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 PAINTING MEGATHREAD BOOYAH(56k get out) After the reasonably good success of the Tales thread, I've decided to make a newer, all inclusive thread for the craft of miniature painting and modelling. I felt that the rules of the tales/oath/etc thread were a bit restrictive and keeping a lot of great posters from participating. So, that being said. Here's the "rules" 1. Post with content. Feel free to find badass new miniatures online, nicely painted stuff on CMON, stuff on other forums like warseer (lol), etc. and post them here. POST YOUR MODELS ALL OVER DIS BITCH (crosspost like a mofo from the wh thread, we dont care, we just want pics!) 2. Dont be a babby about critique. If you cant handle it, dont post. That being said, be constructive in your critique of others. 3. No images wider than 1000 pixels. 4. No posts about wargaming rules/etc. at all. Just modelling and painting. 5. At my discretion, I will post finished models (only stuff that you have painted since this thread started) in the OP. I will also post links to painting resources in the OP. PaintVagrant fucked around with this message at 09:29 on Aug 5, 2012 |
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HELP ME IM A TOTAL NOOB WHAT DO I BUY/DO!?stabbington posted:Prepare for PaintVagrant fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Mar 16, 2012 |
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Oct 3, 2009 23:11
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. Helpfully divided into supplies, prep, and painting sections for your convenience.
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So Ill start this off with some poo poo ive painted recently, as well as some miniatures I have boners for: My stuff:    Stuff I have boners for:   
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Oct 3, 2009 23:19
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Post some painting tutorial/etc links up in dis
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Oct 3, 2009 23:27
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This thread is all about teaching you new stuff, so feel free to post your wips and stuff and we will help you  That guys stuff looks nice, If youve already got all the cool mini paintign tools and paitns you need, it might be worth taking a swing at one of his DVDs.
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Oct 3, 2009 23:30
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Post your new rad sculpts duder
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Oct 3, 2009 23:34
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ork landspeeder buggy 
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Oct 4, 2009 00:53
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Arlaharen posted:pureblood warpwolf Its very nice man. If the photo had a bit more light to it we could see some of the shading/highlighting better, but it looks really nice and cleanly delineated. The base is sexy. e: holy poo poo this rules 
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Oct 4, 2009 04:18
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I assume she meant colors, because she had to use white and black in addition to those two colors, right? There seems to be some warm and cool transtions, which implies more than just 2 total paints...
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Oct 4, 2009 05:58
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Big Willy Style posted:I have heard of those hard core european painters doing it, but it is a bit extreme otherwise. I use my old s7 brushes for metallics, and my new ones for non-metallics. Metallics are very harsh on brushes :\
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Oct 4, 2009 16:58
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Yeah, the imagespam will slow down after another page or so. Also, if you want to track progress, POST YOUR NEW BA'S 
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Oct 4, 2009 19:32
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crime fighting hog posted:PV you gonna tell me how you did the grey for those plague marines/death guard? nope 
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Oct 4, 2009 19:32
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Just to elaborate, the client paid quite a bit for this army and Im not giving the recipes because its a - hard to replicate because it uses a lot of funky glazing technique b - I dont want any copycats of them out there But anything else I paint Ill hand out recipes/help, just not these.
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Oct 4, 2009 20:34
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Fast_Food_Knight posted:recipe us up your ahriman, I remember it being poo poo hot and I have a hard on for chaos still What colors are you interested in? Im not going to try to remember every single color, but if there is a certain part or something that you would like to repeat Ill try to figure out what I did
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Oct 4, 2009 22:48
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Fast_Food_Knight posted:The whitish blue on his robes was great, and any tips for blending too?  what whitish blue? The robes was probably a bleach bone or equivalent, plus thinned shades of snakebite leather built up in the recesses. White mix for highlights. If you could post a model that youre having trouble w blending, I could tell give you some advice 
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Oct 5, 2009 00:25
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It looks like the armor is more cool, and the pants are maybe a warmer grey. He definitely went to a sharper, lighter highlight on the armor. Aranan: paint up a test model!
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Oct 5, 2009 00:59
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Fast_Food_Knight posted:so er, PV, why was i remembering blue? gently caress knows! but thanks Generally both. What I would suggest is mastering layering and how that works before you worry about blending the layers together
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Oct 5, 2009 21:33
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Amicable, those conversions/painting are really unique and sweet. I love that orangey duder on the rock e: im adding that CMON guide to the OP, please post any links you have for good tutorials, stores to get supplies cheap, etc. PaintVagrant fucked around with this message at 21:47 on Oct 5, 2009 |
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Oct 5, 2009 21:36
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Aranan posted:http://www.coolminiornot.com/store/product.php?xProd=2331&xSec=48&jssCart=61a7e0e4ecc2790736541a439b6ada26 link removed from OP, Id probably edit your post invictus
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Oct 6, 2009 00:35
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KingMob posted:Well lookie what was waiting on my front steps. Oh poo poo son.
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Oct 6, 2009 01:20
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MasterSlowPoke posted:Your image doesn't work. They work for me. I like em, Id say work the colors a bit lighter via some sort of highlighting. Even if you just did it to the base surface they would pop more
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Oct 6, 2009 05:09
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The colors on the horse in the pic are very warm, and the colors you chose for the model are very cool. Instead of highlighting the black using blue, try a warm brown (snakebite?) and for the white areas, start with a warm white, like skull white w a little snakebite/iyanden/etc in it
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Oct 6, 2009 16:53
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This might be the most useful thing Ive found on the internet:IT COMPARES/SWATCHES/ETC EVERY MINI PAINT LINE http://colors.silicon-dragons.com/full_line.php
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Oct 6, 2009 17:11
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Added to OP 
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Oct 6, 2009 17:37
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Illandriel posted:Well, someone made off with my DSLR camera last night from my car. So no Picture updates from me for a while. drat :\
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Oct 6, 2009 20:10
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Pagan posted:I've had that happen too. Do you have renter's or homeowner's insurance? They should cover it. I dont think I have pics of anything Ive used the technique on. I would experiment with various warm colors you own until you get something that works. You might not want to start w pure black, instead start with a black youve already warmed up a bit
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Oct 6, 2009 20:44
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I still have yet to see an entire army of truescale marines, the cost is so prohibitive and its SO much work... But drat.
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Oct 7, 2009 03:26
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I think youd pretty much have to cast your own poo poo to make that really feasible
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Oct 7, 2009 21:47
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So Ive decided that I want a more pronounced "style" to some of my minis. I feel like Im good enough now to be a little more bold with how I paint. Im not sure if any of you gents look at dark age minis, but their painters have a really unique, chromatic style that Im thinking about "stealing" some things from:    
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Oct 8, 2009 01:30
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rzal posted:I just started painting again. Forgive me for breaking into your warhams discussion. One night while checking out CMOT I saw that spyglass was being shut down and snatched up some of my favorite sculpts even though I didn't have any paints or what have you. Later he would reopen as a 54mm only and resale this mini cast in resin, but whatever. Solid. You seem to really have the base/highlight/shade/lining thing down, which is 90% of miniature painting. What I would suggest is try to get your paint to lay smoother. Getting "real" miniatures paint will help, as will practice with thinning and keeping your paint consistency correct Welcome to the thread. Also, its not for warhamming, we make no distinction between games or whatever, this is just for miniature painting as a whole
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Oct 8, 2009 01:32
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deathguard wip: My cygnar defender, my whole army will be really weathered/repaired. I want them to look like they have been out in the field a LOOONG time. I reposed the arm w/new piston, converted the gun so its not so chunky and more like the concept art:   
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Oct 8, 2009 20:26
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Aranan posted:Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I could go about making bases like these on my own? Buy the plasticard sheet with brick imprint, cut it into circles and stick it to your bases
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Oct 9, 2009 06:58
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Pagan posted:blend/nmm stuff 2 things right off the top that I can see are an issue: 1) youre final edge highlights are wayyyyy too thick and long, they need to be much more thinly applied 2)youre jumping too quickly up to pure white (which should almost never be used) Your final highlight should be a good deal lighter than your last blend, but youre going to white to fast Those damned horse armor panels are wicked hard to get the line highlight on, because of their shape
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Oct 10, 2009 15:02
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Well, I would say get better brushes, but Im not sure what youre using. When its a raised lip like that, I usually run the side of the tip of the brush down the edge of it. Try to keep the line as thin as possible e: also, when I say thinly applied, I dont mean thin the paint with water, I mean the actual line needs to be thinner in width, just to clarify
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Oct 10, 2009 15:44
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Just set blending aside for the moment. I see lots of painters that try to blend too much without having the fundamentals in place first. The biggest issue with layered highlights is the value (lightness and darkness) "jump" between layers. Its the hardest thing to figure out, but the most rewarding thing when you do. If you jump too far in value between layers, they are very noticeable, if you dont go up in value enough, they barely differentiate.
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Oct 10, 2009 15:48
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Also, youre trying to blend/layer with some of the hardest colors to blend with: enchanted/ice/skull white. None of those pigments are transparent at all, so you dont get any of the natural blend with your layers that you do with other colors. They also photograph like poo poo, so the layers pop out even more. Try your layering with some other colors in addition to trying new techniques
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Oct 10, 2009 15:50
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I bet crackle on top of gloss, as MSP suggested, would work well. When I was in art school I did a bunch of paintings that I would seal with watered down PVA, then apply gloss acrylic varnish on top of that. The gloss would crack and it would look rad
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Oct 10, 2009 20:18
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I dunno man, Id just try poo poo until something works, Ive never used an effect like that on models :\
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Not at all, your problems are the same problems plenty of painters here have/had. I would say if your egetting that "bubble" the paint is TOO thin. However, I think another thing may be at work here, which is that you might have way too much paint on the brush. I always dip, then spin the brush gently against my palette to take almost all of the paint off. With very thin paint, this is especially key. You can use really watery paint, but it has to be applied in super thin (in terms of amount of paint applied) layers
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