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Far enough along with my second test model last night, really happy with how much better it looks than just going All Turbodork sans trim pieces.   As previously noted, it's really hard to get good quality close up shots; the lighting just washes out the color shift and just makes the top of things look grainy and gray. Second photo is taken a bit further away with my painting lights off and overall looks truer to real life I guess. At table distance it actually looks very cool and makes you want to pick it up for a closer look. So far I'm pretty pleased with how it's coming along. But drat, I'll finish up painting all of the bells and tentacles, then move on to another part and-- drat IT I MISSED A loving BELL/TENTACLE 
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I've been working on a Fortune Hunters force for DeepWars. When I saw the submarine I fell instantly in love, and just had to break out the brass and work out how to get that proper steampunk patina. 19th century diving suits are such lovely material, and the bases! Pity about the frosting on the submarine's canopy, but otherwise I'm really proud of these guys and I learned a lot painting them.
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Grizzled Patriarch posted:How sturdy are bases done up with those crackle medium paints once they've been varnished? I wouldn't expect them to take a lot of direct contact even for tabletop use, but is it gonna be some annoying thing where even transporting minis risks having it all slough off if it gets jostled a little bit, or is it pretty secure? I've heard a good trick for protecting crackle bases is a thin layer of pva glue and water over the top after it's painted.
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Loxbourne posted:I've been working on a Fortune Hunters force for DeepWars. When I saw the submarine I fell instantly in love, and just had to break out the brass and work out how to get that proper steampunk patina. 19th century diving suits are such lovely material, and the bases! These are great! Thanks for posting them, I hadn't heard of this game.
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Sab669 posted:https://www.miniaturemarket.com/searchresults/?q=reaper+base Just FYI, the Reaper bases have straight veridical sides as opposed to the sloping sides that GW bases have. Not a big deal if you're using them for DnD or across your whole army, but they will look out of place if you mix them with GW bases.
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If you want cheap bases just get them off ebay, you can get almost any GW size in the exact GW style for dirt cheap. Here is a seller I can vouch for being quality bases. https://www.ebay.com/sch/tg-base/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=
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Jan 9, 2021 00:12
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Anyone else go through bouts where they don't feel like painting, but they want to get something done, so they paint, and they're not happy with how it turns out, but then they're like "gently caress it, it's done I guess" and plop it on the shelf, and then feel bad about their entire painting hobby as if it's a sham? Just me?
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Jan 9, 2021 04:58
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Not just you. My 3D printer has helped with that immensely, because I can still 'be productive' by printing some new minis to taunt me by not being painted yet.
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NUMBER 1 FULCI FAN posted:Anyone else go through bouts where they don't feel like painting, but they want to get something done, so they paint, and they're not happy with how it turns out, but then they're like "gently caress it, it's done I guess" and plop it on the shelf, and then feel bad about their entire painting hobby as if it's a sham? Hell, this just happened to me with painting up a tau piranha. I just didn't give a gently caress about completing it and put in the least amount of effort I felt was necessary. I get this with guitar sometimes. It's just what happens when you force yourself to do something you don't really want to do, and don't feel that muse inspiration. The best thing I can say is to relax and do something else. Do another thing that's enjoyable while you search for your drive to do this task. I just went a few weeks not even touching a guitar to getting back to playing for about 2 hours a day just messing around without a clear goal other than "make melodic blackened punk riffs in E major" that I don't even remember the next day because I thought it was fun to do something different. Or just do as much as you feel like per sitting and slowly grind out a task. Put on a base coat then call it a day. Do all the initial color blocking then call it a day. Do the highlights then call it a day. Base it then call it a day. Wait hold up, I now have a finished model? Yeah sure it took 4 days, but it's a finished model. Any paint on a model is progress Don't feel like you have to keep up with the rest of the internet in painting speed and progress, go at your own pace. If you don't feel like putting paint on plastic today, then don't. But if you feel like doing it one day then after a short while feel the wind in your sails start to peter out, don't feel bad. It happens. Put the brush down, and find something else that's relaxing. It's cool to have goals for painting but don't feel like you have to have to stick to those plans at all costs. I wanted to get 1000 points painted by the new year but didn't feel like painting in the last two days, so I painted up the last model over the weekend after new years and hit my little goal on the sunday before my vacation ended. It felt pretty good and I decided to take a break from painting for a little bit because holy poo poo I painted up 1000 points of space wolves in about two weeks. My suggestion for inspiration or how to get the energy to get things accomplished: gently caress, I don't know. Everyone's different. What drives me is likely nothing like what drives anyone else, and maybe other people's inspiration is my deterrent. I don't know. But whatever. I do want to say this: that I do feel way more productive when I'm in a good, happy, non-morose mood. Everything feels like it sucks lately. Between friends and coworkers/bosses of mine that just don't give a gently caress about COVID, everything political, and just general loving life, it can sometimes be too much. But little rays of sunshine cause the mist of sadness to burn away, and I try to relish in those little moments when they come around. So go for a walk, listen to an album as loud as you can, watch a movie, make dumb jokes with some friends online about trump acting like a shitbird permabanned SA poster constantly reregging then getting instant banned. Find something that will feel better and hold onto those moments. They'll get you back on track, so when things start to feel right your sense of accomplishment will come back.
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Jan 9, 2021 05:50
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Finished the next two Intercessor battle bros in my slowly building Fortis Killteam:  Group shot of the Watch models I've completed so far: 
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Jan 9, 2021 09:45
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Lord Ludikrous posted:Crossposting from the 40K thread. Among the many Warhammer items I got for Xmas this year was a Chaos Predator for my Thousand Sons which I’ve been working on. Unfortunately while it’s sponson guns are now finished I won’t be able to take decent pictures for another week, so here’s a WIP. So I have the Rhino Chassis Trifecta (Rhino, predator and vindicator) for my Thousand Sons next on the pile of shame and have been trying to figure out what I was going to do as the gold portions. I like what you did here, so I am keeping it as inspiration. Especially the Lights, I probably would have kept them blue before seeing what you did here.
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Jan 9, 2021 16:46
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AndyElusive posted:Finished the next two Intercessor battle bros in my slowly building Fortis Killteam: Your paints in the background make a really nice gradient 
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Jan 9, 2021 16:52
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   This is my first human face since I started painting recently. I just need some decals for the sides of the bikes and the shoulder pads, I apparently threw out my transfers from the indomitus set T_T
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Jan 9, 2021 18:41
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drat dude, please tell me you're a professional artist or something because that face is better than anything I've done and I've been painting for years.
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Jan 9, 2021 19:28
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Some really good poo poo being posted on this page. I’ll never not be jealous of goon mini painters.
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Verisimilidude posted:
What the gently caress
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Verisimilidude posted:
Care to explain that base, which has miraculous verisimilitude?
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Jan 10, 2021 00:27
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What's the recipe on that skin tone? it's entirely too good.
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Everyone's posts in here are so inspiring, and there's a lot of great advice, so thank you all so much. I started painting for the first time in September and it's been a great way to spend time in lockdown. I've mostly been painting Age of Sigmar lizard boys, with some light kitbashing which I'm really enjoying too. Thought I'd share a pic of my fave completed models so far, to encourage other newbies to share too. 
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Dr. Red Ranger posted:Care to explain that base, which has miraculous verisimilitude? it's golden crackle paste painted and drybrushed, then covered with a layer of dark red ochre pigment powder Spanish Manlove posted:What's the recipe on that skin tone? it's entirely too good. it's guilliman flesh over a zenithal highlight, then highlighted with AP tanned flesh, AP Moon Dust Yellow and the 5-o-clock shadow is AP tanned flesh and a little drakenhof nightshade mixed together. The scar is just a thin line of guilliman flesh.
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Verisimilidude posted:
This is giving me awesome 2000 AD vibes
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Werix posted:So I have the Rhino Chassis Trifecta (Rhino, predator and vindicator) for my Thousand Sons next on the pile of shame and have been trying to figure out what I was going to do as the gold portions. I like what you did here, so I am keeping it as inspiration. Especially the Lights, I probably would have kept them blue before seeing what you did here. Thanks, originally there wasn’t going to be so much gold. However there’s no non-contrast equivalent for my main colour, and despite trying a number of methods people tout on the internet about getting contrast to look good on large flat surfaces I wasn’t at all happy with the result. I ended up hiding it with more going and some weathering, and ultimately it looks consistent with my Land Raider. It’s all finished aside from some mud I intend to add to the tracks when my Stirland Mud arrives.    
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First model of 2021 done.
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Cooked Auto posted:First model of 2021 done. Holy poo poo his cape is amazing.
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On a roll today, finished off my second Herald of Tzeentch.
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Lord Ludikrous posted:On a roll today, finished off my second Herald of Tzeentch. 
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I asked this question a while ago, but I'm having trouble finding replies to it. But basically, I'm feeling like I want to paint some generic monster minis for my Gloomhaven game. Things like wolves, skeletons, cultists, etc. I don't have a 3D printer so I can't make any of the custom ones people have made. I think the answer I got before was to look into Reaper minis, is that right?
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:I asked this question a while ago, but I'm having trouble finding replies to it. But basically, I'm feeling like I want to paint some generic monster minis for my Gloomhaven game. Things like wolves, skeletons, cultists, etc. I don't have a 3D printer so I can't make any of the custom ones people have made. I think the answer I got before was to look into Reaper minis, is that right? Someone on BGG did that and made a list of inexpensive miniatures for it. It's quite a project: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1726312/replacing-gloomhaven-standees-and-tokens-inexpensi
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HopperUK posted:Holy poo poo his cape is amazing. It's a coat drat it. But thanks. 
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  wip on the primaris captain
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That white is so nice and I love the green lining, what did you use for the green?
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Nvm. Missread
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Verisimilidude posted:
The look of the colours of this model make my eyes so happy.
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Cooked Auto posted:It's a coat drat it. Well in that case it's awful! Nah it's good. I just forgot the word for a second.
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That is such an understated stylized look, really beautiful.
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tangy yet delightful posted:That white is so nice and I love the green lining, what did you use for the green? that's gryph charger grey! I may switch it out for a pin wash once I feel comfortable with those. I'll try them out on a regular space marine
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HopperUK posted:Nah it's good. I just forgot the word for a second. It's fine. Someone remarked the same thing to me earlier so you weren't alone with it. 
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Verisimilidude posted:that's gryph charger grey! I may switch it out for a pin wash once I feel comfortable with those. I'll try them out on a regular space marine Interesting, I'll have to check that out.
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Sab669 posted:Your paints in the background make a really nice gradient Ha, ya I should probably move those paints out of the way before I take future pictures. Lord Ludikrous posted:On a roll today, finished off my second Herald of Tzeentch. That's a very nice looking Mac Tonight.
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