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Good work. I have this box and they were fun to paint except for the jerk at the back. He is still sitting around primed and I can’t get the energy to slap paint on him. The pose is so boring. I’m tempted to replace the head on his mace with a stop/go sign and turn him into an undead lollipop lady.
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What do you use to make the sand dunes looking bases? I'm trying to do something like that myself and while I think it looks okay I want more defined dunes.
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Accidentally posted in the unspiration thread. Oops.Harvey Mantaco posted:Working on the magnus skin, pretty happy with it.   
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lets paint rocks   road from a strip of plasticard  test composition 
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Is there a better coverage yellow (in general or over black) nowadays or is the preferred technique still to paint a good coverage brown first and layer up?
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Chill la Chill posted:Is there a better coverage yellow (in general or over black) nowadays or is the preferred technique still to paint a good coverage brown first and layer up? Paint area an off white that covers well and is easy, then use imperial fist contrast It's the only good yellow paint but you have to use it over a light base coat.
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Any yellow paint generally needs an undercoat of white or pink (oddly enough) before going over in yellow, yeah.
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Aug 4, 2023 21:01
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weirdly what I have found works well: Undercoat of Apple Barrel yellow acrylic craft paint (which has oddly great coverage) Coat of the yellow of your choice.
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Go back in time about 20 years and stock up on GW Iyanden Darksun Foundation paint
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Silhouette posted:Go back in time about 20 years and stock up on GW Iyanden Darksun Foundation paint Averland Sunset is pretty much the same. Base Zandri Dust and go over with Averland Sunset. Wash with Seraphim sepia and highlight.
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Nebalebadingdong posted:lets paint rocks Your teeny tiny bullshit is always so good
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Z the IVth posted:Averland Sunset is pretty much the same. Base Zandri Dust and go over with Averland Sunset. I like zandri dust (or whatever khaki) then a warm off white lazily highlighted over, then iyanden yellow contrast or imperial fist contrast. Ez peasy
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Z the IVth posted:Averland Sunset is pretty much the same. Base Zandri Dust and go over with Averland Sunset. Yeah, but Iyanden Darksun was some kind of miracle paint, because you could get solid coverage over black with two coats. Of yellow. I mean it was more of a mustard than a true yellow but still! Edit: fuckin RIP Iyanden Darksun and Mechrite Red, gone before your time~
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I'm painting up a space marine army right now and I'm finding that, after I muss up my Imperial Fists yellow contrast layer with Seraphim Sepia, no amount of Vallejo Sun Yellow will cover it unless I first go grey, then white. I bought the brown tamia panel liner that Erick used in this video and I don't know what I'm doing wrong, it's so, so faint. I'd really like to use it instead of the Seraphim Sepia but it way too thin and translucent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPLHZKPR9Bc&t=960s I'd really, really like to get his method to work, because it's fast and has results I'd be perfectly happy with, but my panel liner just doesn't seem to act like his. Edit: Hmn, I'd forgotten he uses gloss varnish before the panel liner. Maybe that's my mistake.
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Panel liner really likes to go on over gloss varnish for a few reasons - one, the glossy finish makes it wick much stronger, two, it lets you wipe it off with a q-tip (and maybe alcohol, I forget) much easier so you can tidy up big open spaces, and three, when you leverage tidying up open spaces and spills with a q-tip, you can apply it more heavily to get darker tints.
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Man, despite his various degrees of vocal fry, I could watch Eric's Hobby Workshop all day. I sincerely hope he continues to be a successful hobby youtuber and doesn't end up becoming unbearable like all the rest after reaching a high level of patreon followers.
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Is gloss varnish something I can buy at a home improvement store, like a spray on clear coat or something? I'll go get some tomorrow. Checking out the Duncan video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSKkwDRzuTw Jack B Nimble fucked around with this message at 05:26 on Aug 5, 2023 |
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Jack B Nimble posted:Is gloss varnish something I can buy at a home improvement store, like a spray on clear coat or something? I'll go get some tomorrow. That's exactly it, but you could also use whatever Future Floor Wax is called now as well. Just make sure that if your do go the rattlecan route, that you make sure it's a) glossy and b) clear. Don't accidentally hit your painted model with some gloss off-white because people switched the caps before putting them back. 
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  Continuing to paint the Fyreslayers boxed set I picked up!
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Aniodia posted:That's exactly it, but you could also use whatever Future Floor Wax is called now as well. Just make sure that if your do go the rattlecan route, that you make sure it's a) glossy and b) clear. Don't accidentally hit your painted model with some gloss off-white because people switched the caps before putting them back. A friend of mine once mixed up the caps on his own cans of clear varnish and black primer he got so pissed that he just silently dumped the models in the trash lmao
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AP Daemonic Yellow is a good regular yellow. Still needs white or pink or khaki under it because all yellows are translucent and turn green when painted over blue, but it's fine. The skull white undercoat experiment is chugging along and honestly, if you can’t spray prime for whatever reason just brushing on whatever for an undercoat is fine, actually. Just paint some dudes, they'll be fine. 
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I really like Averland Sunset, it's such a nice muted yellow over something off white and it's golden enough over white. That said I really hate using yellow in my own art...
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Ah drat. Iyanden dark sun sounds familiar and I think I had it at one point but I think I gave my leftovers to a friend when I took a break from painting minis. Thanks for the tips. Is the off white of choice still VMC ivory and deck tan? I have notes here but I forget if those had good coverage or were just really good for mixing and off white highlights. Also since I’m at it, P3 Cygnus yellow was good to me as a non chalky yellow and was recommended back in the old threads. Is there an equivalent in dropper bottle form? I’ve tried contrast paints and while I could try the yellow suggested, I wasn’t really a fan of the brush technique used to apply them. Leaving the brush in contact with the model and trying not to go over the same spot twice lest you disturb the film is the opposite of what I normally do.
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AP Desert Yellow is a nicely covering tan/mustard yellow, and AP Skeleton Bone is a completely okay sandy white that I do all my highlights with.
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Oh can I ask, for those here that have done industrial safety chevrons on models, what a good approach is to it? First time I tried freehanding black over the yellow, and it was ok, I had better luck with a fineline pen, but I'm thinking next time to try some tape, all I have is electrical tape atm but I'm a bit concerned about stripping paint off the model when I remove it
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Modellers masking tape from Tamiya for masking. Or just get good at freehand with black (mix ink into paint, have a steady hand)
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Shoehead posted:Oh can I ask, for those here that have done industrial safety chevrons on models, what a good approach is to it? First time I tried freehanding black over the yellow, and it was ok, I had better luck with a fineline pen, but I'm thinking next time to try some tape, all I have is electrical tape atm but I'm a bit concerned about stripping paint off the model when I remove it For large flat areas, masking tape. For small curved bits like space marine shoulder pads, just freehand it. I've found that them being straight actually matters less than them being consistently thick with the alternating black and yellow stripes being the same thickness. As a general rule, never paint yellow over black. What I do is start with black, do the stripe with a caucasian flesh tone, and then do the yellow over that. I then tidy the stripe up with the black again if it looks wonky - Since I'm doing chaos guys, I tend to make it look intentionally a bit messy by doing it with irregular dots.
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Shoehead posted:Oh can I ask, for those here that have done industrial safety chevrons on models, what a good approach is to it? First time I tried freehanding black over the yellow, and it was ok, I had better luck with a fineline pen, but I'm thinking next time to try some tape, all I have is electrical tape atm but I'm a bit concerned about stripping paint off the model when I remove it One neat trick I just learnt is to use watercolours to sketch before you freehand. They'll wash off with a wet brush so you can adjust your lines until you're happy before you paint them with acrylics.
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Chill la Chill posted:Ah drat. Iyanden dark sun sounds familiar and I think I had it at one point but I think I gave my leftovers to a friend when I took a break from painting minis. Thanks for the tips. Imperial Fist alongside a few other contrasts are not as contrasty because they are single pigment and operate more like a glaze and you have a decent amount of working time to use it. It genuinely is worth a try even if you've had a negative experience with contrast before. I personally like to use it over Golden Brown for my yellows. There's a lot of dropper bottle ranges now! They're all pretty good. The newly formulated Vallejo Game Color might be worth looking into. I'm really enjoying using the AK Gen 3 acrylic range. The deck tan they have is just lovely. People also really like the Pro Acryl range from monument
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Jack B Nimble posted:Is gloss varnish something I can buy at a home improvement store, like a spray on clear coat or something? I'll go get some tomorrow. Go to an art store and you can find all sorts of neat stuff like crackle medium by the tub and Gloss/Satin/Matte Acrylic varnishes.
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RE Future, if you want to use floor polish as your varnish coat, go with God, but just be aware that primordial modelers picked it up at a time when you couldn't find reliable sources of cheap acrylic varnish shipped to your door for pocket money. It doesn't have magical properties or anything.
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Harvey Mantaco posted:Accidentally posted in the unspiration thread. Oops. Wow, really incredible work so far! Looking forward to seeing the finished model.
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grassy gnoll posted:RE Future, if you want to use floor polish as your varnish coat, go with God, but just be aware that primordial modelers picked it up at a time when you couldn't find reliable sources of cheap acrylic varnish shipped to your door for pocket money. It doesn't have magical properties or anything. On the flipside, I did a wash of 4 parts Pledge Floor Care to 1 drop of indigo ink and it flowed right into the recesses of the Ultramarine I was painting, with nary a sign of pooling or any splotchy parts on flat surfaces. Especially when compared to the Army Painter Blue Tone wash I had applied to a couple of other figures, which did have these things happen.
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grassy gnoll posted:RE Future, if you want to use floor polish as your varnish coat, go with God, but just be aware that primordial modelers picked it up at a time when you couldn't find reliable sources of cheap acrylic varnish shipped to your door for pocket money. It doesn't have magical properties or anything. It's self leveling and water thin, so yeah it kinda does
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Mr.Fuzzywig posted:What do you use to make the sand dunes looking bases? I'm trying to do something like that myself and while I think it looks okay I want more defined dunes. I used this technique, which uses drywall filler. The "use eyedropper to wet the surface" step is the most important; don't neglect that.
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Silhouette posted:It's self leveling and water thin, so yeah it kinda does It's magical property is that everyone used it exclusively for a long time so there are tons of valid recipes that utilize it instead of purpose made varnishes. I still use it to make bulk washes because I have no idea what recipe to use to make it with anything else.
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 Not done, but I can't do anything to them until the oil wash fully dries, so... basically they can sit on the shelf for a week or two before I go back to use contrast paints to fully darken little flat plastic planes that connect some of the legs together, and maybe apply slight highlights to some of the front legs. Might also reinforce the glow more, but that could be gilding the lily. In retrospect I should have blacked out the spots between legs after doing the metal and glow but before doing the oil wash, but I was impatient. The plan was to have glowing green spots directly underneath the scarabs to create the impression they were projecting light downward underneath them, but I hosed up a bunch of the dot positions and also made the glowing spots both too small and probably too bright, so lesson learned. Not going back to fix it -- they look fine, are already glued in place, and I can always do my other six scarab swarms better if I ever get around to doing them. (And yeah, I hosed up the direction of the sand dunes on the one on the lower right. Oh, well. "Oh, well" is my motto for these Necrons, to be honest.)
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Crosspost:Assessor of Maat posted:Finished that apothecary off:
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