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AndyElusive posted:Ya but if the motor on yours breaks, the alternative isn't going to cause you to collapse. You're shaking a 12 ml pot of paint for 10 seconds, not a 13lb 4L metal can of house paint. I feel like you're making up a guy and getting mad at him right now.
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AndyElusive posted:Ya but if the motor on yours breaks, the alternative isn't going to cause you to collapse. You're shaking a 12 ml pot of paint for 10 seconds, not a 13lb 4L metal can of house paint. It's going to take a lot more than 10 seconds to take this bottle of paint from this  to this  Even on a vortex mixer it took about 3 to 4 minutes, but the only effort expended on my part was "hold it in place", instead of "shaking my arm like I'm prepping for the Onanism Olympics"
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tangy yet delightful posted:I feel like you're making up a guy and getting mad at him right now. I feel like you're assuming I'm getting mad about you guys being upset that someone told you to shake a pot of paint with your hand and that's far from the truth. Sydney Bottocks posted:Even on a vortex mixer it took about 3 to 4 minutes, but the only effort expended on my part was "hold it in place", instead of "shaking my arm like I'm prepping for the Onanism Olympics" Ok well when the motor on your cheapo mixer fails wait until your replacement shows up then before taking on the monumental task of bringing all the paints you don't use back up to snuff. I'm not telling you what to do with your life my dude.
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AndyElusive posted:I feel like you're assuming I'm getting mad about you guys being upset that someone told you to shake a pot of paint with your hand and that's far from the truth. "I'm not telling you what to do with your life my dude, I'm just saying that you guys who use vortex mixers are lazy shits who are throwing your money away, instead of jacking your paints off in the air like a real painter should. No I'm clearly not mad about this at all"
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Sydney Bottocks posted:I'm just saying that you guys who use vortex mixers are lazy shits who are throwing your money away, instead of jacking your paints off in the air like a real painter should. No I'm clearly not mad about this at all 
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The point is, if you truly didn't care what people did or didn't do in an effort to mix their paints, you wouldn't have made a snarky comment like AndyElusive posted:I love when goons talk like shaking a pot of separated modeling acrylic paint without a vortex mixer is as dangerous as throwing chain on an oil rig. E: However we should probably leave this argument here, because this isn't in the spirit of the thread (which is helping people get their minis painted and showing off their work). I apologize for my part in contributing to the contentious atmosphere. Sydney Bottocks fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Sep 22, 2023 |
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Ahahaha honestly you think that shaking your paint bottles is so beneath you?? Really????
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Vortex mixers are a useful tool, but not a necessary one. I've got a few paints that settle so badly the Vortex mixer saves me enough time to be worth the investment. Apothecary White is just the worst, and so is everything with apothecary white mixed into it.
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I bought a bag of glass slingshot bullets and chuck 2-3 of them into any disagreeable paint bottle, and it makes pretty much any paint mix well with a quick manual shake.
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Jesus Christ you all sound like toddlers. Post cool things you’ve painted recently. Please, I beg you. 
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Yeast posted:Jesus Christ you all sound like toddlers. Before I give you feedback, I need to know how your paints were shaken....
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Never gonna claims a Vortex mixer is necessary, but they're super handy of you paint intermittently or want to make sure your paints super perfect for an airbrush. I had to take a break and a lot of my bottles had some nasty clogs/seperation which it was helping with a ton. Of which, I'm finalling swapping my paints from the angled upside down storage setup I was using. It was creating a ton of clogs for me because the pigment was settling in the tips of my dropper bottles. Now I'm slowly piecing together this modular setup which has been a lot nicer so far. Just need to print out some storage bins to slide underneath and handle a bit of organization.  
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Lumpy posted:Before I give you feedback, I need to know how your paints were shaken.... I had my infant son hold the bottle then I vigorously shook him
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Wow that looks awesome. I love the camo pattern -- very recognizable as camo but bold enough to not look super busy and muddled. Can we see the front of the mini too?
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Can anyone recommend a budget light for me to get started with? Most of the rooms in the house arent hugely well lit so I definitely need a bright desk lamp to work with of some kind. Around 40-50 GBP. Also, while looking close up at my newly assembled minis I realised my up close sight isnt what it used to be. Is it ok to use a pair of reading glasses when painting or am I going to cause trouble down the line?
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Asciana posted:Can anyone recommend a budget light for me to get started with? Most of the rooms in the house arent hugely well lit so I definitely need a bright desk lamp to work with of some kind. Around 40-50 GBP. Also, while looking close up at my newly assembled minis I realised my up close sight isnt what it used to be. Is it ok to use a pair of reading glasses when painting or am I going to cause trouble down the line? Ikea tertials are a super good budget route. Pick up a couple and throw some decent bulb In there w00tmonger fucked around with this message at 04:50 on Sep 23, 2023 |
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AndyElusive posted:I love when goons talk like shaking a pot of separated modeling acrylic paint without a vortex mixer is as dangerous as throwing chain on an oil rig. I dunno man, I’m phone posting from the engine room of a container ship and you’d better believe I’ve got a vortex mixer sitting on my desk back up in my cabin. 
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Not mine, but there's some solid techniques here, so I'll share it, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNRIxaACnqk
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Asciana posted:Also, while looking close up at my newly assembled minis I realised my up close sight isnt what it used to be. Is it ok to use a pair of reading glasses when painting or am I going to cause trouble down the line? Absolutely not. The converse is true. Straining your eyes to see something small instead of wearing your glasses can make your eyesight worse. Wear your specs. Or get a big gently caress off magnifying thing and still wear your specs. That’s what i do.
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To celebrate the buffing of deathguard I printed an up to date version of an old custom character i made as a little kid out of a cobbled together ork, coldone rider, abaddon and an avatar arm (no idea where i got the avatar hand from).    i kitbashed with a lot of the same bits and did some custom sculpting on the dino and body, the rider's head is my own sculpt sadly he's a counts-as daemon prince which kinda sucks on the table but i do like how he came out, the hosed up sad fat dino especially
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Asciana posted:Also, while looking close up at my newly assembled minis I realised my up close sight isnt what it used to be. Is it ok to use a pair of reading glasses when painting or am I going to cause trouble down the line? I have a magnifier headband thing that I wear throughout the building and painting processes and it's been a real game changer. Wish I had done that years ago.
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finished my PsychoPhage! what do you guys think? would love comments and critiques!    
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I’m having a weird airbrush problem I was hoping the brain trust could help me with. I’m not getting any airflow through the valve below the trigger. The valve itself appears to be functioning, but for some reason the trigger no longer depresses it enough to let air through. I have no idea how this could happen - it stopped working mid-session, I didn’t drop it or anything, and neither the valve nor the trigger are visibly damaged. Has anyone run into this? https://i.imgur.com/ZmRfs1g.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/HRwaRdR.mp4
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Beffer posted:Absolutely not. The converse is true. Straining your eyes to see something small instead of wearing your glasses can make your eyesight worse. Wear your specs. Or get a big gently caress off magnifying thing and still wear your specs. That’s what i do. I've got my regular prescription lenses, but for really small stuff I have some cheap 2.25 and 4.0 reading glasses. The 4.0s are amazing, parts even my regularly glasses can't focus on are suddenly huge. Everything outside of their focal range is hilariously blurry, but for sitting and working on something it's a non-issue.
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Took a huge painting break while handling a loved ones cancer finally getting the upper-hand. Posted the begining of this a while ago. I wanted to go further but I'm so burnt out with non-hobby stuff I kind of just wanted to finish him.    
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Harvey Mantaco posted:Took a huge painting break while handling a loved ones cancer finally getting the upper-hand. Posted the begining of this a while ago. I wanted to go further but I'm so burnt out with non-hobby stuff I kind of just wanted to finish him. HOLY GUACAMOLE Thats beyond incredible!!!
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Harvey Mantaco posted:Took a huge painting break while handling a loved ones cancer finally getting the upper-hand. Posted the begining of this a while ago. I wanted to go further but I'm so burnt out with non-hobby stuff I kind of just wanted to finish him. Yeah that's a really nice bit of work, props on getting to the finish line! Sorry about cancer being a POS to those you love 
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There's nothing in the book that says Magnus can't be a giant sculpted Mezoamerican god
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Harvey Mantaco posted:Took a huge painting break while handling a loved ones cancer finally getting the upper-hand. Posted the begining of this a while ago. I wanted to go further but I'm so burnt out with non-hobby stuff I kind of just wanted to finish him. B-e-a-utiful, what's your recipe for the iridescent purple?
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Harvey Mantaco posted:Took a huge painting break while handling a loved ones cancer finally getting the upper-hand. Posted the begining of this a while ago. I wanted to go further but I'm so burnt out with non-hobby stuff I kind of just wanted to finish him. That's exceptional. Just the way the tabard is lit up just makes me want to cry out of envy
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Absolutely gorgeous, and condolences for what you and your loved ones are going through. Painted up a loyalist space marine (for the first time, I miss my spikes already) for my Wrath and Glory campaign, also went and grabbed some cork to try and spice up my bases. He's from the Iron Champions chapter, a successor of the Executioners that I thought looked pretty cool.   
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10mm halflings finished https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-halflings-militia-10mm-314206          
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Ballbot5000 posted:B-e-a-utiful, what's your recipe for the iridescent purple? Video on my yt channel shows the application, but the gist is a dark purple base, then build up lines of a more lilac purple or genestealer purple darkened by the original color, then add magenta into that, then finally white. Each color change gets a new pass of lines coming out at 45 degrees from the pinion (?) of the feather. Then I do a pass of purple wash to unify, trying to keep it mostly towards the center of the feather. Same thing with the other side of the feather but with dark blue->ice blue->lemon white->glaze with blue Probably not the best way, took forever. I also had the lines coming out of the feathers at 90 degrees and had to redo it at one point so ugghhh Thanks for the kind words everyone.
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Sorry Harvey Mantaco, I’m only going to associate your Magnus with this video now: https://youtu.be/_JMpWeguZdc?si=ZiVAURqYT4ec2YZQ
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About a year ago, I posted some kitbashed minis that I had been working on for fun https://imgur.com/a/IOvTThY and people suggested that they would be great for solo games like Five parsecs. I have recently followed up on that suggestion and been kitbashing more minis for solo games. Here are some of the ones that I'm most pleased with: Mercs & Bandits https://imgur.com/a/wGIeIMP     Explorers https://imgur.com/a/3OSVahh     Sci-Fi NPC's https://imgur.com/mRemT8C   
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