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@biggabum shading black and grey up and down form the same basecoat wouldn’t have occured to me, results look great so have to say the approach has worked a charm. Hrm… Mattys silence is bought cheaply. I’d have held out for 3 Freddos and a Mars bar… Yes the Army Painter tins are a varnish, they smell terrible, are sticky and will make a mess of anything they contact. However if dipping and flicking off the excess one tin will do 150-200 minis very quickly. If you brush it on it will last even longer. Once the varnish is dry up pretty well protects the min so just hitting it with the matt coat to dull down the shine should be fine.
@dawfydd that reminds me, one of my work colleagues was very excited as they are bringing out a lego Voltron kit soon apparently… Wow, I’m not going to count then but that is looking close to a company of Primaris? That will be some serious batch painting… Good progress on the knights – great looking colour scheme too, should be really striking on the larger canvas that the minis provide.
@woldenspoons ah fair enough. Well the coverage looks great and I can’t see any apparent loss of detail so well played 🙂 Congrats on the win, it’s nice when a plan works. Sorry to hear your opponent may have gotten a little disheartened. Nice new shinies!
@tuffyears looks like it was a glorious day for an air show 🙂 Nice finishing touches on the guard and objectives. Guard addiction doesn’t seem to be too bad a ting given the list of addictions people could develop. At least that’s what I use to convince myself when I try to organise my piles of shame… New cruiser looks like a cinematic mashup between the Blues Brothers and Mad Max. Well played 🙂
@oriskany impressive nonetheless. I really like the shop designs for your game too – they have a sense of weight to them (which I know makes no sense as they are in space, but I’m sure you appreciate the point i’m attempting to make…). It’s nice that your gaming group is working towards a game that they enjoy playing. I know from DMing RPG’s a fair bit it can be less of ‘working towards a game everyone enjoys’ as opposed to ‘here’s the leftovers which aren’t on the list of things I have sworn I will never try again’ 😛 How are you feeling on the no carb diet?
@limburger cold salad recipes are making me hungry! Congrats on getting the generator rolling. Yse does look authentic 🙂
@mage post your hobby updates or we will collectively badger you! And it won’t be a pleasant badgering either…
How was the movie? Still haven’t gotten around to seeing it. The Wasp is my GF’s favourite character from the comics so we’ll probably heading in shortly.
@paul Mills welcome! Not really familiar with the 2000 AD stuff but the mini is coming along nicely.
@torros went looking for the recipe and got distracted by the many pretty armies… Thanks for sharing the link 🙂
Got my first scenery piece for Kill Team printed and glued together.
Designed it so it can be broken apart for easier storage and also used for smaller bits of scatter terrain if needs be.
Pieces have been primed in AP skeleton bone and are presently settling.
Also got my Voltigeurs up to the varnishing stage.
And started touching up the 2 units of savage orcs.
And my redcoats with the shade starting to settle. Just need to overbrush the flesh tones and pick out the white a little more and then should be good to base.
No progress on my Death Guard. Had a really good look at the models and was surprised by how much detail was on them. So going to look at what other people have done with these and hopefully steal a few ideas for inspiration. Also didn’t progress my terrain challenge project – may need to wait until next weekend as this next week is going to be a big one work-wise…
ref painting yellows a great way I found, and have been using on my Nomads for Infinity, is prime (or base coat) in a colour like skeleton bone> Where you want a deeper, richer yellow add, a layer of something like Iyanden Darksun or Averland Sunset> Hit the whole model with a wash of Agrax Earthshade> Once dry apply a second wash (more of a heavy glaze really) using a yellow ink/wash – I was using the old white screw top GW Yellow Ink until it dried out but Cassandora Yellow works as well, and I’ve a couple of others I’m looking to try. In general though it gives a nice mustardy-yellow colour with a slight gloss finish:
@evilstu yeah, the Voltron ’84 Lego kit is a bit of a beast. Unsurprisingly the legs of the combined mode are pretty much solid, but man it looks good (and probably ruinously expensive…) 🙂
@biggabum patience and using the sculpted panel lines was all that was. I’m not going to be attempting any diagonal lines or anything as I know my skill level (and another reason for picking Mortan as my knightly house – nothing to fancy to worry about in terms of patterning).
@mage not really got an answer for the first two questions, this week, but for the third it really does depend on how it’s implemented, is it distracting or does it still remain true to the setting?
Take Infinity- especially in recent years homages to pop culture have become far more common than they used to be, in part due to the increased level of detail & fidelity made possible by digital sculpting. For the most part these tend to be fun little easter eggs and shout outs to the inspirations of the setting (the Kuroshi Rider and Ryuken Unit-9 from the JSA army pack being obvious examples, but things like the Highlander Galwegans all resembling fictional Scots, Van Zant being Matthew McConaughey from Reign of Fire) but sometimes they can be a tad distracting (Moderators as the GOTG and Die Morlock Gruppe as the Suicide Squad come to mind..).
Been up an hour. Got this done in that time. Got to tidy up black and white . Then weather it.
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