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Probably the last miniatures I'm painting this year. My absolute favourite* thing about photographing figures is that it immediately highlights all the minor imperfections that arent visible with the naked eye. The nozzle of the primer I was using was clogged and it was coming out kind of bitty, in person its absolutely fine, but in the photos it gives the skin a weird texture. Anyway, you know how sometimes you have a pig over here, but you want it to be over there instead? Malifaux gremlins have the solution! The Pigapault. An ebay rescue that was assembled when I got it, theres some fairly nasty lines on the pig which I wish I'd done a better job of fixing, but again I'm happy enough its "decent tabletop" standard to me at least.  Burt Jebson. The spotting effect on the skin and jeans is 100% not visible in person, and I have since spotted I missed his elbow and fixed that.  Merris LaCroix. I'm pleased with how the flames/smoke from her rocket pack turned out.  Gremlin Taxidermist (1E Metal). Came incredibly close to painting what I later realised is supposed to be his lip as a moustache, have to admit I'm not wildly in love with the sculpt on this one, but I was doing "Gremlins which are part of crews I already have painted" and I wanted him out of my pile of shame.  Old Cranky. In an attempt to make him look older I did his skin as repeated washes of Chamoshade over a white undercoat, it actually came out okay which was frankly a suprise.  *definitely not my favourite.
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Sojenus posted:It sounds like most of the ships are larger than you want, but here's some of the smaller ship classes from Dropfleet if you want to get a more exact size idea on them and they're more what you're looking for. That's really helpful. It's hard to find any scale pictures for drop fleet. 6 cm is about the high end of what I'm aiming for, with a goal of clearly identifiable large/medium/small classes. So that is really close to working. Maybe I'll just make a fleet that doesn't do small ships.
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Jumping on the Malifaux train! The last Obliteration models, as well as a photo of the whole keyword.    
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MRLOLAST posted:I love the DE BB sculpts. Been playing BB forever and the original ones are so iconic to me. Here are some pics of the original sculpts. Sorry for not being specific, I meant the new sculpts in particular. I was hoping for some good reference pictures, because I'm a bit iffy on the various details.
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Electric Hobo posted:Jumping on the Malifaux train! The last Obliteration models, as well as a photo of the whole keyword. Nice, I like the big beasties, the lighting effect you have on them is pretty awesome.
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Painted some more Marvel dudes:      It's nice to stretch out and paint different colors and schemes, instead of slogging through whole armies. The models aren't super bogged down with detail either. A++ would paint dollies again.
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fwiw I stopped by my local hobby store yesterday and the lady said they'd just gotten in Vallejo Metal Colours again and some of the bottles say New Formulation on the side so you can look forward to that when it comes in for you guys
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Eej posted:fwiw I stopped by my local hobby store yesterday and the lady said they'd just gotten in Vallejo Metal Colours again and some of the bottles say New Formulation on the side so you can look forward to that when it comes in for you guys What's different?
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Fyrbrand posted:Painted some more Marvel dudes: Your tiny superheroes and villains are jumping-off-the-comic-book-page awesome.
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Ohthehugemanatee posted:I know some of you lunatics must paint tiny space ships. GZG are literally garage kits, the designs are very good but the production quality will never quite match up. Ad Astra Games has very good quality. They've got a homegrown line plus a line of Traveller warships (disclaimer, I am their Traveller Line Editor) https://www.adastragames.com/products?category=Miniatures We regularly use Charles Oines as a sculptor, and he has his own designs on Shapeways. Very cool designs with a unique style. Look here for Hard SF designs including Orion-drive warships. Probably the highest quality available except for other 3D printed models. https://www.shapeways.com/shops/irrationaldesigns Agents of Gaming's Babylon 5 miniatures are still being sold. Quality on the B5 Wars line was okay (better than GZG but not great), the ACTA line was better castings and larger scale for smaller minis. https://agents-of-gaming.myshopify.com/ Studio Bergstrom started as a garage manufacturer but has evolved into 3d modelling instead of continuing to sculpt by hand. Their big thing is knock-offs of major properties. So if you want a not-Star Wars, or not-BSG fleet, they've got you covered. https://studiobergstrom.com Starship Modeler has a webstore and forums. The store is mostly larger, often resin, kits, but I've bought many minis over the years from people on the forums. http://www.starshipmodeler.com/
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Taking a break from GW stuff to paint up some Infinity pieces. Tonight a Yu Jing Zhanshi. It's my first time trying to "blend" colors to get a gradient effect. It went... okay. It'll get better.  
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Ohthehugemanatee posted:Ravenstar Studio's Cold Navy? Is 3d printing how people do space ships these days? With GZG, the older the ranges the worse the casting. Their NAC ships can be painful, but their Kra'Vak re-release are much higher quality. I got some FSE ships last year and they were pretty good, just needed cleanup around the engines. Cold Navy is variable. The original range that Ravenstar bought is excellent. Ravenstar's own expansions to that range are decidedly cut-and-paste; you can usually tell which ship is which by the repeated details. Never had any issues with casting quality though. If you want more in the way of broadsides-in-space, try the Noble Armada range - it has some lovely designs, especially for big capital ships. Bergstrom's stuff is good but watch out, the guy doesn't include stands. You have to order them separately. Brigade Models are decent but you do need to get the green stuff out to fix fine bubbles in a lot of their models. I also had a wonderful time with the War Rocket models by Hydra Miniatures, which are all 50s atomic rocketships. 3D printing is indeed very popular but places you at the mercy of Sturgeon's Law. It's very much a "find your preferences and follow that one store relentlessly" kinda thing.
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Yeast posted:What's different? As far as I know they had difficulty sourcing ingredients during the pandemic and had to find a replacement which is why they disappeared off the market for months.
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Skails posted:Finished up Champion for the armored skeleton command These are perfect. Exactly what I see in my mind when I think of skellingtons. How did you do the cool mottled metal?
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Cross-posting from the 40K threadTotalHell posted:After roughly two decades away from 40K, I've been pulled back in by the combination of YT channels, a new edition, and seeing everyone's glorious painted minis.
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Crosspost: I worked on UR-025. Took about 3 hours in total between the priming, airbrushing, details, testors dull coating, etc. Doing a direct link because no photos ever tag properly in the awful app for me for some reason: https://imgur.com/a/GaAdZo9 If there are recs for how to make UR-025 look better I'm all ears. I know I should probably do some edge highlighting on the visor to really sell my cheapo osl but I've only painted like 10 models in my life and I'm not confident enough to try it yet at this tiny a scale. Where should I place the lines? Under the whole visor, only under the "eyes" on the sides? Aside from that, does anyone know of any technical videos going over osl with an airbrush? Every one I see is basically just a quick banging out 5 minute job for plasma and they usually look decent, but they're no where near some of the best plasma effects I've seen before and I'd like to get a bit more depth.
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I'm a pretty mediocre painter, but I kitbashed Harrowhark Nonagesimus (warlord for a bone-themed haemonculus coven) out of a boneshaper and some spare Slaanesh bitz and I'm feeling pretty good about her   e: trying again with some less-garbage lighting 
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I too enjoyed the weird space sci-fi lesbian necromancy that is Gideon the Ninth
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Yeah it started out as a haemonculus coven with a bone theme and at some point I just decided to commit to the Ninth House thing, so now Harrow's gonna go beat up some space marines. I've got a HeroForge Gideon coming and I'm debating whether she should be an Archon or the boss lady of an incubus squad.
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Crosspostin' from the oath thread. This mini is older than I am but I love how much character these old sculpts have. Mostly a fun excuse to practice painting skin and attempt to push contrast without going into cartoony territory or relying on stark edge highlights. 
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Harkano posted:Had a very productive New Year's Eve of hobbying with some pals on discord. Crossposting my new chunky resin child.
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Harkano posted:Crossposting my new chunky resin child. Love everything about this!
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Harkano posted:Crossposting my new chunky resin child. That's sick!
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gently caress, those look dope as hell.
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I decided to get back into 40k after a very, very long hiatus amd I had a question regarding primer sprays that I can't find a definitive answer on. If I have a primer spray from Army Painter in the "base" color for my army (if I want to do a black-and-gold motif with black being the main color, for example), would I need to paint over the primer with a basecoat of the same color, or would the primer be fine on its own once sealed? I'm not planning on using the primer spray as my base color, but I got curious about if you needed to paint over primer while I was ordering my paints from my FLGS, but couldn't find an answer in relation to miniatures (if I wanted to paint my house on the other hand...).
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Randalor posted:I decided to get back into 40k after a very, very long hiatus amd I had a question regarding primer sprays that I can't find a definitive answer on. If I have a primer spray from Army Painter in the "base" color for my army (if I want to do a black-and-gold motif with black being the main color, for example), would I need to paint over the primer with a basecoat of the same color, or would the primer be fine on its own once sealed? Most people do paint over it, because the extra layers add depth, not to mention most people are probably doing a shade, highlight or dry brushing etc. However, using colored primer is a legit speed painting technique. If you want to get a horde Army on the table fast, then there's no reason you can't do it.
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Randalor posted:I decided to get back into 40k after a very, very long hiatus amd I had a question regarding primer sprays that I can't find a definitive answer on. If I have a primer spray from Army Painter in the "base" color for my army (if I want to do a black-and-gold motif with black being the main color, for example), would I need to paint over the primer with a basecoat of the same color, or would the primer be fine on its own once sealed? You don't have to but depending on the spray brand/colour, there can be a difference between the spray and pot version of the same colour. Doing a quick thin base coat with the pot colour lets you colour match when you've accidentally gone over the primer. Army painter claim to colour match their primer/pot colours by using the same acrylic pigment in both, which makes AP sprays behave a little differently to other brands, but the one time I tried this with their pure red colour they were so laughably far apart it actually did my head in.
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Dr. Red Ranger posted:These are perfect. Exactly what I see in my mind when I think of skellingtons. How did you do the cool mottled metal? Thanks! The metal is a pretty solid coat of leadbelcher, then stippled/splotched with nuln oil. If I want darker spots I use watered down black. Also do some scratches with black with a brush with the best point and a line of white under it. The brown/rusty tones are from a burnt umber ink wash. It’s Daler Rowney mixed 1:1 with matte medium with a bit of flow improver. This is the Goobertown hobbies contrast substitute recipe. If I had it I’d just use contrast wyldewood. Also Happy New Year! here is most of my painting from 2020. 
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First two prologue survivors for KDM done. I followed a guide and learned a bunch about OLS.      
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NUMBER 1 FULCI FAN posted:God drat Yeah this.
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TotalHell posted:gently caress, those look dope as hell. Thanks! Skails posted:Thanks! The metal is a pretty solid coat of leadbelcher, then stippled/splotched with nuln oil. If I want darker spots I use watered down black. Also do some scratches with black with a brush with the best point and a line of white under it. The brown/rusty tones are from a burnt umber ink wash. It’s Daler Rowney mixed 1:1 with matte medium with a bit of flow improver. This is the Goobertown hobbies contrast substitute recipe. If I had it I’d just use contrast wyldewood. dmnz posted:First two prologue survivors for KDM done. owns and owns
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I didn't paint much in 2020, because I got a bad case of sad brain during our 16 week lockdown. Got a couple of things done tho. My Delaque gang  and a 40K Thunderbolt   In 2021 my goals are to paint a new 40k Iyanden army, and maybe a Sigmar army.
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MRLOLAST posted:Y'all makes me wanna burn my brushes  But that's how I usually feel looking at finished stuff here. 
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 Iterating on colour scheme, based in Ivory and used a little bit of Seraphim Sepia wash to give it a little more warmth and really tried to go for a streaky charred bone feel.  Then I went and painted the receiver a different colour for more contrast and I'm pretty happy with it. Now to figure out vehicles.
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