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My Spirit Otter posted:Im painting up some white scars and im using corax white for them. The finished product is coming off chaulky and im not liking it. What do you guys recommend? GW's white acrylics probably aren't the worst in the business but if they're not they're pretty close. If you can get your hands on either, I'd suggest any of the Vallejo white paints, or Reaper's Pure White.
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That makes sense, thanks. I got a couple pots of corax in those starter kits because they had a few other colours i wanted so i figured gently caress it and used those. Thanks.
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Are you doing corax white over black? That's a huge root of the problem and you're recreating Duncan Rhodes' "mistakes I made when starting out" video almost to the letter
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My Spirit Otter posted:Im painting up some white scars and im using corax white for them. The finished product is coming off chaulky and im not liking it. What do you guys recommend? Honestly? Don't paint white with a brush, at least not GW whites. Prime white, paint the black and other details, use Apothecary White on the whites, and then do a light white highlight if you feel it's necessary. That's the most low effort way to go about it imo.
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Spanish Manlove posted:Are you doing corax white over black? That's a huge root of the problem and you're recreating Duncan Rhodes' "mistakes I made when starting out" video almost to the letter They werent originally going to be white scars when i primed them and black was also the only colour i had. But i appreciate the advice and will watch this vidya
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Dec 17, 2022 20:18
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veni veni veni posted:I took your advice on the yellow green drybrush on the moss. Big improvement. I wish I had thought to drybrush the mud before I attached the water and plants, dang. I did some really conservative dry brushing on it but it doesn't look much different. I think it'll be fine though. The sculpture I'm attaching to it really ends up being the main focal point once it's attached. Definitely happy with giving that moss some extra depth though.  This is gonna look rad as hell when you've got the whole thing mounted.My Spirit Otter posted:They werent originally going to be white scars when i primed them and black was also the only colour i had. But i appreciate the advice and will watch this vidya The secret to white is never to paint white. Like, avoid it if you can, but the only time you should be breaking out a true 100% white is to do your final highlights over some other off-white that comprises the majority of your surface. You can prime black, but for the next one, after you're primed slather the whole thing with a medium to light grey. If you're brushing by hand, you're gonna have to do a lot of really thin coats to avoid the chalky look, and starting as light as possible for your base coat will help make that easier. White has crappy coverage like yellow, so you want something that's got comparatively dense pigment, which you can get from off-whites, or in a pinch blending some denser colors into your white. Going back and adding darker details once you've got your white down is way simpler than going the other way around. The extra secret to white is to start spraying things, either with white primer or an airbrush, 'cause to hell with hand-painting that crap.
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My Spirit Otter posted:Im painting up some white scars and im using corax white for them. The finished product is coming off chaulky and im not liking it. What do you guys recommend?
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Dec 17, 2022 21:38
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grassy gnoll posted:
Finished it up. I'm really happy with it! A bunch of you guys are so dang good at painting I am a bit ashamed to post my paint job here  I need to try out some model paints on the clay next time. Was just using masters touch paints this time which were like, fine but not ideal I think. I'm super happy with the base. Think maybe I should have gone all in on the moss though and done the whole thing like the back. My whole lizard footprint/puddle idea worked out kind of meh but I like it anyways. Some attempted glamor shots. I need a real camera.      veni veni veni fucked around with this message at 03:50 on Dec 18, 2022 |
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"hey everyone I sculpted my own model and painted it and made a custom diorama base for it but also i'm a bit ashamed" NO NO NO my friend, that is excellent, I look forward to you getting bit by the bug and posting more and making more and I know you'll improve from here but to be clear, that's a great start and you should be proud!
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That mushroom person looks high as gently caress and it's making me giggle in the best ways, keep it up, Forums Poster veni veni veni
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Is indeed rad as hell.
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Looks good goon
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Mushroom man is gorgeous. Here's my first white scar using that artists acryllic instead of corax. 
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My Spirit Otter posted:Mushroom man is gorgeous. Fantastic.
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Thanks for the tips and kind words. I absolutely have the bug. Tbh I have been in a creative rut for a while and making little miniatures really hit the spot. I'm going to pick your brains about painting techniques in the future. tangy yet delightful posted:"hey everyone I sculpted my own model and painted it and made a custom diorama base for it but also i'm a bit ashamed" Ha, thanks. I am not actually ashamed of it in general. Under normal circumstances I'd just be like "hey really like how this came out" but I went down a rabbit hole of all of the stuff people have posted itt after posting in it last night and was just like "holy poo poo" at some of the paint jobs you guys do. Very happy with what I was able to pull off, but just realizing theres tons of stuff to learn about it after looking at the wild level of detail people are able to get on 1 inch tall figures. veni veni veni fucked around with this message at 09:28 on Dec 18, 2022 |
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Cross Posting from GW Specialist Games Thread with my latest completed projects:Professor Shark posted:Claiming First Kill Team! Professor Shark posted:My finished Deathwatch Intercessor Killteam:
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here is my Imperial Navy Breacher Kill team! I added a mohawk to the Hatchcutter, and added custom heads to half of the team to make them look more like unique characters! the captain is a pirate captain with eyepatch and parrot, a cool lady with aviators is the sensor, a cool black cowboy is the gunner, a psycho friday the 13th lady is the AxeJack, and the other tech guy is a beanie wearing engineer who doesnt shave. The rest are normal because I really like the breacher helmets! 
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I really like the toque guy lol
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Hello here I am again with my amateur nonsense, but boy am I enjoying it. This guy! Crown. Gold paint looks rubbish. How to get a half-decent gold-looking finish? Please bear in mind I am fairly blind and my hands shake so anything *too* delicate is gonna be problems. I have a lot of paints and some contrast paint and whatnot but nothing I have in gold looks like anything. How would you folks go about it? Or should I just *not* do gold, because let's be honest he could be wearing a paper crown and be just as fabulous.  Please excuse there are a couple fibres stuck to it. I only see them in the photos, lmao
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Al-Saqr posted:here is my Imperial Navy Breacher Kill team! Wow I want to play at least half of these in my next game. They're fantastic
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veni veni veni posted:Finished it up. I'm really happy with it! A bunch of you guys are so dang good at painting I am a bit ashamed to post my paint job here Dude looks cool, and the base is awesome. HopperUK posted:Hello here I am again with my amateur nonsense, but boy am I enjoying it. If you basecoat brown before doing the gold it can help a little, but part from that (which full disclosure I almost never remember to do), I just use a "retributor armour" from GW (not a particular recommendation btw, its just a decently covering gold paint I happen to have*), then use a flesh tone wash (GWs reichland fleshshade works fine, but any flesh wash will do) then touch up the gold and do final highlights with bright silver. The flesh wash has a slight reddish tone that helps the gold read as gold for some reason, and the silver reads well as highlights from shiny gold. *Some gold paints cover like rear end, and all you can do is shake them like crazy and do a couple of coats
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On the topic of white, a WIP: Couple of weeks back I found an Intercessor so I decided I'd practice painting white: Undercoated the white with AP Bleached Bone, then glazed over that with VGC Skull White, then realized I need to shade so added some AP Strong Tone, then touched up the slop, and finished by drybrushing Skull White to cover up the brushwork and make sure I caught all the raised bits. The rest is AP Crystal Blue, and went with AP Pure Red for the trim, with the world's lowest-effort highlight of a Bleached Bone drybrush. Novamarines third company I guess?  Not a fan of these moulded bases with all kinds of crap on them. Can't just go all green with them. Siivola fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Dec 18, 2022 |
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Al-Saqr posted:here is my Imperial Navy Breacher Kill team! This looks like a Rogue Trader's breacher team and I loving love it
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SiKboy posted:Dude looks cool, and the base is awesome. That's very helpful, cheers!
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S.J. posted:This looks like a Rogue Trader's breacher team and I loving love it Yeah lol the idea I had was that these are essentially a team of imperial privateers like a team fortress group of weirdos going on adventures and stuff lol. Since they’re stuck on the same ship for years and years they’re like a GI Joe team. Also much like in the Navy people don’t get to shave all that often so the guy in the toque is like a bearded crab fisher lol Al-Saqr fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Dec 18, 2022 |
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HopperUK posted:That's very helpful, cheers! To second what the OP said, this is the best pic i could find on my phone, but its one layer of auric armour over army painter oak brown then a wash of reikland. Very quick and easy and give you a nice warmer tone 
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Al-Saqr posted:Yeah lol the idea I had was that these are essentially a team of imperial privateers like a team fortress group of weirdos going on adventures and stuff lol. Since they’re stuck on the same ship for years and years they’re like a GI Joe team. Also much like in the Navy people don’t get to shave all that often so the guy in the toque is like a bearded crab fisher lol
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Siivola posted:Your teams rule. Thanks dude, my final few paints are arriving in a few days so pretty soon you’ll be seeing lots of painted stuff soon!
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My Spirit Otter posted:To second what the OP said, this is the best pic i could find on my phone, but its one layer of auric armour over army painter oak brown then a wash of reikland. Very quick and easy and give you a nice warmer tone Gorgeous! Right, I will give this a try.
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Al-Saqr posted:Yeah lol the idea I had was that these are essentially a team of imperial privateers like a team fortress group of weirdos going on adventures and stuff lol. Since they’re stuck on the same ship for years and years they’re like a GI Joe team. Also much like in the Navy people don’t get to shave all that often so the guy in the toque is like a bearded crab fisher lol Thank you for having the motivation to post this stuff because I have no motivation to work on models right now lol
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S.J. posted:Thank you for having the motivation to post this stuff because I have no motivation to work on models right now lol Same boat. Going to try and get back on the wagon in the next couple days, at least, just been vaguely paralyzed with dread at the thought of working on models any time I think about setting up. But, they gotta get painted so they're actually useful before everyone moves on to other games, so gotta get my poo poo together eventually.
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Still working on getting some motivation back, so I painted up a couple of gifts for my sister and brother-in-law. a husky and squirrel for my sister:  and a kasa-obake for my brother-in-law:  Not super complex and could have done a lot better, but I'm trying to Just Paint right now, otherwise I'll just get bogged down and never finish.
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Is this Rash, Zitz, or Pimple? it looks great
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Is this Rash, Zitz, or Pimple? it looks great The blurb I gave it was "Zitz Blowhard, tactician of the Blue Shell Pirates! He knows what you're going to do, and he countered it thirty five minutes ago."
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 Not done, but I think I have the major colors blocked in... Feeling like I could be ambitious and do some gold freehand on the hat and try to put some gold on the corset following the shapes?, maybe silver on the leather bolts, not feeling the black framing of the corset so maybe a blue/grey... Not bad so far for a first time bust. I am struggling hard on getting the right color for these leather parts.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:
That's looking really nice so far though! Just from thinking about leather, I reckon you want like - a drybrush sort of effect in a more orange shade. You know how leather lightens up a bit? Something like that maybe. But I don't know how to achieve it exactly, I am baby in this art form.
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HopperUK posted:That's looking really nice so far though! It's better to manually add that orangey shade with a glaze and then put in scratchy highlights to simulate wear and tear.
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you know what’s a great paint for highlighting leather like that? *dana howl voice*
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Spanish Manlove posted:It's better to manually add that orangey shade with a glaze and then put in scratchy highlights to simulate wear and tear. This is the method I use for it. Takes a bit, but damned if it doesn't come out looking pretty good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDdN_ewFgRg
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