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I've done several approaches. I made my own jungle terrain/plants from cut and CA-glued paper for a Golden Demon winner: I've also used birch seed pods (on bases below) from Secret Weapon Miniatures (although really anything would work - the leftover seed "husk" from pine cones, ground up dried oregano, loose dried tea, etc. Whatever works best... (And personally, I had no qualms paying for sifted and packaged birch seed pods where someone else did all the work and I was also supporting a friend's company.)
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Pourous and not pourous paints? - need advice from experts
Tinweasel replied to nunorod's topic in The Hobby Room
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For the sake of making the best of a bad situation, I've chopped down an Ice Gamin to size and pinned him to a base. He already sheared off at the ankle where I pinned him to a resin base, and his icicle-wielding hand snapped off mid-forearm - all this after being primed and basically just needing a paint job. Time being limited, I decided to use him cut down on the existing primed base with a few added bits of sprue "rubble" that when all's said and done, he hopefully looks like he's in the process of being "created" from snow and ice. Has anyone else done something like this?
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Thanks for the compliments! Was aiming for a washed-out Soviet green color exactly! The base color I'm using is Vallejo Model Color Soviet Uniform - figgered it would be cool for her outfit, especially painted up with patchy highlighting to look rough. I'm going to do her breeches in a cooler grey-blue color, which I think should fit in with the rest of the crew nicely.
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The above was from a month ago... I've been less than motivated about painting lately, mostly due to recovery from a wrist injury and stress. (I've also been sidetracked by a sudden obsession with the X-Wing Miniatures Game.) I've been trying to make progress on my Children of December Malifaux crew, but due to some serious painter's block, I haven't been able to push past my anxiety to work on Rasputina, who is at least half-finished. Thanks to Shoshie Bauer with a great post on FB about painting and stuff kicking around in my head from watching Ben Komets / Painting Buddha's X-Wing Minis Millenium Falcon tutorial (https://youtu.be/ePsmY27mufo) recently, I actually just snuck in an hour or so of legit painting on Rasputina, some playing around with a fresh new wet palette (I normally use a well palette) and a bunch of stuff pulled from the videos mixed with my existing painting style. I am pleased with the results -essentially from the hem of her coat down (legs as yet unpainted). I'm trying to get somewhat of a worn fabric look in Russian drab colors - oh, and she's also a cannibal. I plan on bumping up the shading contrast a bit more, taking it down to a purple tint to tie her in with the rest of the crew, but that's for later when the rest of her is done. Feedback would be appreciated!
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Pourous and not pourous paints? - need advice from experts
Tinweasel replied to nunorod's topic in The Hobby Room
One thing to point out, since you're mentioning Vallejo Model Color specifically (Deck Tan is one of my favorite colors) is that they are very thick paints and tend to separate and require a LOT of shaking. I have a glass bead as an agitator in all my paint bottles regardless of brand, but it really makes a difference with the VMC paints. The glossiness and porosity you're talking about make it seem like you're brushing on more of the paint binder separated out than you actually are of mixed pigment/binder itself. As for thinning, it really depends on brand, but for even applications of VMC I usually use 1:2 paint thinner for basecoats (I have distilled water, Liquitex Slow-Dri, and acrylic medium in my thinner) and it goes on with reasonably solid coverage. GW, Reaper, P3 - I adjust my thinning for all of those. -
First attempt at painting since getting my cast off my wrist. I was trying to tidy up what I think was a horribly-painted face a few months ago (prompting me to surrender), and I think it's not so bad now. Also added some stains and highlights to the fur trim. Going to get the rest of Rasputina done next. I had to strip the lips and chin back down to the plastic and repaint, as well as cheat and brush plastic cement over to smooth out around the right cheek. Feedback appreciated!
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Here's a pic I posted on my blog/FB page I hadn't shared here, since people had asked what I'd be working on after my Children of December and Translucent Pink Dreamer crew. This is my (posted much belatedly) haul from GenCon - ideally it will all be addressed in time, but in addition to my standard Dreamer crew and my existing Hamelin figures and crew, I've got all this (3 more crews, scenery, crew add-ons, and a few assorted goodies):
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Need to repair one of my Gamin that snapped at the ankles. Hoping to play at least one pick up game - bought crew boxes and the books last year, but I don't have anyone local to game with so GenCon is my hope for a first game.
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General annoyance of the day ..
Tinweasel replied to Nathan Caroland's topic in News, Reviews, & Discussion
"Anonymous" trolls and griefers are why it's so hard to keep nice things on the Internet. http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/free_speech.png -
Thank you very much! My plan all along has been to keep these guys as simple as possible (barring the basing) so I can use them to get playing while I put in more involved work on my actual painted figures. I've been tempted to try partially painting some stuff once those started cropping up, but nah, I'm just going to keep trucking with the washes over the translucent pink and the split-theme base scheme. Faster that way, and I kinda like the way they're turning out. Thank you as well for the compliments! Yeah, with the Ice Golem as a test piece for the rest of Rasputina's crew, I was pretty much using him as a very large experiment for painting ice/crystal. The 'blacklining' you mention isn't actually lining in - I painted this guy mostly with washes and touch-ups afterward for the sake of speed. The creases are actually just shaded on the top side with the darkest color I used (which was turquoise) and possibly some purple - it was only on the underside of the figure that I actually "shaded" intentionally. I also see now from this computer how blurry these pics of the golem are - I've been playing around with a new picture-taking layout since our move in September and it looks like via my actual camera they're still mostly crappy. Anyhow, a more representative picture of him might be found here in one of my earlier posts. As for the green "barrier between worlds," you hit the nail right on the head. The same ice effect I used for the Ice Golem, I decided to sculpt the crushed glass/realistic water medium differently for basing my pink Dreamer crew. A glaze of green/yellow ink and some bleach to fade the color towards the top, and that's pretty much it.
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So a few weeks after we organized the basement and cleared out a lot of the junk that came with us from the move in September, I cleared out my painting space again from the influx of intruding boxes and such. Been on a painting kick lately, but forgot to post it here. Without further ado, a work-in-progress pic of who I think is my favorite out of the Daydreams from the 'Hide and Seek' set:
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I've read through more or less your whole thread and your painting has definitely improved over 3-odd years. The most recent figures are solidly done, and I love the highlights and shading on the Stalkers. The issue with the Handler is not necessarily the painting or the hair color - personally I think if you wanted to put a little more work in and add some glazing to tone down from say the waist downwards, that would draw attention to the face and hair because at present she's painted in all lighter shades from top to bottom. So far as the above pics, I really love the more "pastel" look of the Belle, and I think out of the pictures the very first one shows off the figure the best. I'd recommend maybe a neutral gray background if you've got one. I also see you talking about your photo setup and figgered I'd throw out a link to a light diffusion box I made myself for taking pictures - very cheap to make and still going strong for about 10 years now. (For my own backgrounds, I used to use a blue sheet of paper, then a blue gradient, now I'm using a neutral gray random-pattern image I printed from the Internet on a sheet of printer paper. It really depends on the figure as darker backgrounds play up colors IMO and diminish shading, whereas lighter backgrounds seem to play up contrast and mute colors - the lower ones you posted are way, way too "busy.") http://tinweasel.blogspot.com/2015/03/tutorial-cheap-n-easy-light-diffusion.html
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So I found a local store - Eternal Games in Warren, MI - but the only problem is while they can order Malifaux from several suppliers, have lots of open space, and have some good, friendly staff... they are mostly a MtG and board game store looking to diversify into other stuff. Any suggestions on where to go from here? I contacted staff at Wyrd about how one might go about "developing" a store, but I neither have 2 painted crews nor a "sales pitch" persona to even pretend to Henchman aspirations just yet - I'm an Aspie, go figger. Suggestions, comments, anyone near a northern Detroit suburb who also plays?
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Suggestions for Wyrd's Gen Con 2015 Events and Activities
Tinweasel replied to CaseyJ's topic in Wyrd Announcements
I'm posting this more as a personal thing since 1) I'm in this boat, 2) I'm planning to go to GenCon and 3) I think it would be a good idea/nice: I currently have no local stores where there is Malifaux play (by local, I mean within an hour's drive that has regular Malifaux players doing stuff) and I have zero experience playing other than GenCon demo games (which is what got me into this mess in the first place, so good on you all!) Would it be possible to have tables set up with scenery suitable for walk-up Malifaux gaming, preferably with staff/experienced player support on hand? Although I'm still working on getting at least one of my several in-progress crews finished, I think surely I'll have at least one done and playable by the time GenCon rolls around. Assuming the local scene doesn't improve and I get tired of playing with myself (ha!) or potentially members of my family, would there be ready-to-roll tables for "utter noob" pick-up games? I'm certainly not going to enter a tournament just to be eaten alive, but I'd also like to play with gamers other than people I live with. Does this sound like something Wyrd could have do-able at GenCon? A noob-friendly setup for those with limited experience who'd like to play "for reals" and simply can show up with crews and cards ready to roll? -
Wow, thanks! This is all just stuff I've accumulated over the years since getting back into painting in '05 - like I said at the beginning of my thread, I've never really been able to finish an army for other games and ended up more at the display/competition painting end of things - I keep getting sidetracked into one-offs or playing around with effects, or painting for competitions. Malifaux is my attempt to paint figures up to where I consider them a "good" tabletop standard without sinking in too many hours like I've done with the stuff I normally paint. The Amethyst Wizard above was a one-off piece that somebody gave me already primed black at a bits trading thing years ago - I've never used black primer and up until that guy never painted over black primer, so I just played around to see what I could do with it. (While I like wizards from my DnD days and I have about 1,000+ old lead figures in drawers, I'd never done any modern GW Warhammer figures.) As to what's "next," that's easy. I'm working on Rasputina and crew in the background here. I was painting her up for the Frozen Moments event we had a little while ago, but I messed up painting her face a bit and had to rework that and then ended up going into the hospital for a week... so much for conveniently painting something I was painting anyway that just happened to coincide with a deadline on the Wyrd Forums here. Heh. When I don't feel like prepping plastic, I've already got the Children of December prepped and primed. I'm finishing up Rasputina and then going to work on the rest of those guys. I picked up one of the metal Hamelin boxes during the Black Friday sale as well as the standalone Hamelin figure (because I like the look of him better than the one in the boxed crew), but that's a long ways away - like after I've actually played the game with one of these two crews I'm currently working on. I've got a pack of the metal Daydreams because. Oh, and two of the Miss Ery Teddies. By rights, one of them is my wife's. She has a Mother of Monsters box I'm prepping that she'll hopefully paint (maybe when Hell ices over) and my daughter has a Lady Justice crew prepped that I need to "tidy up" and prime for her to paint (she's 11 and more into Minecraft than minis.) Did I mention drawers and drawers of stuff that isn't Malifaux related?
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Maybe a few, yeah. I'm not trying to spend a ton of time painting up marbles for a base, but I've had suggestions for swirl-patterned ones, cat's eye ones, a larger "shooter" marble, and sneaking an eyeball in. I'm using as a reference picture a bag of marbles from the Australian Children's Folklore Collection (Green Cloth Bag for Marbles), which dates back to the 1870's - http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/itemimages/254/551/254551_large.jpg I also have my own reference pic: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/bwride/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zps4wombutp.jpg It wouldn't be the first time I've painted glass effects: I'm just trying to have a little fun with the Coppelius' base, since the whole point of my doing these translucent figures is that I can get them playable quicker. I already have a regular plastic "Hide and Seek" set that I plan on giving the full treatment to - I just want something to actually game with in a reasonable amount of time as I'm generally a slow-ish painter.
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So I've got 15-20 more loose marbles to paint on Coppelius' base... I'm willing to take requests or suggestions!
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Still very much a work-in-progress, but here's what I've done so far on Coppelius. I was hoping to have everything with him finished by the end of this month, but free time being what it is... I got the basing as far along as I could get it for A Wyrd Place on Facebook's "February Basing Competition" before running out of time. Everything needs to be sealed in order to put down the leaf litter and static grass, which was one problem. And lots of teeny marbles to paint would be the second issue. Anyways, here's some pictures:
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A collection of Tinweasel's Malifaux figures
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From the album: Arcanists
This Ice Golem is my first finished Malifaux figure mounted on a Secret Weapon Miniatures 50mm Town Square base and using the Secret Weapon Crushed Glass Bundle for the ice and snow effects. I had originally entered him unbased (and not as far along) in the 2014 GenCon painting competition. He didn't place or anything, but I was happy to get him entered, since he was the first figure I'd finished after a long period of "artist's block." After GenCon and with a proper base, I added a bit more shading and definition, painted up the base, and used winter basing for the first time. Comments, questions, or feedback appreciated!© Bryan "Tinweasel" Wride
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From the album: Arcanists
This Ice Golem is my first finished Malifaux figure mounted on a Secret Weapon Miniatures 50mm Town Square base and using the Secret Weapon Crushed Glass Bundle for the ice and snow effects. I had originally entered him unbased (and not as far along) in the 2014 GenCon painting competition. He didn't place or anything, but I was happy to get him entered, since he was the first figure I'd finished after a long period of "artist's block." After GenCon and with a proper base, I added a bit more shading and definition, painted up the base, and used winter basing for the first time. Comments, questions, or feedback appreciated!© Bryan "Tinweasel" Wride
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From the album: Arcanists
This Ice Golem is my first finished Malifaux figure mounted on a Secret Weapon Miniatures 50mm Town Square base and using the Secret Weapon Crushed Glass Bundle for the ice and snow effects. I had originally entered him unbased (and not as far along) in the 2014 GenCon painting competition. He didn't place or anything, but I was happy to get him entered, since he was the first figure I'd finished after a long period of "artist's block." After GenCon and with a proper base, I added a bit more shading and definition, painted up the base, and used winter basing for the first time. Comments, questions, or feedback appreciated!© Bryan "Tinweasel" Wride
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From the album: Arcanists
© Bryan "Tinweasel" Wride
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From the album: Arcanists
This Ice Golem is my first finished Malifaux figure mounted on a Secret Weapon Miniatures 50mm Town Square base and using the Secret Weapon Crushed Glass Bundle for the ice and snow effects. I had originally entered him unbased (and not as far along) in the 2014 GenCon painting competition. He didn't place or anything, but I was happy to get him entered, since he was the first figure I'd finished after a long period of "artist's block." After GenCon and with a proper base, I added a bit more shading and definition, painted up the base, and used winter basing for the first time. Comments, questions, or feedback appreciated!© Bryan "Tinweasel" Wride
