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I remember reading that you can use soft interdental brushes instead of metal ones for cleaning.
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Assessor of Maat posted:Finished off Szeras. That's ok, now you can pretend he's invented the world's craziest swirly sausage
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Making and gluing icicles on your frozen themed big dudes: worth it? Or just asking for stuff to be instantly torn off the moment you take em out to play or even move rotate them in place
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Jul 20, 2020 23:07
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Looking ahead because apparently nothing is in stock anymore (ie Badger Patriot 105s) thanks to covid, how big of a deal is the cup size difference between the Iwata Eclipse BS and CS if I'm just painting 40k minis?
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Jul 28, 2020 06:21
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Yeah primary use case will be single model priming, base coating, blending and shading cause I got a lot of free time so I can save the $20 CAD and not worry about it being out of stock when I'm ready to buy
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More airbrush questions while I look into what it would take to set it up. My workspace is the other half of my corner desk next to a window which is fine but that window is also where a cat tree is positioned. I've got two cats in my little apartment and I don't feel comfortable spraying aerosolized acrylics everywhere because I can wear a mask but they can't and I don't know how good air brush hoods are at catching stray paint and the whole situation just makes me feel like it's not worth any risk to my cats long term health over making some plastic look nicer. There's always outdoor airbrushing which comes with having to deal with humidity, temperature, rain, etc. but it's probably ok for at least priming, base coating and highlighting?
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Jul 31, 2020 23:49
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Under 15 posted:Throw them in the bathroom for twenty minutes while you spray? I feel like people overstate the dangers of airbrushing... no, it's not good for you to breathe in aerosolized paint, but think about it in comparison to smoking a cigarette. I mean, I'd rather myself nor my cats inhale neither!
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Aug 1, 2020 05:57
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Oh hey, Badger 105s are back on Amazon.ca (and .com) for 25% off with estimated in stock on Aug 13 (I say as I reserve one while I check out what else I need to go with it)
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Aug 1, 2020 08:49
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*BEST (ABEST, EBEST, etc.) are the cheap Chinese junk brands that litter Amazon with the same product but with like 5 different brands. From my experience with other stuff like that I wouldn't trust the brushes to not scratch up poo poo.
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Yeah a jar's a jar I was speaking more to the stuff that'll be poking delicate parts* *not an innuendo e: derp mixed up replies Eej fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Aug 1, 2020 |
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Aug 1, 2020 22:57
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I got a Tamiya pin vise to replace the creaky, wobbly $10 thing I got off Amazon and some real drill bits and this thing feels so good I just wanna pole holes in every plastic model I can find. Probably not worth it but it's real nice to use
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Aug 6, 2020 03:44
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I got an AK Interactive rebrand pack of drill bits due to laziness and also padding out to get the free delivery quota and promptly dropped the 0.3mm on the floor when opening it up, never to be seen again
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re: Youtube I just sat down and watched a bunch of Marco Frisoni videos and kinda want to just paint with inks and oil now even though I just bought a bunch of acrylics lol
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Aug 7, 2020 12:39
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Sab669 posted:
There's a lot of ways of doing it and I just had this open in a tab so you can look through for ideas: https://tutorialsoftomorrow.tumblr.com/post/155559935349
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Aug 8, 2020 22:47
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Spanish Manlove posted:I'm still practicing my skills and will some day try out the cel-shaded look, but until then I'm gonna keep painting communist anime robots Heck ya blue white colour scheme Maybe try drilling out some barrels
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Aug 9, 2020 01:58
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Painting my first 40k mini which is an Intercessor I got for free from the Warhammer store I wanted to go another level of blue for highlight but the lightest coat I could do without splattering was basically the width of the backpack so it's kind of hard to get that thin spot highlight going. Is this a function of the fat 0.5mm nozzle on my Badger 105 or can I get a finer result through thinning and fiddling with psi? If the former, well, it was half the price of an Iwata Eclipse so what can you do but does anyone know if the 0.3mm conversion kit for the 105 is good? e: painting details with a size 3 synthetic brush I got in a value pack at the art store that sheds a hair every time I rinse it in water is going to drive me insane Eej fucked around with this message at 04:56 on Aug 12, 2020 |
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Aug 12, 2020 04:51
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Yeah I ordered two from Jackson Art Supplies in the UK which is taking its sweet time coming here so I started working on the metallics with the crappy brushes I had and I didn't realize what crappy brush meant until now
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Cool ok I'll practice that on the many Assault Intercessors and Necron Warriors in the Indomitus box before I try doing it on a more detailed model. Kinda tempted to see if I can get that 0.3mm conversion anyway
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  My first warhams ever!!  Edge highlighting? Really rough! I gave up halfway mostly because I only have a size 2 brush (still waiting for my 00 and 1 to come in the mail) which made for some awkward painting. Gotta work on brush control. Think I need to work on bringing out more contrast and I'm not sure if I like the colour shift to a sky blue and I'm thinking maybe a deeper blue (and then a white highlight).
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Aug 14, 2020 06:00
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I think if you're going to add weathering then the model is fine as is but if it's "done" then you probably want to do a glaze to bring up the colour saturation
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Aug 16, 2020 11:06
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There's a big shift lately in people applying colour theory to miniature painting which of course makes me feel dumb for buying a whole whack of Vallejo paints instead of getting strongly pigmented paints and inks and learning to mix my own colours
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I can entirely see myself mixing the perfect shade and then promptly forgetting to make a big batch of it and bottling it so that is a fair point
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Aug 19, 2020 02:07
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Sab669 posted:No I don't scrub them, I thought that was largely just for metal minis. I don't scrub my GW plastics. Give it a day for primer to set
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You did a great job covering up those horrifying seams on the top
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Professor Shark posted:I may have already asked about this, but is there a good way to make power swords using the following range of blues and whites? Do the sword like normal, grey base, shade in all the dark bits, lighter grey and white highlights. Basic glow effect is to take the darkest blue you want for it and paint the desired glow area then take the next lighter blue and paint a smaller area within it then keep going in a smaller area until you hit your desired max brightness. With a power sword you generally don't want to go all the way to white except for some very small bits because they tend to have a more ethereal pale glow than being a lightsaber but it's your model you can do it however subtle or bright as you want!
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Aug 23, 2020 17:15
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Mask with Silly Putty is probably the easiest way to do it.
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Aug 24, 2020 13:46
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It looks great but a nitpick is that bamboo is green and segmented. I wouldn't have understood that (e: that it's supposed to be in a bamboo forest) without reading the post.
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It's 13 paints in there and each one is about $4.55 - $6.10 USD individually for a 12mL pot so even lowballing it to $4.55 for every pot you're looking at $59.15 in paints for $40 in addition to $18 mould line remover, a maybe ~$6 brush and the nippers aren't sold on the GW store (the ones they have seem a lot heavier duty) so we'll just say $10. Pretty good deal no wonder it's sold out
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Aug 27, 2020 00:25
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According to this listing at Miniature Market:quote:Contents: So yeah it's kind of a steal for starting out
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Aug 27, 2020 02:21
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Consider investing in Zenithal Priming if you want to know how light falls on your model!
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Apologies for the Canadian links but I'm just grabbing links from my Amazon invoice Badger 105: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B002W84GTO/ref=pe_41291580_475835250_TE_dp_1 Compressor with 1/8" hose: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07HXN2V5B/ref=pe_41291580_475835250_TE_dp_1 Badger to Iwata (1/8") adapter: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B004RM2DIO/ref=pe_41291580_475835250_TE_dp_1 That's all you need (I'm grabbing a quick release adapter cause convenience and I'm pretty sure putting down by airbrush with hose attached still feels like asking for trouble)
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If you're army painting you can leave one model just with the zenithal priming on as a reference you can rotate and move around while you do everyone else. Then when you're done all the others you can use the completed ones as the reference for your last model.
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Squidmar has a good airbrush beginner video and so does Miniac. Also Badger primer gives me dry tip all the time so I use flow improver for it even in black
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Bake anything you harvest from the outdoors before you use it, be it a bag of pee pee sand or just a pile of rocks E: don't be like that guy who bought mealworms from the store and then varnished them to make a Tyranid Breeding Pool Eej fucked around with this message at 00:44 on Sep 1, 2020 |
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I just pop over to the local art store and check out their wall of Liquitex (and other brands) acrylic mediums
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https://youtu.be/_OR_CMVexSk Here's a video of Angel Giraldez using lots of matte medium if you need ideas
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KozmoNaut posted:Two Ikea Tertial desk lamps with 1150 lumen daylight (5500-6500K) LED bulbs. This! Super cheap setup and works great
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Furism posted:I'm starting to use Retarder more and more as a thinner, and it seems to work quite well. So it got me wondering, what are the differences between using water, retarder, medium or flow improver to thin down paint? Also I'm using a wet palette but that seems to mostly keep the paint from drying, it doesn't seem to really thin the paint at all. Acrylic paints are basically just acrylic binder and pigment. Acrylic binder is just plastic that holds pigment and is water soluble until it dries when it is water resistant. Water soluble means that when you add water it literally becomes thinner (acrylic particles being spread out in the volume of water you mixed in). If you add too much water you separate the acrylic too far apart and it causes the paint to break and not stick together which means you don't get good coverage. Medium is literally just acrylic binder without any pigment which means if you add it to your paint it thins out the colour (less pigment per acrylic) without thinning the consistency of your paint. You can basically thin as hard as you want with medium without worrying about your paint breaking. Retarder extends the time it takes for your paint to dry which allows you to do wet blending which is basically just mixing paints on the surface of your mini. Flow Improver is a mixture of (gloss?) medium, thinner and retarder so it basically does all of the above at once which may or may not be what you want. The thinning makes it easier to shoot out of your airbrush and the retarder prevents it from drying too early and building up dried paint on your needle. If you pick up paint and then brush it against an empty spot of your wet palette it will pick up water from the palette and thin your paint. If you're just drawing paint and then going straight to your mini then no, it won't be thinned at all.
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Stopped by the art store today and they had some Winson and Newton Series 7 available (yay!) and they had a size 0 for 30% off Clearance (yay!) because it was a display model (oh) Gave it a dip in water and some brush cleaner  It started separating when it dried so I just gave it another clean hopefully I can recondition it back to good health
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SERPUS posted:Is that even fixable? The actual hairs themselves are fine so I'm hoping the conditioner will straighten them out overnight.
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