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Iron Squid posted:I had a little drop of Karnifax Green land on the place I'm doing the yellow. Ugh, its almost impossible to paint over. put spacewolf grey or iylladen darksun over the spot. then yellow over that.
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crosspost of my Bret progress from the other thread. sorry for the glare The whole set  My general up close  Errant on the left with general, KotR on the right with bsb  just finished these M@A  Archers and their lady (and her snail)  Peasant sampler, yeomen in back  one more group shot next: peg knights Aetilus fucked around with this message at 09:42 on Dec 18, 2009 |
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Arkibus posted:These are awesome but how come they are so glossy? matte varnish looks like that when you take quick photos with the flash accidentally on and instead of a light box you put two desk lamps 10 inches above the models with no white/reflective surfaces to soften the glare.
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LewdMonocle posted:Your Bretonnian army makes my dick hard.  Aranan posted:Nooo, get this instead: agree
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Those FA models look so much better than they do on the company's website. the dindrenzi (sp?) escort models still look kind of lovely compared with the cap ships and the rest of the races though.
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PaintVagrant posted:cuz plastic cement sux super glue for life seriously. Pro cement retards: "welp I just bough this expensive model, I guess I will now risk melting off the details and eliminating the possibility of disassembling it to make changes at future date." enlightened super glue (gel) user: "oh no, a piece has fallen off my model without sustaining any damage." applies one drop of glue and fixes it in 10 seconds.
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what is the least shiny brush-on matte varnish available in the states? I use liquitex matte and it is too reflective.
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enri posted:Vallejo do a decent brush on varnish, comes in the same size bottles as their paints. Look under their model color range for it. will do
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enri posted:Only tip I have for it, and this probably applies for any brush on varnish I guess, is just don't slop it on willy nilly yeah too much varnish or too much brushing of that varnish creates discoloration.
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I did that once and had icky white patches in cracks and crevices
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finished my GK horses! also pictured one of my damsels and my lord. Not bad for a lovely cell phone pic taken in a dark room with only one light bulb 8 inches directly above the models!   also: 
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Fix posted:http://www.pearlpaint.com/shop-Cryla-Varnish_8672_8671.html haha the blurb about it takes itself so seriously. "environmental pollutants" but you say it is pretty unnoticeable on the model?
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hell diver, you have such a crisp style. It really stands out against the grim/dark style that is everywhere now without going too far in the other direction.
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Hell Diver posted:I tend to paint my Guard in more muted, realistic tones and dirty their vehicles up more, but Space Marines to me should be bright and vivid looking. They're future knights, heavily-armored and hauling around their heraldry wherever they go. The clean, high-contrast look just clicks for me. we need a smilie of two highfiving KotR
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I do the base first and last because graveyard earth needs two coats 
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Miles O'Brian posted:Dammit, basing is much more annoying when you use white primer. Now I have to slather the paint over the sand instead of just drybrushing the black. redo the base carefully with black gesso. it will wrap around the sand as it shrinks in to give much better coverage for a black undercoat than paint. It also makes the basing material way more durable. Aetilus fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Mar 29, 2010 |
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going to start painting my skaven army soon. what color base rims/sand would look best against browns and yellows? I was thinking about a very dark gray with maybe dheneb stone drybrushing. certainly not going to repeat my brets' graveyard earth rims. 2 coats for coverage is such a waste of time on a base rim and slide tray!
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those are really cool. i like the eye motif on some of the helmets. will you be leaving the designs on the breast plates white? I kind of like the one that is all washed gold better.
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goblin green with bad moon yellow brushed sand! when it comes to HE, go 90s or go home
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the only things that are ruining it for me are the huge ruffled collar and the fact that your blood splatter looks like pink frills. combined with the black/white scheme I am expecting you to put a clown hat on him next.
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^^^ he's pretty heavy if he fell out it would gently caress up the paint job. Ashcans posted:
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really nice. and one step closer to my commission 
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looks like black mixed with more and more codex gray until you get to a codex gray highlight, but i suck so it's probably more complex than that.
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your painting will get a lot better if you use the best brush. order windsor and newton series 7's they aren't that much more than GW's
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is there anything worse than amateur-painted holiday-themed miniatures?
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he used snow flock as clothing. If he wanted my respect he would have sewn a tiny outfit.
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i didn't know that christ's resurrection was part of the maw religion. I should have guessed that candy gluttony would be able to traverse the cultural barrier
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see now, a well painted thanksgiving ogre dressed as miles standish (with pilgrim hat and musket) ripping a man dressed like a turkey apart with his teeth would be awesome. way more awesome that a badly painted ogre that somebody slapped with pva glue and flock and then scratchbuilt the worst looking basket-thing for. VVV trite nonsense: the rabbit's horniness symbolizes the renewed fertility of the earth that begins at the equinox. The similar themes of rebirth allowed the marriage of easter and pagan holidays. the chocolate is just gravy eternal truth: easter ogre sucks for life Aetilus fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Apr 21, 2010 |
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Captain Invictus posted:Are his nipples flocked yep
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No there definitely is something with knarloc where it dries with a very unattractive finish. varnish usually takes care of it, but I almost always hit it with a thinner coat of another green or put a dark wash over it first.
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Ashcans posted:Just so you know, tiny clock parts like that are ridiculously light and thin, and they really don't look right when you mix them with 40k stuff. Seriously, clock gears are often a quarter or a mm or less in thickness, and comparable 40k stuff is like 3mm thick. They look very fragile and kind of out of place. they'll look fine if you use them for basing.
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fix, thanks for the tip about cryla. I tested it on some sprue and it really is the loving best paint on matte I have seen. I have a question though: The bottle seems pretty serious about not ingesting the product - how do you go about applying it without putting the brush in your mouth every once in a while? also if I get too much on the brush is it better to wipe off the excess or can I just put it on a flat part of the model and spread it around like I used to do with the liquitex garbage I was using?
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but bristles must be kept straight!!
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Fix posted:Spread it around. Like icing. Delicious, delicious icing. speaking of which, does anyone else have serious fears that they will be found dead in their chair from glue inhalation with their fingers and a bunch of bitz stuck to their face? i ventilate (open window+fan), but after a 3 hour building session it gets to me. /ham substance abuse chat.
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it seems obvious but the skills you need to reach the friendly plateau of decent tabletop quality painting are (1) neatness and (2) the ability to choose non-terrible colors.
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need a gel super glue recommendation. I really like the control and quick drying of loctite but the bottles are too small and the nozzles fill with dried glue and need to get reamed by a sewing needle every couple uses and it is getting annoying. Are there any Gel super glues that come in large quantity bottles without the clogging issues?
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Manifest posted:I use the zap a cap gel (as well as their liquid) and it kicks rear end. didn't know they had a gel. I will try it. I used to use their original formula years ago but it was practically impossible to control and was strong enough to make gluing your fingers together almost trivial. Thanks!
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take them all apart, scan them, and blow them up before reprinting on card stock.
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Wazzu posted:They made 50 buildings in this book, 35 are still uncompleted so I could just straight scan them. Kind of tempted to do that now. dunno never had to buy them. I had 3 or four copies of each of those buildings when I was in high school because I was the one with the unfinished basement and gaming tables so all my friends brought the ones from the starter set over and left them there to rot when they gave up the hobby. we blew up the scale on the stone towers and used them as the corners of a huge castle. it was pretty cool but we couldn't get it printed on anything strong enough at the time to support putting models on it.
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do you guys wash prior to fixing mistakes in the basecoat or do you fix all the mistakes and then wash? I've been doing the latter, but I have a suspicion that if you do the former the wash will cover up a ton of mistakes and save you time.
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in color theory, what color would have the best contrast with iyanden darksun? red, purple, blue, turquoise, green? I'm stumped.
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