PaintVagrant posted:

nope

bhsman posted:

Getting the rest of the bits from a Goon; I'll post the whole thing here when it's ready.

bhsman posted:

Awesome! Though I suppose it's too late for you to post pictures so I can compare the horrible-ness of my painting a year ago to how bad I am now?

Zarkov Cortez posted:

!amicable posted:

He might just be talking about using a lot of thin layers of paint to build up a gradient. But given the way you describe him, he is probably just stupid.

Angryboot posted:

Having never painted minis before I think I'm finally beginning to figure out this shading/highlighting/blending business:



Now I get to do that 14 times and make sure I pay some attention to the rest of the dude too and not just the head. One of these days I'll grow some will power and stop buying poo poo because you nerds keep posting them >

Rapey Joe Stalin posted:

You could get a proper spray booth, they're awesome for containing and removing the spray, but they're also expensive.

ergot posted:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Cheap_spray_booth/

Captain Scurvy posted:

Ok here we go with my first finished guy in a bit,

Librarian

bobvonunheil posted:

Any reason I shouldn't be painting straight from the pot? I tend to do this a lot, and want to work on my painting habits.

Angryboot posted:

Still need to finish doing the seal on that melta, after that I need to do another 11 marines in the same shading scheme.

Kestral posted:

Does Simple Green remove products like DullCote, glosses, varnishes, MinWax and the like? If not, can anyone recommend something to safely strip those coverings from minis?

moths posted:

Did you use a salt mask for the chipping on the ramp? It looks super good.

!amicable posted:

Fyrbrand posted:

When you were talking about the caution stripes, I thought you meant something like this, which is how I've always seen it done in the past:



Honestly the stripes on the ramp itself look kind of wonky to me, even though that's where they would make the most sense.

PaintVagrant posted:

I dont think they look bad at all, I think some weathering could sort of mask the soft spray edges

Fyrbrand posted:

Have fun gluing the fins to the center turbine thing when they have just one tiny rear end contact point, while getting it lined up just right so that the doors close properly, oops it just came unglued at the bottom ughhhh gently caress drop pods

Angryboot posted:

This bastard took me entirely way too long:



First terminator as well as the first red-based mini done; I need to figure out a faster way to do my basecoats; think I did something like 4 coats of mechrite red and then 3 or 4 coats of blood red.

11 more to go

Rapey Joe Stalin posted:

Probably too late now, but I'd start a bit thick and spray onto some paper or something to test it, then add water as needed. But yeah, 1:1 seems like a good starting ratio for GW.

Angryboot posted:

Stop making me want to buy more poo poo, drat it!

Looks great; I can't even begin to think how long it'd take to base coat all that by hand.

Bobx66 posted:

Son of a bitch that came out well! I had always hear that it is difficult to airbrush metalics, was it constantly clogging up on you? Did you just use water to thin it? 1:1 ratio?

Vindicator posted:

It's probably been mentioned previously, dude, but I'm lazy. Can you fill me in on what airbrushing equipment you use? Brand names and stuff? That looks like really good work.

Aranan posted:

gold: mithril, sepia, sepia?

Fyrbrand posted:

Try this dude. He primes grey, while most people around here use black, but he does a good job showing every single step. He even does decals in this one, which owns.

The one I linked is Ultramarines but he has a few other tutorials in there as well.