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Not a great enough deal for the steals & deals thread, but Target currently has these paint stations for $3 in the impulse buy area: Not sure if it'll resist polystyrene cement, but it's a good alternative to getting superglue on your coffee table.
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Progress report: Still need to finish a bunch of greeblies that glue on, the dudes riding in back, and make a base.
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In case anyone remembers, I entered a painting contest at my LGS last month. Well apparently my little mammoth made it to the finals. Hell yeah. They still haven't announced the rankings but I'm so stoked to even be a finalist.
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Finished a squad of Eradicators tonight. Brazen Claw Sergeant  Minotaur hot ham  Blood Angel burner  Salamanders grill master  Dark Sons blazit  Knights of the Raven pale bro  Spanish Manlove posted:In case anyone remembers, I entered a painting contest at my LGS last month. Well apparently my little mammoth made it to the finals. Hell yeah. They still haven't announced the rankings but I'm so stoked to even be a finalist. Hell yeah dude! 
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Spanish Manlove posted:In case anyone remembers, I entered a painting contest at my LGS last month. Well apparently my little mammoth made it to the finals. Hell yeah. They still haven't announced the rankings but I'm so stoked to even be a finalist. Nice! I'm working on the Hollow crossbowmen from the Dark Souls board game, after taking a year off from painting (and last year was my first time back after fifteen-ish years). I'm stuck in that rut where I get excited about painting by reading this thread and watching videos, but then I put brush to mini and get disheartened because things aren't perfect. Getting through that mental block of "it's okay to suck" has always been tough for me, but with three figures under my belt so far and another three in progress, maybe this time I'll make it past the two month mark without giving up for another year. Fifth edition skinks, I've got many more from that boxed set still to do. Plus the Saurus warriors. And Bretonnian archers and knights.   Man, giant photos really show all the areas where I messed up.
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To ask a question that has surely been answered before, but what is the consensus on using Wraithbone/Greyseer primers for contrast paints? I haven't used contrasts yet but have had an order sat on hold for 2 months now because the primers are sold out. Should I just cancel them off the order and use regular primers, or do they make a significant difference to the effect? I'm planning to basecoat grey and zenith with white as I hear that helps contrasts do their thing. And now a pic of Carnevale stuff for attention and interest. 
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Apr 3, 2021 17:52
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I use contrast over Army Painter's white primer without issue.
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Ugleb posted:To ask a question that has surely been answered before, but what is the consensus on using Wraithbone/Greyseer primers for contrast paints? Wraithbone is a nice primer, but at the end of the day its essentially still just a primer. Contrasts work just fine over yer basic white, ivory, light grey, zenithals*, you absolutely dont need the specialist primers. *Okay, there is some variation with how well they go over a zenithal highlight depending on the contrast paint used and what colours you primed with, but grey and white (or brown and white, or tan and white) should be pretty much fine. Its really black and white the less strong contrasts struggle with. Edit: Also, I like your carnivale figures! Dude in the middle in the blue particularly.
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Apr 3, 2021 18:05
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A super fun thing to do with contrasts is to apply them as filters over bright colors, basically using them as a thick wash.
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I've come to really like how they look over a brown->white zenethal highlight. 
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That salamander grillmaster is fire 🔥 pun intended. Your army deserves to be showcased in WD.
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    Star Wars: Legion Rebel troopers + ATRT. Went for an urban camo look on the infantry, tried out a bit of weathering on the walker.
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PoptartsNinja posted:I've come to really like how they look over a brown->white zenethal highlight. Here's a cape I made going vallejo blue-green, then talassar blue, then a little drybrush white. Sorta was going for an cold sea appearance and I'm proud of how it came out.     So if you think of them as a really thick wash you can come up with some really fun ideas that are very easy to do. Base a bright color, drybrush a brighter color, then contrast, then apply highlights. EZ
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Did you get an actual primaris helmet under the hood somehow or just paint the guy's forehead to look like a continuation of the faceplate?
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Legendary Ptarmigan posted:Did you get an actual primaris helmet under the hood somehow or just paint the guy's forehead to look like a continuation of the faceplate? It just comes like that, if you look at the first picture the helmet and hood are all one piece. It's a really cool model with some really fun rules for space wolves, except that my friends call it the M'lady Marine thanks to the hand pose.
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MRLOLAST posted:That salamander grillmaster is fire 🔥 pun intended. Your army deserves to be showcased in WD. Haha thanks! I don't know if they're magazine worthy but I'm pretty happy with how they've turned out so far.
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Spanish Manlove posted:It just comes like that, if you look at the first picture the helmet and hood are all one piece. It's a really cool model with some really fun rules for space wolves, except that my friends call it the M'lady Marine thanks to the hand pose. I think he means that that model just has a lower face mask and exposed eyes/forehead rather than a full helmet like how you painted it. 
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GuardianOfAsgaard posted:I think he means that that model just has a lower face mask rather than a full helmet like how you painted it. Ohhh yeah that. Yeah I painted the forehead to look like an extension of the helmet. Mostly it was being lazy to put in effort on a tiny bit of exposed skin. But I think it came out fine.
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Apr 4, 2021 01:29
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What is that model called? Would look real nice on my pile of shame
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jesus WEP posted:What is that model called? Would look real nice on my pile of shame Primaris Librarian in Phobos Armour: https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Primaris-Librarian-In-Phobos-Armour-2020 The Feodora lord of Marines.
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Here's the latest on my Thunderhawk Gunship. I finally got my flying base done, and the wing mounted heavy bolters. The cockpit is still on back order from my FLGS, hopefully it comes in soon.  In order to better distribute the weight of the model across a base the same size as a standard GW large flying base, I drilled some heavy gauge steel wire into the post and sandwiched it between the top and bottom halves of the base.   I'm nearly done with construction. I just need to build the cockpit, missile pods, forward heavy bolters and the base details.  
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Feel decent about my latest mini enough to post If I wanted to go super effort I think the ground could use more work (a wash that was nowhere near thinned enough had to be painted over and lost a lot of the detail in the concrete), add some more colors to the rust, and do something more interesting with the gun. But for now I'm pretty happy with it. I'm working on the last figure from the Fallout Wasteland Warfare starter set; the Deathclaw. This is my first real monster and I guess I need to learn how to blend things or something? I truly have no idea how to move forward on this thing.  This is where I took a break today, just adding a base coat of a lighter sand color for its underside, but I'm not sure if I should paint the rest of it the same color and then build over that, or what. I'd love some advice on how to start growing with skills related to creatures which are not made up of various pieces of armor and distinct materials.
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Spanish Manlove posted:I was trying to think of color variations and decided "why not make a fox?"  I love it
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Spanish Manlove posted:Finished the wolf pack. Consider painting one as a bloodhound but always remove the fox first when they're shot at. If the dog is shot off the board cover his eyes before you remove him from the board.
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So today I decided that I want to do something else with my freetime besides staring at my monitor, so I dug out my boxes full of orks. Some really old orks. Old enough to be teenagers soon. I mean look at this buggy?  I have a few more of these still in sprues. These are going to need new drivers, the originals are just so weedy.  But enough about funny old models, I wanted to post some of my more recent (lol) models that actually got painted years ago. My pride and joy, a Stormboy Nob with a kitbashed jump-pack. Really happy how the blue camo pattern flows.  A kitbash mekboy with kustom forcefield. A dusty old boy that is going to need some touching up, there's scuff marks all over him from geting tossed around in a box with other models and no sealing varnish.  Another stormboy, I really like how the skin definition was done in this. Too bad I have no earthly idea how I did it, I have vague memories of a paint guide from the old, now dead, WAAAGH! forums. Also happy with the robo-leg, I was (am?) going to have a lot of replacement parts in the army for flavour. Some are mechanical and the others are tyranid gaunt bits. Waste not, want not, since I still have a pile of gaunts and space marines from the Battle for Macragge starter set that I bought half and half with my brother wayback.  What was also suprising was how many of my paints seem to still be usable after some water and vigorous mixing. They were stored in a pretty well sealing tacklebox, so only one of them had turned completely hard and rubbery. But all of my metallics, like shining gold and tin bitz had turned "gritty". The pigments have clumped into this sandy texture that I'm not sure I can do anything about. Tried to add a few lead airgun pellets to help stir them like in my other pots, but the pigments just don't suspend propely in the solution anymore. I think I like that grey and blue camo scheme enough that I'll use it as a base uniform, since this army will be Blood Axe themed. So a base uniform and metal equipment that isn't 110% coated in rust. But I still want to break up the colors a little, what do you think of the idea that I get a few different greys and blues and give each type of ork its own uniform? Anyways, I'm going to need to visit the local hobby and crafts shops to find a proper cutting mat before I start doing more work, and maybe a new lamp I can clamp to the table too. Easier to motivate yourself when you have a nice workspace, no more layers of newspapers as a workstation for me. Zernach fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Apr 5, 2021 |
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Any ideas for how to do an "indoor" base - maybe carpet? Looking at doing some minis for Call of Cthulu.
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chippocrates posted:Any ideas for how to do an "indoor" base - maybe carpet? Looking at doing some minis for Call of Cthulu. Wooden floors seem like the default "this is indoor" base. Tiles could also work. I think there's texture rollers for greenstuff out there for both of those.
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chippocrates posted:Any ideas for how to do an "indoor" base - maybe carpet? Looking at doing some minis for Call of Cthulu. Floorboards are easy (coffee stirrers or craft sticks cut to size, add woodgrain with a metal brush/sharp thing, glue in place and trim round the edges). Tiles are easy but tedious (plasticard cut into squares, then glued onto the base), but carpet? Honestly I'd be tempted to just paint the regular surface of the base, at 28mm scale a carpet wouldnt have much in the way of noticable texture. Maybe glue down a dried out wet wipe/baby wipe, then paint that? I've seen that used for canvas before to make model tents.
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What about using actual carpet? Like a really fine pile carpet that you've trimmed down with a beard trimmer and have an epoxy or veneer rim around it to hide the cross section of the carpet. No matter what you do I'm kinda sure it's always gonna look like shag carpeting because of the scale, which could go well with a retro vibe if that's what the theme of Call of Cthulu. Idk, i don't know much about it. Or you could try to go for cheesy diner linoleum out of actual linoleum with "grout" that you make out of strips of electrical tape.
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x-post from the 3d printing minis threadVerisimilidude posted:I've been on a printing/painting marathon since I've had this long weekend. I'm gearing up for a Lost Mines of Phandelver game and I want a model for every creature in the campaign.
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Dang I love that bright green
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 I have a little progression of my painting over time, and I've finally settled on a scheme for my army: Zenithal highlight, skin basecoated with plagueblearer flesh with a thinned down layer of any contrast green over the top. Volupus pink has a great quinacridone magenta pigment that I really love, so I use it for the army colors, and the bases are gore-grunta fur with a drybrush of heavy body raw sienna and vmc sunny skin tone, and that all gets an oil wash. I feel good enough about the earlier results. I'd like the skin and overall tone of the miniature to match which is a huge ask but I really want to get the older bases to look more like the new ones. I think I cant do that easily enough with a dark brown wash, or maybe #2thincoats of a dark brown to set the base tone, unless y'all have a better technique I should look at. Mistaken For Bacon fucked around with this message at 01:33 on Apr 6, 2021 |
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Hey SpanLove I'm sorry, I've betrayed the Rout, but I'm having a blast converting these guys to dark angels using 3D printed bits. Here's a Kill Team I'm working on, WIP 99% done (minus bases) 
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No. 1 Juicy Boi posted:Hey SpanLove I'm sorry, I've betrayed the Rout, but I'm having a blast converting these guys to dark angels using 3D printed bits. Ha those look sick. Just wait until you see the finished version of my wolf guard made out of intercessors
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Spanish Manlove posted:What about using actual carpet? Like a really fine pile carpet that you've trimmed down with a beard trimmer and have an epoxy or veneer rim around it to hide the cross section of the carpet. No matter what you do I'm kinda sure it's always gonna look like shag carpeting because of the scale, which could go well with a retro vibe if that's what the theme of Call of Cthulu. Idk, i don't know much about it. Even short carpet would be too long, I'd go for a slightly fuzzy fabric, paint some patterns on it like old carpet/a rug, then cover it in PVA.
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SiKboy posted:Wraithbone is a nice primer, but at the end of the day its essentially still just a primer. Contrasts work just fine over yer basic white, ivory, light grey, zenithals*, you absolutely dont need the specialist primers. Cheers, very kind and helpful of you!
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Spanish Manlove posted:What about using actual carpet? Like a really fine pile carpet that you've trimmed down with a beard trimmer and have an epoxy or veneer rim around it to hide the cross section of the carpet. No matter what you do I'm kinda sure it's always gonna look like shag carpeting because of the scale, which could go well with a retro vibe if that's what the theme of Call of Cthulu. Idk, i don't know much about it. Shag carpet bases for my couch marines
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Velvet could possible work on that scale
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