morganm

I had a similar thought not long ago. More for specialized paint products. Things like Liners, Clear Colors, Additives, and even some triads. Something that explained exactly the intended use of these products and maybe some alternative uses of them. Maybe on the website there would be a little icon next to the paint product you could click on and it would give an explanation of the product and intended uses (maybe even a caution for something like the potency of anti-shine additive or to shake your brush on sealer very well before every use) That way people could understand a product and say "yeah, that's what I need!" and buy it. Instead of looking at something called 'clear colors' and think "what the heck is that and why would I ever buy it?" The pinned threads are really not a very well organized way of getting product information to customers.

I figured... why not just ask him?

Nice! What did you use to notch out that dowel? Looks like a funny shape to try and make with any larger saw (jig, recipricating, etc..)

Do you end up painting pretty much each scale individually? Coming alone real nice! I don't see the shade shifting you referred to. Am I missing something or is it very subtle? Would love to see it in person! Do you allow tours of your studio? =)

I have the same problem; the air in my house is very dry. The paint dries so fast! (including primers) I do agree with Derek though; a larger pool of paint in a well will not dry out as fast as a small amount. I usually make more paint than I need. It feels like a waste of paint, and I hate doing it, but if I don't I just end up wasting paint anyway because it dries up so fast in the palette wells.

I love the correlation between the personality you show for Glitter in your post and the final shot with her regal, haughty, posture. Oh, and the painting is fabulous as well =)

T pins fit perfectly in to the dropper tip. I rarely have to take the tip off.

Finished Tsuko and Laruana! Time to move on to some kobolds.

Too right; all of the strokes on the loincloth were vertical (For the highlighting that is). Thanks for the tips on brush strokes; I'll have to refer back to this thread and re-read it to fully digest what you're describing. About the brushes... I've gone through at least 3 sets of brushes on these figures before I got the nice DaVinci's. I had tried the eyes a couple times with crappy brushes. Tried again with the nice brushes, and it did help, but I could tell I just wasn't going to get them any better with out lots more practice. So I decided to call them "good 'nuf" and just move on with the models. Lots of room for improvement there on the next models =) Thx for the tips!

I'd love to get 10 done this year! I probably will; just not 10 figures. I usually get a lot of props done. Thanks all :D

Well; only took about a year =P In total I'd guess about 16-20 hours of painting spread out over the last year. I'm happy with how they turned out but obviously need lots more practice =^.^=

Here's the final WIP shots of Laruana. All that's left here is the scroll, base, and rock under her foot.

Final shots of this WIP. We'll start with Tsuko. He's almost done; just need to highlight his weapon and do the base.

I must assume that you are too young to have actually been an old-school roleplayer. I can assure you (from far too much experience) that OD&D had at least as many rules arguments and as much munchkinism as even the most rules heavy system later created. And role-playing (of the sort that amateur thespians seem to prefer in RPGs) was far more a second-generation-game phenomenon than first generation. Still, at this point, 2nd gen is probably ancient to all you whippersnappers. Oh, and "Get off of my lawn!" I don't have to explain what assuming does =P Couldn't be more wrong; I actually cut my RPG teeth on 2nd edition. You inadvertantly prove my point. By the time 2nd ed. came out, the first of the 2nd gen RPGs were at least 10 years old and I had been playing D&D for 13 years. AD&D 2nd was very much more invested in role playing and rules than was OD&D. By the time that all the 1st ed. books were out, I had largely drifted away from D&D, though I still followed it a bit and played the occasional game. Traveller, C&S, Runequest, Champions ... all were much more interesting to me by then. We argued constantly (an artifact of horrifically written rules in part, but not in whole). We worked out cunning wheezes of the sort that are common on WotC's charop board now, though certainly less complex than some of them. We rolled dozens of characters for each character played (3d6 in order, remember). We took the same characters from one GM to another, and some of those GMs were the worst sort of Monty Haul examples (80th level MU, anybody?). When you say "old school", realize that there might be schools older than yours. (FWIW, I never played from the beige box, and never really used 2d6 for D&D combat; my school isn't the oldest either.) ps. If you think that "elf was a class" means "old school", you're wrong. If you think that an old school bard was some other class first, that's wrong too. I never said, and I don't see how I even insinuated, how what I thought was 'old school' was the only school of old. The original poster asked what I thought old school was and I gave my opinion; then you quote me and went on some tangent about how I don't know what old school is. I think by saying things like "if you think elf was a class means old school, you're wrong" insinuates that your point of view on old school is the only genuine one...

I must assume that you are too young to have actually been an old-school roleplayer. I can assure you (from far too much experience) that OD&D had at least as many rules arguments and as much munchkinism as even the most rules heavy system later created. And role-playing (of the sort that amateur thespians seem to prefer in RPGs) was far more a second-generation-game phenomenon than first generation. Still, at this point, 2nd gen is probably ancient to all you whippersnappers. Oh, and "Get off of my lawn!" I don't have to explain what assuming does =P Couldn't be more wrong; I actually cut my RPG teeth on 2nd edition. Really didn't stop playing AD&D until 2007. Sorry I'm not old enough, or cool enough, to have played 1st edition. I guess we gamed differently; we didn't really debate over rules or argue with the DMs interpretation of the rules. Sure we'd have some rules lawyering but it was very rare. With 3.5 we would literally spend hours of game time looking up crap and debating about it. As DM I had to spend stupid amounts of time preparing for each game. Now with Md20 it feels way more like gaming of decades past; maybe not for everyone but it does for me.

That's so esoteric Lars =) Love it! I would only add: More pizza around the table than rule books. More role playing and less rules lawyering. I love Microlite d20 because it can facilitate an 'old school' gaming experience but it's compatible with modern gaming content. Plus it's easy enough to adapt old school gaming content on the fly. We've played some classic AD&D modules, D&D 3.0 & 3.5 modules, and new Paizo Pathfinder modules/scenairos.... it works just fine with all of them.

What is the Legion of Justice and Caeke? A comic, game setting, short story, novel, tv show.... or some whole bit of fiction created by Reaper? All I can seem to find about the Legion of Justice and Caeke when I do a web search are discusions about Reaper releasing the minis. I think these would be fun to game with younger kids. Or maybe they could fit nicely into a Mouse Guard game.

I'd love to see how you painted something that great in just 6 hours! I suspect that it's mostly due to experience and skill =)

I tried brake fluid because I had plenty laying around. Even after days of soaking then hours of scrubbing it barely removed half of the paint and primer. Bought some Citristrip gel and after only 2 hours of soaking in that stuff the paint just wipes off! AMAZING! This was on metal minis only.

Another 2 hours and now all I have left to do on Tsuko and Laruana are the brocolli bases :D

Put in another couple hours on Tsuko and Laurana!

Goals: - Finish Tsuko and Laurana - Start something else

Put in several hours of painting this weekend. Mostly on Learn To Paint Kit #2 but also finished up some more props.

Tsuko again... Cloth is done, straps are done, and base coat on part of his weapon. The cloth is turning out OK; not as nice as the blue on Laruana but good enough. Took another stab at his eyes... bleh... The new brushes helped but didn't make any miracles =) Speaking of which; it's been a lot more fun painting now that I'm not fighting crappy brushes.