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I really, really, really recommend a paint pot holder. In my adult life I have only ever lost one paint pot to a spill, a bottle of typhus corrosion and it was awful. Ever since then I use 3d printed object designed to hold paint pots. The ones I have look like drop pods and I picked them up before I was into 3d printing. They are great, they make it very hard to spill paint and are thematic. Etsy has some that are less thematic but more practical and hold open the paint pot lid for you :
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if i'm gonna buy paint pot holders, i can just buy dropper bottles instead
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Lumpy posted:Micron pens are very good at making very tiny dots. My things to buy list gets larger and larger.
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Cease to Hope posted:if i'm gonna buy paint pot holders, i can just buy dropper bottles instead
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Nov 26, 2023 06:00
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Ok, I've spent 3 weeks messing around with these guards, and I'm calling it on these 12. There's a bunch of mistakes and undone parts, but I just don't care anymore. It's time to move on. I'll practice adding some terrain detail on the base, and then they're done. 
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Nov 26, 2023 06:21
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Ominous Jazz posted:I picked up new paints and I picked up some frame work minis for my first time putting together little men! I picked up the tiefling warlock and the human warlock for a few reasons Remember these guys? Well. I'm not in love with the army painters speed painters paint (2.0). it's great because it gets on the mini fast but also; it's so runny and hard to control. this guy was hard to work with and his big star didn't work out the way i wanted it to. but! i liked highlighting the collar because it made him look like a evil priest and I think the tentacle cloud came out pretty good. it didn't come out transparent though, but I had primed it and gave up.  Remember these guys? I wanted to see if I could paint them but with the new paints I got [quote="Ominous Jazz" post="536023305"] I'm happier with this one. turns out that skirt isn't metal but I like the way it looks. the metal is the leadbelcher from citadel that I picked up. it's shiny.  Shrek Like Individual (SLI)  I used some leadbelcher metalic paint with the dark red and got a Cool Looking Guy.  pros: yes cons: the "holy white" in that paint is WAY more just a gray and doesn't brighten anything up when I mix it and i got two of them  these were the cheapo models i picked up and while they're sparse on detail they're kinda charming. A friend 3D printed this clown for me. It had some goop on it still. Next time i'll sand it down a bit. I wasn't thinking so they're the trans flag clown.   
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my local store had a bunch of the frameworks minis at like 5 bucks a pop and the fifty dollar orc framework pac for 15 if i paid fifty dollars for seven minis and got doubles of the ugliest and least personable two i would have dropped this hobby like a wet brick
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x-posting from the 40k thread, painted this preacher tonight 
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Oh also do people usually use a varnish on their minis?
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Sherbert Hoover posted:Oh also do people usually use a varnish on their minis? I don’t have any time to play games with these, and the rattlecan went bad when I wasn't looking, so I stopped
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Nov 26, 2023 07:10
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If games varnish good?
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Cardboard Fox posted:My hands finally stopped shaking after my 17th attempt at adding white to the eyes of my Orc. There's no way I'm going to be able to add a little black dot with the brush that I have, so I'll just say this Orc was infused by Sigmar or something.... If it makes you feel better you shouldn't be dotting eyes but rather drawing ovals that are cut off at the top and bottom 
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Lostconfused posted:I just don't care anymore. It's time to move on. This is the way.
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Ominous Jazz posted:If games varnish good? If you are going to be playing, yeah, varnish can be helpful. You can use a rattlecan to varnish with, but I would test on a figure you are not in love with first to make sure it comes out ok. While I dislike brush on primers I actually really like brush on varnish. that seems to work really well and you can avoid areas that you don't want to varnish. Or change varnish sheens. You may want to do this if you have an area that you want to look shiny or wet. Also, if you start placing decals or transfers on your minis you will find that the edge of the decal looks very, very visible. This is not an error on your part; and the solution is to go over the decal with matt varnish. The varnish will also help lock in the decal in addition to getting rid of the visible edges.
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Cardboard Fox posted:My hands finally stopped shaking after my 17th attempt at adding white to the eyes of my Orc. There's no way I'm going to be able to add a little black dot with the brush that I have, so I'll just say this Orc was infused by Sigmar or something.... In the future try the “paint the eye black, tidy around the eye, then put a dot of white on both sides” method. It makes a fine line in the center and usually looks great. If you mess up, justbpaint black and start again. For Orks… I just paint red
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Ominous Jazz posted:If games varnish good? if you're using brush-on varnish, cheap stuff from the craft store is fine.
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Sherbert Hoover posted:Oh also do people usually use a varnish on their minis? I pretty much always varnish, a coat of gloss for protection and a coat of matte because I prefer the matte finish. You dont have to, but I do to a) protect the paint, and b) unify the finish. I use paints from all different brands, some of them are glossier than others (or at least kind of satin-y) and the varnish knocks that back. I do have a pot of brush-on gloss varnish in case there are parts where the matte finish doesnt work for me, but I rarely use it. Really just on occasional magic flames or glowing eyes. Unrelated, other than I just varnished them yesterday (and photographing them shows I did a piss poor job of the matte coat from any angle other than straight on); This week I did some Malifaux Mindless Zombies as a straightforward low stakes paint job. 
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Eej posted:If it makes you feel better you shouldn't be dotting eyes but rather drawing ovals that are cut off at the top and bottom Yeah, I tried the oval method, but was not successful. More practice is required. Professor Shark posted:In the future try the “paint the eye black, tidy around the eye, then put a dot of white on both sides” method. It makes a fine line in the center and usually looks great. If you mess up, justbpaint black and start again. I even struggled with the first dot, let alone doing anything else. Maybe I need to brace myself better on the table.
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PoptartsNinja posted:They are designed to try out your paints to make you buy paint more often. This is a conspiracy I actually believe with my full chest
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Cardboard Fox posted:Maybe I need to brace myself better on the table. Try to keep both elbows on the table and hands or wrists gently braced together. I've noticed that the Citadel painting buttplug improved my brushwork a ton over the wine bottle cork + blu-tac method, since I can turn it this way and that without worrying I'm going to pop the model off the handle.
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Looking for a few strong men to hold me down in my model painting room. No no, not like that, I just need to paint a few eyes.
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Sherbert Hoover posted:Oh also do people usually use a varnish on their minis? I generally have until recently. Not playing a lot of games lately and varnish can do weird things to surface finish efft your doing metallics,weathering etc. If you were gaming though, do a coat of gloss, then a coat of Matte. Gloss is for protection, matte makes it look good again.
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Cardboard Fox posted:Looking for a few strong men to hold me down in my model painting room. No no, not like that, I just need to paint a few eyes. Tell them you painted them but the models are sneaky gits and therefore you can't see them
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Would a layer of varnish impede attempts to improve a model? I might want to get an army painted to an unfinished but workable point to actually play a game with them to see if I actually like playing the tabletop game before investing more time in the troops to make them prettier.
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Bell_ posted:Would a layer of varnish impede attempts to improve a model? You can paint over varnish. A lot of people will varnish in between painting steps to protect underlying layers and it's a very common thing when doing very high effort paint jobs
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 Painted this dude and his flag. One more to go.
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Varnish is usually one of the last steps though, because it does give the miniature or a model an even finish similar to a wash. And as mentioned it helps hide some uneven surface shade stuff like decals or fine sanding marks.
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Bell_ posted:Would a layer of varnish impede attempts to improve a model? If you already plan to paint them further I wouldn't concern myself with varnish to protect models for what half a dozen games before you decide to paint them to a finished state? If you do varnish them I recommend a matte varnish.
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Bell_ posted:Would a layer of varnish impede attempts to improve a model? There's a specific reasons you might want to varnish mid model as people have mentioned, but definitely try to avoid the mindset of re-painting models constantly. There's something to be said for keepi aground some early work so you can remember where you came from. Worst case, there are a few different ways to strip down models as well if your really looking to start fresh
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Sigh, random bits of cork barely look like stones or rocks if you're lucky.
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Lostconfused posted:Sigh, random bits of cork barely look like stones or rocks if you're lucky. That is why one manipulates said bits of cork and then paints them rather than relying on luck.
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I usually get away with it by using several other elements like crackle paste and foliage and whatnot so there's enough visual interest on the base you only have to get 60% of the way there and it'll still work.
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Well, yes, that's extra work I might have to do at some point in time. But between that and the very light brown "mud texture" paint I've ended up with a very desserty sorta look. So now I need to figure out how to do make it more grassy looking besides just painting the sides of the base in green.
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Get some grass tufts and stick them on. Only really tiny scale miniatures can get away with "green paint is grass"
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this post has a soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhMO9azmKNU      thanks for listenin' ya'll
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Nebalebadingdong posted:this post has a soundtrack: I absolutely adore Opossums!
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Nebalebadingdong posted:this post has a soundtrack: I say this with all the love in my heart; gently caress you.
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By craft store matte varnish, y'all just mean like, Modge Podge, right?
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Arcturas posted:By craft store matte varnish, y'all just mean like, Modge Podge, right? no, just acrylic matte varnish/medium. some people have acrylic floor varnishes they like too
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Can I compel you to film yourself putting paint down. Please.
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