Hello everyone and Happy New Year. I'm new round these parts and just finding my feet. Mostly I paint 40k, haven't got into gaming side yet. Hoping to push up my painting skills in the new year and get on with learning the art of airbrush. Any pointers would be sweet. Hope you all have great goals for New Year.
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Flow
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That's pretty much it. I think thinning paints was the first big "eureka!" I learned here. It is major.
I'm still struggling with the shade/highlight part.
Tommie Soule
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welcome sir! get stuck in
me_in_japan
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'Allo welcome to the site, and yeah, pretty much what Pegazus said. Reading up on stuff really helped me. There's a huge amount of useful stuff on the site. Practice helps a lot, too, as does posting up your work in WIP threads and listening to crits about it. Good luck, and may 2013 be a year of fine painting for you
welcome to the site, and yeah, pretty much what Pegazus said. Reading up on stuff really helped me. There's a huge amount of useful stuff on the site. Practice helps a lot, too, as does posting up your work in WIP threads and listening to crits about it. Good luck, and may 2013 be a year of fine painting for you
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Thebladesmith@hotmail.com
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Happy New Year. Dont be shy, post picture.
count zero99uk
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Thin paints slightly, dont worry about making your minis look like all the others on this site, practice practice practice. Post your work and dont be affraid to try things.
And have fun.
And have fun.
freakinacage
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Welcome to the forums!
Hi, thanks for all the welcomes and initial tips, they're all great. I generaly manage to overthin my paints and then make a wet mess everywhere. So first task is to look into a wet pallet i think. Any tips would be cool
Ok so trying get some photo's on here, do people normaly upload to photobucket and url them or like i have tried, reduce them down to a nice size and upload them to here.
my hovel of a geek station.
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my new for christmas spraybooth.
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And the fruits of about an hours spraying.
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Ok so trying get some photo's on here, do people normaly upload to photobucket and url them or like i have tried, reduce them down to a nice size and upload them to here.
my hovel of a geek station.
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my new for christmas spraybooth.
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And the fruits of about an hours spraying.
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Flow
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Wet pallets are extremely easy to make and help tremendously. There are a bunch of tutorials around.
What I did was head to Target and bought an airtight tupperware tray (brand Sterlite) with a lid that snaps securely closed. It's maybe 12' by 6" or so. Then I got two sponges that - side by side - filled up most of the floor. Fill the container with water maybe 1/2" or so (enough that the sponges can stay consistently wet). Then, parchment paper - just cut a piece that is the size of the surface of the sponges and lay it on top of them. It'll curl up at first - once it does, flip it over. If it curls up again, just flip it over again. The parchment paper is, of course, your new pallet surface. Soon it'll be fairly snug on the sponges. Then - paint!
When I started using it I was really surprised at how much paint I was saving as it can last for *days*. Also, if you're mixing paints, it ensures that your mix is consistently the same, as you're always using the same paint instead of remixing for different painting sessions.
