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Hey everyone. I plan to start doing some customs soon but wanted to get some feedback on what types of materials I should be using, i.e. what works best.
Is there a specific glue that works best?
What types of paint are best? And when painting do I need to prep the existing sculpts beforehand with anything else or just apply paint to the sculpt as is?
I remember reading somewhere about a certain product to use for making lightsabers but can't recall what it was or where I saw it discussed. Anyone have any tips so that I don't have to remove lightsabers from other mini's?
Any other tips or feedback would be tremendously helpful!
Thanks in advance.
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I've had others suggest a hot glue gun and a nail file for customs.
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Honestly, I've never used a hot glue gun. My primary materials consist of mini's to cut up and use for parts, super glue, exacto knife, green stuff, sculpting tools to add detail to the green stuff. Some very fine paint brushes for detailed painting and decent quality hobby paints. As far as brand of paint, I prefer Formula P3 and purchase mine from miniaturemarket.com, I would recommend a decent paint. Last thing you want to do is spend a lot of time and detail on a custom and have the paint look bad. I recommend you stay away from the cheap craft paints, but that's my preference and opinion. In regards to materials for lightsabers, I buy the smallest plastic rods from the plastruct.com. They come in red, blue, clear and green if I remember correctly. Hope that helps. Good Luck!!!!
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Thanks guys, I appreciate it!
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So, FAR(B/G/R/Y)-2 on page 5 of this document? http://plastruct.com/picat/STRIP_ROD_9.pdf1/16th inch outer diameter works best for lightsabers?
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Exacto knife
tample clamped magnifying glass
Citadel Paints (get them online, about $3 a pot, they're bloody amazing for minis...which is what they're designed for)
citadel also makes brushes that work well...toothpicks are also fun to paint with as you can use your exacto knife to get a super fine tip
glue.....I only use the gel glue but locktite, it comes in a container that lets you control how much comes out, it dries fast but not too fast and so far holds up far better than any of the other glues i've tried (citadel does make a glue but don't get it haha)
hope that helps
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Awesome guys! Thank you very much!
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Sorry to hi-jack your thread G-Funk, but I'm also looking for stuff to use for custom mini figures. So Far I've got the following: LightSabers: - use a current mini to get the saber you need. Some of the (un)commons are rather cheap and you may already have too many lying around: Ordering Lightsaber Material: Hobbylinc http://www.hobbylinc.com/cgi-bin/s8.cgi?cat_s=R&mfg_s=pls&str_s=rod%201/16#Plastruct Inc http://www.plastruct.com/Seems to be hard to connect to atm, so try Hobbylinc Hobby's - as recommended by wannabe mexican for our friends in the UK http://hobby.uk.com/materials/plastic/light-gathering-acrylic-rods.htmlPaints:Citadel Paints - recommended by CC-23478 http://store.miniwargaming.com/category/warhammer-citadel-paints/http://www.thewarstore.com/citadelpaintsbrushes.htmlModel Masters (acrylic) by Testors - recommended by Darth Sal. Typically available at most hobby stores. http://www.testors.com/category/136645/Acryl_PaintsGames Workshop offers some nice paints, as suggested by Yoto Yoto http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/And some great tips by ChadB about painting: ChadB wrote:Welcome to the wonderful world of miniature customizing.
A few tips I've found most useful-
1. Multiple thin coats are better than one thick coat. Acrylics can be watered down. I like to paint with mine at the consistency of whole milk. (may need to prime the mini before doing this depending on the color you are covering.)
2. Paint in the order the figure would get dressed. Start with the skin and hair, move onto pants and shirt, then to shoes belts, bandoleers etc.
3. If you plan to do washes to bring out highlights and shadows do your shadows first with a very very watered down version of the paint. Highlights using a not as watered down. Highlights should be the last thing you paint.
4. Youtube and Google are your friend. Take a look and see what you find, there are some incredible miniatures painters out there and if nothing else it should inspire you. Different miniatures painters sometimes have slightly different methodologies and some suit folks better than others. I've found some great tutorials on both of these. (Youtube was great in helping me understand how to drybrush for example.) Glues:Locktite was recommended by CC-23478, as it is easy to dispense and dries rather quickly, but not too quickly. Epoxy:Green Stuff - recommended by many http://store.miniwargaming.com/category/modeling-putty/This is it for now. I might try to update or even start new and maybe get it sticky's at the top of the forum.
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lol, I don't consider it highjacking a thread if you add awesome info to what I was looking for!
Perhaps somebody could put together a comprehensive thread that could get stickied in this forum as a resource for people to have easy access to.
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Once I collect enough information, I was hoping to ask for a "sticky" at the top. Maybe I'll post a request for input, then consolidate the data.
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just an observation regarding the testors paints, I had used those originally and had great success with them and had recommended them, but then I discovered later on that after awhile the paint starts to break down and gets sticky, so little fuzzies will stick to your minis, so if you use those be sure to coat the minis with a clear coat afterwards.
testors also makes a dullcoat which I used, it's a clear coat that also reduces the shine/gloss of a lot of the testors paints
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