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 Two more Fallout minis down  Had it in me to do another GreenBuckanneer fucked around with this message at 03:50 on Oct 25, 2022 |
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Oct 25, 2022 02:16
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Floppychop posted:What are some good replacements now? Raphael 8404
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Oct 25, 2022 04:04
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Yeast posted:Raphael 8404
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Oct 25, 2022 04:20
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Spanish Manlove posted:WIP of the next group of gellerpox You consistently paint the prettiest Nurgle monstrosities and I'm here for it. Most other people who paint Nurgle make things so overboard gross that I actually feel repulsed by them.
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Oct 25, 2022 04:28
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Got roped into Kill Team after not touching minis for past eight years. Trying out the AP speedpaints in case they'll act as a gateway drug to going back to acrylics.  Metals are all Vallejo Chrome with 1:3 AP color + speedpaint medium washed over them for color.
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Oct 25, 2022 04:54
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Aw yeah those are some tactical boys. Welcome back! Edit: AndyElusive posted:You consistently paint the prettiest Nurgle monstrosities and I'm here for it. 
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Oct 25, 2022 05:03
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Al-Saqr posted:This is going to be me when my kill team box arrives:- Nice thats the exact amount of painting I do in a session as well
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Oct 25, 2022 05:22
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Spanish Manlove posted:WIP of the next group of gellerpox this is literally the exact painting scheme I had in my head for the character for when my gellerpox arrives can you please pretty please give us a quick run down of the colors and process you did for this mini? I want to copy this design please!
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Oct 25, 2022 08:29
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Floppychop posted:My winsor and newton series 7 brushes are finally starting to show their age after a few years. I understand that their quality has tanked pretty hard recently. What are some good replacements now? I like Da Vinci Maestro 10s. They've got a big belly and hold their point very nicely, and tend to be on the more affordable end of the spectrum. I also have a Roubloff that I picked up at an art store, and that's been my workhorse for most of this year.
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Oct 25, 2022 08:31
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Harvey Mantaco posted:Did a salamander and skink for this month's opr contest. These are incredible
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Oct 25, 2022 08:47
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Al-Saqr posted:this is literally the exact painting scheme I had in my head for the character for when my gellerpox arrives Its a lot of colors. And a lot of haphazard wet blending. You can punch up some of the highlights afterward but it's already so obnoxiously colored that I didn't think it needed any more Prime black. Wet blend a bright blue and bright magenta on the model to make zones of highlight and shadow. Then do a zenithal drybrush of zandri dust, ice yellow, white as made famous in the SlapChop videos. Goal of this stage is to emulate the way craft world studio shades their stuff while having a platform to use contrast paints over. The magenta/purple will mix with the further contrast paints and make interesting warm shadows while the blue/purple will make shadows in the highlights that are cold and still contrasting. Skin is just straight plaguebearer flesh. All the bright areas are a wet blend of various contrast paints: luxion purple, kroxigar scales, aeldari emerald, vulpus pink, terradon turquoise. To make the boils and wounds look inflamed I use scale 75 instant paint Dragons Blood applied lightly or targor rage shade applied lightly. The corpulent skin on the guy tucked in the abdomen is just that blood color then some light layers of AK buff and then a really subtle highlight of Vallejo nocturna pale flesh. Tentacles on the face are doomfire magenta thinned with contrast medium. The hood was originally leviadon blue thinned with contrast medium but I didn't like that so I covered it with black templar and manually highlighted the leather with some blues. The orange fish is just straight magmadroth flame. The bright green is just striking scorpion green. That didn't come out bright enough on the head horn so I highlighted with livery green and ice yellow. Overall it's just sorta winging it and having fun making something out of a coral reef. I've been trying to make super bright models recently and if you actually read back in the thread you can see the rest of these guys. Here's the initial step  Here's a wip once I got the tentacles done  Here's a nurgling covered in magenta and zenithal drybrush prepped  Another dude with the same idea  The two paints I undercoated with 
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Oct 25, 2022 13:19
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AndyElusive posted:You consistently paint the prettiest Nurgle monstrosities and I'm here for it. Grimdark is just so boring and when you get it on a table it looks so lame to have everything be blurry and various shades of brown. I think it was naebalaebaiforgotthespelling who said that these are essentially toys and it's fun to make them look so. Here's a little top down view of my first game with my corsairs. Definitely didn't have trouble seeing them in that map 
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Oct 25, 2022 13:39
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Geisladisk posted:These are incredible Thanks! Now to paint 5 more of the salamanders and 17 more of the skinks :\
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Oct 25, 2022 13:40
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Spanish Manlove posted:Its a lot of colors. And a lot of haphazard wet blending. You can punch up some of the highlights afterward but it's already so obnoxiously colored that I didn't think it needed any more Holy poo poo thank you so so much!!! I’ll follow this guide and post the results!
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Oct 25, 2022 14:57
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Radiation Cow posted:I like Da Vinci Maestro 10s. They've got a big belly and hold their point very nicely, and tend to be on the more affordable end of the spectrum. I also have a Roubloff that I picked up at an art store, and that's been my workhorse for most of this year. Where are you buying Da Vinci's? Everywhere that I look they're more expensive than W&N Series 7s. I was really really happy with the Da Vinci brush I bought years ago and at the time it was half the cost of a S7, but I can't find them at that price anymore.
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Oct 25, 2022 15:01
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Al-Saqr posted:Holy poo poo thank you so so much!!! I’ll follow this guide and post the results! Yeah it's really cool when people get into details about their technique,  Spanish Manlove
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Oct 25, 2022 15:12
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Can anyone recommend a good way to get a word bearers red basecoat out of contrast? I did some experimentation over a metallic zenithal, and trying to mix down fleshtearers red, but I haven’t found a formulation that “feels right.”
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Oct 25, 2022 16:34
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Bored Online posted:Can anyone recommend a good way to get a word bearers red basecoat out of contrast? I did some experimentation over a metallic zenithal, and trying to mix down fleshtearers red, but I haven’t found a formulation that “feels right.” Something like this?  Baal red might be too bright, blood angels may work, flesh tearers seems to be a decent idea. But how bright was your metallic undercoat? If you're doing contrast over metallic you need to have an extremely bright metal like vmc chrome, gw stormhost, or s75 speed metal as your main silver. The contrast is translucent but not that much so you need almost white underneath to get it to work the best.
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Oct 25, 2022 16:43
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Bored Online posted:Can anyone recommend a good way to get a word bearers red basecoat out of contrast? I did some experimentation over a metallic zenithal, and trying to mix down fleshtearers red, but I haven’t found a formulation that “feels right.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrfULFFjcF8
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Oct 25, 2022 16:46
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https://www.instagram.com/reel/CjQm6WHroO0/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY= I want to try this soon, looks like an easy win for my pile of ultramarines
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Oct 25, 2022 16:46
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My wife's been bummed out so I 3D printed and painted one of her favorite characters, Tom Bombadil. The quality of the print left a little to be desired but I made the best of it (also the feather in the hat broke off)
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Oct 25, 2022 16:46
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Yeast posted:Raphael 8404 Slyphic posted:I've been through a ton of cheap brushes looking for anything that costs less than a Raphael 8404 that I like nearly as much and I have exhausted the ends of the internet. There's more expensive brushes I like more, but everything cheaper than them I barely tolerate to outright loathe. Perfect, ordered some for myself.
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Oct 25, 2022 17:18
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Does anyone have any experience with the WizKids DnD miniatures? I recently got a couple of them (painted by the previous owner, traded two of my LOTR bowmen for them) but I want to check before stripping them, since I think it's not regular plastic that they use, and would rather not melt them by accident
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Oct 25, 2022 17:23
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I've tried a lot of brushes and I keep going back to the 8404 size 1 for my main detail work. It's so good. I'll use the other not so good brushes for metallic details as I'm ok with them dying as I'm running out of space in my brush box.
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Oct 25, 2022 17:28
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In looking for a decent metallic blue for my high elves, I came across a site that was talking about Vallejo Metal Color paints, and how using a glossy black undercoat makes them pop so much more than a lighter base. After testing it out on a failed print, I found it really did make a drastic difference, and so now I'm going through the units I've already painted, blacking out the metals, and repainting them to be much, much brighter. My blue metals now look so much better, even if it is just a ton of both Drakenhof Nightshade and P3 Blue Ink dumped into some VMC Silver.
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Oct 25, 2022 17:53
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Yeah I like this person's work, but it seems a lot brighter than the source material? Spanish Manlove posted:Something like this? I have been using chaos black primer -> iron hands steel or something comparable -> stormhost silver. I use a lot of the silver though, but I will post a pic when I can.
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Oct 25, 2022 18:07
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Eh, close enough. 
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Oct 25, 2022 18:10
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Anyone got a guide/any tips for edge highlighting with mildly shaky hands?
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Oct 25, 2022 19:46
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DressCodeBlue posted:Anyone got a guide/any tips for edge highlighting with mildly shaky hands? I have a few steps to help here: 1. Often my shakiness is because I haven't eaten enough recently, so I'll snack or eat a meal before I start an edge highlighting session. 2. Prop up on my elbows, and as I paint I try to touch the bottom of my palms together, so both hands end up shaking together. 3. My partner got me a magnifying headset with lights on it, which helps a ton 
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Oct 25, 2022 19:54
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DressCodeBlue posted:Anyone got a guide/any tips for edge highlighting with mildly shaky hands? Have the model on something, like a pill bottle with bluetack or one of the fancy holders. Then brace the bottom of both hands against each other, and both forearms on the table. Use the edge of your brush whenever possible instead of the point.
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Oct 25, 2022 19:55
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For shaky hands: Don't deathgrip your brushes, have a nice relaxed grip as clenching your hands causes shaking. Anchor your hands and arms as much as possible where the only things that should move when the brush is moving is a finger or two Relax, breath, calm yourself down. Take a break, rub your hands, also relax again. Practice. This also helps with nerves but really just finding what hand grips work for you and how to hold the model is all about feel
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Oct 25, 2022 20:01
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Also avoid caffeine. It gives you the shaky hands as well. I can notice it about 10 minutes after ive finished a coffee.
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Oct 25, 2022 20:03
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A bit of alcohol can help calm the shakes but don't overdo it.
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Oct 25, 2022 20:04
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maybe you already watched this video but if not it’s excellent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqp76vAJu9g
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Oct 25, 2022 20:06
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also this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyhDhQZDlNk
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Oct 25, 2022 20:38
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DressCodeBlue posted:Anyone got a guide/any tips for edge highlighting with mildly shaky hands? Here's what helps me: Lean back in your chair a bit, and rest your forearms against your chest. This helps stabilize your arms so you're not using your shoulder, bicep, elbow, forearm, wrist, and fingers to stabilize your minis but are just using your fingers, wrists, and maybe your forearms.  Then try to work with your hands touching one another. That way, when your hands do move they'll tend to move together rather than moving in wildly opposite directions.  That's what's worked for me. It's important to remember that different people can have shaky hands for different reasons, and coming from different places; so if you try something and it doesn't work try something else until you find something that does. PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Oct 25, 2022 |
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Oct 25, 2022 21:19
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One thing that helps me (from target shooting) is knowing that you're extra steady as you exhale. If you have a large edge to highlight, don't take and hold a deep breath! Wait until you're exhaling naturally and just draw the edge of your brush against the edge of the surface. It also helps to just chill me out, breathing is really cool.
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Oct 25, 2022 23:22
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Spanish Manlove posted:A bit of alcohol can help calm the shakes but don't overdo it. This is true
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moths posted:One thing that helps me (from target shooting) is knowing that you're extra steady as you exhale. Expanding on this a little bit, a stable position, a light grip (but firm enough), and watching your breathing all contribute to being able to do small lines. you said shooting experience and it brought back memories from my own experience at the same
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