40k-minis-and-armies

[whole scarab]

I don't meed a Chinese guy

There are 3d printers in my house

[silver thorn]

idk where I would get the files for 40k figures tho. im a dummy when it comes to pirating.

i dont even have my anime private tracker website anymore (i lost access when I was overseas without internet for a year 🙁 )

[whole scarab]

I believe the main ome got taken down a couple years ago

But I'm sure there are plenty out there

[summer sparrow]

Do you have printer?

[toxic stratus]

spiderbutt tank finished

[silver thorn]

anyone have any reccomendations for primer you apply by brush? I attached some models to the base early like a dope and I dont want to put primer on the base

[plush swift]

any primer that can be easily applied to plastic with a brush is going to be chemically no different than normal acrylics

aka you really dont need it

[silver thorn]

ah I see

[plush swift]

Yeah vallejo primer isnt legally actually a primer

[silver thorn]

so just wash the model with soap so the paint sticks?

pretty much?

[plush swift]

and I will be bringing that up with the EU standards court soon

[plush swift]

pretty much

I'll be doing a test very soon to prove this

[silver thorn]

i saw a video on that, you just leave the model in dish soap for a few hours

and the paint should stick

[plush swift]

speaking of which

vallejo has a larger partical size than craft paint

eat shit nerds

Fucking called it

"but it has a smaller particle size" no it fucking doesnt

[minor eagle]

Thoughts on my kelermorph->Primus conversion?

[lavish crescent]

First proper, literally every skill I know, model I've done in a while. Been cranking put my UM armour recently

[jaunty trail]

Update on wip

[devout lake]

Did I put the primer on too thick?

[visual turret]

Nah looks perfectly fine to me

The details aren’t lost, you’ve got a good base coverage to work with

[devout lake]

Thanks brohemian

[visual turret]

If anything it’s too thin in some places

There’s patchy grey coming through

[hollow goblet]

Rattlecan primer applies in like near single molecule layers you'd have to do a tonne of layers before you lose any detail. I've primed minis in gold, changed my mind and reprimed them to grey and then gone back to gold and lost no detail on the mini whatsoever

And GW gold primer is the one that applies the most visibly thick layer of paint as far as I'm aware

[summer sparrow]

For my Imperial Knights, I want to emulate a logging site in their bases, with mud, tree trunks, scattered surviving vegetation. Anyone know a good way to do mud with tracks in it? I would love to have armiger foot prints in the mud below my full Knights

[silver thorn]

I saw a video where they used texture paint and rolled a little 3D printed tire through

it looked okay

[summer sparrow]

Ooooh

wtf is texture paint

[plush swift]

its a paint that has something like sand in it to provide texture

or its an impasto style paint

for tracks though, grab some apoxie sculpt and run tires over it, same with armiger feet

then put a mud texture paint over it

not filling the holes

then you paint those holes in with normal paint

and then fill them with some uv epoxy or something for water or something

tons of ways to do it

[summer sparrow]

AK puddles was my plan for water. Should look great pooled up in the tread marks

Also, I've seen lots of barbed wire stuff but is there any chain link fence additives out there or am I stuck making m own?

[plush swift]

mesh

you can get it in bulk for pretty cheap

[summer sparrow]

Thanks human meat

It'll be a bit til I get to this but I have a list of all the tools I need now I think

Also gonna do my knights with a black and red checker / mint green livery for. Lumberjack inspired look. Should be baller

[plush swift]

I have found the single worst paint so far by a large margin

like this isnt even funny how bad this is

it got beat out by fucking walmart craft paint

[plush swift]

What about the paints at the dollar tree

[summer sparrow]

Can you explain the measuring of the paint going on here? I'm very newb to paints

[plush swift]

right here actually

[plush swift]

Dont worry, this will basically confuse most people here, this is called a hegman gauge, its a $600+ precision block of steel that goes from 0 to 150 microns. What this does is allow me to test for particle size without a $20,000+ tool with I also have.

It also helps me test for dispersion and other things

its super simple looking but its invaluable for my industry

since I have to make my own paints and pigments a lot

[summer sparrow]

So the closer to zeron the better?

[plush swift]

sort of

this right here means they are most likely using a dye in the paint

because that particle size is way too small

thats smaller than a water molecule at this point

or damn close to that size

you want anywhere from 5 to 40 with acrylics

thats the standard range

you want it to be one continuous line too

so that yellow up there is spotty and has grit in it

which means its very low quality

[plush swift]

Is that good?

[plush swift]

its not the worst

its ok

its better than you would expect

Damn

What about citadel paints

lets see

fail

I mean there meant for small stuff

well this means the particle size is large

very large

that means its actually meant for house paint

What does that mean

House painting with citadel would be insane

well the company that makes citadel paints is well known for their house paints

[summer sparrow]

their true end goal, wait til some influencer pays to paint their house with Citadel Colour, shut it all down and retire on the profit

[summer sparrow]

Is this why people prefer Army Painter?

[plush swift]

army painter performs about the same

this is the paint I use

screwed up the white

Nice job

but yeah around 10 micron range

which means better pigment disperson and better coverage

[summer sparrow]

I am a blank slate for what to use, what should I use?

[plush swift]

anything you want to

[summer sparrow]

okay Mr. measures by micron

[plush swift]

what i'm doing here is to combat the myths about paint and provide public data

about paint and paint chemistry

[plush swift]

it'll be important for reviews later

you can achieve great art with the worst paint

Corpse secret plan

use what ever you are comfortable with

[summer sparrow]

nothing

[plush swift]

I personally use professional stuff, but I also am a weirdo who can mix blue out of a red

I hope you get color blindness

[plush swift]

too late

already am

[plush swift]

i mean, if you want I can teach you some things

I am technically an art teacher after all

[summer sparrow]

that'd be great

I have a good idea of what I want but the materials and techniques are beyond me

[plush swift]

Same

I just happen to only do substitution for it because I cant be asked to be around screaming adults 24/7

[summer sparrow]

lol

[plush swift]

yeah just send me a dm

Huh

Screaming adults??

[plush swift]

college students

I have a doctorate

I'm over qualified for high school

High school is that closest thing to hell lmao

[summer sparrow]

Also, I want to know if this WIP was ever completed, and sits out there somewhere to be downloaded, it's someone's design attempt on an Imp Knight Drop Keep that carries Knights down from theri transport

[plush swift]

yes, i hate it

[summer sparrow]

Teaching is mixed parts of "I can't believe I get to be a positive influence on these amazing young people" and "Sweet jesus you're gonna have a repeat customer discount at the county jail, aren't you?"

[plush swift]

i dont think so

[plush swift]

for me is more "I wish I and you all were never born"

[summer sparrow]

yea it seems abandoned sadly, but would be so cool to print out in FDM as a Knight Carrier for games

r/antinatalism

[plush swift]

What state did you teach

[plush swift]

A few, NC is one of the more major ones though

[summer sparrow]

Come up to Maine

Way Life Should Be

[plush swift]

naw im moving to NYC

again soon

soonish

[summer sparrow]

my condolences

[plush swift]

why?

NYC is where I need to be for my career

that or DC

[summer sparrow]

fair actually, art doctorate

[plush swift]

but NYC has 2 major paint companies, a major pigment supplier, and a major art conservation supply maker

[summer sparrow]

I have an anti-urban bias, cause the big city hub in my area has like 30k people

[plush swift]

I lived in DC for over 20 years

[plush swift]

Maine isn’t real

I then moved around a lot and ended up in DC

[summer sparrow]

Literally what we want you to think

[plush swift]

I’m convinced the East coast is just nyc

[summer sparrow]

god no

NYC is it's own beast

[plush swift]

yeah its way different

compare me, a washingtonian to a long islander

we cuss more but also use racial slurs a lot more, but we dont have a weird accent

[summer sparrow]

NYC is so culturally distinct from any of the surrounding areas

cultures within NYC are distinct

[plush swift]

Damn

[summer sparrow]

Maine meanwhile shares one culture for the whole state, built upon community helpfulness, and hating Massachusetts

[plush swift]

I just assumed everyone from the East coast sounds like there from Boston

and a weird obsessiopn with sea cockroaches

[summer sparrow]

THEY"RE FUCKING DELICIOUS

[plush swift]

Huh

People eat those????

I guess

though I cant judge because I get defensive about blue crabs and old bay even though I hate both

What’s old bay

a seasoning that marylanders and washingtonians who are basically just marylanders obsess about

its basically just salt and paprika

Ohhh

[summer sparrow]

Trying to find a picutre of me at a Lobster Cook I went to recently

[plush swift]

lobster is so fucking good

[summer sparrow]

well you'll have to settle for a Lobstah Roll pic

[plush swift]

that looks good

[summer sparrow]

it is, Lobster Rolls are amazing when done right, and worth the $20 price tag

[plush swift]

20$ is kinda nuts

[summer sparrow]

not too much, for ~$10 I could get the lobster, but a lobster roll involves all the labor of shelling, whatever they top it with if they do, I prefer a bit of garlic butter on a toasted bun

[plush swift]

that makes sense

[summer sparrow]

I'd say it's probably a 100% markup on ingredients which is fair, some places charge way more though

and anywhere that sells a lobster roll with lettuce should be burned down

[plush swift]

lobster is decently cheap where i live

[summer sparrow]

where st?

Also in searching for lobster pics I saw far too many pics of me and my ex boyfriend being happy so have some pity for me

[plush swift]

i live in very western Oregon

[summer sparrow]

I would be willing to try west coast lobster

but I know the world prefers our variety

Maine's got a way with the lobstah, sweet spot fo ocean temps for good bugs and a self regulated fishery

[plush swift]

never had east coast lobser

[vale pollen]

Now these aint minis... but gaddamn i want me some of that

[hollow goblet]

Ngl I wasn't sure this was gonna turn out readable as an MVB but after I glue a big ass portal onto this thing I think it'll be fine

[plush swift]

scary fellow

[silver thorn]

shouldnt this not matter if you are doing multiple thin coats?

isnt that like the meme of people painting is doing multiple thin coats

if you have a higher quality paint than you dont have to do as many coats

to get like, a very very vibrant and poppy color

[lavish crescent]

https://tenor.com/view/thirsty-spongebob-i-dont-need-it-sweat-gif-5031443

[teal wolf]

You need it 😈

[lavish crescent]

I already got 3 of them...

I dont need another 2!

[rare hornet]

You ** NEED** it :3

[silver thorn]

anyone want a belisarius cawl? I kind of want to get a triumvirate of the imperium box but im not gonna even TRY to collect admech lol

[summer sparrow]

What's the most terrifying thing you can have waiting for Deep Strike?

Cause I'm thinking my standard 2k point list for Imperial Knights is going to include a Cerastus Lancer in Deep Strike

Cause nothing says "Mysterious Guardian" Like a 40 foot tall robot with a 50 foot long metal rod of stabbery

[whole scarab]

You missed the chance to make the ultimate penetration joke

[summer sparrow]

I'm legit planning this to be my army, there will be many openings for penetration jokes

[whole scarab]

But that would infact be terrifying to have appear behind your lines

[summer sparrow]

especially cause it can appear within 9 inches, but it has 14 inch movement, can walk over anything shorter than 4 inches, and can advance and charge in the same turn

[whole scarab]

Especially as something like custodeons or grey knights where you really don't have the numbers to defend from such a sudden attack from the rear

[summer sparrow]

wanna know what else is hilarious?

the Epic Cahllenge stratagem iirc, lets any character in melee range target the attached character of a unit, rather than the unit as a whole

Cerastus Lancer counts as a character

"I've decided, the Greater Good is all well and good I suppose, but I'm gonna have my Cerastus emerge from the forests of your rear line and impale your Ethereal on a spit"

[whole scarab]

That one guy running unending swarm tyranids about to send 20 termagaunts with no characters to lock your knight into melee

[summer sparrow]

Like my Knight's can't melee

[whole scarab]

Oh they can but the unending warm units generally can't have leaders attached to them

I think the exceptions being gargoyles and the funny synapse gaunts

So good luck stabbing the leading character when there isn't one

[summer sparrow]

Well that's more just a fuck you to them

I'm still new to the rules and mostly looked at Knights and Militarum but on a charge the Lancer can do 6 ranged attacks and 20 melee attacks

the melee all hit on 2+ and have -2 AP

Free Tank Shock stratagem FTW

also Lancer has 4+ Invulnerable without having to use the Rotate Ion Shields stratagem other Knights have to use

The Lancer is a fucking menace, it has no weakness, only overwhelming fire might take it down, there's a reason it's one of the most point heavy knights

Actually I forgot, there is a reason to get that "Fuck you" attck in, Enemy Warlords, vanquishing a Warlord is 3 CP gained for one fo the Code Chivalrics of the Knights

[rare hornet]

Is bonk stick

You’ll generally find as knights you’ll struggle on objective point games, because you lack the board presence

Also your army is very susceptible to if your opponent can prioritise key targets and focus fire

[summer sparrow]

I'm here for a fun time not a long time, lol

I think the biggest enemy of Knights is really the dice, few units means statistical oddities are more likely to fuck you over

[rare hornet]

Yep. Can say from experience a bad shooting phase can cost you the game

People don’t realise when playing against knights that the army has its work cut out for it right from the get go

Also their performance heavily depends upon your opponent’s army

[summer sparrow]

Do you play knights? wanna look at this noobs planned army list and advise?

[rare hornet]

I do have knights. Haven’t played 10th so much and I am a more narrative player but I’m happy to give it a look

[summer sparrow]

https://www.newrecruit.eu/app/list/tgOpf

[rare hornet]

So on initial inspection, you wanna swap the warglaive to have a stubber, the melta guns on knights are generally redundant. The Moirax I have no experience with but on first glance the grav will be decent but might struggle against good saves

[summer sparrow]

Both Moirax will have Castigator Bondsman ability on them to help

[rare hornet]

The two castigators will have horde clearing to an art while the lancer will do deepstrike memes

[summer sparrow]

which iirc gives their ranged attacks Sustained and increases AP

[summer sparrow]

Brings a tear to my eye

[rare hornet]

If so that’ll be good

The only thing I can see that list struggling with potentially is armoured lists

Because most of your tank destroying is in melee, but it should work at the very least against more balanced lists

[summer sparrow]

I can live with that for now

The Moirax's have more weapon options that I could swap to to focus armor, might be worth getting them magnets

[rare hornet]

Tau and guard would be the main armies to watch out for as well as other knight armies, they can pack a lot of weapons which can potentially ruin a knight

[summer sparrow]

noted

[rare hornet]

Prime examples being, the hammerhead gunship, russ vanquisher (or a shadowsword) and knight Castellans

Generally speaking though, you’ll want to find the enemy’s prime AT and look to taking that out first

Also a cheeky warlord snipe is always something to look for

You get 3cp and a 5+ FNP

[whole scarab]

It's like playing chess but you have 5 queens

If your opponent isn't great at the game you will dominate

If your opponent is good at the game or gets very lucky you aren't going to last long

[rare hornet]

Yep, knights and chaos knights are an all or nothing army

Although knights vs knights is actually quite fun

[whole scarab]

Personally I think I'd only ever recommend knights as an allied unit

[simple thorn]

Do you ship to Australia?

[whole scarab]

That way even if they go down you have other units on stand by

[silver thorn]

i could look into it xD

[simple thorn]

(potentially) yey

[silver thorn]

who was this made for lmao

[simple thorn]

People who want fancy imperial stuff

[visual turret]

holy shit that's TWENTY imperial navy breachers

and the euclidian starstriders killteam too

that's actually cash

[silver thorn]

and voidsman at arms

the models are great but its not really playable lol

eversor assassin is cool

[visual turret]

I have the breachers

not painted any yet

I still have half my arbites to do

[silver thorn]

i want to get a box because I just love their models

[visual turret]

yeah same

I love the diving suit vibes

[silver thorn]

but was thinking of getting the kill team breachers box I wouldnt want 20 of them

you cant even run 20 of them in most games

[primal plinth]

Big ol’ box of bits for kitbashing

[silver thorn]

you can run 20 in a 2k point game but you get no other agents units

[silver thorn]

yea I bet you could make some really good skitarri out of these

[simple thorn]

I have so much stuff I need to paint still

And I've got the BattleTech Mercenaries stuff on the way eventually

I have a freakin' Lion El'Johnson I still need to get started on

[primal plinth]

A few of those command models I’d legit considered before I settled on my Greyfax

[silver thorn]

Im getting a greyfax for sure

[primal plinth]

Their cloaks are very Techno-archaeologist

[sudden notch]

I bought it to get both kill teams

Also sold 5 figures to friend who had team but lacked few specialists

[umbral fog]

I really cant decide whether to go Salamanders or Raven Guard

[whole scarab]

Don't diss my boy the eversor he is very playable

[rare hornet]

Don’t disrespect the eversor, he’ll steal your skeleton while you sleep

[silver thorn]

eversor is good but running 20 breachers seems worse than running 20 of whatever your factions battleline is

like for us sororitas battle sisters are just better, cause we can get leaders and miracle dice in them

one unit seems pretty decent though

[whole scarab]

yeah I agree with the breachers being a bit bad

[silver thorn]

now the imperial henchman

now that's poggers

[whole scarab]

but can't the eversor do some funky shit with adrenalin surge allowing them to not only scout, but advance shoot and charge

they can litterally move across the entire board turn 1 to harvest your liver

[oak apex]

Posting some traitor guard

[teal wolf]

Can confirm. Glorious to behold

[teal wolf]

Enjoying some traitor guard 😎

[sudden notch]

Also breachers are really strong in kill team

[proud glen]

Where did you get those sculps or this is green staff magic?

[silver thorn]

https://youtu.be/ToKcmnrE5oY?si=dkn5fqKxWC1VSGNd

[visual turret]

all of the imperium are the baddies

[oak apex]

yes, they are very much the baddies

[proud glen]

but there is Traitor Guard on photo

[plush swift]

No, this is actually more important

[junior meadow]

Half tracks but the Adeptus mechanicus got their hands on them

And they were then captured by chaos

[plush swift]

so basically the short of it is if it fails these tests, it will not get even coats when thinned, it means the paint isnt being properly dispersed meaning that you wont get even coats

[mint merlin]

what's the scale to buy historical miniatures that fit with 40k stuff

I saw somewhere that it's 1/62 or smt like that but I'm not sure

[summer sparrow]

28mm heroic is what I usually see it called

[toxic stratus]

28mm anything will fit as a guard proxy

heroic scale means they have big hands, heads and weapons

[pastel grotto]

In case you were confused, I found the baddies.

[brisk vapor]

that's a very nice kitbash

[visual turret]

Worked on a pattern, the freehanding came out well but I got the pattern wrong LOL

[brisk vapor]

Finally making some progress with this

[plush swift]

Like the color

[dawn mortar]

@rare hornet forgot to keep you updated

Pls take wips as apolagy

[rare hornet]

Oh they look good!!

[plush swift]

How long should I wait for paint to dry

[midnight cairn]

Oooh, looks like a teal layer on top of a dark metallic background, is that right? Looks very nice 👌

[brisk vapor]

Just normal paints 😄 Thanks!

Black, Night Blue, Dark Sea Blue and Pale Grey Blue. All Vallejo paints

[winged nacelle]

Gonna try to resin cast this one from a 3D print

[plush swift]

what did they do to the gw website

[plush swift]

a minute or two

before applying more paint

Thanks paint god corpse

[peak flicker]

WIP

[jaunty trail]

Emotional support Marines !

🔥

[rare hornet]

Just transfers to do

[visual turret]

Second try works way better

[plush swift]

What type of weapon is that

[copper siren]

Crisp!

[visual turret]

Issa lance!!!

Cerastus Knight Lancer

[summer sparrow]

Doing hypothetical Lancer v Baneblade with my mate

it's like newly painted curse, but haven't even gotten to play it in person yet

[winged lava]

I'm making an abomination

[summer sparrow]

Nurgle something?

[winged lava]

Yes

[signal plover]

Old black orc I painted last night

[jaunty trail]

"Mass" painting of some old assault termies... still wip

[hearty bear]

How tall is lion compared to a primaris marine

[daring ginkgo]

He is a pretty chunky boy. Ill get a picture as soon as i get back home. Just taking the dog to the park for a bit. Need outside time lol.

He is on a 90mm base tho

[jaunty trail]

Progress...

[short pawn]

Everything about this paintjob is amazing but that ork skin is just so good

[signal plover]

Thank you!

[mint merlin]

Isn't that good ole' Grimgor?

ah no, it's a normal black orc

[signal plover]

That’s the black orc boss that comes in the old WHFB black orc box- part of the command squad. The grimgor model is metal

[mint merlin]

yeah

I'm confusing because I remember my older brother who didn't know much about warhammer and just used the grimgor model as a captain for his black orc units

actually reminds me of my first minis
a squad of empire swordsmen painted in the colors of Middenheim

shame I didn't keep them

Obviously they were bad, as all first minis go, but it would have been fun to keep them to have a memento of where I started

[glass forum]

Started some chaos space marines

[patent bluff]

Finished my little trio (I know the middle doesn’t have the true sergeant armor but I wanted to paint his head red)

[toxic stratus]

Third-party morty painted for fun

[dawn stream]

2v2 match. Raven Guard and Custodes versus T'au and Tyranids

[peak flicker]

WIP ✊🏼(VII)

[plush swift]

Nurgle is my dad

[pastel grotto]

Marine squad deployed

[plush swift]

I love the Beak helmet

[pastel grotto]

Same

Flamer beakie is my favourite

Like to imagine he's just heard a noise whilst burning a pile of xenos

And auspex guy putting away his scanner

[plush swift]

I love beakie with armor rivets

[pastel grotto]

Top right guy?

He ain't no beakie

Not the biggest fan of helmless marines

[plush swift]

Something like this

[toxic jasper]

..

[rigid ginkgo]

How'd you do the concrete pillar?

[peak flicker]

Epicbasing.con had resin base pieces

[rigid ginkgo]

Thanks big man 👍

[pastel grotto]

Sir why are you interrupting his flaming

[jaunty trail]

95% done... some details, shades and base decoration still left to do...

[rare hornet]

All done :3

[obtuse aurora]

Finally finished Indomitus Marines. Praise the Holy Emperor!

[glossy hawk]

@plush swift need help ASAP

my cat drank some of my paint water

it has vallejo and citadel paints in it

is this toxic

[plush swift]

Rip

[glossy hawk]

dont fucking rip me

im worried about my animal

[plush swift]

If it was paint water he should be fine

My dog did the same thing

[glossy hawk]

i appreciate you actually answering and apologize for the tone

[plush swift]

It’s fine

[plush swift]

@glossy hawk hows your cat

[glossy hawk]

he’s good

ty for asking

glow effects are fun

[plush swift]

That’s sick

[plush swift]

How much water? Also the cat will probably be fine in small amounts, if we're talking a lot of water then... I would have to know what colors

Generally speaking though, there isn't going to be anything that's too too bad, And if there is a problem it will be pretty immediate

[glossy hawk]

probably like 10 licks or something, im not sure how many he got away with but it wasnt much

he seems to be chillin

[plush swift]

the only really big issue is the cmit/mit which will be an allergic reaction

so I wouldnt worry that much

[glossy hawk]

kk

thanks starch

[plush swift]

Drinking paint water isnt good for you, and definately noy good for a cat, but its not going to outright kill you with that amount

might be some intestinal distress

so expect that

[hollow goblet]

Also you're right @plush swift I started using inks and they're actually really good

[hollow goblet]

Hmm I have been trying to find an unusual mini to use as a daemon prince, Cawl is absolutely fkn huge tho isn't he?

Hmm I do wanna do a Vashtorr + Iron warriors army at some point and Cawl would work really well as a Vashtorr daemon prince, decisions

[glossy hawk]

based

[plush swift]

yeah, while they arent great for dry brushing, you caan just paint so much more easily witth them since you're not having to dilute it as much or at all

[hollow goblet]

Yeah I've been mostly using vallejo black ink so far and I love how I can just use it straight out of the pot like a contrast paint and get a really solid single-coat base coat that doesn't bury the details on anything, tends to dry as if its been airbrushed too so I've just been using it as a base coat on anything I''d wanna prime black

[plush swift]

just imagine what it would be like to use a professional ink, they tend to perform better too

[vale pollen]

Making my own space marine chapter, only a kill team for now though. This what I got so far

[plush swift]

can you use pen ink

[plush swift]

depends on the type of pen

some use dyes, some use pigments

you want the pigment ones not the dye ones

so if i crack a pen open i can paint a mini

probably not, most of that ink wont really stick to much and will fade quickly

[plush swift]

😢

[plush swift]

Should I get custom faces for my sisters of battle

[silver thorn]

there are some nice ones on etsy

[visual turret]

Might fuck around and do the head of my norn emissary today

[visual turret]

nice work on the wings!

[dry leaf]

Thank you

[lavish crescent]

Based? There's nothing there mate???

[jaunty trail]

Another three done to rip and tear...

[stiff root]

Second mini, new to the hobby. Never painted anything before.

[chrome pebble]

It's gonna be funny

[jade swift]

its not funny after seeing it for the trillionth time

[plush swift]

naw, its still hilarious

[whole scarab]

It's never not funny

[jade swift]

yes it is

[signal plover]

this but for every warhammer joke

[plush swift]

warhammer only has like 5 jokes though

[jade swift]

point still stands

[plush swift]

So nothing in warhammer is funny then

[jade swift]

yeah at this point

im here for the models and lore not "OMG SHOVEL!!! MAID SPACE MARINE XDDDDDDD!!!!"

[rare hornet]

Then you clearly don’t understand the true meaning of warhammer

[glossy hawk]

you need some of this

it’s the powder they put on gun sights to make them glow

[whole scarab]

Noted

[plush swift]

Hype.

Tomorrow they are on their way to Europe.

Poor guys

[grizzled jolt]

Custom ogryn bone'Ead, it's just the beard.

More custom ogryns.

[sudden notch]

Im planning inquisition kill team but i wonder how i'll proxy couple of the models. Should i just get box of hive scum for additional bodies to fit inquisition team parts to or something else

[visual turret]

I'd recommend weathering the transfers on the rockcrete pillar, they look too fresh on a decrepit thing like that

[peak flicker]

That's a good point. I'll splatter something on it later. Spent like two days on it and need a break lol

[visual turret]

really like the shield paintjob btw

[peak flicker]

Appreesh!!

[signal marsh]

Start

Finished

[jaunty trail]

Starting on new Terminator Chaplain with Relic Shield tomorrow... added some BT, devastor and some other bits as slso a "sculpted" base for more detail...

[visual turret]

Messy….

[silver thorn]

the year is 42023, in the grim dark of the far future there is only estrogen xD

[plush swift]

lmao

[devout lake]

Has anyone ever bought the conteptor dred upgrade sprues?

[vale pollen]

First marine of my homebrew chapter done

[true inlet]

is the head from stormcast eternal

[vale pollen]

and the body

[heavy frigate]

Raided the bits box..

[heavy needle]

I hate Tyranids I hate Tyranids I hate Tyranids and painting them. How does one git gud at painting them?

I also think I may be getting a combat patrol of them at the same time

[plush swift]

Use contrast paints

[heavy needle]

I dont have contrast paints because these are only battle ready

[true inlet]

oh the body too???
You kitbashed it so well that I didn't even realised it

[chilly summit]

Sounds like there's a misunderstanding of what contrast paints are and what battle ready paint standard is.

The 2 methods GW suggests for battle ready paint.

[heavy needle]

Oops

I was thinking that as shading paints, mb

Yeah, I have those

[chilly summit]

Thought it was something like that. Contrast paints are also things like Army Painter Speedpaint. Shade paints are washes. GW just has to come up with their own TM name for shit.

[plush swift]

they are also better knows as low grade transparent ink

The new gw website pisses me off

yes

its garbage

They should have hired a designer instead of a marketing team to make it

Everything in my cart is gone

[plush swift]

Yes

I just use ebay to buy my 40k stuff, its cheaper

what I do is I browse there, then go to the actual store's website

I used Amazon

Or go to hobby shops

see going to hobby shops means I'd have to leave my house

and that means I'd have to you know... drive an hour

It’s impossible for hobby shops not to be a inconvenience to go to

They always so far away

yep

because the places where they wouldnt be would cost too much

Yep

[vale pollen]

hey thanks, I really tried to go all out for this dude

[silver thorn]

arco flagellents are just straight up better than repentia in every way but then i don't get to have a horde of half naked nuns suicidally cutting demons in half with 6 foot tall chainswords...

[mint merlin]

that's a damn ork in a looted power armor

[plush swift]

Lame…

[naive umbra]

The Australian eBay experience "Wow that's a great price! Oh crap shipping is $50 never mind"

[whole scarab]

This is the way!

[hollow goblet]

Buy contrast paints and they're the easiest models in the entire game to paint, literally just dump two colours on the top and bottom right out of the pot and then paint the eyes + a couple highlights and they're parade ready

[hollow goblet]

America's spaced out car centric layout is a nightmare for 90% of things I'ma be real, Australia isn't really any better, we're built almost exclusively around private vehicle ownership and having massive stretches of travel between yourself and any given thing you might want is such an issue that no one ever wants to talk about

[plush swift]

I live in the southern US,which means we have no infrastructure for anything but driving

Also laws that prevent you from doing anything but driving

Corpse I accidentally found your yt

[hollow goblet]

Yeah its super similar in Australia

WA NT and QLD are pretty much the same as texas in regards to how much space is just empty desert you're expected to drive right through

[teal wolf]

Hell up here in the state that doesn't exist. Most towns/city are 100 miles apart

[jaunty trail]

Question:

Terminators got Teleport Homers ability to deep strike into battlefield. So when you set up those Homers e.g. in a 2 k battle you can still have 500 pts on reserves that are not fielded on table?

I'm a bit confused cuz homers say you can put units in reserve and core rules say you may only have 500 pts in reserves on 2k battle...
So a buddy of mine has opinion that deep strike ability is apart from the reserves point limit cuz you set up the homers at start of battle... Other buddy says "nup dude they add to reserve points cuz squads are not fielded"...
And now i'm sitting here and want to get some knowledge cuz it would be also interesting for me... Next battle i want to make is a 2k one and i want to field 2x Terminator squad and 1x Assault Terminators + 2x Chaplain in Terminator armor as also a Captain in Terminator armor...
When their points add up to the reserves limit of 500 points i can't deepstrike all 3 of those squads with attached leader into battle cuz they have more points than the limit..
And i'm also a bit tired of the ongoing argument between my buddies...

[plush swift]

😵

[lament path]

Deep striking is a method of entering from reserves, much like outflanking, at least in the old rules

[jaunty trail]

Ye old rules.. but i'm talking about 10th edition and it drives me a bit nuts to have not a clear answer to the "problem"

[teal wolf]

Had this issue very recently.
The core book doesn't say a deep strike limit. But I believe the fold out card in the mission decks has the answers

[jaunty trail]

Then in need to get mission deck XD... But ye, core book don't give a deep strike limit, thats the valid point of the one buddy...

[teal wolf]

Reserves are different for each game mode 🙃 but I'm fairy sure it's half.
I may have a pic, but it's a bad one

[jaunty trail]

I'm glad to get any help i can get... The argument of the 2 dudes is exhausting...

[teal wolf]

Part 8

It may help

[jaunty trail]

yup this helps much

[teal wolf]

Funny enough I just had a rules issue pop in my head.
Does precision get around lone op

[jaunty trail]

So the buddy of mine with setting teleport homers is right.. cuz models are not nearly half of his army and he has not even other reserves xD

[dark violet]

Flagellents are also super scary lorewise

In a book I read some tau stumbled across a pool of bloated corpses just for all of them to rise up revealing themselves as flagellents and slaughtering them in a drug rage

[teal wolf]

Had the same problem at my store like two weeks ago lol

[dark violet]

And then came the walkers whose name I keep forgetting

[jaunty trail]

Did the GW staff said anything?

[brisk vapor]

No

[teal wolf]

It's an lgs lol so it took a min.
Luckily I know one of the Vegas judges and hit him up

[teal wolf]

Woo ty. Just wanted a second opinion for I am smooth brain

[brisk vapor]

Here's the reserve rule as well

[jaunty trail]

So reads for me like that deep strike units just set up their homer and get into battle when the commander wants it and done...

[teal wolf]

I love that they have to clarify no deepstriking a building 🤣

[jaunty trail]

Uhm yeah... would be... funny or so to deepstrile a mf building xD

[teal wolf]

I do miss landing drop pods on enemy units

[jaunty trail]

Nice so my bud and also me can set up our termies with deep strike... coolio

[jaunty trail]

this was funny... In DOW rts i had learned the right timing so enemy units literally ran into my drop pods i called xD

[teal wolf]

Hell ya!

[jaunty trail]

Was funny... me sends dread to drop.. enemy: walk there aaand suddenly a dread crushed into infantry XD

[brisk vapor]

You can but they count towards the 25% limit for reserve units

The termies need to be in reserves to activate the teleport homer rapid ingress stratagem

[jaunty trail]

Okay.. makes things a bit more difficult but good to know

[silver thorn]

this reminds me of that level in front of the big door

i hate that daemonhost that spawns on the bridge 90% of the time

[jaunty trail]

@brisk vapor so i would set up Chaplain & assault Termies as also Razorback + Devastors into strategic reserve... rest would be fielded... Dunno if this setup would make sense:

[simple thorn]

The metalfab one where you restart the foundry?

Also BEHOLD
ETSY KNOCK-OFF...whatever the jumpy Tau battlesuits are called.
XV-88, I think

[silver thorn]

yea I think so. i get the different areas mixed up a lot

i like the poses very nice

[simple thorn]

Thank ye
Most of the fancy legs are supposed to be for making the things look like they are mid-jump, but the feet have very few points of contact

So that shit wouldn't be stable

[naive umbra]

They look like what a newly conquered Imperial world would produce before their engineers get sent off for further re-education

[simple thorn]

I mean, the faction of Imperial Guard I have is based around the idea of an Imperial world resisting the Tau while being stuck somewhere in the middle of their Enclaves
So they have no support, no supply lines beyond what they can produce, so they end up stealing a lot of Tau stuff to make ends meet. Even have a Looted Hammerhead painted in their colours

Also somehow forgot the group shot

[naive umbra]

I remember you talking about that backstory

[simple thorn]

I also later got annoyed because I did some research into it and discovered that the Tau Enclaves are so fucking small and their systems are built so fucking tall that it's fucking impossible to properly fit that in

[naive umbra]

Oh yeah, Farsight Enclaves are literally just 4 worlds near the Damocles gulf

[jaunty trail]

Adsault Terminator squad Olav on duty!

[naive umbra]

I think that might work if your Imperial world was in Imperium Nihilus, right near the Nem'yar Atoll. It's very newly colonised by the T'au and is also the focus of their most recent expansions. Since Nihilus is kinda "every man for themselves" right now, I could see an Imperial world there getting stuck trying to hold off T'au expansion there almost on their own with no support.

[simple thorn]

It's even worse because just for the absolute hell of it I decided that My Dudes also unknowingly house an Eldar population on their world because they're so used to aliens being actually alien that human-enough aliens get a pass because they're so strapped for manpower.

Said Eldar also being stuck on the planet because their Craftworld crashed there and then everything else kinda happened so they decided 'fuck it' and are just riding everything out, occasionally sending their militia out to help the Imperials.
And the Imperials have long since become accustomed to the sight of Wraithbone that they just think it's absolutely normal

[brisk vapor]

That makes up 390 points if only those are in reserves so it would work

[jaunty trail]

only 390? Assault Termies are 195 Chaplain in Termie armor 75, razorback 95 and devs 120

[simple thorn]

And those guys are so strapped for manpower they're taking hints from Iyanden and just have a ton of fuckin' Wraith constructs marching around, getting away with the excuse that they're just Really Fancy Servitors and you Imperials just Shouldn't Worry About It

[brisk vapor]

Razorback doesn't go into reserves

It's fielded, the unit inside it is counted as reserves

[simple thorn]

And because there's no Space Marines to help out but plenty of stories about them, and a fuckload of T'au Battlesuit parts lying around...

[naive umbra]

That sounds like exactly the sort of thing a crashed Craftworld might do while trying to survive

[simple thorn]

These guys are actually normal humans in Power Armour so jury-rigged it'd give the average tech-priest a hard RROD

[brisk vapor]

And even if it did that would make 465 which would still be under 500p

[jaunty trail]

huh? i thought i can set up razorback in reserves so that it can move on battlefield sometime else in battle

[simple thorn]

Which is why the only Tech Priests on the planet are Xenarites, because they overthrew literally everyone else because they knew a good thing when they saw it and like HELL were they letting the orthodoxy have all the fun and consequently get everyone fucking killed

[brisk vapor]

Oh in that case it is in reserves, I understood you counted it for the reserves even if you had it in the field but filled with troops. Anyways it's still under 500p even with the Rback

[simple thorn]

So this one world is just a massive fucking den of all kinds of Heresy, and the ultimate irony is that they're trying to rejoin the Imperium

[jaunty trail]

kk... Then i think i have a "dynamic" 2k list on Black Templars to face imperial guard next time xD

[naive umbra]

That also would work really well in Nihilus, because nobody from Terra is sending the inspection crew there any time soon while they barely hold open Nachmund

[simple thorn]

Yey
Though the issue is that this was probably going on for a damn long time.

Actually on that note, the Warp Storm that sheltered T'au from Imperial Settlers - did that just cover the system, or did it cover about the entire area the Enclaves make up?

[naive umbra]

You mean the one that appeared shortly after they were initially surveyed and marked for Exterminatus?

[simple thorn]

Yup

[naive umbra]

At that time the T'au were still just a backward culture on their single homeworld.

[simple thorn]

The one that's the entire reason they get to exist

[naive umbra]

The storm covered their whole system

But by the time it cleared they were a highly advanced techno-race rapidly spreading an empire

[simple thorn]

Ah, so just the system and not the whole Enclave area

So it is possible for an Imperial colony to be nearby and just kinda forgotten about

[naive umbra]

I'm not sure what you mean by Enclaves, because that term is only used for Farsight's little splinter territory

[simple thorn]

The T'au themselves are an enclave in the Imperium's territory

[naive umbra]

Ah right, that's what you mean

[simple thorn]

Definition from a google search:
"a portion of territory surrounded by a larger territory whose inhabitants are culturally or ethnically distinct."

[naive umbra]

I thought they were only sorta surrounded North, West and South

[simple thorn]

So rather than having a border with two or more other empires, the Tau are SURROUNDED

[naive umbra]

The problem is East is Hive Fleet Gorgon who they've been fighting for a few centuries

Yeah, based on the map I just checked, the Imperium isn't really east of them in the Eastern Fringe

At least no worlds important enough to get names marked

[simple thorn]

The Tau are about in the middle of Ultramar

Actually nvm, they're a little ways north

But there's like
three or four Space Marine chapters based on their doorstep, or a few jumps away

[naive umbra]

Which may become a big problem if Roboute wasn't so busy running around putting out a bilion little fires everywhere else

[simple thorn]

Absolutely ship map and not the first one I used, but this is the one that came up

The splodge to the south is Ultramar

The orange dots are Tau worlds

Green are Ork strongholds

Red ones are Chaos

Grey ones...might be contested?

[naive umbra]

Ah ok, I was mostly looking at broader maps like this

Seems less surrounded there

[simple thorn]

Oh yeah, that one is way better

Wait...Schindelgeist?

[naive umbra]

I think this is an 8th edition map

[simple thorn]

Oh god it is

IT'S THE PLANET OF GUARDSMEN

[naive umbra]

That's where they fought Abaddon to stop him taking the Blackstone Fortress there and ending 12th crusade

Makes sense it's pretty much just military after that

[true inlet]

this makes me think, would it be possible to kitbash an assault termi using the new terminators?

[silver thorn]

ngl that's something i like more about fantasy than 40k. everyone is way less racist so soup armies actually make sense and you could have dwarves in your empire army or wood elves with your bretonnians. slannesh daemons with your dark elves. there was a lot you could do.

in 40k no one can ally with anyone outside of fluff and it all reads like what you wrote. a bunch of hoops to jump though instead of people elves and humans just chilling out for 1 second to fight their common enemy.

[simple thorn]

Frankly, I'm just glad someone isn't yelling HERESY at me for it all

I know it's all dumb and the entire reason for it began as me wanting to give railguns to Guardsmen

The shallow justifications came later

[silver thorn]

i like fantasy as a setting a lot. its basically a cheap 80s pulpy version of tolkiens world.

[silver thorn]

GW just needs actual rules for gue'vesa

maybe like a blood Brothers type rule

and tbh in GSC its not worth it to take any IG units afaik

so its mostly for fluff

and then you just kitbash the tau parts on ig models

[simple thorn]

Honestly my only experience with Fantasy is Vermintide 2 and Tariff's TWWH shitposts
All I know is Kruber is someone I want to share a beer with

Oh, and Rats have nukes for some reason

[silver thorn]

fantasy is a lot more of a vibrant actual world.

even norscans can just travel around the empire adventuring

(basically chaos humans)

[simple thorn]

Ye

[silver thorn]

there is trade and diplomacy between the factions instead of complete total war, genocide and ultra racism

[simple thorn]

I read a bit somewhere that a Kurgan trader was just kinda chilling being a trader, and explained to a guy that most Norscans are usually pretty chill, but when the Gods call for war, everyone answers

[silver thorn]

like the high elves imo are WAY cooler than craftworld eldar

drukhari are way better than dark elves though.

[simple thorn]

Dark Elves are literally just Edgelords

[silver thorn]

and obviously there are more factions in fantasy

slannesh is a lot more basic in fantasy

[simple thorn]

Cathay, Tomb Kings, Lizards, The French, etc.

[silver thorn]

cathay isn't really a thing tbh

its awesome that total war expanded them so much

ogres, goblins, VAMPIRE PIRATES, mercenaries

of course everyone LOVES the skaven

id say they should make skaven a thing in 40k except it seems to me the don't really support space dwarves all that well

[proud glen]

Man-thing don`t uncover our sabotage-plot

[simple thorn]

I honestly want to get some Stormfiends

[proud glen]

https://tenor.com/view/rat-rodent-vermintide-vermintide2-skaven-gif-20147931

[teal wolf]

Looking at my wood aelves gives me such mixed emotions lol.

[silver thorn]

i LOVE the wood elves

[proud glen]

BURN THE GREATE TREE

[teal wolf]

They are a fun time capsule.
Part of me wants to repaint em.
2nd army ever.
First fantasy army

[proud glen]

BURN THOSE WOOD ENTS

[teal wolf]

I still have 3 boxes of the old citadel trees sitting around from those days

[silver thorn]

i honestly am just a fluff nerd... I'm literally as of the last few months painting my first miniatures

[proud glen]

I think I will prime my CSM today

[teal wolf]

Ooh same. If it's got good lore I'm in

[proud glen]

like 7 of them

ready

need prime and PAINT

[silver thorn]

i can't prime because i work nights and sleep days and its fall

thinking of building a venting hood out of cardboard

[teal wolf]

Cheapo air brush for winter priming?

[silver thorn]

i live in a studio apartment

idk I'm a complete beginner seems a big investment

[teal wolf]

Oooh darn

[silver thorn]

I'm going to paint my first palatine this month when it comes in 🙂

[teal wolf]

Oooh those models are sic

[silver thorn]

in going to start collecting sororitas and work my way up to a sororitas themed imperial knight

[teal wolf]

There's some amazing 3D printed kits for that idea

[silver thorn]

i want fleur de lys, censors, candels all over it. maybe a church organ thing on the back of i could figure it out

[silver thorn]

i saw a stained glass cathedral looking knight on YouTube but i want something more chivalric less church

[teal wolf]

I saw a kit makes the knight look like fluted Gothic plate armor... almost bought a knight just for it

[silver thorn]

was it this?

[teal wolf]

No but I believe it's the same store

[silver thorn]

🙂

booby knight

♀️

[teal wolf]

I like the round shields

[silver thorn]

yea, the round heraldric symbol is a nice look

[silk stirrup]

I was painted with @manic shard so there's pox walker selfie with necron's accelerator

[short pawn]

Halfwayish done rogal dorn that I will not eat

[teal wolf]

Found it after a while. Definitely not how I recalled it's look.

[silver thorn]

I like the helmet piece

[teal wolf]

Found some old model pics digging for that and disturbing memes

One thicc af edge highlight and no others 🤣🤣🤣

[true inlet]

eat it.

live up to your name.

well cooked bottomless plastic with citadel sauce is a delicacy

there is no reason for someone to NOT eat it

(XD, I'm just fooling around. I can't even tell whether it is completely finished or halfway done. It just looks that good)

[teal wolf]

The warhammer version of: Is it cake?

[short pawn]

This is very truth bomb I am simply too scared of the sharp pieces

Appreciate the kindness though 🙂

[rare hornet]

If you won’t eat it then I will

Looking good tho

[teal wolf]

Are sprues the diet plastic flavor?

[true inlet]

I tried a lot of polyethylene before but I haven't tried much polystyrene, looking forward to them

I'd love to try some resin but they are too expensive and brittle, heard they get lots of holes

[hollow goblet]

Trying some freehand "rune tattoo" type stuff on my MVB proxy, not exactly neat or finished but it'll look fine once it's done

[wild monolith]

Painting in progress

Crimson Fist Lieutenant w/ Storm Shield

[patent bluff]

That looks cool dude

[summer sparrow]

Are stat same flavor reskins usually allowed or frowned upon?

Cause Imp Knight meta really encourages Vindicares, but I thought it'd be cooler to hero forge up some Big Game Hunters with the same stats

[glossy hawk]

squig body is done, paint time

[floral wind]

What colour would be a good recommendation for this coat do you reckon?

[finite quarry]

wow lol

[rare hornet]

Corvus black? perhaps?

It'll be more a grey then a blue

but not as absolute as abaddon

[finite quarry]

Finished my beastboys, need to wait a little bit for basing material to come innthe mail to finish bases

Had a little accident with skin wash on last dude with the chain sword but i dont wanna strip and restart

[floral wind]

I will keep corvus in mind, I may try and find soemthing more akin to the blue-ish hue like in the image. Perhaps as a layer for corvus im not sure

I just got some grenadier proxies and thats what I want them to look like

[finite quarry]

is there a way to strip paint in just a specific area or will it just make a big mess?

[floral wind]

Its likely to make a mess. I wouldnt say its too late to go back and repaint the area and repeat the process

[finite quarry]

i thought about maybe just repainting his chest and face white and try again but i imagine it will kill a lot of the fine details

[floral wind]

Perhaps but its better than having it look messy

I have an entire apothecary i wanna strip and start over cos i hate the direction i took with it

[finite quarry]

i feel like i stumbled on the finish line, didnt let paint dry completely before going in again, kinda sucks

dont really feel like starting all over again, maybe ill try to do two really thin white coats and try again

[plush swift]

yes, but you have another issue, it will look incredibly uneven

as there will be a gap there and a noticable one

and if you're trying to remove just the wash, unless you used an isolation coat, then it will affect the layers below

[finite quarry]

aight screw it, ill just make his beard fuller, give the goat dude a proper goatee to cover up some damage

[plush swift]

you CAN try a bit of IPA on a qtip but you need to be insanely careful

[finite quarry]

gods, he looks even more goofy now

looks melted because of all the paint

ill just let him stay that way as a lesson 😔

[plush swift]

How do you paint blood affects

[finite quarry]

you mean the red scars/wounds?

that is just volupus pink contrast paint over the scar

[jaunty trail]

Wip on base for terminator chaplain

[summer sparrow]

nice flagstones

[jaunty trail]

Completely hand sculptedxD

[finite quarry]

I regret glueing my dudes onto the base lol 🫠

[proud glen]

Will all do this mistakes (I also glued mines)

[finite quarry]

You live and u learn 😭

[proud glen]

Except I don`t plan to give them decorated bases so I do not suffer

THE FUNNY PART WILL BEGIN TOMORROW WHEN PRIMER WILL DRY

[finite quarry]

Time to start a new set, im really tempted to dunk that dude in alcohol tho

Which one 🤔🤔🤔

[proud glen]

So many

[finite quarry]

I think id like to do the orks the most but maybe i should practice some on the sets i like the least

[plush swift]

Nah like blood on a sword

[midnight locust]

kasrkin box

This man has rare foods

[finite quarry]

maybe i should go for them, looks like it could be fun 🤔

[finite quarry]

i just put a little blood for the blood god paint here and there, sometime i flick the end of the brush to make a blood splatter

Couldnt help myself, the targeted paint removal worked better than i expected i think i can work with this 🤔

Brush on some thin white primer and it shouldnt be too bad

[short pawn]

What happened that made you want to strip his face?

[finite quarry]

messed up during the painting phase, tried to touch it up but just ended up being too many layers of paint which removed all the fine details of the model

would've been fine if i had waited a bit, it all started more or less because i didnt wait for the contrast paint to dry completely before attempting to highlight

[short pawn]

Ah, gotcha. A shame. I hope it goes well next time.

Same thing actually happened to my ork, I accidentally gave his face a coat of unthinned paint, I pulled it from the wrong pool on my wet pallete.

I am eternally angry

[finite quarry]

😭

[dawn stream]

Hardcore Warhammer painting: Use real blood to paint your Blood Angels

[finite quarry]

i actually had to abort right now, the guy is now sitting in a glass full of alcohol

i tried to spray wraithbone primer into a pool to brush onto the model, but that didn't go as planned, turns out you can't do that 😭

[signal plover]

lmfao

[finite quarry]

primer turns chunky as hell immediately

[short pawn]

Yeah I also really gotta get some brush on primer

Getting tired of rattlecans

[finite quarry]

RIP

at least it gave some experience 😅

[dawn stream]

Naughty miniatures go in the depainting liquid

[finite quarry]

man this sucks, everything went well before the very last steps

[sudden notch]

What paint strip you use btw

Need some myself

[finite quarry]

Blårens it is called here in Norway, it is just dyed 99% alcohol

[midnight cairn]

That's a pretty fancy glass to ruin with acrylics 😆

[finite quarry]

as long as you give it a good cleaning after it should be fine id assume

[short pawn]

I personally wouldn't ever drink out of the glass again but that's just me

I'm iffy on that stuff

[finite quarry]

🌞

[silver thorn]

ive been asking this a lot and it seems if you are in the US GW tournaments arent really a thing and non GW tournaments don't mind proxies.

there are some really cool 3rd party models

and stuff like heroforge

[summer sparrow]

Cool shit

[silver thorn]

I kind of dont plan to play with anyone lmao

im an introvert haha

[plush swift]

Do you need to buy killteam sets to play kill teams

[sudden notch]

Some teams can be pretty efficently made out of non kill team boxes

There are also compendium teams that are made out of standard 40k units

[finite quarry]

Depends on ur friend, could play with pieces of paper id youd like

[sweet stirrup]

so can one post AoS stuff here as well or is it just 40k? Cuz I've only painted Warcry stuff lately

[cursive gyro]

My friend seeing me paint a Great Unclean one :

https://tenor.com/view/hunter-the-parenting-bruva-alfabusa-what-are-you-doing-gif-26059510

[finite quarry]

Aight, no fucking around this time

https://tenor.com/view/hurtigjoakim-hurtig-joakim-training-ready-gif-15626439

[naive umbra]

I'd go Eshin Grey for that. Here's how it looks on one of my Fire Warriors. It was actually a bit darker than I expected/wanted so planning to go brighter myself, but you do get a hint of the blue-grey in it

[visual turret]

Some of my tyranids have my own blood on becuase they are SHARP

[visual turret]

Steps don scale green

Stegadon***

[teal wolf]

Tyvm, Older work. Wish i still had him around.

[visual turret]

I painted a bug head

[patent bluff]

No problem

[naive umbra]

When I had to press the Stinger carapace down on my Tervigon I drew blood haha

[short pawn]

Push fit orks ruined my entire week, my fingers were numb and sore from being pricked so bad

[silver thorn]

https://www.amazon.com/Master-Airbrush-Portable-Lights-Turntable/dp/B0BTTH4WNL/ref=asc_df_B0BTTH4WNL/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=647178259875&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=9647637282680008378&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9004398&hvtargid=pla-1961103134873&psc=1

think this is worth it?

[plush swift]

imo

no

is the Novitiates kill team good

[hollow goblet]

Like in-game or as a kit? bc imo it's like 10-15 more to get a much nicer and more customizable kit with more spare bits to use later

[plush swift]

both

[hollow goblet]

Not sure if they're actually strong or not we only have one guywho plays sisters and he's super new

[plush swift]

what kit?

[hollow goblet]

Sisters tend to almost never be bad but they're kinda at the mercy of the dice sometimes (they also have an ability that lets you cheat dice in a dice game so it's not all bad)

[plush swift]

what about their faith system

[hollow goblet]

Like the noviatiates kill team box is essentially an upgraded version of the regular troop box with better sculpts

[plush swift]

ohhh

[hollow goblet]

Not too sure about their actual gameplay tbh

[plush swift]

i ordered a sister squad and im just wondering how i should expand my army

[formal lichen]

Space commies started

[hollow goblet]

Just buy what you like essentially, my friend just started playing sisters and he's gotten both boxes + the immolator bc they're the models he liked most

[plush swift]

thanks

[heavy frigate]

I made a mini' of my Zealot from the bits box 🙂

[hollow goblet]

Yoo I should make my psyker

[heavy frigate]

yeah go for it.

My son now wants me to make a mini of his Vet'. I ordered some Poxwalkers for them to bash up...

[tawny topaz]

I haven’t posted anything here in a while cuz I took a long time not painting, but before I stopped I did this techpriest

Coulda did a better job on some bits but it was 100% improvement from my old models

[jade swift]

just go back and upgrade it when you get time

[peak flicker]

I think I should have made the glowing green cracks more angular to give it that "awaking tombworld" vibe but live and learn

[tawny topaz]

I will

Very badass even without the glow

[dire torrent]

Do noise marine minis actually exist or are they something I need to bash together myself

[simple thorn]

There is/used to be a Noise Marine mini, but I think it's a commemorative one.
Should still be able to get it, but haven't checked in like. 6 months.

Ah, the actual mini I was thinking of is still listed.
It's out of stock at the moment though

You can also get upgrade packs, but judging by the looks of things you also have to buy some CSMs to actually have something to use them with

[true inlet]

question, if I get old marine weapons, do they still fit to primaris marines?

like, if I grab a bunch of weaponrys for 30k and give them to primaris, does it fit properly?

[simple thorn]

Probably not, I'd say

If you mean the new Horus Heresy stuff, you might get away with it - especially stuff that only uses two separate limbs.
But anything that's got two limbs attached to one object you might run into slight issues.

Then again I don't actually have any Primaris stuff, and the only SM stuff I have are some Scouts that were the first things I ever painted, and mah beakies

[signal marsh]

Took this imperial fist hero and made him into a world eater champion for my khrone berserk sqaud

[plush swift]

https://tenor.com/view/corn-butter-melt-food-food-porn-gif-9226835

[plush swift]

its fine if you wash it out, just remember that it is technically illegal to dump acrylic paint down the sink as it kills aquatic life

but you'd need to dump several thousand gallons for it to actually matter

the exact chemical components will look like this:
Binder(this is generally polyurethane, sometimes with some polybutyl acetate and/or some polyvinyl acetate mixed in)
pigment(this in a lot of cases is just washed dirt or rust, but you have tons of random chemicals for that, check artiscreation or kremer for more info)
Biocide(cmit/mit is the most common)
silicone oil
ammonia
Surfactant(most common is orotan)
sheen agent(like fumed silca or something)
and a few other random chemicals that arent that harmful

[hollow goblet]

Fun fact you are explicitly banned from using your own (or anyone else's) body fluids on your mini in any capacity, it's for exactly the reasons you'd think

[plush swift]

its fugitive and unstable in paint

so not hardcore at all, if you want hard core, undertone shadows with mummy brown then do the reds with carmine

one is made from mummies, the other is made from a crushed insect

[hollow goblet]

I wanna know if the rule was brought about because of the guy who brought daemonettes covered in baby gravy or the nurgle player who's mini may as well have been rolled through a sewer (This shit happened in official tournaments btw)

[plush swift]

it was the one who used rat guts for gore iirc

[mint merlin]

sanest warhammer painter

[hollow goblet]

I've heard so many absolutely putrid stories about this stuff lol chaos players are fucking unhinged and I'm glad I have the subtype that makes me put eyeballs, sand and feathers on stuff instead of going full degen

[karmic coral]

You also have the subtype that would want us to think that.

[silver thorn]

i have heard people else where say they built all their sororitas characters out of the bits in the box but that feels too advanced too me. also its a really pretty kit to just cut up to glue onto battle sisters to make palatine, canoness, imagifier etc.

[true inlet]

okay, then I'll need a LOT of kitbash

I'll be starting my collection legit after one or two years due to my studies so I hope FW releases some decent weapons for HH that is compatible with primaris

thanks a lot, I love this community

[summer sparrow]

Did they ever put out a Datasheet for Vitrian Messinius?

[plush swift]

im gonna kiss you

[silver thorn]

why did you find a guide to do it?

[plush swift]

Nah

[silver thorn]

it seems people REALLY like it for kit bashing

[primal plinth]

I’m bashing a couple of the Combat Patrol sisters/arcos/repentias into Skitarii and servitors myself

Scraping the fleur de lis off of every model is a pain though

[silver thorn]

arcos would make great servitors, i could see that for sure

[primal plinth]

I can’t say they’re uh, the most traditional looking servitors

But I don’t actually play tabletop so not an issue

[silver thorn]

they definitely look servitor enough

and the skitarri look great

[copper siren]

how is collecting World Eaters?

should I just wait for their codex and new units?

i like their style, the melee and stark red

but theres like 5 datasheets for them

feels like their all Assault Intercessors

and that gets mega boring

for painting

[true inlet]

well, if I know correct they got some rework at end of 9th edition

from what I heard, it should be okay to collect world eaters now

I think waiting for the christmas pack will be the best choice

keep it in mind, I don't collect miniatures fully for now

[gray cradle]

I have a world eaters army they're great and painting them is fun there's more variety in paints than you think

plus angron is a beautiful model

[wind hinge]

Uh oh, crack time

[summer sparrow]

Sloppy draft but this is the heraldry I'm planning for my Knights of the Pine Grove

[compact umbra]

yeah it is supposed to come with the model in the box,correct me fi im worng but im pretty sure hes an ultra marine only model in 9th

[compact umbra]

FUCK YEAHHHH

[summer sparrow]

I looked around more and he's just meant to be played as a space marine captain of any chapter

Which if you ask me, is a huge disservice to the right hand uberman of Roboute Guilliman, leader of Crusade Fleet Tertius, armed with auramite power fist and refined plasma pistol

[midnight locust]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1089337970064117853/1171433359143080048/image0.jpg

Trying to figure out the layering needed to hit that brown color

Wait now that I look at it, might just be mournfang brown

[plush swift]

Yeah it’s fun

[plush swift]

What putty do you use

[primal plinth]

I believe that leg was leftover from one of my first blue stuff tests, and I only used straight Milliput Standard

[primal plinth]

Forgot I had this gal rattling around in my bits box

Dunno if I’m gonna be able to kitbash this one

[plush swift]

dont worry, you'll hate me very quickly after I talk about paint chemistry at you

[plush swift]

We love corpse paint rants

[plush swift]

That’s some thick paint

[primal plinth]

Wasn't me I swear

[junior meadow]

Thin thy paints

[primal plinth]

I think someone gave her to me way back when I was first checking out a local GW

Would've been before they stopped selling Battle For Macragge considering I got that for Christmas that year

She's actually older than I am lmao

Oh wait nvm I can't maths

Year younger

[plush swift]

That’s like 2 probably

[primal plinth]

She's got a ©GW99 on the base

[plush swift]

Damn

[plush swift]

No

Want to see something I painted with imposto paints?

these are thicker than heavy bodied paints

I did it to fuck with the "thin your paints" crowd

[signal plover]

Thin thy paints

[heavy frigate]

Sometimes thicker paint is the best paint, depends what you are painting and the look you want. Some of the 'rules' these days are rather one dimensional for sure xD

[whole scarab]

Based

[heavy frigate]

Playing some compendium only Killteam at the weekend so made these Metamorphs to go with the little guys.

[plush swift]

the rules are created by outsider artists for non-artists then corrupted by the non-artists for new painters

this is impasto

hyper thick structure paint

unthinned

just... learn brush control

thats also a transparent paint

[heavy frigate]

that is the kind of stuff i would use to put some texture in the finish

[plush swift]

I did it just to screw with people

[heavy frigate]

that's valid too.

[plush swift]

they kept telling me its impossible to do X, I do X

Dont tell someone with a doctorate in art something is impossible when its not

[heavy frigate]

'Impossible' would never be the right word anyway, you can paint them with yoghurt if you wants nothing will stop you!! the over reliance on contrast /speed paints is a bit crazy. Easy to do it yourself and end up with something less 'paint by numbers' looking. It is OK to have your own style, conformity is a great limiter...

[primal plinth]

I don’t have a doctorate in art but I still think yogurt might be a bad idea

Unless you’re doing something nurgle-y then I could see it working

[plush swift]

all painting is paint by numbers, its just how you define those numbers is the key

drawing is just fancy writing of letters

the mysticism of art is only there because people choose to think its complicated

its not

[signal plover]

Anyone got a good NMM guide for steel swords?

[plush swift]

Color theory... now thats an insanely complicated subject that people overly simplify

[plush swift]

yeah, but depends on what you're after, do you want realistic or the generic mini painter?

[hollow goblet]

Colour theory is like music theory

Complicated asf but also intuitive enough that it doesn't matter, I don't need to understand the mathematic interactions between polyrhythms to play one but it helps

[signal plover]

I'm painting a unit of 20 swordmasters of hoeth and I'd like the swords to standout, I've not done NMM prior

[hollow goblet]

Like you can participate in it without needing to know the finer workings of it as long as you can tell what looks good

[plush swift]

color theory isnt that intuitive with the whole "you use red and green to make purple" thing and you use blue and yellow to make brown

[plush swift]

honestly, TMM is the exact thing as NMM in terms of methods but you can hide the imperfections more

[signal plover]

TMM?

[plush swift]

true metallic metal

[signal plover]

oh only heard of that in passing

[plush swift]

it gives the same effect as NMM but it looks better from all directions instead of just one

[hollow goblet]

I have a weird type of autism where I'm very aware of the sub-colours that make up a full colour (I know I'm not explaining that properly but you know what I mean) so it's intuitive to me ig

[plush swift]

NMM looks impressive on instagram but in person its not very nice

[signal plover]

TMM is using metallic paints correct, fundamentally?

[plush swift]

it only looks good from one specific angle

[hollow goblet]

Like the idea that greys are massively different depending on what colour they're tinted with has always seemed like a pretty natural, observable thing

[plush swift]

i mean same, I can color match anything and look at a color and beable to tell you what pigments are in it

[hollow goblet]

Yeah its pigments I'm thinking of, I hate not having the terminology to explain myself I'm smart I swear

[plush swift]

kind of, you're basically doing highlights and glazes with different metallics over normal paint

[hollow goblet]

Got seriously into art and painting too late in life lmao

[plush swift]

the real trick to NMM isnt to use opaque paint, you want super transparent paint

[signal plover]

Ah, I believe I've dabbled then just didn't know the proper name

[plush swift]

I'm not smart so dont worry

[plush swift]

its actually what wins slayerswords more often than NMM fun fact

NMM just looks more impressive to novice painters

I see nmm all the time at work, so it just sort of is ignorable to me

[signal plover]

NMM really does look good on instagram lol that's so true

[hollow goblet]

Am I the only one who thinks regular metallics tend to look better than NMM?

Like I would prefer to just slap a coat of retributor and call it a day then do all of those layers of shades and highlights to get an arguably worse result