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The Walking Dead Boot Camp - Saturday

Catching Up With The Painters!

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Catching Up With The Painters!

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While games are indeed going on we've also got some eager beavers painting up their sets.

We caught up with them to find out how its going...

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wolf320f
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ive been experimenting with zenith priming and ink washes afterwards to bring the colour with the Vallejo inks there are lots of choice and touch wood so far my efforts have been more than ok even if i say so myself

outriderhobbies
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What is zenith priming? I heard them mention it with the airbrush for the Cell Shading, but I don’t know what it is…

errorzero
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Zenithial highlighting is an airbrush technique that simulates an overhead lightsource similar to the sun. Usually you would start with a low tone as your basecoat and then you load a higher tone into the airbrush and spray at an angle. Say our colours are Black basecoat, then medium grey and light grey as our high tones, with white as top highlight. With medium grey you spray at around a 45 degree angle to the model all the way around the piece. Then with light grey around 60 to 65 degree angle all the way around the model. Finally with… Read more »

dicetimo
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Thank you for the detailed answer. I will give it a try on some test minis.

stormshriek
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388xp

thanks, that’s awesome. I never even considered doing something like that. I can not wait to try it.

panzerkaput
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There is a ton of stuff in the box I cant see how you can paint them all and game but good luck chaps with it

swbeil
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Such a super idea that people can paint their minis if they want.

dragosani
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32xp

The dedication is inspiring… looking across the room at all my unpainted mini’s, Is it just me, or do other people find that when you finally commit to painting up an army or figure set for gaming, by the time you finish all the other players in your gaming group have moved on to another game? I just finished a lovely paint job on age of sigmar sig-marines to find nobody is playing it again! I think this is why a bootcamp is such a great idea – captive audience of players with one system 🙂

darkvoivod
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I usually find that halfway one project I started 3 others.

arbblsbigbelcher
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We know that feeling in our club. Just restarted painting my Abyssals ready for next round of KOW whilst trying to paint and play world of twilight Anyaral.

tomd
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i see Justin rocking the lucky hat.

spaced2020
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2124xp

Suits him really

stormshriek
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388xp

listening to most of the stories from Friday, I’m not convinced of its lucky qualities.

cybermonkey
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957xp

Really? Looks like a kid in a massive hat. I think Justin might have a very little head…

andrax
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2627xp

hope to see good examples for painting my own stuff – first impression goes well

necrothrall
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8541xp

Those walls look padded to me.

You don’t have to be mad to work at BOW, but it helps

comet5
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3429xp

He’s getting quite the outfit, lucky hat and pinney. What’s next?

dicetimo
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All those minis… Unbelievable I missed the KS, the additional minis and especially the plastic cars and tokens look great!

hazyboy75
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Zenith priming and spot colour works really well

astralwraith
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Truthfully i’m not the fastest of painters (almost glacial if I’m honest) so if I was there all i’d be doing is putting my initials or just a blob of paint on the underside of the bases so I could tell my mini’s from everybody else’s – which takes me back to when I was a kid and my parents used some weird liquid shoe polish to paint the bases of my Airfix soldiers so they could identify mine from the kid’s down the road,

ijontichy
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612xp

These minis are so nice, I can’t wait to splash some paint on them.
One thing I noticed in my early games is, that it gets hard to tell the walkers from the Characters quite fast. So, I would suggest priming the Walkers in a different color right away, if You want to start playing imidietly. Makes things easier.

staxer
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Some many models too paint

jmrecoil
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The models will be fun to paint.

petey9
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1180xp

Looks like there was a really good turnout for the bootcamp

drummer
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474xp

Some people seem really excited to start painting. I would just be gaming. I don’t think I can paint at an event like this. I would be more interested in looking for more potential gamers to play with.

stormshriek
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388xp

I used to think that to, but now I think I’d be just as interested in sitting around a paint table for a few hours and picking up tips and ideas from everyone.

drummer
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474xp

Seems like Mantic has learned to make rules more clearly. Keep up the good work!

wolfkind
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9xp

Great miniatures,still not decided wether to go monochrome or full colour

brand
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While I’m looking forward to getting my Kickstarter goodies, I can’t say I’m looking forward to all the painting. I still have a couple of Frostgrave warbands (and monsters), a couple of This is Not a Test warbands (and monsters), Abyssal and Ogre armies for KoW, and my Kickstarter pledge for Blood Rage waiting to be painted. At this rate, I’ll probably still have unpainted games by the time my Mythic Battles pledge arrives! On the other hand…I have 2 full themed tables for This is Not a Test, a full dungeon set and two tables worth of terrain for… Read more »

tmon
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1736xp

Truthfully I pay a friend to paint my minis. I don’t have the patience or the skill to do good figures justice,

somegeezer
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18425xp

“… and obviously blood” indeed!

fox40
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178xp

A fully painted set would be an awesome thing to have

normandyfan
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910xp

cool

bmat
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67xp

Seeing this always intimidated me… I never paint well but enjoy trying.

skabott
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6xp

These are good minis to paint, lots of nice detail.

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