StragintDo Not GiftAlways DeclinesRegistered Userregular
What is a cheap resin to use for water effects?
I bought this reaper mini that is a brain in a jar on mechanical legs and I want to actually fill the jar with a liquid looking resin with some bubbles to look like water.
Also does something like this expand? Could it potentially break the plastic jar?
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I bought this reaper mini that is a brain in a jar on mechanical legs and I want to actually fill the jar with a liquid looking resin with some bubbles to look like water.
Also does something like this expand? Could it potentially break the plastic jar?
What are you planning on using as most resins don't expand
you can naturally just get bubbles by pouring it straight into the jar
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I'm considering adding gold to some details like the coins, to add a brighter "warm" color to the mix.
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I'm considering adding gold to some details like the coins, to add a brighter "warm" color to the mix.
You could also try a Reikland or Agra’s shade to give it a rusted or dirty metal look for significantly less effort. You could also paint the keys and other knickknacks hanging from the breastplate a copper or gold color to draw the eyes more towards the center of the model. Gold might be better in that case.
Liberal amounts of Blood for the Blood God would also work, especially on the weapon head, shield upper half, and helmet.
A beaut! That saturated green and blue works so well with the brass.
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GnomeTankWhat the what?Portland, OregonRegistered Userregular
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So I'm going to be painting my first vehicle in a very long time, a Repulsor Executioner. Are there any tips/tricks for getting really crisp, even, edge highlights on the armor panels? I was thinking of ways I could use my airbrush to do it, maybe using some plasticard or something to create a perfectly straight edge? I don't know, looking for tips here, and willing to experiment.
I bought this reaper mini that is a brain in a jar on mechanical legs and I want to actually fill the jar with a liquid looking resin with some bubbles to look like water.
Also does something like this expand? Could it potentially break the plastic jar?
What are you planning on using as most resins don't expand
you can naturally just get bubbles by pouring it straight into the jar
I don't know what to use. Trying to find a cheap resin to use that is clear. It isn't very big, it is barely too big for a 40mm base.
PSN: Reaper_Stragint, Steam: DoublePitstoChesty
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
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NipsHe/HimLuxuriating in existential crisis.Registered Userregular
I bought this reaper mini that is a brain in a jar on mechanical legs and I want to actually fill the jar with a liquid looking resin with some bubbles to look like water.
Also does something like this expand? Could it potentially break the plastic jar?
What are you planning on using as most resins don't expand
you can naturally just get bubbles by pouring it straight into the jar
I don't know what to use. Trying to find a cheap resin to use that is clear. It isn't very big, it is barely too big for a 40mm base.
You could try any number of two-part clear epoxy resins for this. I've used stuff like this in the past to make Gelatinous Cubes for D&D.
Or you could grab a tube of two-part epoxy like this and test it out in a plastic shot glass to see if it gives you what you're looking for, without a big investment.
Or, and this is a little crazy pants, you could try sealing up the miniature and using water as the fluid.
Nips on
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ArcticLancerBest served chilled.Registered Userregular
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I think the two main drawbacks with actual water are:
- No structural re-enforcement
- It's almost inevitable you're going to break down the painting of the brain
I mean, maybe someone makes a waterproof paint product, but I feel like you'd just be so much better off getting into resin at that point anyway ...
Or, and this is a little crazy pants, you could try sealing up the miniature and using water as the fluid.
Even more crazy, make it wave-motion. Put a drop or two of blue (or green, etc) food coloring in water to taste, fill the container 3/4 with the water, fill the rest with baby oil and seal it.
But yeah, gotta worry about plastic/paint compatibility if using actual liquid.
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StragintDo Not GiftAlways DeclinesRegistered Userregular
Yea, water eroding the paint is why I want to try a resin.
I bought this reaper mini that is a brain in a jar on mechanical legs and I want to actually fill the jar with a liquid looking resin with some bubbles to look like water.
Also does something like this expand? Could it potentially break the plastic jar?
What are you planning on using as most resins don't expand
you can naturally just get bubbles by pouring it straight into the jar
I don't know what to use. Trying to find a cheap resin to use that is clear. It isn't very big, it is barely too big for a 40mm base.
You could try any number of two-part clear epoxy resins for this. I've used stuff like this in the past to make Gelatinous Cubes for D&D.
Or you could grab a tube of two-part epoxy like this and test it out in a plastic shot glass to see if it gives you what you're looking for, without a big investment.
Or, and this is a little crazy pants, you could try sealing up the miniature and using water as the fluid.
I'll keep those in mind, they seem pretty easy to use.
Thinking about it I'd like something I can use to cast limbs for my Necrons as well to make it look like my broken Necron Warriors are phasing.
PSN: Reaper_Stragint, Steam: DoublePitstoChesty
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
I bought this reaper mini that is a brain in a jar on mechanical legs and I want to actually fill the jar with a liquid looking resin with some bubbles to look like water.
Also does something like this expand? Could it potentially break the plastic jar?
What are you planning on using as most resins don't expand
you can naturally just get bubbles by pouring it straight into the jar
I don't know what to use. Trying to find a cheap resin to use that is clear. It isn't very big, it is barely too big for a 40mm base.
You could try any number of two-part clear epoxy resins for this. I've used stuff like this in the past to make Gelatinous Cubes for D&D.
Or you could grab a tube of two-part epoxy like this and test it out in a plastic shot glass to see if it gives you what you're looking for, without a big investment.
Or, and this is a little crazy pants, you could try sealing up the miniature and using water as the fluid.
I'll keep those in mind, they seem pretty easy to use.
Thinking about it I'd like something I can use to cast limbs for my Necrons as well to make it look like my broken Necron Warriors are phasing.
I don't know how you view the phasing of necrons but you can do the same thing with homemade molds with Sculpey or like clays as for the color it's just adding it to the water effect when you mix it up
StragintDo Not GiftAlways DeclinesRegistered Userregular
edited August 2019
Stopped being a lazy ass today and did some work on my knights. I feel weird having the big section of the castellan missing in the front but I don't want to put it in and paint it up if I have to make modifications for the head I plan on putting in.
Right now I just need to shade the balthasar gold, leadbelcher and stormhost silver. I did stormhost on the joints down at the feet and on the arms connecting the gun, everything else is leadbelcher. Gonna do nuln oil gloss on the leadbelcher and agrax on the balthasar gold and stormhost but I think I've also heard that reikland flesh looks good on stormhost silver. Not sure which to do.
Once I finish the shade and dry brush on the silver, my helverins will be at the same spot my warglaives are at and my castellan will be nearly done as well. I plan on varnishing them with gloss varnish and then painting some of the parts on the castellan guns Space Wolves colors and then some other random panels on the body that look like armor.
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PSN: Reaper_Stragint, Steam: DoublePitstoChesty
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
I bought this reaper mini that is a brain in a jar on mechanical legs and I want to actually fill the jar with a liquid looking resin with some bubbles to look like water.
Also does something like this expand? Could it potentially break the plastic jar?
What are you planning on using as most resins don't expand
you can naturally just get bubbles by pouring it straight into the jar
I don't know what to use. Trying to find a cheap resin to use that is clear. It isn't very big, it is barely too big for a 40mm base.
You could try any number of two-part clear epoxy resins for this. I've used stuff like this in the past to make Gelatinous Cubes for D&D.
Or you could grab a tube of two-part epoxy like this and test it out in a plastic shot glass to see if it gives you what you're looking for, without a big investment.
Or, and this is a little crazy pants, you could try sealing up the miniature and using water as the fluid.
I'll keep those in mind, they seem pretty easy to use.
Thinking about it I'd like something I can use to cast limbs for my Necrons as well to make it look like my broken Necron Warriors are phasing.
I don't know how you view the phasing of necrons but you can do the same thing with homemade molds with Sculpey or like clays as for the color it's just adding it to the water effect when you mix it up
Kind of a clear green tinted like the rods they come with. Might also want blue and orange though.
I did a wash on the silvers and balathasar gold. I feel like the leadbelcher is still too bright. Might do another shade and then dry brush the new colors.
PSN: Reaper_Stragint, Steam: DoublePitstoChesty
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
Sorry if this has been asked too many times, but I checked through the thread quickly and didn't see it. What brushes do you folks recommend (mainly 40k models)? I've been using army painter, and they work well, but wondering if there is something higher quality.
Those look nice, thanks for the tip! Trying to improve my free-handing and need something better.
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StragintDo Not GiftAlways DeclinesRegistered Userregular
edited August 2019
Feeling pretty done with the skeleton of the golden Imperial Knight models. Added my other armigers just for fun. Still have another knight to paint up but I don't know if I want to go gold or dark silver.
I'm painting up my Cypher Lords for Warcry and I'm trying to visibly differentiate the Mindbound (lower statlines) from the Mirrorblades (better statlines). This is a progress pic; the Mindbound are in blue and the Mirrorblades in purple.
I don't like how the Mindbound (who I did first) have a mostly blue helmet and I'm not wild about the Retributor/Leadbelcher combo I used for their icons, so I bought some Screaming Bell and Hashut Copper to play around with. I'd like the crests to stay the way they are (they need some highlighting) but the face/rear of the helmet is gonna go a different metallic color. I love how the rays came out, though.
The Mirrorblades', well, blades, will all get that chrome pen treatment and I reckon I'll do that last, then let them sit for a while and play with my Splintered Fang instead before clearcoating them.
Back to brain in a jar chat, you can use tinted water fine with acrylic paints, as they’re just plastics and not really affected by it in any noticeable way. I did that exact thing, the only problem is even with a perfect seal the water will still slowly evaporate out of the container. I ended up drilling a hole in the bottom and plugging it with bluetac for the monthly water refills.
Specimen jar pictures!
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ArcticLancerBest served chilled.Registered Userregular
Back to brain in a jar chat, you can use tinted water fine with acrylic paints, as they’re just plastics and not really affected by it in any noticeable way. I did that exact thing, the only problem is even with a perfect seal the water will still slowly evaporate out of the container. I ended up drilling a hole in the bottom and plugging it with bluetac for the monthly water refills.
@Nips my first attempt at an Oosik. Wash is still drying.
What bottle of paint you using there?
The Orange, Blue, and touch up Black were Army Painter. The white was gloopy Vallejo that I bought several years ago. Wash was Army Painter Dark Tone, black primer was whatever can of plastic primer I got from Walmart.
@Nips my first attempt at an Oosik. Wash is still drying.
What bottle of paint you using there?
The Orange, Blue, and touch up Black were Army Painter. The white was gloopy Vallejo that I bought several years ago. Wash was Army Painter Dark Tone, black primer was whatever can of plastic primer I got from Walmart.
I'll give actual names when I get home from work.
I'm always looking to try new paint. How many coats of blue and orange did you have to layer on?
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StragintDo Not GiftAlways DeclinesRegistered Userregular
Starting to look like I'll need to actually buy a beastclaws raider stonehorn box to finish my castellan. Nothing on ebay for the last few weeks for the head I want.
I'm debating on whether I'm skilled enough to paint up the model after I take the head I want and sell it for a decent price.
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What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
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Rustoleum Paint+Primer rattle can
Army Painter - Lava Orange and Deep Blue
I'm not proud if it, but I put several layers on. As in, yes that's good, but I painted ONLY that one mini and was extremely inefficient with my time/paint. Next time I'll probably do three at a time, and I basically stopped putting on layers when the paint dried out in the palette. Then I'd revive it with a drop of water and basically lightly wash the color on before calling it quits.
I don't exactly have what you would call...any technique.
Edit: The orange started thin and I'd paint top to bottom, wait a minute to dry, and then go over all the areas again. It was at least four or five layers on the front of that hex stand, being a large area with all that black. Overall I probably but between four and seven coats on over the course of the day.
Fuselage on
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NipsHe/HimLuxuriating in existential crisis.Registered Userregular
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Ok guys, I need a sanity check. I've been waiting almost a week for the weather to break enough to Dullcote spray some models I've been working on for a very long time. It looks like over the next several days it'll be a few degrees over 70*F and a few percent over 60% humidity...which are the stated maximums on the Dullcote can. I'm getting antsy, I want to finish these figs.
Do I chance it? Maybe spray a separate test model first? But then how long so I wait to know it's going on clear?
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I bought this reaper mini that is a brain in a jar on mechanical legs and I want to actually fill the jar with a liquid looking resin with some bubbles to look like water.
Also does something like this expand? Could it potentially break the plastic jar?
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
What are you planning on using as most resins don't expand
you can naturally just get bubbles by pouring it straight into the jar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7WSfSeaJYo
You could also try a Reikland or Agra’s shade to give it a rusted or dirty metal look for significantly less effort. You could also paint the keys and other knickknacks hanging from the breastplate a copper or gold color to draw the eyes more towards the center of the model. Gold might be better in that case.
Liberal amounts of Blood for the Blood God would also work, especially on the weapon head, shield upper half, and helmet.
I don't know what to use. Trying to find a cheap resin to use that is clear. It isn't very big, it is barely too big for a 40mm base.
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
You could try any number of two-part clear epoxy resins for this. I've used stuff like this in the past to make Gelatinous Cubes for D&D.
Or you could grab a tube of two-part epoxy like this and test it out in a plastic shot glass to see if it gives you what you're looking for, without a big investment.
Or, and this is a little crazy pants, you could try sealing up the miniature and using water as the fluid.
- No structural re-enforcement
- It's almost inevitable you're going to break down the painting of the brain
I mean, maybe someone makes a waterproof paint product, but I feel like you'd just be so much better off getting into resin at that point anyway ...
Perhaps I can interest you in my meager selection of pins?
Even more crazy, make it wave-motion. Put a drop or two of blue (or green, etc) food coloring in water to taste, fill the container 3/4 with the water, fill the rest with baby oil and seal it.
But yeah, gotta worry about plastic/paint compatibility if using actual liquid.
I'm not sure, maybe crystal clear but tinted.
I'll keep those in mind, they seem pretty easy to use.
Thinking about it I'd like something I can use to cast limbs for my Necrons as well to make it look like my broken Necron Warriors are phasing.
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
The water effects can do both
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P5GSDNpExQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vsPjZf1cL0
kayakasaurus does a lot of resin water effects in his dioramas so
I don't know how you view the phasing of necrons but you can do the same thing with homemade molds with Sculpey or like clays as for the color it's just adding it to the water effect when you mix it up
Right now I just need to shade the balthasar gold, leadbelcher and stormhost silver. I did stormhost on the joints down at the feet and on the arms connecting the gun, everything else is leadbelcher. Gonna do nuln oil gloss on the leadbelcher and agrax on the balthasar gold and stormhost but I think I've also heard that reikland flesh looks good on stormhost silver. Not sure which to do.
Once I finish the shade and dry brush on the silver, my helverins will be at the same spot my warglaives are at and my castellan will be nearly done as well. I plan on varnishing them with gloss varnish and then painting some of the parts on the castellan guns Space Wolves colors and then some other random panels on the body that look like armor.
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
Kind of a clear green tinted like the rods they come with. Might also want blue and orange though.
I did a wash on the silvers and balathasar gold. I feel like the leadbelcher is still too bright. Might do another shade and then dry brush the new colors.
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
You can mix in glitter to get that phasing in
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Tight, thank you. I will probably start on this project next pay check if I'm not still in a paint focused mood.
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
I don't like how the Mindbound (who I did first) have a mostly blue helmet and I'm not wild about the Retributor/Leadbelcher combo I used for their icons, so I bought some Screaming Bell and Hashut Copper to play around with. I'd like the crests to stay the way they are (they need some highlighting) but the face/rear of the helmet is gonna go a different metallic color. I love how the rays came out, though.
The Mirrorblades', well, blades, will all get that chrome pen treatment and I reckon I'll do that last, then let them sit for a while and play with my Splintered Fang instead before clearcoating them.
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Specimen jar pictures!
Nice results though~
Perhaps I can interest you in my meager selection of pins?
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What bottle of paint you using there?
The bases are just simple atm. But the full ones if I have time are snow covered with grass.
The Orange, Blue, and touch up Black were Army Painter. The white was gloopy Vallejo that I bought several years ago. Wash was Army Painter Dark Tone, black primer was whatever can of plastic primer I got from Walmart.
I'll give actual names when I get home from work.
I'm always looking to try new paint. How many coats of blue and orange did you have to layer on?
I'm debating on whether I'm skilled enough to paint up the model after I take the head I want and sell it for a decent price.
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
Rustoleum Paint+Primer rattle can
Army Painter - Lava Orange and Deep Blue
I'm not proud if it, but I put several layers on. As in, yes that's good, but I painted ONLY that one mini and was extremely inefficient with my time/paint. Next time I'll probably do three at a time, and I basically stopped putting on layers when the paint dried out in the palette. Then I'd revive it with a drop of water and basically lightly wash the color on before calling it quits.
I don't exactly have what you would call...any technique.
Edit: The orange started thin and I'd paint top to bottom, wait a minute to dry, and then go over all the areas again. It was at least four or five layers on the front of that hex stand, being a large area with all that black. Overall I probably but between four and seven coats on over the course of the day.
Do I chance it? Maybe spray a separate test model first? But then how long so I wait to know it's going on clear?
I really don't want to fuck this up.