[Painting Miniatures] The War of Art 2: Brushes covered in paint edition

Dr_Keenbean

Orange for me. The white looks like a rapey Gen. Grievous.

Maybe dirty the white into a bone color? Bone/red/black works pretty well though I may be a little biased.

Asher

And just what is wrong with a rapey general grievous may I ask?

I vote white.

Extreaminatus

Damn, it's a dead heat between thems.

Also, I would have gone from white to bone, but the girlfriend has appropriated my bone colors for her Roman Legionaries that she picked up from the hobby store.

edit: And my reds, bright blues and greens.

OminousLozenge

The orange doesn't look bad, but the white scheme works just a little better. It's a lot more imposing and sinister, which makes a good counterpoint to the visual absurdity of the birdwings. Don't get me wrong, I love that model partly because the bird wings are so incongruous, but it benefits from a relatively stark color scheme because of that bit of absurdity.

Dr_Keenbean

Asher wrote: »

And just what is wrong with a rapey general grievous may I ask?

Everything. He was a stupid character dreamt up by an out-of-touch dipshit for his terrible shitty movie. Aso rape tends to not be a good thing either.

Seriously. He gets shot by a Jedi.

Dayspring

Finished my Necron Lord

Asher

Dr_Keenbean wrote: »

Asher wrote: »

And just what is wrong with a rapey general grievous may I ask?

Everything. He was a stupid character dreamt up by an out-of-touch dipshit for his terrible shitty movie. Aso rape tends to not be a good thing either.

Seriously. He gets shot by a Jedi.

Horrible everything is a pretty good place to start with Dark Eldar. But In general yes agreed, the big G was an abomination of a character.
I really do think that the white scheme is much better though. I've seen a couple of White Dark Eldar armies and they can look spectacular.

Also Dayspring, that dude is purdy.
Now do MORE.

Dayspring

Thanks!
I just finished some scarabs. pics tomorrow when the sun reappears

CreganTur

Grey Knight Paladins are finished. Went with a lightning scheme for the energy weapons and sculpted some lava bases to give them some more cool points. This is also one of my first experiments with magentizing weapons- think the heavy weapon guy turned out well.








If anyone cares, they're up for sale
Gotta pay for that Reaper Kickstarter somehow

Accualt

The orange blue pops so hard; I really like it.

mr_mich

@CreganTur those turned out great, and $50 is a very reasonable starting bid for 5 well-painted/magnetized Paladins. I may check your auction out in a couple days, if only to get my Guardsmen some allies and support a fellow PA'er

Echo

Drazhar looks sad without his arms.

Jaysis, I painted him in 1998 or so. I think he's the only decent model of the original Dark Eldar line. The old Incubi are OK apart from their dunce helmets.

Extreaminatus

The old Incubi are what got me into DE.

Because I was young, and could overlook stupid helmets for a time.

But not the awful wyche models. Or the bad stretch-y Archon face. Or any number of the other models in that line.

Dr_Keenbean

Mandrakes.

Assless chaps and leather shirts with the nipples cut out.

Extreaminatus

I know! Those were the best models next to Incubi.

-Loki-

The problem Drazar has now is he has the old Incubi face, so in a bunch of new Incubi he looks out of place. To fix it, he doesn't need a whole head swap, but he needs a face swap, which is kind of hard to do.

Echo

I'd really like to see a new model that matches the new codex art for him.

Sneakyperson

trying to remove paint from tyranid bodies sucks cause of all these small nooks and crannies

drhazard

Has anyone used the GW flamer-style airbrush? I have a legit one that's kind of a pain to clean when I need to use non-airbrush acrylics, so I thought a cheap-o one that I don't feel compelled to clean as often might be useful.

Mr_Rose

None of those cheapo spray guns need less cleaning than a proper one; they just hold larger quantities of paint. It's actually kinda annoying.

PierceNeck

Finally started working on my Legion box.




So far I've only primed these two and blocked out the gray on the big guy.
Hope these turn out well, never painted something this small.

kaorti

I figured that the people here would know a thing or two about assembling models.

I've got one of these: Storm Strider.
The right front leg, the one which doesn't rest on the base, stay securely attached to the body. I tried scoring the contact points before applying super glue, when that didn't work, I tried pinning. I got the pin a little off-center, so it won't fit snugly in the socket, and the leg came off again.

I've got P3 super glue, a pin vice, and grey stuff to work with. What can I do to help keep the leg attached?

Brainleech

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drhazard wrote: »

Has anyone used the GW flamer-style airbrush? I have a legit one that's kind of a pain to clean when I need to use non-airbrush acrylics, so I thought a cheap-o one that I don't feel compelled to clean as often might be useful.

I have it but I have never used it because I cannot find the cans of air nor a cheap pump to use

Asher

Well I've finally painted some models for the first time in about 2 months and I'm pretty happy with them. Naturally I don't have time to take photos at the moment.

OtakuD00D

Guy who commissioned me to do NuCoal stuff has now sent me two Hussars. Here's the first one in all its glory. Working on the blade-miniguns and turret guns last.

Heffling

@kaorti

You've got all the tools you need. If you pinned it a bit off center, use a bigger bit on one side, then fill in the hole with grey stuff. Then push the other piece in with the pin in it and it will displace where the pin should go.

Extreaminatus

Been working on Noise Marine @Nax:

Spoiler:

Just need to clean up a few oopsies and then finish the Doom Siren, and he's done!

Asher

First paintings in over 2 months wooooO!

Still can't tank non blurry photos worth a damn. Anyway here are the test minis (still unfinished) of Raptors.





The blending is a bit rough, but they ARE disposable AoBR marines and I'm pretty happy for maybe 2 hours work on each. As you can see, one of them has had a touch of weathering powder. I'm pretty happy with how it's turned out so far, but I think I'll have a play with different shades and see what happens.

Matrias

Been fitzing with this for a few weeks:



Been trying to hit the right balance of grey/dark fur and finally I got something I'm happy with. I got three more to paint, and then they'll be running with my mounted Iron Priest into battle.

I'm running dangerously low on classic washes, so I really hope to get this rapped up before I do.

Mazzyx

Figure I would throw it here. Did my first painting in almost a year today. Some touch up on a Chaos termi and started my Ghaz. He is pretty much my only bright green ork because I like the contrast with his armor.

Spoiler:

alqadim

Got bored today, had a bones mini my wife won for me in a contest laying around on my desk, so I tested the bones claim that you can primerless paint them. Not too shabby for no primer, I still suck at painting and this "giant worm" is still way to phallic for my comfort but the paint went on easy enough and layered up well. Reaper has a great kickstarter going right now and being a local to them I feel that I should pimp it a little EDIT: Removed link to KS due to new forum rule against that.

TheLawinator

That kickstarter gets more and more amazing every day. It is your one stop shop for fantasy models and like 7 different varieties of dragons.

WAH

How are mold lines on Bones anyways? I think I read somewhere that they're tough to file off because of the material.

TheLawinator

No. They're great and the best and I wuv them so.

Extreaminatus

Meng, that Reaper Kickstarter is sorely tempting me to drop $texas to get a bunch of tiny dudes, 2 big ass dragons and 2 big ass demons.

WAH

TheLawinator wrote: »

No. They're great and the best and I wuv them so.

Oh that's good to know. Now I gotta decide how much I want to spend. Upcoming bonus at 475k is another dragon!

Lord Palington

I want to get into mini painting, and I figure getting all the minis would be a good place to start. Is that starter set of paint a good deal, or should I avoid reaper paint?

kaorti

@Heffing

Thanks for the tip. I've tried it out, and It's holding great so far.

Dr_Keenbean

Lord Palington wrote: »

I want to get into mini painting, and I figure getting all the minis would be a good place to start. Is that starter set of paint a good deal, or should I avoid reaper paint?

Reaper is probably my favorite paint line right now; though their metallics and high pigment paints are not as good as GW's in my opinion.

They lend themselves well to both simple and advanced techniques.

CreganTur

Lord Palington wrote: »

I want to get into mini painting, and I figure getting all the minis would be a good place to start. Is that starter set of paint a good deal, or should I avoid reaper paint?

At home I probably have close to 150 different paints and only one of them is Reaper, but that's just because I can get other brands easier than Reaper.

I did a painting workshop about a year ago and the owner wanted me to only use paints that were available in his store (so he could make money). All he had was Reaper's paints. I agreed, as long as he would give me some time to play with the paints and see how they work. They work just as well as any other miniature paints I've used, and a couple of their colors I like better than other brands.

My favorite part about the Reaper system is their Triad design- they group most of ther colors in sets of 3 so that you know what to use for your base, shadow, and highlight. It makes it a little easier on beginners.

I'm getting the set of brand new paints through the Kickstarter- I'm always looking for new reds to use, and the new vampire skin triad looks pretty cool, plus a new alternate black color is always welcome.

If you ever need painting advice, be sure to check out WAMP.