to buy decent paintbrushes short of bulk ordering off Wish/AX and with those services you never know what you're gonna get until it arrives  Four gold taklon #2 rounds, Four gold taklon #6 rounds, Four white taklon #6 flat shaders, and a pile of natural hair dry brushes for $8 I also got a couple of royal & langnickel gold taklon brush variety packs for $3 a pack. Aside from miniature stuff, we also found two packages of Koh-I-Noor Hardmuth Polycolors which are very nice colored pencils, at $3.99 a tin. These are normally $25. They're somewhere between prismacolours and polychromos with a wax/oil core, I love coloring with them and if you can find them at that cost they're really fun to play with, even if you're not very good with colored pencils. They blend and layer well and don't get super waxy. I have prismacolors too and the polycolors are on par for sure You can find alcohol markers too for a hell of a lot cheaper than copics, probably a roulette spin on whether or not they're any good Mirthless fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Nov 27, 2020 |
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Nov 27, 2020 20:08
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Painted my first Warcaster model today.  
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Looks good. I haven't followed that game / PP closely, didn't realize it was out. Are the models all plastic, or is it a mixed bag of metal, plastic, and resin like WarmaHordes?
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Sab669 posted:Looks good. I haven't followed that game / PP closely, didn't realize it was out. Are the models all plastic, or is it a mixed bag of metal, plastic, and resin like WarmaHordes? All metal, they are very heavy models.
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Nov 27, 2020 22:04
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At least one of the Heavy Warjacks, the Nemesis, is resin and metal.
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I said come in! posted:Painted my first Warcaster model today. Looks good, I've been meaning to post the group shot of what I've completed so far. Did you magnetize?
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I said come in! posted:All metal, they are very heavy models. I know it's cheaper or whatever but ugh. GW has ruined me on other minis companies because I just can't be bothered to work with Not Metal
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Iron Crowned posted:Looks good, I've been meaning to post the group shot of what I've completed so far. Did you magnetize? I didn't, but should really do that for the other two factions. Sab669 posted:I know it's cheaper or whatever but ugh. GW has ruined me on other minis companies because I just can't be bothered to work with Not Metal My main complaint is paint scraps off very easily with metal, and I could use tips and help with this, cause I must be doing something wrong and just not understanding what.
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I said come in! posted:My main complaint is paint scraps off very easily with metal, and I could use tips and help with this, cause I must be doing something wrong and just not understanding what. Gloss varnish as a protective coat. It'll form a kind of armor around the paint job and make it very resilient to paint chipping. It'll make it shiny though, so you'll want to hit it with a coat or two of matte varnish afterwards.
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Slimnoid posted:Gloss varnish as a protective coat. It'll form a kind of armor around the paint job and make it very resilient to paint chipping. What's the reasoning behind gloss + matte instead of just matte?
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Communist Walrus posted:What's the reasoning behind gloss + matte instead of just matte? Gloss is a lot tougher a varnish than matte. This isn't to say matte isn't protective (it is!), and if your models are in a cabinet 95% of the time you could probably just stop with that. But if they are being handled/transported regularly, gloss is something you want to consider first--especially for metal models.
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Gloss also provides a smooth surface for your matte varnish. Matte varnish can get cloudy if it ends up being applied unevenly either due to the method of application or surface texture of your model.
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I said come in! posted:I didn't, but should really do that for the other two factions. I've got a Scourge mostly magnetized and it was really easy, the surfaces drill out easily and the connection points all seem solid. I just need to build a rig of some sort to be able to keep the polarities of the tiny-rear end magnets straight, especially since all the Warjacks will need to be cross-compatible.
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