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Z the IVth posted:Yeah, this is the typical UK blade set. I don't even know what a sickle #12 blade is. I thought #12 was the one with a convex curved blade. I was referring to the #28 (which isn't in that set even though there's a spot for it, weird).  If there's another common xacto-compatible concave blade, I'm not aware of it. I usually buy mine in an office supply store, but they seem common in arts and craft stores, and sometimes hardware stores. They're commonly used for whittling and leather crafts. Hobby stores seem a bit more inconsistent, and they seem more common in stores that stock balsa models or model ships. This blade is especially handy when I'm cleaning up a model I bought second-hand. I've used one to clean a lot of visible cement welds off of the sides of torsos without removing the arms.
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khazadum posted:with these immortals and triarch stalker, I've hit 1k of necrons painted in... about 1 month and 3 weeks. yooooo I’ve gotta know how you did those bases. step by step so I can steal it please! holy poo poo those are awesome.
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Ghislaine of YOSPOS posted:yooooo I’ve gotta know how you did those bases. step by step so I can steal it please! holy poo poo those are awesome. Sure thing. I use vallejo dark earth texture paste to make the beach, and just bare plastic and resin for the water. To try to get the texture dune-like, I use a wet brush to kind of carve the dunes into the paste. Brush white primer on the water section, full opacity. Then paint the sand: Base color: vallejo game color royal purple Mid color: vallejo MODEL color royal purple Highlight: vallejo game color warlord purple Water section after sand: Have clean water for brush. I cover all white In terradon turquoise contrast. Wash brush, grab a few drops of leviadon blue contrast and drop randomly on base. Rinse brush like halfway, then go to town and basically stipple those two colors together. As you do, some of the white should poke through a bit. Stop when you're happy. You can add more contrast if needed, its very forgiving. Once painted, matte varnish, then uv resin over the water section. Gloss varnish over the resin. Add bushes, I used vallejo neon tufts. For many models I try to attach them before the resin step, so it looks like they are in the water rather than on it.
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Cease to Hope posted:I don't even know what a sickle #12 blade is. I thought #12 was the one with a convex curved blade. 12 is another concave blade. 10 and 15 are the convex blades. Great for cutting skin but pretty useless for hard materials. Both 12 and 28 aren't in general circulation in the UK. You can order them from online art shops or medical supply places but you won't find any scalpel blades in office supply and only the straight ones in art shops. Maybe a boutique art shop but not a typical high street one.
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khazadum posted:Sure thing. Awesome of you, thanks a ton.
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I finished some more plastic toy soldiers. The Dark Apostle was done (mostly) with acrylics, everything else was oils. Wanted to see if I could do "fast but passable" NMM that way.          
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Wow that red came out crazy vibrant on the Dark Apostle, I love it. Just finished up a test model for a traitor guard squad to accompany my Emperor's Children and I'm happy enough with it to do the rest of them similarly. Doing skin well is still eluding me  
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Add some warm tones into your flesh colors
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A little glaze of hull red on skin tones adds so much depth.
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The amount of paints I got is starting to get too hectic, decided to invest in a IKEA ALEX, inspired by this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czcEfovxlmo So much better  I still need to get the L shaped spacers to make it proper and nice EDIT: To not appear as heartless trash panda, here's how it looks now  The drawer wont fully extend out, leaving lots of space at the back hard to reach but already found a DIY fix for it from a cosmetics YToober: cut off a bit of the slide-rail so it extends out a bit more before stopping. Molrok fucked around with this message at 12:49 on Jul 2, 2023 |
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Cross Posting:Professor Shark posted:Well, my DIY lightbox didn't work out that great. Despite using White light it came out extremely warm.
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Nazzadan posted:Wow that red came out crazy vibrant on the Dark Apostle, I love it. Thanks! It's mostly purple and magenta, red only on the upper bits.
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Can I use plastic glue to affix new gubbins to a model that's been primed?
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SuperKlaus posted:Can I use plastic glue to affix new gubbins to a model that's been primed? Best to scrape a bit of the paint away at the contact point, plastic glue works by melting the plastic together.
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Cool I had a hunch it wouldn't work well but didn't want to strip the model. I'm just glad I'm getting remorse over modeling choices before I put real paint on.
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Spanish Manlove posted:A little glaze of hull red on skin tones adds so much depth. Sweet, I'll order some along with a few other colors of theirs
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I painted up some 6mm necrons. These guys are so fast to paint. They aren't perfect, but at just two evenings for all this, plus a bit more I didn't photo as it was redundant I'm really happy with them. 3k points will be done so fast. The bases take more time than the minis.   
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I bought a star weaver months ago and finally got around to painting it. Goddess bless those harlequin mains in 9th edition. I'm taking the one of everything approach to have fun toys to splash in craftworlds, and technically there's some flaws left (cockpit, various edges are sloppy) but I am very happy with how this turned out 
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What's the good matte varnish nowadays? Rattlecan, airbrush applied, or brush applied? (It's humid season now so I'd like to have options) Read that the old reliable tester's dullcote stopped getting sold and I'm down to my last can.
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Chill la Chill posted:What's the good matte varnish nowadays? Rattlecan, airbrush applied, or brush applied? (It's humid season now so I'd like to have options) Rust-Oleum Dead Flat is literally dullcote in bigger cans for less money (they had an exclusivity deal to make it for testors, and the deal ran out a few years ago)
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I have some pots of citadel paints that are getting to be 4+ years old and a few of them have congealed. Some of them haven't yet but they are *very* thick so I'm wondering if I should add a couple drops of water and vortex mix them to compensate a little for what moisture has evaporated. Anyone done this?
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Silhouette posted:Rust-Oleum Dead Flat is literally dullcote in bigger cans for less money (they had an exclusivity deal to make it for testors, and the deal ran out a few years ago) Rustoleum also, oddly enough, made some of their glue. They had a Model Master's series glue, the little black triangle glue, but the model master one came with a metal tip instead of plastic. I cannot find it anywhere now though, unfortunately.
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IncredibleIgloo posted:Rustoleum also, oddly enough, made some of their glue. They had a Model Master's series glue, the little black triangle glue, but the model master one came with a metal tip instead of plastic. I cannot find it anywhere now though, unfortunately. Rustoleum and Testors have been brands owned by the same parent company since 1994, fwiw.
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Spitfires posted:I have some pots of citadel paints that are getting to be 4+ years old and a few of them have congealed. Some of them haven't yet but they are *very* thick so I'm wondering if I should add a couple drops of water and vortex mix them to compensate a little for what moisture has evaporated. I've restored dried paints with a 50/50 mix of matte medium/water before (note that this will change the finish though). If it's still thick after mixing give it a day and then add some more, it can take a while of doing this but I've brought back completely dry paints before (but if they're that dry they need to crumble easily for this to work though - if the paint remains are solid or rubbery the pigment won't dissolve).
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Virtual Russian posted:I painted up some 6mm necrons. These guys are so fast to paint. They aren't perfect, but at just two evenings for all this, plus a bit more I didn't photo as it was redundant I'm really happy with them. 3k points will be done so fast. The bases take more time than the minis. I've got some of those, if you got them from where I think you did. Those look great, post the whole force when you're done!
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i don't think it's filez to discuss 3D printing new designs for a possible homebrew addition to an upcoming GW game in any event i'm a bit shocked they are bringing back epic, although the same narrowing of scope that made 30K possible makes sense here too
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Can someone help me out here. What's that GW mini called, I think it may be a double character set, but one of the guys is a lowly peon carrying a giant book, or book lectern, on his back? Had an idea for little scene, but damned if I can recall what that one is called.
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there's also chaplain grimaldus, a black templars/space marine character with some similarly themed assistants, and the paperwork servitor from the inquisitorial agents kill team. (the latter is hard to come by until it gets released as a stand-alone at some point, though.)
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The guy carrying the flaming skull has the same expression and pose as me dragging my daschund outside to pee when it’s raining.
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Chill la Chill posted:What's the good matte varnish nowadays? Rattlecan, airbrush applied, or brush applied? (It's humid season now so I'd like to have options) Winsor & Newton Galeria Matte. Can be brushed or airbrushed on. Super matte but make sure you leave it overnight before handling as it looks dry long before it's actually fully dry and you can leave fingerprints.
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Cease to Hope posted:dark apostle, it's a CSM character Cease to Hope posted:there's also chaplain grimaldus, a black templars/space marine character with some similarly themed assistants, and the paperwork servitor from the inquisitorial agents kill team. (the latter is hard to come by until it gets released as a stand-alone at some point, though.) Yes! That's the one. Thanks much. Forgot they were Chaos, but I could do a few small conversions to turn them to the Imperium. Was thinking of doing one of those "book nooks", where it looks like you've got some hidden passage on your bookshelf to a miniature scene. But do it up as a passageway in an Imperium library, with scribes and librarians and servo-skulls down a hallway stacked with bookshelves and gothic scenery.
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Silhouette posted:Rust-Oleum Dead Flat is literally dullcote in bigger cans for less money (they had an exclusivity deal to make it for testors, and the deal ran out a few years ago) Hot drat thanks a lot. Z the IVth posted:Winsor & Newton Galeria Matte. Can be brushed or airbrushed on. Super matte but make sure you leave it overnight before handling as it looks dry long before it's actually fully dry and you can leave fingerprints. Nice, is it this thing? https://www.michaels.com/product/winsor-newton-galeria-acrylic-varnish---matte-250-ml-bottle-181824950109618198 Chill la Chill fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Jul 3, 2023 |
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mllaneza posted:I've got some of those, if you got them from where I think you did. Those look great, post the whole force when you're done! Infantry and monoliths are from Trolls Under the Bridge, which is now Chaos Temple, and the obelisks I got are forumware recasts. From the quality I'd say recasts of recasts, which isn't unusual for forumware. Cease to Hope posted:i don't think it's filez to discuss 3D printing new designs for a possible homebrew addition to an upcoming GW game Definitely not filez as I bought them from the company that makes them. I'm a bit shocked too, they are up against fierce competition in the proxy market. I like the GW stuff, but it isn't better or worse than most of what is available. I like their vehicles more though, those malcador looks so good. 30k is also how they introduced epic the first time, as long as we support it I'm sure we'll see xenos. I cannot imagine they'd reintroduce it without the possibility of growing it to 40k.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Can someone help me out here. What's that GW mini called, I think it may be a double character set, but one of the guys is a lowly peon carrying a giant book, or book lectern, on his back? Had an idea for little scene, but damned if I can recall what that one is called. Stationforge has an STL for a little servitor/Jawa guy carrying a book 
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