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Vaporware posted:I just pour paint on my cutting mat like an animal. I'm rarely painting figures lately tho, mostly terrain or small touchups. yeah no don't do this. stop. You're better than this. also post your poo poo
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You can't change me, I'll post my clown murder mat tomorrow. These are all pretty old but whatever. I had no idea I haven't really been documenting any of my painting. I never get engagement on Twitter so I just stopped taking pics. https://twitter.com/vapourware/status/1278846610492084228 https://twitter.com/vapourware/status/1298080353886797824 https://twitter.com/vapourware/status/1365518645103906816
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I finished 4 out of 7 plague marines and i am having fun 
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BaronVanAwesome posted:Don't feel bad! There's a few things you'll NOT want to put on the wet palette so the paper ones aren't totally useless. Gotcha, thanks for the advice I'd seen some of it but not all. Initial impressions of using it: unreal difference in efficiency out of the pot. Didn't have to refill once when getting through 2 thin coats for a mini. Not sure if it was a placebo or just extra moisture on the brush, but one of my cheapo brushes that struggled to keep a point was holding one much better when getting into some nooks and crannies.
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Agree with some paints not being great with wet palettes. Alternative to buying plastic palette is getting bathroom tiles from a home improvement store. They are ~$1 each for a small 5” square and you can get different colors which helps you see what the paint might look like with those colors underneath. Easily washed with hot water too.
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Is averland sunset normally so goopy or did I get a bad pot? I have to thin it to pretty much a wash consistency and apply several layers to get the same effect as other base paints without clogging.
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I came into a few 1:35 vehicles recently and I think one of them is prime for Ork'n up. Does anyone have any printable ork armor templates I can use as stencils on plasticard? Also any recommendations for plasticard thickness? I currently only have 1mm. The Demilich fucked around with this message at 17:50 on Jun 15, 2022 |
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Bored Online posted:Is averland sunset normally so goopy or did I get a bad pot? I have to thin it to pretty much a wash consistency and apply several layers to get the same effect as other base paints without clogging. Feels like my experience with it.
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Bored Online posted:Is averland sunset normally so goopy or did I get a bad pot? I have to thin it to pretty much a wash consistency and apply several layers to get the same effect as other base paints without clogging. More or less, yeah. I wouldn't say I need to water it to wash levels but I do thin it down where I need at least 4 good layers.
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When I transferred my paints to droppers, I had to add a metal ball and leave it on the vortex mixer for a good, minute or two uninterrupted, and also add a little bit of retarder and flow aid Especially any citadel paints that were using white in it, like yellow or light blue or such
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It is making my experience painting imperial fists unpleasant enough that I will probably try other brands. I used contrast for my basic troops and its fine, but I wanted to go all out on this captain, and it is becoming a real slog
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The Demilich posted:I came into a few 1:35 vehicles recently and I think one of them is prime for Ork'n up. TBF, cutting up some big chunky styrene in rough bits by eyeballing it seems like the thing to do in this context.
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Finished my first "commission" (really just an exchange of time for Bushido models). I'll be sad to see these go, but it took me almost a year to get the set finished. Super Fantasy Brawl 
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It looks amazing! Congrats on a well done long project! I keep extending my Sternguards because I’m having so much fun with them. Two more models makes 10, and that’s the cut off. I hope to post photos soon!
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grassy gnoll posted:TBF, cutting up some big chunky styrene in rough bits by eyeballing it seems like the thing to do in this context. I agree, I wanted it more as an aesthetic reference specific to ork vehicle armor. It's new territory for me and I figure if there's already reference material out there that exists then that saves me having to block in more time to research stuff.
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i don't have an airbrush and I'll never get one, so I tried out drybrushing the value sketch before contrasts. It's phenomenal, I love this
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Bored Online posted:It is making my experience painting imperial fists unpleasant enough that I will probably try other brands. I used contrast for my basic troops and its fine, but I wanted to go all out on this captain, and it is becoming a real slog for yellows I've found that contrast is the way to go, or to drybryush/stipple on the base coat. Very much like this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlDTNPhBfzo edit: this video too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUd5GFXWGsI Spanish Manlove fucked around with this message at 05:07 on Jun 16, 2022 |
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plaguebearer flesh contrast paint is fuggin amazing. this is my wip plagueburst crawler and the paintjob looks phenomenal irl, like way better than you would imagine i could do. 
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Spanish Manlove posted:i don't have an airbrush and I'll never get one, so I tried out drybrushing the value sketch before contrasts. It's phenomenal, I love this apparently this was a common technique for oil paints. Do all your tones in black and white (cheap) and then add a little color on top (expensive) I've been meaning to do exactly this soon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUOZ4g4h0II
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Jonny Nox posted:apparently this was a common technique for oil paints. Do all your tones in black and white (cheap) and then add a little color on top (expensive) of course this video is in spanish lol Edit: another thing that the drybrush method is really useful for is that I can do different parts in different temperatures of white. i went heavy with a cold off white (p3 frostbite) then just a top down application of pure white. But for areas I want warmer or more highlighted I drybrushed with a n ivory (vallejo ivory) to make them stand out Spanish Manlove fucked around with this message at 05:04 on Jun 16, 2022 |
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With hobby paints everything old is new again. Here's Marco Frisoni painting en grisaille and then going over it with contrast. Definitely something I wanna try sometime. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt0oaltZ2IU Eej fucked around with this message at 05:18 on Jun 16, 2022 |
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The Demilich posted:I came into a few 1:35 vehicles recently and I think one of them is prime for Ork'n up. 1mm styrene sheets are perfect for armor plates on ork vehicles. It's primarily what I use for all my ork conversions and even for scratch building. I occasionally throw in some 2mm thick pieces just for variety but it's really not necessary. You don't really need templates, what you want to do is cut it into rough rectangles, clip off some of the corners, roughly bevel some of the edges and then place them where you want them. No two plates should be exactly the same. Rivets are the really tough thing, there are sources for resin rivets and bolt heads, but what I usually do it get 1mm or smaller sticks of round, square and hexagonal styrene and then use a hobby knife to slice off small pieces to make bolts and rivets. Just put a tiny dab of cement where you want the rivet and then drop the little piece of styrene in the middle of it. You can also use the tiny plastic beads that you'll find if you cut open a water filter if you want rounded head rivets, but they're a real pain in the rear end to place and glue down.  If you can get some various sizes of styrene pipes you can use them to make gun barrels and exhaust pipes
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Eej posted:With hobby paints everything old is new again. Here's Marco Frisoni painting en grisaille and then going over it with contrast. Definitely something I wanna try sometime. The more I play with speedpaints, the more it feels like this is going to be the most natural way to use them
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Spanish Manlove posted:i don't have an airbrush and I'll never get one, so I tried out drybrushing the value sketch before contrasts. It's phenomenal, I love this I have had a few attempts at this. My latest batch has turned out 90% the way I want, I have a good value sketch but the spray pattern from my airbrush wasn't always neat. Can't see myself skipping this step anymore. If anything I think I will slowly be adding more and more underpainting to the process as I get more confident.
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For rivets, a lot of weed whacker trim line is hexagonal
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Mortimer Knag posted:For rivets, a lot of weed whacker trim line is hexagonal Does weedwacker trim line work with plastic cement? if so that's a nice hack, probably easier to find somebody with a weedwacker that can spare a few inches of line than to hunt down hexagonal styrene in a lot of places.
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If the spray pattern coming out of my airbush isn't a full "cloud" (i.e. if looked at from side-on only the bottom two-thirds is fully spraying) is this a symptom of a bent needle? I cleaned the hell out of it so I don't think it's material caught in the brush.
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Haven't painted in a while so trying to get back into the swing of things with one of goon sculptor lilljonas's excellent ducks
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That's a good duck with a good eye
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Finished a few more 'Mech lances. Light Lance  Medium Lance  Heavy Lance  Assault Lance  And the group shot 
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Bucnasti posted:Does weedwacker trim line work with plastic cement? if so that's a nice hack, probably easier to find somebody with a weedwacker that can spare a few inches of line than to hunt down hexagonal styrene in a lot of places. I don't think so, but who knows? There's so many different brands and types that one of them has ro, but regular CA/super glue works fine for me.
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Finally finished my first Tyranid models and I felt weirdly happy/good with how they turned out.  Then I varnished them and they all frosted over.  I spent a few hours trying out various methods I found online to try and salvage them, but no dice. I'm quite sad and frustrated, but I guess that's life. I got impatient and used the last of my rattle can instead of waiting for the airbrush varnish I ordered to arrive.
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Just keep trucking and working on other models and when you're done with those you can go back, dip them in some Simple Green to strip the paint and re-do your old models with more experience!
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What methods did you try? There's a few ways to deal with frosting.
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I tried hitting them with gloss varnish, another layer of matte varnish, using a hair dryer, brushing on olive oil (?? I got desperate and saw it suggested a few places). Nothing really changed how they looked.
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Can you post some pictures of the frosted minis?
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If nothing else works and you don't have a dozen layers of paint on there, you can just gloss over the frosty bits and paint over them. As long as you're not obscuring the model details*, you can get some nice effects by layering over that paint. Vince V is a big proponent of more paint instead of stripping! * this comes down to personal preference and I've definitely stripped minis after layering so much paint that they started to look fat. No shame in it.
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Gunder posted:Can you post some pictures of the frosted minis? Failing that, some pictures of frosted mini wheats?
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