40k-minis-and-armies

[ocean pendant]

In that case someone else might know more, I'd advise searching for a guide online there seems to be plenty for how to paint ABS

Seems like the prep is more important than the paint used

[elder veldt]

Fair Ty

[sharp blade]

abs should be fine to paint over but if u wanna be extra safe u can sand it lightly, use something rly fine tho so u dont see the sanding marks later

the gun and the guy arent the same kinda plastic tho are they?

i were u id definetly sand/grind the inside of the hands and the gun grips a bit before painting it cus clipping those in and out of eachother is probably gonna wear the paint a good bit

but like again just something fine so u dont widen the handhole by accident

[elder veldt]

Plan on kitbashing em into an Iron Warrior so sanding should work and they're both the same plastics just from different makers and ones quality is just far better it seems

[sharp blade]

fair fair

[elder veldt]

Got like 40 of these things to paint and bash so plenty of time to mess around but yeah I'd been thinking the same on most of the fittings

[hollow yoke]

Almost done on the warden captain just gonna and some black to the joints with dry brush grey and tusken fur on the gloves with some null oil

[heavy frigate]

Looks awesome! Angron is my fav.

[steady wren]

Knight Brother Admusias joins the forces of the Deathwing Knights

[hollow yoke]

nice snow what did you use for it?

[steady wren]

It's the Valhallan Blizzard citadel paint

Just not fully dried so that's why it's slightly shiny

[hollow yoke]

from one to another i recommend Scale75 soil works their technicals are amazing and the price difference is more for what you pay for

but i really like how your snow looks

These are all the minis I painted so far and I used their technical

i might use yours in the future for putting it on cloaks or sticking it onto parts of the body when i do a snow one

[steady wren]

I'll make sure to check it out, thank you!

[mint dove]

Just gotta highlight the squig and do the base

[steady wren]

Just be careful when applying it

It's a bit of a tedious thing

[white tangle]

I know i may have asked this before, but what would be the best way to clean a mini? I'm having an issue where the mini becomes hydrophobic because of skin oils, but normal hand soap seems to not always do the job.

I also cant really use plastic gloves to prevent this issue.

[ocean pendant]

Best way to avoid this is to use a holder of some type rather than directly handling the mini

and dish soap is what most people use and gently scrub it with a toothbrush

[white tangle]

Yeah, i know. I hold my minis up on a stick with a bit of blutack but its not the best.

[compact umbra]

if you need gaint dead animal bits i 100% suggest primal layer terraain

[white tangle]

Are you sure? A toothbrush would definitely destroy the paint.

[compact umbra]

soft toothbrush probably

[ocean pendant]

Oh it's already painted, sorry I was assuming you were talking about cleaning the plastic before painting

[white tangle]

I use a makeup brush. Im scared to use dish soap. So far i have heard dish soap is very bad for the paint.

[white tangle]

Oh, no. Sry

[ocean pendant]

In that case I have no idea, the only advice I know is for cleaning the plastic before painting or stripping the paint, no idea how you'd clean it while painted, since I've never had to.

[white tangle]

Tbf, as im painting now, i might be over exaggerated how much of an issue this actually still is. Washing it with handsoap definitely helps a lot.

[wild monolith]

Epic Hero's Sternguard Veteran Squad Assembled

🥴🥴

[brisk vapor]

Sub 3 hour 'speed' paint. I was asked to lead by example in a small student gettogether where the people attending were painting minis for the first time and painted this there. (didn't have the greatest lighting)

[hollow yoke]

i actually have a specialty with this from doing gunpla what you can get is a finishing solution that also functions as a cleaner the product i prefer to use is Gunprimers finishing glazer kit and it comes with a polishing brush and a soft cloth for your projects and it protects against dust

[rigid bramble]

Scions primed for the weekend painting

[glass forum]

Dunno how I feel about them just yet

Suppose I'll have to wait till I've finished them

[white tangle]

Oof, its quite expensive.

[plush swift]

polystyrene, a low grade version of it. You can use just about any paint on it, in fact house paint is chemically identical to most hobby paints so you can even use that. Most acrylics and most oil paints are fine for use

factually untrue, some paints can melt plastic very easily, including acrylics. Also not all paint is actually paint, some of its dye marketed as paint but doesnt have an adhesive or a binder

[plush swift]

https://www.amazon.com/Winsor-Newton-Artguard-Barrier-3040997/dp/B004BN9N1O/ref=sr_1_3?crid=25MRLDC80PQJX&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.It4UsEsOpnzSP5Ys7EjhtRN6mbF7HqGGwbsFNl0tOA_4Du_4IvMTLSd-7tBtAFHqUirJ281QJBHAowD2wsCG7kgCQY9fmoN_vdCS3axJWXFk_SDc7ay_N4dix11ZFA6vYYppE5yF-WNqw2ZmD3UIxmlPnxb8B2Cf23pQqwnR9orL_u5KYAhHwYRH83WjbyCqzwnov8EuEypVBEJ1aPDZZJ8v6D3CW8sFHuerC0DeeCbQ2bPyjm8jK6tqngKR3M0xrDsj7HTb6Uej2Gl7GYgBrGFYpn659UmwIZ6wxAJbJDU.aRNwsB3SgRKB1YtoXHMk4_FQmxiFS75_iJvIo8_wX6k&dib_tag=se&keywords=artist+barrier+cream&qid=1710545078&sprefix=artist+barrier%2Caps%2C98&sr=8-3

[oblique socket]

rubbing alcohol can also work i've heard, at least to get the stuff off the mini

[plush swift]

washy your grubby hands first

[plush swift]

its already painted

[white tangle]

I have some weird sweaty hands disorder so creams and stuff dont work for me 😦

[plush swift]

so do I, this stuff works for me

its waxy

[hollow goblet]

Grubby hands gang

You do not wanna know what my keyboard looks like

[white tangle]

I might try it then, thx.

[elder veldt]

Ty ever so much this is kindof reason I asked (Once melted an old macross model cause the paint made the top layer of the plastic very soft)

[plush swift]

yeah i get that, i make a lot of paint daily and there are so many that flat out cant go on polystyrene like Rhodopas M60A

[hollow yoke]

oh it seems the increased the price sorry about that its worth it but i can understand

[visual turret]

Resisted the urge to buy plastic today

Lesgoooooi

[silver thorn]

noooooo

B UY M O R E

[rare hornet]

I didn't >:3

[visual turret]

I almost bought a nice box offffffffffffffffffffff

deathwing knights

I am gonna, however, paint the rest of my tyranids in a new scheme

rather than hive fleet jormungandr

[rare hornet]

I bought a box of Khorne Berzerkers

[visual turret]

I'm gonna make them Terminids

Plus I'm still painting an alarith

[rare hornet]

That would look really good, the oranges and dark greys

[silver thorn]

1/3 of the way through building sisters army

entire kroot army is released

😬

I want to paint a bunch of kroot now 😦

[proper pollen]

Intercessors are about ready to be called complete:

[teal wolf]

These go hard!

[proper pollen]

Thanks! They're some alpha legion bois out to get shit done. Was worried about panzer grey instead of the classic colours, but think they turned out well!

[jaunty trail]

Wip on ironkyn railgunner

[dawn stream]

Land Raider and Terminators came in

[rare hornet]

Yey

[glass forum]

It's not finished yet

[rare hornet]

Finally had enough time to do the second shield

[rare hornet]

Pretty good word bearers you got there

[wary sonnet]

I probably won't add the spikes on top.

[wary sonnet]

BT?

Man, this purple cloth piece looks good.

Oh, and that thing at his foot is the result of a "minor disagreement."

[dawn stream]

WIP Land Raider

[wary sonnet]

Any specific legion/chapter it's being prepared for?

[dawn stream]

Raven Guard

[wary sonnet]

Doesn't seem like their style.

[rare hornet]

Ye!!

[dawn stream]

While the RG do favor stealth tactics, they are fully capable of using heavier units. They often use heavy elements to draw an enemy in before ambushing from behind, hammer and anvil style

[wary sonnet]

Terminators seem like a perfect choice, then.

[proper pollen]

Ghost Legion assault intercessors up and running

[brisk vapor]

Very nice

[mint dove]

Warboss with attack squig done!

[midnight cairn]

If you find it in you to continue, I suggest making the dynamite a bit more visually distinct from the squig's skin.

[mint dove]

Once the black dries I want to make it look like the fuses are lit

Yeah I noticed it looked a little similar so I gave it an orange drybrush,

[mint dove]

So I'm using my airbrush for the first time to try and zenithal. I l ow you're not supposed to let the trigger go while its pulled back but do I have to stop the air flow after each spray? Or can I just rock the trigger back between air and paint?

[short pawn]

You know you've made it when this talented mf likes it

[plush swift]

Whenever you're free for a day I will gladly give you free class

[plush swift]

@mint dove I'm going to agree with a statement

Do it in brown or something which is similar in tone... You know what.. look in that box...

You know what box I'm talking about

[summer sparrow]

Color shift Armiger

[wise shuttle]

Chapter Ancient woooo

[jaunty trail]

Only base decorations left to do.

[midnight cairn]

Haha, the light confused me in the first picture. It definitely looks like there's a cavity where the head should go. 😅

[silver thorn]

paint a little smiley emoji face on the face plate

[jaunty trail]

It's a robot it will not get any kind of "face" XD

[silver thorn]

to better interface with the other kin 🙂

[jaunty trail]

The robot is geared up for war, so why giving the enemy a hint where the robo looks at?

[jaunty trail]

Yeah. Not my style

[silver thorn]

HES CUTE

:o

[jaunty trail]

Robot doesn't need to be cute... it needs to be efficient.. so no face needed to kill the enemy

[silver thorn]

admech?
efficient???

[jaunty trail]

It's not Admech... It's votann in my case. So what..

[silver thorn]

well idk if its clear but im joking but

the votann robots are close to true AI

and are considered "full kin"

so I mean thats clearly not just a robot who is only efficient

and also nothing in 40k is really that efficient when it comes to technology

votann tech is like, decaying really hard in its own way

[jaunty trail]

Yup, but still: Votann have options to wear a helmet. This helmet gives also only a vague hint where the votann is looking exactly... So why can't a "smart" thinking robot with ai like behavior not hide it's "face" in a warzone/battle?! If i could give an enemy such a disadvantage by not knowing where the "critical" part is, i would do it. And for 40k terms.. ye there are huge calibered weapons etc. but for me it's "legit" that robots just hide their "faces" in battle

[silver thorn]

i think you are reading like

an absurdly large amount to a joke about

drawing a cute face on a robot

[rare hornet]

I would just put ‘OwO’

And feel no remorse

[glacial knoll]

Me personally? I'd go with :3

[compact umbra]

Cute! I’d love to do an event where the face looks like screen pixels but I imagine that would be a pain

[silver thorn]

yea not for everyone, I just think it's cute

[compact umbra]

Effect*

[mint merlin]

in the far future of the golden age of the 20th millenium, mankind created the men of iron to do their hard labor. What the imperium doesn't know, is that they rebelled because the builders kept hard-coding them to speak in a UwU accent

[silver thorn]

NO, MASTER. I DO NOT WANT TO EQUIP THE "CAT-EARS" MODIFICATION YOU HAVE PREPARED.

https://tenor.com/view/terminator-terminator-robot-looking-flex-cool-robot-gif-16625083

[short pawn]

Oh yeah warhammer is the peak of practicality

Just crazy

[summer sparrow]

Archon_of_flesh would be so disappointed

[short pawn]

My favorite part of warhammer's beautiful display of tactical awareness and militant planning is when they send down a bunch of heavily armored guys with swords instead of bombarding hostiles like 99% of future and modern combat

It really sells the mil sim approach

[brisk vapor]

Metallic shoulder pauldron with leather boots and belts today

[weary nexus]

You continue to impress, well done.

[brisk vapor]

Appreciate it!

[silver thorn]

40k got lost in the sauce trying to be a game

does it really make sense that a tank is like 60-100 guys worth of points

and then fights 20 feet from everything else on the table, not 3 miles away

i think in the 90s people just played on as big a table as they could get

but tanks are also not to scale as well

[short pawn]

Well depending on the context yeah kinda

imperial guard kinda just throws leman russes at things

[silver thorn]

yea but when would you have a conflict thats a bunch of leman russes

like

on the same block as a bunch of guys

maybe during an ambush or something or insurgent stuff

most 40k doesnt really make sense at all scenario wise

maybe if the table was like 100x the size

like it doesnt really make sense that lasguns have a range at all, for example

its very gamey

[short pawn]

That's true but IIRC the 40k tabletop game is just supposed to be a simulation of a battlefield not an actual one. Like a board game in-universe but I could just be shitshotting

[silver thorn]

ive talked to people who basically complain about that

like they think 2ED and 3ED was more like

storytelling driven

scenario driven

it didnt really try to be balanced because you balanced yourself

[short pawn]

All im saying is I hate high profile characters in most armies

[silver thorn]

yea thats a common complaint

i kind of agree, take thousand sons

you HAVE to take magnus

[short pawn]

Uh oh THE angron has visited my random regiment that also happens to have THE ursula creed

[silver thorn]

yea...

i have celestine and grayfax 🙂

but generally I agree

[short pawn]

Some characters make sense like Kharn or some shit randomly being in a battle but where did Gaunt come from

[silver thorn]

haha

he has a book so...

I think the problem is when you treat it like a competitive game and you have all these named characters

if they are even a little bit good or even just interesting to use

they will get used all the time

so you kind lose that hobby aspect of THIS IS MY IMPERIAL GUARD REGIMENT

you paint your own general

name them

come up with a story

[brisk vapor]

well that depends on the player entirely, nothing is stopping you making your own character with their own lore and and fielding them as a named character for a cool rules set

[silver thorn]

yea Im doing that actually

using ephreal stern as the base to make a replacement for the daemonhost

i dont want a daemonhost in my sororitas army haha

[short pawn]

Yeah but the issue is some named characters are 100% needed or you cant even enjoy the game casually

One example being Lord Solar

hes just needed

[brisk vapor]

don't play guard nor have I played against but none of the armies I've played with or against don't really rely on any one or multiple characters to be viable

I mostly play Necrons or Space Marines and both can do just fine without any named characters, or my friend's Chaos Space Marines or Drukhari

[silver thorn]

thousand sons is the worst one

magnus is absolutely critical to making the army function

[alpine zealot]

I need advice, is oil wash (earthy color) necessary or will it only spoil the effect?

[wary sonnet]

A lizard was added to the collection.

[wary sonnet]

I'm no expert, but the dude looks good as he is.

[faint lantern]

I absolutely need this

[brisk vapor]

The model? Sorry to say it's one of a kind and not for sale 😄

[alpine zealot]

I have and idea, I will not use it this time but next one i paint with this technique will get this wash, if I like the effect i will go back to this one and use it

[alpine zealot]

Is it heraldry friendly if I use Both Terran Raptor (eagle) and templar cross on one HH imperial fist?

[alpine zealot]

What you think guys?

[vale pollen]

Looks good, lil dude looks like he went through hell

[alpine zealot]

That's what i meant

[alpine zealot]

Its HH legionary so I guess we can say he did

[wary sonnet]

The Imperial Fists didn't really get involved into nasty business aside from Terra and the Iron Cage.

They mostly held forts.

[short pawn]

You can't speak for every single imperial fist alive at any given time

Probably was a space marine that slipped in the shower and died and we'd never know

[lavish crescent]

30k/40k primarch based. Opinions?

Gulliman is custom but rogal stays OG with some removals

Feel like I should redo lions base rn. Make it better ngl

[white tangle]

After days of procrastination, I continue.

[alpine zealot]

Looks good

[lavish crescent]

Mood and it looks gorgeous

[jaunty trail]

Done the Ironkyn railgunner..

[rare hornet]

For a slight change of pace, doing a different type of angry marines

[jaunty trail]

Lookin' good so far, want to see the finished mini ^^

[woven saffron]

Am more a monkey with a brush than an actual hobby painter, but oh well, here's my Infiltrator Raptors. That's my first box of mini's, so there's that

[rare hornet]

Of course, should have him done over the next couple days

[visual turret]

idk lion's default base is really nice

[signal plover]

Not 40k but still warhammer

[sterile grail]

beautiful and clean too

[true path]

love it! This is what I got up to for my AoS army

[signal plover]

chaos boys unite

[true path]

https://tenor.com/view/warhammer3-totalwar-warhammer-gif-5329557951884688599

doing absolutely nothing wrong

[silver thorn]

archaon did several things wrong

[dawn stream]

Raven Guard Land Raider

[echo oyster]

do you have a techical rust or tamya brown panel liner or streaking grime? some sort of oil or enamel you could run under the studs would look pretty rad with some sort of grime or rust streaking down them

[edgy jackal]

For beige/cream coloured epic scaled solar tanks, would a black or brown oil wash be more appropriate?

[alpine zealot]

Nah, I have just custom made white spirit with Brown oil paint

Painted the ground today and covered it with varnish

[visual turret]

Plan in motion............

[plush swift]

so what you're saying is that I just have to start a bidding war then

[brisk vapor]

That wouldn't help either

[plush swift]

I'll start the bidding off at $50,000

[brisk vapor]

[plush swift]

Dont worry, i got you bro

$65,000

I know how to win at auctions, ive bid against myself a lot

[visual turret]

I'm unemployed rn can I get that auction money :3

[plush swift]

Just get a loan from your parents

[white tangle]

Or how i like to do it, just dont pay.

[visual turret]

I still live w/ my parents

[signal plover]

https://tenor.com/view/job-job-application-jobless-gif-2757097081210871087

[proper pollen]

WIP Company Hero

[white tangle]

Damn, looks sick. Cant wait till i get to propper kit bashing like this.

These heads were the first and last bit of proper kitbashing I did like a year ago, and u can't even tell lol (The eliminator's torsos dont have a normal space marine compatible heads so i had to carve a bunch of plastic to sculpt a neck area.)

[short pawn]

Does anybody know how long green stuff is good for if i freeze it

[proper pollen]

Well I’d happily trade for your painting skills lol

[proper pollen]

(I’d recommend chopping the base of the necks off, a bit easier that way 😅)

My current WIP sneaky Bois

[white tangle]

I was just thinking about that lol. I think what i was trying to do was to give them that neck armour thing they have sticking out. If i just cut the necks of the heads you wouldn't be able to tell that they have depth. Would have saved me a lot of time though lol.

[faint lantern]

Oh hey, I can post images now

I just got into the hobby of miniatures

[plush swift]

I've had 7 pounds of it in my freezer for almost a decade now. Still good

[short pawn]

Yepic

Its about time i make some more valhallans

[wary sonnet]

Does anyone know why chaos bolter ejection ports look like this?

[plush swift]

Fashion

GW is an English company, they haven't known competent gun design since the smle

[white tangle]

Dk if this is real but if so, then this:

[plush swift]

Yes, it doesn't even have a receiver

Or enough space for the bullets

[wary sonnet]

Thankfully Azrael has a better version now.

[vale pollen]

Oh jesus thats gross

[true path]

https://tenor.com/view/wrong-drumpf-trump-stupid-gif-6220235

[turbid brook]

Yeah but he was at least partial responsible for the destruction of most elves soooooo

[rare hornet]

A little more progress on the champion tonight

[tranquil kelp]

Aethon Heavy Sentinel rules. The Melta Lance looks like a worse Multi-Melta

[midnight locust]

Love kasrkin

[hollow goblet]

Anyone tried to convert regular space marine terminators into Scarab occults?

Thinking of splitting the starter box with a friend and I don't really know what to do with the terminators, everything else I can use for kill teams or convert but I don't play CSM or loyalists enough for me to use the termites for anything else

Thinking of grabbing some Kromlech headdresses and seeing what I can do w them

[vale pollen]

Scouts with helmets are

[rare hornet]

To be fair it’s always got armour bane, rather than the usual melta rules for that

[eternal pagoda]

hey does anyone have that picture of the orc figure that was painted smoking a cigar and the light of the torch was painted perfectly
i need to have it to show some friends and i cant find it

[mint dove]

Da full waaaaaagh!!

[faint lantern]

I can't imagine the total cost of all of these combined

[mint dove]

I don't like to think about it

But some of these are 3d printed so that makes it better

[short pawn]

Okay the craziest thing. I read this message and opened instagram and it was literally the first video

[eternal pagoda]

ooohhohohohohoho please i need it

[eternal pagoda]

thank you so much

[mint dove]

I'm gonna need an explanation if how you pulled off this black magic

[short pawn]

No thats not me

In anyway

Thats Artel Miniatures i believe

I am a dogshit painter

[plush swift]

The OSL is wrong in that, green flesh wouldn't react like that to a flame due to how light interacts with a green substrate, which would mean that flesh isn't green.

Yes I do actually know this and I have entire document and it's only 100 pages of math, I was very bored and it was COVID so I had nothing to do

[short pawn]

Flamethrowers also dont work like that and its a fictional race of sci fi critter im not too worried

[plush swift]

Yes but I have ASD and mine chose the special interest of color theory

So I'm neurotic about it

Please send help

[short pawn]

Nuts on your forehead

[plush swift]

I'm allergic to nuts

[short pawn]

Synthetic nuts on your chin?

[edgy jackal]

Out of interest, how would you go about determining surface colour based on original colour and light source colour?

[plush swift]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubelka–Munk_theory

It's easier if I just give you the wiki for it so you can understand because there's a lot to it because it's not just that theory and you have to do a bunch of revisions to it

Calculating the thickness of the flesh was way harder than I thought it would be

When I say color theory is way more complex than people think it is that's just the tip of the iceberg

It only gets more fucked from there

[tranquil kelp]

Maybe, but not even the Reaver Titan's Melta Cannon gets that treatment. Plus with one of the weapons outright missing on the rules here, it might just be a typo.

[rare hornet]

It’s a 75 point model, that melta hits quite hard for its cost

[rare hornet]

What weapon is missing?

[lethal glacier]

If I ever get into 40k's mini painting, my main army is going to be one guardsman and only Aquilan Shield

[tranquil kelp]

Volkite Culverin, the kit has one. And I'll have to check if the kit actually has that grenade harness, it seems like a weird thing to put on a gun platform.

I'm not expecting a titan killer out of the model, but the Melta Lance looks kinda weird at the moment

If it has regular armourbane instead of the melta-armourbane, that would be great.

[rare hornet]

It does

Melta armourbane is specified in the weapon stats, the melta lance is listed as armourbane (ranged)

[barren verge]

Any tip to make good looking Ogryn?

[chrome pebble]

My bud looked at images of bodybuilders to paint them accurately

[barren verge]

Like for shadows?

[chrome pebble]

Yeah

[barren verge]

Hanks

Thanks*

[visual shale]

Big gun

[plush swift]

I have a bunch but you will probably never do them because It requires mixing your own colors and listening to me talk about color theory.

[barren verge]

Would be willing if have time

Know how to paint. Not use white or black for shadow. Use darker color

[plush swift]

I don't use black for my flesh stones, It darkens it down too much. What I like doing is using things like ultramarine violet instead which provide a more realistic shadow

[barren verge]

[plush swift]

Shadows aren't black also they're blue in reality

[barren verge]

Huh... never knew

[plush swift]

And you can change the hue of them and have yellow shadows if you really want to depending on your light source

[barren verge]

If atoma the blue shadow

[plush swift]

Yeah I have umm... Have a doctorate in art... So I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to this stuff

[barren verge]

I read it yes! You are good little one! Little Ogryn not here yet. Want be prepared for them

So want to learn

[plush swift]

feel free to ping me, we can work with all of the paint you have and figure it all out

[barren verge]

Want to make ogryn with ripper look good. What brush i need?

[plush swift]

I use a bunch of random ones I have laying around, but you just need a detail brush and a larger one for base coaats

@barren verge this is a face im working on currently, the stuble shading is what i like doing the most if you cant tell

this isnt great though and its a speed paint

[dawn stream]

I have witnessed this abomination and now so must you

[barren verge]

Ooohhh

[neat ocean]

https://tenor.com/view/calavera-fumando-gif-26172337

[plush swift]

thats not an abomination

[visual turret]

https://www.instagram.com/orc.butt/p/CuJ7SAWOlJW/?img_index=10 for those wantying the source

[wise shuttle]

Another lad finished

[glass forum]

Almost finished my abaddon

[rare hornet]

Keeping with the Chaos theme

[glass forum]

And finished

[mint dove]

One of the grots corpse printed me turned out to be the best driver for my trukk

Hell yeah

[jaunty trail]

Current wednesday early wip on votann salvager luggager backpack....

[plush swift]

thats perfect

[mint dove]

The fungus beer allows him to commune with the machine spirit

[plush swift]

straight into a tree

[mint dove]

The only grot to use the careen stratagem when the vehicle is on full health. God bless em

[teal wolf]

Currently working on an invictor and I don't want the pilot static in the seat. What pose looks appealing to you fine folks?

[sterile grail]

probably the last one. First one may seem good in theory but the leg sticking out seems unatural.

[teal wolf]

Fair. Plus him looking in towards the suit is a bit odd as well. I tried to remove the head, no clue what my buddy glued him with...

[echo oyster]

I really like the tone of yellow you achieved here, very nice.

[glass forum]

Still got more to build, add and paint

[simple thorn]

Battle Brother Potato Pauldrons

[midnight locust]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/532665147500658719/1219815042594377880/image0.jpg?ex=660cac49&is=65fa3749&hm=57c3ce434dfe20e10f524bc3cc32c10c0486925f1d2d9ff9309c599b19456a1a&

Any suggestions on replicating this cloak?

Probably going to apply it to the kasrkin sniper

[compact umbra]

I suggest doing the lighter color first then maybe use a sponge or make a stencil for the camo pattern?

[wise shuttle]

[visual turret]

how did you manage getting the cape fitted on him goddamn

I gave uyp and threw my cape away

[brisk vapor]

Started to work on Sienna's golden butt flaps

[glass forum]

Much struggling

[visual turret]

I had him on his base when I decided to put it on and FUCK that, hell model.

He looks better cloakless anyway

[glass forum]

Debatable, I like the cloak on him

[proper pollen]

First pass on my company heroes 🙂

[compact umbra]

I love it so so so much

[proper pollen]

Thank you, very appreciated 😄

[wary sonnet]

Can someone explain me why the fuck is a tactical armor wearing gunner as tall as a terminator?

[visual turret]

oh my GOD those look great

[mint merlin]

Suggestion for a freehand I could put on that cape?

[white tangle]

Getting there.

If i fuck up the shading part ima be sad

[proper pollen]

Aw thank you! Was hating the photos a bit because of the classic "photos making the models look like garbage compared to real life" syndrome, but glad people are liking them 😅

[proper pollen]

It looks like the terminator has stepped in something and is examining his shoe

[jaunty trail]

Lookin' freakin' good for a heretic

but... drill those barrels XD

[oblique socket]

Put some black paint in the barrel when you do too.. or don’t, i’m a janitor not a cop

[rare hornet]

Thank you! ^^

[mint dove]

Starting to get into black metal more and started listening to this album and couldn't for the life of me remember where I had seen that face before...

[plush swift]

Whoever could that be

[compact umbra]

Huh, seems like a vermintide fan….

[mint dove]

Finally got an airbrush and tried to do a white zenithal. Thoughts?

[upbeat carbon]

Anyone watching the reveals?

[sterile grail]

solid, did u use the markers for the calligraphy

[simple thorn]

I think I forgot to throw my Etsy-brand Warp Spiders in here

[stray elm]

Yo fellow, word bears fan

I am so close to being done with this guy just some highlights left

[short pawn]

He finally arrived

[brisk vapor]

Seems like a cool guy

[mint dove]

What brought this on is I wanted to paint corpse paint for my kommandos and needed reference lol

[brisk vapor]

valid

[mint dove]

The black is gonna be easy. Painting white skin will be the hard part

I'm thinking of doing pallid whych flesh as the base then putting white over it

Or would that read as white skin and not white paint

[brisk vapor]

you might want to start with something darker, pallid wych flesh doesn't cover really well

do it gradually from darker tones towards brighter until you're happy with it

but yeah don't go for pure white

I usually sktech out any white/light areas with a grey or a similar darker tone I'm ending up with

[mint dove]

So something like an ulthuan gray as a base and then layer it up to a pure white

[brisk vapor]

Ulthuan grey is very light as well 😄 It's kinda the cool tone version of pallid wych

[mint dove]

Because as cool as pure white would be. 1. It's a pain to paint and 2. I can see it washing out all the muscle detail

Ahh dammit. Hold on in a sec I'll see what grays I have

[brisk vapor]

I was thinking about thinned down eshin or mechanicum greys

are you painting it on Ork skin?

[mint dove]

No just over a black prime

Or gray

[brisk vapor]

then just working from a monotone gradient from black to white gradually tuning it brighter could work

[mint dove]

I have ulthuan, celestra ,administratum gray, grey seer, mechanicus standard gray, dawnstone and fenrisian gray but that's more blue

Also stormvermin fur

[brisk vapor]

do you want a cool or warm finish

[mint dove]

I'd want a more cool tone, as close to the standard cold looking corpse paint

[brisk vapor]

then going from grey seer -> administratum grey -> mix of ulthuan and administratum -> ulthuan could be the way to go

or start with celestra grey optionally

or dunno, not sure how that paitn really behaves

[mint dove]

Well thankfully I have 3 squads of commandos and no end of practice material

So I'll give that a go:)

[brisk vapor]

let us know how it will go

[mint dove]

Do you think a white drybrush over top of the ulthuan would look good or subtract from the look

[brisk vapor]

think that's a no for me

but I don't really like the chalky look of drybrushing in general

[visual turret]

good lord

the new reveals

[mint dove]

Any ork stuff?

[visual turret]

No

Another votann KT, new brood brothers

Two new chaos SM lord models

[mint dove]

Orks lose yet again

I don't understand why gw hates orks so much

Tau got like 3 new units for their codex we get 1, and all it is is an update of a current unit

[edgy jackal]

Beast boys are relatively new, no?

[clear tusk]

WIP of my 30k iorn warriors warsmith, what u all think 🤔

[rare hornet]

Looks good, I see you went for the sword praetor body, it works well

Where did you manage to grab that servo arm flamer/melta?

[clear tusk]

The finecast 40K Tech Marine with servators

[rare hornet]

Ooooh

[summer sparrow]

Finally finished my Voidsmen-at-arms

[clear tusk]

[rare hornet]

Shiny

[summer sparrow]

pretty bois for my Knights

[rare hornet]

I need to finish some of my 30k stuff

[summer sparrow]

the historical fiction of the far flung future

I'm still miffed the new titan game is for HH

was really hoping for a rerelease of classic 40k era epic

maybe I'll luck out and get a BFG rerelease thou

[rare hornet]

If legions gains enough traction then there’s a slim possibility?

[summer sparrow]

it's certainly possible

but I'm not holding my breath

[rare hornet]

It’s fun to get the titans out again, I used to play titanicus to death

The baby knights are some of my favourites

[visual turret]

AdMech moment, at least the ork model looks cool

[mint merlin]

Is that GW or a proxy? Looks likea proxy but I'm not sure

[summer sparrow]

Proxy, it's the Cartographan Privateers by Golden Dragon Games

95% of my minis are 3d printed

[shrewd bane]

resin or fdm

[summer sparrow]

I occasionally get gifted or spring for specific characters

Resin

[shrewd bane]

my fdm prints for mini is some spots looks alr but the other is ehhh

or just doesnt print at all

[summer sparrow]

Get an Elegoo Mars

Best money to the hobby you'll ever spend

But I've got 2k of Knights, about 1k of Eldar, and printed about 3k of things for friends

Currently finishing and redoing the paint for my knights, and by the 30th I gotta do up 1k of Necrons for a friend to join me at a 2v2

[mint merlin]

They look great!
A lil bit too golden in my opinion, but it's 40k we're talking about, there can be never enough gold (just like there can never be enough dakka)

[summer sparrow]

Oh yea they're meant to be ostentatious, foot soldiers for a well funded Knightly order

[mint merlin]

You know, with all the gold laying around on imperial battlefields, they could probably fund a second astra militarum lol

actually, is gold valuable at all in 40k? They use it a lot, and they have literally millions of planets and even more asteroids to mine from

Has a book ever mentioned the value of different materials? I'm guessing adamantium is the highest

[white tangle]

Markers? Like the pens? No, i only use a brush.

[summer sparrow]

It's likely still got some value, especially when giant golden symbols of the Imperium eat up the supply

And tbh, gold isn't Even the most valuable metal now by a long shot, but it's the right price for being available and useful financially

[visual turret]

hi chat, I'm asking on behalf of my friend who's just started painting tau. They're going for a darker colour scheme and I wanna advise them on things they could do to improve the scheme a little, any advice?

ping replies appreciated for thsi

[short pawn]

I need bro

[royal compass]

Hibou?

https://tenor.com/view/nev-nevolent-owl-gif-26700423

[visual turret]

love the power Dadao

[proper pollen]

say hello to my bladeguard (still obviously need cleaning up / mould lines removing etc:

[proper pollen]

Needs more hammers

[proper pollen]

I'd say some white decals, maybe green lenses instead of blue, otherwise you end up with blue lenses on blue armour on blue cloth

[visual turret]

I never clocked the blue-on-blue-on-blue

good point

[proper pollen]

https://youtu.be/wx8-mysJG2s reminds me of this

[compact umbra]

Oh cool!!! homebrew chapter?

Oh my bad

[compact umbra]

I forgor you are the alpha legion / omega legion person! That’s amazing!

[compact umbra]

Hmmm blood?

[proper pollen]

I mean, that's definitely thematic of Alpha Legion lol 😄

[proper pollen]

As he's your warsmith, some edge highlights etc wouldn't be a bad shout, as he's basically your figurehead model. His loincloth also looks a bit metallic, maybe red or cream would make it pop a little more?

[white tangle]

Omg, those are my favourite marine helmets! Did u buy them or print them?

[clear tusk]

I see your point I might see what red looks like as I was trying to keep it as gritty as possible

As for the edge I am really bad at them and I didn't want to risk ruining him

[plush parrot]

I’ve never painted nor bought minis. I don’t have any interest in building an army, but warhammer lore and aesthetics are dope, so I wanna give it a try.

In simple terms: where do I start?

My collective experience painting is arts and crafts classes in elementary school.

[short pawn]

Personally I just bought a box of minis that looked cool and used the citadel app to find colors. Got paintbrushes off amazon and used citadel snippers/razor blades.

You might like Killteam

It's just small skirmish miniature combat with specialized sometimes niche lore units

[proper pollen]

https://archiesforge.co.uk/products/mk5-studded-helms-set-of-10

[proper pollen]

Killteam is a great place to begin, see whichever army suits your fancy

[white tangle]

Thank you!

[lucid sorrel]

Tactical squad

[vernal mesa]

I recently started again after 20+ years. Found a starter set of paints from Citadel, bought a cheap Tamiya plastic soldier model, practiced different techniques on it, my Killteam box of Novitiates arrives soon and I'm going from there. (Wanted to start with basic battle sister squad but it's never in stock in my country)

I've since grabbed a few paints I found I was missing, added a few more brushes, and built a wet palette from some tuperware, a paper towel, and parchment paper. The cheap trash model helped me figure out what I needed without wrecking the more expensive GW ones.

Watch some youtubers that create painting content and see what they do, figure out one you like listening to and learn about some techniques. (Eons of Battle is my go to for painting)

[plush swift]

watch canvas artist tutorials, they will explain things better, quicker, and will be easier to understand. The same methods can be applied to minis despite what mini painters claim

[teal wolf]

Last ditch killed the silent king with combat knives, on cloud 9 rn

[hollow goblet]

Y'all I need help deciding, I'm building a chaos legionary kill team and I'm painting each mini as a different chaos faction

There's one dude in the kill team who's like a sneaky guy with knives, do I make him Night Lords or Alpha Legion?

[oblique socket]

flip a coin and let fate decide

[peak flicker]

WIP

[sterile grail]

what happened to his nose

[main mango]

How’d you do the flames?

[peak flicker]

#6 brush, black templar contrast, retipped point of brush every time by spinning on palette and paper towel.

Start from the tip of the flame to the base. Once I got the shape down, fill it out the sides starting from the middle point to the base a little at a time like a pyramid.

[main mango]

Thanks!

[plush swift]

rip wallet

[plush swift]

just an fyi, brush sizes arent universal between brands, so listing the brand is recommended. You can have a #6 thats the same size as another brands #0 as an example. The size can even change per line in a brand too, good example is natural hair vs synthetic brushes, the synthetic ones tend to be a little larger for most brands

[teal wolf]

I found a bigger picture of him and he's got a skull painted on his face

[vernal mesa]

Hah I was gonna say looks like only 3 of golden paints… then I read the quantity

[sterile grail]

stripes.

[molten star]

Finally painted my servo skull the wife got me, first time painting something and I think he came out pretty alright. His name is Frank please say hi to him.

[faint lantern]

Woah

Good luck handling Hadron's insults

[visual turret]

hi frank!!!

[white tangle]

It cant just be me, right? Some of these poses that GW puts out are so damn lame. Like this new one just looks so stiff.

[visual turret]

I expect stability is considered for this

also, like

you try hauling yourself around in power armour like that AND jumping

I doubt you could move your legs much

[white tangle]

Dude, come on. Its a model. I would much rather have it look badass and break realism instead of looking like it does.

And this is the alt pose. Like you cant tell me this looks good.

Besides the paintjob obviously.

[ocean pendant]

It looks great

[white tangle]

Really? Damn, maybe im in the minority.

[proper pollen]

reminds me of someone...

Clearly copying eachother's homework lol

[kind oracle]

Working on the big boss himself

[upbeat carbon]

@lunar condor you can always commit the deepest Heresy, and kitbash a Loyalist Jump Pack Marine into being Chaos.
(I…know…some of the Primaris are a wee bit larger than Chaos nowadays but you can always hacksaw convert them smaller, or use a mix of bits to kitbash)

[opal halo]

you're absolutely correct.

With enough spikes, fine jeweller's chain, and removing Imperial iconography, you can have totally canon chaos marines out of loyalist ones.

A fair amount of my 2e/3e 40k army was repainted loyalists.

[wise shuttle]

Got a companion done

[signal plover]

Looks fantastic

[white tangle]

Well, i dont like it 😠

The other chaos one they showed tho, i really like 🙂

[upbeat carbon]

Stick a Jetpack onto that to use as your custom kitbash Chaos Jetpack Lord instead.

[wary sonnet]

How's this for a 900/1000 point army?

[round pollen]

Do any of you use a 3d printer and print out your own models just curious if thats being done yet as i know 3d printers are still somewhat new

of course thats probably cheating

[wary sonnet]

It's only not allowed on official tournaments as far as I know.

3D printing is by all means legal.

[round pollen]

aw ok

[wary sonnet]

You just need to make sure that the other player knows what you're using.

Then you're good to go.

[brisk vapor]

Spent three hours fiddling about the golden butt flaps but felt like they got worse by the minute for the last hour so I guess I'll give it another try some other time

[floral wind]

Anyone here know of a good method to fixing the cut-out-dimples ig on space marine backpacks? Where they have been cut too heavily on the vent pods so they are no longer spherical?

Got some 2nd hand marines today and some are in need of tlc is all

[brisk vapor]

as in cut in too deep and the sphere lost it's shape?

[floral wind]

Yes thats it

[brisk vapor]

Honestly don't think there's a good method for that. Best one would be just trying to sand the cut out area back into shape but it will not be perfect

or trying to fill in the area with milliput etc if the cut out is pretty large

[floral wind]

All of those were ideas i had I may even try using vallejo plastic putty that I bought for gap filling, in an attempt (like with the milliput) to resculpt it

Also thxs for the advice

[brisk vapor]

no problem

[plush swift]

sprue goo and a nail buffing bar

[rare hornet]

Found an old unloved model in the cupboard, so he’s become the tester for my new paint scheme

[teal wolf]

Is that a blackreach boy??

[rare hornet]

Don't think so, he's technically a dark angel 🥴

[teal wolf]

Awww heck

[rare hornet]

Used him to test the paint scheme for the war hounds

[finite quarry]

That pose is pretty lame, the one with the power claws one in @white tangle post looks pretty good

[plush swift]

they are designed to break easily so you buy more.

thats not really a joke

so many models are incredibly top heavy with terrible supports

[finite quarry]

😭

[rare hornet]

Behold, one tea fuelled masterpiece

[ocean pendant]

That's a big chainsword for such a little marine

[rare hornet]

my primaris marine has an eviscerator because he can 🥴

[ocean pendant]

Is that the chainsword from the Heavy Intercessor Captain?

[rare hornet]

yep

Cut it off at the wrist and put it on the power sword arm from the lieutenant kit

[ocean pendant]

Sorta did the opposite for my heavy Intercessor Sgt, gave him a Scion power sword and heavy bolt pistol from the Imperial Fist upgrade sprue

.... I have no idea why my phone posted the picture like that but okay

[rare hornet]

I like that sword, makes it stick out as a special blade

[ocean pendant]

Yea it annoyed me that the Heavy Sgt doesn't get any wargear options like the regular Sgt does, so I just made it myself

[rare hornet]

You rarely see them as is

Everything is now stuck together loosely

[ocean pendant]

Nice

[rare hornet]

Looking to grab the old sternguard plume and place that on him to finish it

[rare hornet]

What chapter you planning to do?

[ocean pendant]

My own chapter The Forsaken Sons, Blood Angel successors. Maroon armour with copper accent and black trims

[rare hornet]

Ooooh, I’m doing a successor chapter, the War Hounds which are descendants from my heresy army of loyalist world eaters

They declared themselves as their old legion name which was war hounds when they heard about Istvaan III, I will be running them as a blood angel successor so I can get death company which will serve as my own funky version

[compact umbra]

NICE!!!11

I LOVEE brood brothers

[lavish crescent]

Love the kitbash!! Fits smoothly together!

[peak flicker]

WIP

[glass forum]

What's a good camouflage scheme for cadian tanks amd vehicles?

I was thinking about going for historical British camouflage schemes but idk

[pastel grotto]

Cadian.

https://youtu.be/74p9eGwRAog?si=5ClMnBlUh3C3b14D

[stray elm]

While it can be brush painted a air brush helps a ton for camo

At least for making the basic shapes you prolly will still need to do clean up and everything with a brush

[mint dove]

One day of zenithals, I think I improved

[simple thorn]

MORE OFF-BRAND 40K STUFF FROM ETSY

AND SOME ON-BRAND 40K STUFF FROM GAMES WORKSHOP

[sudden crypt]

Already posted this a while back but posting again for attention.
A single Dreg shooter, the only model I've painted in years.

Inspired by.... Yep, you guessed it!
Warhammer!

I'm a lot better at conversions and greenstuff than I am at painting. Hence why I never ever paint ever.
Especially if I've spent a lot of time and effort converting something.
Why would I ruin my hard work with a bad paintjob?

Like this badboy slaps roof

[warm tide]

driving around with not just any pick up truck its the all new 40000 chevy silverado

[sudden crypt]

heelll yee bruthur

Or this scratch-built monstrotisy

Literally made from junk

[visual turret]

https://fixupx.com/DumbRobotStuff/status/1771462400811606194?s=20

[sterile grail]

toyoyta

[fervent trout]

Painted this black templar terminator

[faint lantern]

I love the glowing effect

However, I do think that it's a little too over-exaggerated

[sudden crypt]

Aw fuck I love it. I love the drone too
That's some nice and suble conversion work and a nice and LOUD paint job

[visual turret]

for super earth!

[fervent trout]

definitely is up close, but since people are mostly just gonna see it a few cm away, i think its excusable, though thanks for the compliment

[fervent trout]

i love how the guard dog is just 2 primaris power packs bashed together with a plasma pistol on the bottom

[rare hornet]

yeeeeeeeees :3

[mint dove]

When doing a zenithal would It make it look better and more natural if I prime black,spray zenithal mostly gray and then do another spray of pure white

[compact umbra]

besides the new sylvaneth models do we have any other models that have bee hives?

[compact umbra]

Yay or nay?

[oblique socket]

bee dragon.. well it's better than a wasp dragon

[compact umbra]

My custom city of sigmar is bee themed, maybe get some of that card board stuff and make armor and a horse leash stuff

Maybe i buy the throne bit off eBay

[mint merlin]

https://tenor.com/view/fire-kill-fuego-matar-incendiar-gif-5307315

[wild monolith]

Got all the kits assembled , including the mighty Redemptor Dreadnought

[rare hornet]

Bit of progress

[glass forum]

So I have a bane blade turret but I was wondering if there was a set I could easily juryrig to put it on? Like a leman

[mint dove]

Getting better

[rare hornet]

I do know it fits quite well on a baneblade hull

[woeful vale]

Couple more touches and my Captain will be complete

[river fiber]

Grahhh dinosaurs

[visual turret]

Idk what colour to do the dinosaur

[junior meadow]

a baneblade turret on a leman russ hull would be cool

[mint dove]

Tried a new ork skin recipie. Thoughts?

[plush swift]

Why did apples keep the name apple when all fruit used to be called apple

[mint dove]

All fruits used to be called apples?

[ocean pendant]

Is that why potato in French is Pomme de Terre which means Apple of the Earth?

[plush swift]

yes

[plush swift]

Yes

[plain granite]

Tried painting a son of malice.

[rare hornet]

That’s the main body done, not sure whether to change the brass coils on the bottom of the plasma pistol to a lighter shade of brass?

[jaunty trail]

Current votann lugger wip

[teal wolf]

Have you gone blue berry on us?

[rare hornet]

That’s not an ultra marine, he’s a war hound

My loyalist successor chapter from the world eaters who abandoned Angron and fought against their own legion alongside the ultramarines during the shadow crusade

The paint scheme is based on the legion’s pre-heresy colours

[teal wolf]

He's cute

[rare hornet]

Thank you!

[glass forum]

Slow progress

[dawn stream]

I had a similar idea of Death Guard loyalists from a ship that got lost in the Warp pre Heresy who reverted to the Dusk Raider colors but called themselves the Sons of Purifying Flame. Their symbol is the loyalist DG symbol surrounded by a flame and they hunt traitor DG with fire weapons

[short pawn]

Imo you should do a lighter blue, otherwise people will keep calling them ultramarines. Unless it doesnt bother you, either way it looks really good

[silver thorn]

very warcraft III

i like it

[glass forum]

Almost done

[mint dove]

He's done! And he is beautiful

[hollow goblet]

None off the top of my head but you could maybe get some value modifying some nurgle stuff like bloat drones or the flies from the Gellarpox infected

If you glued some black tufts/some sort of black/yellow flock that resembles hair you could probably make them read as bees easily

Also Tau vespids, their kits are old but you could maybe find some stuff that translates over, saw someone who turned some into Flamers of Tzeentch for a bug themed tzeentch army

[glass forum]

I think that's about done

[mint dove]

Trukk wip. Just gotta do some cleanup and highlight then we're in buisness!

[vale pollen]

Best boy on the gun right there

[mint dove]

I think he's the best ork I've painted so far

[vale pollen]

Contrast paints or the old fashioned way? Either way it's really good

[mint dove]

I wish I could do this with just contrast paints it's a pain in the ass lol

Base orruk flesh>wash with 2:1 contrast medium:ork flesh>layer orruk flesh>Glaze ogryn camo>Glaze krieg khaki>blend

[vale pollen]

Times like that makes me really glad I picked crimson fists, shit so ez to paint with my method

But shit still quality for da boy

[mint dove]

It's worth the effort but I don't think I'm gonna be doing this for every rank and file boy

Only characters and standout boys will get the treatment

Everybody else will get gutrippa flesh contrast and like it

[vale pollen]

Oh you'll drive yourself insane if you do thay

[short pawn]

Wait is this your kitbash

[mint dove]

Lol no it's just a 3d print

I wish I could kitbash this good

[short pawn]

Its so good

I was fucking perplexed bro

[silver thorn]

you did an honestly amazing job

ive been lurking watching it come together

those patches on the trukk look so good

wowza

[mint dove]

Thank you! I'm gonna try and keep getting better every model

Thankfully

I have no shortage of practice material

[silver thorn]

ebay haul 🙂

[mint dove]

Got really lucky with some local sellers, some guy was selling like 3000 points of orks for $200

[silver thorn]

https://tenor.com/view/stonks-more-money-eds-gif-26437995

[rare hornet]

Ironically I went for a darker blue as the lighter blues matched mine and my friend’s ultramarines too much, and once the helmet and shoulder go on it’ll help differentiate the two chapters a little better

[glass forum]

Okay now I feel I've gone overboard, just gotta live with it now

[plush swift]

how was painting the yellow

[plush swift]

this thing has had so much controversy, turns out the model was scanned and almost everything on there is 3d printed

which isnt allowed at GD

unless you have a big name

[signal plover]

That’s so based

[brisk vapor]

3D printing is allowed as long as the pieces have been sculpted digitally by the painter afaik

also these guidelines change a bit every year

but the biggest cause for controversy on that particular piece is that the backdrop is apparently generated by AI and printed instead of being painted or rendered by Neil

[mint dove]

How can I paint headlights? Would painting a light gray and then white in the center then go over with an orange/yellow wash look good?

[brisk vapor]

I like to do them like lenses but dark blue

but depends

they're pretty difficult

[mint dove]

They seem pretty difficult to paint. I just don't want to leave them silver

[brisk vapor]

here's the blue approach I liked

[mint dove]

I like it. How'd you di that?

Well how'd you do it in a way I can replicate. Because there's no way I can paint as good as you lol

[brisk vapor]

I start with an almost black blue, keep adding blue to it and paint thin layers focusing towards a corner of my choosing keeping the opposite corner almost untouched

then the final touch is to add almost pure white/light blue as spot highlights to the dark corner to make it look reflective

[mint dove]

Okay I'll give that a try!

I want it to read as old dingy halogen bulbs, so I think my base color will be something like averland sunset?

[brisk vapor]

then I'd start with something more yellowish brown and make the averland the midtone

Like this?

don't mind the pixels, this was done in paint

here's how

(I only now realised my mic was active so you can hear me spam redo lmao)

[jaunty trail]

Wip update on Votann lugger...

[brisk vapor]

hell yeah

[short pawn]

Bro must be pulling off a sick tekken combo with those inputs I'm hearing

[brisk vapor]

[mint dove]

Very helpful! I'll probably base it in iyanden yellow contrast>averland>flash gitz>phalanx yellow then dot highlight dorn yellow

[brisk vapor]

[plush swift]

this is actually a good brief tutorial

also yes, I just called something good

[brisk vapor]

[plush swift]

you all can stop being in shock

[plush swift]

glaze that py175 over things to help, its transparent so it can help tone down the layers

skill in a bottle

[mint dove]

Will do! I used some of it on the gun barrel of my trukk to test it and it really helps draw things together

[plush swift]

transparent colors are really untapped in this hobby

they can help a ton

[storm surge]

i really hope we will get a new chaos lord in termi armor

[jaunty trail]

Lugger done... base deco still to do...

[wise shuttle]

Finished the last companion!

[rare hornet]

He is getting closer

[wild monolith]

Back on painting after finished assembling the kits. Got this Boy in (Kantor) blue w/ Heavy Bolter done!

[floral wind]

I like how we have similar basing schemes great work 👍🏻

[wild monolith]

Ty ☺️

[floral wind]

No problem 😎👉🏻👉🏻

[jaunty trail]

Finished... 4/10 salvagers done..

[jaunty trail]

What a beauty!

[spare sedge]

right! love it got a flat bed and some passanger cars coming next just got to build the loading platform for it

[jaunty trail]

Reminds me of the ones in Darktide

[vernal mesa]

Suggestions for next step on the purple cloth? Tried using a contrast paint for the first time and the texture is interesting, but I’m unclear what the next step would be to make it really pop.

[lavish crescent]

fucking love it mate!!

[plush swift]

I would do another coat, then mix it in with some bright red and so highlights over it

iirc its thinner than paint so it should also act as a thinner

[weary wedge]

Kataphron battle servitors for the machine god!

[vernal mesa]

Was already planning to do dry brushing with a lighter purple. I’ll mix some red in. The contrast was magos purple and I’ve got mephiston red. Hopefully that combo works.

Extra side note Vallejo white primer behaves so weird.

[vernal mesa]

The sprues as terrain is really interesting. What’s the rest of the base material?

[weary wedge]

Model magic for the hill, GW texture paint or basing paints, army painter battlefield rocks as the rubble

[plush swift]

mephiston red is weird, it has such a drastic color shift to it that it threw me off for a while.

I cant stand most vallejo products to the point my office banned them because everyone else agreed

a few are ok but most are just... not useable like their white primer

[mint dove]

Trukk done!

[midnight cairn]

Suspiciously little red on the truck, it must be crawling like a snail 😋

[barren verge]

MINI OGRYN LOST IN TRANSPORT AAAAAAAAHHHH

IS THIRD TIME

DUNNO HOW MUCH HIGHER ULGO CAN COUNT AFTER

[glass forum]

An attempt at a cadian inspired space marine

[vernal mesa]

Saddest thing is most model stores and gundam shops are all Vallejo. They seem to have a really big presence.

Vallejo, Tamiya, AK, MIG, and Shinhan are the big names at my local shops. Would you have a suggestion for alternatives? (Excluding Golden and Holbein due to price)

Citadel paints aren't sold locally in cold weather due to shipping issues and temperatures. Army painter also isn't an option. I could find the IKEA "paints"!

[plush swift]

Most of my recommendations are professional things like golden and liquitex. I know people rave about AK but I didnt find their stuff to be that great plus I hate them over the whole holocaust denial stuff

[vernal mesa]

Well, if a paint company can deny the holocaust, they’re beyond trash. How they do that I have no idea.

[glass forum]

Done

[compact umbra]

The imperium had a panic attack about cadia and made a chapter specifically to protect all the cadias I love it lol

[glass forum]

The elites to protect the elites

[compact umbra]

“3 of your finest child platoons please as a protection fee”

[signal plover]

They didn't deny the holocaust, in fact they released a painting and hobbyist journal on how to paint and model the greatest tragedies in history. Which is somehow (potentially I mean) worse!

[echo oyster]

Does anyone have any pictures of Sons of Horus schemed Greater brass Scorpions?

[silver thorn]

sororitas fren 🙂

looks great

what are you going to do for the icons in the little acloves?

[rare hornet]

Hemlet

[river fiber]

bemley

[vale pollen]

Primaris blade bros, cuz running Crimson Fists with Black templar detachments are fun

[floral wind]

Sons of Dorn united just like in the Declates crusade

[vernal mesa]

Looking further into this now that you've shared further info and it's even more batshit insane. 3 books on how to model mass graves and drowned children, etc. It's already wild how much shelf space is devoted to models of WW2, I guess they thought they'd get an overlap of interest.

Hey hobbyists! Add our new Concentration Camp set next to your collection of Panzers and Luftwaffe planes

[signal plover]

it's actually fucking crazy

but they make some fantastic blues

[plush swift]

they had a few employees who did

the employees were commenting with stuff like "i dont get why you're so offended by something that didnt happen"

one of them said something like "its not offensive since there isnt a jew in the chamber"

its spain, this is something that you get used to in the scale modeling scene over there

there is a weird amount of people who idolize hitler over there, they even have a clothing line with his face on it thats considered a fashion statement over there

[signal plover]

Well the country was run by a Fascist government that was relatively popular throughout its lifetime

[plush swift]

yeah, its bizarre to me as someone who has to deal with a neighboring country that constantly threatens geocide and does military displays as aa scare tactic

[signal plover]

Which country

[plush swift]

greece, so we have to deal with turkey

[signal plover]

Oh well they've hated eachother for as long as history has allowed them to

Especially after Greece and the others got together to kick the shit out of Turkey in the early 1900s

[silver thorn]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bMnyEOu1HMg?feature=share

as someone who just started painting 4 months ago

this is too real

[vernal mesa]

110% relatable

[old socket]

Painting my first minis for a Kill Team tournament next month and decided I wanted to do some Inquisition Stormtroopers. (Obese Toothyfish hotshot lasgun when?)

[plush swift]

oh it goes farther back than that even, neither country also didnt exist technically speaking until after ww1

[mint dove]

Practiced my zenithals a bit more, thought?

[mint dove]

The test for my death metal orks

[echo oyster]

They changed the formula the bastards. What happenes when I run out of my old Nuln Oil!!! I actually cannot comprehend using leadbelcher without nuln oil. God help me.

[mint dove]

I'm pretty happy with this, it doesn't look perfect but it's my first time doing any sort of freehand design

[faint lantern]

By Sigmar

I thought that reflection was someone's enormous face

[brisk vapor]

[vital seal]

First of my skittles. Nothing fancy, just a plain scheme with the cloak serving as a focal point.

[mint dove]

Lmao my head is 40% of my body weight, we don't like to talk about it

[rare hornet]

We can confirm that they are a disembodied floating arm

[mint dove]

It makes it very hard to paint and hold the model simultaneously

[rare hornet]

Much less take that photo

You truly have mastered the arts of one handed multitasking

[mint dove]

I must constantly ask my wife for help

She is also a disembodied arm

[rare hornet]

Is she the right arm? Or are you both left?

[mint dove]

She's the right arm so we can hold hands❤️

[rare hornet]

And arm wrestle

[visual turret]

Oh wow that sure is crisp!!! Looking great

[visual turret]

Arm wrestling is done with the same arm on both opponents, silly!

[rare hornet]

Thumb war?

No that doesn’t work either…

Well at least a fist bump is still on the table

[plush swift]

make your own, its not hard actually. Look for mars black ink or lamp black as you want a brown tinted black, 15ml distilled water, 5ml of medium, a few drops of flow improver, 2ml of ink, lower the ink if you want less of a color

[rare hornet]

The new stuff ain’t that bad honestly

[plush swift]

its worse and a different color, thats the problem

every year they reduce the pigmentation in it

meaning you need more coats to get to where its noticable

its a form of shrinkflation

[rare hornet]

i've not found any issues using it

[plush swift]

i have 20 bottles of nuln oil from different batches and years

the color in each is different

and noticably different

the new stuff is notably less pigmented than last year

but costs more

so its cheaper to make and more expensive to buy

its still "useable" but it is worse

[rare hornet]

Next character on the horizon

[river fiber]

mini eggs

[rare hornet]

eggs

[brisk vapor]

Let there be sun

[rare hornet]

Angy sun

[mint dove]

Starting to come together

[main mango]

Imma buy 480 skulls for my world eaters…is this wise?

[mint dove]

Sir

When has khorne ever said

"Yknow what, no more skulls, we're good on skulls thanks"

[main mango]

That’s a good point I’m buying 200 on top of that just to be safe

There’s gonna be more skulls than world eaters

[mint dove]

Atta boy

[rare hornet]

Still needs more skulls

[plush swift]

no. you need at least 5x that

and even then... that might not be enough for a single figure

[main mango]

I think you mean 8x

[plush swift]

i think you mean 1200x

[main mango]

But you need to have khornes sacred number

[plush swift]

1800

8888x

perfect

[main mango]

K guess I’ll just spend all my money on miniature skulls

[plush swift]

mortage loan for skulls

[main mango]

I’ll be able to build a skull house

[main mango]

Or maybe a throne

[hearty bear]

Is that void tridents I sniff?

[rare hornet]

Not exactly, those are my custom chapter of War Hounds

[eager slate]

Also I wonder how brutal rule would work in Horus heresy

Can anyone explain the rule?

[mint dove]

DA BIG BOSS IS DONE

[lavish crescent]

Weren't the war hounds, primary white and secondary blue??

[rare hornet]

That was the world eater paint scheme

[toxic stratus]

White blue brass and weathered to hell

[rare hornet]

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/e/ee/Warhound_scheme.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/250?cb=20121009070855

That’s the colour scheme

[fervent trout]

2nd terminator i painted up (last pic is this terminator next to the first)

[teal wolf]

Hot damn I love those lenses!!

[jaunty trail]

Wip apotjecarius base..

[rare hornet]

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/03/28/heresy-thursday-plant-your-flag-with-new-legion-command/

For those Horus heresy enjoyers out there

[brisk vapor]

I fucking love this kit

exactly what everyone needs

[rare hornet]

I’m so hyped for it already, the characters and such you can make from it

[brisk vapor]

indeed

[rare hornet]

I like that’ll they’re giving the option for buying the upgrade sprue individually or with a unit of 5 marines

[short pawn]

Horus heresy looks so fun but jesus they really do sell you things individually. I saw they charged for transfer sheets. 40k spoiled me ig

A horus heresy version of killteam would be sick too

[rare hornet]

Yeah Horus heresy is a lot more expensive, but they’re slowly transitioning to majority plastic kits

The game is very based around narrative as well, you’ll see this for the purpose of rules and so on

[short pawn]

I do like that. I've heard HH is also basically old school warhammer as well, in terms of mechanics and by the paper list building/maths.

Just generally sounds right up my alley but fuckkkkk resin man

Happy to hear about the plastic

[rare hornet]

Resin isn’t too bad

Staring with 1000 points is a good way to make a legion

Heresy is very rule heavy, but you all use the same rules for the armies

[short pawn]

IIRC the average HH game is 3k points right? That's nuts

[rare hornet]

Yes

[spiral echo]

Bruh

It’s the guy from Fortnite

[royal compass]

"the guy from Fortnite"?

https://tenor.com/view/meme-gif-24843255

[white tangle]

"its the guy from Fortnite"

We live in a society.

[trim tundra]

Exactly why ordering from outside Europe is cheaper in exchange for exorbitant shipping times

there really is no winning

[spiral echo]

That’s from a shop lad + most of Warhammer is made in Nottingham which is like 6 hours from me 💀

[lavish crescent]

Me and my mate made a version, 500 points

There aren't that many changes to the rules

[silver thorn]

I got a whole jar of old cadians in isopropyl.

Any suggestions for removing superglued minis from the base?

Knife was slow going and im worried about messing up the feet.

I needed them for some darktide kitbashing

[ocean pendant]

If they're super glued to the base rather than plastic glued then apparently if you put them in the freezer for a day or so they should snap off the base easy enough.

Or you can find products which will dissolve the glue bond online

[silver thorn]

yea looks like super glue

good idea

ill probably do it after I strip them

[plush swift]

Be very careful with that, a lot of the new generation of mini paints have a chemical when added to alcohol can cause some dangerous effects in some situations. Basically dont put the jar anywhere close to sunlight and wear a respirator

[silver thorn]

[plush swift]

IPA is shockingly very dangerous despite it being an everyday chemical

that people use willy nilly

||we cant use it at work because its been attributed to a lot of work place deaths due to its fumes||

[rare hornet]

It’s also crunchy when you eat it

[plush swift]

and very spicy too

[silver thorn]

funny because my dad just like

washed his hands in it

xD

but I mean its in a sealed container

and I open it by the window

i dont have a respirator but I have a work mask

idk what the liek

particulate size of ipa fumes are

but seems fine to me

cant be worse than paint fumes and I just spray my rattlecans indoors into my venthood set up

[spiral echo]

It’s a meme reference. Because it’s a beast of nurgle. And this is a darktide server. The meme reference is that little kid saying “It’s the guy from Fortnite” about Chief

[plush swift]

actually it is weirdly enough, my old work place had around 70 deaths from IPA weirdly enough, its why OSHA has safety standards for it now. Military vehicle painters are also found dead randomly due to the stuff or get serious brain damage for over exposure.

acetone isnt nearly as bad

[silver thorn]

good to know

its oderless too

makes it even more dangerous