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Author Topic: 18 Oct - Bounty Hunter and friends  (Read 3211 times)

Offline commissarmoody

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Re: 18 Oct - Bounty Hunter and friends
« Reply #15 on: October 19, 2021, 09:29:29 AM »
Diving the bounty hunter and friends, along with the sun cultists.
"Peace" is that brief, glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

- Anonymous

Offline Idle Doodler

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Re: 18 Oct - Bounty Hunter and friends
« Reply #16 on: October 21, 2021, 11:18:36 PM »
I'm sure I've seen somewhere that there may be a female crew box in the works - if that's true, then I will definitely be indulging. Until then, the Frostgrave sets work well enough for sci fi women. I do have a fair stock of metal minis, but plastic's so much easier for kitbashing.

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Barbarian body as a base?

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Cultist bodies work a charm as well.

I've got one Parsec-ed cultist on its way. The fantasy sprues are great for leaning into the grubby sci fi aesthetic, and the surplus arm options on the Stargrave sprues help avoid that niggling voice whispering that I'm 'wasting' figures as I experiment.

Offline Ultravanillasmurf

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Re: 18 Oct - Bounty Hunter and friends
« Reply #17 on: October 23, 2021, 04:42:14 PM »
Nice work and very creative.

Offline sykoholic

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Re: 18 Oct - Bounty Hunter and friends
« Reply #18 on: October 23, 2021, 08:16:00 PM »
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Cultist bodies work a charm as well.



"Not all who wander are lost" - JRR Tolkien

Offline almic85

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Re: 18 Oct - Bounty Hunter and friends
« Reply #19 on: October 31, 2021, 05:00:52 AM »
If you are still trying to get the knack of GW’s contrast paints can I recommend a couple of things.

1/ paint the lowest layer first and then touch up the higher layers with whatever colour you have used as the undercoat. I often find that if you leave the lowest layers till last you end up leaving white spots in the corners and mucking up belts and sashes.

2/ try to do higher layers in darker colours. So sashes and belts usually end up in dark brown, black or dark blue. This helps hide some of the over painting you need to do with lower down (and usually lighter) colours.

3/ have a play with putting contrast paints over different base colours, including silver. You can get some very cool coloured metallic effects by putting bright contrast colours over shiny silver, and can get a very nice dark oiled metal look with black contrast over bright silver.

My hobby plog over on Yaktribe covers my pretty basic attempts to paint Necromunda gangs where I had started with pretty bad ink painting and have ended up with a bit of a hybrid model or traditional and contrast painting that works.

https://yaktribe.games/community/threads/almic85s-general-hobby-plog.8882/post-266000

Offline Idle Doodler

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Re: 18 Oct - Bounty Hunter and friends
« Reply #20 on: December 07, 2021, 12:04:41 PM »
Thanks for the tips! Been practicing more with some of them, and more recently with drybrushing an off-white layer over a black basecoat which helps quite a bit. Even daring to venture into mixing my own colours with inks, matte medium and flow aid.

 

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