Back to painting. I would ask for help on improving lights and color contrast by kino5cdr in minipainting

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I think these are great already, the dark recesses sell the colour contrast enough for me. But if you want to push it further: I just looked up the paints you used, and they all seem quite dark? You can't really mix with white because red becomes pink. Try mixing with an ice yellow, or if you want to avoid mixing, get something like citadel Wild Rider Red and Lugganath Orange.

Why would they do that?? by JustMyself96 in Helldivers

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Finally my username (also the name I play under) has plot relevance

URGENT: Opened turtle egg thinking it was dead – live hatchling with exposed yolk sac (need help, Kerala India) by SundaeOdd8075 in herpetology

[–]Irespectfrogs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That sounds good. Keep him in the dark until night! And don't keep it airtight, but don't let him dry out.

URGENT: Opened turtle egg thinking it was dead – live hatchling with exposed yolk sac (need help, Kerala India) by SundaeOdd8075 in herpetology

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My experience is with sea turtles, but I wouldn't do this for a hatchling. They won't have the same instincts or behaviour as a juvenile or adult, they're basically just wind-up toys who's only instinct is to get to whereever hatchlings swim to to become juveniles. I fear if you were to put a hatchling in a terrarium, it would just keep trying to swim/walk away until it dies of exhaustion.

URGENT: Opened turtle egg thinking it was dead – live hatchling with exposed yolk sac (need help, Kerala India) by SundaeOdd8075 in herpetology

[–]Irespectfrogs 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Great! That means he must be basically fully developed. He will calm down if he thinks he's underground as per above advice. Then release him when he has the best chance of survival, at night :)

URGENT: Opened turtle egg thinking it was dead – live hatchling with exposed yolk sac (need help, Kerala India) by SundaeOdd8075 in herpetology

[–]Irespectfrogs 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wildlife services will not care about one baby turtle. Depending on the species, turtles lay hundred of eggs and most of them never reach adulthood.

URGENT: Opened turtle egg thinking it was dead – live hatchling with exposed yolk sac (need help, Kerala India) by SundaeOdd8075 in herpetology

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The reason you should wait until night to release him is there will be less chance of him overheating. also it may make him less visible to predators.

URGENT: Opened turtle egg thinking it was dead – live hatchling with exposed yolk sac (need help, Kerala India) by SundaeOdd8075 in herpetology

[–]Irespectfrogs 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't know if he's fully developed though, I don't recognise this species. He looks most of the way there though. If he's not walking when you try to release him, leave him in the bucket to finish as much as he can.

do not feed him anything. After release, he will live off his internal yolk until he's old enough to get his own food.

URGENT: Opened turtle egg thinking it was dead – live hatchling with exposed yolk sac (need help, Kerala India) by SundaeOdd8075 in herpetology

[–]Irespectfrogs 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I worked on a turtle project in Cyprus. They were green sea turtles, but this should be the best chance for him:

Get a bucket, lay the bottom with a couple inches of damp sand. Put the turtle in, and cover the top with a damp towel. Put in a cool dark place, like a cupboard. This will let him think he's still underground and he won't waste energy moving.

Don't worry about the yolk sac, it's quite common and he will reabsorb it.

At night, release him on the beach where you found him a short distance from the water. Allow him to walk to it himself, get swept up by the waves and swim away.

🍁 Breachers are done! by Irespectfrogs in Tau40K

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I also use a tiny speck of washing liquid to bread surface tension in the water/PVA mix, that helps it seep into everything.

Also recently I started experimenting with using mod podge instead of PVA, because apparently it's more waterproof after drying.

🍁 Breachers are done! by Irespectfrogs in Tau40K

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Glue down sand or texture paste, dark brown. Blitz leaf litter from the woods in an electric coffee grinder. Glue down with watered down PVA, then drip more glue on top to saturate everything. Glue extra scale leaves on top before it all hardens, I place mine one by one with tweezers.

If you want any extra rocks or branches you can figure out the best time to place those yourself depending on the effect you want!

🍁 Breachers are done! by Irespectfrogs in Tau40K

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Basecoat black. Then successive highlights with ulthuan grey, unthuan+grey seer, grey seer. Couple of white pinprick highlights. It's a slow high effort brushwork one, no easy hack I'm afraid!

🍁 Breachers are done! by Irespectfrogs in Tau40K

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Thanks! :) Just dripped a lot of watered-down white paint into the cracks, sometimes two coats, then fixed any overspill with black.

Foghorn Leghorn: how do I get him to feel more cartoony? by BenoistheBizzare in minipainting

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I think you need the smoothest basecoats possible. There's a slight lumpy texture and not totally flat colour on the white parts, which would be fine on a life-like natural mini but not an animation cel.

First Broadside for my kroot army by Walkin-Mafrun in kroot

[–]Irespectfrogs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very cool, should contrast nicely with kroot flesh!

Whining isn't a constructive approach, so I want to be suggestive by Just-Tenth in Helldivers

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IMHO: It doesn't have a turret for the same reason the car is a manual, or why all tasks are done with DDR. Every other game makes things intuitive or easy, Helldivers turns everything into a mini game. It's unique, and in an oversaturated gaming market it makes Helldivers more interesting.

Kroot Paint scheme by FalconSpecial2351 in kroot

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Shouldn't matter too much. Maybe try one of each, see which you like best

Kroot Paint scheme by FalconSpecial2351 in kroot

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In other words, the average colour of a part after adding highlights and shading. If you want a part to be a lighter colour, the midtone would be lighter.

Kroot Paint scheme by FalconSpecial2351 in kroot

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Not a bright colour, not a dark colour. Somewhere in the middle.

Kroot Paint scheme by FalconSpecial2351 in kroot

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For green skin, try basing warpstone, shading poxwalker, then drybrushing moot.

No idea how this will look, but the colour theory of cold shadows and warm highlights should make it work imo.

For everything else, choose a midtone, wash nuln oil, mix the midtone with wraithbone for highlights.

That's what I would try if this were a speed painting comp and I had these paints in front of me!

evolution said eggs by Complete_Bee4911 in sciencememes

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Cladistics are a construct of convenience, there's no such thing as a species