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Super Waffle posted:Have you looked into the Escher kits for Necromunda? They're all punk rock ladies. I did! Bit small for the giant medusa/bat/murder god lady I'd be using them on but the other goons suggestion paid off, found some stl files on myminifactory (that I had to look for on my computer because my new Samsung all off a sudden can't open that app anymore, just goes to a white screen and never leaves. Boooo.)
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Cardboard Fox posted:First time getting into paint conversion from Citadel to Vallejo Game Color and I've been using the github sheet, as well as the Hobby Color Convert app. The one on github at least, seems to be way off, as I've also noticed. I suspect who ever made it just went to the websites for each respective company and tried to get hex codes for each paint off of it by using the paint dropper tool and then programmatically calculated the rgb distances between them, which I don't know poo poo about paint, but I'm guessing it does not work that way at all.
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One nice thing about those crappy airbrushes with the portable compressor (mine was I think ~$75) is that I can do my priming and basecoating outside, so no need for a booth or spray cans. I definitely am overspraying and getting a little pooling but the Vallejo primer is so forgiving. Eventually gonna get a proper setup though, those Marco videos where he does a quick value sketch with just the airbrush are pretty convincing.
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Scalemates looks like it has a pretty big database for paints. You can give that a shot.
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Amazon seems straight-up cursed for some airbrush-related products. The new spray booth I ordered was clearly stripped for parts by someone who swapped in their broken parts and returned it. Same thing happened with the first compressor + airbrush combo I ordered.
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Bark! A Vagrant posted:Amazon seems straight-up cursed for some airbrush-related products. The new spray booth I ordered was clearly stripped for parts by someone who swapped in their broken parts and returned it. Same thing happened with the first compressor + airbrush combo I ordered. Well, you can always report it and get a replacement one at least!
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    Testing out a color scheme for my next Blood Bowl team, and I think it’s kind okay so far? I wanted to deal with my biggest weaknesses as a painter, so the goal is to practice white cloth, basic NMM, and clearly defining the separation between shapes. How’d I do? I know the cloak needs much more blending and smoothing out with glazes, I haven’t done any shading or highlighting on the tail, and the eyes need something more, but I think the basic scheme works on the Gutter Runner. The Blitzer took a lot of time, and I think I got most of the reflections to read as metallic and a rich red color. The lights on the back plate feel off, though, and I missed part of the armor that was in shadow.
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Bo-Pepper posted:Ghazghkull Thraka WIP Bo-Pepper posted:Still doin He's gonna look fukken & hella sweet
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My new airbrush arrived today and I'm hella excited. Though I'm off on a trip soon and can't use it.
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Did a little more painting, all Malifaux 2 Dead Doxies. That tiny blue hat fell off the hand and got temporarily lost once while building, and then another twice when painting.  And a Wanyudo (which is apparently from japanese folk tales, a burning wheel with a face in the middle). Not the best fire I've ever done, but the weird orientations made it tough to judge which should be the brightest parts of the flames. 
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I was reviewing the Pro Acryl article on Goonhammer and it struck me that I might have been pre-emptively over-thinning, which created more problems for me than it solved. How hard do y'all generally thin that stuff? Is it actually pre-watered somehow or did they just Do Good on that line of paints?
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Nessus posted:I was reviewing the Pro Acryl article on Goonhammer and it struck me that I might have been pre-emptively over-thinning, which created more problems for me than it solved. How hard do y'all generally thin that stuff? Is it actually pre-watered somehow or did they just Do Good on that line of paints? it's already pretty drat thin, especially the whites and oranges or other light colors, i usually do the normal amount of thinning on the wet palette one does to not have a brush overloaded with paint and go for it. You can certainly go thinner but you're pushing it into glazes at that point and I'm honestly too impatient to spend much time glazing at all, takes too drat long.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:it's already pretty drat thin, especially the whites and oranges or other light colors, i usually do the normal amount of thinning on the wet palette one does to not have a brush overloaded with paint and go for it. You can certainly go thinner but you're pushing it into glazes at that point and I'm honestly too impatient to spend much time glazing at all, takes too drat long. e: With the reds and whites I had added a fingertip-adhered drop of water to the blob of paint (5-6 drops, to be scientific about it). This made a fairly thin coat, though two coats looked pretty good, just not a smooth flat red. The copper took this treatment much better.
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It's too thin if the paint starts to shrink into a pool on a miniature instead of staying where you applied it on the surface. Otherwise it's fine and you apply more layers until you're happy with it imo.
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Looking for some feedback on my first ever painted mini:  I was working from a friend’s collection of paint, so I wasted a lot of time and built up a lot of layers tinkering with the colors, and our paint day ended before I could really go over the details. Still, I’m proud of how this one came out.
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Triskelli posted:Looking for some feedback on my first ever painted mini: Think back to however you painted the model. Think about how "wet" the paint was on the brush and how it flowed out of the brush onto the model. Now, next time, try thinning it more by adding a smidge more water than you did before. Besides that, for a first mini, I think you did well with coloring in the lines of such a small object. I think it came out quite well!
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Yeah that is really solid for a first go! If you weren't time crunched I would have taken a smol brush and cleaned up the lines such as on the shoulderpads but you were also probably constantly discovering new nuances of the process as you went along.
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Triskelli posted:Looking for some feedback on my first ever painted mini: Looks good and reminds me of deep rock galactic.
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Need to build up painting stamina, slathering green contrast paint on 30 gretchin/orks is my limit for the day. Did I mention how I don't like batch painting?
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Nessus posted:Yeah I think I may have veered into the borderland of glazes. What I did, sort of by accident, with the jade was to add a brushload of water and otherwise to just have my cycle be clean-dip, wipe on paper towel, water-pot dip, paint blob dip. However my main coverage was with white/ivory and their red. I also agree that their titanium white is borderline magical. You can keep some parchment paper to the side and test the mixed paint on it. Paint on it like you were painting a model and whether the paint stays where you put it or snaps back / how quickly it does will tell you how thin it is (thinner = more snap back). The exact consistency will be a little trial and error, but this will let you learn over time what consistency you want for base coast/glaze etc. so variations in paint brands or pigments don't mess you up. Some people do the same thing with the back of their hand or nail. Harvey Mantaco posted:Forgive me This is amazing
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Bo-Pepper posted:Still doin He's lookin siick. some insane detail goin on I have a soft spot for Ghazgkhull. I had the chonky metal one from 20 years ago, and he was my favorite model for most of my life lmao
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Harvey Mantaco posted:Forgive me But where is the ports for their black carapace???
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Well, at least you're set for paints for forever. I'm curious about your thoughts, people seem generally positive about the range, but it's hard to tell how much of that is hype and how much is actual quality.
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Radiation Cow posted:Well, at least you're set for paints for forever. I'm curious about your thoughts, people seem generally positive about the range, but it's hard to tell how much of that is hype and how much is actual quality. That would actually require me to paint something  I kid. I've continued painting my Bretonnian knights. I've used Daemonic Yellow only so far. Painting on top of white primer and yellow speedpaint worked fine (duh). I also had painted the horse reins with dark brown speedpaint and one coat of D.Yellow on top of that on the mini shields look great. Paint comes thick out of bottle, with no separation like in previous gen. It is so thick, I need to work on my paint thinning. I Never bothered to thin with previous AP paints.
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Bo-Pepper posted:Ghazghkull Thraka WIP That is peak early 2000s edgy PS2 game aesthetic and I am here for it, great job so far!
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Lostconfused posted:Need to build up painting stamina, slathering green contrast paint on 30 gretchin/orks is my limit for the day. About ten at a time is more or less my limit for batch painting before it starts to feel like a chore rather than a hobby. Harvey Mantaco posted:Forgive me Where on earth did you get buff pokemon minis/stls?
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I've pretty much only painted terrain over the past few years, although a fair amount of it. I have a bunch of craft acrylics, and they're fine for that but pretty lousy for painting minis. To dip my toes in the miniature painting world, I got the Reaper Bones "Layer Up!" kit and found it super intuitive. I'm planning to pick up their "Core Skills" kit as well, mostly so I have some guided projects to work on because I tend to learn pretty well that way. My question is, from reading the OP, it seems like the Reaper paints are generally well regarded but maybe not as commonly used as the ones specifically called out in the section leading up to that. Is there another offering that one of the paint companies have that compares to these Reaper kits? I found the reaper paint to go on easily, mix well, and generally work for what I was trying to do. I am limited far more at this point by my skills than I am by their paint I think. I have a bunch of minis to work on as well, stand-alone sets of miniatures from a variety of places and also a ton of boardgames that have minis I could practice on. So while I don't explicitly need the kit, I do think that working through their examples gives me a good sense of how I might go about painting some other minis.
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SiKboy posted:About ten at a time is more or less my limit for batch painting before it starts to feel like a chore rather than a hobby. MMF but there's weirdly a lot of them if you just Google "body builder pokemon stl"
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armorer posted:I've pretty much only painted terrain over the past few years, although a fair amount of it. I have a bunch of craft acrylics, and they're fine for that but pretty lousy for painting minis. To dip my toes in the miniature painting world, I got the Reaper Bones "Layer Up!" kit and found it super intuitive. I'm planning to pick up their "Core Skills" kit as well, mostly so I have some guided projects to work on because I tend to learn pretty well that way. What are you looking for from that kit specifically? If you just want comparable paint, that's basically everything out there on the market that's not craft paint. If you want a pre-made kit with some brushes and maybe some thinner, you can get that from a bunch of retailers, though you should probably just buy your own. If you want a set of pre-constructed triads (shade, base color, highlight) straight from the company, that's harder. I think you're mostly stuck with Reaper, Army Painter, and Two Thin Coats. I assume there's a GW set out there that has a corresponding tutorial video for beginners, but I don't have enough back catalog on their videos to say for sure.
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grassy gnoll posted:If you want a set of pre-constructed triads (shade, base color, highlight) straight from the company, that's harder. I think you're mostly stuck with Reaper, Army Painter, and Two Thin Coats. VGC and AK 3rd Gen also have similar color groups, and sell four-packs of linked paints to show it off.
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grassy gnoll posted:What are you looking for from that kit specifically? I don't need the brushes, I have quite a few already. What I liked about the kit I went through already is that it gives good color recipes for different sections of the models, and it presents it all in a really cohesive way. It has you paint fabric, leather, chainmail, a few different skin tones, a blade, etc and walks you through which paints work well together as base/shadow/highlight. So yeah, I like the preconstructed triads and the guidance on the specific minis that ship with the kit. I think once I've painted more models I'll be happy to break loose and just start painting the other minis I have with the paints I will have accumulated by that point.
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Issaries posted:I've made a hueg mistake: I also ordered that and am looking forward to it. It is being delivered today. Unfortunately I am in Las Vegas for 10 days.
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God did not mean for goon to have that many paints, it’s… *looks at paint collection* oh poo poo, I could have bought so, so much!
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 I'm stumped as to how the original artist painted these. There's obviously layers of red and purple in there, possibly contrast paint washes, but I'm stumped as to how he got the texture the way that he did. I thought initially that it was drybrushing, but I wasn't able to replicate it by using a makeup brush and very little paint. Anybody else have an idea of how these were painted?
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