40k-minis-and-armies

[teal wolf]

https://tenor.com/view/jayarson-neworleansrapper-robber-bank-skimask-gif-18143841

[plush swift]

people dont break into my house, the most expensive thing I own thats clearly of value is my car and thats $8000~

and its a hearse with a coffin in the back

the coffin is just a wooden box with art supplies in it

its not actually a coffin, its just funnier to call it one

[teal wolf]

Imma just break in and swap all your paints with scale 75

[plush swift]

I will sue you

[plush swift]

Not if I do it first

I'm calling my lawyer

[teal wolf]

😇

[plush swift]

I am your lawyer and your getting sued

[plush swift]

objection, my lawyer isnt a snail or a man

been wearing a disguise

[mint dove]

@plush swift lol after the holidays I'll take you up on that

[plush swift]

cool

[mint dove]

I was thinking of buying the ork combat patrol, I wanna actually start playing and orks look fun

[plush swift]

orks are rarely competitive, but they are more fun

and people generally like playing against ork players

[mint dove]

That's my wheelhouse lol

[plush swift]

this is what i hear at least

[mint dove]

Will I win? No. Will I have fun? Absolutely

[lilac forge]

Took a stab at the rejects this week, hope you all like it

[undone wyvern]

Im tempted to get a bunch of the ork models with squigs and just not building the orks so I can get an army of squigs

[true inlet]

Damn are they the Legendary Henchmen featured from Warhammer 40k: Darktide Series?

thats very cool

[plain granite]

Took a break from my regular scheduled armies to try a World Eater.

[silver thorn]

nyc is amazing, complaining is just a new Yorker hobby lmao

[silver thorn]

AMAZING!!!!

[lilac forge]

Thanks!

[silver thorn]

I really want to do something similar but I've been collecting the parts really slowly

Ive got a novitiates kit, a exaction squad kit and I have inquisition agents kill team box coming

[lilac forge]

Nice! I thought the inquisition killteam was hard to get

[silver thorn]

found a source

🙂

is that one of the default heads from the bullgryn kit?

[lilac forge]

I believe so yes, I bought the single mini of ebay, but I’m pretty sure that head was on the box art for the bullgryns

And the same one with the goggles which is a pretty cool cosmetic in game

[silver thorn]

yea i noticed that haha

[lilac forge]

It was mostly finding the models on eBay that was tough, the only one I had to make was the zealot. I saw one zealot model that the game obviously used as inspiration but it was really old and didn’t look good next to the newer models

The zealot I made was the top half of a sister repentia and the legs of a khorne jackle (specifically the free mini of the month one)

[silver thorn]

i recognized the repentia but i didn't realize it had different legs

is this the one you are talking about?

astra militarum preacher

[lilac forge]

Yeah that’s the one! Didn’t quite fit in

[plush swift]

Sounds like them

[hollow goblet]

NY is ass, total tourist trap, only reason anyone gives a shit about it is because huge portions of the entertainment industry hire exclusively out of New York, if you aren't a succesful musician or comedian New York is genuinely one of the worst places you could possibly live

Source I'm a musician and have had 2 seperate friends move there and both confirm its dirty expensive and all round unpleasant

Also something I can confirm firsthand

You think PARIS stinks like piss?? you ain't ready for NY

[silver thorn]

ahhh, nyc summer garbage smell

https://tenor.com/view/sniff-gif-26460635

NYC is the main culinary hub of the US as well, so great food of all flavors. Its a city of immigrants so lots of great slices of culture from all over the world. yea its dirty, but its also filled with so much life

idk i love NYC, i was away for years and I couldnt wait to move back. i live in queens now and its great. everything is walkable, i dont need to own a car

only thing is the rent is expensive, i could probably have a whole ass house somewhere thats not a city for what im paying rn

[plush swift]

NERD

I AINT READING THAT

[worthy mortar]

Getting some minis ready for a small beginner 40k event coming up.

My army is basically the enemies of Darktide, but more swampy/natural and less industrial.

I'll try to post more when I get them done, I have a traitor commissar and baby plague ogryn being worked on. Still trying to git gud at painting, big vehicles are hard.

[silver thorn]

youre new at this???

[worthy mortar]

I did play when I was a kid, but that was me slathering thick paint onto an unprimed model (and 90 percent of army was still grey plastic)

So these guys are the first squad I painted as a developed brain adult (did one plague marine as a test scheme)

I'll see if I can find the pic of plague marine

I was a bit more careful on this guy

Credits also go to an ex GW employee who gave me some good painting advice before I started getting more into it

As you can see there is a sea of grey plastic behind, it's hard to stay motivated to keep painting is my problem

[worthy mortar]

Those are amazing!

[silver thorn]

i think they look very good

:3

[worthy mortar]

Ayy thanks I very much appreciate that!

[summer sparrow]

Time to go outside and spray some primer

[silver thorn]

xD

bangor, haha. have a friend who works on the sub base out there

sounds cold

[summer sparrow]

Sub base? Lol

[silver thorn]

yea there is a navy sub base out there lol

[summer sparrow]

No there isn't

[silver thorn]

wait bangor maine not bangor washington lmao

[summer sparrow]

Lol

There is 2 national guard based, Bangor is basically the "last gas station before the Middle East" military-civilian airport

Lots of flights during Iraq and Afghanistan had troops lay over here

Fun fact, one of the only airports that handles both the smallest and largest aircraft in the world on the same runway. Regular see Cesnas and such take of but also used to have the Antonov Mriya occasionally to carry some super special thing that the GE shop had fabricayed

[naive umbra]

I love seeing the big cargo planes. Got to see a C-130 Hercules do a low flyover at the defence academy open day (Aus). Man those props are loud af.

[solemn falcon]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/161191019197628416/1182597162740236288/IMG_20231208_101832.jpg?ex=6585466f&is=6572d16f&hm=026910f39cf356bbdbd9632130af1499ddae2fbecb0cfb308d2912a198260ed4&

psyker

[glossy hawk]

love em

[devout lake]

My first admech model, how'd i do?

[mint merlin]

why do I feel like he's about to tell me to witness something

[visual turret]

(Not mine)

[teal wolf]

Want

[hollow goblet]

Have y'all seen the vid where midwinter puts 100 coats of paint onto minis?

looks like a clean version of that lol

Unironically really wanna try and do 100 coats of runefang to get a T-1000 terminator style finish on some Necrons, I have a friend who's getting into the hobby and likes Crons because they grew up watching the terminator movies I might just grab one and kinda test paint it for them

[rare hornet]

Beginning of basing :3

[mint dove]

Painted some more dnd minis to get back into the swing of things

Also has anyone built the new commander Dante mini? How is it? From the promo pictures he looks a little fragile

[stray elm]

What sort of colors or theme you going for?

[plush swift]

he is fragile

[mint dove]

Bummer, mephiston it is then

[short pawn]

Anybody with experience in airbrushes, do you know of a good reasonably priced one for a beginner? I've heard good things about the accessbility of the Ultra 2024

[plush swift]

I mean thats one that you'd buy and never upgrade

[short pawn]

Is that a good thing

[plush swift]

yes

[short pawn]

[plush swift]

there isnt much of a point of you getting something like a custom micron and things like that

[short pawn]

I really just need one for vehicles to be honest. I have a lot and am getting more

I've just heard going cheap on an airbrush is a bad idea

[plush swift]

for the most part yeah

the gaahleri stuff isnt bad

and cost nothing

but they also have a better nozzle system than other cheap airbrushes

I might get the ultra 2024 soon to compliment my infinity

its just easier to swap between two detail airbrushes than constantly swap the colors out

[short pawn]

there was a lot more to airbrushes than I had considered after looking into it, I'm definitely gonna wait for a bit before trying one out

[median thistle]

Last time I used an airbrush it disliked me

[glossy hawk]

[median thistle]

I’m assuming there’s an ork there due to the waagh

[glossy hawk]

that is correct

[median thistle]

That’s good, must be sneaky can’t see him

[glossy hawk]

lol

[plush swift]

ehh there isnt that much

[glossy hawk]

i hope i did alright with the visor glow

[median thistle]

Looks good to me

[rare hornet]

Going to make it an asphalt road

[plush swift]

@short pawn https://www.youtube.com/@theartworkshop look at this guys videos about air brush stuff

[short pawn]

Will do

[plush swift]

I'll be honest, it didnt read as glow

[glossy hawk]

what could i do to make it better

[plush swift]

dial it back, and glaze it

you want the glow to basically be a color filter over what you painted

paint transparently

[glossy hawk]

thanks for the tip

[toxic rampart]

Like night and day! That is a good model

[hollow goblet]

Was super pumped for that new ksons librarian mini from horus heresy but of course it's mcfucking RESIN

I've already broken enough tzaangor axes to know that Sauron-ass mace staff isn't gonna survive it's first venture out of the house

[ocean pendant]

I sorta wish GW would just stop using Resin at this point, I've never had a resin model from GW survive

[hollow goblet]

Real honestly \

Apparently they're working on phasing out forge world stuff and replacing it in plastic soon

but soon for GW could easily mean by the time I'm on my second mortage

That was a funny little joke about the ridiculous fantasy that I might own property one day

what fun

[silver thorn]

millennials laughing all the way to the fiery pits of renting to the grave

[hollow goblet]

Hoping we get Fulgrim before I get my first prostate exam 🤞

[ocean pendant]

Imagine being able to afford rent

[silver thorn]

I'm truly blessed

🙏

[toxic rampart]

Found some of my old minis. Was nice to set them up like a battle.

[hollow goblet]

Paying 500 dollarydoos a fortnite to rent a bedroom in someones house gang

[toxic rampart]

And it's failing to send images on Mobile?

[silver thorn]

i think its a nudiscord thing

[hollow goblet]

Disc got a big mobile update a few days ago probably some fuckery

[toxic rampart]

Hmm. I'll check for extra updates

[hollow goblet]

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/4d519553-e6b6-47fe-8518-05d06d69cc14

[toxic rampart]

It might also be the massive snowstorm I am in too.

Ehh. Either way.

[hollow goblet]

Is everyone's weather just on it's period rn?

We're getting like thunderstorms

But its also 38 fucking degrees celcius

Which is exactly as pleasant as it sounds

[toxic rampart]

Castellen or Command Leader?

[glossy hawk]

@plush swift

Followed your advice, how’s this?

i also cleaned it up a ton

[rare hornet]

Yeee

[midnight locust]

Sergeant

[toxic rampart]

Nice! Looks good!

[mint dove]

Selling a bunch of my gundams and I think whenever do I'm gonna buy the ork combat patrol

So I can finally play the game lol

[formal apex]

Gangster, I’m finishing up my DG army set up

[lusty terrace]

Finally got back to painting miniatures

And to start somewhere I just ordered 5 combat engineers from station forge’s grim guard catalog

[fickle inlet]

Do you own a stake in them or something? Most corpo sentence I've ever read

[silver thorn]

they look grumpy lol

[lusty terrace]

Wdym? (Sorry, English isn’t my first language)

[fickle inlet]

I might be losing the plot, but what you said reads like a beginning of every YouTube sponsor segment

[lusty terrace]

Oh

Nah I just wanted to share the minis I just bought lol

But I’m still not sure about the colors I’m gonna use

I was thinking about painting them with yellow uniforms and black armor pieces

Or maybe paint them only using yellow (and brown for the other parts obviously)

[cunning bloom]

Paint them pink

[lusty terrace]

I was even thinking about painting them red, call them fire fighters (in German since we are talking about krieg era) and get a lot of heavy flamers

[cunning bloom]

Its a cool set non the less I'm sure whatever you settle on you'll make them look sweet

[lusty terrace]

Im also looking forward to get some proxies that could blend in really well with the “aesthetics” of kriegers

For example I found this thing that could replace the taurox if I eventually decide to buy some

[fickle inlet]

Isn't that literally the SdKfz 251

[lusty terrace]

Yeah

It’s the one from grim prints

Btw now im going to bed

(It’s 3:30 AM here 💀💀)

[elder hornet]

I dont have any minis or models or anything like that

But I got this guy right here

Chaos Boy preachin dat word

[mint dove]

Trying to sell my gundam collection to buy more warhammer

Quite difficult

It's hard to unload 60 model kits at one time lol

[mint dove]

Is the dark angels combat patrol better for blood angels than the blood angels box is?

[sonic wolf]

anything is better than the blood angels combat patrol for blood angels sadly

prob not true actually. but from what ive seen from marines when helping my friend build their blood angels list i recommend the dark angels box for sure

[mint merlin]

I'm jealous of these paintjobs man

so clean

[glossy hawk]

NOO THAT GIT DIDNT DO A ZOGGIN FING

[toxic rampart]

WE CAN SAVE DA GIT! GET DA DOK!

[glossy hawk]

for real though it looks amazing

[median thistle]

I can make you feel less jealous by showing you my redemptor dreadnought

[midnight cairn]

Fantastic work, no doubt. I was just wondering, isn't the executioner's sword flat, making it less stabby and more slashy?

[pliant oriole]

@midnight cairn it’s one of the Black Swords the Emperors Champions use. Has a nice point like a hand-and-half sword.

[midnight cairn]

Ah, my mistake then 🙂

[undone holly]

https://youtu.be/BA0-IxAraa4?si=bqY2DMHtp5Dnj42F

[lavish crescent]

Just spent all of today building a single knight, bugger me

That was painful

[lavish crescent]

Also is that forge world??

[solid junco]

yes

[lavish crescent]

Ayo

[solid junco]

[lavish crescent]

You just got them?

[solid junco]

had

[lavish crescent]

Had?

Sold them off?

[solid junco]

No

[lavish crescent]

Oh

Wdym then?

[solid junco]

Fair enough i bought them this week

brain fart

[lavish crescent]

Lol

Fair

How much does your wallet hurt xD?

[solid junco]

$110

nbd

[lavish crescent]

Oof!

Just for that!?

Piss right off, it didn’t cost 110$ just for them right?

[solid junco]

Its a "Out of print" set

Grens are not printed anymore

[lavish crescent]

Ohhh grenadiers right?

[solid junco]

mhm

[lavish crescent]

Hmmm respectable then, kinda

You doing a playable army or just rule of cool?

[solid junco]

Its a Legacy Army

[lavish crescent]

Ohhh fair

You using all forge world then?

Or gonna mix in some new plastic krieg?

[solid junco]

The new stuff is okay bought a set but it feels to.... Smooth?

[lavish crescent]

Smooth?

The armour is too clean right?

[solid junco]

yeah

[lavish crescent]

Like it’s brand new?

[solid junco]

its the plastic vs resin look

[lavish crescent]

Plastic is pretty easy to get the worn/used look

Resin just pains me to even harm it

Can’t take a screw set to a resin mini any day

Plastic, I will chop that Mf like mince beef

[solid junco]

Its not like its even an Ego thing. i Generally like the Resin prints more

the newer plastic models are honestly great but feel like are to cadian

[lavish crescent]

Not wrong but the killteam bits are amazing

[solid junco]

they are

[timber wharf]

Ok, I'm clearly not as good as many of yall here are, but I wanted to share my grey knight chaplain, because it's the first model I painted without a guide with some spare parts here and there and I'm pretty proud of it. Also, any tips on how to correct/improve it would be welcome, it's like the 25th mini I've ever painted in my whole life and I don't have the best tools to work with

[solid junco]

Bro it looks sick

[timber wharf]

Nah mate, look at the level of polish of the minis in this channel

I'm clearly lacking something

[toxic stratus]

they look decent, really. don't be that harsh on yourself. what you lack is just experience. there are many guides on yt to get better. for now, some really basic advice will help you like, cleaning your mold lines, thinning your paint, edge highlighting and try to get your hands on washes and contrast paints

keep posting btw, there are many posters like me just doing their best with eeh results but it shouldn't stop you from being proud of your work

[white trail]

Trying to paint my first chaos guard

How did I do

[toxic stratus]

👍

[timber wharf]

Gotcha, just a quick question, you want me to wash the mini?

Like with water?

[toxic stratus]

nope, it's a type of paint / technique with more transparent and low viscosity paint flowing into recesses and shading the mini. shading / highlighting helps a lot with readability

[timber wharf]

Mhmm that would've been useful on the head of the chaplain I bet

To make it look less like a while paste and more clean looking

OK, I'm gonna look up some of that online

[timber wharf]

That cape looks sick dude

[white trail]

Thx

[ocean pendant]

Now we can ride in style

[rare hornet]

Lighting is a little poor

But BASE

[steady wren]

I finally painted my first mini

[true path]

yessss giant robits

[lusty terrace]

Man U could’ve bought grim guard ones

Way cheaper and higher definition

[solid junco]

For the collection

[lusty terrace]

Fair enough then

[lusty terrace]

Oh look, another Terryn enjoyer

My father has like 14 Armiger class , 4 questoris class and 1 dominus

Almost all of them painted with the terryn color scheme

[rare hornet]

Terryn paint scheme is so good!

[silver thorn]

anyone know any female heads with one eye bionic?

[toxic rampart]

I'm sure the Sisters of Battle do. Doesn't the... Hospitaliter have one?

Or do you mean for 3d printing?

[silver thorn]

nah for kitbashing

something like this

[rare hornet]

Hey I've seen that somewhere before

[median thistle]

Of course you did, you wouldn’t let me put it behind your knight picture

[rare hornet]

Because he's not a knight

Although that change in lighting makes them look real good

Still advocating that green lenses

[median thistle]

Might alternate between green and orange

Might use it to distinguish the squad lol

[rare hornet]

The orange kinda blends into the gold a smidge

[median thistle]

Little bit but looks good either way

[rare hornet]

Oh for sure

I dropped one of mine lol, so I'll have a go at painting him up for the armiger

[median thistle]

Knob

[rare hornet]

His arms fell off

[median thistle]

That would’ve been great for me earlier lol

[rare hornet]

Makes it a bit simpler

Yeah that hotshot lasgun gets in the way a lot

Oh and his head come off, man I did not put these together well lol

[median thistle]

Yeah you didn’t use much glue

[rare hornet]

Ah well, in this case that's a good thing

[median thistle]

True

[rare hornet]

See what poses I can get from these scions for the bases

Gonna see about swapping the coms guys over to a more standing pose

But I think all I need is thunderhawk blue as the main colour?

[median thistle]

Yup

[hard kindle]

Someone call for an earthshaker?

[median thistle]

Love the uniform

[rare hornet]

I'm wondering about the idea of building a basilisk but with HH marine crew?

going for a legion basilisk squad

[hard kindle]

I wish there were more crewmembers on the kit

Also there was an error on the instruction book lmao

Apparently they never corrected it

[rare hornet]

Oh I love the instruction book where the leman russ turret has sunk into the hull

[hard kindle]

Lol! Havent seen that one

[rare hornet]

if you look at the turret

[median thistle]

Jagdruss

[ocean pendant]

You get one in the Sororitas combat patrol and there are like two or three heads with a bionic eye in a box of Battle Sisters

[silver thorn]

i didnt see one in my combat patrol ill have to check again

[ocean pendant]

It's number 92, it's hair is blowing in the wind

[lusty terrace]

Sorry, I’m more into “non-self-propelled- howitzers

This one for example

[chilly helm]

Book man is done

[quasi ridge]

Just started my World Eaters army, and my wife just finished her Sanguinary guard and Mephiston.

[mint dove]

What's a good recipie for ork flesh?

Ork flesh contrast base coat then gutrippa?

[simple thorn]

They're mushrooms, so any recipe for mushrooms amped up to account for the fact-

Oh.
You mean for painting their skin

I have no idea, in that case.

[mint dove]

Looks like I gotta call in the man himself...

@plush swift halp

[plush swift]

Ho ho ho

[lusty terrace]

He probably reading nothing new on the western front

[mint dove]

I heard if I'm planning to buy the blood angels combat patrol box that the dark angels box is actually better. Is that true?

[chilly helm]

The only real difference beside the models that you the in the different chapter combat patrols is the you get some upgrade sprues for your specific chapter

[karmic coral]

If you want to play "Blood Angels," buy the blood angels box, as you'll get a better deal on the combo with the ungrade sprues. If you want raw stats, and don't mind forking over some extra dough, buy the Dark Angels box and a couple of Blood angels upgrade sprues.

[ocean pendant]

It comes down to preference tbh, but in terms of what's "meta" I guess the Dark Angel box is better because Inceptors and Redemptors are pretty hot right now

[karmic coral]

If you're completely new to 40k, don't even bother caring about the Meta anytime soon. Focus on learning with what appeals to you thematically, and tweak things over time.

Because chances are, by the time you get a full army up and going, the meta will have shifted.

[ocean pendant]

Yea, my advice would be to get what you think is cool

[karmic coral]

Meta chasing comes later, when you have most of what you enjoy, and can more easily swap out new things into the mix without having a full army build/paint project before you're viable.

[mint dove]

Alright, it may just come down to whatever my lgs has in stock lol

And I'll need the book too yeah?

[ocean pendant]

What book?

If it's the Blood Angel codex, no you don't need it. It's for the previous edition.

Well if it's any Codex or rulebook, just make sure it's for 10th edition, there's still a lot of 9th edition stuff around people are trying to sell, they can have some cool lore stuff, but the rules and stats don't transfer over to the new edition.

[mint dove]

I have a blood angels book but I got it in February so it may be outdated

And that's the only book I have

[visual turret]

Bought an old man

Last of the new ones in my local

[plush swift]

I don’t know if I should play rouge traders or paint

[steel saffron]

Does anybody have any recommendations for kitbashing Mordian Iron Guard?

[obsidian plinth]

ISO harlquinn jester heads with those cute lil jester hats.

[chilly helm]

Plasma gunner done

[mint dove]

Just got $900 store credit at lgs for trading in games

Botta go on a plastic Crack binge

[obsidian plinth]

dont forget paints too

[mint dove]

My plan is this

2 combat patrols
A few supplementary models
Ghazgul
Mephiston
Leviathan box
200 dollars on paint

https://tenor.com/view/scrooge-donald-duck-swimming-in-money-gold-coins-gif-16654576

I am frothing at the mouth to spend this

[indigo vessel]

jesus how many games did you trade in

[mint dove]

Many

Not including some ds game and a mint condition gba

Every year at the end of the year I go through, grab every game I haven't played in 6 months and trade em in

[glossy hawk]

[peak flicker]

WIP 9/10 infiltrators conpleted minus basing

[stray elm]

Yooo holy shit dragons!

[indigo vessel]

Theyve been my main comissions lately

[stray elm]

Oh nice I recognize some of the minis but what companies are they mostly from?

[indigo vessel]

Some are nolzurrs some are 3d resin prints I get from my sculptor

[pliant oriole]

@mint dove for paints the use (vallejo air) Black, Burnt Umber, Gory Red, Bloody Red, Orange Red (main armor). (AK interactive) Black, Rubber Black, Dark Grey, Light Grey, Brown, Off white, Beige, basic skin tone, light flesh, along with their wash sets. Metallics I use Vallejo liquid gold. Old Gold mostly. Vallejo gunmetal grey and Vallejo silver. Main armor wash is Mr Hobby Black.

[plush swift]

I like to base with a simple verdaccio and then glaze a cinabrase over that, then do some phthalo green yellow shadow glazing over that all

i creates a ton of depth and only takes a few minutes

basically base with chromium oxide, put red iron oxide in the shadows, then cover in a transparent green

[short pawn]

Man I wish my local gamestore did video game trade ins!

I still have all my ps2/xbox 360/xbox one games

[short pawn]

I cant wait to paint these goobers

[median thistle]

There is now 2!

[visual turret]

wooo

chat idk what to do. Do i:

Build a dreadnought
Go over the plasma on my older minis and spice them up
Paint a bladeguard I have primed
Prime and paint a spirit of durthu

im gonna do 2 and 3

[supple sinew]

I know they aren't in the game (still) but here is one of my new farseers

[rare hornet]

DREADNOUGHT

BIG BOX BOI OF GREATNESS

[visual turret]

I want that sexy fuckin PLASMA

anyway the GW guys were 1000000% right purple fucking RIPS as plasma/power sword energy for grey-armoured SM's

[rare hornet]

Dreadnought has plasma ;3

[visual turret]

i know

[pallid comet]

damn i wish i could buy a dreadnought rn

[brisk vapor]

Slight progress

[open stream]

Nice job, is that head part of the standard sprue or is it from somewhere else?

[midnight locust]

Cadian upgrade sprue

[mint merlin]

I feel that bad clipping on the left shoulder in my soul

did that a lot when I started

[midnight locust]

Battle damage

[mint merlin]

might I suggest getting a set of fine files, that way you can file down these imperfections

[midnight locust]

Sure I guess.

[open stream]

Got it, thanks

[timber marten]

Apothecary finally finished

[static elk]

Drybrushed some black here and there, in the hopes it would look like soot. From burnin stuff all the time

[white tangle]

So im planning to start doing blends on my marine shin pads/boots like gw does with theirs. Could someone recommend a colour to use when my base is eshin grey?

im talking about something like this btw

[brisk vapor]

Tomorrow will be testing dot filtering for the first time

[brisk vapor]

For the Ultramarines I'm pretty sure they use quite a bit thinned down Rhinox Hide just glazed on the blue. Could try something similar

[short pawn]

Curious as to how long you've been painting, you have some of the best paintjobs I have ever seen in my life like seriously

[brisk vapor]

Oh wow thanks. Actively I've been painting about 6 years now but I dabbled in Warhammer painting in 2007-2008 as well but didn't really do it for a good while. Returned to the hobby around the end of 2017

My pace has slowed a lot, I pushed out a full 2000 point Ultramarine army in like two or three months when I started again, now I barely get a single model/kit done in a month

[plush swift]

Sick

[brisk vapor]

Cheers!

[toxic scroll]

My collection

[brisk vapor]

Oh hell yeah, a Thunderhawk

[toxic scroll]

And this guy

[brisk vapor]

Hidden in the corner 😔

[toxic scroll]

waiting for the right moment

[white tangle]

Alright, thats what came to my mind first but wanted to get some opinions. Thanks!

[edgy jackal]

I'm so glad it's now possible to paint a thunderhawk at a reasonable scale/price 😂

[edgy jackal]

Kudos on getting that done

[static elk]

Dare i ask how much money is on those shelves

[toxic scroll]

.not sure

[jaunty trail]

i would guess 10k

[static elk]

Good god

Here i am barely scraping together some kill team stuff with my friends help

[jaunty trail]

I'm currently at 3.1 k battle ready Black Templars... Stripped some old minis of mine so i get 3x 5 marine crusader squads, 1x scout squad and a imperial Space Marine kitbash... with that im nearly on 3.5k Black Templars... Then still 5 Infernus Marines, 1x Cap in termie armor, 1x combi weapon lieutenant and apothecarius biologis left... so i should have soonish about what? 3.8k? Black Templars battle ready? Those minis should have a worth of about 🤔 ca. 800 € ?

[heavy basin]

(Just clarify, this isn’t mine, I didn’t paint this)

Does anyone know specific steps to go about creating an eye glow effect like the one seen on this model? This is one of the most striking and convincing I’ve seen, and I’d love to be able to reproduce this effect

[jaunty trail]

Some white, contrast paint and some glow color i think

[edgy jackal]

I'd follow some of the steps in this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X3nfKwaFRI video, the mini seems like a decent to good portrayal of a light source on a mini

[heavy basin]

thanks!

[glossy hawk]

thats an investment holy hell

[rare hornet]

Time for a new knight :3

[glossy hawk]

he's just a little guy man

[rare hornet]

Yes, smol boi

[visual turret]

Do these read as purple plasma/power??

Trying to work out how best to do the blue

Sorry no wrong word entirely

Swords

Not blue

Like do I make the tip of the sword dark or do I make the edges dark and the inside warmer

[stiff nacelle]

I undrukharied your Drukhari (dark skinned elves ftw, fite me)

[sweet sinew]

My first ginger hair

[hollow goblet]

That's crazy how did you get Brendan Lee Mulligan in your army

[glossy hawk]

we’re so fucking back

this is the proudest ive ever been on a model

@plush swift you never said if the glow was improved or not

is it?

[sweet sinew]

Idk who that is, but I agree

[hollow goblet]

Its this guy, he's a voice actor and kind of a "dnd celebrity" I guess would be the best way to describe

[sweet sinew]

I can see it actually

[patent bluff]

First Krieg done, might not be traditional colors but holy moly do I love how it turned out

[toxic scroll]

The myth the man the legend

[timber wharf]

No way is that Gabriel Angelos, smasher of Eldar?

[toxic scroll]

It is from dawn of war 3

[stray elm]

Super elder smasher bro’s 3D land?

[toxic scroll]

Guess he was printed but it s resin so the detail is good

[jaunty trail]

There was once a FW character Series of Gabriel Angelos...

There it is:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/07/28/from-dawn-of-war-to-your-tabletop-get-gabriel-angelos-today/

but i think they stopped producing him.

And in Thunderhawk it should be this 3d model:

(Was an Etsy sell that currently is not anymore availiable)

[lavish crescent]

Oh wtf

Why does that exist

[dark token]

I made him and his name is bill

[lavish crescent]

When you don't have enough assault in your assault marine?

[dark token]

Correct

[bold merlin]

could be a tzeentch marine

[lavish crescent]

It's an assault to my eyes

[dusty lynx]

the Asssssault interseser

[jaunty trail]

Looks like an abomination out of "the Forest" or SOTF xD

[plush swift]

better

[jovial siren]

looks like very thinned down red for the area around and then different layers of red>orange>white becoming smaller with every layer

[toxic stratus]

looks like white line on the lens and red glaze all over and photoshop

[crimson jacinth]

i need to spice up the bases and apply the transfer sheet but i'll do that in a batch when i paint the whole combat patrol

[hard kindle]

Looking good!

[timber wharf]

Yooo some GK

I'm curious how you'll do that big nemesis suit

[hard kindle]

5 more varlets..

[plush swift]

that photo has been editted, but yeah you can get a similar effect easily.
Base coat white, put on a layer of pr264 or some dark red, mix red with white and but a line down it, then glaze a very thin layer of something like naphtol red over it. edge highlight with pyrrole red

[crisp sable]

Magnets?

“Good grief…”

[median flame]

Hope I did a good job at smoothing the bolts for my mk6

Still have no idea what legion/chapter I’m gonna paint them

Might pick world eaters cause of their pre heresy colors

[dark token]

No, shitty glue job though

[midnight locust]

Ugh, too cold to prime. 48 degrees

[mint merlin]

Snoopy woke up and chose violence

[brisk vapor]

Didn't manage to finish the dot filters today but it's shaping up nicely. Turned out a bit more warm toned than I set out to do but oh well

[midnight cairn]

It's an absolute joy to watch your projects. Kudos!

[tranquil warren]

Gifting this to a friend

[rare hornet]

L E G S

[dreamy flame]

Get back down to the Carnival lads, there's still stims to smash

[summer sparrow]

https://youtu.be/k5oL4QKb6Sk?si=J_EnXHTYq5Vxj8Iu Brennan Lee Mulligan is great

[mint dove]

I'm rich (in plastic)

Painting the orks as badmoons cuz they da best and richest orkz

[glossy hawk]

atta' git

[brisk vapor]

Cheers!

[white trail]

My version of captain wulfer in plastic flesh

[plush swift]

but now poor in money

[brisk vapor]

clever conversion!

[summer sparrow]

Hmmm, I wonder if the Dark Mechanicum is gonna get an army

They're featured seemingly standalone in the newest Dawn of Fire book, chaos skitarii and all

[fickle inlet]

I'd prefer GW actually finish the armies they start without shitting out new ones every 6 months (khm khm votann and world eaters)

Who would think that GW themselves would have a pile of shame

Also I fear that dark mechanicum is just gonna be chaos knights 2.0

Just normal mechanicum with spikes

[white trail]

dont forget magic, andd more confusing rules

[summer sparrow]

I think it'll be exactly that if they do

Maybe they just release "upgrade kits" to be applied to existing skitarii

[visual turret]

I wanna see what vashtorr’s up to

[white trail]

Captain Wulfer , and the twins

[brisk vapor]

Now what to do with the cockpit

[mint merlin]

Great conversion!

[whole scarab]

...

So monetary decisions are not my strong suit

[lyric nimbus]

Question, is it wise to keep arms and guns off a model's torso to ease painting? or is it fine to just paint with that on. just felt it'd be a little hard to reach?

[short pawn]

If people cant see it it's generally fine

Plus if you prime black it's just like a shadow at that point

[lyric nimbus]

ok so do I prime without arms and stuff on first?

[midnight locust]

You prime in full or sub assembly

Infantry I find personally I do in full assembly and elite/character units in sub assembly as applicable

[edgy jackal]

It depends on the mini for me, some are ok fully built, others create weird hard to reach areas as you said

and yes, then I prime without arms, but with blu tack or similar on the future points of contact, so that I don't have to scrape paint to get a good plastic-plastic bond

[spark field]

Hey guys hope all is well, literally never painted anything before and was thinking of attempting painting my necrons (starter set of 3 with paints kit) are necrons easy, and where the hell do I even start lmao?

[mint merlin]

the nice thing with basic necrons is that a metallic paint coat followed by splash of nuln oil already does 90% of the work for you

add a drybrush of the initial metallic color on top of the whole thing for easy beginner highlights

whatever bright color you get with the set (should be a bright green I think) on the tubes of their rifle

and that should be a good first miniature

the box should have instructions as well

just don't forget, multiple thin coats of paint are better than one thick coat if the color isn't uniform and (I should have added that at the start) prime the miniature first before painting other colors on top so the paint sticks well

For priming and drybrushing, there's tons of tutorials on youtube

[plush swift]

most of the tutorials on priming are bad

primer is nothing special, its just normal paint

[wise wraith]

i just buy whatever says primer

[plush swift]

so unless you're using an air brush, just get some black paint and go nuts

[plush swift]

Yeah that is a marketing thing and nothing more these days

[wise wraith]

i hear vallejo paints are better for their metallics if youre doing necrons

[plush swift]

then again, hobby paints are just house paints that have marketting

[plush swift]

the metal air is ok, its not this amazing thing most people think, but its ok. the normal line is not good at all

[wise wraith]

i think the kit lemon got comes with a metallic anyways so thats nice

[wise wraith]

if you want that super bright green on the box you HAVE to go over where the tessaract glow will go with a bit of white paint (at least thats how i did it im sure theres plenty of other videos of how to make that green glow)

[plush swift]

personally I like inks for metallics, anything with the listen pigment PM1 or any PM is good to me

or paints that use xenexo pigments

iriodin is meh but the industry standard because of automotive sales

the automotive industry controls all pigment product since they have the vast majority of sales

artist paint is like 3% and then hobby paint is 1% of artist paint

the entire hobby paint industry is marked as "do not invest in" due to how low the sales are

its a niche of a niche of a niche

[spark field]

Currently I have just the basic 3 necron with paints kit, and I think a chaos black spray can

I don't have anything else so idk if I have nuln oil or whatever

Haven't even opened the box lmao

[spark field]

Nor do I have a drybrush

[plush swift]

nuln oil is easy to make if you dont want to spend $6 on a tiny bottle

[spark field]

Yeah I gotta learn painting techniques then, this'll be hard

[spark field]

Its just black shading right?

[plush swift]

its dark grey actually

with a slight brown tone

[spark field]

Cause ye i have that can of chaos black primer I think it's called

Not sure what primer does

Guy told me I should get it at the store way back when tho lmao

[plush swift]

Nothing

[spark field]

Good to know, ty

[plush swift]

literally nothing

I have proof of this too

[spark field]

Yeah I have no idea

The guy just told me to get it

Lol

[plush swift]

yeah primer is to prevent absorption

[spark field]

This yeah

[plush swift]

plastic doesnt absorb paint

[toxic stratus]

you have agrax earthshade instead of nuln oil in the set

works just fine for those metal boys imo

[burnt wing]

tbf the colors in those sets are never enough to get the paintjob as depicted

[spark field]

My main concerns are rn

[plush swift]

well it is, but the trick is you need to mix them

[spark field]

1. painting, how to paint just in general, what paints i still need to buy, etc
2. What dynasty/army to choose, I sorta want to do world eaters too, and dynasty for necrons I need to pick for color

And probably more

But mainly I just need to learn how to physically paint lmao

I SUCK at art

[plush swift]

I do free lessons for new people on most weekends if you want to hop into one of those classes

I have a doctorate in art if that helps

[spark field]

Honestly maybe that sounds epic

Brb

[toxic stratus]

yup, it's a good idea to start with a course and there are tons of online guides

[spark field]

Back

So do I have to like, even be good at art to paint models? Or is it something I can learn relatively quick

Cause I've always been awful at art

[plush swift]

video guides are useful if you know the basics, most guides dont actually teach the basics you need that well

[spark field]

Yeah I need like the baseline basics of how to pick up a paintbrush and make magic happen lmao

[plush swift]

@spark field dm me, I'll send you an invite to it later, I also hang out in the vc chats of a warhammer paint streamer a lot and its mostly people with backgrounds in art

[spark field]

Sure sounds good

[proud glen]

I might also need some

[plush swift]

sure

[spark field]

Now I just gotta decide what dynasty to pick

But these 3 necron dudes (which is all I have rn) I'll probably just follow any instructions I find with basic colors

(When I learn how to paint said basic colors)

[plush swift]

make your own

[spark field]

That is an option

[proud glen]

I think I might opt for Citadel paints cause my first minie is a little bit rough

[plush swift]

dont follow a color guide, just use what colors you like

[spark field]

Might just end up going with the sautekhs tho

I've heard they're easiest

[plush swift]

i mean, technically the easiest is prime black, then add silver details

[proud glen]

but yeah, I think gold will stick around even with other paints cause it`s pretty good

[plush swift]

you'll probably get a similar effect from citadel honestly

its just rebottled house paint

thats not a jest either

it literally is

[steady wren]

Hey could someone help me out here? I'm prepping to paint my Votann Ancestor's Wrath and I had an idea for a custom paint-job, does anyone have an idea for how I could do this sorta effect?
Mainly asking for paints I would need to get and if I would maybe need to do contrasting and stuff

[plush swift]

the company that makes their paint doesnt make artist acrylics

[proud glen]

oh, so I just need more experience to make colors more bright

[proud glen]

and make it accurate without splatters

[plush swift]

pretty much

[plush swift]

I dont know what it would translate into hobby paints but for a frost effect id do a zinc oxide glaze, for silvery blue I'd mix blue and silver

[mint merlin]

I heard that primer is used to make paint adhere to the mini better

I always thought it had some kind of chemical that sticks better to plastic

but hey, even more ways GW and miniature painting companies use their customer's ignorance of painting in general

[plush swift]

I actually have a video disproving that

its like a 2 second test

it MIGHT help when it acrylic is over thinned, but at that point thats a skill issue

[mint merlin]

Can I get a link in dms? I'm actually starting to get more interested in the more technical side of painting since I joined this server and saw you talk about so many things

[plush swift]

there you go

[violet pelican]

You can also use snakebite leather it makes a good gold over silver

[rare hornet]

Bigger boi

[hollow goblet]

Nope, it's 3d colouring in, there's some nuance to it but its really easy overall

[radiant lichen]

Priming is the most important step, it affects the rest of the colors you put on by setting the base tone. For instance paint red over white for a really bright red but as soon as you paint red over black it's much darker. Yellows end up looking green over black from this same effect because most black paints are a really dark blue

[vestal shale]

Im trying to get into the warhammer Table top and Im trying to find a good Guardsmen set for a beginner, Any suggestions? (also paints what do I need)

[short pawn]

cadia stands if you're american

its 100 dollars USD on amazon and its got all of the combat patrol sprues plus a hard cover (outdated) codex and (outdated) datacards

[elder hornet]

Cadia is in fact

Currently not standing

[vestal shale]

Where Can I get the Codex and DataCards?

[short pawn]

They're outdated unforunately

[vestal shale]

Where can I get the 10th editon Codex and Data cards?

[short pawn]

They don't exist yet

[vestal shale]

Ah

[radiant lichen]

The Warhammer app has them for free right now since they're indexes

[short pawn]

This is the Cadia Stands box, it's the same as combat patrol but can be found cheaper in some places

[radiant lichen]

If you're looking for cheaper models, the old plastic cadians and the Catachan jungle fighters are really cheap. The cadian squads could be found on eBay and the Catachan (very ugly models but you can make them work) are only $35 on the webstore

[short pawn]

It has 9th edition hard cover codex and 9th edition datasheets as well so its just a better buy anyhow if you like the lore

[radiant lichen]

That there is the best starter for the new models

[vestal shale]

thanks

So paint an brushes?

[short pawn]

castellen green and zandri dust if you're going for a basic cadian look. Brushes just about anything wworks

maybe some brown colors for the leather and leadbelcer for the grenades/radio/aquillas

[radiant lichen]

Citidel is a fine paint range but you can get more bang for your buck with army painter. I like Vallejo if I can get my hands on them

Army painter makes good model brushes for cheaper too

Pick up some washes too, agrax earth shade and seraphim sepia are probably the ones you want if you're doing generic cadians

For skin, bugmans glow and a mix of the other flesh tones are good. I forgot the Wash's name

The wash is reikland flesh shade

[vestal shale]

Thanks I also Look up a couple of tutorials to go into deeper Explination

[radiant lichen]

Here's the paints I use, I don't paint basic cadians but this is what I would pull out for them if I were to paint them right now. I would add another green for a highlight and also get a gold for the aquilas but you can also paint those silver and it would look fine

[radiant lichen]

But best of luck guardsman! If you want inspiration for regiments, I'm always open to help too. There's a lot out there

[plain granite]

Finished up a rather firey Frost Serpent.

[plush swift]

they dont make brushes, they get them from rosemerry and co

they also dont make paints

[radiant lichen]

okay they sell paints

[plush swift]

they dont have the legal permissions to create an acrylic medium and most acrylic paints are subject to copyright or trade secret

its really fucking stupid

[radiant lichen]

https://www.thearmypainter.com/shop/us/wp8022p?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiApuCrBhAuEiwA8VJ6Jst0eBga0PZIPmxNJesa3VC8Ajv6bRwT_qY1bvN7mnAsHAXvAXqAxhoCaWwQAvD_BwE

they have paints and brushes you can buy for decently cheap

[plush swift]

I just buy house paint

its chemically identical

just add water

[radiant lichen]

not exactly, house paint has other things in it

[plush swift]

No actually

They literally just rebottle house paint, most brands do

[radiant lichen]

house paint has stuff like polyurethane

[plush swift]

yeah... thats literally what acrylic paints are

thats the most common binder for acrylic paints

[radiant lichen]

acrylic paints for models are water soluable

[plush swift]

its typically a PU+PVC blend

[plush swift]

So are most house paints

[radiant lichen]

housepaints are certainly not all water soluable

[plush swift]

I was a formulator for a house paint company I cant name, but reaper, army painter, and scale 75 all ordered from us

Army painter adds some matte medium to it, reaper adds water, scale 75 adds matte agent

[radiant lichen]

I wouldn't say all house paint is water soluble, and in anycase for starting someone should definetly use model paint

[plush swift]

Or golden soflat

golden soflat is a professional grade paint but its also better for beginners

it has vastly superior coverage and opacity

difference is you need to learn how to mix your own colors

which is pretty easy, a lot of canvas artists have videos dedicated to color recipes

[radiant lichen]

which is not something I would recommend for beginners

and I'm not going to spend the time thinning house paint to paint my minis either

[plush swift]

Yeah no that I dont recommend

but you can do that if you're cheap

but mixing colors I would recommend to beginners

its actually stupidly important if you want to improve at all

you also learn the functions of transparency so you can make slapchop look vastly better

[radiant lichen]

the time, learning, and resources for that are far beyond what I would do for my mini painting when I could just use that time to work the job that I know how to do and make the money to buy a $4 dropper. I know how to paint but I don't want to bother learning how to really make paint

but hey I'll give anything a shot so maybe I'll look into it more

[plush swift]

I'd be glad to teach you

15 minutes with me, you'll understand color theory at a advanced level

[radiant lichen]

I know how to mix paint just fine, I just use model paint so I don't have to break down house paint lol

[plush swift]

I can teach you to mix every skin tone in existance in less than 10 seconds

Ive timed this

its actually stupidly simple

1 part burnt umber 1 part orange(I use pyrrole), X parts white, add yellow ochre to taste

done

thats all skin tone mixes are

[radiant lichen]

I'm having a hard time telling if you're a troll or not

[plush swift]

the tri color yellow red blue thing really isnt that noticable at this scale

[plush swift]

Naw, Im an autistic doctorate of art, i get excited talking about art stuff

im in an art discord vc if you want to join

its warhammer focused from a streamer

[radiant lichen]

I'm still not sure I would ever use house paint but I do know basic to advanced color theory just from painting models over the years. I probably won't ever get into making my own paint but if you can do it with house paint, more power to you

I'm a little busy with engineering finals otherwise I would

[plush swift]

Superior field to mine

we do vc almost every day

[plush swift]

do you know the kubelka munk theory?

out of curiousity

if you dont I can upload an image that explains it

[radiant lichen]

I don't know what that is

also I would love to see some of your models at some point, I'm gonna post my best paint job

[plush swift]

when you mix colors, the color change doesnt move in a straight line

it curves, this is why you can mix purple and blue out of red and green

[radiant lichen]

yeah color's a spectrum so I imagine it doesn't move precisely when you add different colors

that makes sense

[plush swift]

thats the calculator

for it

[radiant lichen]

oh rad

[plush swift]

its pretty useful for color fuckery

[radiant lichen]

can I see some of your models?

[plush swift]

sure

I dotn have much right now

[radiant lichen]

That's fine

Would just love to see

[plush swift]

neither one is finished

im just testing out schemes

the left one doesnt show on camera well

neither looks greak but I dont have the time to put 5+ hours into a knight most months

[radiant lichen]

ooo nice

I do like those. is that for a knight or a titan?

[plush swift]

thats a knight

I have a titan painted somewhere though

its not painted well

the resin had a leak and kept stripping the paint off so i gave up trying to paint it well

[radiant lichen]

I've got too much infantry but eventually I'm getting a warhound

[plush swift]

I have two warlords in ym closet, im just waiting for the move before I paint them so i can get a job that doesnt want more than 60 hours a week

[mint dove]

How do I effectively zenithal highlight?

Just spray from the top with white primer over black primer

[plush swift]

Yeah

thats basically it

[mint dove]

Do I want even coverage? Or just enough to kinda speckle it

[plush swift]

sort of even

[mint dove]

Gotcha, I coated my orks in black about an hour ago so I'm gonna let it fully cure before I try to do anything

[plush swift]

honestly I wouldnt base with black for orks

[mint dove]

What would you do?

I've got some rattle cans of white and also some Tamiya gray

[plush swift]

red

red and white over it

the red will cause the greens to get a better shadow tone

[mint dove]

Ooh good idea, I gotta pick up some mephiston red spray for my blood angels anyway

[radiant lichen]

If you're doing a lot of zenithal you might want an air brush

[plush swift]

a yellow spray will brighten the greens

[mint dove]

I have one I just have no idea how to use it

I bought one like 5 years ago

[hollow goblet]

@pallychan yeah basically

You're essentially just "shining a light" from a certain angle by adding a lighter coat (usually the top, where a light source would be)

Decided to actually put my whole army in one place, I am massively behind on painting

Why did I have to pick arguably the hardest army to paint and then decide I wanted custom colour schemes on everything

My next army is getting slapchopped 100%

[hollow goblet]

Is the trail transparent? the effect looks clean asf

[silver thorn]

so much stuff to paint xD

I have a grayfax, a celestine, a whole squad of battle sisters, another rhino, repentia...

[visual turret]

I still have over half of leviathan - pretty much every tyranid model and all the infernus marines lol

[midnight cairn]

How did you create material for the flames/smoke? Is it green stuff or something? Really cool 😁

[visual turret]

Resin and wet blending or airbrushing, if I had to guess

[burnt wing]

Okay so question: My store usually does 750-1000 point tournaments. My current line up is a terminator squad, eradicator squad, Infernus squad, captain in terminator armor, a librarian in terminator armor, 10 intercessors and a redemptor dreadnought. Since I bought the starter set it came with two characters in terminator armor yet only one squad to attach them to. Should I swap the captain out for a normal lieutenant and apothecary for both my regular marine squads or is he individually stronger? Also I'm getting a rhino totalling at exactly 1000 points. And I usually use the librarian for my terminators for the sustained hits buff

[proud glen]

Neither character with ability to be in squad is good individually

[plain granite]

The original piece itself is transparent, yeh. And thanks!

[plain granite]

It's a 3d printed piece from deadlyprint studios. I wish I was good enough with green stuff to make these lol!

[mint dove]

And when I do spray do I just blast straight down? Or kinda sweep over them

[warm eagle]

EC Forgefiend finished!

[rare hornet]

Pink

[shell tangle]

Does anybody know if mad robot mini heads look decent with the new guard line?

[leaden forge]

I know yall ain't fuckin wit the Ultranyarines

[median flame]

That hurts

[rare hornet]

it's perfect

[visual turret]

https://fixvx.com/CerberusXt/status/1733799213090140182?s=20

I need these for the knight i wanna make

I wanna do the ‘welcome to the knight cafe’

[leaden forge]

I cobbled together the paint scheme in impcat

Gonna paint it and print tails

[feral shadow]

Finished my biggest project yet

[lusty terrace]

New guys just arrived

Man these grim guard models are way cooler than I expected

[mint dove]

Are these good enough zenithal highlights?

[sudden notch]

Getting few more interses, fast attack, hq and vehicle on one rock

[pastel grotto]

You need to install counter strike source.

He's missing textures

[covert quiver]

Good luck with those Inceptor stands

[whole scarab]

Do it XD

[midnight locust]

First time painting a sword master Custodes… I think a sub assembly is required

[mint dove]

I think I may just try slap chop again instead of zenithal because using a rattle can for this isbawful

[short pawn]

That is not normal

[short pawn]

I noticed in the image you sent earlier some are normal some are crusty, so im assuming what you did was do like a conveyer line of spraying them right?

If that's the case you should shake up the rattlecan, like you would normally, after a few of them

The same thing happened to my Kasrkin where some were perfect and then some were crusty, I alleviated any issues like that by doing what I recommended. Just what worked for me, if that's what you're doing.

[rare hornet]

Finally remembered to paint the aiming laser on the stubber

[mint dove]

Ahh okay yeah I did that, I think on my next kit I may just go back to drybrushing. But that's why I bought these Boyz, just to practice

[plush swift]

did you soak the can in warm water?

[mint dove]

That I did not

[plush swift]

that can help

[stray elm]

Also was it super cold outside because that can make a difference?

[midnight locust]

I lost a bet

I must paint this… thing as lamenters chapter

[karmic coral]

https://tenor.com/view/its-on-donkey-kong-luigi-mario-kart-death-stare-gif-25672621

[white tangle]

Its going to be one hot headed driver.

[midnight locust]

He knows what he’s getting into

[plush swift]

get bismuth vanadate yellow

you'll thank me later

[midnight locust]

Noted

[plush swift]

its a little expensive, but you can cover black in 1-2 coats in most cases and it wont look green

[midnight locust]

No kidding? Yeah I can get at a local craft store for around $30 USD

[plush swift]

golden soflat?

[midnight locust]

Golden brand yeah

[plush swift]

Golden is a very high end brand

its one of my top 3 brands

those brands are golden, lascaux, and schmincke

for acrylics

[midnight locust]

Yeah I know how yellow is, and I want to unironicallypaint lamenters so

Might be worth it

[plush swift]

bismuth yellow can also be airbrushed unlike cadmium

[mint dove]

Looks like I'm still not great at painting lol

[toxic rampart]

Looket Dem Boyz! Looket does Yoofs! Ahhh. Da circle of WAAAGH.

[short pawn]

These are looking pretty fire my guy

[mint dove]

I'm thinking of stripping them and starting again. I kinda Messer up on the primer and it's making the color look weird

I appreciate it tho 🙂

[short pawn]

https://tenor.com/view/dies-of-death-davy-jones-falls-in-water-remote-gif-22568708

[hollow goblet]

You get the best "true zenithal" effect by keeping the airbrush/can still, not super close to the mini and at a slight angle (there's also 3 step version where you use a slightly darker version of that colour and spray from the other side afterwards to create shadows)

[glossy hawk]

@mint dove are you dissatisfied with the color of the skin or the armor?

[mint dove]

Both really, I tried to spray white primer over black primer to zentithal but it just ended up looking tacky

But I bought citadel gray primer spray

[glossy hawk]

mm that is a genuine shame

whenever i try to remotely zenithal i do grey and then super bright white over the top

[mint dove]

Yeah my mistake was doing chaos black and thenspraying rustoleum white on it and it turned out as bad as you can expect

[chilly helm]

Headshot

[quartz light]

On today’s stream I made the heavy metal alt Grey Knight Marine for the start of my Grey Knights army!

[chilly helm]

@quartz light who is that in the mechwarrior helmet

[quartz light]

Me, we do a lil goofy photoshop every once in a while

[hollow goblet]

I live and die by vallejo grey, its the perfect neutral point for any paint scheme

And super easy to two tone with if you have a black/white rattlecan

People often suggest priming everything in black and respectfully: people are fucking WRONG

Black priming is overrated beyond what words can express and makes you work twice as hard to get your colours to pop, it's only real use is if you want a strong red across 90% of your model imo, the heavy shadows you get from it can easily be replicated with a bit of nuln oil

All of my homing hate black priming

[short pawn]

What if you dont want your colors to pop 🤔

[hollow goblet]

I mean if you're going for that 'eavy metal style it works but I'm ngl I detest that style of painting

Grimy and shadowy on purpose is not as cool as people think it is

[short pawn]

isnt eavy metal like the complete opposite of grimy

I mean I personally hate eavy metal style because it looks generic, which is the point. They're just trying to show off the models in the most visible and attractive way, universally

[toxic stratus]

Grimy looks muted and sloppy most of the time. It's hard to nail contrast and purposeful weathering with that style. Eavy metal isn't that fun to paint and it doesn't look realistic at all but it's consistent and looks good on table.

[mint dove]

I mean...I've definitely painted worse models

I just have a lot of detail work and clean up left

[toxic stratus]

And uh yeah eavy metal is uniform base colors, shading and edge highlighting everything. Opposite of grimdark

[short pawn]

You should be proud of it, like it's actually a handsome fella

[mint dove]

Thanks! It's definitely better than my first mini

"Why did the emperor burden me with life..."

[short pawn]

You're always going to beat yourself up over your own work, always natural unfortunately. But just remember that you're going to be seeing your models from a tabletop distance

[toxic stratus]

To be fair red and blue aren't the easiest colors to work with

[mint dove]

Painting yellow makes me want to have always been dead lol

[toxic stratus]

Way better start than blotched layers of thicc acrylics

[mint dove]

If I'd have known how much of a pain in the ass it was I would have just chosen Goffs lol

...wait

I can't use ghazgul with badmoons can i?

[short pawn]

You can

IIRC ork clans don't actually have rules for them

[mint dove]

I could always just say ghaz git all his own boys killed and just paid for badmoon mercenaries

I can honestly think of nothing that would make an ork happier than getting PAID to krump

[short pawn]

This was the goober i was working on a few months ago before I stopped

My only completed ork

[mint dove]

Now that's a glow up lol

[plush swift]

you sound cute

[hollow goblet]

I should probably join the discord at some point it might fix the burnout I have with like 1200pts of ksons left to paint still

[idle yoke]

(⁠＾⁠▽⁠＾⁠)

[mint dove]

All the painting is done, now time for detail work

[mint dove]

Definitely needs a lot of improvement buy I'll give it like a 3/10

[mint merlin]

the lighting makes this ork look like this

[pastel grotto]

When da big blue git says "This planet is lost, initiate exterminatus"

[brisk vapor]

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/12/14/heresy-thursday-more-malcadors-arrive-in-legions-imperialis/

hell yeah

[hollow goblet]

Assembled my Tzaangor Enlightened

Now I'm like 10% further behind on painting lmao

[white trail]

Nice

[faint thistle]

I have the masculine urge to kitbash an ork and a space marine for no reason.

[sinful depot]

A WIP

[past fossil]

Gentlemen, how’s the look?

[static elk]

Better than my first

I keep ot around for sentimental value

[mint dove]

Not the worst 1st mini I've ever seen 🙂

[static elk]

i didnt have any guides or even the right paints for him

i just kinda... painted

The rest of the squad turned out nice

[gloomy raven]

Some of my Renegades

[static elk]

Their all fuzzy because i left them in a closet for years

[proud glen]

Vraks militia, my beloved

[static elk]

Heresy

[proud glen]

[static elk]

Hanz! Get the plasma!

[static elk]

Damn those are clean

Horse gas masks make me chuckle

[static elk]

This is probably the best mini ive done, but im not an incredible painter

Mmmmmmmmm plasma

[past fossil]

Dry brush’em with the plasma glow, you’ll see a new world

[static elk]

Yeah i went a bit hard with my plasma gunner vet, but i kinda like how intense it is

[past fossil]

Thanks brother

[past fossil]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xty3Tass82E&t=197s&pp=ygUaNDBrIHN1cGVyaG90IHBsYXNtYSBlZmZlY3Q%3D

Go try this

[static elk]

Sadly i dont have anymore plasma guns to paint

He was the only one

[past fossil]

You'll always have new plasma, trust me

[static elk]

Im just building kill teams

My buddy bought the octarius stuff and im painting it all up

[past fossil]

Welp, that's what I thought lmao

Then I built an army

[static elk]

Im sadly a poor boy

I built the primaris kill team outta my pocket because i wanted some fallen dark angels

[past fossil]

Don't worry, building an army takes time

[static elk]

I made the sergeant into a captain because i wanted a cape and the winged helmet crest

Once these are done im ordering that night lord kill team because their my favorite traitor boys

I just dont want legionaries for night lords because chaos gods are for nerds

[static elk]

foaming at mouth

[past fossil]

These were commissions I taken before

[static elk]

I reallly want some chain glaives

I love chain glaives

[past fossil]

Ha, I can tell

[static elk]

Tan space marines go hard

I like more practical armor colors

[past fossil]

Don't worry brother, the number of your miniatures will GROW

[static elk]

My headcannon is that its a small group of fallen that the lion has brought back. Theyve passed the rubicon primaris and now the dark angels just use them like a suicide squad

Sending them on the worst missions

[past fossil]

Mean bunch of sob huh

Really gotta go to sleep now, you have a good one, talk to you later

Glad to share with you