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No one mentioned Juan Hidalgo? I think he is number 1 on my list, even tho I dont always get his jokes his tutorials are fantastic. VV is close second, but kinda dropped off his tutorial videos since he fell in love with oils. I for some reason still listen to his Warhammer Weekly, even tho I dont play AoS, and barely know anything about current lore and game mechanics. His voice annoys my wife. Now Brent of Goobertown used to freak me out (mostly because he just reminds me of Chuky). But I run into his "Social Justice and Games Workshop" video and it got me hooked, I went back and watched all his stuff, just because of his silly personality, amazing crown of hair. Also my wife likes his cats. When I run out of the above, I do occasionally check Squidmar and Midwinter, but not a fan. Miniac is okay, but the fuckin growling "PAINT MORE MINIS" poo poo at the end of his videos makes me cringe every time (and I grew up on 90s black metal). Ninjon is too fresh for me, only watched like one video. We will see. Honorable mention: Marco's accent is mesmerizing!
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Goobertown's "Starting out painting" video got me back into the hobby. It was probably the algorithim since there were videos before that that served the same purpose but that's the one that hooked me. Vince is the king for finding specific advice about some particular part of painting because he's got a million videos that covers everything. Dana Howl is fun to watch and her style is pretty fun. She's Canadian too so I gotta support CanCon at all times  .Marco is fun to see how to approach mini painting from a more artistic point of view and encouraged me to experiment and try to mix colours. Miniac and Ninjon are fine but I feel like I don't get a lot out of their videos. Midwinter is a bit hit and miss, but I liked his video where he, a guy who normally speed paints everything, tries to paint a figure to as high a standard as he can and gets it judged by a Golden Demon winner. Billion Dollar Clown Farm doesn't get much attention, and probably isn't for everyone, but I appreciate how dedicated he is to Orks and doing stuff like making ork terrian out of garbage.
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  Painted up one of these D&D minis and it was a blast. Painting huge muscly men is something I definitely enjoy way too much.
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Verisimilidude posted:
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Verisimilidude posted:
If be proud to have that as my barbarian PC.
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Noone has mentioned miscast yet. Does a ton of terrain building/sculpting/molding content.
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Yeast posted:
I'm not sure of his exact origins and current town, but his LGS is in Southern Maine. Accents in Maine are a mix, with the "yessah Mainah" accent more prevalent in the Central and Eastern parts. Brent has a touch of it, but its mostly just the way he has a monotone sound rather than word pronunciation.
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Yeast posted:Goobertown is lovely but man that voice is crazy. the Internation and how every 3rd word is draaaawn out. I’m not American so I don’t know if that’s an accent but it’s super strange. I'm starting to think Youtube is messing around with voice tracks on videos at this point, since everyone sounds like a robot with a poor command of the language. That, or online cultural osmosis has bred a generation of vid makers that subconsciously alter their natural voices to sound like the droning robotic narrations you hear constantly on youtube.
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Communist Walrus posted:
In that case, I take back my lol and give him a tentative bravo if Geralt of Krypton shows up via skype or something in one of his future videos.
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iirc, he and cavil grew up in the same town and possibly frequented the same LFGS so that's how the whole thing came about, also he was going to donate any revenue generated from it to charity so that seemed nice
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I am 99% convinced that Brent front Goobertown is a Mike Judge character
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Fingat posted:but its mostly just the way he has a monotone sound rather than word pronunciation. Bloody Hedgehog posted:a generation of vid makers that subconsciously alter their natural voices to sound like the droning robotic narrations you hear constantly on youtube. It is really weird! I'm glad I'm not the only one that has noticed it. Lovely guy, but yeah - if he wrote a book I'd get someone else to narrate the audio version 
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:That, or online cultural osmosis has bred a generation of vid makers that subconsciously alter their natural voices to sound like the droning robotic narrations you hear constantly on youtube. As someone who runs a podcast, I can tell you there's no way you can produce quality content without mixing it and applying some "FX." You need a noise gate, a peak leveler, an equalizer and a compressor at the minimum. Even if microphones have come a long way, there's still always background noise to remove, and unless you make the voices sound a bit warmer it really doesn't sound good. Radio does it all the time, just in real-time, and the music industry as well obviously. Now maybe there's a tendency to converge to a similar-sounding template. I haven't particularly noticed on YouTube but for podcasting it's definitely true, and some push it too far (I'm looking at you Jocko).
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Been using a cool trick lately that some people here might appreciate. If you're interested in pigment powders but don't want to settle on a specific color, get yourself a set of cheap soft pastels and some low-grit sandpaper. Just rub the pastel colors you want on the sandpaper (you only need a tiny amount for an individual base) and start applying as you would normally apply a pigment powder. You can quickly and easily do this with multiple colors, giving you a varied look to your bases and effects that's a bit more realistic than one pigment. I use this in conjunction with my red oxide Vallejo pigment powder and my bases are looking much more interesting now than before. I'll grind up some yellow, orange, and brown and it blends nicely with the red oxide powder.
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I've heard that ground up sidewalk chalk can be useful for larger terrain
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So took some full army shots of my Thousand Sons. I won't post all of them here, but I'm really proud of this. I started this last February. This is my first 40k army collected and painted. They ain't perfect, but I like how they turned out.  Tried a panoramic shot.   
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Do you (to thread) ever go back and do the bases on units later on?
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I paint so slow I just do them after I finish each model. Adds maybe an extra half hour or so and it's liberating getting to be so messy and creative with them. Even though my bases for my current army aren't exactly unique detailed little works of art at the moment or anything. Oh and I do my bases seperate from the model, I'm one of those guys.
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AndyElusive posted:Oh and I do my bases seperate from the model, I'm one of those guys. I was surprised by the number of "just do the base after you glue the mini on" sort of responses I got when I asked a similar question a few weeks back  I much prefer to paint the mini, then do the base, then glue the mini onto the base.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Do you (to thread) ever go back and do the bases on units later on?
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I'm doing that right now and I'm sort of regretting it because after applying some ground texture it's hard to get the model to look like it's actually standing on the ground, if that makes sense. Maybe I need to add some more ground texture after I glue the model to the base?
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Pin the feet on the model, put it on the base, build up the ground texture on the base and around the feet, remove the model before it all hardens up (if using a texture medium), paint the base and add various details then glue the model back on the base via the pins. E: If you're really building up the ground then do a base layer of texture, drill holes for pins and stand your model on the base and build up more ground texture if it's floating then remove the model and detail the base etc Eej fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Mar 24, 2021 |
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Eej posted:Pin the feet on the model, put it on the base, build up the ground texture on the base and around the feet, remove the model before it all hardens up (if using a texture medium), paint the base and add various details then glue the model back on the base via the pins.
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  First Viking done, my first shot at doing metal miniatures. Got a bunch of militia half finished
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Painted up a Reaper bugbear and some wolves for an upcoming D&D game.  The mold line across the fur of the bugbear is giving me a headache but it was also a dirt cheap mini so I don't feel too bad about it. Whole thing took me about an hour.
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Yeast posted:In my opinion, the best production levels go to 52 miniatures tho. Today I was giving a little lecture and noticed that when deliberately trying to speak slow in order to be clear, that I started to talk like this guy. I thought it was perfect for teaching so I ran with it and kept going like that. Thanks youtube.
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Verisimilidude posted:Painted up a Reaper bugbear and some wolves for an upcoming D&D game. Even with the mold lines, I love those reaper bugbears, they are so much fun to paint. They're also pretty easy to convert, change the shields and weapons.
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Verisimilidude posted:Painted up a Reaper bugbear and some wolves for an upcoming D&D game. Great paintjobs. And I get that a lot of speed comes with practice but man that only taking you an hour is pretty incredible to me too.
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tangy yet delightful posted:Great paintjobs. contrast paints and an airbrush helps immensely. For quick minis you don't want to spend too much time on, a zenithal and some contrast paints goes very very well, especially in a mini with lots of rounded detail like this bugbear.
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Cross-posting from the Oath thread! Completed another batch for my Mordheim warband.      
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with a rebel yell she QQd posted:Cross-posting from the Oath thread!  these are so beautiful. Love it!
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Crossposting from the 40k thread, just because I mostly like how this guy turned out.Funzo posted:Painted up a Salamander. Making an effort to use an airbrush more, and I think this guy turned out pretty well. I still completely suck at using transfers though.
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About to try varnishing some miniatures for the first time, and I'm not sure where to start when it comes to actually picking up a brand. Everywhere I looked people recommend Testors Dullcote, but as far as I can tell the spray version isn't on the market anymore. Is there a good alternative out there? The more beginners friendly, the better. If it matters, I'm hoping for a matte finish, but I do make use of metallic paints.
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The Easy Rider posted:About to try varnishing some miniatures for the first time, and I'm not sure where to start when it comes to actually picking up a brand. Everywhere I looked people recommend Testors Dullcote, but as far as I can tell the spray version isn't on the market anymore. Is there a good alternative out there? The more beginners friendly, the better. If it matters, I'm hoping for a matte finish, but I do make use of metallic paints. Dullcote ain't poo poo these days. If you want a lacquer varnish, go with Mr. Hobby. That said, the acrylic mattes out there now are really excellent, if you don't specifically need a lacquer. Vallejo Mecha Matte is the flattest varnish I've ever used, and it's braindead simple to use. If you don't have an airbrush, it still brushes on extremely flat.
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Xposting this guy from the Specgames thread. Tried out chipping and I'm pretty pleased with it.  
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Will using a varnish (or even better, a layer of gloss followed by a layer of matte) help make spindly bits less fragile? Or like, models where they're glued to the base by only their big toe or something? I have a handful of models that will fall apart if I look at them wrong, and I'm wondering what the best way to reinforce them is.
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What model is that? Very cool pose / shield. I like how yours came out
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