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Iron Squid posted:Would some of you guys (PV and Yog, I'm looking at you) post a tutorial on basic painting, say and Ork or Space Marine. My first model doesn't look very good, and I'd love to see the techniques you guys use to make models look so goddamn awesome. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yITRhnATlCw
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Does anyone here use a specific lighting setup to paint under?
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Dec 24, 2009 02:01
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Iron Squid posted:Would some of you guys (PV and Yog, I'm looking at you) post a tutorial on basic painting, say and Ork or Space Marine. My first model doesn't look very good, and I'd love to see the techniques you guys use to make models look so goddamn awesome. youtube has a bunch of better tutorials than I can make, since I have no vid camera because Im a plebian
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Dec 24, 2009 02:02
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Every year I and some frends see a nightmare before christmas by tim burton as a chrismas tradisjon. And every time we say that it would be realy cool to make a punking king army! How about it? We could use the nurge-deamon prince and mod his head and paint his body and his newly modded head as a pumpking. Regular Marines and and terminators can have pumkings for head. A dreadnought could be a giant pumpking with legs and claws and cannon. You could have a hero that rides a bike and has a cut of pumpking (his head!) in his hands. What do you think? And would it be doable? :-)
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Dec 24, 2009 02:08
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I don't care where that came from, I just hope it's not a native english speaker, because that was pretty pathetic.
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Dec 24, 2009 02:17
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Fyrbrand posted:Every year I and some frends see a nightmare before christmas by tim burton as a chrismas tradisjon. And every time we say that it would be realy cool to make a punking king army! TG Discussion: Chrimas Tradisjon - Pumpkin King Army
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Dec 24, 2009 02:44
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So which of these sealers should I buy? Testor's Dullcote or Glosscote? Or both?
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Dec 24, 2009 03:27
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:So which of these sealers should I buy? Testor's Dullcote or Glosscote? Or both? Get both- seal with glosscote for protection, then will dullcoat to kill the shine. Dullcote alone isn't that great. Buy at a 2-1 or 3-1 ratio of dull to gloss: in my experience it takes 2 or 3 coats with dull to really kill the shine.
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Dec 24, 2009 03:31
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Something of a dumb question but this is new for me what is the purpose of the foundation paints GW has?
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Dec 24, 2009 03:37
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They're supposed to cover way better than normal paints, letting you build up difficult colours much faster. Also, some of them are great for clearing out the sinuses, because they smell loving awful.
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Dec 24, 2009 03:40
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Why doesn't GW just make *all* their paint Foundation Paints?
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Dec 24, 2009 03:57
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PaintVagrant posted:youtube has a bunch of better tutorials than I can make, since I have no vid camera because Im a plebian How would you, say, highlight black power armor
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Dec 24, 2009 05:07
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Iron Squid posted:Why doesn't GW just make *all* their paint Foundation Paints? Because some paints have very expensive pigments and making foundation versions of them would cost like 10+ bux a pot If you notice most foundation paints look and smell like housepaints, thats not a coincidence
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Dec 24, 2009 05:08
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The Saddest Robot posted:I couldn't get to sleep on Sunday night and decided to finally get around to the babyphant conversion of a carnifex that I 'started' 3 years ago. 'Started' consisted of cutting off a single hoof on one of the fex's feet and putting everything back in the box. After a night of frenzied chopping, sawing and clipping I ended up with this at 5am. It was originally inspired by Moloch's babyphant on his website but I decided I wanted something more spindly. Scything talons as fex legs looks dumb because they weigh 14 tons and the talons are super thin. They have hooves because nothing else can hold them up. Either the talons would snap or they'd just sink into the ground.
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Dec 24, 2009 05:31
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You heard him! Slap some hooves on those scything talons! Giant psychic space bugs don't make sense any other way. 
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Dec 24, 2009 05:35
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Broken Loose posted:Scything talons as fex legs looks dumb because they weigh 14 tons and the talons are super thin. They have hooves because nothing else can hold them up. And there's   only four limbs
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Dec 24, 2009 05:58
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Broken Loose posted:Scything talons as fex legs looks dumb because they weigh 14 tons and the talons are super thin. They have hooves because nothing else can hold them up. Giant spiderbeasts with spiked tarsi are a classic sci-fi element for a reason: they look awesome.
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Dec 24, 2009 06:03
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Crossposting from the Firestorm thread. If anyone ever feels the need to go crazy with the freehand on your starships, then I suggest trying your hand at some Aztecing: Go from this:  Click here for the full 800x335 image. To this:  Click here for the full 800x1280 image. Full instructions here: http://theminiaturespage.com/workbench/702458/
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Dec 24, 2009 06:07
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Danger - Octopus! posted:Been busy for what used to be the GBS thread. Crossposting without remorse, since I'm pretty happy. Looks nice. People who don't play the game will look at it and say "Wow, this is what Christmas in WWI looked like!"
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Dec 24, 2009 06:12
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How do I paint rope and gray hair
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Dec 24, 2009 06:24
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crosspostin! Welp, the carriage, common parts and all the bell assemblies are done, so I've got a fully painted screaming bell       Think I'll take a break on some slaves or jezzails before i round out the plague furnace components and base. I'm so very pleased with the way this came out, paintwise and with the magnetizing. Looks gorgeous sitting on my table, now to spray all the painted bits with sealant so they dont lose paint on the edges from all the assembly handling. regarding painting tutorials, videos are definitely the way to go, theres many good free resources available. Much better than text descriptions (in my day it was dr fausts painting clinic and whatever random articles i could find). That said, practice will get you further than any tutorial. Here's a pic of a clanrat from the first box of miniatures I ever painted, and another clanrat a couple of years later, compared to what I'm painting now, another 6 or so years down the track. Practice practice practice  
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Dec 24, 2009 06:41
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crime fighting hog posted:How do I paint rope and gray hair Rope: Calthan base, Snakebite 1st highlight, Snakebite/Khaki 2nd highlight Grey Hair: Codex -> Fortress (maybe the other way around I forget which is darker) -> Fortress/White Mix
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Dec 24, 2009 07:03
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Nice. Last bit: How do I paint wood
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Dec 24, 2009 07:11
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Danger - Octopus! posted:Been busy for what used to be the GBS thread. Crossposting without remorse, since I'm pretty happy. Love it. Will you be changing your avatar, or is the nurgle snowman going to stay? Z the IVth posted:
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Dec 24, 2009 07:22
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:And there's well gee i'm sorry for telling somebody his stuff looked gay in a thread about showing off our stuff and telling each other what it looks like
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Dec 24, 2009 07:34
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Broken Loose posted:Scything talons as fex legs looks dumb because they weigh 14 tons and the talons are super thin. They have hooves because nothing else can hold them up. You would hate the biotitan that the conversion is based on then. It makes just as little sense because it would weigh several hundred (or thousands?) of tons more and all of its weight is still directed to those four tips. You're right that it makes no sense as an effective means of movement but I'm trying to adhere to the visual look of the titan. 
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Dec 24, 2009 07:49
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and if you had asked if i didn't like the legs on the heirophant, i would answer, "no, I do not like the legs on the official fw heirophant model for the same reason." i gave an opinion and my reasoning for my opinion. you guys need to take a chill pill
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Yog-Sothoth posted:crosspostin! This is pretty nice. I really like the brass of the bell itself and the contrasts between the stone colours and the bright warp-fire and skaven.
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Should I fully assemble my Chaos Space Marines, or paint them first, then assemble? I know with some of the Space Marines I put together, the arm would be right against the chest which is going to make it really hard to paint the detail on the chest. Also, I'll prime my Chaos Space Marines black and then go over the armor with Menechite Red, to make them look like Red Corsairs. Should I use a different shade of black or is the Chaos Black primer coat good enough?
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Dec 24, 2009 08:43
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If chaos marines are anything like loyalist marines you can do what I did. I just assembled everything but bolters and backpacks. I got pretty good results doing that.
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Yog-Sothoth posted:sweet screaming bell I love the rat standing on top of the bell. Very cool model overall and you did a great job painting it.
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Fyrbrand posted:Bonus nurglesque action shot: What does this stuff do to resin and would it be safe to, say, stick Armorcast parts in it. I'm going to be coming into possession of some Titans and I'll want to strip the paint from them, but if it's not safe to do with simple green or LA's then I don't know what the gently caress Danger - Octopus! posted:Been busy for what used to be the GBS thread. Crossposting without remorse, since I'm pretty happy. 
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Captain Invictus posted:What does this stuff do to resin and would it be safe to, say, stick Armorcast parts in it. I'm going to be coming into possession of some Titans and I'll want to strip the paint from them, but if it's not safe to do with simple green or LA's then I don't know what the gently caress I didn't notice anything when I threw some green stuff scraps in mine but I'm really not sure.
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Yog-Sothoth posted:Screaming Bell Yog-Sothoth posted:What the hell happened that Clanrats turned into weird, short, monkey-proportioned dudes with no armor?
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Captain Invictus posted:What does this stuff do to resin and would it be safe to, say, stick Armorcast parts in it. I'm going to be coming into possession of some Titans and I'll want to strip the paint from them, but if it's not safe to do with simple green or LA's then I don't know what the gently caress If your talking about the armorcast ones they can take a lot of abuse, I striped the ones I have now with DOT 3 Brake fluid when I got them so I think simple green or LA's should be perfectly safe.
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   I know the gold looks like rear end but I don't want to repaint it all. Maybe a darker wash over it would work? I need to work on taking better pictures. I've read the tutorials, I just need practice. Overall, I'm really happy with how this is coming out. It looks good on the table.
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Dec 24, 2009 19:32
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Honestly it needs some light more than making it darker. Highlight with a silver-ish color?
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bhsman posted:Honestly it needs some light more than making it darker. Highlight with a silver-ish color? Yeah Gold has a lot of luster to it. As a fellow menite though I do love the color scheme. Don't mean to step on your coat tails but here's what I did:  
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Dec 24, 2009 19:44
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Lightening the gold seems like the answer but I don't want to use pure silver. I've got Shining Gold on there now, can I lighten it with a lighter gold? What about mixing something (silver?) in with the gold I have for a lighter gold? Highlight silver then sepia wash? I hate metallics.
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GoodBee posted:Lightening the gold seems like the answer but I don't want to use pure silver. I've got Shining Gold on there now, can I lighten it with a lighter gold? What about mixing something (silver?) in with the gold I have for a lighter gold? Highlight silver then sepia wash? I hate metallics. Shining gold + Mithril silver = 
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