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Banelord Titan Princeps of Khorne






The color choice is the biggest detractor for me. With a brown based stain, you gain so much more from the effect by choosing a warmer pallet. The grey skin mixed with the blue pants produces a cold effect that the dip doesn't really help all that much. Plus, the brown on blue just makes the pants look "muddy" even after the highlighting.

Try painting an ogre with Dwarf Flesh skin, and Camo green, Fortress grey, and Bestial Brown for the leather, which mithril silver and blood red accents, and you will find that you probably don't even have to highlight afterwords.

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Krazed Killa Kan






South NJ/Philly

So I finished up the dipped Ogres today, eager to see how they'd turn out mixing up the order I did the highlight and then the matte finish. I'm happy with the results.

Ogre 1
Ogre 2
Ogre 2 Back
Ogre 3
Ogre 4

I'm happy with these guys as they look nice IMO, definitely good enough for me to field and the whole experience has been pretty fun to do.

As always, comments are appreciated.

5 Ogres down, 27 more to do....
   
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Fixture of Dakka






Lancaster PA

Wow, those came out really well.

I see what whitedragon is saying, though I am fairly pleased with the final results.

I bought myself a tiny can of dip, so after I get this mini-titan finished I am going to grab some random mini and give 'er a go!

By the by, anyone ever try it on a vehichle? I hate shading and highlighting those.

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I'm also interested to know if it works on vehicles

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Here's my question: Could I use this method on The Scourged? The colours are dark, so I don't see a problem, or should I just stick with the old Magic Wash?

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Whitedragon, what red did you use to basecoat your world eaters?
   
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Canada

This seems to be a good blog to post my question. Everyone here seems to have a good understanding of dipping so I'd like to know how anybody thinks it would work if I tried to dip the new ork trukk model. I'm still debating whether to do an ork speed force or a horde force, but I'd like to dip either way.
   
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So I have decided to make my orks a kult of speed army and will be getting ready to dip 6 trukks. I'll be brushing the dip on, but if anybody has any tips it would be appreciated. I'll post pictures here when I get the model.
   
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South NJ/Philly

I think brushing it on is probably solid for them. I've been thinking about doing the same thing to my Trukks, but honestly I've been putting off working on my Ork hordes as I've been enjoying doing my Ogre army so much.

Looking forward to seeing what you get out of it.
   
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Canada

Thank you, I'll be sure to place it on here for reference once it's complete. Should take some time as I have to order one first.
   
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I base coated my world eaters with Blood Red.

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Canada

I apoligise if this is wrong to post in because the last post was so far away, but I assumed that this blog is for anyone to post their dipping experiences in so they can recieve help on how to better the technique so I have decided to post my first ork. It is quite rough, but I think it came out quite nice:



What do you think?
   
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These were an army from a while back that I had done by dipping, though with the Orks I'm building now, I'm painting everything. But these were fun and seemed like decent colors for it:





And even the Black Coach got dipped...




Golden Demon standard?? I can barely paint Great Unclean One standard! 
   
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2.0, did you physically "DIP" the black coach, or did you brush it on? Those look very nice!

Lucas, I think your ork looks great! How did you apply the dip? The only criticism I would make is that you really have to take the time to paint on the base colors neatly and cleanly, although it may just be your lighting and the shinyness. Try to take some different angle pics.

Also, I would not use the blue for the straps, but instead use brown or grey.

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I physically dipped it

I had to do it by component, and then when that was dry I glued it together and it worked out pretty well actually

Golden Demon standard?? I can barely paint Great Unclean One standard! 
   
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Canada

Thanks for your opinion whitedragon,
To apply the dip I just put on some gloves and held on to the models base as I dipped it. I used the antique walnut by minwax polyshades. I also noticed that the painting is sloppy in some areas, but this was just a test model and for the blue straps I was just curious as to how certain colours would look with th dip. I love how white comes out. In the future I will take your advice and use brown for the straps. I was just worried about usin too much brown on one model.
   
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The trick is to vary your color pallete of browns. Bestial Brown and Desert Yellow, along with Snakebike Leather, all look very distinct dipped. Also, remember, since the stain is a Brown color, your palette will have to be only "warm colors" to get the best effect. This is why the blue doesn't look good, since it is a "cold" color.

Reds, Yellows, Oranges, Browns, Greys, Greens (with more yellow, like Catachan/Camo Green) and Bone, along with Silver and Gold always look really nice dipped with Antique walnut satin.

And 2.0., AWESOME!

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k0v- What type of drill bit did you say you used for the spinning? Is it the wood-boring kind, and if so, how did you attach the mini?
   
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Whitedragon: Did you base your Orks white or black? What type of dip did you use? What was your basecoat for the skin color?

Voodoo: Looking at them I assume you based with white, but I'm not 100% sure. What was your base skin color also?

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Base color was a tan style color that I had lying around; which actually turned out to be real paint instead of primer, and it had a glossy finish, wasn't all that good, but it worked out in the end.
   
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Canada

Would anybody mind posting up a quick list of what armies go well with the dip? I'm currently in the process of picking a fantasy army to collect and am basing a large portion of my decision on whether the army can pull off the dipping effect well. I was considering brettonian pegasus knights, but I figured they would be better off based white and followed through with a black wash. I was considering painting the riders red and gold and dipping them though. So if anybody could just give a quick run through of which Fantasy armies work well with dip, it would be appreciated.
   
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Mosg:

I just saw this. Ork's were primed with whatever color I happened to have around at the time. Since when you apply the base colors you have to get a consistant, even coverage, it really doesn't matter as long as you don't leave any white or black (or sometimes grey) showing.

The skin color for my orks was Camo Green.

EDIT: And the Dip was Minwax Polyshades "ANTIQUE WALNUT SATIN"

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Veriamp wrote:I have emerged from my lurking to say one thing. When Mat taught the Necrons to feel, he taught me to love.

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South NJ/Philly

lucas wrote:Would anybody mind posting up a quick list of what armies go well with the dip? I'm currently in the process of picking a fantasy army to collect and am basing a large portion of my decision on whether the army can pull off the dipping effect well. I was considering brettonian pegasus knights, but I figured they would be better off based white and followed through with a black wash. I was considering painting the riders red and gold and dipping them though. So if anybody could just give a quick run through of which Fantasy armies work well with dip, it would be appreciated.


Somehow my Dipped Ogres managed to get a 20/20 paint score at the Baltimore GamesDay tourney. I have no idea how it managed to get that score, but it was staff-judged.

One piece of advice, dipping heavy metal models (which WHFB has in spades) is very tricky and I'd highly recommend "painting" the dip on for those models as they can very easily break during the dip "shaking/spinning" removal process.

For armies that work well with dipping I'd say it is based mostly on the kinds of colors used. I don't know how bretts would look with it, but Demons should dip very well (especially Nurgle!), Lizards, Ogres, Beasts of Chaos, Orcs. Basically I've found most things that aren't human dip well.
   
 
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