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Hey guys, what is the word on MICRON PENS? I have been reading a few tutorials that refer to them but I haven't seen many people talk about them in the Warham thread or this one. They seem like an excellent way to get fine detail for things like eyes, banners, scrolls etc without the inaccuracy of a paintbrush. Anyone have experience with them? Which colours are good? Does a thinned brown paint over micron-pen-drawn wood grain look decent?
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# ? Oct 13, 2009 04:03 |
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bobvonunheil posted:Hey guys, what is the word on MICRON PENS? I use a black Sakura Pigma Micron 005 for all my iris, purity seal, and text-on-model needs. It is excellent. Give the paint plenty of time to dry solid (or risk gunking up the pen), allow plenty of time for the ink to dry (to avoid smearing), and then you can happily go over it with wash. I'd say they are well worth the money even if it will only be for eyes. No idea about doing woodgrain though. I suppose if you could get the right shade ink to go with you paints it should work.
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# ? Oct 13, 2009 04:09 |
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Micron Pens are pretty great. My handwriting is too lovely even with them, so I have MY WIFE do it on the rare occasion I need a banner or something done. You should apply some gloss varnish to whatever you want to write on with the pen. Otherwise it'll ruin the paint.
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# ? Oct 13, 2009 05:01 |
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I use micron pens to do banner writing, hard shadows and highlights on my Flesh Tearer armor, and patterns and designs on my harlequins for wash/ink-only paintjobs. They're pretty fun to use.
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# ? Oct 13, 2009 09:20 |
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:My tank is shite ! I'd recommend practicing on a smaller tank if you haven't already done some massive conversion-work before. GW puts up sexy pictures of converted baneblades to lure gamers into ruining $100 tanks.
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# ? Oct 13, 2009 11:54 |
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Hello new project (crossposted from warhammer thread)
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# ? Oct 13, 2009 17:45 |
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moths posted:I'd recommend practicing on a smaller tank if you haven't already done some massive conversion-work before. GW puts up sexy pictures of converted baneblades to lure gamers into ruining $100 tanks. Well now where is the fun in that ? Actually that is good advice. I'm going to approach this slowly with a lot of thought over the next few months. I've already revised my idea for the vats... I'm leaning towards a row of three 25mm drums behind each sponson feeding a 40mm mixing drum built into the stowage compartments at the rear of the turret, which in turn will feed into the cannon. And I really need to get my hands on some used guitar strings for the piping.
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# ? Oct 13, 2009 17:59 |
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Seriously, just go to a music store and buy a set of guitar strings. You'll get enough to keep you going for ages and the cheapest brand will be easily affordable, even if you have bought a Baneblade.
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...uh, so am I blind, or did the current Warhammer GBS thread disappear?
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# ? Oct 13, 2009 22:28 |
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Jetfire posted:...uh, so am I blind, or did the current Warhammer GBS thread disappear? http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3202832&pagenumber=119#pti22 LEGO Thread for users who love LEGOs.
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# ? Oct 13, 2009 22:28 |
Illandriel posted:http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3202832&pagenumber=119#pti22 Awesome.
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# ? Oct 13, 2009 22:51 |
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removed dead image link Fyrbrand fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Feb 3, 2015 |
# ? Oct 13, 2009 23:24 |
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Fished out my much neglected Empire stuff to see what still needs painting. The answer; a lot. 20+ handgunners, cannon crew, helblaster crew, 25 Swordsmen and more. My attempt at making a War Altar is still a table on wheels... Think maybe I will just stick to the Space Hulk Mareens for now. (Bonus Gotrek and Felix) Also WiP Flamer chap A Tasty Lozenge fucked around with this message at 23:44 on Oct 13, 2009 |
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!amicable posted:Dude, that is awesome. I ended up doing a much better job of layering. I can layer the horses in about 10 to 15 minutes each, blending was taking up to an hour. And with practice, the layering looks close enough to the blending that it's okay. I'll save the work intensive stuff for characters and important models. With that said, I'd love to see even some examples of lacquered armor. Even without a tutorial I could still probably figure something out.
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# ? Oct 13, 2009 23:43 |
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A Tasty Lozenge posted:Also WiP Flamer chap When you guys are doing your space hulk termies, what are you using to prime them/basecoat?
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A Tasty Lozenge posted:Also WiP Flamer chap God, that paintjob looks so good (even though the highlights need cleaning up) BUT DRILL THOSE GOD drat BARRELS PLEASE
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# ? Oct 14, 2009 02:28 |
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Fix posted:When you guys are doing your space hulk termies, what are you using to prime them/basecoat? Citadel Black then Foundation Red. Broken Loose posted:God, that paintjob looks so good (even though the highlights need cleaning up) BUT DRILL THOSE GOD drat BARRELS PLEASE Page one Tasty Lozenge posted:Preempting drill your barrels! I decided to buy Chaos in the Old World instead of hobby bits and pieces. A drill is next on my to buy list...After Rogue Trader!
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# ? Oct 14, 2009 07:43 |
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Danger - Octopus! posted:Hello new project (crossposted from warhammer thread) Sweet, they look well done. What is your general opinion on them? How prompt did they ship to you? Do I Really want to buy some? (Most likely answer - yes)
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# ? Oct 14, 2009 07:51 |
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No Pun Intended posted:Sweet, they look well done. What is your general opinion on them? How prompt did they ship to you? Do I Really want to buy some? (Most likely answer - yes) They look really nicely cast, far as I can tell. They arrived ten days after I ordered them, which is better than you'll usually get from Forgeworld. If you're in the USA, however, it'd probably take a bit longer of course.
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# ? Oct 14, 2009 10:39 |
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Cross-postin' Thought for the day: Magnetizing a Dreadnought is a messy, but fun, job. Presenting the venerable Ancient Ignace: Wait no that's not right. There we go. It's easy to fix a mix-matched Dreadnought when he's been installed with MAGNETS! Obligatory "dancing Dread" pictures. Still needs some cleanup work in the back, and the Lascannon needs some mold lines cleaned up, but I'll probably drop it in some Simple Green to get rid of the old priming job first. I want to give the model a mix of the usual red and Death Company schemes so that I can switch him back and forth in later games. Any ideas? Fake EDIT: Oh and before I forget he does actually have a head, but forgot to set it in with sticky tac until after I had already come up and uploaded the pictures.
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# ? Oct 15, 2009 05:26 |
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Hey, PaintVagrant, how 'bout a little tutorial on glazing? I picked up some Liquitex Glazing Medium, and I've experimented with it, but I'd like to hear from the expert. !amicable, I'm the guy with the ice blue camo marines. I'll post a project log on EoW next week. Anything specific you'd like to see?
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# ? Oct 15, 2009 05:53 |
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:My tank is shite ! GW sells Icon bitz packs now so you can add a ton of Nurgle symbols for very cheap now. Also one thing I remember reading from the nurgle book of spells for warhammer fantasy that seems appropriate: I imagine that any daemonic possession of a super-heavy is going to take a very physical form, and how better to show that than by having the battle damage spontaneously heal itself with fleshy abundance (ew) e: wouldn't it be easier/sturdier to get some sort of actual cup or jar to use as the base for your goo-vats on the side of the tank? you can still cover them with planks of plasticard to go for a ramshackle look, but the 60mm bases you're using now look like it's going to take one accidental compression and ruin all the effort of modeling the side-vats frest fucked around with this message at 13:25 on Oct 15, 2009 |
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Yeah, I've decided to use some conduit as the core of the vats. And I've just recieved some guitar strings through the post that look perfect for the scale. I'll definately bear the stuff about damage being 'healed' in mind, cheers.
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# ? Oct 15, 2009 16:26 |
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This guy used the chemical plant for his vats iirc Some sprue pics, http://www.thehogsofwar.com/2009/07/product-review-imex-chemical-plant.html Zarkov Cortez fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Oct 15, 2009 |
# ? Oct 15, 2009 17:37 |
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Well that makes you a heroman.
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# ? Oct 15, 2009 17:50 |
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# ? Oct 15, 2009 17:53 |
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Plastruct also sells a pretty dizzying range of tubes and tanks that you might want to look at. It's probably the most expansive store I've seen. Honestly the Chemical Plant is probably a good buy because it will come with all sorts of other bits and pieces that you can use to modify the tank or other models.
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# ? Oct 15, 2009 17:56 |
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I definately want that chemical plant, I'm trying to track it down in the UK now.
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# ? Oct 15, 2009 18:18 |
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I'm seeing (besides the Baneblade kit, obviously) a Vampire Counts Corpse Cart, the 'mouth' of a Hellcannon, and what looks like the banner from those Nurgle Gors. Nurglors? Anyways, it makes the kitbasher in me happy.
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# ? Oct 15, 2009 18:40 |
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Zarkov Cortez posted:GOD drat stuff like this is why I like this hobby so much
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# ? Oct 15, 2009 18:58 |
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I like the guys that are kind of impaled on the sides
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# ? Oct 15, 2009 20:54 |
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Further proof that Nurgle is the best chaos.
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# ? Oct 15, 2009 21:14 |
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I finally got myself to work on this guy a few days ago (before catching a cold), he's currently missing a backpack with ammo, extra barrels and stuff. All the little white parts (meant to be motors and a camera) are self made. If you put a bit of styrene rod in you Dremel and then lightly hold a cutter against it you have the tiniest lathe, i've really come to enjoy that technique for tiny detail stuff.
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# ? Oct 15, 2009 21:48 |
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I dont know what that is but its the best picture in this whole thread
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# ? Oct 15, 2009 22:04 |
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PaintVagrant posted:I dont know what that is but its the best picture in this whole thread
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# ? Oct 15, 2009 22:06 |
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PaintVagrant posted:I dont know what that is but its the best picture in this whole thread Mixed in with a bunch of Catachans who would notice
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# ? Oct 15, 2009 22:18 |
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Eh, i should have probably mentioned it but this is Guerilla, leader of the Ape Revolution Committee, a group of genetically modified, communist ape and monkeys. He's from Pulp City a super-hero skirmish game that i've been meaning to make a thread about for a while now.
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# ? Oct 15, 2009 22:33 |
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Pulp city looks rad
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# ? Oct 15, 2009 22:35 |
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Zarkov Cortez posted:Mixed in with a bunch of Catachans who would notice That's raaaaaacist.
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# ? Oct 15, 2009 22:35 |
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Zarkov Cortez posted:What is this? I need this.
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