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Gunder posted:Can you post some pictures of the frosted minis? https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce4qmNdrOJj/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= This is after applying a gloss coat to try and restore it. "You will mess these up, then you will buy more and mess those up" Most of them I'll just re-paint over. One of them had a big ol thick glob of gloss added (again in desperation) so it might need stripping, but oh well.
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your dog is really cute omg
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Haha, thanks. He knows it and as such he's a total butthead.
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Aranan posted:https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce4qmNdrOJj/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= So I'm assuming the one on the left is the frosted one and the one on the right is unfrosted? Assuming I'm not an idiot and that's the case - I wonder if something like Black Templar Contrast washed over all of the black/dark gray armor plates could do a decent salvage job (quickly), with maybe you having to go back and redo some of the white/light gray highlights. If you take my suggestion please only try it on one model so you don't hate me too much if I'm wrong.
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Spanish Manlove posted:your dog is really cute omg 
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Jun 17, 2022 18:35
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I know it's a bummer, but the example model at least still looks really great? Like without the other to compare, I'd assume this was an intentional thing to make the carapace look more organic or something. 
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Jun 17, 2022 19:31
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Not mine but I had to share it
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cmon man, at least credit the artist
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Jun 17, 2022 21:43
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craftworldstudios on IG
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Not sure how to link Facebook posts, but here https://m.facebook.com/groups/eaviermetal/permalink/5470194789711354/?sfnsn=mo&ref=share By "craftworld studio" I guess
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Thinking about getting some sort of vortex mixer. Any recommendations? Also, I'm deep in a strong desire to make cyberpunk minis and I'm thinking about basing future models that I think I'll have in the future. I made some of the cyberpunk red cops up, and gave them some asphalt road bases, but I'm running now on ways to give a ton of cyberpunk minis distinct looking bases. Any ideas or sources of inspiration?
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Turns out that contrast paints are really good for getting results super fast. I wanted to wait until I based these corsairs until I took pictures but I'm having too much fun with them. 
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Wrr posted:Thinking about getting some sort of vortex mixer. Any recommendations? Also, I'm deep in a strong desire to make cyberpunk minis and I'm thinking about basing future models that I think I'll have in the future. I made some of the cyberpunk red cops up, and gave them some asphalt road bases, but I'm running now on ways to give a ton of cyberpunk minis distinct looking bases. Any ideas or sources of inspiration? Just buy whatever's cheapest on eBay, I got mine for $15 last year I think. Look for tattoo ink or nail polish mixers and you'll find a decent cheap one.
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I am somewhat fed up with GW's painting app not keeping inventory and wish lists across multiple devices, along with not being regularly updated. To that end I made my own using airtable. I know it is the worst imaginable time, with 40 new paints being introduced next month and some being retired, but I am looking to perhaps make a whole suite of hobby tracking databases and thought this would be a good start. If anyone wants to give it a try the link is below. It doesn't do anything that the citadel app doesn't, it is just a pretty basic paint tracking thing. This is kind of the beta test. I will add some more pictures of the metallic and contrast paints after the release next month. https://www.airtable.com/universe/expu23ugh95F0w7hq/hobby-paints-tracker-gw
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Got my first game tomorrow so did up my bike boss. Good learning experience with forgeworld resin, definitely had a few hiccups compared to normal plastic kits. Wish they gave better assembly instructions in particular.
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I did not realize that they are retiring some paints. Any idea if Jokaro Orange/ Ulthuan Grey are on the menu? My army depends on them.
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The only paints going away is the gloss washes and nothing else. And that's because they're apparently redone the formula for the shades and supposedly the gloss ones won't work as well since they're now meant to go into the recesses more.
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Nuln oil gloss is my secret liquid talent for chaos knights, I'll be sad to see it go
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Ghislaine of YOSPOS posted:Nuln oil gloss is my secret liquid talent for chaos knights, I'll be sad to see it go Stock up while you can.
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I know the topic of airbrush priming has come up a few times recently. Vince Venturella just put out a video on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGjBQzoukFg Helpful stuff on cleaning, using, what kind of primers to use, etc.
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Slapped some paint onto the free mini from the awkwardly-named The Printing Goes Ever On's equally awkwardly-named Dnd Is a Woman campaign. Just half-assed it to get an idea how I'd like them painted up.
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Ghislaine of YOSPOS posted:Nuln oil gloss is my secret liquid talent for chaos knights, I'll be sad to see it go Try Pledge future floor finish mixed with a little black ink.
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Finished a plasmagunner for my 90's SoH project, so took proper photos of it and the test model. Was much quicker as I wasn't shading with black ink; have a ton of respect for people who did that back then.   A few more pictures here for those so inclined: https://imgur.com/a/38j9Gdk
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Barring some base work and cleanup, I'm more or less ready to call these WTs done after working on them all weekend. For a second painted squad I'm happy with the results in-person (and especially from tabletop distance) but hoo boy the camera makes me see how sloppy some of it came out. Going to carry on what I learned on these to the next squad. Also, eye lenses are hard. 
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Crossposting from the 40K thread. I haven’t posted in a while but have painted some more hams of war. An Exalted Sorcerer - his foot is magnetised so I can run him on a Disc of Tzeentch or on foot.  One five man squad of Rubric Marines.  One squad of Scarab Occult Terminators.  I also redid the bases of Magnus the Red and my Lord of Change.  A Thousand Sons Daemon Prince. Decided to paint his skin in Magnus colours to make him stand out a bit more.   My fiancée has started building an Adepta Sororitas army, so I painted up her Penitent Engine for her to help demonstrate how shades and dry brushing works. Quite a nice change of pace.  
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Lord Ludikrous posted:Crossposting from the 40K thread. I haven’t posted in a while but have painted some more hams of war. These are amazing and make me want to waste money on thousand sons I'd never actually play with. They'd also never look as good.
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Yeah I'm a little jealous at how clean those look Haven't had the chance to paint for a while now cause I've been on a video game kick, and I'm getting a little overwhelmed by my backlog
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Had a bit of a disappointment last weekend. Sat down to paint my first batch of sisters and, since it was already dark and very VERY hot and humid outside, I wanted to use my brush on primer I'd purchased as a backup to spray on. So, uh, did I buy something meant for air brushes:  It was very watery straight out of the bottle and went on like trying to apply a flesh shade to bare plastic. I'd watched YouTube videos of people using what I thought was this exact product, and it went on much more like paint - maybe a couple thin coats but nothing like what was coming out of my bottle. I shook it, then when I saw what it looked like I shook it some more. Did I just buy the wrong stuff? Did storing it on it's side mess it up? I went with Rust-Oleum spray on instead and *wouldn't you know it* I spray it on way too thick 
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My first instinct would be that it’s such a large bottle you probably need to shake the absolute hell out of it before you start painting, maybe even take the cap off and wriggle a skewer around in there to break up any sediment. Vallejo primer can go straight into an airbrush but it should brush on just fine.
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Jack B Nimble posted:Had a bit of a disappointment last weekend. Sat down to paint my first batch of sisters and, since it was already dark and very VERY hot and humid outside, I wanted to use my brush on primer I'd purchased as a backup to spray on. I use vallejo surface primer as a brush on primer. It's watery. Depending on material, you'll probably want two or more coats, not goop it on. If it's waaaaaay too watery though you might need to shake it more. But don't expect it to be think like a GW layer paint.
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lilljonas posted:I use vallejo surface primer as a brush on primer. It's watery. Depending on material, you'll probably want two or more coats, not goop it on. If it's waaaaaay too watery though you might need to shake it more. But don't expect it to be think like a GW layer paint. Yeah, Vallejo surface primer works fine brushing on, but you pretty much have to act like you're painting a base coat and "two thin coats" it
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OK, thanks all. I did read later that, if it doesn't seem to be sticking, don't panic Because the next coat will apply better to the almost transparent first coat. I'll try it again later.
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Jack B Nimble posted:Had a bit of a disappointment last weekend. Sat down to paint my first batch of sisters and, since it was already dark and very VERY hot and humid outside, I wanted to use my brush on primer I'd purchased as a backup to spray on. Vallejo brush on primer is what I use on almost everything and I've never had a problem with it. Just shake the hell out of it. It's not thick but it still works really well, at least for me, but I always do at least 2 thin coats.
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You all want a bag of 8mm hematite beads to drop into your larger bottles of stuff. They're a great aid in loosening stuff up and getting it off the bottom. I've got three in a 10oz bottle of Vallejo primer and they really let me feel how gunked up the bottom of the bottle is. After about a minute it's gone loose and another minute or two and it's downright frothy and ready to go into the airbrush.
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Finished a Primaris Watch Lieutenant last night      
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This is so rad, I like how you painted the other arm the same as the original armor color. Are you doing that for all of them, or just the leadership?
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I don't even know!  I just did it for this one because it seemed like a cool idea at the time and I'm happy it turned out ok. I might do it again for a Watch Sergeant or two.
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We're starting a Necromunda league so I decided to break out of my normally dull colored box and attempt to paint some Escher gangers with brighter colors. This is a test one that I did quick attempting to do my take on the studio scheme without the insane stuff like cheetah print and zebra stripes.   Turns out I'm pretty bad at painting bright colors, and I'm going to give up entirely on using yellow paint and just use yellow inks over white/grey from now on. I need to clean up the edges of the green streak of hair, and put a bit more work into the skin, but I'm at a loss of what to do further to make it look less meh. I'm thinking of changing up the shirt color to a color that's not a bitch to paint, but I'm creatively bankrupt and can't think of something while still letting me go nuts on different hair colors.
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Isn't red a very vibrant color that tends to cover better?
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Red does have good coverage, but when I'm going nuts with hair colors I feel like it wouldn't have enough contrast with red, orange, pink, etc...
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