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AndyElusive posted:I just want to check, is that 70.864 Natural Steel? I'm starting to really dislike the metallics I have and looking to replace them with paints that are accessible at my local Hobby store. Turns out they have an entire range of VMC. In my experience natural steel sucks really hard. The metal color paints in the big bottles are the real deal
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I have no campaign in which to use him, but Charon is looking good enough. Cheers to Electric Hobo for the "more highlights and glaze over those" suggestion, it worked nicely.  Hmmm, at maximum zoom I can see a few areas where I could add more highlights....
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I made a book nook. There’s technically a mini in it   
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https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/warhammer-commemorative-series-holga-clovenhorn-2021 Holga Clovenhorn is now available made to order thru the 28th. Unless I'm mistaken this was a pretty popular sculpt that people on the internet have been wishing they could get so I'm doing posting in this more generic thread as I don't know she fits into any current games specifically.
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I just finished painting this small diorama for my friend to give to my other friend (his girlfriend) for Christmas. It's almost a shame I can't keep it for myself 🤣  
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Winklebottom posted:I made a book nook. There’s technically a mini in it pfff.... pfff... "pattedyr".... pfff (super nice book cranny!  )
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PoptartsNinja posted:I really like that, it makes me want to put a 'Mechbay on my shelf. Thanks! lilljonas posted:pfff.... pfff... "pattedyr".... pfff You dare disrespect the teat which sustains us all?  thank you
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Geisladisk posted:
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Finally, I can be done with these               It's not perfect, and there's parts I'm not satisfied with, at least they're 99% done and I can move on to other minis instead of constantly staring at these and not being able to work on anything else. (I know some of them are probably wearing illegal equipment combinations but I don't particularly give a poo poo, since this 8th Ed get started box was a gift, and I didn't buy it, and probably wont ever use them in a tournament or w/e) These are the...4-17th minis I've ever painted, not in any particular order per se. The blue was really loving hard for me, and some of the angles for the edge highlights was also very hard. I think I want to work on Fallout: Wasteland Warfare next...I got the core set for my birthday months ago and never got farther than priming them, and it'd be a welcome change of pace. GreenBuckanneer fucked around with this message at 09:47 on Nov 21, 2021 |
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I was never really happy with the original paint job so I repainted my Chaos Predator.  Please forgive the kitchen shooting location as it’s the only place in my flat with decent enough lighting for pictures, and I won’t get a chance to use natural light for a week.
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The blue and bone look is super nice and I feel like I haven't seen it done before.
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Been on what is (for me) an unprecedented productive kick lately:       Edit: these never made it here before:   
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tangy yet delightful posted:https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/warhammer-commemorative-series-holga-clovenhorn-2021 Just an FYI, even though these are listed as 'made to order' and it says up to 120 days, they clearly have some stock left over as the one I ordered just shipped today.
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PoptartsNinja posted:Just an FYI, even though these are listed as 'made to order' and it says up to 120 days, they clearly have some stock left over as the one I ordered just shipped today. Yeah, my order just shipped too.
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do these eyes read as glowing? ive spent so much time staring at them its hard to tell. Any suggestions on cleaning up the chalky highlights?
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punishedkissinger posted:do these eyes read as glowing? ive spent so much time staring at them its hard to tell. Any suggestions on cleaning up the chalky highlights? Not really. Something you could do is making the eyes themselves brighter than the glow around them, which would help give the illusion that the eyes are emitting the light.
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Bring them up to pure white?
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punishedkissinger posted:Bring them up to pure white? Sure! Maybe slightly tinted the color of the light it's supposed to glow.
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punishedkissinger posted:do these eyes read as glowing? Not really, the pink glow around the eyes is too close in value to the rest of the mini. Throwing the picture into grayscale just to show what I mean:  If you brought the pink glow up to the level the eyes are at now and blended white into the mix until you were nearly pure white in the eyes themselves it'd work a lot better. As an alternative, you could also do an all-over wash to darken the non-pink areas. That'd be harder but if you applied one carefully it could help with the 'chalkiness' of your highlights. I dunno if I'd go that rout though, your highlights look fine to me. PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Nov 22, 2021 |
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that definitely helped thanks. Should I glaze on some more of the red/pink around the lighter eye area or just work it into a softer gradient for the glow? edit: cleaned it up a bit and got a proper photo. I think it reads a lot better now. 
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PoptartsNinja posted:Just an FYI, even though these are listed as 'made to order' and it says up to 120 days, they clearly have some stock left over as the one I ordered just shipped today. I think it's time to tell my story! On the 24th of January this year I placed a "Made to Order" order at GW for a bunch of MESBG miniatures, as well as some vampire miniatures (these were in stock at the time). The next few days I was reading online how people buying the same Made to order mins were already receiving them. But as the whole order said "ships within 180 days" I didn't expect them to come that soon. Months passed without a word, my order status was "pending" and on June 18th I received an email saying that one of the items ordered (Vlad von Carstein) was "currently out of stock and sadly will not be restocked after having sold out entirely and discontinued from our range." and will be refunded. I wrote an email to GW asking how come it went out of stock in June when it was ordered and paid for in January, but got no reply apart from an automated "We will contact you within 2 working days." that never happened. Got no money back either... so I decided to wait. According to GWs webpage my full order was still pending. I received the next email from GW on Sept 24th, actually 5 separate emails each stating that a different item from my order was "currently out of stock and sadly will not be restocked after having sold out entirely and discontinued from our range." One of them another vampire, the other 4, half of the Made to Order items. I wrote an email to them asking how come "made to order" stuff can run out of stock, and what will happen to the remaining items in my order. I received no reply (apart from the automated one which said they will get back to me in 7 working days as they are very busy) or refund. The next mail from GW came on October 18 which just said my whole order has been cancelled. So this time I decided to call their customer support, where a helpful chap told me he can't do anything because refunds have to be authorized by his supervisor, but he will escalate this issue and they will get back to me in an email. I waited 2 weeks for the email and as it never came I called them again. This time they actually explained that any order older then 6 months can't be automatically refunded by their system so they will send me an email to ask about my bank details. Once that's provided they will escalate the issue and get my money back to me. (Altho first they offered a coupon instead of my money back, which I rejected.) I asked the guy to stay on the line while he sends the bloody email, just to make sure I actually get something from them. I received the mail, passed them my bank details and a week later I got my money back. 10 months after I made my order. I was so upset by the end of this ordeal that I didn't even care to ask how come I didn't get any of my "made to order" miniatures. And worst of all, the vampires that were in stock in January when I ordered them now cost like $100 each on ebay and I will never be able to get them. I'm going to place a new MtO order this week for Holga and some MSBG miniatures... I'm just a glutton for punishment. Wish me luck.
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"Oh man those old 90's Dwarfs still look great with a good paintjob - hey what is that giant coin? Oh!"
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punishedkissinger posted:
That looks a lot better. It's really hard to make a bright figure with glow effects. To get glows to really pop you want the figure to be super dark to emphasize how much illumination the glow provides, and that can end up looking bizarre if the figures and terrain surrounding it aren't also painted like it's midnight on a cloudy night. I think what you have is a good balance.
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Ohthehugemanatee posted:That looks a lot better. It's really hard to make a bright figure with glow effects. Thanks! I should have planned a little better, but I wanted the figure itself to suggest a luminance in addition to the eyes glowing. He's going to go in a little diorama dueling a wizard and he will be the main source of light for the scene. I really appreciate being able to pause working and consult this thread when I'm not sure how to proceed. You all give such good advice! Sorry if I spam up the place from time to time. edit: WIP of opposing wizard 
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So I just got a big box of reaper miniatures from the kickstarter and I'm going to start painting them. However I haven't done any model painting in about 15 years, so I had a couple of questions: Any recommendations for a good set of starting paints? I'm in the UK so preferably something I can get quickly there. A lot of the tutorial links in the OP don't seem to work anymore, where can I find some good tutorials for painting techniques?
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Lord Banana posted:So I just got a big box of reaper miniatures from the kickstarter and I'm going to start painting them. However I haven't done any model painting in about 15 years, so I had a couple of questions: I recommend gw contrast paints and either Vallejo, scale75 or gw normal paints to start. Contrast is great for getting a color onto a model fast, but normal paints give you a breadth of options that are solid for beginners. I recommend staying away from full sets since they’ll have a ton of colors you won’t end up using. Pick a couple paints (brown, flesh tone, black, white, red, blue, yellow, grey, and an off white) and start with those, and pick up more paints as you need them.
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I've never tried contrast over varnish, just random primer. Now I'm intrigued. I assume you use gloss varnish?
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