40k-minis-and-armies

[past fossil]

Have a good one!

[static elk]

Yeah see ya around

[brisk vapor]

How cool is this

[edgy jackal]

Pretty cool yeah

[ocean pendant]

Finally, an affordable GW tank

[static elk]

put it on a normal sized base and use it in a normal game

[brisk vapor]

Little thing would be able to shoot over any obstacles 😔

[static elk]

make the base higher

[rare hornet]

I do love these guys

[brisk vapor]

I need to get some of those as well

[rare hornet]

This guy is from the Titanicus grandmaster set, so the bases are thicker than what you'll find in legions

[median thistle]

he looks good

now do that 15 more times

[rare hornet]

Done

[median thistle]

gawd damn

[rare hornet]

I shall have an army of knights and titans

[ocean pendant]

Captain Messinius has been acquired, now to turn him into a Blood Angel

[median thistle]

I have figured how ima start my guard army good un propa

[rare hornet]

HORS

[median thistle]

well besides the horse

ima get some cadian shock and some krieg bits, make some engineers/navy breachers for a kill team

[rare hornet]

That works

[mint dove]

Make a base of space marines standing on each other's shoulders and holding it up til its the correct height

[mint dove]

Poor nob...he didn't deserve that 😦

[wary trench]

why would that person do that to the ork

[median thistle]

maybe hes trying to take the sword out of him

[mint dove]

Putting the bad in bad moons

[signal plover]

Actually gonna try and paint some of my drukhari this weekend

[plush swift]

I might paint the sister from rouge traders

[lavish crescent]

Opinions on my new grey knight terms?

Painting one up rn

They're prime scale which wasn't that bad to do

[plush swift]

they look grey

[hollow goblet]

The scale on them doesn't look quite right yet but I think I'd need to see them next to other termies to really tell for sure

[mint dove]

Is this a misprint in the meganobz book?

I can only find one 34

[toxic rampart]

A few of them fit a little weird. I built mine without the book and you have kinda experiment a bit to see which ones match up with what

[solid junco]

[mint dove]

So the back of the leg is 7...but the foot is ALSO seven?

These instructions are scuffed

[solid junco]

Yeah sometimes they resuse numbers, either for same parts or different sprues iirc

[white forge]

HOW EXPANSIVE would starting this hobby be...?

[mint dove]

Expansive?

@short pawn what think

[toxic rampart]

Lookin' good lad!

[solid junco]

Depends on what part of the hobby you like

[mellow jetty]

The little minis are so cute. Even when they're horrifying monstrosities.

[toxic stratus]

Depends on what you want to do. If you want to play games with a full army, expensive. Just grabbing models you wanna paint and buy supplies as you need them, can be fairly cheap but it adds up as you go deeper down the rabbithole

[lavish crescent]

I know what you mean,had to use a custode model as reference but im also going to scale up a strike squad using sternguard vets. Just need the bodies and maybe the arms too but haven't seen yet

[short pawn]

I think I would target him with a baneblade (He's pretty)

[mint dove]

A whole baneblade for Lil ol me

[short pawn]

[hollow goblet]

Not gonna sugarcoat it: very expensive and worse if you live somewhere like me where shipping is a pain, you don't have to go crazy and get everything at once tho.

There are a lot of ways to lesson the cost (3d printing your own minis is a good way around this, @plush swift is a painting wizard and can probably recommend cheap brands of paint and glue that are much more wallet friendly than regular hobby paint, which is insanely overpriced when you stop and break it down) and a lot of stuff you can learn how to DIY if you're on a super tight budget(I've made tournament-legal terrain out of sprues and a deck of UNO cards, this hobby rewards creative use of materials), but you're looking at around the same prices as getting a gaming PC, $300 will get you over the threshold where you can play and can keep you busy for for a good while if you're new: and you can eventually "upgrade" your army by buying more models and you'll find a full 2000pt army sits somewhere in the realm of $1200-3000 in paint and models, some armies/models are more expensive than others.

Custodes and Grey Knights are famously cheap armies that you can get a useable army out of with wayy less money spent than other factions, you can also collect knights: but playing knights is kinda like playing chess match with 5 queens, its a whole different game and you'll kind of immediately know whether or not its something that sounds interesting to you

Also if money is an issue then try to avoid Genestealers, Adeptus Mechanicus, Astra Militarum, Tau and Orks because they are all aggressively expensive compared to other armies

[lament path]

Protip: Spend 20 years collecting, refuse to field unpainted models, and save money by mostly buying second hand, damaged and/or fudged models and sprues from sites/friends/club members.
Endgame: Unknown

[hollow goblet]

Yeah also this honestly, you can save a really solid chunk of cash by keeping an eye on local marketplace resellers

I got a whole set of Corvus Cabal and a chaos spawn for like 20USD a while ago

That's like a quarter of what its worth at retail and the only thing wrong with it was one snapped arm that didn't end up mattering bc I swapped a whole different weapon in from another kit

[lavish crescent]

Kitbashed grey knight is just slightly taller than a normal term

[white forge]

ook im poor

just gon play darktide

cheers boios

[short pawn]

I think you nailed it, that's hard as fuck

[mint merlin]

Like Astropliff said, lots of ways to lessen the cost. If you don't plan on joining official GW tournaments or games just get some proxies

[hollow goblet]

Yeah that looks super clean, can't quite put my finger on what's off about the scale normally but it feels like their weight is distributed properly now, what did you end up changing

[devout lake]

The man with the nes cartridges

[cerulean void]

showerthought but i kinda wanna see some broadsides kitbashed into like, chaos tau obliterators

that'd be siiiiick

[hollow goblet]

I plan on making my Tau chaos corrupted if I ever decide to collect them

That's a big if tho T'au would need the auxiliaries to exist for me to wanna collect them

[cerulean void]

fair

definitely wish GW would flesh out that part of tau

[naive umbra]

We should at least be getting some new/refreshed Kroot. God knows when GW will give us anything else though.

My wish is that Vespid get fleshed out with at least one more model (plus refreshed stingwings in plastic). Since I already kinda think of them like Geonosians from Star Wars, they could have a cool artillery model that uses their green crystals kinda like the Sonic Cannon

[sudden notch]

Taus whole alien allies thing could use more

[naive umbra]

Oh for sure, but realistically I'm not expecting GW to do more than service the existing line of Kroot/Vespid. They've had what, 22 years to give T'au more than those 2 but nothing so far.

[supple sinew]

Eldar wraithlord of craftworld ulthwe

[naive umbra]

Looks very nice! I love the subtle pink of the blade

[supple sinew]

Thanks I used a contrast called magos purple for that

Over white

[naive umbra]

WIP of my Devilfish. Spray primed it late yesterday, getting ready to paint interiors before assembling further. I magnetised and drilled hinges for all the hatches so it's gonna be pretty sweet once it's assembled and you can look inside all the hatches

[supple sinew]

I need to paint my falcon might start it tomorrow

Sorry my wave serpent I mix those two up a lot

The transport one

[rocky jewel]

What should i do with these little guys? Picked em up before knowing about the "modeling for advantage" rules.

Not to say that that isnt a reasonable rule.

[edgy jackal]

Clean them, paint them, play as usual? If you're worried about their size, you can put them on tactical rocks or something similar.

[median flame]

I just need to get my metallic colors and then I can paint my army

[midnight locust]

Any suggestions on how I should decorate the base for my Valkyrie

[sinful depot]

Most boxes cost 60 for infantry units like space marines, but if you want to order stuff save some money find a local warhammer shop and send your order to their store free shipping that way, if you want to get in the hobby go slow buy a box a month if your budget allows you

There are also starter kits from paints to full on two armies for like 210 usd with everything you need to do a skirmish game

[wind hatch]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1033777463584628767/1184117628135018576/IMG_20231212_115831.jpg?ex=658ace7a&is=6578597a&hm=a555bcf846ac27d69ed294d8c3a039c320bb4344ee26a5c4dd23db9dc808e3c8&

[plush swift]

I always say to estimate an army costing around $1000, it can be cheaper but after taxes and other supplies I find it ends up around there for the first army

[plush swift]

corpses

[plush swift]

generally as long as the bases are the correct size, they'll be fine. Most TOs wont care if you're using vintage models

[dense spire]

The tau deserve a much more diverse model line. I'd love to see more xenos joining the tau in expendable frontline roles. It'd really get across just how exploitative the Tau really are sending their allies to take the bulk of casualties while their fire warriors hold the backline with drone support.

But GW needs to serve the needs of the gundam weebs,

[mint dove]

Damn citadel primer really is worth the money

I've never gotten such a smooth coat with just one pass

As opposed to this guy whos textured like a braile book

[bleak stream]

So can I get your guys' opinions on my tyranid scheme? He's still far from done but I have a hard time deciding how to paint them. The claws and hooves are going to be black to red.

I also don't know how I should base them..

[signal plover]

damn how did you get the glow effect, that looks phenomenal

[abstract marten]

what do you lot think of the color scheme?

[lavish crescent]

Used the chest piece and legs of the prim terms and the right arm to mount the bolter. Used the term kit from grey knights for the bolter, melee weapons and heads

also used their shoulder pads

removed the symbols and replaced them with seals + other bits on the chest

had to sand it down to make it clean

[raw hound]

@void rivet that's what I meant

though I use these as Stormetroopers since they have Lasguns and Flak instead of Rags and Autoguns

[bleak stream]

I have an airbrush so I kinda cheated, but it's literally just white, doomfire magenta contrast, highlight the raised brain parts with white and do a super thin coat of the magenta again. It's my first time doing glow effects

[bleak stream]

Classic gold and purple - I like it! I'd maybe try to highlight the gold and some parts of the coat, but it's a solid scheme for sure!

[solid junco]

I present a Rust bucket

Still need to detail pick

[plush swift]

ehh, you can get the same stuff at an automotive store for like $3 can, I just cant remember the name. Its actually considered insanely low end funny enough

[terse dew]

Mr Hobby Finishing Surfacer 1500 is really smooth as well. It's cheaper than GW, but the cans are also smaller, and it only comes in white, grey, and black.

It's meant more for Gunpla, but it works with GW plastic just as well.

[naive umbra]

I did a post a while back on this, but this is my wish for T'au auxiliaries based on lore.

[mint dove]

My girlfriend painted her first mini. I'm so proud

[bleak stream]

Good thinning on her part! She's gonna be an awesome painter if she keeps going!

[bleak stream]

Looks awesome! I done purple on my custodes too!

[midnight locust]

Aquilan shield is a badass color scheme!

[hollow goblet]

T'au literally has a race of psychic owlbears in their auxiliaries, they add those and I am in

[midnight locust]

Hell yeah dude!

[hollow goblet]

Yeah keep in mind my prices are in AUD and USD converts to roughly half the amount of money so I was still technically correct here lmao

[bleak stream]

Absolutely! I didn't know they were a thing until I was already painting them, but I really like their lore!

[bleak stream]

Lop when did that happen?!

[hollow goblet]

Man I gotta learn how to do the lil white highlights that custodes/aeldar players always put on their gems it really makes it pop

[mint dove]

I was saying "oh its okay if you mess up the eyes, everybody does it" then she proceeded to get both eyes perfect

[hollow goblet]

Your gf is based asf Emps Children would be my army if they existed

[plush swift]

yeah, you can build an army for 600~ but it depends on the army, but 1000 provides enough of a safety net

[plush swift]

I'll be probably doing something tomorrow btw but you;re an aussie so if youre not busy right now I can show you some stufff

[bleak stream]

Lol gems are really weird. Paint them upside down and flip them right-side-up and dot the top with white 😜

[plush swift]

But if you're not busy at this moment, i am painting stff

so I can show you some things

[jaunty trail]

Just FYI: Discord has some issues with servers.. So this server could be affected anytime... 90% of servers i'm on are down currently 🙈

[bleak stream]

Lol she's got a steady hand for sure! Nit sure if you guys know the hobby cheat, but the eye lenses are easier to paint upside down

[plush swift]

I didnt mess up my eyes on my first attempt

[bleak stream]

I'm always down for painting tips. Whatchu got homie

[hollow goblet]

If you go through the wiki there's about 9 races of extra T'au auxiliaries and a tinybit of lore for them. It mostly seems to be whatever role they'd fil on tabletop

It seems like they wanna eventually flesh Tau into being a kind of xenos equivalent to the guard/space marines and not a walking railgun faction

But yeah there's like human converted T'au (who'd be a cultist equivalent and cheap cannon fodder

The owlbear race's only lore is being psykers so they'd be a psyker unit

There's one called the "varge" or something like that and their only lore is they're so big they can fistfist small knights and titans, (so they'd give Tau essentially chaos wardogs but a little more Sons Of Behemat inspired)

T'au should be a really fleshed out faction with a tonne of options and playstyles and they literally just spam railguns across the board 95% of the time

[bleak stream]

Yea I seen like 5 servers I'm in are offline. I'm dm friendly tho lol

[bleak stream]

Lol man I messed up so many eyes

[plush swift]

They arent for me

thats are actually harder, but I am also doing my lenses much differently than the normal thing

[bleak stream]

Funny enough on all my guardsmen years ago, I never painted eyes. I just said they were all squinting

[hollow goblet]

I'm at work atm but I finish in 3hrs

Just spamming the channel on my lunch break lol

[plush swift]

Well I mean I have a ton, really depends on what you're after. I can teach you more about color theory in 15 minutes than you can in several years in art school as an example

[bleak stream]

Dude that'd be awesome if they ever made models for them. Makes me wish I could sculpt at all lol

[bleak stream]

How are you doing your lenses? Got any pics? 😄

[hollow goblet]

I've had 2 servers go back to normal in the last hours so I think it's getting cleaned up

[bleak stream]

Lol nothing wrong with that! I'll be around in 3 hours if you're up for sharing!

[plush swift]

So, first off grisaille is stupidly outdated, it was outdated in the 1600s for this art form, the black really doesnt actually provide free shading unless you dont paint that area, and even if you dont, its so dark that it doesn't look like shading, it looks like you didnt paint it

[bleak stream]

Color theory is a big hit or miss with me. Id love to learn what you could teach. I either nail it or completely miss the mark and I have a lot of trouble with contrasting colors to separate different parts.

[plush swift]

For eyes, it all depends on the color you're after

using a transparent color will provide a lot more utility than an opaque one for them too

instead of doing that dot, you can just do undercoatings and get a more realistic look too

[zenith monolith]

Ive had a much better experience with ak primers tbh

[plush swift]

And remember, base with something like burnt umber, not black

you'll get more use out of that for most colors

and if you miss a spot, it looks like rust

[plush swift]

i may or may not be around at then

[hollow goblet]

I've been super tempted to find proxies and make up my own data sheets and rules for them but it would be a lot of effort for something I'd realistically only be able to use in games with friends

[mint dove]

I have no clue why this keeps happening. I thinned the paint, and yet it still globs up in the edges and recesses :/

[hollow goblet]

Yeah that's just yellow paint for ya, hardest one to get a good quality for

I wouldn't have felt like anything was wrong with this at a glance tbh it's not as if it looks bad

[mint dove]

Maybe my wet pallete is too wet?

Am I supposed the Wring the water out before I put it in the pallete

[plush swift]

surface tension

[plush swift]

No, you're not. However youre doing your wet palette wrong and destroying the paint

the sponge soaks up a ton of surfactants in the paints, so you have to counter act that

which yelloe is it?

[mint dove]

Flash gitz

[plush swift]

ag yeah there you go

[mint dove]

I think I may Just go back to my dry pallete

A bit easier to work with

[plush swift]

Not really. the chalk in that yellow will always cause problems

[mint dove]

I wish they made flash gitz in contrast

[plush swift]

they do

https://www.jerrysartarama.com/golden-highflow-acrylic-benzimidazolone-yellow-medium-1oz

there it is

just add more water

or glaze medium

most add glaze medium

[mint dove]

A buddy of mine told me a way to get flash gitz to work well is to undercoat a orange/brown color, because flash gitz is a layer paint it would show better on a warm color

[hollow goblet]

So I didn't know anything about the game when I built my first set of Rubricae

And I've been putting the flame icons on my sorcerers BC more magic spell effect drip is always good. But I've had to get creative with how I'm replacing the icon

Think I've found a really good fix tbh

Blu tacced on so I can swap it between minis depending on whether it's meta to have it on your soul reaper or flamer units

[mint dove]

Flash gitz take 2

Better this time

Trust the process I guess lol

And after letting the arms dry for about 2 hours before going in with another super thin coat seemed to help the look of the arms

[simple thorn]

the boy

[rocky jewel]

@edgy jackal @plush swift i see, thank you both

[plush swift]

That's really not how that works nor is that how color theory works in the slightest...

It's not actually a warm tone pigment which will give it a really greenish hue if you try that

[mint dove]

Okay we good

Love how this rust grime turned out

I'm gonna paint with my girlfriend tomorrow I'm so excited!

She got her first Box and chose thousand sun's

[plush swift]

Run

She's gonna fill your shoes with sand

[mint dove]

I wish she chose blood angels like me

[plush swift]

Well she should run from you before you steal her shiney things

[proud glen]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/640905692869296129/1102267980190064660/caption-1.gif

[mint dove]

"Our" Shiney things

I am painting them as blood ravens too

[faint thistle]

Curse of the god-emporer

[visual turret]

Hahaaaaaaa 🥴

[clear orchid]

WIP Sister of Battle. Almost done with her. Leaving her here for now, weapon details and her transfers will be done later today

[visual turret]

Good choice on the colour

[clear orchid]

Thanks! I'm mainly a Guard player, but this order has ties to my custom regiment's lore. So they're a fun side project when I want a break from grubby Guardsmen lol

[visual turret]

Oh as an aside where do I get one of those stonkier, chunkier painting handles? I see them all over but I can only find the slim citadel ones

[ocean pendant]

The chonky ones are the old citadel version they don't make them anymore, they switched to the new slim one because they're supposed to be easier to hold

[pastel grotto]

BY THE GOD EMPEROR ITS A PRIMARIS LIEUTENANT WITH A STEEL CHAIR

[visual turret]

I don’t mean to alarm you but you’ve left the lieutenant’s bald head green….

[pastel grotto]

That's very rude

He's got a special mk of helmet

The Baldplate MkXX

[median thistle]

to be fair

I forgot he doesnt have a full helmet

so it works xD

[crisp nimbus]

My daughter's latest

[pastel grotto]

Is your daughter Duncan Rhodes

[crisp nimbus]

Not that I know of, she's 11 so possibly not.

[shell kite]

Finally got round to painting my skittari marshal

[native hazel]

Ooooo where did you get that?

[shell kite]

its a kitbash! blend between some modified skitarri marshal bits and a cursed city char, tho i cant remember his name for the life of me

[native hazel]

Oh ok my friend thought it was cool so I just wanted to know

[ocean pendant]

It's Glaurio ven Alten III (the other bit in the conversion)

[shell kite]

yeah no it was a really fun kitbash i cant take all the credit i saw something very similar on pinterest a while back though i think he was using some of the legio mechanicus stuff from FW

[shell kite]

TJATS THE BASTARD

i honestly just bought cursed city for the skeletons and couldnt remember any of the chars

[native hazel]

Thanks!

[mint dove]

What's a good way to paint bad moons stripes?

Like these things on the shoulders

I don't know if I can freehand them well

[visual turret]

you'll be fine

take your time, do it slow and steady

[hollow goblet]

Also the the fact you're playing Orks means that you have a lot of freedom to lightly fuck up the designs and it'll just look like Orks hand painted it

It's not like doing freehand on like imperial banners where everything has to look immaculate Ork can kinda get away with the "child left with crayons" vibe if you're not comfy with your freehand

[hollow goblet]

That's actually hilarious bc I use a psychophage as my MVB and that's borderline the lore fluff I gave it, it's a Nid that ate wayyy too much chaos tainted rubric dust and become a huge chaos spawn

[finite quarry]

should you avoid using metallic paints with your sable brushes or is it generally okay?

[hollow goblet]

Just make sure you wash your brush properly and you'll be ok

Most of the issues with metallics come from people not properly rinsing it afterwards

[glossy hawk]

he FUCKS

[mint dove]

Finally finishing my abandoned primaris intercessors

[hollow goblet]

See this is the one scenario where black priming gets super good results lol, nothing else quite makes red that rich

[mint dove]

These ones I primed black then slap chopped

I feel like i could have done the slap chop better

[shell kite]

Damn straight he does

He is my yassified marshal

[visual turret]

How are we lookin so far chat

[shell kite]

looks great! love the contrast between the grey bark and the fiery red of the blade!

[visual turret]

Blades not done yet

Gonna drybrush the bark to highlight better, get the crevices glowing properly

[shell kite]

was about to say that a few dashes of like fire dragon bright or some yellows would make it pop properly

[visual turret]

I was using the emperor’s sword guide that Duncan made for warhammer 7-odd years ago as a baseline

[shell kite]

ah i never really watched any of duncans stuff

i know hes supposed to be good but i prefer trial and error

[plush swift]

I unlocked my true power by drinking every citadel contrast paint

[shell kite]

Even shyish purple?

[plush swift]

ALL of them

[short pawn]

Just try not to concentrate too hard you might pop

Or pick up your neighbors house

[plush swift]

Already dun that

[short pawn]

FUCK

Canonically psykers had too much contrast paint

[plush swift]

That makes sense

How much contrast paint did the empor drank

[short pawn]

He drank the current line of it AND army speed painter

[simple thorn]

I mean technically he was created when a bunch of ancient Psykers jammed their souls together into a singular, radiant oversoul sometime during the BC's

So he wasn't around when proper contrast paints were a thing.
Ochre, sure, but not paint

However I wager the collective shroom intake of those individual psykers would make every single Ork absolutely terrified of humanity should they ever learn of it

[plush swift]

I will buy the 400 pack of speed to surpass him

[plush swift]

Korne Marine?

[plush swift]

nope

DAMN

[supple sinew]

Wraithblade all done minus the base

[mint dove]

Meganob #1 coming along good

Just need to do the pants,skin,wires and final edge highlights

Although I like the flash gitz yellow colors plan for nob #2 and 3 is to paint them in imperial fists contrast paint then dry brush flash gitz over the top of that

I'm loving how the weapons turned out tho

[mint dove]

Still need to do some minor detail work, but I'm pretty happy with how my first Nob turned out

But I think I'll be going back to imp fist contrast paint for next time lol

Or what I may do is get some auberland sunset as a base coat then put a coat of flash gitz on top of that, since trying to use flash gitz as a base coat is near impossible

[severe ember]

Averland sunset could be a pretty good paint for yellow base, Rob has an old tutorial on GW yellows https://www.instagram.com/p/BpSb5nzn-PA/?igshid=ZWI2YzEzYmMxYg==

possibly_nerdy_rob

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His new stuff is better but the base recipe is the same

I haven't painted in a while and use AK paints, but their sand yellow is excellent if you use a black basecoat

I painted mine Evil Sunz

[signal plover]

Need the strength to paint today

[plush swift]

That's a lot of paint on your hand

[plush swift]

Paint or else I'm coming to your house to talk at you about color theory

And I don't mean the fun parts, I mean the maths

[signal plover]

https://tenor.com/view/house-explosion-explode-boom-kaboom-gif-19506150

I've been staring at my dark eldar for 2 weeks undecided on a color scheme

It's driving me insane

[plush swift]

I'll decide it for you

when I arrive

so you better get to picking

[signal plover]

They're so simple to paint but I just don't know what scheme I want to do 😭

[plush swift]

just pick your favorite color as its primary colo

[signal plover]

I have too many green models

[plush swift]

You cant have enough green models

[signal plover]

My knight is going to be painted kelly green next month

very excited for that

[plush swift]

Well pick a different green for these

[signal plover]

https://tenor.com/view/no-nope-no-way-noo-absolutely-not-gif-20244171

[plush swift]

Yes

[signal plover]

Think I'll be lazy and slapchop em up and do dark blue

like the old 3e covers

[plush swift]

Slapchop is boring, do scumbling instead

[signal plover]

inform me as to scumbling

what is scumbling

[plush swift]

So scumbling is basically slapchop except it was invented in the 16th century roughly and is the real name of slapchop, however slapchop only uses the grisaille method while scumbling using various undertones and transparant paint to achieve a greater varience of colors

like dry brushing on an orange for the shadows instead of black

this will give better depth

[signal plover]

do you have a video reference

[plush swift]

Not yet but will soon

soonish

[heavy basin]

Anyone have any recommendations for varnish finishing coats for your miniatures? I've heard it's something you want to do to prevent chipping and ensure longevity of your paintjobs, but I've also heard horror stories of paintjobs being ruined by by varnishes that either overly dull or overly shiny your miniature, depending on matte or gloss. Spray varnish vs paint-on varnish is also something I'm wondering. Any advice is appreciated!

[toxic stratus]

Smol guy a lot of fun

[mint dove]

Its hie I test the thinnees lol

[plush swift]

only automotive varnish will prevent chipping, and only high gloss will have a good effect

[signal plover]

lost the strength to paint today

[clear orchid]

Just finished my first sister of battle

[quasi ridge]

So excited to paint Angron, he was a fun build.

[visual turret]

very brave to do him not in sub-assembly

[mint dove]

Meganob #2

Went with Overland sunset instead of flash gitz as a base. Muuuuuuuch better

[mint dove]

Can't wait to see it in 2 years

[heavy basin]

My third ever miniature painted! Supposed to be guardians of the covenant dark angels successor chapter, as I personally just don’t like default dark angels color scheme because it looks like Christmas colors. Really happy with how this turned out.

Also, are you allowed to play characters, for example the Lion, painted in a successor chapter’s colors, even if lore-wise that character would never be in a successor chapter? If I can I want to do Lion in this same color scheme

[peak flicker]

Wip for dad's Christmas gift

[visual turret]

Just do it mate, your hobby, your models, your rules

Tree

[quasi ridge]

Facts hahaha, gonna really take my time with him.

[visual turret]

And my redemptor wip

[mint dove]

Literally you can paint them however you like! My girlfriend is painting a squad of rubric marines in black and gold with flower decals on them called the thousand Son-flowers. They don't have to be lore accure as long as they're fun

[heavy basin]

Cool! It definitely sounds more fun to not be a stickler about lore accurate colors, and just let people be creative.

[mint dove]

The best part about warhammer is that there's canonically over a billion planets in the milky way and the imperium has colonized only a million of them

That 99.9% undiscovered space,

There's some nutty stuff out there.

Like the diggaz

Humans who crash landed on an ork world and have been fighting them so long they paint themselves green and take up ork mannerisms

[restive orchid]

Do you guys know any tips for thinning paints?

[plush swift]

Ogryn power fist when

Also old ripper gun models are cool

[toxic rampart]

Des Boyz lookin' good!

[mint dove]

Hold on I have the perfect video for this question

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

This video gives you a really good method to not only thin your paint, but WHY it's important to do so

Helped my painting immensely

Like look at this butter smooth basecoat

What I go for is like in the video, mix plant and water until the paint starts to barely spring back on itself

[restive orchid]

Thx

I just got some paints, thinking about getting into the hobby

[mint dove]

It's a lot of fun but what I will say is temper your expectations. You'll see all these great minis online and when your mini doesn't turn out that way its easy to get discouraged

Take your time, and learn with every model, and remember everybody starts somewhere

Duncan rhodes, one of the best warhammer painters started here and now paints incredible stuff

And remember if you mess up all GW models can be safely drowned in isopropyl alcohol and strip the paint off to start again so theses no real pressure

[mint dove]

Happy with how these are looking pre wash

[hollow goblet]

Thousand sonflowers is funny asf

She's gotta have the infernal master either have a big sunflower headdress or have Ahriman in a straight up sundress

[mint dove]

She got custom decals for them and everything

She's never painted a mini in her life however before yesterday

I think she did a pretty bang up job

She put some decals on the shoulders too

Damn art majors and their naturally steady hands

She's gonna buy ahriman and paint his base as a sunflower lol

[hollow goblet]

Yooo I didn't even think about that you'd be able to turn all of the discs into sunflowers super easily

[mint dove]

She's going NUTS lol

@hollow goblet she calls me every 30 minutes so giddly like "I found this model that I can totally make into a flower motif!"

She great

I love her lol

For her birthday I'm gonna commission an artist she likes to draw her squad tending a garden while the rest of the thousand sun's raze a city in the background

[plush swift]

Use distilled or deionized water, most mini painting guides including the one listed will ruin your paint. Take it from someone in the artist paint production industry.

Dont go past a 1:1 mixture, if you have to then get a fluid acrylic not a heavy bodied. If it is a fluid acrylic, then that paint is bad

for hobby paints really dont go past a 1:1 mixture

it'll make them much harder to use because they are low quality paint

[plush swift]

Not mine but really cool style

[lament path]

Looking like something from Borderlands

[toxic stratus]

Wet palette. Easy to DIY, easy to clean. You can thin the paint just by moving it around to the consistency you want.

[restive orchid]

How do i make a wet palette?

[mint dove]

Meganob 2 ready to krump the 'umies

[mint dove]

Wet some paper towels and place them on a cookie sheet

Alternatively you can get a cheapo one on Amazon for about 10 bucks

[toxic stratus]

Airtight container like Tupperware so you can close the lid and prevent paint from drying. Sponge paper for water absorbing material and parchment paper on top.

[simple thorn]

Cel shading. Noice.
Still makes me think I'm looking at something intruding from another dimension though and it hurts my head to hold it in my vision

[plush swift]

it reminds me of the robots in bl2

[simple thorn]

Ye.
The game was cel shaded

[plush swift]

ik

i was talking about the color scheme

[silver thorn]

What if I used ephrael stern as a daemonhost.

im sad because i want an inquisitorial Henchmen unit in my sororitas army themed after dark tide

but you NEED the daemonhost for that unit and there's no way the sisters would tolerate it

its also meant to be a bodyguard unit for Inquisitor Grayfax

WHAT DO I DO AAAAUGH

i just got my inquisitorial agents in

[teal wolf]

As long as you mention it to your opponent that she's acting as a host I don't think anyone would mind.

[silver thorn]

I'm torn between making some sort of sanctioned saint OC using her as the basis for a kitbash

or just doing up a necromunda psyker in the color scheme of a darktide daemonhost

I'll have celestine in the army too so its not like its that unreasonable

[teal wolf]

Artel W has some neat Daemonhost models.
Cool idea tho

[silver thorn]

i saw that!! the eisenhorn daemon was so good! a part of me wants to use gw models as the basis though

[teal wolf]

I need to get mine out of the shame pile 🤣

[hollow yoke]

custodes warden done

[teal wolf]

Good choice!=]

[hollow yoke]

how it look im open to feed back this is my third painted figure ever

[teal wolf]

For a 3rd mini!?
Pretty solid! I'd say a few highlights would go far

[silver thorn]

people keep saying that to me too and idk where to even start trying to highlight

I'm afraid to put paint on the model and ruining it

[hollow yoke]

does a layer paint of gehenna gold work for that because i did that for the belt and i notice it pop but when you compare my first mini im unsure if i should just stick with dry brush silver

[teal wolf]

The hardest part is just doing it;)

[hollow yoke]

you can always fix it with a touch up of base

but when people say highlight do they mean add a brighter shade to hard corners that are exposed

[silver thorn]

i had to do that a lot of times with my palatine haha

i saw a guide that was like, if you are new to highlighting take a dark wash and darken the color, then highlight with the base color

was thinking of trying that on my sororitas battle sisters, i dont mind if those arent as pretty

i did what you did with your warden where I started with my characters cause they were more exciting to paint xD

I have a primed greyfax im terrified to touch haha

[teal wolf]

The "Gw Method" is to highlight the most raised areas with silver. Personally was never a fan. I used multiple washes to get different highlights

[hollow yoke]

to me that silver stuff doesnt make any sense to me would it be better to have a pale gold color because when gold shines it has dark edges

[teal wolf]

I'd just do retributor gold, darken it with a wash, then a light dry brush of retributor again.

[hollow yoke]

hard corners or straight on?

[teal wolf]

I was mainly aiming for raised edges. But I eventually swapped to Scale 75s gold paints. I love em so much

[hollow yoke]

i used there blue for the tabard and added a violet shade they are really great

[teal wolf]

I wanna get their blue set next.

This lads custodes lit a spark back in the day.

[hollow yoke]

is that a kitbash

[teal wolf]

Yea it's a Hetaeron guard for heresy. Unit has yet to get a kit

[hollow yoke]

cooler custodes guard wo these look cool

[teal wolf]

Unit was a nightmare last edition of heresy.

[hollow yoke]

from a rumor scource being a warhammer store owner i know sisters of silence should be getting new models

witch personally i think is needed

[teal wolf]

I hope so. I hope we get an actual Centura kit.

[hollow yoke]

omg i was so confused about that is the centura just a sister supperior

[teal wolf]

I almost bought Jenetia Krole to run as a Centura. One day....

[hollow yoke]

i was thinking avout doing that just on the basis of how cool she looks

[teal wolf]

She's a rad character in books. In heresy currently she's probably the best character duelist in our units

[edgy jackal]

What is this kit/kitbash?

[short pawn]

That's the Blackstone Fortress rogue psyker

[edgy jackal]

Oh, neat

[short pawn]

Not sure if that's your thing but blackstone fortress is a super fun board game with really nice models

[edgy jackal]

I do like board games, I just don't have many people irl to play them with

[toxic stratus]

traitor guard models 👌

[short pawn]

Completely understand, always the worst feeling.

[white tangle]

Could some pro painter please give me some tips on how to paint these lines. The issue isnt precision, its painting a straight line on a surface with a bend and accounting for the bend.

Ive tried tape, but the surface area of the sword is really hard to stick to and outline. So far the best idea i have had is sticking a tiny amount of tape and using the edge of the tape as a guide for the angle of each line. But its still giving me a result that im not 100 on

One thing to consider is that i have only tied to paint the lines in 2 separate parts connecting to the middle of the sword. Anyone think that maybe treating those lines as a single line might be easier?

Im just really stumped on this

[signal plover]

Try and use the edge of your brush to catch the raised bits

I personally cheat and just drybrush it very precisely

or drybrush it on roughly and clean up around it

[white tangle]

No, no,no. Not the edge highlight. The lines on the vibroblade

Here is a better pic. Tbf, even the games workshop ones arnt perfrect

[edgy jackal]

I think it's just a matter of practicing painting straight lines

[white tangle]

Maybe. I just end up doing a really neat line, then realize it's not straight after I look at the sword from the side. Then I try to correct it and end up making it thicker than I would like. This one was my most recent one with the first highlight.

I just hope that i can make it look better with the other highlights

I did this one ages ago and I hated it so much that I didn't paint for like 2 weeks

[mint merlin]

I think it looks great!

[mint dove]

Getting better with my basecoats

Butter smooth

@short pawn

Behold nob #2

[mint dove]

So I wanna make better looking bases, but all I have is a box of super fine sand. Would buying some fishtank gravel and crishing it up make interesting looking stones?

[toxic stratus]

it would, but why not just go out with a jar and fill it with interesting looking stones?

[brisk vapor]

Probably the last dry fitting before glueing it together and doing the last weathering passes

[silver thorn]

nice shuttle

a rogue trader would fly in that 🙂

[brisk vapor]

Arvus Lighters are the loveliest and chunkiest little ships

[rare hornet]

Smol

[plush swift]

I might start a blood angels army

Some of the 30k models look so cool

[frozen sparrow]

Beaky Marines ftw

[plush swift]

Fr

Studded armor looks so good to

[frozen sparrow]

Heres my beaky crimson fists I painted up

[junior meadow]

luv muh beakies

nice job

[plush swift]

What legion is that

[junior meadow]

crimson fists

[frozen sparrow]

Crimson fists are a successor of the imperial fists

Also featured in the cover art of 1st edition 40k

[light zenith]

hang on ive got a box my dad gave me

[frozen sparrow]

ay look at that

[jaunty trail]

those are OLD

[frozen sparrow]

I wonder how much those go for now

[compact umbra]

I completely forgot I bought this to paint

[steady granite]

I GOT THE LION

[hollow goblet]

Want them to look like a big flock of tropical birds

Test scheme for cultists

Not sure if I wanna do them all like this or do my normal thing and find 3-4 schemes that play nice together

[silver thorn]

i like how he's old now

https://tenor.com/view/tywin-lannister-game-of-thrones-drink-gif-14773409

[mint dove]

Need some advice on how to paint the big mek shield generator. It's gonna be a lot of Metallica which i have a bad track record with

These are all the Metallica I've got to work with

[steep ether]

My eldar minis on a terrain piece I made from scratch

[mint dove]

Liking the look of this so far.

I kinda fucked up and already based the arms in flash gitz yellow and they look so bad but I can't be asked to strip them and start again so they're just gonna be washed in cassandora yellow

Fuck it who cares lol

[toxic rampart]

It looks amazing so far!

[plush swift]

It's an ork model do you think they give a shit what yellow you used? They'd see two yellows and go "yep, that's yellow"

And slap both on without a care

So think of it as proper orky

[mint dove]

"Does one make the explosions bigger?"

[plush swift]

Yes, and the other makes bigger explosions

[mint dove]

So I'm building the dark angels combat patrol (but building them as blood angels) if I want to make the primaris intercessors the be they can for the tabletop which options/weapons should I bring? I have 15 other intercessors so making them "best" won't matter because I have others I can make purely for fun

I gave my sergant the chalice from the blood angels upgrade sprue but I'm not sure what to give him in his off hand.

The power sword from the dark angels sprue maybe?

[plush swift]

If I recall in 10th edition they changed wysiwig so the weapon attachments don't actually matter

I don't know if that's accurate though, It's just what I keep getting told

[mint dove]

Oh okay cool I think chalice in one hand power sword in the other would look pretty imposing

[brisk vapor]

Yeah intercessors have an unified wargear datasheet now, so basically one ranged weapon regardless which options you put on the model

Only the underslung grenade launcher matters and that can be equipped once per 5 models in a unit iirc

The sergeant can choose from a couple melee weapons still

[mint dove]

Okay so it doesn't matter what I do as long as one guy has the grenade launcher?

[brisk vapor]

Ye

[mint dove]

Okay cool

Finally finished my ork

Not gonna attach his arms yet because I wanna redoem

This paintjob is like a 7.5/10 but the arms are...bad lol

[glossy hawk]

looking really good!

[mint dove]

So what's a good way to paint power swords?

[mint dove]

This is my sergeant,

I used the firstborn upgrade sprue but my lore for him was that he became a primaris marine after being a firstborn and was dissatisfied with the look of primaris helmets, opting to keep his classic Helmet

[visual turret]

Ourple Plasma

[mint dove]

Basically saying "I'll take your genetic improvements, but your wargear is trash"

[visual turret]

I wish there were more chainsword sprues for fancier marines

[rare hornet]

Plsma

[hollow goblet]

I actually do stuff like this on purpose with my ksons

If you think about it: not everyone would have joined the legion at the same time, and their gear might not have been painted at the same time and the exact same materials and paint might not have been available, so some of my guys have armour that looks super old and tarnished and sandblasted, some looks way newer and there's like 3-4 shades of blue mixed in there to kinda signal that its a warband that's been around for a while and had to maintain their gear and numbers

Also started building on lore fluff for my guys

They study a particular lore of magic stolen from Slaanesh that focuses on the idea that art is the most potent thing a sorceror can command because it inspires the very emotions that feed power into the warp to begin with

So they have a particular focus on art on music and are fond of the idea that displaying bright colours and playing loud music feeds power back into their magic

Plan on kitbashing some sonic weapons together with rubric weapons and finding some other ways to work the music theme in

[visual turret]

Thank you juanHidalgo for a piss easy tutorial :D

[rare hornet]

Plasma is something I need to do more… when I actually have something that uses plasma

[visual turret]

Yeah I bought this solely because of the plasma cannon

I needed a nice contrast colour

Also think I’ll do red-cased chainswords

[rare hornet]

Those work very well

[visual turret]

I have grey/black/gold marines so need colours to highlight

[visual turret]

Accent* not highlight

Purple plasma/power swords

[rare hornet]

The purple works well for that

[toxic stratus]

Csm have so many fancy chainswords. Kitbash

[naive umbra]

That gloss black on their helmets is such a clean look for Aeldari, love it!

[median thistle]

I present to you, I want to hit them with my sword man

[solemn falcon]

nut

[patent bluff]

Attempt at a Krieg soldier, happy how the red turned out

[rare hornet]

Tiny pew

[mint dove]

As much as I love the "angel of death" look

Dual weildong storm bolters while in the air is kinda silly

[light zenith]

if the bolters where smaller itd be a baller look i think

[fickle inlet]

I loved it when Cawl said "it's Cawling time" and Cawled all over the place

Droppods? Nah, fuck that, you're the droppod now buddy

[wise escarp]

black coat with red accents. alarm alarm

[patent bluff]

Is that like a bad alarm or?

[rare hornet]

But... It's a green coat

[patent bluff]

That too

A dark green coat lmao

[rare hornet]

Looking very nice tho

[patent bluff]

Thank you 😈

[rare hornet]

Planning to start krieg for my guard army one day

[patent bluff]

Based

I enjoy Krieg, find them cool asf

[rare hornet]

I love the idea of having guardsmen storming trenches, wanna have a good few ogryns/bullgryns there too

[patent bluff]

Real shit

I can’t paint flesh yet so I’m staying away from it, just ordered the Age of Darkness box as I adore Horus Heresy stuff, hoping to refine some painting with all the space marines, first crack at a dreadnought and tank too

[mint dove]

Painting my dreadnought with a plasma gun even though I've never done plasma before

Would a good way to do it to base coat white/gray, put over pylar glacier contrast paint, then highlight the coils with baharoth blue and dot the tops with white?

[visual turret]

Bottom. Not the top. The bottom’s be the hottest bit

JuanHidalgo has good easy plasma tutorials

[visual turret]

It’s how I’ve done my purple plasma

[mint dove]

Oh okay that makes sense, I'm gonna have the plasma for the main weapon, the galling gun on the fist and I'm sure the little chest launchers won't matter too much

[hollow goblet]

Can anyone think of a good way to proxy Ephilims Pandaemonium in ksons?

I'm thinking of just putting the little guys on the base of my Lord of Change

[patent bluff]

5 armed goober

[hollow goblet]

Thinking I'll either use the sorceror as my regular ksons sorceror (which there isn't a model for btw) or swap this guy with my exalted sorceror who's on the disc on have all 3 of my foot sorcerors feel like they match

Bc realistically I'll be running disc sorc most of the time if I wanna be competitive and I'd rather it be the cool model

Really not sure what to do with the tzeentch squig and the foot f*tish caster tho

The banned words in this sub are so dumb

I can literally say fuck

Let me mention that people be sucking toes its not like I'm doing it

[mint dove]

Having a bit of trouble slotting the legs of the redemptor dreadnought, it just feels like they don't want to go into the hole

[analog breach]

No one wants to be in my hole 😔

[mint dove]

I don't want to just splash super glue into the hole and slam them together but it just feel like I can't feel them line up

[analog breach]

Actual answer, shave does the joints if you have a file

If not then use the side of the clippes

Do it until it feels like it's fitting how you want then figure out the posture you want to glue them in

[hollow goblet]

You didn't accidentally leave a chunk of the sprue on there did you? that's usually the issue when bits don't fit for me

[mint dove]

No hold on I'll take a better picture

So the legs have these peg holes

Seems easy

HOWEVER

The lower body has the pegs on the ball joing and the little servo parts I have to line up into the slot under the joint

Whenever I put parts together I always dry fit them. But with this thing I just CANNOT get them to stay put

[hollow goblet]

Seems like one of those things like tzaangor horns where you just can't dry fit them comfortably until glue goes on

Bc the ball joint section looks smaller than the "hip" so it might not fit flush against the sides the way you'd expect

Like there's probably some clearance between the "hip socket" and the other bit

[mint dove]

Well they're on

But they're wrong

The legs look way too far back

But that's the only way I could get them to stay on

[hollow goblet]

It probably looks fine once the top half is attached, I imagine there's some overlap

[mint dove]

Put the body on and it all imminently fell apart

I give up

I'm so tilted

Guess it's time to break out good old tactical rock

[patent bluff]

Just cut off the nob and glue it however you want?

At least that’s my way of thinking

Or magnet

[patent bluff]

That’s a dope ass looking gun color

Also is that in a microwave?

[supple sinew]

Nah fridge

[plush swift]

Make sure he don’t melt

[tranquil kelp]

You might've messed up the knee joints from what it looks like

But like the other guy said, you can cut the studs off and ignore them

He might end up being in a bit of a squat

[supple sinew]

Her face was bugging me so I touched it up

Here is my traitor ogryn for my killteam aswell

[patent bluff]

Real

[brisk vapor]

You could cut off the little guiding blocks to allow different poses

[mint dove]

More trouble with the redemptor

I'm trying to attach the arm as shown here

But whenever I insert the arm and try to rotate it into place it doesn't rotate and just mulches that connection piece

I have no idea what I'm doing wrong

[lament path]

It doesnt slot in and rotate freely? have you accidentally used the one from the other side?, any burrs on the contact surfaces?

[brisk vapor]

Is it deep enough?

[visual turret]

I had this!!!! You want to clip the inside of the tabs

That worked for me

The redemptor is a 6 year old kit it’s not the best

[brisk vapor]

I honestly love the redemptor kit, had so much fun with it when it released

Movable limbs and all!

Easily exchangeable weapons!

Big!

[mint dove]

FINALLY FUCKING GOT IT

[fossil viper]

The tao!

[paper dock]

farsight

[mint dove]

But I have to put a rock under his heel so he doesn't fall over, so my question is this. Do I base before or after I glue my model down?

I usually just have a bucket of fine sand, extra coarse sand and rocks and mix that into pva glue but I don't know weather they should be On the base before or after

[paper dock]

meow

[plush swift]

what legion is that

[native sluice]

The backstreet boys

[plush swift]

no way

[native sluice]

[devout lake]

How did I do?

[plush swift]

good

[native sluice]

You should give them to me

[clever wedge]

Belisarius cawl, my dream for many years

[plush swift]

such a cool model

[rare hornet]

Techno wizard

[visual turret]

This has reminded me, I need to get a new Farsight model to paint up like V1 Ultrakill

[south stratus]

Don’t remember if I shared it here already but am to proud of this guy to really care. Here’s my lamenter term librarian

[visual turret]

Looking good so far!

[lavish crescent]

Agreed, you are one suicidal bastard though

[south stratus]

Oh yeah. Though using contrast paint was the best decision I ever fucking made

Iyaanden yellow has saved my sanity

[lavish crescent]

No no, the checker board pattern is stupid

Why did you do that to yourself!

[rustic portal]

It is time

[rare hornet]

Time it is

[median flame]

First part I’ve ever painted

[supple sinew]

Bam another one

[plush swift]

Custom

[patent bluff]

GYATTT

I respect you for painting that mass, must have been a pain in the ass

[clever wedge]

Not so much, actually it was my dream for a long time to paint Belisarius or some other mechanicus, and finally doing it was very fun and exciting to be honest.

[patent bluff]

Hell yeah, I respect that. My hands are far too shaky for the amount of stuff on him

I wanna get the other tech proest

Priest

But anyways, good ass job

[clever wedge]

Thanks m8

:3

[patent bluff]

Yar

[mint dove]

Would painting the redemptor with blood angels red contrast work? Or will it look bad on all the flat panels

[south stratus]

It’s actually not that bad

It’s a bit annoying but it doesn’t even need to be perfect, just good enough

[supple sinew]

contrast works well on smaller minis on walkers and stuff with lots of flat pannels it looks bad very splochy

[mint dove]

I see, I guess I'm gonna need a whole new pot of mephiston red lol

[supple sinew]

you could start with a base of contrast but I would recomend using something to layer on top

[mint dove]

Oh yeah what i usually do for all my blood angels is slap on a thick layer of contrast then drybrush mephiston red over that to even it out

Turns out like this

Looks a little textured in the paint but that's because these are old models and I used subpar primer and slapchopped too hard

[sudden notch]

reinforcing my grey knights with junkie

[patent bluff]

Dude looks cool

Reminds me of that one mini in the head statue

Don’t really know the name but he’s a sniper

[lavish crescent]

I agree with the grey skin xD, fuck painting that shit

[patent bluff]

Real

[lavish crescent]

It doesn't have to be good, just good enough.

[toxic rampart]

Gettin' some Boyz up in 'ere!

[hollow yoke]

I can’t put my finger on it but something is off about my knight (would it be legal to use this in an army as a stand in knight this is a joke post by the way)

[visual turret]

Yeah this I LOVE about it, mine fit without glue really snug so it’s clean as all hell. I did glue the hand weapon tho

[solid junco]

depends, sometimes you will see joytoy characters on the field so i guess anything is possible

[brisk vapor]

Arvus Lighter

[edgy jackal]

Is that blueish hue on the inside painted on or is that a diffused LED?

[brisk vapor]

It's just the lighting on the side bouncing back from the inside 😄

It's painted white, no extra LEDs

[edgy jackal]

I don't understand, but really cool model nonetheless

[brisk vapor]

Thanks

[patent bluff]

RAAAAAH HORUS HERESY

love that btw

[visual turret]

god that burner staining is AMAZING

[slim coral]

Chaos knight go brrrr

[mint dove]

So I wanna do something silly with my dreadnought but I need help finding a part

I had the idea of in the power claw he has a chaingun attached to it. So I wanted to make an ork boy that it looks like its crushing him in the claw as a shield and shooting his chaingun through the orks body, I've been looking but I can't find a good gun effect part to put on the orks back like he's being blasted through. Anybody know any good places to order those?

[tranquil kelp]

I know https://www.anvilindustry.co.uk/ has some firing effects, maybe they'll have something

[mint dove]

Thanks!

Excited to try diorama work for once

I have a feeling this is going to look really good or really bad

But I can always just buy an old ork boy, soak him in acetone so he comes apart and then use glue and miliputt to put him in a better pose

[tranquil kelp]

It'd be cheaper to do that

Plus, I think for diorama work you'll have to do plenty of custom stuff

[mint dove]

Yeah but the one part that's gonna sell it is that gunfire effect ripping through his torso

But I'll see when it comes to that. The dreadnought isn't even finished yet

But I did watch that eob video about using plastic rods as small shell casings, probably gonna do that tonight

I want the dread to look like one that's been around a WHILE I'm gonna damage it up pretty well,

Dremel out some deep indents and bullet holes in the armor, broken lenses, tarnished metal and burnt weapons muzzles

Do dreads rust?

[tranquil kelp]

What chapter is it for?

[mint dove]

Blood angels

Not sure if I want a specific sub chapter yet

[tranquil kelp]

Don't Blood Angels put more of an emphasis on artifice?

[mint dove]

Yeah thats what I'm torn with. I'm still writing his lore

[tranquil kelp]

I'm thinking you'd wnat to convey that the dread is an ancient machine, but without it just being in a state of disrepair

But I don't know how to quite do that without just blinging it out

[mint dove]

Exactly, it's ancient but it wasn't abandoned

[tranquil kelp]

That's just my thoughts though, I't your army

[mint dove]

I'm practicing my flowery letters all blood angels stuff has

My handwriting is terrible however

But I want his shoulder to Say "Semper Fide Invicta" in that Gothic script

[dusk shuttle]

Kaboom

[static elk]

Reaver supremacy

[mint dove]

For the terminator squad does it matter which melee weapon I bring? Some have chainswords on their power fists, some have bare power fists and it looks like one has a flamer or something

[mint dove]

Ahh Damn so I can only choose 1 heavy weapon?

[brisk vapor]

If the squad is less than 10 models then yeah

[mint dove]

Yeah I only have 5 right now

[fickle inlet]

the addendum is so funny though

[brisk vapor]

Yeah, weirdly written

[fickle inlet]

i can totally see a guy trying to pull up to a table with a terminator with an infinite amount of cyclone missile launchers

[brisk vapor]

[fickle inlet]

and 1 storm bolter!

[mint dove]

I texted my guy who runs the LGS scene and he told me that I can put whatever I want on my models I just have to specify pregame who has what

Like "the guy with the flamer just has a storm bolter and everyone else has their power fists instead of swords

Thank God, because I love painting missile launchers

[brisk vapor]

Yeah usually with friends and local groups WYSIWYG isn't that important

But at least I like to keep it as close as possible

[mint dove]

I don't think I'll ever be doing tournaments, I can't afford that much plastic lol

[wary sonnet]

Should I prepare myself for pain or enjoyment?

I never painted a PM before.

Just the standard CSM, berzerkers and rubricae.

[mint dove]

Is there a reason that the other combat patrols aren't push fit but the orks is?

Is it because GW thinks that ork players can't be trusted nit to huff the glue?

[brisk vapor]

Combat patrols are generally from sprues that can have multiple units in single sprue from a larger release repackaged from another release

And those often are push to fit for a better fit on a single sprue

[static elk]

Out of curiosity, what would a tau combat patrol cost me, can i just use the box or is that more of a starter set?

I just need an excuse to use crisis suits without building a whole army

[plush swift]

i think the combat patrols are around $120~

[static elk]

Yeah i just wasnt sure if one combat patrol box is the ideal combat patrol

Or if u gotta buy like 3 different boxes to swap out a handful of units

[median thistle]

Ima be getting the imperial guard combat patrol soon, just waiting on my Estonian krieg heads to show to do the first couple guardsman

[static elk]

A fellow kreiger

[median thistle]

Mmm yes, craig

[static elk]

Craigsman

[patent bluff]

Yessir

We are Kreiging it up in here

[static elk]

It was crazy to me how easy they are to paint

Compared to my other minis i did all 10 in like 2 days

Probably 8-10 hours altogether

[median thistle]

I’m just waiting for payday and then I’ll be doing some krieg guardsman as well as a kitbashed navy breachers to use as engineers

[static elk]

The plasma gunner wasnt quite done

This is a finished one

[median thistle]

Spent so long trying to figure out what to give my command squad from the cadian box set when I get the combat patrol though

[static elk]

I havnt even played kill team yet and im already looking into combat patrol

[median thistle]

Love it

[static elk]

Thnx

[median thistle]

I’m just making a kill team out of it so it means I can play with my guard quicker

Gonna use the krieg kill team box for some grenadiers which will be used as kasrkin

And just some random guardsman that I’ll make funky for a veteran kill team

I really dislike the banner bearer in the cadian command set lol

[static elk]

I never considered kitbashing vetguard kasrkin

[median thistle]

The vet guard I suppose are the easy ones because you can do them with any models

I’m also gonna try having a textured base army for the first time!

Gonna start with the kill team itself to get it down but last few times I tried it it just never really sat right with me

[static elk]

I saw something about rules updates and kasrkin can just sttaight up delete elites now?

[wary sonnet]

How's this for a smelly boy?

[static elk]

Very sticky looking

[wary sonnet]

So... Fitting?

[static elk]

Yes

Tbh tho i think the green could be a little more pale, he looks kinda like a salamander

[wary sonnet]

Salamanders are brighter.

[static elk]

Are they?

[wary sonnet]

It reminds me more of the Dark Angel green than the Salamander green.

Now that I look at it.

I really like how the copper/dirty gold turned out.

I don't know if I'll be making a DG army, though. Seeing as I'm already invested in my WB army.

[static elk]

Ew word bearers

[compact umbra]

https://tenor.com/view/swadloon-destroyed-beam-pokemon-obliterated-gif-25800479

[wary sonnet]

They'll be joined by a squad of havocs and a helbrute soon.

[static elk]

I just cant with word bearers

The only thing i like about them is that their red

[clear arch]

Got my Infiltrators primed!

First time priming so still getting the hang of it, bit worried how the paint is gonna settle

[plush swift]

gross

[tawdry ravine]

These look good! Paint should adhere fine as long as you don't over do it

[static elk]

I prime with black spray paint

[plush swift]

I use red

or brown

[static elk]

I just perfer black since it can work as shadowing in areas my brush wont reach

I should really get an airbrush

[clear arch]

Great to hear!

[static elk]

I need a fancy one that doesn't need an air tank or anything

I got an air brush a long time ago and try to hook up an air pig to it without a regulator.
Needless to say that air brush doesn't work anymore.

[plush swift]

all of them need one

unless you want one where you blow into it yourself

those also exist

[static elk]

Lol

I meant one that came with its own system.

Or you can hook the pressurized cans too.

I don't know much about air brushes

[hollow goblet]

Does anyone know a cheat way to get Ephilim's Pandaemonium without buying the fuckin warcry box?

[plush swift]

those you really dont want, they are terrible

[static elk]

I figured

[plush swift]

the handheld tank ones, hobbiests love them but I have been to the hospital 3 times while testing them

[static elk]

I just dont know exactly what a good airbrush is, thats still affordable

[static elk]

O

[plush swift]

they are only made by low end chinese brands for a reason

one of them almost caused me to lose a finger

the lithium ion battery exploded

got third degree burns on another one

[static elk]

damn!

i just feel like i should have an airbrush for stuff like vehicles and mechs

primarily tau

and a small amount of legions imperialis

Is this the kind ur talking about?

[plush swift]

yeah, the airbrush is garbage, the pump is loud, they have no moisture trap(which yeah you can get an external one, but those produce more moisture than a normal pump), and just over all low quality

[static elk]

oofda

well thanks for that i was looking at this one

do you have any reccomendations that dont break the bank

or my hand

[tranquil kelp]

https://www.amazon.ca/Timbertech-Airbrush-Compressor-ABPST05-Multi-purpose/dp/B00LO4PKY2/ref=sr_1_7?crid=1BH51ETWDWEBK&keywords=airbrush&qid=1703199805&sprefix=airbrush%2Caps%2C103&sr=8-7&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.b06bdbbe-20fd-4ebc-88cf-fa04f1ca0da8

This is around the same one I have

[static elk]

Thats not bad at all

[tranquil kelp]

It's not perfect, but works well enough for priming and base coating

[static elk]

Not super percise or what?

[tranquil kelp]

Mine isnt very precise, so I have to use plenty of tape

[static elk]

Oof

[tranquil kelp]

But you can always upgrade the brush itself later on

[static elk]

True

[tranquil kelp]

try different needles and nozzles for tighter spray patterns

[static elk]

I do mostly want it for larger surfaces and effects

[tranquil kelp]

It should work fine for that

[static elk]

Hell yeah

[tranquil kelp]

I mostly got mine cause the weather where I live is usually bad for rattle cans most of the year

[static elk]

Ah, i just feel bad using spray paint

[tranquil kelp]

Beware, airbrush primers are usually not as strong as rattle can primers

at least in my experience

[static elk]

I probably wont get it ubtill i commit to a cambat patrol or something

[tranquil kelp]

Peeling tape off just for all the paint to come off with it is a terrible time

[static elk]

That is a huge feels bad moment

[patent bluff]

My box arrived : )

[mint dove]

My girlfriend comes home today and launches this at me and says in her best ork voice "merry early Grotmas, ya git!"

I'm gonna marry this woman

[patent bluff]

Real

[mint dove]

I love Christmas time because I get to buy her things too and she can't say no!

[plush swift]

Could you use super thin gold foil for gold armor

[mint dove]

Like Gold leaf?

I wouldn't

It's super delicate so it'll flake off all the time

[rare hornet]

The smol bois

[plush swift]

if you want precision.... there are only a few options

[static elk]

Oh i dont really need percision

[plush swift]

i use a gaahleri for my priming

works fine in a pinch

was $30 on sale

I have 6 pumps, 3 high end and 3 cheapo

one is from harbor freight and works fine

I also have I think 60 airbrushes now

[toxic rampart]

Marry her faster ya git!

[plush swift]

Yeah

I’ve been seeing people using it for gold armor

[mint dove]

I'll just say that I really don't know enough to have an opinion one way or the other

@plush swift tag in

[plush swift]

No offense, but you dont have the skill, the money, the time, or the tools for gold leaf.

Most people do it so insanely wrong that it will just fall off

You need an agate burnisher, a squirrel hair brush, and several other tools

the tools alone to do it will cost you $300+

and then, its super fragile and will flake apart if you breathe on it

[static elk]

Aka, GIT GUD

[clear arch]

Finished my first mini!

[plush swift]

I will never paint sisters again after this

There such a headache to paint

[idle folio]

not bad for a first

better than what i can do

[clear arch]

Yeah I'm pretty happy with it, need to layer my contrast paint better so doesn't look so uh "Painting"-esque

[obtuse laurel]

@plush swift this video makes it seem doable with faux gold leaf and a few things
https://youtu.be/4HHQPTThcSs?si=8-oALWarR7nPlTAY

[silver thorn]

the red eyes always get me

[mint dove]

Our gym owner wants me to paint one of those gray space marine Action figures for our front desk after I showed him some of the stuff I've done recently

Feels good to have people actually think My work is good

[plush swift]

might get some space marines and and come back to my sister when i get better

I also have a knight on its way so I want to save my paints for that

[silver thorn]

oh yea!!

i had a guy ship me some kind of dreadnought by accident

i haven't gone through the pieces to figure out what it is but the feet tell me its a dreadnought

[plush swift]

Damn

How much did you get it for

[silver thorn]

well idk how much a whatever model it is costs

but it was supposed to be some sisters of silence

for a crusader kitbash

(idk why but i keep coming up with kitbash ideas and I'm a total newbie at this hobby)

[plush swift]

Kitbashing sounds so fun I’m nervous of destroying a model

[silver thorn]

yea, but the possibility of cool results...

[plush swift]

True

[silver thorn]

i get home in 15 minutes, i suppose i can look at it and try to figure out what it is

i want to make some female crusaders

and an ephrael stern converted into a daemonhost

[plush swift]

Traitor sisters would be cool

[silver thorn]

the reason is i have a unit that has a daemonhost in it

in my SISTERS army

so I'm gonna make her like a holy sanctioned saint

glowing golden eyes, chains and maybe see if i can work wings under the cape

[plush swift]

That sounds sick

[plush swift]

jesus fuck that is terrible application of gold leaf, that literally makes my skin crawl. There is a reason why I get paid close to $250 an hour for gold leafing and $400 for damascene, I dont mean to insult the person but thats really really bad

[obtuse laurel]

It's just aluminum foil 🤷

[plush swift]

there is still a proper technique to it

[obtuse laurel]

🤷

[plush swift]

there is no burshing either which is required even for fake gold leaf

What’s the upsides of using gold leaf

Why not use gold paint or something

it looks way better

you cant match actual foil in terms of the looks

gold paint rarely looks gold as its rarely ever gold, the only gold paint is gold shell and thats $75+ for a 1ml bottle

Ive never had that much of a visceral reaction here, i apologize

Ive spent almost 2 decades mastering a craft and I get very annoyed quickly at that stuff it seems

Gold leaf jump scare

got super pissed at plasmo even though that was hilarious

fuck it

im buying a custodes army

I have enough gold leaf here for 15k points

💀

Did that video bother you that much

for some reason yes

this is why being a professional is terrible

You can only ever see the flaws in everything never the good

That sounds shitty