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legoburner wrote:ancientsociety, post some pictures in your dakka gallery you tease

Right now, this is the only pic I have of the army...I literally finished it the day before the tournie and had only spent 2 weeks on the entire thing (a rush job for me).



I'll at least have some pics up on the blog in a few days, if not in my Dakka gallery.

Looking forward to it, thanks. The plastic soldier co review on your blog is very interesting too.

Wow, nice work ancient society.

@Ancient society

I second lego burner! and what do you use for paints?

iheartlargeblasttemplates wrote:@Ancient society

I second lego burner! and what do you use for paints?

A little bit of everything, mostly acrylics - GW Foundation/Washes, Reaper Pro Series, Vallejo Model, some old Rackham stuff, even Liquitex Soft Body.

The stuff I use for my basing is hard molding paste. I picked up a small tub of it from my local arts supply store. The stuff mixes well with water-based acrylics (so you can color it before applying it - since I like to apply the stuff after I've already glued my figures to the base, this is very useful), and it's fairly easy to apply to the base with a small sculpting trowel. In its pliable state, it's similar to a soft gel. It hardens into a surface somewhat similar to plastic, but with just the tiniest amount of give (i.e. you can't deform it, although it feels as if you could make an impression in it if you pushed hard enough with your fingernail). Once it's hardened, I use a toothpick to carefully spread white glue across the base (and between the figures) before applying any textures (generally just plain flocking in my case).

Guess I'll throw my 2 cents in. I find that the spackle method is way to time consuming. I generally paint my guys right on the base unles its something crazy like SS uniforms. After they are painted I have a shallow container of static grass and very very fine dirt mixed together. I put a heavy coat of Valejjo flat brown on the base then dip it in the dirt while the paint is still wet. Make sure ya get a little paint on the minis metal base and the earth dirt mixture will stick to it and gives a very nice finish. Sorry no pics to show but way faster than spackle and gives full coverage of the base.