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Your black probably has a bit of blue in it, and that will turn many yellow paints green. If you're doing lots of yellow, you can try an off-white primer like cream or a skin tone.
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Doing some test figures, but I think with Army Painter's Grim Black Speedpaint and some successive drybrushing from a medium gray up to white over a black undercoat, I've got the whole "edge highlighting black Space Marine armor" thing licked. 
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vallejo mecha matte varnish is super forgiving. if you spray it on really thick in places it will start to look cloudy when wet, but then dry completely clear.bird food bathtub posted:If anyone has used airbrush varnish I would be interested in a testimonial. Looking at an air brush for priming mostly, maaaaybe "painting" large flat stuff like vehicles but mostly do my painting by hand. If finishing also works well through an airbrush I would probably do that too. an airbrush setup is, no exaggeration, the best hobby gear purchase i’ve ever made. even when i only used it for zenithal priming and varnishing it was worth its weight in gold for never having to use a spray can
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Jul 14, 2022 19:04
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Rattle cans are pretty much specifically why I am looking in to it. Expensive pains in the rear end that leave my models look like they're covered in popcorn more often than not. Already made a fume hood for my resin printer, gonna use it for double duty.
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Jul 14, 2022 19:08
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Sydney Bottocks posted:Doing some test figures, but I think with Army Painter's Grim Black Speedpaint and some successive drybrushing from a medium gray up to white over a black undercoat, I've got the whole "edge highlighting black Space Marine armor" thing licked. hell yeah that's such a fun method and requires almost no effort.
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Jul 14, 2022 19:11
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He's done!   Crazy how much a bit of texture and colour on the base adds to a model.
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Jul 14, 2022 19:15
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jarofpiss posted:i just do vallejo black with a white ink zenithal of varying intensity. is there any benefit to trying different colors of primer? If you are doing a bunch of let's say eldar with blue armor, you would use a dark blue primer with a white acrylic artist ink zenithal, that way all the nooks and crannies that are hard to brush paint into are already shaded in a coherent color. I don't really like to use black primer as it mutes colors too much for my taste but I do keep a bottle of Vallejo German red brown and German panzer grey as the dark primer color for red dominant and blue dominant color schemes. I'm sure the other primer brands have similar dark colors.
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Jul 14, 2022 19:21
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If you're airbrushing there's no real point in buying multiple colours of primer. Just prime black and then spray a base colour all over instead of having a rainbow of primers sitting around.
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Jul 14, 2022 19:25
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Eej posted:If you're airbrushing there's no real point in buying multiple colours of primer. Just prime black and then spray a base colour all over instead of having a rainbow of primers sitting around. I don't airbrush beyond primer color - zenithal and I'm too lazy to properly thin acrylic paint base coat to proper airbrush consistency so that system works for me. In my case the primer color becomes the dark shade of the base color. The way I see it if a recess is hard to get a brush into, then it's also going to be hard to actually see into with enough detail to discern exact matches with the base coat. Especially from the distance and angle you typically view minis from. Edit: I don't really have a rainbow of primers, just a dark red brown and a dark blue grey. I do also have a bottle of white and black but I haven't used them in a while. kzin602 fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Jul 14, 2022 |
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Jul 14, 2022 19:39
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you’ll pry my German Red Brown primer from my cold dead hands
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Spanish Manlove posted:hell yeah that's such a fun method and requires almost no effort. It really is, I experimented with a couple of tries until I arrived at the following method: 1. Prime and basecoat black 2. Drybrush from a medium gray up through to white; for example, I started with AP Dungeon Grey, then AP Ash Grey, then AP Spaceship Exterior, and then finally AP Matt White, using lighter strokes and smaller drybrushes as I go (you could probably skip the Dungeon Grey and Spaceship Exterior portions of this as they aren't strictly necessary) 3. Slather AP Speedpaint Grim Black all over with a good-sized brush 4. Wait to dry and then marvel at how easy it was The highlights can be kind of subtle; while I think they look fine, some might like theirs to "pop" a bit more. That can be achieved by just selectively picking out some edge highlights afterwards if you want (just make sure to seal the AP Speedpaint first with airbrush/rattlecan matte varnish before applying new paint, so you don't accidentally reactivate it).
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Sydney Bottocks posted:It really is, I experimented with a couple of tries until I arrived at the following method: That's been my method on the corsairs but with just black/off-white/white and it worked pretty well. I'm going to try out just priming off white with a zenithal drybrush of white and see how it goes.
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Jul 14, 2022 20:12
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My Green Stuff World rotational paint shaker arrived yesterday and I gotta say, it's pretty nifty. I'll try and give a somewhat substantial opinion on it once I actually start using it when I paint something later next week.
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Jul 14, 2022 20:38
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I haven't seen that before, very interested in it if it turns out to be good. As much fun as it is to whip the pot around like a can of dip, an electronic solution would be appreciated
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Jul 14, 2022 22:16
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poo poo, if it can turn tessseract glow back in to full liquid in a reasonable time, I might have to get it. I put double ball bearings in there, and they just get stuck together in an un-dissolvable ball of green mud in the bottom third of the bottle.
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AndyElusive posted:My Green Stuff World rotational paint shaker arrived yesterday and I gotta say, it's pretty nifty. Very interested to hear a trip report too. I bought some textured rolling pins and have been fun messing around with them (although having a hard time getting the perfect imprint) and I want to order some more brown stuff so this gives me an excuse.
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I didn't feel mentally up for painting the dread or the test marine, but I figured I could work on some bases instead.  5 paints, 1 wash. Could probably eliminate one of the paints with good enough mixing, but I'm still seriously struggling with my wet palette so I opted for the safer route. Intent was "irradiated Mars-like desert", intended to do it a bit brighter originally but the darker look + unexpectedly green wash actually worked out in my favor. Yes, I know I should have left spots bare for the models, and I'll do that in the future. In the meantime this is the first thing I've been satisfied with that I've painted in ~5 years so I'll take it. Progress on actual models: not so much. But I'll get there eventually. One step at a time.
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Eej posted:If you're airbrushing there's no real point in buying multiple colours of primer. Just prime black and then spray a base colour all over instead of having a rainbow of primers sitting around. I use pink undercoat for giving me instant orange shadows for anything that’s going to be yellow. gently caress working up to yellow from black. Lmao. Having multiple primer colours is one of the benefits of airbrushing.
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No one's saying spray yellow on black. You can prime black, spray pink all over then spray yellow on top of it. Having multiple primer colours is just extra money and space taken up I don't need.
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SkyeAuroline posted:I didn't feel mentally up for painting the dread or the test marine, but I figured I could work on some bases instead. Those bases look fine, I don't know myself how to make them contrast more. oil wash the low parts and drybrushing the tops?
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Eej posted:No one's saying spray yellow on black. You can prime black, spray pink all over then spray yellow on top of it. Having multiple primer colours is just extra money and space taken up I don't need. But then I’d be doing extra steps! I’d rather spend a few bucks then more time, myself
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Those bases look fine, I don't know myself how to make them contrast more. oil wash the low parts and drybrushing the tops? I also think the bases look great, but if you do want them to pop more, an easy way to add some contrast is to shift the colour of the rocks towards a blue-grey to contrast with the orange-red ground. And yeah, a wash of any kind and a drybrush with an off-white could make the details pop a bit too.
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 Seems like GSW has its own contrast line I don't need it but man is it tempting cause I enjoy the GSW paints
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Can't wait for them to copyright strike youtubers talking about army painter's big tins of dip.
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Dreylad posted:I also think the bases look great, but if you do want them to pop more, an easy way to add some contrast is to shift the colour of the rocks towards a blue-grey to contrast with the orange-red ground. And yeah, a wash of any kind and a drybrush with an off-white could make the details pop a bit too. I have something I could try for that on future bases. I will note that everything on the bases has been washed & drybrushed (actually used quite a bit more wash than I was hoping for to get this far...). Glad it's not just me and they actually did turn out well.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:
Of course they do. Their modus operandi is to take good ideas from other companies and rip them off then try and force their competitors out of the market.
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Zark the Damned posted:Of course they do. Their modus operandi is to take good ideas from other companies and rip them off then try and force their competitors out of the market. That's just Capitalism, man
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SkyeAuroline posted:I didn't feel mentally up for painting the dread or the test marine, but I figured I could work on some bases instead. people who do their bases ahead of time, how do you attach models without messing up the paint?
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punishedkissinger posted:people who do their bases ahead of time, how do you attach models without messing up the paint? That's going to be a very good question for these, since I really should have done bare spots for attachment! But I do my models on pins for normal painting, and I use CA glue for everything instead of plastic glue, so it's nominally as easy as "just glue it down, no special precautions", and it worked for two full armies in the past. Unfortunately the terrain material for these is going to compromise how strongly it's held to the base; not a big deal for the tacticals going on 5 of the bases... but the big one is the Contemptor base, which will be more troublesome.
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punishedkissinger posted:people who do their bases ahead of time, how do you attach models without messing up the paint? Just regular ca superglue
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punishedkissinger posted:people who do their bases ahead of time, how do you attach models without messing up the paint? Drill a small hole, but a blob of super glue on it, and put the paper clip that is stuck in the mini's foot through the hole.
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Whenever I pin my models I find that there's a good amount of wiggle, even though the bit I'm using it about the right size for the paperclip. Any tips there?
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punishedkissinger posted:Whenever I pin my models I find that there's a good amount of wiggle, even though the bit I'm using it about the right size for the paperclip. Any tips there? I use gel superglue and always put the nozzle right up against the hole when applying... I guess this fills it in and the paperclip smooshes out just enough for itself and leaves it pretty snug.
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SkyeAuroline posted:I have something I could try for that on future bases. I will note that everything on the bases has been washed & drybrushed (actually used quite a bit more wash than I was hoping for to get this far...). Glad it's not just me and they actually did turn out well. Nah they're aces. Look great to me!
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I put the superglue on the end of the paper clip then run it in and out of the hole a few times to push the glue down in.
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Getting back into painting minis after a nearly ten year hiatus, and even then I wasn't very good. After magnetizing both Necromunda Escher boxes, I painted my first one! Feels good to finally have a start of a proper Necromunda gang. https://twitter.com/Ravendas16/status/1547940830341505024 It's a lot easier to paint armless people. Though, I have something like 60-80 arms to paint... Still need to do the base, and spray matte. The wash I made is very glossy. Edit: Re: pinning with paperclips, I got some little drill bit set from Lowes and found one that fits my paperclips perfectly. Need to get some needle nose pliers to actually jam them in and they're snug. Maybe try a bit set and find a better fit? Ravendas fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Jul 15, 2022 |
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nuln oil is the balls
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What are the top tier contrast paints I should have on hand? Looking to buy a bunch before the new lines come out.
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Does the new line come out today or tomorrow in stores?
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Painted up a beholder Need to work a bit more on large eyes, but still happy. Also I've decided it's canon that all beholders have one brown eye: 
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