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need some color advice. Son talked med into getting back into 40k, so I have a Marine scheme going:  I'm Stuck on a color for Sargeant helmets though (I want to do the Ultramarine style contrast helmets) My gut says a subdued yellow, but Ice Blue would be a nice inclusion of a cool color to contrast all the warm I have going on? Open to any ideas if you have them.
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Toebone posted:Elegoo Mars 2 Pro how is the smell when you're printing? does the carbon filter work?
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AndyElusive posted:
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Skails posted:Gut reaction says blue. This was correct.  Worked so well, I worked a little blue into the chainswords of the rest of the unit. The recruit box:  Found an Indomitus box in Calgary for retail (I think) so that's the next batch. I think I need to re-think how the knees are going to work. I might try taking the inverted color all the way up the guards at the top of the kneecap armour. Also, the Pauldrons on these were a disaster. Guess it's time to get a #0 brush. Jonny Nox fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Mar 5, 2021 |
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GuardianOfAsgaard posted:Did some more Grimcast: love it. Faces are too clean, but I genuinely love it.
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rantmo posted:Strange-ish question: I bought one of those battery-powered airbrushes last week after I discovered their existence in the thread and I'm buying the various supplies for it (cleaner, airbrush thinner, the Badger Wyldstallyns primer three-pack) but I want to also get a bottle of airbrush paint to start playing with; what's a good paint for babby's first airbrushing? I've been looking at Vallejo and a few others but I really just want to find one that's user-friendly, I honestly don't care about the color, just one that needs a shake and a little thinner to be able to make a mess of some paper. water+food coloring. This isn't a joke, water almost always goes through an airbrush without issue, and if you're just painting some paper it's all the pigment you'll need. (real answer Vallejo Model Air. I frequently spray it neat with no problems) Jonny Nox fucked around with this message at 22:25 on May 3, 2021 |
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DreadUnknown posted:Hot drat the new Lord Kroak is super good. Actually all the new AoS hero models are super bananas. Sorry, but this looks like a dude getting his rear end eaten 
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The cell shaded style colouring on the jacket is perfect
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Ghislaine of YOSPOS posted:i bought a badger 360. my airbrush compressor didn't come with a hose. I bought an airbrush hose with a 1/8" end and a 1/4" end and an adapter that purported to work for badger air brushes. it doesn't seem to fit the hose and I can't easily find what I need through Google--does anyone know off hand what I need to get going with this brush? Man my current air hose is 3 different hoses I’ve cobbled together in a once-temporary attempt to use my compressor It’s something like 1/8”->1/4”male, 1/4” female->1/4” female, 1/4” male->Badger connector. I was going to grab a adaptor for my compressor the next time I was at princess auto, but that was almost a year ago.
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DarkAvenger211 posted:I've discovered the secret to making metallic red so I ended up with these guys: KAAANEEEEDAAAAAA!
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GuardianOfAsgaard posted:Did some more Grimcast: GuardianOfAsgaard posted:Painted up some more rusty Stormcast: These skin tones fit WAY better. Just lovely work.
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DarkAvenger211 posted:So I picked up a bunch of small bottles to mix some paints / make some washes out of some. I've only got a bunch of citadel paints and a pot of citadel medium as well. I've currently run into a problem I didn't think about until now which is how the hell do I get the paint and medium into these bottles? If you can find them, buy a bulk pack of plastic straws. Snip off about a third of a straw, dip it in to your desired amount, cover the back of the straw with the pad of your fingertip, and you can move the paint wherever you want. This works even more amazing for measuring precise amounts of thinner, etc.
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Eej posted:Doing some colour scheme tests. Tried out a white space marine colour scheme and the blue base coat gave me more of a very light blue I think. Not sure which one I like more although I might have to brighten up the eyes on the white scheme. Split second reaction: Cream guy considered reaction: Ungh that blue is so good.
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is stylnrezzz sandable?
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Tiocfaidh Yar Ma posted:
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That red is lush. I wanna carpet made out of that material.
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Communist Thoughts posted:Is there a terrain thread? not sure where to put this but I've started making terrain for the first time and I'm pretty pleased with this tower made out of a doritos stax tube Eric’s Hobby Workshop Necromunda videos are probably your best starting point. Basically, brown/rust, chipping medium or liquid mask, bright craft paints, rub off chips, dry brush, brown wash, detail with black wash, hate sand (it gets in everything) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae28FZleLzQ Edit: watching back I got everything wrong for paint order. Also, yes we need a terrain thread. No, I’m not volunteering.
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w00tmonger posted:The rarely updated terrain thread 
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Night Danger Moose posted:Tried out a different colour scheme on my Vanquisher. The green is Angel Green from Army Painter, and it really did not want to go on top of Citadel's Runelord Brass. I can see it's a bit messy in a few spots but overall I like how it turned out. Putting greenboy beside blueboy is really not fair to the perfectly fine paint job on the original Vanquisher. I really really like the desaturated armour colour.
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jesus WEP posted:idk why but this reminded me of vince venturella reviewing a bunch of paint brands and he gave one a con of “it tastes terrible, like even worse than GW washes” When you forget to rinse your brush before putting a tip on it. (This is why I use the crease of my hand.)  The girls who used to paint radium onto clock and watch hands also used to put a tip on their brush with their lips
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One thing to remember that mini paining is Art. You aren't trying to perfectly replicate a photo (unless you are), you are trying to communicate an idea, or a feeling, or a story. This goes with color choice, contrast, weathering, almost all decisions. So it might make no sense for an army to go into battle in bright red camo, but sometime bright red just works right for an army so it's the correct artistic choice. It's not wrong to weather a tank so that it's more rust than clean metal. It makes no logical sense, but if you want to give the feeling of an army that's on it's last legs or corrupted beyond belief it's the right thing to do. Some people just like shiny and new looking. In fact now that I've typed that sentence, I'm going to make some minis that look like a propaganda poster some day. Even if you are trying to replicate "real-world" conditions or work a real-world subject, scale is going to screw with things like details and color perception, so you will end up making the contrast "wrong" or putting details out of scale because otherwise they would be invisible, or weathering too much so that, even if it's "wrong" it will still look right.
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Bristles up in a very old baby food jar
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Spanish Manlove posted:xpost from the marine thread, i'm done with the squad! Other than bases which shouldn't be too bad. I keep seeing color choices I love about that model. the head horn especially.
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Floppychop posted:I like Vallejo better than Citadel, and I avoid Army Painter like the plague. I know a lot like it but I seem to always get the paints with a cottage cheese consistency. Note that the Vallejo model color, model air, and game colour all play nicely with each other and with GW’s various lines. My minis are usually a combination of whatever gives me what I need, and I’ve never had something reactivate or gum up on me. Also they have Game Inks which smell like the old citadel inks. Which matters to me.
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I don't have an actual answer, but real gold leaf is not insanely expensive and could be burnished to the exact amount of polish you want.
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Zuul the Cat posted:Cross posting some DUCKS Those ducks rule
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As someone who wears a mask all day for work, I'm kinda on Badger's side here. gently caress that poo poo, I'd rather stay home.
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Spanish Manlove posted:i don't have an airbrush and I'll never get one, so I tried out drybrushing the value sketch before contrasts. It's phenomenal, I love this apparently this was a common technique for oil paints. Do all your tones in black and white (cheap) and then add a little color on top (expensive) I've been meaning to do exactly this soon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUOZ4g4h0II
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Eej posted:With hobby paints everything old is new again. Here's Marco Frisoni painting en grisaille and then going over it with contrast. Definitely something I wanna try sometime. The more I play with speedpaints, the more it feels like this is going to be the most natural way to use them
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Good news everyone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPLHZKPR9Bc how to all the techniques.
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continue to play with Speedpaints. re-activation is killing me.  Ignore Melty McMeltface in the back, Micro Gloss does not play well with speedpaints (brushed on)
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Spanish Manlove posted:
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War and Pieces posted:Im messing around with the new batch of Contrast Paint (bad moon yellow) and I want to try zenithal priming. My problem is that I've already primed most my pieces with Velejjo's Yellow. Any suggestions? Congrats, yellow is now your high level. Spray dark green from below. I have 0 idea if this would actually work. edit: wait. Magenta or dark purple from below. duh. edit edit: Having a Resin printer is awesome for this. Just grab some random fantasy mini, print it, and see what happens. 0.05mm layers goes pretty fast and makes a pretty good test mini. Jonny Nox fucked around with this message at 05:27 on Aug 2, 2022 |
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Harvey Mantaco posted:Hitting a painting slump. huh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5wx682jpTk posted just for you I guess.
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The other 2 big problems with Elegoo printers are the default software (Chitubox) and their tank design. The software is easy to fix, download and install the free version of Lychee Slicer and love life. The tank is actually well designed except that it's intended for the FEP to be slack when you install it into the inside frame (it gets a lot tighter when you install the frame to the rest of the tank). And no one seems to know how slack is correct. I made a little jig out of a stack of foamcore from the factory installation, but I'm not sure if FEP stretches so my measurements are probably not that accurate since I took them after a ton of prints had been done on it. the good news is I suspect that there is a lot of leeway, since I've had mostly good luck with prints after replacing the FEP, but I always wonder if people who complain about an entire pack of FEP film leaking are just installing way too tight. Furthermore I think having perfect tension in your FEP layer would allow you to make smaller supports that are easier to remove. At any rate I love my Mars 2 pro and would recommend Elegoo printers to anyone. also, in response to people wondering if GW needs to respond to the availability of Resin printers, I have 2 points: Resin printers are far closer to hobby toy than appliance in terms of needing fiddling and troubleshooting, and the current crop of GW miniatures are all expensive and mono-pose, but are characterful, well detailed, and really easy to assemble and paint.
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Indolent Bastard posted:I'm still on Chitubox and having no issues. What makes Lychee better? It's mostly workflow stuff. Note that I haven't touched Chitubox in years, but Lychee will flag STLs with flipped surfaces and holes (and sometimes can even fix them), has a decent (it works for me at least) auto-rotation and auto-support setup, really really good island detection, and I like the hollowing process. It tries to use the cloud for printer setup, but honestly I always tweak it anyways, but it does allow you to setup different settings for resin type and color. If Chitubox works I'm happy, but the last time I used it I think I had to place my own supports and I never knew if I was putting them in the right spot or the right size. I also trust Lychee more to flag potential problems that Chitubox just didn't seem to see.
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are you all using sponges on your wet palettes? I'm just using a 3D printed rando one I found on Thingiverse, a triple-folded paper towel, and basic no-name kitchen parchment paper. What am I missing out on?
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punishedkissinger posted:wet palettes cost like $15 why are people DIYing them? Because I can DIY it right now and it would take a week or more to ship one to me.
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