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Chance II
Aug 6, 2009

Would you like a
second chance?

Pot Keter Black posted:

Awesome. If you can get your hands on some (I got a huge box for £5), I'd recommend trying out soapstone as a carving material - it's soft enough to be carved by just about anything, but has no grain, and takes detail extremely well.

Thanks! I'll have to check into soapstone. I have a foot tall Madonna from Brazil carved from soapstone and it certainly feels like it would be a smoother carve.

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Bavius
Jun 4, 2010

Smurfs don't lay eggs! I won't tell you this again! Papa Smurf has a fucking beard! They're mammals!
Goons, let me ask you something: where is the best place to buy Vallejo model and Vallejo air paints?

nuncle jimbo
Apr 3, 2009

:pcgaming:

Bavius posted:

Goons, let me ask you something: where is the best place to buy Vallejo model and Vallejo air paints?

warstore like everything else, really

Galaga Galaxian
Apr 23, 2009

What a childish tactic!
Don't you think you should put more thought into your battleplan?!


Threw together another tio of Ork Escorts outta Skrap and gubbins tonight. Brings me up to a total of 14 Escorts (and two kroozas). More than enough for 1000 point games, and I've assembled one 1500 fleet list that uses a dozen (the minimum amounts required to get a 'Uge Ship really), but since, with the ork fleet list I'm using, tiddla skwadrons with leadership 5 or 6 get a free escort, I suppose I need to build two more. Still, the end is in sight, at least for the escorts. Good thing too, I'm really running low on suitable bits to make escorts out of, and I'm now worried about being able to scrounge bits and parts to assemble three or four more capital ships. Oh well, I'll figure something out. Here is the pic.



Decided to wait until I've got everything built to paint them.

Galaga Galaxian fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Mar 23, 2011

Big Willy Style
Feb 11, 2007

How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

Bavius posted:

Goons, let me ask you something: where is the best place to buy Vallejo model and Vallejo air paints?

https://www.maelstromgames.co.uk

Free international shipping on orders over 10 pounds. I dunno if it will work out cheaper than the warstore or not.

The Blue Pyramid
Mar 1, 2009

:poland: :poland: :poland:
Kiepski to nie
kaktus;
Pić musi!

:poland: :poland: :poland:
Considering all the pr0-painted auctions on ebay, is there really a market for pre-painted minis? Could I start buying tactical squads, painting them to a decent standard, and just posting them all on ebay to turn a profit?

Big Willy Style
Feb 11, 2007

How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?
There is a guy on Warhammer.org who is doing this with new release models. He isn't making much money at all, and lost money in a few instances. And not to be rude, but I don't think your painting is really at that standard yet.

Chenghiz
Feb 14, 2007

WHITE WHALE
HOLY GRAIL
I know a guy who makes part of a living selling prepainted characters and doing commissions. He paints fast as gently caress though, and even then it doesn't pay the bills on its own.

spacegoat
Dec 23, 2003

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Nap Ghost
With pre-painting, you have to factor in the cost of the minis, as well as materials and time spent.

Commissions are where it's at over pre-painting, and even then you have to be GD standard to expect to make much money out of it.

Fyrbrand
Dec 30, 2002

Grimey Drawer
The only people who really make money at that poo poo is places like Midgard Models, where they basically use sweatshop/child labor.

Manifest
Jul 7, 2007

HELLO THERE I COME FROM THE FUTURE
Can anyone recommend a good and inexpensive hobby dremel?
My Korean knock off from CVS died on me, and I've got metal models to hack at.

Demiurge
May 29, 2008

Mining for the Greater Good.
When you paint Genestealers do you paint them the color of your army or do you paint them the classic purple/blue?

spacegoat
Dec 23, 2003

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Nap Ghost
There's a difference? :smug:

TheCosmicMuffet
Jun 21, 2009

by Shine

spacegoat posted:

There's a difference? :smug:

Paging Hive Fleet Ymargl to the Consonants deck. Ymargl. Consonants.

Devlan Mud
Apr 10, 2006




I'll hear your stories when we come back, alright?
If you're gonna paint crap you're better off doing Napoleonics or other historicals, since the market for that is crotchety old men with coke-bottle lenses and shaky hands who don't paint.

crime fighting hog
Jun 29, 2006

I only pray, Heaven knows when to lift you out
Need some direction. What's a good recipe for brown brick? I can do red and gray but I'd like some earthy tone for my last Slayer.

Hell Diver
Feb 2, 2010

by Y Kant Ozma Post
Terracotta/Dark Flesh as a basecoat is the way to go. I can't honestly remember what I drybrushed over it to get the highlight though.

crime fighting hog
Jun 29, 2006

I only pray, Heaven knows when to lift you out

Hell Diver posted:

Terracotta/Dark Flesh as a basecoat is the way to go. I can't honestly remember what I drybrushed over it to get the highlight though.

That's what I was thinking, actually. I'll test it out.

Mt. ORourke
Dec 10, 2006

We find no vestige of a beginning,
no prospect of an end.
Cross-posting from the oath thread:







Any ideas for how to make the talons pop a bit more? I did an edge highlight with Enchanted blue but it's very close to the foundation blue beneath and doesn't show too well. Other comments welcome too!

adamantium|wang
Sep 14, 2003

Missing you
Use Space Wolves Grey instead. Looking good, I'd maybe give the bases a wash of something or use a darker brown basecoat and darken them up to contrast the bright model on top a bit more.

adamantium|wang fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Mar 23, 2011

TheCosmicMuffet
Jun 21, 2009

by Shine
I was going to say a teal. I think the gray would make it blend too much with the white exoskeleton, and the contrast of the blue is really nice.

Edit: Bonus american option, Blood Red. I really like it when a mostly blue and white model has a touch of bright red.

Milkbags
Mar 7, 2011

by Ozma
any battlewagon painting tips? I personally paint the peices I assmeble onto it beforehand, and make sure to have its exterior be Red Gore painted on Mercentile Red, but personally I dont know what else. I am going to decorate the interior of the battlewagon with various spare guns so in 1st-edition ROUGE TRADER games that can be played like an RPG or even GORKAMORKA should I ever touch that I can use it either as a store, a small mobile headquarters or a medium-small-sized mobile armory

Manifest
Jul 7, 2007

HELLO THERE I COME FROM THE FUTURE

Mt. ORourke posted:

Cross-posting from the oath thread:







Any ideas for how to make the talons pop a bit more? I did an edge highlight with Enchanted blue but it's very close to the foundation blue beneath and doesn't show too well. Other comments welcome too!

Don't mind me, I'm just totally stealing your color scheme for my space hulk minis.
What was your process?

Mt. ORourke
Dec 10, 2006

We find no vestige of a beginning,
no prospect of an end.
Cool! Glad you liked it.

The process:
-Prime white
-Wash the entire model asurmen blue (in hindsight you could probably avoid washing the carapace and other flat parts)

Skin:
-Bleached bone
-Drybrush with FolkArt 'tapioca' (cheap hobby store acrylic)

Carapace:
-FolkArt 'midnight' = GW Regal blue?
Edge with:
-Mordian blue foundation
Thin streaks of:
-Enchanted blue
-FolkArt 'french blue' = GW Ice Blue

Talons:
-Mordian blue foundation
Edge with:
-Enchanted blue (posts above recommend a teal or SW Grey instead, and I think that's a good idea)

Toxin Sacs:
-Snot green
-Goblin Green

El Estrago Bonito
Dec 17, 2010

Scout Finch Bitch

Galaga Galaxian posted:

Threw together another tio of Ork Escorts outta Skrap and gubbins tonight. Brings me up to a total of 14 Escorts (and two kroozas). More than enough for 1000 point games, and I've assembled one 1500 fleet list that uses a dozen (the minimum amounts required to get a 'Uge Ship really), but since, with the ork fleet list I'm using, tiddla skwadrons with leadership 5 or 6 get a free escort, I suppose I need to build two more. Still, the end is in sight, at least for the escorts. Good thing too, I'm really running low on suitable bits to make escorts out of, and I'm now worried about being able to scrounge bits and parts to assemble three or four more capital ships. Oh well, I'll figure something out. Here is the pic.



Decided to wait until I've got everything built to paint them.

:sissies:
Hi-five scratch built Ork buddy.

adamantium|wang
Sep 14, 2003

Missing you
Think I'll post this here, less chance of being swept away by Grey Knight plastics :v:





from the other thread:

adamantium|wang posted:

Not going for PaintVagrant Hell Diver glass-cabinet level quality, but something slightly above tabletop. Wanted to figure out a method that was simple to do and easy to replicate across a hundred plastic mans. Skin and leather add a bit of warmth to an otherwise cold scheme. No regimental or squad markings yet, still experimenting in PS to print some custom (probably white) decals. Was thinking of doing black base rims but the Scorched Brown on the rim brings out the same I used under they grey drybrushing on the base. Whaddya guys think?

MasterSlowPoke
Oct 9, 2005

Our courage will pull us through
I like it. What powerfist is that?

I'd consider painting the eyes, even though you're going for tabletop. They add so much to a model.

Blade_of_tyshalle
Jul 12, 2009

If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

oh god he doesn't even have a face

spacegoat
Dec 23, 2003

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Nap Ghost
I fuckin love that face. Don't change a thing the eyes give it so much mood the way they are.

adamantium|wang
Sep 14, 2003

Missing you

MasterSlowPoke posted:

I like it. What powerfist is that?

I'd consider painting the eyes, even though you're going for tabletop. They add so much to a model.

Command Squad power fist taken from the lovely 90 degree angle arm and put on a straight one. Skull is from a winged skull from an Imperial tank trimmed down. Face is fine, a bit washed out in the photos. I did think about doing the eyes but these ones are super squinty and none of my brushes can hold a point that narrow for more than 17 nanoseconds these days. Besides, at tabletop range it won't matter, and if I did do them my OCD would condemn me to do them on every single goddamned Guardsman. :(

Dr. Phildo
Dec 8, 2003

Except the heaven had come so near,
So seemed to choose my door,The distance would not haunt me so

Soiled Meat
Yeah, don't touch that face at all. He's got an awesome resigned look about him. "Welp, here I am at the edge of space taking care of business. Again."

Sole.Sushi
Feb 19, 2008

Seaweed!? Get the fuck out!

Dr. Phildo posted:

Yeah, don't touch that face at all. He's got an awesome resigned look about him. "Welp, here I am at the edge of space taking care of business. Again."

"I'm too old for this poo poo."

adamantium|wang
Sep 14, 2003

Missing you
Thanks guys. Here's the Vox Caster.



Dr. Phildo
Dec 8, 2003

Except the heaven had come so near,
So seemed to choose my door,The distance would not haunt me so

Soiled Meat
This is going to be a handsome army.

dexefiend
Apr 25, 2003

THE GOGGLES DO NOTHING!

adamantium|wang posted:

Think I'll post this here, less chance of being swept away by Grey Knight plastics :v:





from the other thread:

He kinda looks like Odo in the Grim Future where there is only War!

Acidix
Aug 8, 2007

Winner of the terrible contest
Since PSM is my favorite thread in TGD, I'm xposting my Oaths b/c im like a super proud parent.





Paradigm Pirate
Nov 27, 2008

Manifest posted:

Can anyone recommend a good and inexpensive hobby dremel?
My Korean knock off from CVS died on me, and I've got metal models to hack at.

No idea how pricing for Proxxon is in North America but I'm going to recommend the Proxxon Micromot 50.

Paradigm Pirate fucked around with this message at 15:52 on Mar 24, 2011

The Saddest Robot
Apr 17, 2007
I've been viewing some painting videos/tutorials where the painter sprays a coat of gloss varnish over the model prior to adding some washes, followed by a matte varnish. Does anyone know the reason for this? I think in some cases it was because the painter was using oil based washes and those can eat away at acrylics but other painters were using acrylic washes so I'm not sure.

Can anyone recommend a good online store that carries Vallejo Air paints that actually has them in stock? I've checked a number of them and most of the paints I want are out of stock.

Manifest
Jul 7, 2007

HELLO THERE I COME FROM THE FUTURE

Paradigm Pirate posted:

No idea how pricing for Proxxon is in North America but I'm going to recommend the Proxxon Micromot 50.

Pretty cheap on amazon, thanks!

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El Estrago Bonito
Dec 17, 2010

Scout Finch Bitch

The Saddest Robot posted:

I've been viewing some painting videos/tutorials where the painter sprays a coat of gloss varnish over the model prior to adding some washes, followed by a matte varnish. Does anyone know the reason for this? I think in some cases it was because the painter was using oil based washes and those can eat away at acrylics but other painters were using acrylic washes so I'm not sure.

Can anyone recommend a good online store that carries Vallejo Air paints that actually has them in stock? I've checked a number of them and most of the paints I want are out of stock.

It can cut down on that really dull matte look some washes give. I've done it to cut down on the amount of metallic washes I have to do on Rackham-style armor because it preserves some of the shinyness. I didn't know it was a terribly common technique tho. The only time I've ever seen it done was on my friends Tau army, where he would base, spray wash, highlight, spray because the large amount of brown wash he used on the sepia base color would look very dull and dusty (which is naturally not very Tau).

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