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AndyElusive posted:Speaking of, I'm planning some Deathwatch Outriders and my army are based on a martian-style earth/desert texture so I wanted to create light tire tread tracks behind the back wheel on each of them. Is there a good method of creating tread tracks? Does anyone have any experience in creating impressions like this on something like Citidel Martian Ironcrust before drying? I mean there's not a whole lotta room on the base for much, so it wouldn't need to be anything too crazy. How comfortable are you with Green Stuff? If you have access to it already or can pick some up relatively quickly, you can make a mold with reusable Oyumaru/"Blue Stuff" mold material. If you've never heard of it or have never used it before: Oyumaru is a thermal plastic that's solid at room temperature (and doesn't stick to anything) but is very soft and pliable when soaked in boiling water for a few minutes. You can lay down a flat 'plate' of Oyumaru and then 'roll' an assembled marine bike tire on the top to make a track impression and once the Oyumaru has cooled back to room temperature you can fill the track with green stuff to make a reusable 'stamp' that you can use to make impressions on your basing material without messing up one of your tires.
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Cross-posting from the BattleTech thread: I painted up some tiny First up, a star of Clan Jade Falcon Vau Galaxy Elementals!   Second, a star of Clan Smoke Jaguar Nu Galaxy Elementals! Even though they use the same general colors (gray and red), I really dig how different they wound up looking.   And, with my two stray points (and because I knew I'd get sick of painting gray and red), Tiburon Khanate!   I wish I had a better camera. Anyone have any tips for taking reasonable shots with a cellphone?
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Jan 26, 2021 02:08
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This guy has been sitting on my desk half painted for almost two years. I finally finished him up. Pretty happy with how he turned out. I went kinda nuts with decals because I really wanted it to look like a proper fighting vehicle with serial numbers and maintenance markings.    His weapons on both arms are magnetized. 
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Jan 26, 2021 02:55
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Those caution stripes look so sick against the purple scheme.
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Jan 26, 2021 03:18
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I think you have exactly the right amount of decals.
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Jan 26, 2021 03:21
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PoptartsNinja posted:How comfortable are you with Green Stuff? That's a really ingenious idea. It just so happens that I do in fact have a fresh pack of blue stuff handy that I was saving to mold green stuff copies of the Deathwatch icons that come in the upgrade kit for these bikes. So I'll give this a try and let you know how things go!
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Jan 26, 2021 03:44
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 Finished this bladeguard ancient(?). Would have gone harder on the cloak but he probably won't end up in my final list lol
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Jan 26, 2021 04:25
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Not a huge thing but I was proud that I fixed this boring 5-minute whatever of a paintjob for Red Skull, and turned him into a much better mini with a neat glow effect from the cosmic cube.   
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Jan 26, 2021 05:00
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Ok I think I figured out how much snow to put on the tires. Also hooray I'm done with the squad/.
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Jan 26, 2021 05:42
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Bucnasti posted:This guy has been sitting on my desk half painted for almost two years. I finally finished him up. Pretty happy with how he turned out. Everything about this is so clean. I’m going to stroke out in jealousy over those caution stripes.
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Jan 26, 2021 06:26
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The light purp to dark purp transitions on that big boi are really fantastic.
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Jan 26, 2021 06:29
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a... are your space marines saints row themed? 
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Jan 26, 2021 08:23
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x-post from AoS:
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Jan 26, 2021 15:58
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Ignite Memories posted:a... are your space marines saints row themed? That was my original plan but at the time when I started the army nobody was making fleur de les bits and decals. Since I had found some cool lion head shoulder pads and rampant lion bits I went with a royal lion theme and eventually landed on the name “Pride Lords”.
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Jan 26, 2021 16:06
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drat, shoulda foreseen the Sisters of Battle line refresh cause you can get Fleurs de Lis everywhere now
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Jan 26, 2021 17:22
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I've seen brush chat over the past few days and people mentioning ordering their Rosemary & Co. brushes from England. I did the same thing last year and when I got them, there was a note saying I can buy them from their US distributer Windriver Arts. Here's the link. You have to email them or call to order, their website hasn't joined the 2000s yet.
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Jan 26, 2021 19:49
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 Have a few more steps for these guys, and noticed a missing detail on the front left biker's helmet. I'll dirty them up and wash them after I apply the transfers, which will hopefully be arriving soon!
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Jan 26, 2021 19:58
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Floppychop posted:I've found something weird with my masters brush cleaner, little hard balls all over inside it. I scraped some out, here's one with a ballpoint pen for scale. I wouldn't worry too much about this. It is just some sort of crystal formation. You've got some weird combination of soluble salts or some other molecules that can form a crystal structure as they precipitate out of the mixture. You can use cheesecloth to periodically strain them out. My assumption here is that this is old and well used brush cleaner in a jar or similar container. Not brand new. I get them in my professional artistic practice, the ones I get form dirty green semi-transparent hexagons.
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Jan 26, 2021 20:17
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Two more KDM Prologue survivors finished.  Hero shot: 
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Jan 26, 2021 22:28
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Brush Talk: I got a full set of Bomb Wick brushes from Monument Hobbies recently, I'm going to use them on my next project (once I decide what that will be) and then I'll let you all know how they did.
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Jan 26, 2021 23:33
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Group shot of my outriders. My LGS asked for the picture to put on their facebook and i feel pretty honored by it.
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Jan 26, 2021 23:40
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The final version of the snow came out really nice!
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Jan 27, 2021 00:28
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It'sa crosspostMajor Spag posted:I bring the ham:
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Jan 27, 2021 05:43
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Major Spag posted:It'sa crosspost These are great, that red is super rich without looking cartoony like a lot BA do. Also, what are you using for a backdrop? I've been playing around with a few cloth options but they catch light in weird ways and have visible texture that I really don't like.
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After a solid 5 months without any motivation to paint, I finally got back into it this week. Here are my first two finished models of the new year.  
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Jan 27, 2021 07:26
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that's a v cool necron color scheme and execution of it
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Jan 27, 2021 07:45
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Grizzled Patriarch posted:These are great, that red is super rich without looking cartoony like a lot BA do. Thanks. The backdrop was one I found online and printed on a large piece of printer paper. I need a new one to do proper photos since this one is slowly starting to accrue tears and folds.
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Jan 27, 2021 08:42
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I finally finished Grumlok & Gazbag. I did my best but had to rush the end of the job because this mini was for a friend and there was a dead line as to when I could see him. So it's missing quite a bit of finishing touches, but from afar it looks very acceptable. I'm not sure why my lightbox shots suck so much, I'll read a couple of articles on how to tweak this because ugh.    I'm quite happy for the base to be honest. Loving that leaves puncher from GSW!
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Jan 27, 2021 12:55
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Furism posted:I finally finished Grumlok & Gazbag. I did my best but had to rush the end of the job because this mini was for a friend and there was a dead line as to when I could see him. So it's missing quite a bit of finishing touches, but from afar it looks very acceptable. I love that base especially the three different patches of flowers.
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Jan 27, 2021 13:12
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Yea that's a beautiful base job. The flowers and different color grasses look sweet.
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Jan 27, 2021 13:17
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So I finished off my last models with basing last night. I recently shared my heldrake so I won't share that one again with a base, but I have: Daemon Prince. His right arm is magnetized so I have all his weapon options I can use  Shaman that I got mainly to fill out points and to have a psychic character that isn't a warlord for doing psychic secondaries. I kind of don't like Tzaangors that much, so he was just a very quick job I did while waiting for paint to dry on the Daemon Prince  Helbrute. Really proud of this guy. I magnetized all his weapon options except for the helbrute hammer. The plasma gun is actually tesseract glow painted over white, and I think it is a real easy way to do plasma and looks sharp. Also for the first time I tried to make his feet look like they've been covered by dust from the terrain by drybrushing the lower limbs with the paint I used for the base. I've never done this before, so hope it turned out well. I wanted to try it on him, because I will be doing the same thing on the tank tread area on my next project...  My next project. I am going to try and batch paint these three. Once I get them done I'll have almost 2k worth of Thousand Sons. It was 2k points, but thanks to the recent point changes the helbrute became much cheaper, depending on the loadout.
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Mikey Purp posted:After a solid 5 months without any motivation to paint, I finally got back into it this week. Here are my first two finished models of the new year. That purple looks great.
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Werix posted:So I finished off my last models with basing last night. I recently shared my heldrake so I won't share that one again with a base, but I have: These are all really nice. IMO you could go even heavier with the base’s color on the feet of your Helbrute if you want, but that’s just my personal preference. Also GJ magnetizing; I’m currently magnetizing a Forgefiend/Maulerfiend kit, and it’s a lot of work, so much respect for what you’ve magnetized.
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TotalHell posted:These are all really nice. IMO you could go even heavier with the base’s color on the feet of your Helbrute if you want, but that’s just my personal preference. Thanks a lot. I might go heavier when I get to the tank treads. I haven't magnetized too much, and not all of it has gone well. I originally planned to magnetize the wings on the daemon prince, and well, due to overzealous use of super glue, one wing got glued in, so that settled that. You can also see in the bottom picture I magnetized the weapon options for the predator, although the magnet in the right sponson isn't totally flat and the gun is kind of angled (you can't see it in that picture). If you, or anyone, is ever thinking of magnetizing a helbrute, I would totally recommend this playlist on youtube. Really shows how to do it step by step. Only thing I did was use super glue instead of epoxy.
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 I need to hit the left-most one's tentacles with some 'Ardcoat, but overall I think I like that one the least. Trying to decide between the two based ones; all white with metallic yellow-green helmets, knees and toes, or metallic green armor with white shoulders and knees. Hummm. The hard part is that their armor is all so different. Left guy has different / less trim around his chest which really changes things, I think. Sab669 fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Jan 28, 2021 |
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Jan 28, 2021 16:12
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I got 2/1/0 brushes from the Da Vinci Maestro series (I remembered ordering Rosemary and Co but whatever, whoops), and... ok, god drat it, these brushes make a world of difference. Good paint flow, no struggling with a curled tip, it's just... better. Finished up a couple Panoceania Fusiliers last night and the blending/highlighting was just a dream with those new brushes compared to my Michaels/Target cheapos. 
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Jan 28, 2021 16:51
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Pretty happy with this dude and how he turned out. Four more Marcher World models to paint. 
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https://twitter.com/LeBigAristotle/status/1354820183056031744?s=20
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How did I do, Dad? [timg]https://imgur.com/aE99eiR[/timg] Just realized that I can see greenstuff where I magnetized the arms. Ugh! Dang how do I maked thumbnail SERPUS fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Jan 28, 2021 |
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SERPUS posted:Dang how do I maked thumbnail Right click --> Copy Image Location Then post the URL in a [timg] tag (with the closing [/timg] too)
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