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Painting Miniatures for Fun and Profit
Wheezer
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Miniature Painting
This thread is here to house your work on miniatures, seek painting tips and advice, hopefully include some tutorials and in general talk about figure painting.
This thread is mod approved, and is open to any miniatures. The Critical Failures board has a thread on Warhammer (and 40k) but they move very quickly and aren't very focused. While I paint gaming miniatures and mostly from Games Workshop, this thread isn't limited to those.
If you have suggestions or additions to the OP I'll be glad to add them.
Equipment
When I begun I happily bought GW paints, brushes and anything else they had available. Since then their selection has grown, but many of the products are available cheaper elsewhere. Their brushes aren't natural hair (not that cheap either) and their finger drills have nothing extra compared to a hardware store drill except the logo. They make okay paint which is widely available, but there are others too, like Vallejo, which at least here in Finland offers a superior quality for less in acrylic paints. I do like the GW washes and inks though.
Vallejo, but no online shop.
Games Workshop (with regional online shops available)
Miniatures
GW isn't the only miniature maker on the planet, but this took me a long while to figure out. Actually, some fantasy games contain a huge number of miniatures well suited for D&D (Descent, from Fantasy Flight Games comes to mind.) They aren't always as detailed, and the prices vary. Oh, GW miniatures are sold online for less than full retail price, which is nice.
Dark Sphere, which beats local game shop prices (at least for me)
Reaper Miniatures
General links:
CoolMiniOrNot Article section - a large collection of stuff
Space Marine paint tool (by Bolter and Chainsaw)
Photography links:
A homemade light box (with a little lighting advice)
Photos with posterboard, a tripod and photoshop
GIMP, free photo editing
Using GIMP
This thread is here to house your work on miniatures, seek painting tips and advice, hopefully include some tutorials and in general talk about figure painting.
This thread is mod approved, and is open to any miniatures. The Critical Failures board has a thread on Warhammer (and 40k) but they move very quickly and aren't very focused. While I paint gaming miniatures and mostly from Games Workshop, this thread isn't limited to those.
If you have suggestions or additions to the OP I'll be glad to add them.
Equipment
When I begun I happily bought GW paints, brushes and anything else they had available. Since then their selection has grown, but many of the products are available cheaper elsewhere. Their brushes aren't natural hair (not that cheap either) and their finger drills have nothing extra compared to a hardware store drill except the logo. They make okay paint which is widely available, but there are others too, like Vallejo, which at least here in Finland offers a superior quality for less in acrylic paints. I do like the GW washes and inks though.
Vallejo, but no online shop.
Games Workshop (with regional online shops available)
Miniatures
GW isn't the only miniature maker on the planet, but this took me a long while to figure out. Actually, some fantasy games contain a huge number of miniatures well suited for D&D (Descent, from Fantasy Flight Games comes to mind.) They aren't always as detailed, and the prices vary. Oh, GW miniatures are sold online for less than full retail price, which is nice.
Dark Sphere, which beats local game shop prices (at least for me)
Reaper Miniatures
General links:
CoolMiniOrNot Article section - a large collection of stuff
Space Marine paint tool (by Bolter and Chainsaw)
Photography links:
A homemade light box (with a little lighting advice)
Photos with posterboard, a tripod and photoshop
GIMP, free photo editing
Using GIMP
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I would appreciate comments, critique and advice. I'll spoiler the pictures since they're pretty big. That, and obviously my camera settings and Photoshop work require some practice. These are my most recent work.
Tyranid Warrior
A second Warrior with a bigger gun
Genestealers, a pair of
By 'these types' I mean those that encourage community involvement and discussion rather than just one guy endlessly ejaculating his work into a thread and everyone else handing out asspats.
Maybe this thread will get me off my ass and start the paint-train again.
I'm diggin the 'nids, but photos are always such a shitty way to judge a paintjob. Some angles it looks like you could use some more contrast with shadows, but others it looks fine. Not sold on the colour scheme, but I find most 'nids to be too neon. I'm partial to darker, more subdued tones.
well since you're not worried about getting pregnant, how bout we uhhh :winky:
also did you ever do any more on that barn painting? Tell me about it in the chat thread so we don't get in trouble.
Are minatures only Warhammer/D&D type ones, or can we post model kit paints? e.g. Gundam Wing and Initial D model kits?
I wonder if I can find some of my terrible terrible old miniatures to post on here.
In kindergarten?
all i can think is "here is an alien holdin' out his big alien dick"
I've been trying to improve my metallic painting, and looking through the internet I found a nice technique. What I did was, after painting a base mix of metallic paint and black (about 3:1) I gave the mini a series of washes and glaces instead of drybrushing or just straight up highlighting the metal. It looks nice, the dark metal tone gets much more interesting after a blue and a green glace. You can then add another dark wash to the edges and recesses and finally do a little highlighting.
I'll try and post pictures of my marines I'm doing like that too.
Photography should have improved a little too, with different camera settings.
Space Marine tacticals
More Genestealers
I must say, though, I'm not a fan of a minifig if it's basically just drybrushed. I am obsessed with painting the eyes as well as I can. Case in point:
while I haven't finished that one, this fig is probably my best ever:
a great, though embarrassingly easy technique for tyranids and other flesh/bone creatures is 'dipping.' Basically, you paint a figure in lighter-than-normal colors, dip it in wood stain finish, flick the figure so the extra finish comes off, then leave to dry. An example:
I'm digging the metalic marines too. Aside from grey knights, I really don't see many.
My two most recent pieces, a Hive Tyrant and a Zoanthrope:
Tyrant
'Thrope
I kept painting these in the same theme of course, but I gave the Tyrant all the extra attention the little units didn't get. It's more detailed and I've been more careful with painting it in general.
They recently came out with the 5th edition. GW did away with the Aliens head plates and gave everything a hunched more massive look with smokestacks coming out the backs. The incrementally improved new models are okay I guess, but the completely new models look really nice. I wish I had some of those to paint, but it's a little hard to justify the cost when I have older stuff to paint too. They ask about 45e for the big models here.
Anyway, it's a fun hobby when I know I'm improving. For example, just working with the paints and understanding how different layer thickness affects the outlook is nice.
*obligatory nerd facepalm*
I just calls it as i sees it :P
Sorry to offend you McGibs, perhaps you can be my mentor of all things nerdular.