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

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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

i will cast brainstorm all day idgaf

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Hrm. I mean yeah the wash was weak but some darkening in folds and cracks did happen

This was like 2 washes

One of the mutants has an exposed back and I feel like mixing in a wild gray would make it look like a weird semi translucent vein thing going on

Or look terrible lolololol

Hmmm I dunno

Feel like the wash/shadows came out way wrong

Drybrushing kinda fun tho