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Needed gold, silver, and bronze medals for something I'm doing at work. Decided to paint up some Grenadier dwarves instead.
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just eat your paints, cowards
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What is the best tasting paint and why is it humbrol enamel?
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I guess I am confused, are people shaping the brush with paint on it? If not you are not ingesting much, if any paint. Especially if you have a two stage brush wash set up. Dirty water wash, clean rinse, shape brush, get paint, apply paint, repeat process.
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:To paraphrase the guy who was in charge of the GW paint line, just because it's non-toxic doesn't mean it's a good idea to ingest it. As a reformed ex-brush licker, this is the pro-tip right here that lickers need to read. IncredibleIgloo posted:I guess I am confused, are people shaping the brush with paint on it? If not you are not ingesting much, if any paint. Especially if you have a two stage brush wash set up. Dirty water wash, clean rinse, shape brush, get paint, apply paint, repeat process. It's mostly after the brush has been rinsed in (paint) water. I'm not ruling out the possibility of people out there straight-up slurping their acrylic paint off their brushes like lolly pops though. Prawned posted:just eat your paints, cowards AndyElusive fucked around with this message at 20:39 on Jan 20, 2024 |
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Jan 20, 2024 20:36
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You'll Cowards Don't Even Eat Paint
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I think my delta regiment scheme (the grey) is better than my alpha scheme (rust/orange). Thoughts?    Also featuring a Lyran King Crab 
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Jan 20, 2024 20:53
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Finsihed a tactical detachment, made a start on a terminator detachment. I have decided I'm going to count each dude, rather than each stand, as a completed mini, meaning I have already painted 25 minis this year (gotta get my annual average up somehow!)
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Jan 20, 2024 21:09
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Saint Celestine posted:I think my delta regiment scheme (the grey) is better than my alpha scheme (rust/orange). Both the grey and red are sweet, but I'm leaning towards the grey being cooler, the logos and lights/cockpit on it really pop
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Jan 20, 2024 22:37
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I really love that little white dot lens trick. It always looks so cool.
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Prawned posted:just eat your paints, cowards Kylaer posted:You'll Cowards Don't Even Eat Paint
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Jan 21, 2024 04:01
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I haven't tried it yet, but i bought some Raphael 8404s from the UK -> USA and they shipped just fine, if anyone cares to buy some, I bought some from Jacksons
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Jacksons was good for me, I got the Da Vinci series 35 from them without any issues, that is a pretty solid brush that I've been using more than I would like to admit. And the local art store did have a Size 4 Raphael 8404 that I did end up picking up, because it was just hanging out on a rack and I could take a look at it and see that it only had 2 hairs exploding and nothing else obviously wrong with it. Maybe one day I'll get a huge figure and use that brush to paint it.
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If you aren't eating and huffing paint why are you even in this hobby?
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you're a crypto tradcath
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What does everyone do with their Space Marine, Terminatory looking minis with a giant neck cavity? Do you just paint it the same base color, neutral grey, black, base tone + black mix?
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What is there to do with it? You don't need to touch it.
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Cease to Hope posted:please do not innovate new goony ways of causing yourself brain damage
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Lostconfused posted:What does everyone do with their Space Marine, Terminatory looking minis with a giant neck cavity? Basecoat and then shade it. Or leave it black if that's your undercoat.
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Now that i actually look at it. Raphael 8404 are bigger than I expected. I got #1 #2 because I tend not to bother with very large brushes and very small brushes are so tiny that the paint dries off quickly, but even #1 is a bit larger than I like to use. A Raphael #1 seems comparable in size to a Rosemary #3 I'll try these but I think maybe a Raphael #0 or something might be the size I want. The #2/0 seems to have bad reviews but that size looks like a rosemary #1...hrm GreenBuckanneer fucked around with this message at 11:20 on Jan 21, 2024 |
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Jan 21, 2024 11:16
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The bellies are larger, but the points are comparable. I spend 90% of my time painting with a Raphael 8404 size 1 & 2. Being able to work with paint for longer is a blessing.
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I’ve got some Blood Bowl guys with decals and I’ve never used them before. What should I used for applying them - I see microset and microsol thrown around a lot
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Jan 21, 2024 11:56
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Lamuella posted:Needed gold, silver, and bronze medals for something I'm doing at work. Decided to paint up some Grenadier dwarves instead. Whoa blast from the past, good job (I grew up with that starter box)
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Jan 21, 2024 14:27
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Eyes are hard.  But at a distance they're not bad at all. Also I didn't use any washes for this because I am a masochist.
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Jan 21, 2024 15:43
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Yeast posted:The bellies are larger, but the points are comparable. I spend 90% of my time painting with a Raphael 8404 size 1 & 2. Yep. 95% of my painting is done with an 8404 size 2, even the little details because the point is just a few bristles no matter the size.
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Taking a little raven guard break, and finished the base for the grotmas gitz I paint incredibly slow, this probably took like.. 5 hours ;l Whole thing is gonna take a while 
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Toebone posted:I’ve got some Blood Bowl guys with decals and I’ve never used them before. What should I used for applying them - I see microset and microsol thrown around a lot Tweezers, an old brush, a medicine cup full of water, and a paper towel. Put some microset on the surface of the model first and then you can push the decal around with the brush. When it’s in the right spot, dab it with the paper towel. I only use microsol if the surface isn’t flat. Once everything is dry, you can brush on some micro flat or any other matte varnish to get rid of the sheen on the decal.
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lilljonas posted:Whoa blast from the past, good job (I grew up with that starter box) A company called EM4 bought the molds when Grenadier went out of business, so now you can get huge sacks of them for next to nothing: https://em4miniatures.com/collections/plastic-fantasy-miniatures
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Toebone posted:I’ve got some Blood Bowl guys with decals and I’ve never used them before. What should I used for applying them - I see microset and microsol thrown around a lot This is a decent quick guide. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2TBhhAngUY
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I want to paint up a small halfling warband. Since coming back to the hobby, I have confined myself to troops in a very specific uniform and these are a real hodgepodge. How do I maintain a kind of visual coherency while not making them look like they are all wearing a uniform? I don’t want it to look like a clown has taken a poo poo after eating a glitter bomb either.
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I recently did two big rabble armies (orks & skaven) and my way of unifying the chaos was picking a prominent, shared accessory to tie a unit together. For the orks all the shoulder pads were red, or if a model didn't have shoulder pads it had a helmet which was red instead. Similar for the skaven, though I used the shields / weapons to do that.
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Southern Heel posted:I want to paint up a small halfling warband. Since coming back to the hobby, I have confined myself to troops in a very specific uniform and these are a real hodgepodge. I've painted a decent amount of Malifaux warbands, and if I'm doing a skirmish sized force and want them to have some visual consistency I tend to pick a colour (or group of colours) and make sure I use it on every figure (or as many as its practical to do so. If theres a flame elemental or wild animal or similar in the warband its tough to find somewhere to work in dark purple). So say its purple, some figures might have purple coats or shirts, others maybe only have it on hatbands or belts, but its present. You can expand this idea as much or as little as you want, you could just pick a limited palette of a handful of colours and say everyones entire clothing must be from this group of 4 colours, varying up which is the main colour vs accents. Very unified but I feel less realistic than "They've decided this is their gangs colour so everyone finds something dyed that colour to wear". I did it like once and hated the process so now tend to default to the "pick a single colour, maybe a main and an accent" version. Its find for this one to be all in black, as the wrapping of his axe and the lining of his cloak are the team colour. Or, if I'm not feeling that (or the figures just dont allow for it for whatever reason) you can do it with basing, do something slightly out of your ordinary, and do it across all the bases. Could be a decorative features like a particular colour of flower tuft, a slightly unusual ground covering, or could be a particular biome ("This warband is being based as if on the streets of a forgotten city in the desert" "This warband are on a cracked dry riverbed" "This warband are in the snow"). Just having them all look like they are standing in the same place can do a lot for making them look like they belong together.
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Southern Heel posted:
Use a mother colour to unify all the tones and shades. Example: https://www.instagram.com/p/C0OM6QwtRGm/?igsh=MW9oMjZvNWF1djVyNA== Technique: https://youtu.be/p0nqofvkFdQ?si=rQtImTAf042xvq8y
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iospace posted:Eyes are hard. Eyes look better with eyeliner on real people and miniatures. fyi. also i love that you have a votann head on that space marine
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Southern Heel posted:I want to paint up a small halfling warband. Since coming back to the hobby, I have confined myself to troops in a very specific uniform and these are a real hodgepodge. As mentioned a mother colour can do the trick, and the easiest way to unify a scheme. Another option I like is to pick a shadow colour and a highlight colour and mix those into all your midtones to create your shadows and highlight, simulating the idea that all the models are in the same light.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Eyes look better with eyeliner on real people and miniatures. fyi. Yeah, I'm aware. Practice will make it better! Lots of practice. Good thing I have these spare marine heads that are not going to be used to practice on. But yes, thank you, though the idea to use Votann heads was not mine, but a twitter user's. Now to find some Sigmarine ladies that I can borrow heads from for some different hair as well!
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Got bored with Custodes again, decided to do something else for fun on a Sunday evening. I just have one question, why do chaos warriors look so god drat good.
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Lostconfused posted:Got bored with Custodes again, decided to do something else for fun on a Sunday evening. Because being bad is just so good
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I finished off the first lance of my Battletech mercenary company. I went through the full end-to-end process of rolling up a star system, planets, governments and technology levels, then the available mechs and cost, the cost of pilots and engineers, ammo and fuel, etc. - ended up with a 'perfect' merc company. I rolled up the factions and contracts, specifically identified one and figured out the pay, danger bonus, profit split and recompense for ammo and repairs. Then I did nothing with it. The tester mini was painted with duller colours which in retrospect I think looks better, but I'm trying to make my style deliberately more bright and vibrant.
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