40k-minis-and-armies

[pastel grotto]

But on a 4+ against a vehicle it deals 12 mortal wounds

So

[rare hornet]

Sorry ignore me I forgot that that anti rule was for criticals

I thought it was always wounded whatever on a X+

Going of that then. Harpoon is more consistent for doing da big number but the volcano has a higher damage cap

So harpoon will not one shot a shadowsword, but a shadowsword can potentially one shot a castellan

[lofty bridge]

Volcano cannon easily wins that

But knight valiants are mid anyway

[rare hornet]

I would take the ranged version over the harpoon version anyway

[lofty bridge]

Well Valiant has the harpoon, castellan has the volcano lance

And the volcano lance goes nuts

[rare hornet]

Yeah I wouldn’t take the valiant

The questioris knights can do the close combat role much better

[lofty bridge]

My dominus is a castellan and it goes hard as fuck

Just insta kills basically anything it shoots

Then I have my paladin melee anything that gets close enough to threaten him

[rare hornet]

I have a questoris and two armigers

Gonna take chainsword and battle cannon and then two meltas and chainfists

[lofty bridge]

I'm waiting for my 4 Armigers to ship

Then I'll just need 2 more and I'll have my 2k list done

[rare hornet]

I’m thinking of painting my knights as the pre heresy house vextrix colour scheme

Because then I can use them in 40K and Horus heresy

[lofty bridge]

My knights will all be freeblades and all of them will have different color schemes

[rare hornet]

That’s a cool idea

[lofty bridge]

Yea I have the two big boys built

Then by the end I'll have 4 helverins and 2 warglaives

[vale pollen]

Hell yeah man, I'm just gettin started

[midnight locust]

Do people glue on armored tracks or just snug fit them? (Russ/chimera)

[lofty bridge]

I glue mine

I paint them before I glue them on though

[midnight locust]

Ah okay. Also say you are running a heavy stubber on a Russ. Can you run the crewman using it or does that make it count as a tank commander?

[lofty bridge]

I'd say it could be confused for a tank commander

But tank commanders are badass so

[midnight locust]

Mm. Duly noted

[midnight locust]

Also any suggestions on a color for the armored sentinel view slit?

Thinking like a blue with a highlight of a white/grey

[floral wind]

My first attempt at a Cadian Shock Troop. This one in particular being of the 110th Shadow Corps. I'll admit I've not done the skin much justice but I'm still learning skin tones and faces in general

[rapid lake]

What did you use for that skin tone? I like that but I am looking to make it paler so I been using this Necro color from Army Painter

[floral wind]

Based with ushabti bone. Washed with sepia. Then with a 2:1 white/bugmans glow on top.

[formal lichen]

Looks great, like how his foot is stuck in the mud

[floral wind]

Thank you. I have yet to drybrush it or varnish yet so I shall probably re-upload it at some point in the future :3

[pastel grotto]

I love it

[floral wind]

Thank you kindly! :3

[lavish rune]

anyone an idea how to do celestines wings justice? started with retribut. gold but i have no idea how to highlight them

[midnight locust]

Would recommend a wash if you have it, will help bring out facial features

[floral wind]

I did wash it beforehand. I just went too heavy on highlighting it

[midnight locust]

Ah I gotcha. Yeah it's kinda tricky to layer on minis like that

[jaunty trail]

How about some chrome highlighting of the wings?

[final rune]

Hey does anyone have good tips for kitbashing the Queen Bess from Total War Warhammer?

I wanna make a Vampire Coast army by kitbashing a bunch of Cities of Sigmar Models

[desert wyvern]

Ty! I used Vallejo The Shifters - Space Dust - Electric Blue/Intense Violet for the ends of his wings, tabbard and hands!

[sweet sinew]

Y’all are the paint masters, I want to get that Arbites kill team box. And I want to paint them to look somewhat like Robocop, how do you recommend I go about it?

[midnight locust]

Base work on progress

[cursive gyro]

WIP of dat damned trukk

[final rune]

I’m no paint master but try getting something to add a slight bit of rust

[sweet sinew]

Oh yeah! I did an HH era predator and got to master rust there. My fears with doing Robocop Arbites is how to achieve that slight iridescent effect he has

[glossy hawk]

this made me realize chaos arbites would go fucking insane

amazingly hard

[sweet sinew]

Idk if our boys in spikes have police, so maybe chaos Arbites would be squads of executioners, all with hoods and cleavers, maybe some type of mobile guillotine emplacement

[glossy hawk]

i meant in the sense of an arbite precinct turned chaos

[sweet sinew]

Oh yeah, true. Spikes galore!

[tender ocean]

If your going for that look, I’d recommend starting with a matte black primer, then dry brushing a darker silver(leadbelcher)metallic over the main armor panels, then use something brighter like iron hands steel to highlight the raised areas of the armor. I’d say that’s a simple way to get a look similar to what your looking for i.m.o.

[sweet sinew]

Saving this for later, I’ll be sure to send pics if I decide to go Robocop style

[tender ocean]

Only think I want to add now that I’m thinking about it, before you dry brush the highlight of Iron hands steel, you might want to use a light coat of nuln oil shading to bring out the details

[pastel grotto]

Who would win
Hydra anti air gun
Or
New winged Tyranid prime

[rare hornet]

My money is on the prime

[lavish crescent]

My current my painter lot of models, except my krieg

[midnight locust]

Any suggestions on how to weather boxes like this?

[hearty bear]

leadbelcher

[brisk vapor]

actually probably one of the vallejo metal air metallic paints through an airbrush if you have one

those have a silky smooth end result

[spring arch]

Painting the Arbites like Robocop is heresy

https://tenor.com/view/dredd-burn-watching-apathy-karl-urban-gif-20285124

Anyway, this month's free mini at Warhammer stores is an Arbites. Go and get one if you have a store nearby so you can 'test' your scheme on one 🙂

[sweet sinew]

Oh that was the other idea I had, but I figured some silver dudes would look nice

I saw this somewhere and felt inspired

[jovial siren]

Noice

Nevermind, closest GW store for me is 150km away. No mini for me

[formal lichen]

Finally finished it.. 500pts to go

[cinder bear]

Fancy maulers

[midnight locust]

More infantry or a Leman Russ. What to paint next…

[formal lichen]

The russ

[onyx void]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtmjC4dK0P8 ?

[sweet sinew]

Thank you!

[onyx void]

Or: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7Mh1iLttVQ

[slender ridge]

Everytime i try to slapchop i get super obvious brush lines from the contrast paints

Have tried it with several brushes and its always streaky does anyone know what causes this?

[midnight locust]

Do you mix it with contrast medium?

[slender ridge]

No what is that?

[midnight locust]

Sorry that was for a different server : /

To your question, I’m unfortunately unsure as I’m still learning contrast paints myself

[slender ridge]

Ah alright no worries

[plush swift]

this video triggers me hard, there is so much disinformation in there... like an extreme amount to the point the video would be taken down normally if it wasn't amount paint.

I have never seen a video get so much wrong about paint chemistry before

[plush swift]

well, it is called FAUXhammer (false in french)

[floral wind]

Thought I'd try something different today and painted a Silver Skulls space marine. Varnish and transfers pending.

[final folio]

Black rim left. But damn fuck trim. Here ya go the boys are done. No blood.. for now.

[midnight locust]

Kasrkin were available for the US for 20 minutes before getting gone again

[hushed tangle]

Dang, guess I'm lucky I had got some before

[teal wolf]

Hell ya gladiator colors. Nice work!

[pine yacht]

Holy. Shit. How'd you paint the steel? It looks incredible!

[sweet sinew]

Thank you all for the suggestions and tutorials, y’all are the experts. So you’ll probably see more questions from me later down the line

Currently moving but this was my last work of art

[hearty bear]

Bro i just want my hierotek circle why are they always out of stock

[final rune]

Still getting used to painting but here he is. The first of my Dark Angels intercessors

[grizzled jolt]

Putting together a diorama.

[midnight locust]

Do people tend to wash their base before dry dusting or after dry dusting?

[grizzled jolt]

I usually add a wash firs yeah

[icy ledge]

Currently doing admech boarding patrol

[glossy hawk]

BROTHER IN BROOOD

[plush swift]

Depends on what on doing.

[crude solstice]

i kind of want this

[sweet sinew]

I had a similar idea, I was gonna cut up my leftover sprues into small rectangles, hit em with gritty sandpaper, and then paint them to look like chipped and bashed bricks

[brazen badger]

Nice and clean, as all things should be.

[grizzled jolt]

Update on my diorama.

[sudden notch]

nice

im working on eldar and grey knight kill team right now

[plain crag]

That model sick, send it!

[sweet sinew]

Love the little flowers

[grizzled jolt]

Thanks.

[glossy hawk]

Stunning

it’s like a diorama but you can use it ingame

[midnight locust]

It’s definitely why I like larger bases, lends more room for creativity

[coarse badger]

Do lascannons take shells

[midnight locust]

Nope

But you gotta practice your reload drills

(Cannon is magnetized I just happened to have the lascannon on there)

[final folio]

Vallejo metal air silver + iron hand steel

[plush swift]

That's called a vignette

[glossy hawk]

oh neat

ty for telling me

[mild canyon]

"COME AT ME YOU XENOS SCUM"

[rare hornet]

Thighs

[grizzled jolt]

Awesome. Happy seeing more and more being made.

[midnight locust]

Battleramas are definitely fun

[wary trench]

gigachad titanicus player

[obtuse monolith]

anyone got some painted ravenguard they can show off

im thinking of getting into the hobby and my first choice rn is ravenguard

[wary trench]

painting black is kind of hard my friend

I have black Templars, take my word for it

[simple thorn]

Oh hey, the saviours of...fuck, I can't remember the name of the planet. Melody? Symphony? The singing planet.

[desert wyvern]

bang up job. love that giant ass model.

[proven marsh]

Well it was fookin one of yooz

[jagged sparrow]

I thought he was riding his chainsword like a broomstick for a sec

[proven marsh]

advanced heresy

[visual turret]

The face on this came out really well, I’m chuffed to bits

Lined up w/ the rest of them and the 4 I painted like the DRG crew. Got one left…..

[rare hornet]

Did I hear a rock and stone?

They looking very well done

[rare hornet]

I’m loving the little cyber eye on the front right one

[visual turret]

thank you!

he's the one i just did and i am stupidly proud of the face

[rare hornet]

Understandably so. You did an amazing job

[visual turret]

my pile of shame lessens

I have 5 more carcharodons left, 5 heavy intercessors, 3 brokhyr thunderkyn.... 10 skitarii, a couple sisters and some necrons

and half-done chronomancer

lol

[rare hornet]

That is a rather small pile of shame

Actually no, hold on

[mental jolt]

I see one still in shrink-wrap

[rare hornet]

Now behold the pile of shame 😅

[mental jolt]

yeah, that's a good idea x)
(It's not really legible on the old image, but still)

[rare hornet]

Doesn’t hurt 😅

[mental jolt]

ye

on an unrelated note, how big is that biscuit tin, it might just be perspective or whatever, but it looks huge

[rare hornet]

Oh it is big. You can easily fit a battlewaggon in it

[mental jolt]

._.

Truly, I have today witnessed the majesty of the land of tea and biscuits. (I'm assuming it's a UK thing)

[rare hornet]

Yes.

[visual turret]

It’s going to get insurmountably bigger when I pick up Leviathan

[rare hornet]

That’s what she- ahem I mean same honestly I can’t wait for that to be released

I have a friend who’s getting all the nids from my box and theirs.

[mental jolt]

some of the tyranids look kinda neat

[visual turret]

The terminators look so good, never painted Nids before but excited to. The Librarian and Apothecary are my biggest interest

They look gorgeous

[rare hornet]

I play Templars to the librarian is useless to me. Buuuut I am getting grey knights :D

[visual turret]

I paint to paint, not to play. If i did it'd be votann and if I were playing a SM chapter it'd be carcharodons. I posted the Atlan Forge tyberos stand-in a while back here

Void Lord Tangaroa

[rare hornet]

That’s fair enough. You don’t have to play at all

[mental jolt]

I'm hoping 10 gets me playing, but we'll see, so far I mostly paint single models here and there

[visual turret]

exactly

i pick up the models that look cool to paint

got the stnadalone techmarine a long while ago and he looks good but I reckon i could do it way better now

[rare hornet]

Same here. I just don’t know when to stop 😅

[visual turret]

I wanna pick up szeras in time for the series coming out

[mental jolt]

so you're collecting/painting miniatures then?

it's basically just part of the hobby

[visual turret]

I have always loved how cool Szeras' model is

I have also been banking on, since the reveal of the new Terminator models, that we'd get a better/new Tyberos model

[visual turret]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/824214212007821342/1103921316169523281/D1D6EF05-26C3-4CF4-B465-76EA67CE3707.gif

[mental jolt]

yeah, those x)

[rare hornet]

Smol brain bug

[visual turret]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/770401165585285169/1107969839454244895/79FD45A4-2F12-4BFE-91E8-7DC143045F51.gif

BIG brain bug

[rare hornet]

Cha cha real smooth

[mental jolt]

those three are basically what interest me in the whole faction x)

[visual turret]

I've never painted tyranids but I think that's because I'm afraid of the 'natural'-ness of them

in the sense of - Tyranids do not have the strength and certainty of steel the clean, plain armour panelling of, say.... marine/humanity-aligned armour or necrodermis

they're natural, and the highlights etc. on the carapace of Tyranids is an intimidating thing

[mental jolt]

you could still paint it cleanly, treat the carapace as armour and the waggly bits as flesh (albeit lighter)

[rare hornet]

yeah i know what you mean, contrast paints could be worth an investigate?

[visual turret]

potentially!

ashamedly, I don't edge highlight X)

washes are enough for me to treat a model as 'looking good'

[rare hornet]

same here

[mental jolt]

as long as you're happy and enjoying the process there's nothing wrong with it

[visual turret]

:)

Primed up these three to do at some point too

I’ve had enough of dwarves rn, done a bunch over the past couple days

[rare hornet]

ooooo

i like

[mental jolt]

is that an arbitaes in the center?

or however they spell space police

[visual turret]

yes

arbites

it's the GW free mini of the month

I realised before priming i put the big shoulder pad on wrong so I had to pry it off and re-glue it

[rare hornet]

wouldn't even notice honestly

[visual turret]

oh I did

there's a dimple and buckle on the back that very obviously stood out as needing something to go in it

[mental jolt]

it looks pretty good
I assume the free mini thing is purchase x amount or whatever?

[rare hornet]

ah i gotcha

[mental jolt]

Also, for safety, don't leave spraycans in direct sunlight. It shouldn't be an issue, but just in case.

[rare hornet]

At the moment I'm trying to finish off thunder thighs in the form of my warbringer titan

[rare hornet]

Spicy paint

[mental jolt]

spicy pressurised paint

[visual turret]

DW I wasn't out there for much longer than priming :)

[visual turret]

Nope! you literally just go in and go "hi i'd like to do the free mini of the month" and the GW guys go "awesome!" and shuffle you over to a bench w/ a sprue, clippers and glue and you build it

completely free, don't even need to buy anything

[mental jolt]

assumed as much, just wanted to be sure. explosion of black paint everywhere is no fun x)

huh, neat, shame GW stores are quite a ways away from me

[rare hornet]

Just place all the models you need to prime around it and then let the magic happen

[visual turret]

whereabouts are you located?

[mental jolt]

in sweden, but it's at least 2h on a good traffic day, and those are rare

[visual turret]

because yeah they're in most major cities here in the UK but I guess elsewhere there are less and less of them

ahh yeah

I have a friend in Norway and the closest is Oslo, but he's miles and miles away

a similar story

[rare hornet]

I'm actually impressed there is a store in sweden

[mental jolt]

there's at least two

I do have a flgs in my town, so that's nice at least

[rare hornet]

To be fair they're not massively common here in the UK

GW prefer online

[mental jolt]

that was not the case a decade or so ago

you had multiple stores in several cities in the uk x)

[visual turret]

every city I have been to has had one.

[rare hornet]

Oh no I remember there being one not far from mine where had a huge space marine above the door

[rare hornet]

I only know of one to be fair

[mental jolt]

it does change with the times though, they've moved from GW stores to "Warhammer" stores

[visual turret]

there's loadsa independent retailers, and a good few GW stores directly

at least within 100 miles of my town

[rare hornet]

Apologies for the really low quality picture, but this is the only one I could find

[mental jolt]

That's neat

[visual turret]

another fun thing is the GW stores know all the other stores country-wide

I went to the opposite end of the UK and was in Glasgow, mentioned im from southampton and the guys in the store talked about how they know it's a smaller shop and knew one of the dudes there

[rare hornet]

Ah okay if we're talking shops that sell GW stuff then yeah I know many. I was talking about actual Warhammer themselves shops

[visual turret]

turning independent off shows there's still lots

[mental jolt]

Here's the boy I'm currently working on

[visual turret]

very nice!!

I've found some gorgeous 3d-prints of a mechanical tyranid army. I know GW are very touchy and none-too-pleased about 3d print stuff but the things people can make are gorgeous sometimes

[rare hornet]

Oh, ignore me then. Google maps doesn't want to be helpful

[rare hornet]

That's awesome

[mental jolt]

this is official GW stuff only, and some brass and greenstuff (brass for pinning and because the tiny thing at the front was fragile in plastic)

well, the base isn't, but if they think bark is dumb they're dumb >:c

[visual turret]

oh no i just mean in general lol

[mental jolt]

yeah, GW have a... complicated stance on things, I wish they would stick to making cool models

[visual turret]

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1362591088/the-makers-cult-iron-hive-dimaxatron?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=tyranid&ref=sr_gallery-1-1&sts=1&organic_search_click=1
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1362612984/the-makers-cult-iron-hive-hormax-termax?click_key=616e0f9367afd7d5f287ec87a70cffc5a8bd8ad3%3A1362612984&click_sum=bed428ec&ref=shop_home_recs_3&sts=1
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1362606620/the-makers-cult-iron-hive-pyro-tos?click_key=7b959eaca262a7eb79a99f9ae2594220a229aac3%3A1362606620&click_sum=6f7193df&ref=shop_home_recs_6&sts=1

these three

makers cult do some awesome stuff

[mental jolt]

the last one looks pretty sick tbh

[visual turret]

Pyrovore stand-in

[rare hornet]

Anyone else getting massive Wolfenstein vibes from the last one?

[visual turret]

yeah it';s the head lol

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1376470059/the-makers-cult-knight-centaur?click_key=7e2a4325c8773bbf6df0d95643ed6089d591c30f%3A1376470059&click_sum=4104a085&ref=shop_home_recs_2&crt=1&sts=1

there's this too

[mental jolt]

the new ones? yeah, kinda

[visual turret]

centaur conversion kit for knights

[rare hornet]

That is cursed

but I love it

I can't wait to start my knights

[jovial siren]

Done with him. Damn it's hard to apply what they show you in the lense glow tutorials.

[visual turret]

love the weathering

[rare hornet]

That is amazing

[mental jolt]

yep, takes good practice to pull off glow, but you seem to have done an okay job here. :)

[jovial siren]

I think I should have used a bigger palette of contrasts, but aside from "bloody red" , I have no other red tones and my pallete paper was too much used up for a mixing session. Should've changed. But still it's really fiddly with getting the right texture from the thickness of the paint. Next time. But thank you all 🙏. It's cool to see some progress every time, especially compared to my warhammer fantasy creatures

[visual turret]

Curious, what chapter is this?

A homebrewed one, a pre-existing one or just a nice colour scheme?

[jovial siren]

I would go for custom. I tried to mix together the sons of horus scheme because I really like the color and after my s.o. has seen some pictures, I was kind of ordered to paint it in that green she likes that tone.
Let's say they are one of Cawls totally not traitor geneseed primaris from the Sons of Apollon Chapter or something

[mental jolt]

Ah yes, the mint marines. :^)

(That green reminds me of mint.)

[left egret]

@rare hornet I ask you now as the resident Iron warriors veteran. How would you paint a leviathan siege dreadnought?

I'm magnetizing the monster so I can switch the guns out as I please

[rare hornet]

I'd say silver armour, black knee and shoulder pads. Then do one of the front sides with the stripes

[left egret]

So only one side ok the front armor with stripes?

[rare hornet]

Yeah of both can work

there's no right way to do it really. Which I like about HH

[left egret]

Also why make the knees black? Does it make the details pip out better?

[rare hornet]

Breaks up the silver a bit

Like so

[left egret]

Makes sense. Think I'll yoink that idea

[sweet sinew]

I enjoy adding gore to my builds, how did you achieve the “ground-beef” gore? I kinda want to stick some of that onto the treads of my next tank

[rare hornet]

So that is using stirland battlemire. the mud you see all over the base is that. Then it was just wait for it to dry and paint it red and add appropriate washes

[rare hornet]

feel free

[sweet sinew]

Perfection, thank you

[rare hornet]

no worries ^^

[rare hornet]

Just watch out when trying to apply it. It can be a little uncontrollable at times, something like a coffee stirrer is what you need

[sweet sinew]

Is it hard to apply to smaller details? Like a piece of gore stuck to a tiny bayonet

[rare hornet]

not too bad, but i would suggest have a test on a bigger thing first

i have managed to put some on the mace a guardsman was holding decently

[brazen badger]

Good to see a fellow dark angel on here. Keep it up!

[mental jolt]

It's called "being inspired by" in art.

[final rune]

Yeah boy

[brazen badger]

https://tenor.com/view/warhammer40k-dark-angels-tts-gif-21604305

[slender ridge]

Smash

[brisk vapor]

First test model for Ithakas Dynasty

[mental jolt]

Very cool

[pastel grotto]

Looks Hella like sautek. Absolutely gorgeous though

[jagged sparrow]

Oooooo. My favorite dynasty

[visual turret]

he is the law

gonna make the gloves black, tho

[brazen badger]

Very good, very clean. Keep it up!

[rigid ginkgo]

I AM THE LAWN

[sweet sinew]

Yooooo I’m about to buy this kit, how are you enjoying it?

[simple thorn]

Why do Arbites look like better Guardsmen

[naive umbra]

Guardsmen probably look at them and think "All the gear, no idea."

[naive umbra]

I love the more muted shades you're going for. Looks way better on FSE than the really bright red imo

[brisk vapor]

The difference with Sautek and Ihtakas is pretty minimal when it comes to lowly warriors, only the carapace is lighter silver instead of the slightly more duller shine of Sautek

Sorry meant to reply to @pastel grotto

[jagged sparrow]

Where’d you get references images for their dynastic colors? All I’ve ever seen them represented is twice dead king

[brisk vapor]

Asked the author 😄

just descriptions though

[jagged sparrow]

Couldn’t find images. Went directly to author. What a field trip lmao

[brisk vapor]

he's pretty cool like that, being semi active on social media and will answer questions directed to him

[jagged sparrow]

What are you planning for the higher ranking nobles and soldiers

Any other colors besides silver?

[brisk vapor]

Well gold obviously, some with more some with less. Mentep will also accompany them with his white carapace and so will Xott. Destroyers will be red carapaced

Not quite sure yet what to do with vehicle constructs

Immortals will be gold trimmed in certain areas as well

[lavish crescent]

Finished this dude last night, those eyes were such a pain I just said fuck it and gave up xD

[rare hornet]

I love him!!!

[visual turret]

This is just the mini of the month so I don’t have all of them yet - if I did I’d have done this one sooner. It’s a fun paint, good kit - gotta have some super clean cuts otherwise certain bits don’t quite fit together.

[heady lotus]

Yeah I was getting really annoyed at the shiny look and wanted to matt it down.

Basically I used the slap chop method for the first time and I think for the tau right now it works.

[jovial siren]

holy cow, that looks slick, cool paint pattern

[vital skiff]

Been lurking in the server for a while, here's an Iron Warriors sicaran

[lavish crescent]

One piece of advice, get a wet palette

You'll fall in love with it

Also shadow sun needs to die for messing with our boy kitten!

[rare hornet]

YES LOVE IT!!!!!

I can't wait to start my Kratos

Can I ask what silver you used for the base?

[midnight locust]

I’ve been considering trying out a different painting scheme for my guard to separate command squad vets from common grunts. Been toying between urban camo ala Cadian 122nd or something closer to Kasrkin jagged jungle camo. (For reference my cadians are the stock Cadian 8th khaki and olive green). Which would mesh best and not be too outlandish? Or should I just stick with khaki and olive green?

[brazen badger]

This will be fun

[native sluice]

eating Azrael

[naive umbra]

My favourite part of this model is the little helm bearer.

[brazen badger]

Izrael

[brazen badger]

watchers in the dark, I'm going to make mine carry the scabbard. I like my models helmeted.

[native sluice]

Wazrael

[brazen badger]

Assrael

[naive umbra]

Hey as long as the little fella is carrying something. Hell, find a little golden chalice or something and he can be Azrael's cupbearer

[jovial siren]

they have different arm parts as choice in the set? Thats cool

[brazen badger]

not really, you get the choice of head and what the watcher is carrying

that's about it sadly

[jovial siren]

so you can make him carry a surrogate helmet, while arzreal already wears one?

[mental jolt]

"Sire, your helmet is dirty, please equip the spare one so I may polish your primary"

[brazen badger]

well I could, but I won't. Though that would be pretty funny XD

[hearty bear]

Does anyone know what destroyer model this is? I’ve seen it everywhere but don’t have a name for it

[dark violet]

First guess would be lokhust heavy destroyers

[lavish crescent]

Looks custom ngl

[pastel grotto]

Lokhust heavy destroyer

[jagged sparrow]

Lokhust heavy destroyer

And I think that’s a gauss destructor on them

[coarse badger]

Pretty hot

[lavish crescent]

That last guy ain’t pretty hot, that Mf is gorgeous

[compact umbra]

AAAA I LOVE THEM

[jovial siren]

The sacred Rune

[gloomy dragon]

So I started my first mini and am working on the cloak of a custodes in allarus terminator armour and was wondering if there's a way to fix these mistakes. Notice how it looks uneven and botchy?

[vital skiff]

The silver I actually sponged on after everything else, it's dull aluminum from Vallejo, it's an airbrush paint, but eh, it's pretty cheap, you don't need to thin it, and there is a lot of it in a pot

[rare hornet]

ooooh okay, makes sense

[vital skiff]

I actually have a kratos done, want to see it?

[rare hornet]

absolutely

[vital skiff]

I also did the melta gun, but I just forgot to throw it on for the photos

[slender ridge]

Probably gonna change the head since the colors are kinda meh any ideas?

[rare hornet]

ooooh that looks great, I'll have to see what I can do when I paint mine

[mental jolt]

Assuming that the mini was smooth and that there were no issues with the primer, what paint are you using? It looks like you might've applied it too thick for the section where it's built up bumps. The portion that looks thinner could be from touching the area as the paint was drying. You have a window of time when applying paint to the model to work it, but then you have to let it dry. (Drying time depends on the paint and some other factors.)

[gloomy dragon]

So primer was retributer armour and then I based it with Khorne Red. Then I applied nuln oil and it was still smooth and fine up to this point. The next step was highlighting with Mephiston red but I did it wrong so i tried to cover it up and start from scratch and now it is the way it is

[gloomy dragon]

But I think you're right, I don't think I gave it enough drying time and I didn't thin it out enough I think

[mental jolt]

You don't need to thin it a lot, you probably were just too eager to redo it. Best option would probably be to strip it (remove the paint from the mini) and start over, it doesn't sound like you were too far along with the painting. Or you could try removing just the lumpy bits, but you'll have to do some work to get it even with the rest, and to match the colour

[gloomy dragon]

I'll try a bitch of matching first on that spot and see how it comes out and go from there. Not too eager to start stripping yet but I have considered it. Fortunately, it's not a super noticeable thing unless you stare at it as long as I do, but at the end of the day, i'm the one who knows its there which is the annoying part

[mental jolt]

yeah

If the difference isn't huge (difficult to say based on a photo) you could do thin layers to match the height.

the most important part is that it's not too watery (the paint will simply pool and run away from where you want it) and that it dries

[gloomy dragon]

Yeah it's not tooo too thick from what I can see. Thank you though for the feedback!! Still pretty satisfied with it overall considering it's my first one. But it's also not too hard since all it is is gold LOL

[mental jolt]

~~Don't worry, you can overcomplicate the gold later. ~~

[tiny jay]

Only thing I don't like abou the new model is the side mag, where he had his neat bullpup bolter before.

Also yee, puppetswar bits arrived for my pantsnatchers.

[brazen badger]

I like both tbh.

[white tangle]

@brisk vapor Out of curiosity, how long does it take you to paint like a space marine?

[brisk vapor]

I don't much time my work and I often work in units, but the last 10 man squad I painted for my Sons of Horus took me two weeks or so

But if I were to just do a single marine I suppose I could have it done in an evening or two

Minus drying times

[white tangle]

I haven't painted much in the last month and come back to it now and I've spent nearly a full day on a single fire warrior and its just super demotivating sitting on something for so long and not even being happy with the result. Guess i'm gonna have to change some strategies around to speed up the process. Thanks for the info!

[brisk vapor]

It also takes time to develop your own workflow, especially when starting a new army and such. At least for me

After painting 300-400 minis some things just have started to slot in places and you don't think about what to do next more so you just know how to do it

I'm actually in the process of learning a new workflow at the moment for my new Necron army for I really have avoided using metallic paints for the life of me and now I'm relearning to use them more effectively and for better results

[white tangle]

Wow. I'm in the process of painting my 12th mini lol. Considering i've only painted space marines and only now done a poxwalker, sister and fire warrior i failed to consider the development of a workflow. I dont think its helping that ive traded the minis off a friend and cough cough they are already constructed and primed but the mould lines and construction quality is not great. But hey, we move.

Also i bought a airbrush so its insane for things like basecoats

[brisk vapor]

I too got one only last summer, been a boon for my SoH

[white tangle]

Yeah i remeber you posting your dreadnoughts and they looked insane. I am far off from doing anything fancy like that but primarily speed of base coating was a godsent

[brisk vapor]

I may have exaggerated a bit with the amount of minis I've painted now that I think about it, probably closer to 200

Well maybe 300

Definitely under 300

[white tangle]

I'm gonna guess that's with batch painting to help along the way. I am terrified to begin batch paining because of my speed but i have a kill team cut out ready to prime and do my first batch paint.

Also when doing your minis, how much edge highlighting do you do because i try to crudely imitate the Eavymetal style and the time issue that im having might just be a cause of the process.

[mental jolt]

Unless you're in a hurry to meet a deadline don't think about time, you'll naturally get faster with practice. For now you need to learn the basic skills. It's a "learn to walk before you learn to run" kind of deal.

[white tangle]

Yeah, guess you're right. its just that ive been painting for around 5 months now (on and off) but i dont have much to show. And when going on youtube, just sucks seeing ppl crank out results that mine cant even compare to and they do it in like 1/5th of the time

but hey, we move

[mental jolt]

1. those are edited
2. if it's any of the larger youtubers they might have it as their (part time) job, meaning more time to paint
3. they already have the years of practice, most of them anyway

[tawny topaz]

Been a while since I posted anything on here but I’m pushing through a manipulus techpriest

[midnight locust]

I’m unsure if I should thicken the black lines

[visual turret]

We finished him

He is the law

(Feat. The only basing detail I’ve ever done, some double-yellows)

[sweet sinew]

Beautiful, should get some spikes and do a chaos looking Judge Death

[zenith glen]

Holy shit. That is so fucking cool.

[naive umbra]

The black gloves really turned it up a notch from your last post. Looks great. And I love that green.

[tawny topaz]

Tis complete

[brisk vapor]

I used to do it to every edge but nowadays I just focus it on the edges that I feel get the most light. If something that really helps to train your brush handling skills. My largest army is Ultramarines and I've edge highlighted pretty much all of them

[sudden notch]

Custodes army gonna be ballin soon

[sterile grail]

gun metal details

[sudden notch]

Very nice

[stray elm]

Took me a while and the base needs to touch up but this guy from the black stone fortress stuff looks alright

[lavish crescent]

You planning to make a relic dreadnought?

[simple thorn]

It's been awhile so here, have some more glyphids Votann-centric Tyranids
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/650272600399806464/1110468661904429128/IMG_20230523_172438.jpg
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/650272600399806464/1110468662235775007/IMG_20230523_172446.jpg
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/650272600399806464/1110468662562922546/IMG_20230523_172455.jpg
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/650272600399806464/1110468662898479104/IMG_20230523_172503.jpg

[hearty bear]

Not mine, just a really nice paint job

[dark violet]

That looks waaaay to clean for my un talented eyes

[jaunty trail]

Question:

Is here somebody that uses glow in the dark resin crystals from Green Stuff World? And if yes: Does anyone paint them a bit? They are currently not lookin' like they should be unpainted...

[dark violet]

Just had to look them up and now I want some

[jaunty trail]

xD

[plush swift]

you cant paint them, it will block the UV and block the light from emanating

[jaunty trail]

What about just doin' edges?

So that they can still glow but have some highlights?

[plush swift]

that can technically be fine, but varnshing can cause issues

[jaunty trail]

Will use no varnish on them... plan was just some edge paintig

[plush swift]

most varnishes out there have UVLS in them so it will stop a lot of the energy transfer

but keep in mind, most glow in the dark resin will only last a few months

maybe a year at best

anything longer and you're dealing with a dangerous material

[jaunty trail]

Then it will be like this, just wanted to try them out 😄

Next time i will buy the normal ones XD

[plush swift]

feel free to use them, i just want to make sure you know just in case that matters

[jaunty trail]

Description says photoluminescent resin ^^

[jaunty trail]

My Votann just need some crystals on their bases ^^

[plush swift]

hell yeah, you can get glow in the dark paint from higher end manufacturers too so if you ever want to refresh the glow

[jaunty trail]

Any good suggestion where i can get some? Also thinking for Plasma/Volkite weapons to get those effects attached

[plush swift]

iirc, you are EU?

[jaunty trail]

Yes german guy here ^^

[plush swift]

Yeah, I thought I remembered you were german. I believe you can get Lukas there pretty easily

the one I use I dont remember if it is sold in the EU or not

[jaunty trail]

Okay thanks!

[midnight locust]

Need to clean the turret up a bit but I like the color from the plasma. Might try to highlight with white oil to bring out the glow

[plush swift]

I'd be shocked if you couldnt since Lukas is a german company after all... its honestly really good

Not my favorite, but top 3

[jaunty trail]

kk 😎

When i have used their stuff i will let you know here 😉

[plush swift]

👍

[jaunty trail]

@plush swift now my Theyn has a nearly ready base... sand will be painted black/grey... want to have a more volcano like earth ^^

[hearty bear]

How did you paint that blade tell me now

[jaunty trail]

Uhm with a bit help of a tutorial

@hearty bear this tutorial helped me by making the blade:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eKKvzlZgjZE&pp=ygUPU3F1aWRtYXIgZW5lcmd5

[hearty bear]

Ty

[jaunty trail]

No Problem 😉

[slender ridge]

First time i’ve ever done a cloak any tips would be welcome

[rare hornet]

Looks fine to me chief

[formal lichen]

Can create a glaze to blend the colours together, where the dark meets the lighter blue on the right image on the rightmost curve for example.

Mix the darker colour 1:8 medium and make sure there isnt too much on the brush, paint the line where the colours meet a fair few times (let each dry) and it will become seemless. Can do the same again with the same technique on the lighter blue.

Practice on a spare base for desired result

[slender ridge]

Alright i’ll try that out tanks alot

[formal lichen]

Best example i could find in my case.. although i reserved white for a highlight

[slender ridge]

I don’t have a medium tho so i’m gonna have to buy that

[brazen badger]

He has been... Disarmed!!!

[grizzled jolt]

Didn't do much hobby this weekend (was at our trailer) but did manage to add one dead grot to the diorama.

[sage matrix]

More

[copper siren]

Very clean blacks and highlights

[woeful vale]

I am blown away by the talent I am seeing here. Couple more days I should have my stuff.

[dark violet]

a little ticking never hurt nobody

[jaunty trail]

Better be careful with stuff like this... it is not 100% sure what can happen to a person when hazardous stuff/dangerous material is absorbed by a lifeform...

My dad served in military and had to deal with ABC stuff and he also did painting minis and dioramas in his spare time and used not that much protection... in the end he died of cancer and the doc couldn't tell if it was the ABC stuff or the minis etc. my dad did... But something of that caused his cancer...

So i'm happy that people with knowledge like @plush swift are saying something about those dangers and are advising to be careful and be selfprotective....

[midnight locust]

For those who play golden boys, how good is Custodes combat patrol for starting out

[rare hornet]

Just means it’s hasn’t gone past it’s best before date

[edgy jackal]

I'm also quickly coming to the conclusion that the gimmicky stuff is also sometimes difficult to work with, on top of being questionable for your health. The glow in the dark pigments from greenstuff world seem to be a fair bit larger/coarser, which makes the resulting paint not so great to work with.

[plush swift]

You can't get finer particles for it technically. Also you really need to wear a full respirator when working with pigments, even in small amounts

[spring arch]

I don't play Space Janitors but from what I've heard it's one of the more solid combat patrols

[teal wolf]

It's Gucci as the kids say

[spring arch]

Not sure if getting TWO Combat Patrols would be worth it though

[teal wolf]

Hard to tell right now with a new edition so close.
But that terminator preview has me hot and bothered
My allarus have sat for so long..

[spring arch]

Still waiting for the Drukhari preview 😦

[teal wolf]

I want Drukhari again

[spring arch]

I picked up the Boarding Patrol and Combat Patrol a little over a month ago

They're super satisfying to paint

[teal wolf]

I moved not to long ago and the lgs here has a blood of the Phoenix and its tempting me

[spring arch]

It's a cool box

[teal wolf]

A video spoke of morrowind themed druhkari and I wanna do that as a scheme so bad

[spring arch]

I went with purple

[teal wolf]

Oooh that's solid. I love the horns

[spring arch]

Those were super easy to do

I did a Morghast Bone basecoat and then used thinned down Wyldwood contrast

Little bit of Morghast Bone edge highlighting and it's done

[teal wolf]

What's the purple??

[spring arch]

Leviathan Purple contrast over Basilicanum Grey

Then a thin glaze of Vallejo Warlord purple over the shoulders, knees and some of the armour plates

[teal wolf]

Ooh wow may have to try that

[white tangle]

Hey, how did you paint the helmet white? I'm still yet to paint a veteran and am scared to paint such a big part as the helmet white because white always turns out grainy and textured. Is there any strategy that i am not aware of to produce a smooth surface?

You can't really tell here but it's a result that I'm not really happy with.

[mental jolt]

What type of filters should it be for a full respirator?

[simple thorn]

Whomst the model

[slender ridge]

nightbringer proxy i found on etsy

[simple thorn]

Huh.

Honestly thought it looked like an AoS or Fantasy thingy

[slender ridge]

fair

there are def better proxies

but i liked this cloak and scythe

[simple thorn]

tbh, I want one

[slender ridge]

if you look on etsy for a guy called TheResinSmithShop you'll find it

[rare hornet]

He grows thiccer by the day

[plush swift]

Anything rated for fine particles, so most

[mental jolt]

Thanks, that's what I thought, but wanted to make sure.

[plush swift]

You wouldn't be working with the hyper dangerous stuff so it's not as important to get the super special ones like CBRN or what not

[mental jolt]

I have an overkill one with vapor protection or whatever it was, since I do airbrushing

[tired forge]

probably the paints, yeah. those things have always been insanely toxic and full of mercury and stuff, and artists tend to lick paintbrushes etc. i have heard of some artist lead initiatives to inform

[jaunty trail]

For my dad it's over. The emperor watches over his soul. For me it is simple: just wear protection when needed and Airbrushing rattlecans only with enough fresh air circulation or respirator/mask....

[mental jolt]

Cadmium I know is used in artists paint, hobby paint tends to claim they use safer pigments.

[tired forge]

housepaints too

oh broader than that any kind of industrial painter - Ever having worked as a painter was associated with an increased risk of lung cancer in men (OR 1.30; 95% CI 1.13 to 1.50). The association was strongest for construction and repair painters and the risk was elevated for all histological subtypes, although more evident for small cell and squamous cell lung cancer than for adenocarcinoma and large cell carcinoma. There was evidence of interaction on the additive scale between smoking and employment as a painter (relative excess risk due to interaction >0).

[tired forge]

sorry for your loss bud ❤️

[jaunty trail]

Thanks bud. But it's okay for me now. I do the painting minis stuff etc. To remember him anytime i do it. So he is somekind still there^^
And thats why i'm very happy too see that people can get some goid security advice from fellow hobbyists and like minded people.

#togetherwearestrong

By the way: the finished base of the Theyn.

[mellow talon]

https://youtu.be/q7zHBp_Dz1M a little montage I made of my warband.

[sweet sinew]

What is that chaos skeleton? It looks awesome

[tender ocean]

That is Vashtorr, one of the new Chaos Demon characters

https://www.warhammer-community.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/K1NFGv126LwbOfUT-665x665.jpg

[sweet sinew]

Badass, yeah I don’t know too many of the factions yet. At first glance I thought it was a Necron

Impressive work!

[void mica]

Damn, looks like when a dark mechanicus goes full demon

[feral acorn]

I think vashtorr is like a chaos god but on a tight budget

kinda was made in the same way but like hes really small and nobody cares about him, kinda like belakor in warhammer fantasy

[void mica]

So a chaos god..... but from wish ?

Chinese knock-off Chaos god ?

[feral acorn]

yeah basically

[wild monolith]

Building a new company for the Crimson Fists

[errant fulcrum]

GRIFITH!

[tender ocean]

He’s from the chaos realm that represents invention and industry if I remember correctly. Right now in lore he wants to be the fifth god but he’s having problems. He’s teamed with abby-don trying to make some kind of key.

Key to what? Some secret vault containing something that’s located in the webway

[rapid lake]

love the Crimson Fists man. My first army when I got back into Warhammer after skipping 4 editions. https://www.instagram.com/p/CTkDn2AngXb/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Instagram

[rapid lake]

Won popular vote in a painting contest with this miniature.

Custom built primaris Pedro Kantor

[glossy hawk]

CLEAN HIS ASS UP

HE IS DUSTY

[sterile grail]

Yeah i can relate, i actually got the same issue as well.

I usually mix 40/60 or 50/50 white with water mixture. I use corax white. I paint multiple layers of white on it. If you want smooth surface, you really have to be patient with the process.

you can get it as smooth as this:

[naive umbra]

That looks sick! Has the sort of bronze patina vibe.

[brisk vapor]

There are no bad sculpts

[white tangle]

Yeah that what i normally do but i guess I'm not patient enough with it. I've also heard that you can put a couple of drops of thinner into the pot, and that helps out as well. So i might try that. Thanks for the advice!

[midnight locust]

Don’t mean to bump this but I forgot to add a question: I plan on adding streaks of oil/rust off of rivets and some chipping but I don’t want to go too overboard with it. I’ve been researching battleworn tanks to get an idea of what it should look like but I think my biggest issue will be having too much going on. Is there a good ratio of wear to non-wear to make it look aesthetically pleasing?

[brisk vapor]

Are you going to use oils or enamels to do it or just acrylics

[midnight locust]

Just acrylics unfortunately

[brisk vapor]

Just start slow and thin then, so you won't go overboard with it. Fixing it with acrylics is a bit more troublesome but not impossible

But less is often better

Looking for examples from scale modellers might give a good idea for the ratio

[midnight locust]

Yeah I’ve been looking at ww1/2 model tanks online to get an idea. Not a bad place to start.

Though I really, really should consider getting an airbrush at some point

[mental jolt]

I don't know about ratio, but it's way easier to add more then to remove. Just take your time, start with whatever weathering appeals to you the most and go from there

[midnight locust]

Think I’ll try to practice on a piece of unused plastic and get comfortable before I full send it

[mental jolt]

Sounds like a good plan

[plush swift]

benzimidazalone brown will be your best friend

[midnight locust]

The watercolor?

[plush swift]

yes, but it also comes as an acrylic.

[midnight locust]

I’m guessing it’s a bit more fluid?

[plush swift]

you can find it as a fluid or heavy bodied

its just rare

a few companies make it, davinci and holbein being the main ones

i have yet to fine a better pigment for oil stain effects

and thats saying something

because I have well over 2000 pigments here

[midnight locust]

Ah okay, I’ll look into it. Like most things my biggest fear (and something I gotta get over if I want to improve) is being too heavy handed with it and applying something I won’t be able to fix

Like looking at the Russ above I tried to apply some dry dusting to catch rivers and edges for both the khaki and olive drab portions, with mixed results.

[plush swift]

I can show you some things if you want, I do some open classes every once in a while

[midnight locust]

If I wasn’t flooded with work I’d take you up on that 😅 But I do appreciate the offer.

[plush swift]

honestly... I dont think many have videos on oil staining effects... you just gave me a good idea

[midnight locust]

Well I’m glad my inexperience has spawned potential growing opportunities for other

[grizzled jolt]

New custom ogryn wip.

[simple agate]

Just about done, I'll hit it with some glossy white after make this Boi BLUE

[hot ravine]

Wip

[spring arch]

I just cheat and use Vallejo Ghost Grey. It's close enough to white to 'read' as white and way easier to use. The helmet of the Incubus I posted is painted Ghost Grey, for example

[edgy jackal]

I'm potentially moving to an apartment this year, and I wouldn't consider that to be a "ventilated area". I've believe there are some vacuum esque solutions where you can take air from near your work desk to the window (look a bit like a workshop sawdust vacuum), but I couldn't find anything appropriately sized. Anyone have any ideas where to look?

[compact umbra]

I need to get out of my dredge and paint my models

I have BoK to make and paint

I just need 5 more blood fuckers because for some reason it only came with 5 instead of a full unit

i have no fucking clue why their box came with only 5 warriors

i might try to kitbash them into wrath mongers or osmehting

throw them int the bits bin

[wary sonnet]

I'm planning to organize a CSM army. What units should I get? Rubrics, normal CSM or Berzerkers? I'm not touching the Plague ones.

And when it comes to normal ones, I'm definetly not painting them pink.

[plush swift]

Yes, and its very easy. Use professional grade white and nothing else. Professional grade has vastly smaller particle size, more pigmentation, less filler, and over all higher quality than any mini paint on the market

[rare hornet]

Berzerkers because violence is never the answer, it's the question

Stack them up in a landraider and throw them at your opponent's face at high velocity

While they're knocked out make sure to steal all their minis

[mental jolt]

Is professional grade different from artist grade?

[plush swift]

No, they are the exact same, same with studio grade. the name of the grade changes based off country

[mental jolt]

Gotcha, thanks.

[plush swift]

No problem. BTW I'd recommend golden high flow over most others, its ink like and works incredibly well

[mental jolt]

I actually picked up a bottle of purple to test, and because I lack a good purple. It diluted very nicely. And will probably be fun to use. Expensive as heck though.

I do find myself lacking some of the luster you get from oils with acrylics, but it's also a pain in the rear to work with oils so eh.

[grizzled jolt]

Here's my newest veteran ogryn (krog) he knows a thing or two about fighting orks. Also, little homebrew lore he carries the hat of the first commissar he couldn't protect.

[jovial siren]

How many weapons can you carry big man? YES!

[midnight locust]

Tried some oil streak effects on the Russ in certain spots. Turned out “okay enough”

[plush swift]

Dioxazine?

[sterile grail]

nice cant wait to do this guy.

[mental jolt]

Permanent violet dark

[rapid lake]

I got mine for a steal. I think $25

[naive umbra]

Finally pushing myself to continue magnetising my pile of like 50 crisis suit weapons

Had been putting it off by assembling other stuff haha

It seems more manageable breaking them down into piles and only doing one weapon type at a time.

[jovial siren]

so, I've read the latest news about the old world tabletop that its mainly focussed on the region where the empire resides with a focus on the south. All side factions not residing there like dark elves just get some pdf rules, which is neat, but I thought we get cathay as the new faction for the tabletop. Did they change anything there?

[plush swift]

I thought that was the case with Cathay and Kislev

Can you send a link to that info?

[jovial siren]

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/05/23/old-world-development-diary-the-main-factions-revealed/

[mental jolt]

no vamps or regular skellies? interesting

[jovial siren]

A bit of a unexpected turn of events

[coarse badger]

Methinks Kislev will be added later on

Since it's bordering the empire

[sterile grail]

good lord how

[jovial siren]

We'll see with all of the other factions. But with the focus on the south, yes for now. But the Invasion and siege of Praag seems to be the big event as the next upcoming thing

[rapid lake]

We have to show GW there is interest though. Otherwise they won't expand OW

[jovial siren]

problem is, I don't have the budget to show it, I'm more the leech kind of fan

[wary sonnet]

Here I go.

[mental jolt]

Have fun

[rare hornet]

There they go

[naive umbra]

All is dust, yolo

[jovial siren]

is that price in €? thats quite a lot

[edgy jackal]

Doubt it, judging by username and using google for exchange rate, could be polish zloty

[mental jolt]

If that's the price in eur they're getting royally screwed

[wary sonnet]

No, in PLN.

[wary sonnet]

The prices in € are normal.

[mental jolt]

Yeah, I figured

[wary sonnet]

325 PLN= 72 €.

When I went to Milan, one box costed 50€.

50€= 225 PLN.

Is this cheap for 10 Rubricae and 5 SOT's?

[wary sonnet]

Not hard to guess with a language like polish, isn't it?

[wary sonnet]

Well, I guess that 9 Rubricae and 1 sorcerer.

[jovial siren]

paid 2€ for a intercessors pack

[wary sonnet]

Where did you buy it?

What country?

That's hella cheap.

Even for my country's standards.

[slender ridge]

First time glazing pretty happy with the result. It did start to shine alot tho any way to fix that?

[jovial siren]

germany, but it was a "were closing and want to sell stuff" situation, plus they really didn't have a clue about the value of plastic crack. still, for 2€ it was a no brainer, even bought some stormcast eternals and sold them for a profit to buy my paints and brushes

[wary sonnet]

Well, I hope that it paid off.

[jagged sparrow]

Kinda looks like a Tenno

What model is it?

[slender ridge]

Its a nightbringer proxy i found on etsy

[jagged sparrow]

Oooo

I can’t wait for the new nightbringer model. Cause ya know he’s eventually gonna have a new model

[jovial siren]

The frustrating part for the minis will be, that they will probably never be used for the game, I just paint them

[slender ridge]

I hope so

Then i can paint him with the new things i learned while painting this model

[wary sonnet]

I hope to one day use mine.

[weary nexus]

Current progress on my possessed

[wary sonnet]

Night Lords?

[weary nexus]

Certainly. Ave Dominus nox.

[wary sonnet]

I dunno, possessed fit more for WB or BL.

Gal Vorbak.

[weary nexus]

Oh most definetly, which is why I dove more into kitbashing them to just be excessively corrupted. as does tend to happen when you spend long periods in the warp. stats wise, possessed. fluff wise, just very corrupted.

They are also named; "The condemned."

[wary sonnet]

The thing about Night Lords is that many of them hate Chaos. Probably the same way as the Iron Warriors do.

[wary sonnet]

I guess that it fits.

[weary nexus]

Aye, many of them do. which is what I have been trying to dive towards mostly with my army build.. but at some point I also realised that the stats for possessed work very well with NL.

That and there are some night lords daemon princes. so they hate chaos.. but they are not opposed to using it to their advantage now and then.

Uzas being a prime example.

[wary sonnet]

Daemons and Chaos scare the shit out of people.

[weary nexus]

Exactly.

[wary sonnet]

Iron Warriors also dislike Chaos, but use it.

[rare hornet]

Iron warriors hate chaos because technically Horus betrayed them and just used them as a tool. And because of that they are just pissed off because they now can’t go back

So they just hate everyone

[midnight locust]

Iron warriors forever the petulant man children that actually know how to get shit done

[weary nexus]

Which is what makes the iron warriors fucken awsome.

[rare hornet]

It’s great they are the most competent traitors

[weary nexus]

Even if my favorites are NL and Alpha legion. I gotta agree with you. on that one

[rare hornet]

Storm of iron does a good job of portraying 40K iron warriors

[weary nexus]

Yes it does, however I think we can all agree that an odd choice was turning Perty into a daemon primarch. seemed very out of left field..

[rare hornet]

Yeah that’s quite odd seeing as he was up there with Sanguinius for hating daemons

[weary nexus]

Had they just made it so that he kept adding machine parts to himself, just going ham with tech to the point where he was "LIKE" a daemon primarch I would have been fine with it.. but meh.

[rare hornet]

Nurgle actually went to him before mortarion for the you wanna be nurgle marines offer to which Perty replied with a resounding no

[weary nexus]

I can get behind that.

[rare hornet]

when said plague marines got back into their thunderhawk to kill them perty quite literally sprinted at the ship and destroyed one engine with his hands

He is awesome, but a victim of horribly inconsistent lore writing

[weary nexus]

A problem with many characters unfortunately. but such is the curse of not being loyalist space marines. and thus not getting new stuff along with everyone else.(INcluding books.)

[rare hornet]

space marines are a little too popular

and this fact hurts them, they end up with model bloat and just have too many units to pick from that do the same thing

[weary nexus]

Indeed.

[simple agate]

4am progress report 😴😴😴 should have him done by tomorrow

[solemn falcon]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1104466465740038245/1111353701509112019/IMG_20230525_210206_HDR.jpg

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1104466465740038245/1111353906669305866/IMG_20230525_210326_HDR.jpg

My second model ever

turned out pretty goood

[weary nexus]

Very nice, keep at it my guy!

[brazen badger]

Very nice, looks like a manlet

[solemn falcon]

yeah, thats why he shouts and shooths his own men

[brazen badger]

Dwarfcel

[solemn falcon]

Small man, big soul

well

big gun pointed at your head atleast

[wary sonnet]

My first Chaos Marine and Terminator.

I'll have to work on the golden details. Especially on the legs.

[mental jolt]

Titan?

[plush swift]

knight

[mental jolt]

Kewl

[white tangle]

On GW preview models, are things like the skull free-handed or transfer?

(On the paper)

[mental jolt]

It varies, that one is either sculpted or freehand I'd guess, though it could just be a well applied transfer with a good camera angle

[plush swift]

its probably sculpted in, but I'd have to see it from other angles

[white tangle]

Nvm, found the answer.

and yeah, you guys were right

[jaunty trail]

Is this 30K or what?

[white tangle]

40k

[jaunty trail]

Okay what kind of CSM is that? The bits i see tell me (with the eye of horus) that it should be a traitor mini

[coarse badger]

Dark Apostle

[compact umbra]

Hey is there anything wrong with getting an electric airbrush?

For minis?

[rapid lake]

No but I would research first on which one would work best. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isqaylQTunQ&t=7s&ab_channel=Ninjon

I have the one he advertises and it works great from priming and large area painting.

[compact umbra]

Ight thanks!

[rapid lake]

I would also get an air purifier and a painting station that has a fan and ventilation

Not to mention gloves and a respirator mask.

Another good thing about the portable compressor he is using is you can change out the air brush with a more expensive one if need be.

[rapid lake]

Great job bub! Nice work on the color work. Only thing I would suggest is practicing on using less paint. Also I dont know what brush you are using, but I suggest a pointed brush size 0-3/0 when it comes to areas like the gold and white and a larger brush for the blue and black.

[steep ether]

Finished the first of my Moebian 6th inspired traitor ogryn

[teal wolf]

Try it on terrain?

[rapid lake]

I have not but it should work well. I tend to hand paint most of my stuff but use the air brush for basing. It is just tedious because of the amount of cleaning needed when you switch colors.

[teal wolf]

Yeah that's the part I don't miss.
Just been looking for another for base coats and terrain.

[plush swift]

yes, they royally suck. You'll have more issues than benefits with them, they sputter a lot, no moisture trap so you can run into hundreds of issues, etc. You need a moisture trap with an airbrush or else you'll get more problems and splotchy paint, also adherence issues.

[plush swift]

I have destroyed over 30 of those in my testing, they actually are stupidly low end

I had one battery explode on me, which required 200 stitches also

[rapid lake]

I don't know what to tell yea. Mine works great. I thoroughly clean it and always return it back into the packaging stored in a controlled environment. I don't over use it, only spending close to 3-4 hours per session with it and only charge it once during that. I keep a constant eye on it's temp and I never attach it directly to the compressor but rather use the hose and keeping compressor out of my hands.

[plush swift]

I put roughly 500~ hours into an airbrush to test them, a lot of that time is just putting paint into them while the trigger is taped down. The one that exploded did within 10 minutes of using it. They have a known history of catching fire too because the battery they use has a major flaw. What happens is because it has no moisture trap, the moisture builds up in the electronics and the airbrush is just low end and causes more issues than it solves. If you dont have references to the higher end, then you cant actually say how things are supposed to work. There are cheaper set ups that work better and dont have the moisture issues. If you live in an area like mine, they will not work period unless you have a perfectly climate controlled room

if its raining outside, the paint didnt adhere, and its always raining here

its why I live here, its a great place to stress test paint.

[inland garnet]

Salvager Kill Team

[jaunty trail]

Those guys are lookin very good!

[inland garnet]

Thanks! they're a fun kit, lots of options

[jaunty trail]

I'm currently sitting over my Votann Army box. But makes fun.. got some crystals and stuff so they can look a bit Rock and Stone like xD

[spring arch]

Reading this makes me so happy I decided to pay the extra 30 eurobucks and get one with a proper tank. Arrived yesterday, so time to practice!

[inland garnet]

Great thinking, i did some fun rocks on my Khal when the box first came out last year. First model i had done in a long time lol.

[devout lake]

How's my rotter looking?

[jaunty trail]

This was my last work i've dine so far:

#40k-minis-and-armies message

I'm happy how the Theyn looks ^^

[spring arch]

Dwarf Samus!

[jaunty trail]

But i'm still making a "meme" Army xD

[inland garnet]

Sharp looking power sword! and that grass is wild, love it

[inland garnet]

oh man, do john halo, or any othe rpower armor weirdo up as a little squat. that would be fun

[jaunty trail]

For the grass credits go to Greenstuffworld xD

[inland garnet]

looks very smelly, i like it

[spring arch]

I like how his trousers are recovering from an atomic wedgie

[jaunty trail]

@inland garnet my Votann should be the Encounter to the Angry Marines. Joked about it as i saw the release info, friends said: "Okay if u get this u must do encounter" so now i'm painting the League of Rage 😄

[spring arch]

Anyway, you guys all keep painting your minis. My (yet unpainted) Lelith needs more bodies for the arena

[plush swift]

Yeah, I work in art conservation so I have to constantly test products to see if they can meet my minimum standards, the company I worked for last spent well over a mil a year just on products for testing. It's a very demanding field

[spring arch]

I mean, exploding batteries in a handheld device are for sure a great risk. Doubt that would 'meet minimum standards' for anyone

I initially thought I'd get one of those handheld ones to just be able to do indoor priming since I got tired of waiting for the weather to be nice enough

But then I realized that 30 bucks extra would get me an 'entry set' with the compressor everyone on Youtube uses, and a decent dual action pistol to start out with

[plush swift]

Just because a bunch of YouTubers use does not make it good, I need to point that out. There's a lot of YouTubers who use really bad products and rave about them because they're only experience is with the lowest of low end.

[spring arch]

I don't even think there are many other compressors out there, tbh

[plush swift]

It's just like with paint, A lot of people rave about how great Vallejo white is, Because they're only experience is with craft paint

[spring arch]

Vallejo white is great though, they just called it Ghost Grey instead

[plush swift]

Oh God don't get me started on compressors... There's about 50 name brands, And then there's like 200 off-brands, And then there are 20 total factories

[spring arch]

Yeah, it's the KS-186, I think? And they're all the same just with a different logo

[plush swift]

professional grade, specifically acrylic retouch paint

[spring arch]

Oh very nice

[plush swift]

its ink like

[jaunty trail]

Looks very smooth to use

[spring arch]

This is white enough for me though, and it's actually not white

[plush swift]

its also 1/5th the pigmentation of hobby paint

[plush swift]

this is the world of professional paints

generally they are cheaper too

[plush swift]

for the most part yeah, 5 factories in china

[jaunty trail]

🤣 the "is cheaper" thing gets me completely 😎

[plush swift]

$10~ for a 118ml bottle

[jaunty trail]

Nice

[spring arch]

Thing is though, the FLGS that's a 5 minute detour from work to home doesn't stock it

And if I want a paint I want it yesterday

So I just cheat and use Ghost Grey as white

[plush swift]

yeah the professional white paints are cheaper, have a longer shelf life, and if its for resto/consevr it can be frozen

[plush swift]

if it works it works

[jaunty trail]

@plush swift where to get or as last time self made is better?

[plush swift]

I just order everything online personally because I cant exactly go to a local store and buy 25kg of a pigment

[plush swift]

that one is self made, but look for golden high flow titanium white

specifically the high flow one

[jaunty trail]

@plush swift my thanks! Will have a look for it. Soonish there will be some Assault terminators arriving that i want to paint more white ^^

[spring arch]

Fair

That FLGS got a lot of bonus points for me though, so I like to spend my hobby money there

They reserved an Ashes of Faith box for me

AND one for a friend as well, they also got him a Gallowfall box

[plush swift]

hell yeah

[spring arch]

Oh, and I scored an SoB Christmas 2021 box in like July 2022

[plush swift]

also BTW the high flow works as a primer better than most primers

[plush swift]

My LGS sold the 2 knight boxes I preordered from them and paid upfront for too because someone offered them more, and then they said "well we can give you store credit"

[jaunty trail]

Planbed is white main armor shoulderpads and helmets black

Cuz black templars ^^

[spring arch]

Damn, that's scummy

I guess I'm lucky to have 2 LGS near me, and an actual 'Warhammer store', though the Warhammer store usually doesn't have anything I want in stock

[plush swift]

The actual warhammer store banned me because I dont use GW paints

[spring arch]

What the actual

[plush swift]

They also told me acetone was the best way to strip paint off plastic miniatures

[spring arch]

Last time I went to the Warhammer store (to pick up the free mini) I just talked to the guy and we discussed the better paint manufacturer

[plush swift]

and that non-gw brands would damage their models

[spring arch]

He liked AK the most

[plush swift]

but american GW support tells me the same thing

[plush swift]

I cant touch AK because of moral reasons

[simple agate]

Doneskis

[plush swift]

they used video footage of auschwitz to sell paints, including the pass graves

thats a complete fuck up in my book and now I have proof they use toxic materials in their paints without proper labeling, so I'm about to destroy the company in a lawsuit

[jaunty trail]

thats.... yeah really shitty....

[plush swift]

found lead in two of their paints, this is completely normal btw. its very common in browns and yellows

[spring arch]

Huh, interesting

[plush swift]

yeah, that was way over my line and their response was "get over it, this happened"

[jaunty trail]

uhm.. even as a german guy that knows history and self says this was one of the biggest crimes in history i think this "get over it" is way to arrogant and not appropriate for anyone in this world....

and a total no go for marketing

[spring arch]

I do think the 'get over it' was targetted at the fact they used the footage, not the holocaust itself.
Still, insanely scummy

[plush swift]

they actually ignored the complains of the footage, they were only talking about the book they released that was instructions on how to make things like genocides and gas chambers

[plush swift]

Its not, unfortunately this is a common thing in spain for some fucking reason

[jaunty trail]

Hmm 🤔 dunno' what they think there tbh never visited that country.... but if i remember right there were always some bonds between spain and germany but even that doesn't justify such a marketing or expression of a company..

[edgy jackal]

You have stated before that (iirc) spain has some lax paint standard policies, which is why quite a few paint companies are based there. Do you expect policy change in the company or the country after the lawsuit, or are they just going to pay a fine and keep going?

[plush swift]

Oh I'm going after EU regulatory agencies directly

while spain might have lax laws, import laws arent

[plush swift]

they have this weird idolization of hitler in some parts there

[spring arch]

Ah, EU regulatory agencies. It'll be addressed by 2033 and regulated by 2050

But everyone has to use the same USB connector now!

[plush swift]

its been a long standing issue with the scale modeling community there, its currently ruled by white supremists

[plush swift]

this is something that would probably be fixed by 2030 honestly, I have actual documentation this has lead to peoples deaths

not many, but ones that are legitimately linked to these products

[mental jolt]

Heh, lead to people's deaths.
(Sorry)

[spring arch]

Anyway, time to start screwing up with my airbrush

[mental jolt]

Good luck!

[spring arch]

Let's see how bad of a job I do first time 😄

[plush swift]

if you need some advice, I'm currently painting right now

more so prepping a guide on how to paint yellow and why everyone is wrong about yellow

[mental jolt]

If you have a proven casual connection that should be a slam dunk no?
Also using lead without declaring it should be easy pickings, relatively speaking.

[plush swift]

yellow is piss easy to paint, just dont use bad yellow

[plush swift]

its still expensive and will take years in court

[mental jolt]

Well yeah, it's EU law. I don't have many nice things to say about EU law.

[plush swift]

I'm willing to slap down a few mill just to punish a single company

[plush swift]

nor do I, but a lot of this is much easier now because of the tattoo ink ban thing that happened

so I'll either get that lifted, or get paint to have safety labels on it

if it hasnt been lifted yet

[mental jolt]

Good luck with it, hopefully it works out.
And safety labels is the likely outcome.

[plush swift]

I hope so too

I just want them to admit they throw way too much chalk in their paint

I know thats not a big deal, but you people think its this bad thing

which means i win

I'll use marketing lies against them

[mental jolt]

There are definitely some false advertising regulations.

I personally like scale75 paints, but I'm sure they're terrible by your standards.

[plush swift]

their marketing is my biggest issue with them, they promote massive lies constantly, even some that are incredibly just outright dangerous

they all themselves pure pigment, this is actually a major problem as pure pigment paints are an environmental hazard

pure pigment means they have zero stabilizing protocols or anti-bacteria agents

[mental jolt]

Idk, their thicker paint (artists or whatever) works well when I put paint on the mini.

[plush swift]

you should try out some heavy bodied paints from a high end brand for comparison

not liquitex

liquitex can burn in hell with gamblin

liquitex's only redeeming quality is their binder is fucking amazing

its in my top 5 binder brands

[mental jolt]

I have some schminke and they're great, w&n are not that good to me, Jo Sonia is pretty good but difficult to find here.

Also heavy body is expensive as shit.

[plush swift]

schminke is really good

W&N is mediocrity incarnate

Jo Sonia is god tier craft paint

yeah, HBAs can be expensive, but they are also like 2oz tubes a lot of the time

[mental jolt]

Yeah, I know

Just hurts the wallet pretty bad.
Plus, high flow intrigues me quite a bit, if I'm happy with the purple I got I will probably look to that for paints.

[plush swift]

imagine how my wallet feels

the smallest size I buy is 118ml

which reminds me, i need to run to the art store tomorrow to see if they have quinacridone gold

it got discontinued and I need it

[mental jolt]

I hope they have some, then.

[plush swift]

same

I need it, its invaluable to me

if not, fuck it I'm breaking into my stash of po49, an extinct pigment, to finish my army

which fuck it, I'm doing anyways

[mental jolt]

x)

[mental jolt]

A little wip on the base, might do one more round of highlights, or I might be lazy, who knows.

[rare hornet]

What model this for again?

[brisk vapor]

Looking good

[spring arch]

Think I did alright but thanks for the offer

[mental jolt]

It's for my "Vex Machinator, Arch-Lord Discordant"

[rare hornet]

Ooooh gotcha

[pastel grotto]

I love general grievous

[cinder bear]

Finally a worthy opponent for Inquisitor Obiwan Sherlock Clousseau

[edgy jackal]

Titus is getting a mini

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/05/25/lieutenant-titus-storms-into-action-with-a-new-miniature-in-space-marine-the-board-game/

[pastel grotto]

Yep

[lavish crescent]

Abit annoyed he's not a captain

[jovial siren]

well, captain is reserved for leandros

[edgy jackal]

@plush swift Lots of painting/epoxy tools are recommended to be used in a "well ventilated area". How do you ensure that in a domestic environment? I assume a vertically opened window would be insufficient, especially on a windless day.

[tender ocean]

Ok, hear me out. Melee naught for white scars needs to be able to stride.

[mental jolt]

that's bloody brilliant

[naive umbra]

Gotta get yourself a pair of these

[hearty bear]

Leandros accused him of being a heretic at the end of space marine one, which is probably why he got demoted to lieutenant

[mental jolt]

wouldn't he be executed if he was a heretic?

[hearty bear]

He was being investigated by an inquisitor and I guess he had to go on a penitent crusade or something

[mental jolt]

maybe, I guess

[tender ocean]

https://tenor.com/view/thats-heresy-that-is-heresy-thats-hairesy-dr-squatch-thats-heresy-dr-squatch-heresy-gif-17639789

In all seriousness that could be pretty neat

Time to bust out my printer and 3D model that shit

[jovial siren]

Now have fun fixing the happy little accidents on them. Damn that's quite a lot of details for some standard units and not some special characters 😅

[wary sonnet]

Well, TS are supposed to be unkillable.

They're basically the Space Marine edition of Necrons, at least lore-wise.

[jovial siren]

in the necrons defense, they are still, at least theoretically, able to have a free will, if they would be allowed too. Rubrics are dust

[plush swift]

sometimes thats just a catch all "we dont want to be sued by something thinking our product caused lung cancer" or people complaining about a smell thing

but generally you use a vent station

its easy to make too, its just a 3 inch vent fan with a filter covering it and you shove it in a box with a hole cut out for it

[wary sonnet]

TS Terminator Sorcerer.

[rare hornet]

Finishing what Sigismund started

[rapid lake]

Looking great man! Keep it up!

[simple thorn]

Oh that is a tasty glow effect

[simple thorn]

And that man looks like he got stuck on a dirt road with a knobhead driver doing 100km/h not even bothering to pretend to slow down so he doesn't choke him with the plume he's leaving behind in his wake

[midnight locust]

Thanks, plasma is really fun to paint

[simple thorn]

The best one I've managed to do so far is on a Thallax

First and currently only time I got it right imo

And nowhere near as good and shiny as yours
I think most of the glow is coming simply from the contrast of the colour around it

[tender ocean]

After the first round of paint

[sudden notch]

Got my kasrkin box. Now wondering how to build it

Probably gonna use my tempestus kits powerfist on the sergeant if the model supports it

[tiny jay]

These are very cool.

[simple thorn]

God damn that feels cursed

[wary sonnet]

10 done, 5 to go.

1 heavy warp-flamer.
1 soulreaper cannon.
1 inferno bolt pistol.
2 warp-flamers.
2 inferno combi-bolters.
3 inferno bolters.

Whatever these warp-flamers are spewing is far more deadlier then prometheum.

[dark violet]

He is so gonna blow himself up

[midnight locust]

He’s going to blow himself up for the emperor

[heady lotus]

Lmao.... my thoughts are that these guys are on calth and aren't having a great time

[lavish crescent]

30k or 40k?

[plush swift]

Well how else is he supposed to enjoy the race? Gotta protect yourself from all that dust, hence the shield

[lavish crescent]

How bored are you?

[wary sonnet]

Got the whole unit.

Every gun is decorated with a bird skull (except the sorcerer's bolt pistol).

[wary sonnet]

What regiment is that?

[plush swift]

Bored enough to copy paste the original photo in paint, google search a picture of a bike race and do a 2min search on google on how to integrate 2 photos together on paint

literally did it in 5 mins lol

You'll notice my impeccable cropping skills born from my 5 minutes experience of photo editing

[stray elm]

Where did you get all those auto guns?

Gene steeler cult kit?

[errant fulcrum]

“GRIFFITH!”

[cursive gyro]

That has to be the coolest set I've ever seen

[brazen badger]

Awesome stuff

[errant fulcrum]

thanks. gonna run him as a judiciar with my black templars

[primal summit]

So stressed. My brains afraid they’ll all break in transit lol

[wary sonnet]

Have you considered taking some glue for emergency situations?

[primal summit]

Oh yeah I got some glue and stuff in the tray below that one.

[wary sonnet]

Then you don't really need to worry, do you?

Death Guard marines are known for durability anyway.

Nurgle followers in general.

[primal summit]

😉 i see what you did there hehe. Still dont want em to break but part of the risk aint it.

[plush swift]

Dont stress, you can break them with a hammer when you get to your location

[weary nexus]

https://tenor.com/view/griffith-gif-21542375

[errant fulcrum]

I’m gonna run him as a judiciar since I’ve been needing one for my Black Templars

[weary nexus]

Fuckin glorious, very fitting.

[errant fulcrum]

I know right? Lol

[weary nexus]

makes me consider actually making a griffith..

[errant fulcrum]

I feel like Griffith would be an emperors children

[wary sonnet]

If I had to get a commander, who should I get? Ahriman or the IM?

[left egret]

Iron warriors Guts?

[errant fulcrum]

No Black Templars

[left egret]

Ugh fist 😝