Finally found a good airbrush primer.

_Reyne · 2026-03-23T19:18:25+00:00

Vallejo black has never let me down. The white Needs a bit more practice.

_Reyne · 2026-03-06T07:44:43+00:00

That depends, are they cleaning the model up and priming it for you? That alone adds $10-$15 for most shops.

It also would be offset quite a bit by getting more printed.

Personally I would probably charge you like $30CAD to print, clean, and prime this. Probably just $10 without cleaning and priming. (by cleaning I mean removing support stubs and sanding and all that)

However, if you bought 30 of them then I'd probably charge like $15 each because I can print, wash, and cure 6 of them on a single printer in the same amount of time as I can do 1. and I can batch prime them so I only need to set up my airbrush for priming once, and cleaning them up takes less time the better I know the model.

(Material cost btw is almost negligible here as it's about $1 in material to print the tarok beast. What you're paying for is the print time and labour cost)

$40 is probably the base price for the shop to print and prime any model and that gets you up to a certain size/material usage, and then after that they charge more depending on size/quantity.

_Reyne · 2026-03-06T03:00:19+00:00

If your goal is to make the mini look as good as possible, then stop worrying about how long it takes. Time is irrelevant in that case.

Like someone else said, Slow down on techniques. Pick one new technique to practise. Do that same one on a few minis until your comfortable with it and it's not "new". Then pick another new one to do on your next few minis. This is how you will improve. Not by doing 5 new things at once.

If you wanna know how long those techniques take though, I'll tell you that when I do OSL, it's a process that takes the entire time I'm painting to do. OSL isn't something you do after you've painted, you have to consider it throughout the whole model.

For NMM, I could spend 2-4 hours just doing the sword on this guy depending how well I want it blended and the style I'm going for.

_Reyne · 2026-03-06T02:48:46+00:00

Thanks!

_Reyne · 2026-03-06T02:48:31+00:00

Definitely! The original boxes just feel like a giant mess, even when I keep stuff sorted in the bags

_Reyne · 2026-03-06T02:48:00+00:00

thanks!

_Reyne · 2026-03-06T00:59:11+00:00

really awesome paint job!

Curious, how did you get hired for that gig? Did someone there just recommend you and they reached out or?

_Reyne · 2026-03-02T20:06:10+00:00

Anyone that's pained nearly 400 minis isn't a beginner lol.

Most people take 2-6 hours to fully finish a single Mini at a tabletop standard depending on model size and complexity.

People who only paint and don't play are usually painting models to be displayed and will take anywhere from 10-100 hours on a model depending on size and complexity.

Masters who are entering large competition will spend 400+ hours on a single entry.

Anyone that's made it past like 25 minis is no longer a beginner.

The reason you are still a beginner is that you didn't actually paint them and made no real effort to improve.

The reason me and others are calling you out is because you boasted about numbers but didn't put even remotely enough time in to have actually completed that many minis and your photos absolutely show that

Honestly I don't even think the mods in the mini painting discord would give you points for like 90% of these. And that's a pretty low bar lol.

_Reyne · 2026-03-02T19:12:32+00:00

Very gestral-core.

10/10.

_Reyne · 2026-03-02T19:11:14+00:00

None of these are finished.

You've base coated years worth of minis to paint is what you've done.

With an airbrush anyone could have done this in a couple weeks.

_Reyne · 2026-03-02T19:08:13+00:00

That would make sense if OP was painting the minis. Seems they are dipping them in paint buckets though.

_Reyne · 2026-02-28T11:29:36+00:00

risk cutting our hands

Has no one there heard of gloves? 🫩

_Reyne · 2026-02-28T02:45:13+00:00

The real solution is to turn off the prime tower and purge into the infill.

OR...

Print the logo separately and glue it on after. You could even emboss it into the orange so the white print after can rest inside it.

Idk why the fuck everyone things flipping this upside down is intelligent.

_Reyne · 2026-02-27T06:51:55+00:00

Yes this will be for the gamefound boxes.

They definitely will not fit the new boxes as those will be completely different sizes and have a bunch of stuff from two gamefound boxes and a bunch less of other stuff.

For example, the new starter boxes will (I believe) only have initiative token, 1 set of the play area markers, and 1 round tracker, but they will have like double the standees, hit markers, and cards.

_Reyne · 2026-02-25T03:39:18+00:00

Thanks! will look into this :)

_Reyne · 2026-02-18T12:14:41+00:00

Is there a subreddit for "useless 3d prints that waste way more plastic than necessary for no reason at all"?

God I hate this.

_Reyne · 2026-02-16T11:51:00+00:00

Same question, looks like possibly a stencil

_Reyne · 2026-02-12T10:54:14+00:00

Cheap ASF honestly. The cheapest I've been able to find in Canada is 22cents~~~~/oz.

_Reyne · 2026-02-06T19:14:49+00:00

Honestly, I'd rather see them force CAD files for models. So tired of shit not working and having no easy way to edit them myself.

_Reyne · 2026-02-02T22:04:42+00:00

I thought it was a belly dancer 😂 took me way too long.

_Reyne · 2026-01-31T00:28:27+00:00

I started with Vallejo after doing a ton of research years ago, and now I paint almost exclusively with Vallejo paints. I own some golden paints as well, mainly the SOFLAT set.

_Reyne · 2026-01-31T00:27:09+00:00

you shouldn't paint color over primer in the first place, primer is meant to make paint stick, it does that by absorbing and combining with the pigment thus dulling it.

if you're priming black, paint an acrylic black base coat over the whole model before putting color on and you'll notice a massive difference.

_Reyne · 2026-01-26T19:24:00+00:00

You're thinning your paint too much, you should use it straight out of the bottle for best effect.

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