Ok guys, I need some feel-good reassurances. I'm assembling some of my first multi-part metal 28mm models (that's not a BattleMech) in what feels like forever, and because the arms are relatively small/light I'm forgoing pinning and just using some high-quality superglue. I'm scoring the parts, and dry fitting, and and and...
...This is gonna turn out alright, right? I've been pinning my models for so long, I don't remember what to expect without it here and it makes me nervous.
Yeah it'll be fine. What are you putting together?
Ok guys, I need some feel-good reassurances. I'm assembling some of my first multi-part metal 28mm models (that's not a BattleMech) in what feels like forever, and because the arms are relatively small/light I'm forgoing pinning and just using some high-quality superglue. I'm scoring the parts, and dry fitting, and and and...
...This is gonna turn out alright, right? I've been pinning my models for so long, I don't remember what to expect without it here and it makes me nervous.
Yeah it'll be fine. What are you putting together?
Some Starship Troopers models from the old Mongoose line. The Roughnecks, specifically.
I may have fallen down a short rabbit hole.
Nips on
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StragintDo Not GiftAlways DeclinesRegistered Userregular
Almost done with my Bombardier. Just got the rocket and head left.
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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Halos Nach TariffCan you blame me?I'm too famous.Registered Userregular
What have I been working on during the initial weeks of lockdown, you ask? Well, I thought it was about time I got enough terrain together to set up a decent warhammer board at home, granted that's not very useful to me right now given I can't have anyone round the place to play, but once things clear up a bit at least I'll have a nice shiny table to play on!
All this stuff is designed and printed by dark fantastic mills, who I would definitely use again, very decent quality and I adore the style of it (plus it matches the bases for my Slaanesh army!) The big ponds are sold as lava pools, but I decided with the dominant rust orange on the rest of the terrain some other colours wouldn't go amiss, so I made them up as sulphur pits instead.
Then this stuff is mostly from the little terrain pack GW released for Underworlds, but it works quite well as interesting scatter terrain too.
And I've still got all these ruins to get through too! As well as some large sculpted terrain bases/splats which should be showing up in the post sometime this week, plenty to be getting on with.
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VanguardBut now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERSregular
that all looks real cool
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StragintDo Not GiftAlways DeclinesRegistered Userregular
My stuff from green stuff world is arriving today. It has been almost 3 weeks so I kind of forgot what I ordered.
I got some UV resin which I'm pretty stoked to try out and a fur press thing for green stuff so now I can add a big fur cloak part to my castellan.
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 have seen a bunch of the painting guides over the last week on ebay for cheap. I still am kind of amazed GW never printed or made a Craftworld one. I know over the years they have shown how they painted them but that's over 20+ years
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StragintDo Not GiftAlways DeclinesRegistered Userregular
edited April 2020
I'm really liking how the head and backpack are coming out.
Stragint on
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.
So I really wanted to get through some of my backlog during my lab's shut down during the virus.
However, I broke down and bought an Elegoo Mars resin 3D printer.......
So I did this instead!
Everything in them was printed at 0.05 mm slice height, the models and the bases. Everything was from Titan Forge. These guys make amazing files for printing.
If, if Reagan played disco He'd shoot it to shit You can't disco in Jackboots
Sure! In total, it was ~300 for the printer and my first resin (I got water washable stuff, so more expensive). The lighting on these is garbage, but it gets the point across.
Honestly these are smaller and WAY more detailed than I thought was possible on a printer. You can't see the print lines unless you're nose deep on it doing detail work. At maybe 8 inches away? No lines can be seen period. After a bit of paint? It's almost impossible to tell on most things.
If, if Reagan played disco He'd shoot it to shit You can't disco in Jackboots
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StragintDo Not GiftAlways DeclinesRegistered Userregular
Finished the Bombardier. Liking how it came out. I do still slightly worry about paint to paint super gluing. Hoping he doesn't fall part but the paint already feels strong.
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.
First kinda grimy grimdarkish Space Wolf squad is done... still a little shiny due to some spirits flashing off after a second pass to clean up the oil wash, but I'm calling them done.
It's really cool that you can touch up oils after you've done highlights with acrylic and not screw up the highlights (my lazy makeup brush / drybrush highlights... can't be bothered to edge highlight).
Edit - Swapped in a photo with slightly less garbage lighting.
StragintDo Not GiftAlways DeclinesRegistered Userregular
edited April 2020
I'm so torn on the bases for my Skaven. I was gonna do cracked earth bases with green for the Pestilens, orange for the Skryre, blue or red for Clanrats, and purple for the Grey Seer but I'm not so sure on that anymore.
I always want to use the cracked earth but I'm not 100% feeling it anymore.
I think I'm gonna do a cave based theme, so astrogranite or astrogranite debris texture paint and make it look wet, maybe some warpstone polluted streams and then match it with that warcry starter terrain since I was already gonna have that be Skaven themed.
Stragint on
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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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So for the warcry starter terrain that I already have almost complete painted. I want to add those Skaven markings and I'm kind of torn on something.
Generally everything I see with them have the markings scratched into the surface and I was thinking of potentially using my soldering iron to "scratch" the markings into the terrain though the terrain doesn't seem super thick so I might just end up going through it.
Would a soldering iron be a good tool for this though, if I do decide to do it?
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
The problem with using an iron is that it's going to look melted-in, not scratched in. You could certainly try, with a fine enough pointed tip, but I doubt it's going to look like how you're envisioning it.
What about painting on some glowing runes, graffiti style?
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StragintDo Not GiftAlways DeclinesRegistered Userregular
The problem with using an iron is that it's going to look melted-in, not scratched in. You could certainly try, with a fine enough pointed tip, but I doubt it's going to look like how you're envisioning it.
What about painting on some glowing runes, graffiti style?
Glowing runes in a graffiti style was the original idea and I am gonna stick with that, you are definitely right and it looking melted is not what I want.
Just gotta figure out how I want to do the graffiti style since some of these runes have varying line sizes so I doubt and airbrush would work.
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 think with a brush with a good tip you could (with practice) get a reasonable handle on "variable line width" in one stroke, and draw out the runes by hand.
Seeing your Ad mech Skitarii is one of the things that has thrown doubt into what am I doing with the army I have as I planning on doing Ryza but seeing a sea of creamsicle orange didn't seem that appealing
Seeing your Ad mech Skitarii is one of the things that has thrown doubt into what am I doing with the army I have as I planning on doing Ryza but seeing a sea of creamsicle orange didn't seem that appealing
I was going to do Stygies but realized I am just bored of painting black/dark armies after painting three of them (Slaves to Darkness, CSM, and Deathwatch).
Seeing your Ad mech Skitarii is one of the things that has thrown doubt into what am I doing with the army I have as I planning on doing Ryza but seeing a sea of creamsicle orange didn't seem that appealing
I was going to do Stygies but realized I am just bored of painting black/dark armies after painting three of them (Slaves to Darkness, CSM, and Deathwatch).
My brother makes fun of the various eldar I have and the tyranids being red {Kabal of the Flayed Skull, Siam Hann for eldar} Kraken for the tyranids} I felt doing ryza would be interesting and different https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdZHq-RBsiE
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I think with a brush with a good tip you could (with practice) get a reasonable handle on "variable line width" in one stroke, and draw out the runes by hand.
I did always want to try out calligraphy.
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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edited April 2020
This is definitely gonna be a weird process. Mostly because if I do just the fluorescent it doesn't show up really at all without a UV light, at least the green doesn't. Haven't tested any other colors yet.
The brick work on the pieces also makes precision with line size almost pointless. I did kind of get the hang of creating variations in the line size while testing stuff out though so I think that will still be useful to practice and get better with since I have a bunch of dumb Skaven banners to paint.
I tested on this small piece because if I needed to full on clean it it would be the easiest to do.
Due to not really being able to see anything without UV I decided to try outlining some regular paint with fluorescent and outlining fluorescent with regular paint.
Classic outlined in fluorescent:
Fluorescent outlined in classic:
A thought has occurred. I want the fluorescent paint to be seen, no point in doing it without it being seen but it isn't a likely scenario that I'll have black lights to setup at the LGS and such which is why I want to either outline classic paint in fluorescent or outline fluorescent paint in classic paint.
What I could do is make a probably 40"x40" board to fit warcry, kill team, and frost grave. Have the playing area itself sunken in a bit so I can line the edges with black lights. Warcry and kill team are 22"x30" and frostgrave is 3'x3' so I figure an extra 4" into of the 3'x3' size for frostgrave gives a bit more room for things. I'd want it to be able to fold up so I wouldn't be limited by where it can be used so I'd want hinges.
This seems like a ton of work just to make fluorescent paint work but this kind of works in general because I wanted to eventually try making a board to setup terrain on.
Stragint on
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.
After finishing painting the Star Wars Legion Core Box I bought some more plastic and did the paint thing.
First up, Boba Fett.
Next, Snowtrooper leader and a E-Web Heavy Blaster
Finaly Han Solo.
I'm kinda pleased how well the camo on his cloak turned out. Just brushed the cloak with some water first than "painted" in the other green colors.
I've also manged to find some terrain i bought ages ago and got some paint on that, no pictures sadly.
Now, on to the next project. Some Rebel Pathfinders and than some Fleet Troopers... and perhaps General Veers.
Lind on
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I'm liking this. I painted the green over the fluorescent so I'll probably add a bit more after the green dries.
So I'm going for the whole cave theme here with fluorescent paint and such so I figured I might as well go all the way and have fluorescent crystals and such.
Would it be easier to paint solid color crystals or clear ones?
I'm also planning on getting some of the alien grass from gamers grass since those are a nice color for this.
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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H3KnucklesBut we decide which is rightand which is an illusion.Registered Userregular
Seeing your Ad mech Skitarii is one of the things that has thrown doubt into what am I doing with the army I have as I planning on doing Ryza but seeing a sea of creamsicle orange didn't seem that appealing
I was going to do Stygies but realized I am just bored of painting black/dark armies after painting three of them (Slaves to Darkness, CSM, and Deathwatch).
My brother makes fun of the various eldar I have and the tyranids being red {Kabal of the Flayed Skull, Siam Hann for eldar} Kraken for the tyranids} I felt doing ryza would be interesting and different https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdZHq-RBsiE
See, I'd call that more of a dun color than 'creamsicle orange'.
Been working at a glacier pace on my legio. The plan was more red than copper, but I'm still happy with the results. I think it'll still pass for Fortidus.
Since your name means "swedish" in swedish, I just assumed you were, ya know, swedish.
ArcticLancerBest served chilled.Registered Userregular
Not exactly sure how these are going to look because my monitor's brightness is on the higher side, but ...
Feels nice actually making progress. Feeling less good staring down another 10 ships, but hey ... gotta start somewhere~
So the thing is, I want to panel line these, and a long ways back had picked up some Tamiya panel liner thinking that would be the way to go. At this stage though I'm a bit worried the black is going to be too overpowering, and wonder if I should try pulling it off using either Secret Weapon armor wash or sewer wash? I suppose either way this has to sit in limbo for a bit since I'll want to give everything a gloss coat first, and I might as well have them all finished together. See you in 2 years, at the rate I go. ;P
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If I spent as much time painting as I do worrying about how the final product will look when it's done, my entire collection would be painted by now
I'm pretty happy just to have settled on a paint scheme finally.
Gamertag - Khraul
PSN - Razide6
Yeah it'll be fine. What are you putting together?
Some Starship Troopers models from the old Mongoose line. The Roughnecks, specifically.
I may have fallen down a short rabbit hole.
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.
All this stuff is designed and printed by dark fantastic mills, who I would definitely use again, very decent quality and I adore the style of it (plus it matches the bases for my Slaanesh army!) The big ponds are sold as lava pools, but I decided with the dominant rust orange on the rest of the terrain some other colours wouldn't go amiss, so I made them up as sulphur pits instead.
Then this stuff is mostly from the little terrain pack GW released for Underworlds, but it works quite well as interesting scatter terrain too.
And I've still got all these ruins to get through too! As well as some large sculpted terrain bases/splats which should be showing up in the post sometime this week, plenty to be getting on with.
I got some UV resin which I'm pretty stoked to try out and a fur press thing for green stuff so now I can add a big fur cloak part to my castellan.
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.
Gamertag - Khraul
PSN - Razide6
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.
However, I broke down and bought an Elegoo Mars resin 3D printer.......
So I did this instead!
Everything in them was printed at 0.05 mm slice height, the models and the bases. Everything was from Titan Forge. These guys make amazing files for printing.
Honestly these are smaller and WAY more detailed than I thought was possible on a printer. You can't see the print lines unless you're nose deep on it doing detail work. At maybe 8 inches away? No lines can be seen period. After a bit of paint? It's almost impossible to tell on most things.
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.
Gamertag - Khraul
PSN - Razide6
It's really cool that you can touch up oils after you've done highlights with acrylic and not screw up the highlights (my lazy makeup brush / drybrush highlights... can't be bothered to edge highlight).
Edit - Swapped in a photo with slightly less garbage lighting.
Gamertag - Khraul
PSN - Razide6
I always want to use the cracked earth but I'm not 100% feeling it anymore.
I think I'm gonna do a cave based theme, so astrogranite or astrogranite debris texture paint and make it look wet, maybe some warpstone polluted streams and then match it with that warcry starter terrain since I was already gonna have that be Skaven themed.
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.
Generally everything I see with them have the markings scratched into the surface and I was thinking of potentially using my soldering iron to "scratch" the markings into the terrain though the terrain doesn't seem super thick so I might just end up going through it.
Would a soldering iron be a good tool for this though, if I do decide to do it?
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 about painting on some glowing runes, graffiti style?
Glowing runes in a graffiti style was the original idea and I am gonna stick with that, you are definitely right and it looking melted is not what I want.
Just gotta figure out how I want to do the graffiti style since some of these runes have varying line sizes so I doubt and airbrush would work.
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 was going to do Stygies but realized I am just bored of painting black/dark armies after painting three of them (Slaves to Darkness, CSM, and Deathwatch).
My brother makes fun of the various eldar I have and the tyranids being red {Kabal of the Flayed Skull, Siam Hann for eldar} Kraken for the tyranids} I felt doing ryza would be interesting and different
I did always want to try out calligraphy.
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 brick work on the pieces also makes precision with line size almost pointless. I did kind of get the hang of creating variations in the line size while testing stuff out though so I think that will still be useful to practice and get better with since I have a bunch of dumb Skaven banners to paint.
I tested on this small piece because if I needed to full on clean it it would be the easiest to do.
Due to not really being able to see anything without UV I decided to try outlining some regular paint with fluorescent and outlining fluorescent with regular paint.
Classic outlined in fluorescent:
Fluorescent outlined in classic:
A thought has occurred. I want the fluorescent paint to be seen, no point in doing it without it being seen but it isn't a likely scenario that I'll have black lights to setup at the LGS and such which is why I want to either outline classic paint in fluorescent or outline fluorescent paint in classic paint.
What I could do is make a probably 40"x40" board to fit warcry, kill team, and frost grave. Have the playing area itself sunken in a bit so I can line the edges with black lights. Warcry and kill team are 22"x30" and frostgrave is 3'x3' so I figure an extra 4" into of the 3'x3' size for frostgrave gives a bit more room for things. I'd want it to be able to fold up so I wouldn't be limited by where it can be used so I'd want hinges.
This seems like a ton of work just to make fluorescent paint work but this kind of works in general because I wanted to eventually try making a board to setup terrain on.
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.
Next, Snowtrooper leader and a E-Web Heavy Blaster
Finaly Han Solo.
I'm kinda pleased how well the camo on his cloak turned out. Just brushed the cloak with some water first than "painted" in the other green colors.
I've also manged to find some terrain i bought ages ago and got some paint on that, no pictures sadly.
Now, on to the next project. Some Rebel Pathfinders and than some Fleet Troopers... and perhaps General Veers.
So I'm going for the whole cave theme here with fluorescent paint and such so I figured I might as well go all the way and have fluorescent crystals and such.
Would it be easier to paint solid color crystals or clear ones?
I'm also planning on getting some of the alien grass from gamers grass since those are a nice color for this.
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.
See, I'd call that more of a dun color than 'creamsicle orange'.
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Feels nice actually making progress. Feeling less good staring down another 10 ships, but hey ... gotta start somewhere~
So the thing is, I want to panel line these, and a long ways back had picked up some Tamiya panel liner thinking that would be the way to go. At this stage though I'm a bit worried the black is going to be too overpowering, and wonder if I should try pulling it off using either Secret Weapon armor wash or sewer wash? I suppose either way this has to sit in limbo for a bit since I'll want to give everything a gloss coat first, and I might as well have them all finished together. See you in 2 years, at the rate I go. ;P
Perhaps I can interest you in my meager selection of pins?
They're a nice change of pace from the AoS Ossiarchs, but PVC models are such dogshit to work with, and I hate it.