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

Tedious

Very tedious xD

💀💀💀

Honestly things are going too well

Might as well take a photo before I fuck it up xD

My detail brush's tip is fucked tho. The soap trick does not work

think imma stop for now

i put a cover over my HELLO KITTY wet palette loosely. need to figure out how covered that thing needs to be to last overnight tho >.>

assuming everything goes well tomorrow i wanna try washing these then drybrushing

hoping tomorrow is a productive day

if i finish dogmeat as well i'll have 4 more minis left from that 2 player set i bought

what the fuck man lol

wild shit

https://np.reddit.com/r/Warhammer40k/comments/13utk9x/smallest_marine_i_have_painted_so_far/

the colors are mostly for show. you can get a 2d printing of it in color, but not a painted 3d mini

also heroforge only seems to offer minis in 30mm scale

you can order the stl file and print it yourself or third party tho

yesterday: base coat perfection

today, after drying overnight: terrible. model showing underneath. pain too thin in splotches. must repaint like a third of the base coat

Touched up

Experimenting slightly with highlights and dry brushing before doing a wash which I will probably fuck up

alright washing in sections, with non-black colors, with the mini in different positions because gravity, etc sounds way too complicated lol

BLACK WASH. ALL AT ONCE

LOL YOLO

i bet stormtroopers are a motherfucker to paint

white armor

fuck off lololol