{"id":115,"date":"2016-12-07T00:07:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T00:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/?p=115"},"modified":"2016-12-07T02:08:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T02:08:26","slug":"ridley-darkedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/2016\/12\/07\/ridley-darkedge\/","title":{"rendered":"Ridley Darkedge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00a0have been using the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reapermini.com\/Miniatures\/bald\/latest\/03345\">Ridley Darkedge<\/a> miniature from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reapermini.com\/Miniatures\/DarkHeavenLegends\">Reaper&#8217;s Dark Heaven Legends<\/a> line for a nonplayer character of some significance in \u00a0my current\u00a0Broken Covenant\u00a0campaign and I got\u00a0impatient to paint it for an upcoming scene. It&#8217;s a metal miniature so it\u00a0had to be primed first\u00a0but\u00a0the spray on primer again came out clumpy and uneven. This is when I started researching alternatives to spray \u00a0on primer and discovered that Gesso could be used for miniatures. I\u00a0followed two guides primarily; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dakkadakka.com\/wiki\/en\/Priming_With_Acrylic_Gesso\">Priming With Acrylic Gesso from Dakka Dakka<\/a>\u00a0 and <a href=\"http:\/\/ordinarygaming.blogspot.com\/2012\/06\/priming-miniatures-gesso.html\">Priming Miniatures: Gesso from A League of Ordinary Gamers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-123\" src=\"http:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ridley-darkedge-looking-bad-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ridley-darkedge-looking-bad-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ridley-darkedge-looking-bad-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ridley-darkedge-looking-bad-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ridley-darkedge-looking-bad-533x300.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you can see the results left a lot to be desired. It was true that Gesso\u00a0was like magic when it worked, like with the <a href=\"http:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/2016\/12\/06\/khurasan-stikks-first-batch\/\">Khurasan Stikks <\/a>that I did at the same time, it was impressive to watch \u00a0globs of the stuff tighten up around details and provide a firm priming coat. Unfortunately, it wasn&#8217;t as magical for Ridley Darkedge\u00a0as it was for the\u00a0groups of Stikks that I primed at the same time. Granted I probably should have done a better job of removing the coat of spray on primer. I only felt more unhappy with the loss of detail as I tried to paint this one so I decided to set it aside for now until I can strip off the paint to try again &#8211; it sounds like\u00a0Simple Green is the way to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00a0have been using the\u00a0Ridley Darkedge miniature from Reaper&#8217;s Dark Heaven Legends line for a nonplayer character of some significance in \u00a0my current\u00a0Broken Covenant\u00a0campaign and I got\u00a0impatient to paint it for an upcoming scene. It&#8217;s a metal miniature so it\u00a0had to be primed first\u00a0but\u00a0the spray on primer again came out clumpy and uneven. This is when&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/2016\/12\/07\/ridley-darkedge\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[15,23,21],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-minis","tag-brokencovenant","tag-dark-heaven-legends","tag-pewter","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ridley-darkedge-looking-bad.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8aZ1W-1R","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaihaku.net\/roleplaying\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}