40k-minis-and-armies

[brisk vapor]

check out roguehobbies on youtube, she has a 30sec guide on a sword

or a 8 minute video on the same sword if you want to see it all of it

[edgy jackal]

Do you personally use paint retarder when glazing/blending, or just thin the paint a little more with water?

[brisk vapor]

Just water

[celest zealot]

i started painting these guys but forgot to snap a photo, will get one when they're done :D

they look pretty cool so far

[floral wind]

Thinkin of getting some minis from ebay, preassembled and primed but they need cleanup is it worth tidying them up removing mold lines then repriming them? Or attempt to strip, clean then reassemble them instead?

[woeful vale]

These three marines are my pride and joy right now. Never did minis before I got this set a couple months back. Time to work on my Necrons

[sour nexus]

Does anyone know if the FW faction specific helmets scale to the 40k marine? for reference im trying to use night lord helmets with my csm legionares

[edgy jackal]

Don't know if it shows, but it's pretty close, the FW ones might be a marginally smaller.

[formal lichen]

Try it out on a spare base, i prefer to use medium over water, try either both work.

[edgy jackal]

Two different types of night lord helmets, compared to 3 space marine heads (chaos), and 2 raptor heads, on the yellow play doh

@sour nexus

[formal haven]

I resently played my first 40K table top, it was pretty fun. I’m looking at getting a combat patrol box. Astra militarum.

[formal haven]

Low key, probably gonna paint them all up like the rejects in Darktide.

[sour nexus]

ty for the comparison

[woeful vale]

That's cool, where did you play? A friend's? LGS?

[formal haven]

A friends place, it was a three way battle. It all ended in a tie with each of us with 25 points each.

[woeful vale]

Acquaintance of mine picked up some Astra Militarum but was daunted by the painting and gave up. I've been urging them to give it another go and said we can play if I'm in their area sometime. I'm happy painting but would definitely like to play more

[woeful vale]

Here I was thinking it was only 1v1, that's wild!

[formal haven]

It was pretty fun actually. So I’m looking forward to getting a combat patrol box.

[woeful vale]

That's great, I'm just working on my army one piece at a time. I got an Invader ATV out for delivery now. I was hoping to do a fire servo turret but couldn't find them on Amazon without a bad markup so took the next best thing

[zinc gale]

Odd question but does anyone know the size of the Abaddon minis head? I’m gonna try to put a different one on, but if it’s like twice the size of a normal head I might have problems

[rare hornet]

Thicc

[zinc gale]

Oh that’s awesome! I love knights! What classification you assembling it as? Or are you magnetizing it?

[rare hornet]

Paladin

Going to be part of the crusade force for my warhammer group

It’s a 9th Ed crusade because we’re waiting for all 10th crusade rules first

[zinc gale]

Yeah the 10th crusade rules are rather lacking rn, they’re in the book you get for buying the newest box but they aren’t anywhere near as riveting as the 9th ones

[rare hornet]

Some of the knight battlescars are interesting

You end up with burdens, which can never be removed if I recall?

One of them is just your knight pilot has PTSD

[abstract temple]

I present Knight-Sergeant Canatar of the Redeemed.

[rare hornet]

That’s a rather small knight

Oh wait you meant deathwing knight

[abstract temple]

No, the old heresy ranks for the Dark angels had Knight-Sergeants and Knight-Captains

And as my Blade guard are going to be redeemed. I figured it was only right they have the ranks

[rare hornet]

Ooh I see

[abstract temple]

.......I am having an existential crisis at the moment

Must purge the demon but.....Milliiiiiiiie

[rare hornet]

:3

[heady lotus]

In midnight clad

[plain granite]

First batch of leviathan minis done. Still trying to find an alpha legion color scheme that looks right. And how to make them look not scratchy with contrast paints.

[abstract temple]

Are you using a metallic base primer?

Try spraying a model with platemail from army painter, it's a very light metallic colour with good coverage. Wash with nuln, then two thin coats of Akhellian green contrast and then a light blue of your choice. Just keep the costs thin

Id recommend pylar glacier for your third coat

[plain granite]

For this one, grey primer, full iron hands steel drybrush and then the akhelian green. I keep getting it really scratchy.

[abstract temple]

Should come out with a nice crisp metallic bluey green

Yeah that's the issue with basing or drybrushing over using a metallic spray primer

[plain granite]

I'll give that a shot. I was also gonna try a turquoise transparent ink over it next.

[abstract temple]

A metallic primer comes out alot cleaner with no worries about brush strokes coming through as a wash massively amplifies any imperfections in your basing

[plain granite]

Makes sense. They started coming through mostly when I was doing the contrasts.

[abstract temple]

Yeah, if you maybe wanna take it up a notch. Spray your model using that grey primer, then from an upper angle spray it with the platemail metallic. Its an easy way of giving off the illusion of sunlight on the armourm

And since contrast stains not covers. It'll show through

You'll have a clean crisp shiny metallic look on the upper and raised parts of the armour and a darker underside like shadows

[plain granite]

Makes sense! I'll keep trying and give that a shot too!

Thank you.

[abstract temple]

If you want some advice or to send me a pic so I can maybe guide you through anything your struggling with. Feel free to send me a message, I'd love to see your progress

[plain granite]

Will do! I got an apothecary coming up, so that's mostly white, but I think the one colored shoulder pad came out alrigh.

[abstract temple]

your colouring looks pretty good. you can see the brush lines underneath but that's really difficult to avoid like I said.

[plain granite]

I think that's been my biggest stumbling block. I've really not used contrast paints much, I did the traditional base and layer stuff for all my death guard.

[abstract temple]

Are you using Contrast for the metallic look?

Because I used to do the same to get a metallic for my Emperor's children

[plain granite]

Yeah, that was what I was attempting on those. I tried some deco art metallics and turbo dork ones, but they took an absurd amount of layers to get to look decent.

[abstract temple]

However, army painter does metallic paints now and they're really good

Two coats of their purple metallic

[plain granite]

Ooh, that does look great. Airbrushed?

[abstract temple]

Nope, their normal version

[left egret]

This is why chaos is great. I do not need to feel guilty about my love for Moxxie and Millie the most wholesome couple in hell

[abstract temple]

I did give it a wash over Druchhii violat after

[plain granite]

I grabbed a greenshade for mine. Coelia I think.

[abstract temple]

But yeah, if it's purely for the metallic. Go for the army painter one. It's alot easier, you don't have to worry about drybrushing a metallic base which means you can use black to make your life easier and the paints have good coverage.

[left egret]

Also nice hydra boys

[abstract temple]

Though I find it works best if you do two coats, Wash and then dry brush it with the metallic base again.

Sorry if I'm overloading, I did ALOT of experimenting with metallics XD

[plain granite]

No worries! Its useful. And if I can finally get one that works decently without scratches, I'll be super grateful.

[abstract temple]

Id definitely recommend army painter.

Just make sure it's the normal metallic and not the air brush one

[plain granite]

Also Cypher-9 as in the SWTOR agent designation? Ordered the non-airbrush one to try. Do you thin it?

[abstract temple]

I generally add a drop, just experiment with it till your happy

And yeah, I like swtor

[plain granite]

I'm an sith inquisitor man myself, though I have run the agent twice.

[plain granite]

Of water or a specific medium?

[abstract temple]

Water, though it may be alrigjt by itself. If you have any spare limbs from any of your kits. Try spraying it and then using the paint with no water to see how it comes out.

And when I say I use a drop. I use a very very tiny amount

[plain granite]

I have one of the army painter droppers filled with water I normally use.

[abstract temple]

Not even a. Single drop of that. Dip your brush in water, get most of that water out and use the moisture in the brush

[plain granite]

Can do!

[abstract temple]

Can't wait to see how it looks 👍

[cursive gyro]

Easy, purge all demons and be selective about what's a demon and what isn't

[abstract temple]

Silence vile Slaaneshi Daemon spawn!

[cursive gyro]

...

[abstract temple]

Revs up the Chainsword

[cursive gyro]

Eitha yous got squig poo in da eyez or yous a roight proppa git

revs up watrike

Come lad
Troy me

[abstract temple]

Watches as your wartrike explodes and sends you flying into orbit because...Ork engineering

Sorry 'Engineering'

[cursive gyro]

The fool that you are, not seeing me barelling towards you from the Sky

The explosion wasn't a setback
It was mearly the push I needed

Also iz was just trynna help ya

Youz got violent first

Anyway smoll wip

[abstract temple]

The Ork plays Tau?......Brain explodes

[cursive gyro]

Uhuh

Not play

I only paint

[plain granite]

Apothecary biologus wip for the evening.

[teal wolf]

Hot damn

[lavish crescent]

Kitten is slightly pleased

[cursive gyro]

How so?

[lavish crescent]

You don't play tau so thats something

If you even think about making a shadow sun model, you might find a tall golden man in at the end of your bed that night

[cursive gyro]

Orkz dun' sleep stoopid hoomie

[final rune]

Bit cringe though. I’m going back to the Vampire Coast idea

[brisk vapor]

Yeah it's a bit shame for soup armies, but with house rules I don't see why couldn't you do it

[final rune]

👀

[gleaming thorn]

Hi guys
I'm doing Sword Brethren
Any ideas for the base ?

[rare hornet]

Broken marble

[teal wolf]

I second marble

[tough nebula]

Is this a war crime to have an unpainted army? 👀

[rare hornet]

Eh not really

[hollow goblet]

I mean, it doesn't really matter. But it lowkey ruins my immersion if my opponent has all grey models lol, its more of a preference/flavour thing. Even just a super lazy base coat + spray highlight does a bunch to bring the minis to life so to speak

[jaunty trail]

(Cracked) Marble
Some Snowy base stuff
Savannah/Desert basing stuff (if you want a classical crusade touch)
some alien based basing with floral/minaralic origins

And much much more ^^

[jaunty trail]

So i know from my local GW store that you can't play there if minis are not painted with at least 3 paints and when base is not decorated... and it's a very tiny GW store....

[hollow goblet]

https://www.gapgames.com.au/collections/scibor-bases/products/ruins-60-mm-round-base

Something like this would match super well imo

Obv pretty bougie for one model but if it looks good it looks good

[jaunty trail]

For such things i would use the "Templar Abbey" texture roll and greenstuff

[hollow goblet]

Yeah its probs a bit much for one base but like that general vibe y'know

[jaunty trail]

Ye i would in general use those texture rolls cuz you can really make the basing like you want to make.. those "ready kits" sometimes are annoying cuz' decoration plans could be limited

[hollow goblet]

Yeah I definitely need to learn the art of the green stuff lol I have a feeling it'll save me a tonne down the line

[jaunty trail]

it also can save tons of money ^^

[teal wolf]

I personally don't mind it. But also find it hilarious when grey army players say I don't get my 10 points for painted 🤣🤣

[rare hornet]

Only because they jealous

[teal wolf]

A few of our regulars have the worst attitudes on painting is sad

[rare hornet]

Really?

[teal wolf]

It's down to two luckily.
The worst part is one got a truck load of painting supply as an Xmas gift and he still refuses

[rare hornet]

So wait? What’s their reason for not painting?

[midnight locust]

But that’s like half the fun tho

[rare hornet]

Like I know someone who doesn’t paint but they don’t think they’d do a good job and don’t want to ruin the minis they build

So I kinda get that

[teal wolf]

He also has almost every army

[rare hornet]

So he’s into warhammer clearly

But just flat out refuses?

[teal wolf]

Painted 2 old af marines
Claims he ruined em so that's the reasoning

[rare hornet]

Skill issue

[brisk vapor]

does he know about stripping

[teal wolf]

I've offered help so many times...

[tough nebula]

To be honest I just wanted to keep them on a shelf. I am not sure I'll ever touch the tabletop

[rare hornet]

I find the painting part relaxing

[brisk vapor]

and now with contrast they can literally just put on a spray and do a single coat of contrast colour

[hollow goblet]

Yeah I like painting and modelling way more than the actual game lol

[jaunty trail]

Yep

[teal wolf]

On occasion hell throw me money to paint a character so I guess there's that

[rare hornet]

Well at least it’s just a mostly grey army

[hollow goblet]

Oh yeah that's fine lol no rules around that

[rare hornet]

I’m looking forward to heading home and spraying my knight this evening

[jaunty trail]

Official Words on Minis and painting if u want to play in a GW spot:

https://warhammerworld.warhammer-community.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2019/10/Updated-Model-Requirements.pdf

[hollow goblet]

I should finally paint the bilepiper I've had on my shelf for 6 months that I bought "for a music themed display" I haven't bought anything else for yet

[teal wolf]

Our community exploded out of nowhere and I really enjoy watching all the new painters hit the ground running

[hollow goblet]

Lowkey wanna try to do a big Maravilgia display down the line but its a big project considering I have barely finished my one army

[jaunty trail]

Did you all know that you can start a Warhammer workgroup as teacher in schools? GW even provides Minis and a didactic plan for how it should be done ^^

[hollow goblet]

Yeah lowkey I think it was Bricky, I had been like peripherally aware of WH but never bothered learning anything about it til Bricky dropped those faction explained vids

[hollow goblet]

Thats actually cool I might see if I can do smth like that for my cousin

[teal wolf]

One of em rocks bricky merchandise! 🤣 we did the Spiderman meme irl cuz we both have his Waifu cup 🤣

[teal wolf]

Oooh how are ya painting it?

[rare hornet]

House Terryn

The classic dark blue knight colour

[teal wolf]

Very nice!

[jaunty trail]

Just show us what it looks like when u are done @rare hornet

^^

[rare hornet]

I’ll put that in the calendar then

[jaunty trail]

🤔 I'm thinking about getting some knowledge about what i need for streaming and thinking about making sometimes painting streams how i "F*** up" my minis XD

[teal wolf]

Do it up!

[jaunty trail]

Before i would start this i must save some money up to get camera etc. and i must look if i need a seperate streaming rig...

[gleaming thorn]

I have some temple texture roll, I'm gonna check tonight
Also I'm not really into the armaggedon crusade base theme
Idk which rock tone to apply (dark grey, light grey, brown rock ?)

[jaunty trail]

That what you want.. For my Votann i made grey/black stone base parts for some vulcano style base, mixed with some mineralic crytals and somme neon blue/pink grass tufts as additional "alien world" setting

[white tangle]

Idk if anyone remembers but ages ago i posted about painting a 10 man squad in 2 weeks and joked that it would take me a year. Its been like 6 weeks and i still have all 10 guns, leather and details to do and the issues that i had with my airbrush didn't help. Doing batch painting was the worst idea I've ever had. Spending 4 days straight on just doing highlights using one colour is a nightmare and this whole thing has just been a constant cycle of procrastination. I did 6 heads in 1 day and then to do the other 4 it took me 5 days because i was so burnt out that it just became a slog. I'm in so deep now that i have to keep going. I might just screw this batch paint idea and just do them one by one from now on but it feels like its going to break the idea of doing a batch paint to begin with. I'm very much dreading the idea of doing the guns. 10 of them.

[brisk vapor]

I try to limit my batches to 5 models at a time, it keeps it manageable

[white tangle]

Well I've definitely learned my lesson 😦

[heady lotus]

Yeah I try to aim for 5 models a week.

Just need to finish my weathering on my smurfs and that's a army done...... if I don't mess up eye lenses.

Then I've got my militia army to do which is gonna be a pain cause there's at least going to be 60 to count as a single troop choice.

[rare hornet]

The cycle never ends there is only paint!

[rare hornet]

They the new or old style guard models?

[abstract temple]

Templars?

[final rune]

The bodies of Orks?

[gleaming thorn]

Haha, I don't have orks models sadly

Also, batch painting isn't for everyone
I just can't do it
So don't burn yourself on it

[midnight locust]

Any tips on starting chaos marines?

[signal plover]

buy a box of chaos space marines

[woeful vale]

Starting my first vehicle this week!!

Was not expecting it to be push-fit but tbh that's fine. Thinking of repurposing the flamer to add flavor to some scenery, I've been hoarding aluminum cans, paper towel rolls, and plastic yogurt/ice cream cups here and there to the point my wife told them to get it out of her sight 🤣🤣

When you make scenery do you do it with an explicit purpose, or just generic pieces that can come together?

Current plan is aluminum cans and towel rolls for some kind of promethium depot, rolls representing pipelines and cans of course serving as storage tanks. I know, original 😜

[edgy jackal]

It helps to have a rough plan and/or refrence. I once made a crude ork outpost from scratch, but I had a dawn of war waaagh banner in mind, so still some kind of refrence.

Even with shanty towns and ork ruins, you have to make sure the terrain is model friendly (enough flar surfaces), unless it's for a diorama.

[white tangle]

Home brew. ultramarine successors.

[abstract temple]

Oh nice, they look really good

[white tangle]

Than you. Hopefully they look similar to these but in Phobos armor.

[abstract temple]

Dam. They look awesome

[agile vault]

Professional lookin aaf

[lavish crescent]

Bold words for a walking vegetable

[cursive gyro]

You call yourself wise and yet you mistake fungi and vegies

Shame on you

[lavish crescent]

Fair enough, but still. You're a vegans wet dream so shush

[cursive gyro]

Neva

You kan't silence me

[abstract temple]

Orcs are definitely the most inclusive army GW has... they're an entire army of Non-binary asexual vegans

[heady lotus]

Going with new models so far

[rare hornet]

Ooooh oki, they can be decent to batch paint from what I know

If it’s anything like paining the old minis you’re laughing

[celest zealot]

i forgot how awful the instructions for kastelan robots are

the parts are completely mismatched

it sucks lmao

[rare hornet]

Oh yeah? How bad?

[abstract temple]

As bad or worse than pink horrors?

[rare hornet]

We talking vindicator levels of instructions here?

[celest zealot]

it gives part numbers for the first set of legs but when you dry fit it or glue it the legs are both angled the same direction so they can't stand flat

instead of a wide stance both legs angle to the right

[rare hornet]

Oh damn you get numbers?

[celest zealot]

and that's not even mentioning how the feet are angled at the joint

[celest zealot]

they don't mean shit but yes

at least forge world instructions don't fucking mislead you

skitarii have misprinted instructions too but at least those are legible sometimes

[rare hornet]

Hmm try finding the model on GW website? It have a 360 rotate option, could help?

If not get references off Google

[celest zealot]

on a surface level

the parts are identical

but the joints have pegs which have to fit inside a hole in the socket

instead of you being able to angle them freely

so i ether have to rip what i've glued apart

and cut off the pegs

and leave it looking messy when i have to re-glue it

or figure out what goes with what

cuz the instructions won't tell me

[rare hornet]

Hmm, start with the second part first, if it’s possible to avoid taking it apart that would be good

[celest zealot]

thats the thing

i've tried the other joints

and it's STILL mismatched

so i had to rip it apart anyway

i didn't break anything in the process thankfully

but the parts are just fucking wrong

so i don't think i have a choice except to do the first thing

[rare hornet]

Send a picture and let’s see what it is?

[celest zealot]

i left my workshop already

it's heating up too much despite the fan

[rare hornet]

Ah okay, no worries

[celest zealot]

and the heat is only going to piss me off more and have me make more mistakes

so im just

stepping away

before i break something

[rare hornet]

Good idea. Give it some time then come back to it

[celest zealot]

mhm

honestly i'm just gonna cut the pegs (on the second set of legs) and super glue the joints tbh

so they don't move

i think that might be a better choice

less of a headache

and i won't have to worry about re-gluing if i can just pose them how i like

[rare hornet]

Yeah posing is a tad tricky at times

Contemptors have that issue

[celest zealot]

maybe i can give one of the kastelans a tactical rock to put one foot on

lmfao

[rare hornet]

Tactical rock never fails

And you can incorporate it into the base scenery if you do that

[lavish crescent]

ork*

[abstract temple]

I hate auto correct

[lavish crescent]

Very simple, olive oil and a frying pan

[rare hornet]

Oark

[cursive gyro]

I do simpler

Raw

Just chomp

[lavish crescent]

eat fungus raw?

no thanks

also end me, been trying to pain white armour and my airbrush is hating the paints rn

theyre just soo fucking chalky! ordered airbrush paint but thats been delayed

[cursive gyro]

Meanwhile, me painting Tau's with brush white and orange and doing it pretty good

[lavish crescent]

Shush with your ork warp spaghetti before I flame grill you and your clan

[sudden notch]

i finished building veteran guard kill team from cadian shocks, i used in it some parts from krieg sprue, and now i build kriegsmen too

so i have 2 vet guard teams built

[lavish crescent]

Noice

I used the veteran squad as well, basically has everything you need for a squad for 40k

[lavish crescent]

[sudden notch]

it kinda just feels dumb that i bought kriegsbox for parts and now i have it partly kitbashed too

well now i can play guard ancillary with cadians and with arty on krieg

[lavish crescent]

Noice actually

I did kitbash some parts for the field guns myself

Did the infantry, they looks pretty good ngl

Did do a tank but kinda want to go back and redo it with some extra stuff, hazard lines and such

[sudden notch]

i have bruiser with cadian knifehand, comms op with skitaarii radio and hardened has also skitaarii hand

[lavish crescent]

Oooo

Noice

[cursive gyro]

[lavish crescent]

Btw what paint do you use for your white, gobo?

[cursive gyro]

Eeeeeeehehejdhdbdndk'd

It's not ceramite white, that I know

It's a layer paint

[formal lichen]

@celest zealot put together two kastelans a couple of days ago, feel your pain with the joints... and the feet, they tell you to glue them on but because of the leg joints they dont sit flush on the base half the time.

I just glued both the joints, the toes (as they connect to the feet) and between feet and base, then just pushed and moved around before it set since they had some give till i was happy.

[cursive gyro]

@lavish crescent I use "White scar" layer paint for my white

[lavish crescent]

Ohhh you use citadel then xD

fair

[cursive gyro]

yes

[abstract temple]

Three ready for spraying and painting

[young basalt]

Hey does anyone here know if the basilisk's gun can rotate or not?

[round glade]

From what I recall no

But I haven't handled a basilisk in like a decade

[rare hornet]

up and down or left and right?

[young basalt]

left and right
I'm trying to figure out if they actually move the entire vehicle or the turret can like increment like the hydra or wyvern

[rare hornet]

No, it only points straight forward

you wouldhave to rotate the entire vehicle

[sage matrix]

Thought this was fitting

[young basalt]

ah

[plain granite]

@abstract temple got the azure magic one. You weren't kidding, this stuff is great.

[visual turret]

Doing my Phobos Lieutenant now

[sour nexus]

thats good af

[visual turret]

@rare hornet @jaunty trail

[visual turret]

Just wait until it’s done! Take a look at some of my other work if you’re curious

[jaunty trail]

Ah yes

I will continue my work on votann after my 1 week holidays XD

[sour nexus]

i think you could of gone with a different brown on the sling but again its very nice man

i really like that model

[floral wind]

Whilst not 40k I can't see the harm of sharing this clone I finished earlier

[sour nexus]

love to see it

[jaunty trail]

Give that one an aquila on a shoulder pad and let him join the astra militarum

[plush swift]

I love hive fleet jorm for the yellow carapace

Also he’s a monster hunter

[floral wind]

Tbh I could he stands taller than the current cadian troops

[visual turret]

it's all mournfang but I prefer simpliciy over highly varied choices and details

[plush swift]

He didn’t get enough carves from the first nid to finish his armor set

[visual turret]

carted too much, gotta practice heavy bowgun more

[visual turret]

just wait until it's actually shaded and drybrushed!

[jaunty trail]

Just use him as weaponry specialist... cuz' that is what clones are trained for

[visual turret]

now!!!! the real question

Hive Fleet Jormangundr.....

what colour is it's blood

[jaunty trail]

Tyranidblood is pale brownish yellow

[floral wind]

"Just like the simulations"

[visual turret]

the default painted lieutenant has the blood as purple

[floral wind]

But fights the nids first engagement

[jaunty trail]

I know but from lore what i just checked its pale brownish yellow xD

And in codexes it's also mentioned as purple

so both colors are a thing as i can see now

[floral wind]

I'd do mine green. Seems more alien like yk?

[visual turret]

I was just thinking to match up w/ Hive Fleet jorm

Yellow and red are contrasting/paired colours hence the yellow carapace and red claws

[jaunty trail]

The thing is, that Tyranids adapt to their environment that they conquer... sooo... i think purple / yellow is common but you could get something you like

And out of community discussions on reddit i can also read that most people say: "your mini, your type of blood on tyranids"

[visual turret]

but that's HARD

I can't CHOOSE

I'm a picky S.O.B.

[jaunty trail]

Hmmm you are goin on space sharks... i would go on some yellow, green or very bringt purple to get a heavy contrast to the marine

[small ibex]

alpha legion?

[plain granite]

(Yes) no they're my custom ultramarine successor chapter the frost vipers.

Just the base color there, but they have white on the sigils and such in an approximation

[small ibex]

yo sounds super cool!

do you have a finished marine?

[plain granite]

Thank you!

I've been trying to get the color right and thanks to some tips from in here I think I've settled on that turquoise.

[small ibex]

yooo they look very nice. i also like the ice floor you gave them

i assume in your lore they have some anti slipping boots XD

[plain granite]

Thank you! 😄 their chapter world is ice covered so they're pretty well used to the ice.

[winged lava]

This is going to take forever

[abstract temple]

Looking good mate, can't wait to see it once you've got the details picked out in silver and given it a wash.

[plush swift]

This is mine

[plush swift]

I went through this dilemma as well, in tyranid lore their blood can technically be any color based on the hive minds wishes

This is mine

[brisk vapor]

Thinking about a scheme for the Leviathan Tyranids.
I have an idea of painting them all fleshy and gross, The fleshy parts would be very meaty and basically what a bit irritated skin would look like with blemishes and and such. The carapace would appear to be under the skin as well but the skin would be very stretched out and very irritated. The closest thing to the colours would be Necromoprhs probably.
So lots of skin tones and red, maybe some infected looking parts

[burnt epoch]

Is it possible to make a black shield army in hh?

[brisk vapor]

Pretty sure yeah

[rare hornet]

Looks absolutely amazing!!

[visual turret]

Thank you!!

[visual turret]

Ooooh now that sounds good! I’d take a look into flayed one techniques personally as the whole ‘stretching of flesh’ aspect reminds me of them

[brisk vapor]

yeah that's something I've actually looked into a bit as well for I have a few flayed ones waiting to be painted as well 😄

[brazen silo]

This is probably gonna sound dumb

Im scared to paint my helmet less salamanders cuz people might think i painted a racist thing or a different racist thinf and i hate that

[cursive gyro]

As long as you don't paint the lips bright red it's fine
The racist depictions is still a certain type of depiction, salamanders are jet black with bright red eyes so just put we red splotch in the sockets and make sure to leave the lips black

[brazen silo]

Alright

[cursive gyro]

Plus if you are crazy about details, you Can make the skin be charcoal-y with grey skin folds

[brazen silo]

Im not good at too much detail work

[cursive gyro]

All black it is

[brazen silo]

This was one of the last models i painted before i had to put my shit in storage

[sterile grail]

bladeguard lieutenant WIP

[plush swift]

thats an improvement, a highly noticeable one

[sterile grail]

thanks! glad you liked it

[tacit chasm]

Those lines are crisp !
Any tips to get them so neat ?

[spark birch]

damn

lookin at all these neatly painted minis

and then lookin back at my ugly ass imperial fist makes me wanna kill myself

[rare hornet]

Ahh yes… our neatly painted minis… 😅

[rare hornet]

Oh please, they’re probably better than you think. Let’s have a look

[cursive gyro]

Yeah neatly I'm sure lol

You old minis are how you started

Some are good, some are Bad, but they can't be all bad

[spark birch]

i just threw him into the jar with denatured alcohol

[sterile grail]

thinned down paints. Try to remove excess paint in your brush. I use a spotter brush. Watch the tip, it should be pointy by the time you touch the surface.

[rare hornet]

Ah I see, well anyone can paint a mini. What marine model is it in particular?

[spark birch]

its the horus heresy age of darkness box set lil firstborns

the corvus armor ones

[rare hornet]

Oooh I know the ones

[spark birch]

my first mini

never got to finish his ass

the wash ruined everything kinda

[rare hornet]

God damn,

That’s amazing

Like whoa

[spark birch]

maybe it was but my dumb ass decided that covering it all in nuln oil was a great idea

[rare hornet]

So is the first one covered in nuln?

[spark birch]

yes

all the pics are covered

you just cant see the pauldrons

the oil left tose ugly staints and stuff

[rare hornet]

Okay with marines you’ll want to generally use the washes in the gaps in the armour

[brisk vapor]

yeah the memeing around nuln oil / agrax earthshade can cause a bit of a noobtrap when people start thinking it is magic in a bottle. But fret not, the stains can be painted over and made shine again if you're not happy how it turned out

[sterile grail]

Whenever i use citadel washes i only use ot for metallic and scriptures. because it can be glossy and ugly

[rare hornet]

There are slight expectations to this but for imperial fists you don’t need to worry

[spark birch]

plus i made a mistake of just following the instructions

and fully assembled the 2 praetors and a terminator sergeant

how tf am i gonna paint these little details

[sterile grail]

Are painting for display or tabletop?

[spark birch]

at least i was smart enough not to glue the head on the terminator

[spark birch]

i aint planning to play the actual tabletop

[tacit chasm]

I see ! Thanks for the tip 🙂
I'm receiving new brushes and I'll try them out soon, I believe this is gonna help as well

[spark birch]

I just want the army of 40 just on my shelf

[sterile grail]

oh man ur gonna have a hard time starting with those two. I usually start simple first (even rn I'm still practicing)

[sterile grail]

same man, same

[spark birch]

Painting when all the little stuff is glued on is frustrating

[sterile grail]

then you may want to do sub assembly

thats what i do

[spark birch]

But its also frustrating when u r trying to glue painted parts together

The plastic cement just doesnt work even when i leave joints unpainted

[rare hornet]

Okay well for starters in your case don’t worry about being messy with the base coat, with your yellow. Just go to town covering the armour in a watered down yellow and let the layers build up until you’re happy

[sterile grail]

1. superglue
2. plastic cement gel

I never ever use liquid cement cuz it just melt my paint

super glue gel*

[rare hornet]

If you get yellow on say the power axe then no worries you can paint over it later

[sterile grail]

basically anything sub assembly = gel

[spark birch]

Oh yeah about painting over

I got the contrast instead of normal base paint

Its super thin so fixing it is a nightmare

[rare hornet]

Hmm okay, well I generally speaking contrasts are actually worse than base paints on flats

[spark birch]

Gonna go and buy myself some yellow paint from ak interactive or smth

These paint jars are weird

Knocked down one even

Half of the paint just gone

[rare hornet]

Yeah contrast paints like to have pitted surfaces, like tyranid bodies etc, on marines they aren’t that great

[spark birch]

And its so weird seeing people paint the lenses with such ease

They even manage to apply some reflections

[rare hornet]

Oh yeah no clue there

Warp fuckery is what I say

[brisk vapor]

Contrasts can be fine for flats as well but that requires some practice

[spark birch]

Real

[brisk vapor]

I fucking love painting lenses

[rare hornet]

Never really worked for me, but to each their own

[spark birch]

I know the theory

Black undercoat then some red on the bottom and a white dot in the corner

But good luck doing that on firstborn marines

[rare hornet]

I use different helmets to the beakies so I’m not sure what they’re like

For your yellow Citadels averland sunset is what I use. I’m sure AK do a similar kind of yellow?

[cursive gyro]

Did I hallusinate me responding?

What?

[rare hornet]

It was all a dream

[cursive gyro]

Damn that's spooky

I was sure I responded to you but apparently no?

Wut?

WHA

Oh okay no discord ate my text?

[rare hornet]

The astronomicon! It’s failing

Clearly your messages need stronger Gellar fields

[cursive gyro]

Is there a slur I am not aware off cause I just said
Me like orks cause agrax eartshade and nuln oil go wee

[rare hornet]

That worked at least

[cursive gyro]

Oh okay so

Discord refuses that I put the lettres v r e e e e e together

It just deletes the text

[rare hornet]

Just discord things

[cursive gyro]

Well

Ork go yeepee with nuln and agrax

[rare hornet]

Go brrr

[cursive gyro]

It's better to know where to put them is true

[slate pond]

picked up a little chaos dorf off ebay, cute angry dorf!!!

[cursive gyro]

He emanetes reeeeeeee energy

[tough nebula]

I want space dwarfs..

[slate pond]

i love the space dwarfs

[rare hornet]

Did I hear a rock and stone?

[abstract temple]

Did i hear Diggy Diggy Hole?

[cursive gyro]

Rock and stone to the Bone !

[abstract temple]

DIGGY DIGGY HOLE! I AM A DWARF AND I'M DIGGING A HOLE!

[sterile grail]

I think i have finished my Bladeguard Lieutenant Helmet.

[lavish crescent]

Should I bring a box to work tomorrow to make before i start my shift. I get on site at like 8am and start at 9am

[lavish crescent]

Mix them and get the holy grail of shades! NULN SHADE!!

[cursive gyro]

Agrax oil

[rare hornet]

Actually what red do you use for the lenses?

[tiny jay]

Just throwing this out here, already mentioned it in other places. If anyone got one of the Warlord Games mystery boxes and ended up with one of the Drune Warband boxes inside I’m interested in them. Happy to pay postage.

[dawn stream]

My first box of minis just arrived

I'm excited

[dusty nimbus]

What minis are they?

[dawn stream]

Raven Guard

[dusty nimbus]

Look awesome

[dawn stream]

Gathering my painting supplies, having a bit difficult time finding paint

[plush swift]

what paint are you after?

[dawn stream]

I found vallejo

[visual turret]

Because I’m nice

Front shot too

@rare hornet @jaunty trail y’all are my fans so observe

[bold copper]

Boom

[sterile grail]

memphiston, wild rider red, evil sun scarlet.

[glossy hawk]

Chompa da Deff Dread

[errant fulcrum]

Beautiful work on the visor there good sir

[glossy hawk]

thanks lol, it’s just contrast paint

[errant fulcrum]

Still man good job

[dawn stream]

My first miniature

[teal wolf]

raven guard lets gooooo

[dawn stream]

I've got nine more rievers, three eliminators, two Invictor warsuits, a Phobos librarian, and Kayvaan Shrike

I'm looking forward to the rest of this box. Building and painting that miniature was fun, even if the head was a bit of a pain in the ass

[plush swift]

Nice to see so many new hobbyists

[teal wolf]

For real!

[glossy hawk]

2023 is the year of 40k

[plush swift]

Indeed

[dawn stream]

I was intimidated by the painting aspect for a long time. It wasn't until recently that I decided to just forge ahead with it.

[plush swift]

This was my first mini, I think it took me about 3 hours to commit to a color scheme

Compared to my most recent mini

[rare hornet]

I adore how you’ve done the nid armour on his arm

[plush swift]

Thank you

[dawn stream]

That's really awesome.

I hope I can polish up my painting skills to that level

[sterile grail]

did some bit more highlights on my guy

[plush swift]

Oh mah gossss iss that a kwimson fist?

[sterile grail]

Oh nah 😅 its bobby G's kids. But if they were CF i would have def painted his left arm red.

[sterile grail]

also how do you set up such a nice camera quality?

[plush swift]

Dawg take a guess you’ll never believe me

[sterile grail]

Good camera + black piece of paper?

[brisk vapor]

good lightning is pretty much the most important part

[plush swift]

I phone 14, plus the inside of a citadel hobby box lid and a daylight lamp

Sometimes I’ll lower or raise the exposer all the way depending on outside lighting and use the focus lighting to make it pop more

That’s what I did for this one

[sterile grail]

yeah that looks so crisp man

[plush swift]

Here’s a photography guide if anyone is interested

I love miniature photography

[jaunty trail]

Noooice 🔥🔥🔥

[rare hornet]

The mighty thighs!!!!

Building him up for a crusade 😁

[tacit chasm]

Those are some nicely thinned paints

[rare hornet]

Yeah I only had the time to get a very thin coat of blue on the foot as I wanted to see how it would look 😅

[tacit chasm]

Great work nonetheless. I can always appreciate thin coats (because god forbid I actually manage this myself)

[teal wolf]

Blue toes

[rare hornet]

Yeah, although if I had to pick between too thick and thin paint I’d go too thin, you can always add more layers

[rare hornet]

I’m not too sure if I’m happy with the blue? Just feels off somehow

I’m painting house Terryn so it’s probably fine but I’m still not sure

[teal wolf]

It is just fine homie!

[tacit chasm]

It's fine but I'm farily sure it feels too "clean" for a gigantic walking robot and that's what throw you off

[rare hornet]

Feels too dark for some reason?

Might be lighting and that the silver hasn’t been washed yet?

[tacit chasm]

Compared to pure silver yeah, maybe

[brisk vapor]

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/07/20/heresy-thursday-tiny-fire-support-incoming-for-legions-imperialis/

Smol dreads

[rare hornet]

I NEED

He will be my son

[copper siren]

bro has posted the same mini for weeks now

is this an art competition piece?

[rare hornet]

It’s great seeing it slowly come together

[sterile grail]

you have problem with my minis, block me. No need to be a dick about it. I'm posting my progress and sharing people. Don't expect people here to think like that and it dissapoints me my dude.

[copper siren]

Just a bit of banter, big man

[hearty bear]

This pains me

[sterile grail]

dont get me wrong, all i thought is that im annoying you guys with the same minis progress

which u know, i can always post the final results instead

[rare hornet]

The quality of them is superb

[floral wind]

Okay so I have this mini thats already been primed, do i attepmt to strip the primer and re-prime or just reprime over the current? The current primer isnt too thick so i could get away with the latter

[rare hornet]

Let’s have a see and we’ll judge it

[floral wind]

bare with

It did need a fair cleanup with all the sprue marks and mold lines and do excuse the mess in the background

[rare hornet]

What type of bear we talking here?

[midnight locust]

Any tips for improving faces? I’ve provided three examples I’ve done recently

[floral wind]

cuddly, my silly brain mistyped haha

[rare hornet]

Hmm it can work, just need to be sure to thin the paint down a bunch

[rare hornet]

Waaaay ahead of you

[floral wind]

Shall do, I will likely re-prime it white to speed up the process and already have the cool base primed which i might work on tonight

[rare hornet]

Grey seer works very nicely for apothecaries

Pure white can be iffy I find

Like so, that was just primed for the white

Did have a slight shade malfunction so it ended up quite glossy 😭

[floral wind]

Ooo neat, I do have grey seer but the new method i like so far with white armour is to prime with white, in my case white scar then to recess shade with a grey shade liek i did with my second clone

I did debate priming grey seer then zenithal white to cheat my shadows

[floral wind]

I think it works glossy tbh, makes his armour look clean as a doctor should lmao

[rare hornet]

Yeah it works

[floral wind]

I also rate that hes a BT too i approve

Also going back to the apothecary i got this is the base he came with which I thought was neat

[rare hornet]

Oh damn that’s actually really cool

My termi chaplain has something like that

[floral wind]

I'm gonna go with a almost ruined city look with this one alas i have no basing bits yet 🫠🥲 but I will try lol

I want it to be apart of my CF army that's slowly building and I want them all to have similar bases being that grey, ruined city look

Or at least the closest I can get to it rn

[brisk vapor]

plasticard will be your friend

[floral wind]

Yet another thing my leviathan termie squad arrived today from ebay fresh on sprue

[floral wind]

Do need it it's on my list of things but tbh I need more storage first haha

[brisk vapor]

ah fair enough

they do come in neat little sheets so won't take much space

[floral wind]

That is good to know actually, my setup isn't amazing bur I work with what I have and will get there eventually

[brisk vapor]

My little plasticard projects

[floral wind]

Neat nicely done

[plush swift]

dont use washes, washes with skin tones generally will give you unintended looks and over have a more sloppy look no matter how masterfully they are done, but this is the nature of a wash. The only benefit of those is speed.

Second step is mixing your own skill tone, its actually incredibly simple. its just Orange, burnt umber, white.

[midnight locust]

I see. I’m guessing using the differences in tone to highlight the ridges on the skin/cheekbones/nose etc

[plush swift]

yep

[smoky jay]

Is that an implication that new city terrain/tiles might come out? :V I've needed those tiles for a long time now.

[floral wind]

No not that ik of im afraid. Im not even sure where this base is from

My guess is that its from some other kit

[smoky jay]

Oh, I thought it was the new Leviathan stuff for some reason

[floral wind]

Nah unfortunately not but i did have the termie squad freom leviathan arrive from ebay

[dawn stream]

How do you guys get such fine detail on the heads? They're so damn small.

[plush swift]

Try getting an XS artificer layer brush and just practice brush control, thinning your paints helps too

[plush swift]

Add small highlights on the eyebrows and the ridge of the nose

If you have a good hand you could try highlighting the cheeks as well

[dawn stream]

The pack of brushes I bought has some very small brushes. But the biggest help is just going to be practice in the end

So I'll just keep practicing

Hopefully I'll be decent at it when I get to Mr. Shrike

[visual turret]

If the lieutenant comes out as a stand-alone from the Leviathan box I might have to get him again, because I’ve had a brilliant idea

He looks like Pyke from league of legends to me, so making him as such could be fun

[brisk vapor]

This might work

[plush swift]

get a thing called a spotter or retouch brush from a reputable brand non-hobby brand (windsor and newton or raphael arent those), then get a surgical magnifying glasses. The higher end brush makes things much much simplier

[visual turret]

That’s a fantastic start!!!

[dawn stream]

It certainly does look gross

[floral wind]

I'm really mad

I was winning a bid on ebay for a 2nd edition marine and at the last minute someone won the bid

On a more on topic matter here is my CF Apothecary wip

Looks bad now but in time should look better. Hopefully

[signal plover]

just bought so old warhammer fantasy shit off the ebay

[abstract temple]

So much work for one mini....

[floral wind]

worth it tho

[abstract temple]

Shoot me

[abstract temple]

These where my first after I got back into the hobby after...oooh...six-seven years. They where also my first space marines

[dawn stream]

The snow is a very nice touch

[abstract temple]

Bit too much snow

This guy still needs a little tidying up before I move on to the rest of the Deathwing

[solemn falcon]

Sitll a bit wip. Mutilated my officio perfectus commissar to get a bigger hat for this dude

[abstract temple]

Ooooooh, krieg boi

Happy Gas mask noises while brandishing my shovel

[floral wind]

Gets shot himself for suggesting not to waste resources on bayonet charges

[solemn falcon]

Gets shot at the siege of vraks when a krieg regiment actually retreats

[floral wind]

Also recalls when the 19th Krieg regiment remained as the rearguard to halt chaos forces depsite being hit with Nurgle virus', plague marines and cultists despite overwhelming odds

[solemn falcon]

Yeeeees. The krieg can hold for much longer than others, but they are still human

[floral wind]

The shining example of human tenacity

[abstract temple]

Best series arch ever did

[pastel grotto]

Someone was at an event

[solemn falcon]

Oooh noo, bought it from Ebay

looked too good to be ignored

Im glad that my kitbash krieg commissar head fits

[wary sonnet]

Moments before tragedy.

Well, I don't know about tragedy, but it warmed hearts.

[formal lichen]

First oil wash attempt, ngl never using nuln oil again

[plush swift]

did you put an isolation coat on it before applying the wash?

[formal lichen]

used a varnish after a basecoat, although, brushed on so I think ive missed a bit where its chipped on the plate - varnish the best option to seal in the acrylic?

[plush swift]

no.... varnishes dont do what most people think they do, they are supposed to be a removeable layer for cleaning and mitigating UV degradation, this is what they are designed to do, The acrylic varnishes(which also cant be put over oils, just a reminder) are affected by mineral spirits and will get removed when you wipe them away, which means the miseral spirits will affect the acrylic layer below. You'd need an isolation coat which is very similar to a varnish, but its non-removable(for the most part at least). Its also supposed to be applied before the varnish too.

There are some varnishes out there that will work, like enamels(sometimes), but those are generally oil based which means touch ups will be much harder later on.

There are a few acrylic varnishes that technically do work, but they arent in the hobby space

and they arent exactly cheap

keep in mind here, I am very neurotic about this stuff because I work in art conservation, so what I generally recommend is so you dont get issues down the line

like 5 or so years

in somecases, a few months'

[formal lichen]

It's alright I've seen your comments a few times the advice and expertise is much appreciated, currently taking the plunge with new techniques and how to make the minis stand out on the table - been years of simple base, wash, highlight and got a bit bored of it

is it better to wipe away the oils shortly after application to avoid the acrylic coming away? i.e. using less spirit to remove if the oil has been left for too long?

[plush swift]

as always, that depends on a ton of factors like the type of acrylic binder in those paints, and a ton of variables.

which varnish are you using?

Hmm

[rapid lake]

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8RXmQJp/

[brazen silo]

Is there anywhere online I could make custom minis of my characters

Not hero forged tho cuz i want them exact

Well as exact as possible

[plush swift]

there is, but thats all commission services and can get very expensive if you want something mediocre

though you might beable to get someone at sketchfab to do it for like $100

[brazen silo]

Alright dope thank you

[plush swift]

if you wanted hand sculpted, it would probably be around $200~ from someone who actually knows what they are doing, $40 from a hobbiest who thinks they are good

you also have kitbashes

which you can do yourself

[brazen silo]

Kitbashed is hard

[edgy jackal]

It depends on what you consider close enough. A lot of the sharpshooter stuff can be taken from the regular guardsman kit.

[brazen silo]

I want to make these but i feel like some of these parts don’t exist

[eternal pond]

psyker has some sick gear so jelly

[edgy jackal]

Yeah, the ogryn would be harder to make.

[brazen silo]

Ty ty

[brazen silo]

Im also not skilled with green stuff as ive never used it

[edgy jackal]

Then a commission might be the most realistic possibility. Darktide characters don't fit very well into tabletop minis, except maybe the sharpshooter, so some converting or 3d printing is to be expected.

[sterile grail]

i mean they have a GW primaris psyker

not the gear you are looking for but somewhat darktide aesthetic accurate

[brazen silo]

I feel like a peg leg might be hard/ tedious to make

[rare hornet]

I found a full bottle of old pre new formula nuln oil at home

Is this what god feels like?

[brazen silo]

Drink it or i will

[rare hornet]

I eat it by the bottle

[brazen silo]

Ah ok

[rare hornet]

Don’t even open it

[sterile grail]

that's sick brother

[brazen silo]

Like a gusher

[cursive gyro]

We talking about drinking paint?

Oh boy my favorite

[tacit badge]

Many thanks!

[sour nexus]

mfw I love making my Night lord army

mfw I have to paint it

csm trim is hell

[rugged swan]

Just finished some scarab swarm.

[brisk vapor]

very cool

[celest zealot]

looks at my chaos raptors, heldrake, and helbrute left to paint yeah....

[lavish crescent]

Did I hear we’re drinking the artist delight?

[celest zealot]

i am still very happy with the work i HAVE done so far on my black legion

and they're closer to done than not

but im also taking a pretty big break from painting rn

[lavish crescent]

Make a shrine for it!

[final folio]

Here's some massive chonkers

[plush swift]

its not, I've done a ton of those before, the trick to those is using a toothpick and then building up the epoxie putty over it

I do a lot of D&D commissions so, if you have any questions on how to do things, feel free to ask

[brazen silo]

Ah ok

Thank you i will

[pastel grotto]

Skin nids

[brazen silo]

Ew

[humble skiff]

Thought I’d add an auto cannon Leman Russ to my collection

[lavish crescent]

Awww tiny

[humble skiff]

Just looks small. He’s normal sized

[floral wind]

Very happy about winning this auction

Little bit more than I would have wanted to pay but auctions be damned

[plush swift]

I imagine this is what kids in hive cities are given as toys
like their parents work in a leman russ factory, and do that out of spare scrap metal
kinda cute, now that I think about it

the kids probably also work in that factory, now that I think about it longer

[humble skiff]

So they made it themselves

[rare hornet]

Time for the armour

[dawn stream]

What unit is that?

[rare hornet]

Questoris knight

[cursive gyro]

Jesus wow

Can't imagine the Time spent and the calmness needed

And cant wait to see it done!

[plush swift]

Dont remember if I posted this, but testing a scheme

[rare hornet]

oooo

those are fancy

[plush swift]

I stripped them

its just a test scheme

[rare hornet]

fair enough, did the test work?

[plush swift]

Nope

[rare hornet]

oh

[plush swift]

People kept thinking the green was corrosion, not realizing that the primer for metal is almost always green

because its zinc chromate

plus I wasnt impressed by the metallic paint

its 35yo so i need to reprocess it

[rare hornet]

Well you learnt something by doing it anyway though

So there's that at least

[plush swift]

Yep, plus those 3 only took me about 10 minutes in total to do

[rare hornet]

O_o

[plush swift]

so not much time wasted

[rare hornet]

God damn

[plush swift]

remember, I am a professional insider artist, so my speed comes from over a decade of muscle memory

[rare hornet]

Still, damn

[plush swift]

its the planning that takes hours

[rare hornet]

Scale

[rare hornet]

Yeah I respect that

[plush swift]

I've changed my entire scheme now, I'm painting eyes on everything

[rare hornet]

oooh that'll be good

[plush swift]

like the armor panels are just eyes

its got the freehand, the colors to augment the heavily black scheme, the weirdness, etc

might do some Ken Currie like things on them too

Hiroshima Smile 1 honestly gives me a lot of vibes I'm looking for on my knight army

I can also give some of the eyes teeth, which I find hilarious to do

[rare hornet]

I bet they'll look great

[plush swift]

I hope they dont

I'm making an artistic statement more than an artistic work

[rare hornet]

oh

well I hope it turns out how you want it to

[plush swift]

it wont

nothing ever does

but that is art

[cursive gyro]

Jeazus foken christ

[rare hornet]

chonk

[cursive gyro]

And a half

[dawn stream]

Yeesh, and I thought the Invictor warsuits in my box were big

[olive crest]

Are grey knights still considered a special unit if added to armies or did that rule change? It's been sometime since I played (14 years)

[fickle moat]

Anyone got an Impulsor?

[plush swift]

they are their own army now

cant really mix and match them easily or at all anymore

[olive crest]

Thnx much

[left egret]

That be one stompy boi

[sterile grail]

yoo very nice details

[dawn stream]

Mechs are great. It was a toss up for me between Space Marines and Imperial Knights for my first build.

I get a bit of both since the box I went with has warsuits

[sterile grail]

I want to paint some armigers knights

it will take me an enternity

but*

[dawn stream]

Don't they have God-Machines on display somewhere?

Imperators and Warlords

[agile vault]

Whats a good paint

For like

Metalic armour

Like a iron warriors kind

But a tiny bit brighter

[plain granite]

@abstract temple finished up the first termie.

[simple thorn]

ooooo, nice cobalt

Is that the metallic on it's own, or is it a metallic + contrast combo?

[plush swift]

Aquamarine, not cobalt. Cobalt is way deeper and is on the red spectrum of blues

[simple thorn]

Huh

[plush swift]

this is cobalt

well thats the raw pigment

before processing

[teal wolf]

Slow WIP for a friend. Not feeling to great about it 😕

[plush swift]

what are you not feeling about it?

[teal wolf]

The sword. And maybe a few lines.

[karmic coral]

Shrivetalon for my EC kill-team

[final folio]

Time to die

[plush swift]

Iron warriors is the only dark metallic you’re gonna find before leadbelcher

[agile vault]

Say no more

Totally didnt order the paint with a venerable dread

[glossy hawk]

just a few boyz

[agile vault]

Da boys gotta go bonkin n cronkin

[brazen silo]

I don’t see anything in this picture

[glossy hawk]

my bad, wrong photo

[brazen silo]

Is it the joke of “haha purple the sneaky color”?

[glossy hawk]

yeah

[sterile grail]

✨ majestic belt ✨

[teal wolf]

Gawddamn!

[abstract temple]

It's magic Azure from the Army painter metallic range

[simple thorn]

oooooooo

Gotta get me some more Army Painter colours

[rare hornet]

Magestic

[sudden notch]

Ive spent 5 hours painting and im half done with my guard kill team

[plush swift]

more reasons why I hate army painter, that is too green to be azure. Azure is a very specific color thats actually protected for cultural reasons in several countries.

[plain granite]

It's turquoise enough to work for my colorblind ass though. Made getting the alpha legion color I wanted easy.

[visual turret]

Being rebellious and posting something non-40k painting related

Wip

[plush swift]

It looks like a monster from monster hunter

Like a weird odogaron

[visual turret]

It’s SCP-682

[plush swift]

No clue

[rare hornet]

Chonky!

[simple thorn]

Was about to ask if it was that

[simple thorn]

SCP Foundation. Creepypasta where a government-funded secret organization tracks down and locks up anomalous objects.
These objects range from the benign, such as a single bottle of pills that can cure any disease, a clockwork machine with no visible parts beyond a casing and cogs capable of either rendering objects put through it into their base components or massively improving it but with completely unpredictable effects, or a green sauce that tastes absolutely delicious but reacts weirdly with dead bodies to the point the article refuses to state what the hell happens, to the outright lethal and malevolent, such as a dollar-store Weeping Angel, the afore-mentioned 682 who is basically the fucking Tarrasque, and a dude who is indestructible and so painfully shy that if anyone sees his face he fucking murders them brutally, and there's fuck-all lower limit to what counts as his face since the incident that led to him being discovered involved a photo with four pixels taken by a hiker at the wrong place and the wrong time

Then there's just the fucking weird ones because the thing has gone on for so long with no unified canon (there are so, SO many fucking split universes I'm not going to bother listing any) that the entire site has gone on all ends of the Horror-Comedy spectrum

[sour nexus]

these bad bois gonna be a pain to paint but I love the kitbash and FW upgrades

[simple thorn]

Oh hey, the Geneva Checklist Enthusiasts

[sour nexus]

I am indeed a flesh enjoyer

[simple thorn]

How the fuck do raptors walk with those boots

[sour nexus]

I don't think they do

[spark birch]

Hey guys. The only mini paints i can get my hands on are the Citadel Paints (Which are expensive even tho they are not special in any way aside from their contrast paint series) and the other 2 brands are Ammo and Green Stuff World. I was wondering if anyone has tried these 2 brands and could tell me if its a good replacement for the citadel paints.

[plush swift]

Ammo is run by an actual fascist(paint is also meh too), GSW is garbage. BTW you an use any student grade paints, or even professional. You dont have to limit yourself to hobby paints. Hobby paints are nothing more than student grade with extra marketing for a huge price increase

[spark birch]

Aight then

[rare hornet]

I use crayons

[plush swift]

Ahh, the encaust method

[rare hornet]

They taste the best

[plush swift]

unless its the soy based ones

[edgy jackal]

Do you mean just their (GSW) standard line, or also things like their shifter paints?

[plush swift]

standard, I have never gotten in a shifter that worked because they baked during the shipping so I cant comment about those

[edgy jackal]

baked?

[plush swift]

heated up heavily during shipping

[rare hornet]

Spicy

[edgy jackal]

Ah. How could you tell that they baked, came out chunky?

[rare hornet]

They looking like bread

[plush swift]

thats one sign, but not alwyas a sign. Theres a ton of ways to you can find out

[primal summit]

Nearly done vox box boi.

[light zenith]

Commissar i did a while ago, probably should touch up the base but eh.

[rare hornet]

He may be thicc, but there’s always thiccer

[primal summit]

Was wondering why blue face then it clicked powersword glow.. nicely done 👌

[final folio]

Not as cool as a mork or gork o naught but these have bunny ears..

[dawn stream]

Second mini done. I think I did a pretty good job on the head

[plush swift]

Thinneth thy paints

Looks like you need to spray a little closer too just be careful with how much you spray, more thin coats

[cursive gyro]

Can I make a confession?

[teal wolf]

Spill the tea sis

[cursive gyro]

I've never thinned my paint even After almost more than 4 years of painting

[teal wolf]

Bless you

[light zenith]

same

ive only started doing it since tommorow

[cursive gyro]

and they look good mozafuka!

[rare hornet]

HeReSy!!!!

Okay, so should I have the stubber pointing forwards or following where the head is looking?

[plush swift]

Well is the stubber shooting or is it resting?

[rare hornet]

The idea is to have in a looking for targets kind of pose

not quite aiming up to fire but walking and keeping watch

[plush swift]

Then where it is looking like and Apache attack fucking helicopter

[plush swift]

Your getting black listed from GW

[cursive gyro]

Too late, I've already bought the orks

[rare hornet]

I like the idea of the stubber being slaved to the knight's head

just like a gunship

[light zenith]

i think having it follow the head would be neat

i guess itd make sense too?

probably more like visually clean

[rare hornet]

That's what I was thinking

[bold copper]

I love the heresy dreadnought kits.

[lavish crescent]

Kinda the same

[rare hornet]

ooo what legion?

[lavish crescent]

Sometimes I add too much water on my wet palet and boom thinned paints

[bold copper]

@rare hornet I'm an alpha legion player in the heresy

[rare hornet]

oooh that cobalt colour will look good

[bold copper]

i just really love how posable and customizable the contemptor and leviathan dread kits are

[light zenith]

hot take maybe: everything about 30k aesthetically is better

[rare hornet]

as much as posable joints can be a pain, they are so good if you take your time with them

[light zenith]

ive got a Contemptor im looking forward to, but need to figure out how to do nmm gold first, coz Blood Angles (or IXth i suppose)

[rare hornet]

what paint brand you use?

[bold copper]

i also love how easy to magnetize the dread kits are

[light zenith]

me? or Terror?

[rare hornet]

You, probably would have helped if I 😅 specified

[light zenith]

all good, I use AKs. got a set originally for like historical figures (stares at my unfinished Crimean War figure thats been sat on my dest for a year untouched) Though i have Vallejo Black i use coz the set didnt come with a black

used to use Vallejo but they always dried slightly shiny

[rare hornet]

hmm, Citadel's retibutor gold is what I use and that works wonders, maybe finding something based on that would work?

[light zenith]

i wasnt a fan of Citadel paints, found them unfun to work with, though this was like 7 years ago so theyve probably gotten better

[light zenith]

Just one colour?

i was on about Non Metallic gold

[rare hornet]

Non metalic?

[light zenith]

yeah

[rare hornet]

Erm... not so sure then actually

[light zenith]

ive got the theory of how to do it down, watched alot of stuff. just need to practice more

This was my like 3rd attempt

tried it on a sergeant helmet for a full figure, but ended up having to give the head a detol bath

[rare hornet]

Oh I see, that looks okay to me

[light zenith]

thanks

ive got alot of gold work to do on the contemptor, luckily its just the helmets ive got to do for regular (well command) marines

[rare hornet]

Yeah the dread has a lot or ornate gold

mainly the eagle on the chest

[light zenith]

yeah, well im not doing the eagle one. im gonna have the one that has like a star and then a blank space in the middle

gonna put either a Legion numeral there or greenstuff blood drop, not decided yet

[rare hornet]

oooh okay I see

[light zenith]

still alot of gold

gold like ornaments are easier than armour imo

[rare hornet]

for large parts it might be worth investing in a spray perhaps?

[light zenith]

im not convinced? i just paint it brown and then bring up the highlights

i should mention im not doing an army, im just painting them coz its fun

if i had like 3 dreadnoughts to do i would probably consider it

[rare hornet]

oh okay

[light zenith]

or if i was doing custodes or like sanguinary guard id probably spray them brown instead of grey

or dante

thats all the gold boys off the top of my head

[cursive gyro]

Get Big brush and pray to gork ' mork your gonna be fine

[sterile grail]

I like this, dis you airbrushed the white?

[sour nexus]

I had no idea about Ammo paints thanks for the heads up

getting closer to finishing these bad bois

[final folio]

Nope

[plush swift]

the sad thing is that is one of the better things you'll hear about these companies, most hide very horrible secrets. AK opened the flood gates of it all when they did the whole gas chamber diorama and using holocaust footage for advertisement of their brand

[crude solstice]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/865293019766456360/1132615192463814747/IMG_0781.jpg

[simple thorn]

Fookin' footy hooligans

[rare hornet]

First ever attempt at painting lenses

[brisk vapor]

hell yeah

[rare hornet]

less important for the paladin, but was more as practice for the armigers

[teal wolf]

Fuck those are clean 🤯

[rare hornet]

Thank you!!

[teal wolf]

I wish I could get my gems looking like that

[cinder bear]

Looks like the rogue trader guards from the rpg's beta

[rare hornet]

It’s just a colour with a darker wash and a single dab of white in the top corner

[woeful vale]

Pleasantly surprised that the mini of the month left an option to customize. Scooped up some flesh paint yesterday too so timing is right

[primal summit]

Intersting ill need to look them up see if there’s bits that’d be cool to pull from em.

[cinder bear]

Nah sadly they are just blue armour cadians lol

[primal summit]

That it? Shame haha.

[cinder bear]

Yeah lol

[primal summit]

I wanted to go for an arctic/urban vibe with mine. Completely broke that vibe when I did the lasguns brown and black 🤣

[cursive gyro]

That's Amazing woooow

[rare hornet]

Thank you!!

It was actually rather simple

[cursive gyro]

<-<

[rare hornet]

I'm not kidding, ork green, green wash then a dot of white in the top corner

It's fiddly to do but if you can suport you hands it helps prevent being shakey