40k-minis-and-armies

[dawn stream]

It's some moss decoration from the model train section in Hobby Lobby

[simple thorn]

Ah. Don't think we have that here in Aus

[dawn stream]

This is the brand. Your local hobby store might have it

[short pawn]

Ultramarines are the most popular generic chapter, but Cadian and Cadia based regiments are just straight up a vast majority of the actual imperial guard's roster

It's supposed to be even the non-cadians replicate the strict training Cadians go through because they're so effective

[dawn stream]

Every Guard Regiment that doesn't have its own unique identity is patterned off Cadians

[white tangle]

But thats my point. Cadian fatigue, gear and strategy is basically common within the armies of the imperium. But cadian culture is probably a fairly small and rare number when taken into account all guardsman regiments. While yes they are probably the biggest by far, number wise, they are still a tiny spec in the numbers of regiments you have in total. And so if you have a guardsman that has the same fatigue, gear and training but doesn't know a single thing about Cadia, are they still called "cadian". idk thats just how i view it.

[short pawn]

They have the same training and gear as cadians, its different than a box of space marines being called ultramarines because ultramarines specifically have tailored gear, like cadians

The actual physical box of infantry they sell you is supposed to be a blank template for your own regiments/army whatever. Cadians just are that blank template because most generic regiments are just cadians, so you can work from that

But cadian culture is very popular because cadia is basically a sweatshop for soldiers. They shipped out billions of cadians

[white tangle]

That was my original point. Why is it labeled as "Cadian" instead of Guardsman. I cant think of any other generic box that has a specific faction tied to its name. I was saying its the same thing as calling an "intercessor box" a Ultramarine intercessor box while its still not exactly tied to the ultramarines. It can be any chapter.

[short pawn]

Well i mean it IS a cadian box its not just a label. I guess i see your point but I think you're underestimating the presence of cadia

The new cadians came out with a massive box called Cadia Stands

[ocean pendant]

The Astra Militarum do have separate rules for Non Cadian infantry squads, they just don't sell models for them currently/yet

[white tangle]

Oh, so im in the wrong. Nvm lol

[ocean pendant]

Who knows, maybe when we get their Codex we'll see a release of non Cadian infatry squads

[short pawn]

Not a killteam map but this is all the terrain i got for under 100 bucks

[ocean pendant]

Yea in the rules the Guard have 4/5 Battleline squads

Cadian Shock Troops
Death Korps of Krieg
Catachan Jungle Fighters
Infantry Squad
And Tempestus Scions (Only Battleline if your Warlord is a Tempestor Prime)

[round bison]

finished my ogryns

[oblique socket]

well done.. once i paint up all the imperial knights i want i'mma make some imperial guard next

[midnight cairn]

Super nice cameo pattern on the pants!

[karmic coral]

That pegasus stuff is really great value for 40k use. Do you have plans for floor/roof stuff?

[barren verge]

Wonderfull Bullgryns little one!

[jaunty wraith]

Just by curiosity, how do you share your 40K minis here ?

[short pawn]

The awesome thing is that their actual physical store is like 10 miles away from me so i get their cheap ass prices with no shipping

I got plans for the floors and roof yeah. Gonna get cardstock for floors and pick up some diorama roof panels i saw at pegasus

[karmic coral]

Oh, hell yeah. That's sick.

That's awesome! I want to see how that stuff goes. Once I get into my 40k communal terrain library, I'll probably be working with Pegasus stuff

[short pawn]

I'd love to see what you cook up when you get to it, the terrain is truly amazing

[silver thorn]

he said WHAT?

[mint dove]

How do you guys paint glass?

Getting these printed soon and I want to paint the glass on those porthole looking things

[dawn stream]

The button with the plus symbol by the gift box is for attachments. You can either post a previously taken photo or take a new one

[mint dove]

Could I just do a dark gray and then lighter and lighter grays toward the edges?

[jaunty wraith]

I don't have it yet unfortunately but thank you for the help

[mint dove]

Something roughly like this?

[white tangle]

Depending how fancy you wanna go with it, you could do like a glowing effect from inside.

[mint dove]

Ooh I could try that

I think that would be pretty cool

I might do green lenses with it

So I'll probably base with I'll problem go caliban green>warpstone glow>Moot green>yriel yellow and then a small bit of white in the center

[signal plover]

a dark paint with a light paint over it then a coat of gloss varnish

[rare hornet]

Back from holiday and now it’s back to the grindstone

[mint dove]

Adder more dakka to the snazzwagon/squigbuggy proxies

I couldn't fit a squig launcher on the buggy but I had a better option,

I'm just gonna fill the cab with explosions and bomb squigs

[short pawn]

Is it just me or do you guys hate poses where your guys aren't like mid-action or like aiming/sprinting whatever

Always bothers me when i just have a dude dramatically posing in my army idk why

[silver thorn]

whats your opinon on random rocks in the models

i kind of hate it

my canoness brings her shattered pillar wherever she goes ig

[short pawn]

I only like them if they're for like sprinting/jumping units

Posing on a random rock is dumb as shit

[dawn stream]

Eldrad psychically summons piles of rubble to stand on

[teal wolf]

I mean free basing material. But am the same time I'm getting sick of tactical rocks lol

[compact umbra]

Dman who that?!

[silver thorn]

battle granny

tactical grandma

[mint dove]

Need some advice on what to add as the final part of my oops all Grots list

I'm running, Zodgrod, 3 units of 20 grots,2 units of 4 grot tanks, 2 units of 3 killa kans, 2 mek guns. And I'm debating that'll be more useful. Cuttong 2 mobs of 20 grots for one unit of 4 grot tanks, or keeping the grots

[sudden notch]

Same

Never bothered to paint them

[lavish crescent]

Removed one of my captain General model, feels much better now

[teal wolf]

👀

[humble hollow]

Does these guys fit in here?

[rigid ginkgo]

Trying to make a hive world type industrial base for my Minotaur Space marines. Makes it hard when they keep having rocks on their bases.

[grizzled linden]

PPPPPISSraetor. Finally painting up my praetor.

[sonic wolf]

if i wanted to sand down a base to give a smoother effect for a floor what grit would yall recommend?

[white tangle]

I just spend nearly 2 days straight painting the most mid cloth i have ever seen. I've noticed i always have this when painting. Everything is going dandy untill i fuck one thing up and it takes out all the fun i was having.

[mint dove]

6th Nob done, featuring his Lil greenstuff cigar

[lavish crescent]

Love it!

[timid raft]

Anyone have pics of the Leman Russes from the game's levels? I'm trying to make a 1k point list of Moebian 21st and need the color scheme of the Russ for my tanks

[golden night]

https://images-ext-1.discordapp.net/external/moarByOk_8fSJ-Ng-0TpjGOhdAamua-pUf5upjyKcKk/%3Fimw%3D5000%26imh%3D5000%26ima%3Dfit%26impolicy%3DLetterbox%26imcolor%3D%2523000000%26letterbox%3Dfalse/https/steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/2065506396512118155/AAE88A79D7A739DD139C8DA3030A3AF70C9A2B47/?format=webp&width=1202&height=676
https://images-ext-2.discordapp.net/external/APEbucZWedV91D9YJXReSEXV9gguXSq4q06pSQ0cnYE/%3Fimw%3D5000%26imh%3D5000%26ima%3Dfit%26impolicy%3DLetterbox%26imcolor%3D%2523000000%26letterbox%3Dfalse/https/steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/2065506396512118236/E318D5F46543D83619E4096031A9B578DC636977/?format=webp&width=1202&height=676
@timid raft

it's just a rusty dull green

[timid raft]

Thanks, I had trouble finding pics on the internet

I'm not sure if those Russes were from the 21st or the traitors, not sure how I'd make a tank fit with the amphibious theme the 21st has

[mint dove]

An acceptable amount of dakka

[timid raft]

Proppa Snazz

[lament path]

Well, at least the Chimera is canonically amphibious

[floral wind]

Got this in the mail today

[visual turret]

oh wow

[floral wind]

Best part was it was only £13 including shipping

[visual turret]

damn!

Nice piece of 'history' lol

[floral wind]

Ikr I am hoping to find a "how to paint citadel minis" booklet eventually

[golden night]

i love the steel rope thing on the dozer blade. 10/10 leman russ

[dawn stream]

WIP Aeldari Defenders

[rare hornet]

Templar intercessors are starting to get there

[rare hornet]

Oooh, you using contrasts?

[dawn stream]

Nope

[rare hornet]

Oh fair enough

[mint dove]

I HATE PAINTING THESE

[mint dove]

Getting there. Really starting to resent my past self for nit building these 100% in subassembally

[oblique socket]

not a mini, but used an online token thingy to make a concept for my knight houses infantry army.. Behold one of the Amalgam Men at Arms

[dusk hill]

Unpainted and 3d printed

[mint dove]

I am going to take a break before I kill myself

[visual shale]

I think this is one of my best so far

[gray solstice]

good shit dude

[midnight cairn]

Yikes, that looks like a rough print.

[dusk hill]

It's not that bad, tbh I just need to sand it alil

[mint dove]

Almost done with my first flash git. Honestly, not my best work

[white tangle]

Is it a thing where you shouldn't prime when the weather is damp?

[ocean pendant]

Both temperature and humidity are factors for spraying

Can't remember what the numbers are exactly but basically you don't want it to be too humid or too dry, the same way you don't want it to be too hot or too cold

[golden night]

that's a really cool concept

[sterile grail]

i live in humid area, primer is fine. I dont use citadel primer.

[golden night]

are you using PLA?

[dusk hill]

Yeh, my current home setup cant deal with anything that lets off fumes or needs special environment so it's just pla and pla+ for me

[white tangle]

Yeah, i think you can basically get away with anything as long as you keep the minis inside afterwards. It was pouring down and i needed to prime an arm. I covered the arm with my palm, ran into my shed, sprayed, ran back and put it in my bathroom. It turned out fine.

[golden night]

do you dehydrate your filament beforehand

[sterile grail]

hell, i primed outside, i live in tropical country. I went back, my room is 18C cold. let it dry and it turned out fine.

[dusk hill]

This stuff is freshly bought, and I know my main issues are that I need to change the nozzle and up retraction

[sterile grail]

The problem lies with what primer can you are using, and how you spray it

[golden night]

yeah i was going to say that. the stringing seems to be excessive for a small print with PLA

[dusk hill]

I've been 3d printing since before the plague and before I knew bout Warhammer

[golden night]

awesome

[dusk hill]

Yeah, I was just lazy

[golden night]

i started a year ago and im still learning so much stuff

[dusk hill]

Well. PLA will get you just about anywhere, I don't remember the exact settings off the top of my head but after changing them tree supports become the best supports and if you wanna make minis print all the parts to a single mini at once with a brim and basically dont pull off the supports or brim till you ready to build

Or do it with like 5 of them and treat it kinda like a parts sheet from GW without the need for the clippers

[white tangle]

To the 3D printing guys, how hard is it to find 1 to 1 GW pdfs out there?

[dusk hill]

Wrong file format and it's not that hard

[golden night]

noted, thanks for the tip. i'm currently doing resin printing though because im not satisfied with my filament models

top model is my first filament print, bottom is resin

[dusk hill]

Oh. If you doin resin then it don't matter. Resin will always be better for minis

Hell, sometimes resin printers are too good for the job

[golden night]

yeah. it's just a pain in the ass to use

currently my room temperature is my biggest annoyance. layers keep splitting

[dusk hill]

I don't got resin and it's what I got the least experience with so I wouldn't know but I know the pain

Cuz it happens with PLA too. And during the cold days....

[golden night]

add me in DM's if you need some pointers for where to find 1:1 stuff. when you're starting out it's a bit difficult to find the right places

[hearty bear]

Got a bunch of bases layered

I’ll decorate them once they dry

[dawn stream]

Those look like hamburgers

[mint merlin]

what kind of dry ass hamburgers are you used to

[dusk hill]

Vulkan He'Stan the first vs the second

I didn't look him up the first time. And felt like homebrewing him to have a just as long but much GURTHIER!!!! Option

Also, pink power weapons be a vibe I wanna mess with

[white tangle]

I was just curious for the future. If you're still around, when i get around to it, ill try to get in contact. Thanks.

[lucid sorrel]

Whats the tank south from leman russ?

[golden night]

a leman russ with an out of production forge world gryphonne IV turret and vanquisher cannon

yes this is a real model

[lucid sorrel]

Ah ok 👌

[golden night]

the cannon is ridiculous

[lucid sorrel]

In my leman russ i hadnt that long canon

[golden night]

yeah the current GW vanquisher cannon is much smaller

in this pic the gryphonne IV russ is backwards and it's still longer lol

[mint dove]

Getting better at muscle separation with highlights

[pallid aspen]

amazing skin work my man

[mint dove]

Lol thanks, it could definitely be better

[pallid aspen]

pictures always highlight the tiniest mistakes. At normal human viewing distances im sure that model looks tournament level

painting tournament i mean!

i gotta say though, how many orcs you planning to paint like that

gonna take you a long time!

my custom cybernetica datasmith conversion i just finished, with one of her charges

[mint dove]

Mostly done

Just gotta do some cleanup and maybe an ogryn camo highlight

My 90s' flash git unit, Boyz 2 mek

[white tangle]

I just took a shower and had a shower thought of me calling mini STLs "PDFs". Out of curiosity i scrolled up to see if i actually did, and low and behold. Im not the smartest cookie in the tin.

[dusk hill]

Is okey, we all dumb sometimes

[safe bison]

What do y'all think of the hive ganger I just finished?

[mint dove]

Gitz done,

To a tabletop standard at least

I'll pick out the gubbins I missed later, I just wanted them done to a tabletop standard before my weekend was up

[silver thorn]

ur an inspiration

i have a whole squad of novitiates ready to assemble and paint and I've been lackin

[dawn stream]

Mostly finished Wraithguard. Just needs base work and transfers

[visual turret]

Love the blue heat of the engines

and great work on the eyes

[midnight locust]

Thanks!

[visual shale]

What is some advice for painting flesh? I now have a Cherub and am unsure what I’ll do for its “skin”

[white tangle]

Depending on your skill level, i would recomend not using shades. From my experience shades make mistakes very hard to fix. I would use layering instead. But if you are careful a shade will work fine.

[mint dove]

Or you can do it the super lazy way wraithbone base>guilliman flesh contrast

Ez

[visual shale]

I would try this but I just have corax and rakarth

[mint dove]

Corax. Oof

[visual shale]

The only white that was available at the store at the time. Actually worked really well though

[mint dove]

Of all paints ive used from any brand. Easily the worst lol

My advice would be to try and steer away from citadel paints

This is coming from a citadel shill

[visual shale]

To be honest, I prefer to use their paints just because I know most will use them as a reference point. Just makes it easier on me to determine colors, if that makes sense

Can definitely see why people suggest otherwise though

[mint dove]

Yeah I get ya, but eventually I'd suggest getting an artist acrylic paint like golden

It's also cheaper in the long run

12ml of rhinox hide is $5.50 meanwhile 59ml of burnt umber is like $10

[visual shale]

Yikes

[tawdry quartz]

I just bought the Space Marine/Tyranid starter set and am going to get the Leagues of Votann in a few weeks to start learning the game. How terrible of a decision have I made?

[visual shale]

How much do you like the factions?

[tawdry quartz]

I like Marines and think Tyranids look cool. Then the thing that is making me pull the trigger is frigging Space Dwarves.

I fell down the lore hole about 6mo ago.

Bc of Darktide.

[gray solstice]

40k is great

[visual shale]

Then I’d argue it’s not that bad idea. Financially, maybe. Otherwise? Nah

[ocean pendant]

My only advice would be to hold off on further purchases until you've built/painted the first set you get, everyone has a little backlog pile they haven't gotten to yet and that's fine, but you won't know how you truly feel about the hobby until you've built and painted your first couple of models. So try not to drown yourself in minis before you figure out if you enjoy the process or not.

[tawdry quartz]

I've been 3d printing and painting for a few months now.

[ocean pendant]

Oh in that case nevermind

[tawdry quartz]

I love the process of basing/assembling/painting lol.

I'll probably do some 3d printed models to fill in gaps but plan on going mostly official.

[ocean pendant]

Yea that's fine, I've just seen cases of people jumping into the hobby and straight off the bat spending £500 getting a full 2k point list and then giving up after the first mini because they realise they hate the process.

[tawdry quartz]

Yeah I started with a friend's cast-off minis before investing in anything else. Just to make sure.

[coarse chasm]

i need some help with painting a pelt on a ork warlord 40k, idea is - ork's in a jungle - would be nice if its part of real lore - what i need help with is what animal's/creature's live in this jungle planet

[spare sedge]

If theirs no pelt already use green stuff and small scissors theirs a good YouTube video on this

[coarse chasm]

yeah there is

[spare sedge]

Do you know what kind of pelt it is or what kinda colors you want

[coarse chasm]

kinda looks like a wolf pelt, and maybe like a burgundy with slightly lighter yellow stripes

hes riding a mech squig

[spare sedge]

You could do wolf Grey coat or if you want to do burgundy ide maybe start with ronox hide, dry brush of catchan skin, and a light dry brush of skrag brown

[sterile grail]

I watched a video sometime earlier and heres my most sincere opinion based on that.

1. GW pumps alot of models recent year. Aim to market at you at an exponential rate recently.

2. Each time it takes to paint an actual mini is very long for a average hobbyist. Think about that.

At the end of the day they are selling you plastics. You have to invest tools, material, skills and most importantly TIME on it.

I have made an honest mistake of just hording boxes and barely got any of them done yet. So just be considerate at that.

[spare sedge]

Tho their maybe better choices I don't do much pelt painting

[coarse chasm]

mmkay that sounds like a good idea, the kit is mozrog skragbad

thanks!

[spare sedge]

No prob

[spare sedge]

This is one of the pelts I've done

[coarse chasm]

thats a cool model

what race is that

[oblique socket]

jokaero.. tech monke

[spare sedge]

It's a Jokaero weapon smith
Ally to the imperium can be attached to inquisitor retenue for buffs

[hollow goblet]

Do Jokaero have a current datasheet?

Oh wait Agents is a thing I forget

[spare sedge]

Yes

[coarse chasm]

thats pre cool never seen em before

[spare sedge]

Theirs still data sheets for demon hosts as well but they don't make or sell the model anymore

[hollow goblet]

Daemonhosts have chaos spawn syndrome

Why would I ever buy when when I could kitbash a soulblight mini

[spare sedge]

But still are forced to serve lol

Yea I'm going 3rd party for one probably

[hollow goblet]

Yeah no one buys the chaos spawn kit either bc you can literally just go into any old bits box with some greenstuff and walk away with a better chaos spawn than the GW one

[spare sedge]

Yea true

[silver thorn]

Im going to do a daemonhost kitbash using ephrael stern as the base

gonna paint the skin gold and wrap a bunch of chains around her

comes in later this month

[spare sedge]

That would be a good choice.

[mint dove]

Ended up trading 1000 points of space marines for 1500 points of orks

Stonks

[faint lantern]

The sister looks like a sayian

[silver thorn]

she'll look even more like one when i paint her hair golden yellow

[faint lantern]

Crazy

I want to see it

[silver thorn]

well the model doesnt come in for a bit so youll be waiting but ill probably post it here :>

[steady wren]

I'm so happy

I'm gonna be buying the paints either this or next month and then a squad of intercessors for my birthday in April

I'm so excited to get started on DA

[jaunty wraith]

Are those Aeldari ?

[ocean pendant]

Aeldari Wraithguard

[jaunty wraith]

Great work man

They look dope

[dawn stream]

Thanks

They were the last set I needed to complete my 1k army

[jaunty wraith]

That is a great army

Hoping soon to finish my Salamanders and Necrons

[royal compass]

what currency is that? Zloty?

[white tangle]

yeah

[steady wren]

It's złoty, yeah

I was refreshing before 10AM UTC around 9:55AM and it was just there so I frantically put both in my cart

[white tangle]

Wait, wouldn't it be Zlote in english? Zloty implies its singular.

[steady wren]

Technically but it's like how Pierogi is plural but everyone uses it for singular as well

Even if it should be just pieróg

[white tangle]

Oh, idk. Just sounded weird

[steady wren]

Eh, you get used to it

But yeah

I'm SUPER excited to start getting into DA

I found a really cool grimdark scheme that gives the green armor this desaturated forest green look that will look amazing

[sweet sinew]

I love DA, painted the leviathan box as DA, and now have Lion himself arriving in the mail

[steady wren]

I wanna wait with Lion till I get practice in with regular units

Plus I wanna do a scheme similar to heresy-era Angels for him

[sweet sinew]

Oh see I really just started out buying kits to paint them. I’ve now got a 1300 point army of dark angels, but not a single game under my belt.

I just like the green, and the lore

[sweet sinew]

Funny thing, I actually am not fond of the heresy era scheme, I think black n red just looks too generic. I think it looks good on The Fallen tho

Mostly cuz of the cloaks capes n hoods

[steady wren]

Yeah I agree, that's why I've been thinking of swapping out red for the green

[sweet sinew]

Ooooooo

[steady wren]

Keeping trims a darker silver, too

[sweet sinew]

Be sure to ping me when you post it in here, I’d love to look at it

[steady wren]

Also doing the Emperor's Shield as it is on the GW website so it contrats nicely

[sweet sinew]

This is my most recent DA build

[steady wren]

Hell yeah.

Lemme find the guide I'll be following for my DA

[sweet sinew]

I know they don’t really fly this thing, but damn it. It looks good on my desk

[steady wren]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH_24mrf4pc&t=42s

This is the guide I wanna follow minus the bone parts

@sweet sinew

Also ngl

Getting the Collectors Edition Codex really elevated my day cause like

Yesterday I landed a date with a girl and now THIS

The Emperor is similing down upon me

[sweet sinew]

Dark Angels fans keep winning

All the new kits, and in your personal life

I should probably get the collectors edition codex, would look nice with my leviathan edition rulebook

[compact umbra]

this is a more lore accurate paint scheme for teh DA then the actual DA colorschemes lmao

[sweet sinew]

I try to paint my figs as lore accurate as possible, I’m just weird like that. But I searched for days to find a good scheme for it, come to find out DA armies don’t really field it. So I just went with my own thing

[midnight cairn]

ENIM IMPERATOR? Is that real or a mix up?

[sweet sinew]

Uhhhh, it either came with the leviathan sheet or the dark angels combat patrol sheet

[frigid stump]

1st time painting an Age of Sigmar model, the tight angle really were my downfall, I got them ogryn hands

[cunning kiln]

Finished painting my very first group of space marines! I'm kinda proud of these. And I've done a lot of learning with every model. Then went back to fix the previous ones. C&C welcome 🙏 🤗

(Also sorry if thr bad lighting kinds washes out some of the detail)

[midnight cairn]

Love all the free hand on the cloak!

[mint dove]

If I mix some screamer pink and contrast medium 1:1 will it behave more or less like a contrast paint?

[visual turret]

that's some great freehanding! fantastic work

[brisk vapor]

Now we're cooking. Never using premixed skin tones again. Mixing your own with Kimera Kolors is fucking great

[white tangle]

When you guys go to paint a marine helmet with fancy lenses, what do you start on? Do you do the lenses first?

Ive been having a bit of trouble with it lately for some reason.

[brisk vapor]

I usually do lenses last

[white tangle]

If i was to put a shade in a recess, would it fill in the recess gap/detail more than if i used a normal paint or would it be around the same?

[jaunty wraith]

Looks like me at the end of the month waiting for the next paycheck lol

[brisk vapor]

[edgy jackal]

How is the face so accurately sculpted??

[brisk vapor]

it's in a pretty large scale, about 1/18 I recon

[edgy jackal]

Joytoy or something similar I guess?

[brisk vapor]

3D print

[signal plover]

Kimera colors really is fantastic shit

[brisk vapor]

hell yeah

[signal plover]

Their red is so nice

Whenever I find a place selling it I stock up on it cause it sells out quick in the US

[median flame]

#1 done

[brisk vapor]

Improvements

[white tangle]

It looks amazing but you just posting her face really makes it look like a meme.

[brisk vapor]

[short pawn]

It is very disturbing still

Which means it is a warhammer miniature

[woeful vale]

After a very busy morning... Infernus squad is ready to deploy

[plush swift]

yeah what do I keep saying about mixing your own skin tones? its easy and always comes out better, also do you want any of my flesh tone recipes?

[brisk vapor]

Sure, shoot

[plush swift]

very basic one for everyone is always white, burnt umber, and orange

mine specifically is pyrrole red light, burnt umber, titanium white, zinc white, yellow ochre, and cerulean blue deep

zinc white is there to make it more transparent

so I can get better undertone hues

for shading I mix in ultramarine violet

[brisk vapor]

this one's mostly red oxide with yellow oxide and white. Touch of black for some areas and magenta + pathalo blue mixed with the skin mix for the eyebags

[plush swift]

I dont know what of those kimera has

[plush swift]

not a bad mixture

[brisk vapor]

the starter set has
PBK7, PW6, PY151, PY83, PR130, PY42, PO32, PR170, PR122, PV23, PB15.2, PB15.4 and PG7

[plush swift]

pr130 is umm...

insanely toxic

like deadly toxic

I hope thats a mislabel

thats an iron oxide that generally has mercury in it

and no one makes it

[brisk vapor]

beats me

it's the red oxide one

[plush swift]

I really hope they meant that is pr101 but the red 130 variant

this is iron oxide red 130

[brisk vapor]

it does label it as non-toxic as well so you'd think it's that one then

[plush swift]

Well as I said, I can put a non-toxic label on lead paint because its not toxic if used correctly

No one does because its stupid, but you can legally do it

vallejo does stuff like that all the time like on their flow improver

[plush swift]

pb15.2 is a weird one, that commercially doesnt really exist these days, but I can tell you exactly who their supplier is because of that

most of that selection is pretty good

now is that po32 or po34?

[brisk vapor]

34

[plush swift]

where the fuck are they getting that, that hasnt been made in... a very long time

[brisk vapor]

no idea, could something they have locally

[plush swift]

Not at all, that was discontinued due to environmental hazards

[brisk vapor]

looks like it's the 130 red variant

[plush swift]

EU does not produce that at all

[plush swift]

wait i thought you said 32

34 is fine

[plush swift]

pheww ok, that was a but scary for a moment there

pb15.2 though actually.... I know who produces their paints

sadly

over all its a decent pigment list

though 15:4 isnt phthalo green blue shade, its phthalo cyan

its much lighter than green shade

and better honestly

[brisk vapor]

https://www.pegasoworld.com/product/kimera-kolors-colors-of-nature/

will probably get this set or some of the paitns from it later as well

heard good things about Mars Orange and Purple

[plush swift]

pbr25 is a god tier pigment

this is quinacridone violet, and its only a tranparent pigment

so it has an adulterant in there

[plush swift]

mars orange is generally pretty nice, it functions more akin to a brown than an orange though when mixing

[brisk vapor]

https://www.pegasoworld.com/product/kimera-kolors-danilo-cartacci-signature-set-never-without/

People really like the Samurai Green and Cartaci Red from this list as well

[plush swift]

those are mixed pigment paints

[brisk vapor]

yeah figured, as they don't have the branding of pure pigment nor any pigments listed

[plush swift]

pure pigment is a really bad branding

pure pigment is actually a really bad thing to list on a label because it means something very specific

which, working with scale 75 in the past, they... say it because the hobby community isnt bright and thinks that will sell more than a professional grade if they do that

pure pigment paint implies its a dispersion only

[brisk vapor]

was about to say, the layman doesn't really care

[plush swift]

yeah, I have to care because of lawsuits

I think I mentioned this but scale 75 tried to hire a company I worked for to produce their paints for US production a while back and we declined for 2 reasons

one was they didnt offer enough money

the second was we had to have them change their branding because of potential lawsuits

which, only colart and golden can handle lawsuits currently

they are the only ones who make enough and even then, golden is only 30~ mil a year

and they are the top one

colart is winsor & newton and liquitex

pure pigment can result in a false advertising lawsuit in a few countries, which is why no manufacturer wants to touch them for US distribution

they'd have to go industrial

where they dont care

[brisk vapor]

Gotcha

[plush swift]

i know, completely pointless to even bring up, but hey its some inside stuff to the manufactuering side of things

its a screwy field

[brisk vapor]

Yeah seems like it

[plush swift]

im just shocked they are using pbr25

thats an incredibly rare pigment

makes me wonder the quality of that as thats... not a cheap pigment

and if its the 30-50% pigmentation they claim, that would cost more to produce by a lot

its like 500-800 a kg

sometimes more

xenexos are like 250-400 and thats considered too expensive for most producers

and those are metallic pigments

[brisk vapor]

Doubt they'd lie about it, I've also heard that it's indeed a great paint to use from other painters too

[white tangle]

How do you guys put paint onto your palette? Do you have dropper bottles, use a brush or something else?

[plush swift]

well 30-50% pigmentation means nothing in reality, they word it to sound like its volume, which if it was volume, the paint wouldnt adhere and several of those pigments, putting higher than 10% by weight will actually cause the paint to not work due to how potent those pigments are

Ive tested them, they are ok i guess for hobby stuff

but I cant call anything good because I have to compare it to the top end and it falls short of the top end

it has some major issues with its pH balance, which the average hobbiest wont care about

but I do for conservation purposes

average person also wont care if it will get destroyed in a year, they want the instant result like putting acrylics over oils

cant be frozen, which a lot of professional paints can be

the top of top end to be more exact

(dont get me started on the army painter fanatic paints and their marketing)

[edgy jackal]

I understand that if you want paint on a mini to last, it's oils over acrylics, and not the other way around, but what do you mean destroyed in a year? Breaking apart due to lightfastness issues, some pH issue, or something else?

[plush swift]

the acrylics cant form a bond to the surface

[edgy jackal]

No, I mean, can other issues besides acrylic on top of oil adhesion destroy the paint?

[plush swift]

sent you a video

the acrylic can cause a gas build up and cause the entire thing to crack

[tawdry quartz]

My first 40k mini...Im in danger and will never financially recover from this.

[main mango]

Welcome to the club

[dawn stream]

Money well spent

[trim tundra]

This is my home made storm lord.

[torpid wolf]

I did a battle worn Ra

[lavish crescent]

It's a slow but eh progress

Black wash didn't work that great because the ink I used had a FUCKING METALLIC finish too it!! Need to get hold a different ink, yayyy.

[plush swift]

what ink?

thats a weird ink if its a black metallic

[silver thorn]

use a red wash?

might make it look more bronze maybe

[rare hornet]

I know for my custodes I use Fleshshade from citadel

Sort of a brown/tan colour

[rare hornet]

I mean, bad wash or not Constantin still looks like a boss

[edgy jackal]

Do you mean gloss finish?

You can fix sheen issues with varnish most of the time.

[lavish crescent]

No literally has metal/shiny flakes inside

[lavish crescent]

Watered down umber ink for the gold, using black for the blade and other lil trinkets

[silver thorn]

ive had good success with red/flash washes on gold

[lavish crescent]

Agreed, making my own ink wash allows me to control how strong the wash is. Alot of water for less tint

Also like 1 drop of ink + 2 drops of water could do a whole squad of custodes

5 man

[silver thorn]

unrelated but i like doom guy x isabelle too 🙂

[lavish crescent]

Yeee, misses asked me to use that

[silver thorn]

rip and tear >:3

[lavish crescent]

Worst part: she's like a lil doom guy at times, more violent than me

[silver thorn]

https://tenor.com/view/rip-and-tear-doom-doomguy-isabelle-isabelle-animal-crossing-gif-26156184

[patent drum]

My zealot’s name is constantin and no one has made the connection ☹️

[rare hornet]

You wouldn't really, unless you know HH or custodes lore well enough

[patent drum]

Hulk hogan

[karmic coral]

[brisk vapor]

some gold tonight

[white tangle]

I have stripped this bastard 5 times over the course of 3 days. I want to die. But I also want it to look good. This one is going ok. Do you guys think I strip it and go again or just deal with it?

[lucid sorrel]

Nah its perfect

[edgy jackal]

Those lenses are fire man

[rare hornet]

Just the sergeant’s shoulders left to do

[midnight locust]

First time using Model air chrome; so smooth

[old socket]

First ever mini assembled. Never built a model anything together so I'm pretty pleased with how straightforward assembly was.

[devout lake]

Awesome, are you starting Imperial Guard?

[old socket]

That's the intent. Got a few lists set up to go from 500 and build up to 2000 points using Combat Patrol boxes and a few extras.

[hybrid sky]

Anyone have any death guard marines and would like to show them off? Just curious

[mint dove]

So I'm about to get a really good deal, 40 boys, snikrot, 20 kommandos, 8 grot tanks,9 deffkoptas,6 kills kans,20 grots,1 big mek in mega armor, 1 big mek with SAG,1 mek gun,4 meganobz,5 flash gitz,2 warboss in mega armor,3 deff dreads and a gorkataut for $200

Fuckin STONKS

[mint merlin]

isn't that like about 1000$ in value?

yeah that's a damn good deal

[mint dove]

$1735 to be exact

[mint merlin]

the person selling that must be a clueless parent getting rid if their child's collection

there's no other way

[mint dove]

Nah dude just said "I don't want to play orks anymore and it's gonna be a hassle to try and sell them all piecemeal"

Either way I'm gonna make out like a bandit

[mint merlin]

bruh

[mint dove]

Like dude could get a ton out of it but I ain't complaining

[mint merlin]

I don't think anyone would complain lmao

[hearty bear]

”Repent! For tomorrow you die!”

[mint dove]

He sent me the offer after we traded today, I gave him 20 primaris intercessors, 10 tactical marines, 3 inceptors, 1 chaplain,titus, a redemptor and furioso dreadnought and a squad of terminators and he Gave me 20 beast snaggas, 1 beastboss, 3 killa kans, 4 grot tanks, 5 stormboys,5 flash gitz, and ork kill team,and a grot mega tank

[hearty bear]

He’s an ork player, I seriously doubt he cares

[mint dove]

Shit you right,he's a good guy

[hearty bear]

“Why the hell not” is the motto of the ork player

[mint dove]

I have started translating the ork way to my personal life. Ironically I'm much happier

Can I control what's happening? No. Can I at least try and have fun on the way?you Bet your ass

[silver thorn]

do you ever scream WAAAA and smash the table for fun?

[white tangle]

Well I stuck with it and I think I turned out decent. So thx to the ppl who told me to stick with it. ❤️

oh i forgot to do the spot highlight

[white tangle]

There

[round bison]

solar auxilia comes out this sunday for pre order

im very tempted

[karmic coral]

They look so good.

[rare hornet]

I’m just after the sentinel and tanks, gonna use em with krieg

[vale pollen]

I gotta paint more tacticool marines

[midnight locust]

Yeah I’ll probably grab a tank for a TC

[barren verge]

Ulgo think about buying army. Ulgo want true army. Like one ulgo was given to fight bugs with!

[white tangle]

So i want to make a little bottle for my own paint mix. One of the 2 paints in the mix is in a dropper bottle (which is perfect) the other is a gw pot. Anyone know of the best way to get paint into somewhere from a gw pot without wasting a bunch of paint in the process?

[visual turret]

I think JuanHidalgo literally uploaded a video the other day doing thayt

[visual turret]

https://youtu.be/Ljn4lilimdg

If this helps :3

[white tangle]

Ill watch it in a bit. Thank you!

[young remnant]

Why no meme channel?

[silver thorn]

never forget what they took from us

[mint dove]

I got this bright silver ink, I really like how it looks but it's a little bright for a basecoat of ork metal, if I get a black ink and mix it 2:1 ,silver to black would I get a more gunmetal look?

[alpine wyvern]

yup should be good. You can also just wash the ink over after you basecoat and boom you got recess shading

So I made the recent discovery that the fluorescent paint I use for OSL is actually... fluorescent lol

[jaunty trail]

How did you make those awesome pictures? I have some "glow in the dark" stuff on my Votann and haven't managed to get such a result until now... I'm happy for any suggestion how this is done.

[alpine wyvern]

I have a little handheld uv light for curing resin that reacts with this paint :)

[jaunty trail]

Ah nice.. Then i need to get some additional lighting for making photos XD Currently there is only my hobby lamp and the room interior lamps as also the flash of my phone for taking photos...

I should think about a photobox for minis at some point

[mint dove]

So I think for these 5 flash gitz I'm painting I'm gonna go a bit simpler with the colors

My last ones looked like this

And while definitely "flashy" I didn't like how it looked in the end, so instead of 5 colors, every Git this time will have 2 colors and gold accents

Still flashy but not as busy

[hearty bear]

I about lost my damn mind upon seeing this

Arizonamarines is now a thing

[visual turret]

oh shit, is the uv glow that potent or are there lighter glazes(?) of it to sell the OSL

[mint dove]

Really liking this gun style vs my last flash gitz one

[worldly pawn]

I need to get some for my traitor guard, do you have any recommendations for where to buy them?

[hollow goblet]

Starting to replace my stolen combat patrol contents, only thing motivating me to finish these Tzaangors is knowing I can kitbash them to look cooler than my last vanilla set

[hollow goblet]

60/20/10 rule is pretty much universal tbh can't go wrong as long as the theory between the colours you picked works

[alpine wyvern]

Ive tried AK, vallejo, and greenstuff world fluorescents. they're pretty much all the same :) so whatever is easier to get for you

[plush swift]

yep, which means they will fade fast

[plush swift]

Golden or lascaux, only acceptable answers in reality. And this isnt coming from me and my ego, this is coming from the hobby community

Most brands (the big mentions here are scale 75 and proacryl) mix other pigments into the fluos, so they dont actually work that well for what people want, mix in the chalk they add in and you get a paint that fades starts its fading directly after application rather than a few days later

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jJslQS6jYI&pp=ygUKcmlzaW5nIGFwZQ%3D%3D

This wasnt a bad video i say on them

[glass forum]

To anyone that plays table top is there anything I should change or add to this line up?

[silver thorn]

3 shadowswords not just 1

[midnight cairn]

That doesn't add up to 100. So the last 10 is grey plastic? 😉

[hollow goblet]

Wait no it's 60/30/10 lol

[barren verge]

Ulgo get minis and color then to Ulgo team!

[lofty bridge]

If you have a good balance go for it, careful with the shadow sword it's gonna be hard to not take some serious damage and possibly loose a 1/5th of your army real quick

I personally prefer cheaper armored units because they're still crazy in 10th and I can sacrifice them without weeping. But also the more cheap tanks means the price of buying the army goes up a ridiculous amount

[glass forum]

Thanks man I really appreciate the input

[round bison]

kitbashed voxcaster

[white tangle]

Kind of a sad fact, that vox mask was going to be in darktide until it wasnt. 😦

one of the main 4 guardsmen had one in the cinematics, but even in the mission where you can see the four of them strung up on the pikes, none of them have that mask.

[hollow goblet]

After a bunch of back and forth and touch-ups my friend and I finally settled on a paint scheme for his Nids

Oh yeah we bought the minis secondhand and a bunch of the "hormogaunts" had Termigant pistols so had to kinda improvise and turn them into pincers

[brisk vapor]

Started the larger leather areas, this will take a while

[formal apex]

Naming my Plagueburst Crawlers is the most fun I’ve had in a while.

[rare hornet]

And the sergeant marks the first squad completed, god trying to get the shoulder pad transfers aligned properly can be an ass at times 😅

[compact umbra]

my air brush isnt working for osme reason so im primin h my mdoel bu hand

im just using airbrus h paint all over th emodel until its like balck enough to ignore shadows

[patent drum]

Im glad im not the only one who types like this

[tiny cairn]

I've been following your images of this project for a little bit and I just noticed the scale of it because of your hand lmao I thought it was "standard infantry" sized

[dawn stream]

Outrider Sergeant

[brisk vapor]

Oh yeah it's pretty massive

[silver thorn]

it would make a good kill team board!

the rubble looks really good

[hollow goblet]

Tried kitbashing this Tzaangor to look a little more "lizardmen-y"

No horns and a tail goes a long way

[alpine wyvern]

you know someone means business when theyre doing sub assemblies on guardsmen

[sterile grail]

yep, 30 more to go 🤡

[agile junco]

could i darken down magmaladroth flame with some black wash for shading then dry brush some highlights with fire dragon bright? it would be over imotekhs cape

[edgy jackal]

I wouldn't darken orange/red with a black wash, might make it look splotchy/dirty.

[agile junco]

i might thin it down a bit to reduce the effect a bit

not sure yet

[short pawn]

clinically unwell

It has to be a sin in at least one religion to sub assembly guardsmen

[humble skiff]

That’s insane for a single guardsmen

[spare sedge]

Thanks yea I'm aiming for killteam, 1k-3k games this is just the 1st board out of 3

[edgy jackal]

I did it for my vet guard kill team for some models, but yeah, not 30. It's just hard to paint a model clutching a weapon closet to its chest.

[edgy jackal]

So many out of production kits...

[spare sedge]

Allot of it either ebay or Amazon is where I got it

[white tangle]

Can i get away with using shades with my detail brush if i keep it wet and clean it with brush soap afterwards or still a bad idea?

[alpine wyvern]

I use my kolinsky brushes with contrast, metallics, the works. It doesnt matter as long as you clean it.

If paint gets in the ferrule, eventually it will build up and ruin the brush. so if youre using a detail brush, meaning the head is really short, then youll potentially wear it out quicker.

Why shade with a detail brush though? pin washing?

[white tangle]

Yeah, at some point i will definitely do the oil washes.

[mint merlin]

tbh, as a guard painter, sometimes it's a necessity with some of those arm placements

[karmic coral]

At that point, get a fresh $3 pack of throwaways at Walmart or wherever, and use the points on those, without having to inflict anything like that on your good brush

[short pawn]

Nobody is going to pick up your individual guardsmen and check to make sure you painted the inaccessible bits

It is never necessary for the average guard enjoyer, unless you're doing an extremely high standard or a painting competition. Which by then you're far from the average

Not that I'm dissing it, I think it's a huge commitment and badass. Nothing against it. Just could never ever reccomend it in any practical sense to any human being with an actual 2K point guard army

(I am a guard collector)

[white tangle]

I think the idea of having an army and when you pick up a random model, its fully kitted out with every detail picked out is pretty cool.

[mint merlin]

I'm not a player, I just like to paint miniatures so I like it when they're complete

[short pawn]

I mean yeah its cool but statistically a vast majority of warhammer players don't even finish painting their first army

I shouldn't say vast majority, but unpainted plastic is common place. Not surprising

[short pawn]

Well yeah that's just different then

[white tangle]

I mean yeah, i cant disagree. I have a friend that has prob about £2000 worth of grey plastic.

And hasnt painted in like a year and a half

[short pawn]

Literally me rn 🥹

So many killteams...so little time

[white tangle]

Im a firm believer in not buying a bunch. But i guess its a bit different when you actually play the game.

When i buy stuff i have a strict rule set. One box to paint now, one box for later. No more, no less.

And maybe a single model here and there

[royal compass]

me every time a new army or kill team gets released/updated: yeah I kinda miss this crap, maybe I should get back in the hobby...

also me, remembering I have amblyopia and can't paint: yeeeah maybe not

[dawn stream]

I usually buy one box at a time

The only reason I bought several of the Eldar at the same time was because I was trying to get them table ready for a match

Once I have 1k points table ready, I slow down to one box at a time

For example, I just got a box of Outriders yesterday and I'm going to finish them before I order a box of Terminators

[sweet sinew]

I used to be pretty good about having no more than two boxes, the in progress one, and then the next one. Now I’m sitting on 5 boxes

Only in debt does hobby end

[brisk vapor]

Think that'll do for the leather on this side, at least by brush. Might soften some areas and strengthen the highlight on others by airbrush closer to the end

[white tangle]

I just dropped my sable brush. No more sable brush. 😦

[ocean pendant]

Did you drop it into a vat of acid?

[white tangle]

The void. Its gone

[ocean pendant]

I understand

I have found the void can be satisfied with trade, often times I will lose a piece and have an old one thought long gone returned in exchange

[rigid ginkgo]

"The floor is a cruel mistress, what she takes she keeps"

[unkempt patrol]

Kasrkin Sarge

[short pawn]

Oh wow, I got the same thing and never realized it had a name. Mine came from my ptosis

[mint dove]

So I'm trying to make a fleshy looking underbelly on my squigs, I've never done it before but could I paint the skin in khorne red, the belly in kislev flesh/bugmans glow, then make a mic of 1:1 khorne red and the underbelly color and drybrush that where the 2 colors meet to try and blend them?

[sweet sinew]

I’m starting to find Phobos armor more fun to paint than regular Primaris armor

[dawn stream]

I like the boots

[dawn stream]

A good chunk of my RG army is Phobos

Including my librarian

[steel saffron]

Phobos my beloved

[wise shuttle]

Champion of the Knight Justiciar (made for the Arthur Bones homebrew contest)

[mint dove]

Except I fucked up

Base coating almost done on me gitz

I glued the hand with the handles on but left the gun hand off, so some of the guns don't match up with the handles

Oh well, they shot them so much they ripped the handles off

[vale pollen]

Made some eliminators

[sweet stirrup]

Started a new Kill Team

[brisk vapor]

Happy Birthday to Eldar Warp Spiders! They were released this month 30 years ago and they're still part of the modern Eldar range, what a champ 🎉 🎉 🎉

[glass forum]

I think I've got it all planned out now just gotta buy a few things

[pastel grotto]

Shadowsword approved

[edgy jackal]

Oof

[floral wind]

To anyone who knows more than I is this rhino supposed to look like this? Ive not seen one like it before

[native sluice]

No?

[floral wind]

That's what I'm unsure of it looks like a ramshackle but then again I'm not sure

[stray elm]

It looks home made?

But if it is ramshackle it pretty good ngl

[floral wind]

The only thing I don't like is the lamp(?) Atop the missle tube but it does look neat

[jaunty trail]

Seems like someone has kitbashed this rhino into an anti tank vehicle...

It's like the YT vid where someone kitbashes his Rhino into an apothecary Rhino...

[floral wind]

Oddly enough I've seen that and I thought it was pretty dope ngl

[jaunty trail]

Yup the Apothecary Rhino was just a real nice kitbash... A shame GW hasn't such options in Tabletop....

[mint dove]

Would I look odd if I gave my ork kommandos olive drab green jackets and more bright green skin? Would they look different enough to not blend into each other

[karmic coral]

Just depends on how different the greens are, in application.

It could go either way.

It would help for the skin to have distinct contrast in itself for shadows, and for the jackets to have a different shadow contrast.

That way they'd be marked to the eye as different surfaces.

[visual turret]

oh i love the scheme on this fine fellow

[brisk vapor]

those are pretty close to Rogue Trader era Rhinos

only the boxes on top of the track pieces are a bit oddd

[stray elm]

I am finally starting my guard again and I started doing this guy to get back into the swing of things

Still more to do but most of the way there

[sweet sinew]

Ravenguard my beloved, when finally deciding on an army I was tied between DA and RG. Then the Lion came out, and well

[mint dove]

So like this kind of skin tone

Maybe a little lighter because I still need to highlight with ogryn camo

And this shade of green coat

[white tangle]

has anyone here moved their gw cup paints to droppers by using distilled water to help transport them?

Im scared ill ruin the paint

[jade swift]

That sounds like a bad idea to me

I would definitely do more research before doing that

[white tangle]

A youtuber guy did it and he is pretty well respected. But thats exactly what i thought when i first saw it.

I might just commit because i really want the dropper bottles.

[jade swift]

Use a paint you don't care about

At least to test it

[white tangle]

Yeah, thats what im gonna do, but i dont really have a paint i dont care for. I guess one is just going to have to take the plunge,

[jade swift]

Gonna have to break one of them the bad news haha

[lament path]

Its just a first gen kit, the box tubes on top are the old hunter-killers, and the searchlights used to look like that, its probably from the 90s

[silver thorn]

3rd party model?

the rhinos from negative 1ED looked like this

looks like a rogue trader rhino with some bits added too it

idk what the rules for the rhino were or if the bits mean a specific loadout but

I was able to find one that has that spotlight thingy on hte side

oh yea those bits are on the original sprue

its oldhammer

[shut forge]

My Butcher Boy

[hollow goblet]

They're almost guaranteed to be getting either kill team boxes or a refresh soon fear not

[mint dove]

Can I shoot every ranged weapon my unit has on one turn? Or do I have to choose

Like my gorkanaut has 2 rokkit launchers, 2 twin big shootas,a skorcha and a deffstorm mega shoota

[short pawn]

You can shoot all that you have

[sterile grail]

a scavenger rhino is an interesting concept.

[crude solstice]

GW just announced

[gray solstice]

Haha

What the fuck?????

Is this...

What???

This is a thing?

I kinda love it

[ocean pendant]

Also this little creature

Literally me

[hollow goblet]

Holy shit I'm putting that thing on the Magister's disc and running it as a tzaangor shaman thats sick

is it a solo character?

[ocean pendant]

No it's from this new Darkoath squad for AoS

[visual turret]

I've just taken a look at the ork reveals

oml

[royal compass]

okay that bow is definitely not made for horse archery...

[rare hornet]

So much better than the custodian model lol

[ocean pendant]

The Custodes model is alright and it's nice that the Shield Captain is now his own model instead of being an optional assembly from the Custodian box

[midnight cairn]

Holy crap, is the whole thing powered by his heart or something?

[visual turret]

think of it like a brokhyr thunderkyn but suped up

there's a battery on his back

[midnight cairn]

True

[visual turret]

also a basttery in his left hand lmao that is definitely gonna be safe Mr. Ork

[sterile grail]

3.5 hours of painting the head so far

[compact umbra]

I’d love to see SoD to have a full darkoath prong

[rare hornet]

A very respectable attention to detail, amazing work

Current progress on second bladeguard

[white tangle]

Have you ever painted a space marine face? If so how different is a human face to paint?

[mint dove]

Can I fit 5 meganobz and a warboss in mega armor in a trukk?

[rare hornet]

I think so?

[mint dove]

Ok I know meganobs take up 2 spaces. I was iffy about the warboss

[rare hornet]

Yeah he’d also take up 2 spaces

[dapper linden]

The homemade hellbrute

[mint dove]

https://tenor.com/view/godfather-massacre-sad-gif-16810633

It's funny, I made these as trukk proxies but just used them as buggies instead because I thought "there's no way 12 boys can fit on this"

Until I saw this picture this morning

The exact base car for the kit, holding 12 boyz

[alpine zealot]

Could you rate this guys?

[obsidian tapir]

That looks pretty good 👍

[sterile grail]

no its my first face actually. But i reckon space marine face is no different. The eye is the hardest part (obv).

[sterile grail]

its weird because the left eye doesn't have a socket so i have to manually paint the eye and the pupil.

[frigid stump]

What type of solution do I use for stripping minatures?

[teal wolf]

500 list for a new league. I got ran tf over by guard lol

[agile junco]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/591171492042244096/1213687883248959498/20240302_211715.jpg?ex=65f661ec&is=65e3ecec&hm=b72cb24c9013259855491ca44a7d9f477a98b0898d2eeccf701313aaa705e85d&
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/591171492042244096/1213687883727114270/20240302_212113.jpg?ex=65f661ec&is=65e3ecec&hm=17d59437a47f67e90f39fb54af7304981cbabda7a3ab28c683e3c6ce692ab278&|
wip lychguard thoughts

[dawn stream]

Last Outrider

[turbid brook]

Pretty good/10

[mint dove]

Just closed a crazy good deal

1x Snikrot
1x Warboss in mega armor
1x Big Mek in mega armor
1x Big mek with shock attack gun
2x mek
40x boyz
20x kommandos
4x mega nobz
3x deff dread
9x deff koptas
Gorkanaut
8x grot tanks
6x killa kans
1x Mek gun
All for $225

My waagh is now full

[turbid brook]

That’s a whole fuckin army damn nice

[mint dove]

All da waaagh! But I'm getting a big ol shipment soon so I gotta make more room

[midnight cairn]

That looks like a lot of points

[white tangle]

It didnt have a socket? Thats strange.

It may not be the case, but maybe you covered up the details with the base coat? I know i sometimes struggle to do eyes on space marine heads because i covered up the eyes a bit more than i should have by accident. Whenever i do heads now, when basecoating, i go out of my way to try and avoid the eyes.

also I'm a big using shades on faces hater now. Im very messy when painting and a shade makes it nearly impossible to correct mistakes. It also covers up details very fast.

[sterile grail]

Honestly. Avoid painting eyes. It might just save you time and patience. I do it because im curious.

The citadel shades are so glossy its almost a pain in the ass to fix. You have to apply a matte medium over it to bring it back to the initial stage.

[sterile grail]

yeah, no socket. Just a single line lol.

maybe hes closing his eyes but it doesnt look right either

[hollow goblet]

You can unironically get away with outright not bothering to paint faces most of the time too

Just base and shade and most people won't actually realise the face isn't painted unless you specifically mention it

Anyone got tips for getting the tiny decals on the chaos transfer sheet to behave? Struggling to seperate them from the paper they're on and they seem to dissolve in water or decal softener before they pry away from the paper

[white tangle]

Idk if this helps but this is the main tutorial i use for transfers and all of mine have so far come out perfect.

Granted all the ones i did though, have been bigger ones.

[white tangle]

Wait maybe i misunderstood but are you placing them in softener to pry them off the paper?

oh and i never posted the tutorial lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSJ1sCEkY_I

[sterile grail]

i never heard of this. Please dont tell me you dip them in the softener liquid.

usually its very straight forward. Water on transfer. Remove then add on the model. apply softener

or something else is wrong because i still cant visualize how you managed to dissolved them while still on paper

[plush swift]

Painting them is about the same. Both are very easy.

[white tangle]

I find eyes a bit hard to paint. I thought it would be harder on a human considering thier heads are probably half the size of a marines.

[plush swift]

I dont paint eyes, I draw them on with a pen

[sweet sinew]

I don’t paint eyes, I’m too scared to try

[grand spruce]

Finally finished my kustom Kill Rig. This has definitely been the biggest kitbashing project I've ever done. The main piggle itself is from the Age of Sigmar Tusk Boss on Maw Grunta. The rest is a hodgepodge of other kits, gubbins and boyz I had muckin' about.

[plush swift]

Do it

I'll give you a worse fear if you dont

I've traumatized a lot of children in my life

and those children will never not fear bread

or pineapples

or fish

or milk

[white tangle]

whenever a barista serves me the wrong coffee i usually traumatize them with:

a gun

incoherent shouts

and many threats

[proper pollen]

Working on some Imperial Fists

[ocean pendant]

Lotta spikes on those Fists

[white tangle]

I was gonna say, dont look very loyal those guys lol. But damn i really like some of the ones in the second pic. Unpainted they look like some sort of chaos raptors. Very cool

[willow horizon]

Share when finished, I play Imperial Fists

[plain granite]

Started painting exactly a year ago today, my first and then most recent!

[mint dove]

Can confirm what corpse said, I hated painting eyes so I just never did it, so my minis always looked like they were missing something

So after like 20-30 subpar looking attempts I'm now able to paint pretty good looking eyes

The key with mini painting is to do the hard stuff because you're not gonna improve otherwise

[sterile grail]

human eye sockets are slightly smaller than space marines but not that significant

hell someone faces on my sprue dknt have a clear socket at all

[sterile grail]

All of this combined is an appropriate response.

[bronze knoll]

My Mk6 Iron Warriors

[brisk vapor]

hell yeah

[white tangle]

@sterile grail Did u get the cadian upgrade kit?

[cunning kiln]

question! i had recently had to move after just having gotten into the hobby and the place i moved to does not have any game shops / hobby stores for me to realistically just go and pick up a single pot of one paint or another when i need it. i know vallejo , citadel. army painter etc have big kits and bundles of paints you can get , does anyone here have specific recommendations or advice?

[edgy jackal]

This advice would depend largely on your country of residence

[cunning kiln]

lets just say gimme whatever advice you can and ill try to make it work if i can, but if possible. anything that i can do online is preferable

[ocean pendant]

You're in luck

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/03/04/darkoath-army-set-meet-the-dark-mirror-of-the-cities-of-sigmar/

[edgy jackal]

In that case I'd say hobby paint isn't your only option, some brands of student quality acrylic paint can also work. Which brands are better/cheaper/available depends on location. For example, golden is cheaper than citadel in the US, but more expensive in NL (for some colours).

[cunning kiln]

im mostly trying to get a good cover of all the colors and shades i might need atleast at base , and then once i have that i can supplement anything i discover i need that isnt already in that

honestly losing my proximity to such an incredible game store as the one i was near before moving was probably my biggest heartbreak about having to move outside of being away from my friends lol

[compact umbra]

AAA

AAA

AAAA

AAA

AAA

AAAA

excuse me

[cunning kiln]

that stuff looks dope i dont blame you maggie

[compact umbra]

tbh all my favorite factions in aos are the human factions for each alliance nwo including darkoath

cities

flesh eaters

and nwo std

i knwo most of chaos is human but sshhh

[cunning kiln]

i dont know a lot about AOS but seeing how excited you are about it definetly makes me want to learn more about it lol

that trailer in the page someonee linked was awesome af too

[compact umbra]

i know this is a 40k chat but its one of teh best settings tbh

[ocean pendant]

AoS had a rough start, but honestly now it's doing great

Every new release is just amazing

[compact umbra]

lroe wise its bascially the apocalypses, only 10% of humans arent apart of chaos

the god of death is throwing bascially daily hissy fits

[compact umbra]

if you need recommendations for books or simple sum up of factions im here to talk about it

[cunning kiln]

sweet! i appriciate it

i always learn better when i have an actual person to geek out with

like. i know i can get everything i need from google but making a connection like that makes it better imo

[compact umbra]

i am a negash simp but luckily even nagash most loyal followers hate negash

[compact umbra]

aos is also great in the facti fyou dont like a faction, you can just ignore

evey faction is treated equally

becaus ehtey are all equally important

[compact umbra]

whast your favorite fantasy troupe?

[cunning kiln]

oh man thats a big question lol

[compact umbra]

or faction

also dont let people gas light you tino thinking fantasy is just aos, they are both very very different

[compact umbra]

or just race

the only imporatnt factions taht are MIA are halflings and chaos dwarves to my knowledge

but we are getting chaos dwarves soon

[cunning kiln]

if we get chaos dwarfs they will be my way to go i think

i love me some dwarfs

[compact umbra]

i imagine they will either be a 4th editiona rmy or come at the end of dawnbringers

we have normal dwarves

they arein cities

then we have TECHNO CAPTIALIST SPACE DWARVES

[cunning kiln]

lmao thats awesome

[compact umbra]

or feral dwarves that snort psrts of their gods

[cunning kiln]

i find myself liking dwarfs across many different settings

[compact umbra]

they are loyal only to the contract

they have a big book of law that they follow to the letter, but will exploit every flaw

a good kharadron will read any contract at least 100 times

[cunning kiln]

holy shit i love him

[compact umbra]

fr

also alot of historical stuiff

romans

viklings

[cunning kiln]

viklings

imma call them that forever

honestly tho those darkoath humans look incredible

the demon minis look so fun to paint

[compact umbra]

GAUu

hau

ija

whoops sorr my bad

[compact umbra]

they are apaprt of slaves to darkenss

who are likfull full on vikings

[cunning kiln]

oh damn they look cool af

i might start picking up AOS models to use for my dnd games

[compact umbra]

also in aos not all factions are comletely evil

[compact umbra]

fair and valid

fantasy models were at first dnd models

[cunning kiln]

i sent you a friend request so that we can stop crowding the 40k minis chat with aos stuff lol

[floral wind]

Finally managed to get the man himself. Pedro Kantor for my CF army

[ocean pendant]

Smol man

[floral wind]

Smol = harder to hit

[median flame]

https://tenor.com/view/yes-spongebob-plankton-gif-10466614

[floral wind]

Shame it s forgeworld resin and not metal but it was a good sculpt so lucky there

[median flame]

That’s very lucky good for ya man

[floral wind]

Thanks it only cost me more than I wanted lol

[errant fulcrum]

anyone know what I could proxy this as in 40K?

Im gonna start collecting solar auxilia but plan on using them as 40K guard and I wanted to know if their is anything that I could proxy this as cause it seems too big to be a chimera proxy

[dawn cove]

Fellow guard player, dunno the dementions on it but it might be right size for a Dorn, or just another Malcador if all else fails. They are pretty forgiving with land raider types despite size differences after all.

[errant fulcrum]

so I found a picture of it and DAMN IS IT BIG

[errant fulcrum]

auspex tactics suggested a malcador defender and someone else said a gorgon would be a good proxy as well

[dawn cove]

Either one sounds pretty bitching. Really I'm just hoping we get rules for it in our codex. The codex we will get 3 months before 11th like last time probably...

[errant fulcrum]

lol yeah I remember that felt bad for ya guard players

Ya know of all the HH things I wish had 40K sheets the fucken storm hammer would be really awesome to have

cause damn this thing looks cool

Hope they make some HH baneblades or something but I won't be surprised if they don't

[vale pollen]

The man himself

[midnight cairn]

He seems to have a rather large fist.

[floral wind]

Its his power fist

[floral wind]

Been wanting him for ages

[vale pollen]

Couldn't find one so I had to make my own

[floral wind]

Still a great model tho

I did debate doing the same but i have a nsaty obession with wanting mostly older stuff for the things i want if i can reasonably find them

[midnight cairn]

Just teasing 😉

[floral wind]

[vale pollen]

thankya, the blade guard vets are a fuckin fantastic model to kitbash off of

[signal plover]

another great one to make pedro with is tor garadon

[vale pollen]

Yup, but i felt like i wanted one in tacticus armor considering pedro wasnt known for wearing the more heavy armor

[compact umbra]

THE BIG CHUNGUS

[errant fulcrum]

Whar

[compact umbra]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA7ItxzPFF4

my bad my brain forgot the big chungus tank was a kitbash

[brisk vapor]

Victor got some red on his knees

Does the preview not work for you either

[midnight cairn]

Preview works for me. Though I'm more admiring the skull on the knee than the red 😛

Can see some of the filaments from the printing at this resolution, though.

[brisk vapor]

Yeah, it was unfortunate it was printed only on a 8K printer

Actually might've been 4K

[cunning kiln]

i had just bought the beast snagga stampede box !

WAAAGH

well. it was basically bought for me and ill be paying them back, if im being honest. but i had to snag one of the last 2 left in stock haha

[midnight locust]

Buddy bought me farsight as a gift. Should I prime in black or red?

[proper pollen]

@white tangle I don’t know what would give you guys the impression they’re not loyal imperial fists, everyone’s so paranoid! 🤷‍♂️

[proper pollen]

Reddd

[obsidian tapir]

Some of my most recent red Corsairs. I don’t know how chaos space marine players can stand all this trim

[sweet sinew]

I recently did Kharn for funsies, holy shit the trim

Also you did great work

[obsidian tapir]

Thanks

[sweet sinew]

My mother ordered me Angron, kinda scared to know how much trim a chaos primarch might have

[obsidian tapir]

Oh god, best of luck to you with that trim then

[proper pollen]

I found the trick is to not paint the trim

now hear me out:

you base the whole model in the trim colour, then paint in the plates

[hollow goblet]

As a ksons player: we can't

Only like 30% of my army is actually painted

[sterile grail]

yes I do haha, just got two. It was a pain because the customs in my country is very restrictive.

[mint dove]

Tried glazing some warm highlights on my orc, think I'm getting the hang of this

[midnight cairn]

Well, I can't see it in the left picture. It's your fault for taking such a close up on the right 😉

[brisk vapor]

true enough

[hardy arrow]

The thing is. At some point you just prime your minis in the trim colour. I play Word Bearers and after 60 marines i decided to pick up a silver primer

[mint dove]

Gitz all done!

[rare hornet]

That’s the second one pretty much done for now

(Still needs the washes on it)

[teal wolf]

What are you guys equipping your scout squads with?

[sterile grail]

he's almost done.

[lavish crescent]

It begins...

[midnight cairn]

Your guy looks a little pale, otherwise great model! 🙂

[sterile grail]

thanks, camera auto color correction, i real life he looks fine. I use rakarth and ushabti bone to highlight the skin

[plush swift]

You've improved a ton since you first came here

you're lines are also straighter since the last time I saw your stuff

[sterile grail]

thanks corpse, i appreciate it

[cloud wing]

Grey and black primer really do make a difference

The reds pop more and are brighter on greys. I shoukd use grey priner more

[white tangle]

nice, i was just wondering if its worth it to get the upgrade for when i get my guard.

[plush swift]

Yes, the undertone matters a lot with reds. Most the reds you guys use are transparent with an opacifier added to it, so changing out to a grey will do a ton. Try experimenting with other colors too, because you can get some really neat effects

[cloud wing]

Ye figured that out the hard way

[mint merlin]

what are those riflemen minis? They look sick

[cloud wing]

Onepagerules 3d printed empire hangunners. Swapped out the heads for their beastmen hyena heads in blender

Btw what do ya think of these anti cav atakes i added to the base?

[compact umbra]

I love them! What do you plan to run them as?

[cloud wing]

AOS fusiliers. But in a pinch if i need an extra guard squad ill say their abhuman guardsmen

Also made these

[sterile grail]

yes definitely. You get gasmask and caps. Its just more variety to make your army a kil more unique.

[crude solstice]

non-GW treekin for TOW

[true path]

@sturdy chasm from my aos chaos army

[white tangle]

so im painting and i get some hand oils on my mini making the paint act strange. How would i wash the mini? Just water or soapy water?

[midnight cairn]

Oil needs at least soap. Maybe more if it's already dry by now.

[plush swift]

the hand oil doesnt do that much, its the grime that will cause more issues

[white tangle]

Yeah im not sure what it is i just know it makes the surface hydrophobic and impossible to paint on. I just dipped the parts in some warm soapy water, rinsed and the paint works fine.

im just going to hope that there isnt some terrible unforeseen reaction that comes form acrylic paint and soap. If there is dont tell me lol

[plush swift]

You want cold soapy water for acrylics, The heat will actually damage them

[plush swift]

Depends on the type of soap

[white tangle]

Just used normal bathroom gel handsoap. Not dishwashing soap if thats what youre implying. Wouldn't be surprised if that would do some bad.