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also, why is paint so grainy?

Nameless wrote:also, why is paint so grainy?

Simple answer is crappy preparation and poor airbrush skills on my parts. Now the first trooper is more or less finished. Basically just the bullet coating left since it's a gaming piece.I cleaned up the runaway red and some of the grainy areas, added transfers and some battle damage and dirt.

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For a gaming piece and test model I'm fairly pleased, and the transfers turned out far better the expected... I will have to work on the neatness and shading of the yellow for the next ones, but all in all I think it would look decent on the battlefield. I'm not sure I like the base, but it looks decent IRL. Any suggestions on that part?

This will probably be my last post showing work for a few weeks. I'm getting married in the middle of august, and the planning is starting to take up more and more time...

another marriage on CoC! may we come?
good luck!

Looking good on your army start. Congrats on the up coming nuptials!

are you going to accept Gareth's challenge?

mahon wrote:are you going to accept Gareth's challenge?

As I said before this is not a Gareth challenge. I have a feeling it will be more like 7 months then 7 weeks If I had more spare time to paint (and enough money to buy the army in one go) I would gladly have taken the challenge but as life is at the moment this is a long-term project

Thanks for the congrats both of you, and truth be told replacing some relatives you just "have to" invite with nice people instead isn't such bad idea

I actually managed to get the first squad base coated before I packed up the painting gear for a few weeks, and nine figures in just about 2hrs (4-5 coats of yellow on black base) feels pretty good. Long live the airbrush! The smoothness of the finish is much better than the test marine but of course I managed to forget a few mold lines