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Nov 7, 2022 18:29
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I expected this compressor and tank to be way bigger for some reason. Either way, I can get back to painting soon. 
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Radiation Cow posted:Speaking of pains in the rear end, I strongly recommend never, ever doing three-tone hair. Looking great! What model is this? I think my daughter would lose her mind if I got one and painted it up.
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Spanish Manlove posted:Wet blending with contrast would make that so much easier 100%. I started from a black undercoat because the initial plan was to keep everything desaturated and night-scene-like. That, obviously, went out the window when I decided RAINBOW. But live and learn, I guess. tangy yet delightful posted:Looking great! What model is this? I think my daughter would lose her mind if I got one and painted it up. Thanks! It's a 3D print from 3DArtDigital. There's also an evil version if you're feeling particularly edgy. Radiation Cow fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Nov 7, 2022 |
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Radiation Cow posted:Speaking of pains in the rear end, I strongly recommend never, ever doing three-tone hair. But that looks so good
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Radiation Cow posted:100%. I started from a black undercoat because the initial plan was to keep everything desaturated and night-scene-like. That, obviously, went out the window when I decided RAINBOW. But live and learn, I guess. It looks sick though. Very trapper keeper
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Did my fella's shield (and sword, but that was less scary) today. Pic isn't amazing, taking better ones is my next goal after finishing him, but I'm really happy with how the shield is. The tree was really scary, but a dry brush and some patience made it look alright. Couple of mistakes were made, but I managed to cover them up without issue, and I think with a second touch, a wash, and some lighting it's going to look really nice.
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This is a great page.
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Woo, I finished my first ever 'Mech. Far from perfect but it'll look fine on the table.
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ordered some green stuff putty and tools from Army Painter so I can make the hair for my ork kommandos to have fighting game character hair, any advice or tips? anything I should know about working with green stuff? I will probably do very 'videogame Chunky triangular' clumps of hair to keep things simple for myself. this way this opens up making hair-accurate characters like Blanka, Marco, Tarma, opens up Eri and Fio, and guile from street fighter too! I will probably also do Akuma and heihachi mishima now that I can go nutty with hair.
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Al-Saqr posted:ordered some green stuff putty and tools from Army Painter so I can make the hair for my ork kommandos to have fighting game character hair, any advice or tips? anything I should know about working with green stuff? Greenstuff is pretty tricky to work with and will take some getting used to. Some tips to make your life easier: 1) let the greenstuff cure for about an hour after mixing before working with it. 2) Have plenty of petroleum jelly on hand. I love the idea of a Guille ork, so hoping you come right!
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Al-Saqr posted:ordered some green stuff putty and tools from Army Painter so I can make the hair for my ork kommandos to have fighting game character hair, any advice or tips? anything I should know about working with green stuff? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB3ojCR5yGs
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Radiation Cow posted:Greenstuff is pretty tricky to work with and will take some getting used to. Some tips to make your life easier: 1) let the greenstuff cure for about an hour after mixing before working with it. 2) Have plenty of petroleum jelly on hand. thanks for the advice! thanks dude, this rocks!
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My Raphael 8404 brushes showed up (I ordered a #2 and #1) #2 is fantastic, but the #1 made me nervous right away as it didn't have a formed tip before I even took the tube off. I figured once I got it wet or worked it with some brush soap it would straighten out. No dice. It struggles really hard to make a point and has stray hairs going everywhere. The #2 was enough for this, but sometimes I want/need shorter bristles. WIP cel-shaded MCP mini 
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I bought 1-4 brushes from rosemary but 2/4 are fraying almost immediately and soap isn't helping, one person online seems to imply that it has to do with how they were glued in the ferrule. After some back and forth, they're sending me some replacements. Bit disappointing but good end? I can only hope the replacements are OK...
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I ordered mine from Jackson Art since I've learned my lesson about getting brushes off Amazon.
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I refuse to buy quality brushes online. You have to be able to physically look at the tip imo Which probably explains my paint jobs lol
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I live in South Dakota. We don't exactly have a wide array of art stores.
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Floppychop posted:I live in South Dakota. We don't exactly have a wide array of art stores. God, I know. loving prairie living. Me at wal-mart, to the person throwing out the rotten cabbages: "where yall keep the GOOD sable brushes?"
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Floppychop posted:I live in South Dakota. We don't exactly have a wide array of art stores. jesus christ god help you, I cant imagine what it must feel like to live in the less famous Dakota.
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I think this might be my first freehand attempt. Working on some Storm Giants for Kill Team. edit: of course, now all I see are mistakes and things to neaten up. Looks fine from tabletop distance at least. Funzo fucked around with this message at 17:35 on Nov 8, 2022 |
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Funzo posted:I think this might be my first freehand attempt. Working on some Storm Giants for Kill Team. Wow those Lightnings look awesome! How did you get them so straight? I'm thinking of using a tiny paper stencil for the shoulders of my krieg when I get around to them to make the edges sharp, any advice?
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Al-Saqr posted:jesus christ god help you, I cant imagine what it must feel like to live in the less famous Dakota. ND is famous? For what, soul-crushing fracking fields? SD has the bonus of making national news for a batshit crazy governor and rampant corruption, sexism, and racism. I hate this loving place. To stay on thread topic. Here's my most recent Battletech mech  
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I bought my rosemary ones from their own website. Art shops near me are a 45+ minute drive
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The closest art store that isn't a hobby lobby is 4+ hours away from me.
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Floppychop posted:My Raphael 8404 brushes showed up (I ordered a #2 and #1) FWIW this is my experience with ordering brushes too. I just ordered a replacement #1 for a new basecoating brush and it came with several stray hairs already. Kind of able to force it into shape but it sure makes edge highlighting a pain (and I don't want to even try freehand as it is). Not the first time I've gotten a "bad" brand new brush, and I don't have anywhere to go in person to get decent ones. Luck of the draw, I guess, but I sure don't have the money to keep drawing  Warhammer stuff continues to not align with my will to paint (along with some severe assembly problems and reluctance to retry greenstuff), but I have a bit more Battletech en route that will hopefully be easier to motivate for. If nothing else, it's adding to an existing lance instead of trying to reach a usable force, so at least I won't feel quite as obligated.
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Floppychop posted:I live in South Dakota. We don't exactly have a wide array of art stores. I feel that. We don't have a wide array of anything and the world would be a better place if hobby lobby burned down. Anyway, hail to a fellow SD BattleTech player. That's a good looking Coyotl!
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Floppychop posted:ND is famous? For what, soul-crushing fracking fields? Fargo the movie, national parks, Dinosaurs and a couple friends of mine. I don’t know what any town in South Dakota is.
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Al-Saqr posted:Wow those Lightnings look awesome! How did you get them so straight? I'm thinking of using a tiny paper stencil for the shoulders of my krieg when I get around to them to make the edges sharp, any advice? Lot of back and forth with the two colors. I started by roughing in the red, then going back with the base color to neaten up lines, then back to red to adjust the shape, and so on.
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I'm from Wyoming, but I can name a handful of places in South Dakota: Rapid City, Vermilion, Pierre, Deadwood, Sioux Falls. Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse, the Black Hills, and the Lakota tribe. For anyone in the United States, order your fine art supplies from places like Blick, Art Supply Warehouse, or Jerry's Artarama. University and community college bookstores typically have art supplies too. Blick has several stores in the US, mostly east of the Mississippi. Jerry's Artarama also has several retail locations. Art Supply Warehouse is a single store in the Los Angeles metro. If any of you are in Denver, Boulder, or Colorado Springs, you can also check out Meininger just south of downtown or Guiry's Guiry's has several locations in Denver and I was able to get most of what I needed from the store in Littleton. You'll want to go to a store if you go to Guiry's, their online selection isn't very good. If you're in Pittsburgh, Blick has a store in Shadyside, there's also Artist & Craftsman and the Carnegie Mellon University Art Store.
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PoptartsNinja posted:I feel that. We don't have a wide array of anything and the world would be a better place if hobby lobby burned down. Thanks! We're finally getting Battletech off the ground in Sioux Falls. The community is small but it's slowly growing. The Coyotl is for a madlad of a kid (15ish) that chose Battletech as his first miniatures game. He has an obsession with trying to kill my Roadrunner, so I felt I had to get him a Coyote analogue to chase after it.
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Allow me to introduce my revolutionary new wet blending technique, in which you complete your contrast base coat, hold your mini up to the desk lamp to admire your careful work, then immediately fumble it and drop it into your rinse cup.
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Toebone posted:Allow me to introduce my revolutionary new wet blending technique, in which you complete your contrast base coat, hold your mini up to the desk lamp to admire your careful work, then immediately fumble it and drop it into your rinse cup. Pics please!
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Toebone posted:Allow me to introduce my revolutionary new wet blending technique, in which you complete your contrast base coat, hold your mini up to the desk lamp to admire your careful work, then immediately fumble it and drop it into your rinse cup. Oh hey a fellow newbie painter at my local store did that. Twice.
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Finally broke out my DSLR for some pictures, and boy am I much happier with them than with the smartphone photos. Here's my basically done Gnarlspirit Pack from Warhammer Underworlds. Pretty pleased with how they came out except for the eyes on the big guy with the hammer. First did these up with just Contrast to play them on the release weekend, then I've come back and done a lot more to them. Probably my highest effort models in a while, I've mostly been doing Contrast only lately but I think I'm going to play this war band a lot.
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