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Welcome to the Pro Acryl cult. Apparently (according to Jason) they're releasing a NMM Gold 6 colour pack at Adepticon this year.
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Starting on my World Eaters, they're actually really fun sculpts to paint, probably cause they have less trim than a regular Chaos Space Marine
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Starter Basileans fleet for Armada is done! Orcs are up next. Edit-- also an 
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Jan 15, 2024 07:23
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I like the water effects you've done on the base
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Jan 15, 2024 08:33
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Was thinking about getting the AP Fanatic complete set, but then saw the price. I guess in a per-bottle breakdown, it's not bad and they're getting good reviews...but still shocking. Gotta weigh whether I really need that many paints.
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Jan 15, 2024 15:28
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Devorum posted:Was thinking about getting the AP Fanatic complete set, but then saw the price. I guess in a per-bottle breakdown, it's not bad and they're getting good reviews...but still shocking. No sane person needs 200+ new paints. Totally going to get it and then use like quarter of them in next 10 years.
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The AP Fanatic 50-set seems like the sweet spot
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Jan 15, 2024 16:00
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I'm going to use what paints I have and buy new ones as needed. Maybe I'll even try mixing some colours with the paints I already have.
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Lostconfused posted:I'm going to use what paints I have and buy new ones as needed. What is this radical heresy?! 
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Jan 15, 2024 17:02
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Please don’t post sensibly in this thread again.
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Jan 15, 2024 19:50
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Lostconfused posted:I'm going to use what paints I have and buy new ones as needed. bold and brave stance to take, I respect it even if I don't agree with it.
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Jan 15, 2024 19:59
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I'm annoyed because I want to buy vellajo paints but their website is broken and my local store doesn't have sets
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Jan 15, 2024 19:59
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another frostgrave soldier  
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Jan 15, 2024 20:14
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you little fried egg fucker!
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Nebalebadingdong posted:another frostgrave soldier Without a penny for reference I'm going to just assume this model is the size of an ant.
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Jan 15, 2024 20:28
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AndyElusive posted:Without a penny for reference I'm going to just assume this model is the size of an ant. Was going to say without the penny I assume this is 3mm
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Jan 15, 2024 20:41
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penny is on vacation! i am doing rando 28mm stuff until my next shipment of tiny things arrive
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Jan 15, 2024 20:45
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Have you considered the freehand potential of painting on individual grains of sand? Think of the real estate you could work with.
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Devorum posted:Was thinking about getting the AP Fanatic complete set, but then saw the price. I guess in a per-bottle breakdown, it's not bad and they're getting good reviews...but still shocking. I pre ordered from an online retailer for around 520 I think. Gnomish Bazaar.
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Jan 15, 2024 21:52
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AndyElusive posted:Have you considered the freehand potential of painting on individual grains of sand? Think of the real estate you could work with. Don't, this path ends with him posting impeccably painted figures next to an atom of copper, for scale.
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Jan 15, 2024 22:43
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I hit a problem that should have an obvious solution, but I've never done it before, so now I'm running myself in loops instead of just biting the bullet and doing a tester. I need to paint brown things in a snowy setting, mostly yellow-browns, so I need desaturated cold highlights and warmer shadows. Light blues and purples will still get me where I need to go, right?
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Jan 16, 2024 02:33
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I'm thinking of ordering this vallejo set even though they're small bottles. https://acrylicosvallejo.com/en/product/hobby/sets/cases/basic-starter-case-80260/ and working my way through them. This seems to be a good "bang for buck" at 70 bucks. they are the same as the regular vallejo paints, right?
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Jan 16, 2024 03:56
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Ominous Jazz posted:I'm thinking of ordering this vallejo set even though they're small bottles. You'll use like 12 of them and have 38 bottles of dried paint 4 years from now, probably
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Jan 16, 2024 04:02
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 Working on a Kings of War army, and so I thought the most obvious place to start was painting banners. I absolutely adore old-school paper banners, and this was my first time sitting down and painting some. These will be going on some orcs. Hopefully, they will also be painted at some point, but right now they’re sitting on my priming sticks.
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Jan 16, 2024 04:05
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Hedningen posted:
oh hell yeah, i can't wait to see these on some minis
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Jan 16, 2024 04:18
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Eej posted:You'll use like 12 of them and have 38 bottles of dried paint 4 years from now, probably Yeah that seems right
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Jan 16, 2024 04:19
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Ominous Jazz posted:Yeah that seems right Also Vallejo released Valleo Game Color 2.0 last year so who knows when the paints in that set were actually made
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Jan 16, 2024 04:23
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Ominous Jazz posted:I'm thinking of ordering this vallejo set even though they're small bottles. They are the same as Vallejo Game Color but it's a pretty lousy value. You can get full-sized bottles of VGC for $2.50-3.00. If you're paying $3 per, that's the equivalent of 23 larger bottles of colors you know you can use, and they don't have goofy D&D-themed names you have to look up to color match.
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Jan 16, 2024 04:37
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I'm just saying the best looking blue i've seen from citadel paints is named world eaters blue That is good advice tho also my local store stocks them at 4 bucks
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paint sets with more than a dozen bottles are always a ripoff unless you are an obsessive completionist or you're buying a line you like but can't normally buy by the bottle. kickstarter sets and, oddly, citadel are the only exceptions i've ever seen.Ominous Jazz posted:I'm just saying the best looking blue i've seen from citadel paints is named world eaters blue that's fine. the problem isn't so much that the names are goofy, but that they're changed from the regular VGC color names so when you want to buy more Beholder Blue or whatever, you need to look up what the actual name for it is in the VGC line. Cease to Hope fucked around with this message at 04:47 on Jan 16, 2024 |
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Jan 16, 2024 04:44
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As much as I love buying paints, this is the set I always reccomend people getting started. https://acrylicosvallejo.com/en/product/hobby/sets/basic-en/introduction-72299/ You can usually find it on amazon for around $35 and you will use all of these colors. Grab some Army Painter washes and you have everything you need to paint like 95% of the miniatures out there.
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Is there any more clarity on the fate of Vallejo after their acquisition? I moved to them exclusively when coming back to mini painting a few years ago 
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Jan 16, 2024 11:04
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Eej posted:You'll use like 12 of them and have 38 bottles of dried paint 4 years from now, probably These are not GW bottles. They are in dropper bottles so they'll probably all be fine. I have 7 year old AP mega set and they are all still useable.
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Jan 16, 2024 11:40
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Ive got a bunch of Vallejo Model Colours that went to poo poo after a couple years. As in they just squirt out coloured water and I assume all the pigment settled out.
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Eej posted:Ive got a bunch of Vallejo Model Colours that went to poo poo after a couple years. As in they just squirt out coloured water and I assume all the pigment settled out. Happens to me whenever I get on a no-painting funk for a while. You need to shake them like they own you money. Resin print painting question: I dug out a bunch of printed squigs from my attic. When I primed them I noticed that one of them is still a bit gooey and runny on one side, and the primer is just melting off. I assume it didn't cure correctly. I bought them like, two-three years ago, should I just chuck it in the bin or is there a way to save it?
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lilljonas posted:Happens to me whenever I get on a no-painting funk for a while. You need to shake them like they own you money. It might be that or it might be that they didn't clean them correctly or for long enough (or used old alcohol that was full of resin gunk). You might be able to strip them, wipe them down with lint free cloth, and leave them on a sunny place for a couple of hours to see if it improves. It sounds resin-gunk-in-your-alcohol-y, I didn't realise how often I'd need to change it and ended up with tons of models where I had to wipe the oily poo poo off them.
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Eej posted:Starting on my World Eaters, they're actually really fun sculpts to paint, probably cause they have less trim than a regular Chaos Space Marine   Cross posting my World Eaters from the GW Specialist Games thread. First tactical squad completed. Just like the Rhino, this was a learning experience.  The razor wire is twisted garden tie, it annoys me that it wouldn't stay as twisted as I wanted.  It's hard to see in the photo, but that's a dead Ultramarine. Overall I'm quite happy with how the bases turned out, I wanted a real muddy WW1 battlefield look to them.  The squad and their ride 
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I paint super infrequently and my paints come in those little dropper bottles, they settle but I haven't had one go 'dry' like a GW pot. I use this guy to mix my paints before I use them and haven't had any issues, even with years of gap between use. Same concept as a lab vortex mixer but with a little clamp for paint bottles and an auto-off.  The only problem with dry paint in droppers I've had is when I transferred all my old GW paints into droppers and the cheapo bottles I bought started cracking on the threads.
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Bucnasti posted:As much as I love buying paints, this is the set I always reccomend people getting started. Seconding the Vallejo starter set. It replaced the Reaper Starter Set as my recommendation when it came out because it's the same price for 3 more and larger bottles. It's a fantastic price for the colorr you're going to actually use. A bottle each of AP Soft and Strong tone go in the gift bag as well. What I don't have at the moment is a perfect starter brushes set to point people towards, partly because that Reaper set used to be bundled 90% of the time with a pretty solid trio of a decently sized brush for blocking, a small one with enough capacity to not immediately foul the bristles, and a flat for drybrushing and now I never see that bundle anymore. There's a bunch of sets of the right kinds of brushes for ~$15, but all the ones I've seen people get are crappy synthetics that feel frustrating to use (both won't hold enough paint, and shoot it straight into the ferrule). Slyphic fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Jan 16, 2024 |
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Seconding those 16 paint Vallejo sets, I started off with the Model Color medieval set and several are still some of my favorite paints.
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