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Southern Heel posted:I've had this Grey Knight sitting in my 'to finish' pile for too long, so I made strides to get it done - no doubt a few things to tidy up but I'm very pleased. It's got me thinking about a Middlehammer 40k army... My fav grey knight sculpt. I have a squad of 5 but all missing their shoulder shields that is driving me nuts. Yours looking great!
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with a rebel yell she QQd posted:My fav grey knight sculpt. I have a squad of 5 but all missing their shoulder shields that is driving me nuts. Yours looking great! I totally forgot about the shoulder shield things - surely a candidate for 3D printing, really? I've got a whole bunch of other 1st and 2nd Edition Space marines that are painted up pretty averagely and I'm debating whether to strip them down and start again or whether that paintjob (which I guess is now pushing 15 years old?) is also a relic worth preserving. In the UK it's "Dettol" for stripping acrylic paints off plastic, right?
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Be aware that while dettol is effective at stripping acrylic paint the model will smell very strongly of disinfectant after that, a smell that will persist after multiple washes.
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Southern Heel posted:I totally forgot about the shoulder shield things - surely a candidate for 3D printing, really? I've got a whole bunch of other 1st and 2nd Edition Space marines that are painted up pretty averagely and I'm debating whether to strip them down and start again or whether that paintjob (which I guess is now pushing 15 years old?) is also a relic worth preserving. In the UK it's "Dettol" for stripping acrylic paints off plastic, right? Dettol works, but it's slow (when I tried it the models needed to be submerged for literal days), the paint turns into a goo which seemed to desperately want to slide into recesses and clog detail, and as mentioned it leaves the models smelling if Dettol. My go-to for stripping paint is metholated spirit/denatured alcohol. Dunk the figure in, wait a few minutes, pull them out and scrub gently with a toothbrush. Repeat as needed. Works much faster, paint doesn't melt together into a goo, and the meths smell evaporates off the model quickly. Oh, but don't then use that toothbrush on your teeth. That's your model stripping toothbrush now.
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Safe for both plastic and metal presumably, does it take off any spray undercoat too?
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Apr 9, 2023 09:34
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Yep, takes most stuff back to the bare plastic/metal. I have had a few eBay rescues where they've undercoated with God alone knows what where it's taken a good few dunk and scrub cycles to get the undercoat off but they're the exception not the rule. It's fine on metal or normal plastic, I've never tried it on resin or the soft pvc type plastic reaper bones are made with, but definitely fine on regular gw minis.
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Southern Heel posted:Safe for both plastic and metal presumably, does it take off any spray undercoat too? It does. A trick I learned when I was still using Dettol is try to remove the paint with an old toothbrush as much as possible without rinsing with water for as long as possible, because that what makes the paint into a sticky gooey mess. So brush brush, rinse with Dettol. Had moderate success with brushing the mini with dish soap after Dettol, but still no water. The concerns about it are no overstatement, I have miniatures I stripped with Dettol 6-7 years ago and they still stink. Soaking them in vinegar sort of helped. Oh and Dettol is really toxic for cats, it can shut down their kidneys and stuff, so be aware. In the end I moved to stripping with Isopropyl and never looked back. Edit: Good for plastic and metal. Not so sure about finecast/resin. with a rebel yell she QQd fucked around with this message at 09:53 on Apr 9, 2023 |
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It's more expensive but Biostrip is a miracle worker when it comes to removing paint. Works fast, doesn't take much, doesn't leave odor or residue.
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Cheers - I'm still not sure whether those paintjobs are enough of a nostalgic relic to keep or not, so no rush. I did find this little Inquisitor Lord in Terminator Armour at the back of my cupboard - I believe I painted him around the time the Eldar Guardians got their first multi-pose models. No, he's not a Howling Griffon - I just wanted something unique: 
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My wife and I decided to pick up modelling to get us off our screens on rainy days, which has meant picking up 40k miniatures for the first time in 20+ years. (I always loved the kitbashing as a kid, but was always too clumsy and impatient for the painting.) She sensibly got a starter kit and is now neatly painting up her push-fit Ultramarines and Necrons. I stupidly decided to get some Plague Marines because I wanted to build them as a bunch of dads taking their Nurgling toddlers to the playpark. I built them and love them, but because I'm inevitably going to screw the paintjob up they're sitting to one side for the foreseeable future while I practice on Rotwalkers. Turns out I'm still terrible at this (wash-shading just looks dirty and loose at the moment and I don't know how to fix that), but there's definitely a lot more useful resources than there used to be, so thank you to this thread for making things much, much easier.
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Best thing about IPA is that it's water soluble so washing will actually get the paint off. When I used dichloromethane it'd strip the paint but I'd have to scrub it in itself because it wasn't water soluble and the paint residue would turn into a gummy mess if you add water.
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Stripping protip: use an electric toothbrush 
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I feel like shill for P&G for always saying this but Dawn Power Dissolver is an amazing acrylic paint stripper. Safe for Plastic and metal, it's a bit expensive but it's a spray gel so you don't need to use very much and a bottle will last you forever. I used it to quickly strip chaos black spray off of some ebay rescues years ago that a month soaking in Simple Green couldn't touch. Plus it will take the baked on grease off your stove top like a champ.
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Acetone for pewter. Someone suggested it to me earlier in the thread and it worked like a charm
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Continuing my project of working through the first founding chapters, so I can try a few different colours, and I'm about as finished as I'm gonna get with this little raven guard duder for now. I'm not very happy with the result, though the helmet was a lot of fun. Found a beakie lying in my ancient pile of bits and decided it was a good fit for a birdboy. Painting black was surprisingly difficult, I started off with trying to highlight normally but it just contrasted so much with the black and looked like a total mess, so I ended up mostly carefully drybrushing to highlight the edges instead, maybe that was a mistake. I'll soon have another go when I get to iron hands, I guess. Did NOT try to freehand a bird again   e: next up, imperial fists and yellow 
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The trick to black is to not actually paint it black, use a dark grey like Vallejo MC Black-Grey or an equivalent (I think Two Thin Coats Death Reaper is close?), then wash and highlight as usual.
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Apr 9, 2023 18:51
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Alternatively, just prime black, clean up with black, then highlight a few times
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Or not and actually do a good job at painting black by doing the off-black method
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Apr 9, 2023 21:23
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Why are you so frequently unnecessarily aggressive in your posting?
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Apr 9, 2023 21:37
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Eh, It's just how they love men in Spain.
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Bohemian Nights posted:Continuing my project of working through the first founding chapters, so I can try a few different colours, and I'm about as finished as I'm gonna get with this little raven guard duder for now. I'm not very happy with the result, though the helmet was a lot of fun. Found a beakie lying in my ancient pile of bits and decided it was a good fit for a birdboy. This looks pretty great for edge highlight on black honestly, especially if this is your first try on power armor.
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Professor Shark posted:Why are you so frequently unnecessarily aggressive in your posting? mess with the bull you get the horns, or something
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Chromatics posted:This looks pretty great for edge highlight on black honestly, especially if this is your first try on power armor. Thanks! I painted maybe two dozen ultramarines and a squad of imperial guard back in like 2005, so every colour other than blue is pretty much my first on power armor
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Easiest way to do black is off black of choice (VMC Dark Grey/GW Incubi Darkness etc) drybrush a few highlights on then apply Black Templar to it. You can go back to clean it up with more manual highlights as desired.
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Painting NMM on a sword the first time: Challenging, but doable! Painting a whole Necron carapace gold NMM for the first time: I need to find a new hobby.
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I would not wish that on my worst enemy
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I still maintain that the Prime Black method is a fine alternative: you’re doing 3-4 rounds of highlights, but the first “Chunky” and final “X-Fine” ones are easy. You can even change up the effect depending on highlights (Black to Blue, Black to Green, Black to Teal).
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Professor Shark posted:I still maintain that the Prime Black method is a fine alternative: you’re doing 3-4 rounds of highlights, but the first “Chunky” and final “X-Fine” ones are easy. You can even change up the effect depending on highlights (Black to Blue, Black to Green, Black to Teal). Off black followed by a wash means you can afford to be very sloppy with the highlights. Doing it your way requires far more precision.
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Just finished part 1 of my Turnip28 project I've got going on, The Beetstie Boys  Fodder (still need a second squad of these)  Don't ever squelch at me or my son again.   Brutes & Chaff   Stump Gun   Bastards / Whelps Fun project, was able to paint way out of my usual boring historicals color range. Everything was painted almost exclusively with the Vallejo Xpress paints. I'll probably go back and add some gloss varnish to spots to drive home that damp, muddy look.
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Z the IVth posted:Off black followed by a wash means you can afford to be very sloppy with the highlights. Doing it your way requires far more precision. Fair enough
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IncredibleIgloo posted:Etsy is probably the best bet, almost all 3d printed base producers have Etsy retailers selling their bases. Is there a particular look or army you want, I can help search for something specific as I know the 3d print scene pretty well. My next project is probably going to be some Skaven, so some tactical rock piles and the occasional bricked floor are probably what I'm looking for. Any particular sellers you'd recommend? ---- Meanwhile, a dragon.    He's pretty big.  I'm really glad I did this with an airbrush and oil washes, because I would have been here a lot longer picking out each one of those scales otherwise. This is the kit that finally made me give up and drybrush like crazy, and I'm pretty happy with that part. Not so much the gap filling that completely vanished. I dunno, he looks sufficiently different from the studio schemes that I'm happy with that part, but otherwise I'm kinda meh on the big goober now that I'm done with it. My biggest surprise is that I'm happier not pushing the wings any further - I think any more detailing or patterning and they'd be distracting.
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Incredibly cool!
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Springfield Fatts posted:Just finished part 1 of my Turnip28 project I've got going on, The Beetstie Boys These little guys are great! Also I am extremely definitely not painting an imperial fist army or perhaps yellow ever again:  At least these two can hang out together in the bookshelf now 
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 *shoots 1000 needles at u*
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Can anyone point me to some good online US based sellers? I'd like to expand into Vallejo paints and I'm struggling to find someone to purchase from. I am getting back into painting after many years away and opted to try Army Painter (which I do have some now) vs Citadel. Citadel has just gotten completely unreasonable price wise. When I worked for GW it was whatever but now? No thanks. PP3 also use to be one I dabbled with, not sure how the quality is now
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Miniature Market Umbrella Games
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Painting yellow seemed fine with tamiya yellow and streaking grime but that's with an airbrush
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Tinkering around with my BT scheme and I think I've finally settled on this. I don't want to talk about how I painted the black because I fear I've done it the wrong way  Winklebottom posted:
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Count Thrashula posted:Tinkering around with my BT scheme and I think I've finally settled on this. You'll have to wait and see what the Council of Very Serious Painters says. Personally, I like it.
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