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Right now I'm trying to make myself not be lazy and breakout the airbrush to basecoat the rest of my custodes.
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Do some slap chop esque speed painting on just one mini and see how you feel after that https://youtu.be/1GLAg4sIwS4?si=XZIdriAruYW_FrS_
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Muir posted:I love that you included one 2nd edition dude on a Goblin Green flocked base. Haha thanks, he's the fun little "What If The Deathwatch Existed During 2nd Edition?" guy that I did for Darren Lathams 90's Marine Challenge that all the pro painters annihilated this past September.    Bohemian Nights posted:Geez, your deathwatch is so bad, but in the way the powerglove is bad (insanely good)  GW dropped the ball on making a PowerFist for kids. AndyElusive fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Jan 9, 2024 |
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Infernox for Kings of War - basically a chaos dwarf stone magma golem. I'm not 100% happy with the magma effect, but pretty happy with the stone!
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My painting right now is entirely driven by me not having a single army I can use to play with, so it's a lot of motivation, but a ton of pressure too, and some frustration. It would be nice to get to a point where I can do some art and practice projects.
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grassy gnoll posted:You spent a lot of time writing that post about how you've convinced yourself not to paint that you could have used to paint. Yeah...  Ravus Ursus posted:Watching YouTubers make cool poo poo is the modern day version of my dad watching Bob Vila restore a dumbwaiter on a Victorian house built before man invneted the power drill. He will never make one but it's still cool to watch. So you can accept that you like seeing it but don't actually like doing it. That's ok. rain dogs posted:You're coming up on three years without having painted anything. I think it's time to stop beating yourself up about it and admit you don't like painting. I read this post and the one you linked and it almost made me not want to paint, and I like painting. Bite the bullet, sell your stuff and buy some video games or something. Gravitas Shortfall posted:alternate plan: pick one thing to paint. just one. paint it til it's done. don't think about the others, just paint that one thing. I did have the thought to just sell everything off because of how I've ignored it, but I feel like I'd regret doing that even more. The Bob Vila comparison is pretty fitting. I like seeing the process of something get painted, or when someone does a kitbash and makes a custom model. Problem is that it does prompt me into wanting to try and make something similar.A couple of weeks ago, I found this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXQBtFwSTos), and it prompted me to start browsing Green Stuff World's texture rolling pins. I dunno if I brought it up in the post that I linked, but I still really haven't used the airbrush that much, but one of my big reasons for buying it was to make priming a lot easier (in that I can get away from rattle-can primers), and try out things like color-shift paints and inks. I also learned about the slap-chop method as well, and thought about trying that. I at the very least want to try and make a genuine effort with something before I make a decision on giving up on painting. Right now I mainly want to work on the Chaos Space Marines, so I'll look into getting some of the Limonene plastic glue.
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Finished the second Legions Imperialis Kratos, they're such a loving nightmare to photograph.   The crossed chains World Eater iconography usually means they've slain another World Eater in a duel. Things must get pretty spicy in the tank garages 
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Finished the second Legions Imperialis Kratos, they're such a loving nightmare to photograph. Your problem is that you forgot to include a penny in each photo. It’s just how it works
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Beffer posted:Your problem is that you forgot to include a penny in each photo. It’s just how it works I legitimately couldn't find the one I used last time, and I don't have any in my wallet
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Almost done with my first assault marine squad!    Happy with how this guy turned out too. I think I even pulled off the armor chipping on the faceplate! Tried glazing for the first time on the helmet, looking forwards to experimenting more with that once I start work on my grotmas gitz, it seems like the way to paint green skin. Also some very limited greenstuffing in that powerknife(?) cabling, another first!
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Max Wilco posted:Yeah... Have you considered entering into something with external expectations? Would a competition push you to actually make something because there's a deadline or would that pressure blow your stress out the window? Cause I don't wanna see another post until you sell that poo poo off and do the meme of "eats Cheetos while being disappointed that parallel bars hosed up the landing and only scored a 7" or you've got paint on something to share with the class.
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Testing out Vincent Venturella's gold mix recepie. Got to say pretty darn solid, painless to use too. However not so painless to mix, that fine gold dust gets everywhere. Lostconfused fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Jan 10, 2024 |
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Astragoth Iron hand, High Priest of Hashut and sassy mecha dwarf
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Count Thrashula posted:Astragoth Iron hand, High Priest of Hashut and sassy mecha dwarf What's the material you used for the base of the background? also: CAT HAIR
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Spanish Manlove posted:What's the material you used for the base of the background? I dropped the freshly primed mini onto the carpet, it will never be free of pet hair again  A while back I bought some terrain tiles off a local guy... I threw away most of them but kept one for pictures. No idea what he used honestly.
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Lostconfused posted:Testing out Vincent Venturella's gold mix recepie. Holy poo poo yes, I use the same mix, and it's really loving good. This is a short video I took just after the first layer over black primer through an airbrush, and it's wild how shiny it is and how well it covers. Only thing is it's like being in one of those old Will It Blend videos with the "don't breathe this" warning every time I open the bottle of pigment. Personal recommendation, mix up a bunch of it at once, so that way you're exposing yourself far less to the possibility of inhaling gold dust. Army Painter has a 6-pack of empty dropper bottles just for these purposes, but the mixing balls in them will gently caress with the pigments in a bad way, making them unusable. Ask me how I found that out. Instead, go to the pet department of whatever local big box store you have nearby (like Walmart) and grab a cheapo bag of glass aquarium gravel. Glass won't react with acrylic paints, and dropping like, 2 or 3 rocks into a bottle will give you good agitation, especially if you have a vortex mixer (but will work fine if you don't, so don't think you need to get one if you do this). You will also likely have enough gravel to put some into every bottle of paint you own and still have some left over, making it hella cost efficient as well. Regardless, you're absolutely killing it with the off-white and gold, and those Sisters you posted earlier look great all together like that. Dunno if you're planning on doing a whole army or just like, a Kill Team or whatever, but it's gonna look sweet when it's done.
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Count Thrashula posted:I dropped the freshly primed mini onto the carpet, it will never be free of pet hair again Every mini I do has at least one dog hair on it or in the base. It's how future generations will be able to authenticate my work when collecting mediocre vintage figures becomes all the rage in 2084.
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Aniodia posted:Regardless, you're absolutely killing it with the off-white and gold, and those Sisters you posted earlier look great all together like that. Dunno if you're planning on doing a whole army or just like, a Kill Team or whatever, but it's gonna look sweet when it's done. Thanks for the tips! And yeah I'm planning to paint up the rest of these in the same color scheme At some point I'm thinking about getting a land raider and a rhino to top off the 2k army list, and then I'll be done. At least until the codex comes out.
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Nebalebadingdong posted:frostgrave soldier Change my countries flag to that frog
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I think I'm having an epiphany, I'm going to speed paint my 20 unassembled guard in like two or three colors and that's it. Of course maybe I'm just delirious from not enough sleep.
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Lostconfused posted:I think I'm having an epiphany, I'm going to speed paint my 20 unassembled guard in like two or three colors and that's it. Simplifying a scheme is pretty useful in getting stuff painted. A year ago, I realized that there was no way I was ever going to finish painting my IG infantry in my chosen mech infantry scheme. I figured out a much simpler alternative scheme (darker colours with better coverage), and now I have a 50-man platoon of security troops for my artillery. They don't look quite as cool as my mech inf platoon, but they are done.
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Harvey Mantaco posted:Change my countries flag to that frog  
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My experience is you can have a complicated paint scheme or you can have a painted army. Exceptions do exist: for instance I know my Ratmen are going to take so long to paint to the standard I've started that the army list will no longer be valid but I'm also going to be doing a higher-speed paint job on another army and the people I play with are more than happy to put up with grey minis I mean I did a Blessed Sisters army and had just gotten them painted with a speed paint method (literally the method was use speed paints) when OPR switched to version 3 and I needed to add a unit to make points, and also I had broken a couple of the troops off at the ankles. But for 1 single game I had a fully painted and actually good-looking army on the table. (after this pic was taken:  )Anyways that's the Blessed Order of the Holy Peppermint  The Basing scheme was never actually completed. LOL.
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 Very close to done with this guy. Squat armor is a lot of fun. Local art shop finally got some nice brushes in today too
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Since I just started with painting stuff though I can still tell myself that I'm practicing or experimenting and that's why it's OK to spend 8 hours painting 1 model out of 10. I never timed myself so I don't actually know if I spent 8 hours or more painting a single imperial guard soldier.
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Spend as long as you goddamn want on that 1 model. You're your own boss. I've never timed myself but I bet I spend about that on any given model I've painted recently if not more. Doesn't mean it turns out any better the longer I paint though! Sometimes I just reach a point of diminishing returns and have to say enoughs enough. I'm not trying to enter a Golden Daemon or anything.
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Finished up my first troop of Abyssal Dwarf Blacksouls for Kings of War!
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Honestly, what I've been doing when I have the urge to paint is to put on some Marc Rebillet videos. He has a bunch of stream videos on his channel that, with some exceptions, are typically no longer than two hours. That tends to give me enough time to get a decent bit of paint on a model, rarely (but not never) painting to completion, but definitely making progress. And it doesn't have to be Marc either, though grooving to Loop Daddy is never really a bad thing, but occasionally Summoning Salt will put out a new video on speedrunning world records, or I'll just start watching some Max Miller and let the algorithm go where it wants, etc. Whatever it is, though, I'll usually tend to only really have a few hours a night to do much of anything after work, and there's a lot that I'd like to catch up on, so only devoting a couple hours to crank out as much as possible helps with getting motivated and getting things painted. Painting is supposed to be a chill, relaxing thing to do to unwind and get some tiny mans looking nice. Figure out what restrictions will get you motivated without causing extra stress, and go to town. If that means limiting your painting sessions to the length of a stream or podcast or whatever, great. If that means devoting an entire day to sitting around and doing super thin red glazes over the same spot 57 times to bring up the saturation just a hair more in order to get everything perfect for the next Golden Demon, then you do you. Find your zen, and paint until you're happy.
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I currently take a very long time for models (like 15 hours I think for each of those nid warriors), but I also know that I'm still enjoying myself and getting better at moving faster. It helps I'm not building an army with which to play, and I'm only painting for fun. I have realised, now that I started on the termagants, that they don't need to be perfect since there's going to be 20 of the buggers at least. Painting quick and the odd error is just fine, and that saves literal hours - I finished one in a single sitting for the first time!
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Little nuggies like Termagants are the perfect models to try something new. They're small enough that major errors are overlooked and they're numerous enough that if there's some variation going on that just makes them look more naturalistic.
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Crossposting from Specialist Games.Stephenls posted:More vehicles.
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Prawned posted:It helps I'm not building an army with which to play, and I'm only painting for fun. The first bit is the problem for me and I want to fully transition to the 2nd part.
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I'm stuck in the middle as well, but I shade more towards painting than playing at the moment, but that's also because the last couple weeks have been filled with packing.
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Lostconfused posted:The first bit is the problem for me and I want to fully transition to the 2nd part. Go ahead and do the quick scheme just to get all your dudes painted. You can always go back and add details when you have the time!
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Super Waffle posted:Go ahead and do the quick scheme just to get all your dudes painted. You can always go back and add details when you have the time! That's my philosophy exactly, even though I know I'll never go back and add detail, which is fine! I'd rather see a painted army on my shelf that's mostly done with speedpaints and a few highlights, instead of a grey army that I keep meaning to paint with 100% effort and never gets done because I have a toddler and Jesus Christ finding time to paint is hard. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Painted is better than not painted, full stop.
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Oh yeah I understand all of that, which is why I've kind of pivoted to custodes. I'm grousing about it but I think I might be done with them this week or next week, for the most part. I've already convinced myself that Guard will be a forever project that I might work on when I feel like it. Hell maybe the next think after Custodes for me will be some Chaos Warriors, because I keep talking to a person about Sigmar.
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Count Thrashula posted:That's my philosophy exactly, even though I know I'll never go back and add detail, which is fine! This is my plan for 2024. Going to try to get more armies painted, and that means being more tolerant of my own "good enough" paint jobs.
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When I started painting the Warcry Scales of Talaxis terrain set, I kept a time log. I'm currently 50 hours in and about 75% complete (didn't have my airbrush to basecoat yet). I didn't log the time I spend painting my Kruleboyz Gutrippaz but judging the by number of evenings it takes me to finish one, I guestimate it at about 8-10 hours to finish one, basing and varnishing not included. I know I'm taking really long but I see it as time spent learning to paint better. I'll get faster eventually and it's something to do on an evening. Really happy with my progress so far, too. Also, gently caress Citadel pots. I decided not to decant my contrast paints to dripper bottles like I did for the paint and I knocked over my Barak-Nar Burgundy! 
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