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WIP Secret Santa archives

>2025
https://imgur.com/a/I2xxkxJ
>2024
https://imgur.com/a/g7MfJE5
>2023
https://imgur.com/a/e9QOmJJ
>2022
https://imgur.com/a/2OWxHpg
>2021
https://imgur.com/a/TKfeLxU
>2020
https://imgur.com/a/TeduVrJ
>2019 Rebuild
https://imgur.com/a/YmQGN1S
>2018
[UNDERGOING RECONSTRUCTION]
>2017
https://imgur.com/a/qS7PH
>2016
https://imgur.com/a/1fxhq

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Reposting my snails for C&C!

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Almost done with my cawdor trash nun. Any tips or suggestions?

>>97412714
There are some studs on the neck that need to be touched up with some iron, and I would fix the edge highlighting/plaid by edging back in the lines with red

>>97412711
i like them and keep up with it, reminds me of chaos snail art from runequest
>>97412714
my suggestion is she looks great and is done already
you can fine tune her for the next 2 weeks and not be happy so just paint the rim already and give yourself a new challenge

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>>97412777
Thank you! Ill get on that

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One of my boss monsters for the DnD campaign is starting to take shape. Meant to be a severely mutated beholder who is having the eyestalks cut off and implanted in unwilling guards via techno-sorcerous surgery to make a sort of biological central surveillance system.

>>97412825
I wish people were more ashamed of posting their gooner models

Noticed the mold lines on some old primed models are pretty bad, do I need to strip them or can I scrape them down as is?

>>97412825
looks cool

>>97413051
You can scrape them down as is and blast the line with a quick burst of primer or just paint over it and hope it doesn't stand out.

>>97413051
Tbh I would strip it, but you might be able to do >>97413082

>>97413082
>>97413091
desu it's all over the place on one guy specifically and I primed too bright a color anyway, isopropyl works fine right?

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>>97413116
I'm gonna keep shilling this. It just works real good even if it's a pretty penny off ebay and it lasts for a long time.

So I heard you're supposed to 'cure' for 24 hours after spraying primer. Is it the same for the brush painting/priming as well?

>>97413180
I've painted over brush-on primer after like 3 minutes, basically as soon as it was dry, and never had any problems.

So oil washes are:
>finish basecoat
>varnish
>apply wash and wipe off on raised areas
while acrylic wash is:
>basecoat
>apply wash
>paint back original color to raised areas
Do I understand correctly? What's the advantage? Faster or better look?

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>>97412825

>>97413116
Yeah,but if it's resin be careful about warping/bending while soaking

>>97413228
there's no chance of the annoying shininess that you sometimes get with acrylic washes in oil washes (which has made me not really bother with acrylic washes anymore it kept happening to me). The pigments are richer, the ability to wipe it off of raised areas means you can be more accurate and specific with the look, and it's a lot cheaper for me. And you can do cool stuff like streak marks with oils a lot easier, as well as glazes. You can paint on top of the oils with normal acrylics too to get the pure original color back since even when you rub it off it'll be slightly glazed and filtered.

>>97413228
>advantages
Indispensable for doing recess washing on bright colors like white/yellow that would otherwise require multiple layers to fix any wash over spill.

...Any tips on removing lacquer particles off your glasses? Fucking wind.
>Yeah I learned my lesson a hard way. Will order goggles now

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>>97413255
>>97413271
I see, and do I just buy some dark oil paint and then mix it with whatever spirits or should I head to YT and watch some slopper explain it

is it worth to use expensive artist grade oil paint to make wash?

>>97413399
Yes, you should watch a tutorial. Gunpla ones work fine for just basic recess shading/panel lining. For more involved stuff like weathering/filtering check out scale modelling channels.

>>97413399
in a perfect world I'd say get a piece of terrain you don't really care if it looks messy and mess around with a dark oil paint like burnt umber and white spirit (also known as mineral spirits or paint thinner) and try different things. You might be tempted to dilute it way down with the spirit to get it looking like a wash but in my experience that can stretch the pigment way too thin and produce weird capillary textures from the spirit drying, if you dilute it a small amount so that there is still pigment over all the paint you can slop it on and then wipe it away.
Careful of the smell though unless you get odorless thinner.
And yeah if you want more info watch a tuber

what are the differences between oil washing and enamel washing? aside from the type of paint

>>97413320
IPA

>>97413448
>>97413455
thanks, I have some stuff I could try it on

>>97413320
Depends on if they have any special coting on them and if the lenses are actually glass, or just plastic as is common these days.

best option assuming that they are some sort of prescription, and have a basic anti scratch coating, would be to take them into wherever you got them from and ask.

>>97412711
I think you should gloss up the flesh so they look slimy