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Shoehead posted:Yes another pot of acyclic paint will surely fix me Each pot is a step away from the light of the dropper bottle.
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Put the tracks on and some varnish before I make it even dirtier than it already is
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Feb 29, 2024 04:18
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I like painting, it hits my ocd just right like other nerdy things, I hate army painting because it gives me goals, pressures, and deadlines which obviously doesn't mix well with the rest.
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Feb 29, 2024 19:50
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Well I'm certainly not surprised by Europeans not being bothered by the Holocaust. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Mar 1, 2024 01:42
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I imagine Vince's video on contrast might be helpful here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeEuPGYIVM8
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Mar 2, 2024 16:30
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Golden High Flow acrylics are good. Straight into the airbrush without thinning, no cloging or drying.
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Mar 4, 2024 03:36
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Used them to do a quick zenithal highlight  Maybe they have a satin finish, but doesn't seem glossy to me.
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Mar 4, 2024 06:51
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That first photo is bare GW plastic lol.
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Mar 4, 2024 07:22
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4K paint porn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AsJgcXvdCQ
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Mar 5, 2024 02:01
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priming with an airbrush is very good, I just love seeing colors change as the paint gets sprayed on. From brown to black, and then highlighting it from grey to white.
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Mar 5, 2024 02:32
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I think you should play the game and not stress about painting. I think painting is fun but trying to get an army painted is too stressful. It's also not satisfying. There's also so much more work to putting an army together besides just painting, that stressing about painting and making painting stressful is very counter productive. Do it at your own pace and don't force yourself.
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Mar 5, 2024 02:47
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I haven't been painting my army because I can't decide on which green to use as the primary color. The eye searing lime green might be too much for the whole army, and maybe I should save it for a character. I also realized that I became disappointed with my original paint scheme because the shade wash darkened it too much, and I need to reapply the base layer color again. Lostconfused fucked around with this message at 03:28 on Mar 5, 2024 |
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Mar 5, 2024 03:18
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A bit of matte varnish spray will fix it up.
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Mar 5, 2024 18:29
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Yeah a coat of varnish will do what you want. I've had speed paints reactivate the liquitex ink I've used for highlights and blend with it when applied on top, but going over with varnish stops that.
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Mar 6, 2024 20:00
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In this case I should mention that I did apply the varnish with an airbrush, but even then I thought it was a pretty thick layer. It was liquitex gloss varnish if that matters any.
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Mar 7, 2024 06:09
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I find airbrushing fun, even when it's only applying primer or a basecoat. And yeah it takes a lot of practice I think to get to a point where you can comfortably paint with it, or at least I haven't gotten there yet. Wish I could do more with it.
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Mar 13, 2024 20:20
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Scalemates looks like it has a pretty big database for paints. You can give that a shot.
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Mar 17, 2024 00:43
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It's too thin if the paint starts to shrink into a pool on a miniature instead of staying where you applied it on the surface. Otherwise it's fine and you apply more layers until you're happy with it imo.
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Mar 17, 2024 21:20
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Need to build up painting stamina, slathering green contrast paint on 30 gretchin/orks is my limit for the day. Did I mention how I don't like batch painting?
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Mar 18, 2024 03:09
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Could be airbrush or rattle can sorta spray.
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Mar 18, 2024 21:50
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Slowly plugging away at these lads. It's nothing special but I just have fun looking at them, also pleasantly surprised at how well they rank up.
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Mar 19, 2024 03:34
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The winning work is amazing and deserved to win even if it looked correct from a golden angle. The creator making sure it looks right from other points of view just speaks to their dedication and work put into the piece. As the guys on cult of paint said a good piece of art will have more depth and detail than you will be able to see at first viewing.
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Mar 28, 2024 00:35
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Going a day without sleep sure drives me crazy, and that's what it takes to produce some real art right?
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Mar 28, 2024 15:28
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All orks are beautiful.
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Mar 29, 2024 19:30
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I know people hate the painting phase guys, but the person they interviewed sounds incredibly creative and artistically talented https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14fr7Z5R6nw. So it was very interesting to listen to him and how he works. There are "art techniques" but the big part is also thinking about things differently. He's a sculptor and one of the big things I got from his that you need to work with your medium, for organic, smooth, and round objects it's easier to work with putty when it's soft and malleable to produce the desired effect. And the opposite is true for inorganic, a harder putty that dried provides the sharper edges and planes to create that perception. It's not some incredible revelation or anything, but you could also probably figure these things out on your own when you spent enough time hobbying stuff and your brain isn't constantly occupied with simply getting the basics of shadow and light correctly.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftu5UWoI_Rc
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Apr 2, 2024 04:56
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Need is relative, stuff rolling around on the bottom of the bottle helps pickup whatever pigment or medium settled there. You know like the white stuff that tends to settles at the bottom of citadel contrast paints.
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Apr 2, 2024 15:26
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Miniatures Painting: I have the heavy body and soft body
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Apr 2, 2024 20:22
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That's what Jawas are.
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If you're not painting for a competition where everything has to be perfect I assume it's ok to call things done and move on. You can even tell yourself that someday you'll go back and fix up the parts that still need work, and then never do it because you've moved on to another project or ten since. Someday I'll go back and paint the shoulder pats in an off color and add decals on my infantry squads. But that day may never come too. Lostconfused fucked around with this message at 15:29 on Apr 11, 2024 |
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Apr 11, 2024 15:27
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You say that but I knocked over two tamiya thin cement bottles so far.
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Apr 12, 2024 01:47
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You can watch all the tutorial videos you want, but the important part is to get painting. There's no right or wrong way to paint and you need to figure out what works for you by experimenting and trying different things. The basics are thinning the paint and applying it to the miniature, and you'll learn that by practice. The tutorial videos can't know what you're good or bad at, you have to find that out for yourself, and then you can use all those quick hacks to help out in areas you're having trouble with.
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Apr 18, 2024 05:40
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It also depends on what your spraying, for primer you want a lot of ventilation since you'll be spraying it everywhere at high pressure, while painting at much lower pressure and using a lot less paint wouldn't need as much.
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Tried airbrushing Vallejo's "Mecha Color" paint, and I don't like it. They say it's for airbrushing, and sure it kinda works, but it's airbrushing in the same way their primers are. You need a big nozzle and a lot of air pressure to get it to spray nicely, otherwise good luck getting the correct thinner ratio for whatever it is you're using.
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Apr 22, 2024 01:27
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I do like how neatly Ursula's fancy stand fits on the base
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Apr 26, 2024 23:02
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There's a few DeSerres locations around here. At least there's one close enough to me that i've been going to for the past few months.
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I refuse to oath, I've been dodging painting by spending the past uh weeks or months gluing miniatures because I find it less stressful.
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Gravity is going to have the last laugh there.
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Frog Act posted:painted an Ork boy, my first regular one. This is also the first model I've painted that I'm actually pretty happy with. Super impressive stuff ITT that's motivating me to keep learning SkyeAuroline posted:
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Frog Act posted:Thanks! Any suggestions for how to best do that? I’ve been using Straken Green over Waagh Flesh for the skin, was thinking about maybe a slightly lighter green to put on the raised parts of the arm / edges of the ears and stuff but I’m not sure what a good color for that would be. As you said you already did the shading on the skin with a wash, that's the most common suggested approach for beginners. Then yeah you re apply the basecoat on the more raised parts to bring back the basecoat color which will be your mid tone. Then you can do an edge highlight, or a dry brush to finish it up. To figure out the correct colors you have the options of looking for someone that did a similar color scheme and copying their paint selection. The other options are buying into a paint range that has the three paint system of shade, mid, highlight for their colors. Or you can mix your own by taking a black/dark grey and mixing it with the base color for shades, and a warm white or a whiteish yellow and mixing it in for highlights. I'd say the skin could use a tiny bit of highlighting like say on something like the knuckle bones and some other parts. As for the clothes, that one I don't know, maybe do a light drybrush to catch some of the raised areas on the boots and pants to give it more pop? Well at least from the back, or maybe some edge highlights around the belts. Then again, you don't have to do any of that if you're already happy and can save experimenting for the next miniature.
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