Tabletop Warhammer?

JHeaton said:
Yeah. It was late and my desk lamp isn't the best. They're now mostly built, have a very dark grey coat and some lighter grey highlights. Which brings me on to my question...

To those who do highlight their models, how do you do it? So far, I've just painted on the colour near to the edge of armour plates and whatnot. Is this the best way? It doesn't really look too neat. :/
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what i do is paint the base colour, give it a wash of badab black or devlan mud and then go over the original area with my first colour leaving the recesses, then i may do this a second time with a lighter colour, leaving more of the previous colour on the recesses, then i'll do between 1 and 3 edge highlights.

sometimes i'll miss different steps out; no edge highlights on flames of war miniatures for example or my cadians go straight from base colour to edge highlights for their armour;

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i used to do the whole warhammer thing ages ago, got a reasonable large selection of Dark Eldar from 40k and High Elves from the classic. Some fully finished, some half painted and some stuff that never got cut out of the framework. Whats the best thing to do with all the bits i've got if i'm doing a clearout? is any of it likely to be worth anything or do i just chuck it?
 
vincent1989 said:
what i do is paint the base colour, give it a wash of badab black or devlan mud and then go over the original area with my first colour leaving the recesses, then i may do this a second time with a lighter colour, leaving more of the previous colour on the recesses, then i'll do between 1 and 3 edge highlights.

sometimes i'll miss different steps out; no edge highlights on flames of war miniatures for example or my cadians go straight from base colour to edge highlights for their armour;

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Ah. What you've done with the Cadians is sort of what I've done, I just don't have a particularly steady hand so a lot of it looks quite rough. I can touch things up later on, but for some reason it doesn't look so good. I do wonder if that might be because the base colour and highlight are too far apart, though. I tried to copy the style shown in some of the tutorials on the GW site for Ultramarines and the colours there are closer together... :/
 
I've been out in the garage a bit the past couple of days and managed to do all the metal on the undersides of 30 drones with the AB, and the first coat on most of everything else for at least one side (i need to flip them over and do the reverse side), and 3 of the crsis suits are fully greyed up (I need to do the secondary colours with a hairy brush).
About 3-5 minutes per Crisis suit to do the primary colour is nice and quick...

About 2 hours (plus cleaning time and 90 minutes of masking), to do what would have taken about a week or more of my brush painting...Which is why I bought the airbrush.

I also found out why my AB has been feeling a bit stiff, I gave it a squirt of liquid reamer down the needle passage and the next time I ran the (cleaned) needle through it came out with little chunks of dead paint on it - I think when the brush was newer and I was still learning I must have managed to get paint into the rear of the brush, which has been getting worse.
I've now ordered a tool to help remove the needle seal and some spare seals for if I need to replace the seal or give it another better clean :)
 
What tools would you guys say is essential to get the models nice and clean? Sometimes the moulds still have plastic and I assume a knife would do or just a round metal file for my metals but anything else would be handy to hear.

I've got a round twenty moror orcs to paint and no idea how I'm going to tackle it colour wise.
 
Essential tools?
A sharp knife or two (with spare blades) - I use a Swan Morton scalpal and keep a bunch of spare Swan blades for my main knife, and a couple of poundshop cheapies for stuff that I know is going to knacker the blade (for example when I'm fitting magnets and need to separate two that have got stuck together).

Some needle files - I tend to use a flat and half round.

Some sandpaper/sanding sticks, I use a fairly high grit (fine) paper with one of those ink/pencil erasers (the sort that are white and blue/grety with angled ends) as a sanding block.

I know a lot of people get away with just a sharp knife, but for things like tanks I think you definitely need more.
 
Werewolf said:
Essential tools?
A sharp knife or two (with spare blades) - I use a Swan Morton scalpal and keep a bunch of spare Swan blades for my main knife, and a couple of poundshop cheapies for stuff that I know is going to knacker the blade (for example when I'm fitting magnets and need to separate two that have got stuck together).

Some needle files - I tend to use a flat and half round.

Some sandpaper/sanding sticks, I use a fairly high grit (fine) paper with one of those ink/pencil erasers (the sort that are white and blue/grety with angled ends) as a sanding block.

I know a lot of people get away with just a sharp knife, but for things like tanks I think you definitely need more.
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Just for troops, what do you use for what out of interest?
 
Just spent all day cleaning up Space Marine legs (amongst doing bits of work here and there). I never used to clean the models up before assembly, so I didn't really know what to expect, but it seems to take me quite a long time! Does anyone else find this?
 
matt0r said:
Just for troops, what do you use for what out of interest?
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For troops generally the knife (be careful!) for the mold lines and possibly a small flat file is enough to clean up.
I think my brother just uses the knife for troops, but I tend to prefer a file.


Jheaton, It can take ages for me to fully prep a model before undercoating, it depends a lot on how i'm feeling, how complex the model is, and how easy it is to get to the mold lines etc.
 
Predicament said:
Its depressing to see 40 y/o men playing with toys :rolleyes:
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It's depressing to see people trolling...the "toys" require a reasonable amount of skill to assemble, many similar methods for painting to those used in other "more grown up" hobbies, and require a good amount of statistical, mathematical and tactical thought to use properly...(IE you've got the choice of two units going up against a particular type of army, do you go for the higher value per model unit that has a better chance per roll of hitting, but a bigger loss if knocked out, or the model that has less chance per roll of hitting individually but you can take more of them...).
 
Werewolf said:
Jheaton, It can take ages for me to fully prep a model before undercoating, it depends a lot on how i'm feeling, how complex the model is, and how easy it is to get to the mold lines etc.
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Ah, okay. Thought it was just me being too fussy at times. :)

Still loads to do. Didn't realise there were so many bits in the SM Battleforce. >.>
 
Got an urge to paint some models a little while ago, not touched any in years.
Sold most of my gw stuff years back too, but decided to get Vampire counts army again.
Went down the Mantic Games route for models, they look better than the GW skellies and zombies and massivly cheaper :)

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Now just another 300 models to paint :o
 
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