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in my experience rattle can primer has a bit more “bite” than brush-on or airbrushed primer. particularly useful for metal minis, where paint just loving loves to slough off if you so much as breathe on a sharp edge
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Fingat posted:Xpost: Dude looks dope. For my tastes I usually highlight back up after a wash. So touching it back up with Ushbati Bone and/or a small Screaming Skull highlight would make it pop more.
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Electric Hobo posted:You should probably wash it in warm soapy water, then rinse it in cold water before you prime it. Metal minis often have a lot more release agent on them, and that'll make your paint fall off. Nah, you're thinking of resin. Metal minis don't tend to have release on them. I'd recommend brush-on primer instead of spray-on so you can touch up the primer easily should you rub some off. Once the primer's covered in paint it's actually not much more chip-prone than plastic models. Source: I probably paint more pewter models than most ppl ITT
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Got some more of my Plague Guard painted, this time some heavy weapon teams and sergeants. Trying some more dynamic poses with these guys.  I really like this guy winding up for a big hit with the power fist.   Heavy Weapon teams.
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Ignite Memories posted:Nah, you're thinking of resin. Metal minis don't tend to have release on them. I'd recommend brush-on primer instead of spray-on so you can touch up the primer easily should you rub some off. Once the primer's covered in paint it's actually not much more chip-prone than plastic models. Metal miniature molds definitely have release. And you should wash all your miniatures anyway cause you got you gross goon mitts all over them while removing mold lines.
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Ignite Memories posted:Nah, you're thinking of resin. Metal minis don't tend to have release on them. I'd recommend brush-on primer instead of spray-on so you can touch up the primer easily should you rub some off. Once the primer's covered in paint it's actually not much more chip-prone than plastic models. Is spray-can primer at least suffiicient? I'm trying to minimize costs until I have some successes to show the ol' Domestic Associate.
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CitizenKeen posted:Is spray-can primer at least suffiicient? I'm trying to minimize costs until I have some successes to show the ol' Domestic Associate. Spray can primer is absolutely fine for metal minis.
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CitizenKeen posted:Is spray-can primer at least suffiicient? I'm trying to minimize costs until I have some successes to show the ol' Domestic Associate. My entire spacewolves army is a mix of metal and early plastics and I can assure you that rattle can primer is fine. I have found that paint does chip off of metal a bit more easily, I suspect the spray primer has solvents that very slightly chemically bond with plastic, just be aware that if you plan on handling the miniature alot, like if you are using it in a warhammer army, you may want to give an extra coat of varnish, but give the first coat ample time to cure.
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Chickened out on the eyes and made them boring. Still working on my highlighting and transitions too.
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Edit:^^^that's a good toitleCitizenKeen posted:Is spray-can primer at least suffiicient? I'm trying to minimize costs until I have some successes to show the ol' Domestic Associate. It worked for the 50+ years that metal minis were the norm, so yeah
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punishedkissinger posted:Chickened out on the eyes and made them boring. Still working on my highlighting and transitions too. As far as turtles go, this is an amazing turtle.
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THAS A BIG TORTLE! Also, hooray I completed two more Deathwatch Intercessors.    
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punishedkissinger posted:Chickened out on the eyes and made them boring. Still working on my highlighting and transitions too. One of the best things in Reaper's store. Yours is much better looking than mine!
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  Trying to get into Infinity. I repainted a couple minis prior to this, but this is the first I'd consider "done" of the bunch. Just following the box art.
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punishedkissinger posted:Chickened out on the eyes and made them boring. Still working on my highlighting and transitions too. I love that turtle mount and now I want my own. 
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it's a tortoise  I really like the model, even if it has some unfortunate seems across the face.
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It's wild how much better all the other Stormcast schemes are than the poster one.
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punishedkissinger posted:it's a tortoise All tortoises are turtles but not all turtles are tortoises!  But your tortoise looks beautiful, seams included. I know how rough it is to get seams off of bonesium.
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xpost from the 40k thread. Finished my first whole army.superh posted:I finished my Destroyer Lord:
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Baby's first bases. Going for a desert scheme for my Kabalite Warriors. The crackle medium didn't really pan out, but I think I got a pretty good dusty effect anyway. Still have to add a couple spots of sand and dried grass, but I'm liking the way they're turning out so far!
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Looks good but make sure you got enough room for their feetses. Their stances are really flat but you can get them some dynamic Posing On Rocks if you grab the bottom halves of the various clinger-ons Wyches on the Venom and Raider kits since they aren't actually required (but look cool).
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I'm not stoked on the bases and will probably rebase, but I wondered how fast I could paint up a custodes kill team in a very shiny metallic. Well, I didn't have time for the sergeant but basically an hour a model. Could have been faster but I went for actually placing highlights rather than drybrushing randomly.
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Chip McFuck posted:Baby's first bases. Going for a desert scheme for my Kabalite Warriors. The crackle medium didn't really pan out, but I think I got a pretty good dusty effect anyway. Still have to add a couple spots of sand and dried grass, but I'm liking the way they're turning out so far! These are excellent. Nice work!
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Working on my croissant 🥐  Using the Greenstuff worlds Borealis Paint to get a nice green shine/glow.
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 Finished another Infinity model.
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Verisimilidude posted:
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They're just Vallejo ground texture grey sand. I zenithal the whole model with flesh tint ink, and coated the base with patches of gryph-hound orange and skeleton horde. I glued a tuft on, and then used 3 different colored pigment powders in patches on the base and tuft. For pigment powders I just use pastels and rub them on a piece of sand paper.
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Eej posted:Looks good but make sure you got enough room for their feetses. Their stances are really flat but you can get them some dynamic Posing On Rocks if you grab the bottom halves of the various clinger-ons Wyches on the Venom and Raider kits since they aren't actually required (but look cool). BULBASAUR posted:These are excellent. Nice work! Thanks! Don't worry, I checked the placement of the rocks and skulls before gluing them down so there is plenty of room for the models to stand. Now to move onto the Warriors and come up with a cool color scheme for them... Verisimilidude posted:
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Spanish Manlove posted:I'm not stoked on the bases and will probably rebase, but I wondered how fast I could paint up a custodes kill team in a very shiny metallic. Well, I didn't have time for the sergeant but basically an hour a model. Could have been faster but I went for actually placing highlights rather than drybrushing randomly. For an almost completely metallic model, those look incredible. In one hour I'd barely have one basecoat on, let alone have finished a figure. They look like suits that were polished and looked after, and not "painted", if that makes sense. The bases don't look great though. If that stuff on top was just a mm thick on the plastic base, rather than a chunky slice, it wouldn't have bothered me at all. But bases have a traditional thickness, and these being double that... well, the brain just rebels. That could just be me. I can deal with square bases, round bases, hexagonal, moulded on, curving sloped edges, clear acrylic disc bases, but double height? That's where this old man starts shouting at clouds.
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It's a slow work day today so I had time to finish the last of my basic infantry for Infinity.    I'm painting mostly with transparent paints, with a few opaque paints thrown in for highlights. edit: new, better photo added. Verisimilidude fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Sep 16, 2021 |
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Parkingtigers posted:For an almost completely metallic model, those look incredible. In one hour I'd barely have one basecoat on, let alone have finished a figure. They look like suits that were polished and looked after, and not "painted", if that makes sense. Thanks lol. I got the idea from my siegmeyer of catarina model that was testing out VMC colors. Yeah that's what's bothering me with that. I'm going to rebase them. Now to figure out something with what I have on hand. Hmm. Maybe do the same thing as the base on siegmeyer and go for some flowers. Edit: Ok what about this? 
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Back in April I posted my first couple of Angry Space Men, I finished painting the whole squad last month and I finally got around to taking pictures tonight! (All I can see is the undrilled gun barrel on the right  ) I did the Sergeant last. I can feel myself slowly improving compared to the first two minis I painted, but I still manage to find new and exciting ways to mess things up. The eyes were such a giant pain, I think I'll start obscuring them like some of you guys do. Also, Space Marines look cool but holy poo poo they take forever to paint. I had to take a break (around the time I started to mess with the face) to do some Necron warriors, and in contrast, it is so much easier and faster to paint those Angry Robot Men and make them look cool. And now I've just started basecoating the Primaris Captain from Indomitus that came in the starter set I have, I'm going to regret this aren't I 
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Totally in love with those red sand bases.
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Parkingtigers posted:Totally in love with those red sand bases. Thanks! Here's one more for tonight.  Really happy with how these are coming along. They're relatively easy and fun to paint, though the next 5 models in the kit get a little trickier and bigger.
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Verisimilidude posted:Had some extra time so I painted another one. For a brief moment, I thought this was a unit card for an old RTS. Love it!
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Here we go. All done. Not the best, but hey I got a new kill team to play. Also did a little testing of contrasts over metals, which is a fun effect. Here's the sergeant which needed a tiniest bit of extra effort due to the cape.  
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Verisimilidude posted:It's a slow work day today so I had time to finish the last of my basic infantry for Infinity. These are all really great
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Verisimilidude posted:
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