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Пишет nancygold (![[info]](http://lj.rossia.org/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} nancygold)@ 2025-01-29 22:14:00 |
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| Музыка: | Zircon - Shodan (Mellow Sonic Remix) |
| Entry tags: | gaming |
Painting Minis
Since HoMM3 comes with a ton of minis for each faction,
I do need to paint them, like it is some Wharhammer 40k.
Basically the real life version of physical painting,
which appeared in 80ies.
Several other autistic trans and cis girls do that.
I do have pixelart and 3d rendering skills,
so I know most of the basic.
Therefore I just got a bunch of cheap acrylics.
From the local Action store (European Wallmart).
And the gesso to go with them.
As a test subject I bought a few rubber turtles.
Since I don't want to ruin HoMM3 models.
I quickly found is that gesso fails priming plastic.
Or anything beside usual painting canvas or wood.
I still tried applying it and it failed.
The car paint primer worked much better,
but it heavily ruined finer details.
Normal acrylics have zero coverage.
And don't adhere to plastic.
The cheapest synthetic brush is near useless too.
It couldn't hold any paint
and came ruined (curved) out of the box.
The store also had no size 0 and size 1 brushes,
which are required to pain minis properly.
Size 0 brush is mandatory for things like eyes.
I still manged to paint a turtle with it.
But attempt at painting Yu-gi-oh minis failed.
Although my repaint still looked better
than what the chinks factory painted.
Unfortunately the turtle figure went missing.
Either somebody thrown it out or a client took it.
So only a photo remained.
So I got a set of proper D&D/Warhammer paints.
These are super expensive.
Yet they come preselected for mindless painting.
Like working with a standard pixelart palette.
It just works.
Traditionally artists mixed their own paints,
since there were none.
I should have bought pre-shaded HoMM3 version,
because proper shading requires airbrush,
which costs like 200 euro.
And airbrush makes lightsource shading easy:
https://thearmypainter.com/blogs/explor
One can simulate the airbrush with drybrush,
but the results will be inferior.
Then again, some people like it better.
And other believe smooth shades ruin art.
Especially that pixelart feel of minis.
Next I will try to paint the included minis.
They come as the usual Warhammer minis,
so need assembling first.
Like it is some WW2 T34 tank model.
And DHL deliver broke one of the model inside.
Guess fixing it is part of the experience.
After that I will get that Minsk and Boo set.
Since I'm a huge fan of Baldur's Gate.
Hopefully it will improve my autism skill a bit.
Cheers!
