40k-minis-and-armies

[plush swift]

its a little bit glossier than a mini painter is used to, but it will do the job way better than a normal paint will

[swift shell]

Ok thx

[plush swift]

imagine what goes through my mind, I have a doctorate in art history and I work in fine art

[lean snow]

Fine art man who also paints minis, emperors blessing upon you

[plush swift]

also anyone who insults dry brushing, this is an 11th century painting called Travelers among Mountains and Streams by Fan Zhongzheng, it was done primarily by dry brushing

[naive umbra]

Honestly you could spread birdshit on a mini and it would probably give you a better white than Corax

[plush swift]

its an acrylic ink in all effectiveness

[swift shell]

i was only asking bc my only paints are from one of those age of sigmar tools+paints set

[plush swift]

I enjoy it and want to see how far it can go in fine art, I want more outsiders to branch into it so it can finally punch one gallery owner I know in his face

because we have a bet

[lean snow]

Im something of a high art fan myself. This one time, in highschool, I drew super saiyan goku on my math test

[plush swift]

If I win, I get to punch him in his face, if he wins, I have to stop criticizing post-modernism abstract expressionism

[naive umbra]

That sounds like it's gonna naturally escalate to face punching whatever the outcome

[plush swift]

Yes, because I am not going to stop criticizing vomit

Its nothing more than a money laundering scheme

[naive umbra]

It could be worse, you could have bought Ceramite white like I did

I know you said Corax is clay, but Ceramite is REALLY clay

[plush swift]

ceramite is chalk

[naive umbra]

Well whatever it is, the pot is now solid and not even acetone can revert it to liquid form

[plush swift]

its not acetone you need

acetone will just ruin it

[naive umbra]

I managed to get it to play nice for a bit with vigorous shaking and toothpick stirring to break up big chunks, but just got harder and harder to keep it smooth then eventually solidified. Acetone was last ditch effort to help save the pot, but I dunno what else would actually work because it seems to just entropy to a brick as its natural form

Adding water just made it worse, bubbly with no real reduction in the gloop

[plush swift]

IPA

its used as a catalyzer for stability in paints, hence why I recommend avoiding it for stripping paints as it can give adverse effects

boiling water also can help

[sterile grail]

I touched up some highlights again, thoughts?

[lean snow]

Very nice

[mint dove]

For broad base coating what size brush should I be using? 3?

Like this one? Or bigger

Also I thought ultramarine blue would be good for ultramarines but it's more of a purple color, how can I turn it into a good space marine color

[wet hull]

Macragge blue is decent

[lean snow]

For a basecoat you can go however big you want really

I wouldnt go less that 3 tho

[opaque canyon]

My full tau army barely fits on my desk lol

[hushed sleet]

Nice Tiger in the back

[opaque canyon]

lmao, everybody notices that first

[hushed sleet]

tbh i don’t even know who those dudes are i’m new to 40k

are they robots?

[opaque canyon]

The T'au

a zenos race

[mint dove]

That's not 40k it's gundam /s

[hushed sleet]

Oh

[opaque canyon]

:(

[hushed sleet]

mb

[mint dove]

Lol just joking.

[hushed sleet]

fuck you

j knew you were lying

i just doubted myself

[mint dove]

That's the joke everyone says about the tau

[opaque canyon]

i honestly hate it

in a sense of it being overused

[mint dove]

Then maybe they should stop designing mobile suits lol

[opaque canyon]

I have to give you that

[bronze stratus]

Lord of virulence flesh kilt

[opaque canyon]

Disgusting, I love it

[swift shell]

Ik corax white has a rap for being crap but i think it looks pretty good on this guy

[plush swift]

use a flat not a round

[plush swift]

its not, thats a specific version of ultramarine

this is every version of ultramarine minus Belgium style

but that one is pretty much identical to one of them in there anyways

[mint dove]

Jesus christ I wish I had your paint collection

[plush swift]

brush sizes arent universal at all

[agile junco]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/818263578645495858/1062231141442142248/rn_image_picker_lib_temp_9183ddc5-52f9-481e-a4da-aa2e33adee76.jpg

[plush swift]

My pigment collection is worth about 25mil

[mint dove]

Also I think I only have round brushes. That's all the set came with I think

[agile junco]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/818263578645495858/1062231141685399552/rn_image_picker_lib_temp_06b9be53-d2f2-4fd2-932b-7ed9e70f71ba.jpg

[mint dove]

....EXCUSE ME?

[agile junco]

wip skorpekh lord

[mint dove]

DOLLARS??

[plush swift]

USD

[mint dove]

My fuckin god

[plush swift]

I own most pigments that have ever existed

Including that 15 versions of mummy brown

need them for work after all

[cursive wind]

Currently painting Votann. This is my Kindred of the Wandering Fortress

[mint dove]

What work is that?

[cursive wind]

I don’t follow

[mint dove]

Lol corpse starch

[plush swift]

Art conservation

[mint dove]

Oh so BIG BIG money

I see where all that paint comes in handy

[plush swift]

Yep, and why i have such an extensive knowledge about it

[mint dove]

I wondered when I saw someone ask about paint and you rattled off some ungodly amount of precise paint colors and pigments

BUT I FINALLY PUT PAINT ON PLASTIC

Remember this is my first marine so pass judgment t accordingly

[atomic rose]

Love it when Corpse whips out his thicc juicy pigment collection.

[mint dove]

BEHOLD

[plush swift]

Hell yeah, how did it feel?

[plush swift]

I'm a very useful source while also becoming a meme everywhere I go

[mint dove]

Scary but not as bad as I thought. I'm gonna fully paint the entire marine before I move on to the others, so I k ow what I'm in for

[plush swift]

ultramarine red shade type 3

looks like 10% chalk content

maybe more, hard to tell

[mint dove]

HOW

FROM A PICTURE

[mint dove]

BUT DOES HE LOOK GOOD

[naive umbra]

Looks like a nice clean coat to me for the base layer

[plush swift]

You work with paint and pigment for long enough, you can look at a swatch and call out all the pigments in it

[plush swift]

Smooth enough, no obscuring of details, thats the best you can hope for

[mint dove]

This is how I hope to be with cars one day lol

[naive umbra]

Are these done as half vior'la with the red farsight units, or just chose the colours that way?

[plush swift]

I have a video where I go over the basics of it

[opaque canyon]

I chose those colors, although the breathers were meant to be Farsight enclave

The one red crisis suit is a special character from the 8th codex

[mint dove]

And I don't wanna go over with Earthshade until I do all the details I want on the marine and the weapons, then after the earthshade I can do drybrushing/edge highlights?

[plush swift]

you can do it either way or both ways

wash, dry brush edge highlight, wash again

[naive umbra]

Looks like we're getting a new Commander Farsight model this year. I'm glad I just started collecting or I'd probably have the finecast one eventually

[opaque canyon]

I was going to get the old one for a FE army but I’ll wait for the new one to release which might be a while

Good thing I waited on buying it

[mint dove]

Okay! This time tomorrow I should have a finished ultramarine for you guys to judge

[plush swift]

Just remember, if you want my opinion, you'll have to DM me and agree to put your ego aside

[mint dove]

I did extensive research before I started, so I've got poster putty on all the joints that are going to be glued eventually so that paint didn't get on them and mess up the contact points

[mint dove]

The only fair criticism is honest criticism lol

[plush swift]

paint on the contact points isnt that big of a deal honestly

[brisk vapor]

Especially with plastic cement

It'll just melt the paint as well

[plush swift]

I know some people freak out about it, but it doesnt reduce the bond much or at all

[naive umbra]

I'm so far planning on painting all mine in a custom sept of turquoise armour with a blue-grey sept colour, like this guy

[mint dove]

Ahh okay, I saw one video that said it'll not bond at all, and one that said it'll bond fine so I just said better safe than sorry

Also before I forget,ultramarine Sargents have red helmets and blue armor yes?

[brisk vapor]

Super glue might not bond well when there's paint in between because the paint will just rip off

[plush swift]

Just ping or DM me if you have those questions, most hobby painters dont really know anything about paints then they mix stuff up for enamels, oils, acrylics, HBAs, etc

[brisk vapor]

Correct

[mint dove]

Thanks man, always nice to have direct help on new things like this

[brisk vapor]

If you want him to be a veteran sergeant you can add a white stripe on his forehead to indicate that

[plush swift]

Like the YTer who swears up and down that acrylics can bond to oil paints... which isnt true at all

[mint dove]

After these marines I wanna build something a bit more my speed, so I'm gonna try my hand at a dreadnought and maybe dabble in magnet connections. That's what I like about warhammer, learning new things all the time

[plush swift]

I'm more than glad to help, the information isnt easy to get sometimes too, or you get trapped in the rabbit hole that is justpaint.org

I love justpaint.org but jesus christ does it suck my days up when I go on there

[naive umbra]

I actually feel a bit sad that all the special characters have rules that only interact with their sept. I don't want my army to be one of the main septs, I like custom stuff, but then I can't use the special characters unless I'm T'au or Vior'la sept for most of them (or I can, but then I lose half the rules that makes them good models to use)

[mint dove]

Between the random on YT and the man who can determine a paints pigment through a picture I'm gonna go with @plush swift lol

[brisk vapor]

I'm sure people won't mind if you paint and build a custom sept but play it as one of the septs for one of the named characters

[naive umbra]

That's what I'm planning on doing

But I also like the whole custom sept tenets thing too, just a shame I won't be able to do both

[plush swift]

you can paint the entire army custom stuff along with the special characters, then swap them out depending on what you play.

[azure fulcrum]

Anyone who actually gives a shit about a colour scheme matching a subfaction should not be played with

[brisk vapor]

Yeah it's a shame but (most of the time) it's balance reasons as well

[naive umbra]

yeah makes sense

[azure fulcrum]

Even tournament rules don't care if your imperial fists use ultramarine faction rules

[plush swift]

I mean its not that hard of a skill to gain, its just shocking to those outside of art

[plush swift]

actually they do

[azure fulcrum]

Do they?

[brisk vapor]

Well depends a bit

[naive umbra]

T'au lore says they change their scheme to match the battlefield, so I can just say that my Vior'la detachment was fighting in a jungle today

[azure fulcrum]

Since when does tourney rules include paint schemes

[plush swift]

Custom can play any chapter, but if you do an official one, then it can only be that one chapter, if the tournament is wyswyg rules

[azure fulcrum]

Oh true I forgot about wyswyg

[brisk vapor]

Actually there has been a rule for at least three colours for a playworthy army for quite a while

[plush swift]

wysiwyg is the major thing for tournament rules, it covers painting, model building, etc

[azure fulcrum]

Tournament rules suck anyway and should only ever apply to tournaments

[naive umbra]

I think though that they still need to keep the sept colour, so if I was going to be full wysiwyg if I wanted vior'la then I'd still need to keep the red for shoulders, helmet vanes, etc, but can still do the turquoise armour

[azure fulcrum]

Anyone who demands I use tourney standards in a casual game can suck my ass ring

[plush swift]

they dont

[opaque canyon]

True

[naive umbra]

Oh ok, that's good to know, so I can just paint them any custom and still call them the same sept as long as everyone is matching schemes?

[plush swift]

its why i painted a single space marine army along with UM and SAL uniques for it

[plush swift]

yes

[naive umbra]

Great. I was planning to paint the special characters in their proper sept schemes, but now I'll just paint them my sept schemes so they all work

[azure fulcrum]

Wait so do tourney rules also require a coherent/uniform scheme?

[brisk vapor]

no, the only real rule is to have the three colours at least

[plush swift]

sort of?

army uniformity is a major thing at the larger tournaments like frontline but it depends on the painting rubric

[azure fulcrum]

My armies paint scheme would be tourney legal wouldn't it, even though each model would be widely different

[plush swift]

technically your scheme would be legal since it is coherent

[azure fulcrum]

I like technicalities

[plush swift]

some rubrics are incredibly stupid though

[naive umbra]

technically correct is the best kind of correct

[azure fulcrum]

Exactly

[plush swift]

Like I know someone who lost multiple matches because he didnt weather his models, so he lost victory points for wanting to have clean tau

[naive umbra]

What?

[azure fulcrum]

What the actual fuck

[plush swift]

This is the high end tournaments

they get really fucky

[azure fulcrum]

High end bullshit

[naive umbra]

I'm not likely to do more than a walk in at my LGS, if that so I don't have to care

[plush swift]

its why I get hired by a few pro teams to do their armies

[azure fulcrum]

Imagine winning purely because your army was painted slightly better despite you have dogshit tactics

[plush swift]

most LGSs wont give two fucks how you paint as most LGSs also allow for shame grey models

[brisk vapor]

There was/is a silly rule that gives 10(?) Victory points if your whole army was painted. Usually it isn't counted in the final result

[naive umbra]

I won't allow myself to field shame grey, so that's fine

[plush swift]

GW stores are a different story for organized play

[brisk vapor]

And it was a while back when that rule was in play

[plush swift]

it still is for the higher end tournaments

[azure fulcrum]

Most GWs at least here are super relaxed as long as your models are all GW models

[atomic rose]

I can kinda get behind not allowing unpainted models.

[azure fulcrum]

They don't give a fuck about paints or even bases

[brisk vapor]

Shouldn't be because don't the high end tournaments use the current rule packs?

[plush swift]

Some do, frontline is the one that required your models to have weathering

[brisk vapor]

Ah

Not that familiar with Frontline

Was thinking about the 40k rule

[plush swift]

Its one of the US ones, we have 2 of them

frontline and ITC

I dont remember if LVO was one

i dont play in tournaments, I prefer being drunk to play

[brisk vapor]

I mostly just play the current matched play rules with my friends

Usually with the latest GT pack

[naive umbra]

I actually haven't checked out the tournament scene in Australia yet. Quick Google seems to have a few events so it's at least got something happening, which is already a bonus for us.

I'll mostly be playing with a mate to start

He's started with recruit edition and picking up command, then carrying on with Necrons. Our first proper match is aiming for 500 point scale, then we'll each build ourselves up to 2k over time

I can already feel myself being so sucked in though, I just wanted to start small but it has its hooks in me deep now.

Already imagining Apocalypse matches haha

[azure fulcrum]

I'll probably end up the same

I wanted to start out in Killteam only

But before even buying my legionaries (absolutely none in geelong anywhere plus theyre sold out online atm) I've already bought the Cadia Stands (Traitors Stand once I'm done with them) and the Slaves to Darkness box set for the Daemon Prince

[naive umbra]

I've already bought myself a 2nd army combat patrol box (tyranids) because I didn't want to just be reliant on my mate to play. So naturally collecting 2 armies so I can play with people using just my stuff if I want

Went for nids because I like them a lot and they'll be a fun organic army to paint to give me some contrast with my clean Tau mechs. Otherwise I would probably have gone Eldar, but they have similar aesthetic and are also another mobile force similar to Tau in play as well.

[azure fulcrum]

You should give Slaaneshi Chaos Marines a go

(Please Slaanesh needs more players so that GW gives us more stuff)

[naive umbra]

Sorry, the chaos part of me is already pledged to Tzeentch

What can I say, I just like birds

[azure fulcrum]

[plush swift]

we all know the best chaos god is the friends we made when we went to prison for 28 years for armed robbery

[atomic rose]

I don't think we're gonna see a lot of Slaneeshi stuff, since GW started targeting younger and younger audience and the lord of excess has some not exactly PG conotations to him

[plush swift]

well slaanesh is dead in AoS

so its only a matter of time before its dead in 40k

[atomic rose]

Only imprisoned and I believe it was set free recently?

[naive umbra]

I feel like GW doesn't care about keeping things PG, just how much certain models sell. If Slaaneshi models sold super well they'd have a whole line of leather whips and gags in every shape and size

[mint dove]

So I tested vallejo black wash on an old mobile worker I had and it turned out rather poorly. Any advice for using it better? Should I thin it more?

[plush swift]

shouldnt need to thin a wash

its basically just ink and water

[mint dove]

i see, so maybe i just went too heavy on this? or maybe because its large flat panels it had nowhere to actually pool?

[plush swift]

pretty much

also washes tend to coffee stain over all

they never have enough surfactant in them

[azure fulcrum]

why do all "professional" mini painters on youtube only ever use hobby paints

[plush swift]

Because they think they are higher technology paints and don't know color theory so mixing your own colors is stupid

[azure fulcrum]

that reminds me i have a video for you possibly, i want to see your reaction

[plush swift]

Sure

I'll watch it in the morning

[azure fulcrum]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha2Bp-futL8&ab_channel=Miniac

[plush swift]

Seen it, I busted out laughing when he pulled out a pantone book

[azure fulcrum]

I thought it a bit dubious when he started going on about colour theory just being about picking the right colours to go with other ones

[plush swift]

Pantone has so little to do with color theory it's crazy, it's a color standardization system

[azure fulcrum]

Also hes fucking wrong, yellow and purple actually go great together, it just depends how much of each you use (and which types)

[plush swift]

Yeah many painters think that color theory is nothing more than how to mix colors and what colors go with what

As you saw from the first thing I did was I mixed a purple out of a green

[azure fulcrum]

That genuinely blew my mind

[plush swift]

Yellow and purple go together that's actually a compliment color

All colors can go together you do not need to use the opposite color

[azure fulcrum]

the complimentary colours are yellow/purple, red/green and blue/orange, arent they?

[plush swift]

Yes and no it's kind of confusing, heavily is based around what system you're using like if you're using additive or subtractive

[azure fulcrum]

because they make each other stand out the most or something iirc

im probably wrong

[plush swift]

The compliment color won't necessarily make the other color stand out more It will just be more visually appealing in reality

[azure fulcrum]

Ah

[plush swift]

Think of a rose, Green is the compliment color to red and when you compare it to a pink rose it just doesn't have the same feel or effect

[azure fulcrum]

Now that I think about it yellow would just make everything stand out the most in theory, since its the colour we (humans) can most easily notice

[plush swift]

Except that most humans can't see yellow

You think you see yellow but that's not actually yellow

[azure fulcrum]

wait really

[plush swift]

I see yellow because I'm a tetrachromat

[azure fulcrum]

im really curious for the explanation behind this

[plush swift]

This is why I'm so good with colors as well

Humans only see RGB, so you don't actually see true yellow light you see what you think is yellow

Think of it like seeing the UV spectrum

[azure fulcrum]

I dont think I can

Yknow, considering "imagine a new colour" is usually used to describe when something is, well, indescribable.

So I guess when it comes to art, we really are just all peasants compared to you.

Cant even see the god damn colours right.

Is there a test you can take reliably I wonder

[prime scarab]

I thought that left side one looked unique at least

purple and yellow are a bit of an unsual combo, the kind I usually see in the cakes or neopolitan icecreams I eat

referring to the video linked btw

[azure fulcrum]

Neopolitan isnt purple and yellow?

its brown, pink, white

[prime scarab]

oh I am sorry

I meant neopolitan-like. because where I come from, we got ice-creams that come in ube-cheese-chocolate

I am pretty certain the general term for neopolitian is like three flavors in a single package.

[azure fulcrum]

Oh yeah it is

Its usually vanilla strawberry chocolate

[prime scarab]

yeah

[azure fulcrum]

cheese icecream though

interesting

[prime scarab]

come to the philippines. you will come to like cheese flavored ice cream. 😄

goes well with ube

basically a sweet purple yam

Oh damn

I took a look at the upcoming boarding action boxes

The Chaos guys got Abaddon and Cultists. 😄

and a handful of CSMs

[azure fulcrum]

Im just pissed i bought the Slaves to Darkness boxset when I could have gotten my Daemon Prince with actual 40k models

or standalone

still, i can atleast sell off the chaos chosen and ogroids

[wanton basin]

If I started posting my painting D&D minis, how angry would you all get

[dark violet]

Delivery car with my glue and paints just sitting on one spot for an hour now according to live tracking...

[atomic rose]

lunch break maybe?

[dark violet]

Lunch break would be half an hour dude is still sitting there

[dark violet]

A miracle he has moved 100 meters

[mint dove]

Tried using nuln oil to spot highlight some of the recessed areas,I feel like my brush strokes aren't steady enough for this yet I feel like it looks bad

Hopefully when it dries it'll look better

[atomic rose]

I don't know what devil make me want to do the swords this way, but I did. Just need to do it 3 more times.

[jaunty trail]

Looks good

[copper siren]

i just blob the oil on, and redo the parts that look a bit too dark with a thin coat

[plush swift]

I have a question about Tamiya Extra thin cement the quick setting version, so am I supposed to go over the seem when I dry fit my mini and let it cure for 30 mins?

[brisk vapor]

It'll set a lot faster than 30 minutes

I often just brush along the connecting area and then I fit it on place so the cement will have more area of contact

But of course first I dry fit to see how it'll fit

[lean snow]

It doesn't look bad but it wouldnt hurt to thin it. I would have hit the chest with some of it as well at that ridged part. Also just my opinion but I would have painted the undersuit black as well

[mint dove]

oh im not done, im gonna paint the ridged part on the chest silver then wash it. and what do you mean undersuit?

how much should i thin it?

[lean snow]

Like that little crotch gap

Between diaper armor and thigh armor

You can either add a little dribblet of water to your wash, or what I do is: i load my brush up with a bunch of wash and then roll it across some paper towel once before applying to get rid of extra moisture thats just gonna spill over (which may sound confusing since my original tip was to water down the wash some)

[mint dove]

ahh yeah i tried wash but it didnt go so well, so ill just fill it in with black tomorrow

[plush swift]

I am practicing on spures and it setting how I would feel it should

So I am kinda worried to start on models

[brisk vapor]

If you move it about when it's still setting it will take longer

[plush swift]

Alright

I’ll see about it

[brisk vapor]

I usually glue a piece and when it can hold it's own weight I'll move onto the next piece

[plush swift]

Yea I am trying to figure it out since I want to start building my death guard after my finals

[prime scarab]

On the bright side you have new bits you can use to make some cultists or unique looking traitor legionnaires

I personally would have loved that Daemon Prince

But I already have two nice looking Princes in my army

I don't need another

[atomic rose]

Really wanted to have him done today. But I am exhausted, the swords were pain. 😫

[prime scarab]

oooh

what model is that supposed to be?

[atomic rose]

I don't play, so he is not representing anyone. He is just an angel I printed and noticed the symbol on his chest looks like a solar eclipse and decided to style him after that.

[lavish rune]

drown it in nulnoil😛😛😛

[left egret]

Fallen angel?

[atomic rose]

More like "wrath of heavens" kinda thing.

[left egret]

Plausible

Good choice

[floral wind]

With any kind of resin models you have to use superglue not plastic glue to put them together don't you?

[atomic rose]

Yup, plastic glue won't work

[floral wind]

Sweet thanks

(I'm assuming gorilla glue will suffice won't it?)

[atomic rose]

Any super glue will, really. I am using nobrand superglue I got from my grocery store. The forces in play are not generaly not exactly huge.

You might want to pin some larger chunks, like huge wings etc.

[floral wind]

Ah nice thank you, I only ask because I had a krork model arrive today from Majorkill Minis and I just wanted to be double sure I wasn't gonna mess it up

[atomic rose]

If I remember that one is huge. If there any heavyish pieces, definitely pin them to prevent disaster

[floral wind]

Alas I have no pin tool or metal wire to pin

[atomic rose]

Well...it will probably still be fine? I just would not want to risk it falling apart eventualy.

[floral wind]

I think I should be fine, I mean the gorilla glue has done its job as months ago my gf accidentally broke the handle off my fav ceramic mug and upon gluing it back together it's still held up very well

[mint dove]

Good news, painted the thigh gap black and it turned out pretty well, bad news I think I didn't thin it enough when I painted the bolter and it got a little gloopy looking

[copper siren]

Doesnt look bad

I put coat over the chaos black primer and it looks good still

And that was my very first model

[mint dove]

How many coats of gold did you use on yours?

This is 2 coats and I have no idea why its so patchy

[copper siren]

1 on the aquila, then wash then another 1 to retouch it and get a bit of glow back

On the arms and pauldrons 2

1 to coat, and 1 thin one to fully cover

I dont wash the gold because I like the shine

And I figure an astartes would probably keep those parts shiny himself

You dont need a tech priest to apply some soap and a cloth to your finery.

[mint dove]

Ugh I don't understand. I thinned it and everything and the gold just clumps up and looks terrible. So fucking frusturating

[copper siren]

I have Balthasar Gold

If that matters

[mint dove]

I'm using vallejo polished gold and it just doesn't want to work.unthinned it looks too gloopy, and if you thin it even slightly it runs everywhere

I'm so fucking frustrated, I did a great base coat and the shoulder armor is just gonna teat the quality down :/

[floral wind]

My MajorMinis krork arrived today and this is him semi assembled

[left egret]

How the fell do you put the legion sticker on a shoulder pad without botching it?

[copper siren]

Sometimes when this happens

I dont thin

But scoop it onto by brush

And brush excess onto a paper towel

Then apply

Tbf i am a total noob

But it works for me

[left egret]

From iron cometh strength!

[rare hornet]

From strength cometh Will

[left egret]

From will cometh faith!

[eternal gyro]

Project 2022 done

[rare hornet]

From faith cometh Honour

[left egret]

From honour cometh Iron

This is the Unbreakable Litany

[rare hornet]

May it forever be so

[left egret]

I have been reciting this to withstand the pressure of society.
For some reason it works

[mint dove]

I think I'm gonna switch back to vallejo model color gold, Vallejo Game Color gold is just so inconsistent

[brisk vapor]

metallic paints are a pain, although having some dark brown as a base for golds helps a lot so you don't need that many layers like you do for it to entirely cover the bright blue

[mint dove]

Really? Like just 50/50 brown and gold?

[brisk vapor]

best metallic paints I've used are Vallejo Metal Color Air series, they're really liquid and cover in single coats, but there are only a few colours

in these bottles

as in first paint it brown and on top of that with gold

[mint dove]

That seems to be the consensus from what I hear. Vallejo metalcis great and all others are sub par

I'll try that trick on my next space marine and see how it works

[brisk vapor]

but mixing normal paints with metallics is a good idea too imo, it diminishes the shine a bit (which I like) and also makes it easier to handle and gives more interesting tones

[mint dove]

Thankfully this isn't going to be my actual army, I'm going to buy the combat patrol box and paint them as blood ravens. So this is just practice painting minis

Because not only are they the best chapter of marines, their armor has no gold or metal bits whatsoever

The pauldrons are bone white and the Aquila is black. God bless

[atomic rose]

Yeah, because like proper magpies, they stole all the metal and hoarded it in their nest.

[plush swift]

You should try metallic acryligouache

[brisk vapor]

that's a mouthful

[plush swift]

It's acrylic gouache

So highly opaque and it's a water color so insanely thin

It's an acrylic so it doesn't reactivate from water

[brisk vapor]

I might give it a try

I just don't really need that much metallic paints

[plush swift]

They come in 20ml, 40ml and 250ml tubes

So small sizes

[brisk vapor]

as in I don't really paint that much metallics that I'd get one in near future at least

[plush swift]

I use a lot of metallics myself

I really don't like nmm on 3d canvases, monkey brain says no to it

[brisk vapor]

I like it a lot, just painting it is fun

but my SoH army does have metallics where ever that is appropriate

[plush swift]

My problem with it is the viewing direction. Since I'm going to be looking at it from all angles, I want it to imitate life more, with some minor unrealistic flair.

Plus I have a grudge against it because I lost a comp once to it and the judges said "My gold looks fake, It doesn't have the right color nor does it have the right shine"

I used gold leaf

[dark violet]

i am now working on a boltor dual weilding battle sister

[atomic rose]

Get golder gold.

[dark violet]

she will kick major ass by shredding filfthy xenos and daemons

[plush swift]

Clearly they were used to matte metallics with ultramatte varnish

[dark violet]

having some small issues with her left arm not wanting to stick on the way i want it

just doesnt seem to harden at all

[plush swift]

use metal wire

[dark violet]

no dual weilding sister for me sadly

battle sister squad setup annoyingly so i cant really mix and match as i want

now she has a grenade in other hand instead

would have given her a laspistol in the other hand otherwise

but still looks cool

next up i think is heavy melta cannon

[shrewd loom]

WIP of my shitty painting

[copper siren]

All my boys are done

Could spend days perfecting the white

But I REFUSE

they are good

i will buy kits with transfer sheets next time

freehanding bullshit small raised edges

is not fun, nor is it beginner friendly

[atomic rose]

Transfer sheets are arguable even less friendly and more frustrating. Always hated them. They never want to slide in a place I want to slide, they fold over themselves and unlike paint, which can be painted over, once trasnfers are fucked, they stay fucked.

[copper siren]

I have used similar techniques for irl stuff

Woodworkint

Metalworking

Stickerwork

[muted pendant]

@copper siren Any good tips for working with transfer sheets?

[copper siren]

Two tweezers

One to place, one to stop the sliding at the spot you want to put it

[lilac moth]

tweezers and a pointy brush and a cup of water should be all you need

[brisk vapor]

Quite low on painting energy but managed to put an hour into this and get it ready for the oil colour step

[jaunty trail]

First WiP repainted model... was a hell of a ride but turned out ok until now

[dark violet]

dem lookin like ogryn firefighters and pretty neat better than my attempts :D

[dark violet]

2 more done yay

[marsh nimbus]

I just found out that not only is Mortarion's fig $160, but it's also not in one piece like I had thought.

So a double nope on buying it.

[dark violet]

ouch guess you gotta change that name now

[marsh nimbus]

Just because I don’t have his model doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy the lore.

[dark violet]

i gotta get myself that celestine next month to fully enjoy my sororitas

[marsh nimbus]

I plan on having like, Mort, Typhus and Mort’s Chosen for display purposes.

But I can deal with that when I graduate HS and get a job.

[copper siren]

I based them. And I got a pretty clean free hand

Better version

[dark violet]

how are people so talented ahhhhhhh and stupid bot wont remove this message this time

[copper siren]

am i? talented?

i suck

these guys barely looked washed because i kept painting over it with very thin coats because i kept coffee staining

[marsh nimbus]

That's good.

[azure fulcrum]

I am feeling sufficiently Bruh'd today

[devout lake]

Which model 30k or 40k?

[marsh nimbus]

40K.

[novel quarry]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/993583293842866266/1062483154016927764/IMG_20230110_222732.jpg?width=1440&height=648
proud mama with her newborns ^^'

still WIP

[pastel grotto]

Go, eat some men, good bugs.

[jaunty trail]

First repainted model ever.. First time tried freehand inscriptions. Need to practice them😅

But still happy that "Venerable Götz" is now part of the eternal crusade

[plush swift]

use an artist pen over trying to brush it on, way easier

[jaunty trail]

Artist pen? Whats that? Doing Model stuff now for quite some decades, never heard 'bout it 😅

[plush swift]

Its a pen, for artists. They are archival quality as hobby stuff isnt meant to last for more than 5 years, but artist stuff is, for the most part, designed to last 50+ years

https://www.dickblick.com/products/sakura-pigma-micron-pen/ this is one of the cheaper versions

[jaunty trail]

Mkay. Thanks for info!

[plush swift]

gunpla uses a similar thing

[azure fulcrum]

This is why I like playing chaos, my graffiti is meant to look like graffiti

[jaunty trail]

I'm quite happy to get such hints. Will make my future efforts much easier 😄

[azure fulcrum]

The only pain is compiling enough references so each model has individuality

[jaunty trail]

Darktide helps with plenty of imperial quotes xD

[azure fulcrum]

It's all fun and games until 20 models all have "SKIN THIEF" and "GOT BASS?" on their shoulders and shins

[jaunty trail]

🤣

For my Black Templars it will be grim quotes and even some latin ones out of the crusades....

[azure fulcrum]

My favourite ones I've devised so far is "HERES YOUR SKULLCRUSHER" as a middle finger to Khorne players and "KILL, FUCK, EAT" as a parody of Live Laugh Love

Slaanesh warband btw

[pastel grotto]

Me, a khorne player, watching as 20 graffitied slaaneshi daemons start Naruto running at my skarbrand turn 0

[azure fulcrum]

Considering it's Slaanesh and I'm giving every model it's own music reference for a name (totally never watched JoJo before), I'd more expect 20 blastmasters

Skarbrand gonna turn into soup

Also not sure if I'm gonna run any daemons besides a KoS for narrative purposes

[mint dove]

I think I did a good job on the eyes here.

First time painting and I didn't want to leave the eyes blank

[late nest]

Did you put primer on the model before you started?

[plush swift]

doesnt need to

[lean snow]

Bro that paint pallet in the background....

Pls... give it a wash....

[plush swift]

Why?

the pallet has seasoning on it, washing it would be like washing a cast iron pan

[lean snow]

No no, mine has seasoning on it

That one has gloop

Glop even

[plush swift]

you should see mine

my primary one is clean but not for the reason you'd think

my secondary one is fucked

[lean snow]

Everyone! Post and rate each others dirty paint palettes

Also my dude has a backpack now

[plush swift]

Secondary

Primary

primary is almost 5x larger than my secondary

[lean snow]

Mirin that spread

[twilit token]

about to be building my first set for 40 k minis :3

[plush swift]

yeah its kind of lame

This is it currently, it's almost as a good enough standard, I don't have enough of my paints lined up

I need more shelves around it for paint, I have another 200 bottles I need lined up

[twilit token]

i have no paint yet XD

[plush swift]

I have a lot of paint, but very small amount of hobby paint

[twilit token]

I just need enough to paint 152 pts of Black templars

[plush swift]

you just need black red white and gold

oh you can use a zorn pallet if you get yellow ochre and cad red med

zorn pallet is fun

this is a zorn pallet when you mix the colors

[twilit token]

hmmn, ok. I'll need to look into that

def useful for BT

[plush swift]

I need more cadmium paint

Im almost out

[twilit token]

any good model glues?

[plush swift]

I make my own, but its the same formula as tamiya extra thin

[lean snow]

Mirin = admiring

[plush swift]

naw, my desk is lame, you can say it. I know it is myself

I dont have primary magenta on the table if that says anything

[lean snow]

My desk is a beer pong table

Behold, chaos

[plush swift]

nice

[lean snow]

I need a hobby lamp so bad

[plush swift]

Use candles made from the fat of your foes

[brazen silo]

How do i use the rust dry brush and make it look good

[plush swift]

by doing it well and not bad

[brazen silo]

Damn

Guess im quitting painting

[plush swift]

just dont do it so heavily

[brazen silo]

I’ve only used the rust once and i felt so bad that i didn’t touch it ever again

[plush swift]

the problem with saying how to do it is that because youre still new, it wont come out well since you dont have the muscle memory to do it

so you have to keep doing it

[brazen silo]

I don’t really consider myself new new ive been painting about a year

[plush swift]

thats still pretty new honestly

[brazen silo]

People say that i should take commissions but i don’t understand why which is funny about me being newish

[plush swift]

People say that because they want to give you a sense of pride honestly

[brazen silo]

Probably

[plush swift]

You also need a much darker rust color

[brazen silo]

I just used the rust dry brush citadel paint

[plush swift]

yeah... use a sponge

[brazen silo]

Yeah

[lean snow]

Yeah I have buddies who think my painting is amazing but Im pretty mid tier

[brazen silo]

I lost this brass so i cant finish the rest of my plague marines till i get a new one :(

[plush swift]

Now don't judge this as anything good this is just an example, this is my lowest tier thing I've done in a while, but I'm trying to use it as an example of sponge rust techniques

[lean snow]

Im not a fan of slathering wash all over my mini but i think it works with your nurgle

[brazen silo]

Thank you

I don’t try to use as much shade unless on my plague marines

[plush swift]

I really need to repaint that thing

[lean snow]

My buddy had agrax earthshade but didnt mix it at all and all the sludge sunk to the bottom. He slathered his entire mini and ruined the paint job. Looks all glossy and gross

[brazen silo]

Wanna see my first model ever?

[lean snow]

Didnt help that his paints are thicc metalics all over, which I also hate

Go fer it

I dont even have my first mini from like 8 years ago. Tossed that mofo in the trash after droppin him

[brazen silo]

My first model ever

Followed by this when i got my first army

[twilit token]

Nurgle mini?

[brazen silo]

Yeah

[twilit token]

that looks so fucking cool

[brazen silo]

Thank you

I felt like he was my worst of my blight kings tbh

[twilit token]

it looks awesome to me

[brazen silo]

This one is my favorite

[twilit token]

these are amazing

[brazen silo]

Thank you

[twilit token]

hope I can get my BT to look half as good

[brazen silo]

Thank you

I still have alot to improve on

[naive umbra]

My first painted minis were these uruk hai from the GW LOTR game, like a decade ago

At the time I thought they looked awesome haha

[twilit token]

still talented ❤️

[naive umbra]

The book said to paint the armour bronze then dry brush silver to give them the rusty look

Didn't quite turn out how the pictures looked

[brazen silo]

It was your first model ever so don’t be too hard on yourself

[twilit token]

I am a bit scared to paint my Emperor's champion NGL

[naive umbra]

Oh no, at the time I was stoked how they turned out

[brazen silo]

Im scared to paint my big models

Rottigus and my glottkin will stay unpainted until i have nothing else to paint

[naive umbra]

I just know I've come a long way past them since

[plush swift]

you can always strip the paint off later, dont let fear rule you

[naive umbra]

One of the best and worst things about painting minis is seeing your own improvement through time

[brazen silo]

So like 200 unpainted tyranids 20 pox walkers a few plaguebearers a pussgoyal some plague marines a tank and deamon prince of nurgle

[naive umbra]

Worst because you get the urge to go back and redo everything older than a few years

[brazen silo]

I want to keep my old models the way they are

As a reminder

[twilit token]

Ill be stopping WH40k figures one I hit 2000pt of BT

[azure fulcrum]

What in the unholy butthole fucking flesh eating Slaanesh loving hell is that green shit

[brazen silo]

Looks like tesserect glow

[azure fulcrum]

Granted I'm on my phone rn but that looks like something I can only describe as THICC

[plush swift]

i dont use hobby paints

[brazen silo]

Neon yellow/green that i use alot

[mint dove]

No not this one, this is just a scrap part I practiced on. I primed the real models

[naive umbra]

This is probably my most recent work, not counting the Ghostkeel pilot I did for my new T'au minis

[left egret]

I want to use that tail for an Iron warriors DP... that or a necron one

[plush swift]

phthalo green

[mint dove]

It was clean when I started!!

[brazen silo]

I need a pallet

[azure fulcrum]

Why is it so thick and looks like if you stepped in it you'd either melt or grow extra limbs

[brazen silo]

I just have paper plates

[brazen silo]

Good both ways tbh

[left egret]

Anyways I must return to my dugout (go to bed)
May you all remain Iron.

Iron within, Iron without

[brazen silo]

Nurgle loves ye blessed one

[azure fulcrum]

As a slaaneshi scumlord I will not remain iron

I will remain F A B U L O U S

[naive umbra]

I prefer Iridium to Iron

[left egret]

Lol night

[brazen silo]

I prefer nurgle’s gifts over anything

[twilit token]

Emperor Have Mercy, this heresy requires a heavy flamer

[azure fulcrum]

Average Nurgle fan when you tell them to go deepstrike a shower

[mint dove]

@plush swift all I have to do on the mini is paint the purity seals,the belt and chain sword grip retouch up some of the mess, then edge highlight and wash. I think it turned out pretty good

[plush swift]

what about the nmm,the zpm, and the qpp?

[mint dove]

...the..what?

[plush swift]

I dont know, I made up the last two to see if you'd say anything

[mint dove]

LOL I was like okay i think that's non-metallic metal but what the fuck is a qpp

[naive umbra]

I'm still stuck on "nmm" because I can't think of anything other than Nexus Mod Manager

[plush swift]

I started my day off watching a live debate of a youtuber and an ignorant jackass

[mint dove]

Ahh fuck yeah gonna make my space marines run New vegas

[plush swift]

so my brain has been stupid all day with all the mental gymnastics that I had to see

[azure fulcrum]

Arent those the same thing?

[mint dove]

Oh those always upset me to watch because then I spend my day passed at a person who doesn't know I exist

[plush swift]

No, the youtuber is just a drunk scotish dude

[azure fulcrum]

So you mean just a Scottish person

[twilit token]

Does anyone here have a mini of Trazyn?

[plush swift]

No, I mean past the normal amount of drinking, I mean super drunk

[mint dove]

Like the monkey guy?

Oh

I read that as tarzan

[azure fulcrum]

They all got stolen

[plush swift]

Yes but not painted

[azure fulcrum]

So yeah just a regular Scottish person

[plush swift]

No, I mean drunk for a scot

[azure fulcrum]

That seems like a very dangerous level of alcohol consumption

[brazen silo]

I showered before i left my house just now :(

[twilit token]

Grandfather is disappointed

[brazen silo]

Damn

[azure fulcrum]

Yeah sure whatever you say Nurgling

Showered in doodoo maybe

[brazen silo]

I’ll have you know im a plague bearer if anything

At best a plague drone rider

[azure fulcrum]

Meanwhile, me, a cultured follower of Slaanesh, showers using only the finest of gamer girl piss

[brazen silo]

I aspire to be a lord of affliction

They fly down stab someone and run off before the gift reciprocate succumbs to their gifts

[azure fulcrum]

I aspire to be downright fabulous

[twilit token]

cough FULGRIM cough

[brazen silo]

The other chaos gods are kinda cringe ngl

Khorn is an edgy quiet kid

Slannesh is just horny

Tzeech is a nerd

[azure fulcrum]

Slaanesh isn't just about sex tho

[brazen silo]

Papa nurgle is the 🐐

[azure fulcrum]

Slaanesh is easily the most nuanced god

Just gets a bad rep because of simple minded horny nerds going "huehuehue boobies"

[brazen silo]

I could go through their plane and kill them

Easy

Give me an hour

[twilit token]

KHORNE CARES NOT FROM WHERE THE BLOOD FLOWS!

[azure fulcrum]

You realise Slaanesh canonically has the most skilled fighters of any chaos god, right?

[brazen silo]

I could beat them in a fist fight

[azure fulcrum]

No, you could not.

[brazen silo]

Khorn and slaanesh vs me i solo

I solo goku

[azure fulcrum]

You are too fat, too slow, and too smelly.

[twilit token]

goku is a clown

[brazen silo]

Im strong

[azure fulcrum]

You'd get popped like the pus boil you are.

[brazen silo]

Filled with nurgles gifts

[twilit token]

what can Slaanesh do for me?? HMMMMN

[brazen silo]

They make my skin tougher then any metal

[azure fulcrum]

Whatever your little heart desires.

[brazen silo]

Fist stronger then any weapon

[plush swift]

sounds like you havent used the weapon of imagination yet then

[twilit token]

The Emperor provides, The Emperor protects.

[azure fulcrum]

Reminder that Slaanesh's warriors are Stronger, Faster, Better and Harder than any other gods.

[brazen silo]

Nurgle solos

Does your god care about you?

Mine does

[azure fulcrum]

Slaanesh loves me, they give cuddles and kisses whenever I've had a bad day or trip in my high heels and get a booboo on my knee.

[brazen silo]

My skin is too tough to wound

[plush swift]

Tzeentch is the best god

[twilit token]

Gork and Mork

WWAAGH

[plush swift]

he both cares and doesnt give a shit about you at the same time

[brazen silo]

Nerd

[brazen silo]

Truuuuue

[azure fulcrum]

Tzeentch smells like bird shit

[plush swift]

I have an art history degree, do you think I wouldnt be one?

[brazen silo]

Alright fair you win

[azure fulcrum]

The only good part about Tzeentch is a lot of his male followers being canonically femboys

[brazen silo]

Ong?

[azure fulcrum]

Which seems more Slaanesh's alley but apparently it's the lore

[plush swift]

and all his female ones are tomboys, so the best of both worlds

[brazen silo]

Link?

Im joking

[azure fulcrum]

Tzeentches followers are described as androgynous

[brazen silo]

Ah

[mint dove]

Okay so keep in mind I still need to clean up, dry brush and wash but as it stands now this is what it looks like

I think it's about a 5/10 job, maybe

Gold on the shoulders is the worst part

[twilit token]

look at dat Beaky boi

[mint dove]

I just couldn't get it to play well

[twilit token]

it still looks good

[mint dove]

Thanks man, for the eyes I thought I was messing up but it turns out on this helmet the left eye is a different style than rhe left

[twilit token]

nicee

also, ultramarine?

[mint dove]

Yeah for my first minis I wanted to paint standard boyscouts just to practice but when I actually paint my models I'm gonna do blood ravens

[twilit token]

bolt everything down XD

[mint dove]

They're alot easier because they don't have alot of Metallics in their armor the way ultramarines do.

It's not stealing. It's appropriation for the future of the chapter brother also it looks really cool and I want it

@plush swift does it look fine? Like a 5/10 so far

[twilit token]

Stay away from my black swords brother.

[mint dove]

But they'd Match the black Aquila on my armor so well!

[twilit token]

Brother... See that blood angels ship over there. They offered to give you gifts

[mint dove]

I swear this mini looks better in person, I look at it in my hand and it looks fine but in the picture it looks like a "thin your paints" meme

[plush swift]

thats caused by the cameras auto corrections and the paint doesnt look chunky

[plush swift]

3/10, no major mistakes, just a lot of over paint that can easily be fixed up later on, the gold paint needs more shaking too, add another layer to it on the pauldrons

[mint dove]

Ahh okay that's good, I'm gonna let everything dry before I handle it and I'm sure once I touch up the mistakes I'll start to like it more

So I gotta paint the pauldrons another layer then touch up the model. I'll check back in then

[agile junco]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/616310527265734707/1062566772181577780/20230110_210048.jpg
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/616310527265734707/1062566772458409984/20230110_210037.jpg

thoughts on the red blade?

[errant fulcrum]

Knight assembled (mostly)

[mint dove]

I remembered the only sand color I have for the base is vallejo mecha, which is really thin out of the bottle. So I'll probably need to do like 4 coats to get full coverage yeah?

[mint dove]

I like it. Nice gradient makes it look superheated

[azure fulcrum]

Just paint some on some paper or something to get an idea

[mint dove]

This is like 3ish coats, I hav enough idea why that chip formed but whatever battle damage

[azure fulcrum]

Traditionally you paint the rim of the base black

But tradition is meant to be broken

Or you can go rogue trader era and paint it green

[plush swift]

It's an airbrush paint and not a high end one, basically the whole thing with those is that they take the normal paint and then they thin it down for an airbrush as opposed to something like a professional grade where they just don't put any chemical thickeners in it at all.

The reason why paints are thick is not because of pigment, It's because of chemical thickener. Acrylics have a specific amount of pigmentation that you can put in the paint for the binder, and part of that pigment allocation needs to be for different fillers.

So pigmentation does not actually affect the viscosity of acrylic paints much at all

[mint dove]

Ahh I see, so I probably shouldn't use it for handpainting details but I don't have any other sand colors

All I have is browns and yellow

[plush swift]

You can mix sand out of those

[mint dove]

Ahh okay, I'll see if I can find some recipes for what to mix. I have leather brown,beastly brown,sun yellow and bronze fleshtone in game color and in regular model color I have flat yellow.

And I have brown, yellow and sand yellow in mecha color

I have alot of mecha color paints because they're good for painting small details on gunpla which is what I usually do

[plush swift]

You probably won't find any, It's one of those things of mini painters don't mix their own colors all that often, as they see there's no point to because they can just go buy the color they want, and a lot of color mixing recipes out there really are all about the single pigment blends

I can see what I can whip up though

If you have time right now or tomorrow, really anytime the next several months, I can get you in a VC and show you some ways of spotting colors and how to mix them yourself for what you need

I started official medical leave this week so I have a lot of free time coming up

[sudden notch]

Im trying to figure out how to get raven guard skin colour with paints i have, after that how to make tgeir eyes not look like black holes

[naive umbra]

I like the red glow! nice and unique instead of just green all the time

[mint dove]

That woukd be very helpful actually I'll keep you posted! Color mixing has never been my best friend

[plush swift]

orange, brown, white for skin tones. use a fine liner to dot eyes

[plush swift]

I can even show you things that would make your money brain blow up, its always a fun thing

[mint dove]

I mean if your pigment collection alone is that expensive I can only imagine lol

I may just mix brown and sand yellow to not only thicken it up but maybe give it some more color

[plush swift]

thats one way of doing it

Most sand paints will start out as that also

[mint dove]

About a 70/30 mix of beastly brown and sand yellow got where it needs to be

When I coat it in desert dust wash it'll make it look a bit Sandier again

Also I went around the neighborhood and picked up a bunch of little rocks to put on the base

I looked like a crazy person but hey.

Free rocks

[sudden notch]

I think i got orangish(?) White andbrown paint but not fine liner

[azure fulcrum]

You're a Warhammer fan. There's literally no difference.

[atomic rose]

Excuse me, tradition is goblin green base rim.

[azure fulcrum]

That's the OLD tradition

Also the whole base was green

[plush swift]

What paints do you have?

[sudden notch]

White, brown, red, blue, dark green, grey, gold, metallic and they orangish/brown and black

[plush swift]

What brands?

Need to figure out pigments because things like green aren't green all the time, sometimes they are blue and sometimes reds are violet or orange

[sudden notch]

Revell i think

There are none others in my town available

[agile junco]

looks good so far

[sudden notch]

What does it read in rocket launcher

Cant figure it

[odd tree]

Dominus

I think I'll check

[sudden notch]

For moment i thought it read Poggius

[mint dove]

Tidied up the paint on the shoulders. Notice anything I should fix before I move on to washing?

I'm so fucking tired I went to drink My coffee and took a swig of my fuckin paint cup

I need to go to bed

[azure fulcrum]

Yeah the paintscheme could use a change and there seems to be a lack of spikey bits, you should maybe fix that up before going further

[mint dove]

...sounds like you're saying he should engage in heresy

[azure fulcrum]

What? No.... Of course not...

Just a nice fashionable pink and black paint scheme, and some spikes to uhh, scare away the heretics!

And maybe while you're at it you could add some leather...

[winged lava]

Did anyone know how many uses until I should change the resin in the vat

[atomic rose]

I generaly do it after every print. There might have been a small failure that left a cured piece in the vat which could lead to the build plate piercing the FEP sheet. Which as you might imagine would be a disaster.

[winged lava]

Thanks for the help and here's a free chaos spawn

[mint dove]

Hey I see you Emperors children! Get outta here!

[rare hornet]

So that’s where he went, get back here you, you’re going to become a tank

[mint dove]

Yes inquisitor, this post right here

[atomic rose]

Snitches get stitches

[mint dove]

But if I turn 10 heretics In to the inquisition I get a free pot of corpse starch!

[atomic rose]

And then executed for beeing in cahoots with heretics.

[rare hornet]

Come join chaos, we have cookies!

[mint dove]

Dammit, there's always a catch to these promotions

Also what do you think of the mini so far? Just gotta wash and dry brush

[rare hornet]

And we’ll let you pet the maulerfiend

[mint dove]

It's not the best, but I'm proud of myself for actually trying something new lol

[winged lava]

I could join the Inquisition but not enough spikes and they don't have waffles

[mint dove]

Of course they don't, waffles are good, and good things are heresy

[atomic rose]

It's a decent first entry. Emperor knows there are way worse out there.

[mint dove]

Yeah I messed up ALOT but fixed what I could

[winged lava]

I'll stick with chaos but thanks for the offer

[mint dove]

Thankfully I have 9 more attempts to get it right

[rare hornet]

They’re looking good

[atomic rose]

Everything is fine as long as you are doing your best. The skills need time and practice to develop. That is about it. You simply have to keep going at it until you find what works and what doesn't.

[mint dove]

This one gave me alot of insight into what size brushes to use,how much to thin and how the paint plays

[atomic rose]

Everytime you see those incredible competition pieces, you need to realize there are houndres of hours and decades of practice behind those things.

[mint dove]

Yeah I had HEAVILY tempered my expectations. My big thing was as long as it didn't glob up and looked good from a distance that was good enough for me.

And thankfully blood ravens will be easier to paint than boyscouts

[left egret]

Listening to Perturabo: Hammer of Olympia
Damn the petulant manchild be a petulant manchild

[rare hornet]

I want to get the physical book ideally

[left egret]

Aye

[mint dove]

All primarchs are petulant manchildren except vulkan

[atomic rose]

Peter Turbo just being envious of Dorns better sandpit.

[left egret]

Right now though I am just trying to get into the Iron Warriors spirit.... of bitterness

[mint dove]

From what I understand. And that's not much. Most interactions between primachs and emperor is the primarch crying that his brothers got a bigger toy from the Toys R us than he did

[rare hornet]

Just saying now, Guilliman, Dorn, and Perturabo on the same team would have won the Horus Heresy alone

[atomic rose]

They would probably be able to defend the entire galaxy. Not much conquering further tho.

[left egret]

Funny. Peter turbo was the better architect, he just didn't do gold

But yeah the 3 men would have been a power trio

[rare hornet]

He did make the clock for the correction facility on Macragge that stood until around Mortarian’s crusade and the awakening of Guilliman ish

[left egret]

To bad they dislikes each other

[rare hornet]

30k ultramarines are much better than 40k

[atomic rose]

But the space book.

[rare hornet]

But battle of Calth

I really need to carry on with my forge lord 😅

[mint dove]

@atomic rose before I move on should I drybrush highlights then use null oil? Or the other way around

[atomic rose]

It really depends on what you're trying to achieve. Nuln oil will dull everything down and you'll get darker grimy look. If that is what you want, then highlight first and nuln oil after. If you want vibrant bright colors, you'll need to touch up the basecoats again after washing and then do the highlighting.

[mint dove]

Ahh okay, I kinda want a combat weathered look for this squad

[rare hornet]

Weathering is actually not too bad, because you don’t need it to be neat. Because dirt and grime will do whatever it wants

HH Iron warriors and deathguard might be ones to look at for inspiration there because they’re quite dirty armies

[mint dove]

He is complete

Had a little super glue mishap that's why a piece of base color is missing lol

[naive umbra]

Looks great for a first model. I'd touch up the gold on his left pauldron and chest one more time just to get rid of that blue seeping through

[left egret]

... it was actually difficult listening to Perturabo break. Realising that all his problems were caused by himself

An overdeveloped sense of pride (arrogance) robbing him of the love and recognition that he so desperately yearned for

[mint dove]

Okay the shoulders look a bit better

[forest tiger]

An avatar i finished a month back

[mint dove]

Jesus.christ

How long did it take you to get that good?

[left egret]

@rare hornet I need another book recommendation. Pertorabo, and storm of iron finished

[mint dove]

Did a little more flavor and bloodied up the chainsword. NOW he's done

[left egret]

Also avatar of khain looks good

[naive umbra]

Looks awesome. Has always been one of the cooler GW models imo

I finished priming the final batch of all the army I own. Now on to batch painting my infantry!

[forest tiger]

Started painting 2 years ago with space marines and switched to eldar after

Practice makes perfect and only you can choose what you believe is good

[mint dove]

ahh i see, i want to make 3 armies eventually, one for loyalist,traitors and xenos

[forest tiger]

💸

[mint dove]

the one i posted is my first ever so far

...ill just focus on blood ravens for now lol

[forest tiger]

An autarch aswell

[naive umbra]

I love the colours on this

Especially the crest

[forest tiger]

Yea, need to find a better way to do purple fabric

Maybe lighter colors

[brisk vapor]

My goto is black, xereus purple, genestealer purple and white

[forest tiger]

Noted will try

[mint dove]

Any advice for someone brand new to painting?

Besides thin your paints lol

[brisk vapor]

Don't have too much paint on your brush is another really good one

[brisk vapor]

A couple examples

[forest tiger]

[forest tiger]

Wet palate is useful in that it has your paints last longer on the palate. Take a small half inch deep container and place wet paper towl and a piece of cooking paper over the wet paper. Water will seep through the pores in the cooking paper to thin your paints

[brisk vapor]

Yes a wet palette is a must

[storm star]

Letters are a god damn pain in the ass

[mint dove]

Yeah I painted this with just a dish pallet and it was really hard to keep the consistency

[plush swift]

Look into art stores rather than hobby stores

[jaunty trail]

Feel you with the letters... still WiP?

[storm star]

Yeah, still need to do basically everything else

[jaunty trail]

Then have fun and good luck ^^ Mine is a bit above in this channel, but lighting on photo was a bit crappy

[storm star]

Honestly looks nice! Love the grass and the slightly worn look

[jaunty trail]

Which grass? XD I have a desert oriented base ^^

[zinc glade]

Some WIP on a particularly hot power sword

[storm star]

This one up here

[rare hornet]

Yeees dreadnought

[storm star]

Unless i missed it, in which case do reply to the correct model

[jaunty trail]

#40k-minis-and-armies message
This one ^^

[storm star]

Looks real nice, like the grunge on it

[rare hornet]

Another way to do the lettering on the sword is to very lightly dry brush silver across it

Like so

[jaunty trail]

As i did with my sword inscirpts but used black as drybrush ^^

[storm star]

I thought about painting it all gold and then drybrushing on my blue metal, but i'm stubborn and went the other route

Don't think it looks too bad personally

[floral wind]

Aside from the base I've finished my Blood Angels inspired Marine

[rare hornet]

He’s looking good

The new boarding team game has really made me want to get some of my Templars done again

[floral wind]

Thank you and Yours looks great too

[jaunty trail]

My Black Templars Fleet is growing slowly but steady.... 3/4 of a Battlepatrol Box, Terminator Squad, repainted Venerable Dreadnought and Razorback and Bayards revenge mini are ready.... A repainted Dreadnought and Land Raider Crusader still in work with the rest 1/4 of the Battle patrol box

[rare hornet]

I’ve just got the odd bits here and there

I plan to have 2 chaplains, sort of like master and apprentice style

[jaunty trail]

Ah yes forgot my Chaplain in Terminator armor xD... having a choice of 3 HQ's is nice 😄

[rare hornet]

Yeah I have chaplain Tarentus and a regular chaplain for my two

[jaunty trail]

Will be fun... some friends of mine are planning a narrative crusade in obscurus sector... I'm the newest member that joined... my best buddy who plays astra militarum currently struggles with painting his models...

And when Black Templars are done next thing is to set up my Votann Army XD

[rare hornet]

Chaplain Micael is the crusade’s high chaplain while he’s trying his apprentice Richter who’s just been taken from being a sword brother to a chaplain

[jaunty trail]

Yeah the BT structures are a bit more medieval... i like that

[rare hornet]

To put simply, Richter hasn’t quite transitioned to a chaplain perfectly yet. But you don’t want to be stuck in front of him with mantra of strength and a relic crozius

[jaunty trail]

xD

"Eat my Crozius Xenos!"

[rare hornet]

He often goes along with a cohort of sword brothers while Micael will often be found with a squad of terminators

I haven’t worked out who I’m going to do for my Marshal, for the time being Micael is taking his role as acting marshal since the previous marshal was entombed in a dreadnought

[jaunty trail]

🤔

[rare hornet]

Until a new candidate proves suitable, they continue their crusade along side the dark angels with Chaplain Micael at their head

Making stories about your armies can be fun

[jaunty trail]

Yup. but takes time... This is something i will collect over the narrative crusade... still thinking about taking protocol over the whole narrative crusade just as a gimmick

[rare hornet]

Yeah that’s fair enough

[jaunty trail]

Will be fun... In the Crusade are safe: Black Templars, Sisters of Battle, Blood Angels, Astra Militarum.

A could be: Tyranids, Necrons, Chaos, Votann, T'au, Aeldari

A Nope (in lack of minis): Drukhari

[rare hornet]

I’ve done a series of home brew games known as planetfall

Game one:
Space marines vs defenders (orks in this case)
Space marines must capture a single objective representing an orbital defence laser

Game 2:
Guard vs defenders
Guard forces have now managed to make planetfall and must secure the landing zone

Game 3:
Space marines / guard vs defenders
Marines start at the defence laser and must hold their ground until guard forces break through from across the board and relieve them

[tawny topaz]

My wet palette came in the mail

[deft fable]

Army of painter one?

[oblique cedar]

idk if it's been posted before but i saw this on twitter and tiktok and thought it was lovely, so sharing it here too https://twitter.com/CerberusXt/status/1613116682834165761?s=20&t=chkRuvV4Vj0U2sr_WKaQ5Q

CerberusXt (@CerberusXt)

#gay men pride Space Marine full paint recipe. #warhammer40k #warhammercommunity

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[plush swift]

that explains why someone hit me with a shovel last time I was in Alabama

[atomic rose]

Man, you really should not be leaving the house. You seem to attract danger.

[plush swift]

I live and work in the south, hate crimes have been on the rise in the past few years here

[plush swift]

I never knew there was loyalist emperors children

[brazen nexus]

There was a bunch of loyalists from traitor legions

Like my boy Tarik Torgaddon

[atomic rose]

Pretty much all of them had some. They generaly got purged before the heresy. The surviving were assigned to other legions.

[left egret]

The ancient awakens

[azure fulcrum]

I never knew there was a pride flag for gay men, I always thought it was just the basic rainbow flag.

Which in my opinion is better anyway, BECAUSE MORE COLOURS!

[odd tree]

I can see that

[plush swift]

soon all color combinations will be owned by the lgbt

[azure fulcrum]

I have mixed feelings on it because sure it's nice for everyone to get representation, but on the other hand it kinda defeats the purpose of the original flag

[atomic rose]

It kinda seems like "yeah, the other ones do not matter as much".

[plush swift]

it also defeats the purpose of all pride flags too honestly, its way too many at this point. Its hard enough to make a scheme these days where it isnt a pride flag color it seems.

Really sucks since I live in the sound with a lot of red necks

they are overly fixated about that stuff

[azure fulcrum]

I still don't know why the trans flag was added to the LGBT flag along with the black and brown stripe, again it kinda defeats the point of the original flag when you start adding others on-top of it

[azure fulcrum]

They are probably all super insecure, I have no idea why you'd be so obsessed with someone else's sexuality otherwise

[azure fulcrum]

Alpha Legion? Or Night Lords?

[devout lake]

Could be both

[plush swift]

for "better representation for the under represented within the community and to show solidarity with non-binary bipocs" and money, the artist who made it charges people a fuck ton of money to display it

[azure fulcrum]

Very true

If I may critique, the flame I feel should have more depth, even if you want it kept dark and not a bright red flame, I reckon some shading would go a long way

[devout lake]

I always save the highlights for last when painting an army

[azure fulcrum]

Bruh, I'm non binary and I was fine with the damn rainbow.

[devout lake]

Does anyone else skip painting eyes and use earthshade instead?

[plush swift]

I dislike the new flag because the additional colors really throw off its balance, but its mostly used as an anti-TERF flag and well fuck terfs

[plush swift]

no, I paint the eyes in full detail

[azure fulcrum]

It's also funny when they talk about it being for non binaries while glossing over the fact that we don't even have our own flag, we get the trans flag as ours.

[devout lake]

In my head I figure eyes wouldn't be that noticeable on the tabletop so I skip them

[plush swift]

actually you do its this

[azure fulcrum]

I'll never understand terfs, you'd think there being more women would be a good thing?

[atomic rose]

I attempt and fail to paint eyes in full details.

[azure fulcrum]

https://tenor.com/view/reaction-my-eyes-cant-unsee-burn-gif-7225082

Why is it so bright

[compact umbra]

Agreed

[plush swift]

its fine to skip them, not everyone can paint them and most dont notice it

[plush swift]

but more colors

[compact umbra]

I think yellow is literally the worst color lmao

[azure fulcrum]

Yellow profile picture.

Opinion discarded.

[compact umbra]

I’m a bee

[plush swift]

No you're a beedrill

[compact umbra]

And I need a new pfp anyway

[compact umbra]

Yes

[plush swift]

thats closer to a wasp anywyas

[atomic rose]

I despise talking about LGBT+ stuff. I am constant centrist. I always look at everything from both sides of the argument and criticize them both. And in a lot of topic, but especialy this one, people get extremely touchy when you don't 1000% agree with them.

[plush swift]

but waspdrill sounds bad

[azure fulcrum]

May I suggest something pink or purple? Maybe a little daemonish? Maybe with some leather and chains? A bit of flayed skin?

Just a suggestion.

[compact umbra]

I think I’ll get a valkia the bloody or slaanesh’s alliance

Pfp

[devout lake]

Reject sex become chaos spawn

[compact umbra]

As I’m working on my blades of khorne

[azure fulcrum]

I mean this is the paint channel where we all generally speak with respect and a degree of intellect. And considering most of us will accept critique without boohooing it's probably the safest channel for this debate.

[compact umbra]

Ha ha dispels of tzeentch go brrrrrrr

[azure fulcrum]

Some people just get worked up cause they hate having to put thought into a reply.

[azure fulcrum]

Spawn of Slaanesh though? What do you expect me to do with these 6 penises?

[atomic rose]

I agree, but then again I thought that about some other channels where I am now banned. Even tho I don't think my opinion is that radical. 😅

[devout lake]

Change

[azure fulcrum]

Not really. I'm kinda similar I guess in the sense I hate it when people go (to put it in simple American terms) go too far left or too far right.

You can 100% take something too far, even pride and representation. You reach a point where it starts to blur and differences become too minute to really matter.

Anyway it's shower time, I shall read responses on my bus trip to work

[plush swift]

buy a car

[devout lake]

I found all my first 40k minis