3 hours ago, Megatronrex said:Mel's are 3D printed. I've never tried the vinegar treatment before. I always soak my stuff from Mel's overnight in dish soap and water. That seems to take care of any problems with the model sucking up paint.
I've heard of people doing that before, I think that is what I will do.
2 hours ago, Megatronrex said:Mel's are 3D printed. I've never tried the vinegar treatment before. I always soak my stuff from Mel's overnight in dish soap and water. That seems to take care of any problems with the model sucking up paint.
Yeah most of the things that come on models fresh off the sprue seems to make life difficult for painting. I'm not that familiar with 3D printed models it's good to know that a soap bath works well.
However I did find the krylon fusion paint seem to go well over unpreped plastic models.
Just now, Noosh said:Yeah most of the things that come on models fresh off the sprue seems to make life difficult for painting. I'm not that familiar with 3D printed models it's good to know that a soap bath works well.
However I did find the krylon fusion paint seem to go well over unpreped plastic models.
The first time I painted one of Mel's ships I couldn't believe how much paint got soaked up. It almost put me off of buying more and I'm really glad I tried saoking them. I haven't tried the krylon fusion paint. I have the worst spray painting skills anyone has ever seen, can't ever seem to get an even distribution, so it's all brushwork for me.
4 minutes ago, Megatronrex said:The first time I painted one of Mel's ships I couldn't believe how much paint got soaked up. It almost put me off of buying more and I'm really glad I tried saoking them. I haven't tried the krylon fusion paint. I have the worst spray painting skills anyone has ever seen, can't ever seem to get an even distribution, so it's all brushwork for me.
Here's a few tips that worked for me.
1. when spraying always gauge the spread and volume at distance. It varies from Company to company. I like to use newspaper for this, if I can read the text it's no good, and the same goes for puddling if it pools up that is also bad. This will come to what you learn from doing a few times, it's really hard to tell you in text. Also there is personal preference too.
2. Always start sparying off the model. The initial burst may be gummy or just too dang much.
3. Don't be afraid to make multiple passes. If you think your at optimal distance but don't feel you ahve optimal coverage. Make a few more passes ( again this will take some figuring out from brand to brand)
4. Always be moving. Leaving the spray in one spot can be disastrous to the fine details. Always better to make a few passes that turn you mini into the swamp thing.
4. For minis I found cone spray patterns don't coat as well as directed ones. So cans that produce a line of some type I find preferable.
1 minute ago, Noosh said:Here's a few tips that worked for me.
1. when spraying always gauge the spread and volume at distance. It varies from Company to company. I like to use newspaper for this, if I can read the text it's no good, and the same goes for puddling if it pools up that is also bad. This will come to what you learn from doing a few times, it's really hard to tell you in text. Also there is personal preference too.
2. Always start sparying off the model. The initial burst may be gummy or just too dang much.
3. Don't be afraid to make multiple passes. If you think your at optimal distance but don't feel you ahve optimal coverage. Make a few more passes ( again this will take some figuring out from brand to brand)
4. Always be moving. Leaving the spray in one spot can be disastrous to the fine details. Always better to make a few passes that turn you mini into the swamp thing.
4. For minis I found cone spray patterns don't coat as well as directed ones. So cans that produce a line of some type I find preferable.
Thanks for the tips. I'll keep them in mind when I try my hand at painting the buildings I bought for Legion.
3 hours ago, Megatronrex said:Thanks for the tips. I'll keep them in mind when I try my hand at painting the buildings I bought for Legion.
I wish I could've posted pictures here without using a 3rd party. I made some decent and not so decent sprayed base/prime models recently (not layered yet to final coat). I will say I'm lazy so I prime my base coat color to save a step or two.
Also your gonna give legion a try? I can't wait to give it a try. Although I'm scared to paint Stormtroopers, just white can be disastrous to get to look good also getting that glossy look is always fun too.
13 minutes ago, Noosh said:I wish I could've posted pictures here without using a 3rd party. I made some decent and not so decent sprayed base/prime models recently (not layered yet to final coat). I will say I'm lazy so I prime my base coat color to save a step or two.
Also your gonna give legion a try? I can't wait to give it a try. Although I'm scared to paint Stormtroopers, just white can be disastrous to get to look good also getting that glossy look is always fun too.
I'm definitely looking forward to Legion already bought some buildings from Imperial Terrain I'm not too worried about painting in white I've painted a few White squadrons and a white gozanti without too much difficulty and I only plan on painting one Squad of my stormtroopers white
Here is the initial painting complete! Still have to mark her up with blue and detail
The Dreadnought is finished! Here are some pictures!
That is absolutely Glorious.
Serious props good sir! Love how you gave depth to yor paint job.
@Battlefleet 01 Studios
In the end, what techniques did you apply for the paint job? I mean, How did you feel working in WSF as the medium? Because honestly, this is one of the best jobs I've seen with that media... Generally, people hate all over WSF...
56 minutes ago, Drasnighta said:@Battlefleet 01 Studios
In the end, what techniques did you apply for the paint job? I mean, How did you feel working in WSF as the medium? Because honestly, this is one of the best jobs I've seen with that media... Generally, people hate all over WSF...
I wouldn't know, I can ask my friend. He painted it for me. And I must say, he has done an incredible job.
That's some quality painting!
The weathering really stands out to me. Very nicely done.
That's impressive, most impressive. I've got to second what Dras said about how amazing that is with it being WSF. After the work your friend did I can't even tell that was the material.
9 hours ago, Megatronrex said:That's impressive, most impressive. I've got to second what Dras said about how amazing that is with it being WSF. After the work your friend did I can't even tell that was the material.
I told him today, and he was surprised about so much positivd feedback. He said he is working on a step by step instruction for painting WSF.
I look forward to seeing that. It would be nice to get some tips seeing as it much cheaper than ufd
Please post those painting instructions as soon as you get them! That is the best WS&F paint job I have yet seen. You are seriously tempting me to pull the trigger on one of the Dreadnaught scale version.
Beautiful
This is incredible. Wonderfully executed, I look forward to seeing the write up!
LOVE HER, such a brillant paint job
.... you actually made me pull the trigger to buy a model from mel.
On 1/9/2018 at 9:15 AM, Keki1010 said:LOVE HER, such a brillant paint job
That's great! Can't recommend it enough!
Will you upload painting instructions? Because my 25inc. will arrive soon and I`am not really in to painting WSF....
After paiting a few WSF ships, I will admit that their grainy quality is annoying, but I have been able to paint them without them becoming the sponges described, and as someone on a budget, I cannot help but like their price tag.