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Use a mother colour to unify all the tones and shades. Example: https://www.instagram.com/p/C0OM6QwtRGm/?igsh=MW9oMjZvNWF1djVyNA== Technique: https://youtu.be/p0nqofvkFdQ?si=rQtImTAf042xvq8y
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I love Scale paints, but find myself almost never using the black, as it's literally too flat. Feels like you're putting primer down.
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Cardboard Fox posted:I'm wondering where the diminishing returns start to show with this many highlights. Can I get something within 99% range if I do only 1 highlight, or will that only put me at like 60% range? Depends really. If you’re layering your highlights, 1 highlight looks like it. 2 helps, 3 approaches a rough blend when you look at it from a foot away. If you airbrush on that highlight, you can use the free feathering you get to help hide the transition. If you glaze it on, it’ll be so minute you’d not notice a single stage. Etc etc
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Pro Acryl bold titanium white will change your life in terms of coverage.
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That’s a real can of worms question, and hobbyists fall at each end of the spectrum and everywhere in between
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I bought some when a friend said he was getting into it. Non-heroic scaled minis are a real ball ache when you’re getting used to painting them for the first time
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Mederlock posted:Is very low humidity making dry brushing not very effective A Thing? It's bone dry where I live, and I find when I brush it off on paper towel or cardstock paper and then try to dry brush, it's so dry already that I don't seem to get the dry brush effect I see in videos. Don’t use paper towel, what little moisture there is in the paint is instantly removed by being absorbed so when you come to paint on the figure you’re just smearing sticky pigment and instantly getting chalk. Advise checking out the Artis Opus channel on YouTube to see how to dry brush well. You can keep using the makeup brushes tho
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Slyphic posted:the first author died like two months after funding ended, and then the backup author died the next year,  Personally, I would have no desire for the clearly cursed book in my house
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I just use medium if I need to put a layer down. Airbrush some lahmian medium / your brand of choice and keep going.
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All these painters who deny themselves the pleasure of racks on paints that go for miles and look very pretty. Concerned about ‘cost’ or something. Smdh.
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Pro Acryl is the way and the truth Go with colour, brother
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AndyElusive posted:So important question while on the topic: is it "Pro Ack-rill" or "Pro Ahh-crill" ? The founder pronounces it ‘ahh crill’ so I went with that. Also, I bought the dropper lids alternates: https://monumenthobbies.com/collections/hobbytools/products/pro-acryl-alternate-bottle-lid-set-dropper
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Mederlock posted:I have the heavy body and soft body (my wife likes painting acrylic), but yeah thick paints aren't my preference, I guess. Like, it's good, I just found the Bold Titanium White had more control and a bit more opacity when you're carefully pulling it into a tight spot. Once I found bold titanium white, I stopped using Liquitex white ink for zenithal. When the main reason for using ink over acrylics through an airbrush got solved, the ink stopped having appeal for me
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SiKboy posted:Yeah, lockdown was tough on all of us. 
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Scale 75 has some absolute winners that VMC doesn’t make, such as decayed metal.
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You definitely should thin citadel metallics a little, as they’re (mostly) quite gloopy. You can use water if you’d like, but sparingly. For paid options, if you try a little matte medium (liquitex, golden, lahmian medium) it’ll help a bit as well. Some people also like a single drop of Vallejo flow improver as a good option too. For all of the above, I’d recommend doing not on a wet palette to start with, as you’ll want to work out your consistency as you experiment, and the wet palette will consistently be adding liquid to the equation.
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That class just happens to be ‘best of the rest’
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Cease to Hope posted:retributor gold is genuinely excellent yeah it's probably the best one they do, and it's ok, but (imo) Scale 75 Dwarven gold is a better covering, finer mica warm gold.
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It’s really well done, nice!
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BizarroAzrael posted:What's a good white for airbrushing with now? I guess ideally in a dropper bottle. Vallejo Air has been okay but can imagine better, does Pro Acryl play well? Yep, thin it down like any other paint, and it owns. BizarroAzrael posted:
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Although it would’ve been pretty funny to have a negative review on a co-branded product. Not sure what anyone would expect otherwise
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To actually contribute, I kickstarted 2 sets of the original Artis Opus series S and they’re.. fine? It’s a premium price, it’s a good product, but I personally prefer Raphael 8404s for having a proper sized belly so you’re not having to load the brush as much, but it’s more personal preference. Nice handles on the Opus too
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OgreNoah posted:My Nagash won crowd favorite at the LGS winter painting competition! Got 35$ in store credit too, which is nice! Owns. Congratulations!
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Al-Saqr posted:Vortex mixers are the greatest invention known to man. Remember it’s not complete until you’ve put googly eyes on it
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Arcturas posted:Anyone have advice for dipping your toes into inks? Dilution is key- it’s astounding how intense inks are. Start by diluting about 6 parts medium/thinner to ink and go from there. In terms of colour, I love the scale inktensity, I have the full set- brown and chestnut are good, I also love their crimson. Super easy way to add a massive saturation hit back into reds you might have accidentally highlighted too far into orange or pink territory.
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Forge world kits are still extremely half assed with clean up. The amount of flashing is just obnoxious, and there’s some pieces that simply need to be rethought for production. At least in the Necromunda space. I’ll still buy their crap tho. So.
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I can highly, highly recommend a wow stick for drilling. It’s a small pen sized battery operated drill for modelling tasks, spins at only 400rpm which is perfect for hams. $30 off Ali Express, a bit more on Amazon. Love it for quickly making sub assemblies or pinning models to bases.
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grassy gnoll posted:Does the Wow Stick actually use some weird proprietary chuck, or is that just some strangely-edited video when people are doing reviews of the thing? Nah, it’ll fit whatever. Lumpy posted:I'd be more worried about electronics from Ali Express (or Amazon for that matter) exploding and killing me. Then again It would at worst give you a small case of the spicy smoke. The battery is teeny tiny.
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