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GreenBuckanneer posted:
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I painted Amina Naidu and the 2 Gunsmiths for my upcoming Malifaux escalation league. I feel like I'm getting better with the oils. I forgot to take the pictures before I varnished them, so they're a little dusty looking and have a few still cloudy areas.     
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This is exactly how I would expect jeans to look, nice job
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40km thread xpost Finished some old as balls Striking Scorpions. One of them is so old he isn't even officially a Scorpion but a "space elf champion".
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Harvey Mantaco posted:Dickbutt? No i mean, the flag is very flat, I'm not sure how to make it better The model is made of white metal, but I was thinking getting some grey and mixing it with what I think the color of the white is, and maybe blend on the ridges, but it'll still look too clean...
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IncredibleIgloo posted:I would not, assuming the terrain is stuff like Sector Imperalis or whatever. Primers form a chemical bond and have additives that allow the surface to have "tooth", which allows the normal paints which attach via mechanical bond to attach well. That advice is mostly for miniatures and plastic terrain though. The terrain itself may be a naturally porous material and have plenty of "tooth" pre-existing and as such would not need to be primed, like bark or cork or whatever. It's the octarius crap. But thank you, I'll use the citadel sprays I have (wraithbone) and airbrush away
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Xpost from the 30k threadCount Thrashula posted:Painting up some IW Saturnine pattern Tyrant Siege Termites because these models are just too ridiculous not to
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Finished off my Thousand Sons Rhinos that I got for Xmas.   I think that’s it as far as armour goes for me. 
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Lord Ludikrous posted:Finished off my Thousand Sons Rhinos that I got for Xmas. Those look really good and grimey! They're awesome.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:
How's your freehand? Also what range is that mini from?
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Geisladisk posted:40km thread xpost This rules.
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Scorpion on the far left was the first mini I ever painted and was happy with my paintjob back in 2e after years of massacring space marines 
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maikzor posted:How's your freehand? https://gameenvy.net/product/miniature-knight/
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Electric Hobo posted:I painted Amina Naidu and the 2 Gunsmiths for my upcoming Malifaux escalation league. I feel like I'm getting better with the oils. I forgot to take the pictures before I varnished them, so they're a little dusty looking and have a few still cloudy areas. Looking really good! The denim in particular. Where did you get the lil plant things on the bases? They also look pretty great, and I'm always on the lookout for more assorted basing stuff.
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SiKboy posted:Looking really good! The denim in particular. Where did you get the lil plant things on the bases? They also look pretty great, and I'm always on the lookout for more assorted basing stuff.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Where do you guys like to buy them? Mini Market seems out of stock of everything except "Jet Exhaust" and "Gold" which might be fine for necron base coating I got mine from Amazon, because I was in a rush. It was about a buck more than the place Cinara recommended, but shipping was free. Eej posted:Fwiw the Metal Color line tints extremely well with acrylic ink. Either mix it in directly or spray on top and you can get a metallic of any colour you want.
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I'm painting up a Captain/ Chapter Master for my XIth "Exiles" and need some color advice for the banner:  What should I do here? Due to the amount of gold, orange (my secondary color) isn't very prominent, so I'd like that to be on there somewhere, but I'm not sure about what will look good. Advice? Geisladisk posted:40km thread xpost These kick rear end!
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Professor Shark posted:I'm painting up a Captain/ Chapter Master for my XIth "Exiles" and need some color advice for the banner: I'm far from an expert, but perhaps the main cloth of the banner could be in that teal blue you have used on the ropes, and the rectangular border and/or the central circle could be in orange? Edit: Excuse the quick crappy paint job and the slightly off colours, but something like this: 
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I think the comedy option is to make a big pumpkin out of the center circle on the banner.
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God is it beyond frustrating when you can no longer match your own old paintscheme, because the same products no longer produce the same results. Or: Don't loving start an army based on Army Painter products, I guess. 
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GigaFuzz posted:I'm far from an expert, but perhaps the main cloth of the banner could be in that teal blue you have used on the ropes, and the rectangular border and/or the central circle could be in orange? This looks awesome and I think I’ll go with it- thanks! What program did you use and do you have a link to a yt tutorial I could watch to do it myself in the future?
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Professor Shark posted:This looks awesome and I think I’ll go with it- thanks! What program did you use and do you have a link to a yt tutorial I could watch to do it myself in the future? In this case I used Affinity Photo, but it can be done in pretty much any photo/paint app which has Layers and blend modes, e.g. Paint.NET, GIMP, Krita, which are all free. Specifics will vary per app, but the gist is: Open your photo, add a new layer on top, then set that layer's Blend mode to multiply (this allows the detail to show through without messing with the colour). Then you can choose a colour, or use the eyedropper/colour picker tool to grab an existing colour from your model, then just paintbrush over the top. It'll probably only work well over blank/white parts of the model though. Edit: you could experiment with Recolour or Colour replacement tools to change existing colours as well, but that's beyond my ability to easily explain. GigaFuzz fucked around with this message at 23:39 on Mar 15, 2022 |
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So I started painting miniatures sometime last year as a way to pass the time, and make something with my hands. Or something, I dunno. After a few pieces of scenery that look ok, some gangers that look pretty bad (although were fun), getting solidly into Warhammer and WH40k lore, and painting a fun little Gotrek, a necron vehicle, a few Stormcast, and a half finished Leman Russ, I finally decided to knuckle down and actually paint a few things in one unified set. I ultimately settled on Kharadron Overlords as a faction that combines my love of all things dwarvish with an appreciation for technology (and maybe a little too much steampunk). I finally finished the first unit and vehicle, and would like to show it to more people for thoughts. I went with one of the color schemes recommended in some lore, as I didn't want to just re-paint the models as GW paints them. Please, please ignore all the dog hair on the felt backdrop.  Both units together, to give a sense of the shared color scheme and base. I chose a snowy base as a way to contrast the strong colors of the models. Also, dwarves and airships just go with snow to me.  Profile of the gunship - I am still amazed at how much a flat or metallic color, combined with the detail of the model and a good wash can give such amazing looking details. Things like the little badges on the struts, or the bombs.  Back quarter of the gunship. I hate looking at these photos all blown up, because the camera (and my magnifying setup) pick up details that I could fix, but are impossible to see without magnification, if you don't know that they are there.  Miniature with the absurd hammer and power assist armor. The varnish I used made him a little bit shinier than I would like, although the lights and camera exacerbate that. One thing that doesn't come through well in photos - I mixed a very small amount of ultra fine white glitter into the snow powder base material for the gunhauler (you can see some of the reflections in the third photo). It gives it a little bit of shiny reflection to the snow that makes it really pop, but the individual pieces are too small to really see if they aren't reflecting light directly into your eyeballs. Overall, I am really happy with how both models came out. Now if only I could get the person constantly looking over my shoulder telling me "It needs to be dirtier, its too clean, this is a weapon of war, it wouldn't be that clean" through the entire process to calm down.
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If it makes you feel better, I know there is a big push for accurate weathering in the hobby world, but I actually like the look of factory fresh better myself. So if the models are weathered or dirty enough for you, that is enough. You are the person looking at the models the most, so they need to make you happy, not some invisible committee of the worldwide hobby folks.
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There is absolutely nothing wrong with a "Parade Ready" army with no weathering. Ideally you should be trying to tell a story with each model/base/effect, I heard someone recently refer to it as "Every model is a diorama". So ask yourself what is the story of your models? Are they fresh to the field of battle? are they war torn veterans who have been on campaign for ages? maybe their gear is enchanted to remain clean, or incorporeal an imperious to soil, they're your minis and you should paint them to look the way you want them to. For instance, my Imperial armies (Space Marines, Guard, Knights) are all unweathered, they have all just arrived fresh to a grassy savanna battlefield so there is no mud or dust on them yet. On the other hand my Chaos (CSM, DG, Renegade Guard) are active in a war ravaged toxic urban hellscape, so I dusted their feet and legs with white as if they are kicking up concrete dust everywhere they walk. You could even mix it up, perhaps your veteran units are all weathered because they've been in the field for a long time, while your conscripts are all fresh and clean because they just got out of training. In the end it's your army and the only person you have to satisfy is yourself, not some arbitrary enforcer of the current hobby trends.
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One thing to remember that mini paining is Art. You aren't trying to perfectly replicate a photo (unless you are), you are trying to communicate an idea, or a feeling, or a story. This goes with color choice, contrast, weathering, almost all decisions. So it might make no sense for an army to go into battle in bright red camo, but sometime bright red just works right for an army so it's the correct artistic choice. It's not wrong to weather a tank so that it's more rust than clean metal. It makes no logical sense, but if you want to give the feeling of an army that's on it's last legs or corrupted beyond belief it's the right thing to do. Some people just like shiny and new looking. In fact now that I've typed that sentence, I'm going to make some minis that look like a propaganda poster some day. Even if you are trying to replicate "real-world" conditions or work a real-world subject, scale is going to screw with things like details and color perception, so you will end up making the contrast "wrong" or putting details out of scale because otherwise they would be invisible, or weathering too much so that, even if it's "wrong" it will still look right.
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GigaFuzz posted:In this case I used Affinity Photo, but it can be done in pretty much any photo/paint app which has Layers and blend modes, e.g. Paint.NET, GIMP, Krita, which are all free. Specifics will vary per app, but the gist is: Open your photo, add a new layer on top, then set that layer's Blend mode to multiply (this allows the detail to show through without messing with the colour). Then you can choose a colour, or use the eyedropper/colour picker tool to grab an existing colour from your model, then just paintbrush over the top. It'll probably only work well over blank/white parts of the model though. Awesome, I'll try this method out next time I'm trying to work out a color scheme
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 These still need brush primed and painted, but it's my first experiment with runny superglue and jewellery chain and I am extremely satisfied.
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moths posted:
Those look sick, and your lil' jersey barriers are perfect, urban terrain 4ever
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Yeah did you make those barriers or buy them? They're freakin sweet.
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Thanks guys! Here's two painted, I'm surprised at how easy that went:  The barriers are 3d printed, there's a bunch of wargaming Jersey barriers on thingiverse and cults - I just picked one set and printed a couple dozen at 25% for AT.
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I feel like buying a 3D printer is the next step in my hobbying, but it seems like a huge investment in time and effort. I already have a poo poo ton of things not painted as well, but I feel like 3D printing my own bases would be cool.
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IncredibleIgloo posted:I feel like buying a 3D printer is the next step in my hobbying, but it seems like a huge investment in time and effort. I already have a poo poo ton of things not painted as well, but I feel like 3D printing my own bases would be cool. as someone who got one for xmas and it's practically its own hobby
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IncredibleIgloo posted:I feel like buying a 3D printer is the next step in my hobbying, but it seems like a huge investment in time and effort. I already have a poo poo ton of things not painted as well, but I feel like 3D printing my own bases would be cool. I got an Anycubic Photon Mono back in November and so far, my only regret is that I now need a bigger hard drive to save the digital backlog I've accumulated, and also that my physical backlog is languishing a bit more because "Hmm, I could start painting the nine months worth of Dungeon in a Box minis I've accumulated... Ooooorrrrrr I could print my fleet for A Billion Suns!"
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I'm converting a bunch of eldar into harlequins since the troupe box is so expensive, anyone got a good idea of how to make the trailing ribbons they have? Like the one between this guys legs  I figure I could probably do it with greenstuff but it'd be fiddly and I wonder if there's a better way
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I bet you could use those little pull-off tabs on the caps of milk
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If they're not supporting any weight, you can cut strips of thin plastic and use a hairdryer or candle to warp them into looking like cloth. Blister pack plastic is particularly good for this. E:  It's how I did the banners on this Slaaneshi Questor titan moths fucked around with this message at 14:16 on Mar 17, 2022 |
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Communist Thoughts posted:I'm converting a bunch of eldar into harlequins since the troupe box is so expensive, anyone got a good idea of how to make the trailing ribbons they have? The same way this guy makes purity seals. https://youtu.be/94HB06tcuKw
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