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S.J. posted:Thought about that, I did get used to painting grey when I was doing my Space Sharks. And I already know a great way to do a darker bronze color for the metallic trim, and throwing blue into the right places is easy enough. I was also thinking about doing a Khaki color, but I wouldn't know what colors would be best for that. I use a base of Deneb stone, hit it with a sepia wash then high light up using Vallejo GC Bone White then Dead Flesh.  Here's a sloppy picture of my current WIPs:  Almost everything is nearly done there. I just need to seal and base them. !amicable fucked around with this message at 06:52 on Jul 1, 2011 |
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Snollygoster posted:Ok so I read about richyp throwing together a perfect Incubus in like two loving hours and died from a rage embolism. Now I am a ghost and I want to know what techniques I can employ to speed up my work without sacrificing quality. My back starts to hurt pretty quickly which is part of the reason I like to paint fast. All the suggestions (dvd/music/rewarding yourself/painting faces first) are all things that I do too. If you dont have one see if you can get a painting lamp with an adjustable arm, I use one all the time because it's clamped the desk and can be extended toward me which means I can lean back and paint without being in my own light. Depending on the time of day and whether I have any work on or not its usually: 1) Grab some beer 2) Prime white ( I find it faster to paint on white than black though it is much less forgiving) 3) Do some work 4) Wash the models with black and brown to make it much easier to see the details and to cover any bits I might miss with the paint later. (3-5 at a time) 5) Hairdryer them to accelerate wash drying time 6) Smoke <- personal reward 7) Paint the base colour (3-5 at a time) 8) Smoke 9) Paint the faces (light colour first, wash with devlan, highlight up) 10) Realise you just drank from the cup of dirty paint water instead of beer 11) Mix up some highlight with lots of water and apply one at a time, it shouldn't dry out if it's thin enough 12) Smoke 13) Repeat 11-12 for each highlight 14) Paint gems/hair etc.. 15) Take an 8 month break and try to convince yourself your back's telling you your too old for this poo poo. 16) Accidentally look at the forums 17) goto 1 After every squad I like to paint something different, either a character or something completely different (range/army) just so you don't get tired of repeating the above 100 times.
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Inverse Icarus posted:This is what a couple hours of dubstep got me tonight Liking the green a lot, drum and bass in general is pretty good for painting like a coke addict, here's 2 albums worth from this morning (cross-posting shameless plug):  The Klaives need painting properly and I'm waiting on some resin bases, but I'm really happy with how they turned out, especially since they take about 1/2 as long as the two other test schemes I tried and wasn't happy with.
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So a wet palette is just baking sheet on a sponge in tupperware + water? Because I have all these things. Figured out my white cloak recipe last night (the trick was picking a light source and putting the washes away for a change), and the only problem I had left was the mixed paint drying way too fast.
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sassassin posted:So a wet palette is just baking sheet on a sponge in tupperware + water? Yes, yes it is. richyp posted:Liking the green a lot, drum and bass in general is pretty good for painting like a coke addict, here's 2 albums worth from this morning (cross-posting shameless plug): I somehow both love and hate you at the same time. They look fantastic!
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dishwasherlove posted:How do you guys get your paint onto your palette with minimal waste? I have a 10ml syringe but its going to get gunked pretty quick and annoying as gently caress to get stuff out of the new citadel pots. I mostly use Vallejo paints that have their own dropper. For the GW stuff I usually just transfer it with a paintbrush.
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Crosspost as promised Finished these buggies a while ago...  *the rokkits are added, kinda a lame conversion and not very hard... I like the old school style, spruced up with some new figures (kept old parts and one pair classic for the nostalgia) and the hazard stripes and white letters just scream 2nd edition or gorkamorka to me for some reason. And here are my landspeeder buggies...  *The lamenter is MasterSlowPoke's as a reference to show I tried to "loot" his Up close  ...Buggie #1   I can have smiling missiles too!   Buggie #2     Buggie #3     *these are the ones out of my oath that might win me (plz  ) the conversion contestTheir arms are magnetized and I have a few schorcha arms if I ever feel like I want less rokkits on my orks (never)  *picture came out like poo poo on this one...* I tried some basic weathering, happy with what came out. What'ca think?
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http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/CONTEMPTOR_PATTERN_DREADNOUGHT_BODY.html Forgeworld finally releases the pre-heresy space marine dreadnought, and it is huge and awesome. I already have four painted dreads, but gently caress it. Another (or two) can't hurt.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:I somehow both love and hate you at the same time. They look fantastic! Thanks, you were asking for the recipe earlier and I posted it in the 40k thread. I started some Kabalites earlier and I took a shot of the post washing stage, so here's a shot of step 2 after hairdrying the washes (I've already painted the skin and hair on two but the armour is just wash + hairdryer on all of them). The trick is to apply the wash slowly so it doesn't pool and bubble, after this it's a case of mixing up some very thin bone colour and lightly layering it over the wash, leaving the recesses like they are here. 
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Uber Kosh posted:^^richyp, do you add Matt Medium or similar to your washes to help stop them from pooling too? Nah thats just straight from the bottle, if it pools I just drag it around with the brush to another area or dab it up with a dry brush. I do use it to make washes though add a drop to glaze medium + paint to get custom washes.
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Gaaaaah I really messed up his skin tone. In the pics last night it was a little too red, so I mixed up some paint that was khaki and white mostly, and I thinned it with water / mixing medium. I was hoping it would be thin and translucent, but now his skin is just a light khaki color. Oh well. At this point I figure adding more paint is going to start killing details on the face, so I slathered on some wash. I also tried, for the first time ever, to paint an eyeball on a model. You can't see it at all in the picture (I really need to get my light tent out again), but they're just white lines with a black dot. Not terrible.     In the background you can see my neglected Raptors unit. In the last pic you can see how angry he is about not being finished. "OH COME ON, YOU'RE PAINTING DWARVES NOW?!"
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S.J. posted:Anybody got any sources/pics of alternate Cygnar color schemes? I'm not sold on straight blue as the way to go. Here are a few with links to a few more:     http://i.imgur.com/aVhSZ.jpg http://i.imgur.com/aUQL4.jpg http://i.imgur.com/OADRc.jpg http://i.imgur.com/iRFCH.jpg http://i.imgur.com/uvhAv.jpg Yes, I think the Centurion looks awesome. vvvvvvv Yeah, that's a super well done T-head, but it's no Centurion. 
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Aranan posted:I think this Thunderhead looks awesome too. I do wish most of the alternate Cygnar schemes weren't just gray with some blue thrown in. But it's hard to do red/white/green without looking like Khador/Menoth/Cryx etc
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Salamanders Techmarine- red armor with some green here and there, or vice-versa? I'm inclined to do the latter. Not only is it easier  but I think aesthetically it would look better.
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Red armor always looks cool. It's hard to do red and green with out invoking Christmas, which sort of sucks.
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   My army grows. Still not the greatest at taking photos, but maybe someday I will actually get to play this game.
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richyp: how did you do those pink dark eldar loincloths? [fake edit] Oh god, I click "Submit Reply" and there's a magical spinning troll. I dig those nails and the rocky bits on his shoulders/chin, rzal. They're orange and he's orange, but there's enough contrast that it stands out.
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Fyrbrand posted:Salamanders Techmarine- red armor with some green here and there, or vice-versa? I wouldn't do a flat 50/50 ratio of red to green, but use green as more of an accent color. Maybe paint the left arm (the one with the chapter emblem) green, maybe one of the knee pads or, depending on the head you use, the frontal face plate. You could also have him spewing promethium from a flamer mechadendrite and have the OSL kinda take away from the scheme entirely. Either way, don't let the fear of having a model look "Christmas-y" prevent you from trying it.The Techmarine on the GW website has the model painted mostly in blue with red accents instead. And if the Ultras can get away with it I'm sure the Salamanders will be fine. 
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bhsman posted:I wouldn't do a flat 50/50 ratio of red to green, but use green as more of an accent color. Maybe paint the left arm (the one with the chapter emblem) green, maybe one of the knee pads or, depending on the head you use, the frontal face plate. Yeah I didn't mean a 50/50 ratio, I should have been more clear. Basically I was thinking like you said. I have the same model they did in Ultramarines style. Actually in looking at the website, I forgot they did one of the Thunderfire Techmarine pics as a Salamander. Looks like they did the helmet and a few other details in a dark red, with the rest of the armor the standard green. That looks pretty decent. Fyrbrand fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Jul 2, 2011 |
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You could paint the hands red, to symbolize his hands being sanctified or some lame space barbie bullshit like that, loser.
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Fyrbrand posted:Salamanders Techmarine- red armor with some green here and there, or vice-versa? Do a rich brown-red, like a brick color so that it doesn't contrast too sharply with the green shoulder pads. That is what I would do, at least.
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Aranan posted:richyp: how did you do those pink dark eldar loincloths? Base is Hormaguant Purple + Warlock Purple, then layer through pure Warlock with a highlight of Warlock + the bone mixture I use for the armour (White+Yellow+Brown 4:2:1 ish)
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Picked up some InstaMold from the FLGS a few weeks back, and after having some trouble trying to make a decent cast of a Meltagun, came across this brilliant idea. 
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Give some help here dudes. I'm painting up some Death Guard in the 2nd edition style (hodge-podge armor that's dark green, black, and leathery), and I'm kind of stuck on how to base them. I'm thinking a red wasteland Mars kind of thing to make the greens pop more, but I'm not entirely sure. I'd give a color scheme reference pic, but can't find any online, sorry.
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I'm looking for a good recipe for carved ivory. I'm using these pictures as references: http://heluva.com.au/2010/03/elephant-ivory/ http://www.cinoa.org/antiques/d/loango-west-african-kongo-peoples-carved-ivory-tusk/48974 http://www.flickr.com/photos/gserafini/475327044/sizes/l/in/photostream/ Unfortunately I can't use any washes as there's no relief on the model, I'm just going to freehand. Any thoughts?
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I picked up a resin Vampire Countess today. She looks awesome. Her sword is a bit bendy though. Part of me is thinking of lopping the blade off and replacing it with one from a plastic skeleton instead. I'm totally afraid of ruining my lovely €12 model though.
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Mr_Happy_Pants posted:I'm looking for a good recipe for carved ivory. I'm using these pictures as references: Why not use the wash any way and just apply it carefully where you want it, like a paint?
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richyp posted:I know this was from a few posts back, but do you prime them on bases and then remove them and put them on different bases?
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PaintVagrant posted:I still cant get over that forums title, jesus christ goons. I'm baffled that it is allowed to exist when the company policy has been to ban racism on sight.
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Fearless posted:I'm baffled that it is allowed to exist when the company policy has been to ban racism on sight. I never cease to be amazed by how prevalent casual anti-semitism seems to be among goons. I think we need our fairy godadmin to give him a 40k baby avatar, and ban whoever bought him that one. Lovely Joe Stalin fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Jul 2, 2011 |
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:I never cease to be amazed by how prevalent casual anti-semitism seems to be among goons. I think we need our fairy godadmin to give him a 40k baby avatar, and ban whoever bought him that one. Rape is still cool though, right?
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