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AndyElusive posted:His power fist is discombobulatingly devastating. Can you get a pic with an angle showing off the tattoo? That's so sick
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AndyElusive posted:You did because after you said that I went and added it! That's so sick. Finally a space marine that will eat your children
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Nessus posted:Oops my dark ivory paint turned black on the wet palette overnight. I’m guessing this is pigment separation but would it still be good Realistically: a few hours The overnight thing is a magical Christmas land that's not really worth the hassle
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On a scale of a straw filled with nuln oil to a badger patriot or iawata eclipse what's your budget on this incredibly vague question?
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Cannibal Smiley posted:I think that I have my answer. Thanks for the help! Now I just have to chop up some brushes for stippling work. you really don't need to murder a brush to get that effect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAkJH8G-5GE
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Bark! A Vagrant posted:I'm starting my first attempt at really strong OSL and I'd like to get a more exact idea of where the light is hitting than eyeballing it. Does anybody know of any easy-ish way to do that with software? Or have general advice? My thought if software doesn't exist was to use a bunch of straightened tiny paperclips and sticky tack to physically map out the edges of the light and take a few reference pictures. Turn the lights off, put a small light exactly where you want the light source to be, take a picture of the model for reference If you want to nerd it up with CAD sure go ahead
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I think I'm done with the main part of Leman Russ so here's some WIP shots of the progress last night where I finally painted the head. The armor was so much edge highlighting that I will never be scared by it again. Now to tackle the scenic base I didn't have the exact colors I wanted for the hair and face so I got a little artsy by mixing stuff together. It was really fun to just say gently caress it and mix things together by eye. Now that I'm seeing this I forgot to highlight the bone tassel in his hair but that's an easy fix   Buying a larger wet palette really came in handy for this. Oddly enough, the trick to painting blonde hair is to use a gold nmm color progression 
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Harvey Mantaco posted:Yeah I was watching a Vince V video the other day and he goes "blonde hair doesn't have much yellow in it" and it was such a game changer having that pointed out. After a little tinkering I was like "oh yeah duh" and then ended up mixing yellow into a golden brown and then mixing ice yellow into that mixture. I did some last highlights with ice yellow but it felt too valley girl so I toned it back down with a thin glaze of the previous highlight
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Mr Teatime posted:My kingdom for a video guide explaining how to paint chaos gold trim like the gw studio does. I’ve had it explained to me, I’ve seen pictures but I just can’t get it right. Paint gold first, fill in the middle parts after. Otherwise just relax and paint very carefully
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Super Waffle posted:Anyone have tops using washes on large flat areas? Been painting a rhino for my Iron Warriors and my usual recipe of prime black -> AP Gunmetal spray -> Nuln Oil is just not working. The Nuln just pools all weirdly and the panels just look messy and splotchy and dirty in a not good way. uhhh the answer is "dont wash large flat areas" as that goes against the entire purpose of washing to begin with: to put darker stuff in the recesses to help the eye distinguish where one shape ends and another begins
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Lumpy posted:Plus they look different in person. I was there, and the photos don't do a lot of those pieces justice. Ben Kantor's piece looks absolutely insane on their instagram with the black background, second picture in this gallery https://www.instagram.com/p/C48PjVqLZYC/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
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Eej posted:Well here's an easy example: Knowing Marco he probably finished that in an afternoon
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Kylaer posted:I'm going to make an order from Pro Acryl because their titanium white is so well regarded and nobody stocks it locally. Are there any other colors from their line that are must-haves? Also order new bottle caps from them. People usually hate the stock ones at first and it just saves headaches. Basically every color in the vince venturella package is fantastic. But unlike a lot of companies, their paints perform pretty uniformly. Like I haven't found one that requires me to work with it differently or require a different level of thinning. Some cover better than others (looking at you, greens and yellows) but they're all fantastic across the board. Edit: my bottle of titanium white seems to be acting weird in that it's way thicker than the rest of the line, and it comes out more like a traditional heavy body acrylic. Is it hosed up or is that just how it is for everyone else?
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It could just be that I need to clean out the cap, I'm going to try that tonight.
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SiKboy posted:I'm not buying good synthetics, the brushes that have lasted me over a year came from poundland (they do a pack of 2 "daler and rowney" branded brushes for £1, one hilariously big so only really useful for terrain or maybe tanks, but the other a size 1 with a decent belly and a nice point. The "watercolour" pack, not the "golden acrylic" pack) and temu or possibly wish.com (hosed if I remember which chinese reseller website I got them off, all I can tell you is they were like 20 for £5 or something like that, and I think the pictures were all nail art or calligraphy in the listing). Now, synthetics are something of a lottery, no doubt, but I figured if I got a year out the pack of 20 and you got a year out your series 33, I come out ahead both by saving some money and by having extra junk brushes. Revisit this post after trying a sable brush that has the same surgical precision over that three year lifespan and has a thick enough belly to hold enough paint to actually glaze an entire armor panel without reloading. It's such a game changer and I seriously think switching to nice brushes leveled up my skills dramatically
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I still use a ton of the bargain bin brushes for a lot of work, particularly for the initial sloppy stages. But the meticulous level of detail and precision when going that extra mile really benefits from a quality tool that you don't have to fight with or hold a certain way because the tip is starting to hook.
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I use old pill bottles filled with rocks and some double sided tape on the top.
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Pro-acryl has some nice starter sets, and even has a bulk buy discount that basically lets you make your own starter set out of the paints you want. It's generally better to have an idea of what you want to paint before buying paints as most of the time with the starter kits you'll use 6/8 of the paints and never find a good use for the other 2, effectively eliminating the discount of buying the bundle. Pro-acryl are also very beginner friendly as there's very little thinning required for them and their coverage is awesome.
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The size 4 sable from monument (red handle) has been my go to for a lot of things lately, love that thing
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great big cardboard tube posted:So pretty close now to mashing the "place your order" button in a couple tabs from a couple stores after adjusting for what you all kindly suggested. Got slightly pricier but Im planning on taking my time using this to relax over many many hours so that's fine if I enjoy it more. It's slightly less expensive than buying the two good brushes there (the sable ones) but realistically you can do a lot of work with just the #3 brush of theirs and cut out the really tiny one. And yeah the big cheap brushes can be bought in bulk at an art store, Michaels or hobby lobby. Look at brushes meant for classrooms as they come in a box of 100 for like $10 and they're meant to be destroyed by kids using them for swordfights.
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SuperKlaus posted:Can I get some advice on the creation and use of sprue goo? I have some extra Citadel plastic glue now that I bought some Tamiya and naturally I have oodles of sprues. put about 3 cm of cut up sprues in the acetone, wait overnight. look how thick it is by testing it on whatever thing you're willing to throw away, if it's not thick enough then add more until it's to your liking
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Cardboard Fox posted:BTW if anyone else is having this problem with Vallejo Game Color: I fixed it. Before you put paint on the palette, did you wipe off the excess water on top of the paper?
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Cardboard Fox posted:No since I just assumed I would use it to thin the paints, but this is Vallejo we're talking about, which doesn't require much thinning. eh, that's not usually part of the instructions on how to use one so it's understandable. I recall making that mistake once or twice, happens to everyone. Also be careful with how much water the sponge has, it's really easy to forget to check it during a long painting session and then wonder "why are my paints drying out so quickly on here" then realize there's no water for the sponge.
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I've been getting a lot of mileage out of my DIY painting handles that are just old pill bottles filled with rocks and some double sided tape. Also here's a bird  It's pretty much all contrast paints aside from the black/white parts and the bone on the base. Did a little bit of wet blending on the dorsal parts of the wings and I'm happy with how much it looks like the catalina macaw that I used as a reference photo.
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armorer posted:I'm asking about articulated arm platforms, which hold the parts you've cut off the sprue in place while gluing (or applying green stuff, miliput, etc). I have painting handles covered pretty well. If you take off the spray bottle cap you can use the hose on the inside to drip the accelerant like a makeshift dropper bottle. Or use a cheap plastic pipette. As for the articulated arm platforms, any "helping hands" type device will work for it
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Frog Act posted:Instead of making GBS threads up the 40k thread with my scrub painting questions I figure I'll ask in here. What's the best way to apply stuff from a transfer sheet? Are 'ardcoat and Lahmian Medium really necessary? I have some Speedpaint Medium but I'm assuming that is a different type of medium, and I don't have any gloss, so I guess I should wait to try to use them until after acquiring those things? You want micro sol and micro set. Really just micro sol, but the set helps a lot in the first step. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQiDs9nI7P4
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Xenomrph posted:But how does it taste? Like the stuff used for dyeing eggs
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Cthulu Carl posted:Slapped some paint on the Legally Distinct Jo, Bill, Dusty, and Haynes minis from Black Site to try and run their tornado chasing game tonight or tomorrow. What paint did you use on the second model's pants? It looks pretty spot on for blue jeans
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Cease to Hope posted:apparently vallejo model color is switching to a new formulation too. picked up a couple of bottles to try. same but all the colors that have the word Sea in them. Dark Sea Green, Dark Sea Grey, Dark Sea Blue, Light Sea Grey and Light Sea Green have amazing coverage and interesting tones that work so well on a lot of things
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100% drybrush on white then use striking scorpion contrast paint
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nessin posted:The sum total of my painting experience is four and a half miniatures. 2, and the half, of those were painted over 20 years ago when I was playing with others and using borrowed minis until I picked up my own right before our group suddenly disbanded. The other two were last week as I had the most ridiculous idea ever to suddenly paint the miniatures from a boardgame. Just laying that out to provide context for where I'm coming from. This entire playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcdsbwBroEmCplpQ_s3jSuxW8-1KQrsfT Vince Venturella may be a little dry but he gets to the point. And his channel is like an encyclopedia on painting techniques, paints, colors, you name it he has it.
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A popsicle stick works just fine in my experience, but I use silicone clay shapers so I can poke more efficiently into crevices
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The new army painter metallics feel very similar to Vallejo metal color, which is less viscous than the acrilic true metallic metals you're used to. Just don't thin it with anything and don't overload your brush.
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You're never going to escape that allegation, every marine with fur is a space wolf.
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Just make sure you don't have pairs of lightning bolts, which an annoying amount of space wolves will have
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Fishing line? A brass rod? Paperclip? Copper wire?
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Also I think that heating up sprue thing comes from Louise Sugden having to figure out a creative way to accomplish something without UHU glue because GE wouldn't let her use a non-GW product on something
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Are you poking the surface at a normal angle with your brush? Or gently stroking the surface with the side of the tip of the brush?
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Brown / sepia for grimy and worn. Blue to make for interesting chromatic shadows Green if the rest of the model is organic Yellow if it's on fire Purple if you're colorblind Black if you're a basic bitch
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