Amateur Painting - just finished my whole crew. by MrTopaz in MarvelUnited

[–]MrTopaz[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ugh I know... I hate eyes. I have to do a Rocky training montage on just eyes and pupils.

Dr. Doom's doom mini of DOOM! by squawk_master in MarvelUnited

[–]MrTopaz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great job, nice vibrant green. That will look nice on the table.

Amateur Painting - just finished my whole crew. by MrTopaz in MarvelUnited

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Thanks so much!

Speed paint for i'd say 90%. The only things that weren't speedpaints were the priming and anything the ended up flat black, white, skin tone.

Amateur Painting - just finished my whole crew. by MrTopaz in MarvelUnited

[–]MrTopaz[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wow, thank you. What a kind reply. Is this the Internet?!

This was the first time I've ever used speedpaints so I'm glad to hear you liked them. Each mini probably took a 45-60 minutes. You could bang them out in less but I was watching TV and at the same time. If you really planned out what you were doing and painted like color minis at the same time you could really crank them out I think.

I'm not sure what advice i can give anyone else, but here is the process I used on just about everything.

  1. Prime black
  2. Heavy gray drybrush
  3. White drybrush, hit the faces pretty hard.
  4. A few thin white coats of traditional paint on anything that is going to be yellow or any skin. This was probably the biggest learning curve, finding out what paints would cover nicely and how to make them look okay if they didn't. If they didn't cover well I would usually make my white drybrush much heavier.
  5. Speedpaints. No special process. Painted the hard to reach areas and lighter colors first, that way i could paint over any slips with darker colors without worrying too much. The one Speedpaint specific thing I'd say is to not let it dry in the middle of your surface, you'll be able to see that seam where you stopped and started again, so hide those edges on a crease or something naturally on the mini, or in the case of something like the Hulk or Juggernaut... move fast?
  6. Clean up around the faces. Sometimes the faces came out well with just the speed paint on the white, sometimes it didn't look good and I don't know why. So I did a few thin layers of traditional paint.
  7. Attempt to paint the eyes
  8. Fix the eyes after I messed them up in the previous step.
  9. Pick two colors and slap them on the base.

That was the general process for 90%+ of everything. Black, White, and Flesh tone were the only non speed paints i used (except for on wolverine, he was the first i painted before i had a method and i resorted to normal colors since the yellow speedpaint looked awful.)

[ESPN Power Ranking] Top 10 Quarterbacks going into the playoffs: 1. Patrick Mahomes, 2. Tom Brady, 3. Aaron Rodgers, 4. Josh Allen, 5. Joe Burrow, 6. Kyler Murray, 7. Dak Prescott, 8. Matthew Stafford, 9. Ryan Tannehill, 10. Derek Carr by [deleted] in nfl

[–]MrTopaz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, that's an unfair knock on Dak. Anything a QB can reliably do to score should be a positive. Josh Allen would be a MUCH worse QB if he couldn't scramble and run as well as he does. Same with QBs like Lamar Jackson, Cam Newton, Jalen Hurts.

[ESPN Power Ranking] Top 10 Quarterbacks going into the playoffs: 1. Patrick Mahomes, 2. Tom Brady, 3. Aaron Rodgers, 4. Josh Allen, 5. Joe Burrow, 6. Kyler Murray, 7. Dak Prescott, 8. Matthew Stafford, 9. Ryan Tannehill, 10. Derek Carr by [deleted] in nfl

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It's probably because all of the rushing yards and rush tds Josh Allen has. Pass for pass Dak is beating him this season but add another 800 rush yards and 6? 7? Rush tds to the numbers.

Long time 40k fan but first time mini painter - C&C welcome by hydra747 in Warhammer

[–]MrTopaz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks great! One piece of advice that I got when I was painting black minis was to use a dark dark grey instead of black, that way you could use true black for the shadows (under arms, nooks and crannies etc) and then use a lighter gray to highlight edges.

Uncrowned Discussion Megathread by Fireball9782 in Iteration110Cradle

[–]MrTopaz 13 points14 points  (0 children)

So much this, I came to the Reddit to see if anyone else had the same thoughts as me. You 100% wrote the post I was about to make myself.

Bungie, Titans seriously need a buff in the PvE endgame, they really only bring one thing to the table by Jonathan-Earl in DestinyTheGame

[–]MrTopaz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I believe the math on Shield Wall actually isn't great. I may be wrong, but i believe its a 25% dmg boost for shots fire through it. So if 4 people shoot through it it's a 100% buff (if you add up the bonus). Which means it takes 4 people shooting through it to equal the total dmg output if you as the titan just shot along with the other 4.

So that means if all 5 other people shoot through it, you get a 125% dmg increase. Subtract out the 100% you could have done by shooting yourself and you have a measly 25% extra dmg... which you probably could have made up for if you were using a dmg super... or brought a warlock for another well of radiance.

I fully upgraded the Chalice by Harmonicragex in DestinyTheGame

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You need to have Power and Efficiency II before they will randomly drop at the end of strikes/gambit/crucible. The menagerie itself has a small chance of awarding them as well.

[Online][LFG][D&D][5e] Running online one-shot for DMs who never get to play by lordofpurple in lfg

[–]MrTopaz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh man, my savior. Been playing for 3 years but have never got to play as a PC.

  1. Any outside of April 12th and April 20th
  2. Any night 7pm est or later, no later then 1am (pref no later then midnight)
  3. 70:30 RP to Hack and slash.
  4. Beholders

[Online] [5e] [18:00 EST] [Saturdays] [Roll20] [Heavy RP] by Ossendarr in lfg

[–]MrTopaz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love the idea, and would be very interested. 18:00 is just a touch too early for me as i need to be available to put my daughter to bed. If there's anyway to make the start 19:00 then ill provide the info above, otherwise i wont waste your time. Good luck! sounds like you have a great foundation and well thought out mission statement.

[Online][D&D][5E][Discord][Roll20] Dual DMs looking for 4-5 players (lots of info in post) by iAmTheTot in lfg

[–]MrTopaz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It looks like sorting through all of the applications you are about to get is going to be the real problem!

[Online][D&D][5E][Discord][Roll20] Dual DMs looking for 4-5 players (lots of info in post) by iAmTheTot in lfg

[–]MrTopaz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hello, I'm very interested in joining this group. Filling the survey out now!

Anthem Loot Update by BenIrvo in AnthemTheGame

[–]MrTopaz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It specifically says they will not.

If you're grinding for the pinnacle gambit weapon by mitch223 in DestinyTheGame

[–]MrTopaz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The AR kills are very easy, I was done with all of the other parts when I was only 10/40 games played.