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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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Goons, let me ask you something: where is the best place to buy Vallejo model and Vallejo air paints?
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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
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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 |
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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# ? Mar 23, 2011 16:58 |
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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.
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The only people who really make money at that poo poo is places like Midgard Models, where they basically use sweatshop/child labor.
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# ? Mar 23, 2011 17:04 |
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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.
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# ? Mar 23, 2011 17:36 |
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When you paint Genestealers do you paint them the color of your army or do you paint them the classic purple/blue?
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# ? Mar 23, 2011 19:13 |
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There's a difference?
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spacegoat posted:There's a difference? Paging Hive Fleet Ymargl to the Consonants deck. Ymargl. Consonants.
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# ? Mar 23, 2011 19:43 |
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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.
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# ? Mar 23, 2011 20:40 |
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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.
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# ? Mar 23, 2011 21:51 |
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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# ? Mar 23, 2011 22:51 |
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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
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Mt. ORourke posted:Cross-posting from the oath thread: Don't mind me, I'm just totally stealing your color scheme for my space hulk minis. What was your process?
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# ? Mar 23, 2011 23:58 |
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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
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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. Hi-five scratch built Ork buddy.
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Think I'll post this here, less chance of being swept away by Grey Knight plastics from the other thread: adamantium|wang posted:Not going for
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# ? Mar 24, 2011 04:45 |
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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.
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# ? Mar 24, 2011 04:48 |
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oh god he doesn't even have a face
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# ? Mar 24, 2011 04:49 |
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I fuckin love that face. Don't change a thing the eyes give it so much mood the way they are.
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MasterSlowPoke posted:I like it. What powerfist is that? 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.
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# ? Mar 24, 2011 05:28 |
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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."
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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."
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# ? Mar 24, 2011 07:10 |
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Thanks guys. Here's the Vox Caster.
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# ? Mar 24, 2011 08:32 |
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This is going to be a handsome army.
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adamantium|wang posted:Think I'll post this here, less chance of being swept away by Grey Knight plastics He kinda looks like Odo in the Grim Future where there is only War!
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# ? Mar 24, 2011 14:52 |
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Since PSM is my favorite thread in TGD, I'm xposting my Oaths b/c im like a super proud parent.
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Manifest posted:Can anyone recommend a good and inexpensive hobby dremel? 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 |
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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.
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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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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. 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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