40k-minis-and-armies

[plush swift]

small brush, layer over with orange into pink into silver

[mint dove]

Huh, never thought of that, alright I'll give that a shot,

How do I blend them all together if I overshoot/undershoot a color

[plush swift]

by blending them together

[tender ocean]

Some new guard stuff

Also BANEBLADE

[mossy sable]

tonks

[mint dove]

I've never blended before...guess I'm trying that too

[plush swift]

it can be harder with hobby paints because of all the chalk

[agile seal]

not enough guns

[rapid river]

gosh I love the baneblade

so iconic

[agile seal]

also love the gamersups in the background

[rapid river]

cant wait for my ghost models to come in

loving that series

[tender ocean]

Ok slight barely noticeable change for mr solar

[rapid river]

Heheheh

Filthy xenos

[gloomy leaf]

Just finished my third mini

[agile seal]

based

[gloomy leaf]

I was kind of trying to experiment with cel-shading? Idk if i like it though, i feel like it looks messy

Messy being my fault though, next one ill do actual highlighting

I gotta get a drill bit for my guns too lmao

[lofty bridge]

Progress report

[turbid meadow]

Very nice!

I'm working on a knight as well

I need to do a little bit of touching up but almost done

[turbid meadow]

Looks fantastic!

[rare hornet]

Aha we showing off our knights are we? Well it’s a good thing I hav- wait no I don’t… erm… have a hammer instead

[turbid meadow]

Oooh very nice

That basecoat is clean so far

[teal wolf]

Yeah that black is sooo clean

[rare hornet]

Thank you, just a spray of chaos black and some watered abaddon black to clean up

Currently waiting for the deathwatch shoulder pad

[teal wolf]

Proves how brain dead I am. Didn't even notice he was missing the shoulder

[lavish crescent]

Question @rare hornet how much of an asshole can I be rn to you?

[rare hornet]

There is no physical limit for that

[lavish crescent]

You got steel on the shoulder pad

Can you see it?

[rare hornet]

Aha but that’s not the shoulder pad, that’s the part it glues onto

I’m waiting for a deathwatch shoulder pad to arrive so I’ve left it blank for now

[lavish crescent]

Also you missed a spot

Not gonna say where but you missed a spot of steel

[lavish crescent]

Fair

[rare hornet]

You monster

[lavish crescent]

Cant you see it?

[dark violet]

It's right there

Look

Riiiiiight there

[lavish crescent]

No joke, you did miss a spot of steel

[rare hornet]

That fact I only missed one spot while painting at 10pm is a miracle

[dark violet]

Also can I just say

I hate mechanicus standard grey

Why does it exist

[rare hornet]

I haven’t used mine yet

What’s wrong with it?

[dark violet]

It's the same color as unpainted models

[rare hornet]

Ah okay, I’m going to use it for rocks and suck anyway

Literally just for painting 3D bases

[dark violet]

It's like you are unpainting your stufd

[rare hornet]

Maybe some Agrax over it might do something

I’ve got a gravis captain I’m going to use it on

[dark violet]

I bought it thinking it will be like leadbelcher

Was disappointed

Also I need to do a side by side of leadbelcher and Grey knight steel

[rare hornet]

Grey knights is like a bluey kind of colour

[dark violet]

What

[rare hornet]

A bluey silver

[dark violet]

Huh

[rare hornet]

It’s hard to describe

But it has like a subtle blue tint

But for the most part it’s a very light silver

[lavish crescent]

Its a steel with a hint of blue

Its weird for grey knights because they don't really look that blue

[rare hornet]

It’s strange, to be fair it could have just been the light in the picture I was sent

[wise shuttle]

Nice

[rare hornet]

High velocity bonk

[left egret]

I wish world eaters got any form of raptors

[lavish crescent]

Ha ha

[rare hornet]

I kinda feel that compared to thousand sons and death guard world eaters are just sort of lacking anything unique, they just went here’s some funky units and uhhh take these from the chaos codex

The rules are cool but the just feel less unique compared to the other two

[dark violet]

thousand sons and minotaurs might be the only space marines id buy

[rare hornet]

I’d probably buy a few unique chaos units to throw in for a narrative thing

[lavish crescent]

I'm sorry space marine fans but custodes have you beat in style and uniqueness

GW us being weirdly slow recently with orders. Ordered some models last week and nothing. Gave them a ring and boom they are still trying to get the krieg models xD mfs are so wanted that idk if I'll even get them

[left egret]

Here is the kick in the teeth. The fact that they put a cavalry lord choice into the roster probably means they intend to add jugger cav... in 10th edition

[rare hornet]

Their unit choice just feels really scarce

[left egret]

They did half a roster so that they could add the other half in 10th... and they get away with it because they are adding angron

[rare hornet]

And as ironic for world eaters as it sounds the lack of shooting units can hurt them in the long run

[left egret]

In lore? Not really, we got destroyers, caedere, red butchers... which we all know they will aee in 10th and funnily enough there was a heavy weapons shooting unit

[rare hornet]

Ingame I meant

Oh fuck it autocorrect

[left egret]

But yeah their roster ingame right now is a joke

[rare hornet]

Having the mauler and forge fiends are nice

They’ll do nicely I’d imagine

[left egret]

Still painting them in Iron Warriors colours

[rare hornet]

Fair

[left egret]

Sadly my world eaters are going to be my secondary army

[rare hornet]

Fair enough

Painting them will be a lot easier I’d imagine

Just grab some red spray then paint the trim

[left egret]

Yeah... except painting skin

[rare hornet]

I don’t believe in skin

Embrace necron

[left egret]

Fuck that shit... I'll do it anyway because I want my eightbound to look good

[rare hornet]

Those remind me of deathshrouds

Melee only but fucking terrifying

[left egret]

Yeah. I'm going to enjoy that

[teal wolf]

I do love some world eaters but lore wise I'm amazed thry havent all fought to death yet

[rare hornet]

In lore they’re kind of the chaos punching bag

Like who hasn’t beaten Angron in lore at this point?

[teal wolf]

I just gotta know if the berserker surgeons has the nails

[rare hornet]

Even Perturabo beat him in combat

[teal wolf]

Peter turbo is a certified hard carry and roast master

[rare hornet]

One of the only primarchs in the heresy to just get shit done

He was actually chosen by nurgle before mortarion and offered daemonhood

[left egret]

Oh GW has hinted we get those in 10th as well
But I want them now

[teal wolf]

Angron or Peter returning was what determined my chaos choice

[rare hornet]

Perty will never come back 😭

GW probably forgot he exists

[teal wolf]

If they have the nails and do surgery that'll be a bit to dumb for me

[teal wolf]

He better. I really like the character but his 30k model doesn't hit imo

[left egret]

They are probably not about the saving of life

[rare hornet]

I would actually love if he came back as a primarch rather then a daemon

[teal wolf]

I can imagine it like a barber with Parkinsons

[left egret]

Obliterator

[rare hornet]

An official Volk model will be amazing

Could imagine he’d have a super repair ability as a primarch

[left egret]

Surprisingly world eaters are not twitching messes. And creepily enough... there are even "calm" world eaters out there. The Arnogaur being the best example

[teal wolf]

Little rules debate for 40k I've been having all night.

Khorne berserker blood surge isnt phase specific.

Overwatch is before the charge roll.

So if they declare a charge, lose a model to overwatch would they get to bloodsurge before the charge?

[rare hornet]

If you can declare it in any phase then it makes sense

What’s the exact wording?

[plush swift]

I don’t think the combat part hurt as much as what he said to poor angron

💀

[rare hornet]

Words hurt more than a primarch sized thunder hammer

[steady dune]

does Manus have a mini yet?

[plush swift]

Yes.

[rare hornet]

To be fair Perty just hates everyone

Except Magnus

He cool

[steady dune]

Turbo carried the horus heresy

[teal wolf]

Bad pic. Will have codex tomorrow

[steady dune]

no wonder we havent seen him
he still has spine problems all these years later

[teal wolf]

Let the man rest 🤣

[rare hornet]

Just has to be the target of a shooting attack

[lavish crescent]

He did before he kinda got ahead of him self and tried to join 40k

[steady dune]

honestly idk where to start with collecting
either going to be salamanders or iron hands til im good enough to paint admech

[rare hornet]

Iron hands are easy to paint

[lavish crescent]

Do blood angels, work with red

[teal wolf]

That iron hands box is great

[rare hornet]

I’m getting one for my Templar at some point

[steady dune]

honestly not a bad call
blood angels are cool but i love me technology

[lavish crescent]

Speaking of admech, still got a box or two of them

[steady dune]

admech were the faction I fell in love with after playing Mechanicus

[lavish crescent]

Practice painting red and clothing to get an idea of how to get a smooth coat of red over armour

[steady dune]

yes their surgeries scare the balls off me but holy shit if they dont look cool

[steady dune]

oh shit good point

[teal wolf]

Before custoses were a full army I ran em with admech.
Really loved the dunecrawlers

[steady dune]

might have to do blood angels and iron hands then

[lavish crescent]

Arent the dunecrawlers the emu looking things?

[teal wolf]

Star wars spider tank looking things

[steady dune]

omfg those things
I love how they never turn them off and just leave them on treadmills because the only guy who knew how to wake them died

[lavish crescent]

Ohhh those

[steady dune]

they're that scared they wont work again

[teal wolf]

If I did marines Again I'd have to try my hands at space sharks

[lavish crescent]

He was a prick and just didn't tell anyone how to make them work and they PROCCED TO DESTROY THE PLANS FOR THEM

Been working on a custom chapter tbh

[steady dune]

I love that one chapter that has the tactical looking space marine armor

forgot what they're called but I dig it

[teal wolf]

I wanna convert a Tyberos big time

[left egret]

It isn't phase specific. Shoot them at any point and they lose a model and they will surge

[left egret]

^

[rare hornet]

The blood of their dead turns the ground into a slip ’n slide propelling them along

[teal wolf]

That'll be silly if ones killed via pistol while locked in combat.
Free pile in?

[left egret]

Also. YOU DO NOT SEE TYBEROS OF THE RED WAKE

[teal wolf]

I want fan art of that now lol

[rare hornet]

Can’t do it while I’m engagement range

[teal wolf]

Truuue

[left egret]

Well at that point they are in combat so no piling

[rare hornet]

One dies and the rest start skating towards you

[teal wolf]

And is the bigger chain axe in the new kit just a pretty evis?

[lavish crescent]

Space marine: "Nooo you can't make a bigger chainsword it'll look weird and won't work!"
Khorne Berserkers: "HUHUH Big chainsword goes burrr"

[left egret]

Vroom

[urban harness]

David harbour huh

Alright

[teal wolf]

That's some drip

[steady dune]

what army be that?

looks like blood angels but i dont know my space marines

could be sisters though

[rare hornet]

Black Templar

[steady dune]

ooh templars
honestly I thought they would be a dark angels successor

[rare hornet]

Nope, imperial fists

The angriest religion fuelled death machine the astartes can offer

[teal wolf]

Is there any big Dark angels successors?

[median thistle]

Angels of vengeance? The ones with green and bone white halved on the armour?

I can’t remember what the second ones name is

[rare hornet]

We’ll go with Marvin for the time being

[teal wolf]

Chapter master Marvin

[plush swift]

Maybe now we can get bitches

[rare hornet]

No

It is the path we chose upon picking up the first miniature

[teal wolf]

Abstinence for the Emperor

[tawny topaz]

What’re some good paint colors for non-metallic metals (if that makes any sense)

[teal wolf]

Depends on the color.
I think vallejo has a few NMM sets and bundles

[tawny topaz]

I’ll check them out

I been avoiding painting my mechanicus cuz I never got the paints I ordered, it took too long for GW to process so I ended up cancelling

[teal wolf]

Quite unfortunate

[tawny topaz]

Ye

What’s a good HQ for mechanicus

[teal wolf]

Not to sure. They gotten a few more hq since my days with em.
I ran Cawl and just a basic enginseer

[tawny topaz]

Dunno how true it is but I hear cawl is one of the weaker ones

[teal wolf]

I think he's just a big buff character.
I haven't seen much on em in 9th. Just their nerf months bacķ

[tawny topaz]

I wanted to get him and paint him just for the looks but never knew if I’d actually use him

Would you be able to use multiple HQs in an army?

[teal wolf]

Ooh absolutely. Minimum was two. Arks of omens detachments only require one tho

[tawny topaz]

Nice

[teal wolf]

Here's the omens chart

[lavish crescent]

Wait a minute, you can bring only 3 elites with you?

Or 3 fast attack?

Or 3 lords of war?

Not forced to bring more than that?

[teal wolf]

Technically 6 elite characters get their own slot

[lavish crescent]

Oh god I just looked

[tawny topaz]

Oooooo interesting

[plush swift]

you dont need 2000 paints for it, gold is just burnt umber, white, yellow ochre, silver is just blue, black, white, (sometimes green)etc. If you want good nmm, you'll be mixing your own colors anyways, why even bother with sets at that point?

[tawny topaz]

Good point

[plush swift]

yellow ochre hobby paints are the worst you can get btw

they dont even use real yellow ochre half the time

[tawny topaz]

Lol, I been sticking to citadel mostly

[plush swift]

rip

better than army painter at least, just ungodly expensive

[brazen notch]

why was Lily Allen hanging out with David tho

[tawny topaz]

I know it

[plush swift]

I pay $11 for a 250ml of a high end professional brand, so I'm very jaded by good prices

[brazen notch]

oh shes his wife

mans got fine taste

[lavish crescent]

Thats is fucking terrifying for custodes. You can take a nearly full detachment of warden and jet bikes

[tawny topaz]

Also another question since you’re good at painting, I wanna make my skitariis eyes glow orange, how can I get that look?

Since citadel doesn’t really have a glowing visor look in orange

[plush swift]

You have two options, you can mix your own, or you can use this

Keep in mind that Orange is not red and yellow

[tawny topaz]

Yea

[plush swift]

Technically is but it isn't

[glossy hawk]

How much money have you spent on 40k, paints and all @plush swift

[tawny topaz]

You can mix it but there’s also more complicated ways to get the proper color then just throwing the two together

[plush swift]

Well technically for painting minis I have spent $0 specifically for it. For my career? Probably closing around at about 800k

For Warhammer itself just for models?

I've probably spent maybe 5k

[glossy hawk]

Warhammer itself

Ah

Are you an art teacher? Is that how you support it??

[plush swift]

I'm not an art teacher, I just tutor people for art and I like showing people how to paint

[glossy hawk]

Insane

[plush swift]

I work in art conservation

[glossy hawk]

[plush swift]

So my knowledge is a lot of paint chemistry, art history, ability to replicate masters for their exact stroke, organic chemistry, physics, etc

[tawny topaz]

Pretty cool

[plush swift]

Not really honestly, It's more about using the correct pigment. Most reads are going to be leaning towards orange anyways but certain regs just don't mix well with yellow because most yellows themselves are green

Also cadmium orange is another option here, It's very bright but it's cadmium and there's a lot of misinformation about that paint within the mini painting community

[tawny topaz]

Ohhhh I see

[plush swift]

Like a lot of misinformation

[tawny topaz]

Well, what’s the real info on it

[plush swift]

There is not enough soluble cadmium in cadmium paint for it to have any toxicity if you were to swallow it or put it on your skin

It's pigment size however is very tiny and you can get heavy metal poisoning when you airbrush it

Even if you're wearing a mask and you have an fume hood, It's highly recommended to never use it in airbrush

[tawny topaz]

Never planned to, that’s good to know regardless

[plush swift]

It's honestly perfectly safe to use, And honestly if you guys shut the fuck up for a few minutes about yellow paint and just use cadmium instead, you would never hate yellow again

I have to make that joke sometimes. It's funny to me shut up

But no seriously mixing orange really easy, The problem is most red pigments that you're going to find in mini paint are actually not very lightfast so when you try to mix them into an orange they'll just fade very quickly

The most common red is naphthol

Actually that's a good video idea mixing oranges and explaining light diffraction with orange

I already made purple out of a green and a red so you know

[tawny topaz]

Would it be easier for me to get an orange base and slowly lighten up the paint with white as I move closer to the center?

[plush swift]

You do not use white

You mix in yellow

To darken it you mix in a very very and I need to point out how little you mix in this, violet

[tawny topaz]

Got it

I’ll keep this all in mind, thanks again

[plush swift]

Violet pigments tend to have a very high tint strength so even a 1 to 10 ratio can be too much for violet sometimes

The only ones that don't are ultramarine but ultramarine is a totally different beast

Also I highly doubt you would ever use ultramarine violet, not because it's bad but because it just does not exist in mini paint, It's expensive and it's very transparent

But I find it irreplaceable for doing flesh tones

[tawny topaz]

Haven’t heard of the color yet

[tawny topaz]

Oooo its nice

[plush swift]

Paint form

[tawny topaz]

Ohhhhhhh

[left egret]

Mandatory It's a good day to kill for Khorne.

[tawny topaz]

More of a slaanesh worshipper myself lol

[plush swift]

There are multiple forms of it by the way but that's the most common

[tawny topaz]

I like the way it looks, not what I expected actually

But still really nice

[left egret]

angry khornite squint

[tawny topaz]

Me when omnissiah + slaanesh

[left egret]

Only Vashtorr and Khorne. (Depending on if I am an Iron Warrior or World Eater)

[tawny topaz]

charges plasma gun

[plush swift]

That's the rest of them

[left egret]

Revs chainaxe

[tawny topaz]

Nice

I want that color now lol

[plush swift]

professional paints are a very different lifestyle

[left egret]

What this?

[plush swift]

every variation of ultramarine violet in pigment form

[left egret]

Damn

[plush swift]

yeah I'm that weird one who makes paint and has most pigments just laying around in places

[tawny topaz]

I wanna eventually get one of those staircase or rotating wheel that hold all the paint

People make them on etsy

[lilac moth]

Rather go to your local vocational college and order it from them. At least around here you will pay maybe 5-20€ on top of just the material cost and some poor soul will make whatever you want as a show of their skills in the line they are studying

Something like a paint rack for 100+ paints with pallet slot and lights and all that will cost something like 40€ in total

[tawny topaz]

Oh wow

[lilac moth]

Back when i was studying carpentry at vocational college i made a a booze cabin with glass doors and outwards sliding wine racks. The fucker paid 75€ for it and 50€ of that was for the glass parts

Something similar would cost about 1500-3000€ in a furniture store

But its bit of a gamble because you are basically tasking the shit on some poor student and the student can be anything from a child prodigy to a mouth breathing slaanesh worshipper with attention span of nanoseconds

[tawny topaz]

That sounds about right, lots of the better ones always go under the radar

[left egret]

Dedication

[plush swift]

just what I do for a living

[lilac moth]

Ever sneezed while holding a pigment jar? 😄

[tawny topaz]

I spilled nuln oil once

[plush swift]

yes

[lilac moth]

Fun times?

[plush swift]

I never spilled any

[lilac moth]

I imagine it has the potential to be nightmare to clean up

[median urchin]

If anyone has a 3d printer i think you might like these

[plush swift]

near impossible

[short pine]

They look really cool, but I prefer a modular set included or I will end up only printing it once or twice.

[proven marsh]

Lol great.
Well I'll still be converting up my own lol

Dreg meltagunner would be scaryaf

[mystic shard]

Most of station forges stuff is modular, I was a member of the MMF tribe for a while so I have a lot of the files

[median urchin]

yeah i sub to them, so ill end up with these

[short pine]

Could be. That particular set looks fairly static. Maybe arm swaps.

Even for arm swaps, only a few look like it's possible.

Again, I'm only commenting on that particular set.

[median urchin]

yeah its fair

[short pine]

I've been subscribed to Crucible of Games for a few months now. One thing I love is that they'll release a set of one piece action poses alongside a modular set of the same, so you can get the best of both.

[pastel dragon]

usually all of our models are modular but this kit in particular yeah due to the clothes some arms are cut at the forearm

[crisp forge]

Oh hey someone actually made Not-Moebians for tabletop

[lavish crescent]

question but due to Angron returning do you think the Grey knights might get some primeris (?) And maybe we'll get a grey founding?? Basically the grey knights getting turned into a legion force?

[simple thorn]

I want to throw my BattleTech mini's here for the heck of it

Any of y'all wanna see non-Titan stompy mechs at all?

[brisk vapor]

Man of the big H is done

[edgy jackal]

Damn

[tawny topaz]

That’s the coolest thing I’ve seen in a long ass time

[short pine]

That's good to know. I have looked at some of your sets before. They do look really good. I believe you are one of the groups I was watching before I had the imcome and set up to support a 3D printing hobby.

[turbid meadow]

I finished my first ever big mini!

..I wish I knew how to paint white

Still comes out chunky

[turbid meadow]

This is beautiful mate

[brisk vapor]

Appreciate it!

[turbid meadow]

I love the gradient on the eye gems

[brisk vapor]

Lovely knight as well

[turbid meadow]

The fur looks good too. I'm painting fur later in the week so I'll have to learn

[plush swift]

thats because hobby whites use a lot of chalk and talc filler for opacity. and stability

use professional and it wont be chunky

[turbid meadow]

Neat, thanks

My first white was White Scar.. which was real bad

Now I'm using an AK paint

[plush swift]

I have used 1 AK paint and wont even touch their products again after the controversy

was just straight up completely unacceptable to me as technically speaking, a historian

[turbid meadow]

I never heard that since I'm new, I'll look into it

[plush swift]

they used holocaust footage, including fottage of the dumping of the bodies into mass graves, to sell a paint line and a book on how to make dioramas about things like a junkie ODing and a child drowning. Not to mention historical genocides like Rwanda and gas chambers, they issues an "apology" which was basically "stop being offended you snowflake"

[sharp thicket]

Well, stop

[agile seal]

Well shit

Thats fucked

[plush swift]

Follow the Warmaster

[brisk vapor]

🫡

[plush swift]

incredibly. The sad part is this is a very common occurrence with hobby companies. Mini painting is nothing more than an extension of scale modeling, and scale modeling has a lot of.... lets say unsavory people in it

[gloomy leaf]

god its so good

how long was the whole project?

[agile seal]

I am, very well aware lol
I have more experience with the sexual deviants than other extremists, but yeah theres a few corbwrs of hobbying in general i keep a wide berth from

[plush swift]

I just use citadel

[mossy sable]

citadel expensive

[brisk vapor]

Thanks! Started it on the 15th of January

[rare hornet]

Citadel tastes the best

[plush swift]

this is the most incorrect thing ive ever seen here

[gloomy leaf]

time well spent, straight up box art quality

[agile seal]

Citadel has based matallics

[agile seal]

Im personally a fan of huffing citadel plastic glue

[plush swift]

good old n-butyl acetate

[edgy jackal]

Jokes aside, do not huff plastic glue if you value your liver

[agile seal]

The little metal rod they give you is ideal for grtting right up in there

[agile seal]

My liver is expendable

[gloomy leaf]

before i started getting my paints, i kept hearing citadel so expensive, when i went to actually get them they were way cheaper than people were making it out to be

[plush swift]

It's fine as long as you chase it with some dirty downs

[rare hornet]

What brand tastes the best then?

[plush swift]

No its very expensive. Its almost $5 for a 12ml, For $5 in professional you can get 30-60ml

[plush swift]

Golden

[gloomy leaf]

i have citadel and vallejo model color they've been pretty much same price

what do you mean by professional?

[mossy sable]

I think vallejo typically has more per bottle

[plush swift]

Paints have grades, hobby paints are student grade(you can buy student grades for about $3 for a 60-100ml), and professional, Professional paint has less filler and more pigmentation. All paints have filler, paints without filler arent stable and flake off

hobby paint is extremely expensive and you only pay for convenience of not having to mix your own colors

[gloomy leaf]

mmmm interesting, do you have professional brands you prefer?

[plush swift]

I use golden, my own brand, Turner, Matisse, Lascaux, etc

[agile seal]

Generally, people who say citadel paints are expensive either mix their own or dont have a good frame of refference

Like corpse here makes mixes his own

But citadel paints are a tad bit more expensive by the bottle than say AP, but not egregiously so

[gloomy leaf]

so far the average hobby paints i haven't had any issue with but who knows, i might try professional in the future

[plush swift]

I say they are expensive and I have a good frame of reference on pricing for hobby paints. They are very expensive per ML, which is what I mean. Vallejo is way cheaper as an example

[plush swift]

professional is a heavy learning curve since a lot are transparent

its a benefit for how I paint, because transparency is super useful for my style

its also how I make realistic shadows

[gloomy leaf]

mixing your own sounds intimidating but i'm sure it's just practice like anything

[agile seal]

Vallejo doesnt make as good technicals

[agile seal]

It is more expensive, but not as prohibitive as peiple make it out to be

[plush swift]

I'm working on a fill color theory series that branches into the science of it, it's honestly not hard, you can find mixing charts online that have ratios

[agile seal]

Blood for the blood god is a based paint

[plush swift]

Never said it was prohibitive, just expensive. My gallon of paint is prohibitively expensive but saves me $500+ over the course of a year

[gloomy leaf]

blood for the blood god looks so good, i used it on my first two minis

[agile seal]

It is rad

[gloomy leaf]

im for sure not at the rate of consumption of my paints that i need bulk quantities like that, so little hobby paints are good

[plush swift]

I like my own product for blood the best, it replicated the trichromatic nature of blood

its not hard to make either

[mossy sable]

use your own blood to replicate blood color

[plush swift]

blood is fugitive so not well suited for paints

@gloomy leaf https://goldenpaints.com/mixer use this site, move it to single pigment on the pallet

just dont treat the tool as gospel, its useful for learning though

[edgy jackal]

One diabetic painter already tried this, his feedback was that it was an interesting experience, but don't do it at home: https://youtu.be/I58EhxVXx1c

[plush swift]

You know, I warned Ninjon not to do that at adepticon and he still fucking did it

I offered him the paper I wrote about blood pigments in paint and he said something to the effect of "that is irrelevant and means nothing"

I hated adepticon

pretty sure he ignored me when I mentioned that

[edgy jackal]

I mean, it's his body he's risking, and he put up warning signs on the video. I guess the worst part about it are possible copycats emboldened by the video.

[plush swift]

I'm very against these YTers doing anything like that after I had 2 students get hospitalized after a midwinter minis video

They have to remember, the average person is incredibly stupid

[mossy sable]

I can only assume that the video was something along the lines of the using your own blood thing

[edgy jackal]

Fair enough, that is a good argument not to release such content.

[median thistle]

Dare I ask what they did?

[plush swift]

one kept licking their brush that they used to paint dirty downs on

the other huffed it

[mossy sable]

oh

I shouldn't laugh

but

[pastel grotto]

Everyone knows your meant to drink the paint pot water

[plush swift]

the reasoning was "if MWM uses it, then its perfectly safe to use and isnt toxxic"

[pastel grotto]

Licking it off the brush is criminal

[median thistle]

It adds a certain cementy texture

The great thing is it’s the perfect example of why safety messages exist

[rare hornet]

And now we know where to do not eat label on the paints comes from

[glossy hawk]

My bad guys

I’m sorry. It was too good looking.

[median thistle]

This is why whenever I let small children look at my minis I say you can hold it as long as you don’t eat it

[pale edge]

I just skip a step entirely and use my coffee mug as a paint pot

[plush swift]

I'm sitting here using antimony pigments and cringing at all of you

[pale edge]

I am full of lead like my father before me

[rare hornet]

I am immune to radiation due simply to the amount of lead based paint in my blood

[median thistle]

I painted a boner

[rare hornet]

looks like a pretty hard one to me

[median thistle]

Well bone is a tricky colour

[plush swift]

yes because think bone is white

its actually pink

[median thistle]

That is confusing but I suppose the reasoning is science

[plush swift]

yes

[rare hornet]

pink deathwing

gotcha

[plush swift]

fun fact, bones can also come in a wide range of colors

Mine are dark green as an example

its a reaction to a medication i'm on

[median thistle]

How do you know that? You didn’t use it for reference did you

[plush swift]

My doctors have mentioned it a few times

[median thistle]

It’s like a fun party trick

[agile seal]

Lemme just whip my bones out

[agile seal]

Healthy bones are pink

[rare hornet]

Fun fact: Your bones are warm and wet

[agile seal]

Boneas that lack marrow turn a sickly offwhite

[plush swift]

correct.

[agile seal]

So if your painted dead bones, they shouls be that kind of pale offwite color

[median thistle]

I suppose it’s hard to see healthy bones normally because most bones are many millennia old

Because skin has a short sell by date

[agile seal]

But if you want exposed bones, yhey should be pinkish

[rare hornet]

Time to test that theory

Be right back

[agile seal]

Bones bleed, fun fact

[plush swift]

sort of

[agile seal]

I mean yeah theres more that goea into it
Freshly dead vs long dead etc

[plush swift]

plus a lot of other factors to

Ive seen freshly dead bones that were blueish green before

[agile seal]

Yeah

[plush swift]

and that had to do with the bones having a crazy high amount of copper in them

[agile seal]

Indeed

Theres alot that goes into it. I was more referenxing from a painting lense

[plush swift]

I am too to some extent, more from a study perspective though

I like my uber realism

[agile seal]

Fair enough

Man

Why are ao many 40k players sexual deviants

Why cant i enjoy my finny toy soldiers in piece withoutngetting bombarded by big tiddy milf guilliman whos overly well painted tits are always oddly sticky

[plush swift]

Because slaanesh

[agile seal]

Consumer available 3d printing was a mistake

And i have seen the pinup armies to proove it

[mossy sable]

I have to hope

that it's satire

that someone would make a whole army like that

but I know it's not

[agile seal]

I regularly play kt with someone who turned their harlequins into strippers@mossy sable

I have more respect for them because they moddled it by hand instead of just 3d printing some titters

[mossy sable]

||clussy|| got that man actin up

[agile seal]

I also have more reapwct for it because she do be kinda hot

[mossy sable]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1046914161923334214/1073304642043269181/1024023614074396772.gif

[queen monolith]

Painted a 2003 Dready, lil guy cold.

[plush swift]

You realize that GW had pin up armies years ago and that other companies did them will before 3d printing did, right?

[agile seal]

Yes i am aware that og slaanesh daemons existed

And the sisters of battle were

Something

It doesnt make it any less wierd when someone brings their biki clad aeldari to the table complete with modled camel toes and nip bumps

[plush swift]

I agree, but I've been seeing those for over 20 years on the table now

they are just more common now

[turbid meadow]

New minis assembled, now to prime and paint!

[novel quarry]

I do collect daughters of khaine for aos, but not because they are half naked, more about the lore and the nice sculpts

[ancient sleet]

Those sculpts are fucking awesome, can't wait to see what you do with em!

[deft fable]

@hazy meadow

[hazy meadow]

Siiick

[desert wyvern]

Did this dude up today.

[lapis crest]

New tank built and painted, let's goooo

[lapis crest]

nice

[grizzled jolt]

WIP of my 5th edition Ogryn bone 'Ed

[copper siren]

40k Elite edition still not arrived at the LGS

They better refund me at this point, its been 3 weeks

4-5 days for order to arrive at our store

[lilac moth]

1 down, 2 more to go!

[crude marsh]

Working on my black legion terminators based on nurgle

[primal summit]

Another plaguey boi complete.

[primal summit]

Oooh that texture looks awesome.

[lavish crescent]

Did this last night, so happy its done!

[lavish crescent]

showed my gf and she went "how tf do you work like that!" with great pain dear

[hazy meadow]

Those wood panels on the bases are a sick idea

[jaunty trail]

Bases with trench optics are very realistic and well done! Minis are also stunnig

[hazy meadow]

Question: Starting Magnus soon, Most guides I see prime him in black. Does it matter if I do it in a white instead to save money getting another primer?

I'm unsure because there isn't much direct black but I don't know if the undercoat of it makes a difference or not

[rapid river]

Prime 100% matters

You will see a difference

Take Morty for example you prime his wings white ish and then his body either grey and green

[lavish crescent]

wdym?

[rapid river]

What method you doing

[hazy meadow]

Like contrast, layering, etc?

[rapid river]

Contrast combined or classic

[hazy meadow]

Just gonna go classic, haven't had much luck with contrasts in the past

[rapid river]

If you prime him white the colors will be lighter overall

But you can always do two thin coats to get a darker color

[hazy meadow]

Might just get the black. I've only ever tried citadel primers so the 33$ price tag always makes me reluctant. But for a $160 mini I guess its worth making him look the best I can

You can definitely see the black on most of the shadows on that picture I posted at least, probably worth it

[edgy jackal]

You could try a different brand of black primer, doesn't have to be citadel

[rapid river]

^^^

Tons of spray primers that isn't citadel

[hazy meadow]

Yea I know, have a habit of sticking to what I know works

Any brands you would recommend?

[rapid river]

I'm still new so I wouldn't really know

[edgy jackal]

Depends on what's available to you honestly, considering you mentioned dollar price maybe @plush swift can suggest something.

[hazy meadow]

Fair, its going to be ordered online regardless, in US. Ill probably look into vallejo and AK since Ive used their paints/basing things

[rapid river]

Those are both good I heard

[hazy meadow]

How would you all recommend painting ice shards to keep them semi transparent? Not sure if I should get a contrast or mix a layer with medium

[rapid river]

Probably a contrast with a medium

If I had to take a guess

You can get some from GW that has no color

https://youtu.be/JJGqInWb2yo

Towards the end he teaches you how to mix em

[hazy meadow]

Yea I've got some and a glacier-y color ill try out. Priming will definitely make it lose the transparency so I might attempt it without. I won't be touching the shards after placing so it might be alright

[rapid river]

I'm gonna order Bjorn today when I get home

I heard he loves Magnus right gav

They should meet last time they did it went well

[hazy meadow]

https://tenor.com/view/worried-concerned-side-eye-weirded-out-uncomfortable-gif-8174374

[rapid river]

Lol

[bold copper]

Blood for the blood god, as the kids like to say.

[brazen notch]

Just a dad and his sons

[plush swift]

You can also take UV-Resin, mix it with a regular acrylic color you like and to your liking, put it in a plastic bag, get it flat and harden it out with an uv-light and then crush it. I did this to achieve broken windows of an cathedral and it worked surprisingly well. Should work for ice shards as well. edit: Would propably try to thin the regular or layer paint with medium, guess this will have a more clean look than using it on contrast.

[plush swift]

Both of those spray primers are absolute dog shit. Straight up normal spray primers that you can get at hardware store are going to do exactly the same thing as a hobby primer, Tamiya nylon primers can do a little bit better but it's negligible on polystyrene.

[plush swift]

You buy transparent paint. Ignore hobby products for this.

[finite rain]

CADIA

[rapid river]

Nice

THE PLANET BROKE BEFORE THE GUARD

[lofty bridge]

Finished this lovely lady, I think

[hazy meadow]

Is simple green still what most people use for removing primer?

My mortarion wings came out a tad gritty, it’s quite chilly outside and I must not have let it warm up long enough in water like I usually do

[primal summit]

Banner man..

[hazy meadow]

Unless this would cover with paint but I’m painting with a glaze so I doubt it

[plush swift]

It "can" work, just not well. What primer did you use?

The best I've tried is LA's totally awesome. IPA is what most use but it will cause GW's polystyrene to become brittle, so it wont last 15 years or more

You may or may not get cracking issues after a month or a few years

with IPA

[hazy meadow]

Citadel spray on, all I have atm. Going to do something else for magnus to test out other brands, probably an airbrush primer

It’s my fault, 40 degrees out. My options would be trying the LA’s, letting it be or getting it right and spraying a thin layer over that one

Not sure if spraying over would cover the grit or not though, doubt it

[plush swift]

LA's is only available if youre in the US also

which is its biggest issue

trying to get cleaning supplies from other countries is a bit of a nightmare

[hazy meadow]

Yea I’m US, I’ll have to think some about it. I rarely play and they’re usually just to paint up and sit on shelf so maybe it won’t be a big deal being brittle

But if it’s possible to cover it with a correctly done primer layer I might try that first, don’t really think it would cover but doesn’t hurt to test it in a small spot

[plush swift]

LA's wont make them brittle from my testing, but I haven't done any acceleration tests yet

You can also sand it down too

[hazy meadow]

Oh I misread what you said, I’ll probably just grab that then

[plush swift]

Yeah I was talking about rubbing alcohol

making plastic brittle

[hazy meadow]

Appreciate the help, I’ll pick some of the LA’s up on Amazon and give it a go

[plush swift]

You can get it at home depot for half the price btw

[hazy meadow]

Yea the closest Home Depot to me is an hour and a half, I have to drive for Amazon packages too but it’s a little closer. Good ol Mississippi

[jagged sparrow]

Do detachments in a large point game work like different units?

Like for 2000 pts would I be able to have a patrol detachment and a spearhead detachment?

[short pine]

Got any dollar tree near you? I think I've seen LAs there the last couple times. Been a year or more though.

[finite rain]

Yes, depending on what ruleset u play. Works in Tempest or War, new Matched Rules Arks of Omen have a special detachment which is pretty open in terms of restrictions. In ToW the second detachment coat u 1 or 2 CP

[rapid river]

omg this green is amazing

[muted badge]

https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/greater-goodest-boy

[rapid river]

LOL

thats amazing

[plush swift]

dollar tree?

[sweet hull]

Possibly stupid question but can I run a squad of 4 raptors with a warp talon champion?

[bold copper]

unfortunately no i don't think so

[edgy jackal]

No, I don't think so, but you should be able to give the raptor "champion" a power weapon, namely a fist or a sword.
https://wahapedia.ru/wh40k9ed/factions/chaos-space-marines/Raptors

[turbid meadow]

Trajann is coming along

[jagged sparrow]

Love the core flux leaking out

[turbid meadow]

I'm done I think!

Just need to wait for the base to dry, then black around the rim

[wild monolith]

Experiment color schemes for The Wolverines

Get the feeling the majority base color (on the right) looks better than the one on the left.

With the one addional color on the armour instead of 4

[vast hill]

More progress on the full size Lasgun print

[sage matrix]

yessir

[plush swift]

You missed a spot

[agile seal]

Nice Job!

always love me a good trajann valoris

[turbid meadow]

I absolutely demolished and ruined the back of the mini though

I might redo it entirely

[twilit cliff]

Ohhh, I love it

[cosmic topaz]

love this guilliman

[fiery anvil]

2 of my former Navy Oppos did this XD https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2023/february/10/20230310-go-figures-protector-sailors-fight-worlds-most-southerly-warhammer-battle

[primal summit]

I love how Ogryn armour is just parts of armoured vehicles lol. Funny seeing a few segments of tank tracks as crotch protectors 🤣

[pine lake]

wicked, that a Nerf Rapidstrike?

Or is it 3D Printed? Just reminded me of the Rapidstrike, which i got for maybe tranforming it into a Lasgun in the far and distant future

[brazen notch]

I like the one on the left

feels vintage

[lilac moth]

feels bad brah.. Too much coffee = too shaky hands to continue painting

[rapid river]

I really like the way my colors are on my plague marines

[naive umbra]

Had my first proper match ever at Combat Patrol scale. I learned a lot through a pretty big misplay in my deployment. I vastly underestimated the distances in such a smaller board to begin with, so I forward deployed my Stealth Suit unit too close to the enemy deployment, thinking they'd have time to get one shot off and move back, but actually just got caught by scarab swarms and skorpekh destroyers from the first move and charge of my friend's turn, and destroyed in melee without firing a shot. And at that small a scale, losing a unit like that pretty much costs you the game, because it's really hard to recover from giving your opponent a gift like that

[opal patio]

even if you have forward deployment rules you probably shouldn't be using them as tau, I'm not an expert but I've never seen it go well

[naive umbra]

I was expecting to be able to wall of mirrors them to pull them out but they were deleted turn 1 haha. I still think they can work well as a bait and switch with wall of mirrors, but they need to be a lot further from the enemy deployment than I put them.

As a metric system user, I think inches in general aren't yet as intuitive to me. So it tends to make me just underestimate how far ranges and movements are unless I tape measure absolutely everything.

[lilac moth]

Get the kill team measuring stick thingy, you can just half estimate distances with it in hand

[naive umbra]

40k also has so many different options it's easy to forget what you can do. For instance, my Ghostkeel took a 5 damage hit that destroyed it, that I could have nullified with a drone in range for saviour protocols, but forgot that I had that as an option.

But that option knowledge/confidence will come with more games under my belt

We've already decided that our next game will be at 1k points though, so it'll be nice to not have the whole game feel like it hinged on just 1 misplay with no chance for recovery

I was very impressed with the performance of my ghostkeel though, with flamers and the fusion collider, he took out 1 scarab and 2 skorpekh destroyers in one round of shooting. So much so that my friend decided turn 2 was the "Fire everthing at that model!" round

I also had him forward deploy slightly, but I think with the stealth drones it's a better model to keep in my backline as a deadly threat that can't be targeted unless my opponent moves up

[jaunty trail]

Shiny shiny custodes guy

[sudden notch]

Yeees

I need to get a land raider for these lads

[jaunty trail]

Thanks for reminding me to reassemble and repaint my land raider crusader... it still needs to be coated in the blackest of black so that this holy machine can join the eternal crusade in the names of dorn, sigismund and the holy god emperor ^^

[pastel grotto]

No skulls?

[primal summit]

Half way done a few more pox walkers.

[rapid river]

You see my plague marine

[lilac moth]

what did you use for the bone? I kinda want to adopt that as wood for my farstalkers

[primal summit]

Screaming skull and reikland fleshshade

A few more coats of reikland and a little nuln you’ll get a decent wood effect. Made one of my marines horn kinda look like a tree stump with that 🤣

[primal summit]

The one with the dark green armour? As I forgot to ask which paint that was as the dark shade looks good.

[rapid river]

Two shades of militarum green on standard mech gray

Two thin coats*

[primal summit]

Ah never thought of using Militarum green. 🤔 interesting

[rapid river]

Mhm

[compact umbra]

THE GUARDSMEN START COLLECTING IS THE BOX SET LMAO

not space mairne lmao

[plush swift]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1073441615013756950/1074405694272438362/20230212_123925.jpg

[wild monolith]

Here's what I pulled out from the basement after being stored at least few years. This is one of the actual Space Marine Chapters (Crimson Fists) I'll be continue to build them, paint them, and put them into a tabletop battlefield. This gonna be alot of work.

[pastel grotto]

An amount of chaos

[glossy hawk]

You didn’t uh

paint the teef.

ork economic crash

[plush swift]

oi i dif paint' DA TEEF IT JUST LIGHT TOO BRIGHT

[glossy hawk]

YOU DINT ZOGGIN PAINT DA TEEF YOU GIT

[plush swift]

Crump em

[plush swift]

No eyes too

[glossy hawk]

YOUZ AINT ZOGGIN PAINTING GREEN ARMY UMIES YOU GIT @plush swift

I SHOULD KRUMP YA FOR MORK RIGHT ERE

[plush swift]

NO YOU GIZ IS ALL WORNG IT THE LIGHTIN

[pastel grotto]

You guys have teeth?

[plush swift]

I am reading the Twice dead king

Necrons are certainly interesting

[plush swift]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1073441615013756950/1074424616740724746/20230212_141451.jpg

see teef

it just the angle and lighting

[plush swift]

Hidden teef

[pastel grotto]

Secret teeth

[glossy hawk]

I DONT BELIEVE YA RUNT

I THINK YOUZ JUZT GONE N PAINTED DA ZOGGIN TEEF ROIGHT NOW

[plush swift]

thos orks where painted years ago when i was 12 to 13

and i can pove you worgon by the same imagne

[lean snow]

I stripped my termies because the white primer poiled and speckled. Felt bad man

But the emperor provides. They look not fucked up anymore

4/5 termies surviving aint bad

[short pine]

I see Pedro in there. 👍

[floral wind]

Some preliminary shots of my 3rd Grimguard trooper. Just gotta do some higlights and shall be done. However not overtly happy with this one (lots of things had gone wrong during its creation) and didn't have the same gusto I had when painting the others but progress is still progress

[short pine]

However, I do not see Alessio. You have more to collect. 😉

[wild monolith]

These I collected were back then under space marine 8th codex

Awaiting for a new one later this year

Still figuring the secondary paint for these bad boys

[sweet sinew]

Debating if I want to add weathering

[ornate bramble]

Yes dozer blades or no dozer blades

[devout lake]

How do I make the eyes glow better?

[rare hornet]

Yes to dozerblade

[lofty bridge]

wash, get some red wash

[vast hill]

Full FDM print

[primal summit]

Finished off my pox walkers I started today. Tried that UHU blood for the blood god gore thingy. 🤷‍♂️

[pine lake]

sick, looking good

[steep ether]

First layers of my Morbian 6th Leman Russ tank

[pastel grotto]

Lemon

[glossy hawk]

The Nob is complete

[ornate bramble]

What the fuck is the other option besides the dozer baldes

are these latches so it can be towed by another vehicle

[bold copper]

it's just a cosmetic option'

[ornate bramble]

I know but what is this cosmetic

[bold copper]

basically towing latches.

[ornate bramble]

ok thanks bby

[bold copper]

np

going back to building my world eaters

[glossy hawk]

Forgot to add nuln oil

[bold copper]

very nice

[mellow bridge]

My 40k homelander

[plush swift]

add yellow the the red slowly and layer it up. Ideally you'd have something like PR254 Pyrrole Red, but I'm assuming you're just using those hobby paints

[ornate bramble]

I wanna see someone make a version of the lord solar model that has a marine in gravis armor sitting on the hose and the horse is like an H all of its legs are split like flat on the ground

too heavy

[gloomy leaf]

Amazing work, damn

Is that red plasma? Or am i dumb lmao

[wild monolith]

Two crimson fists and two Wolverines

[rapid river]

First marine officially done!

[celest crescent]

is it easier then it looks to paint minis

[plush swift]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1073441615013756950/1074538294748123266/20230212_214346.jpg

[plush swift]

Most of what you see being done is fairly easy, it's mostly base coats and washes. Painting at higher levels is a much higher skill and can take decades to get to that point

[steep ether]

Dry brushing various shades of brown for rust is fun

[lilac moth]

Neo-volkite pistol

Usually do plasma in blue and las in red but since i had no idea wtf neo-volkite is i decided that ill go with red and perhaps add some blue power cells or some other blue highlights once i get to it

Is there some red contrast that is not quite flesh tearer red but a bit lighter?

Not sure my possessed will turn out how i imagined them :S

[plush swift]

just get quinacridone red ink... Its exactly what you're looking for

its about the same tint strength as other lighter reds too, so absolute dog water

[lilac moth]

6,90€ for 29ml. Not bad actually

[azure fulcrum]

Another one has been converted

[turbid meadow]

I absolutely demolished the cape by accident so I covered it with more fur

[teal wolf]

Quality sculpt job tho

[plush swift]

artist stuff generally isnt that expensive compared to hobby stuff, some of it can cause your wallet to cry though, like the premium oil paints... worth the money but $15 for a 35-40ml tube is nuts for the cheapest colors

[primal summit]

12 strong so far. Really enjoying this ol hobby.

[lavish crescent]

Tried dry brushing my black templar apothecary last night, came out decent tbh

[rare hornet]

Curious for when I paint mine, what colours you use?

[lavish crescent]

For the black?

I used vallejo black airbrush primer

Dry brushed eshen grey and use celestial grey for the white

Celestial goes decently well over black and as long as you do a couple coats, you'll be gucci

[rare hornet]

Cool thanks

I shall respond with my assault sword brother

Lighting could have been a bit better

[finite rain]

uhh

lovely

just got a new taurox for 25€ 2nd hand today, still on sprue.

my cadians need some taxis

and i really dig the taurox over chimeras tbh, love the "40K humvee" style of them

[simple thorn]

Dats wun lucky git

[rare hornet]

So out of curiosity can I have a look at your dry brush?

[teal wolf]

Makeup brushes make a pretty smooth dry brush

[rare hornet]

Yeah that's what I've heard

I only have flat brushes for that no round brushes

[lavish crescent]

At work

[rare hornet]

Ah no worries

[cosmic topaz]

ive been liking the dry brush look on my templars

[last stratus]

that dark green paint isnt closed properly

you can thank me later

[lavish crescent]

Amazon makeup brushes, big pack. Got it for Christmas from family

[rare hornet]

Cool, thanks

[lavish crescent]

Big and small

[deft fable]

I need a small one... (Brush)

[lavish crescent]

Mood

Love the small ones (brushes) easy to hold and easy to use tbh

And they come pretty quick (via amazon)

[rare hornet]

Wait... Are we still talking about paint brushes?

[deft fable]

(Brushes)

[deft fable]

Any reference?

[lavish crescent]

Yes

What do you think we're talking about??

[lavish crescent]

Came within 1-2 days according to family

[rare hornet]

... I'm not sure

[lavish crescent]

[rare hornet]

😇

[lavish crescent]

🔨

I’m so happy rn though, custodian unit I’m part of is starting back up!

Got me in the mood to paint my golden bois!

[obsidian tapir]

Test space marine i did for weathering products I got

[brisk vapor]

Ammo by Mig splash muds?

[glossy hawk]

Ork deathskull (I messed up his lower teeth a little, nothing I can’t fix later.)

He’s my third mini so I think I’m doing alright.

[simple thorn]

Looks nice, but the paint seems a little thick. Ye using straight from the pot, or watering them down on a palette of some kind first?

[glossy hawk]

Straight from the pot

[simple thorn]

Thought it'd be the case.
If ye want to thin it out a little, add a little drop of water - just don't add it to the actual paint pot. Grab an easel or paint tray or something that stores paint for use, mix about a brushful of paint with a little bit of water. If you have a dropper bottle or pipette you don't mind dedicating to paint, grab that for accuracy

You don't need much to get the paint/water ratio, and even if you zog it up just add a little of whatever is missing
Too runny, add a little bit more paint. Still a little too thick, tad more water.

I'm not a master arty man who knows all the art words, but thinner coats do look a little nicer.
'Course, you can just mix and match. Smooth colours for the Ork body itself plus things that are more natural (like the gun and armour itself), then ignore the age old advice of Thin Your Paints when actually applying a paint layer so it looks like some hooligan with a paintbrush took to decorating whatever scrap he could find

[glossy hawk]

Here’s another one I did @simple thorn

Thanks for the advice BTW

[simple thorn]

Ye, saw that one. He looks very nice
I do like the weathering on the banner - looks like the paint is flaking off

[simple thorn]

And no problem. It took me a long time to realize that Thinning your Paint was actually altering the consistency, not just applying a very thin layer of standard paint

The Marines have thinned paint layers (and a fair few months of experience and also better brushes) on them, the Skitarii walker does not

Compare also the Dunecrawler to the second lot of Skitarii I did

[glossy hawk]

Good shit

[feral spade]

A poor little skitarii I just finished

[simple thorn]

O damn that is nice

[feral spade]

thanks ^^

[obsidian tapir]

I used ultimate weathering wash dark dirt

[tawny topaz]

The omnissiah is pleased

[primal summit]

Nurgley goodness.

[cobalt hare]

What do people think of the new IG power sword cables?
I can't decide if I like them or not

[mossy sable]

got a picture?

the ones in the cadian command squad?

[plush swift]

Was wondering about the grainy texture is it fine or do I have to redo it

[mossy sable]

might want to test paint part of the base to see if it shows up there

[plush swift]

Paint the base?

[mossy sable]

yeah, is it primed as well?

[plush swift]

Yea

[mossy sable]

that might be good to test then, unless someone knows more then me(which isn't hard tbh)

[plush swift]

Alright I’ll see about it

[brazen silo]

I like blood for the blood god

[rapid river]

your name says otherwise

[rare hornet]

I like bait for the bait god

[turbid meadow]

Finishing up a pokey lad

[plush swift]

Trying basing on the world eaters I have so far

[azure fulcrum]

It finally is in my hands

[unborn pebble]

We working on it. Gotta do the cables, the yellow pants and the glow on the chest gem.

[brazen notch]

Grainy textures typically mean you spray painted during a bad temperature

Either its too cold or its too hot

[plush swift]

Did a small bit of practice on a random model I got for the khorne theme. Any ways to improve y'all can see?

[grizzled jolt]

I have finished my Ogryn bone'ed.

[naive umbra]

The new Attilan Rough Riders are looking pretty damn sweet. There's always a soft spot in my heart for any sort of cavalry model

[neat forge]

Just minor details left an vahl will be done for me

[teal wolf]

Gawd dayum

[deft fable]

I love her skin color

[simple agate]

Messing around trying new stuff, went over all the gold on the termi fellow in the purple shade, druhki violet? Made it look like a worn rose gold and grim darky

Currently re doing the face, just didn't look good to me

[lavish crescent]

You might want to try redo the red abit, bring it back up slightly

[plush swift]

I have a question how much do I need to thin metallics

As I am basing a Stormcast eternal

[slim oak]

That thing is really fun to build

[simple agate]

I love it when it's just too dark for photos 😩 nothing seems to work at the moment

[rare hornet]

At least you’re not trying to take a photo of black armour 😅

[simple agate]

oh god

[rare hornet]

Exhibit A & B

The angle of the light in the first is good then the second is decided to not work

[finite rain]

clean.

[simple agate]

Hella clean

Decided to setup the light

[finite rain]

well, first one top right corner of the aquilla

buuuuut complaining on high level xD

[rare hornet]

To be fair they can be so hard to mess up

And my brush is starting to fall apart I need a new one

[finite rain]

i know i know ... got 2000 points of UMs standing around 😄 Dont worry, its super clean XD

on normal eyesight, from half a meter away

you dont see that XD

[rare hornet]

Yeah I kinda need to get these guys done ASAP 😅

[lavish crescent]

is that horus heresy or 40k?

[primal summit]

I’m torn, I dunno which one to do 😩

[rare hornet]

What does the rest of the squad have?

[primal summit]

Got 2 just melee flail, axe n mace. I got one with a heavy bolter two with bolters and a plasma rifle. Havnt built the champion either but I’ve cut him out to have plasma pistol and power claw.

Ignore one of those bolters that’s an icon bearer aswell lol

[rare hornet]

So it’s a mixed ranged and melee squad?

[mossy sable]

axe guy looks cooler to me

[primal summit]

Yeah fairly mixed I won’t be hurt if I chose either but I really like em both haha. Will get another box eventually and get the alts lol

[primal summit]

Yeah I am leaning more to axe man.

[rare hornet]

Agreed

Having a squad that can get stuck in is always great

[deft fable]

Mah baby

I did one

Two axe is good too

[rapid river]

I built all mine based on looks lol

[rapid river]

I did axe but again I thought it looked cooler

[primal summit]

Yeah f it. Axe it’s cooler. I’ll eventually when I get spare money get a box and build alts but axe for now 😁

[finite rain]

40k, started playing and painting again christmas 21, UMs were done during 2022, now is Guard time.

also first went for the UMs cause needed to get back into the hobby and wanted to go with something fairly easy and an army i do not care too much about if the paintjobs are a little bit fucky

The guard now is more the project of passion 😄

[primal summit]

How’d you do that texture?

[rare hornet]

Can’t decide if this is cursed or not

[lavish crescent]

Ew, just ew. 30k UM are best

[primal summit]

Lol unpainted like that it’s 100% cursed 🤣 at quick glance I though it was a skaven in power armour.

[lavish crescent]

I also have abit (understatement) too many 30k UM

[rare hornet]

Why the long face?

[primal summit]

Yeah haha and the little bit at front that looks like buck teeth 😊

[rare hornet]

God I hope that remodel of terminators will happen

[sudden notch]

I like that helmet

[primal summit]

Oh yeah the helmets cool when painted.

[deft fable]

Dry brushing primer

[primal summit]

Hmm interesting. Tried dry brush once think I messed it up lol gonna have to look into it a bit more.

[rare hornet]

Best way to dry brush is to remember less is more

[simple thorn]

A friend yeeted this at me - less armies and more a painting tip
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/206261312362119168/1075000611826847834/157ff5a48446fb7cdac0c43d42606b4a.mp4

For those who are unable or don't want to click:
Use black primer on a mini, then drybrush with grey, and finish up with white. After that, use Contrast colours for the actual colouring

Ideally the drybrushing should avoid cracks and gaps, leaving shadows behind since the black primer isn't getting coloured

[left egret]

They have come to me. My glorious eaters of worlds. I must fret over hazard stripes no longer

Now to paint them blood and brass or pre-heresy?

[rapid river]

Pre heresy always seemed cooler to me

[left egret]

yeah but its more difficult and means i gotta buy paint

[left egret]

so blood and brass it is, thank your for helping me decide

[lavish crescent]

Might do a phoenix legion model because what not

I love the look of white and purple, mostly white and a purple arm!

Sorry its actually called the sons of the phoenix

[rapid river]

Lol

[plush swift]

I forgot to buy reikland flesh shade is there a good gw shade that goes well with gold to use?

[lavish crescent]

Nuln oil

[plush swift]

wouldn't that darken it

?

[lavish crescent]

Apply little amount of it

[copper siren]

Thin the shit out of it

[plush swift]

I have seraphim sepia

And nuln oil

ill see

[lavish crescent]

Sepia works too

[plush swift]

Thanks

[silent fox]

First painted model in about a decade. ❤️

[edgy jackal]

to be honest, while using this method to get back into painting, I've found that using black for the darkest shadow colour doesn't work for me, because then the shadows are too dark. It makes the model look like it's standing in a poorly lit warehouse.

[plush swift]

Yeah you're not supposed to use black for shadows anyways. If you guys actually want to obsess about color theory, you need to do it the correct way instead of your stupid way of using the mensel color system, which is just completely wrong

You're supposed to use something like payne's gray which is a very dark blue.

[edgy jackal]

For the the slapchop/grisaille method?

[plush swift]

Well yeah, If use a much darker blue and then you go up in value it will look better because the black isn't as dark. You're trying to use a blue that reads is black but isn't actually black

I'll do some work with it later on and show you

Grisaille is also pretty outdated, most modern stuff uses verdaccio instead

It's still used for very specific things but it's outdated in terms of modern color theory

Though we are slowly shifting over to more oranges and blues as the ground rather than greens

[edgy jackal]

I was referring to the mini painting technique, since some people get annoyed at the name slap chop.

Like in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT2JV3Ks41g
I think he even comes to a similar conclusion to what I came to with my experimentation

[plush swift]

That's just me but you can still use that term, I get annoyed by it because it's a copyright violation and I can't say it in classes. Also it has a different name in the art world

That method is honestly very old when it comes to figure painting, We can find methods of using the exact same thing from 500 years ago and so in

[edgy jackal]

Yeah, it is, it just became a rediscovered trend on social media

[lilac moth]

Muhahahahaha wifes make up box succesfully raided

[plush swift]

I love how I've been trying to get people to use that technique for 5 years now, And the only thing I got was "Duncan rhodes never did it, so it's not a real technique"

[copper siren]

just pre ordered the 40k necron kill team

excited

this guy is a complete gangster

the fancy arm-chain-cloak

the shoulder horns

it will also be my first glue model, so that's exciting

[proven marsh]

Mobian 6th kill team mostly assembled

[left egret]

i cant wait to kitbash my old zerekers with corpsegrinder cult to make them look good... except for one, I need one to be Wally the World Eater

May he fight forever

[cosmic topaz]

Black legion started

[lilac moth]

2nd bladeguard almost done and took my first attempt at powered up powersword

[rare hornet]

First squad completed just missing the final details on a few

[cosmic topaz]

Freakin stellar man

[bold copper]

He angy

[teal wolf]

Just got mine, very excited

[teal wolf]

Very smooth! I love the stash behind the monitor

[rare hornet]

Oh yes my copium supply

[teal wolf]

My vr bucket rested upon a bottle of henny for the longest time xD

[rare hornet]

Whatever does the job

[left egret]

Ah a man or rage i see

My pile of shame addition

Making them assembly and painting priority nr. 1

[heady gate]

Im a little light on cash, does GW take kidneys? This World Eater drop came at an awkward time

[left egret]

My shelve of shame is officially full

[heady gate]

Just means you need more shelf

[left egret]

Or that I need to assemble shit