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Thanks both!Cease to Hope posted:i love the big creepy monsters striding through the idyllic fields of flowers I like that sort of mismatch it gives and there's just something that feels very 40k about bad things happening to nice places - not every planet can be Armageddon.
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When using a wet palette, how long does it take for your paints to dry out when it's left uncovered? Mine seem to dry up after a few hours and I don't know if that's usual or if I should try new baking paper (yes it's unwaxed parchment paper) Edit: few hours to be is about 7-8 with it uncovered and filled with water 99% of the way to the top of the sponge Spanish Manlove fucked around with this message at 01:23 on Oct 14, 2023 |
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I'll have 2-3 hour painting sessions and never will my paint dry on the palette, more likely that it would get too thin for me depending on what paint and what I'm doing. I use the army painter palette with their foam and paper.
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Oct 14, 2023 01:17
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tangy yet delightful posted:I'll have 2-3 hour painting sessions and never will my paint dry on the palette, more likely that it would get too thin for me depending on what paint and what I'm doing. I use the army painter palette with their foam and paper. I have been having a heck of a time keeping my paints from getting too wet using that same thing It works pretty great on the whole, but I really need to figure it out because it's super annoying lol
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Oct 14, 2023 03:49
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I struggle to keep mine wet. Standing water around the edges of the foam, dots of paint I pull from and thin with water. I am in California though so I am right on the tail end of summer where it was constantly triple digits out so probably just a climate thing, maybe I need a humidifier in my painting room.
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Oct 14, 2023 04:44
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I may be about to pick up a paintbrush for the first time in around eleven years. Has paint moved on much in that time? Am I missing out much by digging out my box of old Citadel (some very old) and Coat D'Arms rather than getting a new range?
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Oct 14, 2023 07:12
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Muir posted:They'll never unseat Citadel, but if they dramatically increase their quality in one leap like they're claiming to, they've already got the market presence to push out others like Pro Acryl, and to make a decent go at Vallejo especially with some of the latter's recent distribution issues. Between the quality increase, being able to buy a full set, dropper bottles, triad system, and the SpeedPaint 2.0 style shade and intensity descriptions on the bottles...I'd replace my Citadel pots with this in a heartbeat.
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Oct 14, 2023 07:27
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Roller Coast Guard posted:I may be about to pick up a paintbrush for the first time in around eleven years. Has paint moved on much in that time? Am I missing out much by digging out my box of old Citadel (some very old) and Coat D'Arms rather than getting a new range? there's a lot more competition, and some of it is really great. (particularly pro acryl, a british store's store brand, and two thin coats, duncan rhodes's brand.) there's a new kind of paint, contrast paints. (that's citadel's name, every other brand has their own name for it.) they're halfway between a wash and a glaze, creating a smooth translucent color on high points and flat surfaces while pooling a more opaque color in recesses. the main use for them is as an easy painting method. citadel has revamped their line several times in the meantime so you may find some colors are discontinued or changed, but there are lots of equivalency guides if you look. coat d'arms is still fine. Cease to Hope fucked around with this message at 07:54 on Oct 14, 2023 |
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Oct 14, 2023 07:35
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Roller Coast Guard posted:I may be about to pick up a paintbrush for the first time in around eleven years. Has paint moved on much in that time? Am I missing out much by digging out my box of old Citadel (some very old) and Coat D'Arms rather than getting a new range? Just thin them.
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Oct 14, 2023 07:53
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if your white paint was citadel do yourself a favour and buy a new one - vallejo model color white is good, pro acryl bold titanium white also gets a great rep. that citadel white was probably garbage when you bought it and it will almost certainly be unusable by now
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Oct 14, 2023 08:19
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just buy a tube of titanium white from an artist line. i bought a 60ml of Liquitex heavy body titanium white on sale for less than what a citadel pot costs
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I actually regret salvaging some of my old Citadel paints because I discovered I love how Liche Purple blends as a midtone over deep purple and every alternate colour I can find for it is off slightly and my brain hates it
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Roller Coast Guard posted:I may be about to pick up a paintbrush for the first time in around eleven years. Has paint moved on much in that time? Am I missing out much by digging out my box of old Citadel (some very old) and Coat D'Arms rather than getting a new range? Theres always going to be a new hotness in paints, but if your old paints were fine a decade ago, they will be fine now (if they havent dried out). The only really big development you've missed (I'm not counting "paint company comes out with more paints which they say are better than their old ones" as a big development) is the release of contrast paints/speedpaints/Xpress paints (different names, different brands with slightly different behaviours but the same general concept). Just go on youtube and put "contrast paint" or "speedpaint 2.0" in the search, you'll find a million videos of someone doing an insufferable 3 minute skit then showing how they work. Basic concept is "paint over a white undercoat with one coat and it replaces basecoat and wash (and possibly highlights depending on the paint) in one". though there are other uses/tricks you can do with them. Good tool to have, but nothing wrong with sticking to basecoat, wash and highlight with regular paints either.
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I'm a sucker and those AP paints look pretty dang good If anyone sees any word from non-affilated painters or get any personal experience with the paints, please share
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Oct 14, 2023 13:07
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  Little techmarine action to prep for the new Iron
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Finally got started on my Alberto competition entry. Two weeks deadline should be motivating.
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Spanish Manlove posted:When using a wet palette, how long does it take for your paints to dry out when it's left uncovered? Mine seem to dry up after a few hours and I don't know if that's usual or if I should try new baking paper (yes it's unwaxed parchment paper) My paints thin out too much to be usable as anything but washes within 30 minutes and are dry on the paper within an hour. "A few hours" is pretty good by comparison, lol.
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Devorum posted:Between the quality increase, being able to buy a full set, dropper bottles, triad system, and the SpeedPaint 2.0 style shade and intensity descriptions on the bottles...I'd replace my Citadel pots with this in a heartbeat. Oh, I don’t mean that they won’t be better than Citadel in terms of quality, I’m just talking about market share.
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black templar painters, how do you guys get the gold/bronze chest piece? the website lists brass scorpion, but i always get way darker results when using it.
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My Spirit Otter posted:black templar painters, how do you guys get the gold/bronze chest piece? the website lists brass scorpion, but i always get way darker results when using it. My recipe for a dirty gold / bronze: P3 blighted gold or Scale75 Necro gold Agrax wash, or sepia wash or a fleshtone wash. Depends on the overall color goal. Layer the base back on any flat areas, leaving some shadows and variety with the wash AK bronze highlight on upward facing areas (can sub something like retributor armor or a lighter equivalent) AK old gold edge highlights (can use any bright gold for this step) 
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Spanish Manlove posted:My recipe for a dirty gold / bronze: i appreciate ya. i want try this with auric armour to get a lighter colour, but auric armour is kind of a bitch to get on
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My Spirit Otter posted:black templar painters, how do you guys get the gold/bronze chest piece? the website lists brass scorpion, but i always get way darker results when using it. https://eavy-archive.com/40k/space-marines/ BT are first, but they list the brass for that cool Chaplain. You can probably find something similar to what you want among the other chapters.
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My Spirit Otter posted:i appreciate ya. i want try this with auric armour to get a lighter colour, but auric armour is kind of a bitch to get on Lightly stipple auric armor over another gold as a highlight and it'll look super shiny but have a lot of depth to it and look way more interesting than just pure auric armor then a wash
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I just put some gunmetal down, then brass, then gold, and then drybrush silver. Vallejo Gunmetal Vallejo Brassy Brass Pro Acryl Rich Gold (though I used to use citadel Retributor) Vallejo Silver If I remember, I wash before the drybrush with some druchi violet.
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Finished the celestian sacresant my fiancee was kind enough to let me paint! First time trying flame and any kind of source lighting, both for the blue orbs and the candles. Turned out alright considering I didn't go on youtube for a guide, just improvised based on pictures from infinitely better painters! Any critique or tips are welcome as always    
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Learned to properly use masks to digibash a colour scheme for my "Azrael" I considered using chaplain colours for all of my senior characters (I applied it to my Apothacary Biologis rather than have a white dude among all my bone white dudes) but I *think* I'm going this way, quite like the black robe, helps it look like someone besides Azrael and I don't know if I can make a full purple one look good. Here's the other scheme anyway; Don't know why my bone colour looks so much like Milkybar.  What do we think? Side note; Watchers In The Dark are depicted as having little Dark Angels power armor feet which goes unremarked upon. Should mine have those green feet or is it fair to assume other Unforgiven Chapters get their own weird little four-dimensional space gremlins?
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Nazzadan posted:I struggle to keep mine wet. Standing water around the edges of the foam, dots of paint I pull from and thin with water. I am in California though so I am right on the tail end of summer where it was constantly triple digits out so probably just a climate thing, maybe I need a humidifier in my painting room. Are you sure yours is completely flat? I had a couple wet palette start to warp from something and if it's not completely flat the middle won't be wet at all and the sides will have puddles.
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Chill la Chill posted:Are you sure yours is completely flat? I had a couple wet palette start to warp from something and if it's not completely flat the middle won't be wet at all and the sides will have puddles. Relatively sure, I think it's just evaporating very quickly. Tonight I topped it off before starting this Raptor and multiple times I had to use a syringe to grab some water from a clean glass and keep refilling the edges until it was standing water again. Speaking of, finished this Raptor and really happy with it for the time/quality ratio. Still not getting the lightning as good as I'd like, but we'll get there by the 10th member of the squad I'm sure.     
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Nazzadan posted:Relatively sure, I think it's just evaporating very quickly. Tonight I topped it off before starting this Raptor and multiple times I had to use a syringe to grab some water from a clean glass and keep refilling the edges until it was standing water again. Yeah, you might want to invest in a humidifier next to your painting area. Your humidity must be really low/temps really high
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Will do, I'll make that my next hobby purchase
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I've got the new Redgrass pallete and it keeps my pants wet for several hours open and for a couple of weeks sealed.Bloody Hedgehog posted:Quoting for posterity. Goddamit. I'm leaving it. Devorum fucked around with this message at 08:16 on Oct 15, 2023 |
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Devorum posted:I've got the new Redgrass pallete and it keeps my pants wet for several hours open and for a couple of weeks sealed. Quoting for posterity.
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Devorum posted:I've got the new Redgrass pallete and it keeps my pants wet for several hours open and for a couple of weeks sealed. Thinking of upgrading from my Tupperware lid
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Nazzadan posted:Relatively sure, I think it's just evaporating very quickly. Tonight I topped it off before starting this Raptor and multiple times I had to use a syringe to grab some water from a clean glass and keep refilling the edges until it was standing water again. Love these guys!
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If anyone prints their own minis, Humble has a bundle of STLs in a Norse fantasy theme. https://www.humblebundle.com/software/dungeon-monsters-3-3d-printable-tabletop-bundle-software
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   "sand cat" from iliada games. https://www.wargamevault.com/product/450108/SANDCATS needs a base, still figuring that one out. also dont think i like the black trim around the cockpit also painted a battlemech   
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Spanish Manlove posted:
Very cool. l've always loved the Tech Wolf's slushy dispenser gun and wolfy claw arm.
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i love the mechwarrior dark age vibe, really gives the feeling of industrial vehicles hastily turned into technicals
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AndyElusive posted:Very cool. l've always loved the Tech Wolf's slushy dispenser gun and wolfy claw arm. he's such a small king compared to some primaris guys which I'll get better pictures of the new guy later: 
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