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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 19:55:31 No.43358912 View Reply Report Delete

Starting a thread for you guys

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Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 18:16:22 No.43376782 Report Delete

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>>43374493
DO NOT GET DISCOURAGED BY OTHER'S WORK

That is *inspiration*.

Practice makes perfect. Take your time. You can't become good over night or by not trying.

Just so you are clear on what I am saying, when I am saying base yellow with brown I mean paint the area brown first and build up thinned layers of yellow over that until you have the yellow you want. Same with grey-red, etc. But either way, you are likely going to be doing more than one coat of any given colour.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 18:18:09 No.43376812 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43376871 >>43376877 >>43376887 >>43378573

Do you guys not build your plastic completely before painting?

Have I been doing it wrong all these years?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 18:20:54 No.43376871 Report Delete

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>>43376812
It varies, some people like to paint parts individually because they're hard as fuck to reach on the final model.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 18:21:23 No.43376877 Report Delete

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>>43376812
You do what works best for you. And sometimes you can build completely, sometimes it's better to do it in pieces. Use your judgement and do what works best for you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 18:21:52 No.43376887 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43376950 >>43377043 >>43377102

>>43376812
Sometimes painting in sub-assemblies is easier, sometimes complete models are easier.
Both are valid choices.

>>43376679
hmm, looks almost like my Soul Drinkers, unfortunately don't have many pictures of those.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 18:25:04 No.43376950 Report Delete

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>>43376887

I just save random pictures >>43376446
of paints I like, if
you posted it before it is entirely possible.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 18:26:18 No.43376977 Report Delete

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>>43370441
DANK, what's your airbrush setup?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 18:29:15 No.43377043 Report Delete

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>>43376887
>>43376877
You see I slip p all the time with super glue so I prefer to build first. I know id fuck the primer painting first.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 18:30:45 No.43377082 Report Delete

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>>43376446

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 18:31:33 No.43377102 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43377432 >>43377828

>>43376887

I am the new Dark Angel player and just read up about the Soul Drinkers on wiki. Their color scheme is exactly what I had in mind for my bike army.

Do you remember what paints you used for yours? Any pics at all?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 18:49:24 No.43377432 Report Delete

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>>43377102
It was a while ago, I'll see if I can remember.
I didn't use a particularly complex colour scheme, I wanted to keep it reasonably simple.

The bone colour is old GW Bleached Bone (its current replacement will do just fine).
The purple was P3 Beaten Purple, mixing in a little bit of bleached bone for the highlights.

Nothing too special, but looked pretty nice.
I'll see if I can shoot a quick picture or two of the models I still have.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 18:54:14 No.43377542 Report Delete

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>>43377043
Then, get a super glue that has a brush. I just got one after like 20 years... and it's infinitely better.

Also, look into pinning. It's much easier than it seems and makes your models significantly stronger.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 18:58:09 No.43377626 Report Delete

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>>43374642
well done, I can tell you got the fur color right because the one in front of your cat is well camoflaged

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 19:06:01 No.43377751 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43377884

How do you guys base your minis? In a batch or one at time? I've been doing them one at a time, piece by piece, and it's so slow. However, if I did it as a batch, how would I get all those nooks and crannies evenly?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 19:10:37 No.43377828 Report Delete

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>>43377102
And a few more. Sorry for the quality, I had to dig these guys out and dust them off.
They're like 5-10 years old and I haven't touched them in quite some time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 19:13:42 No.43377884 Report Delete

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>>43377751
I put the sand down before priming, paint everything in one go and add the flock and any other effects after varnishing.
Easy and fast, though I don't know how you do your bases.
If you got trouble painting the sand (that's what you mean with crannies right? Don't wanna go full Vader here, but that can be a paint) use something to break the surface tension. A little detergent in your paint can make it flow easily into the cracks or mix some ink in it and dilute heavily.
I also got some black sand from ikea that I've tried using. It's a neat way to avoid trouble like that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 19:25:42 No.43378070 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43378133 >>43378142

I wonder if anybody makes pigmentless paint-on primer. Mix that with a pigment of your choice and paint it on for a combination primer layer and basecoat...

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 19:30:06 No.43378133 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43378343

>>43378070
well.... Alclad sort of does. Their "honey primer" is a clear, however it's a solvent based paint. Doesn't mix with acrylics at all.

And looking around a little bit... it seems Vallejo makes a clear primer too these days.
"62068 Clear Base" is from their RC paints range, and it's a colourless acrylic primer.
So in theory you could mix that with paints to get a primer-coat in any colour you like.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 19:30:57 No.43378142 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43378343

>>43378070
If you gotta mix the pigment in separately you can just prime regularly and put the pigment in acrylic medium to make your paint.
Don't really see any practical applications for that unless you want the layer underneath to show through.

That said I never saw paint on primer like that, but I've seen transparent primer in rattlecans.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 19:42:47 No.43378343 Report Delete

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>>43378133
Interesting, I'll have to look into that. Thanks.

>>43378142
After some bad experiences with spray primers I mostly just paint it on. The idea came to me thinking of doing a primer layer and a basecoat at the same time, just like if I'd used a color primer but without paying $15 a can for a single color I'll use a dozen times at best.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 19:43:12 No.43378356 Report Delete

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>>43376679
>emperor's pointy sticks

kekimus maximus

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 19:43:17 No.43378357 Report Delete

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>>43369020

Kill markings, death markings, names/belongings of fallenn brethren on the hull

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 19:46:34 No.43378413 Report Delete

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>>43370441

I feel that a stronger contrast would look more spooky though. Speed is good but they are so flat compared to the base

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 19:50:14 No.43378467 Report Delete

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>>43374642

Jetbike eldar anon?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 19:53:57 No.43378532 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43378575 >>43378598 >>43378622

how do people prime their minis in groups? i do them one at a time because it's the only way i can get good coverage and get all the little nooks. but its also really slow. what's a good technique to group priming?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 19:56:28 No.43378573 Report Delete

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>>43376812

Assembled minis are suffering, blue tack or pinning to cork is so damn comfy

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 19:56:34 No.43378575 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43378814

>>43378532
See >>43372628

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 19:56:45 No.43378579 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43378619

Do you find your backlog motivating or demotivating to finishing your work?

I was trying to go with "finish-and-get-rewarded" way, but I quickly started buying more and more stuff form auctions and communities. Now I can't stand looking all of those boxes and piles of grey stuff.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 19:58:21 No.43378598 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43378635

>>43378532

For single models brush on is infinitely faster

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 19:59:35 No.43378619 Report Delete

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>>43378579

Hoarding IS the hobby, everything else is just an excuse to buy more toy soldiers

Once you accept this you will be much happier

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 19:59:57 No.43378622 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43378814

>>43372628
^^^In this comment here I describe how you do that and replied with a picture.

When on the strip, you can rotate them every which way in order to get at all the nooks and crannies. Just remember that closer isn't really better. Sweeping short 1 or 2 second sprays. Hit it again if you have to, but don't go so close or sit still so as to cause the sprayed paint to pool up.
>>43378532

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 20:00:59 No.43378635 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43378687

>>43378598
If I can say with certainty that there is one comment in this thread that is categorically false, it is this one.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 20:04:07 No.43378687 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43378703 >>43378960 >>43379042

>>43378635

Right, because somehow shaking a spraycan for minutes, setting up a spraybooth/going outside/whatever you do is faster than

>put primer on palette
>brush it on the model

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 20:05:33 No.43378703 Report Delete

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>>43378687
Nice reductio ad autism, m8.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 20:12:29 No.43378814 Report Delete

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>>43378575
>>43378622
right on. thanks you guys!

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 20:21:12 No.43378960 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43379042 >>43379122

>>43378687

Yeah it is, because the actual spraying takes seconds while the brushing of primer takes much longer.

>shake for 5 minutes
>go outside, taking 1 minute because you're a fat fuck in the basement
>spray for 5 minutes

It's going to take you more than 10 minutes to base a large amount of miniatures by brush, EVEN if you just carelessly slop it on.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 20:25:38 No.43379042 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43379140

>>43378960
>>43378687
>shaking for several minutes
Holy shit just buy not-crap spray primer, jesus.

>shaking: 20 seconds
>spraying a single miniature: 15 seconds
>literally done

You guys need to stop sperging out with primer or stop buying it at walmart.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 20:30:09 No.43379122 Report Delete

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>>43378960

What the fuck are you even talking about, the question was about priming a single model. Grabbing a size 6+ brush and brushing in primer takes about 15 seconds for full coverage.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 20:31:18 No.43379140 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43379170

>>43379042

Some people like to avoid brain damage from inhaling gasses in a confined space though

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 20:32:46 No.43379170 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43379231

>>43379140
I thought it was assumed you should buy a mask for spray paint? I mean it's common sense.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 20:36:10 No.43379231 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43379287

>>43379170

You average mask does jack shit against gasses, it just stops you from inhaling paint. Enjoy having a fried frontal lobe at age 40.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 20:36:47 No.43379240 Report Delete

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its almost there

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 20:37:00 No.43379244 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43379289

>>43358912
hey /tg/ anon starting out here, I sprayed two of my cadians with black primer and for some odd reason it's created a black shell around them and I'm sure enough that they've melded with the plastic aswell, can anyone explain to me what the issue might be?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 20:39:38 No.43379287 Report Delete

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>>43379231
>it just stops you from inhaling paint
So mission acomplished? Uh.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 20:39:48 No.43379289 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43379317

>>43379244
sprayed too close?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 20:41:25 No.43379309 Report Delete

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>>43374911
>>43372773
>the autocannon-looking thing
its as big as the wagon's cannon

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 20:41:53 No.43379317 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43379335

>>43379289
Fuck you can do that?
Any idea how I can remove it safely?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 20:42:28 No.43379324 Report Delete

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>>43376172
>>43376149
inspired by the headless horseman?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 20:43:07 No.43379335 Report Delete

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>>43379317
Sorry, I haven't used spray since it turned my Fire Warriors into fluffy sheep.

Hungry Skellington !!5gXhASFEkb8

Hungry Skellington !!5gXhASFEkb8 Fri 30 Oct 2015 20:46:06 No.43379381 Report Delete

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>>43365701
Prime black, dry brush steel, then yellow, black, gold, and details. Then wash liberally in Nuln Oil.

> That's just my recipe though.

IRON WITHIN

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