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The Art of War: Recognize your enemy, paint your target, thin his life span

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  • leafleaf Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Instead here's something that ain't mine, but it's cool.

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  • SlapnutsSlapnuts Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Dullcote will seal models, right?

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  • Anon the FelonAnon the Felon In bat country.Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I just used it on that mace dude I posted earlier (the barbarian). It worked just fine. It's recommended you use a normal sealer then dullcote over it, but you don't have to as long as you're not to rough on your models. It won't prevent chipping if you're rubbing models up against each other. But for all intents and purposes it will be fine.

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  • PierceNeckPierceNeck Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    The proper way to seal your models is to encase them in carbonite.

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  • rucdocrucdoc Crazy guy in the corner ClassifiedRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I thought the proper way to seal your models was to in case them in bricks of acrylic then firing them into space so that no one can get finger prints on the acrylic

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  • Gabriel_PittGabriel_Pitt Stepped in it Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Gods no. Do you know how brittle acrylic gets at interstellar temperatures?

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  • psycojesterpsycojester Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Slapnuts wrote: »
    Dullcote will seal models, right?

    Go with a coat of a gloss varnish first and then dullcote over the top, dullcote doesn't protect as well as a gloss and it'll dull metallics.

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  • SlapnutsSlapnuts Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Will Testors spray varnish be ok?

    This is already more complicated than I wanted it to be. I just want my metal models to stop chipping, dammit.

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  • psycojesterpsycojester Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Yeah, give it a coat of the spray varnish and then spray the dullcote over the top of that when it dries. The varnish protects the minis and doesn't dull the metals, the dullcote takes the shine off the gloss varnish.

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  • NiklasNiklas SwedenRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Was hoping to make it into this thread before it closes! (and maybe into the OP in the next thread :) ) Here are my five devastator "wounds" again, now painted and based:

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    And with the rest of the squad:

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  • SJSJ College. Forever.Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    2nd company represent. And clean up those mold lines and sprue scars! Other than that your stuff looks spectacular, well painted Ultramarines are always a treat.

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  • NiklasNiklas SwedenRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Thanks SJ. I should really work on those mold lines, and I will.

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  • SJSJ College. Forever.Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Honesty the sprue scars (like that dude on the right, on his shoulde pad trim) are more jarring than the mold lines. I can see sprue scars from across the room, they haunt me in my dreams!

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  • MorskittarMorskittar Lord Warlock Engineer SeattleRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I'm going to build and paint some model with zero cleaning sometime. Maybe from the mid-90s. Just to see what happens to you, SJ. :D

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  • Gabriel_PittGabriel_Pitt Stepped in it Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    If there was ever an appropriate time to post that 'Scanners' gif, this would be it.

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  • SJSJ College. Forever.Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Morskittar wrote: »
    I'm going to build and paint some model with zero cleaning sometime. Maybe from the mid-90s. Just to see what happens to you, SJ. :D

    it's not like they'd be any uglier, morsk ;-)

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  • RaslinRaslin Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    But niklas, you already have something in the next OP ;)

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  • MorskittarMorskittar Lord Warlock Engineer SeattleRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    SJ wrote: »
    Morskittar wrote: »
    I'm going to build and paint some model with zero cleaning sometime. Maybe from the mid-90s. Just to see what happens to you, SJ. :D

    it's not like they'd be any uglier, morsk ;-)

    Oh that's it. It's on. I'm going to leave so many mould lines on that's all you can see. Mould lines with mould lines on them. You'll see mould lines on people walking down the street. You'll taste the mould lines in your soup. Hear them whispering in your dreams.

    (Actually I have enough to paint anyway so I probably won't do this. But I could!)

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  • RaslinRaslin Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    New thread time? Yeah, its new thread time.

    http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?p=19179402

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  • CaenemCaenem Sarasota, FLRegistered User regular
    edited July 2011
    Damn can't delete in this format. Blah

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  • OtakuD00DOtakuD00D Can I hit the exploding rocks? San DiegoRegistered User regular
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    PAINTING LITTLE METAL MANS AW YEAH
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    Now to move on to shading and highlighting his cape, among other little details I need to do.

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