#40k-minis-and-armies

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patent bluff
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I’m curious, could I see some of your work?

plush swift
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mini painting work sure

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as thats all hobby stuff

patent bluff
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That’s what I mean yeah

plush swift
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this was a quick 3 hour job including assembly

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its not very good

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but I didnt want to spend much time on it

patent bluff
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It looks impressive

plush swift
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its not

patent bluff
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To me it is

plush swift
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i can show you how I did it

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its quick

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its taking a technique from the 1500s that a streamer claims they invented and using it correctly

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using basic color theory including the kubelka munk calculation

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into effect for it

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which basically translates into "I didnt base with black or grey"

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base with brown and yellows instead

static elk
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My current project

plush swift
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orks are best faction

static elk
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I hate painting orks

plush swift
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why?

static elk
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I perfer armor over flesh

plush swift
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you can paint flesh like armor

static elk
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Hate moght not be the right word

plush swift
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funny enough

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all you do is change the colors

static elk
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That is true but i mean more thematically than just painting

plush swift
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fair

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flesh is weird

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and flesh is weak

static elk
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The mechanicum approves this statement

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I perfer these guys

plush swift
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dkok is also good

true path
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2h weapons are always a pain to paint under the weapon.
You did a great job.

static elk
rare hornet
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He a big boi

visual turret
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daradeo?

rare hornet
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Leviathan

visual turret
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ah

rare hornet
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The chonkiest dreadnought

patent bluff
rare hornet
patent bluff
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Damn that’s sexy

short pawn
rare hornet
short pawn
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Wow i would never bet money on that being citadel

rare hornet
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I’ve always used citadel paints

short pawn
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I like citadel paints but I don't really like their metallics. I'm gonna try iron warriors though

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Leadbelcher looks like tinfoil to me

patent bluff
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The bronze is nice

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I forgor what it’s called but the Balthazar gold or whatever

short pawn
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I do love that one

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Forgot it existed

patent bluff
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Retributor armor also is a fantastic color

rare hornet
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If memory serves me right that’s brass scorpion

patent bluff
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Gonna get myself that next

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This one

rare hornet
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Retributor gold is also very good and goes nicely with various washes

patent bluff
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Holy shit that looks amazing

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I can’t wait to do my preator with axe

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I’m working on this fuck as of yesterday

rare hornet
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Just a heads up take extra care with the cape that things is awfully complicated

patent bluff
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Hated putting the cape together

rare hornet
patent bluff
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Miserable time

rare hornet
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I think the axe praetor had a worse cape

patent bluff
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Yeah

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Those three small weird ass pieces

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Shoutout Horus Heresy still

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Love those guys

rare hornet
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Wish the axe was only 3

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It’s a 5 piece cape for him

patent bluff
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Real

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I’m trying to think of what color scheme I wanna do with my Axe dude

rare hornet
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But if you can bare with it the result is amazing

patent bluff
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I nut

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That’s so nice

short pawn
patent bluff
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I’ll have to take a pic of the back of my dude

patent bluff
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It’s nothing special but I like how the cape turned out

rare hornet
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I undercoated my praetor in chaos black and was sure to keep a decent thinned metal

patent bluff
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Yur

short pawn
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I'll try that for sure

rare hornet
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Often I was doing about 2ish sometimes 3 coats of metal

patent bluff
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Do send me all of your heresy pictures

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I’m enthralled

rare hornet
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Still a WIP but lemme take a looksie

short pawn
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I honestly probably didnt thin it enough.

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Sometimes it does look fine

patent bluff
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I want to do some blue dudes next

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What are they called

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Alpha legion?

short pawn
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Definitely looks unthinned to me lol

rare hornet
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Just throwing in the best of the bunch, I don’t really have much more as I really got to sit down and crack on with them

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Will go back and do the bases on the older minis but they can wait for now

short pawn
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God i love 30k

static elk
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30k looks so good, but no xenos

patent bluff
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These are my terminators next to shit ass

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The left one I tried highlights but it turned out horribly

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So I have to go over again with the base colors

rare hornet
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Cataphractii have a lot to them

patent bluff
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Yeah believe it or not I ducked the shoulders up

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That’s why they are so low

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Hopefully my other terminators aren’t as ass

rare hornet
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I want to get myself a Tartaros assault squad of all lighting claws

patent bluff
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I got the funny Tartarus for Christmas

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Can’t wait to put em together

worldly pawn
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I’m painting my traitor guard to look like the moebian sixth

clear arch
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IMO looks quite good infact

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Especially from

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Model viewing distance

clear arch
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Wish there was a proper Lost and the Damned faction in 40k

naive umbra
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Managed a pretty cool looking repose for my Commander Farsight. I wanted his blade upright, but the ribbons on the hilt would have been pointing up so I carefully cut the ring off the end and flipped it around. Not a huge amount of work for an awesome result!

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You can see what I mean about the ribbons looking at the default pose

glass forum
clear arch
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Is that your Chaos Sorceror

naive umbra
glass forum
clear arch
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Any time someone makes a CSM with Slaves to Darkness bits it activates the neuroms in my brain

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Easily a top 5 faction for me

glass forum
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I'm with you on that 💯

glass forum
hollow goblet
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Guys I once again need advice

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Which one should I use as a daemon prince for my thousand sons

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They're both roughly the right size just not sure which vibe I'm after

clear arch
lunar garden
glass forum
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I'm of no help as I'm mainly a chaos undivided guy

hollow goblet
clear arch
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Other guy could be neat if you wanna kitbash your Thousand Sons

hollow goblet
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The ogroid looks more like what you'd typically expect from a daemon prince tho so was weighing options

clear arch
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Give them more of StD type vibe

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Uh that means Slaves to Darkness by the way

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Just to clairfy

hollow goblet
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I do have a lot of extra bird and daemon heads on my dudes in my army

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I went really hard on the "flesh changed" vibe

clear arch
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Like imagine giving your guys more bones

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And fur pelts

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Then that second one would be a great daemon prince

hollow goblet
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Yeah I might consider that one for my CSM daemon prince when I branch out even

clear arch
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just my thoughts tho

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Your minis your rules

hollow goblet
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Nah input is needed tbh I get decision paralysis a lot

clear arch
glass forum
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Building up the bravery to tackle be'lakor...

hollow goblet
clear arch
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Or atleast I think so

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Kinda like a milestone thing to paint a Bel'akor

hollow goblet
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My lord of change has been sitting primed on my shelf for at least 6 months

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Yeah or any similar greater daemon/dragon mini

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Painting like Magnus or Angron hits a similar spot, tho belakor is absolutely massive isn't he?

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Like I know he kinda makes angron looks like a manlet

glass forum
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He's about the same size

hollow goblet
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Might be wingspan that makes him bigger even then

glass forum
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But I think its the wings that make him look so much bigger

hollow goblet
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Bc now I'm looking at him those wings take up some space

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You magnetize the wings?

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Bc transporting him might be a struggle otherwise

glass forum
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Nah I wish I did but I got him for Christmas and excitedly put him together...

hollow goblet
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I'd almost wanna have him on magnets to the rock and have magnetized wings too so you can carry in 3 parts

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Nah totally understand my lord of change has his own special box bc I did the same thing

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Wings on big minis are a learning experience lol

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YOOO

glass forum
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Yeah definitely finding that out

hollow goblet
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THAT'S WHERE THAT DEAD MARINE COMES FROM

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I've had it sitting in my bits box forever with no idea which kit he comes from lmao

glass forum
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🤣

mint dove
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At the game shop and I need advice boys, I'm torn between a box of blade guard vets,jump pack intercessors, sanguinary guard or a furioso dreadnought. I can only choose 1

glass forum
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I'd always go with what looks coolest

plush swift
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rule of cool dude

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if it doesn’t make sense for the rest of your models but looks badass pick it anyways

patent bluff
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Realest rule

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Hate meta shit

patent bluff
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(I have yet to play an actual game of Warhammer and do not know how point system works)

visual turret
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whoops ping

hollow goblet
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That's how I decide my tiebreakers more often than I care to admit

mint dove
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Bought the dreadnought

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Because he looks the coolest

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I was gonna go sanguinary guard but they look....old

hollow goblet
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Yeah I would not be surprised if BA becomes the dark angels of next ed and gets all of their stuff refreshed

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They're starting to show their age for sure

mint dove
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I hope to God so

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When was Dantes model made before the refresh? Like '95?

hollow goblet
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Yeah our playgroup recently got given a bunch of blood angels that belonged to a friend of ours who died when we were in highschool

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And someone remembers him complaining that his Dante looked old and goofy back in like 2013-2014

mint dove
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Ahh dude that's a bummer

hollow goblet
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Found him

mint dove
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Lol yeah. He really doesn't look very much like "one of the most powerful space marines to have ever lived"

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But he certainly do look like the oldest

hollow goblet
# mint dove Ahh dude that's a bummer

Yeah it's a bit of a weird experience for me BC I got introduced to that group after he'd passed (partially BC he was gonna be the bass player in a band I ended up filling out that spot) so I never really met the guy, but you can tell it affected everyone else quite a bit

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Also dude was a really good painter too most people's Dantes look a lot more scuffed than this one

heavy basin
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Still fairly new to 40K and just now getting into listbuilding, and someone pointed out I had no “battle line” units in my 1k points dark angels army. They were suggesting I include some as that would supposedly let me capture and objective and then move off of it while still retaining control of it. Upon looking though, it looks like only the basic space marine “intercessor squad” unit gets that “objective secured” ability.

All of that leads me to ask, as a dark angels player currently running the unforgiven task force detachment, are intercessors the only way I can access “sticky objectives” as people refer to it? Or is there something I’m missing here?

kind oracle
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Stripy gunboat WIP #2

tranquil kelp
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If you want melee focus you can take assault intercessors

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You can take the first born Tactical Squads, or the heavier Heavy Intercessors

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They may seem pretty plain, but they aren't weak by any means

heavy basin
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I can definitely see the value in having some battle line units after looking at them, but am I correct in thinking only the basic intercessor squad can do the sticky objective thing via their “objective secured” ability? The way I was told by someone, they were making it sound like all battleline units could do that, but from datasheets it doesn’t look that way

tranquil kelp
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I keep forgetting how much changed in 10th edition

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Objective Secured is pretty different from what I remembered

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It looks like yeah, only regular Intercessors have that rule in the Battleline units

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Though you should still look at and consider what would work best for your particular list, and what you like the most

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Don't build purely for tournaments, the meta changes frequently and these models aren't cheap

pearl oak
patent bluff
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Looks good

signal plover
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My red corsairs project begins soon

mint dove
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What's the best loadout for the furioso dreadnought? Is the librarian version better?

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If it matters my primaris redemptor dreadnought has a plasma cannon and the arm mounted chaingun

true path
vale pollen
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Shoota boy shoota boy, ye that's him

naive umbra
# pearl oak

Looks like he's saying "I have Tachyon arrow or glaive. Choose your death, mortal."

dreamy nebula
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2nd painted model ever but huge improvement over my first

vale pollen
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Eyyy lookin good

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I just finished this one up to take a break from orks

dreamy flame
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Thus concludes my final game of 40k in 2023

visual turret
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idle thought question - do warhammer tank models have working treads?

ocean pendant
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I dunno about others, but my Sororitas Rhino doesn't

lament path
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Ive seen people put rubber treads in a Baneblade and Land raider and control them via RC

ocean pendant
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Yea, pretty sure you can get DIY kits to give them working treads

supple sinew
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@coarse badger

coarse badger
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Fancy

supple sinew
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Yee

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I must play every elf faction in every setting

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It's just science

coarse badger
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Valid

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Now I must fight you though because CSMSweat

midnight cairn
static elk
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Quite the morning

median thistle
solemn falcon
lucid sorrel
median thistle
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Just doing his textured base now

solemn falcon
median thistle
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Oh I have

solemn falcon
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:DDDD

median thistle
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Plus 2 boxes of rough riders a castellan and a singular leman Russ on the way

solemn falcon
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where commissar

lucid sorrel
median thistle
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Already got them 😇

solemn falcon
median thistle
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Yeahhhh

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Spent money on payday then got an obscene amount of Christmas money that I wasn’t expecting

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Means I got a nice starter army for 9th and 10th

solemn falcon
# median thistle

thats a nut right there, kitbashed mine from a kriegsman mask, officio pefectus commissar hat and the special limited time commissar body

median thistle
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Oh god yeah

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I’ve had my eye on those death korps commissars for years

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So this is a long time project I’ve wanted to do

solemn falcon
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did consider it myself too

median thistle
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The leman Russ is just for the other commissar model to make a tank commander lol

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Basically my January and febuary will be busy

solemn falcon
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Pretty much smae here

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you didint get any DKOK infantry tho?

compact umbra
median thistle
compact umbra
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Nicer

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!*

median thistle
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The infantry ^

solemn falcon
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thats a nice kitbash

median thistle
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Plus the yet to be painted

solemn falcon
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same treatment for every to be model too?

median thistle
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Yeah pretty much

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Martian bases for all

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That painted sergeant is actually for a imperial navy breachers kill team but they’re basically gonna be engineers

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But I’m really enjoying the build and the painting so far

solemn falcon
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yeah

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actually never gonna play

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but the building and painting

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AAAh

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40k is a drug

median thistle
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😂 well we’ve got the playing covered by indoctrinating friends brother and friend into playing so we have more people to play with

solemn falcon
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:DDD

median thistle
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Gonna do some small combat patrol sized games when I actually have all of my army at least built

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But I got til next week to paint what I have before I can build the rest

lucid sorrel
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My entire army lol

solemn falcon
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Well i kinda got one friend to tabletop, i just had to make him an army for Turnip28

floral wind
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Just a general Q what size base comes with the Venerable Dreadnought?

median thistle
solemn falcon
median thistle
median thistle
floral wind
solemn falcon
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yeah, ive mostly got veteran guard/cadian

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cadians will be my own silly little regiment

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and krieg is krieg

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silly little collection

median thistle
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Indeedly

solemn falcon
median thistle
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A silly little big collection

solemn falcon
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too big

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got a box of armiger knights for a change

median thistle
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Ooo nice

solemn falcon
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Cummissur

pastel grotto
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Huh, I wonder what regiment he's in

static elk
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Not too shabby

solemn falcon
ivory sage
pastel grotto
solemn falcon
pastel grotto
median flame
signal plover
median flame
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Nice

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First painted mini plus size scale of a gundam (they’re taller than knights)

rare hornet
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The base boi

jaunty trail
rare hornet
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yep

jaunty trail
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Ha i knew i remembered the iron look

rare hornet
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Ye!

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That ultramarine has got one melta charge and nothing to lose

jaunty trail
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😄

patent bluff
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I really wanna get the Loken and Abaddon mini series thing

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I love Loken

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The homie

peak flicker
static elk
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Do yall ever paint minis seperate from bases, islf so. How

patent bluff
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Don’t glue it to the base

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Ez

median flame
static elk
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Thats usually what i do but im trying some fancier tactics with these bases

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These guys are gonna be from a highly unstable volcanic world, and so ive got volcanic rock and lava im doing on the base iland i dont wanna fuck it up with paint and primer

mint dove
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If I'm gonna highlight black what's a good color to use? I have night lords blue,dark reaper,stormvermin fur,thunderhawk blue,fenrisian gray,adminisratum gray and in vallejo I have stonewall gray, basalt gray, German gray

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I'm painting flesh tearers so I have a lot of black highlighting to do

median thistle
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Dark reaper would probably be a good highlight

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The blue tint contrasting the red

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Unless that’s dumb

austere ingot
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i resin 3d printed and painted this a while back, still one of my favorite statues i made

jaunty trail
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Next month i will get my BT badge from starforged... so i can add it on my jacket XD

midnight cairn
austere ingot
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but i did the shading and wear

austere ingot
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thanks fellas

frigid stump
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Awesome work Braz

austere ingot
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thank you sah

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i also made a life sized power sword and plasma gun

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i got a laspistol in the works

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and a bolter after

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the sword was one of my first props so it doesnt look that great honestly

static elk
austere ingot
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Npnp

median thistle
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My last mini of the year done

rare hornet
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First and last miniatures of 2023

plush swift
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Poor ultra marine

patent bluff
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Agreed

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Rip to the homie

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Robert isn’t gonna be to happy

rare hornet
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Any I technically have ultramarines so it’s fine im allowed to maim them

patent bluff
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Oh okay

rare hornet
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In particular a first company army

mint dove
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Ooh I wanna play!

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First mini vs last mini of the year

patent bluff
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Bird

plush swift
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Is the word?????

compact umbra
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I love the death leaper so much

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#1 model on my date list

patent bluff
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I’m not a big fan of Tyranids but damn that actually looks fire

static elk
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Well the freehand checkers need work

compact umbra
patent bluff
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Real

static elk
plush swift
glass forum
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I prefer my terminator sorcerer

true path
patent bluff
true path
patent bluff
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Damn those look good

true path
patent bluff
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They are already based

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Jokes aside do ping me when they are finished

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I’m invested

thorn flower
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Finally finished my Astra Militarum Field Ordinance Battery today, learned a lot making it.

glass forum
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Decided to be brave...

patent bluff
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Damn that’s looking good so far

paper inlet
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Question or debate rather is it better to fully build mini's or to leave their arms, weapons and heads off and paint that way? I'm worried about the hard to reach areas (cadians) so any tips would be appreciated

chrome pebble
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It makes it easier to paint the areas that face towards the body

glass forum
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Slightly more progress

echo magnet
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Current WIP. I'm liking how its coming along

heavy basin
# paper inlet Question or debate rather is it better to fully build mini's or to leave their a...

I've only just recently entered into the hobby, but I've already taken to doing at least heads separately. Mainly because getting eyes on helmets or faces to look good, can be really difficult and require many tries, sometimes even fully base coating over failed attempts to start again. This way if the worst happens and I need to strip because too many layers of paint have been applied, I'm only stripping and repainting a head, instead of the head and the whole model it's already been glued to.

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WIP Azrael beside my finished terminator captain (except for his base.) Part of me still feels like I’m breaking rules by not painting dark angels with box art color schemes I know they would be in the lore. But I really like this color scheme better so oh well

plush swift
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and tell you to do custom over box art

worldly pawn
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terminator models seem very fun to paint, id get them if i collected space marines

glass forum
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Almost done

heavy basin
hollow goblet
glass forum
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Finally finished

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After 7ish hours of painting

plush swift
echo magnet
oblique socket
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Babbys first imperial knights army

echo magnet
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Needs to be super glued together, but its painted to a table top standard

plush swift
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happy chim year

oblique socket
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is mine up to the standard?... gonna be trying to add some kitbashing stuff to cover up the imperfections on the knight gallant which was the first mini i ever painted

echo magnet
echo magnet
# oblique socket

TBH I like what I see, Do some basing work and you've got a competent table ready army

oblique socket
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funny thing is.. i considered not putting bases on at all, just so it owuld blend better with any boards i play on in the future

plush swift
oblique socket
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And i’ve got another waiting to be painted

rare hornet
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I'm looking forward to continuing my knights soon

lost dagger
patent bluff
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Good morning gamers

patent bluff
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Wip (left) next to first terminator painted (right) deff some improvements imo

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Glad I finally got a brighter purple to work out as well, fits the mini so much more

mint dove
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I had no idea how small the furioso was vs the primaris redemptor

patent bluff
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Little baby dreadnought

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Idk if it’s just me but I don’t like the design of 40k dreadnoughts

mint dove
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The primaris is cool but I really am a fan of old dreads

lavish crescent
patent bluff
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I agree the Primaris is nice, I’m not hating on them but I just like the more massive suit of armor as apposed to a box

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Maybe I’m just weird

static elk
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Just customizing my tau a little

median flame
pastel grotto
static elk
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Idk what it is but it was the only arm that worked

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Ima say its some sort of drone control thingy

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I had to swap barrels to make this arm work since i want the long rifles

hearty bear
tranquil kelp
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Gross

patent bluff
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What is that

hearty bear
patent bluff
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I like the blue but it’s kind of

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Odd

hearty bear
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Also new ethereal sculpt

hearty bear
static elk
jaunty trail
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Would be just awesome when they do this.

mint dove
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@hearty bear any new blood angels stuffstaregryn

mint dove
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Ye

hearty bear
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Lemme check

mint dove
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Or orks

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I'll accept either

hearty bear
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Nope to both

dawn stream
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Only new stuff is the Deathwing Assault box

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40k wise

jaunty trail
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I'm currently waiting on further details on Horus Heresy Apothecarii...

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Want 1-2 for 40k legends Apothecarii

patent bluff
patent bluff
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Can’t wait to get them

static elk
patent bluff
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Nice

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Can’t wait to see them

jaunty trail
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They just lookin' good and i need some non primaris apothecarii for my firstborn marines

static elk
patent bluff
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Real shit

patent bluff
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I wanna get some mark 3 Tech Marines but they are sold out still

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Doubt it’ll ever come back but oh well

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One can hope

jaunty trail
patent bluff
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Nice lmao

jaunty trail
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ye. 1x Devastor squad with 2x lascannon & 2x Missle launcher. And then 3 Crusader Squads (5 minis/squad) with 1x lascannon & 1x flamer/plasmarifle per squad

then some apothecarii added = infinite lascannon spam on Imperial Guard 🤣

tranquil kelp
patent bluff
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Sadge

tranquil kelp
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I can let some of the height differences pass, but it's just too much on this one

patent bluff
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Couldn’t you just improve it yourself though?

tranquil kelp
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I was very disaponted myself

patent bluff
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Add some putty under it or something

tranquil kelp
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If you're good enough with greenstuff yes you can

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I'm not

patent bluff
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Personally I think it looks fine

tranquil kelp
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I'm gonne get a primaris marine, and then use the MK 3 Techmarine bits on it

patent bluff
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Real

tranquil kelp
patent bluff
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Shoutout Preator

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The tech marine armor gives me like massive Shogun armor vibes

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I love it so much

tranquil kelp
#

I do too

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It's a great sculpt

#

the size creep just kills it for me unfortunately

patent bluff
#

That’s fair enough

#

You gonna get the new Apothecary when it comes out?

static elk
tranquil kelp
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I was also planning on getting a whole MK3 box purely for the purpose of converting to characters and such

patent bluff
#

Nice dude

tranquil kelp
#

Techmarines are my favourite

patent bluff
#

Agreed

tranquil kelp
#

The first HQ I got when I started the hobby

patent bluff
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I love the Admech in 40k, I’m trying to learn about 30k Admech from the Horus Rising audiobook rn and a Tech Priest was finally brought up lmao

tranquil kelp
#

the old resin 40k one with the four servitors

patent bluff
tranquil kelp
#

THe Admech are also really cool, but you can't use any of the 30k models in 40k. Pretty much the reason I chose SM over them

patent bluff
#

I don’t play 40k

tranquil kelp
#

I want Cybernetica list so bad for 30k

patent bluff
#

I wanna get some Titanicus shit

tranquil kelp
#

The spinoff game, or the actual titans?

patent bluff
#

I know there’s a starter box set that comes with like 6 knights which is badass

patent bluff
tranquil kelp
#

Fair

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Also same

patent bluff
#

I only wanna get one or two knights for Heresy (outside of the spin-off game)

tranquil kelp
#

But I haven't won the lottery so...

patent bluff
#

Real

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Too much money : (

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I just recently got the Age of Darkness box so that’s been keeping my occupied these past weeks

static elk
patent bluff
#

Agreed

tranquil kelp
#

I remember Forgeworld had a "deal" a while ago, where you could get a Warlord Titan, two Reaver Titans' and Two Warhound Titans for $7000

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I only paid $6000 for my car

patent bluff
#

Only a down payment for a couple titans

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No biggie

tranquil kelp
#

It was also technically a huge discount though

patent bluff
#

Fair

tranquil kelp
#

But, y'know

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$7000 for models

static elk
tranquil kelp
#

That in all seriousness are some of the worst units you can field in a game

patent bluff
#

The only knight that interests me right now is the Achreon or Questoris

#

Aren’t knights so high in points they are borderline unusable

jaunty trail
#

🤔 a local store of mine still hase one MK3 Tech marine in stock... and they have an online shop...

tranquil kelp
#

The Porphyrion looks cool, but you might as well get a Warhound Titan

patent bluff
#

slip a brother that link, you feel me?

jaunty trail
patent bluff
#

Humor me

tranquil kelp
#

I still have an unopened first gen MK3 Squad

patent bluff
#

Oh damn

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Can I see?

tranquil kelp
#

First gen plastic I mean

static elk
#

My lgs has this drukhari squad in finecast still, no ones ever bought it

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Idk what squad they have skull looking helmets

static elk
#

I think its finecast, but idk. Its just old

tranquil kelp
#

weren't a lot of the eldar and dark eldar super old finecast models

static elk
#

Idk my old warhammer models

tranquil kelp
#

There was at least one unit that was twenty years old

static elk
#

Oh their eldar not drukhari

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These guys

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But the older model

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This

dawn stream
#

Those are Maugan Ra's Aspect Warriors

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Maugan Ra aka Eldar Doom Guy

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His design is damn cool

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Dark Reapers are heavy weapons specialists iirc

agile junco
#

sang guard so far

rare hornet
#

What do people thing of Custodes on Martian red bases?

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Using these as a reference?

agile junco
#

theyd look fine def

rare hornet
#

I’ll have an experiment, I’ve only had practice with mud bases but wanted to have something different for them without getting a custom base

agile junco
#

veibae_nod could always color your bases

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to whatever environment you wan5

rare hornet
#

I’ll have a go once I’ve got my leviathan done

rare hornet
#

Speaking of which, just got the legs done now

tranquil kelp
#

What weapons is it gonna have?

plush swift
#

the biggest and baddest hopefully

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luv me iron warriors

patent bluff
#

get that Dreadnough beer and car keys

rare hornet
jaunty trail
#

Finally started painting again... some wip on recently stripped old scout models (bought back in 2010)...

hearty bear
proven arch
#

blooded kill team chieftain inspired by the moebian sixth

true path
#

One War Dog in the same way I paint my Slaves to Darkness.

agile junco
main mango
quartz latch
neat hornet
#

It has begun, I will paint word bearers AND I SHALL BECOME POWERFUL, THE DARK GODS SHALL EMPOWER ME AND GIVE ME UNLIMITED FETNYAL AND HORSE TRANQILIZER

hollow goblet
#

Man games workshop really let us go crazy thinking we'd get emps children or skaven or Seraphon and we get fucking.....solar auxilia

Screaming and crying rn

vale pollen
tranquil kelp
#

Turns out I misplaced 20 whole unbuilt MK6 marines when I moved lol

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I just found them with a bunch of spare sprues

static elk
#

3 kill teams done and dusted

hollow goblet
#

Does anyone know if the 3rd party Kromlech panels are the same size as the exorcist?

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Wanna convert one to a chaos rhino but I would rather not have to scrape absolutely everything off of them

mint dove
#

Not the whole mini but just the helmet

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Made my final primaris Sergent, I like this head from the old BA upgrade sprue so I think I'm gonna paint it like a sanguinary guard

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It'll still be a flesh tearer but instead of the helmet being black it'll be Gold.

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I'll think of a lore reason for it later

static elk
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Christened by a sanguinary guard or something

naive umbra
obsidian flax
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Ogryn Bone 'ead of the 110th Cadian Shadow Corp

midnight cairn
quasi ridge
pastel grotto
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Must be like, tau or something.

signal plover
#

WIP

rustic portal
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The boys are ready to waaaagh

left egret
#

yall chaos and iron warriors players. What should i kitbash into an Exalted Champion?

toxic stratus
#

all you need is combi melta

hollow goblet
#

First pass on another ksons cultist

fair sun
#

Does anyone know if there's an app where you can drag/drop 3d models of units and test how paint schemes might look?

agile junco
edgy jackal
fair sun
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Looks perfect! Thanks!

plush swift
#

@rigid kestrel this is the superior section

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please be nice

plush swift
#

What a profile

neat hornet
brisk vapor
#

Little dudes rock

pastel grotto
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Schmol

plush swift
#

How do you even paint those

brisk vapor
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With a steady hand I guess

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And a pointy enough brush

mortal pine
hollow goblet
#

Was worried the overly colourful designs weren't gonna fit together properly but I think it works

mint dove
#

So when edge highlighting space marines do you do both sides of the trim on the shoulder? Like GW box art? Or just the ones facing the light

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Like how they edge highlight every edge of the pauldron

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Also what's a good color to highlight khorne red? I know that for blood angels you go mephiston red>evil sun scarlet>wild rider red but I feel like that may be a bit too strong of a color and would brighten up the dark red too much

signal plover
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For highlighting khorne red I just add a bit of white to khorne red and highlight it

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I moved away from GW reds when I could

mint dove
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Like I was taught that edge highlighting is for mostly places the light will catch, tops of the head, shoulders, gun barrel etc

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This was only my 2nd attempt highlighting but I didn't highlight anywhere the light wouldn't hit

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I still need to highlight the helmet,gun and leather

merry nova
signal plover
merry nova
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A lot cheaper than what Amazon showed for a bit tbh

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120

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I need the two other varrients now

glossy hawk
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i stalk this chat often and ive seen you post your progress and its actually great to see how fast you’re improving

mint dove
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Lol thanks but next time I'll try to glaze between them to make the highlights more subtle

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And I'm improving so fast because of everyone here who answers my 8 million questions lol

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Especially corpse starch telling me constantly "it's good but you can do better" lol

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Like this was my first attempt

plush swift
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or "improvement"

mint dove
#

A harsh teacher, but a fair one lol

plush swift
#

if its an improvement, then I'll tell you

plush swift
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Which this new one is an improvement @mint dove

mint dove
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And next one I'll try glazing between the highlights to make them more uniform

plush swift
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this is what I call good

mint dove
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Thats...paint?

plush swift
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yes

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its NMM

mint dove
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Christ almighty

plush swift
mint dove
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Yeah I don't think I'll ever be to that level

plush swift
mint dove
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But if someone looks at My stuff and says "That looks like the box art" good enough for me

plush swift
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i mean you're talking about hundreds of hours for these things

mint dove
#

Speaking of highlighting I had a question

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Let me grab the reference real quick

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So on the furioso those curved panels on the arms, would I highlight the center of those panels?

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And the flat panels on top. Would I just paint them almost entirely my highlight color?

plush swift
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you'd highlight the top and work out a gradient down to about half way and then you'd do the same for shading

plush swift
mint dove
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I see, so I'd keep my edges dark but as I get closer to the center go lighter and lighter

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Then glaze it all together?

plush swift
plush swift
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it would be reflecting the sun a little

mint dove
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Gotcha, my dreadnoughts are my favorite units so I really want to get em right

plush swift
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just pick where the sun us coming from

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shine a light on it

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take a photo

mint dove
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I usually just do straight down so I can keep all my units uniform

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So I don't finish 10 units only to find I did the light from the wrong angle and have to redo him

plush swift
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i typically do it from an angle from the rear so I can get optimal shadows

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but thats an instagram thing

mint dove
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Or have to explain "yeah that's Terry, he faces backwards don't worry about it"

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I did buy some random orks and skaven for practice

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I'll try different angles on those, see what I can accomplish

visual turret
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Not sure on the blue

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BUT

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Hazard stripes :D

rare hornet
visual turret
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that'#s just one coat of blue,l it's patchy

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Decided I might go for this shade of blue

supple sinew
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Kriegsmen

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And women

wintry solstice
#

I've come to a great conclusion 'buying minis from ebay is cheap as hell'

tranquil kelp
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hell yeah it is

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Just have to have patience

kind oracle
#

Another few touch-ups and he's done 🙂

dawn stream
#

Peter Turbo!

tranquil kelp
jaunty trail
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Current wip on repainting scouts....

worthy basalt
#

ordered my first plague marines

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will (eventually) post when they're put together and painted

glossy hawk
#

Pinky horrors, REALLY happen with the one with a staff

hollow goblet
# mint dove

My go-to for red armour is Gal Vorbak, then Khorne Red, then Evil Suns Scarlet if I want the whole thing to read as pure red

For this pic it seems like they used Jokaero or Troll Slayer orange for this highlight

Pro tip I found for highlights: just mix like 20-50% off-white into whatever your base colour is and you'll end up with a good highlight colour that transitions naturally

hollow goblet
mint dove
#

When you say off-white you mean like vallejo bonewhite or citadel screaming skull/Ushabti bone?

toxic stratus
#

2 out of the box advices: red highlights on black look like a pretty cool red armor. Orange and light skin color highlights on red works great

hollow goblet
toxic stratus
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I don't like mixing color for edge highlights and I don't like not mixing it for volumetric highlights

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Edges may look uneven with mixed colors but transitions just look smoother with volumes

hollow goblet
#

I kinda play it by ear tbh

I kinda avoid volumetric highlight and try to use contrasting colours for highlights instead lately I way prefer how it turns out

Cyan/pink highlighting each other is a tried and true formula for me lol

dreamy ravine
#

thats both absolutely incredible and horrifying

rare hornet
dreamy ravine
#

oh rlly? thats cool

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oh i just looked it up i see

midnight locust
#

Dunno if I wanna work on my third leman Russ or my second chimera today…

hollow goblet
#

I've started doing my gold in more layers, retributor, fleshshade, auric armour and then sigmarite and then the absolute lightest silver drybrush,

it makes it look ridiculously polished and shiny

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Rip it didn't tag the message properly

mint dove
#

Like for ork flesh I use waaagh flesh as the base then add 1:1 base tone and Elysian green then for the top most highlight I put the same amount of ogryn camo in the mix

short pawn
#

Anybody got any recommendations for vallejo alternatives to leadbelcher and retributor armor? It's getting super obnoxious not having a dropper bottle

toxic stratus
#

Game color gold and gunmetal?

short pawn
#

I have never seen or used a vallejo product before so anything you recommend to me I will just buy today at the store

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They also have army painter if anybody thinks their metallics are better

midnight locust
#

I tend to like Vallejo model air chrome for my gunmetal but to each their own

signal plover
#

I avoid AP paints typically

short pawn
tranquil kelp
#

I haven't had the best experiences with them either

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They're rattle cans nearly ruined my IG infantry

brisk vapor
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AP has has been one of the worst hobby brands, but they're redoing their paints and haven't tried the new ones. I've heard that they're pretty good

short pawn
#

I've heard really good things about their speedpaints

brisk vapor
#

yeah they seem decent but pretty prone to reactivation

signal plover
#

AP makes great tools, basing materials and brushes- their paints are pretty bad.

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I also don’t know why someone would buy speed paints over contrast or vallejo xpress

brisk vapor
#

well great is a stretch ngl, decent starter gear that will last long sure

short pawn
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I don't mind citadel's metallics I jsut cannot deal with the process of transferring it over to a pallete anymore

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Base/layer paints are fine because its easy to put them on a wet pallete

brisk vapor
#

the citadel metallics with the white caps are great, those usually cost a bit more as well

short pawn
#

I've been thinking about trying to transfer my metallics to dropper bottles but that seems so mind numbing

brisk vapor
#

but Vallejo Metal Air range are pretty much the best metallics, especially for steel and iron tones

short pawn
brisk vapor
#

well it is mainly for airbrushes but nothing is stopping you from using them with a normal brush

plain granite
#

The color metallics that army painter have work pretty nicely, Azure Magic, Gemstone, Night Scales and the like.

plush swift
#

besides my experience with them from fine art and them lying constantly about pigments, their quality is laughable at best

short pawn
#

i think ill live if my 3 dollar thing of paint is consumer grade quality paint

plush swift
#

im glad they found a niche where they can sell paint, but their hobby paints are lower quality than the fine art paints they make, and those are a massive joke within that community

plush swift
#

weirdly enough some craft paints are actually stupidly good

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like jo sonja punches way above its weight class

short pawn
#

i dont doubt it but im going to my local game store

plush swift
#

I dont know what game stores carry to be fair

patent bluff
#

Does anyone have or know about the Betrayal at Calth Heresy box?

short pawn
#

hobby brand paint, usually just vallejo AP and citadel

brisk vapor
patent bluff
#

You think it’s worth?

brisk vapor
#

I only paid like 50€ for most of the minis in it to a friend whom had it lying around

patent bluff
#

I see it comes with a Contemptor, a preator in Tartarus armor and a Chaplin

plush swift
brisk vapor
#

but nowadays you have newer MKIII marines so I'd probably go for those if I were you

patent bluff
#

Does it have mk3 or mk6?

#

Ah okay

brisk vapor
#

the contemptor is the old very stiff kit with little to no posing

signal plover
patent bluff
#

I kind of wanna get it purely for collection reason box wise as I am an avid heresy enjoyer

#

I see, thank you all for the advice

#

It’s very helpful

signal plover
#

The new heresy boxes are pretty dope

short pawn
signal plover
#

Especially the new MK 3

tranquil kelp
#

You can get the two characters from Betrayal at Calth by themselves off GW's store

short pawn
#

It's like the difference between a microphone meant for gaming and a studio microphone. It doesn't make the gaming mic dogshit, it's just accessibility and common product at a lower price. Sometimes.

plush swift
#

which is a really bad thing

short pawn
plush swift
#

they just dont understand why they fade

tranquil kelp
short pawn
#

I literally haven't seen or heard any complaints about it so it must not be a massive hobbyist grief

tranquil kelp
#

The old plastic contemptor was kinda bad

plush swift
#

I hear about it alot

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But Im also in a lot of different communities

signal plover
plush swift
#

weird, I hear endless complaints in large discords and reddit, also in person

short pawn
tranquil kelp
brisk vapor
#

I've been painting for almost 20 years and I've not really suffered from any fading

patent bluff
#

Like I said before, I just kind of wanna dip into the old stuff for Heresy just to collect and see how they are

short pawn
#

The average hobbyist probably eats red 40 by the pound

patent bluff
#

Got it like a week or two ago

plush swift
brisk vapor
#

well fluos are a separate thing entirely, but I do have my things on a lit up cabinet

tranquil kelp
plush swift
#

some hobby brands also have been using high loads of methyl violet recently, which is not something you want in this hobby

patent bluff
#

I have two of the new Contemptors, I really wanna get the Dredero and the Leviathan

plush swift
#

thats where I have a different lens as thats a health and safety concern

patent bluff
#

The dredero is prolly my favorite of the three if I’m being honest

#

I do wanna get some of the mk3 marines as well for my Homebrew Chapter

tranquil kelp
patent bluff
#

How much is it

tranquil kelp
#

If you also want the MK3 marines

brisk vapor
plush swift
patent bluff
#

Also is that the Astartes box?

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The 170 one

brisk vapor
#

I thought it was common knowledge that the effect paints by citadel and other similar brands were fluos

plush swift
tranquil kelp
brisk vapor
#

Right, haven't heard of daler rowney

#

or are they the same brand as liquitex

plush swift
#

Daler rowney is a highly popular ink in the mini painting community

tranquil kelp
#

Sorry, it's 210 usd, my bad

plush swift
#

Liquitex is a decent enough ink

tranquil kelp
#

I got one at a third party store, and it was 15% off

brisk vapor
#

I've only seen Liquitex around here

worthy basalt
#

i ordered some plague marines

#

first minis

plush swift
#

long story short, scale 75 and my company almost signed a contract for us to produce them but I cancelled it because of the blends they wanted being mutagenic carcinogens and them refusing to change them because of cost

brisk vapor
#

amazing

plush swift
#

So I have a lot of gripes about them

#

its mostly using dyes and things like methyl violet

#

one of their colors we could have literally made for about 0.02 more if we swapped to dioxazine, but nope

#

I didnt sign an nda

patent bluff
#

Just waiting till I finish my age of darkness box

plush swift
#

I would have taken the cost to the company, because dont care that much about a few bucks a year, they dont sell that much paint

worthy basalt
#

i also tried playing gsc against my mate who was running csm

#

the brood brothers baneblade was what carried if im honest

#

managed a very close loss against the abbadon death squad

#

not bad for a second game

mint dove
#

Also quick question how do I use layer paints effectively because I've only really used then to base coat and it didn't go well

tranquil kelp
plush swift
tranquil kelp
#

It did not go well

mint dove
worthy basalt
#

my first game was plague marines against csm

plush swift
worthy basalt
#

same guy

worthy basalt
#

what is this cardboard thing

#

its not a base

#

its not the first one of these i've seen

mint dove
#

Wood

worthy basalt
#

and im soon to paint my first army

mint dove
tranquil kelp
plush swift
plush swift
#

good is stretching it

#

but useable from me is high praise

brisk vapor
#

these are so fucking good, literally the only steel tones I use. Everything else is just awful compared to them

worthy basalt
#

anyway hitting my mates chaos spidertank whatever with a stolen baneblade from across the map was quite enjoyable

mint dove
#

Yeah I just superglue parts to wood for painting In subassembaly then snap em off

worthy basalt
#

especially when he (a ~189cm man) screamed like a woman

#

in terror

plush swift
worthy basalt
#

(he then brutally murdered me)

mint dove
plush swift
#

but it is

#

its literally chemically identical to house paint

tranquil kelp
tranquil kelp
worthy basalt
#

i complained that he did many unmentionable acts to tzeentch because he kept rolling so good

#

i also didn't know that vehicles could shoot into melee

plush swift
worthy basalt
#

and thus my ridgerunners (which have mining lasers) used their wheels on the rubricae

#

alas

plush swift
#

and oranges are just because I adore pyrrole orange

#

its so bright

#

and so orange

tranquil kelp
#

Luckily I play Iron Hands now, nothing complicated needed

worthy basalt
#

oh wait mining lasers have blast

plush swift
#

not brownish like most oranges

tranquil kelp
#

I usually jsut mix my oranges myself cause they're always too yellow

mint dove
#

Yknow i don't think I'll ever collect sigmar, but alot of their models go hard

worthy basalt
#

i have an idea for when i'm getting more plague marines

#

i'm gonna take some sororitas and put them on the 32mm base

#

and make sisters of rot

plush swift
#

like literally

#

even liquitex white ink

brisk vapor
#

They don't sell in small pots afaik, can't be asked to put 30€ to a bottle that I will probably only use a fifth of in my life

#

fifth is pretty generous as well

brisk vapor
#

I've only seen the 118ml ones

signal plover
#

That’s like 35-45 USD funnyrobhaha

plush swift
plush swift
brisk vapor
#

to the east a bit

#

but not too little

#

Finland

plush swift
#

I get the 3 countries mixed up there all the time

#

my geography is bad

brisk vapor
#

found an eu store that sells 30ml titanium white but that too is 6,17€ + VAT which is still pretty much

plush swift
#

ouch

#

im still looking for good local brands in europe

#

but its rough

#

things were so much simpler before brexit for this stuff too

#

its really caused me a ton of issues for work

brisk vapor
#

tell me about it

#

proper brexit geezers ruining everything for everyone

plush swift
#

lascaux is Switzerland and makes acrylic gouaches

#

and acrylic gouaches are really good

#

its basically what hobbiests dream of

#

super opaque, comes in a ton of convenience colors, easily thinned

short pawn
#

If there was a high quality green that looked identical to castellen green i'd probably buy it but i hardly ever paint white

plush swift
#

but I dont remember off hand

#

maybe a little white

#

its like an olive drab color if I recall

short pawn
#

Sounds about right

visual turret
#

I ought to get a yellow that behaves well

#

Averland fucking sucks

brisk vapor
#

I've enjoyed Vallejo's Moon Yellow and Sun Yellow

#

Paint all my hazard stripes with those

plush swift
visual turret
#

Ouh

tranquil kelp
plush swift
#

which is... VERY deep violet

#

very transparent but incredibly good

tranquil kelp
#

Probably more violet

plush swift
#

think druchi violet, but enhanced by a lot

#

in fact, druchi violet is just dioxazine

tranquil kelp
#

Would it work through an airbrush though? Cause I'd probably have to thin it a bunch

plush swift
#

its a very high tint stregnth pigment so a little goes a long way

tranquil kelp
#

I think that's just a shade though

#

looks close to phoenician purple though

plush swift
#

thats diox thinned down heavily

tranquil kelp
#

Any brands in particular you'd recommend for it?

#

GW's might be fine, but I'm trying to get away from them

plush swift
#

I personally use holbein and golden the most, but liquitex is fine too

#

keep in mind, the ones I use are not matte

#

I prefer satin to matte

tranquil kelp
#

I see golden all the time at Michaels, so I'll try that

#

Yeah I prefer satin too

#

I don't like matte very much, or glossy

plush swift
#

Dont like high gloss either

#

matte is fine for some colors

visual turret
plush swift
#

but not all for me

visual turret
#

Tsons**** oml

plush swift
#

ive seen it before

#

its basically just white and phthalo blue greenshade

maiden steppe
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Working on my custom cam apothecary, feel bad for the guys head

mint dove