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What would everyone's choices for these hex codes be for colors as close to, but with contrast paint? Blue: 5BCEFA Pink: F5A9B8 So far I'm thinking Citadel Frostheart for Blue, and Vallejo Xpress Cardinal Purple but was wanting some more input, since it doesn't quite match exactly. Maybe Speedpaint Princess Pink? The hard requirement here is contrast-style
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Citadel Frostheart for sure. Maybe Citadel Magos Purple but it's not perfect.
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Sep 13, 2023 22:45
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I've yet to find a good, actually pink, contrast.
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Sep 13, 2023 22:49
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Geisladisk posted:Do you not feel like painting the model anymore, and does it look pretty good? I get the former a lot, but I'm not sure any of my battletech duders meet the criteria for the latter 
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Sep 13, 2023 22:52
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GreenBuckanneer posted:What would everyone's choices for these hex codes be for colors as close to, but with contrast paint? Get some watercolours that match and some acrylic medium. A decent cerulean should answer, with a touch of ink if you want the full vibrancy. For the pink, try a permanent rose or rose madder. The overall result, with a touch of flow improver, will behave reasonably like a contrast paint and give you far more precise colour control.
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Sep 14, 2023 00:16
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You can also buy contrast medium if you want to use the citadel product for creating your own.
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Sep 14, 2023 00:33
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Loomer posted:Get some watercolours that match and some acrylic medium. A decent cerulean should answer, with a touch of ink if you want the full vibrancy. For the pink, try a permanent rose or rose madder. The overall result, with a touch of flow improver, will behave reasonably like a contrast paint and give you far more precise colour control. I was hoping for an out of the box solution since I want to do an entire army this way lol
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Sep 14, 2023 00:36
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GreenBuckanneer posted:What would everyone's choices for these hex codes be for colors as close to, but with contrast paint? Here is a guide with every speedpaint on the market (and some you can't get any more).
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Sep 14, 2023 01:11
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Spanish Manlove posted:I've yet to find a good, actually pink, contrast. I mean, speedpaint 2.0 princess pink looks real nice.
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NinjaDebugger posted:I mean, speedpaint 2.0 princess pink looks real nice. I immediately went to miniaturemarket and checked if they had this in stock. Thanks for the recommendation.
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Sep 14, 2023 01:27
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NinjaDebugger posted:I mean, speedpaint 2.0 princess pink looks real nice. Yeah I just ordered one from a different store they had like one left, I mean honestly I've been spending a lot of my recent paint jobs with contrast paints and for all intents and purposes they're fine I'm not obviously getting the practice down on the blending and glazing part that gets me back up to the midtones but for right now I'm getting my minis done that's all I really care about right now. I'm super excited for these paints to come in cuz while I have the right paints now to do it more traditionally I do want to kind of do the entire army in those colors so it's going to behoove me to figure out a simple method to do this
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Yeah I just ordered one from a different store they had like one left, I mean honestly I've been spending a lot of my recent paint jobs with contrast paints and for all intents and purposes they're fine I'm not obviously getting the practice down on the blending and glazing part that gets me back up to the midtones but for right now I'm getting my minis done that's all I really care about right now. No shade from me. I use speed paints occasionally even when I'm otherwise painting entirely with artist acrylics, they just make a fantastic and extremely predictable wash, and take highlights super well. I do most of my Tortle shells with them, and they do an excellent job of bargain bin NMM if you know how to use 'em right.
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Having a lot of fun painting Lion El'Johnson just now, used Nazdreg Yellow for the first time and wow is it nice, like NMM in a pot. Is they a grey/silver counterpart with that level of contrast? I'm avoiding metallic paint in my Marine army. Have to take issue with the name though. By naming it after Nazdreg I would imagine it to be bright solid yellow, as in the yellow painted on Nazdreg's and Bad Moon armor, name this one after a Custode dude or something. Whilst we're at it, it seems pretty crazy to not only have Striking Scorpion Green and Karandras (A Striking Scorpion) Green in the range, but to have them be adjacent contrast colors.
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NinjaDebugger posted:No shade from me. But aren't speed paints all shade?
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I did a thing. I don't know how useful it is.  (Phantom Grey looking brighter than the colors around it is a function of it being much more glossy than the surrounding paints, and is misleading.)
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huh, whats the inspo for the colour scheme?
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!amicable posted:huh, whats the inspo for the colour scheme? I love videogame cultists, like from Blood and the Las Plaga from RE4. But Satanic cultists especially so that's were the black, red and purple come from. I've decided to like work backwards from that and say the red is for workers and the purple is for genestealers. The blue/grey harness I had a weird shade of brown/peach, trying to make it look kind of plastic, but I tried again with this colour and liked it way more. It ended up working out for the wolf quad I did too
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Finished my ice trolls and ogre, thanks for the advice on their skin, it came out nice I think!     Next project is a cabal of coloured mage I think
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 I think this is done but I couldn't really figure out how to do NMM properly, oh well
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I’ve painted up the first test a miniature for my BattleTech mercenary company - the mechs I have painted so far has been very bright colours and so I wanted something natural or camouflage. I saw this camo scheme from World War II and I thought it was too good to pass up: When I did a bit of research, I found there was lots of individual variation, which should mean that painting the rest of the mechs stays interesting - just yellow, yellow and green, tiger stripes, etc. Southern Heel fucked around with this message at 10:28 on Sep 15, 2023 |
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Finished up another Cultist tonight    Arms, gun and head from Anvil Industries again.
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Do airbrushes require ventilation? I'm trying to find a way to prime models during Winter in the northeast.
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a pale ghost posted:Do airbrushes require ventilation? I'm trying to find a way to prime models during Winter in the northeast. yeah. you should be able to find a hood/shroud setup that works, though.
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a pale ghost posted:Do airbrushes require ventilation? I'm trying to find a way to prime models during Winter in the northeast. Find yourself an Airbrush Booth, it's just a box with a fan pulling air into a filter. So any fumes in the box go through the filter instead of spraying back out over you.
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Shoehead posted:I love videogame cultists, like from Blood and the Las Plaga from RE4. But Satanic cultists especially so that's were the black, red and purple come from. I've decided to like work backwards from that and say the red is for workers and the purple is for genestealers. huh, obviously colour schemes are all over the place, but I also came up with a similar combo. But I based mine off an obscure armour set in Anarchy Online. And then later realized it was also Magneto colours. Stealing superhero or sports team colour schemes is always a good move. Ill post some finished pics, cause its been WAYYYYY too long since Ive been around these parts.
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a pale ghost posted:Do airbrushes require ventilation? I'm trying to find a way to prime models during Winter in the northeast. Airbrush booth, 3M ventilator mask, and if you're doing it in the winter and don't want to open two windows and set up fans for a breeze you'll want something like a HEPA filter to scrub the room's air clean afterwards. (Also keep in mind a HEPA filter takes time to clean the air, so you'll want to keep wearing the mask for a bit even after you've stopped airbrushing.) Airbrushes are great and arranging ventilation is doable even if you can't do it in a room with an extractor fan, but you will not enjoy the long-term effects of skimping on this. Fortunately, or, rather unfortunately generally but fortunately for this specific circumstance, we live in a time when plentiful instructions exist for how to build cheap effective HEPA filters if you don't want to buy an expensive branded one. Stephenls fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Sep 16, 2023 |
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Shoehead posted:Anvil Industries Yeah.. it was the wrong arm... I have to stop building these guys when I'm really tired after work
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Stephenls posted:Airbrush booth, 3M ventilator mask, and if you're doing it in the winter and don't want to open two windows and set up fans for a breeze you'll want something like a HEPA filter to scrub the room's air clean afterwards. (Also keep in mind a HEPA filter takes time to clean the air, so you'll want to keep wearing the mask for a bit even after you've stopped airbrushing.) Airbrushes are great and arranging ventilation is doable even if you can't do it in a room with an extractor fan, but you will not enjoy the long-term effects of skimping on this. Is this really required if one only ever sprays acrylics?
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No. You should ideally wear a mask, and crack a window if you have one.
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Lumpy posted:Is this really required if one only ever sprays acrylics? depends on how you feel about emphysema
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Lumpy posted:Is this really required if one only ever sprays acrylics? You don't want to breathe paint, regardless of the type.
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Lumpy posted:Is this really required if one only ever sprays acrylics? The HEPA filter is a bit extra, the booth is recommended, but the mask is absolutely mandatory. You can get away with just the mask, but I'd open the window and leave the room (or keep the mask on) for fifteen minutes or so while the particulates settle and/or get blown out after spraying. Just be aware all that acrylic is going to come down as dust and your room will get dusty as hell without the booth. Geisladisk fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Sep 17, 2023 |
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Is a KN95 adequate for airbrushing acrylics? I have a full on respirator but it gets really uncomfortable, especially in comparison to my 95s.
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rantmo posted:Is a KN95 adequate for airbrushing acrylics? Yes.
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Yeast posted:Yes. It should go without saying but don't loving airbrush heavy metals like cadmium without a full protective setup.
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Count Thrashula posted:You don't want to breathe paint, regardless of the type. Right, but if you have a booth pulling it into a filter, and you are wearing an N95 mask, you aren't breathing acrylics right? Not trying to be argumentative, just seeing if what I do is actually adequate for what I do, which is all ASTM conforming acrylics.
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Finished a Leto II as a gift for a friend.
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Lumpy posted:Right, but if you have a booth pulling it into a filter, and you are wearing an N95 mask, you aren't breathing acrylics right? Not trying to be argumentative, just seeing if what I do is actually adequate for what I do, which is all ASTM conforming acrylics. The spray booth isn't pulling in all the particulates, just most of them. I had a discussion about this with a friend who is a professionally trained artist, and she had this to say: "Non-toxic" means "Has not been determined to be toxic via testing." Most art supply ingredients have not been tested for that, and there's little incentive to do so. By default, assume all art supplies are trying to kill you. She won't even be in a room with an open bottle of plastic cement without good air flow and a respirator. As mini painters we work with very small quantities of these things. It will probably be fine. (I don't wear a respirator when working with plastic cement, although I do always do it with good airflow.) But I hosed up my lungs for about a year spraying Vallejo Metal Colors for a few weeks in a room with a spray booth and a respirator but no HEPA filter. Eventually I got better but I'm not doing that again. So, as I said, you will not enjoy the long-term consequences of treating this lightly. Once you have the setup it's fine. I love my airbrushes. A HEPA filter doesn't take up that much space, and you don't need it if you're doing it next to an open window and there's a good breeze. (But, again, if you're getting an airbrush so you can prime in winter, you probably don't want an open window.) Do not skip the mask and probably don't skip the spray booth either. You don't need to go overboard but it's also important to treat the activity seriously. Stephenls fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Sep 17, 2023 |
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NinjaDebugger posted:It should go without saying but don't loving airbrush heavy metals like cadmium without a full protective setup. or ever. this is not calling out NDB, i just do not want anyone to innovate new goony ways of causing yourself brain damage. cadmium or cobalt or any other traditional toxic pigment does not go in the airbrush. azo dyes are fine, you do not care about your colors fading in 2063. this is never a thing you need to worry about with craft paints or hobby paints that are not 20 years old though
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