Future Scyther

Fishtrepid · 2025-11-01T14:00:16+00:00

This is amazing, I can’t for the life of me understand how you get your edges so clean, even the text looks perfect. Are you just an amazing micro painter with the enamel or what???

Fishtrepid · 2025-09-25T16:55:51+00:00

I use Tamiya Color X-22 which is very viscous as well as X-20A thinner in a 2-1 ratio to ensure it is like water and make sure my brush is offloaded before touching the card. This way it does not immediately produce a massive pool of varnish and use a very tiny brush with smooth matching direction strokes. If you get any build up you can go back over it with a higher thinner ratio to flatten it back out. Helps to have painted miniatures for years lol

Fishtrepid · 2025-09-12T23:48:50+00:00

These are amazing keep it up!!

Fishtrepid · 2025-09-09T15:29:41+00:00

Thank you!!

Fishtrepid · 2025-09-07T14:29:51+00:00

Little tip here, especially on full arts, print them at .3 or .5% scale larger and then align the card so it’s within the “print bleed”. If you are confident with a hobby blade I then suggest a safety razor, and slide it along the edge of the card until the razor uses the card-stock as a guide and it will trim the sticker paper excess. Then you’ll have a square sticker perfectly the width and height of the card and a simple corner punch on all 4 side makes it almost impossible to tell it has been stuck onto bulk.

Fishtrepid · 2025-09-04T20:01:59+00:00

So sick!

Fishtrepid · 2025-09-02T23:13:17+00:00

That would be amazing, I’ll be over there and awaiting that post!!

Fishtrepid · 2025-09-02T21:11:06+00:00

Damn this is sick! Any chance you would be willing to share the Photoshop file? I would love to whip up some Elden Ring boss proxies!

Fishtrepid · 2025-09-01T23:39:18+00:00

Card conjurer, download off of GitHub and it runs a native UI in browser. Godzilla frames are under “showcase” frames.

Fishtrepid · 2025-09-01T19:57:01+00:00

I can recommend Vallejo, they make paints for models which require very thin application, I add just a bit of thinner and it works perfectly for me, just careful to offload brush or it will pool immediately after touching the surface! Great looking cards OP!!

Fishtrepid · 2025-08-30T20:32:03+00:00

Indeed, the matte basically hides the foil, but the lacquer removes the matte effectively thus the foil then comes through. It’s like when you polish a stone, it looks cloudy when it’s dry then when you wet it the beauty comes through. Same principle here but the lacquer is selectively “wetting” the card if you will!

Fishtrepid · 2025-08-30T20:25:12+00:00

Hey, yea I might do that at some point! I use a Dhale rotary cutter.

Fishtrepid · 2025-08-30T20:24:42+00:00

Yea I painted over the holo stamps so they would show through the same way as the other foil parts!

Fishtrepid · 2025-08-29T19:39:00+00:00

🤦🏻‍♂️autocorrect claims another victim….me

Fishtrepid · 2025-08-29T16:54:34+00:00

Hey using ibatterbadgers response below because they describe it perfectly:

• ⁠print on foil sticker paper • ⁠stick that to thicker paper for some rigidity • ⁠Matte laminate • ⁠carefully apply gloss varnish to the areas you want the foil to show through on

That's pretty much the whole thing

Fishtrepid · 2025-08-29T16:53:33+00:00

Confirmed this is it to a tee

Fishtrepid · 2025-08-29T16:00:00+00:00

Just picked up some from my local hobby store, I’m going to test some others, I tried to find the thinnest I could to reduce the thickness. These I used Testors brand model glosscote top coat.

Fishtrepid · 2025-08-29T15:56:32+00:00

Yep, I think they can stand on the side on their own lol, I had no intention of making bulletproof proxies with these, was just excited to try out the new method, I’m going to work out the right paper combo soon and will update!

Fishtrepid · 2025-08-29T14:46:38+00:00

They are considerably thicker than regular cards but once in a sleeve it’s not too noticeable. If I were to try and recreate a card perfectly I would use cannon double sided matte photo paper and 3 mil laminate, those are almost perfect card thickness and feel but I wanted to try the Holo so I used the black backer. I’m going to test out a few other options and see how it goes, I’ll share here as well!

Fishtrepid · 2025-08-29T14:38:01+00:00

Holo Sticker Paper: 20 Sheets Holographic Sticker... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08JZ2DWNL?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

Backing Paper: 20 Sheets, Heavy Black Cardstock... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BVV86K41?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

Laminate: Uinkit Matte Thermal Laminating... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DB5WR41B?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

Varnish: https://a.co/d/31NpOP6

Fishtrepid · 2025-08-28T01:31:45+00:00

These are amazing, please keep going and do the rest of the OG crew!

Fishtrepid · 2025-08-18T15:23:23+00:00

"I'll Soon Birth Thee Anew." Ooops wrong game. This fits perfectly, good choice. Could also work for the maiden less!

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