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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Traditional Games > Miniatures Painting and Michael Lonsdale Appreciation Thread
 
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w00tmonger
Mar 9, 2011

F-F-FRIDAY NIGHT MOTHERFUCKERS

The Demilich posted:

Anyone have any experience modifying the characteristics of Golden crackle medium? Even the thinnest application results in platelets that are just too large for my preferred uses.
I'd like to decrease the size of the platelets by at least 50% to match some other brands of texture paint but am having an incredibly hard time figuring out how to do it.

I've tried modifying the surface once I've spread it out with a palette knife with spritzes of flow aid, isopropyl 70%, and atomized dawn dish soap due example and if anything it's increased platelet size or stopped the mediums ability to crack entirely.. I've also gone in the opposite direction and tried using modeling paste and acrylics in different concentrations to adjust the cracking character but I've had no luck altering it's ability to crack, everything has inhibited it if anything.

My goal is to get something more like this


Instead of this


I've already emailed Golden directly and they were just :shrug:

If anyone has any tips I'd appreciate it.

Not what your asking for, but I got exactly this affect with kroma crackle

I think it helps to apply over a gloss varnish it I remember correctly too

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w00tmonger
Mar 9, 2011

F-F-FRIDAY NIGHT MOTHERFUCKERS

 first time ever entering a contest with this bad boy:

https://i.imgur.com/FaaWbgz.mp4



lessons learned
-I need to get better at skin for next time. Time to look up a vincey v video
-photography on something with this much contrast is difficult. seems like focus stackign is the solution but thats a bit hard with a phone camera
-should have looked up a star tutorial beforehand and done the messy work first. Kinda eyeballed it here as a space filler
-painting/blending greens is a great time and I recommend it
-initially hadnt planned on this being a contest entry, if I had a probably would have reprinted this as it has the misprinted line down the front. all minis are beautiful little guys though, super happy with it

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w00tmonger
Mar 9, 2011

F-F-FRIDAY NIGHT MOTHERFUCKERS

Professor Shark posted:

I opened and promptly knocked over my new pot of Contrast Medium. I’m going to have to go back to using the pot base I 3D printed forever ago. I am so mad at myself.

Kid went into my Ikea bin of basing supplies and knocked a litre of white glue sideways. Proceeded to slowly ooze through all my moss, Sand, cork, magnets etc

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w00tmonger
Mar 9, 2011

F-F-FRIDAY NIGHT MOTHERFUCKERS

Cease to Hope posted:

turbodork is for people who love the poo poo out of colored metallics and/or own an airbrush and i am neither

e: i was gonna get to them when i got to metallics though

Their new remix paints are brushable apparently but I haven't tried them out yet

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Traditional Games > Miniatures Painting and Michael Lonsdale Appreciation Thread