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grassy gnoll posted:Calling this done. I've gone over that drat mask so many times it's a miracle it's not blobbed to hell and back. Very nice, digging the improvements you finished this one up with.
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    After buying a 40k starter set (and a bunch of extra's) and finishing the Space Marines i have now also finished the Necron. Did a lot of dry brushing in different brass colours with some silver on top to brighten it up. And figured out how to use gemstone paints, tesseract glow and contrast paint for the details. Pretty happy with the results! Been using some of these models while playing DND as enemies and my players really like them. If you ever want to run White Plume Mountain you can very easily make it a necron tomb! engessa fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Feb 5, 2023 |
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Al-Saqr posted:more gallowdark terrain completed! Look good, I'm looking forward to the post with them setup. So many other people paint this style of terrain very dark, I think the colors you've picked look better than everything being dark.
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Finecast can suck my ballls. Mold lines were more like huge mold slips, bendy sword, and gaps all over the place. But it was all sadly worth it for Commissar Severina Raine
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 Check out what I'm going to try out, someone lent me their metallics Edit Same, there's a huge difference in quality between their resin and plastic 
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GreenBuckanneer posted:
that's a lot of air bubbles on the shoulder, mold line on the feet and hands that you missed
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GreenBuckanneer posted:
I'm not sure if you know, but those liquid gold metallics need to be thinned with alcohol. I have a 10+ year old bottle of gold I continue to not open.
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Spanish Manlove posted:that's a lot of air bubbles on the shoulder, mold line on the feet and hands that you missed Honestly, I hadn't noticed, and I'm not quite sure how I'd fix the bubbles, sanding would strip further details. Jonny Nox posted:I'm not sure if you know, but those liquid gold metallics need to be thinned with alcohol. We discussed using only the junkiest of brushes for them, and maybe isopropyl could be used with it?
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I think if you're using junk brushes you won't need to thin. I really should open my bottle so I could give usable advice. edit: I guess we should be specific. If you introduce water to the paint it rusts instantly, so clean and thin with 99% isopropyl and use a junk brush. Jonny Nox fucked around with this message at 05:13 on Feb 6, 2023 |
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Honestly, I hadn't noticed, and I'm not quite sure how I'd fix the bubbles, sanding would strip further details. Any gap filler like liquid green stuff fixes the bubbles. And with these resin kits you need to go through them with a microscope as there's so many flaws with them that dont seem noticeable until you start painting
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"maybe this one will be different. Maybe this one will have a sword that won't be bent. Maybe this one will have a sword that's only slightly bent and when I heat it and set it, it'll stay in that position for more than an hour. Maybe this one won't have a 0.5mm mold slip along most of the pieces. Maybe I won't have to be a green stuff surgeon for this one" - me, a total loving moron, said a week ago
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ijyt posted:Finecast models belong in a microwave. now you have me googling if it's safe to put resin in a microwave.
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I want to give my black spray can a 21 waaagh salute, after successfully priming all of my recruit edition, into the dark, and octarius terrain your life on this earth has come to an end. You have served the emperor well 
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I'm blocking in the colors for Eisenhorn now, and I can't see the bubbles at all  I go to look at the bullshot for eisenhorn to get some ideas for reference and the example image is a resin print and it has more defined detail. GreenBuckanneer fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Feb 6, 2023 |
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I have reached four years of painting miniatures now, and it's only taken off maybe 12 years of my life from the stress. Totally worth it.  I still love painting miniatures, but I don't think i'm ever going to like actually playing.
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 Lookit them paint pots!! (WD AUG2006)
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I said come in! posted:I have reached four years of painting miniatures now, and it's only taken off maybe 12 years of my life from the stress. Totally worth it. Just do what I do and paint what looks fun, buy cheap rules for a bunch of indie games, look through your collection and go "wow, I have most of what I need... But I but I could have everything..." Then buy a bunch more to maybe paint but definitely never play. Also always tell yourself that this time will be different. I mean, Mörk Boll is only $10, and I'm sure I got most of a team - maybe just a couple more for star players, a ref or two, maybe some Random Idiots if I need to sub them in...
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and even though it hadn't been invented yet, it somehow knocked over a pot of Nuln Oil.
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AndyElusive posted:That cat lost 1 Wound shortly after the picture was taken. Don't worry, they've got 8 more to go
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Jonny Nox posted:
Not pictured: the pliers need to unscrew those lids after they inevitably glued themselves shut with dried paint.
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  Trying my hand at this...it's a lot harder than they make it out to be
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I don't get the draw of non metallic metals. It seems like a lot of work to get something that looks worse than just using metallic paints?
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If you do it right it can look amazing. Problem is, the only person that does it right is flameon miniatures, and then other golden demon type dudes like Richard Grey etc does it well but not as astonishingly accurate. Everything else just looks kinda uncanny to me
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Chainclaw posted:I don't get the draw of non metallic metals. It seems like a lot of work to get something that looks worse than just using metallic paints? It's just another way to paint metals, but I feel like it's still in the early stage of adoption, like when everyone made insanely blown out highlights with airbrushing.
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Yeah, when it's done well, it lets you create accurately scaled reflections given your surface and the direction of your hypothetical light source. But it's also easy to end up with something looking like a cheesy chrome effect out of a 1980s action film poster. e: that's not to knock it, I do prefer NMN, but it's a thin line between realistic reflections and uncanny chromed effect and man is it a pain to get right Loden Taylor fucked around with this message at 23:30 on Feb 6, 2023 |
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Electric Hobo posted:It's just another way to paint metals, but I feel like it's still in the early stage of adoption, like when everyone made insanely blown out highlights with airbrushing. NMM for miniatures began in like the 90s because metallic paint sucked back then so I don't think it's quite in the early stage anymore
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Eej posted:NMM for miniatures began in like the 90s because metallic paint sucked back then so I don't think it's quite in the early stage anymore But what I meant was that it feels pretty new as a mainstream technique, at least to me.
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It's a fun way to push yourself as a painter, and allows you to better control reflections and color variations in your model. This moreso lends itself to single miniature, display piece, diorama type painting for 99.99% of people. I would not recommend, and don't know anyone on IG, that paints entire armies in NMM. I've done a few small bits myself as sort of testing into the concept of NMM and plan to do more in the future but I'm very much a baby at it.
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Electric Hobo posted:No, but I don't remember seeing people actually doing it until a few years ago. The earliest I remember seeing was Rackham miniatures, I think? It was a thing in 2009 when it was all the rage here. And Snakebite Leather was a paint color, and washes were newfangled things and people kept priming their minis in gesso.
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My man, the Rackham nmm craze was like 23 years ago. I remember because everyone on rec.mini-painting was obsessed with it 
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Jonny Nox posted:And Snakebite Leather was a paint color, and washes were newfangled things and people kept priming their minis in gesso.
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Jonny Nox posted:It was a thing in 2009 when it was all the rage here.
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You're probably getting tripped up by the pandemic causing an explosion on people getting into hobbies combined with the high visibility of instagram painters and YouTube tutorials leading to people trying their hand at NMM and sharing it on social media readily because everyone has a 10 megapixel camera in their pocket. But yes everything old is new again, people are busting out the oil paints and model vehicle techniques and Marco Frisoni is trying to get viewers to look up 17th century masters for ideas on how to conceptualize and play with light on your models.
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Eej posted:and Marco Frisoni is trying to get viewers to look up 17th century masters for ideas on how to conceptualize and play with light on your models. If you're not watching Marco Frisoni and Baumgartner Restoration videos I question what are you even doing on youtube these days
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Eej posted:You're probably getting tripped up by the pandemic causing an explosion on people getting into hobbies combined with the high visibility of instagram painters and YouTube tutorials leading to people trying their hand at NMM and sharing it on social media readily because everyone has a 10 megapixel camera in their pocket. That's probably a part of it. I also didn't start painting until 2013-ish, so I have no memory of anything mini related before that.
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Eej posted:You're probably getting tripped up by the pandemic causing an explosion on people getting into hobbies combined with the high visibility of instagram painters and YouTube tutorials leading to people trying their hand at NMM and sharing it on social media readily because everyone has a 10 megapixel camera in their pocket. Speaking of which, shat on another model. Astaroth the Soulforged     e: I'm probably going to go back and do something with a few of the details on the armor, tbh. That's for tomorrow, though. NinjaDebugger fucked around with this message at 01:28 on Feb 7, 2023 |
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Electric Hobo posted:That's probably a part of it. I also didn't start painting until 2013-ish, so I have no memory of anything mini related before that. This July? will be two years for me 
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