How to repaint?

[hiveelysium]

I played a long time ago and now have models that inwant to strip the paint and repaint... any syuggestions?

[hivefleetkerrigan]

Advice on stripping is here:
thetyranidhive.proboards.com/thread/58248/stripping-finecast-models

For painting, do you want to go fast or do want to pick a color scheme/quality level to paint to?

For fast, GWs leviathan is pretty speedy. GW has also come out with contrast paints with speed painting in mind. They didn't work well for my color scheme but iron dread knight has used them to paint through most of his points in nids this year.
thetyranidhive.proboards.com/thread/57829/hive-fleet-insidious

For a color scheme, what draws your eye? What inspires you? For me, I chose nids as they looked like Zerg from StarCraft, so I paint my nids with purple skin and brown to orange carapace. The sky is the limit in terms of different color schemes for our models.

Edit: forgot to mention that you could just prime over your minis if the paint isnt too thick or you're not worried about missing out on some details (is gaunts. Why bother spending hours stripping them?) I just primed over a bunch of my second hand minis and haven't had any issues.

[irondreddknight]

I stripped my tyranids a while back, i used methylated spirit and a ultra sonic cleaner to loosen the paint, then some scrubbing with a toothbrush for the plastic models. Works really well, even better for metal models as it does all the work for you with metal.

For painting, I've been happy with my results with contrast paints. Makes short work of getting a lot of minis done quickly.

[hiveelysium]

Yeah contrast paint is cheating..... and i always heard if you aint cheating you aint trying... yeah i gobbled that up!

Also can i upload photos from a mobile?

[hivefleetkerrigan]

Sept 2, 2020 14:59:52 GMT hiveelysium said:

Yeah contrast paint is cheating..... and i always heard if you aint cheating you aint trying... yeah i gobbled that up!

Also can i upload photos from a mobile?

I use imgur which doesn't allow you to grab the right code to embed the images on mobile. I'm not sure on other platforms.

Good luck with contrast! I found I painted faster by priming to my majority color. I spent less time trying to wedge my brush to get the gaunts under bellies.

[irondreddknight]

Sept 2, 2020 14:59:52 GMT hiveelysium said:

Yeah contrast paint is cheating..... and i always heard if you aint cheating you aint trying... yeah i gobbled that up!

Also can i upload photos from a mobile?

Lol yeah it depends more on your situation. Like I find painting my least favourite part of the hobby. And I my collections is pretty big so I wanted speed to get everything uniform again. I can't imagine the time needed to painy 90 terms using traditional techniques. So for me, contrast was perfect.

[tylertt]

I made a video on how to strip models. It may be helpful.