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 The Myrmidons come with rocks sculpted onto the figures, so it was a bit of work to get rid of them. I think the figures are just substantially bigger than the Draykavac model, so it'll always seem cramped on the abeyant.
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ijyt posted:Not SM, and a little late, but jetbike chat reminded me of this cool thing someone made for Tau. You can 3D print it for yourself too. Does anyone know where I could get this printed?
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I've purchased 3 rattle-cans of Army Painter primer. I've had two go wrong, one wouldn't stop spraying after releasing the button and the other ran out of propellant with ~100ml of paint still left in the tin. I've purchased a Chinese airbrush and would like some recommendations on primer for resin and regular plastic models. Thanks for your help.
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Whiskey posted:I've purchased 3 rattle-cans of Army Painter primer. I've had two go wrong, one wouldn't stop spraying after releasing the button and the other ran out of propellant with ~100ml of paint still left in the tin. I've purchased a Chinese airbrush and would like some recommendations on primer for resin and regular plastic models. Vallejo Surface Primer or Badger Stynylrez. Both are great but Stynylrez was slightly cheaper per oz last time I checked.
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I just ordered a Sparmax TC-620x compressor for myself for Christmas + Birthday. Does anyone have one of them? I will make a box thread on Monday and share what I find! Good bye my 100 decibel, twenty gallon budget compressor that I bought on sale and had a 15 percent off coupon! You have served me well, but now you will live in the garage and inflate car tires.
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thocan posted:Does anyone know where I could get this printed? There´s http://www.shapeways.com/
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dexefiend posted:I just ordered a Sparmax TC-620x compressor for myself for Christmas + Birthday. Does anyone have one of them? I have one, absolutely love it. I've been using it for months and have recommended it to the thread. There's not much to it, it's smaller, quieter and runs cooler than my earlier name brand compressor. I'm planning to get a Bambi compressor as it's even quieter but it's not really necessary, I really like the Sparmax. They are the OEM supplier for iwata, so they're pretty good.
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Hey guys, I have a long term goal of learning to 3d print and cast in resin figures/miniatures of my own creation. To kind of kickstart the learning process and experiment with trying to make a side business out of this, I figured it would be useful to make some bits sets - I figure the low cost of entry for both consumers and the reduced complexity of modeling would provide a good start for learning how to do this kind of thing. With that in mind, I've been out of the hobby for a number of years, and don't know of anyone else who is doing this. I seem to recall there being a handful of companies that did this kind of thing, like alternate heads, weapons, etc. Can anyone provide links to companies that are doing this that they think are good quality / pricing / etc? Also, are there any particular types of bits that you think would be beneficial / would want to see personally? I figure I could make a million loving dollars with some good titmarine torsos.
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Sigma-X posted:seem to recall there being a handful of companies that did this kind of thing, like alternate heads, weapons, etc. Can anyone provide links to companies that are doing this that they think are good quality / pricing / etc? There's a few good companies out there, yeah. http://www.anvilindustry.co.uk/ http://maxmini.eu/ http://secretweaponminiatures.com/ http://puppetswar.com/ I can attest to both Anvil Industries and Puppets War as being very good casting quality, with little to no flash and no discernible bubbles.
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I can also think of http://www.kromlech.eu/ http://www.paulson-games.com/ http://www.madrobotminiatures.com/ http://victoriaminiatures.highwire.com/ https://www.facebook.com/pdc.gaming As far as I know every Ork player loves Kromlech, Victoria just about makes the definitive Imperial Guard bits and minis, and I have some of Paulson's mechs, the guy is an artist. PDC is also a brand new company that ran a successful KS campaign but haven't gotten as far as a store front yet, might be worth looking at for ideas on how to get going yourself.
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Kromlech isn't bad but I have seen some pretty bad bubbles in some of their stuff. Shipping from Poland kind of sucks as well. Even with those caveats, they're still great bits. EDIT: You can't go wrong with wheels and treads. People love that stuff for customizing or scratchbuilding vehicles. BlackIronHeart fucked around with this message at 01:10 on Jan 4, 2015 |
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Nearly there. Base, mutilated corpses and all the gore to go plus adjusting anything that doesnt look quite right when its all together. lovely mobile cam wip incoming. 
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Sigma-X posted:Hey guys, Wheels and Barrels. Also items like chests, ammo boxes, doorways/panels/hatches and so on should be easy to make and will be useful for people scratch-building their own terrain/bases/markers. Another suggestion is making your own sculpted/textured bases in the regular sizes and then selling casts of those.
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Any tips on how to paint this style of base?
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How large is it?
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Prime white, heavy grey wash, pick out random stones with different grey tones, apply a wash of Payne's Grey to unify the colors. That is what I see.
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Oh, he was asking how to paint an unpainted version of that base. I thought he was asking how to produce something similar via paint. Yeah, what he said.
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Re resin accessory companies, there are also: http://www.spellcrow.com/ http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Blood-and-Skulls-Industry http://www.chapterhousestudios.com/ Never tried any of them though have been tempted by the first couple. Chapter House may be more of an example of how not to do stuff though. You could also branch out into scenery and bases, though afaik there's a lot more competition in these areas. http://www.fatspider.co.uk/ is a decent example of that kinda stuff, I used a bunch of their cracked earth bases for my Salamanders, no problems with quality.
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Jan 4, 2015 02:47
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Man, gently caress eyes on infantry models. Everyone is blind from now on.
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http://www.spellcrow.com/orcs-c-9_32.html Sh..should have sent a poet... If only I'd known. If only I had known.
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That spellcrow stuff is gorgeous, although it seems like a lot of their stuff is actually modified from base GW stuff? like looking at their orc weapons, I see two things I'm pretty sure I've got in my bitz box, and their plague marine legs have all the same armor pieces with little bits/"plague" on it. Anyhow, thanks everyone! This is all good for me 
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Finished Curze. I had a lot of fun with this one. Very happy with the blue on the armour. Click for big         
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I'm repairing my brother's broken Overlord model (someone thought resin was the idea material for a 2mm wide spearshaft?) and was punished for being lazy. I can't find my soft metal pins so I grabbed a hardened metal sewing needle. After gluing the pin in place and clipping it the arm was propelled across the room. Had I not reorganized my painting station the week before it probably would have been lost forever. Don't use hardened steel needles for pinning resin bits.
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Sigma-X posted:Hey guys, Alternate guns for Guardsmen. not!Space Marine pauldrons and helmets. Melee weapons. SM Jump Packs.
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Marine backpacks. Seriously, there's probably an untapped market for a notmarine backpack that looks convincingly on-model, specially for one of the 30k marks. I think it's literally the only thing you can't buy in notmarine form from somewhere; all the makers either try to omit the idea of a backpack altogether (Scibor), produce something obviously out of place (Anvil) or just don't bother making one. Okay, Spellcrow and Evilcraft get the basic silhouette pretty close with their plague marine packs and ornate Chaos backpacks respectively, but by their nature they're so visually specific that they're useless for Marines generally.
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You might also want to try making bits for things that aren't Marines, Guard or Orks, because outside of those three loving nothing exists
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serious gaylord posted:Finished Curze. I had a lot of fun with this one. Very happy with the blue on the armour. This looks rad, how did you do the blue?
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NTRabbit posted:You might also want to try making bits for things that aren't Marines, Guard or Orks, because outside of those three loving nothing exists To be fair, those are probably easiest to make custom bits for. What are you gonna do with eldar? Bare elf heads? Russians are already in on the whole "making jet bikes" racket.
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JcDent posted:To be fair, those are probably easiest to make custom bits for. What are you gonna do with eldar? Bare elf heads? Russians are already in on the whole "making jet bikes" racket. Alternate gun, alternate minis, alternate weapons, anything. There's a million and one sources for guardsmen heads, Marine weapons, Imperial tank stuff, et al, but in all my time searching the only alternate Eldar stuff I have ever found is the handful of things Chapterhouse makes and those awesome Warp Spiders I linked last year. No other Eldar, no Dark Eldar, Paulson was the only one making Tau guns.
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A lot of Eldar bits probably just aren't worth even trying because they tend to involve very thin parts and if you're casting in resin that poo poo is going to be awful.
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Is handbrushing Vallejo surface primer a good idea? I have a big bottle of it I use for airbrushing but I can't currently use my airbrush because its too cold outside and my indoor area is occupied, and I'd like to get my battlemages done up for a warmachine tournament at the end of the month.
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Sigma-X posted:Also, are there any particular types of bits that you think would be beneficial / would want to see personally? I figure I could make a million loving dollars with some good titmarine torsos. Here's one: Circular extensions that can be placed on the rim of a 25mm base that increases it to a 32mm base.
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NTRabbit posted:Alternate gun, alternate minis, alternate weapons, anything. There's a million and one sources for guardsmen heads, Marine weapons, Imperial tank stuff, et al, but in all my time searching the only alternate Eldar stuff I have ever found is the handful of things Chapterhouse makes and those awesome Warp Spiders I linked last year. No other Eldar, no Dark Eldar, Paulson was the only one making Tau guns. Ah, but you see, you have the entire human history to draw from for inspiration for Guards and Marines to the lesser extent. Eldar gave a somewhat fixed aesthetic, I'd say.
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serious gaylord posted:Finished Curze. I had a lot of fun with this one. Very happy with the blue on the armour. Very cool. What's your method for painting the stone on the ruined archway?
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JcDent posted:Ah, but you see, you have the entire human history to draw from for inspiration for Guards and Marines to the lesser extent. Eldar gave a somewhat fixed aesthetic, I'd say. That's what I like to call a piss poor excuse. There's an aesthetic to work with, there's a fictional history to draw on, it's enough. As it stands there's only so many ways you can reuse the spare bits from the DA exarch sprue, otherwise you need to be a pretty skilled modeler to turn High Elves into usable parts, ie in an Exodite army. NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 13:46 on Jan 5, 2015 |
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Anyone in the US have a recommendation on a good micro drillbit set? The smallest bit I have is still thicker than a paperclip and I need to do some really fine pinning repairs here.
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berzerkmonkey posted:Anyone in the US have a recommendation on a good micro drillbit set? The smallest bit I have is still thicker than a paperclip and I need to do some really fine pinning repairs here. http://www.amazon.com/Dremel-660-Drill-Bits-Pack/dp/B0006O8S0O These are the thinnest I've found.
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mr. stefan posted:Is handbrushing Vallejo surface primer a good idea? I have a big bottle of it I use for airbrushing but I can't currently use my airbrush because its too cold outside and my indoor area is occupied, and I'd like to get my battlemages done up for a warmachine tournament at the end of the month. You may need to thin it down a tad but it brushes on just fine in my experience.
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Slimnoid posted:http://www.amazon.com/Dremel-660-Drill-Bits-Pack/dp/B0006O8S0O Yeah, I want to say 1/32" is the smallest I have, but I know they make them even smaller. I have to replace a banner pole on a 10mm mini and 1/32" is way too big.
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