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What are those small scatter pieces? I'm looking for something like those.
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www.advancedterrain.com/
This stuff is incredible. I bought the whole unpainted set with the combo deal. It's sort of like tire rubber so it can bend, but keeps its shape and won't break at all. Perfect for playing with the kids where brittle, hard plastic like GW's offerings won't survive. Plus I can just dump it in a bin heroscape style. Again...nothing breaks.
www.advancedterrain.com/collections/terrain
I painted it up using that zenithal technique so it was very quick. Here's how I did it on one of the mage knight towers (Also damn near indestructible for like $20 shipped off the 'Bay). I did the same thing for all the Advanced Terrain.
www.tga.community/forums/topic/10222-pai...mment&comment=109051
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I am going to do a simple dark blue (armor/vehicles), orange (helmets/stripes/etc), and gray (weapons/equipment) color scheme that I can do quick. I think I will use strong edge highlights to make it pop to compensate for the speed.
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I am needing to resist my desire to make everything perfect and go for general look. I can always come back and clean it up and add additional touches, but for a tabletop quality figure it looks decent to me. I doubt I will be able to get the Night Spinner completely edge highlighted, but it will still be roughly complete.
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I really don't know why folks fuss so much about doing decals all these different ways with various solutions, fluids, mediums, glazes, etc... I just use water, a brush, and an Exacto and they do just fine.
Now, about those Citadel sprays. I had been reticent because they are STUPIDLY expensive. But I thought I'd try them just for the heck of it with the Dark Imperium stuff so I also have the Death Guard Green. GW is really kind of weird about them...they don't call them primer, there's confusion as to whether or not they can be used to undercoat, are they really just for basecoating, Duncan is talking about how they prime and basecoat in one go, etc...but they seem to work just fine as a primer and basecoat in one. I think they are something like those "paint and primer" combos the big paint companies do. Overall, I've been VERY impressed by their performance and they seem to be a cut above the similar Army Painter stuff. I will say this, the cans are THE BEST EVER. These things have a ridiculous, hair-trigger flow. It REALLY comes out, which is oddly satisfying but it will blow your small base miniatures away. Two passes and you've full got coverage, go back a third to the spots you missed. So I think they're swell, but yeah...$20 a can. That's rough. The stuff also smells WORSE than regular spray. I sprayed some models the other day, about four hours later my wife came home and was asking about the smell and said it smelled like acetone.
On the Ogroid...I know what you mean about the pics (they ALWAYS make everything look worse!) but I can tell you did a really nice job with the blues. It looks like you went with the same tutorial I did. He has a great way to do color blending, it usually requires you do your base colors on both, you have a transition color on each side of the gradient, and then you use a wash or glaze to even it out.
On the sigils...MAN, that was tough. I painted this dude I guess about a year ago and if I knew then what I know now...
Here's the trick for stuff like that. What you want to do- and this is actually pretty hard to do IMO- is paint the inside of the teeny tiny groove WHITE. A layer like White Scar, not Ceramite White. Then you can use a glaze like Guilliman Blue and very carefully lay that into the groove. It will give them that cool glowing effect, which you can enhance by intentionally getting some of the glaze up over the ridge. This is how I do eye lens pretty much 100% of the time now.
Edge highlighting that flame with a little Hellion Green or something like that- a really pale, whitish green- will really pay off. The skull is easy. Agrax Earthshade.
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The thing with the bases is you can put a *lot* of work into them. But in my perspective, basing is a great way to enhance your miniature with *minimal* amount of work. I took the minimal approach.
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Takes about a minute or two of work at most (not counting waiting to dry) and looks great. You can also add some bushes if you're so inclined.
You can do the same thing with Astrogranite + Nuln Oil.
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Silverish/Iron color: base Ironbreaker, wash with Nuln Oil, highlight with Ironbreaker.
Goldish/bronze trim: base Retributor armor, wash with Reikland Fleshshade, highlight with Retributor
I do all my minis like that. paint a base color, use what looks like an appropriate wash, highlight with that same base color. the washes usually darken the original base color so the same color ends up as a natural highlight to itself.
Won't win any competitions, but it is fast and looks great at arm's length on the tabletop.
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