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PaintVagrant posted:future floor wax Don't think you can get this in the UK, but you can get Johnson's Klear which works for me at least. It's a couple of quid for half a litre and will probably last you a lifetime. Personally I'd also recommend getting an ink similar to the colour you're using; the fact that they're already watery despite being highly pigmented is a big help. Don't ask me about ratios though, I just eyeball it -- I use a lot of water to a little ink with a little Klear (descriptive huh). The thing with making washes out of ink though is that unless you have decent matte varnish, your models end up really shiny. Makes it perfect for gold and other shiny bits (Chestnut Ink 4 lyf yo) though
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Myopic, do you know the best place to get Johnson's Klear? it seems to be that Wilkos stock it, which is terrible because bullshit-awful-Manchester is THE ONLY CITY IN THE COUNTRY that does not have a Wilkinsons.
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Pretty sure Klear is Future Floor Wax, just the UK branding of it.
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Furret Basket posted:Myopic, do you know the best place to get Johnson's Klear? it seems to be that Wilkos stock it, which is terrible because bullshit-awful-Manchester is THE ONLY CITY IN THE COUNTRY that does not have a Wilkinsons. I think I got mine from Asda but it was so long ago I couldn't say for sure (wasn't joking when I said it'd last you a lifetime!). It's definitely listed on the website. Devlan Mud posted:Pretty sure Klear is Future Floor Wax, just the UK branding of it. Cool. Explains why it works 
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Devlan Mud posted:Pretty sure Klear is Future Floor Wax, just the UK branding of it. It is indeed Furret Basket, the home cleaning aisles in Morrisons / Tesco / Sainsbury / et al should have it floating around somewhere.
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Jan 29, 2010 01:02
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 The first orks painted for my army. Which was immediately started after buying AOBR.
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Furret Basket posted:Myopic, do you know the best place to get Johnson's Klear? it seems to be that Wilkos stock it, which is terrible because bullshit-awful-Manchester is THE ONLY CITY IN THE COUNTRY that does not have a Wilkinsons. The only sensible answer here is to move the gently caress out of Manchester.
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Jan 29, 2010 09:54
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Furret Basket posted:Ignoring the lol-gogglies here's my first Tyranid. I think googly eyes on Tyranids is the best thing ever. It makes me want to buy a box of gaunts just to do this.
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Jan 29, 2010 10:11
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I want to see Googly-Eyed Trygon. Broken Loose, you have three kits; make it happen. e: oh god, does he even post in this thread? There's too much overlap for me to keep them straight. 
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:I want to see Googly-Eyed Trygon. Eventually. I have the box. I don't know what game this is, and most of the minis are terrible, but I do love these greys.  They're adorable.
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dpack_1 posted:The only sensible answer here is to move the gently caress out of Manchester. Word.
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Furret Basket posted:Myopic, do you know the best place to get Johnson's Klear? it seems to be that Wilkos stock it, which is terrible because bullshit-awful-Manchester is THE ONLY CITY IN THE COUNTRY that does not have a Wilkinsons. Cardiff is lacking too. I was in shock when I discovered what a backwards place I had moved too..
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Jan 29, 2010 22:48
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Skarsnik posted:Cardiff is lacking too. I was in shock when I discovered what a backwards place I had moved too.. But Cardiff has the Doctor Who Museum 
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Jan 30, 2010 00:01
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Well this wet palette helps a good bunch, I highly suggest you use one if you use GW paint cause that poo poo dries in under a minute
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crime fighting hog posted:Well this wet palette helps a good bunch, I highly suggest you use one if you use GW paint cause that poo poo dries in under a minute I just keep adding water. v  v
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Jan 30, 2010 00:58
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Let the Galaxy Burn!   Fresh from finishing my Imperial Fists, I've chosen Emperor's Children as my next obsession. Got a lot of noise marines to paint!
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Those EC are bad rear end. What'd you do for the skin on Smiles, there?
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Aranan posted:Those EC are bad rear end. What'd you do for the skin on Smiles, there? His head? Skull White Tallarn Flesh Bleached Bone Ogryn Flesh wash Always looks good from afar, but don't get too close. :p
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Jan 30, 2010 02:07
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No seriously, gently caress white primer. I give up on that poo poo.
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Jan 30, 2010 03:29
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Does it make you feel better that I primed your genestealers today with armory white spray in 16 degree weather?
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PaintVagrant posted:Does it make you feel better that I primed your genestealers today with armory white spray in 16 degree weather? 
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they look great, I just have to score some more ogryn flesh I was thinking I would do them in a red similar to my dindrenzi ships...it looks pretty close to behemoth colors, depending on who paints them. p3 skorne red, orange highlights, then a ogryn flesh wash which purples it up a bit
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Honestly I want you to do whatever you think looks best. I like letting professionals do their thing without too much interference. Of course I say that, but actually it occurs to me, there's some nids holding terminator helmets. I'd *like* the helmets to be from Blood Angels but would that be too much red?
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Fyrbrand posted:Honestly I want you to do whatever you think looks best. I like letting professionals do their thing without too much interference. Its up to you on the helmets. I personally think the salamanders colors contrast really beautifully with the red of the nids, but I can understand if you want them to be BA helmets, because your salamanders are coming to rescue those dumbass human being vampires
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Go with what you think looks best. I'll try to avoid being a complete manders fag. (Joke's on me, it's too late.) In other news the hobby store I get my supplies from started carrying Tamiya military kits. I picked up a 1/35 scale WW2 German halftrack. Holy poo poo is this model fiddly and detailed, especially for $14. Gonna try to make it into a looted wagon or counts-as trukk.
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Tamiya kits are loving awesome, for historic kits they are actually not nearly as bad (in terms of insane parts count) as some other brands. Like dragon. Never, ever purchase anything made by dragon.
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Finally got my pot of Space Wolves Grey in the mail today. Now I can finish my Plague Monks. Also, uh, the actual mount for the icon on my Warlord's pole snapped off mid-pole. I krazy glued it back on, but is that going to keep? What else can I do to repair this break in my model?
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Jan 30, 2010 04:51
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JB Weld. 2 part epoxy that is used to repair cracks in engine blocks. It's essentially liquid steel. It's also loving great for putting together metal models. Once it sets, the two parts are essentially one.
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Making slow progress on my Trygon. I have only worked on it a single day this week. The main body is Bleached Bone with a liberal wash of Gryphonne Sepeia, followed up by thin layers of Bleached Bone and then a 50:50 mix of Bleached Bone and Menoth White Hilight. Head is pretty much done except for the side jaw pieces. He had a little accident when I was taking him off of his handling stand and ended up chipping away the paint + primer on those two pincers.  Working on the bone parts of the upper torso now.Orange/yellow really doesn't show up well at all with my lighting setup. Everything shows up yellow/orangish because of my supbar setup and I think it loses a lot of detail in those colors when I go through color correction to get it looking neutral. Suffice to say the orange-yellow blend looks a lot better in person.  Here is a back shot. I originally had some piping type stuff jammed into the chimney stacks but I decided it looked horrible so I pried it out. I will attempt to greenstuff a replacement in there some day soon.  Unfortunately I'm at the spot where I am recognizing all of the mistakes and flaws in my paintjob and am tempted to strip and start over. I originally started painting this guy with the intention of entering him in a painting contest to be held the Sunday after the codex was released (only a single day to paint!) but that obviously didn't work out for me. Didn't stop me from staying up till 6am trying to make it work, and I think the painting suffered from the sleep deprived semi-rushed job.
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After I dropped my car off for its MOT yesterday I spent the next hour and a half browsing my local brilliant model store & talking with the owner. He's got a bit of a giant truck fetish (1/10, 1/12 scale) but he's a really nice guy. If he dropped the price of his GW stuff 10-15% he'd be golden, currently its retail price. Anyway, he showed me this tank kit someone commissioned him to make. A 1/6 Sturmtiger. It has 166 sprues. It has 5 parts to each track link. It has a fully detailed engine & gearbox, meaning moving internals. Retail? £865. gently caress knows how much he's charging to build it. edit: just checked, that'll make the finished model over 1m long 
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I decided to take some more pictures of some of the stuff I've done recently. Some of it works. First up is some D&D things I painted for the game I play in. It was my first re-entry into this mini painting thing in about 5 years, when I painted a hive tyrant and didn't manage anything else. I have apparently forgotten EVERYTHING about painting minis in that 5 years.  First batch of kobolds I painted. It's sloppy.  I got better with a little practice. This was my attempt at playing around with a mostly monochromatic scheme, remembering how awesome washes are and my first stab at playing with glaze medium.   Smug Kobold is  as hell. He came out real nice. The cloak was an experiment after I read about 'dirty water'. Ultra thinned down black ink wash. Repeat many times. It produced a very interesting texture on the back of the cloak. There is some rudimetery lighting going on.  Painted this guy for one of the D&D players a few weeks ago. He came out average. I still have trouble building up blue to a lighter shade. I need to remember to work backwards, start with the lightest shade of blue that I want and add black/deeper blues to get down to the base color.  Genstealery Cultist I had laying around. Painting experiment for various things. Not entirely successful but I managed to reteach myself several things.   I was curious what a wraithbone color dark eldar would look like after hearing that the codex would be redone soon. I couldn't find any pictures on the web so I stripped down a sybarite and painted it up. Futile attempt at glowing eyes. I like it, it's better than GRIM AND SPIKEY AND SO MUCH ANGUISH. Hey, what's in this box.  NO. Do not look in there! In there lies the shame of my past! OF ALL OF OUR PASTS! THE FORGOTTEN MODELS OF OUR PAST.  Deathwing more like CHUNKWING  Lookit that loving inquisitor librarian with his bionic leg. 2e had rules for bionic legs. And it's trimmed with gold because he's a mother loving pimp. A gimp pimp. And he teleported around with a power sword.  (Seriously 2e heroes were pretty hilarious with the wargear and powers you could get.) A power sword held in a power FIST! That's twice the power man! And he has blood on the power fist because he punched a dude or something. I was convertin' even with my first models. That's how pro I was at this hobby.  Check out that blood it's like his banner is BLEEDING MAN it's loving GRIMDARK as hell. Ignore that green on his cloak I'll just paint another layer of white over it. Or three layers. It'll go fine with the ten or so layers of unthinned paint on the model already. White, amirite?  "I thought you were playing Dark Angels, why is that guy blue?" "Ravenwing! The book says they wear blue." "Why isn't he in a Land Speeder or bike?" I don't loving know. And I have no idea how I managed to get flock on his loving shoulder pad of all things. That's nowhere near the base! But here's a land speeder. (It is actually not too bad except for the layer of dust)  Oh look a Rhino.    These terminators were probably the 'best painted' things in my army. Why are they green instead of white? I DUNNO. Nothing in my DORK ANGELS army is consistent or correct! Come to think of it I only played a single game with this army. It was against 2e Harlequins. I didn't get a single kill. Harlequin still haunt me to this day.
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The Saddest Robot: your newer minis are boss. Really nice. The minis of our past will always haunt us
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WIP pics of my Tervigon, showing off my lovely greenstuff work. I've decided to go for a Malenthrope/Toxithrope look, but instead of toxin sacs they're egg-sacs for the hatching Termagants. More detail needs to be added to his chest, and I'm obviously just starting to build up and smooth his tail. Also going to add more egg sacs underneath the raised plate on his back. I've left the large scything talons and head off to make it easier to paint.   
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I hope GW never releases a Tervigon kit cause these kitbash ones own so hard
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Cakefool posted:A 1/6 Sturmtiger. There's this weird scale modelling subculture who make 1/6 and 1/4 superdetailed tanks. Mostly nazi ones, unsurprisingly. The most entertaining part is that a lot of them are RC and you can find youtube videos of them having  battles or just driving around.Fast_Food_Knight posted:The minis of our past will always haunt us I was young once. I was evidently poo poo at modelling, painting and realising when something was a bad idea. On the plus side, at least it wasn't titmarines Disco 70s cop marines ITT.  Stayin alive, stayin alive Danger - Octopus! fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Jan 31, 2010 |
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The gross underside egg sacs and tendrils are $$$$
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The Saddest Robot posted:
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