Pinky's SCARY Repaints: Huge Celestial Spider

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That is one wicked looking spider. Keep up the awesome repaints.

Very cool repaint. Never thought about making something evil good, only the other way around. Storm Silverhand, Archfiend!!

Thanks, guys.

Heh. I'm not quite comfortable enough with my (lack of) skills to try my hands at a Rare. But Uncommon? Sure! They're usually only a couple bucks each...

That's kind of where I'm standing right now. I spray-primered a huge fiendish, only to find out spray primer dissolves the glue, and now I have a baseless spider. I was going to do it to look like spider-man, too...

To be honest, I don't even prime the DDM figures. The existing paint usually does well enough to hold onto the new paint.

On something like the Spider, I'll just use multiple coats. Since I'm using white anyway, it's not so bad. Even some of the acknowledged "better" painters don't bother with undercoats on DDM.

Thats interesting...i have yet to re-paint a ddm figure since i have so much unpainted pewter laying around. Man that bites about your spider. I would have done the same thing...about the primer you used, was it an acrylic based primer? What name brand did you use?

I used games workshop spray on white primer (I'm sure the color isn't what dissolved it.) I lost the bottle, after I lost interest in spray primering my figs due to the fact it destroyed a lot of them before I figured out what was going on, haha. My Cormyrian War Wizard's chest became dis-attached, spider came off his base. But it was a lesson learned. I *think* it was acrylic based, but I can't be sure. It was the only primer my FLGS carried, and the guy at the counter said "it's a *must* if you're going to start repainting", so I took his word for it and bought it. Painted a few pewters, everything was good, then I noticed after I primered a few "gaps I hadn't seen before". Heh.

That's strange about GW stuff.

I haven't used their primer for years, but I never had a problem with it breaking the bonds of Krazy Glue.

Normally, I'd say that primer was necessary (and is still very necessary for pewter minis). If I were repainting nothing but unpainted DDM "blacks" I'd be using some sort of primer (grey or white so that it could be seen), but the purpose of primer is to allow for your paint to stick onto the paint. Since there's already paint on them, I don't normally bother.

Have you tried to reglue the pieces with Krazy Glue (or another type of "super" glue)?

Well, CWW's chest was too small of a crack (while still being obscenely noticeable) to get into. On pieces with no glue, it appeared to have worked fine, like the Hunting Cougar (forgot I painted that one Very Happy

) I have kicking around here somewhere, which was supposed to be my test, I didn't think about figs with tiny factors like that. I always test with something I have the most of, and my spider was not something I have a lot of, but hunting cougars were.

Unfortunately, there aren't a lot of two piece common minis. Sad

That's a serious bummer.

I have heard of folks using white glue (like the stuff you used in grade school) as a sort of a crack filler. I don't know how well it works, though.

Yeah, I just threw away the CWW (I have way too many of those) so it's not that big o' deal. I should totally put up pics of the hunting panther I made, it was a lot of fun, and one of the only primered minis I finished painting I actually liked afterwards.

Pics, pics, pics!

That's part of what this is for man! I mean, if nobody's going to make fun of the "work" that I do, then nobody's going to make fun of yours...

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I may end up repainting it, but I'll work on getting pics after I get the e-mail I'm waiting for. I'm also trying to think of some minis to paint, but without really playing any D&D my creative influence is gone with the lack of character creation. It used to be I'd look at a mini and think about how cool that would be as a representation of my PC. I'm looking at bulking up Shadowbane's sword with some graystuff. That sword's just way too small for that guy to wield 2-handed.

cool spider...love it... never thought of white.

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