40k-minis-and-armies

[obsidian flax]

6 and a half hours from on sprue to primed to fully painted dante in one day

[jagged sparrow]

That axe looks amazing

[obsidian flax]

It was all thanks to speedpaints and edge highlights

[steep ether]

Got a 3D printed terrain cargo crate finished! Tallarn commander shown for size comparison

[rare hornet]

Small hand drill

[steep ether]

Way I heard it done is that use use a piece of natural spong and dab it lightly in some black paint. Conservatively mark the model, and then dab some silver in the middle

[simple thorn]

Van Saar, almost done

Still needs some Nuln Oil on some of 'em

[rare hornet]

Just watch out for the terminator’s return fire :3

[pastel grotto]

The commissarial discipline basilisk cares not for return fire

[rare hornet]

When they return fire with 5 tyrant missile launchers then it might be a cause for some concern

[main cedar]

assembled my first few minis yesterday and this is actually really fun

zamn

[lavish crescent]

Welcome to the addiction

What models did you assemble??

[midnight locust]

The plastic crack

[midnight locust]

Guard boys

[main cedar]

i love the astra militarum

[lavish crescent]

As a krieg boy, respect

[celest zealot]

Ty ty

It's a Kromlech kit

I think it's out of stock rn but it's about $80 last I checked if you want it

It is resin though

[lavish crescent]

I pray that you don't make them on that blanket? If so, good luck...

[rare hornet]

I do love that carapace

[brazen badger]

Warpstone Glow (LAYER) 3.24
Barak-Nar Burgundy (BASE) 3.24
Pink Horror (LAYER) 3.24
Karak Stone (LAYER) 3.24
Wraithbone (BASE) 3.24
Chaos Black primer 13.81
Decal Softener 73212 2.34
Decal Fix 73213 2.34
Contrast Medium (TECHNICAL) 5.67
Blood For The Blood God (TECHNICAL) 3.24
Skeleton Horde (CONTRAST) 5.67
Mechanicus Standard Grey (BASE) 3.24
Stormhost Silver (LAYER) 4.32
Stirland Battlemire (TECHNICAL) 5.56
M Base 7.02
M Dry 6.39
Hobby Highlighting 4.50
Niblet Green (DRY) 3.24
Cadian Fleshtone (LAYER) 3.24
Baneblade Brown (LAYER) 3.24
Primaris Captain 24.38
Dark Angels Upgrade Pack 9.00

This is my most recent order, a bit of a teaser for my next project.

[brazen badger]

Is that mud or poopoo?

[naive umbra]

It's mud when they start firing and poopoo when the Orks keep coming

[brazen badger]

makes sense

[naive umbra]

Assembled my hound pack

[rare hornet]

Doggy

[celest zealot]

It's one of my favorite bits of the model, the sarcophagus looking thing where the cockpit usually is providers some great visual storytelling

[rare hornet]

I know It looks amazing!!

[celest zealot]

Mhm!!!

[rare hornet]

I’ve been painting up my mini titans lately and it’s been so much fun

[celest zealot]

I like to think that it's there because a high up Mechanicum adept either died it was wounded extremely in battle but instead of intombing them in something akin to a dreadnought they put them into a knight

[celest zealot]

Honestly I've considered getting into Titanicus

I would like to paint a warlord

[rare hornet]

Basically the same thing

[rare hornet]

It’s so good, the models are amazing

[celest zealot]

Close enough really

[rare hornet]

I’m building my two warhounds at the moment

[celest zealot]

Yeah!!! The models look lovely I'm just out of a job right now

So I can't really afford to buy more

Until I sell a bunch of stuff

Or find a new one

[rare hornet]

Aww no, that sucks

[celest zealot]

It's okay

My old job sucked is all lol

But! I remain optimistic

[rare hornet]

Woo!

[celest zealot]

And plus I have plenty of stuff

To work on

[rare hornet]

Ooooh you have me interested

[celest zealot]

I have a lot of chaos space marines

And some proxies for a blooded kill team

[rare hornet]

Ooooh what legion?

[celest zealot]

(these are the proxies btw I've painted about half of the available ones)

[celest zealot]

Black legion!

[rare hornet]

Oooo I like it

[rare hornet]

Strangely I don’t know many Black legion players

[celest zealot]

My entire goal was putting together a 2k list for as cheap as possible

[rare hornet]

Yeah makes sense

[celest zealot]

I ended up getting a combat patrol, the balefleet box, and 10 warp talons

[rare hornet]

Ooooo that’ll make a good army

[celest zealot]

Mhm

[rare hornet]

I’m wanting to work on my chaos for 10th

[celest zealot]

I love the daemon prince

[rare hornet]

That the new one?

[celest zealot]

Mhm mhm

[rare hornet]

Ooo

I’m not wanting to use too many daemons for my army but that’s for lore reasons

[celest zealot]

This is what I've painted so far for my black legion hehe

[rare hornet]

Ooooo I like

[celest zealot]

Ty!!

I did some kit bashing on the cultists

[rare hornet]

Cultist kitbashing is great fun

[celest zealot]

Gave one a flamer and one a heavy stubber

[rare hornet]

I’m going to make a traitor guard force who are aligned with the Iron Warriors

So picture leman russ and rogal dorns with added armour and so on

[celest zealot]

Oooooh nice nice

I'd really like to see that

[rare hornet]

Absolutely

[main cedar]

that's my pyjama and nah they just happened to be there

i have a dedicated blanketish thing to paint on

[celest zealot]

But yeah for those traitor guardsmen I showed I wanted to sort of emulate the moebian 6th but ended up not really being able to

[rare hornet]

My plan for chaos will be to make a rather heavy list, so terminators hellbrutes tanks etc. really leaning into the siege look

[celest zealot]

So I went with something else

[celest zealot]

I like that a lot

[rare hornet]

It worked well though

[celest zealot]

Ehhh.....

Not really?

At least I don't think so

[rare hornet]

They look fine

[celest zealot]

I'm not saying they look bad they just don't look like the moebian troops is all

[lavish crescent]

HERESY

[rare hornet]

Fair enough,

I’m going to wait until 10th before building chaos as so then I know what I’m expecting from each unit

Although I’ll be using the Horus heresy stuff as it fits the iron warriors looks better in my opinion

And from the kitbashed MkIII / MkVI marines I’ve done I’m happy with the results

[main cedar]

wdym

[jovial siren]

https://tenor.com/view/angry-kirby-gif-22633183

[primal summit]

Cultists are fun to paint.

[hoary hawk]

we cultist-posting??

[primal summit]

Havnt done that specific cultist yet I have three nurgley cultists left to do.

[celest zealot]

I love cultist models

[sterile grail]

bro has a bikini top :0

[warm dune]

Couldn't figure out where to hid the 2nd magnet. So I made magnetic seals.

Well, 3rd magnet I guess.

[lavish crescent]

When painting at such a small scale, you need a hard surface to lean on.

[maiden iron]

anyone know where I can get some purity seals?

[lavish crescent]

Black templar box sets

Any of them

You'll have enough seals to make a sisters of battle blush

Or 3d printer

Pick your poison

[maiden iron]

tyvm

[naive umbra]

Alternatively, they seem relatively easy to make.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94HB06tcuKw

[main cedar]

sounds good
i still need to learn how to paint anyways

store offered to teach me this sunday

[lavish crescent]

Ohh cool

2 thin coats

[lavish crescent]

Remember that!

[lavish crescent]

That's also a perfect method if you have skill xD

[spring arch]

Something that a lot of people take for granted but almost nobody tells you:
It's usually better to paint with the side of the brush than with the tip.

Oh, and this: A very light grey will 'read' as white and is infinitely easier to paint than a pure white.

[main cedar]

yessir 🫡

[spring arch]

I personally use Vallejo Ghost Grey for most of my 'white' painting

And then I only use dead white or pure white for small highlights

[midnight locust]

Eyes.

[spring arch]

Eh

I just put some black in the eye sockets and it works out alright

[lavish crescent]

You are definitely not wrong, celestial grey is perfect for that ngl

[lavish crescent]

I just go fuck it and wash the eyes till they are dark but the same shade as the rest of the face

Or not do faces at all

[spring arch]

Here's my latest WiP

Not too unhappy with the face

[brazen badger]

Honestly I hate faces, they are not that hard to paint. It's just the idea of not having a helmet in a warzone that makes me cringe.

[brazen silo]

What comes in this box?

Just looked it up im gonna buy it

[brazen badger]

Izrael

[sterile grail]

Israel lore confirmed

[errant fulcrum]

For me it’s both. Faces are too hard to paint and helmets look cooler

[sterile grail]

in space!! with no air!!

[brazen badger]

That too, like wtf

I mean, astartes can do that but still

[floral wind]

Updated my BT with transfers.

[onyx void]

Nice

[brazen badger]

Put some matt varnish on it to make it less shiny. Unless you prefer it this way

[floral wind]

I am going to but I only have spray on varnish and its too late to do it outside

I will do it tomorrow

[wary sonnet]

For some reason, I decided to paint each mini with a different color. The yellow turned out the worst, if you'd ask me.

[sudden notch]

Man i want kasrkin team

But i need to wait for gallowfall

[floral wind]

https://tenor.com/view/power-rangers-mighty-morphin-power-rangers-gif-18003522

[floral wind]

They do be neat tho

[wary sonnet]

The Iron Warrior looks great.

[spring arch]

Helmets are for NPCs, not for a Succubus leading a band of wyches to steal some mon'keigh

[brazen badger]

Helmets are badass

[final rune]

Do I need the codex supplement to play Dark Angels or do I need the Space Marine Codex?

[plush swift]

Wait for 10th

Honestly

It’s almost here

[jaunty trail]

U will need both... In the supplements are specific rules and things that are important for dark angels and the rest of basic important stuff is in the main Space Marine Codex (speaking for current 9th ed.)

Same thing is goin' on for e.g. Black Templars

[final rune]

Ok

I’ll be able to use the Primaris I have now right?

I didn’t spend $120 for nothing

[jaunty trail]

Yeah Primaris is the "new" thing. So there are rules etc ^^

@final rune may i send a DM?

[plush swift]

Primaris is very new

So it’ll always be useful

First born, or mk7, on the other hand may go

Which is sad cause I love the angry helmets

[final rune]

Yes sir

[jaunty trail]

I think at some point the helmets will return, cuz nearly everybody loves those helmets

[midnight locust]

Trying to compare these three bases to see which one is best (ignore the rims those are going to get cleaned up later). More or less tufts? Multicolored or Unicolor tufts?

[rapid lake]

multicolored. I usually have a two tufts rule

But that depends on base size

[midnight locust]

Size tufts?

[rapid lake]

I vary it up. I try not to really think about it because when you start to think about it, the base then looks planned and unnatural.

[plush swift]

I love those helmets lol

[midnight locust]

True. And in all fairness nature isn’t exactly planned and natural

[plush swift]

it's why I love how the patriarch for my GSC has a mk7 helmet in his hand

[rapid lake]

also what are you using to protect your paint job?

[midnight locust]

Just a varnish but that’s about it. Nothing too crazy. I’m accepting the risk

[jaunty trail]

lookin' good

[rapid lake]

If you are smart about it, it should not be an issue. It is when you try to do it under wrong conditions and over coat things get ruined.

[midnight locust]

Yeah I’m very careful with how much I apply

[rapid lake]

same, I use my airbrushing station and air filter system so I am able to do it indoors. Quick sprays in the boxed area and not directly at the miniatures themselves that way the coating doesnt build up.

[midnight locust]

Mhm. Don’t need a lot to do the job, and too much is :c

[rapid lake]

yeah I do 2 to 3 very light coats to make sure it is thoroughly covered

[midnight locust]

But yeah appreciate the feedback. Trying to get a good balance for basing.

[final rune]

I was hoping to kitbags the tactical squads with primaris to make modern looking ones

Oh wel

[plush swift]

I like your basing, and how you removed that dumb seat behind the breach. Was that a pretty easy conversion? I haven't started to put my bombast guns together yet

[grizzled jolt]

Oh yeah not hard at all. I originally built it on then sniped it off since I thought it made no sense.

[plush swift]

That easy huh? Cool thanks. Yeah they don't make much sense for this gun.

[warm dune]

maybe more variation in tuft size. and selective pruning.

[midnight locust]

That’s fair too

[obtuse monolith]

are there minis for Ravenguard in 40k

[wintry pilot]

Blood Raven WIP 🙂

[sudden notch]

Very nice

Especially that studded shinguard "donated" by blood angels

[wintry pilot]

it was a gift (that they have no record of)

[sudden notch]

Next a rhino with some blue paint and ultramarine markings left

[wintry pilot]

I have some spare ultramarine transfers lying around, shame that I'm so shit at putting them on anything tho

[sudden notch]

Same

Id love if gw made chapter shoulder pads for more than founding chapters

[rare hornet]

Yes, each chapter has a few of their own minis, mostly characters

[tiny jay]

I think most of the teasers have been hinting that primaris are just marines now mechanically. No real difference in the rules.

And I mean, if Termie armor can be given inserts/made to work for a human. I'm pretty sure Firstborn can be fitted with Primaris armor.

[mental jolt]

if there's no difference then what's the point of them turning into primaris? (crossing the rubicon or whatever, I'm not super deep into SM lore)

[rare hornet]

Technically lore wise primaris are generically better than the first born marines, crossing the rubicon is done to basically give the firstborn marine the new organs that make them a primaris

Table wise it just means a higher definition miniature 🥴

[mental jolt]

I'm aware of the miniature difference, was more curious about lore wise if they're making it the same

[rare hornet]

Eh GW table and lore aren’t really too similar so take that with a grain of salt

Actually no, here take the whole salt shaker
(\ /)
( •_•)
(<🧂

[lavish crescent]

Whos getting salt?

[mental jolt]

thanks

[jovial siren]

I guess lorewise the normal marines just die out or become primaris over time and their chaos equals just adapt or something

[mental jolt]

will the chaos ones get primaris style marines?

[sterile grail]

probably not, unless you got some primaris recently falling into heresy

[mental jolt]

that can be arranged

[lament nymph]

one of the new sternguard in the leviathan box has a mk7-helmet

[jaunty trail]

Just what i thought... and new leviathan box will be bought.. new terminators and cybot in it... the eternal crusade needs this

[naive umbra]

I second for helmets being cooler. As a T'au player I always wonder why so many of us assemble Commander Shadowsun with her ponytail when her suit has such a cool helmet.

Also Fire Warrior helmets are way cooler than the bare heads.

The only unit I've assembled without helmet so far is my Pathfinder from the Kill Team box, but they still have cool looking visors and headsets and things, seems more fitting for a scout unit to be less helmeted because field of vision is more important than protection for them

[edgy jackal]

Rule of cool maybe, and some people like painting blue skin. Someone even made a nsfw shadowsun conversion, whatever floats your boat.

[floral wind]

Final update on these guys, they've been given a matte varnish and are now complete

[naive umbra]

I like Colonel Mustard

Is that a custom head, or comes in a guard kit?

[floral wind]

Its from Anvil industries, they do lots of neat proxy bits for guard and other things

https://www.anvilindustry.co.uk/pith-helmets

Here is the link

[naive umbra]

Nice, I'd love to see an entire pith hat army in khaki and desert camo tanks haha

[slender ridge]

man imagine how happy the blood ravens are going to be when the lion kindly donates the emperors shield to them

[sudden notch]

I wonder what other dudads other primarchs will get.
Dorn gets emps towel

[jovial siren]

shame that peter turbo became a traitor. He was eligable for the emperors used toiled paper sheets

[lavish crescent]

Nahh emperors hammer, how else is he gonna build a "fuck the iron warrior" sign on terra?

[rare hornet]

I quite like the iron warriors

[jovial siren]

I like the heresy era ones except the manchild himself, from current era I did not read anything, but if they all became manchildren like him, I'd skip

[rare hornet]

I’m doing my army of them as a HH army but going to use them for 40K as well

[rare hornet]

Perty has in lore destroyed a thunderhawk with only his hands

He’s a great character just poorly written with so few stories

Also he has canonically played titanicus

Or at the very least got model titans

So by that understanding we could then say that he is the only primarch so far that we can guarantee collects warhammer miniatures

[warm dune]

Skulls on a rope

[lavish crescent]

Hate me all you want but ultramarines are good in 30k

[lofty bridge]

They don't do anything

[coarse badger]

They kick traitor ass

[lavish crescent]

40k they are bitches

[jovial siren]

Referencing Angelus exterminatus?

[rare hornet]

You bet

[jovial siren]

Yeah, that was a fun book, 3hrs too long, but still. || perty beating up Fulgrim was very satisfying|| and iron warriors had interesting characters, though they were all idiots

[celest zealot]

Its done, I may have gone a bit heavy on the grimdarkification but I like it a lot

I don't have anywhere to keep it on my shelf

[rare hornet]

Oooooo Yas!

[celest zealot]

So it's sitting next to siegmeyer

[rare hornet]

I have to fit a stompa somewhere 😅

[celest zealot]

And my dragons

[celest zealot]

Oof good luck

[rare hornet]

It will be glorious

[celest zealot]

I might get a stompa when I have money just so this thing has something to fight

[rare hornet]

It’s not a close fight

[celest zealot]

I never particularly liked orks but their vehicles and Mechs are cool

[rare hornet]

Gotkanought or morkanough is more what you’re looking for

[celest zealot]

Fair

Same price though aren't they

[rare hornet]

Unfortunately

So the stompa is actually better value

[celest zealot]

Yeah lmao

Definitely eyeing a gorkonaut now though

Lmfao

[rare hornet]

Haha orks a classic enemies

[celest zealot]

Mhm mhm

At one point I was considering getting orks

But honestly I do NOT want to paint that many models

And they're also expensive

[rare hornet]

I has orks, they’re fun

Meganobz are terrifyingly good

[celest zealot]

Only xenos I have are my necrons for boarding actions

[rare hornet]

Necrons are cool as well

[celest zealot]

I still haven't finished them all though

Still have a skorpekh lord and stuff to build

[celest zealot]

I themed mine after space pirates

[rare hornet]

Oooo robot space pirates

[celest zealot]

Mhm mhm

I did a bunch of green stuff work

And the paint job was relatively quick

[rare hornet]

Ooh sounds really good

[celest zealot]

Let me see if I can get a picture

Even if it might be an old one

Them

[rare hornet]

Hehe they even have little bandanas

[celest zealot]

yea!!!

and hats!! some of them!!

[rare hornet]

Just seen them

They so cute

[celest zealot]

mhm!!!

[lavish crescent]

All I see is skeleton power rangers

[brazen badger]

Did the server just have an outage?

[lavish crescent]

Wrong chat mate xD

this is the model nerd section

[brazen badger]

Smartass

[rare hornet]

I am the models

I am plastic

The flesh is weak

But the plastic is eternal

[jaunty trail]

The crusade will be eternal. And the Emperor protects!

[celest zealot]

Warhammer fans justifying spending $3000 on toy soldiers:

[rare hornet]

Listen here…

[celest zealot]

I can't talk tho

I ordered the classic metal typhus

Just cuz I could

And I like death guard

[rare hornet]

I probably single handedly keep the Uk market of GW afloat

[plush swift]

not really, polystyrene has a very limited life span, way shorter than that of flesh

[celest zealot]

Not if I have anything to say about it

[glossy hawk]

LOL

[rare hornet]

Too late, the amount of micro plastics in my blood mean I am immortal

[celest zealot]

Real

We're already in a cyberpunk dystopia, I'm just waiting for the opportunity to become a tech cultist and replace most of my body With mechanical counterparts

[jaunty trail]

I'm just waiting that Cybot-Hulls are really working... I want those....

[celest zealot]

The day I can become a nervous system in an incomprehensibly complex robotic body that is not recognizable as human is the day I win

Is it ever gonna happen? Nah

But a creature like me can dream

[brazen silo]

Bro i dont get paid till the 9th and its gone on the 8th

[celest zealot]

I don't have a job lmfao

Also please don't call me that :)

[brazen silo]

Oh sorry i didn’t mean any offense

[coarse badger]

I am suddenly reminded of bullet train

[celest zealot]

Is okay

Just don't much like being referred to in masc ways is all :) thank you for apologizing

[brazen silo]

Yeah im really sorry

[lavish crescent]

Question: can I call you frog?

[celest zealot]

fuck it sure

so long as it has no masculine connotation go wild

[steady fable]

I think I may have a bit of a problem....

I'm out of shelves..

[mental jolt]

I think you can stand your games up to fit a few more minis before you need to take drastic measures.

Like getting another shelf

[steady fable]

I'm thinking I'll trade off my less usable factions to make space for custodes and admech, as well as my random horde of lending SM/Necrons

[mental jolt]

That's also a solution

[steady fable]

Only Downside is I am the only custodes player in my whole country where we don't Sell GM...

[sudden notch]

I really should finish up those dawneagles but they are so pain in the ass to assemble

So i could continue building my custodes army

I probably should get boarding patrol of them and then the land raider

[fiery pike]

I’m a new 40k player just getting into the tabletop side of things with a Sisters army. Got one squad of Battle Sisters made and the Canoness from the Combat Patrol. Don’t have anything painted yet but am looking into paints and schemes to use

[wintry pilot]

bad pic, but I'm calling this chapter symbol done

[sudden notch]

Awesome

[midnight locust]

What putty do people use to cover tanks when air brushing camo patterns?

[plain granite]

First squad of plague marines complete!

[glossy hawk]

you did amazing on them

my favorite is the one in the middle with the patina on the nurgle icon

[plain granite]

Thanks! I ended up learning a ton while painting them. And I'm addicted to painting death guard now!

[dark violet]

Good choice sisters best

[tiny jay]

Skulls for the Emperor, Blood for the Golden Throne!!!

[jovial siren]

You see pirates, I see teenage mutant ninja necron

[celest zealot]

Im doing my best ;-;

[jovial siren]

I really need to get some time again to paint. I think there is a gw department already filing a paper because I neglected my minis

[primal summit]

They look awesome.

[crimson root]

finally shrike looks like he supposed to

[rare hornet]

Birb

[crimson root]

still better than the original head

really

[brazen badger]

The original head made him look like someones edgy OC

[brazen badger]

The unpainted horde

[jovial siren]

They are called "Greyshields"

[rare hornet]

The pile of shame

[dark violet]

https://tenor.com/view/sororitas-gif-21712272

[cinder bear]

a couple pirate-y coats and such could work wonders imo

[sterile grail]

wow thats amazing, love beakies, the classics

[fiery pike]

Yeah! Burn the heretics!

[celest zealot]

Not good enough at green stuff to do that

Besides how would I even do that at all

[cinder bear]

yeah it would be kinda hard now that i think of it considering you would have to build them directly around the guys

[rare hornet]

Hehe pirate necrons

Rattle me bones

[celest zealot]

My bones are sufficiently rattled

[rare hornet]

Consider my timbers shivered

[mental jolt]

It just takes practice, I believe in you dude!

[midnight locust]

Should I reapply the same base color, ignoring creases or apply a lighter layer color, ignoring creases? (Basically zandri dust vs ushabti bone)

[mental jolt]

are you asking how to highlight?

did you apply something over the base colour? if so you should probably reestablish the basecoat

(going with your base colour)

otherwise if you're trying to highlight the base colour you should move up one step in value (a lighter colour) or a different direction, so the layer colour in this case

[midnight locust]

Applied a wash over the base color, but not heavy enough to alter the color.

To clarify I’m asking about layering

[mental jolt]

yeah, that'd be a form of highlighting

if the colour on the armour is already the base colour then applying another coat won't change anything

so then you move to a lighter colour

[cursive gyro]

Da Mad Morka is growing!

[midnight locust]

I gotcha. I’ll look into it

[rare hornet]

Yay orky stuff

Really need to get around to doing some more of mine

[cursive gyro]

<3

[rare hornet]

Still my longest project to date 😅

[mental jolt]

it looks very hungry for flesh

[rare hornet]

It is

[midnight locust]

Kind of a dumb question, but I think the biggest issue I have with highlighting is I don’t know what crease to highlight and what to let be. Using the model I posted as an example (left pant leg) would I highlight the tips of the folds or between the folds (areas just above the knee pad for example)?

[rare hornet]

Would perhaps a very very light drybrushing of the lighter colour work?

[cursive gyro]

W a n t

[rare hornet]

Then it would catch the high points a put a very tiny amount of paint over it?

[rare hornet]

Haha the battle wagon is a wonderful kit. Although it is a beast to try and paint. 3 weeks that took me

And that was after spraying most of the red you see there

[mental jolt]

put it under a lamp and you'll see where the light hits

[cursive gyro]

Time is a construct
It took me a month to paint my boomdakka snazzwagon cause i put it on hold, painted once every few days

I got a Trukk I need to assemble and paint

I can't waaiiiiit

[rare hornet]

I have a stompa that’s been half painted for over a year

I want to actually sit down and get it done this summer

[cursive gyro]

Dunno if a stompa would be a good idea

Maybe if I kitbash some tank tracks on it

[midnight locust]

Ah. I’m guessing in an area with no natural light or extra lamps?

[cursive gyro]

Cause trynna make Mad Max but ork

[rare hornet]

Maybe a Mork or Gorkanaught would work?

They are still fast units

[mental jolt]

whatever works, I can give a more detailed answer in a bit

[midnight locust]

Appreciate it

[cursive gyro]

Morkanaught cause it's a Mad Morka

Eeeeh

I'll see on a later day

I paint for fun more than anything ^^

[naive umbra]

Finished assembling another of my birb boyz

[mental jolt]

forgive my terrible paint skills, but in essence, highlights happen because you want to show that the area is hit with more light, so first you have to decide where the light is (for gaming models it's usually just straight from above), then you have to see where the light would hit (either using a lamp or following a rule such as "anything pointing upwards is light" or experience) and put your highlights there. Bear in mind that these red lines are neither feathered/blended nor the correct highlight point, but it should give an idea of what I mean.

As illustration, here's a photo of an unprimed space marine I took under my painting lamp, I then increased the contrast so the effect is more visible.

[celest zealot]

True as that may be, I don't really ever use green stuff outside of filling in gaps in my day to day modeling so I don't really ever feel the need to practice with it lol

[mental jolt]

fair enough, it's fun to mess around with sometimes

[celest zealot]

I rarely ever do unless it's easy stuff

Also I've been looking at some death guard stuff recently

I already have a 1k list but I think I wanna expand it after I finish my chaos space marines

[sterile grail]

I think for cloths, raised areas should be the ideal for lighter colors. As for armor glazing can be more varied. I havent really tried glazing or shading my models though but you know highlighting the edges does 60% of the job just as well

[mental jolt]

it depends on the effect you're after

[jovial siren]

Holy moly, that looks very nice. awesome work

[rare hornet]

Thank you, I’ve been enjoying making my orks, but I’ve taken a break from them for now

[plush swift]

Hey, I want to use old batteries that are out of juice as generators for a diorama, is it safe?

[mental jolt]

no

[rare hornet]

Plan for my orks is a lot of heavy armour, meganobz, my warboss in mega armour wagons etc

[cursive gyro]

Too heavy

Can't ride fast

[rare hornet]

Then clearly you’re not thinking like an ork

Mega armour makes you go fasta

[mental jolt]

as long as the armour is red you go fasta

[rare hornet]

Well I don’t have a paint scheme for my orks

It’s all just a mix of clans

[midnight locust]

Appreciate the example, it helps quite a bit

[golden night]

what glue works best for minis

[brazen badger]

Can't go wrong with this one. Hasn't failed me once.

[rapid lake]

Im actually a fan of gorilla glue. Although some sort of plastic glue would be preferable. https://a.co/d/gvRzIdz

[mystic tundra]

make sure you get super glue and not regular gorilla glue

gorilla glue takes an hour to set and a day to fully cure

[mystic tundra]

also it depends if they're resin or plastic

[golden night]

yeah tried gorilla glue and it didn't harden at all

[mystic tundra]

plastic glue doesn't work on resin

[golden night]

im using PLA plastic

i tried using some sort of UV light activated glue and it worked decently

[mystic tundra]

like from an FDM printer?

[golden night]

yep

[mystic tundra]

interesting

super glue it is then

or your UV stuff

[rapid lake]

The bottle I link is what I use and it tends to harden if you use the correct amount for the area in question in under 30 minutes.

[rapid lake]

I found other gorrilla glues not work well at all though

[mystic tundra]

30 minutes is way too long to wait for glue to set on a mini

[rapid lake]

That was an estimate on top of my head

[mystic tundra]

super glue should harden in 10-60 seconds

or at least set

dunno what the full cure time is

[rapid lake]

Usually I place it and forget about it depending again on the area glued and the weight of the two objects

[golden night]

today i learned that i can composte PLA plastic

finally a use for the big bag of supports i have

[mental jolt]

Full cure is like 24-48h or something, but usually it only needs a few minutes before you start handling it.

And yeah, plastic cement only for GW style plastic, everything else gets cyanoacrylate. (Or something else if you're particularly knowledgeable/brave)

[final folio]

How well are these to paint? Need priming? Cleaning? Or can you just slap it on

[plush swift]

oh boy, do I have an exciting document for you

[plush swift]

there is no best plastic glue, its all blends of acetone and butyl acetate, sometimes other things like methylethylkeytone and cyclohexane. Sometimes its just pure butyl acetate or acetone

[plush swift]

you dont need to prime plastic if you're using acrylic. I have some documents about this, the tl;dr of those though is if the paint slips off then its incredibly low quality paint

[final folio]

I tend to use much thinner paints to.. paint.

But I don't have that problem unless painting old toys

[golden night]

so which ones should i avoid for PLA and ABS

[final folio]

But glad to know I can just get onto the model.

[plush swift]

doesnt matter, this was tested at a 100:1 water to paint ratio by several high end paint companies. I have a lot of documents about this actually as it's something we've been researching for well over 50 years.

[final folio]

Hell yeah

[plush swift]

Well for PLA you'll need super glue

[plush swift]

https://justpaint.org/hand-painting-3d-prints-with-acrylics/

https://justpaint.org/acrylics-on-plastics/

[golden night]

why doesn't gorilla glue work

[final folio]

That's a lot of words. I'm just gonna take your word on it.

[plush swift]

depends on which one, gorilla glue isn't just one type of glue, they make everything from polyvinyl alcohol blend glues to cyanoacrylates

[plush swift]

Yeah... this is my daily life, I make paint for restoration/conservation clients

[golden night]

well now i have a lot of reading to do

[final folio]

That's really cool tbh.

So what say your opinion on primers and the way the hobby space paints in general.

[plush swift]

primers are unnecessary for paint adhesion and the hobby paints?? well... I've tried over 50 brands and none of them were that much better than student grade or craft paint, including particle sizing... in fact the particle sizing on a lot of brands was larger than that of craft paint.

In fact, most failed to beat the good student grade paints

I use primers for one reason and thats a coherent color for a base

because I do a lot of modifications to my armies, it helps. Like I replace barrels with metal ones a lot

[final folio]

Thanks for the info

[sudden notch]

I wonder how should i expand my custodes army to 1000 points or above next

Probably 1 or 2 warden packs and contemptor dreadnought next

[ornate bramble]

Still so happy this model is (slowly) but surely going to be all in plastic the resin version must be a nightmare with warping panels and all the detailing especially on the back

https://twitter.com/warhammer/status/1652666894745321472

Warhammer Official (@warhammer)

How big is that thing?! The Knight Cerastus Lancer is coming out in plastic – get a proper look: https://t.co/XQXQIsIriG

#WarhammerCommunity #WarhammerFest

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Hopefully it comes out soon i must have

[urban harbor]

i love the way the knights look

[warm dune]

i have a few metal tank barrels. do you replace barrels on figures too? I hadn't though of that.

[final rune]

Ok idea. So I was looking at the free guild armies in Age of Sigmar. And I noticed the Griffon General kinda looks like (or is) Karl Franz. So I had an idea. Could I make a space Karl Franz by combining that model with Lord Solar Leontis? Or whatever the gold boy’s name is for the guard.

[plush swift]

yes, i mill my own

[warm dune]

I gotta try it. at least some heat shields or boltgun barrels

I made some 1:35 scale rounds and empty shells for an m1 abrams not long ago

[golden night]

do milled barrels look good? i'd think a lathe would make a better cylinder

[plush swift]

do it with hand tools

[plush swift]

I just like doing weird things

[golden night]

speaking of weird

i want to put some LED lights on my tanks

for the headlights and spotlight

[warm dune]

The only way to live.

heres some barrels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbwoZ2Rmrh4

[grizzled jolt]

Cheese is pretty tasty.

[haughty pecan]

Can use priming , but I usually wash them before priming the paint holds on to it

[haughty pecan]

And are quite easy to paint but I had pil issue when reassembling this one in particular, the legs took me a while to place back together

[golden night]

looks like a fine gentleman with a monocle

[brazen badger]

Seems like a chill dude. Someone you'd peel potatoes with.

[deft fable]

Today I went to Tachikawa Tokyo Warhammer store

The hobby is World wide

[crude solstice]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUe-GdXWZXU

[agile junco]

Redid my sanguinary priest. Changed up his armor from red to bone white. Gave him better arm proportions too

[slender ridge]

So far my nihilakh army

[toxic vault]

any phobos strike team players for killteam here? Got them and started putting them together, planning to magnetize them so I can have most options available. What is a good list for them?

[lean snow]

You cant handle my strongest list, adventurer

[devout lake]

Which bolter should I use for the fists

[agile junco]

Use which ever you want honestly
It won't matter which type you put on in 10th edition as they'll all use the same profile

[wary trench]

auto

[mystic tundra]

this feels too smart for GW

[jaunty trail]

For 9th Ed.? Auto or Stalker Bolter... both good in different cases... Autobolter has charge options... so u can fire even after moving more than usual 6 inch....

If you are unsure, check the weapons stats and abilities in your assembling instructions/codex supplement/core codex...

[maiden light]

10th ed unifies all profiles into 1, so it doesn't matter anymore.

[rare hornet]

The new necron rules look cool

[rare hornet]

Now personally I’d say auto bolt rifle, because a bolt gun with a box mag just seems fitting for a marine

[jaunty trail]

2nd try on energy sword/weapons...

[sudden notch]

you cant be serious gallowfall isnt available to order same damn day it releases

[edgy jackal]

You'd probably need to go to a local GW store to preorder it on time or something

[slate pond]

Nope, it was sold out even while in stores

It was sold out everywhere instantly, even worse than soulshackle

Feels bad moment

[edgy jackal]

So, no restock? Or do we have to wait until the box parts get sold separately?

[jaunty trail]

Theyn done... (sorry for shadows)

[midnight locust]

Debating if I want to do cement/permacrete on the ground or mud

[jaunty trail]

Why not? looks like urban ruins

u could also go for asphalt street or cobblestone street...

[brazen badger]

Is that cake?

[midnight locust]

XPS foam

[naive umbra]

Sometimes you just want an easily accessible snack at hand between turns

[brazen badger]

understandable

[sterile grail]

my spotter brush died 😦 any tips to maintain your brush bristle for a longer life usage?

[mental jolt]

Don't get paint into the ferrule (the metal bit), clean it properly and frequently, use some sort of brush conditioner (assuming it's a natural hair brush). The first one is the most important one, paint going into the ferrule and drying causes the brush to split or misbehave.

[sterile grail]

yeah mine split due to that, its not as accurate anymore, cant do precision painting

[brazen badger]

Use this after every session. Works for me.

First the cleaner and then the gel

Like this?@rare hornet

[sterile grail]

how to use it

[brazen badger]

It says on the bottole

Use the cleaner and rinse it on a paper towel and wash it in water. Then use the gel and that's it. Just leave it. I keep my brush hats so I always put those on

Btw these are the only brushes I use.

For now

[rare hornet]

he's looking very good

[sterile grail]

size looks small and nice, how is it when you use it would u recommend the brand

[brazen badger]

It works well, can't really compare it to anything else since this was the only one I used

It's the most wanted set from army painter I think

[midnight locust]

Still gotta finish the base but it’s almost there

[jaunty trail]

Lookin good

What kind of ground for the base is in your mind?

[midnight locust]

Probably going with a cracked roadway or something

[jaunty trail]

sounds good ^^

😎

[coarse badger]

God those new weapon teams look s ogood

[midnight locust]

They are very cool. It’s a shame they aren’t very useful on the tabletop rn. Maybe in 10th

[jaunty trail]

Reworks will be done... just watch Warhammer Community articles

Soonish there will be a preview article for astra militarum

[spring arch]

Still very much a WiP, but very satisfied with this. No airbrush!

[grizzled jolt]

Here is my finished heavy lascannon and heavy bombast field gun. I'm pretty happy with how they turned out but the wooden bits could have been done better.

[midnight locust]

Very nice weathering on that FOB

[wary sonnet]

Painting isn't easy.

[brazen badger]

Never was

Never will be

https://tenor.com/view/metal-gear-solid-v-kaz-kazuhira-miller-flex-arm-flex-gif-10744758

[wary sonnet]

I know.

[glossy hawk]

OH ZOG

[cursive gyro]

Oh perfect time to post muh gretchinz

They tiny
They ugly
The gonna do a stabby

Really happy about the one with the helmet

[wary sonnet]

They look decent compared to my boyz.

[rare hornet]

Let’s get some more orks in here

[wary sonnet]

The only ones having fun in 40k.

[glacial olive]

Have a wip.

[unborn pebble]

Almost done

[jaunty trail]

These are very old ones...

[golden night]

all the basics have been assembled and glued. just waiting for the paint to arrive now and maybe i'll add some extra stuff

i couldn't hide all the printer marks but i think it's still pretty good

well worth the price at the very least

one day i'll get a resin printer so i can make these correctly

took me a shit ton of my free time just to sand down the printer flaws

[cursive gyro]

Correction
They look awesome compared to nothing cause they are awesome by themselfs
And your boyz are a step in a journey that'll lead you to where I am now and beyond

Cause remember kids, it's not about painting better or as good as someone else
It's about painting for you

[cursive gyro]

But fug you for painting better than me >:C
(iz joke)

[plain granite]

Wip

[simple thorn]

Some things I finished yesterday
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/930235858764840961/1104292716130603109/IMG_20230506_161758.jpg
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/930235858764840961/1104292716533252126/IMG_20230506_161809.jpg
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/930235858764840961/1104292717833486416/IMG_20230506_161848.jpg
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/930235858764840961/1104292746191192094/IMG_20230506_161916.jpg

Not Warhammer, but dangit I'm proud of 'em

Back of the wizard's cape

[errant fulcrum]

Some more chaos chosen

[simple thorn]

I really like the green

What paint/s did ye use?

[errant fulcrum]

First I base whatever part I want green with wraithbone. Then mix of aeldari emerald and hexwraith flame, don't thin it too much. I let it pool onto the wraithbone

[simple thorn]

I'll have to keep that in mind

[glossy hawk]

Brood brothers sentinel

Made it so it’d fit with my genestealers and patriarch

Yeah, it’s a broodlord, but I’m proxying it as a patriarch since LGS is fine with it

[rare hornet]

Mwahaha

[vale pollen]

First time I painted miniatures or anything for that matter, painted these lil dudes tonight, I think I didn't do bad

[jaunty trail]

Crimson Fists?

[vale pollen]

Ye

[plush swift]

btw two of those are low quality sable if you didnt know

[rare hornet]

does anyone know a good citadel paint to drybrush/ use as a highlight over mechanicus grey?

Planning to make a weathered russ paint scheme with mechanicus grey as the base

[mental jolt]

oh hey, we had someone earlier ask about cleaning brushes, got anything to add beyond using brush soap and water?

[plush swift]

depends on the type, but warm water, brush soap, and leaving the brush in some ferret shampoo can help

if you cant find ferret shampoo, and I mean the good stuff, then anything with a coconut and argon oil blend will do

[mental jolt]

There's specific ferret shampoo? ._.

[plush swift]

Yes, it helps retain their natural oils

[cursive gyro]

Yur mean

[mental jolt]

Makes sense, I guess.

[rare hornet]

Honestly orks take so long to do sometimes 😅

I absolutely love mega armour models, but the amount of cables on their back

[plush swift]

fur coat conditioner can also be useful at times

[cursive gyro]

Cables are what makes it fun

[rare hornet]

Oh absolutely they look amazing when they are done, but they are so time consuming

Just for an example

I'm going to be working a lot on my ork in 10th

[cursive gyro]

Now I wanna show ya the rest of my orks

[main cedar]

went to the Warhammer store and they made me paint this wretched being

[rare hornet]

bloo

[midnight locust]

Spess mahrine

[cursive gyro]

Shpaeche moarine

[primal summit]

Little bit of progress on my sergeant.

[wary sonnet]

I just realized that I accidentally gave this ork two left arms.

How do I fix this?

[mental jolt]

Give him a cool name.

On a serious note, plastic model, I assume? What type of glue did you use?

[rare hornet]

haha, that's funny

[wary sonnet]

Polystyrene.

[cursive gyro]

Luk da Lefty

[mental jolt]

So plastic glue?

[wary sonnet]

Looks that way.

I'm not an ork fan, by any means.

[cursive gyro]

But usually, clip the arm off, and replace with a different hand
If you can remove the arm, do it but since I doubt you can seeing you painted it
Use your cliper to remove the hand, flat side near the body, not the hand
Clip a right hand from your leftovers, glue it on and voila

[mental jolt]

Cutting it off is probably your best bet, if you used very little glue you might be able to bend it off, but it risks damaging the rest of the model.

[cursive gyro]

@rare hornet Am I winning dad?

[rare hornet]

oooh that buggy is looking goood

[cursive gyro]

I finished it a long time ago

[wary sonnet]

Now it just needs some paint.

[rare hornet]

still looks very good

[cursive gyro]

Got also a scrapjet, a smasha canon, three deffkopta, and one trukk (trukk is still under construction)

[rare hornet]

I do need to get a trukk or two I think

But I need the boyz first

[cursive gyro]

I'm gonna be honest, the trukk is tricky

I'm to the point where I'm painting the frame before assembling it

Frame? Chassis?

English is naff m8

[rare hornet]

Yeah makes sense

My favourite boy model so far

Well joint favourite

[cursive gyro]

Daaaaaamn He lookin' fine

Love the wee red lines at the backpack

Still gotta paint my boys cause dey ain't looking the best

Arf, maybe they are
Judging your own paint is a pain

[rare hornet]

boyz are a tricky one sometimes

[cursive gyro]

They aren't even Bloodaxes and yet they are tricky

[midnight locust]

Aside from guard, orks, and Tyranid, are there any other armies that have been considered to be horde armies?

[rare hornet]

Cultist only chaos list?

[cursive gyro]

Also Tyranid cultist

Oh and demons

As in, any demons
Once a warp portal is open, it's pretty much free game

[wary sonnet]

You mean genestealers?

[cursive gyro]

Genestealers

Right

Thank you

I know their supposed to be a gretchin back there

But there was a problem where the model wouldn't set itself correctly

Had to improvise and now we can't see the gretchin

[pastel grotto]

Uno ripperé

[rare hornet]

Smol

[jagged sparrow]

I don’t trust that face

He’s planning something

[pastel grotto]

Are you saying that he's

Suspicious

[jagged sparrow]

I am indeed.

You could even call him ||sus||

[brazen badger]

https://tenor.com/view/stare-angry-mad-black-snake-moan-samuel-l-jackson-gif-17424729

[cursive gyro]

That's not the meme channel

[brazen badger]

Oh ok

Sorry for bothering you my friend

[brazen badger]

Eh, it does it's job well enough.

[plush swift]

Well what I was more inferring was that they werent synthetic as they dont list the fact they arent on the package very well

they list it sometimes as rotmarder or rotmarder sable, rotmarder is red sable, so the website lists it as red sable sable

[cursive gyro]

Not bothering, just makin' sure you won't get warned

[visual turret]

Painted a little guy

[jaunty trail]

Nice!

Ymyr Conglomerate?

[visual turret]

aye

seemed the nicest to paint in my eyes

the hegemony are too bland, urani-surtr regulates were, while the main boxart choice, looking a bit tedious and didn't come out right when I tried it

[jaunty trail]

Yes, if i hadn't made a promise to my friends that i will make the votann counter offensive to "angry marines" aka Leagues of Rage i would have also chosen ymyr conglomerate ^^

Some of my LoR Votann are already posted here a bit above in the channel 😉

[visual turret]

I did 4 of my Hearthkyn like the DRG dwarfs

[jaunty trail]

Rock and Stone!

[visual turret]

Lemme grab em hang on

[jaunty trail]

⛏️

[jaunty trail]

Yeees!

Nice

Awesome to see that many who like DRG also Like 40k ^^

[visual turret]

Also a Paragon Warsuit from a week ago

[jaunty trail]

Nice ^^

I have currently Black Templars (Custom Crusade) and My LoR Votann...

My GF is currently figuring out which Chapter of SoB she wants to make xD

[visual turret]

I have 5 more dwarfs to paint, 3 Brokhyr Thunderkyn to prime

But also 6 more Carcharodons to paint and 5 heavy Intercessors to prime

My pile of shame is growing >.<

[jaunty trail]

😄

[visual turret]

Oh and a Chronomancer sat half-painted for maybe 2 months now

[jaunty trail]

Mine is melting.. Currently only the Votann Army box left and now working bit by bit on Hearthkyns

And after Votann Army Box is done i will get some Black Templars Reinforcements as also a Votann Boarding Patrol box... i need those Einhyr Hearthguards....

[visual turret]

There is no way in hell I’m not buying Leviathan

[jaunty trail]

🤣

same

[frozen basalt]

I'm going to share a work in progress,they are Legion champions for the command squad of the Sons of Horus.
Carsoran axes and combimeltas

[midnight locust]

Never going back to liquid super glue after using loctite gel

[golden night]

loctite works on plastic?

[midnight locust]

Loctite super glue gel

When I need to glue a mini to a prepped base it’s much better

[plush swift]

yes... it works on everything pretty much

[errant fulcrum]

Another chaos chosen done. Only 2 to go

[naive umbra]

Especially fingertips

[grizzled jolt]

A little Nork Deddog update.

[sterile grail]

how do you make the splatter effect, looka very cool

[grizzled jolt]

You "stipple" it on.

Try to wipe it off of metals since they wouldn't collect mud as fast as clothing.

And then I also turn into a air brush and blow some on with a straw and paint brush.

[sterile grail]

ah human air brush

[grizzled jolt]

Yeah

[plush swift]

tooth brush technique works

[undone pike]

just finished this guy tonight, i'm pretty proud of how it turned out

[sterile grail]

Hey guys, what are your thoughts on the yellow marking on the left knee?

[sudden notch]

My raven guard captain coming up nice

[dark violet]

Love him. Gotta love skitarii

Got him too I love the detail on yours

[grizzled jolt]

It will not give this effect.

[plush swift]

yes it will, literally what its for.

[grizzled jolt]

Sure thing buddy. Post your work.

[dark violet]

You mean like flicking the toothbrush with your finger to spray the paint right?

Probably will be a bit messier I suppose

[grizzled jolt]

That will give you a worse/less controlled spray effect (imo) but won't give you the stipple effect around the where the boots and pants connect.

[plush swift]

Now is this stippling or is this toothbrush?

[plush swift]

there

[grizzled jolt]

The dots are from a toothbrush if I had to guess. Still doesn't change what I said.

[rare hornet]

If you don’t mind using a tiny bit of masking tape I’m sure that would protect the areas you don’t want covered?

[plush swift]

its stippling

[grizzled jolt]

People can use whatever method they want, in just find using an air brush or a straw is more controlled and skips a step.

[grizzled jolt]

Congratulations 🎉👍

I can tell just by looking at it that it isn't 🤣

[plush swift]

it does change a lot, because you can use the tooth brush technique to create controlled randomized bursts of it very easily

[plush swift]

well you'd be wrong

[brazen badger]

Very nice freehand.

https://tenor.com/view/impress-based-american-psycho-very-based-impressive-very-based-gif-21665669

[plush swift]

straight enough, so you've improved a lot since you've been here

[grizzled jolt]

Your convex dots are all I need to see to know it's not stippling. Anyways I don't care to argue abou paint so have a good morning or afternoon.

[dark violet]

May someone explain me quickly what stippling means

[plush swift]

Well its stippling, so yeah, dont tell me what I did and didnt do

[plush swift]

you paint dots

[dark violet]

People

Its plastic figurines

Shhhh

Enjoy the paint fumes

Retributor gold tastes good trust

[plush swift]

Dont huff paint

its not good for you

[rare hornet]

I’m just confused about how an argument erupted over whether someone painted their mud dots by hand or not

[dark violet]

I forgot the name of the "artist" but there's a guy selling literal polka dots for millions

Actual money laundering

[rare hornet]

Achievement unlocked: “How did we get here?”

[plush swift]

Elitism mostly, trying to tell me, someone who used a heavy bodied paint to stipple, that it wasnt stippled

[dark violet]

Or in glass encased pills for like 250million

Labeling it as art

[rare hornet]

That’s an absolute bargain

[dark violet]

Damien hirst

[grizzled jolt]

You're still going 🤣

[dark violet]

He's an asshole who doesn't even do the stuff himself

[plush swift]

Yayoi Kusama or Roy Lichtenstein

[dark violet]

And sells it for millions

[grizzled jolt]

I'll take it all 👌

[dark violet]

Actual waste of oxygen that guy

He has his assistants draw polka dots and then sells it

[plush swift]

That doesnt narrow it down at all to be fair

[dark violet]

For money laundering

[dark violet]

Said the name one message before

Damien hirst

[grizzled jolt]

It's crazy what people get away with

[dark violet]

It's not even a secret

[plush swift]

Was just about to say that one

[plush swift]

Money is a powerful tool

[grizzled jolt]

True. People will also pay for dumb things.. I mean shhhh we buy plastic army men

• expensive army men

[dark violet]

Plastic women if I may

[plush swift]

I just sell canvas and water color paintings i do

[rare hornet]

Plastic fungus I might add

[plush swift]

people are stupid enough to buy them

[dark violet]

The dreaded pink haired sister

I love how the relic chest turned out

Drenching it in agrax earthshade did wonders to it

[grizzled jolt]

The gold is nice and sleek I like it.

[dark violet]

All my sisters be golden warriors

Love em

[grizzled jolt]

I am sorry for being kinda an ass.

[grizzled jolt]

I wanna add some sisters to my ogryn army.

[plush swift]

we both got a little bit heated

[dark violet]

Sororitas are dope

Got warsuits to do and morvenn vahl

Literally highest rank normal human

Most powerful non demigod

[grizzled jolt]

I have two sister repentia, but want to get some sisters of battle (not sure what the common ones are called)

[dark violet]

Just battle sisters

Retributors are heavy weapons. Sacresants are the shield melee ones

Is it hard to believe I only started doing this end of January?

[plush swift]

No, I can believe it

[dark violet]

For your ogryns a retributor squad might fit best

A squad with heavy bolters, multi melta or heavy flamers

Little women with big guns fighting side by side with big lads

Older heavy bolter sister from my first squad

[sterile grail]

Thanks for the positive reinforcement @plush swift @brazen badger , I was thinking of removing the yellow on the knee because it looks strange with my infiltrator. But i dediced to press on with the theme for the shoulder, looks very decent with the arm, they seem to complement each other now.

[dark violet]

Looks clean

[balmy island]

One of my Custodes hope u enjoy it as I am doing it😅

[dark violet]

Golden boi

[brazen badger]

I just want my order to be delivered. I have no primer and I must paint.

And model too

[plush swift]

you dont need primer

I have a few documents about this proving its mostly pointless

[brazen badger]

"trust me bro"

[slender ridge]

Got no science behind it but from what i’ve tried it’s much easier to paint over a model that has been primed

[mental jolt]

same, primer is much nicer to paint on

[slender ridge]

It also can dictate how bright the colors are that are slapped on it

[mental jolt]

I think the argument is that a specific primer isn't needed for durability of the paint

[plush swift]

Got the science behind it and it doesnt help with paint adhesion at all because the surface tension of the paint is identical to the plastic. It doesn't adhere if the paint is low quality, and only feels nicer is you're using substandard paints. Like no joke, thats the actual science, it's a sign they didn't use enough wetting agent in the paint for it to have a correct dispersant for the pigment

[plush swift]

https://justpaint.org/acrylics-on-plastics/

https://justpaint.org/hand-painting-3d-prints-with-acrylics/

not a trust me bro moment, actual paint chemistry

I have more in depth documents than these too

[slender ridge]

I see. Well i will keep priming because i’m lazy and priming it black with a white spray from the top creates some lighting

Works great for a wacko painter like me

[plush swift]

Hey, it gets shit painted

thats all that matters

I still base coat with a black ink myself

[slender ridge]

Yea and the way i paint necrons i keep the joints and the in between parts black. Spraying it with a black primer just makes it much easier and faster for me

[mental jolt]

What constitutes a standard paint then? I've used kimera colours, scale75 (and artist), GW last gen and the generation before that, W&N heavy body artist acrylic, schminke heavy body acrylics, golden heavy body acrylics, Jo Sonja acrylics, a couple different brands of inks (daler rowley and liquitex at least) and none of them work as well on plastic (GW or otherwise) as they do over a layer of primer (spray can like gw, badgers stynylrez, molotow black).

[plush swift]

dont use heavy bodied paints on plastic, its pointless when fluid acrylics exist. But golden is the lowest grade I tough

[mental jolt]

might be, I dunno

[plush swift]

also heavy bodied paints have some weird issues with plastic

[mental jolt]

that's why I'm asking

[plush swift]

What country?

[mental jolt]

sweden

[plush swift]

Ahh

Ok, so your environment is actually one of the places were primer can give you some benefits

but not that much

[mental jolt]

cold and humidity I assume?

[plush swift]

Yes

[mental jolt]

well, I can paint straight on, but the first layer will kinda pool and pull away a bit from the creases

so it's annoying

[plush swift]

Also straight up in sweden, stick to paints like golden. Golden can be frozen at -30c and still work when thawed

[mental jolt]

better to just prime it and give it a zenithal at the same time c:

[plush swift]

one of the few paints that can be

conservation grade stuff is designed around that

[mental jolt]

I'm fortunate enough to store my paints in a heated room, so that's not that much of an issue

[plush swift]

shipping

[mental jolt]

and if transporting any of these paints applied to minis would be an issue here I would know about it, that shit would spread fast

oh, I usually don't order paints, much more fun to go look in the store, if I do order it's usually in warmer months

by chance, mind you

[plush swift]

Paints need to get shipped to your country

[mental jolt]

yeah, but if they don't work after I get them I just get new ones

as in, I return them to the store

consumer protection and all that

[plush swift]

I need to look more into sweden environmental things with paint, i have to go there in 4 months for about a week

[mental jolt]

oh, working on a museeum piece or something? or is it "can't talk about it"

[plush swift]

Industry convention and some "can't talk about it" things

[mental jolt]

cool

[plush swift]

I cant talk about them because I literally dont know whats happening at the moment

[mental jolt]

fair, fair

[plush swift]

My mentor had all the plans written down, but he died last week so I have no idea whats happening

Just know I'm still going

[mental jolt]

is it BICCS? (don't have to answer if you don't want to)

[plush swift]

I believe so

[mental jolt]

it would check out time wise as well

I'm only vaguely aware of it since one of the larger universities is involved

Hopefully you'll find it enjoyable.

oh, and on another note, we discussed paintbrushes a while back, and you were gonna get me a list with good synthetic escoda brushes. No rush or anything, just wanted to remind you in case you forgot.

[plush swift]

I did actually forget, got kind of preoccupied with life

[mental jolt]

guessed it was something like that. Like I said, no stress about it.

[plush swift]

yeah i'll try to get you a list soon, been sort of busy

[mental jolt]

Don't worry about it, I have plenty of brushes already. x)

[frozen basalt]

Angron! Blood for the Blood God!!

[mental jolt]

Skulls for the golden skull throne!

[primal summit]

All the base stuff down. Now in to the fine detail.

[cosmic topaz]

Mannn that looks freakin awesome

Kharn I just finished

[golden night]

those helmet horns look great

[cosmic topaz]

Those kain figures are so damn cool.

[primal summit]

Just the base left. Dunno if I should just cover the eyes lol there kinda rubbish. 😂

[jagged sparrow]

Armageddon dust?

[primal summit]

Yarp trying it out.

[jagged sparrow]

Looks good

I use it on my necrons and dry brush with Tryant skull. Makes it look amazing

[primal summit]

Cheers 🤘.. Kinda sad I didn’t get the Valhallan blizzard instead but Armageddon dust is pretty cool 🙂

[jagged sparrow]

How’d you get the chunks to pile up so high?

[naive umbra]

I feel the main problem is the eyes just look too big for his head. If you try again, see if you can get the dots a lot smaller

[primal summit]

Put plenty on and I have a spare dry brush and was pushing it about into place.

[jagged sparrow]

Huh. Mine is always a little watery

[primal summit]

Yeah they are really weird couldn’t get the paint off my smaller brush into the model. Also I might need a magnifier of sort haha 🤣

[primal summit]

I noticed that starting to happen with mine I just left the pot open for a while to try dry it out.. dunno if it actually did anything but in my brain it worked lol 🤣

[naive umbra]

I usually just end up doing a nuln oil wash to bring out detail in the face without actually painting eyes. From arms length it gives the illusion of the eyes being there, like this

[sudden notch]

Nuln for face?

[naive umbra]

Yeah, I prefer it to agrax since I find it looks more like shadow while agrax looks like dirt

[sudden notch]

Ive used agrax fleshshade

[naive umbra]

If you make the face too dirty with nuln, it's easy to touch up the raised areas with skin tone again

[sudden notch]

Havent even thought of using nuln oil for the skin parts

[naive umbra]

I always just use them like nuln = shadows and agrax = dirt and grime, whatever the surface

[primal summit]

🤔 interesting. Never thought of using either for face I usually default to reikland

[naive umbra]

For the actual skin tones my favourite recipe is mixing cadian fleshtone with flayed one flesh. You can leave it more cadian for darker more tanned skin, or add more flayed for paler.

[sudden notch]

Ive never used multiple shades together

Only 1 for each part

[naive umbra]

I'm not a huge fan of most of the flesh tones as is from the pots. The pale ones seem to lack a bit of colour to make them look like a living being, and the darker ones are too orange like fake tan, so toning either one up or down with the other a touch seems to make a big difference

Or alternatively you can just play T'au like I do, and not have to worry about realistic flesh tones, since a few shades of blue layered looks great and nobody can tell you it doesn't look "real" enough

Or eyes, since a touch of yellow in the socket looks fine too

[primal summit]

My fav is Kislev, I’ve got a few diff like plaid witch and flayed flesh to name another few. I like to mix them for same reason as you mentioned lol.

[sudden notch]

Me being smoothbrained and only being able to use single colours without added shades

[glossy hawk]

I need something other than black primer on the body

maybe a drybrush of silver along the edges?

[naive umbra]

It's easy enough to stir a few together on your palette and see what shade you get. You can always add more of one or another to change it if you're not 100% happy before putting it to the model.

[sudden notch]

I dont have palette

I just scoop straight from can

Im an actual ape with brush

[naive umbra]

Oh ok, well even a piece of cardboard will do in a pinch, if you want to mix paint. But I'd definitely recommend getting a palette at some point. Doesn't have to be a fancy wet palette, I just use one of those plastic ones.

[sudden notch]

My painting is essentially "least effort required" road

If i paint 5 sm its done under hour or half

[naive umbra]

I actually envy people who can do that and be happy with their minis. I'd have a hell of a lot more painted if I could do that lol

[sudden notch]

Well it tilts me to be honest

Im like "man i want to paint how its in box"

5 mins in im just fuck it and just put little leadbelcher on joints and some other parts

[naive umbra]

Nobody gets there overnight. You should see some of the first minis I did when I was painting LotR minis from GW like a decade ago. The more you do, the better you'll get, and there's no real shortcut to get there

[sudden notch]

Maybe once im doing contemptor dread i use slightly more time

But i first needs to finish those 2 damn dawneagles that are sitting half unassembled 3rd month now

[naive umbra]

I'm still at assembly stage with my army. Have barely done any painting except priming a bunch of the earlier ones I assembled. Priority 1 for me is assembling everything so I can at least use them on the table with a mate I play with, then will slowly start painting everything up.

My current assembly project is a box of Farstalker Kinband. Just assembled the tracker today.

[sudden notch]

I pretty much have painted things as soon as i have assembled them

Except those bikes

I felt so disapointed with 1st one i havent gathered energy for the last 2