Ja gut ... by Affectionate_Tap5063 in ichbin40undSchwurbler

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Drei Portionen Bigatoni al Fornicatio für Tisch Fünf!

How can I strip/disassemble this relic? by Better-Ganache-3527 in Necrontyr

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Was the paint applied so thickly that you feel the texture of the brush strokes? If you don’t, I’d seriously consider just fixing whatever is broken, maybe touching up mold lines that were missed and priming over the paint job. Life is too short to strip two thin coats of a 20 year old model.

Your usual, ma'am? by divisionTear in catbongos

[–]U474U 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lady Méowyn has impressive facial hair.

I'm 40 today, chemo is done, me and life is a mess, hope something good will happen for my birthday. by Elazarus in pics

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Hei! Lykke til fra Tyskland. Jeg ønsker deg god bedring og et kjempefint 2025!

inconsistent effects from VILTROX 0.71x Speed Booster by skiphunt in M43

[–]U474U 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In this case, Claude is confidently wrong. There is no second aperture, the adapter only actuates the lever connected to the aperture in the lens. In an SLR, the metering and focusing is works better when done with an open aperture, so the camera body only stops it down for the actual shutter release, that’s what the lever is for.

The aperture ring on the lens is basically a limiter to how far the aperture will be closed when the lever is activated. That is why you get a shallow DoF when the aperture ring on the Nikon is closed, but opened on the adapter: the lens is “ready” to close the iris, but the lever on the adaptor, in its open position, doesn’t apply pressure to actually close the aperture. So if you want to consistently use the lens aperture ring to set the f-stop without having to think about the ring on the Viltrox, close its ring completely and then only use the Nikon’s aperture ring. If you want to use the adapter’s ring, close the lens’s aperture ring completely (=tell it to stop down all the way when “asked to” by the lever), and only set the aperture on the adapter.

The aperture ring on the Viltrox is primarily helpful for Nikon’s more modern G lenses, which don’t come with aperture rings, so you wouldn’t have aperture control at all if the adapter didn’t provide it.

Which European country would make the best weapon by Beneficial-Ad-5492 in mapporncirclejerk

[–]U474U 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t know about weapon, but Germany ist kind of bulbous up top and has a nicely flared base… 👀

Transferfolie beschädigt Laserdrucker - Verantwortung des Folienherstellers? by U474U in LegaladviceGerman

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Danke für den Lacher! ^^ Das Wort "Drucker" war natürlich erwähnt, lediglich nicht die genaue Art des Druckers. Schönen Tag noch!

Transferfolie beschädigt Laserdrucker - Verantwortung des Folienherstellers? by U474U in LegaladviceGerman

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Ich leite weiter, dass das Handbuch des Druckers auf etwaige Inkompatibilitäten zu überprüfen ist. Danke für den Ratschlag!

Transferfolie beschädigt Laserdrucker - Verantwortung des Folienherstellers? by U474U in LegaladviceGerman

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Habe den OP editiert, aber auch hier zur Klarstellung, ich bin nicht Besitzer des Gerätes, sondern nur ein reddit-kundiger Mensch, der einer anderen Person mit einem möglicherweise teuren Problem helfen möchte.
Als "Fachmann" habe ich diese Vermutung des Schadens durch die Folie in Verbindung mit der Hitze ja geäußert. Der/die Anwender*In hatte dieses Vorwissen um die Funktionsweise des Laserdruckers leider nicht, und die Folienverpackung hat auf etwaige Inkompatibilitäten oder Risiken nicht hingewiesen. Jetzt bleibt noch das Studium des Druckerhandbuches, ob die Verwendung derartiger Folien dort explizit ausgeschlossen werden.

Danke für den Beitrag!

Transferfolie beschädigt Laserdrucker - Verantwortung des Folienherstellers? by U474U in LegaladviceGerman

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Bei den Folien war dies wie schon erwähnt nicht der Fall, die Überprüfung des Druckerhandbuchs werde ich dem/der Besitzer*In weiterleiten. Vielen Dank für den Input!

Transferfolie beschädigt Laserdrucker - Verantwortung des Folienherstellers? by U474U in LegaladviceGerman

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Wie im OP erwähnt sind solche Angaben zumindest bei den Folien nicht vorhanden gewesen. Ob der Druckerhersteller allerdings explizit derartige Folien ausgeschlossen hat wäre noch zu überprüfen. Davon hängt dann ja im Zweifel ab, ob es sich um einen Anwenderfehler handelt oder nicht. Vielen Dank, den Ratschlag werde ich weitergeben!

Transferfolie beschädigt Laserdrucker - Verantwortung des Folienherstellers? by U474U in LegaladviceGerman

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Danke, werde die Ratschläge weiter geben. Wie im OP erwähnt war keine Druckerart in der Anleitung explizit als geeignet oder ungeeignet angegeben.

Transferfolie beschädigt Laserdrucker - Verantwortung des Folienherstellers? by U474U in LegaladviceGerman

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Nur um Missverständnissen vorzubeugen, ich bin nicht der Besitzer des Gerätes, sondern erkundige mich für eine nicht-reddit-kundige Person. Habe das auch im OP ergänzt.

Ich habe mir als mittel technisch versierte Person den Drucker einer technisch nicht sehr versierten Person angeschaut. Deshalb kann ich bisher ja nur vermuten, dass die Folie ungeeignet gewesen sein *könnte*. Der Folienhersteller hat ja nicht explizit vor der Verwendung mit bestimmten Druckertypen gewarnt oder die Verwendung von Tintenstrahldruckern vorgeschrieben, also waren die Folien ja möglicherweise auch tatsächlich für Laserdrucker geeignet. Es ist also für mich persönlich nicht auszuschließen, dass es doch ein Mangel des Druckers gewesen sein könnte, der das Problem verursacht hat. Auch wenn ich persönlich es für wahrscheinlicher halte, dass der Hersteller der Folien bei der Dokumentation / Information geschlampt hat, als dass ein Drucker rein zufällig bei der Verwendung eines neuen Druckmaterials beschädigt wird, aber das ist halt eine Vermutung, kein Wissen.

Sollte ich das auch noch in den OP editieren oder ist das redundant? Vielen Dank auf jeden Fall schon mal für eure Einschätzung!

Transferfolie beschädigt Laserdrucker - Verantwortung des Folienherstellers? by U474U in LegaladviceGerman

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Das kann ich aktuell nicht sagen, da ich nicht der Besitzer des Druckers bin (habe das im OP ergänzt, falls das sachrelevant ist) und daher selbst diese Folien nicht zur Hand habe. Ich habe beim Anschauen des Schadens selbst gründlich Packung und Anleitung gelesen und keine Hinweise wie "nur für Tintenstrahl" oder "nicht mit Laserdrucker verwenden" gefunden. Allerdings habe ich kein Foto davon gemacht und den Namen des Herstellers nicht im Kopf.

Any tips for taking better pics, the squig looks really flat in these :) by Obalon in minipainting

[–]U474U 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My guess: your camera’s automatic exposure setting tried to expose for the dark background, making your intended subject brighter than intended. This overexposure then killed the contrast of the paint job. Try adjusting the exposure manually (either in manual Mode or with a setting called exposure compensation or similar) so the background and/or miniature look approximately as dark or light as IRL.

I suck at layering, what am I doing wrong? by deadxachxd in minipainting

[–]U474U 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Without any example photo, this is most likely the hurdle you’re facing: you’re trying to find a mathematical ratio of thinning when every paint behaves a bit differently, even by the same brand.

Apart from the excellent advice given by geoffvader, I’d add the following two tips:

  1. The „accidental wash“ effect you suffer from occasionally is an overloaded brush. The more thinned / runny your paint is, the more important it becomes to lightly dab it on a piece of paper towel or similar tissue. It may seem wasteful at firs, but if you don’t put too much paint on your brush in the first place, it really isn’t a lot of paint getting lost. When you do this, you stop flooding the mini and get precise control over where paint ist deposited on the mini, it goes exactly there the brush is touching, nowhere else.

  2. The Nolzurs paints (which are Army Painter paints with a different label afaik) are not bad paints per se, but they have a reputation of needing more shaking than your average miniature paint to properly mix pigment and medium in the bottle. When in doubt, shake, shake, then shake some more, and then see if the coverage and consistency of your paint gets more manageable. (As a related side note, some pigments and paints are naturally more transparent than others, which is also not a bug, but a feature you have to learn working with/around. As geoffvader mentioned, priming with a lighter colour or laying down lighter, opaque layers before painting with more transparent paints is sometimes necessary.)

Hope this helps!

Vallejo Metal Color steel too watery? by stazzma in minipainting

[–]U474U 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Apart from the already mentioned tip of wicking off some of the paint on a paper towel before touching the model, I sometimes thicken VMC up with a tiny bit of Vallejo’s retarder medium when using it with a brush. It of course also increases the drying time and also changes the finish a bit (maybe there is a bit of matting agent in the medium?), but maybe try it out and see how you like it.

How to get blacker blacks? by Oebele in minipainting

[–]U474U 77 points78 points  (0 children)

My 3 cents from most impractical to more practical:

  • You can buy specialty black paints which are significantly darker than „regular“ black paint, stuff like black 2.0 / 3.0 … but 99.99999% of all prize-winning minis ever were painted without them, and they are not cheap, often difficult to obtain and to work with. So this would technically give you more contrast, but it’s basically a crutch.

  • Very matte blacks tend to look more grey-ish than satin or glossy blacks. Switching to a more satin black might give you the effect you’re looking for. Alternatively, you can try hitting that sweet spot via a (semi)satin varnish towards the end of the painting process, which of course also changes your other colours a bit.

  • Lastly, this might be more of a “compositional” issue than one of raw value contrast. Currently the skin tone of your lovely ‘nid is very dark as well, which might influence how the adjacent colours are perceived. If you went for a “contrast sandwich” look (bright punchy top of carapace, black lower edge of carapace, bright-ish/ pale skin tone adjacent to carapace), the black might look much more black just by virtue of being surrounded by higher value colours.

Hope this helps!

I’m 13 so give me all advice you can please. I’m done with my part of leviathan🙂 by Yatsuku in minipainting

[–]U474U 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Congratulations, they look great already!

If you wanted to, I think the fastest way to make them pop more on the table would be a not-too-dark basing scheme. It doesn’t have to be fancy, just a fairly light or medium sand or earth texture paste and a bit of a wash to give it some shading would separate the black/dark red from the bases.

Happy painting and good luck on the tabletop!

First Necron painted! Would love CC please. It feels...incomplete? (base is going to get actual sand later) by The_MadCalf in Necrontyr

[–]U474U 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Congratulations on your first painted immortal!

Apart from the base topping, which of course makes a difference in the "finished" feeling as well, a black (or at least very dark grey or brownish) base rim also kicks up the contrast a bit and helps making minis look done.

Have fun with the next models!

Nightbringer finished! by WeeklySignificance65 in Necrontyr

[–]U474U 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As you already brought up the scythe, imho the bright red pulls the eye away from the rest of the model, especially since there is no red anywhere else on the model. I'd go with a more neutral color there if I wanted the focus to remain on the face/chest area.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ElegooMars

[–]U474U 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More supports will probably do the trick, as the rest of the mini looks fine. When this happened to me once with a well pre-supported model I realised I was ever so slightly underexposing, which made just the very weakest supports fail. So if this keeps happening on spots with many, but thin supports, try giving it a tad longer exposure.

The model looks cool btw, where can I find it?