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Toebone posted:A couple recent guys That's really good. Really love the OPR ratmen. edit: Mine is kinda sloppy, but I like how the wood turned out 
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My Spirit Otter posted:I like it, but i went with a tigerstripe! Love it
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My Spirit Otter posted:I like it, but i went with a tigerstripe! This rules!!
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My Spirit Otter posted:I like it, but i went with a tigerstripe! That face is insane
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What's a good way to do snow on a base? All I can think of so far is white flock and that seems like it would have the wrong texture.
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bird food bathtub posted:What's a good way to do snow on a base? All I can think of so far is white flock and that seems like it would have the wrong texture. Baking soda mixed with PVA and a little white paint, then a sprinkling of snow flock on top. Gravitas Shortfall fucked around with this message at 13:12 on Dec 6, 2022 |
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Baking soda mixed with PVA and a little white paint, then a sprinkling of snow flock on top. Ooh that sounds easier to paint too, I eventually plan to have stuff like blood splashes on the snow and painting that on solid flock seems like it wouldn't be fun.
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bird food bathtub posted:What's a good way to do snow on a base? All I can think of so far is white flock and that seems like it would have the wrong texture. From the Warp has a good overview of various ways to do snow bases. The modeling snow + water effects combo looks the most natural and I plan on using it in the future (have the supplies, just nothing to use them on - my 30k stuff is all desert bases), but there's several other good approaches in there.
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bird food bathtub posted:What's a good way to do snow on a base? All I can think of so far is white flock and that seems like it would have the wrong texture. It depends what kind of snow you want. Thick powder on a mountain? Slushy snow in a bog? Hard grey snow in an urban environment? What theme are you going for? Here's some tutorials that go into some different varieties. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x4VscgNt1Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jBn0t1olCU&t=843s
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What do you guys use for backdrops/lighting? I'm trying to sort out a solution that doesn't involve me moving all my painting stuff out of the way constantly. Might now I'm using 2 Ikea tertials with diffusers, but the arms don't seem to hold their position very well. Very floppy E: something like this seems really practical, I just don't want to be coming up with new solutions every six months. A more general setup so I can take photo/video mid painting would be ide. https://massivevoodoo.blogspot.com/2010/02/tutorial-how-to-build-photo-setup.html?m=1 VVV: like the dedicated setup. think Im going that route. w00tmonger fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Dec 6, 2022 |
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This is my set up.  A pair of cheap lights from amazon, a decent led magnifying light and a leages of votann army box that i used as a protector for my steps enough that its been entirely covered in flat black paint. And a tripod for my camera Edit: sorry, everytime i copied the url or opened the picture of the second one, it linked to the first one for some reason. Had to restart discord to get it to work My Spirit Otter fucked around with this message at 18:11 on Dec 6, 2022 |
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New day new model! with this model, I tried the following:- (1) source lighting, where I tried to drybrush an orange/yellow coming out of the eye in the middle. (2) I glazed the tentacles with a sparkle craft paint called 'Dragonfly'. (3) I couldnt really fix the robot eyes, it's too in there and nothing quite works. (4) I tried to make it so the drone was a gold/Bronze that was severely weathered and eaten, the tentacles eating at it slowly with a greenish effect, I dont yet have the paint that nails the 'green rust' effect so I went with the necron technical I had on hand. any critique or advice is welcome!
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Haven't posted on here in forever, but I'm quite happy with my Emperor's Children kill team so here they are. I'm sort of going for a power rangers effect here, with each model having it's own accent color.  
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Not bad for a 45 minute speedpaint:
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bird food bathtub posted:What's a good way to do snow on a base? All I can think of so far is white flock and that seems like it would have the wrong texture. I haven't yet seen a base that couldn't use some topical application of thinned gloss varnish to represent slush and half-melted snow.
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Spanish Manlove posted:It depends what kind of snow you want. Thick powder on a mountain? Slushy snow in a bog? Hard grey snow in an urban environment? What theme are you going for? That second video link is really good, it's really.... soothing to listen to him talk his way through a project. He gets great results too, this one in particular is a very good looking, very technical piece of work.
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Al-Saqr posted:New day new model! I really love these. I'm not *sure* the light effect works; it looks more like just yellow colour on the lit objects. But it looks *amazing*. That dragonfly paint is fantastic too! So shiny. I would not have noticed anything about the robot eyes if you hadn't mentioned. I am a beginner myself and don't have much advice but I love what you've done here. Fantastic.
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Al-Saqr posted:New day new model! this is one of the most enjoyable conversions i ever saw i made a frostgrave knight for hanukkah     
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That is gorgeous! I love everything about it, the execution and color scheme and especially the freehand hamsa and chai.
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Hey guys quick question is Verdigris paint the same color as ‘patina’? Because I’m debating wether to get verdegris paint from Vallejo or just buy this patina color from my local art shop:- FolkArt Acrylic Paint in Assorted Colors (2 oz), 444, Patina I gotta say, I am so far very happy with the FolkArt line from using them, and since they’re widely available here I’ll probably stick with them for my workhorse colors unless there’s an absolutely necessary shade that only miniature paint specialists sell.
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Is it just me, or are Pro Acryl’s Purple and Plum nearly identical? Meanwhile they don’t have a rich mid tone purple in their line like Citadel Xereus Purple/Lich Purple or Vallejo Hexed Lichen. I’m loving Pro Acryl paints and just a bit disappointed in this small omission/overlap. Guess I’m hunting for some Hexed Lichen in stock somewhere.
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Al-Saqr posted:Hey guys quick question is Verdigris paint the same color as ‘patina’? For this specific application, that Folk Art paint is probably fine. The tone is about the same and you can just water the crap out of that stuff and since the pigmentation in is is so bad, that will actually make it work BETTER. I swear by GW/Citadel Nihilakh Oxide (or however it's spelled) but anything to get that effect is a total game changer on metallics. As an aside, I LOVE seeing your hobby journey and enthusiasm; always post!
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a teal oil wash is great for verdigris as well! I think that one miniature specific oil paint brand makes a specific one.
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Paragon8 posted:a teal oil wash is great for verdigris as well! I think that one miniature specific oil paint brand makes a specific one. I'm sure MiG or AK do but I haven't used either of their oils. I'm an addict for their enamel washes though.
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502 Abteilung's "Turquoise Lights" is a really really good verdigris oil wash.
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Nebalebadingdong posted:i made a frostgrave knight for hanukkah 
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Nebalebadingdong posted:this is one of the most enjoyable conversions i ever saw jay sus
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GreenBuckanneer posted:jay sus Well, actually -
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I've always used Vallejo paints along with some Citadel washes & technicals. I checked out a new local game shop recently and they've got full lines from both, plus AK Interactive, P3, Army Painter, Scale Color, Turbo Dork, and Woodland Scenics. Anything special among those brands I should grab next time I'm there?
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Toebone posted:I've always used Vallejo paints along with some Citadel washes & technicals. I checked out a new local game shop recently and they've got full lines from both, plus AK Interactive, P3, Army Painter, Scale Color, Turbo Dork, and Woodland Scenics. Anything special among those brands I should grab next time I'm there? Some of the scale color metallics are pretty fun and have some interesting tones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXEWyW_3bo0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RVDFAxhQiM&t=1628s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GANoapDAu98 I enjoy these types of videos to give me some inspiration for different paints and brands! I've personally enjoyed using Pistachio from AK interactive to get a skeletor vibe for some skeletons. Gobi Brown and Kalahari Orange are really lovely scale paints I use a lot for more interesting leathers and fabrics. AK's pure white is supposedly quite good
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Toebone posted:I've always used Vallejo paints along with some Citadel washes & technicals. I checked out a new local game shop recently and they've got full lines from both, plus AK Interactive, P3, Army Painter, Scale Color, Turbo Dork, and Woodland Scenics. Anything special among those brands I should grab next time I'm there? I'm a huge fan of P3. The flip top pots are antiquated but if you can deal with it they're surprisingly good. Cover well, don't require a ton of thinning but can thin into a glaze easily. Some choice cuts from them and why: Blighted Gold. Versatile and amazing. Base coat every gold or brass object with this. My favorite gold color to use, covers very well too. It's the exact same color as S75's necro gold, which you apparently have at the store. So yeah, uhh, get either of them. They're extremely useful. Frostbite. Haven't found a paint I like as much as this one for the very specific purpose: making things look cold and frosty. The powdery drybrush effect works well get that small nucleation effect snow gets when it's building up on a surface, particularly useful for metals. For a white paint the coverage isn't all that bad, but it really shines when drybrushing. The rest are just useful. If you see a color you like when at the store, give it a try. Those two are paints that you won't find in other lines so they're the ones to keep your eyes out for. Spanish Manlove fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Dec 8, 2022 |
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Army Painter washes are cheaper than Citadel, come in dropper bottles and do the job just fine.
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There are a few things that should be noted about those Vallejo acrylic metal color paint. The stuff has virtually no surface tension so it gets pulled up to the ferrule of brushes very easily. This does make it extremely easy to paint with and a small amount will go far on a mini. But I find this makes it a bit hard to get that nice consistent edge highlight because the consistency is different then other paints.It dries on a dry palette quite quickly but will separate on a wet palette. The stuff is orders of magnitude shinier than other metal paints and even a dark metal like steel will reflect a lot of light. Lastly vallejo has an annoying naming scheme so just make sure that you are getting what you want. The acrylic metal color is water based whereas I believe the liquid metal range is alcohol based. .
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MasterBuilder posted:This does make it extremely easy to paint with and a small amount will go far on a mini. But I find this makes it a bit hard to get that nice consistent edge highlight because the consistency is different then other paints. A workaround that I figured out is to wick off a little bit on a paper towel like you would a glaze before doing super fine detail work
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Al-Saqr posted:Just found a local art shops with a ton of normal folk art craft acrylic paints and shades, looks like my days of ordering normal paint off amazon for environments is over! I've found that if you're painting terrain, latex house paints are fantastic - you've got a wide variety of colors to pick from, it waters down with plain tapwater, is easily airbrushable, and if you want a particular GW color, all you have to do is put some on an index card and have them color match it. They can't do neons, but pretty much every other color is fair game.
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Still haven't varnished the dragon rider to be and to flock the base, but I did get my Eltharion proxy done to my liking.  On the topic of motivation and getting stuff painted (and I know this was a few pages back, but whatever). I'd been one of those people who would get one or two models done, not be happy with it, and let it sit until I could strip them and try again. However, as the saying goes, "perfect is the enemy of done", and I'd rather have a decently painted army instead of a handful of models leading a grey tide. If it helps, I'd actually heard a song that might help keep people motivated. (It doesn't hurt that Marc is also a really talented dude, and his music is nice to have on in the background in general.)
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Toebone posted:I've always used Vallejo paints along with some Citadel washes & technicals. I checked out a new local game shop recently and they've got full lines from both, plus AK Interactive, P3, Army Painter, Scale Color, Turbo Dork, and Woodland Scenics. Anything special among those brands I should grab next time I'm there? Army Painter: - definitely grab their basic washes (soft, strong, dark, flesh tones), a good match for oldschool GW stuff. P3: - mostly feels and paints like the really old GW paints line, down to the soft cap pots. If you're missing those paints go for it. - don't get their metallics, they're bad. Scale Color: - super smooth pigment - might have worse coverage, but it seems a feature and not an oversight (goes smooth but might need another coat for full coverage). - their inks are extremely concentrated, e.g. I have a red ink that gives decent effect directly on black primer! - very nice metallics, including some colored ones, with absolute dogshit labeling (naming them after metal music subgenres was a cute idea that never worked in practice) Plus some of those launched their own Contrast-equivalent paint lines, I know S75 and AP did, but I don't know enough to name the differences between them.
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It's probably just down to personal preference but I don't like Army Painter paints at all. I find the coverage really bad and their washes are frustrating. YMMV though.
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Zuul the Cat posted:It's probably just down to personal preference but I don't like Army Painter paints at all. I find the coverage really bad and their washes are frustrating. YMMV though. Every paint brand comparison video I've seen reaches the same conclusion.
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Muir posted:Every paint brand comparison video I've seen reaches the same conclusion. Might linking a few of them? These two posts are literally the first time I encountered bad opinions on the AP washes.
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