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GreenOne

I paint my thumb.
Hi y\'all
I had some free time @work so I though I\'d do something useful for the community. This might help with the \"It\'s all been said before\" problem.

Newcomers: Here is a list of the most recurent topics, with links to related thread and article, I advise you take a look before posting questions, CMONers will like you more this way.;)

Edit:The directory itself is WIP,CMONers should feel free to pick it up and complete it, and bump it up every once in a while.
To help, post any article/thread to be added, with name and thread ID. I\'ll come back and edit if the idea is appreciated.
I did threads to page 13 and not the articles yet.

Hope I\'m being useful.
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What is NNM ?
[Non-Metallic Metals]. A technique used for painting metal-like surfaces without using metallic paints. It\'s variant SENNM [Sky-Earth Non-metallic Metals] includes reflection of earthy/airy tones depending on the surface angle.

Related threads:
NNM
What GW colours i need for good NMM?
NMM gold - how do I do it?
using metallic paint

Related articles:

What is OSL?
[Object-Source Lighting] Technique used to simulate the effect of directed light on a mini.

Related threads:
source lighting - help/pointers please

Related articles:
OSL
Painting Light Effects
Glowing Eyes by Cyril

Sheers and special textures:
Related threads:
Wet Shirt Effect

Related articles:
Wet T-shirts & Other Sheer CLothing
Painting Gemstones
Painting Precious Stones
Complex Gems

Tools and Paints
Related threads:
Painting on chrono.
Question for...: Sealers and varnishes.
Problem with GW paints
sizes on paint brush\'s, whats it all mean?

Related articles:


Shading
Related threads:
Best ways to shade yellow.

Related articles:

Highlighting

Related threads:
Highlites on black?

Related articles:

Conversion and scupting:
Related threads:
Standard how to.
All my bases are belong to crap...
A basing question
Looking for advice, or tips on making snow/ice bases

Related articles:
Hot Lava Bases

Color choices
Warm and cool colors.
Everything about colour

Other
Work In progress IV.
 
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vincegamer

Active member
Once fully fleshed out, I think this would make a great article for the beginners articles sections.

Call the article \"How To Do Absolutely Everything\"
 
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NecroN

Guest
Excellent initiative. This would be a great one for the mods to sticky to the top of the forum. Perhaps even to put in as a must read before posting (I know you can do that with most forum software, but not sure about this one).

Hopefully this will reduce the number of identical threads.
 
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mrteal

New member
Well, good start. I was wondering when something like this would be created. As I am sure we all getting tired of the same posts time and time again.
 
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GreenOne

I paint my thumb.
* Bump *

Glad you like it, I\'ll keep at it then, as I venture deeper in the annals for more knowledge.
 
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Drake Farstrider

New member
Very nice Green One. I had thought of doing something like this in the past. I wonder if this can be made into a sticky thread so it is always on top. ???
 
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dauber22

New member
Great idea, GreenOne. Allow me to help with a few suggestions for articles.

SHEERS
Wet T-shirts & Other Sheer CLothing by Chrispy
http://www.coolminiornot.com/article/aid/128

OSL
Two articles on OSL in general:
OSL by ShawnRL
http://www.coolminiornot.com/article/aid/328
and Painting Light Effects by VIctoria
http://www.coolminiornot.com/article/aid/106

and two articles on more specific typoes of lighting effects:
Glowing Eyes by Cyril
http://www.coolminiornot.com/article/aid/288
and Hot Lava Bases by Klute
http://www.coolminiornot.com/article/aid/302


Painting Gems
We\'ve got three really good articles on painting gems:
Painting Gemstones by Brushguy
http://www.coolminiornot.com/article/aid/41
Painting Precious Stones by Chrispy
http://www.coolminiornot.com/article/aid/200
and Complex Gems by ZaPhOd
http://www.coolminiornot.com/article/aid/205

Hope these help.
 
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GreenOne

I paint my thumb.
Thanks Dauber, I\'ll update these soon.

Glad I can be of use.

By the way, I took a look deeper in these thread, some link to other thread and articles, some from other site, I think one could get lost into a universe of miniature related knowledge without having to do a single search...
I\'m currenly loading all this into a huge .doc file that would be the CMON compendium of miniature secrets.
I might find a way to distribute it in this form ( I\'m good at making docs, it\'s my job.) of course giving all credits to the site and writters. I\'ll keep you informed.

@mods and/or admins: The sticky thread idea is good, and I\'m pretty sure this can be done in this kind of php forum.
 
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minimaker

New member
A FAQ would be nice but I think we\'d need a seperate section for it. I\'m keeping a list of reference books and sites which is in this message: http://www.coolminiornot.com/forums/viewthread.php?tid=5764 but it tends to be hard to find since it moves all the time.

Bye, Ming-Hua
 
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