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Nebalebadingdong posted:some more rats You paint better at that scale than I could ever hope to at 28mm.
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Aranan posted:Testing on the underside makes a ton of sense. There are a bunch of boils there that I could try it out on. Pale white with a gross ring of red / purple would pop pretty well against that greenish yellow tone, imo. I've seen a lot of Maggotkin paintjobs that go that route: 
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Floppychop posted:You paint better at that scale than I could ever hope to at 28mm. well thanks! i recently made a wet palette, which has been extremely helpful. was just too lazy to make one earlier
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Id:I WANT EVERY MODEL EVER Superego: You can't buy any new models when you haven't even painted ONE ork, ffs. Ego: Solution -- paint 1 ork    I know I want to brighten up the eyes and maybe the leather on his chest, and drybrush the orange of the base some. I know I don't like the black on the base and I don't know why; is it not matte enough? Is there a better color? I'm also kind of dissatisfied with the blue on his chainsaw things; I'm wondering if maybe painting the teeth more goldish would be better? Otherwise I'm basically happy with this.
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The blue on the axe needs another coat - it's too transparent right now, which is why it doesn't look "right". The highlighting on the face also doesn't match the highlighting on the arm - right now it looks like you have a light source above and to the left of the model, but the face shows light coming from the right. Add some highlighting to the front and left of the face and it should even everything out.
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Does anyone have a suggestion for painting metals, specifically steel/iron, without metallic paints? There's tons of NMM tutorials out there, but that's not what I'm looking for. I'm more thinking a subdued metal color like it would be in a cartoon or comic book. edit: My blood bowl goblin at the top of the previous page is my weak attempt so far.
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Floppychop posted:Does anyone have a suggestion for painting metals, specifically steel/iron, without metallic paints? There's tons of NMM tutorials out there, but that's not what I'm looking for. I'm more thinking a subdued metal color like it would be in a cartoon or comic book. Various shades of grey with lighter grey and white highlights, to represent the metal reflecting some light?
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Floppychop posted:Does anyone have a suggestion for painting metals, specifically steel/iron, without metallic paints? There's tons of NMM tutorials out there, but that's not what I'm looking for. I'm more thinking a subdued metal color like it would be in a cartoon or comic book. hmmm... you can make any color look metallic by having high contrast dark and light. for a comic book look, check out the silver surfer  you'll need parallel white/black lines going along the contours of your metal object. the actual color of the object is not super important, but for steel you can't go wrong with a blue-gray or a brown-gray
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chin up everything sucks posted:The blue on the axe needs another coat - it's too transparent right now, which is why it doesn't look "right". Thanks! Much appreciated.
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I made myself an excel spreadsheet to keep track of my paint and their colors. It was a good way to do something painting adjacent when I didn't have the brain mode to do any actual painting. I copied over all the information from the bottles and use firefox's eye-dropper tool to get the color's hex-decimal value from images of the paint's color, which is how I got the nice example colors in the left-hand column. I tried sorting the colors by hexdecimal value, but I'm not sure if thats the best way to then organize the actual colors in my list. Here is a screenshot with the list sorted by hexdecimal value on the left, and the original list that is just in the order of bottles I picked up on the right.  So, first, does anyone know a good way to organize these? should I organize them by color group (reds with reds, greens with greens, etc)? Also, when I sort the colors a bunch of the colors look way different, like the hull-red. Is that any sort of color output changing from excel or just my brain processing it different since suddenly its dark next to dark, without contrast?
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i have mine organized by Warm Colors in one drawer, Cold colors in another, and then anything black/white/grey/brown or metallic goes in another. But a general good idea is Black/Brown ROYGBIV metals
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I realized what WW2 painting has done to me when I was going to bring my browns to the club for a basing session.... and realized that I had put half my paints in that box. WW2 truly is 50 shades of brown.
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Shiet, the only spreadsheet I have is an inventory of my paints so I know which ones I have and don't have. But I might do something like that at some point in the future.
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Cooked Auto posted:Shiet, the only spreadsheet I have is an inventory of my paints so I know which ones I have and don't have. But I might do something like that at some point in the future. Honestly taking inventory is half the process. The other process is getting all the hexdecimal values, which wasn't too tedious and made for good work for podcast time. The eye-dropper tool in firefox is accessed via the hamburger menu -> more tools. I'm not 100% on the current version of firefox though so it might be different. Maybe its in the developer tools. Here is a full screenshot of my spreadsheet if you want to copy. 
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PaintRack PaintRack PaintRack It's an Android app that does this, and someone else did all the work.
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dexefiend posted:PaintRack its this
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Nebalebadingdong posted:hmmm... I might try searching for more pictures of swords or whatever in comics. That should probably help. Silver Surfer always felt "off" to me in comic art. Like he wasn't living metal but instead something else.
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November was a busy month for me. Managed to get 9 Marvel models painted! Cassandra Nova  Omega Red  Toad  Mr. Sinister  Magneto  Domino  Cable  Jean Grey  She-Hulk  And a group shot of all the MCP stuff so far! 
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dexefiend posted:PaintRack I use Brushrage which does a similar thing. Can mostly just scan the barcodes to import.
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Floppychop posted:Does anyone have a suggestion for painting metals, specifically steel/iron, without metallic paints? There's tons of NMM tutorials out there, but that's not what I'm looking for. I'm more thinking a subdued metal color like it would be in a cartoon or comic book. You probably still want to use some of the techniques for NMM for this. What I'd do is remove the emphasis on reflection that a lot of NMM guides use, and stick to single blended gradients, with white or high-value edge and specular highlights. 
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Floppychop posted:Does anyone have a suggestion for painting metals, specifically steel/iron, without metallic paints? There's tons of NMM tutorials out there, but that's not what I'm looking for. I'm more thinking a subdued metal color like it would be in a cartoon or comic book. Your goblin has an almost cell-shaded look, so maybe poke around in that space and see if anything looks right? Off the top of my head and at risk of recommending anime, if you're looking for a cartoon / animated style, you could probably pull a lot of reference images from stills of Full Metal Alchemist, which seems like maybe the art style you're looking for?  As mentioned above, you're still going to be using a lot of basic NMM techniques, but it seems like you're looking for a flatter / more planar style than the realistic transitions and larger tonal range that most NMM will be doing.
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Nebalebadingdong posted:some more rats How do you find doing nmm at that scale? Take it there's less futzing with blends but i could be wrong
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Zuul the Cat posted:And a group shot of all the MCP stuff so far! I love the MCP minis but gently caress me the prices per mini is rough. Yours look great though.
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This Central American-esque Thousand Sons Infernal Master was a lot of fun to paint
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working mom posted:How do you find doing nmm at that scale? Take it there's less futzing with blends you are correct. when i first started trying out NMM on 28mm it was a real struggle. it was a lot less frustrating to learn on 15mm minis
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 I painted this dude just in time for the decorations to go up. My painting is pretty messy up close but to be honest I couldn’t see what I was doing at this scale anyway. It was pretty fun and made a nice change from necrons.
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Grizzled Patriarch posted:Your goblin has an almost cell-shaded look, so maybe poke around in that space and see if anything looks right? Off the top of my head and at risk of recommending anime, if you're looking for a cartoon / animated style, you could probably pull a lot of reference images from stills of Full Metal Alchemist, which seems like maybe the art style you're looking for? I was aiming more for borderlands style, but that's drat close, especially for the metal. I'll have to go searching for some more stills of Alphonse. My brain works in mysterious ways, mainly completely forgetting every possible source that I personally know that could be used as a reference material.
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After several years completely inactive in painting, I've decided to mash the giant red "back to basics" button on my kit. I bought the giant 216-paint Reaper box set a few years ago and just... barely touched it. Now I want to get it out of my apartment in advance of a move, in exchange for a nominal donation to charity. If you're in Seattle (this thing is probably more trouble to ship than it's worth), please take a look at my SA-Mart listing. If you really want me to ship it... drop me a PM and we'll talk. I return you to all your cool and colorful minis and hope you I'll be able to join you again in 2022. Fake Edit: There's a 2014 Dragons Don't Share Bones diorama, too. Thing's huge. Fake Edit 2: I asked Leperflesh how to handle this; this seemed like the best way!
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Floppychop posted:I was aiming more for borderlands style, but that's drat close, especially for the metal. I'll have to go searching for some more stills of Alphonse. What you’re looking for is what digital artists call “Stylized Textures” or “cartoon textures”. There are tons of tutorial on how to get that look in photoshop, with some work you can probably adapt the techniques to acrylic paints.
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Managed to finish vampire lord for my undeads. I'm pretty happy with results considering that painting metals without metallic paints is so out of my comfort zone.
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haven’t seen anyone talk about army painter speedpaint range in here but drat they look like a gamechanger - potentially nicer to work with than contrast paints (from an admittedly very small sample set of colours) and half the price https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHTeFwcKE9A
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jesus WEP posted:haven’t seen anyone talk about army painter speedpaint range in here but drat they look like a gamechanger - potentially nicer to work with than contrast paints (from an admittedly very small sample set of colours) and half the price I think the Announcement video got posted ITT but since they're not on the shelf yet probably not a whole lot to talk about. But clearly they're in the hands of YouTubers! I haven't seen any of my usual channels talk about 'em yet though. As she said, cheaper Contrast paints sounds  e; okay actually finished watching the video now. I think I prefer the results of the Army Painter stuff in all 3 tests she did. I wanna see the Purple, because Contrast Purples suck butts Sab669 fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Dec 3, 2021 |
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they look - to me at least - like they also might be actually better for beginners because they’re a bit less tricky to apply? it took a lot of practice before i could apply a smooth coat of flesh tearers red to anything that wasn’t all roughly textured (i am a very bad painter though)
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working on a small scene. ive covered over the foam in spackle to serve as snow. I want to make footprints for the children as well as the Krampus. For shadowing those, should I use a blue wash or a black wash? the children's footprints in particular will be really small so I want to ensure they are legible.
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punishedkissinger posted:working on a small scene. ive covered over the foam in spackle to serve as snow. I want to make footprints for the children as well as the Krampus. For shadowing those, should I use a blue wash or a black wash? the children's footprints in particular will be really small so I want to ensure they are legible. I'd say blue would work best for shading holes in snow
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Still need to do the basing but I'm pretty proud of this Flesh Tearers captain. edit-- gently caress I just realized I didn't paint the eyes lol Count Thrashula fucked around with this message at 18:58 on Dec 3, 2021 |
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Chunkystyle posted:Managed to finish vampire lord for my undeads. I'm pretty happy with results considering that painting metals without metallic paints is so out of my comfort zone. The armour looks incredible. Great job!
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Painted a Daemon Prince for my Death Guard. 
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didnt end up doing any shading on the foot-holes. they ended up too delicate. i think theyre pretty legible anyway happy holidays everyone. thanks for being a great thread full of talented helpful people! 
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