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[Painting Miniatures] What colour is the best colour to paint your miniatures?
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Yeah, not space marines aren’t really doing it for me either.
That said there are a grip of cool AoS factions like sea people, steam punk sky dwarves, super cool ghosts, etc
Gamertag - Khraul
PSN - Razide6
Steam Bnet:KetBra#1692 Yo Satan
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.
WIP Armour is done, need to finish the arms and picking out details.
Just need to finish off the teeth on two of them, but good golly I used a lot of pink paint today.
So, I have never had anything but trouble with the, like... Vent pipes on the backs of my large Tyranids models. Same with the giantass seams on their backs.
Toward the goal of sealing the huge gaps in those, should I maybe use a gel-consistency super glue?
Since they're plastic, would super glue even be good enough? Will it take an obnoxiously long time to cure?
Thoughts?
Brushing it on sounds dicey. I use an extra-thick formula from a company called Bob's, I think.
Might be HobbyCo? It's actually got my FLGS's logo on it, so I don't know who makes it.
Anyway, I've been using it for almost twenty years. It's cyanoacrylate, it's got a plastic nozzle, and it doesn't come with a brush.
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 want to paint my ad mech Ryza but knowing orange is hard to pull off is why i am practicing
He means some plastic glues has a brush applicator.
Honestly unless you should really always be using plastic glue with plastic models. It literally welds the parts together, it’s much faster, easier and more resilient joins than superglue.
If it’s something I know I’m going to be popping off later, ie a model on a temporary base, I’ll go superglue. Also on obnoxious models where you’ve got 2 separate limbs holding a gun and it’s a juggling act getting it to stay, I’ll pop one arm on with plastic glue and the other with super just for a sturdy frame to let it dry.
Back when I played fantasy (over 15 years ago now. yikes!) I wanted to put together a lizard man army. Now they're these crazy teleporting star demons with dinosaurs and that's pretty weird but sounds ok to me.
Battletag: Threeve#1501
PSN: Threeve703
I was last into Fantasy before Undead split up into Vampire Counts and much later Tomb Kings. And sky dwarfs seems antithetical to me.
I really enjoyed pretending that I was commanding the Army of Darkness.
I think I'd probably feel the same way if I had been playing and collecting up through their end times event. The changes seem pretty massive, and like I said I'm not a huge fan of bringing the lore closer to 40K. I am trying to a get a handle on all the changes to the factions and army assemblage without buying into anything, to figure out if it's even something I want to pursue.
Even if I don't it's fun to kind of observe from afar. I always enjoy looking at sweet minis with great paint jobs.
Battletag: Threeve#1501
PSN: Threeve703
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 photos I've seen make it seem too easy
Gamertag - Khraul
PSN - Razide6
I've used it for shading my vast hordes of rat mans
A few things to know:
IT IS NOT THE SAME AS WASH. This stuff is basically furniture varnish, and it's extremely potent smelling, and will stain anything it touches. I got some on my skin and it was there for weeks, so work outside and get some gloves and a drop-sheet.
I'd use it only for basic line troops you have a zillion of (like rats!) and even brush-on washes would take too much cumulative time. Otherwise, regular wash should be the way to go. This isn't an alternative to using washes, it's just a way to blitz out shaded models really fast.
When this stuff dries, it is glossy, so you'll need to mattecoat your models afterwards (kind of a pain, when this is supposed to be a timesaver). I find testors dullcoat is the only thing that works for me.
It's also pretty thick, and you really need to shake-off (drop sheeeeet!) or wick-off excess shade, or it will get very goopy and destroy the details on your model. Depending on the model, and how it dries, it can be really bad at collecting on points like weapons or limbs and you get a big gross drip. Even getting rid of the excess, gravity can still pull enough to a point to look pretty bad (I tried to hide most of these by slathering them in blood).
If you do the base as well, it can also collect around the rim of the base and leave a gross rubbery ring that you'll have to trim off (again, extra time and effort), and risk damaging the base.
On the plus side, because it's varnish, it makes your models pretty much indestructible. I just throw my rats into containers to rattle around, and I've yet to see any actual paint damage.
In short, yes. The photos you've seen make it look too easy. It's kind of a pain, really.
Acetone is the go-to solvent to remove cured cyanoacrylate.
Acetone is scary stuff in general if you ask me.
Not sure the specific changes you're talking about, but rezzing with Death is super strong right now and looks to get stronger with 2.0
On the topic of seems and plastic glue;
When you're cleaning mold lines, shaving bits off, etc, keep all the little bits of plastic dust (make sure your desk is clean, dont want any non plastic crumbs mixing in).
When you find an uneven join or a gap, mix some of the plastic crumbs with plastic cement and add it to your join. It'll form a liquid plastic paste and when dry it'll be solid plastic basically. Stronger and easier than greenstuff for small gaps imo.
Mainly for the edge highlighting. I have found that stegadon scale green and thunderhawk blue highlights look really good with the silver and gold details on deatwatch
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I had some giftcard scraps laying around, so I picked up the No Know Fear starterbox to dink around with some of the Primaris models (and cannibalize the deathguard bits).
Thinking of some Primaris "Deathwatch" to go with my retro Admech.
An Explorator fleet, traveling to strange new worlds and researching (ie: killing) the aliens there. At their onset, they were escorted by a detachment of Primaris marines, but after several long centuries of isolation, the marine's geneseed and production methods have been uh... commandeered by the fleet's eccentric Techprist Dominus.
If Guilliman asks, they're totally not servitors, you guys.
Edit: That, or ask you for help designing his next suit. Those guys look a bit more imposing than the standard Mysterio fishbowl/cape combo.
Honestly, I'm more worried about my local ISP...
That's awesome, this is exactly the review I needed
Gamertag - Khraul
PSN - Razide6
I haven't painted miniatures (or even held a brush) in several years, until I quite recently decided to pick up a copy of Shadespire. The miniatures in that game really inspired me, and I like how I don't have to paint a whole army. Warbands just feels a bit more manageable. So here's my Reavers.
Appreciate any feedback you guys might have, and really happy to be back in the hobby!
Keep it up.
Seriously, you've got a great sense of colour and know your way around a wash, so everything looks great. Anything form there is basically on you for what additional work you might want to try (more layers, directional lighting, various FX, etc).
Perhaps I can interest you in my meager selection of pins?
I made a game, it has penguins in it. It's pay what you like on Gumroad.
Currently Ebaying Nothing at all but I might do in the future.
I'm painting up more of my Sisters of Battle, and I have an old Celestine I had converted to have wings but never painted before the new one came out. New Celestine is great and I'm happy with my paint job there, but I'm going to paint up Old Celestine to use after Celestine gets back up from death. So I want her to look like she's been in a hell of a fight, I've splattered some blood on her wings in a Heroes of Might and Magic 5 Seraph style and it looks great, but I think I need more.
Blood seeping out from underneath armor? Blood dripping from her sword? I'll google for some guides in a bit, but I've seen you guys post a lot of bloody miniatures, especially McGibs lol, so I thought I'd ask here.