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GreenBuckanneer posted:What's the damage for everyone this year in terms of putting paint on models? I don't mean assembling and priming, I mean like, working on a model enough to be "done with it for the time being" According to Instagram I only painted 17 models this year. I took a big break after painting my star wars minis last December, didn't paint again until May, went on vacation, then didn't paint again until September. Been flying back and forth across the country for family stuff, from October to now, and haven't had much opportunity to paint. Weirdly, the models I've painted this year have been the best I've ever done.
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WIP of my first krieg unit, any advice or critique before I clean it up and add shoulder designs and fix some sloppy bits?
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Dec 27, 2022 20:06
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bird food bathtub posted:Do I just suck at this process or does air brushing cause hand cramps for other people? I did as many models as I could today before I stopped and I couldn't properly clean out my air brush with the claw I had available on my right arm for an hour or so. If it'll fit, try and grab a "High Roller" trigger from Badger. They'll usually fit in other airbrushes and make a world of difference. Alternately, try and vary your grip; like by default you probably use the "pencil" grip with your index finger on the trigger and middle finger and thumb sort of "clawing" the body. Switch it up every little bit to where you've got your index finger curled over the top of the body in front of the trigger and reach your thumb up and use that to actuate the trigger. People will call you a weirdo for doing this, but that's how HR Giger airbrushed 100% of the time and he was 10000x better with an airbrush than anyone that's going to give you poo poo for how you hold a tool.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:What's the damage for everyone this year in terms of putting paint on models? I don't mean assembling and priming, I mean like, working on a model enough to be "done with it for the time being" Checking my Instagram, I've gotten... Like 18? 19? done. It's been a stressful year that's sapped a lot of motivation from me.
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Dec 27, 2022 21:01
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I painted about 40 models this year, a personal best for me, and really only got back into it around May, so pretty good overall! I also 3D printed about 100 75mm scale figures, mostly from Loot studious, a variety of statues and large pieces, my favorite being 1/10 monocycle that is badass. Or maybe a 1/32 futuristic helicopter. On the 28/32mm side I printed out about 200 or so troops, and about a dozen vehicles. I also got a glowforge and am working on making custom display boards for my armies to live on.
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Dec 27, 2022 21:11
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GreenBuckanneer posted:There's a few on paint handles I might just retire and come back to it when I'm more excited about actually painting them. I wasn't as excited about painting my nundams as I thought I would, and my last one was staring me in the face and I put it away to work on other stuff instead. Yeah, I'm always reluctant to put things back in the pile of shame after they've made the jump to the painting desk, but sometimes you just gotta. In my case this time the figures have a very specific look that I am not at all confident I can get right (the faction is geisha inspired and I am pretty sure they are going to end up looking like zombies rather than people wearing white paint. Or at best like the circus is in town.). But I'm going to try and power through with them. I'm thinking base skin with pallid wytch flesh, do a flesh wash, then... Probably go over the skin with pallid wytch mixed with white and see how it looks. Possibly just off white with a touch of a skin tone in it instead. Ordinarily I'd mix a little of the flesh tone into the facepaint colour, but in this case they have no visible unpainted skin so....
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Dec 27, 2022 21:12
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I don't know how many I've painted this year but here's 5 more!
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Dec 27, 2022 21:15
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I decided I'd work on painting the chaos marines first, the guide has you do the trim on the power armor first. Good thing these are probably the first and only chaos marines I'll ever paint.
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Dec 27, 2022 21:41
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Since big knights count as 10 models, and small knights count as 5, I did 60 for my 2k points of Chaos Knights, right?? I was thinking "wow, I didn't paint much" this year, but I probably did over 100 (160 if big things count more!). One of my new year's resolutions is to keep track of the pile of shame in a spreadsheet and actually keep track of what I paint. Maybe even take pictures of it all!
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Dec 27, 2022 22:03
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14 night gobbos 10 dryads A black orc Dwarf chieftain 8 vikings including a couple converted into throwing spears Halfling assassin A witch hunter Flesh golem Phoenix One and a half vampires 8 giant rats and a couple of skaven handlers Loads of scenery from a Dungeons and Lasers kickstarter that i shouldn’t have backed Some home made scenery, most notably a henge. Sundry other minis probably. Least fun was the phoenix - i discovered I don’t enjoy painting big models and this thing is about 10 centimetres high. Most fun to paint was the red court vampire. I copied the flask of blood from the box art which was very satisfying. New Year’s resolution: keep pushing the contrast. Same as last year!
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Dec 27, 2022 22:08
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About this many: (I didn't base them so they don't count.)
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Dec 27, 2022 22:27
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I've painted two dudes (the Prussians don't count), but that's two more than any other year of my life, so  Started on the gnoll too, but she's not done
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Dec 27, 2022 22:35
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Completed (primer through based and varnished) this year: Dropfleet Commander (1:15,000th scale) * 1 Battleship (UCM, as are all the rest of these) * 3 Battlecruisers * 2 Carriers * 1 Light Cruiser * 4 Missile Frigates * 6 Corvettes * 10 fighter/bomber tokens Dropzone Commander (10mm scale) * 6 quadraped tanks (scourge ravagers and stalkers) * 1 heavy hexapedal tank (scourge oppressor) * 6 monorail pylons Heavy Gear (1:144th/12mm scale) * 37 mechs (Southern and Black Talons) * 1 heavy mech (Southern Naga Strider) * 6 dinosaur cavalry * 2 field guns * 20 infantry teams I just might finish another 7 Heavy Gear mechs and a pile of 10 Dropfleet cruisers (Scourge) before the end of the year, and if not certainly by January.
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Dec 27, 2022 22:58
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I painted a chaos terminator yesterday for the first time (emperor's children) and I am not sure I can finish the rest of this unit. It felt like a slog the whole time. I tried both airbrushing the base color and the trim color first, but both methods were really exhausting. That being said, I am absolutely ripping through the cadia box and the new daves to darkness chosen. These models are so good.
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Dec 28, 2022 01:15
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5 Capellan Confederation 2 Aerospace Fighters 10 Jade Falcons 7 Free Worlds League 7 Federated Suns 10 Lyran Commonwealth 11 Draconis Combine 8 Smoke Jaguars 12 ComStar 15 Steel Vipers 8 Wolves 16 City Camo 16 Jungle Camo (New!)  This year I painted 127 BattleMechs in total, nearly an in-universe Regiment! And a dozen or so RumbleSlam figures, I guess; but mostly BattleMechs.
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Dec 28, 2022 02:51
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Well my years tally was 8 chaos cultists of the abyss, the chaos legionnaires kill team, aeldari Corsair kill team, tau pathfinder kill team, kroot farstalker kill team, a necron compendium kill team, 1 Kellermorph, 1 old metal rogue trader ork, 1 3d printed kenku, 1 3d printed goblin, and 1 elven Archer. That's 53 total, not bad considering I took several long breaks throughout the year. I also have the navis kill team, hunter clade kill team, a skaven warcry warband, and a few other random 1offs half done sitting on my desk taunting me.
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nostrata posted:Well my years tally was 8 chaos cultists of the abyss, the chaos legionnaires kill team, aeldari Corsair kill team, tau pathfinder kill team, kroot farstalker kill team, a necron compendium kill team, 1 Kellermorph, 1 old metal rogue trader ork, 1 3d printed kenku, 1 3d printed goblin, and 1 elven Archer. That's 53 total, not bad considering I took several long breaks throughout the year. I also have the navis kill team, hunter clade kill team, a skaven warcry warband, and a few other random 1offs half done sitting on my desk taunting me. Holy cow thats a really impressive haul!
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I might also have been bit by the kill team bug. At this point I have more painted teams than games played. But I enjoy the variety of painting one squad of guys and then moving on to the next.
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Quick question whats the best way of using citadel technical paints? I have a red, blue and green gemstone technical, but so far they seem like normal paint, im not sure how to get their gemstone shine quality out of them. Also whats the difference between base and layer? I have a runefabg steel layer but it just looks like silver paint not sure whats the specific use case of it.
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This year got a late start but in the past few months I've painted: 10 battle sisters 10 celestian sacresants 5 zephyrim 1 imagifier
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My new years resolution will be to finish all the kill teams i bought and the terrains so that means five kill teams and the octarius and into tbe dark terrains, i think thats very achievable. Also if i finish my videogame ork team before april i think ill actually submit it to golden demon and go to warhammer fest and participate in the kill team tournament, the only thing im wondering is if warhammer fest is worth the 500 dollar flight to england for. Al-Saqr fucked around with this message at 06:10 on Dec 28, 2022 |
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I think my goal for next year is probably just sheer volume. I need more practice and brush control and process refinement, everything else can come after. If I can complete these chaos marines in the next few days, the immediate goal after that will be the tyranids (should be easier mechanically, mostly shading, drybrushing, more shading, highlights, some freckles, that might be the longest part, that and the highlighting), and then getting caught up on the imperium magazine. Right now, I'm keeping the models from the subscription separate from the main group of models. (the chaos & tyranids are part of that) Then I think a palette cleanser will be to work on some of my sw legion, hopefully finish those, then work on the fallout ones again. Or, once I get some textured bases in, I'll instead focus on my Ossiarch Bonereaper models, or Gloomspite Gitz (really excited about the Gitz, but those feel like ice cream before the meal) before the SWLegion/Fallout, which has been creeping up in volume even though I've put a decent dent into them. After that, it's a small amount of Stormcast Eternals (half dominion box), Sisters of Battle, Necrons (which I hope to just do a quick and easy contrast method with) and a smattering of various etsy and small batch models. Lastly, there's a pile of Stargrave models I need to do, and those ones I need to probably just do a quick and dirty slapchop + contrast instead of putting in as much effort as I possibly can, or I'll never make appreciable progress....saying it all out loud, if it takes me a year to do 100 models, then that means I probably have 2-3 years worth of backlog...I need to kick it up a notch and spend less on models, apparently. Al-Saqr posted:Quick question whats the best way of using citadel technical paints? I have a red, blue and green gemstone technical, but so far they seem like normal paint, im not sure how to get their gemstone shine quality out of them. if I recall correctly, those technical paints you need to put down pure white, then when it dries, put the like tesseract glow over it to get a bright green shine, they're just proto-contrast paints w/ higher pigment count or fluorescent kinda (at least that one is) base/layer is just to help the newbies, I think. It may be related to opacity but I'm not certain GreenBuckanneer fucked around with this message at 06:30 on Dec 28, 2022 |
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Put them over a very silver metallic for best rulsts, ive found
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Since getting into Legion last August(?) I've finished painting: A squad of wookies 2 squads of rebel troopers 1 of each of the rebel troopers upgrades 1 and a half rebel vets + mark2s Cassian and K2 And The Mandalorian. So, somewhere around 43 minis with about that many still left to paint. Though the last small brush I have just about bit the dust so I'm hoping the brushes I kick-started show up in the mail sooner rather than later. It's really been fun so far.
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Douche Phoenix posted:Since getting into Legion last August(?) I've finished painting: Did you also buy the wolf bristle brushes? If so I'm in the same boat as you
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Yeah, those are the ones. I've only used really cheap brushes, like the 10 pack assortment for like 6 bucks cheap kind. So I figured I'd make the step up to some mid grade brushes and those seemed like an insanely good deal. Didn't spring for the sable ones because I don't think I'd be able to tell that difference in quality yet.
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Al-Saqr posted:Quick question whats the best way of using citadel technical paints? I have a red, blue and green gemstone technical, but so far they seem like normal paint, im not sure how to get their gemstone shine quality out of them. Games Workshop has a ton of videos about their paints. Worth checking out. The dude that does their older videos (Duncan Rhodes) now has his own channel with more tutorials.
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engessa posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUBtItceuec yeah duncan rhodes is brilliant, I'll pay more attention to his stuff, this video clears up alot of questions I had! I'll make a second pass on my krieg eyes with a gold base and red soulstone when I get home.
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I painted way less this year than I should have, but I guess that's how it works some years. GW stuff: 2 Assault Intercessors Doom Scythe 5 Aeldari Rangers Hexmark Destroyer Necron Overlord Cairn Wraith Imperial Knight Moirax Awlrach the Drowner 10 Craventhrone Guard 5 Flayed Ones 10 Necron Immortals Cryptek Technomancer 10 Necron Warriors Warhammer+ Vindicare Assassin Leviathan Siege Dreadnought Tons of 3D printed terrain and GW terrain Battletech: Griffin Vindicator Awesome BattleMaster Catapult Enforcer Hunchback Raven Victor Blackjack Jenner Panther Wolfhound Flea Thunderbolt A bunch of vehicles Some photos:     
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This year I painted: Doom board game: 8 Spiders 10 Imps 2 Arch Viles LOTR Heroes: (all GW) 2 X Boromir on foot (Shield and banner) Boromir mounted (with banner) Cirion Beregond 3 X Faramir (Ranger, heavy armour on foot, heavy armour mounted) Damrod Madril 3 Mordor Orc Commanders 1 Mordor Orc banner 2 X Witch King of Angmar (foot & mounted) LOTR troops (all GW) 24 Gondor Rangers 6 Warg Riders Star Wars Legion 14 Storm Troopers 6 Death troopers Darth Vader Director Orson Krennic 4 Speeder Bikes 21 Snow Troopers 7 Scout troopers 1 AT-ST Historical: 16 Medieval Sergeants (Fireforge games) 38 Ancient Germans (Victrix) 26 Imperial Japanese Army soldiers (Warlord games) Miscellaneous: 6 Living Dead Knights (Fireforge games) 2 Zombie Dogs (Fireforge games) 5 15mm houses (battlefront) 1 28mm scale bunker Should be a total of about 207, depending on how you count terrain pieces. It's important to note that I'm not a great painter, everything is tabletop standard, with just basecoats and a wash. All the Star wars guys and the IJA are based, everyone else is just black base (and will probably stay that way). I enjoy batch painting, and I really like uncomplicated minis, the Victrix Germans were absolutely made for me. This was the first year I started counting, but I have a feeling it was my most productive year by a landslide. I mostly credit getting into Star Wars for that, I think having an end goal always in sight, combined with easy to paint minis that were mostly contrast made it easy. I may get some Shore troopers or special characters eventually, but it feels completed for now, as I can run a variety of lists with what I have. The immediate future hold another 40 or so IJA soldiers, plus their tank, and then 24 Mordor orcs, another 22 ancient Germans, 16 MORE medieval sergeants, 10 mantic goblins, an old Orc rock lobba, and god knows what else.
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Started the hobby this year and got through in order: a squad of CSM legionaries a squad of Warp Talons a noise marine themed chaos lord/master of executioners print a squad of Havocs all with chainguns a Master of Posessions an Abaddon print started a Chosen squad recently I love it, I sit around at work watching painting videos and when I'm home all I want to do is paint. 2023 will be a year of a lot more models done
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gently caress. In the seven months since I started painting, I have 107 painted minis on my shelf, one more I just finished on the painting table, and another 20 or 30 I gave away at various points, all painted as best I could at the time I did them. Looks like my pottery class approach is working, too, given the progress I can see comparing when I started to where I am now. The early ones, for the first four months or so, are 99% old reaper bones minis from kickstarter 1 and 2, and they range in size from reaper mouselings, mimics, and familiars (very fuckin small) to the reaper Dragons Don't Share diorama.
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3rd Kill Team member for my Custodes. Went a little wild on this guy.  
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Captain Ironblood posted:3rd Kill Team member for my Custodes. Went a little wild on this guy. Aaaah this is *so pretty* did you blend the colours on the model or on the palette and apply them in a gradient? How do??
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Captain Ironblood posted:3rd Kill Team member for my Custodes. Went a little wild on this guy. HFS 
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HopperUK posted:Aaaah this is *so pretty* Thank you, I'm so happy with how he turned out! I'm a pretty new painter, and this was a huge risk since this is mini #13 ever. I was worried my next big learning experience was going to be how to strip a mini. Mostly palette blended, with a ton of glazing. Some of the shield blending was wet blending, since that seemed to work the best in the really confined space. I use scale75 paints, and most of these huge color blobs are basically a single drop of paint and tons of glaze medium. The fluorescent colors are Golden acrylics. If I had to choose again, I'd pick up the high flow version of these, but they seem to work just fine with a ton of glaze medium and a drop or so of water. 
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Captain Ironblood posted:Thank you, I'm so happy with how he turned out! I'm a pretty new painter, and this was a huge risk since this is mini #13 ever. I was worried my next big learning experience was going to be how to strip a mini. Very good info, thank you:)
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Calhanol posted:It's a simple T-100 air compressor. I was testing the pressure gauge and it simply stopped pumping. The power light lights up but nothing else. I tried opening it up but I didn't want to damage the casing. I got as far as the four screws at the bottom but could not separate the casing, due to something else holding them together. If I knew how I would try to fix it myself. This may be a stupid question but did it pump up to its cut out pressure then stop? Is there pressure in the tank?
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Hey mini painting thread! I just wrapped up my first set of GW minis after painting crisis protocol for a year and a half. The smaller scale is definitely a different animal but I think I did ok! I prioritized playing to the molded detail and poppy highlights over smoothness this go round. Anyways, here's a pack of fresh corsairs!  
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