40k-minis-and-armies

[mint dove]

Specifically the black a d burnt umber

[plush swift]

those are golden

[mint dove]

Oh whoops lol

[dreamy nebula]

Out of all the paints to knock over and spill

Had to be my main red

[brisk vapor]

Still having a go with these guys, with the smallest freehand I've attempted

[edgy jackal]

Creative painting handle, and you do love your sons of horus. Well done dude

[brisk vapor]

Cheers!

[patent bluff]

I’m stuck between two things right now someone help me decide

So for my Tartarus Terminator he has the Reaper Autocanon but I don’t know if sword is cooler lightning claws

[plush swift]

I got a tummy ache from the paint water😢

[tranquil kelp]

Are they the clawed fingers, or the knuckle claws?

[patent bluff]

Eh

I have to put it on

I think the knuckles?

Deff not fingers

[tranquil kelp]

What doies the sergeant have for the squad?

I'd probably go with the sword personally

Or an axe if you can

[patent bluff]

I have no axe sadly

Just a shit ton of bolters, a plasma pistol sword and power fist

[dreamy nebula]

Do I want to be codex compliant and paint my librarian blue?

[tranquil kelp]

Why would you choose to be codex compliant?

[dreamy nebula]

Doing my first army

[tranquil kelp]

You can keep the rest of the body the chapter colours, and then just paint the hood librarian blue

Dpends on how much you want him to pop out in an army

[dreamy nebula]

True, I'm just doing blood angels and I like uniform, but I might make his armor blue and his robes red

[patent bluff]

Red body blue robes

[plush swift]

...

Need to clean up the edges but it doesn’t look to bad

[static elk]

Need to toughen up at the citadel shot rack next time your at the hobby store

Kinda thick like rumchata but you get used to it

[plush swift]

I’m pretty new to this but will do

[static elk]

Could use some thinner if its too thick for you

[plush swift]

So mineral spirits work?

[static elk]

Yeah, i perfer artist white spirit myself

[plush swift]

I’ll test it out

[static elk]

I knew a guy that hotboxed primer once

I knew a guy once....

[plush swift]

I hot box my self with primer Everyday

[sturdy locust]

My first fig 💜

My own sisters of battle Faction:3

[static elk]

Lot better than my first

[sturdy locust]

I love painting and my bf has some small brushes

Oooo

I like the blood on yours

I finished my 2nd today too. The blood on her staff is..something 😅

[plush swift]

Is it real blood

[sturdy locust]

O h

👀

I jus uses blood for the blood god

[static elk]

Thats what i use nowadays

This is still an older model, has allota dust and cat hair on it

[sturdy locust]

He looks so great I love it. What is the yellow you used?

[static elk]

If i recall, its auric armor gold

[sturdy locust]

Got ittt

I use gehennas gold

[static elk]

I picked up a new one recently thats a little darker but its a base

[static elk]

Use it for shell casings

[sturdy locust]

I'm working on this one rn but the shift is almost iver

[static elk]

My current project

[sturdy locust]

Ooooo

I'd love to see how they turn out

[patent bluff]

What are they called

[static elk]

Its gonna be black with orange highlights, think tron for example

[plush swift]

Sick

[sturdy locust]

The Faction is sisters of battle. That fig came in a solo box but the other 2 are from the boarder patrol

[patent bluff]

Well I do know what the sister of battle are lol, I mean like what will you call them?

[sturdy locust]

Ikkk

I was thinking shadow sisters

I want this Faction to be like

They attack from the sides or behind

[patent bluff]

That’s pretty cool

[static elk]

NOT ERY ORKY OF YA!

[sturdy locust]

While the main frontline are being pelted the sisters sneak up behind and kill em off >:3

[patent bluff]

I love hearing about Homebrew Warhammer stuff

[sturdy locust]

Tyy

My bf has a whole marine homebrew Faction too

They were all smug and "our geneseed is the best"

They got their asses handed to them

[patent bluff]

That’s incredibly funny

[static elk]

Im working on some homebrew lore for my tau, and a reason they decided to fight with farsight

[sturdy locust]

And they're basically heretics bit NOT heretics. They didn't wanna give their geneseed to the geneseed people (I don't remember what they're called) but they came to a compromise

[patent bluff]

Whatcha got so far?

[sturdy locust]

They aren't chaos at all so not heretics:3

Just smug lil gremlins

He also has a loooot of regs. I posted photos somewhere here

[patent bluff]

Non codex compliment it sounds like

Or somewhat

[static elk]

Well something along the lines of the ethereals sent them to this volcano ridden death world to manufacture stuff. But its almost too inhospitable and they have to rely heavily on thruster based vehicles just to get around. The etherials wont give them any resources and so they have to fight with the small ammount of equipment they have left. The world is also inhabited with some form of lizard or salamanders that are immune to heat based attacks and lava

Still ironing out the details

[patent bluff]

Sounds pretty dang cool so far

[static elk]

The planet is mostly volcanic in nature, thick smog for an atmosphere and rocky jagged terrain

Mineral dense which lends to high resources

I know the tau mostly use polymers and plastic like stuff, but im sure they can still utilize minerals and ores

Also their leader is "farsight but not farsight" just another commander in a crysis suit with a sword. Because tau melee is cool

[plush swift]

Making a home brew army sounds sick

[static elk]

I really want to make a lizard mini just as a setpiece

Either partially subterainian or some form of dragon

Or i could go full on sandworm' but lava. Because i always love dune sandworm like planets

Or a lizard stand in for kroot hounds

[patent bluff]

Do it

It’s just fun to do

[plush swift]

i should try to paint a box of gene stealers but only use flesh tones

[static elk]

I forget gene stealers arent the same as hybrids

I hear genestealers and all i think is cults

[plush swift]

I just want to make meat nids

[static elk]

Hamburger nids

[plush swift]

I found a puke green I’ll definitely use

[static elk]

But i heard this and all i can think of is genestealer cults that try to wear human skin to blend in better

Some grimdark for ya right there

[plush swift]

some parts of the gene stealers im not a fan of

[static elk]

Nids and gene stealers are probably my least favorite factions, not because i hate them bjt somethings gotta be at the bottom

But this is coming from someones whos 2 favorote factions are necrons and tau

Almost polar opposites to nids

Well i take that back, eldar is my least favorite faction

[plush swift]

eldar are cool

[static elk]

I perfer drukhari

[plush swift]

dark eldar are worst

damn

[static elk]

Lol

Im a night lords enjoyer

So drukhari comes naturally

[signal plover]

Love dark eldar

[static elk]

Ill admit its still not near the top of my list, but some day i might paint some up

[plush swift]

the cool part of the dark eldar is the tower of flesh

[static elk]

I like the the basic infantry armor

Sleek but ribbed

Some of the abominations are cool too

Otherwise my list goes, necrons, tau, dark angels, night lords, renegades

Astra militarum squeezes in jist behind that because of krieg

[plush swift]

krieg alr

[static elk]

I got the kill team and i love vet guard

[plush swift]

i wanna start a Tzeentch army but all the good models are fantasy

[static elk]

Otherwise i have some dark angels redeemed

[plush swift]

blood angels are peak ngl

[static elk]

I perfer 40k blood angels over 40k darl angels

But god i love 30k dark angels

[void mica]

Yo, i wanne get my first army and im a huge necron fan. Can someone recommend me a set that would be good for a beginner ?

[static elk]

Dreadwing slapps

[static elk]

I know combat patrols are good starts but idk about the necron combat patrol

[void mica]

Okay, gonna look into that one

Thanks ^^

[static elk]

Np

[plush swift]

1000 sons models are surprisingly cheap

[static elk]

Afaik there in kinda bad shape atm

But idk i havnt played tabletop yet

[plush swift]

how so?

[static elk]

Something about psychic changes I think.

[plush swift]

damn

at least they look cool

[static elk]

Magnus was wrong

[plush swift]

isnt that the horn nipple guy

[static elk]

Yes

[plush swift]

why did they give him a horn tits

[static elk]

No idea

[patent bluff]

The command edition is pretty good

From what I’m seeing rn it comes with terrain, a good amount of Necrons and space marines (which you can sell if you don’t want) and some information

Like rules and shit

[static elk]

How much is that?

[patent bluff]

200 on Amazon

But you could prolly buy it third party for cheaper? Like on Wbay

eBay

Someone is selling the command edition and a necron battleforce for like 120

[static elk]

Thats not bad at all

Oh tjats the space marine and necron box

[patent bluff]

Yeah

Current line up of the fat people

[plush swift]

PAINT!!!! THE!!!! GUNS!!!!!

[patent bluff]

Paint my balls

[plush swift]

Bet

[patent bluff]

You a real one for that

[plush swift]

ok

ez

[quasi ridge]

Work in Progress GreyKnight Venerable Dreadnought, really wanted him with a thunder hammer so stole one from a Dreadknight and milliputed it on there.

[static elk]

Idk why but im picting the dreadnought claw spin attack but with a massive thinder hammer

[sudden notch]

I kinda want to slap hull of dreadnought on dreadknight

[dreamy nebula]

Finished my first squad ever, definitely got better by the 5th figure but still a lot more to learn 😅

[vale pollen]

Don't sell yourself short, these are great especially for your first squad. All comes with practice.

[dreamy nebula]

Thanks! I definitely learned a few tricks so hopefully it just gets better from here

[plush swift]

I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt here but the gun barrels 😭😭

still look badass though

[dreamy nebula]

Didnt know that was a thing until they were already painted lol I'll drill them out eventually

[sinful depot]

Raptor rank go brr

[feral summit]

wip

[worldly pawn]

Moebian flamer, I regret making a flamer veteran because I would’ve given the backpack to him

[sweet stirrup]

Testing the colour scheme for my Hearthkyn Salvagers Kill Team

[hollow goblet]

Army painter is actively awful in most areas except for like 7 speed paints lmao. Most of their stuff is worse quality than citadel at a barely-lower price

If there wasn't a large portion of dudes who paint irl military models who gravitate towards their aesthetic I don't think they'd be in business in the first place

Pro Acryl tends to be on the higher end of mainstream hobby paints and tend to be pretty good quality from what I've used

[short pawn]

My local game store started stocking up on Pro Acyrl so I might give it a shot. Have you tried their metallics?

[hollow goblet]

Vallejo game colour white has never let me down and I've recently started using trooper white from two thin coates as an ivory/stark white and it's also really good

[hollow goblet]

Can't say I have they're a little too pricey for me to jump into just yet I'm still buying a tonne of models at this stage

[short pawn]

Fair and respectable

I just picked up some underworld models and holy shit age of sigmar models are still a massive W

[hollow goblet]

Oh yeah AoS has some of the coolest minis I've ever seen

Horticulous Slimux is the mini that piqued my interest in the entire hobby

[short pawn]

This is actually such a cool model

[short pawn]

I'm hounding for the Sons of Verlom but I know I'll never get them

[hollow goblet]

Yeah I'm normally a turbo hipster but stormcast minis are so cool

[hollow goblet]

Especially their mages

Yeah fr its the only setting where I've ever taken an interest in the undead faction

I had a friend who played undead in WoW and I used to relentlessly bully him for picking the worst faction

[short pawn]

Don't worry that's just an inquisitor hunter

[plush swift]

I cant comment on them, I have an NDA

[hollow goblet]

That's simultaneously one of the funniest things you've ever said and also probably not a joke lmao

[short pawn]

I'm gonna run back to the shop and try out their metallics.

I just can't fuck with leadbelcher anymore

[plush swift]

they are matte metallics

which intales not a great metal look

[short pawn]

Counter argument - it has a dropper lid and I'm going to rust the shit out of it regardless

[plush swift]

look vallejo metal color of you can

[short pawn]

Couldn't find unfortunately

They only have brass, and i like citadel's brass coloring.

My ass wants some grey primer too

[hollow goblet]

You're the other OCE guy right?

[short pawn]

No i am in california

[hollow goblet]

Apparently we're gonna start getting a new primer that's wayy bigger than the vallejo cans and only a few bucks more

Ah rip

Might be Snail I'm thinking of

[short pawn]

All my homies HATE CHAOS BLACK PRIMER!!!

I CANT FUCKING SEE!!!!

[hollow goblet]

Okay but unironically I am a big hater of black primer

You kinda have to to make certain things work

[short pawn]

It's all I used at first but I cannot see the details, obviously.

[prime crown]

I used to prime wuth black then I used grey seer and never looked back

[hollow goblet]

But overall I'd rather just neutral grey everything

You have somewhere to go if you prime grey

[short pawn]

I've been priming everything with Zandri Dust recently and I like it

But i wanna try grey

[prime crown]

Mostly because color just pops up so much and you have to do less layers

[hollow goblet]

Yeah I've heard really good things actually

Wouldn't have occured to me to use a beige/cream primer but it makes sense when you think about it

[prime crown]

Ah with zandri you should favor bright tones as its pretty warm, with grey you can go either way

[short pawn]

Green shows super nice on zandri imo

[prime crown]

But zandri dust is still Settra tier

Very good

[plush swift]

I do a verdaccio base, it amplfies colors and shadows far more than black or grey

[short pawn]

(I am a guard player and Zandri does 99% of my job)

[hollow goblet]

Yeah Zandri seems like something you'd use to like "support" bad coverage stuff like yellow pink and green

[plush swift]

black and grey basing has been an outdated method since the 1600s

[hollow goblet]

I've seen a lot of people use it for ksons too,

[short pawn]

Zandri dust makes citadel yellow work

Like somehow

It just makes it so normal

[hollow goblet]

Ends up looking a little too muted for my liking but it has a very "clean" soft look

[short pawn]

I'm thinking that I need to whip out the grey primer for my 99% metallic armored dudes though

[hollow goblet]

I need everything I paint to look like a particle effect on an overwatch skin tbf tho

[short pawn]

My only gripe with age of sigmar is the amount of metal...i fucking hate metallic paints and i am NOT trying out NMM

[hollow goblet]

As someone who bought retributor spray to paint ksons and now literally never uses it unless I'm specifically painting rubrics grey for metals is the way

[short pawn]

I assume you were using not citadel rattlecans right

[hollow goblet]

I was

[prime crown]

Id prolly use zandri dust if grey seer didnt do my uniforms for me then lol

[hollow goblet]

The GW guy at the store talked me into it being my only can

I no longer shop there

[short pawn]

That bad?

[short pawn]

Awesome color scheme

I'm a little mad that I went for generic cadian colors but at least green is my favorite color

[prime crown]

Forget about Freeman vibe (accidental)

[hollow goblet]

Look I get that it's nothing personal and that GW puts a lot of pressure on managers to push sales and make their money. But I actually felt like the guy lied to me about my army so he could upsell me a $50 can of spray paint and I was pissed

[short pawn]

Man yeah 100% some GW store owners are so fucking pushy

[hollow goblet]

Also bought some of the turbodork colourshift stuff today

[short pawn]

I just tried to have a conversation about the new tyranid models and he tried walking me over to the till to get some and im like wtf no i just wanted to ask you a question

[hollow goblet]

Lets see if you can actually get this effect without an airbrush

[hollow goblet]

Yeah dude it feels super icky when a lot of people who do hobby stuff are very socially awkward and aren't always able to shut that stuff down

[short pawn]

It's really sad to think of that happening

[hollow goblet]

It's essentially what happened to me I would've preffered to quickly google primer stuff but the dude was adamant that because I paint ksons I'd need gold spray bc "it will make everything easier"

[short pawn]

Another reason why I love my local game store. Anytime I want to talk about my models he doesn't even care if I buy anything

[hollow goblet]

No it just tints my fuckin contrast paints

[short pawn]

You'll never believe what was suggested to my world eaters friend

[hollow goblet]

Real my local LGS is absolutely phenominal

They'll let you just go there to hang out upstairs and not buy shit

[short pawn]

My LGS just randomly had a 25% discount on everything for an entire month, including the brand new battle forces

I paid like 160 bucks for mine

Instead of 210

I get citadel primer from them for 16 bucks when its nearly 30 at GW....

[hollow goblet]

Yeah we have a partnership with GW and our store loyalty card gives us a 10% discount that converts directly into store credit if you spend over $100 at once

Which honestly: when aren't you when it comes to warhammer lmao

[short pawn]

We have like a weird stamp system when you spend over 50

Up to 20% off redeemable when filled out i think

[short pawn]

Bro i went to the store to buy vallejo gun mental and I left with this

[hollow goblet]

I feel like you could use that tactically and save huge

[short pawn]

Its an actual curse

[hollow goblet]

Like those coupon moms lmao

[short pawn]

I definitely do

[hollow goblet]

Lmaoooo story as old as time

[short pawn]

I bought 2 leman russes 15% off while they had a sale. I paid maybe 110 when it would have been 160

[hollow goblet]

Ngl that wyrdhollow box has been in my sights for a while

[short pawn]

It was actually at the store and I really regret not getting it

[hollow goblet]

Those tzeentch daemons are easily the best they've ever designed

[short pawn]

FR

THEY'RE SO ICKY

[hollow goblet]

I'm gonna grab spares of thw two little guys and put them on my lord of change base

[short pawn]

I'm really happy with my skeletons though

[hollow goblet]

Those are the ones people like to use to test paint schemes right?

[short pawn]

Yeah

[hollow goblet]

The cairn wraiths I think

[short pawn]

No its like guard something

I always see the shield and sword dude in the middle used as a test pallete

[toxic stratus]

Poor guy is the most generic skeleton in the pack

[short pawn]

Don't underestimate Johnny Skeleton

[hollow goblet]

Nah I meant these things lool

I can kinda see why tho now I've googled them,

They're like 9usd each and come in solo blister packs

Plus there's like depth and metal so I could see this making a good universal tester model

[patent bluff]

Real

[sinful depot]

You did awesome I've seen worse from "professional painters that have been doing it for years" that don't bother priming or thinning paints congrats! As you gain more experience you can always go back and add small touch ups

[dreamy nebula]

Thank you! Only place to move is forward

[patent bluff]

The only true way to paint a necron

[plush swift]

Average necron paint job

he looks like mercury

Yummy

[prisma quartz]

its just extra armour he will clearly be more powerful in combat 😌

definitely not the best painter but some lil guys i painted mostly just for fun and to learn how to paint better, definitely not any existing hive fleet but i might make them look a little more like gorgon nids later i havent painted minis in years so im still learning and theyre a bit messy. dont come at me for how messy i got the bases lul ill fix it later

[mint merlin]

I too enjoy the +1 bonus to the armor save

[plush swift]

Goop marine

[brisk vapor]

The Reaver got some marines for scale

[solid junco]

Finnished le kitbash

[pastel grotto]

"Brothers this fortress has a fancy entrance archway"

[plush swift]

crotch banner

[patent bluff]

Holy shit that’s nice

[brisk vapor]

Cheers!

[brisk vapor]

Now they're among their bigger brethren

[short pawn]

Casually owns a display cabinet that rivals an exhibit at warhammer world 😭

[brisk vapor]

Hah cheers, I just enjoy painting my little dudes

[short pawn]

Just curious, but do you play as well or just get models for the painting side of it?

[brisk vapor]

It's like 80-20 painting and playing

I'd like to play more but don't usually have the energy or the time for it more than once or twice a month or two

Usually I can get more games in during the summer

[signal plover]

Ima need pics of your horus when you get the chance

[brisk vapor]

Sure just a sec

[brisk vapor]

I have slightly better pics on my PC but here's what I have on my phone

[signal plover]

Hot damn

That's defo the sharpest horus the warmaster I've ever seen

[brisk vapor]

Much appreciated

[signal plover]

Do you do commissions at all?

[brisk vapor]

I actually started my very first one this week but no I don't regularly do them

[signal plover]

Was gonna say you could prob make a pretty penny on the side

[brisk vapor]

It's pretty hard to put value on the work when you've not done so before

I also like to have time to do my own projects, I've not gathered a 550 model backlog for nothing

[short pawn]

Anybody got any experience with dark silver pro acryl?

[mint dove]

I have 940 points of space marines which is enough to play a game but only have 710 points if orks, 3 squads of boyz, 3 coptaz,1 deff dredd, 1 big mekk, 2 meganobz, 1 warboss. What should I buy to get My orkz playable?

[plush swift]

seething

wish i had a collection as good as this i havent even painted my intercessors yet

[mint dove]

Dude I have so much shit to paint, 20 intercessors, 5 terminators, 3 inceptors, 30 boyz, 20 skaven, 1 redemptor, 1 furioso, 1 chaplain,1 warboss and 1 big mekk...and I still want to buy more

[plush swift]

yes

[prime crown]

Oh wow very cool sons of horus

Are those terminators naturally that big or you made them bigger somehow?

[patent bluff]

I think you like the Sons of Horus? Just a guess though

[static elk]

damn i aspire to have a display case of horus hersey/40k minis

[patent bluff]

Real shit

I wanna get a collection of Luna Wolves Ong

I really want that model of Abaddon vs Loken

[static elk]

thatreiver is clean af too, i like the stance

[patent bluff]

Fr

Dude is insane

[static elk]

I didnt add terrain so this is what i went for

[patent bluff]

Oh nice

I wanna add a dead marine under my Contemptor

[static elk]

Hes also not glued down yet because i may add stuff to the base

[patent bluff]

I didn’t pose him at all which I regret but idc too much as imma put rocks on the base too

[static elk]

I hate boring straight legs

No flavor

No story

[patent bluff]

Don’t spread your hate to me little man

[static elk]

Who you callin little

Im a hatefull big man thank u very much

[patent bluff]

Okay

Big man*

I’m still new to laying bases and posing

And painting so I’m learning as I go

[static elk]

Well thats fair, i do the problem of posing first then trying to base

Also im not good at bases

Nor do i have the materials to base

[patent bluff]

I just throw some of this sand shit I got

[static elk]

All my minis have the same desert base

[patent bluff]

I got barbed wire too which I wanna put on my contemptors shit

[static elk]

Thatl be cool

[patent bluff]

I wanna put a terminator on the base as well to show that the Contemptor was fucking shit up

[static elk]

I wanna try some lava on a few bigger bases when i get the chance

[patent bluff]

Real

[static elk]

This thing is so old and dried up my tau are the last ones to get it

But i decided to put it on first then prime, so i can paint the terrian ashen gray, with some orange poking through

[patent bluff]

Oh I fuck with that

I got some small rocks from my backyard that imma throw onto my base

[static elk]

Thats just torn up cork for rocks but i like it

The project so far

Im actually really tempted to reverse the intended color scheme

Orange armor with plblack panel lines

[dreamy nebula]

Sounds like a cool scheme

[static elk]

It feels more tau to me

Maybe the battlesuits can be black with orange energy

[rare hornet]

More progress, (note the torso isn’t permanently attached to the legs yet)

[short pawn]

That silver is so attractive

[patent bluff]

Does he have a name

[rare hornet]

Not yet, maybe once he’s done I’ll give him one

[patent bluff]

Obama

Or Epstein

Both would be funny

[wary sonnet]

Swap the smurf for a mustard jar.

[rare hornet]

Mustard jar?

[wary sonnet]

Yellow.

You know.

[rare hornet]

Oh fists. Nah too cliché and anyways my friend has HH ultramarines

[jaunty trail]

Current wip on hernkyn pioneer bike...

[hoary ermine]

I gave him his arms back, so he may once again, pass the boof

[wise wraith]

does anyone here have drukhari? i cannot for the life of me decide a color scheme for them

[dreamy nebula]

Oh that is

Love me some iron warriors

[sterile grail]

PEAK

[short pawn]

Very stupid question, but can you mix white paint into metallics to make a lighter color for highlights?

I really dont use metallics so

[desert burrow]

Nah, but you could shade whatever you've got as metal, then use the normal color as a highlight.

[signal plover]

Pick a color, drybrush a lighter version of that color over it, paint the eyes a contrasting color- jobs done

Source: guy who repainted his drukhari five times

[brisk vapor]

They're normal sized Tartaros termies

[brisk vapor]

Well it's for the Horus Heresy game and it isn't even a playable force yet but yeah I do think they're pretty cool. Their legion colours are very nice indeed

[short pawn]

Smart idea

[short pawn]

They're so CUTE

[plush swift]

kind of, but its kind of tricky

that being said, never use white for highlights

[short pawn]

Dw i just discovered stormhost silver and it fixed everything

That pro acrylic paint is my new favorite thing ever in history

[plush swift]

it desaturates the color and doesnt provide an actual highlight

use naples yellow instead for most colors

[plush swift]

I use NIR pigments for my highlight and shading for metallics

which work really well but thats some hyper advanced color theory to use them

as it has to do with the memorization of how light particles interact with pigments

but the results are nuts, they enhance the highlights and shadows a lot and block off radient light so when you turn them the shadows pop more

fun fact, they are used on sealth aircraft because they also help prevent IR missiles from tracking the planes

pointless fact but fun

[tranquil kelp]

Are you saying your minis are undetectable by radar?

[hollow goblet]

Basing some yucky boys for my friends kill team

Doing the bases first so I can give him a chance to paint them

These sculpts are too tempting lol

[toxic stratus]

You should've primed them before applying yuck. He won't be happy having to prime them with brush

[hollow goblet]

They're already primed lol I just prime everything in grey

[toxic stratus]

My bad, gray plastic monkey brain

[plain granite]

Beserker!

[plush swift]

yes

[dawn stream]

That's great

[static elk]

Technucally ir, radar paint is designed to absorb

[dawn stream]

Put that on stealth units for max rp

[static elk]

Sadly radar paint isnt perfect and with the high heat of flying around, its needs stripped and replaced constantly

I also doubt it conforms to minis very well

[silver thorn]

not mine but

[compact umbra]

[static elk]

Fell like i should be stuffin $20s in his loincloth

[jovial siren]

That's texture paint. That's specifically clumpy for base painting. Or were you intending it for that and I misunderstood you?

[static elk]

Thats its intended use but its so old its mostly hardened inside the bottle

I just need some new stuff

[ornate bramble]

How do knight armies work in Horus heresy? I was thinking something mostly with cerastus knights like 1 of them, a helverin squad and a questoris knight

[edgy jackal]

You can mix ground volcanic stone (common gardening material) or fine industrial sand with craft paint and pva glue and probably get similar results. Granted, you'd have to mix up a new batch every time you're basing.

[static elk]

Yeah im very bew to painting, so basing is pretty basic for me, i tend to just paint over that stuff in the picture for whatever quality ground i want

[midnight locust]

Wip. I’m happy with the other sides but this one feels off

[static elk]

Could use more green in the open spaces, posibly just on the side turrets

[plush swift]

Holy molly 🤤

[midnight locust]

Yeah i was thinking the same thing

[static elk]

What the other side look like

Could also speckle some brown if you want a 3rd color

Classic german color scheme

[midnight locust]

@static elk

[static elk]

Yeah theres definetly less dead space of just tan on those sides

[midnight locust]

Comparison to my chimera

[static elk]

Thats a nice chimera

[midnight locust]

Thanks, I’ve been on vacation so my painting eye has decreased a bit

[static elk]

Im getting my airbrush today or possibly over the weekend, then im gonna start my tau

[midnight locust]

Yeah so I’ll add green here (black outline)

[static elk]

I like it, and maybe a small dab at the top left of the turret

[midnight locust]

Maybe some in the bottom right corner

[static elk]

Or a little around the bottom right wheel

Yeah

[midnight locust]

Something maybe like that

The sponson gun housings will be black so that should help too

[static elk]

Oh yeah thatll definetly break it up

[midnight locust]

For comparison here is one of my other Russes

[static elk]

I think the consistent angle of the green really helps

Like it looks like all the green is traveling at a 30⁰ angle

@plush swift just out of curiousity if i paint my armor in this, should i use some whites or something as a highlight?

Not really sure what goes well with orange

[plush swift]

Orang

[static elk]

Like trying to rhyme with orange

[plush swift]

Bornana

[static elk]

Hmmmmm

So edge higlight with yellow

[plush swift]

Yeah

[static elk]

Yeah i like it

[plush swift]

You edge highlight colors that rhyme

[static elk]

Im airbruahing a zenithal and yhen airbrushing the armor orange, but from there the rest will be by habd

[compact umbra]

colors only work if you paint in alphabetical order

[static elk]

I mean i was just joking about eminem making words rhyme with orange

Poridge, but pronounced poringe

[compact umbra]

but yeah, air paint literally just contrast

basically

wait is gw air basically contrast

or am i thinking of army painter

[toxic stratus]

uh, a brighter orange?

[plush swift]

Yellow???!?!??

[static elk]

Seems like a little overkill, but yeah we try yellow

[compact umbra]

just mix some orange and white on a pallet if you want

[toxic stratus]

you started with an already bright orange

[compact umbra]

whoops wrong person

[toxic stratus]

I guess going yellow isn't a bad idea

[plush swift]

It’s good :3

[static elk]

Yeah i just havnt done this before

[plush swift]

How do you edge highlight cyan

[static elk]

Bannana

[plush swift]

Tanks

[static elk]

Tan......

Well nvm my airbrush doesnt arrive untill the 8th

Big sad

[plush swift]

Big airbrush is trying to sabotage the American people

[static elk]

Its a conspiracy i tell ya

[static elk]

Cadmium yellows looking good

Still has some orange to it

[midnight locust]

@static elk update. Much better

[static elk]

Hell yeah

[static elk]

using advanced technology to plan my paint scheme

considering a bone white undersuit but i like the contrast of the brown on orange

[wise wraith]

Idk why people say dow2 is better than 1

[plush swift]

as more newer painter, stay away from cadmiums

its not exactly toxic

but it isnt completely safe if its inhaled

[cosmic mulch]

dude the aspect ratio is both giving me nostalgia and melancholy

[static elk]

i can see their point but i do per dow1 also

[static elk]

ok ill see what i can find for similar colors

just a brighter yellow but with some orange tint

[wise wraith]

Yellow sucks ass in general btw

[static elk]

dow 2 feels slow af

[wise wraith]

I thought dow2 was gonna be like empire earth and I was horribly disappointed

[plush swift]

diairylide yellow

[plush swift]

it doesnt, stop using trash paint

hobby paints are incredibly low quality and overload the binder

Use a professional brand like golden or turner

you wont have those problems with yellows

with pigments like niobium tin pyrochlore and bismuth vanadate, you really shouldnt claim they suck

NTP yellow is incredibly

[static elk]

i like this diairylide

[plush swift]

best warm yellow ive used is NTP yellow

its so fucking good

as a watercolor is was stupidly opaque too

so once I throw it into an acrylic gouache base, it'll cover black in a single coat no problem

[wise wraith]

I'm working off the basis that Watson is using hobby paints which do in fact blow ass as far as yellow goes

[static elk]

almsot all my paint is citadel except my blacks and whites

[wise wraith]

Yeah citadels yellows are by far some of the worst

[plush swift]

by far, yes

well no

the worst is scale 75

[cosmic mulch]

i feel sorry for you

[wise wraith]

Idk every paint 😔 I just know the popular hobby paints

[cosmic mulch]

i mean to be fair ... talking miniature paints citadel is not the worst ... but it most definetly is overpriced for the quality

[static elk]

My least favorite part is the containers, they suck

[cosmic mulch]

and citadel white is prolly the worst white i ever worked with

[plush swift]

its glorified house paint

literally

[static elk]

This is my only non citadel colors

[plush swift]

createx is a quality brand

[cosmic mulch]

straight up ... if you just wanna get decent cheap paint thats good for its price ... Army Painter is like the lowest you can go

[plush swift]

jo sonya

its better than army painter and most hobby paints

and its cheaper than dirt

its very close to being a professional grade

I was highly impressed by it

[cosmic mulch]

sounds like igotta give that a try

[plush swift]

which says a lot if I'm saying that

I have critisized top end brands for having dog shit paint

and how they cheaped out on them

[static elk]

This is my current plan for my tau but the averland subset will get replaced with that diariylide, idk if i want the symbols to be silver or gold/bronze

Could go with a balthasar gold for them

I wanna use rhinox hide for the cloth and highlight it with mournfang

[plush swift]

I think I need to get some of these paints to understand the struggle as a few of the ones I've tried that people have said are really bad, we're just kind of transparent and not completely opaque

Which is not that hard to work with

Just do a base tone that isn't black

Just stop using black as a whole

For base tones at least

[static elk]

Well for me these are the best paints ive ever used simply because i havnt used any other brand

Ill admit i really like the pro acryl tho, even if it is just white

[plush swift]

I mean that's why most people claim citadel is good

It's they generally only speaking have used those paints and maybe low grade craft paint

[static elk]

Yeah, makes sense

[plush swift]

Just me or it feels like I spend more time cleaning my airbrush than actually painting with it

[plush swift]

That's the life of a airbrush, That's why you have multiple airbrushes

Damn

Luckily I got a decently inexpensive one

[plush swift]

I have several expensive ones and they take way less time to clean

i would get more expensive ones but i think im a bit rough with the one i have rn

[jaunty trail]

Wip update on hernkyn pioneers bike....

[wild monolith]

One of several dozen simulated pics on the very chapter I'll be painting this weekend.

[short pawn]

Can you paint over varnish?

I have no idea how varnish works on miniatures

I'd like to highlight the metal more but I already used a spray varnish plus an enamel wash

[mint dove]

Tried some glazing. Fucked it up bad

It just kinda went everywhere :/

I really don't understand how to glaze properly, it just seems unworkable

[short pawn]

I mean imo that looks good

If you concentrate it harder on the upperhalves and make it lighter as you get lower it looks like a beating sun scorching the planet beloe

[mint dove]

I tried but it just kinda looks messy :/

[short pawn]

When we try new things we expect our first try to be a certain way, the next time will be better. But still, i think you did great

[bold oak]

did some painting for the first time in a few years any tips on what i could do on it(except the water thingies i am gonna add them but waiting a bit for it)

[short pawn]

I think you did an amazing job, for the next space marine you could try to weather him if you wanted a more battle scarred brother

[bold oak]

did some weathering on the rifle but yeah for being my first in a few years im really satisfied with it

sadly theres not too much darkangels stuff in the stores where i live so i have to order stuff like the water marks etc

[short pawn]

Did you see the new army box??

Its so good

[bold oak]

not in the store but i know it exists online. might have been out of it as it was right after christmas

[short pawn]

No its not out yet

Its the oops all terminators one

Deathwing and shit

[bold oak]

oooo gotta go check that out

[short pawn]

ITS SO COOL. im gonna start mt dark angel army with it

[bold oak]

i started with dark vengance way back with baltazar and his dark angels and some smaller teams

but now im trying to build up a primaris army instead just in case i play any games in the future

[short pawn]

Sick! I'm excited to see your army expand

You paint every model like the one you did earlier and thats gonna look amazinf

[peak flicker]

Valorous Heart WIP

[mint dove]

So I'm trying to batch paint all the skin on My orks but the problem is it's kinda messy and I end up getting green on parts I don't want to be green.

My problem is cleaning it up

I use gray seer primer but don't have gray seer in a pot

Can a paint expert tell me which of these is closest to gray seer? Ulthuan gray, administratum gray, vallejo stonewall gray,

[short pawn]

Wait why do you need it to be gray seer again?

Arent you gonna paint ocer that with another color anyways?

[mint dove]

Yes but some of it will be contrast paint

So anything under is gonna show through

And I want it to be as close as possible to gray seer to cover well

[short pawn]

Ehhh in my opinion it shouldn't be that much of a difference if you use two different grays

Especially if you shade afterwards

Could always try it out. Get a primed pallete or a spare miniature/sprue

[patent bluff]

That looks so nice

It’s crazy how some people don’t like the Sisters, they are dripped out and full of exaggerated swagger

[plush swift]

Would a dark silver or a lighter silver be good for the skeleton of a knight

[peak flicker]

It might he the color schemes. It's either red, black or white with trims of gold and silver or vice versa

[plush swift]

Sister are just a pain to paint

[mint dove]

Gotcha. I think I may just go backto painting one mini at a time. Batch painting saves time but I find myself running out of paint quickly

[hollow goblet]

My go-to is pink horror or something along those lines

[patent bluff]

Fair enough

[plush swift]

I’m trying to paint a knight I don’t know if pink would look good

[dreamy nebula]

Spray primer on your pallette and paint it with your grays, if none match you can add a little black or white until it does

[plush swift]

Yes but it's highly not recommended to do

[short pawn]

Why?

[plush swift]

Varnish is not designed to have anything go over it

Varnishes a removable substance that is not supposed to bond to anything, It is used to It is used as something to protect the painting from dirt

Specifically and is supposed to be removable

[short pawn]

Oh well that kinda sucks then

[plush swift]

Some of the acrylic ones technically bond to the surface but not really

Automotive varnish does bond to the surface

[short pawn]

I really wanted to highlight my model after an enamel wash

[plush swift]

But that's a different type of thing

[plush swift]

Oh you couldn't do that period

Enamel washes are nothing more than an alkyd oil wash

Which you can never at any point put an acrylic over that including an acrylic varnish

This is something a lot of hobbyist will argue with me with but I have documents backing this up

[short pawn]

I tried to sound fancy. I used streaking grime and white spirits

[plush swift]

Like it can do things from starting fires to just basically killing people around you

It produces a lot of toxic particles

And at the very nice end of it, it'll cause all your paint to crack up

[plush swift]

Yeah that's oil-based

You cannot put anything over that at any point

Unless it's specialized automotive varnish

And now you have to wait 6 to 8 months before you can put another coat over it

Or else it will remove your base layers and cause massive cracking due to the off gassing of the oil

[short pawn]

But I'm removing it with white spirit, its not there

[plush swift]

That is not how that works

[short pawn]

Its only in the recesses

[plush swift]

The oil will leave a residue there that cannot be removed

This is a really common problem within my field

[mint dove]

Here's a helpful picture I use for what can go over what

[plush swift]

Enamel is also really fun thing because it has zero meaning

It is nothing more than a marketing term

Funny enough to be able to get any information out of AK about their enamel washes, I actually had to bring lawyers in threatening lawsuits

Turns out they're really scared of lawyers because they're breaking a ton of laws

And I mean a lot of laws so yeah

[short pawn]

Thogg dont caare

[plush swift]

Most don't

[shut forge]

Honestly wish I had the money to do this when the storm came out, but I'm an adult now and I get to make my dream

The death car

[hollow goblet]

Has anyone got a cheat way to get Necron legs?

[plush swift]

yes

[hollow goblet]

Trying to find like 3-5 pairs so I can assemble the rest of the deathmarks/immortals in the hierotek team but the legs are looking really difficult to source

Can't even seem to find STLs for them

[plush swift]

I have stls for them actually

but my cheat way is sprues and green stuff

[hollow goblet]

Yoo I have a large backsupply of both that I've been hoarding for something like this

[plush swift]

do you have blue stuff?

[hollow goblet]

I'm guessing you wanna shave the spues down to being a bit smoother rather than bulk them up with greenstuff?

Nah I have regular greenstuff, milliiput and airdry clay

[plush swift]

also known as thermosilicone molding putty

[hollow goblet]

Yeah that's the stuff people use to recast bits right?

[plush swift]

Yes

[hollow goblet]

Been meaning to grab some so I can rebuild my tzaangors but haven't yet

[plush swift]

its very useful

I use it a lot to recast broken parts

or extend parts correctly

[hollow goblet]

I have a single set of legs that I've deliberately left out so I can recast if I have to

So it might even be easier to do that

[plush swift]

its pretty cheap

[hollow goblet]

They didn't have it at my LGS last time I went in so probably have to order some

Ty tho I have an actual direction to go with these now

[plush swift]

most LGSs wouldnt have it

its a japanese import specialty item

its mostly used for other things, like resin pours or other weird things

its insanely useful

[dreamy nebula]

Throwing infiltrator helms on my incursors bc the half helm is dumb fight me

[hollow goblet]

Yeah I've noticed a huge crossover between like nail technicians, resin crafting tik tokers and miniature hobbyists when it comes to equipment they use lol

Constantly catch myself seeing random nail painting videos and wanting to replicate the stuff they do on minis

[short pawn]

I will fight with you

Fuck bald headed space marines

[shut forge]

I'm getting mk6 heads for my marines

[plush swift]

I will fight you, but my reasons are stupider than yours are

[shut forge]

And a few mk7 just for old times sake

[plush swift]

its not true warhammer unless you put the helmets on upside down

fight me

[short pawn]

Primaris armor is just objectively better sculpts but i just hate their armor design so much

I don't like how lean they are

Really only the artwork is what bothers me. I love the models

[dreamy nebula]

I like the phobos armor models

[short pawn]

I love gravis armor and i know thats unpopular

[dreamy nebula]

Gravis is awesome, I'm gonna build my aggressors next

Working on the BA combat patrol

[short pawn]

Oh sick! I love the BA combat patrol. Haven't got yet but its in the works

[dreamy nebula]

Yeah its awesome, think I'm gonna get the DA one next and get some BA upgrade sprues on ebay or something

[naive umbra]

Even more unpopular opinion as a Xenos main, I can't tell the difference between any of the Space Marine armour

[hollow goblet]

Still think they should have doubled down on "different chapters prefer/use different armour marks"

[short pawn]

I would prefer if they didn't lock cool armors behind chapters tbh. But a chapter preference is fine

[hollow goblet]

They sorta do it for the god cult chaos legions but I would way prefer if the tankier chapters like sallys leant more towards the bulkier mk3 armour like death guard did

Instead of everyone being in ultramarine armour with a different rattlecan over it

Would make sense for like EC, Ravenguard, Word Bearers and Alpha Legion to all use a significantly lighter/skinnier suit and have it reflect in datasheets too

Idk man I can't stand the way space marines operate, if they're not unique enough for their own minis and codex are they really unique enough to exist in the first place

[short pawn]

Well i mean there has to be some overlap

At the end of the day space marines are just a combat unit and will use the same armor

I'm fine with generic soldiers getting generic armor, its the cool armor the special units/heroes deserve

[hollow goblet]

Yeah but that feels like it defeats the whole "18 legions with their own special history and gimmick" thing imo

The chapters were meant to have massively different appearances, culture and fighting styles and the space marine codex massively sterilizes it

[short pawn]

Idk about massively different

Appearance

Space marines were just colored differently during their inception

And honestly it's not feasible to have every single space marine chapter have every unit be special. Space marines get enough attention as is, this would be an insane hard focus on an already obnoxiously relevant faction

[hollow goblet]

Then realistically what are the chapters except a coat of paint?

Idk man the way the whole thing gets handled is just a huge fumble

[short pawn]

Well they have different characters, sometimes their own units, lore, and playstyles

[hollow goblet]

Yeah but there's fundamental difference in the physicality of each legion, let alone anything like Iron Hands that demands unique kitbashed models

Like salamanders are often twice as tall as ultramarines and there's nothing to really represent that despite the fact the chapters are meant to have their own identity

[short pawn]

Well i mean that's also why they sell upgrade kits and their space marine intercessors are generic. You can customize them to how you want instead of just buying "BLOOD ANGEL INTERCESSOR PACK"

[hollow goblet]

Yeah but the upgrade kits are ridiculously expensive for what they are

[short pawn]

I won't argue against that, that's just truth

[hollow goblet]

Like buying two upgrade kits is the same price as the box itself quite often, its not a very elegant solution imo and it feels even less worth it now chapters are just detachments yknow

[short pawn]

I am a deathwing shill and my favorite space marine faction is over-represented so I shouldn't speak on it anyways

I'm sure if I was a white scar or imperial fist fan i would be in tears

[toxic stratus]

Eh, it's about customization and not using blueberries with basic equipment

[hollow goblet]

Only loyalist factions I liked are grey knights and Dark Angels tbf

[short pawn]

I love dark angels so much

I dont know jack about their lore

[hollow goblet]

Sallys are growing on me tho, feels like a lot of what I enjoyed about old death guard

[short pawn]

But they're cool

[toxic stratus]

Buy custom bits from etsy for chump change, go to town with green stuff, make bases with garbage idk... It's super fun

[hollow goblet]

They have Leman Russ syndrome where they kinda feel like a chaos legion even though they're not

[short pawn]

Idk if I interpreted the lore correctly but the dark angles got so angry they lost a battle that they summoned a warp storm by accident?

THE DARK ANGLES

NOOOOO

TYPO

[hollow goblet]

I'm not actually sure about that one tbh

[short pawn]

No i completely misread it i think

Chaos got mad and destroyed caliban

[hollow goblet]

I wish but OCE tax means that you're always paying triple in shipping than what the item is worth

[short pawn]

I do not envy that situation

Wait did you ever get your necrons back?

[hollow goblet]

I know Vashtorr rebuilt a fucked version of Caliban in the warp to try and piss the lion off

My combat patrol?

Nein

[short pawn]

Damn

[obsidian flax]

3rd company dark angels gravis captain

[toxic stratus]

Angles left half of their roster at home, they got angry because they got benched. Jealous guy and his close friends got corrupted, wounded lion in the fight, chaos tore the planet because benched guys were losing. Big portion of their roster is thrown into spacetime blender

[hollow goblet]

Should probably check in and see if they ever arrested the guy who sold them but I doubt it cops here are lazy as hell

[short pawn]

Thank you

I really wanna do a full death wing army but i dont think thats viable

[obsidian flax]

Lion came back and forgave the evil dark angels and now theyre one big happy family again

[short pawn]

And would probably look weird

[obsidian flax]

You can run full deathwing

Its only the 1st company after all

[hollow goblet]

Oh yeah and The Lion got a new primarch superpower that seems to essentially be a pocket dimension with its own tiny webway

So fucker can vanish and teleport now

[obsidian flax]

Yep he can teleport now

Forest-walk is what its called

[short pawn]

Idk seeing like 50 terminators on a battlefield would be weird i think

[obsidian flax]

Ive got half that in my angels so far

[toxic stratus]

And GW took away their chapter wide teleport engine

[short pawn]

Arent termies like super rare and not used in massive open battles

[obsidian flax]

Plan on getting the new box set with all those new terminators and belial too

[short pawn]

I have literally never wanted anything as bad as that box

[hollow goblet]

Termies tended to be saved as bodyguards for important ppl during heresy, no?

I know that's how all of the scarab occult terminators worked

[obsidian flax]

Dark angels are special, theyre the 1st legion so they get more of the rare toys the other chapters dont get

[short pawn]

That's probably why they have an entire section of their chapter dedicated to terminators huh

My brains empty

[hollow goblet]

Bc absolutely all of the SoT's got rubric'd bc Tzeentch thought they were boring and already behaved like autotoma

[toxic stratus]

Nope, they're generally melee assault line units, getting tped to frontlines and punch tanks in the face

[obsidian flax]

Most chapters 1st company is reserved for terminators but id say the dark angels have the biggest

[short pawn]

Does Deathwing use dreadnoughts?

[obsidian flax]

Yes

[tranquil kelp]

Everyone uses dreadnoughts

[short pawn]

Okay fine....I'll start a deathwing army

[tranquil kelp]

cause they're cool

[obsidian flax]

Even ravenwing

[hollow goblet]

Some of the regular rubrics actually didn't get thanos snapped fun fact but it had to do with whether or not Tzeentch thought you were a sufficiently silly little guy

[obsidian flax]

YIPPEE

painting bone armor is a bitch though so heads up

[short pawn]

I'm a guard player but I'm at 2K points so I'm willing to start a new army

(I have not built half my army)

[tranquil kelp]

The ones with enough warp power didn't, right?

[obsidian flax]

BUILD THEM

[short pawn]

I dont wanna

[obsidian flax]

guard are way easier to build than marines

Except leman russ treads

[short pawn]

I got like 30 guardsmen, an artillery cannon, a valkyrie, a command squad, and a heavy weapons squad to build

[hollow goblet]

Yeah the codex says it was only powerful sorcerors who survived the rubric but the ahriman books explain that it was essentially just everyone Tzeentch found interesting

[short pawn]

Already built 40 guardsmen, 3 rogal dorns. 2 leman russes, and a baneblade

Among other things i forgot to mention

[obsidian flax]

Wrong person

[hollow goblet]

lmao true

[obsidian flax]

Love me tanks

I need a dorn

[short pawn]

I like to get creative with guard, i hate repeat poses. So i try to mix in upgrade sprues or kitbash as much as physically possible.

Its not easy for me to build

[hollow goblet]

Tyrant skull has been a huge crutch for me painting anything bone related

[obsidian flax]

I have a banesword and like 5 leman russes, 2 basilisks, and a chimera

[hollow goblet]

Easily the best behaving drybrush paint

[short pawn]

Dude i want a basilisk so bad

I also want a deathstrike

[obsidian flax]

I should look into that ive been trying to find a way to speed paint my deathwing

[hollow goblet]

Me with chaos cultists, most chaos undivided stuff just looks like Khorne units that listen to too much KoRn so I have to go nuts kitbashing or converting or finding proxies

[hollow goblet]

Its really good and the finish is super consistent

[obsidian flax]

Whats the undercoat + shade combo with it?

[short pawn]

I still cant drybrush despite all my fucking fighting

How can i edge highlight like a deity but i cant drybrush

[hollow goblet]

Quite literally just a mostly cleaned-off brush right onto grey works really well for me most of the time

dry paints are more like thicker putties

[obsidian flax]

Take paint, wipe on rag, flick wrists like hell

[hollow goblet]

So they cover well

[short pawn]

I DO!!!!!!!

I'm just BRAINDEAD

[obsidian flax]

Practice makes perfect

Its alot easier on those tanks

Bigger surface area to paibt

Paint

[hollow goblet]

The trick is to get rid of more paint than youd think you have to, you wanna have to put a bit of pressure onto the brush to get the paint to show up

[short pawn]

I will now post my age of sigmar model

[toxic stratus]

I can't figure out how to drybrush either. They end up looking dirty and chalky

[obsidian flax]

Not too much though or you'll basecoat the thing

[short pawn]

I always wipe off too much

[hollow goblet]

its why most people use junk/makeup brushes bc the process absolutely destroys your brush tip when you do it properly

[obsidian flax]

I use a rounded makeup brush

Its perfect

[short pawn]

I've been trying out makeup brushes i just cant get it

[obsidian flax]

Did slapchop for this guys armor with the makeup brush

[short pawn]

Terrain is a massive problem for me and im sad

I hate slapchop so much but nothing against you it actually looks great somehow

[toxic stratus]

I feel like it's a waste of paint too, wiping 90% of what you take to the towel

[short pawn]

To be fair if you're using citadel you're already wasting 70% of the paint just getting it out of the pot

[hollow goblet]

yeah thats why the dry putties are nice you take a minimal amount of paint out of the pot each time

[short pawn]

I tried pro acryl once and i swear im about ready to throw out all of my citadel

[hollow goblet]

definitely feels way less wasteful than drybrushing with normal paints

[short pawn]

I adore the paint so much

LOOK AT IT!!!!!

Just one coat

[hollow goblet]

Yeah I used the two thin coates white and it changed my life forever

[obsidian flax]

Army painter is coming out with new 1 coat warpaints i wanna try out

[hollow goblet]

Also

Vallejo black ink is fkn phenominal

[obsidian flax]

My main paints are citadel and army painter

Havent had many problems with them

[short pawn]

I've been wanting to try fanatic warpainter

Or whatever its called

I'm just so tired of citadel

Personally i feel like some citadel paints are impossible to thin correctly. It's either too much or too little for some no matter what you do

Although i will say Khorne Red fucks so hard. Insane coverage and its a beautiful color

[plush swift]

30k mechanicum models look sick

I might get some

[dreamy nebula]

These incursor mould lines are so much worse than my intercessors

Also might do a 50/50 army of regular blood angels and Lamenters

[plush swift]

I could have sworn you were american

[plush swift]

just wait until you try a good brand

[plush swift]

they arent worth the money imo, I have some prerelease bottles here. Just buy house paint and thin it with water instead, its chemically the same

[toxic stratus]

Cheap ink good wash

Not talking about Vallejo tho, I haven't tried their inks yet

[plush swift]

their hobby inks are just the over priced version of their professional inks

literally the same price but one is a 17ml bottle and the other is a 30ml

[hollow goblet]

Idk how well the effect shows over camera but this turbodork colourshift stuff is real nice

So glad I don't need an airbrush to get this sort of effect

[edgy jackal]

The trick is to not drybrush with citadel paints for slap chop.

[edgy jackal]

Colourshift is really nice on bug carapace, the purple also shows on camera, nice colour choice

[hollow goblet]

I'm gonna glue a Rick and Morty portal STL onto the smoke stack and use it as a mutalith vortex beast

Lore fluff is my sorcerers all linked arms around a Tyranid and screamed "nightmare nightmare nightmare" until it lost its synaptic link with the hive mind and become essentially a Tzeentchian daemonhost

[toxic stratus]

Slapchop is alright for quick work but I like to paint for fun. I don't mind taking my time doing my best without a plan

[hollow goblet]

I never really appreciated slapchop until I had a friend be interested in painting but I've played videogames with this guy and he will abandon things he's not able to see immediate results in

He stopped playing pysker because he first few levels suck so bad, didn't even level up enough to get a staff

I slapchopped all of his shit and told him to get nuts with contrast paints and he seemed to really enjoy how easy it was to just put colour in places and no have to fuck about with theory or shading

[plush swift]

I have a the vallejo shifters btw are actually not complete garbage

turbo dork is hit or miss

Yes I can say nice things about hobby paint

[plush swift]

no way

[short pawn]

I wonder if their stuff will make for good OSL/flame effects then? I'm gonna try it out

[jaunty trail]

Hernkyn pioneer base done...

[jaunty trail]

Wip update on hernkyn pioneer (ignore toothstick, is only for glueing process, will be removed later)

[visual turret]

thinking about mdoels with big swords

and I've stumbled upon probably one of the biggest swords in gw's model repertoire?
Bone-Tithe Nexus

[brisk vapor]

Phantom titan has a pretty large sword

maybe larger than that

[tranquil kelp]

But how does that match up against a warlord power claw?

[visual turret]

oh god you're right that is huge. But that's an FW model, no?

Like i know FW is GW but it's "techncially" separate enough

[maiden steppe]

Been doing a quick paint scheme on some subjugators who ill likely run as scions in my traitor guard. Just need to find a way to chaosify them

[visual turret]

freehand the little eight-pointed circle

:)

[hollow goblet]

It's super metallic and you need to apply it over a black base so I'm not fully sure if it'll be great for that but I could see it if there's a red/orange/yellow one and apply a tonne of coats. The effect comes on really gradually, the psychophage has like 5-6 thinned coats

Finished basing the critters

[toxic stratus]

Grime rust chipping and freehand chaos runes and stufff

If you want super quick, liberal application of rust

[worldly pawn]

Painting yellow (averland sunset) is dreadful

[hollow goblet]

If any of your friends play CSM or ksons they probably have more chaos themed decal sheets than they know what to do with

There's a bunch of chaos stars and stuff on there that would be about the right size

They're like $5 on eBay typically also

Also most chaos infantry boxes have a bunch of leftover weapon options so secondhand parts are easy to come by

[worldly pawn]

I want to get my hands on a white chaos decals if they ever have those

do killteam boxes come with their teams rulesbook or do I have to buy that separately?

[short pawn]

Trying to wet blend is giving me a conniption fit

They don't come with rules

Wahapedia has most killteam rules however (for free)

[worldly pawn]

sweet

[short pawn]

Which killteam you looking into?

[worldly pawn]

blooded since I can use my blackstone fortress miniatures for it

[short pawn]

Sweet, they're really fun from what I hear

Wahapedia should have the full updated rules for them from what I've been looking into

[fickle inlet]

Bought this guy on ebay for less than MSRP, and very nicely painted

Bit nerfed in 10th, but we'll make it work with some bladeguard

[short pawn]

Dude what the fuck is it with citadel having the all time worst skin tone paints in history

Why is every single one insanely runny no matter what

Even straight out of the pot did these mfs give me water??

[visual turret]

yes

[brisk vapor]

The first Predator on the way

[sinful depot]

I've had no problem with citadel flesh paints, put on whatever base paint you want for the skin tone dip the brush thin it on some paper towel and go at it

I just treat the flesh paints similar to nuln oil

[short pawn]

I straight up had to shake kislev flesh for 1 minute and use a vortex mixer for 30 seconds for it to apply correctly

I am getting a different brand tomorrow

Had mixing balls in it too....

[plush swift]

No company makes a good skin tone paint

[toxic stratus]

I should stop impulse buying

[sinful depot]

I give the Guilliman flesh paint i use a couple slaps against the heel of my palm then start painting nothing extra lol

[plush swift]

I mix my own flesh tones

because it looks better

[short pawn]

I don't mind shit paint i mind shaking it up for almost 2 minutes using every possible means just short of stuffing it in a fucking grocery bag and whipping it over my head

[brisk vapor]

These are my goto paints for white skin tones

[short pawn]

I am also just objectively awful at painting faces so maybe i just want to blame the paint being runny

[plush swift]

my go to

skin actually contains a ton of green

no one ever gets that right

the other mixture

[short pawn]

What color metallic paint would you guys use to do chip damage for a dark silver?

[plush swift]

brighter silver

[short pawn]

Thanks

[toxic stratus]

black for damage, brighter silver for edge highlights

[left egret]

I envy how good your hazard stripes look

[short pawn]

It's totally an ogryn guys

[proud glen]

He is just very athletic

[short pawn]

He's got the makings of a varsity athlete

[ocean pendant]

Have to say the Unit Filler thing they have in Old World is a cool idea, basically you can make a display piece like and then in a game it can be used to represent as many models as would fit within it's total base size.