So after a few years off, painting is definitely not like riding a bike. Half of my paints dried up, I only have one brush, but damn it I'm tired of proxying infinity models so I've started on some (WIP) Ariadna:
I'm getting my sea legs back with brush control, flow control, etc. At some point I'm going to have to grow up from this drybrushing nonsense because a) I think there's too much gray and I don't know what accent colors to use to break it up on these models and b) it doesn't look nearly as clean as some of the other Infinity models here. I'm sort of struggling with these not being squat, fat little guardsmen with a handful of doodads and hard surfaces...the Ariadna guys are all like real armor/models.
Also have no idea how to do leather, apparently. What's a good trio for base/wash/highlight? I'm doing XV88, tried different washes, and then highlight back up but...eh.
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TIFunkaliciousKicking back inNebraskaRegistered Userregular
I used rhinox hide, xv88, and agrax earthshade for a few dark leather coats and really liked how they turned out.
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Halos Nach TariffCan you blame me?I'm too famous.Registered Userregular
I like to do tau light ochre, then two washes of earthshade, steel legion drab on raised areas and then a thin highlight plus little chips and streaks on 'worn' patches with ushabti bone for a scruffy and well-used leather look.
It's Averland Sunset with Yriel Yellow highlights. It looked a bit too desaturated so I ran some Casandora Yellow through the airbrush and did an all-over glaze.
After that I lightly sprayed some burnt umber into the recesses and on the rivets and panel lines.
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It's Averland Sunset with Yriel Yellow highlights. It looked a bit too desaturated so I ran some Casandora Yellow through the airbrush and did an all-over glaze.
After that I lightly sprayed some burnt umber into the recesses and on the rivets and panel lines.
Did you paint on the chips, or hairspray/effects fluid method it?
Kup really does look like a cranky old guy there. The figure you chose for Warpath is just too perfect! Not familiar with Kickoff so had to look him up, but the other two (Sandstorm and Blaster) look perfect.
Don't worry about not knowing Kickoff, he's an obscure guy who was an action master toy I owned back in the day (those transformer toys that didn't transform and came only in robot mode). The only thing i've seen him in was the Last Stand of The Wreckers, where he dies horribly.
Warpath is actually a kitbash from 3 different marines. A deathwatch backpack and legs, a forgeworld MK IV despoiler chest/helmet and the arms/gun from a forgeworld destroyer squad. The gun was a great find and it helps disguise the fact that he's 90% the same shade of red.
I really like Kup and Blaster, they both came out looking pretty great, turns out Sybarite green makes a great colour for Kup, he was one of the hardest guys when it came to work out what paint I needed to replicate his colour scheme without making him too green
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I have finally gotten a few more minis done. Inspired to paint some more Neverborn since I'm getting a super purdy case to carry them. The Dreamer, his Daydream totems, and the Primodrial Magic.
Don't worry about not knowing Kickoff, he's an obscure guy who was an action master toy I owned back in the day (those transformer toys that didn't transform and came only in robot mode). The only thing i've seen him in was the Last Stand of The Wreckers, where he dies horribly.
Warpath is actually a kitbash from 3 different marines. A deathwatch backpack and legs, a forgeworld MK IV despoiler chest/helmet and the arms/gun from a forgeworld destroyer squad. The gun was a great find and it helps disguise the fact that he's 90% the same shade of red.
I really like Kup and Blaster, they both came out looking pretty great, turns out Sybarite green makes a great colour for Kup, he was one of the hardest guys when it came to work out what paint I needed to replicate his colour scheme without making him too green
Your TF marines, combined with me replaying Fall of Cybertron again recently, led me to lose the past few nights on tfwiki (to be fair, not an uncommon thing to happen)
I've been thinking Quintessons would work in 40k pretty well, either as some blanchitsu style Inquisitorial warband, or maybe dark AdMech. Maybe each of the 5 faces could be a chaos god, with Malal as the 5th?
One of the Fantasy dwarf airship balloons might work as a body, not sure how you'd do the faces though.
Painted Asami finally. Also @-Loki- I ended up backing the Dogmight kickstarter as well.
I really need to build a lightbox.
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Progress! Though mostly in improved lighting:
Still not sure what to do with all of her belts though? I'm thinking a medium grey to bring up the contrast a bit. The stone she's landing on will be a sort of cream sandstone effect, on a Martian Ironearth base to fit my Skitarii.
Bit of a shitstorm at home the last 12 hours so I didn't get much painting done, but I've gotten the first round of oil paints applied since the last pic.
Still lots to do.
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Still not sure what to do with all of her belts though? I'm thinking a medium grey to bring up the contrast a bit. The stone she's landing on will be a sort of cream sandstone effect, on a Martian Ironearth base to fit my Skitarii.
Maybe a dark red to break up the model a little? I know she's a sneaky sneaky assassin, but I think a dull crimson might work.
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Alright, I need some secondary opinions.
I've had this kit at this point for about 2 weeks while I was waiting for some decals to come in. However I'm honestly torn on it and don't know if I want to proceed, or strip a bunch of it and start again. Because every time I'm thinking about it, I want to restart, and every time I look at it with fresh eyes, it kinda jumps out and makes me think "Yeah, it's okay." Hence, opinions.
For me, it's very much the off-red accents that are the problem, and they took the most masking to do. But I think maybe I could do a stronger main colour as well? It's all a bit up in the air, and I want to work this out right since I'm planning to do 1 or 2 other kits in matching colours to form a little unit. Ho-hum ...
No self respecting anime protagonist would have salmon highlights on his mecha. Make it a really bold color to stand out from the rest of the scheme.
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Giving Runewars Minis a shot. Never bought an infantry/army style game before, and I bought it with the explicit goal of demoing it, so I'm gonna try to paint them.
So I'm starting from scratch.. trying to clean off the flash from the joints to make gluing easier, and washing off the releasing agent.
This.. seems time consuming. I mean, I am wondering if I'm doing things as well as I could. I've got two bowls and a towel - one with a little bit of dish soap, the other normal water. I'm dipping pieces individually in the soapy water, scrubbing lightly with a toothbrush, and then soaking in the water (changing it occasionally), patting down and letting dry.
Is this an okay assembly method, or are there better ways to do this?
Giving Runewars Minis a shot. Never bought an infantry/army style game before, and I bought it with the explicit goal of demoing it, so I'm gonna try to paint them.
So I'm starting from scratch.. trying to clean off the flash from the joints to make gluing easier, and washing off the releasing agent.
This.. seems time consuming. I mean, I am wondering if I'm doing things as well as I could. I've got two bowls and a towel - one with a little bit of dish soap, the other normal water. I'm dipping pieces individually in the soapy water, scrubbing lightly with a toothbrush, and then soaking in the water (changing it occasionally), patting down and letting dry.
Is this an okay assembly method, or are there better ways to do this?
It is time consuming not much you can do about that, you're not going to do a big batch like this that often. With board game like miniatures its not as necessarily needed to be cleaned as it is with resin or metal miniatures but not a bad idea to anyways. I usually just dump them all in a container with dish soap and fill with warm water, just not too hot where you'll get them going soft and bending. I let them sit for a few minutes and then I go through them as you do. After taking them out of the clean water I don't bother drying, just shake them out as I take them out and set them on paper towel to dry overnight.
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I've been pretty busy with a lot of painting projects, but here are my Hordes models for my stores Hordes army. I have been painting a lot of Age of Sigmar too, which when I remember to get photos with a decent camera I'll put up as well:
So I'm just about halfway done this Cryx warjack, a Shrike, which is the first thing I've gotten this far with, I think:
I'm going for a pretty simple tabletop scheme, just that ashen/stony grey for metal plating/undercarriage for a monotone overall look and then red-orange glow effects for the furnace and vents (which have a base coat of white right now). For fleshy stuff I'll do purple and dark red, I think.
Will that look too monotone with larger pieces? I'm thinking of darkening the grey to get more of a contrast between glow effects and the metal, but I guess I'll see when I do the glow glazes tonight.
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Giving Runewars Minis a shot. Never bought an infantry/army style game before, and I bought it with the explicit goal of demoing it, so I'm gonna try to paint them.
So I'm starting from scratch.. trying to clean off the flash from the joints to make gluing easier, and washing off the releasing agent.
This.. seems time consuming. I mean, I am wondering if I'm doing things as well as I could. I've got two bowls and a towel - one with a little bit of dish soap, the other normal water. I'm dipping pieces individually in the soapy water, scrubbing lightly with a toothbrush, and then soaking in the water (changing it occasionally), patting down and letting dry.
Is this an okay assembly method, or are there better ways to do this?
It is time consuming not much you can do about that, you're not going to do a big batch like this that often. With board game like miniatures its not as necessarily needed to be cleaned as it is with resin or metal miniatures but not a bad idea to anyways. I usually just dump them all in a container with dish soap and fill with warm water, just not too hot where you'll get them going soft and bending. I let them sit for a few minutes and then I go through them as you do. After taking them out of the clean water I don't bother drying, just shake them out as I take them out and set them on paper towel to dry overnight.
I did it this way, though I stood at the sink and basically rinsed after washing.. but in the end, I couldn't stand the large pools of water, so I toweled them off.
So FFG's "army painter" guide recommends using pigmented primer.. It's obvious that is an ecosystem, trying to get you into their product.. but honestly, there's gonna be a lot of painting here, by the looks of it. Should I follow their advice?
Also there's a beginner painter club meeting at my LGS on June 7th. Gonna go to that!
It's all fun and games putting ~200$ into a reaper kickstarter, until 2 years later you have a tracking number and delivery window tomorrow and you just bought 3 skirmish warbands worth of AoS minis and have 1.5 armies to paint still.
So my resin bases finally came in from Warsenal. I washed im in soapy water, primed em, and as I started painting them the primer flaked off. Even my poster tak won't stick to it.
Frustrated, I washed them in more warm soapy water with a toothbrush and left them overnight to remove the release agent. They're still awfully slick and my poster tak still slips right off. Am I missing something? I've read of very rare cases where there's a bad batch and the compounds don't get mixed correctly...but I think it's pretty unlikely I'm one of those unlucky souls.
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Haven't dealt with warsenal specifically, but having dealt with a lot of resin bases (somewhere more than 50, maybe over 100), I've definitely never had anything close to that problem. :S
I haven't dealt with warsenal, but I've heard similar stories with raging heroes minis. I got some stuff from them in their second kickstarter, and the instructions were that the pieces had to air out for at least a week, then soak in simple green (or equivalent) for a couple of days, then be scrubbed with a toothbrush, then rinsed in cold water, and then air dry. And you might have to do it more than once. I haven't tried painting them yet, but they're at least less oily now than they were.
Maybe try something like that?
(For comparison, my kromlech bitz (also resin) came with no such instructions and were fine after soapy water + toothbrush.)
It's all fun and games putting ~200$ into a reaper kickstarter, until 2 years later you have a tracking number and delivery window tomorrow and you just bought 3 skirmish warbands worth of AoS minis and have 1.5 armies to paint still.
This is technicly a mini. I guess.
Leave me alone. It was two years ago. I thought I'd paint the other 2 kickstarters worth of minis by now. *weeps quietly to himself*
If anyone is interested in gaming terrain the newest reaper kickstarter is worth keeping an eye on, it's got a bunch of good pieces in it. The Bones material can be a bit dodgy when it comes to detail but it's great for any sort of terrain. Practically indestructible, holds paint well, and easy to carve up.
They have a new kickstarter? Or do you mean the 3rd one with the crypt and all that?
I received the crypt which I'm a little confused on, there's a ton of great detail on the inside of the model, but the way you build it you are going to seal the roof shut and not be able to see inside. Just seemed strange how they designed it. I thought during the KS they showed the ceiling as removable, but it has tabbed edges to glue into the walls and everything. I can grind down those tabs I suppose to make the thing removable.
Either way all that terrain stuff I received was plastic, basically I couldnt tell the difference between if like GW made the crypt. I almost bought their new mausoleum but held off to check this out and I am glad I did. All the terrain pieces that are in actual bonesium seem really solid and good too.
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I'm getting my sea legs back with brush control, flow control, etc. At some point I'm going to have to grow up from this drybrushing nonsense because a) I think there's too much gray and I don't know what accent colors to use to break it up on these models and b) it doesn't look nearly as clean as some of the other Infinity models here. I'm sort of struggling with these not being squat, fat little guardsmen with a handful of doodads and hard surfaces...the Ariadna guys are all like real armor/models.
Also have no idea how to do leather, apparently. What's a good trio for base/wash/highlight? I'm doing XV88, tried different washes, and then highlight back up but...eh.
Anyway, assassin #1, so far:
Still not sure if I like the hair though. It needs more texture or something…
Nintendo Network ID: AzraelRose
DropBox invite link - get 500MB extra free.
I quite like this.
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Hey buddy! Your tires are chipped!
After that I lightly sprayed some burnt umber into the recesses and on the rivets and panel lines.
Visit him at Monstrous Pigments' Instagram and Facebook pages!
Did you paint on the chips, or hairspray/effects fluid method it?
Before the yellows were applied, I hit the whole thing with a patchy coat of reds and browns, then applied Humbrol Maskol via a blotted scourer.
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Kickoff, Warpath and Sandstorm
Steam: betsuni7
Warpath is actually a kitbash from 3 different marines. A deathwatch backpack and legs, a forgeworld MK IV despoiler chest/helmet and the arms/gun from a forgeworld destroyer squad. The gun was a great find and it helps disguise the fact that he's 90% the same shade of red.
I really like Kup and Blaster, they both came out looking pretty great, turns out Sybarite green makes a great colour for Kup, he was one of the hardest guys when it came to work out what paint I needed to replicate his colour scheme without making him too green
Your TF marines, combined with me replaying Fall of Cybertron again recently, led me to lose the past few nights on tfwiki (to be fair, not an uncommon thing to happen)
I've been thinking Quintessons would work in 40k pretty well, either as some blanchitsu style Inquisitorial warband, or maybe dark AdMech. Maybe each of the 5 faces could be a chaos god, with Malal as the 5th?
One of the Fantasy dwarf airship balloons might work as a body, not sure how you'd do the faces though.
I really need to build a lightbox.
Still not sure what to do with all of her belts though? I'm thinking a medium grey to bring up the contrast a bit. The stone she's landing on will be a sort of cream sandstone effect, on a Martian Ironearth base to fit my Skitarii.
Nintendo Network ID: AzraelRose
DropBox invite link - get 500MB extra free.
Still lots to do.
Visit him at Monstrous Pigments' Instagram and Facebook pages!
Maybe a dark red to break up the model a little? I know she's a sneaky sneaky assassin, but I think a dull crimson might work.
I've had this kit at this point for about 2 weeks while I was waiting for some decals to come in. However I'm honestly torn on it and don't know if I want to proceed, or strip a bunch of it and start again. Because every time I'm thinking about it, I want to restart, and every time I look at it with fresh eyes, it kinda jumps out and makes me think "Yeah, it's okay." Hence, opinions.
For me, it's very much the off-red accents that are the problem, and they took the most masking to do. But I think maybe I could do a stronger main colour as well? It's all a bit up in the air, and I want to work this out right since I'm planning to do 1 or 2 other kits in matching colours to form a little unit. Ho-hum ...
Perhaps I can interest you in my meager selection of pins?
That said, niiice paint job. That's some clean, smooth colors you've pulled off.
So I'm starting from scratch.. trying to clean off the flash from the joints to make gluing easier, and washing off the releasing agent.
This.. seems time consuming. I mean, I am wondering if I'm doing things as well as I could. I've got two bowls and a towel - one with a little bit of dish soap, the other normal water. I'm dipping pieces individually in the soapy water, scrubbing lightly with a toothbrush, and then soaking in the water (changing it occasionally), patting down and letting dry.
Is this an okay assembly method, or are there better ways to do this?
It is time consuming not much you can do about that, you're not going to do a big batch like this that often. With board game like miniatures its not as necessarily needed to be cleaned as it is with resin or metal miniatures but not a bad idea to anyways. I usually just dump them all in a container with dish soap and fill with warm water, just not too hot where you'll get them going soft and bending. I let them sit for a few minutes and then I go through them as you do. After taking them out of the clean water I don't bother drying, just shake them out as I take them out and set them on paper towel to dry overnight.
Steam: Noai
Warframe: Fairwoods
I'm now thinking of ordering a deck box off them in the same wood and stain. I have this strong desire to accessorise.
I'm going for a pretty simple tabletop scheme, just that ashen/stony grey for metal plating/undercarriage for a monotone overall look and then red-orange glow effects for the furnace and vents (which have a base coat of white right now). For fleshy stuff I'll do purple and dark red, I think.
Will that look too monotone with larger pieces? I'm thinking of darkening the grey to get more of a contrast between glow effects and the metal, but I guess I'll see when I do the glow glazes tonight.
I did it this way, though I stood at the sink and basically rinsed after washing.. but in the end, I couldn't stand the large pools of water, so I toweled them off.
So FFG's "army painter" guide recommends using pigmented primer.. It's obvious that is an ecosystem, trying to get you into their product.. but honestly, there's gonna be a lot of painting here, by the looks of it. Should I follow their advice?
Also there's a beginner painter club meeting at my LGS on June 7th. Gonna go to that!
Frustrated, I washed them in more warm soapy water with a toothbrush and left them overnight to remove the release agent. They're still awfully slick and my poster tak still slips right off. Am I missing something? I've read of very rare cases where there's a bad batch and the compounds don't get mixed correctly...but I think it's pretty unlikely I'm one of those unlucky souls.
Perhaps I can interest you in my meager selection of pins?
Maybe try something like that?
(For comparison, my kromlech bitz (also resin) came with no such instructions and were fine after soapy water + toothbrush.)
Leave me alone. It was two years ago. I thought I'd paint the other 2 kickstarters worth of minis by now. *weeps quietly to himself*
I received the crypt which I'm a little confused on, there's a ton of great detail on the inside of the model, but the way you build it you are going to seal the roof shut and not be able to see inside. Just seemed strange how they designed it. I thought during the KS they showed the ceiling as removable, but it has tabbed edges to glue into the walls and everything. I can grind down those tabs I suppose to make the thing removable.
Either way all that terrain stuff I received was plastic, basically I couldnt tell the difference between if like GW made the crypt. I almost bought their new mausoleum but held off to check this out and I am glad I did. All the terrain pieces that are in actual bonesium seem really solid and good too.
Next up is.. *gulp* Painting, and basing and such.