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I did some stuff EC Spartan          Bretonnian Sorceress    Broodlord *taps head*    Cerastus Knights   
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WTFFFFFF those are all so gorgeous 
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Z the IVth posted:Bretonnian Sorceress Did you follow Louise Sugden's tutorial for these weapons?
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May 3, 2024 21:52
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Did you follow Louise Sugden's tutorial for these weapons? Got it in one. Its an excellent tutorial and very easy to execute.
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Count Thrashula posted:The skin/tentacle/stuff looks absolutely gross, bravo Thanks- still a work in process, and has been evolving along the way. The mushrooms are just a Magos Purple dominant mix of the skin shade, I’m hoping I can pull them off in the end. Horns, two or three pinwashes, highlights and scratching, and bases, then I’m done.
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May 3, 2024 21:55
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Z the IVth posted:I did some stuff Utterly gorgeous.
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May 3, 2024 22:36
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The purple on that spartan is gorgeous, and I love all the colour you incorporated into the Sorceress. Even her hair really stands out.
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Well, as an update to my previous posts, it looks like Coat D'Arms does match GW's old paints pretty well; unfortunately, it is very thin in comparison so it's taking multiple layers of paint to get coverage. At least I didn't have to paint over my prior work, though I ordered a bunch of Vallejo for any future models. Working on Battletech models right now (with a few tabletop RPG minis if I burn out on army painting, but I figure 12 models max for a unit should avoid that); finished my Jade Falcon Nova I had mostly done a while back. Not exactly my greatest work (need a LOT more work on cockpits for one), but A. it's not terrible either, especially for this many years off, and B. I'm just glad I buckled down and got the drat things done:       You can also see some of the Kurita Sword of Light mechs I'm working on in the background; models are mostly some of the ones from the old Citytech boxes, so they'll probably wind up as cheap OPFOR to slap down on the table rather than display pieces. Also, they had weird issues with primer sticking right; not sure what they treated the plastic with on those old models, but had to break out some paint-on primer and do touching up after washing the spots that weren't taking it. Hopefully that won't be too obvious in the final product.
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May 4, 2024 03:02
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Z the IVth posted:I did some stuff These are absolutely incredible, amazing job!
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May 4, 2024 09:33
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Cross-post from the specialist games thread, here's my first fully-painted model for Legio Catholicus, "The Powerwolves," Beast of Gevaudan.   I still don't enjoy painting, and I look at some of the stuff that people in this thread produce and wonder why I even bother, but having a painted model is kind of satisfying even if the paintwork is trash, and maybe I'll get it on the table some day 
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May 4, 2024 16:58
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it's a little on the nose but I dig the cannon completely covering Jesus' face
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on his nose
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I finished the Reaper Henchmen and Hirelings box, just in time for today's DCC game to be cancelled and the group effectively disbanded. But I bought this set primarily because I thought it would be fun to paint, and I was right. Thank you to everyone who offered advice on my earlier work. The Muscle   Ranged Combat   Lighting   Baggage Handlers   I used the Scale75 starter paint set augmented with some Proacryls. Some of the Scale paints have bad coverage and they basically don't blend at all once you apply them to a mini. I don't know if that's inherent to the paint or if they started to separate/degrade at some point between Adepticon and now. I assumed it was user error on my part until I picked up the Proacryl Yellow Ochre on the recommendation of a friend, because everyone said the Scalecolor yellow sucked even when we were painting at the con. The Proacryl paints (I also got their silver and bronze) behave like the ones you see in painting tutorials, rather than immediately separating when you add the tiniest drop of water. I don't mind the starter paints being a little scabby in some applications, it gives the cloth an interesting texture. But for hard surfaces that are supposed to be uniform it's a drag. I love this set. It has the perfect blend of realism, fantasy, comedy and seriousness. The characters are doing things that reflect the typical RPG play experience. Arguing over the map, carefully searching for traps and overloading themselves with loot while the fighters stand at attention, waiting for these nerds to fix their poo poo so they can find something to kill. Next I think I'll order the rest of the Reaper henchmen who didn't make it into the box. There's a halfling and a goblin and some other chumps overloaded with items. Might get some Reaper paints too just to bump the order over the free shipping threshold.
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  Test model for a prospective Dark Eldar kill team. Highlights are rough due to hand tremors on the second painting day; nothing to be done about that, just my health. Already mentioned where the model came from; in hindsight I should have cleaned it up again before priming, because there were mold lines and a single sprue bit I didn't notice until after I started painting, that are very visible irl. For me in 2017, great conversion; in 2024, a little rough. Still need to do the base rims. Not sure if I'll go ahead with the full team or wait a while.
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May 4, 2024 18:44
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Trying to order the Vallejo Game Color paints (got the basic sets, but annoyingly they don't seem to have come with any good shade/basecoat/highlight sets) but having issues pulling up actual shops to order it from instead of details, reviews, etc. about it. Any good places to order it online in the US?
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May 4, 2024 23:03
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MadDogMike posted:Trying to order the Vallejo Game Color paints (got the basic sets, but annoyingly they don't seem to have come with any good shade/basecoat/highlight sets) but having issues pulling up actual shops to order it from instead of details, reviews, etc. about it. Any good places to order it online in the US? I always used Miniature Market in the past, but it's been a few years since I put an order in there and I don't know if there's any issues with them nowadays.
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May 4, 2024 23:06
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Had motivation today, and got Incense & Iron painted too.  
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I just discovered that one of the stores near me carries Two Thin Coats. Any particularly good colors of theirs I should pick up a bottle of to try out? (They also carry Citadel and Army Painter, but those are everywhere.)
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Kylaer posted:Cross-post from the specialist games thread, here's my first fully-painted model for Legio Catholicus, "The Powerwolves," Beast of Gevaudan. I think you're being a bit too hard on yourself. This is looking good, if you go back and touch up a couple bits of misplaced paint around the trim it is going to be even better. Remember that it won't be viewed up close 95% of the time, your bold scheme is going to look really nice on the table. Something to remember is that a good number of the people posting here paint at a very high level, and have probably been at it for decades potentially. Keep at it, and experiment with techniques and you will improve too.
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armorer posted:I just discovered that one of the stores near me carries Two Thin Coats. Any particularly good colors of theirs I should pick up a bottle of to try out? (They also carry Citadel and Army Painter, but those are everywhere.) Their colours are almost matched up to the citadel range, they even have a conversion chart in their web. I heard nothing but praise about the paints themselves, so pick whatever color you want to try out.
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 More dorfs
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Hey friends, my FLGS had a big sale over the weekend and they were selling all their Turbo Dork paints for a dollar, so I grabbed a bunch of them just for the gently caress of it. They are all metallics and I have been using strictly Scale75 metallics thus far because they cover so well. These are the opposite, I'm not sure if there is a term for these as opposed to the Scale75 metallics in terms of coverage/coloring but these all seem very very thin. Is this how most metallics are usually and any advice for using them effectively? I''m thinking maybe just having to layer them four or five times but that seems daunting for detailed stuff for a beginner like me. Just curious, TIA.
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Scale75 is known for having thicker paint so that's one thing. Turbodork is meant to be airbrushed so that's why it's so thin. You can brush it on but the effect won't be as pronounced.
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Virtual Russian posted:I think you're being a bit too hard on yourself. This is looking good, if you go back and touch up a couple bits of misplaced paint around the trim it is going to be even better. Remember that it won't be viewed up close 95% of the time, your bold scheme is going to look really nice on the table. Thank you. I'm going to keep at it, I have all kinds of tiny armies I want to build. And it's a learning process for sure.
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Wangsucker 69 posted:Hey friends, my FLGS had a big sale over the weekend and they were selling all their Turbo Dork paints for a dollar, so I grabbed a bunch of them just for the gently caress of it. As Eej mentioned they don't brush on very well at all and they also need to be shaken a hell of a lot to actually get them to the point where they're approximately even. If you don't have an airbrush and vortex mixer I think they're probably a bit of a dud and even if you do they're not that great compared to just using a bright metal undercoat with clears on it.
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I was going through my stuff the other day, and found this lil guy  He was originally painted for a Christmas-themed challenge in the Oath Thread.
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MadDogMike posted:Trying to order the Vallejo Game Color paints (got the basic sets, but annoyingly they don't seem to have come with any good shade/basecoat/highlight sets) but having issues pulling up actual shops to order it from instead of details, reviews, etc. about it. Any good places to order it online in the US? I've had good experiences ordering from either of these two places: https://www.scalehobbyist.com/ https://www.atomicempire.com/
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some 6mm tanks from iliada games         
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Nebalebadingdong posted:some 6mm tanks from iliada games these are great as always but my hot take is that the cartoony sand dunes on the bases detracts slightly from the paint job on the tanks.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:these are great as always but my hot take is that the cartoony sand dunes on the bases detracts slightly from the paint job on the tanks. i don't disagree, they're just part of a force that uses that basing scheme
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Thought I would just drop in and advertise Minis Painting Oath Season 15! In case you are a person like me that requires a bit of extra motivation to get projects painted every month, feel free to join in for our 2nd season of 'much more relaxed' oathing than the older competition-based thread. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4059832 See you there!
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I don't have a great track record with oaths 
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Super Waffle posted:I don't have a great track record with oaths That's what's great about the new oath thread! Just oath one month, fail, and re-oath the next ;-)
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I refuse to oath, I've been dodging painting by spending the past uh weeks or months gluing miniatures because I find it less stressful.
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Anyone familiar with the Jo Sonja line of paint? When I bought my first bottles of paint (outside of Game Xpress and Speedpaint 2.0 to try out that specific style) I went with some Pro Acryl and Scale75. But as I only bought what I thought I'd need but actually didn't really know what I needed, mostly just buying something I thought I'd need but it turns out it didn't match the color in my mind or not realizing some small part was supposed to be a different thing than what I'd planned on using for that part, I thought if I'm going to do this long term I should just properly learn some basic color mixing and stick with a small subset of paints. Which then led to the rabbit hole of pigments and challenges of mixing miniature paints beyond simple highlights. Has been fun to learn even if nothing else and now I'm thinking of getting some Golden SoFlat paints (I did buy their cheaper starter set of six paints already) but while I was debating buying more I found a reference on reddit to using Jo Sonja paints, and have only found a couple other instances of people referencing them in conjunction with painting miniatures. Normally I'd just dismiss it at that point, but Jo Sonja paints are pretty drat cheap and appear (from the few discussions I found) to be of higher quality than basic cheap hobby craft paint. Considering the price of the Golden SoFlat small bottles if the Jo Sonja paints are passable if not especially great then I'll take it as a new painter considering the difference. And unrelated side question, white seems to be a big sticking point that's commonly recommended to a few hyper specific brands/color. However as far as I can tell the problem is people want mixing/zinc white, and yet I've not seen a single person use those terms and continually recommend others to solve the problem that mixing white is specifically meant to solve. Why? I legitimately don't get it. I mean sure a tube of mixing white is going to cost more but it's not an entire paint set, it's a single tube to solve the problem of a white your paint with and a white you mix for highlights.
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Mixing white has been recommended a few times before in this thread and ol Marco Frisoni even has a video on it from last year I think. I think it's mostly because hobby lines generally don't offer a plain zinc white bottle.
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nessin posted:When I bought my first bottles of paint (outside of Game Xpress and Speedpaint 2.0 to try out that specific style) I went with some Pro Acryl and Scale75. But as I only bought what I thought I'd need but actually didn't really know what I needed, mostly just buying something I thought I'd need but it turns out it didn't match the color in my mind or not realizing some small part was supposed to be a different thing than what I'd planned on using for that part, I thought if I'm going to do this long term I should just properly learn some basic color mixing and stick with a small subset of paints. Which then led to the rabbit hole of pigments and challenges of mixing miniature paints beyond simple highlights. Has been fun to learn even if nothing else and now I'm thinking of getting some Golden SoFlat paints (I did buy their cheaper starter set of six paints already) but while I was debating buying more I found a reference on reddit to using Jo Sonja paints, and have only found a couple other instances of people referencing them in conjunction with painting miniatures. Normally I'd just dismiss it at that point, but Jo Sonja paints are pretty drat cheap and appear (from the few discussions I found) to be of higher quality than basic cheap hobby craft paint. Considering the price of the Golden SoFlat small bottles if the Jo Sonja paints are passable if not especially great then I'll take it as a new painter considering the difference. This is also why people can get quite grumpy about paint reformulations since it might mean that if you run out of a specific paint and get a new bottle even though it's called the same thing in the same paint line it's actually got a new medium/pigment. In general newer formulations are "better" (as in they tend to have better coverage/stronger pigmentation) but the old formulations "flaws" might have actually been working to your advantage and you might not be able to reproduce what you did previously with the new stuff.
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gameraMan posted:That's what's great about the new oath thread! Just oath one month, fail, and re-oath the next ;-) Seconding this. I’ve been oathing and failing like mad over the past twelve months. It still had the effect of motivating even through that loving horde of beastie boys who i thought id never finish. Also if you dont want to swear to paint, you can oath your gluing! Or swear to open a box on the pile of shame and think about doing something! Or anything really. There is no kink shaming in the new oath thread.
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Sounds great! I'd join in, but I have been a good boy about not really buying more than I'm planning to paint, my "pile of shame" is a box of terminators, a jetpack captain and a liutenant- the only thing that stops me painting is time, not motivation. If anyone should be participating in the oath thread it's my wife, who is far better at buying more models than she is at actually sitting down to paint them- on the plus side, this gives me more minis to paint! To help her along with motivation, I proposed we'd paint a couple of my terminators together- she'll paint them in my scheme, and we'll work through all the steps together until completion. Sounds like a fun little couples project, I think!
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Bohemian Nights posted:
Sounds like a Blood Oath! Get swearing
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