hrm. maybe i kinda feel like it actually brightened the back of the power armor

maybe it's the lighting (in the last photo) but i feel like i lost some of the value differential between the highlights of the edges and the darker pockets

to my naked eyes it looks about the same tho xD

anyway apparently varnish might take /days/ to fully set?

so maybe it'll change over time xD

GUESS I'LL FIND OUT

it definitely did not dry as cloudy as it looked in the shot glass before i brushed it on

also it was foamy as fuck but all the bubbles popped i guess

i did try to poke them while brushing but... there were a lot of bubbles

kinda wondering if i can paint over it, then re-varnish later

i assume i can, but also it's probably not as good of a primer as literal primer

web resin builder for rpg characters

neat

https://eldritch-foundry.com/creator

I CAN GIVE HIM A BELLY

WHAT A WASTE

AFTER LOSING SO MUCH WEIGHT

you have a pretty fine degree of control over the stuff attached to you, can move around your helmet and stuff

avoid clipping? add clipping? you do you, they just print it xD

you can sorta hide it with arm positioning and moving the grenade to clip through the thumb more or less out of view lol

bad feels tho

mmm... the lack of white is coming to bite me

mutant hound teeth and deathclaw claws xD

Trying the whole layering thing

Not going well lololololol

Also I don't have white but I have a "heavy gray" which is quite light...

Okay this is shit but I think I figured it out

When artists say use a few layers it's like when chefs say use a pinch of salt or a bit of butter or a clove of garlic

They are lowballing the fuck outta you xD

starting to feel like 90% of painting miniatures is learning to thin paint appropriately for the task at hand

is this why everyone uses airbrushes xD

honestly i feel like a large part of my dissatisfaction with this is how shiny they are lol

and the one hard directional light is not helping xD

not sure that "ultra matt" varnish is gonna help either but i'll prolly do bases and varnish tomorrow

i bought more fallout minis because they were 20% off, no tax, and free usps shipping

what can i say i am scum lololol

they shipped this morning, and via usps! \o/

+1 for cmo games

i ordered more paint

like. white paint

i can't believe i didn't order white paint the first time lololol

also got a chance to get more of the paint i know imma use on the rest of my minis, and the ones in the mail

that fluorescent green is actually pretty baller

I'm not saying I'm done with these yet, but I am saying these are killing me lolololol

Lessons learned:

1) holy fuck light paint on dark paint is a nightmare,
2) I am very bad at two texture bases, and
3) the difference between intentional disorganized chaos that looks good, and accidental paint splatter, is probably skill and experience

a lot of the fallout warfare mini bases are quite nice and you can do stuff with them

and then the hounds are like a flat patch of dirt with a slightly raised paved road or something

part of the problem is also i primed it all black, and then while i highlighted the hounds more brightly, the undersides were quite dark, so then... i didn't want the bases also dark

the point is i suck at this and don't plan anything in advance lololol

i swear to god the fucking spine spikes on the deathclaw killed me

absolutely wrecked me

i wanted them to be bright fluorescent green

but every coat it looked great... until it dried. then it looked like dark shit

light on dark

over and over i put like a dozen coats of that fucking paint on and it did not improve

eventually used a bright yellow

same deal with the rim of the deathclaw base

that was black primed and fluorescent green will not do fucking shit on it

i layered yellow on it, then tried to layer the green

what is pictured is like 6 layers of green

it will not fucking work lololol

In an effort to murder me, dogmeat's right front paw is not touching the base

At all

can i leave it black? yes

will it look totally fine as black since his paw would shadow that area anyway? yes

will i leave it black? yes

will i personally be annoyed? oh yes xD