40k-minis-and-armies

[finite quarry]

We’ll see how it goes

[plush swift]

they arent... thats just people who dont shake their paint at all talking

like ninjon never shook his paint before a vortex mixer

we have actual proof of this too

[rare hornet]

God gift to painters was dirty down rust. That shit is gourmet 🥴

[finite quarry]

Lol i saw a video of that rust, looks insane

[plush swift]

7 17ml bottles is enough to kill an adult malle

[plush swift]

its also a hazmat item and incredibly deadly

[finite quarry]

I kind of wish i had it to rust the weapons of the gors 🤔

[plush swift]

you have to take the rinse water to hazmat after due to it containing a highly toxic forever chemical

[rare hornet]

I remember the story you said about someone licking their brush to wet it with that stuff on it. Still makes me laugh

[heady lotus]

YOU DO NOT SEE TYBEROS OF THE RED WAKE

[plush swift]

That still bugs me to this day

[visual turret]

carcharodons yeeea

[rare hornet]

What is this? It’s a dead marine on a base? Am I missing something here?

[heady lotus]

It is a red corsair rethinking his life choices since the badab war

[plush swift]

you can make a less toxic version out of ink and baking soda

[rare hornet]

Hope that goes well for him 😄

[plush swift]

like typhus corrosion is literally just brown paint with baking soda in it

[rare hornet]

Fr though that’s a masterful kitbash!

[heady lotus]

His ass will be grass

And his pants full of poop

*it was just literally tyberos bits from the FW model stuck onto the new terminators model

[rare hornet]

I know, just works so well!

Looking forward to kitbashing my new termi chaplain for my first company

[visual turret]

i've built mine

[rare hornet]

Oooo

[visual turret]

also i bought her

:)

[rare hornet]

Oh?

[visual turret]

lancer

[rare hornet]

Oh lancer?

Ayyyy

That’ll look awesome

[visual turret]

I wish I had a 3d printer

I'd make a big pile bunker

convert her to be more like an AC

had a thought

@rare hornet might change the crozius into a long-handled power sword

like a zweihander-style two-handed weapon

[rare hornet]

Ooo that would look awesome

[jaunty trail]

Zweihänder or Gassenhauer?

The Gassenhauer would be a bit longer but looks also dope

[visual turret]

Thoughts on this then

Or should I just keep the crisis

Crozius

@jaunty trail @rare hornet

[jaunty trail]

looks good to me

[glossy hawk]

just a nob

[patent bluff]

Orm

[vale pollen]

Kitbashed a judiciar with that model of the montu

[patent bluff]

The blue and black go well together

[patent bluff]

Current progress on the auto turret, the colors are blending well and I love how it’s turning out

With flash^

[proud glen]

So , how did it go?

[visual turret]

This is cleeeean, where’d that sword come from I recognise it but can’t put my finger on it

[jagged sparrow]

My assumption is either grey knights or Black Templar

[visual turret]

Nah I don’t own either of them

But I know I have that sword

My guess is the leviathan terminator captain iirc

My brain is big

[jagged sparrow]

Well would you look at that

[burnt wing]

Honor weapon of the Captain in Terminator armor.

[visual turret]

Yeah I worked that out 😋

[summer shale]

My workstation

[burnt wing]

ah i didnt even see that because discord on my phone takes ages to load images

[burnt wing]

It's fun to try and guess the army someone's painting based on the colors here

[summer shale]

Its maybe sisters or space marines?

[burnt wing]

Space Marines and Tyranids at the moment

The sisters were a failed first attempt at painting, just did the three and recently i tried getting back into the hobby with the starter set

[summer shale]

I have a kreig (from the KT box) that I use as a test model for paints. Its always nice having little Hans in case I can't visualise how it might look on a soldier

[burnt wing]

I dread having to paint all the Termagaunts still

[summer shale]

take your time and enjoy it, I still have 28 guards to paint

well... 23-ish

[whole scarab]

Be greatful you aren't doing a full 2000 point army of tyranids

[knotty flint]

Pov you meet a world eater in a dark alley

Better quality image

[teal wolf]

I love him

[knotty flint]

Paint idea is based on the character lhorke is one of the 4 I'm working on, but thank you 🙂

[burnt wing]

I eventually do want to get there

[whole scarab]

that is fair, but tyranids being tyranids will probably mean you'll end up with even more termagaunts, I have a 2000 point army planned and it has like 40 termagaunts and somewhere around 95 models in total

swarm armies are fucking terrifying on the numbers front

[lilac mantle]

I mean I was running 60 gants in 9th, with a Tervie making 10 more so needed 70

😅

[whole scarab]

this is the planned army

characters:
neurotyrant (leading neurogaunts depending on situation/mood)
winged hive tyrant (warlord)
winged tyranid prime (leading gargoyles)
winged tyranid prime (leading ranged warriors)

battle line:
10 gargoyles (1 squad)
40 termagants (4 squads)

infantry:
10 barbagaunts (2 squads)
11 nerougaunts (1 squad)
6 von ryan leapers (2 squads)
3 zoanthropes (1 squad)
3 warriors with ranged bio-weapons (1 squad) (1 venom cannon and 2 deathspitters)

swarms:
4 ripper swarms (2 squads)

monsters:
psychophage
psychophage
screamer killer
tyrannofex

I'm probably gonna spend more on paint than I am plastic XD

[chilly summit]

Gah. You guys make me ashamed of my painting process. I can only do 5 models at a time and it takes me a month to do them.

[burnt wing]

I'll go up to around 750 first. Neurotyrant and Screamer Killer are on their way, for Space Marines i want to add an Apothecary Biologis, a Ballistus Dreadnought and either an Aggressor or Eradicator Squad

Because none of my friends are into the hobby i'll slowly develop both my Space Marine and Tyranid army so i can still play with people

[pastel grotto]

I'm on my way to the game lol

Live updates from yours truly

[proud glen]

🫡

You shall win the favour of the Dark Gods

[whole scarab]

do you know what you're playing against?

[pastel grotto]

Death guard

Crab told me the whole tactic and battleplan yesterday

Gonna show this guy the power of internal and external bleeding

[whole scarab]

Good luck then!

[pastel grotto]

Thank you random guy 10 numbers

[whole scarab]

don't catch covid

||my nurgle humour is shit||

[pastel grotto]

Oh shit the death guard infected my guns

[proud glen]

looks like some Tzeentch stuff

or maybe even Slaanesh

[whole scarab]

I want to unsee that

[pastel grotto]

I am here, and store staff say the guy I'm playing against has won awards for being a good happy person

[rare hornet]

Ayy

[proud glen]

If you see this guy

[whole scarab]

run.

[proud glen]

try not to get your units in his line of sight

[rare hornet]

Hold your nose

[proud glen]

Because if he sees you it means all DG weapons with Inderct Fire will fire on your units that he sees with no penalties

and +1 to hit

[pastel grotto]

Who's that guy

Oh cool

[proud glen]

Lord Of Virulence

[whole scarab]

anyway how's your match going?

[rare hornet]

Are ya winning?

[whole scarab]

have you fell victim to the space dioreha

[pastel grotto]

Oh god he has Mortarion and a lord of virulence

[whole scarab]

na na na na na na na na na na na we're completely fucked (completely fucked) we're completely fucked

[proud glen]

Mortarion gives buffs around himself

and has a pretty solid melee

[proud glen]

Is there any Plagueburst Crawlers?

[left egret]

When in doubt a stubborn learn stand to the death is always an option

[pastel grotto]

He has 3 mortars

We are rolling to go first

[whole scarab]

ok so from what I can tell his army is very elite so you should hopefully out number him

[pastel grotto]

I think I do

I got like 40 infantry

[proud glen]

This is exactly how DG plays out right know

[whole scarab]

On the plus side it makes keeping out of the aura easier

[proud glen]

Yes if he doesn’t drop his terminators in the right spot

[whole scarab]

How's the macth going?

[vale pollen]

Thanks man, was from the terminator captain from leviathan.

[visual turret]

Looks gorgeous! Excellent bash

[pastel grotto]

BLOOOD

[whole scarab]

Ah yes mass violence, enjoy

[proud glen]

https://tenor.com/view/khorne-skulls-for-the-skull-throne-blood-for-the-blood-god-gif-18272573

[pastel grotto]

I lost

[whole scarab]

did you have fun at least?

[proud glen]

🦀 You spilled the blood for the blood god?

[pastel grotto]

I spilled blood

[whole scarab]

In the eyes of khorne if blood was spilled you won

[pastel grotto]

I killed a good 60% of his army

And the rest was knights / vehicles

[whole scarab]

honestly killing 60% of his stuff is really good if he had 4 burst crawlers and a damn primarch

[pastel grotto]

Yeah

He was really nice guy

[proud glen]

I remember playing against Aeldari Melee Army

[proud glen]

Most DG players are

[pastel grotto]

Next time I play him I gotta take some nids or something

[pastel grotto]

You are too kind :3

[whole scarab]

I really need to get my full army going

[proud glen]

I had cultist squad and couple squads of legionaries , enemy had Aeldar Avatar of Khaine and a lot Banshes and Scorpions

results

[whole scarab]

I have only ever played 2 matches of warhammer in 2018 and they where incredibly small games

[pastel grotto]

Before this game id played guard and nid 1,000 against the same marine player

Lost both

I only lost this game because I forfeited because I had to go home early from a hazardous weather warning

[whole scarab]

I remember one of them I somehow ended up in a weird situation where the enemy physically couldn't hit me and I could only hit on 6's

[pastel grotto]

Bet I could have won from objectives

[proud glen]

Was a cinematic scene where my Chaos Lord stands in front of Avatar of Khaine with half of it`s wounds and a lot dead bodies lying around

[whole scarab]

damn, you better rematch the fool when the weather improves

[proud glen]

Played against Imperial Knights and Vashtorr almost killed Knight in meleehttps://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1130498532957225011/1148991580699635863/386.png?ex=654263cc&is=652feecc&hm=b81a86a21d2ba205d8bae569926bf623fe34512c76ac5a51231285482684f39c&

Also a little bit of Warpsmith https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1130498532957225011/1148991581286830151/387.png?ex=654263cc&is=652feecc&hm=214e8d3edac4d7890801d07100ae2ce0923b72ae227e6deb4fcfb74d35591559&

[whole scarab]

||I think I may have figured out my tyranid's colour scheme as well||

[pastel grotto]

YEEAAAAA

welcome to the hive fleet

[whole scarab]

yeah I just need to start buying XD

hopefully my practice on totally different factions will be handy

[proud glen]

I thought about colour scheme for my homebrew Chaos Space Marines
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pTjtcXaenciAx2NJ5MMV0DqchaVIw29edzkDfLWRWTw/edit?usp=sharing

[proud glen]

I think they would look like Necrons/Iron Warriors

Mainly grey

[whole scarab]

I think I'm going to go for a pretty simple black carapce and purple flesh

[minor eagle]

Here goes my finished entry to the Halloween painting contest at my local warhammer store

[whole scarab]

If I had too pick my 2 best models so far it would be these 2

[proud glen]

Metal on this Ork Chopper look GOOD

[whole scarab]

Ironically enough I got the chopper by entering the overlord as a submission in a painting contest

the rest of my stuff is either boring or has horribly obvious gaps in the paint (my house has damp issues)

or is one of my dreaded first models (weirdly a squad of only 2 blood angels with jump packs) where I may not have known about paint thinning

[finite quarry]

[patent bluff]

I finished my first Warhammer mini, prolly should have done a smaller one, but for my first time I like how it turned out

[glossy hawk]

looks like it just finished driving through civilians

[minor eagle]

the theme was horror so i thought i would do it up

[minor eagle]

this is a really good first attempty

the base is top teir

but your paint on your models is WAY to thick. Think the consistency of milk and you will get a MUCH smoother application

[patent bluff]

Fair

I’ll have to try it out for the next two

I’m hoping to refine my painting before I get to my Krieg because I want them to look good

[minor eagle]

i love krieg

[patent bluff]

They look so cool

[minor eagle]

These are my Kreig

[patent bluff]

That is dope

[minor eagle]

TY

[patent bluff]

I wanna keep the winter theme with my Militarum since most of the army’s I see are just your average green men, plus I love the winter

[minor eagle]

feel free to pm me if you need any advice or tips. i almsot paitned my kreig that way but changed my mind i dont remeber why

[patent bluff]

Fair, I’m always down for some advice or tips, I just painted the shoulder armor for my heavy Bolter dudes and wet the paint more than I did with the Autocanon crew, so far it’s looking a lot better

Do I want to strive for the primer to show through?

[minor eagle]

no thats a little too thin but its not a problem because you can just do another coat. you can always add more coats to get coverage but you cant remove it as easily.

also if your brush is a little damp before you go into the paint it will slide off the brush easier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfGVQ3YLSrM&t=214s

here is a good example from 1:15 to 2:49

[worn fern]

My first mini (unfortunately missing one cube)

[minor eagle]

nice job! necrons are sweet!

necrons is what my wife painted firsty

[worn fern]

got a box of immortals + this chronomancer

[minor eagle]

do you have tesseract glow?

[worn fern]

no because the store i went to didnt have none

i'm using warpstone glow + moot green

[minor eagle]

thats a nice combo as well.

[plush swift]

Thanks for this, I have another video to criticize during class... this has a lot of disinformation...

[minor eagle]

ok go for it have fun!

[burnt wing]

Yo i've seen this a couple of times where can i play this?

[proud glen]

mean?

[burnt wing]

That virtual tabletop

[proud glen]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/286160/Tabletop_Simulator/

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[patent bluff]

This is helpful

[plush swift]

We do, the students seem to enjoy this stuff.

Better than beating them down and telling them they'll never become artists and how art school is worthless for them... They'll learn that on their own

encountering a lot of people going to art school to paint minis now and coming in with a lot of bad practices and concepts

[agile vault]

Chapter master complete what yall think

Chapter “Carrion Lords”

Yes ik not the greatest painter lol

[patent bluff]

Current progress on Heavy Bolter Squad

[nocturne remnant]

finished this for a friend

[patent bluff]

Looks dope

[dawn stream]

My order came in!

Just after 11

I've been busy working on a mini

Sergeant in progress and sergeant done

[finite quarry]

First time trying contrasts

Feels like liquid skill compared to other methods 😭

[visual turret]

oh that looks cash

[visual turret]

CHEQUERS SPOTTED

!!!!!!!!

that's fantastic

[finite quarry]

Gotta do some highlighting and the base and we’re good

[compact umbra]

I’m stuck on how I wanna paint the knights of the raven, I’m thinking either literally just airbrushing gun metal or silver other the whole think and speed paint white over that. Or start with white and airbush silver over

[nocturne remnant]

if you our doing a gunmetal silver. then do a black primer so the silver pops better

[compact umbra]

Alright! Thank you!

Prime blavk and then just airbush white, and then go over the arm tubes and chest with black

And then also do the detailing

Oh and wash

[sweet sinew]

My wonderful little man is here

[compact umbra]

Woooo!!!

[signal plover]

mine came in today too, cant wait to give him a deathwing knight hooded helm

[sudden notch]

Chaplain in termi would probably cinvert into nice grey knight chaplain

[hollow goblet]

Contrasts are a huge game changer I can't go back to regular base/shade painting unless I feel like I absolutely have to for it to look good

[sweet sinew]

Oh yeah, I just love chaplains so I’m trying to get them all

I’ve got the Horus heresy chaplain, now this one, then I gotta get the others

[dawn stream]

Playing my first game!

[vale pollen]

Eyyy welcome to the big suck my man

Few more games and you'll double/triple the amount of d6's ya got

[patent bluff]

Good lord that is beautiful

[midnight locust]

Thanks! I think this is definitely what I’ll be doing going forward

[jagged sparrow]

Let us know who won

[dawn stream]

Draw

Got to turn 4 but had to cut the game short

There were a couple misplays on my part that probably would have swung the game in my favor

You live and you learn

[cobalt sentinel]

Just got my first set of necrons, what would be an optimal base coat?

[hollow goblet]

Can't go wrong with a light grey in absolutely all cases, will let you paint absolutely anything and have room to darken/lighten as needed; plus the base coat won't tint the other colours

Some people swear by priming in black or white but I don't see the point, if you want a catch-all then grey is always good

[cobalt sentinel]

Thanks for the insight, gonna start of with one of them just to get the feel of it

[plush swift]

What color are you trying put on them? Gray is not always an optimal answer, more specifically if you're doing metals and stuff like that

[plush swift]

Personally I don't do black or white, I'm very much of the verdaccio crowd so I tend to do a lot of browns, greens, and yellows.

But when it comes to using super opaque paint it really doesn't matter that much, but using something like metallics a black base is going to do a lot more than a gray will because of how the metallic pigment works or the light because you're dealing with much larger particle sizes then your normal paint (1-45 micron for normal, 10-60 for metallic), The black is going to mitigate light absorption that a gray or a white will do, so metallic will look less splotchy on black. Some colors will also not look right over gray like yellows due to their inherent transparency, so you're going to get a better effect off of a white than you will with a gray.

If you start using paints like the ones I do, your base tone will matter way more than you it will with hobby paints because don't forget hobby paint are in fact a low-grade paint because it replaces pigment for an opacifier(this is also why yellow hobby paints generally suck)

[visual turret]

Knight arriving today :D

[rare hornet]

Woo!

Got my termi chaplain arriving too :3

[visual turret]

I did the kitbash on mine for a beefier weapon but unsure….

Please ignore it’s minor wonk

[rare hornet]

Ooo the sword looks good

[rare hornet]

So am making an UM first company list for a 9th edition crusade

[teal wolf]

You smurfin bruh?

[rare hornet]

Ye

[teal wolf]

Ngl I almost did all my extra veteran units as smurfs

[visual turret]

I made it longer by splitting two swords in half but I don’t like how it’s a tad wonky.

I can MAYBE make it look like a weld job??

Or take the pointed blade off and have the chaplain use a broken blade as a detail point, like it was broken off in a particularly big enemy, or as a sign/mark of honour, like it’s a fetish item…. Idk

[rare hornet]

I think it looks cool!

[visual turret]

It does, but it’s wonky :(

[rare hornet]

It’s a relic called “Bent sword of the Lesbomancer”

[proud glen]

Master-crafted by some Mechanicus so it could bend while chopping someone , to cause even greater wounds

[peak flicker]

Boo

[proud glen]

Oh no don’t drop the picture quality! 💀

[rare hornet]

Spooky boi

[peak flicker]

I think the protective layer over my camera lens is cracked just slightly so the light distorts and messes with the photo quality

[proud glen]

No , I meant like Necron would drop quality of image because of his powers

it was a joke

[peak flicker]

Ohhhhhhhhhh

True

[sweet sinew]

My son

[dawn stream]

Another Jump Assault Marine in progress

[formal lichen]

Looks sick

[rare hornet]

@visual turret this new terminator chaplain is awesome! :3

held with Blutak until I spray him

[plush swift]

fatty

[cobalt sentinel]

Was thinking of a standard gray for the body with maybe bronze for the shoulder parts

[rare hornet]

Ooo he looking good

[obtuse briar]

best boys always looking good

[dawn stream]

White is such a pain

[obtuse briar]

Never works well over black

[plush swift]

how would paint somthing cloth like a cape or somting like that

[dawn stream]

Layers

Thin layers

Finished

[visual turret]

Oh clever kitbash!!!!!

On god this knight is HUGE

[patent bluff]

Attempt at an Ultramarine

I don’t have proper lighting yet : (

[plush swift]

Love the paper towel background

[patent bluff]

Thank you

Unlike all these “proper” mini painters I do not have the right tools lmao

[plush swift]

It’s a good figure

[left turtle]

So you got trans knight, what’s the leggy one gonna be?

[patent bluff]

It was fun to paint

I still think my paint is too thick, it just seems really patchy

I’m gonna paint the next one with thinner paint

Hopefully it turns out better

It could also just look like that from the shade I put on, I put way too much on it

[steep ether]

Flies flies flies flies flies flies FLIES FLIES FLIES

[patent bluff]

Very nice

[patent bluff]

Also very nice

[steep ether]

Proto plague ogryn

Moebian gunner

[patent bluff]

This goes hard

[steep ether]

Beast

[dawn stream]

Looking at that thing makes me want a flamer. A heavy flamer.

[silver thorn]

i was just kind of looking into playing warhammer for the first time but there are no allied army times in 10th edition which limits roleplay quite a bit 😦

you can make a thousand sons chaos knight though

when i was a kid my uncle gave me a bretonnian rulebook for some reason (no models or anything) and i read it and it was so cool to imagine having a bunch of allied units together,

empire and bretonnians

[trim hare]

That's really well done.

[desert drum]

Farseer I painted a while back

[hollow goblet]

The amount of models I have where certain parts are mostly being held together with blue tac and a layer of milliput to seal it in is concerningly high but it lowkey works

[simple thorn]

I thought they were yelling out 'rise' over and over again

[simple thorn]

Also that's a damn nice Farseer. Better than mine

[steep ether]

Either would fit. Flies is very Nurgle though. Sometimes I think the scab flamer asks, “Wanna kiss me?!” Instead of the more likely, “Want it crispy!?”

[simple thorn]

Neither
Pretty sure it's "Want 'em crispy!?"

[rare hornet]

Oh I will be gluing him, this was just for reference

[rare hornet]

Thank you!! :3

[steady wren]

It's always something you can discuss with your oppojent if it's alright
Like bringing Sisters to a IG army as allied units, just make sure to ask if it's alright beforehand

[silver thorn]

apparently there are tournament rules at 1850 but that's more army then i want to collect lol

[steady wren]

Tbh I barely looked into tournaments since I've been mainly looking to play using tabletop sim since 40k is very obscure where I live

[dawn mortar]

Knightgangknightgangknightgang

[vale pollen]

Just finished the new batch of termiez

[rare hornet]

Big stompy bois of doom!

[simple thorn]

Wew, knight
||screams in the pain that is trying and failing to paint in tartan||

[dawn mortar]

Malfor's Wrath shall soon be deployed

[dark fossil]

Knight of the Cultus Unitologist ready to make humanity whole again

[rare hornet]

Everyone got the knights today

[formal lichen]

Getting my castigator almost done

[dark fossil]

We don’t like seeing spending money in our wallets

[midnight locust]

Any suggestions on improving this sentinel base?

[rare hornet]

Exactly

[plush swift]

looks very wet, add some moss in addition to the bushes

and maybe a liquid spill from that pipe

[midnight locust]

I like that idea. So take some flock I guess and apply it for moss?

What about the liquid spill?

[plush swift]

yeah, just apply the flock in patches, ideally in transitions between higher and lower terrain, shaded corners or in places that are supposed to be wetter than the rest.

For the spill, you have the more expensive option of buying a bottle of resin made specifically imitate water and adding a drop of paint to have it be the color you want (they're not that expensive, and don't require mixing. Ideal for people like me who use it only in small batches). Or, you have the cheaper option of painting the spill directly on the base and putting some gloss varnish on top to make it look wet

[midnight locust]

I gotcha. So I’ve marked some locations here for flock patches. These seem good?

[formal lichen]

base is begging for green goo flooding that recess fron the pipe

[plush swift]

hmmm, a bit too much in my opinion, you do whatever you want with it. If it was me I'd just put one or two patches

remember that sentinels have big feet, they take a lot of space on the base. Put too much flock, and you'll lose that battlefield effect and get a more lively-looking environment because there's a lot of greenery

[midnight locust]

Good point. Hold on

[plush swift]

plus the base is already pretty busy with that pipe and box, you don't want to overload it

A tundra base I did for a sentinel earlier this year

[midnight locust]

So the yellow circles represent the sentinel’s leg positions. Red is the flock positions

[plush swift]

Yeah, I think that way is good

remember to use a dark-ish flock, again, you don't want it to be too lively

[midnight locust]

Yeah I’ll find some sort of dark green/brown/orange

So gloss varnish makes things “shinier” right? Could I apply the same to a Matt varnished metal to make it shiny again?

[plush swift]

yeah

[visual turret]

Fuck yeah!!!!

That looks good

[manic shard]

more plastic crack

[rare hornet]

Glocktopus

[manic shard]

[proud glen]

CHAOS

SHALL RISE

[manic shard]

[proud glen]

I am currently to get my hands on one of this

[manic shard]

need to buy 2 more packs

[proud glen]

30 Legionaries

[manic shard]

like
rn gonna do iron warriors but want night lords and alpha too
so need to gather money for 2 more packs so will have 10 for each of what i want

[proud glen]

I am going to paint my custom Warband

[manic shard]

i'd do too but unskilled and not enough money for all pink, blue and purple shades

already went for just 2 paints and came with 3 extra technicals

[proud glen]

I have no skills in painting , so it would look like an adomination

[manic shard]

same

[rare hornet]

Iron warriors are good, the stripes are what put people off the most though

[manic shard]

i dont care

im gonna do it because im simply a dumb fuck

[silk stirrup]

[rare hornet]

I actually need to do more of my HH IW at some point

[frank spire]

[silk stirrup]

One day I'll paint them. But first 17 pox walkers

[dawn mortar]

@rare hornet

[rare hornet]

[dawn mortar]

All with brush too lmfao

[rare hornet]

pain

[long zodiac]

Here's mine that I made recently 😄

[barren socket]

starting my journey, wish me luck (35% off, got a nice deal)

[vale pollen]

Nice, which guys are you gonna work on first?

[eager slate]

your thought?
Astra Militarum
Incursion (1000 points)
Combined Regiment

Cadian Command Squad (65 points)

Lord Solar Leontus (125 points)
• Warlord

Cadian Shock Troops (60 points)

Cadian Shock Troops (60 points)

Chimera (70 points)

Heavy Weapons Squad (60 points)

Heavy Weapons Squad (60 points)

Leman Russ Exterminator (180 points)

Rogal Dorn Battle Tank (260 points)

[barren socket]

Gonna use the space marines as my testing grounds

[signal marsh]

Just got some cadians and kreigsmen primed

[burnt wing]

That matchup seems horribly unbalanced

[vale pollen]

There ya go bro, id recommended getting some more smaller brushes too. Dont't gotta be expensive

Really helps with the more detailed areas

[barren socket]

i’ll for sure need them, I wanna get into necrons

Place I went to had a nice box, something like 10-12 basic guys and some scarabs for 50$

[steady wren]

Dark Angel

🔥

[long zodiac]

Yee, I love them. Tyy

[silver thorn]

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Combat-Patrol-Adepta-Sororitas

I need to stop looking at this

no

this is a bad idea

getting into some nerdy minature game I will never play is dumb

no no ahaahahha NO

https://tenor.com/view/getitaga-video-gif-25762728

[plush swift]

Should I get tau or space marines

[steady wren]

@silver thorn You can always play via Tabletop Sim, that's what me and a few other friends getting into the wargame part of the hobby are looking into

[whole scarab]

ONE OF US ONE OF US

[silver thorn]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[toxic rampart]

Hey I have that kit. I stopped building it to focus on my Orks.

I was VERY tempted to use it for Ork Kitbashing. But Saint Celestine told me to hold off.

[plush swift]

very dumb, dont do it

[proud glen]

Adeptus Sororitas have decent rules for tabletop

And can posses a high threat on battlefield

[silver thorn]

its more they look really cool and i want to paint them

[proud glen]

Especially Warsuits

[silver thorn]

ill probably never get to play it

[proud glen]

Don’t think so

All you need is simple search in net

I didn’t know that there was a Warhammer club in my town until I found it via net

[silver thorn]

i live in NYC so its not a matter of finding people

but all the groups would proabably be huge and filled with people that idk

idk if it would be good for me to go there lol...

all my nerdy friends are like magic the gathering and dnd players and stuff

let me just say that ive had bad experiences going to like FNMs and stuff before with friends and had

negative experiences

and i can only expect them to be worse for warhammer

[proud glen]

Well , it’s all up to you

[teal wolf]

I can't speak for east coast.
But I've worked in 3 lgs and mtg players have always been the worse.

[silver thorn]

tbh id believe it. 😦

Im painting my first minis ever today primer just came in

maybe not because its raining, ill see if it gets better later

not warhammer tho

I got a cheap out of print game as kind of a gateway drug haha

[signal marsh]

Whatca painting?

[dawn stream]

Jump Pack Intercessor 3 of 5

[whole scarab]

they should be easy to convince, warhammer is cheaper than magic the gathering

[proud glen]

All Citadel Plastic Glue was bought from my local distributors

Some one used this one?

[plush swift]

Just buy methyl ethyl keytone from a wood working store, those glues are generally just a mixture of MEK and n-butyl acetate.

sometimes its just pure n-butyl acetate

which is garbage

(thats citadel plastic glue))

[compact umbra]

I’ve never heard of that game before!’

Is it good?

[proud glen]

Ok , so I simply by glue from wood working store and it will be enough

Glue with formula that you said

[plush swift]

Yeah, or Tamiya air brush cleaner

[silver thorn]

its out of print but its an anime themed low model count game

one played like a test proxy game of it like 8 years ago that was really fun

you have a like a deck of energy you draw from so you basically don't have every action every turn

you have to choose the best energy to spend, save and shuffle

i mostly just think the theme is cool and you can get 90% of a factions army for under 100 on eBay

including their named characters and stuff

[plush swift]

What did you use for the tan

[midnight locust]

Zandri dust

[plush swift]

Tanks cutie

[midnight locust]

[rare hornet]

Thicc thighs save lives

[plush swift]

What’s the difference between battle ready and parade ready

[visual turret]

battel ready is at least painted to some degree

parade would be for things like painting competitions

[plush swift]

battle ready is enough to meet the minimum standard for painting requirements to play, parade ready is the minimum standard for painting rubrics in tournaments because yes, you actually get punished for having a poorly painted army in those.

basically think of battle as tablle top standard and parade as that but enhanced

[visual turret]

if you really wanna put your whole pussy into a model

[plush swift]

Parade wouldnt even place in a painting comp tbh, showcase is what you're thinking of

[plush swift]

What’s the best if your doing it for fun

[visual turret]

depends

are you painting to play, or painting for the sake of painting?

[plush swift]

Sake of painting

[plush swift]

anything you want then

you dont have to worry about either one of those then

just paint how you want and ignore all of that stuff

hell you dont even need to paint official schemes

[sterile grail]

probably tabletop standard

like, some people paint parade ready for fun as well

[plush swift]

I ordered parade colors

Bit late

[dawn stream]

The squad grows

I'm kind of proud of this bit on the vambrace. I was able to paint those tiny details with minimal overspill

[plush swift]

What color did you use for for the seal thing

[dawn stream]

Vallejo Flat Red

It's a bit difficult to work with, honestly

[vale pollen]

They need to include the beakie helms with this kit man.

[dawn stream]

My beakie sergeant does look good

Mine came from the Raven Guard Primaris Upgrade kit

[vale pollen]

It just fits perfectly

Love the look of the powersword tho

[dawn stream]

Sabre is a good choice

Power fist may be stronger but it looks doofy on anything other than Terminators

[vale pollen]

I mean aye as a crimson fist dude, I am obligated to say "you're wrong"... so ya know, you're wrong

[dawn stream]

You are entitled to your opinion

[vale pollen]

But the style of the sabre is clean af tho

[plush swift]

This is because they use (if i recall correctly Naphthol Red AS-D which is an incredibly transparent pigment then they mix in a ton of chalk with it. You're not going to find a good opaque red outside of professional paints

[dawn stream]

Like Citadel?

[teal wolf]

hell ya battle bro

[solar abyss]

Got my pals finished

[pure zephyr]

Bloody WIP

[plush swift]

No, citadel is actually closer in quality to craft paint(legallly speaking, it is craft paint) give me a second, I'll show you professional grade

[hollow goblet]

Gonna finally try to finish my sluggy vortex beast kitbash

What kind of glue should I be using with clear PLA? Not sure if plastic glue will take to it or just melt the mcfuck out of it. Watched my friend absolutely destroy one of his resin aeldar minis with it and now I'm scared

[dawn stream]

The black paint I use is supposed to be professional grade

It's Golden brand

[plush swift]

That is a professional brand, its actually the best performing acrylic on the market too.

these are professional grade inks

[dawn stream]

That red goes on so smooth

[plush swift]

Pyrrole red

its expensive

but worth it

I still prefer cadmium though

[dawn stream]

I bought the black from Michael's and I'm going to Houma tomorrow anyway, so I think I'll drop by and take another look at their paint selection

[plush swift]

How don’t you accidentally paint the straps

[plush swift]

the 4oz bottle i think was $25 for me at an art supply store, its a pricey paint but you cant get brighter red thats opaque and single pigment

Damn

single pigment paint is superior

My paints barely 6$

[plush swift]

My desk has probably $750,000 in paint on it currently

somewhere around there

What do you do for a living💀

I'm an art conservator

Ohh

so this stuff is for work

Makes sense

Yeah, I have tubes on here that cost $30,000+ to make

I fucking hate tyrian purple

dog shit dye

That’s crazy

I just order paints off the GW website

II make most of my own paint

That’s neet

I also have most brands here to color match

[pure zephyr]

Either an unreasonable amount of patience or pure and absolute luck

[plush swift]

each pigment manufacturer makes a slightly different shade and I cant remember every single color recipe for everything, hell there are over 250,000 recipes just for automotive paint

Which is better Ak paints or citadel paints

[plush swift]

I would only suggest citadell because of the whole holocaust denial thing with AK

Huh?????

I’m not even that surprised

[hollow goblet]

The fuckin HWAT

How bad do you have to fuck up your PR for people to view that as your company's stance

[plush swift]

yeah they did a human atrocities campaign to sell a line of paints and a book, the advertising for it contained holocaust footage, the book contained tthings like how to build a gas chamber and a diorama for a drowning child

their apology was basically "we are sorry you're offended by events that didnt happen"

This?

[plush swift]

yep

they scrubbed a lot of the really bad stuff offline

[hollow goblet]

I was gonna say "that's....slighly better than the holocaust denial I was expecting" but nevermind they jumped the shark on that one too

[plush swift]

I still have the video of them using mass graves though

[hollow goblet]

Dude that's absolutely fucked

Imagine catering to that guy at the game store this hard

[plush swift]

Ak tried to hard to appeal to ww2 nerds

[plush swift]

The owners are also known in the community, supposedly to be white supremacists, but there is no concrete proof of that, though I have met with the owners and with their former employee mig before....

all I will say is that they have a very standard "if you're offended by these words, go back to america"

Where is AK based?

Spain

I thought it would be Slavic

My biggest issue with most paint companies in spain is that they tend to ignore international laws on labeling a lot

Spanish activity’s

vallejo still claims their flow improver is non-toxic even though the chemical thats in there requires a GHS labell for acute toxicity

scale 75 just ignores all laws and sells pigments that legally have to have a lead warning on them in the US

the US has very strict paint regulations compared to europe

Paint drama is crazy

Oh I have tons of it

Drink it

ranging from companies using arsenic pigment by accident to using fake pigments

What does arsenic do to paint

its a pigment

Arsenic is really good for everything

the main ones are things like realgar

Thanks for the paint knowledge

no problem, its kind of my entire life at this point

its like the one thing im good at

Very cool skill

only took a decade of school and cancelling a social llife

Who needs a social life

I traded a social life for the ability to correct hobbiests online about paint chemistry

That’s really funny

I think so too

[plush swift]

How do you paint white

When I try to the primer bleeds through

[plush swift]

like so

basically use a high grade ink and not a paint

Bro

I can’t afford that

I work part time at a convince store

[plush swift]

that bottlle was $11

you can get a smaller one for like $6

Oh shit

professional paints are actually cheaper than hobby paints most of the time

How thick is it

thats an ink

so its ink like in consistancy

The juice in pens?

yeah kind of

Yummy 🤤

its water like in consistency

Sweet

This stuff?

yes

now its not completely matte, its satin

but you can change that with varnishes

citadell is close to satin

I just need something to paint my tau

Then that's perfect

[hollow goblet]

Converting some corvus cabal into Chaos Cultists for my ksons

I've said it before and I'll say it again: undivided minis just look like emo Khorne and actively ruin the flavour of ksons armies if you don't find workarounds like this

[plush swift]

I’m about to give you a big ol’ smooch

[hollow goblet]

Yeah corpse talked some sense into me when it comes to using hobby paints for whites and yellows, can't argue with results and it's the difference between white taking 3-5 coats and it being a nightmare you have to constantly micromanage to just going on easy

[plush swift]

yes, let the evil of the paint elitist corrupt you

[hollow goblet]

I mean when my Trooper White shows up there's a good chance I'll just use that but you have made an impact in the meantime

[plush swift]

two thin coats is an interesting paint

they actually got pissed at me when I requested an MSDS

and kept asking me why I needed it

found out they are using some... less than desirable additives to the paint to make it seem better than it is

mostly 2-butoxyethanol

the paint works better than a lot of hobby paints

but I would avoid airbrushing it without dedicated PPE

Is it edible

[plush swift]

No, legally it needs a label that says toxic on it

but they dont know paint rules because they arent enforced

They should make edible paint

they technically do

its called watercolor

thats more edible as the binder is generallly honey

for mass production is gum arabic

Using watercolor for miniatures would be a nightmare

not at alll actually

?

you need to thin your paint to the same consistancy of water color

plus acrylic gouache is legit

Paint lore is wild

there is a lot to do with paint

and a lot to do with it chemically

I thought it was just funny liquid color

I had an aneurysm when I saw the goobertown hobbies video about paint chemistry

its just so.... wrong

everything in there is wrong

his resin video also had a lot of bad information

I dont think the dude knows much about organochem

but that paint one.... that was bad

Not a lot of people do

I have a masters in organochem

I had to get it for my job

That’s nuts

What do you do?

Art conservation

Is that restoring old paintings?

technically no, but also yes

its more about preserving

basically I take care of art installations

Ohhh

That’s cool

explaining exactly what my job is... well it makes my job seem confusing since im on the more chemistry side of things

That explains a lot

Yeah I am a very weird creature

Could be worse

[plush swift]

What’s the best color for the tau orange armor

[short pawn]

Finally back in stock jesus christ

[plush swift]

which tau orange?

[hollow goblet]

Finally finished converting my cultists

[jaunty trail]

Next Terminator done 3/5 😎

[plush swift]

Just starting getting into the true 40k

Bought beginner set.. aaaaand

[hollow goblet]

Too thin, think top layer of milk not the rest of it

Like

With a little bit of paint mixed back in, you should be able to 'pull' the paint that's gathered down the bottom back along the shoulder pad, you won't get good coverage to begin with, it'll show the red from the base coat, but you're just aiming for all of the paint that you've applied to be around the same thickness, your second coat will be where the smoothness comes in

(this is a hard rule when using almost anything that's not a contrast paint or metallic, your first coat is going to look like shit and convince you that you've ruined your mini, trust the process and go for the second coat: it fixes the initial issues almost always)

[hollow goblet]

@hybrid crown

[dawn mortar]

Big boy

[rare hornet]

YE

[plush swift]

Something like this

[plush swift]

A little better?

(Literally just starting today, so I know bugger-all lol)

I’ve not even a clue ‘bout priming, since legit starting with this:

[dawn mortar]

Oh hey Gue'vesa

I think that's what their called

[dawn mortar]

Need to wait for better weather to prime the stuff i still gotta do like the carapace and leg armor

[rare hornet]

I know the pain

[weary relic]

painted in 1 day 😱

[summer shale]

That's dedication. Damn.

[visual turret]

Can I be arsed to paint something on this…..

…. If it’s just gonna be covered up

[silver thorn]

i would pay money if tau got multiple guevasa units.

like actual good models and rules

its honestly really cool that humans are assimilated too

[rare hornet]

Maybe have it as a thing outside the mini?

So the top is closed and then the pilot seat is next to it

[visual turret]

oh that might be really interesting

I love that idea

[chilly summit]

You can magnetize the hatch.

[visual turret]

I don't have magnets for that

[rare hornet]

I would say maybe take away the sides so you just have the pilot and the back of the chair? Entirely up to you

[visual turret]

the sides are.... already glued

[chilly summit]

You can make a hinge by drilling through the flat/mall end and using a paperclip.

[visual turret]

that's a bit more feasible

[rare hornet]

Figured, still would look good I think

[visual turret]

I do have a drill

[dawn mortar]

Unironically same

[visual turret]

right so - hole drilled in the door hinge. paperclip acquired.... how would I go about getting it threaded in the hole?

[chilly summit]

Can you access it from underneath or is the cockpit already glued in?

[visual turret]

I can access it from underneath

[chilly summit]

Cut the paper clip to length. Then cut it in half. Stick one side in from underneath, then the other side. Then superglue it from the inside where it won't be visible. You don't need the paper clip to go all the way across, just enough to keep the hatch in place.

[hollow goblet]

Yeah that looks way nicer should give you a solid base coat to work from

Also idk if you know anything about shades but don't worry if what you're painting doesn't have the "x factor" you want right away, thats usually where shading and highlighting come in

[chilly summit]

If you're precise enough, you can also make a handle at the opposite end from the hinge by drilling 2 holes straight in, bending the paperclip in a U shape, then bend the ends together and gluing it to the underside. That'll let you open it without scratching paint with your fingernail.

[visual turret]

nahhhhhhh as much as I wantg to be as precise and neat as that I've botched it. Gonna seal the pilot into the gloom forever

can't say I didn't try though

[simple thorn]

I just painted the internal cockpit on its own as a diorama

Didn't even bother gluing it into the knight

[summer shale]

So a friend of mine gave me a leman russ tank. It looks nice with my winter themed army.

It was already painted by him.

[dawn mortar]

@rare hornet FRIEND

CARAPACE AND THE LAST ARMOR BITS HAVE BEEN PRIMED

SOON

[rare hornet]

SOON

[visual turret]

gonna do the same tbh

i like that

[visual turret]

@rare hornet opinion required. Should I glue the two shoulder plates together now or post-paint?

[rare hornet]

Post paint

[visual turret]

hmmm

I agree

but it does feel a little odd

[silver thorn]

a deal is a deal

[dawn mortar]

Shiiit do it

[rare hornet]

Minor transfer work

[silver thorn]

cheap plastic aquired :3

[dawn mortar]

POG

[dawn mortar]

Man i hate transfers

They look good as fuck

They're DOGSHIT with applying

[dawn stream]

It's better than trying to freehand symbols

[radiant lichen]

Stencil for the win

[steady wren]

Luv me Votann

[plush swift]

first 2 sternguards

[vale pollen]

Oooooo, love the helmet

[plush swift]

thx, its mk 3 iron hand helmet

[vale pollen]

Love rockin that style of helm

[silver thorn]

cool how there is dust all over his boots

[vale pollen]

Technical agrellan earth paint that i drybrushed onto his legs

[patent bluff]

I love the dust

[vale pollen]

Thankya, first found out I could do that after screwing up by getting a mini's legs soaked in it.

[patent bluff]

No problem, it turned out super well

[steady wren]

A respectful heretic purging enjoyer

[dawn stream]

Default pose

Alternate pose

Which one do you lot think I should do?

[vale pollen]

1st one

[dawn stream]

Second alternate

[steep ether]

BURN LOYALIST SCUM!!!

[burnt epoch]

Anyone know where I can get thunder hammers for my iron warriors?

Dominator cohort

[dawn stream]

Upgrade kits, maybe? You could also probably check some craft sites

@plush swift

[plush swift]

do they have the soflat pyrrolle red and the high flow titanium white?

[dawn stream]

I didn't see anything like that, just the fluid acrylics

Well, they had some bigger bottles towards the bottom but they were 30+ dollars and I wasn't looking to spend that much

I didn't examine them closely

[plush swift]

yeah theyy'll work, the flluid just happens to be fairly glossy, that streak on the label is the actual paint

[dawn stream]

I'm not terribly worried about the gloss on the red. I only use it for trim and small details

[plush swift]

that'll be fine then

[dawn stream]

Frankly, I don't mind using paints with a bit of gloss to them. Light catches the edges naturally that way and I don't have to do edge highlights

[plush swift]

good way to look at it

[finite quarry]

Painted another goat man

Front with som actual lighting 😭

[proud glen]

The Darkness descends

[finite quarry]

I wonder how i am going to do the bases on these dudes 🤔

[proud glen]

I will get my tools for minis tomorrow

Than I would need to buy them and some paints

[silver thorn]

i keep trying to assemble my first minis and then being like DAMN THIS IS ANNOYING. Then I watch a 15 minute video on how to fix x ANNOYING thing, ordering supplies on amazon and trying again. And Ive been doing that for 3 days lol.

Ill never get to painting

https://youtu.be/m3p_VuPIS2c

[spare sedge]

Work in progress

[agile vault]

Upgrades people upgrades. Death watch shoulder pad. Plus better pic

[cobalt sentinel]

First figurine done though I haven't given it a proper basing yet

[burnt wing]

I feel like i am doing sth wrong but this thing is supposed to turn after pushing it in right? Because if it doesnt turn both arms just stick up

[vale pollen]

It's really tight like that, i reccomend either cutting the wings off and gluing it still, or shaving off more of the connecting bit so it's small nough to fit

[burnt wing]

Yeah managed to turn it the other way around after trimming it a bit

[dawn mortar]

@rare hornet

[rare hornet]

[dawn mortar]

soon

[rare hornet]

Soon

[sweet sinew]

Mother Neurotyrant and her babies

[short pawn]

Working on some nurgle blessed traitor guard, still need to scrape off mold lines yes i know.

[main saffron]

Minis so far

[plush swift]

Someone finally fixed the guilliman mini.

[brittle goblet]

Lol

[hollow goblet]

Crimes against humanity have taken place

[hollow goblet]

Yeah that's basically the process. And then eventually you're sitting there with an army half primed on your shelf, but you can't paint them yet BC you're waiting on a particular paint for a colour scheme you wanna do, so in the meantime you're on eBay wondering if it's worth starting that big kitbash you wanted to do and ordering bits for it anyway

[silver thorn]

i got a starter paint set coming in up probably end up ordering more paints

I'm ordering a new shelf too, kinda committed hahaha

[plush swift]

watch out for those starter paint sets, they are a scam and not for the reasons you think. Basically what they do is give what new people think are the primarily colors, but the yellow is too warm, the red is actually an orange, and the blue is too warm, so all you can mix are browns

[silver thorn]

ahh. good to know 💀

i was planning on wasting paint just mixing colors on the wet palate

I've painted acrylic just not on miniatures before but it was long ago

[plush swift]

yeah mini paints are designed so you have to buy an ecosystem, not a few paints

thats the price on convenience colors

Since they are all pre mixed colors, when you try to mix your own you get poor results

which then forces you to buy more paint

The fact mini painters have to have collections that look like mine isnt a good thing

I need to have around 2000 paints at the ready for my career, this is incredibly not normal for artists, most dont have more than 8-10

[silver thorn]

😦

i mean i some you can buy more basic paints and mix yourself

i think the reason people probably do it the way they do is with miniatures to often have to paint dozens of models the same color

if you mixed it, even if you are really good with color and mixing its hard to get the exact color right

[plush swift]

It's really not actually, take a 20 minute class of mine and you'll know how to do it and be able to actually match colors within a week or two.

The problem is most people don't have the concept of how to do it and they don't see color the way you need to see color and understand how color works, It's nothing more than a trick of physics and an optical illusion

You're trying to create colors to match another thing, And the real trick with it is that a lot of colors don't actually exist your brain creates the color so getting that exact color isn't as hard as people think it is because it's all about mental trickery

For instance purple doesn't exist, It's what your brain thinks happens when you mix two colors, It's a forbidden color to see

[plush swift]

The way they do it is actually because mixing colors with their paint is very difficult because you're looking at very complex pigment blends, actually has to do with when you do 4+ pigments in a paint, you don't really get a good effect. For instance it is not uncommon for a hobby paint to have a green and a purple in there at a very small amount just to tone it down if it's a red, It's not enough to alter the color but it's enough to darken it. It's very common when trying to buy something like cobalt teal to find that manufacturers put orange in it to tone it down because the full cobalt teal is super bright and really not fun to work with because of how bright it is for industrial purposes.

[silver thorn]

I'm really worried about making fleshv tones

[ivory raven]

Not finished, as I’ve haven’t fully painted all the diseased meaty bits. I thought I did an okay job, given how it was my first mini AND my first nurgle boy. I just wish my local WH store had that bronze paint…

[plush swift]

Just dm me, I can give you a free class on that, I can teach you in under 10 minutes how to match any flesh tone

[ivory raven]

||or militarum green, which I need because all I fuckin have is Waagh flesh for the base ||

[plush swift]

militarum green is just black, yellow, and white

specifically a cool tone yellow

[ivory raven]

oh goodie

overall though, is it at least okay?

haven’t done the gun.

[plush swift]

I can not give you an answer, everything looks bad to me because I work in art and have to pick ouut flaws to detect fakes and bad restoration jjobs

great for my job, bad for giving comment and critic

if you'rre happy with what you've done, then its good, my words matter not

[ivory raven]

I’m proud I didn’t fuck up the visor that much unlike those “thin your paints” minis

[plush swift]

https://imgur.com/L8UHnN4

[ivory raven]

That is the most repulsive thing I have ever laid my eyes upon

[plush swift]

its a masterpiece

its so bad its good

[late lagoon]

I’m the orkz in the middle and the rest are the ones my friends left me to paint

[ivory raven]

holy shit yeah that’s a major confidence booster

[plush swift]

good in art doesnt exist, humans cant agree on what defines good as it is heavilly opinion based, bad howeveer does exist as we can all agree on what defines bad

We have objective fact for bad, opinions for good. A debate that hasn't ended since it starteed

same with what defines art, we have records dating back to ancient Greece of the arguments of what defines art and we still havee those exact same arguments

I have a doctorate in art, and I can tell you right now that if someone claims they now what art is,, don't listen to them

[short pawn]

Very early W.I.P valhallan ice warrior sargent

[plush swift]

krieg need chain shovels

[short pawn]

That sounds so scary please never

[plush swift]

Im doing it

chain shovel

[short pawn]

You slam them with the forget me side then saw them with the remember me side

[plush swift]

hard to remember when your brains are scattered in the wall

[simple thorn]

I am nearly done painting my newest Knight
Or rather, the Knight I am gifting to my mum

Tried to do the Clan Munro tartan for her by hand but uh
No.

I can clean up the blue lines later with some red over 'em to properly do the staggered lines, but jesus fuck is tartan pain

[plush swift]

Shields and paint markers are your friends, because painting tartan by hand is... Tedious

[simple thorn]

Got the markers but the pain is they're the wrong fucking red and they didn't really have a wide array of options

The blue is also wrong but that's kinda less of a problem at the moment

Mum's at least happy with the attempt - she's told me it doesn't need to be perfect

[plush swift]

I just buy fillable ones and fill them with my own paint

[simple thorn]

But my own nascent perfectionism is still screaming at me every time I look at it

[hard kindle]

thanks i hate it

[plush swift]

gonna try painting with inks

do I need a paint thinner or can I use water?

[marble carbon]

as a person who has to do tartan kilts for every one of is highlander troops (custom praetorian kasrkin substitute), i know your paint

[foggy bolt]

damn good paintwork always is pain, but its pain thats worth it

[simple thorn]

I was honestly considering just fucking printing the tartan off and gluing it to the thing, but doing that with curved surfaces is not something in my wheelhouse

[foggy bolt]

as in 3d printing, or printing it as a decal?

[simple thorn]

Printing it on paper and gluing it down

[foggy bolt]

yeah that wouldn't look right unless you used a thick tough paper type and textured it with folds bumps and creases first

[simple thorn]

Aye

[foggy bolt]

...i wonder

have you though of trying plaster?

theres an old trick i picked up from my dad and his model railroading, he'd use it to make hilly terrain, done right it might be possible to make something sort of like a big cloth banner in appearance, but rigid and sturdy enough to hold up while being worked with

[simple thorn]

Don't think we have any lying around, and mum would probably murder me if I spilled that stuff

[foggy bolt]

course youd still have to either print out and hand place a big ol decal on decal paper or hand paint a tartan pattern onto it

long as its modelling plaster and not something youd use in building a house or a wall, it shouldnt be too hard to clean up, plus all youd really need to do is soak two strips of gauze about the same size as the banners youve got draped off that knight in a thin mix of it, then drape them roughly over something flat, maybe put a few bits of junk under it to create a creased look as it dries, hobby shops last i checked still carry it

mixed thin it should dry sturdy without looking too bulky or thick, it could pass for a piece of thick weathered fabric

tho overtime it may well droop

the thinner and finer the gauze you use and the thinner the plaster mix the better i think for something like this

[plush swift]

No inks are already water, with good inks the only difference between them and a paint is a chemical thickener

[minor eagle]

This is my finished entry into a halloween painting contest at the local GW store. C and C welcome focused on improving.

[weary falcon]

I would recommend giving more texture to the base, for exaample you could make broken up road from cork sheets, add some debris etc. Overall neat paint job, but the ground itself lacks a little bit of a texture i would say

[plush swift]

Lumberjack knight

[minor eagle]

yea thats valid i ran out of stirland mud and only had just enough to cover it. it is a bit more texture in person th an it looks in the photo though

[plush swift]

old man yelling at youngsters these days having it too easy with texture paints

obviously jk, that's a great miniature

[dawn stream]

That is some good battle damage

[trail crag]

thank you. this fella took me 10 hrs to make

[midnight cairn]

Chinks in the armor look super real. And I love that he has icicles on his armor 😆

[trail crag]

i cut the battle damage into the marine with a knife and drilled small holes for like bullet holes

[rare hornet]

That damage work is masterful

[sudden crypt]

It's him.
It's that one heretic.

(First painted mini after many many years)

[visual turret]

homeboy ran into a hive fleet and cleared it solo

[rare hornet]

Lamenters canonically posses zero fucks to give

[cedar slate]

what's his name

he looks like he'd be called something like Drogg or Kakk

[trail crag]

thank you <3

[sudden crypt]

He's just a generic dreg stalker.
Darktide got me back into 40k so I wanted to do him up like an Admonition cultist

[cedar slate]

fair enough

I'd love to get back into the model side of things one day

but I'm way too lazy :/

[plush swift]

the one heretic

john chaos

famously known for his infamous brother

horus heresy

[trail crag]

dont make me start a chaos army now too

[shell nacelle]

Some nurgle love

[sudden crypt]

Lil bit dusty... converted and painted these guys up a long time ago from the 5th ed space marine kit.

Old black templar conversion, gunna start painting tomorrow

I believe that model is the Dark Angel's sgt from the old Dark Vengeance box, back when Helbrutes first became a thing.

[ivory raven]

I LOVE NURGLE GRAHHH

[steady wren]

Hey uh, if someone could help me with the new space marine detachments- in the new Vanguard Spearhead one of the enhacements makes it so that the bearer has stealth and lone op, does that also extend to models in the unit or just the bearer?

[proud glen]

If Leader can be attached to unit it dose

because they start sharing keywords

[steady wren]

So if I were to say... Put it on a gravis captain and then have aggressors attach to that, I could have a very funny combo in my hands?

@proud glen

[proud glen]

https://tenor.com/view/benny-fallout-fallout-new-vegas-what-in-the-goddamn-confusion-gif-24924085

Emmmm

Wait

@steady wren No you cant

It says The Bearer has the..

[steady wren]

Well that's a shame

[proud glen]

So only Capitan model has it and it can`t join a squad

[proud glen]

It`s a balance

[steady wren]

Yeah, I know

Just a shame since it would've been hilarious

[plush swift]

Should I paint a space marine tau colors

[summer shale]

Can I clean a mini with just water and soap? or what might I use to get it back to its normal grey state?

I kinda fucked up badly with my sentinal and wants to start over

[rare hornet]

More progress :3

[visual turret]

clean transfer work

[rare hornet]

Thank you!! ^^

[burnt wing]

My first dreadnought done. This and 3 Eradicators and I'm at 750 points for my army so i can play at my local store finally

[dawn mortar]

@rare hornet

[plush swift]

Could you 3D print figures

[left turtle]

I mean yeah. There’s a whole community of resin printing

[silver thorn]

Hi, GW community rep here! Actually its impossible and if you try it I hear you immediately spontaneously combust and die horribly. Have you tried looking at our recently updated selection of resin models available for gaming and painting?

https://tenor.com/view/sabrinahe-teenage-witch-salem-saberhagen-salem-the-cat-manic-laughter-evil-laugh-gif-3564617

[plush swift]

Luckily I can’t read

[dawn mortar]

I heard you get shot by a .50 BMG when you even browse 40K STL's

[whole scarab]

Depends do you want GW to send assasins to your door step?

[sweet sinew]

Question for the lore enthusiasts, are techmarines always red? I know rule of cool paint however you want. But I’m curious if they’re always red in the lore

I just bought a tech marine. For my dark angels army, and was wondering if any chapters ever painted them differently

[whole scarab]

Probably not, they are however probably a slightly different colour to the rest of their chapter to stand out as the "vehicle guy" a bit like apothecary are the "medical dude"

[plush swift]

No tthey arent

I dont know if the left is official its just on the wiki

I thinkk they are just mostly red