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Bottom Liner posted:which channel is this? https://youtube.com/c/VinceVenturella
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Bottom Liner posted:which channel is this? Hobby Cheating / Vince Venturella
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Serperoth posted:Terrible picture to come later, but at the shop today I made a bit of a start on those Prussians. Felt good about getting a feel for thinning and coverage, even if I couldn't keep fully within the lines. Ended up getting the drider, which I'm going to wash on the sprue before I drop in again. Probably tomorrow  I can host it elsewhere if needed, but this is after two hands of Dark Prussian Blue. The hats were already done (or at least the top surface), and it's too late to do anything about the sprue marks, so I'm focusing on what I'm doing on the plastic I have.
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I forgot to add: the whole current "paint your minis using the SLAP CHOP method  " phenomenon amuses me, because Sonic Sledgehammer literally did a video about pretty much using that exact sort of technique to paint some Genestealer Cultists a long while back. He just didn't come up with a catchy name for clickbait titles when he did it.
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Sydney Bottocks posted:I forgot to add: the whole current "paint your minis using the SLAP CHOP method I looked up slap chop thinking it was something new and it seems to just be drybrush highlights and then go over with contrast or glaze which is how I taught my kids to paint years ago.
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kzin602 posted:I looked up slap chop thinking it was something new and it seems to just be drybrush highlights and then go over with contrast or glaze which is how I taught my kids to paint years ago. Yeah, it's literally the way Dana's "painting 101" teaches.
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Drybrush then contrast is literally how I just did this guy today, only it was a brown/white gradient not black/white. I'm going to mess with the underpainting colors and see what I can come up with. Oh and for how much I listen to death metal, I never painted anything gory. Well, until now:  I made the blood splatters with still water effect, a dark red, and burnt umber ink mixed to taste, then flicked it on with a brush May have gone a little overboard on it but I wanted this guy to look like he came from an album cover Spanish Manlove fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Sep 28, 2022 |
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I have an extremely low tolerance for YouTubers, anyone who does that shrieking "Hey guys, what's up, like subscribe and share!!!" can get in the bin. Watchable ones are Midwinter Minis, MS Paints (quite charismatic and amusing), The Crown Of Command, and anything that's some middle aged bloke with a bad camera going through old lead. I could watch middle aged blokes with poor camera skills going through old lead for hours.
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So I have a question that's not quite miniatures painting, but very adjacent. I want a mini for our spelljammer campaign so that I can prime & paint it up and feel very fancy for having my character on the tabletop, but I'm having a hard time finding something suitable. My character is a Giff sailor (artificer) who uses a pistol, has a parrot on his shoulder, and runs around shirtless with tattoos. Basically trying to channel Maui from Moana vibes, except with pudge (con) instead of strength, and a hippo instead of Dwayne Johnson. My friend has a filament & a resin printer, so I can have a custom mini printed if I can find one I like, and if I find the right base mini I can swap out guns/swords to get that detail right. There are a fair number of Giff minis out there, but none that feel quite right - they're almost all clothed victorian english/steampunk minis & designs. Anyone have advice on where to find what I'm looking for? e: also happy to be referred to a different thread if there's somewhere else I should post.
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Arcturas posted:So I have a question that's not quite miniatures painting, but very adjacent. I want a mini for our spelljammer campaign so that I can prime & paint it up and feel very fancy for having my character on the tabletop, but I'm having a hard time finding something suitable. My character is a Giff sailor (artificer) who uses a pistol, has a parrot on his shoulder, and runs around shirtless with tattoos. Basically trying to channel Maui from Moana vibes, except with pudge (con) instead of strength, and a hippo instead of Dwayne Johnson.
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Arcturas posted:So I have a question that's not quite miniatures painting, but very adjacent. I want a mini for our spelljammer campaign so that I can prime & paint it up and feel very fancy for having my character on the tabletop, but I'm having a hard time finding something suitable. My character is a Giff sailor (artificer) who uses a pistol, has a parrot on his shoulder, and runs around shirtless with tattoos. Basically trying to channel Maui from Moana vibes, except with pudge (con) instead of strength, and a hippo instead of Dwayne Johnson. Heroforge. Epic miniatures has a shirtless hippo warrior in myminifactory if your down to kitbash
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I was also going to suggest Hero Forge but they don’t seem to have a hippo man
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Toebone posted:I was also going to suggest Hero Forge but they don’t seem to have a hippo man Ya, I'm pretty disappointed and surprised to read and find out that they do not.
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I just knocked over a closed pot of Yriel yellow and it opened up and spilled paint all over my floor. I think I'm just going to buy paint brands that come in dropper bottles from now on.
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Lucinice posted:I just knocked over a closed pot of Yriel yellow and it opened up and spilled paint all over my floor. I think I'm just going to buy paint brands that come in dropper bottles from now on. Then you'll get to have the fun of: A) Squeezing too hard and blasting out a clog and a whole buncha paint. or B) The pressure building in the bottle enough to burst the top of the lid so when you shake it, it splatters all over. Granted these are probably very rare failure modes.
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Cthulu Carl posted:Then you'll get to have the fun of: There is no escape from the pain
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can't spell painting without pain
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Cthulu Carl posted:Then you'll get to have the fun of: If you're squeezing and nothing comes out, you should probably dial it back 
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GreenBuckanneer posted:If you're squeezing and nothing comes out, you should probably dial it back Yeah, I know that NOW  Also it was a wash so when it blew, it hit the shallow dish of my plastic palette and shot up dowsing the wall in what looked like diarrhea.
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w00tmonger posted:Heroforge. Epic miniatures has a shirtless hippo warrior in myminifactory if your down to kitbash Thanks Electric Hobo, w00tmonger, and Toebone, I hadn't heard of heroforge before. We're fine with kitbashing, and I thought I'd browsed myminifactory but I'll take another look.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:If you're squeezing and nothing comes out, you should probably dial it back It’s been a while since we had a new thread title
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Instead of doing a black/white gradient on your undercoat before contrast, base the model in a really bright complimentary color then do midtone up for the drybrushing 
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Abby done. Fun kit. Big upgrade from its last iteration.      https://www.instagram.com/p/CjGzPofrSoR/
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Spanish Manlove posted:Instead of doing a black/white gradient on your undercoat before contrast, base the model in a really bright complimentary color then do midtone up for the drybrushing Neat. I am a big fan of this method, I like Vallejo German red brown air brush primer for yellow/orange/red minis. I haven't found a good wraithbone analogue, the desert tan primer is miserable to use, takes ages to get enough coverage to get the off white to really shine. Ngl though looking on my phone, my first thought was why do you have a container of human teeth. Two Headed Calf posted:Abby done. Fun kit. Big upgrade from its last iteration. What a nice young man.
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I wanted something to weigh the bottles down for stability so I used a bunch of rocks 
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Little unrelated, but moonbreaker is finally in early access and has some cool mini painting mode built into it. Tried it out and made this guy. Tabletop skirmish wargame, a bit like hearthstone. Really solid so far and scratches the wargame itch hard. 
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Huh I wonder who originated the pill bottle filled with rocks holder method. My boyfriend does it too, and I am currently borrowing one for my figure although I keep taking the cap off to tip up the figure to get under the wings.
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Nothing about this thumbnail feels dishonest at all. Nope not one single thing. 🤦
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was it that he photoshopped his biceps to be bigger in order to match henry cavills?
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 Not done, but proof I'm at least trying to get back to this. Most presentable of what's on my work table currently. The tacticals just have basecoat + wash, and honestly I might just leave them at that as "good enough". Side question: is there a better Warplock Bronze out there that's not Vallejo Metal Color? (I brush metallics, and VMC has horrid flow for anything other than the first layer of the first color you put on a mini.) Been recommended Scale 75 Decayed Metal, just feeling out options.
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Indolent Bastard posted:Nothing about this thumbnail feels dishonest at all. Nope not one single thing. 🤦 He has like 3 other videos with that same title but minus Henry cavil lmao
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I get that it's a marketing stunt for the series but for the amount he's paid on shipping and import taxes by now Squidmar could have just loving bought the titan and been done with it.
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Zark the Damned posted:I get that it's a marketing stunt for the series but for the amount he's paid on shipping and import taxes by now Squidmar could have just loving bought the titan and been done with it. As a youtuber he can probably write all that off as a business expense or something.
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good jovi posted:What model is that? Tyrant Siege Terminator built with a standard Cataphractii + a Havoc launcher from the vehicle upgrade sprue. 30k unique Iron Warriors unit.
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Lucinice posted:As a youtuber he can probably write all that off as a business expense or something. 100% that's all expenses (well assuming his euro taxes are even vaguely the same as in america).
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tangy yet delightful posted:100% that's all expenses (well assuming his euro taxes are even vaguely the same as in america). Writing off a business expense doesn't make it free, though, it just effectively discounts it by your marginal tax rate.
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Muir posted:Writing off a business expense doesn't make it free, though, it just effectively discounts it by your marginal tax rate. Correct but presumably he makes money from each video he releases doing whatever thing he did so instead of one video where he buys the expensive model and gets one video worth of ad revenue it sounds like he got to make multiple videos of this trading up process and gets ad revenue from each one? If that's not the case and it's all in one video then yeah probably smarter to just buy the big model at the start.
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tangy yet delightful posted:Correct but presumably he makes money from each video he releases doing whatever thing he did so instead of one video where he buys the expensive model and gets one video worth of ad revenue it sounds like he got to make multiple videos of this trading up process and gets ad revenue from each one? It shouldn't matter tax-wise whether the expenses were for one video or multiple videos. Income and expenses are just year by year.
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Muir posted:It shouldn't matter tax-wise whether the expenses were for one video or multiple videos. Income and expenses are just year by year. What I mean is, if purposely doing some long drawn out model trading allows you to make more videos than you otherwise would have so therefore you get more ad revenue, then the possible higher expense of trading/shipping tons of minis versus just buying the big model, could be worth it. For an example: 1. Make a single video, 2022 ad revenue of $1000 [model cost $300] 2. Make 5 videos, 2022 ad revenue of $5000 [trading models around cost $600] (edit decided to add another option) 3. Make a single video but it's about trading models and that makes it more interesting so you get double your normal ad revenue $2000 [trading cost still $600] and the net result is a wash between 1 and 3. net profit from #2 is greater than #1 this doesn't get into time to create the content and do the trading and how many videos can you publish before you are saturating your target audience and on and on and on, maybe in the end it was a bad business decision by Squidmar, depends on a lot of factors.
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