Miniature Painting

Hateyou · Aug 1, 2019

Yeah man. You start seeing all these cool things people do and you want to try it, distracting from main projects, and your WIP just grows and grows. At least mine does, I don’t have a ton of time for it. Nice progress you’re making.

Anyways Turbodork has an additional 15% off everything during Gencon, so til Sunday. I have a couple metallic colors, will probably pick up a couple more and a color shift or two. Their paints are fucking awesome, and they are on a new formula now for slightly better consistency out of the bottle. The discount will show up in your cart automatically.

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Phanton · Aug 3, 2019

That wash nailed it

Dashel nice work.

Hateyou good lookin on the sale tip, glad I procrastinated! Picking up 6 bottles. I'm considering redoing my Remorhaz with them.

bigmark268 · Aug 3, 2019

Those turbo dork colors are really cool lookin. But omg those names for them are dumb lol

Dashel · Aug 3, 2019

My current to do list.. before it gets any bigger: One Reaper Bones Dwarf I've been meaning to paint, mostly for more practice. Two Hero Forge Mini's I want to do. Finally, I bought a Warhammer 40k Space Marines Intercessors starter kit. Came with 3 guys, 6 paints and a brush! Brush is crappy but I'm still glad to get it. I've never done the Games Workshop deal where you cut them off the sprues and put them together. Looks simple enough in this case. Gotta find some clippers. Or I guess I could use an exacto knife.

Hateyou · Aug 3, 2019

Dashel said:
My current to do list.. before it gets any bigger: One Reaper Bones Dwarf I've been meaning to paint, mostly for more practice. Two Hero Forge Mini's I want to do. Finally, I bought a Warhammer 40k Space Marines Intercessors starter kit. Came with 3 guys, 6 paints and a brush! Brush is crappy but I'm still glad to get it. I've never done the Games Workshop deal where you cut them off the screws and put them together. Looks simple enough in this case. Gotta find some clippers. Or I guess I could use an exacto knife.

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Snip them off the sprue with snips, then clean it up with the exacto knife. Scrape backwards with the blade to smooth it down. Trying to cut through sprues with an exacto knife will end in a disaster of gouged plastic and bloody hands.

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Hateyou · Aug 3, 2019

Another Edge mini finished.

Gankak · Aug 3, 2019

Flexible sanding sticks can help clean up flash, the excess plastic that is left on the models after molding, in places your knife can't reach.

Dashel · Aug 5, 2019

I definitely dig that Buffalo! And the Base! I really need to do a decent base soon. I just slap them on a round black disc and done.

Dashel · Aug 6, 2019

Ok so here is Mini number 8! Fulumbar the Dwarven Warrior. I will probably add some highlights to his beard... and was contemplating dry brush the black fur, but not sure if that would look good? White or silver dry brush maybe?

I'm pretty happy with him so far! He's actually got white eyes with a black iris/pupil. I even did red eyebrows.

Anyway here he is:

Hateyou · Aug 6, 2019

Try highlighting the fur with Incubi darkness, or some another dark blue like that. If you want further highlights then go with a lighter blue/grey. It gives it some depth that looks like black actually looks. Look closely at my buffalos nose and her mask. Those were black/incubi darkness/the fang paint layers then drakkenhoff nightshade wash. Even when you’re putting the fang (light blue/grey) on you’re like fuck this looks bright on black. The shade brings it all back down though.

Her boots are the same but it isn’t coming through in the picture.

White is too much contrast, it will look really splotchy.

bigmark268 · Aug 6, 2019

So do any of you guys use the reaper paints? I see their big 100+ bottle sets for like 200is on ebay.

Hateyou · Aug 6, 2019

bigmark268 said:
So do any of you guys use the reaper paints? I see their big 100+ bottle sets for like 200is on ebay.

Yep, they are good paints. I use citadel, Vallejo, reaper, army painter, green stuff world, turbodork.

I tried scale 75 but the consistency is fucking weird. I haven’t been able to use them successfully.

Qhue · Aug 6, 2019

Do those handle-things really help? I've considered getting one but I've been on the fence about it.

Gankak · Aug 6, 2019

Qhue said:
Do those handle-things really help? I've considered getting one but I've been on the fence about it.

That specific one? Doesn't matter. Does having a painting handle of some variety help? Tremendously. There are many ways to go about getting one depending on your budget and what you are willing to spend.

Hateyou · Aug 6, 2019

Qhue said:
Do those handle-things really help? I've considered getting one but I've been on the fence about it.

Attaching the mini to something helps yes. I prefer Hobby Holder because you can have a bunch of minis attached to caps and switch them out really fast, helps with batch painting. It also has a below hand attachment like the citadel one, but also an upward handle that rotated around. If found that to be very useful for detail work because you can hold it a lot of different ways and brace it so it’s not shaking. It’s just really versatile.

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Before I got that I just used to stick my minis to the tops of old prescription bottles. It work but I was constantly knocking them over since they’re top heavy and tall. I eventually moved to caps from scotch guard bottles. They have an inner rim that fits perfectly onto water bottle caps, so I could paint them, then stick it on top of a bottle for something to hold when I spray seal them. I don’t use them when painting anymore but I still have them next to my spray booth and use them for sealing still.

There’s other stuff people use too like wine corks. There are holders made specifically to hold wine corks for that purpose.

bigmark268 · Aug 7, 2019

Ty for the input folks. I wound up picking up the reaper master series core set #1 on ebay for a smooth $179

Dashel · Aug 7, 2019

Nice! I really like the Reaper paints. Reaper and Vallejo for paints, Citadel for washes. Although I have not tried Citadel paints just yet so we will see. Also those contrast paints from Citadel look cool.

I did the dry brush on my Dwarf and hit him with some highlights on his beard. I'm happy with him! Probably should have done more blue on him, but I'm gonna call it done for now.

And here is my collection. Including the one my daughter did, and the couple I got that were already painted on the bottom. I've painted all 8 on the top 2 shelves.

Hateyou · Aug 7, 2019

Nice, glad the cloak turned out. Looks good.

You can also experiment doing that same technic but washing with Agrax earthshade, or other brown wash instead of blue. Similar effect in the end but it’s a warmer look because the wash brings out the browns in the colors rather than the cooler blues.

Dashel · Aug 10, 2019

Space Marine! Work in Progress, this is the base coat. Love this blue.

ZyyzYzzy · Aug 11, 2019

Best thread on the forums. All amazing work

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