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This is hands down my favorite gelatinous cube ever.

Here is a Sanguinary Guard I painted up for fun. Ended up putting way more time than I cared to. I am reasonably happy with how they came out. I learned alot in the process of painting these.

Everything is better with tentacles.

Ah I love these!

Thanks everyone for the kind words. I made the tentacles out of apoxie sculpt and after painting I used two part epoxie from guerilla glue and tamiya red ink to tint it. Had to work in small batches because it starts to set in only a couple minutes. I have to try and retake the pics. The blood has a nice see through property that the pics don't show. I also hollowed the base and used cork to make the stonea and filled the rest with blood. Rofl at the comments, also.

Might as well chuck this in here. I will try and get some better pics over the weekend from more angles. Still trying to figure out the pic taking thing.

Well after moving and some much needed meds, I am back to painting and more focused than ever. Totally loved this piece and still hate taking pics of minis. I love macro photography in nature and wish it was that easy. LoL.

Fantastic work! What mini is that gator? I love it!

Well I am pretty sure there goes another $100 some dollars out of my wallet. Still resisting the urge to push the pledge button though.

Well, after a bunch of coats it seems to be holding better. My paints have some funny characteristics sometimes and I wonder if maybe it was just a bit too thin right out of the bottle? Oh well, at least I am learning alot of new stuff and feel much better about my buttload of KS round two minis that I ordered.

This thread has been so darn informative. Thank you all so much for you input. Alot of my worries about bones have really been allieviated.

Thanks, Last Knight. I will take that into consideration

I think I will try the reaper brush on primer. Now to get away from my anal need to seal everything. For the thicker less flexible pieces, I know it will be fine, but I worry about the more flexible pieces. Like the wings on the patherfinder red dragon, which are like rubber pieces. LoL. I guess it is gonna be a whole new learning experience for me. Thank you everyone for your input. I will continue to experiment with the paints I use and see what happens. To clarify, I don't mind buying new paint to add to the collection, I just didn't want to have to rebuy all new paints just to paint my kickstarter bones. Either way I have plenty of time to figure it out before next November!

Pingo, I have used these on plastic, resin, and metal minis without a single issue. All primered of course. Also, I do use these for flat paintings. Laoke, I did not thin the paint. Cel Vinyl paints usually have a pretty nice smooth consistency all by themselves with very little thinning needed. I will thin them out for wet blending and stuff like that though.

Hey all. I finally got moved into my new house and finally have a dedicated art room for myself. I have beem dying to get back into painting again and got all setup. I had a few bones sitting around and just dropped a nice chunk on the new KS, so I thought I would start practicing with them. I have been painting for about 14 years and have never had an issue like this before. I knew that some spray primers can make a bones mini sticky, and that bones are designed to be painted directly. So I proceeded to clean the mold lines and washed it twice with soap, water, and a toothbrush. I let it dry over night. I gave it an initial coat of paint this morning at about 7 am. Later after it had dried, at about 2pm I gave it a second coat. I noticed that anywhere i touched it even lightly the paint would wipe right off. Well after the second base cost had dried, I tested it again and the same thing. Any thoughts?I know I prepped it properly, cleaned it just like I always do, and other than priming treated it just like any other mini I have done. I am using Cel Vinyl paints. They are a vinyl acrylic copolymer paint. I really don't want to buy new paints until these are gone. I have about $700 tied up in these paints and have used them for years without issues. Any suggestions for maybe a primer that works really well with bones?

Fantastic! I love the crawling dragon look.

1.) How could you not love that? 2.) Also one of my new favorites: http://www.youtube.com/embed/eELH0ivexKA

I did notice that my other background made the white balance issue so much better.

Actually that yellow jacket was only a few inches from the lense. A 105mm Nikon macro lens. It was a cold morning so it was really slow moving.

Painted this up for the spring cleaning mini exchange. Once again I was super happy with the paint job and frusterate with the pics. I used woodland scenics water effects for the basing. Also I included a picture of a yellow jacket that I took, to show that I can actually use a camera. LoL.

Alright. Painted mini is shipped out, with a completely random mix of older minis I had in my collection. Hope the receipent doesn't mind stripping a few minis of black paint. Dusty, I will be sure to post pics once I get them painted. However at the rate that I paint it might be years. Lol.

I got this! Thank you! It's fantastic! On the shelf next to the other exchange minis I have received in the past.

Well I am late in getting this done. The basing layers took so much longer to clear up than I thought. Hopefully will have this shipped out monday at latest.

Hopefully I'll have everything done and pictures taken this weekend!