My First Venture into Miniature Painting

By ghotio, in Mansions of Madness

At Christmas a friend got a present from his wife to go on a miniature painting course ... so naturally I accompanied him.

The table top war game I play is X-wing where the models come pre-painted so the only thing I had were my MoM figures. I chose the Star Spawn...

5 hours in total, airbrush priming, hand brush there after.

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Really nice! I hope to be able to get some nice results using my airbrush on the Star Spawn too. :)

Great job! Especially considering you're rather new to the hobby! Please post some more minis once you're done with them!

29 minutes ago, Julia said:

Great job! Especially considering you're rather new to the hobby! Please post some more minis once you're done with them!

I have an airbrush coming next week so fingers crossed I should have something soon.

Airbrush... Tick

Paint... Tick

Homemade Paint Station...

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Pretty! I usually just tape two frozen pizza boxes together. :P

What kind of airbrush do you use? I have never used one but would like to try.

I got an Expo Tools starter kit off of ebay.

so far I have used it for priming only

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19 hours ago, ghotio said:

I got an Expo Tools starter kit off of ebay.

so far I have uses it for priming only

I've debated picking up an airbrush kit for that exact same thing. I really would like to try the Zenithal Priming technique.

That's exactly what I do, you can see the effects on the Star Spawn's wing above

I use a much smaller box (like ~1x2x2 feet) but I added a hole for my vacuum cleaner hose, using the vacuum as a forced ventilation fan. Bit noisy but I can actually paint in my regular hobby room without a facemask or getting paint and paint smell everywhere. Still, would love a proper setup. Sadly living in a small apartment, where it is also waaay too cold outdoors for airbrushing means you have to improvise. :)

Finally Found time to finish a Cultist after priming him 7 months ago!

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These are great!