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Cardboard Fox posted:Using glazing to layer 3 different colors to form a nice transition when I watch it on youtube: "Oh, that looks so easy. He created the gradient effect in 5 minutes" Be lazy like me and do wet blending. Thin the paint and mix the colours on the model!
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Cardboard Fox posted:Using glazing to layer 3 different colors to form a nice transition when I watch it on youtube: "Oh, that looks so easy. He created the gradient effect in 5 minutes" The metal looks really nice there fyi For your glazing, something on there looks like it wasn't thinned enough I think, but not the glazes, the base coat. The glazes look like they were thinned with a bit too much water, the pigment pools. A thinning medium will help with that, but you also should apply far less glaze. It works well to apply very thin coats, building up pigmentation in layers. It is slower, but at the end it looks great. What did you do for the metal? It looks so tarnished and worn.
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Eej posted:Be lazy like me and do wet blending. Thin the paint and mix the colours on the model! Yeah, that's another technique I have on my list to try. I'm hearing it's even possible to wet blend contrast paint. Virtual Russian posted:The metal looks really nice there fyi Thanks. It's the one technique I think I was able to execute on. It's just dry brushing Retributor Armor over an Adadon Black base coat. Took 2 minutes and honestly feels like cheating. I wish I could get half of this effect with any of the other techniques I've tried. Here's something similar I did with a silver metalic:  Washed with Nuln Oil after drybrushing. Next time I won't use the wash all over the shield. You can't really see it in that picture, but there's a bit of pooling on the flat surface.
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Cardboard Fox posted:Yeah, that's another technique I have on my list to try. I'm hearing it's even possible to wet blend contrast paint. It's way easy to blend with contrast paint because it takes longer for it to dry than regular acrylic paint
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It may be a little counter-intuitive, but paint dries faster the more thinned down it is. So if you want to wet blend, your best bet is almost unthinned paint. I know there's the stigma of using unthinned paint, but that's because there's a temptation to load too much on the brush, leading to texture build-up and glooping and all the other problems associated with unthinned paint. So as long as you have enough to lay down your base layer but no more, wet blending is super easy and a great, fast way to build up a relatively smooth transition that you can then refine with glazes. Here's an example of what I mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n6m4ruJipE
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My last mini painted in 2023 - pretty happy with how he turned out:
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First finish of 2024. Started this back before my surgery at the end of 2023.    My post about it, including link to mini.
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Girlfriends bought an Infinity starter yesterday, and none of us have worked with metal minis since 2017 at the latest. What do we do to prep these things? Soap and water to remove release agent? Do they need a light pass with a sanding stick to create roughage for primer? What's the deal?
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Regarding the advice on airbrushes, I can’t seem to find any of the H&S 2023 ultras, but the 2024 seems to be about £80 is that right? I did look at the Iwata eclipse HPCS but they start at about 150, which seems like a massive amount of money for essentially is just something to put down bass coats and rudimentary weathering on vehicles?
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poop chute posted:Girlfriends bought an Infinity starter yesterday, and none of us have worked with metal minis since 2017 at the latest. What do we do to prep these things? Soap and water to remove release agent? Do they need a light pass with a sanding stick to create roughage for primer? What's the deal? Soap and water probably isnt necessary, but cant hurt so do that. Other than that, clean the mould lines and dont try to use plastic glue. No need to rough up the surface, primer should stick to it well enough (which is the point of the primer).
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poop chute posted:Girlfriends bought an Infinity starter yesterday, and none of us have worked with metal minis since 2017 at the latest. What do we do to prep these things? Soap and water to remove release agent? Do they need a light pass with a sanding stick to create roughage for primer? What's the deal? none of these things mold lines need a bit more effort to scrape/sand if there are any. (corvus belli has pretty great casting so this isn't usually a big deal.) you may want green stuff for mold lines and part gaps on older models, or if you're not fitting parts together tightly. you may want to drill and pin joints on some of the larger or ganglier models, like TAGs.
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Just paint. Infinity miniatures are awesome.
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Awesome but way too spindly to be metal.
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My girlfriend finished the red gobbo she got for Christmas and I'm super proud of her. This is her third model ever, and the most complicated by far- I think she did great!  Probably took around 15 hours, so she definitely took her time. Came home from work one day and found her watching a Duncan Rhodes tutorial on youtube, with a warhammer lore video open in another tab- I almost shed a tear~ Match for scale, so the normal people at her work can understand just how tiny it is.
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Bohemian Nights posted:My girlfriend finished the red gobbo she got for Christmas and I'm super proud of her. This is her third model ever, and the most complicated by far- I think she did great! I'm trying to not be miffed about how your girlfriend's third mini looks comperable to my 320th+ give or take model. Anyways, she did a really good job and she should be proud
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grassy gnoll posted:Rosemarys are a little easier to come by now that there's slightly less covid, and I think they compare favorably to the Raphaels I've got. I loved Raphaels but then I realised there's about a 50% chance of you getting a dud brush each time. This is not a good statistic when the brushes are £15 each. Rosemary cost £5-7 and they could fail at the same rate and be acceptable. The belly on the Rosemarys is much slimmer so it's more prone to overloading compared to a Raphael but the Raphaels are pretty much an outlier for having fat as gently caress brushes. The tips are pretty much indistinguishable.
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Definitely having a problem with small Rosemary&Co brushes overloading. The Da Vinci maestro is nice but too big to get into the nooks and cranies. However Winsor & Newton series 7 is the most satisfying brush I've used but it's a size 2 and not at all usable for tight areas with capes or weapons being held close to the chest.
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   Along the shore the cloud waves break The twin suns sink behind the lake The shadows lengthen In Carcosa   Strange is the night where black stars rise And strange moons circle through the skies But stranger still is Lost Carcosa   Songs that the Hyades shall sing Where flap the tatters of the King Must die unheard in Dim Carcosa   Song of my soul, my voice is dead Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed Shall dry and die in Lost Carcosa   The scalloped tatters of the King in Yellow must hide Yhtill forever I don’t know how apparent it is in these photos but everyone who’s not a member of the Yhtill royal family (Camilla, Cassilda, eventually others maybe), or the King himself, is a marionette. So they all have marionette strings made of narrow gauge wire. Still working on the King.
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This is still a WIP, I need to do a tiny amount of tidying then add the weathering, but it's almost a shame to dirty it up. The freehand chain was a proof of concept, going to expand on it on the next one. DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:In Carcosa owns, but I think the photography is washing out the white "skin", it looks unshaded but I'm pretty sure it isn't Gravitas Shortfall fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Jan 7, 2024 |
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ancient games-workshop wisdom
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WIP of my first model of the year.    Wrapped up the Hearthkin Salvagers and Kroot Kill Teams at the end of the year, but haven't gotten around to taking pictures of them yet.
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I really like that shield. All the subtle colours in the metal really make it pop.
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Lostconfused posted:
If you're getting frustrated with them, then there's no reason not to call them done. You can take all the learning you've done and apply it to the next project, as well as get the satisfaction of knowing you've got a completed unit.
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Lostconfused posted:Spent the entire weekend on this and I'm not sure I even accomplished anything. You're a bugger cause this was p much the exact colour scheme I was going to try for the marines that came in the leviathan box, but they are looking pretty good.
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Southern Heel posted:Regarding the advice on airbrushes, I can’t seem to find any of the H&S 2023 ultras, but the 2024 seems to be about £80 is that right? I did look at the Iwata eclipse HPCS but they start at about 150, which seems like a massive amount of money for essentially is just something to put down bass coats and rudimentary weathering on vehicles? truly get one of the chinese airbrushes https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fengda-Airbrush-All-Purpose-Precision-Dual-Action/dp/B01984HJ48/ for base coats and varnishing, I've found it really great.
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Started the new year by trying out airbrushing for the first time. Setup needs getting used to and tweaking, found myself one short a few times. Other than that, it worked pretty sweet. I practiced on paper first, using Squidmar's airbrushing template. When that went well and I started feeling comfortable (probably too comfortable), I grabbed a hobgrot I had lying around and basecoated it (Hobgrot hide). And then I did the other 21!  Doing those by hand would have been very tedious and time consuming! Pretty happy with the tools and result. I know I still have a long road ahead and many things to learn but I was amazed at how quickly I was able to get basic stuff done. 
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Lostconfused posted:Spent the entire weekend on this and I'm not sure I even accomplished anything. You're too close to the work. They look great, and I can see the difference between the before and after. You'll be a lot happier with them when the heads and bases are done.
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Lostconfused posted:
Don't slap some heads on and call it done, leave the heads off and call it done  Or put some completely unrelated heads on them, like goblins.
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Lostconfused posted:Definitely having a problem with small Rosemary&Co brushes overloading. The Da Vinci maestro is nice but too big to get into the nooks and cranies. However Winsor & Newton series 7 is the most satisfying brush I've used but it's a size 2 and not at all usable for tight areas with capes or weapons being held close to the chest. Use the Size 2 of the Series 33. The 8404s are like 1 size bigger than the 33s. I think they also do a shorter version if you need to get into nooks and crannies but that's probably going to overload a lot. The Rosemarys are a bit softer I've found so it takes a little bit to get used to them coming from the stiffer 8404s and S7s. I used to use S7s but after switching to 8404s I realised them being short and slim made them incredibly prone to overload.
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Lostconfused posted:Spent the entire weekend on this and I'm not sure I even accomplished anything. Nothing has helped me improve and keep moving more than the combination of pottery class experiment and attitude of the knife. Cut it off here and say "now it's done, because I ended it here", and move on to your next interesting thing. Obsessing over trying to get one perfect thing done on this go will literally hurt you in the long run.
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sixth and maimed posted:Started the new year by trying out airbrushing for the first time. Setup needs getting used to and tweaking, found myself one short a few times. Other than that, it worked pretty sweet. I practiced on paper first, using Squidmar's airbrushing template. When that went well and I started feeling comfortable (probably too comfortable), I grabbed a hobgrot I had lying around and basecoated it (Hobgrot hide). And then I did the other 21! Big fan of that painting box, just don't accidentally set the filter on fire like my girlfriend did. No I don't know how.
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NinjaDebugger posted:Nothing has helped me improve and keep moving more than the combination of pottery class experiment and attitude of the knife. Cut it off here and say "now it's done, because I ended it here", and move on to your next interesting thing. Obsessing over trying to get one perfect thing done on this go will literally hurt you in the long run. This is some of the best mini painting advice there is.
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Speaking of that airbrush hood, how often ought one change the filter on that and, also, where does one acquire more filters?
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