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What are you doing today hobbywise?

pyro-dragon said:
I think I need to learn new techniques tbh. I'm still painting like I was 15 years ago, back when there were just acrylic paints and inks. It takes me bloody ages to finish most models and I might depend on dry brushing a bit too much for highlighting.

I always find eyes are the key thing though. If I get eyes that look good then the rest of the model will look fine
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Oof, eyes... Unless it's a special character who really needs the detail, humans don't get to have their eyes done by me. The wash/flesh contrast will give them shadowed eyes that make it clear that's where the eyes are and that they exist, and nobody has complained about that. :-P Lizards and non-humans, I will just colour the sclera and only if the model's eyes are big enough will I do the iris.

I spent an age trying to get eyes done and getting ever more frustrated with the results before the chaps at my FLS told me not to worry about the eyes, as from the distance we usually look at them? We barely register them.
 
J.Logan said:
I spent an age trying to get eyes done and getting ever more frustrated with the results before the chaps at my FLS told me not to worry about the eyes, as from the distance we usually look at them? We barely register them.
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While this is true, there is something deeply rewarding about getting it just right
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(I even tried a bit of eyeliner on this now :P)

My current technique is to get the yellow blobbed on and then the pupil but then go in and clean up. It's easier to paint eyelids neater than the recessed and harder to see eye itself I find.
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Here's what it looks like before the clean up.
I'm usually wearing my 3x zoom lense for this kind of work.

People that add gradients or eye shine are practicing dark witchcraft.
 
pyro-dragon said:
I think I need to learn new techniques tbh. I'm still painting like I was 15 years ago, back when there were just acrylic paints and inks. It takes me bloody ages to finish most models and I might depend on dry brushing a bit too much for highlighting.

I always find eyes are the key thing though. If I get eyes that look good then the rest of the model will look fine
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I made the mistake of going on pinterest. I'll lose a few hours at a time learning how to paint different ways and getting inspiration. I just need a game on the horizon to motivate myself. By itself I'd rather build than paint and it takes a lot to get me to fix older army low level paintjobs.
 
That sounds fun! Today I will bring a whole heap of sprues to the local GW for recycling and get some new paintbrushes. Some of mine are close to 20 years old... Also dressing up some saurus infantry in little outifts :P
 
pyro-dragon said:
That sounds fun! Today I will bring a whole heap of sprues to the local GW for recycling and get some new paintbrushes. Some of mine are close to 20 years old... Also dressing up some saurus infantry in little outifts :p
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I wish one of the stores near me did sprue recycling. I've got bags of the damned things.
 
Tk'ya'pyk said:
I wish one of the stores near me did sprue recycling. I've got bags of the damned things.
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Make some sprue-goo :-P The ultimate in recycling and repurposing.

I've never actually done that myself, but I've heard it is a good way to do some home-crafting. Especially terrain. Can anybody attest to that?
 
J.Logan said:
Make some sprue-goo :p The ultimate in recycling and repurposing.

I've never actually done that myself, but I've heard it is a good way to do some home-crafting. Especially terrain. Can anybody attest to that?
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If done properly it's great. Beware the fumes!
 
pyro-dragon said:
That sounds fun! Today I will bring a whole heap of sprues to the local GW for recycling and get some new paintbrushes. Some of mine are close to 20 years old... Also dressing up some saurus infantry in little outifts :p
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I certainly hope you clipped all the spare bits off to add to your bitz box first... I could never do such a thing until I had first scrounged all the useful bits from said sprues. You just never know when a bit will be useful for a conversion...
 
Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl said:
I certainly hope you clipped all the spare bits off to add to your bitz box first... I could never do such a thing until I had first scrounged all the useful bits from said sprues. You just never know when a bit will be useful for a conversion...
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Of course. My bits box collection grows!
 
J.Logan said:
Make some sprue-goo :p The ultimate in recycling and repurposing.

I've never actually done that myself, but I've heard it is a good way to do some home-crafting. Especially terrain. Can anybody attest to that?
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How many gallons of it do I need? Seriously, I've got piles of the damned things.
 
Built-in primed a lord terminos in sub assemblies.

Began experiments with building two new antioch models.
 
Trying to work my way through my assembly backlog... in the last week, I have built: 1 tzeentch herald on chariot, 3 blue horrors, 3 flamers, 1 exalted flamer, and half of a maw-grunta...
 
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