Miniature painting 🎨

[cobalt summit]

Truly just great to get back to the hobby intensive side, I havent had time to really paint all summer as I’m rushing to get a bajillion baldoids battle-ready for tournaments

[languid jay]

Yeah, it's nice like that. My winter's gonna be either BONE BOYS or blood angels.

I GOT SO MANY SKELEBOYS NOW

[cobalt summit]

Think I can give our better painters a run for their money at our competitions but just aint had the space yet

HARRYHAUSEN LIVES

[languid jay]

https://tenor.com/view/hokey-pokey-put-your-left-foot-in-skeleton-dance-shake-it-all-about-hokie-pokie-gif-26664408

[lilac marsh]

I have some makeup sponges but they're a little too fine to actually lay a pattern

My trick for heat effects is to paint the hottest/interior part first and work outwards

[lilac marsh]

Beast of nurgle kitbash

[junior warren]

Doing some baby's first miniature painting and I think my freehanding turned out pretty good (wish I had some better pictures)

[regal inlet]

Hell yeah!

[sand carbon]

If you're taking pics on your phone, you should be able to adjust the focus. On my iPhone I know I have to tap the part of the pic I want in focus though it also adjusts the image brightness at the same time

[junior warren]

Yeah mine does the same thing I have to futz with it more

[sand carbon]

Gotcha

[lunar axle]

Many phones may struggle with taking pictures this close up. It can often be helpful to set the model slightly further away, then zoom in with your camera to something like 2x. This allows you to focus easier, and effectively double your depth of field.

The latter means that it's also easier to get the whole miniature sharp, rather than just that one arm it's holding out, or that chestplate while all of the limbs get blurry.

[weak hornet]

Oh god. I'm going to waste more money.

https://youtu.be/dt90LqsHU08

[regal inlet]

Oh?

[weak hornet]

This brushes

this motherfucking brushes

I want them

I fucking want them

[regal inlet]

Ahhh fair fair. I use Rose and Co nfl

Ngl

[twin willow]

chat my current Dusk Wyrm scheme concept is gunmetal grey with khorne red on the left arm + pauldron. Do I give the armor trim (like the pauldrons) a different color like Brass to add more color or leave it gunmetal?

[lunar axle]

Quick research outpost kitbash, as well finishing up the Heartbreakers. Only basing to go, and perhaps a freehand.

Being on a deadline for a con gives me a massive boost in productivity. Also in stress, though.

[regal inlet]

Ohhhh nice nice! What are they for?

[lunar axle]

They're for MECHCOM, my very own tabletop skirmish game.

[regal inlet]

Nice nice!

[lunar axle]

The outpost specifically is for the debut of the TTRPG module, which will happen at the con.

Said module did not exist beyond a vague idea a month or so ago, and promising to show it was a poor decision on my part, heh. Now I've written most of a rulebook, found an artist for a cover, written a oneshot, built a character sheet, figured out a way to build custom maps instead of printing them, and done way more to be able to demo the normal game as well.

But we're getting there. Still a week left. We're gonna make it.

[regal inlet]

Nice nice!

You know, I posted this lad before but ngl this is my favourite model I've done recently.

Which con btw?

[lunar axle]

Very gritty and characterful, looks sweet.

[regal inlet]

Thx! The old metal Wolves are badass sculpts.

[lunar axle]

Rincon. It's a Dutch TTRPG con, but I've weaselled my way in with my wargame, hehe.

[regal inlet]

Honestly I would say if it's a campaign mode, like Crusade it crosses itnto the realm of RPG

[lunar axle]

Well, the TTRPG module is for that. It allows people to build pilots for the mechs, as well as spaceships, and level them up with extra buffs and abilities that turn them from regular pilots into absolute Red Barons.

A more military campaign system is also in the works, but shelved because priorities. That has the rules for spaceship combat, playing both side by side, and will eventually have a continental scale map for grand tactics, rather than skirmishes.

[regal inlet]

Ohhh very nice.

[cobalt summit]

Pickin up oil wash supplies today lads any recommendations

[lunar axle]

But I want to finish designing the initial miniature ranges for the regular game before I work on that. One thing at a time. Plus or minus seven. Side projects

[cobalt summit]

Is this a “wear respirator whole time” kinda poison or is this a “do it with ventilation and don’t huff it” poison

[crude pumice]

Better safe than sorry

Generally speaking it’s fine with ventilation though. Odourless thinners are also ideal but not 100% necessary

[weak hornet]

Another lance down

[lunar axle]

The Heartbreakers are finished, now all that remains is their alien opponents. This Agusta with a pinup has to be the tiniest freehand I've ever done. Spoilered for being a pinup of a naked lady.

[lime haven]

Just keeping the sultanate coming

[last axle]

Just finished up some AoS models a friend gave me

[weak hornet]

Added some writing to bases

[humble stirrup]

Now those actually have the vibe of military nicknames, you know Jello had a very strange prank or story behind it

[weak hornet]

Oh yeah, it does.

All I know is that it involved three Ghost Bear elementals, a casino, and a very, very drunk Eridani that went off the range.

Which sorta lead to a riot over invalid casino tokens.

[warm prawn]

Sounds like normal shore leave

[weak hornet]

Even if it results in an accidental reenactment of Immortal Warrior with a construction mech and a trash barge?

[lime haven]

Whomst among us

[warm prawn]

Yeah. I remember leave in Vladivostok.

[regal inlet]

Current WIP's.

there's so many clones

[humble stirrup]

“500,000 ready, and a million more on the way!”

[regal inlet]

yup though only 34 ATM. 22 regular spods, 5 arcs and 7 arfs. With Obi-wan and a jedi general as well.

[woven spire]

i think this kitbash came out really well actually

gonna get him painted up as an iron warrior

[languid torrent]

Nowhere near enough, though

And jealous

[regal inlet]

Oh aye eventually I wanna get all the named characters for the GAR

[languid torrent]

You glued that?

[regal inlet]

Yeah.

It's a fix for loosing the normal head. Got a cloak to go with it.

[viral arch]

Kakophonists and flawless blades done

[idle girder]

workin hard for the money

[steady field]

Back at it after months

These will be yellow in a couple hours

[compact pier]

I kinda like them now haha

They should look great though :3

[lunar axle]

For now, they can be part of Ace Darwin's Whipits.

[steady field]

I’m kinda tempted to paint something pink next

These will be Canopus Cuirassiers tho

[lunar axle]

Fair enough. That's fun, too.

How'd Canopus end up with three assaults?

[steady field]

as payment for Steiner gambling debts I assume lol

They're part of the Canopian Cuirassiers, if anyone has assaults out there, it's probably them

I already have Zeus painted up as the test piece, so add that in

[regal inlet]

He he he. Funny tank go whoosh

[humble stirrup]

Crocodile?

[regal inlet]

Yup.

[humble stirrup]

I’m happy I remembered that, I knew it was British

[regal inlet]

Probably my third favourite tank of the war. After the firefly and AVRE.

[languid torrent]

Firefly does go hard

[regal inlet]

I do have one as well.

[languid torrent]

Do you possibly have a Stürmtiger

[regal inlet]

Unfortunately not. I do however have an AVRE

[languid torrent]

Nice

[languid torrent]

fascines?

[regal inlet]

?

[languid torrent]

Wood bundles for trench crossing

[regal inlet]

Ahhh mo

No. Churchill AVRE is a bunker buster

The ARC is the trench crosser.

[languid torrent]

Gotcha

I do enjoy the AVRE

Any tank equivalent to a grenade launcher is a plus from me

[weak hornet]

So, I might pick up one of Vallejo's metal color sets.

How good are the metallics there?

[humble stirrup]

I’ve heard good things, like most of Vallejo

[lime haven]

Most of vallejo's metals have been pretty good in my experience

[feral kettle]

have had good experience with gold and silver

[lime haven]

Standard metal paint Pita but like, better

[humble stirrup]

I actually got a set for free as a Going Out of Business sale gift from a hobby store I went to over the years (the owners were retiring and didn’t find a buyer for the store as-is)

[weak hornet]

Oh whoa

[humble stirrup]

Haven’t done much with them but they seemed fine

[humble stirrup]

Not a big set, just one of the smaller packs

[weak hornet]

Cooool

[humble stirrup]

Yeah it was nice of them

I should try using it more

[weak hornet]

Same

There's a lot of stuff I need to use

_>

That feel when you have seven bottles of the same Olive drab

[humble stirrup]

Look, it’s a good color

Am I potentially incredibly boring for really, really liking it as a color? Yes, but I mostly don’t care

[lime haven]

7?!

[weak hornet]

I like military colors

Yes

I think I have like six to eight duplicate bottles of olive drab, khaki, dark us camo, and olive camo?

[lime haven]

Oh well those are different paints

I thought you meant like
7 fucking army painter intermediate green bottles

[weak hornet]

I do need to get those

And two thin coats

There are actually a lot of brands that I want to buy.

Also paint question

Can I use this as a brush on primer or do I need to airbrush?

Because I am confused

It says Primer

and then there also is surface primer?

[viral arch]

I've never used it as a brush on primer but it works beautifully through an airbrush

But I also just find brush on primers awful

[midnight mesa]

You can probably brush it on, but it won't be as nice as with an airbrush

I don't know if there is a different type of primer than a surface primer, but it's what you want in a general sense either way

[regal inlet]

You can deffo brush that stuff on.

[regal inlet]

This lad was brush primed with that.

[weak hornet]

Oh wow

[regal inlet]

Yeah.

[lime haven]

Brushpriming a knight is a level of dedication that i gotta respect

[weak hornet]

Oh my god that's wild

[regal inlet]

I was at uni and Cba'd waiting for the rain to stop.

[cobalt summit]

I KNEEL

batch painting 120 neophytes in one go < brush painting primer on a knight

Concealing brushstrokes on the saturnine dread shoulders for raven guard scheme had me ready to walk off into the cold night

[regal inlet]

well..... Of my 8 knights 3 were brush primed and painted.

[cobalt summit]

🫵 freak (congratulatory)

[regal inlet]

Alongside a Thanatar cavas, Thanatar Calix, Kratos, Spartan and sicaran.

[lunar axle]

I wasn't even planning on painting this guy first, but when I sat down at my desk today, he jumped out for some reason.

[granite fox]

diorama wip

[steady field]

Assault cheetos update

[lime haven]

That is very yellow

[steady field]

Pink undercoat + contrast paint works wonders. Gonna highlight in a cooler yellow to create a stronger gradient still. Then do desaturated bases to keep the yellow popping.

[wanton citrus]

Aristeia! mentioned

[lunar axle]

You bet.

The game looks fun so far.

[zealous scroll]

I haven't gotten to the actual painting of these fellas but I just finished assembling half of one of my Heavy Gear Blitz boxes!

[ornate tendon]

hell yeah Heavy Gear gang rise up

[lunar axle]

"I have nothing to paint."

[cobalt spire]

Same

[humble stirrup]

Anyone have any recommendations for a primer that’s a good approximation of US desert tan? Like for vehicles

[regal inlet]

Primer? No. Regular paint? Vajello does a us desert tan iirc.

[lunar axle]

Painting some fire effects.

[zealous scroll]

I moved on to my Peace River minis and hit a wall because all the little hip/leg plates keep skittering away and vanishing into the carpet
one of them has not turned back up and it is gone forever
how on earth do you file these things they're like 5mm wide

[last axle]

First real attempt at doing some volcanic looking bases for our chaos fellas

[humble stirrup]

Looks nice, good job

[feral kettle]

cracked paintjob

[idle girder]

For all the elbow grease I've ended up feeling kind of wishy-washy about this guy

[regal inlet]

Looks bloody stunning.

[humble stirrup]

Yeah that looks great

[granite fox]

KONO DIO DA

[idle girder]

love that eversor model

[regal inlet]

That's the OG metal one?

[idle girder]

oh yeah, one of 2 sculpts from 3rd i think

looks like hes even got the backpack mine and many others are missing

[granite fox]

it is metal

[zealous scroll]

I located my missing armor piece
And I’ve assembled my first Peace River gear at last

I can’t stop myself from calling them the Peace River Boys so that army is going to be called that

[floral pagoda]

Skeleton ghosts done!

[ornate tendon]

Gang shit, those Peace River and NuCoal plastics are so much better than the North and South stuff it’s unreal

Heavypilled Gearcels in the thread

[zealous scroll]

Oh yeah they look really good! Just damn the little armor plates are a pain to prepare
I’m not super experienced yet but I’m happy with how things are turning out so far

[lunar axle]

Got a little more work in on Final Boss. Suddenly skin is becoming fun to paint.

[lunar axle]

Making solid progress now.

[zealous scroll]

Man I’m not having any luck with the peace river minis
Even with rubber tweezers, I lost the head of one of them and I had to use a spare head from a Hunter sprue
Since that’s all I have extra
The heads of the new guys look really good, so I’m kinda mad

He’s supposed to be a Skirmisher but the big head is gonna make him look weird
I did already modify him to have the shoulder of a Cheetah though, so I guess if I have a bunch of battle damage, give the head a sort of mismatched highlight paint job along with the shoulder, he’ll look less weird
Still though, I don’t like the older heads, don’t like how they attach to the sprue by the eye…

[ornate tendon]

Putting the sprue gate right on the sensor is one of the most diabolical things about the kickstarter plastics for sure

[zealous scroll]

Glad I’m not the only one who thinks so!
I guess I’m lucky that A, this happened to my army who was already going to have a bunch of field modifications on their gears, and B, this happened on a model I was already modifying
So it’s not going to look overly out of place

Plus the TAG gear and radome means it’s still obvious what his role is

Given it’s a Skirmisher with the head of a Hunter
I’ll call it the Shunter

[ornate tendon]

nb. that’s a Thunder Jaguar head you’ve used in this case

[zealous scroll]

Oh huh
Yeah I think you’re right
Damn there’s no good way to combine that with Skirmisher…

Well it’s got parts from Jaguar and Cheetah
Skamcat, that’s what I’m calling it

[zealous scroll]

Now that's getting a-head in life hahaha
👉 👉

[granite fox]

ROADA ROLLA DAA

https://tenor.com/view/dio-roada-rolla-da-dio-brando-dio-dio-jojo-dio-part3-gif-16062047

[lunar axle]

Another Aristo done.

[languid torrent]

Oooh, ARCs

[regal inlet]

Yeah. Starting with the arcs.

[languid torrent]

Nice, nice'

I should get painting on my storms

[compact pier]

Orange clones 👍

[languid torrent]

I need to decide on a clour scheme, huh

[languid torrent]

That's dope weathering'

These primed white?\

[regal inlet]

Vajello grey

It's more a off white though

Works great for going to every colour I've found.

[languid torrent]

Would priming black work at all?

[regal inlet]

It would be hellish

Going from black to white is a measure of patience and lots of layers.

[languid torrent]

I see

New primer time, I guess

[ornate tendon]

Grey primer supremacy imho

[lilac marsh]

I find it's not too bad if you have a light Grey with solid coverage

[regal inlet]

Oh aye, I meant to add in my experience

[languid torrent]

Have any tips?

[regal inlet]

For which bits?

[languid torrent]

On how to do clones, really

[regal inlet]

Fair. Prime grey or white is all I have so far.

These are the first clones I'm doing. Much more used to space marines.

[languid torrent]

Ah, fair, fair

So prime white, then detail in black and legion markings?

[regal inlet]

Yup.

For yellows use a pink/purple undertone.

[languid torrent]

I'm thinking OD green and blue

I know yellow is a pain for noobs, at least

[cobalt summit]

[cobalt summit]

Yellow’s pretty manageable if you do pink or like a real warm brown as your base layer.

Just thin your paints after that and take it easy

[languid torrent]

Any issues with maroon or lime green?

[crude pumice]

HELL yeah

[cobalt summit]

If its a dark basecoat, build up to lime. Maroon I’d do purple.

[languid torrent]

On white primer?

[cobalt summit]

Should be a piece of cake, always keep em thinned so you aint caking on, might take two or three passes as always

[languid torrent]

Yupyup

[crude pumice]

And there’s the squad done. Freehands could be better and I still need to varnish everything, but they’re done (currently missing one spearman whose power lance snapped and does not want to be pinned- drill went through the side of the haft when I tried)

[lunar axle]

I feel like I'm learning a lot of new things about painting all of a sudden.

[steady field]

Progress on Canopians

I’m really liking this scheme

[lime haven]

burnt orange is a really fantastic mech scheme

makes me miss MW4

[languid torrent]

Niiice

Started building my ARCs today

[regal inlet]

The leather isn't done yet.

[languid torrent]

I see your weathering, and have decided to paint up a batch of shinies

[regal inlet]

Every paint I need for these gits.

[languid torrent]

I presume they're 212th?

[regal inlet]

212th/332nd

The first arc has been done. Basing later

[languid torrent]

The 332nd was 501st, wannit?

[regal inlet]

Yeah. Mine are gonna be a rouge set from post 66 that have managed to link back up to 'soka

[languid torrent]

Ah, cool

I do love the clones, specifically for doing stuff like that

[regal inlet]

Obi-wans robes however took like 5 mins.

[languid torrent]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/476432778292887553/1444527588973351132/IMG_20251130_141436.jpg?ex=692d08a7&is=692bb727&hm=e6a32dadb3cb056c760a5a4ad44d42167d807916e7e7fde2f09d67b0b57d45b2&

Rate my bash

[lunar axle]

A little more progress... I might do the entire Asgard faction like this.

[cobalt summit]

Surely I will not regret this for a full marines army

[compact pier]

surely!!!

looks amazing though

sword dood especially

[lunar axle]

Designing a bust is a new experience, but it's going fairly well.

[warm prawn]

I may or may not be painting too much detail that the final build will almost certainly obscure

[warm prawn]

Hey. How would one do dust plumes behind this car?

Assuming one does not own an airbrush

[compact pier]

You can get like coloured wool for felting I think

[cobalt summit]

Wires for support and some wool or loose cotton yeah

[cobalt summit]

I painted a good pair of eyes. I’m not gonna think about how many pairs of eyes are in the rest of my neophytes. Or my genestealers on the whole. Where even the tanks have 3 to 6 Lads sitting on the roof

[warm prawn]

Bit of a weird question:
I'm doing Ork flesh. I've been doing aeldari emerald over stegadon scale or caliban green, but these have naturally, produced very dark greens. Any ideas for getting a good, bright, saturated green?

[crude pumice]

contrast over white for brighter greens, probably

if the base colour is very dark, the result will also invariably be darker

[full hinge]

I don't know modern color names

But I did Goblin Green as a basecoat with a green wash for lighter or black wash for darker and then a very light drybrush of goblin green

[lime haven]

Two thin coats emerald green is really bright and can really help liven up a green surface if you use it to paint the raised surfaces

Its what I used to get the raised folds of this fellas coat brighter and I had to dull it down with washes

[weak hornet]

Look at him

He's ready to die for the Wall.

[cobalt summit]

Go yellow and glaze green

I do green as caliban -> warpstone -> moot green drybrush

[warm prawn]

Yellow was a great shout, thanks

[warm prawn]

A work still very much in progress (most of this is dry-fit, atm), but I'm still happy with where it's going.

[languid torrent]

Miniature painters of PilotNET, I enlist you upon a Quest

Are there any good brands of brush applicable primer?

[regal inlet]

Vajello primer works very well.

It's meant for airbrush, but works just as well with a brush I did 2 of my knights that way

[languid torrent]

Cool, cool

I just want to paint this

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/449651567948464128/1443738764408262676/IMG_20251128_100037_1.jpg?ex=6938aa80&is=69375900&hm=09974a9dc28be630bcee3379da89b2da54ba0fb5c468dc7f7647774f86fb021e&

Without doing a metric ton of masking work, lol

[regal inlet]

Aye yeah brush primer would deffo work. Especially Vajello.

[languid torrent]

Roger that

(Coolest mini I own, btw)

[lunar axle]

Ohh, fun.

[ornate tendon]

Yeah, Vallejo is my backup brush primer for when I can’t use rattlecan

[regal inlet]

its also nice as its already thinned for airbrush and comes in 200ml bottles for like a fiver

[weak hornet]

Besides Vallejo

There's also AP's brush-on primer from the Fanatics range.

[humble stirrup]

What is that? It’s neat

[languid torrent]

Stalker, from the Horizon series

Stealth guy

[humble stirrup]

Ohhh, nice

Like that series

[zealous scroll]

I hacked together a good Medium Rifle with a scope
I'm very happy with how it turned out

[viral arch]

I may have lost track of time working on this and didn't stop until 2am

[warm prawn]

What has two thumbs and basically wasted an entire pot of Agrellan Earth because they forgot to paint an underlayer on the GIANT BASE they had?
This nerd.

[regal inlet]

F

[idle girder]

More rubrics because I have myself

[humble stirrup]

At the start of that sentence I went “oh, you spilled it didn’t you”

But then it took an unexpected swerve!

[warm prawn]

I mean. I did. Except it was more of a pour, because it was on purpose.
It's just that Speed Freeks bases are ridiculously large and I ended up having to do it twice.

[cobalt summit]

truly. why are they like that

godspeed

you are a saint I woulda told my secret sant 'Im stupid don't wanna spend $5 in washes to get the base'

[lilac marsh]

I make washes out of inks for big bases

Ink+matte medium+water+flow improver (or just dish soap)

Just sorta mix ratios until the vibe is right

[warm prawn]

So, I just got my Shrine Luminor in. Good to have a Big Project lined up right after this vehicle, I guess.

(I am not going to do this model justice, I can feel it)

[hallow ferry]

First painting attempt
Pro Acryl Sky Blue, Titanium White, and Magnesium

it's a misc mecha model resin printed by someone at our LGS

[lime haven]

ONE OF US

[lunar axle]

That's a Full Spectrum Dominance unit from The Lazy Forger, by the looks of it. Might be a Walrus.

[hallow ferry]

We were given the print by a friend at our LGS

[lunar axle]

Yeah, that makes sense. They're good models. Seeing one on a hex base is amusing.

Enjoy your model.

[hallow ferry]

I'm into BattleTech

Also hexagons are cool

[lunar axle]

Hexagons are brilliant.

Though I'm biased, I made my own hex based skirmish.

[ornate tendon]

Hex base supremacy imho

[hallow ferry]

so, do we need to wash minis before priming?

[weak hornet]

It depends

[regal inlet]

Depends on the kind of mini

Regular plastic ones, like a GW kit or similar no. Resin and metal kits, yes.

[hallow ferry]

BattleTech is the mins we have

[regal inlet]

The official ones?

[hallow ferry]

yes

[regal inlet]

Yeah those should be primable straight from the box

[hallow ferry]

okay

[humble stirrup]

Anyone have any tips for a primer that’d reasonably replicate that desert tan look we got going on a lot of modern US military vehicles?

[regal inlet]

How about vajellos desert tan?

[humble stirrup]

Sorry, should have said a spray primer, I don’t have an airbrush

[regal inlet]

Ahhhh aye fair, I normally brush prime ngl and use the Vajello pots for that.

Army painter do a rattle can from the looks of it.

To me I would say close enough that a wash will make it look grimy

[humble stirrup]

Seems a bit too yellow 🤔

But thanks, I’ll keep it in mind

[regal inlet]

Aye, this is from my knowledge of the brands I normally turn to

[gleaming shore]

how close do you think is citadel's zandri dust?

[languid jay]

You can safely paint it on, it self-levels. Airbrush is just easier.

[humble stirrup]

Pretty close, would wonder how it’d react to weathering (ie getting too dark)

Out of the can that looks like about what I’d want

[humble stirrup]

Having an annoyingly hard time finding paint schemes that aren’t based around crazy train-guy detailed with acrylic paints I’ve never even heard of

[lilac marsh]

What?

[humble stirrup]

Like, stuff that isn’t from people doing much bigger models and using hex-coded paints that I wouldn’t even know where to get

And joking about how hardcore model train guys get into their detail

Though also, model train guys are to be feared and worshiped for their crazy knowledge of techniques

[lilac marsh]

What are you painting?

And I mean you could just look up what the hex code is and pick similar colors, no?

[humble stirrup]

It’s more that stuff painted at a much larger scale looks funny when you try to do the same paint scheme on much smaller stuff

And it’s not all hex-coded, that was just an example

But to answer the question, I’m doing some 15mm Bradley’s

However, the more I’m looking and thinking, Zandri Dust does seem like it might be the way to go

[regal inlet]

How big are they?

[humble stirrup]

15mm scale, I don’t have exact measurements

I could go measure one I guess

About 3x1.5”

[regal inlet]

Hmmmm. Yeah zandri dust with agrax earthsade and a black damage bits on the edges would work.

[humble stirrup]

Yeah, I found something similar that I might try to use as a concept too

Basically that but also has some highlight options

[warm prawn]

So. I think the only thing really left to do here paint the base rim and try to figure out a way to hide/remove those white spots where the superglue dried weirdly.

[bright turret]

Our first painted mini will be a Cyclpos in 3rd Canopian Light Horse colors

We grabbed the 2nd color today

[regal inlet]

Ohhh very nice.

[bright turret]

It's a simple black and gray/silver trim

We're also poor, it helps narrow options

[regal inlet]

Nice nice. Main advice I have is thin your paints.

[cobalt summit]

“Man Raven Guard are cool but their paintjob is so uninspiring sometimes what if I just freehand every armourial”

<————— dumbass

[lilac marsh]

freehanding white paint too

why do this to yourself

[cobalt summit]

Have kinda just realized how to streamline at least, the insignia’s all inside a regular pentagon so I can just do a white pentagon and carve out with black

I think the others will go faster

[lilac marsh]

Oh nice

[cobalt summit]

You’re gonna get a kick out of their tactical squad designator, different than all other legions

[lilac marsh]

wack

[cobalt summit]

I love painting concentric circles of white paint on every marine

[lilac marsh]

punishment for caring about space marine lore lmao

[austere swift]

Well I guess I'm a Jade Falcon player now.

[bright turret]

Bird up

[lunar axle]

You're not alone.

I think pretty much everyone looked at the Aces box art, went "Yeah, I dig that." and proceeded to paint them up that way.

I am entirely guilty of this myself as well.

[warm prawn]

How we feeling about this treerunner flesh, gang?

[hallow ferry]

We realized we still don't have all the peripherals for mini painting

gfdi

[woven spire]

Chrimmus present built...

[regal inlet]

Hell yeah!

I'm working onine.

Mine*

[cobalt summit]

I love seeing battlestations as chaotic as mine from painters I envy

There is hope yet

[regal inlet]

Oh aye?

And ngl I just prefer the chaos to cleanness. Sure I'll loose a bit for a few days, but everything is at least there.

[zealous scroll]

I continue my quest to try to make the Medium Autocannon look good
Not sure I nailed it with this one but it looks all right to me at least

[keen gulch]

does anyone have experience with 90% white paint armies, i sprayed these corprus brethren white scars but when i go into anything else the white mars massively and everything gets so ugly and goopy, and covering it up with white just doesnt cover very well, ive managed like a single passable pauldron so far lol

[regal inlet]

How long between spraying and painting are ye waiting?

[keen gulch]

this guy has been primed for about a day, i just attacked him with more white scars rn to try and cover some red errors from his hair

[keen gulch]

oops sorry lol

[regal inlet]

Hmmmmm not sure what's happening there then. White scars is not a paint I use a lot ngl, personally much prefer vajellos dead white and off-white.

They on on super smooth.

It's how I did the white here.

[keen gulch]

this one has turned out slightly nicer on the pauldrons but it seems like any mistake on white is basically nearly irrepairable, im thinking of respraying the first marine because theres just so much miscolour to remove

[keen gulch]

oooh theyre reallt nice, yeah i mighr just try vallejo they seem better from my experience

with their metallics

[regal inlet]

Vajello is so much nicer IMO, the only gw paints I return to a lot are iron warriors and ad mech grey. As I slowly run out of gw paints. I'm moving to Vajello

[austere swift]

So a good trick with white is to not start with white. Put down a basecoat of dark grey, then aggressively drybrush up to med grey, light grey, and then to white. Each layer should cover a little less of the model. This will both give you coverage and naturally create a shading gradient so the white doesn't lok like flat primer.

[keen gulch]

thats i have some slaanesh grey i will try tomorrow!

[zealous scroll]

I’m still a long way off from painting my minis, I’m assembling all of them and then I’m going to batch prime and paint them
That’s the plan anyway
But what’s the story with different varnishes, what do you use each one for? I know of matte, gloss, and satin varnishes but I don’t really know what I should be using for my robots

My skill level is pretty low overall and I don’t have any space for an airbrush setup, I’d be using rattle cans for priming and sealing

[weak hornet]

All right.

So, the varnishes you can think of them as a sealer.

Gloss is for if you want something from a model to standout the most or do a specific effect.

Matt is the opposite where it tones everything down.

Satin is sorta a mix between both?

Usually, you apply the varnish after you're done painting, shading, and whatever else you're doing.

[regal inlet]

Yeah. Varnish Is normally for protecting the mini from damage. I heavily recommend varnishing metal and resin models.

Plastics you can sometimes get away without varnishing, but in the long term you should

[weak hornet]

Yeah, especially if you're gonna be playing with them a lot.

Or if you don't want the paint job to get ruined by the room.

Because eventually it will get ruined by the elements.

[languid jay]

More or less what others said, but generally gloss is the tough armor-like varnish that protects the model from chipping; matte doesn't offer much in the way of protection but it kills the shine if applied over gloss so you generally add 1-2 coats of that after.

Satin is semi-gloss. Some studios like GW use it exclusively, others don't. I've had limited use for it myself.

[lilac marsh]

The main difference is how glossy it looks

[zealous scroll]

Got it thank you!

[lilac marsh]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1218349869614370856/1455071854543896731/20251228_213543.jpg?ex=695364c4&is=69521344&hm=e82c2a1b47f9e5fb041d244c68a4926b2f01bd80be39442e6e7e4be6b4f1541d&

They are here to roll 5d6+10 torrent attacks at S7 AP1 D1

[crude pumice]

you also use a gloss varnish before using an oil or enamel wash so that it smooths out the surface and lets the wash flow smoothly over rather than gathering in the micro-detail of the paintbrush marks etc

[warm prawn]

AoS is forcing me to paint terrain

[languid jay]

Painting terrain is fun because there's waaaaaay less expectations on quality compared to miniatures, so you can just go ham with some drybrushing and that's like 90% of the work.

[bright turret]

we're gonna grab a cup from a thrift store to use in our painting tomorrow morning

[wide tartan]

10 billion lil guys

[crude pumice]

painted up my girlfriend's christmas gift to me. Very pleased with how it turned out

[junior warren]

baby’s first gradients. At least one of them turned out ok

[humble stirrup]

The first one looks quite nice, you’ll continue to get a feel for it with practice!

[junior warren]

Ty!

[lime haven]

Gradients were one of those things that came slowly and then all at once for me.

Those look very good already

[regal inlet]

Mmmmm new lightbox

[warm prawn]

I need to stop bouncing between projects

[viral arch]

Power ranger ready to go

[junior warren]

managed to touch up the caliver coils a little (other side still looks kinda janky)

[austere swift]

New Year, some new Tartary Army Korp

[compact pier]

Love love the snow camoo

Also 👀 that ghulam doctor got a little lost (and a lot worse at medicine)

[ornate tendon]

man the Coldfront TAK are such great sculpts. all bangers

[compact pier]

Ye!

[austere swift]

Yeah, I just had the model collecting dust and said "Congratulations, Comrade. You've been drafted."

[compact pier]

It works!

[twin willow]

progress is slow but steady

[misty horizon]

Chaos Saurus?

[lunar axle]

So it would seem.

[junior warren]

First skitarii unit done, pteraxii underway

[crude pumice]

Not too happy with the plasma glow but two lieutenants done for my Carcharodons!

[lunar axle]

If you thin down some white and let that flow into the recesses, that might help it... glow more.

They're looking excellent, btw.

[lunar axle]

Bit of an odd question folks, but I'd like to see some pieces of 28mm terrain that you've had the most fun playing with. I'm gonna be designing my own MDF kit, and I'd love to get some inspiration for shapes and layouts.

[crude pumice]

I tried with white ink (the whole glow effect was a bit of a failure after I royally screwed up doing the airbrushing for the glow), might need to thin it more I think

[lunar axle]

Yeah, glow is tricky. In this case, the brightest part should be essentially inverted from the usual painting. The most light is coming from deep inside, while the tops of the coils should be darker.

[crude pumice]

The (now) classic warhammer 40k sector administratum/mechanicum terrain tbh. My lgs used to have a 4x4’ board chock full of it plus custom made walkways and bridges. Don’t have pictures sadly but it was a blast to play on

[exotic basin]

Kitbashed Rogue Trader character (Arch Militant with Psy Rating), quite happy with how it came out!

[warm prawn]

They told me the Lumineth were a pain to paint. I should have listened

[keen gulch]

i like 1 a lot

[cobalt summit]

Fuck it lets freehand a banner for my shitmen. Something simple like a burning city at night

[cobalt summit]

Okay I feel pretty good abt this for 2hrs of relaxed work

[twin willow]

not gonna be winning any competitione but not like it matters

compared to the previous iteration

so yea we ball

[twin willow]

kinda yea. i excused it as draconic chaos mutations

[humble stirrup]

Printed some 15mm late Cold War guys, and hot damn are they tiny. They have lil bases on them, but they seem very small for how light they are and as such likely to tip over. Any tips to expand their base size other than like, gluing them to a penny or some shit? Also I plan to magnetize the bases for transportation so that then makes me worry that whatever ad hoc solution I come up with will be weirdly tall. Would appreciate any help anyone has on the subject

Not sure where best to ask about this so thought I’d try here first

And man are they itty bitty, I don’t know until I started printing it that I could have had thinner layers which might(? I don’t know for sure I’m not a printing expert) have helped make the lil guns a bit less brittle, so maybe more stuff to look into in the future. I guess I could see if I could expand the bases of the models themselves but I would have no idea how to do that myself

[regal inlet]

How big are the bases. One shout could be 1mmx3mm (so 3mm wide and 1mm tall) magnets hidden in the basing material

Or 1x5mm magnets

[humble stirrup]

Hmm, I’d probably have to get calipers

[regal inlet]

Yeah fair. I just buy my magnets from Amazon

[humble stirrup]

I’m also just worried about them tipping over when in use

[regal inlet]

As a note for getting bulk ones.

Oh the magnets will help with that, they aren't very heavy, but will add some extra mass.

[humble stirrup]

Sure, but I guess I worry lol

I’m one of those “por que no los dos” type of people in these situations

[ornate tendon]

15mm dudes always come on some kind of lil base but I base mine proper style on small coins

Big fan of the euro cent for that

Lemme see if I have an illustrative picture

late Soviet motor rifles by Oddzial Odmy, Melusine and Konrads by Slave2Gaming

[humble stirrup]

I printed my guys, and they (almost all) have lil circular bases, it’s more that I’d also wanna magnetize em and my usual method is putting on adhesive magnets and I’m worried that might be too tall

But I guess I could just give it a shot with pennies (though that feels hilarious odd to consider now that pennies are technically going out of circulation)

[humble stirrup]

The good news: found washers that don’t raise their hight too much and makes them much more stable!
The bad news: the washer is non-magnetic, and weighs enough that the adhesive fridge magnet stuff I have doesn’t make it stick to the magnet-receptive sheeting I have lined the bases of my boxes with

The ??? News: Since they are washers, they have holes in them, so I could potentially find 1x6mm magnets that would fit in there and maybe support the weight enough to have the models not move around

Hobby problems require janky solutions I guess

[zealous scroll]

Want to show off a project that is almost finished

A Shilone because I collect as many non-mech Battletech minis as I possibly can

[lime haven]

FLYING WINGS RAHHH

[warm prawn]

The work, she is progressing nicely

[lunar axle]

Repainting some minis from when I just started out, ten years ago. I came a long way, but I have much more to learn still.

[weak hornet]

birb dog

[last axle]

Wip volcanic bases for our new chaos fellas

[warm prawn]

This WIP is looking... good? Who gave me permission to do that? Or think that?

[feral kettle]

are u loving yourself and happy with what you've done?!

[warm prawn]

Ew. Loving myself? Hell no!

[feral kettle]

looks great

[humble stirrup]

Anyone know any painting tutorials for 15mm Cold War US Army dudes?

[lunar axle]

I've painted nothing but mechs for a little too long and now I want to go crazy on a few fantasy minis.

[twin willow]

working on my Chapter Master

[lunar axle]

Making my own MDF terrain kit.

[languid jay]

Oh hell yeah.

A cool idea would be to have that clear stand light up with an LED underneath.

[languid jay]

https://saucermenstudios.com.au/product/flatline-city-kickstarter-stl-bundle-late-pledge/ Well, I happen to have this set and it does some real cool stuff with LED signs that's very easy. no wiring needed.

[lunar axle]

It's enclosed, edgelighting in this design isn't gonna work out I fear. But I might do a version that could do it one day.

Oh yeah, Saucermen does some great designs.

[languid jay]

Very simple coin system going on, so I think it'd be doable.

[lunar axle]

I have done an edgelit design before, but that was a big info sign, nothing tabletop. If I get another opportunity, I might mess around with it.

[languid jay]

https://saucermenstudios.com.au/3d-printed-terrain-guides/ They have build guides and I 100% support taking notes, haha.

[lunar axle]

After so many mechs, some fantasy minis are fun to experiment with.

[idle girder]

i hate basing

[warm prawn]

Lumineth are cool, okay?

[warm prawn]

There we go...

[compact pier]

Oooh pretty

[languid torrent]

Oooh

[last axle]

Finished up the chaos warriors with an attempted freehand banner

[cobalt summit]

Success. Bitchin banner

Lookin forward to more thats some good lookin chaos warriors

[last axle]

Thanku!
Yeah both looking forward to and slightly dreading the knights, they seem really complex

[regal inlet]

Slowly working through my wolves doing their armour one at a time.

Then it will be onto the trims, then weapons and finally pelts.

[cobalt summit]

Think I finally got a handle on how to paint my unkillable chud sons

[misty horizon]

Oh wow those are great

How’d you do them?

[cobalt summit]

Prime ivory (wraithbone)

1. Basecoat AP Amber Skin
2. Paint veins in xereus purple or sotek green
3. Glaze in AP elderflower
4. Glaze in Warlock Magenta
5. Shade all recesses in extremely diluted Elderflower then
6. Purple wash

Just make each stronger color glaze smaller/further down the arm to get the gradient

[lime haven]

There can only be one.

[weak hornet]

https://tenor.com/view/seen-it-marty-back-to-the-future-ive-seen-this-one-gif-5960361

[lime haven]

500 Finished projects

[lime haven]

Not quite done.

[pale bay]

https://youtu.be/zjQDG51WJo0?si=gB28vtBNCoNP2HwQ

[lunar axle]

Does this still count as mini? I think it does.

[weak hornet]

It does

[wicked wave]

the miniest

[lunar axle]

It was, until I went onto 6mm.

[regal inlet]

A few new things to work on.

[wicked wave]

Bugs back on the table, 1 ravener down, 4 more to build

[compact pier]

Mon hun????

[regal inlet]

Yus!

[compact pier]

Coooool

[regal inlet]

Ye. There's Gacha boxes now.

[compact pier]

I see!

[regal inlet]

(pre primer) but here's the ones I have so far!

2 different boxes. The painted ones come like that.

[compact pier]

Ooh

Nice head box

[regal inlet]

Oh aye. That's all the spare heads from boxes. One of many bits boxes.

[compact pier]

Hehe ye

[regal inlet]

The minis are meant to be stone, but I prefer them painted

I will be trying to get the gore Magala one

But now for the madness of doing every scale.

[compact pier]

Looh mitzu?

[regal inlet]

Yus!

I have one of my top 3 monsters. (Mitzu, Gore/Shag Mag and Tobi-kidachi)

Luckily the boxes aren't actually that expensive. (£13.99 a pop)

Alas no Tobi in the boxes, but there is a gore

[bright turret]

Ravener the second. 40% of the kill team ready.

(Well, gotta give it a glossy carapace but)

[granite fox]

commission for a local player

the letters on the carapace is written "Noctis"

[wicked wave]

2 raveners to a fully painted 500pts. Also a fully painted ravener KT. I can almost taste it

[cobalt summit]

Heat effects are just so much fun to paint

[wicked wave]

And that's the nids done for now

Are they perfect? No. Are they enough to count as fully painted for events? Absolutely.

[humble stirrup]

Two part question: I’ve found some free STLs of 15mm kinda late Cold War US troops that I like pretty well (especially at $free.99), but am kinda unsure how to go about painting them in a way that doesn’t just end up looking like a blob at this scale. Anyone know of any guides or paint schemes for painting late 70s to about 90s US infantry?

Second part anyone know of any STLs of 15mm Soviet dudes or irregular fighters that are available free? Probably low chance but you never know what someone just put up for everyone just as a fun project

It’s kinda cool how sometimes you’ll occasionally find crazy detailed (or just pretty good but still with passion) STLs just available for free because the creator just does it for fun

[last axle]

Drone operator with his lil drone buddy put together :3

[crude pumice]

oooh sick as hell

[last axle]

And now our blooded operator with pulse blades cuz fuck it melee tau why not

[austere swift]

Another lance of FWL mechs. Unfortunately they made the Faustian bargain of accepting a Vulcan into the team so that they could get their hands on a Marauder II.

[languid jay]

https://youtu.be/62VugOxVaRc?si=vpT7kusAM8ENz317

[granite fox]

wip

[regal inlet]

That's one of the fancy bases right? Who for?

[granite fox]

angron transfigured HH

[regal inlet]

Ahhhhh

I've heard the wings on that one are horrible

[granite fox]

yeah, nothing a heatgun + repositioning and trimming resin would do

i fixed the wings and made it connect better

[granite fox]

trusting the process

[regal inlet]

How thin are the wings?

[granite fox]

its not that thin

its as thin as rhino plating are for assembling

[regal inlet]

Ahhhh that's better than I thought. I was looking at pics and thought it would be the blade of Russ's sword. Very thin

[granite fox]

result so good im going to cry

[weak hornet]

Oh my god! You killed him!

Do more of that!

[humble stirrup]

Yeah damn dude is dead as hell

[cobalt summit]

ABSOLUTELY COOKIN

[cobalt summit]

Breaking from endless genestealers train to do an art project

[languid jay]

hell yeah

[granite fox]

haha

rawr

[granite fox]

this is awesome

[cobalt summit]

I got the hubris to imagine myself one of the best painters in the state (i think I narrowly squeeze into top 10-12) but I also have very few display ready fully done models from the endless treadmill of getting new GSC lists to at least tabletop/tourney-standard

This has been a nice break to remember I’m actually a little bit good

[steady field]

Decals done!

Turns out the Agincourt waterslides I got work well on knights some 1600 years afterwards too.

[last axle]

Wip chaos lord we got for our birthday
We have chosen the arduous path of the lava lizard

[weak hornet]

I have a question, if I wanted to make the red pop a bit more.

Would I use something like evil sunz scarlet or wazdaka red?

[regal inlet]

Use a real light shade. For my reds I normally go evil sunz or blood red to get it bright.

[weak hornet]

Ohhhhh

[regal inlet]

These were blood.

[weak hornet]

I used bloody red as the basecoat

[regal inlet]

(from vajello(

[weak hornet]

so would evil scarlet complement

[regal inlet]

hmmm probably

[last axle]

And here she is with the base colors blocked in, ready for the rest of the process tomorrow :3

[weak hornet]

That is a beautiful woman and her horse

[lunar axle]

generally, yes, that's a good start. If you really want to push red to be bright, you can either go the orange way, or the pink way.

For lenses like that, I'd recommend a technique called 'jeweling', highlighting them somewhat like this, ending on that dot with pure white. That will make the lens look glass-like and shiny.

[regal inlet]

That's what I've slowly been doing here.

[lunar axle]

That's a good start. On a rectangular surface, however, the light would normally behave a little differently. You would expect a small, L-shaped specular reflection (the white part) in one of the upper corners.

[regal inlet]

Yeah, the white in the middle is because I want that lighter

And I don't have many greens so been doing a lot of wet blending.

[lunar axle]

The sun (assuming that is your dominant light source here, which feels reasonable), would not be dead centre in front of your viewing window, after all. If it is, poor driver.

[lunar axle]

Might I recommend mixing a little yellow into your green instead? It helps you not lose saturation while still decreasing value.

You can even combine some white and yellow in there.

[regal inlet]

Ye that will probably work. Luckily the cupola windows are more curved. And much smaller.

[lunar axle]

Here's a few cockpits I did on battle mechs recently, perhaps those might prove a useful reference.

I admittedly did go a little wild with the colours.

[last axle]

And here she is all done

[thorny crystal]

Girl 😌

Lovely paintjob

[regal inlet]

I may have underestimated how many layers I would need to get this purple smooth.

[granite fox]

the ron is aggressive

[humble stirrup]

Angey Ron

[thorny crystal]

Frustrated Frank

[granite fox]

upsetti carolina

[lunar axle]

Experimenting with iridescence.

[thorny crystal]

Pupby!

[regal inlet]

That moment when you somehow fit two howitzers and a TCB on one mech.

[cobalt summit]

Been able to paint eyes without feelin awful lately. Its a nice glowup

[compact pier]

yeee you got it!

[lime haven]

The feeling of "wait, I can actually pull off this technique" is so rewarding

[cobalt summit]

And I’ve got one of the factions with no amazing ways around it

Lotta humans without helmets

[compact pier]

nothing better than lots of (good) practice to get good at something :)

and its satisfying when that something is a thing people find impressive and tricky haha

[lunar axle]

Heraldry is fun to freehand.

[summer anvil]

anyone know some good plastic or resin minis that you might use to kitbash like. a more fantasy-y/heroic Samurai-type character?

like I know some historic samurai ranges, I think both Fireforge Games and Warlord Games have plastic samurai boxes

but I'm looking for suggestions for kits I should look at nabbing bits from to juj up historical samurai, etc.

bonus-points for non-games-workshop stuff but I won't turn away GW reccs

and as far as 3d printed stuff goes my only stipulation is that it has to be something I can easily get printed and shipped to my house, as I don't have my own printer

[regal inlet]

https://store.warlordgames.com/products/warlords-of-erehwon-samurai-heroes?_pos=8&_sid=d8241ffc9&_ss=r

How about this lot?

ah no they are metal.

[summer anvil]

yeah nah I was disappointed those ones are metal they look good!

and their lady-warriors too 😭

[regal inlet]

Yeah.

You could try Herofroge

Forge. But that's my sleepy ass out of ideas for now

[cobalt summit]

Conquest's Yoroni is all yokai and nobunaga era stuff

its pretty fantastical and may be a larger scale, but generally decent sculpts

[lunar axle]

Modelled up some turrets for two friends both playing artillerist artificers.

[compact pier]

Ooh multibase walkers

[lunar axle]

Yeah, from the Gundam Assemble IBO set.

[regal inlet]

Yus!

Also in the set is Barbatos and the tekkadan graze custom.

[summer anvil]

built and painted my first mini in years

[lime haven]

Holy shit that rips

[lunar axle]

Is that a Fafnir saying trans rights? Sweet.

[lime haven]

I'd like you to meet my heavy gauss rifles, trans and rights. Now be respecting them else you want to be receiving a structurally superfluous new behind

[granite fox]

wip

[floral pagoda]

love me some texturing

[regal inlet]

I'm not even done with the weathering! I have grime paints to apply.

[crude pumice]

Lord-Veritant painted up

[lunar axle]

Maximus will be shiny.

[compact pier]

grumble grumble maximus

love the colours !

[regal inlet]

Hell yeah! Where from.

?*

[lunar axle]

Aristeia!, a game by Corvus Belli, which is meant to be a televised combat sport in their larger Infinity setting.

[regal inlet]

Nice!

[lunar axle]

Thanks. And yeah, somehow it's the characters that I wasn't planning to play which keep surprising me with the most enjoyable painting process.

[honest tide]

A man and his Dog

[honest tide]

Harlequining up my Phantom Titan

[warm prawn]

Looking for ideas on how to replicate the scheme on the mount here

So far, my best idea is basically Palid Wytch Flesh -> Rykland Fleshshade -> Pyroar Glaciar and then freehanding the black markings on top

[lunar axle]

I think starting from a light tone like PWF is a good call, at least for getting the blue to cover as well. I'm just worried that it would leave you with little to no options to highlight up to. I'd start darker, so you get a richer tone.

[granite fox]

Char!

[lunar axle]

Thrice as fast to paint as a normal Zaku.

[last axle]

Just finished up our new chaos Chosen :3

[austere swift]

Some desert boys who fought in the Scouring Sands campaign.

[granite fox]

tomb queen

[languid jay]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/reaperddrpg/reaper-master-series-paint-remastered

[wicked wave]

not painted yet but my EC kitbash lord is done

[granite fox]

SEPHIROTH

[bright turret]

no u c Sephiroth holds his sword in his left hand and has a wing on the right. This is a totally original character who takes no inspiration from other sources

[last axle]

I think we can call this demon prince done, now on to the base :3

[lunar axle]

Not a big robot, for once.

[hallow ferry]

Priming a mini

[weak hornet]

New project

[misty horizon]

what is that thing?

[weak hornet]

An Enigma Foundry

[weak hornet]

Now done

[misty horizon]

what's it form?

[weak hornet]

Warmachine

[uncut drum]

forgot how fun painting was

[compact pier]

Did a face day :)

Really proud of them

[humble stirrup]

Tonk! M113! Hmmmmveeee

[uncut drum]

i have now done the initial painting of the entire command section! two tonks, a humvee (should've been two but they missed one 😔), an M113, and an M548 (technically should have been a FMTV with a trailer but there's no good way to get those in 6mm so I went with the tracked logi instead)

and then i have three whole tank platoons to paint too lmao
and then basing

[humble stirrup]

Nice

6mm definitely means you worry less about if you need to paint the vision blocks or road wheels, so that’s at least something

[uncut drum]

oh im painting the vision blocks and roadwheels

i'm trying to decide how insane about basing i want to be/how much i'm willing to spend on basing materials

[uncut drum]

experimenting with camo netting (made out of gauze)

[manic raven]

a squidman for relicblade! super proud of it

[compact pier]

I love these colours!

[twin willow]

never painted a freehand insignia before and i figured the best mini to do it on would be my most expensive one (land raider spartan)

thank god it came out okay

i like how it turned out

[bright turret]

A ways to go but I'm pretty happy with how this worked out

On the modelling side

[compact pier]

Really cool!

[weak hornet]

Almost done with the black to metallic pipeline

[weak hornet]

Almost done

[weak hornet]

Need to do some touchups in a bit

[echo birch]

Chaos Sorcerer grindset

[weak hornet]

I like them

[warm prawn]

Trying to figure out what color to paint the base rim here -- thoughts?

[crude pumice]

can never go wrong with black

or a deep blue maybe

[regal inlet]

Goblin green!

[lime haven]

bushwacka
reminds me of the "marine landing" camo from MW4

[bright turret]

never seen it

D. Smoothly | Blink Anchored ↩️

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reminds me of the "marine landing" camo from MW4

[lime haven]

wow there's actually a photo of it

[weak hornet]

Oh huh

I think my LGS has one of those dark age collectible figures.

[analog citrus]

the Blowjob Brothers ready to hit the field, base rims always ought to be black 😤

[bright turret]

going to snap the next time someone sends us an essay about our painting and how they'd do it

[weak hornet]

Why would someone do that?

Did you ask for critique or did they just drop it on you?

[lime haven]

tell em to paint deez

[hallow ferry]

https://www.reddit.com/r/battletech/comments/1sff08d/comment/of3jmvt/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

because people are opinionated and there are so damn many essays

it hurts the brain

[hallow ferry]

Think we're going to have to start saving for more paint colors

just what we don't need; another money sink

or to steal from others

[lime haven]

Buying paint really sneaks up on you lol
I don't want to think about how much I've spent

[hallow ferry]

we turned off reply notifications because we were overwhelmed

[hallow ferry]

Anyone have any ideas on how to practice my painting without running out of minis?

[weak hornet]

Toys

Buy some cheap toys, prime 'em, and then practice.

(In the future this can give you fodder to use for the more miniature agnostic games.)

(Buy some cheap plastic soldiers, farm animals, or dinosaurs.)

[humble stirrup]

Or 3D printing, if you have a friend or library that has one

[weak hornet]

I have finished the sisters

[lunar axle]

Minis can be repainted several times before you'll start to lose detail, especially as you get a better feeling for paint consistency as you go.

Keep your first ever mini untouched, though. That's your starting point. I still look back at my first little guy from ten years ago.

[regal inlet]

Another tip is if you have a local Warhammer store get the free model of the monty.

Month. I use those for practice a lot.

and isopropyl alcohol to strip

[lunar axle]

My other minis from those ten years ago aren't safe though. They're getting repainted nowadays.

[lunar axle]

They're great for trying new techniques or using as little palette cleansers. It's the only thing I occasionally pick up when I am near a warhammer store.

[regal inlet]

I also use them for warming up if I haven't painted in months.

[crude pumice]

(an example of how much you can paint the same model is Vince Venturella, a youtuber and award-winning painter, uses the same ogre model he did ten years ago for testing paints and doing examples of techniques. He's never stripped it, usually just re-primes or repaints over the top. Probably has hundreds of coats of paint on it and it's still looking pretty fresh)

[lunar axle]

Oh yeah, good call.

[hallow ferry]

Nope

No store

[regal inlet]

Ahhh damn that's a shame.

[weak hornet]

Anyone used the new P3 paints?

Saw Gnomish Bazaar has them in stock.

[hallow ferry]

Did we do any good?

[lime haven]

mmmm
davion mechs

Are you going to detail them?

[hallow ferry]

this is just priming

[lime haven]

for priming I would say try to get one more layer over the panels to see if you can clean up any of the darker spots.

But take my advice with 1 grain of salt because I prefer to spray primer 99/100 times

[humble stirrup]

Yeah, best to do a lot of light costs to ensure full, smooth coverage

Oh is this painted primer and not spray? I personally always spray prime specifically to get that smooth base coat

[lime haven]

It can be hard to spray if you don't have a ventilated place to do it though

I have to spray in the ally behind my apartment and I live somewhere hot as fuck so I have to do it early in the morning

[hallow ferry]

We don't have a good place to spray

yes, it's brush on primer

[lime haven]

Primer is really forgiving with application since it's designed to shrinkwrap whatever its on

I would say try putting another coat on your least favorite goob, see if you can get better coverage without losing detail, and go from there

Overall, the darker the base coat you are putting on, the less you need to worry about perfect application since you're going to be covering it all up anyways

[lime haven]

But, I want to stress that your first coat is good. These things just often take more than one go over

There's no harm in it

[regal inlet]

Yeah. That first coat looks very good.

[hallow ferry]

okay, sorry to bug you all

[lime haven]

no worries Jainus we're happy to talk about painting

[lunar axle]

Sorry for what? Trying to learn? Please, don't be.

That looks fine for a first coat, I've had no problems painting minis with a coverage like that.

Please note that this might depend on your regular paints. If your base colour has a very strong coverage, this'll do. If it's quite transparent, getting the primer more even will help everything look smoother.

[feral kettle]

i want to give my characters different coloured hyperphase weapons to make them stand out and I like the green but im not digging the way that it lines up with the purple weapon colour. feels kind of gaudy. im wondering if maybe a yellow would work better. any thoughts?

the lord is a little messy because I havent dont my edge highlighting or touch ups yet

[lunar axle]

A warm yellow would probably work. It's the direct contrast to purple.

[feral kettle]

I was thinking an orange/yellow to replace the purple actually. sorry if i phrased that badly

[lunar axle]

I see. That can also work, yes. Especially orange, that'll contrast with the blue.

[weak hornet]

So, I've decided to start buying contrast and speed paints.

What are some good colors for lenses/cockpits.

[regal inlet]

Talassar blue

For if you want blue lenses/eyes

[weak hornet]

Because, I'll be honest, I am sorta tired of regular yellow (even with a pink layer) taking so dam fucking long.

[weak hornet]

Will pick that up next week.

Beautiful

[regal inlet]

I use it for power weapons and marine eyes.

Layering is also very important.. I normally do Talassar base over white, then vajello royal blue then white in the corners.

[weak hornet]

I usually prime in grey

how would that look over grey?

[regal inlet]

Not sure. I'll test it tonight

[weak hornet]

So, I know it's a color theory thing.

But why is white or black used for priming?

[regal inlet]

Black makes everything over it darker, white lighter.

Iirc

Like here. Both the golds are vajello gold brown. Left is with a black prime, right a white/grey prime.

[weak hornet]

ohhhh

[regal inlet]

Yeee. The clones has additional yriel yellow highlights but that's very yellow

[lunar axle]

Priming in black can help you establish shadow tones, and any parts of the model that are accidentally left unpainted in the shadows will be harder to notice. It serves as a good base for many metallics, as well as darker colours like blues and deep purples.

Priming in white, on the contrary, can make small mistakes stand out more, but helps many of your more transparent layers stay more vibrant from the get go.

Personally, I prefer my off-white grey primer. The benefits are nearly identical to white, but I find the primed model is slightly easier to read, which helps me figure out how I want to paint it.

[regal inlet]

I'm using vajello grey (it's almost white) for my clones as it's so much easier. Everything else primed black as it's normally darker more realistic tones.

[lunar axle]

Yup, that's my go to as well.

Though in reality, most of my models tend to get a basecoat of deep purple first at the moment. It's a great base for several colours which I enjoy using a lot right now.

[regal inlet]

Ohhhh yeah that's fair.

Also. Iirc Prime ≠ Base

[lunar axle]

Correct, but primer will influence the base colour on your model, as it will influence all colours.

[regal inlet]

Ye. I've just met some people who use their primer as their base. Even for my clones I'm going over the primer with off-white. Which is almost identical, but slightly brighter

[lunar axle]

Some people do use coloured primer to get a head start of sorts, but that really only applies when one doesn't plan to clean up their mistakes, as the spray paint will inevitably have a different texture from the brushed paint.

[regal inlet]

Ye. Also my favourite bit about Vajello primers is that they can be used just from the bottle with a brush.

I've done 3 knights that way

[lunar axle]

Yikes, that's dedication.

But yeah, I do the same when I can't be bothered to get the airbrush set up.

[regal inlet]

Yeah. Luckily you can't tell which of the knights were primed by hand as all 8 were painted without airbrush or rattle can bar primers.

[lilac marsh]

Brush primer works great it just takes forever

[lime haven]

Me earlier tonight: okay imma OSL
Me now: damn OSL got hands

[cobalt summit]

I will say I’ve gotten absurd mileage out of a purple or midnight blue primer for establishing shadows without desaturating stuff like black can be wont to do

[lime haven]

Purple is a real sleeper color but it goes on super well and does shadows great

[cobalt summit]

My bragging rights is No Black Paint Whatsoever Raven Guard Scheme

[lunar axle]

It's brilliant for giving punchy colours and interesting NMM.

[cobalt summit]

That base is still the primer color and honestly makes the whole fucking thing work at all

[lime haven]

Vallejo's dark purple is one of the most painless paints I've ever used

Its incredible

Also whatever they put in vallejo magic blue is accurately named. That is a stupid vibrant paint that can do 1 coat and done

[cobalt summit]

But at least for the new folks watching white and black and sometimes grey or bone are probably best bets for a lot of things, I’m in agreement with everybody up above lol

[cobalt summit]

The source itself is rippin

You probably just wanna extend it out a bit, I’d start with something on par with really thinned out sybarite green and then shift quickly back to the blue

OSL for sure got hands but I also think a lotta people overthink it

S just blending, you got this

[lunar axle]

That, and making sure it's the brightest part of the model.

[lunar axle]

I've had these Full Spectrum Dominance minis printed for ages and somehow never picked them up. Painted this guy up very quickly so I could give it a freehand.

[compact pier]

Omg cuuuute

Fsd models are so nice

[lime haven]

Wanted to see if I could get this scrungly boy done in a night.

[lime haven]

behold
a man

[weak hornet]

you've seen a man, but have you seen a man in a forest

[weak hornet]

He shall be washed tomorrow

[feral kettle]

alhamdullilah

[thorny crystal]

alhamdullilah

[lime haven]

House Davion says trans rights

Or since its BT, trans wrongs?

[hallow ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/the-road-to-el-dorado-both-both-is-good-gif-8304204

[lunar axle]

The Pride of the Star League.

[weak hornet]

IT. IS. FINISHED!

[pearl bobcat]

Really looking forward to the full release of Gundam Assemble though I'll still have to order online thanks to all the hobby shops in town being scalpers

[weak hornet]

Decided to go back outside

[keen gulch]

thought: green stuff serpent in the mouth of a house devine karnivore

or i'll just stuff a very small toy in there because small detailed stuff is probably hard to do...

[weak hornet]

They grow