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Endman posted:Cross-post: It must be a bitch to turn the page.
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This is not the first time I’ve heard this story but it never fails to amaze. It is the most Trad Games thing of all time.
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Radioactive Toy posted:Thanks! To be fair we were following a guide that kind of helped it be Paint by Numbers a bit. Looking forward to continuing with the other Gloomhaven classes. Sorastro?
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AndyElusive posted:Finished a combat squad of five very yelly Assault Intercesors today. The guy on the left isn’t yelly. He's lovely about the noise the other jerks are making. “Can’t we just cleanse the Xeno scourge quietly for once. By the Emperor”
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Also, if you're only looking for a few figures, check out Etsy. There are loads of cottage 3D printer services with licences to print individual minis from the many 3D sculptors out there. And they have a great search filter which lets you find what you want pretty quickly.
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Adding to the YouTube channels, Richard Gray is a legendary Golden Demon winning painter. He's started putting content online. There's not much but it's amazing. He has a very relaxing way of describing what he's doing and the minimal paint he uses over black prime coats is just magical: https://www.youtube.com/user/demonrich/videos
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Giant Ethicist posted:I've finished up a few plague marines for my Dusk Raiders force over the past week or so: These are great. Hooray for Nurgle!
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This is an old article, but I read the author's guide to DSLR miniature photography (from a similar vintage) and it was really good. This is the phone camera guide: https://taleofpainters.com/2015/02/tutorial-how-to-photograph-miniatures/ And this is the DSLR guide: https://taleofpainters.com/2016/01/tutorial-beginners-guide-to-miniature/
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Chainclaw posted:Something that doesn't seem to come up much is the difference in easy of use there. I've used my partner's DSLR for a few Warhammer photos, and it's a lot more time to have it up online. For most of my use of just snapping a photo when I finish painting, it's not worth the effort. I could see it being useful if I was doing something fancier than just shoving the photos here and a few other social networks. The DSLR gives me a lot more control over settings local focal depth. I'm sure I'll grab a lightbox at some point and take Nice Army Photos with it, but for now I'm mostly doing phone pictures. There is definitely a mismatch in ease of use. But interestingly, in your examples the depth of focus is too short in the DSLR examples compared with your phone photos and the white balance looks off too! I think the point of using a DSLR is that the photography is another part of the hobby. Not one I'm any good at (in line with the rest of my hobby skills), but it is always interesting learning new things.
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Virtual Russian posted:Without a macro lens or tripod taking up close shots with a large depth of field is tricky with a DSLR. Not really. A shorter depth of field (lower f stop) is generally trickier. The guide I posted above is a great step by step covering all the manual settings for a dslr for miniatures photography. And if you don’t have a tripod, you can still rest your camera on a soft bag. There are purpose made ones but I use a wheat pack. You line up the focus and the other settings, resting the camera on the bag and use the timer so that you don’t move the camera when you shoot.
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Duncan’s paints got a mention About a dozen posts up. It seems like he’s going to make some money! AUD450k already.
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Good work! Progress is progress.
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I watched a Squidmar video recently on his top tips to improve your painting. One of them was to paint fewer minis. Don’t try to rush through an army. Work mini by mini. And improve. I tried to batch paining and I got no joy from it. I don’t mind blocking in some elements in a batch, but I then return to each mini and complete them one by one. Mind you. I’m slow and crap at painting!
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600 euros seems like a pretty safe bet for these duck warriors
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Parkingtigers posted:galaxy brain: dress as a goblin and hold up the figure While standing on a rock. Do it. Post pics, gobbo
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When I started painting minis again ( after a 30 year break) I bought an army painter set that had 38 colors, five metallics and three washes. It’s been great. I don’t use all the paints though. At least not regularly.
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Verisimilidude posted:
Your work is fantastic. I love the extreme contrasts. But when I see these gangs, all I can think about is the amount of hair product they must go through. In the grim dark of the 40 th millennium there is only war. And hairspray.
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Tenchrono posted:Two players armies at a GT I just did, ultramarines Gundams and Mario Kart themed Ork buggies: The Gudamarines are cool. But those MariOrks loving rule. I hope they tore the marines to bite sized bits.
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Nebalebadingdong posted:
Where do you get these giant coins? Also, amazing.
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Wrr posted:So I tried making some mini carrying cases using magnetized bases and magnetic sheets a la the Duncan Rhodes Video on making a case, and the magnetic sheets I got are hot garage. They can stick to a fridge but thats it. I can't even feel them with my magnetic implants. I followed his approach and it worked very well except that in Australia you can only get magnetised sheets by import and they are expensive. The particular boxes he recommends are also expensive but I found some much cheaper ones at Bunnings, for Ausgoon reference.
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punishedkissinger posted:how dk i stop MDF bases from being warped by pva glue? I’m not sure if it was mdf but I saw someone coat both sides of their board to prevent warping. Do one side, add weights. When it’s dry flip it over and repeat.
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Eej posted:Thinning my paints with my Jerrycan of mineral spirits You don’t use a 44 gallon drum?
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Nebalebadingdong posted:10mm mounted squires These are fantastic. But I refuse to believe you can paint eyes on 10mm dudes. I’m too scared to try even at 28 given my disasters so far. Brilliant work.
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Handy to have a bottle of brush on primer for when you have small sections like this.
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I love the paint job too. But my first thought was “Is that a plasma glow, or is the kill team about to cleanse the xeno filth from the dance floor?”
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Dr Intergalactic posted:"you will mess these up, then you will buy more and mess those up less". Thread title?
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Paddyo posted:Finished up the exciting part of Grimaldus the other day. That banner was a bitch, but I tried a bunch of different things with it, and am pretty happy with how it turned out. I love the unhealthy skin on the banner guy.
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lilljonas posted:lol, just lol, if you've never cleaned your brushes by mistake in your drinking cup Oh god, this. I now religiously keep the brush water on the right and the drinking water on the left. Too many mistakes.
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My necroman here is surrounded by a swirl of smoke/mystic fire, but I'm completely unsure how to paint it. The rest of the model still needs to be highlighted, cleaned up, eyes hosed up and painted over several times before giving up, etc, but I'd like to have an idea about the smoke/fire. Any goonpinions? Thanks.
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CapnAndy posted:I need a quick refresher, what's a good ratio of paint to water for base coats? 1:5? 1:10? It depends on the paint down to the brand, and even the particular colour. But for brushing on with miniature paints, 1:1 is about right. The general advice is mix a bit of water on a palette until you get a skim milk consistency. It's really then a matter of experiment and preference.
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Spanish Manlove posted:
I loved this. All of the painting is amazing. But I loved this.
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All of the above is correct, but if you want a gentler learning curve just start adding highlights after you wash. Base coat, wash, dry brush if applicable, then highlights. Highlighting is the most important next step. Start with simple layers then add edge highlights, then blending, glazes, etc. As you do that and get comfortable, you'll find at some point you want to experiment with adding shadows directly instead of washing. Take it at your own pace to avoid discouragement, is my advice.
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Nebalebadingdong posted:10mm Bretonnian Knights Are the barding and banners freehand? Because loving hell, that's amazing
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Bonus photo that makes me feel good about myself for a casual This is excellent. Pushing highlights (and shadows) as far as you can is so important. I tend to leave them too shallow and have to push myself to go another shade or two.
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Shrecknet posted:OK this is a very dumb question but until now I've bought exclusively MSP paints (in dropper bottles) and drop a few drops into my pallette plus some flow improver (about 3:2 paint to FI) I have exactly one Citadel paint: blood for the blood god. I wanted a simple gore paint for some ghouls and it does that well. Except the loving bottle is a nightmare. It’s as if it was designed to be difficult to use, hard to close and easy to waste. Surely not GW.
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Lumpy posted:We'll forgive you if you take notes on how he shoots them and post. Yes please
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Wondermoose posted:I haven't posted in a long time, but the new Eldar Codex got me excited to get some of my older models out and give them a quick paint job. That is a great colour scheme, fellow painter of gessos past
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Winklebottom posted:Painted a loonboss I love everything about these gobbos. The sculpts, the colour scheme and the superb paint job. They remind me of pre-schoolers on way too much sugar.
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