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2012/07/08 13:53:39
Subject: weathering powders, where art thou?
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Savage Khorne Berserker Biker
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I'm looking for some reasonably priced weathering powders for my BA vehicles. I'd like to get a hold of a light and a dark mud, a dust color, and also a black exhaust color. Does anyone have some info on who sells these?
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It is the 3rd Millennium. For more than a hundred months Games Workshop has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Nottingham. It is the foremost of wargames by the will of the neckbeards, and master of a million tabletops by the might of their inexhaustible wallets. It is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with business strategies from the early Industrial Revolution Age. It is the Carrion Lord of the wargaming scene for whom a thousand veteran players are sacrificed every day, so that it may never truly die. Yet even in its deathless state, GW continues its eternal vigilance. Mighty battleforce starter-sets cross the online-store-infested miasma of the internet, the only route between distant countries, their way lit by a draconian retail trade-agreement, the legal manifestation of the GW's will. Vast armies of lawyers give battle in GW's name on uncounted websites. Greatest amongst its soldiers are the Guardians of the IP, the Legal Team, bio-engineered super-donkey-caves. Their comrades in arms are legion: the writing team and countless untested rulebooks, the ever vigilant redshirts, and the writers of White Dwarf, to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat from other games, their own incompetence, Based Chinaman - and worse. To support Games Workshop in such times is to spend untold billions. It is to support the cruelest and most dickish company imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of sales discounts and Warhammer Fantasy Battle, for so much has been dropped, never to be re-published again. Forget the promise of cheaper digital content and caring about the fanbase, for in the GW HQ there is only profit-seeking, Space Marines and Sigmarines. There is no fun amongst the hobby shops, only an eternity of raging and spending, and the laughter of former employees who left GW to join better companies. |
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2012/07/08 13:58:06
Subject: weathering powders, where art thou?
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Painting Within the Lines
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Forgeworld do some really good weathering powders, remember to seal it with lahmien medium or hairspray.
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2012/07/08 14:02:19
Subject: weathering powders, where art thou?
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Bane Knight
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Tamiya do various weathering powder sets, which I believe include applicators; they come in what look like little make-up trays! I think there are a few vids on youtube.
EDIT: This could be the set for you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVjjvSaQeew
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2012/07/08 14:22:35
Subject: weathering powders, where art thou?
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Hurr! Ogryn Bone 'Ead!
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If you have access to a mortar and pestle, get some soft pastels and grind them into powder yourself. It only takes a few minutes and ends up being a lot cheaper and they work just as good. Plus there is a lot larger selection of various pastels to choose from.
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2012/07/08 15:31:46
Subject: weathering powders, where art thou?
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Savage Khorne Berserker Biker
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commissarbob wrote:If you have access to a mortar and pestle, get some soft pastels and grind them into powder yourself. It only takes a few minutes and ends up being a lot cheaper and they work just as good. Plus there is a lot larger selection of various pastels to choose from.
I really like the sound of that. Soft pastels....I assume that is something I would find at the craft store?
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It is the 3rd Millennium. For more than a hundred months Games Workshop has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Nottingham. It is the foremost of wargames by the will of the neckbeards, and master of a million tabletops by the might of their inexhaustible wallets. It is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with business strategies from the early Industrial Revolution Age. It is the Carrion Lord of the wargaming scene for whom a thousand veteran players are sacrificed every day, so that it may never truly die. Yet even in its deathless state, GW continues its eternal vigilance. Mighty battleforce starter-sets cross the online-store-infested miasma of the internet, the only route between distant countries, their way lit by a draconian retail trade-agreement, the legal manifestation of the GW's will. Vast armies of lawyers give battle in GW's name on uncounted websites. Greatest amongst its soldiers are the Guardians of the IP, the Legal Team, bio-engineered super-donkey-caves. Their comrades in arms are legion: the writing team and countless untested rulebooks, the ever vigilant redshirts, and the writers of White Dwarf, to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat from other games, their own incompetence, Based Chinaman - and worse. To support Games Workshop in such times is to spend untold billions. It is to support the cruelest and most dickish company imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of sales discounts and Warhammer Fantasy Battle, for so much has been dropped, never to be re-published again. Forget the promise of cheaper digital content and caring about the fanbase, for in the GW HQ there is only profit-seeking, Space Marines and Sigmarines. There is no fun amongst the hobby shops, only an eternity of raging and spending, and the laughter of former employees who left GW to join better companies. |
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2012/07/08 16:39:56
Subject: weathering powders, where art thou?
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Dipping With Wood Stain
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commissarbob wrote:If you have access to a mortar and pestle, get some soft pastels and grind them into powder yourself. It only takes a few minutes and ends up being a lot cheaper and they work just as good. Plus there is a lot larger selection of various pastels to choose from.
Don't do that! The pastels have binders in them, which can screw up the whole weathering process. You might save a few bucks, but is it really worth it when there's a chance to screw up your models?
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2012/07/08 17:53:24
Subject: weathering powders, where art thou?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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I've been using colored chalk (pastels if you prefer) for 20 some odd years on models, and it works the part.
Just a quick link to show what is what with using chalks:
http://www.sierrawestscalemodels.com/clinic/Resin/resin.shtml
I normally don't use the mortar/pestle route though. I'll use a knife like explained in the article, or a bit of sand paper. I keep my chalks in a small tackle box type thing with some self adhesive sand paper stuck to the bottom of each compartment. Rub the chalk on the paper to create powder as I need it. Scrapings provide a different texture of powder.
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2012/07/08 18:07:24
Subject: weathering powders, where art thou?
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Primered White
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I find black oil paint is VERY good for making soot. It's a thick paste so goes on without having to use extra sealer.
A tiny bit used with drybrushing does it.
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2012/07/08 22:24:31
Subject: weathering powders, where art thou?
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Rampaging Furioso Blood Angel Dreadnought
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Tamiya does have a set, looks like a girls makeup thingy, that has I'm pretty sure all of those colors you want... I'll check when I get home what it's called.
In my experience though the MIG powders work the best, for reasons that are beyond my knowledge.
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2012/07/09 00:32:40
Subject: weathering powders, where art thou?
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Anti-Armour Swiss Guard
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Tamiya do them.
MiG do them.
FW do them.
A lot of modellers out my way just get artists pastel chalks from the art store and use an old spice grinder to turn them into powders (they are essentially the same thing). It's what modellers were doing in the 80s before these newfangled "weathering powders" hit the scene. I had a mate weather my old Monogram/Ertl Star Wars X-wing model (Empire Strikes back re-release) using these powders back then, and had him do an almost identical one (25th anniversary rerelease) using mig powders. They are virtually identical in effect and colour.
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Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.
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... and yet, with strange aeons, even death may die.
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2012/07/09 00:40:49
Subject: Re:weathering powders, where art thou?
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Last Remaining Whole C'Tan
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After comparing various kits I wound up getting the FW set. It was very cheap and had everything I would need in it. The MiG sets cost more and don't have exactly the colors I wanted.
I also got some MiG pigment fixer cheap on Ebay, and got an orange pastel pencil for doing panel edges. All in I was pretty happy with my investment.
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