40k-minis-and-armies

[lofty bridge]

Big difference

[cursive vector]

Totally custom

[edgy jackal]

That's pretty neat. How did you make the robo dino?

[hearty bear]

Cylakor

[cursive vector]

Its a kitbash of various digital parts, the raptor comes from a stationforge STL. The body is a reposed in blender Reptillian Overlords Spacenam mini, the hat comes from a French and Indian War British Dragoon STL, the sword is a custodes Misacordia resized, and modified to have the text on it. The torso has some officer bits from a STL bits kit.

[edgy jackal]

Ah, printed. Thanks for the parts list though

[tiny jay]

Not a fan of much of the GSC lineup, but the Overlord or Patriarch or whatever is fire.

[primal summit]

Damn imma have to switch to chaos marines cause I saw the kill team: blooded box and I can’t use it with death guard 😩

[tiny jay]

Blooded are nice, really compatible with the new Cadians for kitbashing too.

Mostly just assembling troopers and leaving weapons off where I can RN outside my Blooded Kill Team and some of my FA's like hounds and drones. Waiting for 10th edition rules to drop before I start gluing special weapons on.

[glossy hawk]

I just bought a broodlord and am proxying it as one because cheap lol

[sudden notch]

i really like dark angel with heavy thunder hammer

he is done dueling

he just will kill you outright

[tiny jay]

I mean, if I was making 'nids I'd 100% use that model as a broodlord.

RN trying to find suitable demon wings for Celestine.

They need to be bigger than Khinerai wings but I want to avoid the scrunched up demon prince wings and gargoyle wings.

Btw, does anyone know what GW has said for certain about Combat Patrol as a game mode?

I've heard multiple people online say that the simplified rules for CP are only going to apply to the CP's you can buy as ready made 500pts armies and the game will be balanced around them.

as opposed to just being, 500pts 40k with different win conditions/objectives.

[glossy hawk]

Search in fantasy and AOS

[tiny jay]

Thats what I'm doing atm, Morathi's wings are the style I'm after.... though I suppose I could build her off a Seraphim to make the pose match up.

Ideally I want to keep Celestine's really recogniseable pose with the wings stretched upward.

Like so, but demonic.

Though honestly Celestine isn't all that different from any Zephyrim model beyond the wings.

[compact umbra]

Perfect

The grey knights fuckeds his shir :,(

[hoary ermine]

@crisp forge

5 months of no spending and only forging for customers

Have led up to this

I forgor to put down 1 box of rust stalkers btw

Also; no kroxigor yet so i had to be sadge

[crisp forge]

My condolences on missing the best purchase 😔

[hoary ermine]

They look SO GOOD

But i got voidscarred corsairs

And 250 euros worth of resin recast which is like 10k if you buy it from frogworld

[crisp forge]

Extremely based, hope you enjoy them 👌

[hoary ermine]

Thanks thanks

Gotta make some sappy ocs to write for after all

By the by; i only have a combat patrol guardsmen because the store didnt have a second sentinel

Working on my deep sea admech

Will update once i have the concept models done

[muted token]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1070806332824879126/1091825019572732035/IMG_20230401_214202.jpg?width=680&height=908

https://prnt.sc/rH3d40h_xsPn

I am not okay with this GW

I got this kit with a gift card, and half of it doesn't fit together

[tiny jay]

Like, aquatic/rapture inspired admech? thats cool.

[hoary ermine]

Tldr; solar auxilia diving suits

They dredge down and shred the depths for archeotech

[tiny jay]

Thats cool.

[hoary ermine]

Kroxigor as a native species they adopt instead of kataphron

Big suits, bioshock esque aesthetic

[tiny jay]

Using the Votann for that too?

[hoary ermine]

They dont have drop pods, they deploy entire oil rigs

Their guns yeah

[heady lotus]

[shy sedge]

I love farsight

[plush swift]

I love his brother shortsight

[heady lotus]

I literally got so lucky...only two box sets avaliable at my local gw

[plush swift]

I can’t unsee the lines on the exhausts

[heady lotus]

I don't know what lines you are talking about. Such talk is taboo, do nor mention lines or the ethereals will reassign you pernamently.

Yeah I know... I'm fixing it, his model is a bit fiddly.

[plush swift]

Tbh I don’t know what’s a good way to fix them, I wanted to make sprue goo for such complications otherwise this model is just amazing

[hearty bear]

Did you buy both?

[tiny jay]

a bit of gap filler after scraping with a hobby knife should work, no?

either that or cut out your own vent panels from plastic card and layer them on top.

when the Sororitas models arrive its gonna take so long to scrape away all the imperal shit. Skulls can stay though.

[heady lotus]

Tbh right now I'm gonna cry for a different reason..... the primer didn't go on smoothly

[plush swift]

Noticed that

What did you prime with

[heady lotus]

Grey seer..... I looked up if anyone had issues with it, I think the suspect is temperature.

But now it's a pain in the ass cause I gotta figure out how to strip paint again without destroying it because the unsmoothness will both me so much.

[rare hornet]

My apothecary had that same issue, to be fair, if you have any grey seer paint, water it down a bit and it's a quick fix

[heady lotus]

Yeah I think I'm just gonna have to strip it and start over...... last time I'm sure I used some sort of medical liquid

[midnight locust]

Any tips on using ministorum varnish?

[naive umbra]

I've found if you use something like Revell Contacta and press the engine pods together hard, you can get them to melt together pretty well to mask the lines, but it's not really 100% avoidable for battlesuits.

[plush swift]

I usually use that then use some tamiya cement

Just don’t over load it

[chilly summit]

Did you wash the plastic before assembly?

[naive umbra]

I hate taking close photos of minis, coz you always notice mould lines you missed haha. At least he's only primed so I won't feel too bad filing that line down before painting

[pine yacht]

you're supposed to wash them?

[chilly summit]

Yeah. It gets off the mold release chemicals they use at the factory. The mold release messes with primer/paint adhering to the plastic.

[pine yacht]

Oh

[naive umbra]

Generally for resin yes, plastic no, since injection moulding doesn't use release agents like that

[heady lotus]

Yeah I didn't wash it, always washed resin (forge world stuff)..... the expirenent tau had no issues with the primer but he was sprayed like 4hrs beforehand so probably temp.

[chilly summit]

https://youtu.be/ngZ38bUeXl4

[naive umbra]

I have a habit of doing it for plastic anyway, but mostly coz I don't trust whatever factory worker is packing everything to have clean hands, but it's probably not necessary

[chilly summit]

Maybe. I'm still pretty sure that there's something used to help the sprue release from the machine.

Yeah, clean hands aren't even the biggest concern. It's the factory dust floating around and any chemicals used on the material.

[naive umbra]

If you watch vids of the machine, they just get mechanically popped off the mould when done, no chemical

https://youtu.be/jKMSLoAsNbk

It's a fun watch

[chilly summit]

I've walked around other places that do injection molding and they prime the machines with an oil to release the parts. Granted, they made other products than toy sprues but that was the process I was familiar with.

Taking out any potential mold release agents, there's still plenty of stuff you want to clean off the plastic before assembly and priming.

[naive umbra]

8:05 shows the release. It's just a bunch of pins that push the finished sprue off

[plush swift]

First game and this is angron and my partner's death guard after mortarion dies

[hardy mountain]

By the Golden Throne!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcNu1p29_B4&ab_channel=PLASMO-plasticmodels

[hearty bear]

Reminds me of gotrek and Felix staring down skarbrand in the immortal empires trailer

[fringe inlet]

Here's my World Eaters Master of Executions. I'm pretty glad of the result.

I just have some problems with the skulls, so don't be surprised if it's not really well done at the end.

[primal summit]

Making slow progress lol but progress non the less.

[sweet sinew]

WIP

[white tangle]

My (Unbased) semi kitbashed eliminators.

[midnight locust]

Clean

[plush swift]

Isn’t that expensive?

[coarse badger]

Like in pts?

[plush swift]

The bits

Don’t you need a phobos librarian per cloak?

[coarse badger]

All part of their base kit

[white tangle]

The only kitbash that i did was trun the neck area of the torsos to be compatible with normal space marine heads and then stuck on the phobos armour antennas onto the reactor packs

[coarse badger]

I like the asymmetric colours

[white tangle]

Thx, im trying to do a custom splinter chapter from the iron snakes

dont have a name nor logo yet tho

[plush swift]

I feel dumb thanks

So many marines

😔

[pine yacht]

Jesus Christ!

Looks gorgeous

[sage matrix]

Aaaaaand done

Absolutely love this model

[glossy hawk]

You’re so fucking good at your style, holy shit

[midnight locust]

Took a long couple hours but I’m satisfied with him

[vast latch]

Drip

[vast latch]

Based

[next oracle]

Yo can we post 3d printed custom minis in here?

[chilly summit]

Looks really good!

[midnight locust]

Thanks! It’s the command squad so realistically I’ll be onlg painting one of those. Glad it turned out as good as it did

[jaunty trail]

Question:

Is there any kind of Kit from GW/Forge World (or other Bit factory) that has things like additional tracks, fuel canisters and stuff like that?
Would be nice to know cuz' i want to pimp up my tanks a bit...

[maiden light]

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Imperial-Guard-Tank-Accessories?_requestid=15297909

no tracks though

but track covers

so you could leave some track bits out and cover them with those, to get the track bits

[jaunty trail]

Yeah nice 😉 but lookin' for space marine stuff xD...

Black Templars already having some nice bits... but stuff like fuel canisters, shells, empty shells etc is something i miss very much

[midnight locust]

Could always check Tamiya

[jaunty trail]

Yeah.. found out that 1:35 8.8 cm shells are fitting for predator autocannon xD

[obsidian tapir]

Got a termi painted up a bit ago, dude is massive

[glossy hawk]

Stellar job, suitably grim dark

[teal wolf]

I have a non busted camera again. I can show off garbage in higher quality 😇😍

[sudden notch]

How about

Space wolf blood claw scout kill team

Just everyone running knives and pistols

[plush swift]

W.E. leviathan dreadnought I'm working on while I take a break from angron

[teal wolf]

I really love the base

[sudden notch]

Really nice

[plush swift]

Super proud of the base. Can't wait to paint it

[sudden notch]

Blood raven veteran kill team marine

nevermind fact i used raven guard shoulderpad

[teal wolf]

gives him plus 2 to stealth

[sudden notch]

I should have given him xenophase blade

To think of it

Why didnt i

So list of kill teams i want to make

-blood raven/brazen claw heavy intercessor
-blood angel reivers
-harlequins
-grey knights
-assault intercessors

And beastmen when they come out

[simple thorn]

What do you mean? Clearly it was a gift.

[sudden notch]

Like that bolter and ultrasmurf sword

[dark violet]

Yooo he looks fucckin amazing

I love the colors genuinely

[obsidian tapir]

Thanks

[dark violet]

The rust the blood the scratches

That's just amazing

[rare hornet]

Oh damn, what kit is that?

[obsidian tapir]

It’s a 3d print

[rare hornet]

Awww

[obsidian tapir]

I know, it’s a bit sad that some of the cool kits are locked behind a printer

[rare hornet]

I love terminator armour for HH

[obsidian tapir]

Same, I think it looks dope

[rare hornet]

I wanted to try kitbashing cyclone launchers to cataphractii and making tyrant terminators

problem is, I need 5 cyclone launchers

[obsidian tapir]

Here’s the size comparison between him, a marine and and cataphractii termi

[rare hornet]

chonki

[obsidian tapir]

Mega chonk indeed

[rare hornet]

So what paint is that for the main colour?

[dark violet]

These paintjobs

Sexy

[obsidian tapir]

Main colour for him was mechanics standard grey over Rynox Hyde I believe

[rare hornet]

Rynox hide

oooh oki,

[obsidian tapir]

May have also done a bit of dry brushing with a more orange paint to get a bit of rust texture

[rare hornet]

I love it

I want to try that rust texture for my Iron Warriors

[dark violet]

You must teach me

[rare hornet]

same

[obsidian tapir]

I just take an old brush I have and stipple on the paint in sort of the centre of the armour plates, then gradually go up in colours to stuff like dawn stone in little amounts

[rare hornet]

https://tenor.com/view/write-that-down-taking-notes-school-universities-university-gif-17937210

[teal wolf]

The visor on the left 💯 👌👌

[obsidian tapir]

https://youtu.be/nlf_j8CB-3k this is what I used as reference for the painting style, but because I’m bad at it, it’s no where near as good

[obsidian tapir]

Thanks, it’s my most recent version of visor paint schemes

[teal wolf]

That whole mini
I just love the vibe it gives

[obsidian tapir]

It’s one of the three breachers I have gotten painted

[rare hornet]

I want to get breacher squad, but resin scares me

[obsidian tapir]

This is the sgt of the breacher team. Prob just going to put the guys in tac squads since they use bolters

[rare hornet]

So are they loyalist or traitor marines?

[obsidian tapir]

Dudes are loyalists from traitor legions, just having to repaint their armour to not be shot on sight

[rare hornet]

gotcha

Well for 40k you could probably use them as sternguard

if not HH has a breacher team unit

[teal wolf]

Really regret sitting age of darkness out X_×

[rare hornet]

:3

[obsidian tapir]

May just stick them in tactical squads as those squads have the aesthetic of ‘grab what ever you can and go’

[primal summit]

Finished till I find something else to update on em lol 😎

[obsidian tapir]

Those are looking good

[rare hornet]

Can't wait to get my marines completed then move onto HH

[teal wolf]

Can't wait to start this lad in the near future

[rare hornet]

It's the warhammer 40000 himself

[teal wolf]

John Warhammer

[rare hornet]

The emperor of mankind is the galaxy champion of musical chairs

[jovial siren]

wtf

[rare hornet]

mmmm how about no

[teal wolf]

/Tiktok what? 🧐

[rare hornet]

Allow me to enjoy my crippling loneliness in peace

[teal wolf]

What mini is your favorite to talk to?

[rare hornet]

I don't pick favourites

I have a council

[teal wolf]

Amazing 🤣

[rare hornet]

minis make good listeners

[copper siren]

On it queen, whats ur venmo?

[plush swift]

Sure thing

[midnight locust]

Are the new bases for Heavy Weapons Teams large enough to do some thematic basing (ie crumbled structure a team set up behind)?

[tiny jay]

The guns themselves take up a bit of room because of the style, but plenty of room for sandbags/rubble in front.

[round crystal]

Spent some time working on teeth this weekend.

[midnight locust]

Nice. Wanted to practice sandbags with green stuff and try my hand at spent shell casings

[tiny jay]

Tabletop time made a video on 2 kits.

[coarse badger]

What's this

[midnight locust]

You got a link per chance?

[coarse badger]

This is exciting

[midnight locust]

Ah breachers

[tiny jay]

https://youtu.be/04OfA9oqNGw?t=1104

One as Steel Legion, one as Traitor Guard

[midnight locust]

Oh. Probably should’ve clarified. I was talking about Heavy Weapon squads like Lascannons, Heavy Bolters, not field ordinance batteries

[tiny jay]

Ah, right.

The Heavy Weapons Squads might be a little tight.

Though I don't know if many people would complain about playing against them on a larger base.

[midnight locust]

I’ll map it out and take a look. Might be able to fit a sandbag or two

Shell casings at least

[primal summit]

Oh hell now that looks like a good kit.

[coarse badger]

Navy Breachers + the Rogue trader kill team from way back

[tiny jay]

Looks like the Rogue Trader and Naval Breacher kill teams combined, with a few extra regular breachers.

[coarse badger]

And an eversor

Apparently it's a boarding patrol for "Agents of the imperium"

New codex/faction teaser mayhaps?

I know agents have been around a while

But I wouldn't mind a proper group for Inquisition/Misc imperials

[tiny jay]

Definitely, though I'm not super sold on the Imp Navy Breachers. I think its the coats, I'd rather they had like, regular legs.

[coarse badger]

I like da coats

[plush swift]

Basically things that are filling up the warehouse but it’s cool

[tiny jay]

Though I keep hearing conflicting reports about Combat Patrol, sounds like the Game Mode with altered rules will specifically be tied to the 500pt boxes.

[midnight locust]

Me who’s a guard player: Where Kasrkin filled Astra Militarum Boarding Patrol

[tiny jay]

As opposed to just being 500pts 40k.

[primal summit]

I jus want the doggo 🤣

[plush swift]

Which is really cool basically boarding actions for new players

[coarse badger]

Would make things a bit more accessible that's for sure

[tiny jay]

Yeah, I like Boarding actions because of the rules an terrain. But also the freedom to list build.

[coarse badger]

Don't have to spend 1000 bucks for a full fkn army lmao

[plush swift]

I am excited for 10th because I can probably get someone to play with

[plush swift]

I saw a few battle reports and really enjoyed it

[coarse badger]

I just want da cool models to look cool

[plush swift]

I think it’s stupid that it was ever like that tbh

[tiny jay]

I've been having fun with Kill Team 2, but I do admit I find the list building restrictions kind of un-fun sometimes.

[coarse badger]

I will never play Tabletop

[plush swift]

I have been planning on getting it but I have to paint my models

Then I can mentally justify a purchase

[tiny jay]

I've only had some friendly games of KT at my LGS and they keep a table set aside specifically for 500pt games and Kill Team with unpainted/semi painted teams/armies as a way to help keep the pressure off people coming into the hobby, otherwise my KT games have all been played at people's houses.

Also like, Warcry and other skirmish games.

Basically like, the newb friendly table.

[plush swift]

That sounds nice

[plush swift]

They are the people who can be the future whales of the LGS literally cultivating their income

[tiny jay]

I mean, yeah. XD

But still, its better than getting side-eyed and people complaining about a grey army all the time.

[coarse badger]

What's an LGS

[tiny jay]

Local Games Store

[coarse badger]

I'm just kidding

[tiny jay]

:P

[coarse badger]

Joke because I don't have any

Nearest would require me to cross 2 borders

[tiny jay]

Like, people can still play on it with finished painted models but the house rules are just no shaming people who come to that table with greys.

[plush swift]

Same

I have a meetup group nearby

But I can’t really go busy most days

[tiny jay]

I play kill team with the same 3 people I shoot PRS with. So we generally have a few games after a match at someone's house.

[plush swift]

I think a sea of gray is kind of off putting

[tiny jay]

In a 1000pt game, sure.

But like, 500pts or KT/Boarding Actions?

I'm fine with it, especially if its someone's first purchase.

[rare hornet]

It intimates your opponent

[tiny jay]

Played a KT game against a young guy's space marines and like, every month or so he'd come back with one or two models pained but they were really mint, better than anything I painted.

Apparently he'd practiced a bunch on toys from the 2nd hand store and $2 dollar shop.

[obsidian tapir]

With the style I’m wanting, I believe this is the best marine I have painted. Only problem is I have no idea how I got this paint job done

[primal summit]

The collection so far.

[primal summit]

Looks awesome.

[obsidian tapir]

Thanks

[plush swift]

It looks like you drybrushed some typhus corrosion on him, or something else grainy

[obsidian tapir]

I do know the paints and methods I used, just it never comes out like that one did (also the grainy thing may be because I fucked up the rattle can)

[plush swift]

Can we see the other marines

[obsidian tapir]

Not at home currently, would have to do it in a few hours or so

[mental jolt]

The thin cracks could possibly be done with the technical paints gw has or crackle medium. There's a risk it's be too fragile or too thick though.

[teal wolf]

Hot damn

[primal summit]

Nice 😎

[coarse badger]

Woah

Pretty badass

[teal wolf]

Glad I held off on the reaver lt

[plush swift]

Hardcore

[jovial siren]

And they called Lucius a madman, when he wielded some xeno equipment

[obsidian tapir]

I screwed up the primer and it cracked, possibly didn’t shake it enough

[plush swift]

Xeno armour

[jovial siren]

potatoe potato

[plush swift]

It’s a war trophy so I am not sure why would they be mad

[jovial siren]

Thats what Lucius said too

[plush swift]

I guess men of reason aren’t respected

😔

Until it corrupts you into a slaneeshi daemon

[jovial siren]

true that, poor dude

[tiny jay]

I really hope SM get a Redemptor Dread with like, the Box Dread arms.

Looks super neat.

And if you want like the tomb lid that the old Dread's have it wouldn't be hard to trim back the redemptor's extra armor to put the classic lid in place.

I almost like the idea that redemptors are just Up-armored regular dread's

Maybe with better legs.

[exotic ridge]

Did a librarian today for my friend

It's messy but I like it enough I'll be doing my next one with contrast I reckon

[midnight locust]

I’m debating if I want to base my heavy weapon teams first or base them after they’re done.

[white tangle]

Anyone know any desert like grass tufts that are fairly cheap and small. Games workshop are selling them for like £10. Bruh.

[jaunty trail]

greenstuff world?

https://www.greenstuffworld.com/de/2-mm/1782-grasbueschel-selbstklebend-2mm-trockenes-braun.html

(No advertisement!)

[plush swift]

Gamers grass maybe

[white tangle]

thank you #

[midnight locust]

Army painter is a good one too

[white tangle]

I'm learning to do bases on my old minis but the paint is just coming off. Is it because the base isn't prime?

[brisk vapor]

ye you'd probably want to apply some primer or paint to the base before going for basing paints/crackle paints

[white tangle]

Cool. Glad im fucking up the minis i dont care about

After 2 coats of base paints it should stick better yeah?

[brisk vapor]

ye just let it dry first!

also by having some variation in the tone below the crackle paint is a nice way to add some depth to the formed cracks

[midnight locust]

Would recommend a varnish once you’re done with everything on the mini to keep it protected

[white tangle]

I was planning to drybrush the cracked paint after applying a shade?

is that a thing i can do or is that a no go?

Now that i know how brittle it is

[brisk vapor]

it's fine, just don't go too hard at it

[white tangle]

tripple checking. This is fine right. Nothing wrong?

[brisk vapor]

yup, the thicker you apply it the larger the crackles will be

[cedar relic]

Another commission done. 💪🏼✅

Farstalker Kinband (Kroot Killteam)

https://www.instagram.com/p/CqlCjqptqe2/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

lonewolf_painting

„The hunter is nothing without the hunt!“ - Farstalker Kinband (Kroot Kill Team)

Another commission done for my client. Also I finally managed to test the basing material „Kodama Woods“ by. Nice quick and easy solution. Good alternative to the usual 3d printed stuff I use for basing. Gonna combine boot in the future for more awesome results. 😎👌...

Instagram

[midnight locust]

Who here paints eyes on their minis. I’ve toyed with it on guard but ultimately sided with not bothering

[pastel grotto]

Hello gentlemen

[cosmic topaz]

That banner is amazing

[midnight locust]

Thanks! It took a lot longer than I thought but the result was worth it

[plush swift]

No, primer doesnt do anything for paint adherence,it's doing that because crackle paint will flake off easily just as a whole. If you scratch up the surface of fuckton with some sandpaper it can help

And yes if you really want documentation and proof that primer does dick all for paint adherence, I can give you multiple things from multiple different paint companies that all prove this. It's just not how acrylics work

[midnight locust]

I’m guessing varnish is what keeps things good?

[plush swift]

Kind of, but nothing you can get at a hobby store will

Has to be automotive

[midnight locust]

Mm I gotcha.

But so long as you’re careful with it hobby varnish is “good enough” yeah?

[cosmic topaz]

I feel like primer just makes it so I don’t have to coat my flesh tearers in their red as many times haha

[plush swift]

no, its literally nothing more than something to give you the ability to clean dust off, then you need to reapply it

[midnight locust]

Mm I see

Well duly noted

[plush swift]

pretty much

[plush swift]

this is the majority of varnishes btw, they arent designed for durability, most of the high end professional things I use for work are nothing more than stuff to prevent UV light from damaging the painting

[cosmic topaz]

I think it’s definitely useful in producing different looks but yea primer doesn’t do a ton for acrylics from what I’ve read

[midnight locust]

Well that’s good information to know

[cosmic topaz]

I really like this for preserving stuff but it makes them shiny which seems to bother some people, I however like the look so it’s kind of whatever tickles your pickle

[plush swift]

that stuff is actually some of the worst varnish ive tried fun fact, its diluted windsor and newton galleria varnish

[midnight locust]

On a separate note, are the new heavy weapons team bases better to base after miniature assembly or is it better to pre-base it? From what I can tell they’re smaller than the old HVTs?

[cosmic topaz]

Really? I like the results but this is what you do so no arguments here.

[plush swift]

yeah, try out windsor and newton galleria, its like $8 for a 250ml of it

[cosmic topaz]

I’ll definitely check it out, I appreciate the heads up

[plush swift]

Another fun fact, GW paints are chemically identical to house paint

you're welcome for that cursed knowledge

[plush swift]

What’s the best hobby paint range in your opinion

[plush swift]

Dick blick student grade matte fluid acrylics

I've tried the majority of hobby brands, they all suffer the same issues and thats shitty stabilizing agents and binders that cant support all the crap they put into them

[plush swift]

Well thanks might give them a try

On a random mini

[plush swift]

they are also dirt cheap, like $2-3 for a 60ml

cost plays a role into how I think of a paint too

even more so with oils, hence why I recommend lukas and blue ridge over brands I use more

[plush swift]

can't order off of amazon 😢

[plush swift]

naw, blick.com only

its a store brand thing

[plush swift]

yea which probably means shipping is expensive

i also dont recommend buying just one bottle because their shipping below free is wonky

[plush swift]

yea basically not worth it for me rn

since most of my orders are $60+ I never have to worry

I recently got the Master airbrush kit just to prime my models since I couldn't find any good spray primer near me

Even the automotive stuff

my pump is from master actually

[plush swift]

The blue one?

Looks nice and small

[plush swift]

no, its a dual piston

dual piston with a 5l tank

[plush swift]

I might look into upgrading later if it's worth it

But I think airbrush priming will save me time and money

Also base coating

ehh the pump just fit my niche requirements and was on sale for like $150

[plush swift]

any reason to need a costly pump?

or just more power

[plush swift]

if you paint as much as I do, yes. it will save you money on replacements

[jaunty trail]

Having to correct ome eye of the shotgun neophyte and bas as also argax earthshade to go... but still happy cuz i'm not good on painting faces...

[plush swift]

For the brushes?

air brushes*

[plush swift]

I am helmet person but I would like to practice on faces soon when I get to my tactical marine squad box

[jaunty trail]

I will only do neophytes faces if needed... rest will be all helmet guys

[plush swift]

yes, just like how a higher end air brush will save you a lot of time and money compared to a cheaper one

like straight up, in one year I killed over 40 $20-40 airbrushes

but I have been using an infinity and an hp-cs for over 4 years each and I abuse the fuck out of them

[plush swift]

Well when I start to see a difference or I get some extra money lying around somewhere might go for it

I initially wanted to get the badger and some compressor I forgot the name of

[plush swift]

badger airbrushes are -fine-

I hate them because they require extra parts if you go outside their ecosystem

[plush swift]

Yes even if fine I did not want to drop so much on them for just priming

and replacement parts are.... not a thing

Got the master kit bundle that gives you like three airbrushes that someone recommended

hp-cs is the cheapest airbrush I own currently

Cheap since I know jack shit about air brushing and I can ruin it without having regrets

💀

ultrasonic cleaner fixes most things

[plush swift]

Ngl My mom is going to question what the fuck I am buying soon if I had one of those

😂

[plush swift]

just tell her "Im clearly making meth in the bathtub"

then walk away and talk into a wall

[plush swift]

She gave me the I approve until I disapprove look

At least she's supportive and not a complete this is a waste of time

🤷

thats something

[plush swift]

Yea honestly it's kind of why I started posting the models I made here, support and feedback

[plush swift]

well if you ever want feedback from me, DM it. I dont give public feedback as I can be harsh at times, but thats the agreement you make with me when you ask

I will however tell you how to improve on it and methods that can work

so it is constructive, just harsh

[plush swift]

The harsh bit I can see, I know that's you personally but I think you can get to people if you were less rough since most just really don't know or understand basic things and that's fine.

Saw a few of your comments

[plush swift]

Ehh, i get enough people paying for classes currently that there is a waiting list

not long only 3 months, but its still enough that I cant do other things some weeks

[summer delta]

The warband is coming along nicely

[round crystal]

Teeth coming along nicely! Looking at all these 40k models makes me want to paint up a space marine or necron or something lol

[midnight locust]

So my HWT is holding onto a Bolter. Should I paint the gunner and Bolter separately and then assemble?

[naive umbra]

A lot of people also seem to be confusing the Combat Patrol boxes with the Boarding Patrol boxes

[tiny jay]

I mean, the Boarding Patrol boxes are simmilar just without the Vehicle additions.

[naive umbra]

But it's the Combat Patrol boxes they are specifically talking about for the new Combat Patrol mode in 10th

Boarding Patrols are their own separate game mode in 9th, the CQC stuff in spaceship corridors

[stuck sonnet]

Every lesson I've learned in the last 4 months went I to this base today. Tje wounded battle sister isn't even glued down yet so I can go back and do some edge highlighting

[midnight locust]

Hrm. Yeah next time I’m gonna paint my heavy weapons team separately from the base. Oh well, live and learn and deal with the cards you have. At least I only put one team together so far.

[sudden notch]

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/04/03/the-final-two-boarding-patrol-boxes-prepare-for-breach-leagues-of-votann-and-imperial-agents/?utm_source=instagram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=warhammer-40,000&utm_content=boardingpatrolarticle03042023&fbclid=PAAaZFmgDzq0TE7_9Cc6lxhIzVWgdb96BFgEsjCMVmAVPiK5yLXhQXop3tSoQ

Lookin good

[plush swift]

I'm into that imperial agents box just to have more variety for Kill Team. It's pretty cool

[sudden notch]

Combo of both breachers and staratriders is nice

[wooden pier]

I also made a termie with a body

[tiny jay]

Anyone know a good source for female vampire heads that aren’t too monstrous? Looking for some that’ll look good alongside Sisters heads.

Alternative is trying to sculpt fangs onto Sororitas heads by hand.

[grizzled jolt]

More wip pictures, it's really just the base that's needs to be finished and maybe a layer of clear coat.

[tiny jay]

I like the use of the Necromunda Ogryn.

[grizzled jolt]

Adds flavor to my abhuman army

[raven raven]

My 100 Point army

[velvet elbow]

Classic tac marines with their feet not fitting on the base.

[inner karma]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/519290294068576258/1092704595005931541/IMG_0605.jpg

Dunno if it belongs but cadian shock trooper came in

[summer delta]

Tried a different style of Plasma gun than im used to

[teal wolf]

Fantastic job!

[warm topaz]

[mental jolt]

Looks very glowy, nice job!

[dark violet]

Who's that handsome lad

[warm topaz]

Concerned whose behind him

[teal wolf]

Vastor boutta get bodied

[warm topaz]

[dark violet]

Surprise

https://tenor.com/view/surprise-tf2-spy-buttsex-suprise-gif-21164904

[rare hornet]

Here come Belakor with the steel chair

[teal wolf]

Angry marine powered folding chair?

[rare hornet]

I’m not the biggest fan of Vashtor’s model.

No clue why

[dark violet]

He looks like an old man

[rare hornet]

My god he does

[teal wolf]

Thanks can't unsee it now xD

[dark violet]

He got his cane to walk

No worries

[rare hornet]

The chaos pensioner

[dark violet]

Considering how old he actually is

[teal wolf]

I'm a real chaos God!

Okay grandpa let's get you back to your room.

[rare hornet]

You think Belakor ever called him a boomer?

[teal wolf]

Summon the fan artists

[rare hornet]

Summon the elector counts

“No peas… Just war”

[dark violet]

Vashtor walked out of his forge again and bel akor has to go collect him before he wanders into a group of nurglites playing

[rare hornet]

He’s escaped the old folks forge again

“Back in my day, there was only one type of space marine”

[dark violet]

Yea yea grandpa

[rare hornet]

You kids all take it for granted now, you and your psychic warp magic, when I was in the navy, we had to fight the enemy with our bare hands

[teal wolf]

Grandpa how did you walk to school?

[rare hornet]

pulls up chart of entire galaxy

[teal wolf]

I hope there's gonna be snacks

[rare hornet]

When I had to go to school there was no eye of terror that you could just come from Willy nilly

You had to build these portals so who knows where

[teal wolf]

Grandpa that sounds like minecraft

[rare hornet]

What’s minecraft?

[teal wolf]

Vashtor pimp walking out a nether portal

[rare hornet]

I’d love to see that

Glasses and scarf

[lavish crescent]

Send help

Showed my gf some nightlord models and she loves them. She wants me to paint up Conrad

[rare hornet]

:3

You fool, you’ve fallen for one of the classic blunders

[teal wolf]

Ave dominus nox

Just got the omnibus today

[rare hornet]

Current apothecary progress :3

[dark violet]

someone needs to kitbash that

[rare hornet]

Give him a fedora pimp glasses and scarf

[dark violet]

a big rim fedora

that can act as an umbrella

[rare hornet]

Exactly

[coarse badger]

I know exactly what he'd sound like

[dark violet]

https://tenor.com/view/scrubs-jd-turk-pimpin-dance-gif-16884846

fur coat like JD

or make it a skin coat

chaos pimp

[rare hornet]

Mandatory feather in the hat

[dark violet]

like that guy from saints row 3 ?

the perma autotune pimp

[coarse badger]

Exactly

[rare hornet]

Yes

[mental jolt]

Could even replace the mouth with a box shaped microphone, I mean, it almost looks mechanical already.

[simple thorn]

I like Vashtor's model

Not gonna give him the default paint scheme though

[midnight locust]

In hindsight should’ve painted the minis and the base separately for my heavy weapons team. Oh well. Time to suffer painting it

[midnight locust]

Unless it’s worth trying to pry the minis off the base. But idk if that’s even an option at this point

[mental jolt]

If it's plastic glued then it's definitely not worth it

Otherwise I'm sure you'll be able to get it painted!

[midnight locust]

Yeah not gonna attempt to pry it

Just gotta really be sure my primer hits all the plastic

[mental jolt]

You can always do touchups with a brush later

[midnight locust]

True that. Primer aside getting into nooks and crannies will be tricky thanks to the green stuff sand bags I had the “brilliant” idea of placing on the base

[shy sedge]

slapchop rules

[jovial siren]

whats slapchop?

[shy sedge]

you prime the model black and dry brush greys up to whites on the model

so it looks like a grey statue

then contrast paints over and the shading shines though

really quick to do

[plush swift]

That sounds pretty cool, I wonder if zenithal highlighting would accomplish the same thing as drybrushing in that way, or if there'd be a noticeable difference .

I'd bet priming in that way would make it less dusty looking, not that there's anything wrong with the dusty look it's just a stylistic feature.

[cosmic topaz]

thats gonna look amazing when youre finished

[shy sedge]

you definitely can do it with a zenithal

or zenithal and more drybrushing too

[rare hornet]

Thank you!!!

[shy sedge]

I was looking to get a gritty look for this guy so this it's perfect in this instance

[shy sedge]

I really like how slapchop works on clothing

I don't need to do anything else with it

[plush swift]

It looks realistic, yeah

I might try that method on a box of Kriegers eventually. With their big coats and all they seem like good candidates for the gritty, dusty clothing look

[shy sedge]

yea it might be great for them

I followed Duncans guide for them and I was pretty happy with results

Russ grey on the coats worked so well I just sucked at small details back then

these weren't that long to paint but I bet slapchop would knock them out in a day

[velvet elbow]

Proof of concept for the colour scheme of a wyrmblade Kill Team I'm working on.

[jovial siren]

thanks, sound like an interesting approach to try out, especially looking at the model from you. Guess I have to basecoat it black, because I only have a grey primer

[shy sedge]

grey would work too

I wanted mines a bit darker

but black probably is better to start from so you have shadows

u could just base coat it black after priming

[jovial siren]

big plus with black to white is, you have probably way better contrasts, than grey to white

[shy sedge]

black primer is a good purchase tho

just buy any generic brand primer that works on plastic

[warm topaz]

Look at the base

[teal wolf]

Noo waaay lol!

[warm topaz]

Lmfaooo

[teal wolf]

Amazing 🤣

[jovial siren]

not not buy the citadel spray can for like tripple the price?!

[shy sedge]

only if you really need the color match

[rare hornet]

You got to respect that dead marine on the base

[shy sedge]

i just do a base anyways most of the time so generic primer is fine

[warm topaz]

I love the angry marine concept lol
Always angry

[rare hornet]

He saw fucking Belakor and thought ‘bet’

[warm topaz]

Belakor be like

[teal wolf]

I salute him for trying

[gleaming hare]

Finally finished up my Kelermorph 🫡

[glossy hawk]

Looking good

Love me GSC brothers

[glossy hawk]

Fucking love that cape

Stellar job

[lavish crescent]

mf im doing that paint scheme, its easy but damn does it look good!

[shy sedge]

yea I love Russ grey

no The Fang it was

[gleaming hare]

Thanks!

[tiny jay]

What I’ve done with slap chop to try and make some stuff less grainy like on armor-weapons is go over then with a thin coat of the final white or grey used to smooth out the texture. The effect is perfect on fatigues though.

[shy sedge]

yea I was planning to layer some metallics on some of the black parts

[tiny jay]

I tested it on a pair of Sororitas legs and it worked quite good imho at keeping the armor smoother.

And like, can always go back and edge highlight later.

[shy sedge]

yep contrast isn't gonna work well on power armour

[midnight locust]

Hey does anyone have suggestion on spraying vehicles without an airbrush

[rare hornet]

What vehicle?

[midnight locust]

Leman Russ

[rare hornet]

What's the main colour?

[midnight locust]

Zandri dust

Will have a Castellan green camo pattern

[edgy jackal]

The old citadel painting guide recommended applying the camo colour, then using tape or blue tack to block out the camo patterns, then spray on the base colour. Does citadel have these two colours as rattlecans?

GW used to sell spray guns to mix paint with propellant as a precursor to airbrushes, but I'm sure this will work with normal spray cans as well

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-WW/Painting-Modelling?N=2634277529+434579619&Nr=AND(product.locale%3Aen_WW_gw%2Csku.siteId%3AWW_gw)&Nrs=collection()%2Frecord[product.startDate+<%3D+1680642000000+and+product.endDate+>%3D+1680642000000]&_requestid=17731334

[plush swift]

I dont think they do with castellan green, but you can get that from a lot of other brands and even from a hardware store, its basically just military green

[edgy jackal]

Yeah, you're right, the green doesn't have to be an exact colour match, but it's nice that GW sells zandri dust in a can if you want a colour match for the main colour.

lol, this book was printed in 2011 or so

still features duncan rhoades

[plush swift]

the secret of zandri dust is that it's just beige and nothing special

[edgy jackal]

Eh, I don't know if usedcarjockey is just starting an army or adding to an existing collection, so that's why I think it's nice to be able to match a spray can to a paint bottle.

[grizzled jolt]

I made a ripper gun necklace/keychain out of extra sprue bits. kept the paint job simple.

[bronze knoll]

Primaris World Eaters

[plush swift]

I am not sure what’s more cursed, the pure whiteness or the world eater scheme

[bronze knoll]

I prefer the heresy era colours, they do need some more work to tidy them up and have their decals put on. But for now, I’m done with them

[plush swift]

You have my condolences, white is a hard color to paint with

[plush swift]

Maybe try an off white on a real note

And highlight that with pure white

[bronze knoll]

Like White Scar?

[plush swift]

Never tried it to be honest

So can’t recommend

[bronze knoll]

Thanks for your advice anyway

[plush swift]

https://acrylicosvallejo.com/en/product/hobby/model-color-en/off-white-70820/

[shy sedge]

white scar is pure white

[plush swift]

I didn’t try this either but it’s better than having them pure white

[shy sedge]

corax white is a good off white

this is corax

wirh pure white on edges

[bronze knoll]

I used that for my models

[plush swift]

Yes something like this easier on the eyes

[shy sedge]

you need to shade it carefully

or it looks bad

[plush swift]

White is hard tbh

Kinda respect anyone who commits to it

[shy sedge]

vortex shaker helps

[plush swift]

Massage gun cheaper

[plush swift]

This one is leagues better

[jaunty trail]

Concept of bringing "life" to a tank model... some interior additions...

The ammorack will be filled soonish...

[midnight locust]

Very proud of my first Heavy Weapons Team

[heady lotus]

Bashed together sub commander torchstar

[teal wolf]

Oh resin how we love you X_×

[midnight locust]

Looking good

[tiny jay]

Asking because I kind of want to do the same effect for blood, did you just let it sit on the top of the base with surface tension or did you have to dam it off at all?

[teal wolf]

There's been a few times I've had to dam it off. I just used excess blue tac around the rim

[tiny jay]

Kewl, I want to try and have my sororitas lookling like they're wading through like, a shallow pool of blood with skulls and rubble poking out. Figured when its still malleable I'd put some vaseline on the models feet and press them in to give some direction.

I've seen some vidoes on how to make ripples, but idk how it'll look on a darker red resin.

[teal wolf]

I don't think the red would look any different.

[rapid willow]

Not impressive to most but my neatest bow boy so far

[teal wolf]

Ooh wow, wood elves that brings back memories

[midnight locust]

Hey to fill up the remainder of the base here (the bits that are still tan) could I Pva glue the open bits and dip it in some hobby sand/dirt? Or would that be too finicky?

[rapid willow]

I'm pretty sure that's how most people do it, aslong as the glue is in the right places and you give it a firm tap it works

[midnight locust]

Alright cool. Guess I’ll have to see how much glue I can work with

[tiny jay]

Then put more pva glue over the sand when its set. So it doesn't fall off later.

Also popsicle sticks work great for duckboards/trench planks.

I'm gonna go super lazy with my Moebians and just use zone mortalis bases and just add some bits to them.

[sudden notch]

Why must you hurt me so

[plush swift]

Progress on leviathan's base

Just need tufts and I'm done

[teal wolf]

Ooooh very nice

[plush swift]

Very proud of it so far

[vast latch]

Looks goood

[rare hornet]

Ayyy yellow bolt gun, classic choice there (ignore the weird lighting)

[teal wolf]

I like it!

[midnight locust]

Thanks!

[midnight locust]

Yeah I plan for my mortar team to throw some coffee stirrers on the base

[lavish crescent]

Is that a Constantin Valdor?

[teal wolf]

Yeah he's creeping about 😉

[teal wolf]

What kinda bass you got hiding over there??

[crude solstice]

it was a Tanglewood p-bass copy, though it's sitting in a friends house at the moment, as I mostly use an Ibanez SR at the moment

[teal wolf]

Ayo I also rock a SR!

[floral wind]

Matt varnish is a godsend. Before and after

[midnight locust]

I hope GW restocks Kasrkin/LRBT/RDBT before the heat death of the universe

[tiny jay]

Yeah, when looking at GW stock levels I was kind of glad Stationforge do a perfect Moebian Gunner/Storm Trooper model set. Even if they’re monolithic.

[midnight locust]

Like it’s crazy how long they’ve been out of stock

eBay kasrkin are at $95 new in box.

[hoary ermine]

I bought 2

I might buy 2 more

[final rune]

So I have a question. I’ve been looking into the different Space Marine chapters for minis and I don’t really like them too much. Could I possibly paint some generic Space Marines like pre heresy World Eaters? I’ve always liked that legion especially before the heresy. I just don’t know if I can get away with this.

[teal wolf]

Custom chapters are definitely a thing in the current edition

As long as it's mentioned before the game your golden.
Most hobbyist/players shouldn't mind at all. If they do mind their probably in the wrong hobby

[plain crag]

Idk how official it is but Cawl definitely had access to heretic gene-seed when making primaris marines, you could do something like that for your 40K loyalist world eaters. Or just play them in heresy

[mental jolt]

Are custom successor chapters still a thing? (Aka I want to play space wolves but paint them like something else, as an example.)

[mossy sable]

why wouldn't they be

[mental jolt]

I don't know, haven't kept up with the rules side of GW for a while. Was just curious.

[slate pond]

Yes, they absolutely are a thing

It's encouraged - do your hobby your way

[jaunty trail]

Yellow is sometimes really dope... made a sword scabbard in yellow as decoration for my impulor. ^^

[rare hornet]

I thought it would go good here due to the apothecary red symbol

Makes it stick out a bit more

[jaunty trail]

Nice 😎

[plush swift]

@marble sorrel (since ya asked to be pinged for updates)
Now with colours

[jaunty trail]

That looks dope... I'm not a friend of xenos but this looks sick 😎

[plush swift]

2nd Guardsman for scale if you missed the 1st one

[digital sparrow]

My own Kabal

[manic shard]

fucking around once again

this time painting him in parts to try being more accurate

[tiny jay]

Basically this, no-one I know in the hobby feels like custom army heraldry/schemes in any way ruins their immersion.

Idk if 30k players feel more strongly about it but that’s the only instance where I feel it’s likely to come up.

Though I’m closet waiting for the first person to piss off my SO when they Reeeeeee at our custom chaos order of Sororitas.

[rare hornet]

I fought nids recently, the racing stripes do make a difference

Looking great

[plush swift]

thanks

[tiny jay]

I really need to figure out a bloody throne icon/logo though.

[plush swift]

I shouldn't mention my GSC Space marine chapter then

and order of Sororitas as well

[marble sorrel]

i love it

[plush swift]

The only thing in my custom GSC space marine chapter so far

A gun

[cursive vector]

Inquisition Agent I digitally kitbashed.

[manic shard]

ok update
2nd ever attempt already looks way better than my 1st ones lol

[summer delta]

Witness your doom!

[summer delta]

Looks great! Though the Highlights on the dress can be a different color, lightishblue Gray would be more nicer, (Thunderhawk Blue or Fenrisian Gray) would look great! Unless of course you want the dress lines to be super stark then white works great!

[cursive vector]

If I was to do it again I’d probably highlight with a lighter grey and do wider bars of a darker grey. If I print her again, I’ll probably give her a red dress next time

[summer delta]

Well, you can do what I do when Im not satisfied with a model, dip it into Alchohol and try again!

Otherwise, great work man! Looking foward to the next one!

[cursive vector]

She only took 2-3 hours to print, so if anything, I’d just invert her, print again, and paint red, so I have 2

but all together, I’m pretty happy with how she’s come out

[summer delta]

Ahh understandable. I personally haven't dabbled into Printing just yet, mainly because I dont have access to one and the Hobby stores near me stipulate using Actual GW models when playing Warhammer, so im stuck Kitbashing and Green-Stuffing things like the Psyker XD

And mutilating like.. 2 sets of arms just to get a Plasma gun onto my Guard models

[cursive vector]

Understandable. My hobby store I enjoy going to is very friendly towards 3D printing- (partially because it has a cafe built in, so it makes money that way) if I was still going to the local warhammer store, I probably wouldnt be getting nearly as much use out of my printer

[midnight locust]

That’s a sweet looking plasma

[summer delta]

Thanks, I tried using White Oils to get the gradients in between the coils

[cursive vector]

I havent had to do radical kitbashing for my models outside of blender in a minute. Its just so much nicer knowing that every kitbash bit is now infinitely accessible from your file library after you do it once

Also cheaper than my buying skitarii rifles to swap out my lasguns for a look

[summer delta]

Nice to hear, whenever I need something for a model I need to either.. kitbash it, buy a different kit, or mutilate 2 kits to get the look/equipment I need

[summer delta]

Like this Plama gun came from... the Orlock Weapon Upgrade Kit, snipped off the arms and hands, grabbed a lasgun arm set, snipped off the lasgun, shave and sanded down the connection points and glued together

The pain

Because it's expensive to buy actual IG plasma guns, considering there's only 2 per Shock Trooper kit

And GW has stopped selling those Individual Special Weapon guardsmen

[tiny jay]

I kind of want to build a Genestealer army for boarding actions. Just for the original space hulk vibe. I was disappointed the kill team list was just cultists.

[hard sand]

paint the lines white and you got yourself a slavic tyranid

[tiny jay]

Honestly though I’ve never really been clear on like, how much GW stores distinguish between printed bits on GW models and like, wholly printed models, is one okay and one not?

Like when I finally assemble my Moebians. The vast Majority of my troops are either Blooded or Cadians from GW. But every single one will have a printed head. And most will have 3d printed weapon swaps to give them all Kantrael style lasguns.

[summer delta]

Depends on the store managers tbh

[coarse badger]

Yeah hard asses don't like the models altered much, especially with non GW bits iirc

[summer delta]

The Local GW stores I have has this rule:

For Casual/Matched Play, your models must be 70% GW (Ie body of whatever model, and maybe heads and arms are 3rd party/printed. Kitbashes are A-Okay)

For GW In house Tourneys, your models must be 100% GW models

[tiny jay]

Just a weird distinction when green stuff is very much endorsed by GW and White Dwarf gives conversions heaps of publicity.

[summer delta]

Also WYSIWYG, mainly for the new players

So the dude holding a plasma is definetely a plasma gun, and not I dunno, a shuriken cannon

[tiny jay]

Yeah, that’s fair.

[summer delta]

The place I game at loves Kitbashes, but we outlaw Printed stuff, cause there's was this huge kurfuffle that someone used a 3rd Printed FW model... the Astrues Super Heavy Tank I believe in a Tourney

[tiny jay]

I get it when it’s a blatant forgery of a GW product. Yeah.

[summer delta]

And well.. someone from the tourney wanted to buy it, guy said it was real FW, so he paid about 4/5th of the price

[summer delta]

Anddd... he went home, stripped it and found out it was printed

So yeah, FUN times

[tiny jay]

Don’t forge world give out certificates for most super heavies? Or is that just titans?

[summer delta]

I believe they do, I dont know what excactly transpired, but yeah. Guy got ripped off and the other dude got shamed outta the community

[tiny jay]

I know someone with a warhound and it’s got a laminated thing that came with it.

[tiny jay]

Fair and I mean deserved. I’m not serious enough that I’ll likely ever attend a tourney. So as long as my LGS remains chill with prints I’m happy.

[plush swift]

not sure a TO will approuve of my big ass kitbashed T-Rex

[tiny jay]

The old argument of them being lower quality is not really relevant anymore.

[tiny jay]

I’ve seen pics with a Kroot T-Rex as a super heavy battle suit that looked dope.

Just, yes.

[plush swift]

Oh no

Kroots have learned to shoot

Tau are useless now

[jaunty trail]

A bit further on the interior...

[cosmic topaz]

Angry man

[summer delta]

Fair, though for us, it was big cause there was prizes

I believed first place got the Apocolpyse Imperial Knights Super Heavy detachment box

The guy with the printed Astrues won first place handily

Cause no one else had forgeworld models (it was a budding community)

[tiny jay]

I feel like that’s more an issue of FW rules power creep than anything.

[summer delta]

Fair that, but yeah

I think it was more outrage that he deliberately lied and won

[tiny jay]

Which is fair, especially since he sold a counterfeit product.

Like, if he’d just said. “Sure but it’s a print, so like I can sell it for like, cost of resin/stl + extra if it’s painted well.”

[summer delta]

Agreed, that'd be fine in my books as well

As long as you're not misleading the guy then no worries

[tiny jay]

The cost of FW models getting you better rules is an issue though. Especially when it’s drastic and gives you an advantage.

[summer delta]

True, after that fiasco the Store had a specific catagory for Forgeworld models

For tourneys I mean

[summer delta]

Cause oh boy

A Flying Super Heavy tank was threatening

And the damn thing had Void Shields

[tiny jay]

Makes sense tbh, forge world always want their new hotness to sell.

Where like, I just want stuff to look cool.

[summer delta]

Same here man

I will purposefully kitbash something that isn't legal but look hella cool

Like a Cadian weilding 2 plasma pistol in the style of "Anyway, I just started blasting"

[floral wind]

So found these on Etsy, but in true etsy fashion I cant find the original artist/maker of these proxies. Anyone have a clue of whom they originate from?

[tiny jay]

Try a reverse image search?

[floral wind]

Honestly, didnt think of that

[tiny jay]

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/NGNNZN

Looks like Redpilgrims

Or Atleast, they're distributing the files.

[floral wind]

Thank you I had tried them but obvs wasnt looking hard enough, much appreciated

[midnight locust]

US side inventory of Guard models is so limited

[manic shard]

he's done and way better than 2 i painted before him

[jovial siren]

Next stop: Szarekh mini

[tiny jay]

I'm HoB and I have a problem. SO and I haven't even assembled more than a dosen models for each armies and I've ordered some stuff for Dark Mechanicum minis.... Because the Moebian 6th will need someone to work on their blight drones and the Sororitas of the Bloody Throne will need someone to forge their penitent engines and mortifiers. >.>

I blame @teal wolf for making me look at Mechanicum bitz.

[midnight locust]

Ah… the plastic crack has taken hold

[tiny jay]

indeed

Not going as hard on the Dark Mech atm, just wanted some thematic additions.

[midnight locust]

Meanwhile I’m searching for Leman russes

That don’t exist

[tiny jay]

I do want some demolishers eventually.

[midnight locust]

One day they’ll return

[cursive vector]

They probably got taken down in anticipation of launch- GW is more aggressive around the launch of a new model line with their IP police

[manic shard]

next gonna be trazyn and cryptek

[midnight locust]

LRBTs back in stock OH YEAH

[midnight locust]

And no sooner did I order two does it look like they’re out of stock

[teal wolf]

🧐

[tiny jay]

Oh, nvm. Got your resin bases mixed up with @hoary ermine 's Aquatic Admech.

[teal wolf]

Scuba mech

[hoary ermine]

[dark violet]

i love the glow effect that creates

[left verge]

Ammitara legion scouts for Thousand sons 30k

[errant fulcrum]

Finished the jet bikes

[tiny jay]

I like that it kind of keeps some design cues from Sammael's Jet Bike

Even if the shape is still very different.

[summer delta]

Medic and a shield

Could use some thoughts on the shield

[errant fulcrum]

Sheild looks dope

[tiny jay]

Idk about the shield but something like blood for the blood god and a white dry brush over top with some gloss varnish would make the blood bag pop.

[left verge]

Finished the cloth work

[devout lake]

I made my friend an iron hands fan. Now he's collecting his first army

what have I done

[summer delta]

My Darktide Inspired Kill Team is finally finished

ARGHH

MY HANDS CAN REST NOW

[teal wolf]

Rest well earned I'd say! Great work.

[jovial siren]

Heh, even they have not-dented helmets for free

[blazing atlas]

I got a kill team set and finished putting together the minis.
I'm wondering if I got everything I need with just the starting paint set from age of sigmar (because it has orc green) to do the kriegs.
Probably going to start by putting abaddon black all over then I'm thinking kantor blue for the coat, black or red or a mix for the pants, rhinox hide for leather, mix of abbadon black and leadbelcher for armor, just leadbelcher for anything else metallic, got agrax earthshade for....shade and striland mud for the bases, only bit I'm wondering about is if Steel legion Drab will be good enough for the bandages above the boots (that will probably be black or rhinox hide) and the gas mask.
Thoughts?

[wild monolith]

First mini finished, several dozens to go

[rare hornet]

https://tenor.com/view/2020-trump-donald-wins-biden-gif-19061512

[plush swift]

This looks better than my models

Looks great

[reef wren]

that looks really good

[plush swift]

For first miniature too

[shy sedge]

thats really cool, do they use blooded rules?

[midnight locust]

I’m wondering w/ 10th edition coming out if I should work on having all special weapons to work with versus just the current “meta” (ie have some grenade launcher and heavy flamer guard instead of just melta and plasma)

[primal summit]

Just came in the mail today 🤟😎

[white tangle]

For anyone with an airbrush, is it a viable option for a quicker final result to take a kill team of ten and base coat the major areas such as armour and guns and then go in for clean-up, highlights and details? Instead of using a normal brush to base coat.

[brisk vapor]

Yes

[summer delta]

Yes.Cause that's the only team with a Ogryn available XD

[wild monolith]

My thanks for the feedbacks. Got back painting after 5 years of hiatus. I like to paint thoroughly on each of the models. My skills still sharpen than ending up blunt state.

[round crystal]

Plugging away at some squigs

[sweet sinew]

I feel like I’m getting better with tanks

[cosmic topaz]

Figured I’d share

[cursive vector]

That is sick

[plush swift]

https://twitter.com/ChtiKenny/status/1644033547110318085?s=20

CKenny (@ChtiKenny)

Base coat done
#Tyranids #warhammer40k #WarhammerCommunity

Twitter · Apr 6, 2023, 5:45 PM

more colours

next step

shading

@marble sorrel

[marble sorrel]

gotta add some blood for the blood got to that guardsmen

[plush swift]

gotta shade first

but yes

actually no

I don't have Blood for the Blood God

I have glistening blood

[limber haven]

I love Repentia ☺️ I want this drip in game sooo much

[midnight locust]

Any suggestions on how I could pile up mud/dirt in front of this? (The new heavy weapons team bases are small)

[edgy jackal]

Either layer by layer (letting it dry in between layers), or use greenstuff for a general blob, then glue dirt to said blob.

[midnight locust]

I gotcha

[edgy jackal]

Alternatively, if you don't want to use greenstuff (kinda pricey per gram to use on dirt), you could use air drying clay as the filler instead.

[midnight locust]

Yeah that sounds a bit better

[tiny jay]

If you specifically want dirt, diy Sculptamold vids are easy to find.

Also thematic opinion, I’d almost do a sheer wall of dirt up from the front edge of the base. And start the ‘mound’ curvature half way up. So it looks more like the mortar team is dug in.

If it’s supposed to be temporary I’d mix in more wood/sandbags with the mud and dirt because that makes more sense to build up quickly.

But a wood and dirt emplacement suits a trench more.

[midnight locust]

So how would you suggest that? Build a small box in front of the emplacement and cover that?

[tiny jay]

If you want to save weight I’d build out the bulk with paper mache.

But use tape or a piece of card covered in Vaseline to form the front of the dirt.

[plush swift]

Paper mache isnt a completely terrible idea

[midnight locust]

Was leaning towards that tbf

[plush swift]

it has its own issues, but so does clay and everything else

[tiny jay]

I don’t mind having heavy minis, but I know weight is an issue for some.

[midnight locust]

Honestly end all be all im just looking for something at the front of the trenchline

Heavy or light doesn't make too much a difference

[tiny jay]

So like, narratively the way I see it is you want it to look like they piled dirt from where they dug out front.

So the broken line is like “ground level”

[midnight locust]

yeah basically

[plush swift]

Why not use sprue

[tiny jay]

And you can just mix dirt and pva glue to finish off. The surface and cover the pva.

[tiny jay]

I mean, that too.

[plush swift]

It already looks like a wooden plank

It can also look like a cobblestone wall if you use milliput

[tiny jay]

OP mentioned mid/dirt

So I figured he was going for the trench aesthetic.

[midnight locust]

Trench/mortar pit is what I’m leaning towards yes

[plush swift]

Oh yea then probably still can go for the sprue idea

[midnight locust]

I’ll definitely consider it

I’ve got some time to think it over since I still need to paint the mortar team (separately this time… learned my lesson with my lascannon team)

[plush swift]

Try the sprue idea probably cheapest and least time consuming one if you don’t like it try the others

[midnight locust]

So basically pile sprues up in front?

[plush swift]

Make a fence/barricade similar to the wooden one you have

I never did anything similar so just don’t make it permanent

See if you like it

[novel tree]

Tactics

[tiny jay]

I get too caught up on narrative stuff.

[plush swift]

Making up a legend for your plastic guys is half of the fun

[tiny jay]

But yeah, my method for ww1 style trenches is as follows.

1. glue down wooden boards and either steps or retaining walls like you did
2. build up paper mache or something else light to save adding too much extra weight to just below the top of the wood line. Leaving enough room for extra layers of goop/mud around the rim of the base.
3. mix up some sculptamold or use milliput to build out around the front of the base and make the mound/berm shaped however you like. Also spreading some between the wooden boards, smear some over etc to make it look like a real trench.
4. spray with PVA glue and drop sand on, then spray on again when dry to seal on the sand. (If you want dry earth/dirt) - if you want wet mud you need something like a resin or silicone mixed in with the dirt to give it a more wet texture finish.

Then move onto paint.

[rare hornet]

Sooooon

[tiny jay]

Don’t have any finished bases to show you unfortunately because I’m doing my Mobians in an Urban setting and the SO’s Sororitas are getting based with blood skulls and marble.

Also Zone Mortalis bases are 90% of my basing work done.

[zenith ether]

the old standby of modeling clay with a layer of sand glued to it you then paint. you can even sculpt some sandbags into it!

[plush swift]

The lenses green or yellow

Asking the real questions

[rare hornet]

Which lenses?

[plush swift]

I just realized what I was looking at is a light and not a lens

💀

[rare hornet]

Oh that, going to go for yellow on that

[wary trench]

just wait just wait I’ll post my black templar apothecary

[plush swift]

There are lenses beside it

Go green

[rare hornet]

Yeah could do

[plush swift]

Could? Should.

Green lens best lens

[rare hornet]

Need to check if I’ve got a good green

[wild monolith]

Wip custom Space Marine #2

[midnight locust]

Where would you apply highlight on this guardsman?

[tiny jay]

Leather of the medic packs, rifle. maybe helmet, shoulder pads and knee pads.

Fatigues is kind of an all or nothing thing.

I've kind of been going back and doing extra highlights on my kill team over time.

So ideally, everywhere that needs highlights. But you can always go back and re-highlight later.

[devout lake]

I'm struggling on deciding what helmets to use. What do you guys think

[naive umbra]

I vote left

[wary trench]

the right one has a scarier feel

[tiny jay]

I mean, how many minis you need heads for? Both.

[warm topaz]

Progress for tonight, armour

[wary trench]

give him a riekland fleshshade bath

[placid summit]

This is my first blood angel ever made (even first finished mini)

[agile seal]

Pog!

[agile seal]

Welcome fellow son of sanguinius

he looks great!

[placid summit]

Many thanks!
His name is Maximilian Hillmus

[wary trench]

very good

[simple thorn]

Wait, Vashtorr's out?

Or is it just him in the Dark Angels/Chaos Cult box set?

[tiny jay]

He’s in the boxed set with some cultists, obliterators and a venom crawler I think.

[edgy jackal]

I bought both, going to make silicone molds out of them, but if I had to go with one, i'd pick left. The winged/bare head is neat for special characters.

[midnight locust]

What size brush do y’all use to get the fine edge highlights going on your minis

[edgy jackal]

0 or 00, depends on brand, but smaller isn't always better, because your paint will dry faster on a smaller brush.

[midnight locust]

That’s a fair point. When it comes to faces too idk highlighting them seems like a right pain. At least with shoulder pads and satchels it’s relatively straightforward

[midnight locust]

Any idea what highlight would work well with Castellan green?

[candid maple]

Loren forest

[midnight locust]

Ah good that’s what I got on hand

[candid maple]

Angy

[white tangle]

The phobos kill team comes with 2 types of marines, infiltrator and incursor. Can i mix and match the units or does it have to be full incursors or full infiltrators?

to be legally playable that is

[candid maple]

Full either way you cannot mix

[warm topaz]

I'm waiting on a purple paint to arrive

[warm topaz]

From the set, I split with a mate

[white tangle]

well that sucks

[white tangle]

I just tripple checked and you can mix them. You can even include reivers

[candid maple]

Ohhh mb thought for some reason you where talking about 40k not kt

[brisk vapor]

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/04/07/faction-rules-are-leaner-and-cleaner-in-the-new-edition-of-warhammer-40000/

[edgy jackal]

Sound nice in theory, but I'll wait until it comes out proper before judging it. Need to fight the grey/black plastic pile I have before worrying about rules.

[midnight locust]

Mood. I’m leaning towards just ensuring I have all special weapons available so I won’t be screwed come the new edition

Cause yes I know the guard grenade launcher and flamer suck, but I’d rather be safe about it

[hearty bear]

He looks like a pug

💀

[alpine wyvern]

Just finished up my kill team :)

[candid maple]

😔

Yeah