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Post subject: Do You Like to Paint?  Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2003 3:30 pm |
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Whenever it is cold here, although not as cold as in Finland, I spray in the garage (while wearing a mask), with the door open, if it's not too cold, and bring it in to dry...
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Post subject: Do You Like to Paint? Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 3:19 pm |
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I find that a warm sunny day with a slight breeze is best for spray painting outside. I leave them outside to dry. ?
If it is very hot, I'd bring them in to dry if painting plastics.
But metal should be all right... 
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Post subject: Do You Like to Paint? Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 4:56 pm |
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All my F/W resin, save for the Manta will be hand-painted.
And I'll spray them with clear flat outside in a box so the spray does not blow them away, then bring them inside to dry. ?
Yes, I know Western Europe is getting hit with a "heat wave" on an unprecedented level.
I've been lucky and the huge "black out of 2003" missed us, but my garage got slightly "flooded" by weeks worth of monsoon-like rain. I needed to clean out the garage anyway! ?
I set up a nice "Painting Station" in there for inclement weather. ?
Much better than the "ad hoc" set up I had before!
However it is a sunny 80+ degrees here and I'm about to turn on the AC! ?
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Post subject: Do You Like to Paint? Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2003 4:02 pm |
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I'll hand paint most of my Epic F/W resin with a touch of "flow enhancer." I used to hand paint all my Epic then hit them with Clear Flat spray. Now I base coat, usually black, gray, or tactical colors. I wash with black or brown or both, depending on the base color. Then dry-brush, detail and add transfers... ?
Unfortunatley weather is always is a factor. I spray base coat a lot of models during nice weather, so I always have a reserve on the production line. I'm still slowly working thru my E-40K Orks... like a snail on a hot day! 
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Post subject: Do You Like to Paint? Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2003 9:22 pm |
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| Quote (Legion 4 @ 24 2003 Aug.,08:02) | | Unfortunatley weather is always is a factor. I spray base coat a lot of models during nice weather, so I always have a reserve on the production line. I'm still slowly working thru my E-40K Orks... like a snail on a hot day! |
That is one nice part to living in SoCal. I have more "good days" then bad weather days. Guess I am lucky that way.
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Post subject: Do You Like to Paint? Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2003 11:15 pm |
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We get snow, rains, flooding and now Blackouts !!! I'm expecting Locusts next ! 
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Post subject: Do You Like to Paint? Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2003 1:43 am |
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| Quote (Legion 4 @ 24 2003 Aug.,15:15) | | We get snow, rains, flooding and now Blackouts !!! ?I'm expecting Locusts next ! ? |
And who did you anger? 
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Post subject: Do You Like to Paint? Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2003 2:45 am |
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Post subject: Do You Like to Paint? Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 1:31 pm |
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| Quote (Athmos @ 15 2003 Aug.,11:05) | | I can't realy tell about wife and children and such since i only got back to the hobby recently and in fact had just start assembling my new epic army... but my wife certainly look at me like if i came fromanother galaxy when she saw that i was actually adding small modification (tabards on every single marine i do) to 6mm minis... |
Hey athmos...Ive been thinking about doing this to a few Command figures for DA...can you detail what and how you make the tabards?
Would be a good way of making SoB too...
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Post subject: Do You Like to Paint? Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 2:23 pm |
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| Quote (Tas @ 17 2003 Oct.,13:31) | | Quote (Athmos @ 15 2003 Aug.,11:05) | | I can't realy tell about wife and children and such since i only got back to the hobby recently and in fact had just start assembling my new epic army... but my wife certainly look at me like if i came fromanother galaxy when she saw that i was actually adding small modification (tabards on every single marine i do) to 6mm minis... |
Hey athmos...Ive been thinking about doing this to a few Command figures for DA...can you detail what and how you make the tabards?
Would be a good way of making SoB too... |
The way I currently make tabards etc:
1: spread some vasaline over a surface & roll out a thin sheet of green stuff.
2: Leave for 2-3 hours so the epoxy starts to cure
3: Cut out the size tabard you require. Cut it larger than the gap you have so you can add folds etc.
4:Apply to figure, bending into position.
5: Use a wet cocktail stick to squash one end / area onto the main armature so it stays in place. This can sometimes need a little touching up.
6. Final details (folds etc) can now be sculpted on using a moist needle.
ta da!
Using this method with the big thin sheet also means you can create lots of tabards at once if you're doing an entire army._________________ Cheers, Paul "TuffSkull" T. http://hobbybrush.com - My New Website, with thousands of painted Mini Pics :) http://hobbybrush.blogspot.com - My Hobby Blog TuffSkull's notepad- My Old Blog on Wargames Wiki.
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Post subject: Do You Like to Paint? Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 5:00 pm |
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i'm afraid i'm not as skillfull as tuffskull.
I simply roll out a thin sheet of green stuff on a wet surface (vaseline might probably work better, but water seems sufficient for me to prevent the GS from sticking too much on the flat surface).
I then cut the tabards with an X acto knife;
And then apply on the mini. I do this by picking the GS bit, and then aaply it onto the mini, with about the same ethod as Tuffskull.
Only then i let it cure a little before corecting any little deformation that occured during the "applying" and add more details if i feel lucky enough not to bust all my work doing so. That's the main difference with Tuffskull method (plus the fact i don't let it cure before) 
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At least thats my excuse atm 
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