40k-minis-and-armies

[tiny cairn]

I am in the middle of stripping some models that I ended up not liking the scheme for don't be afraid to fail, stripping does not take very long and you won't grow if you don't push yourself

[wintry solstice]

Yea I started painting with thousand sons so I’m not a stranger to failing

[sick ledge]

Tell yourself if you don't paint you'll shoot yourself with a nail gun in a place you would never want. Works every time for me and I don't own a nail gun

[wintry solstice]

Nahh I already want to paint my ceiling with a shotgun and my brain

[rare hornet]

Same, but someone needs to look after my minis

[sick ledge]

Blood is fugitive so it makes for a bad paint pigment so don't do that

[mint merlin]

For years I have scorned the pile-of-shame-havers

after all, how hard can it be? Just paint what you already have before starting another project

but now that I started working and getting serious money

I can see how it can very easily grow out of control

[brisk vapor]

Lancelot's skin is starting to shape up nicely, although a bit worried I over did the shadows for the creases and wrinkles a bit

[sick ledge]

hence why its called a pile of shame

[calm tundra]

This is so good

[vernal mesa]

I avoided buying some a few weeks ago and now the price went up about 10$ on everything.

Price hikes build piles!

[brisk vapor]

Appreciate it!

[short pawn]

Honestly I think you own it at this point. You have very dramatic lighting and it's just your style and its great

at least in my layman opinion of course i have no clue if it's the lighting or just general style I like

i couldnt tell you why i think things are cool

[brisk vapor]

Hah thanks

I'm quite happy with the shaded side of the face but just the wrinkles on the light side cause me to think readjusting them somewhat

[hollow goblet]

Yeah the shadows are heavy but it just reads as art style nothing looks off about it

Started working on a death guard kill team out of extras from the bits box

[brisk vapor]

Fair, might need to do some other areas first before retouching the face to see how well it blends with the rest

[hollow goblet]

Oh boy I think I'm having net issues with posting pics rn

[obsidian shell]

anyone know the best source of 2nd hand cheap warhammer models in the UK?

I use primarily troll trader

I'm looking especially for the old IG cadian infantry units

but I'd like to get some on sprue models too for fixing and kitbashing

especially for the heavy weapon squads

[brisk vapor]

eBay is pretty good

[calm tundra]

I hope I'll be able to paint thing like this one day lol

[brisk vapor]

Keep at it and I'm sure you will 🫡

[calm tundra]

First of all I need to even start lol

[sick ledge]

Price hikes sell 3d printers

[obsidian shell]

idk ebay seems rough

a lot of the stuff is the same price as retail except i'll also have to strip the paint

[brisk vapor]

you've gotta find the new listings and bid early

if you're from the uk you'll probably have a lot of items for less than they're worth

I'd need to pay for VAT in addition to the prices so I've used it less since Brexit

[obsidian shell]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/256540417282?itmmeta=01J043XDE3WZ1DZ3Z7BH8SM5KD&hash=item3bbb001d02:g:Y8gAAOSwvfRmaBlG&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAAwFRmQosSMA%2FaZo5RCjy8Iyw6EO%2BKuP9ukHQHjE0F2v67R%2B9hqJ7z9geZ3tpC4C%2BLtKzitTQNLgKMPktQTkMc%2Bi0b4nbXpx3el8DE1SeKdD87liHl6k7UJLet2oXPLB0ZRKtMeby4wj6Ku%2BH7nbPaU0mM65Uw4kbuz%2FP%2Fg5HrEYqf3j4Y2Ptg8%2FyuwQA3IpnuMeDolzU%2BXoTE2xmBEMZgZutiB0KyN5gs5WACfRpMO%2FtaOxLhrSLWFCD6d9VosLtNOw%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR5LX9YOBZA&edge=1

if anyone's from the uk and want new guard stuff

looks like a 2k points army for 500

[brisk vapor]

protip: you can usually remove the extra shit from an URL after the '?'

[sick ledge]

Ive gotten 4k point armies on there for $500 but I have to strip paint and deal with their awful builds but $500 for 4k points

[obsidian shell]

thanks

[obsidian shell]

started looking, found a full squad of old school kasrkin on bid

[sick ledge]

I turn around and resell half the army for that or profit sometimes

[obsidian shell]

thanks for the tip

[obsidian shell]

yeah i've seen stuff like that

lots of tank armies but i do not want to start stripping vehicles

feel like it'll be hel

although flat pannel might be easier

[sick ledge]

naw its easier than troops because with troops you run the risk of breaking off tiny bits

[obsidian shell]

that's true

i've got some 2nd hand cadians i've been trying to clear for a while

but the PO seemed to have double base coated them

so it's a real pain

[sick ledge]

Break fluid baby

soak them in that for aa day, paint gone

oh here was an ebay rescue someone got at one point that was hilarious

they put a lot of the helmets upside down too

[plain granite]

My favorite ebay rescue was 42 poxwalkers painted like this for 50$

[sick ledge]

I would have loved those because that also seems to be a kitbash

[plain granite]

There were a couple of kitbashed ones in there.

Mostly head/body swaps.

[obsidian shell]

i keep seeing piles of bits for like 20 quid

and i'm so tempted

like cadian heads/torsos/weapons

[rare hornet]

Quick little extra colour in there

Need to do a small bit of cleanup on a couple colours later

[sick ledge]

yeah, ive gotten full armies from those bits lots before but I had to buy a lot of them

[brisk vapor]

Shadows softened and highlights expanded

[hollow goblet]

I'm guessing this was an attempt an making gellerpoxwalkers from all the metal and space suit vibe

[hollow goblet]

If you like kitbashing do it

I literally built these "death guard" entirely out of spare bits

Super rough early stages but they'll likely come out looking pretty clean

[compact umbra]

working on color scheme for gsc

thoughts?

elderberry borer

[brisk vapor]

https://x.com/JennaLynnMeowri/status/1800673464292159651?t=WsVo2pSpmCSxgKuMcqv1Vw&s=19

meowri (@JennaLynnMeowri) on X

the hottest thing a man can do is be really good at painting Warhammer 40K minis

Twitter · Jun 11, 2024, 11:36 PM

#winning

[teal wolf]

Welp time to finally pick up a brush again

[brisk vapor]

Hell yeah

[obsidian shell]

I might

I'll see

I really want to get the inquisitor goon squad and kit bash it into an inquisitor's command squad i could use in a guard army

[sick ledge]

I have in fact gotten chicks before because of this, but those chicks were.... Well lets just say they werent people I'd want to be seen with in public

[brisk vapor]

[rare hornet]

Impossible

[sick ledge]

Would you want to be seen in public with someone who likes warhammer?

the answer is no

no you wouldnt

[final plaza]

Idk, as a 6'3 man at 235lbs and 18% bodyfat liking Warhammer is perfectly fine by my girlfriend

She builds all my tanks for me cuz I don't like building em

[rare hornet]

Jokes on you, women terrify me

[final plaza]

Which primer did you use there, that coverage is crazy good

[rare hornet]

Citadel Mephiston spray, I held the can a fair distance away and made sure to do short bursts to get coverage, left the mini to dry for a few minutes and inspected it to see the coverage

There was still a few places that needed a quick coat of mephiston from brush, but I want over the whole mini anyways because the bottle gives a difference finish

[white tangle]

I would say liking war hammer has lost a lot of the stigma around it. Probably because of all the other things that people are into that, imo, are a lot, lot more strange than basically playing a board game.

[sick ledge]

it hasnt... I still get people harassing me because I have a 40k tattoo

so I cover it up

[sick ledge]

You play warhammer you cant be in a relationship. Also what does body fat have to do with anthing?

[sick ledge]

That spray was made by James Briggs LTD, they make some very good spray cans for automotive. They do the cans not the paints but I dont see much better than them as they dont tend to clog much.

the paints are made by HMG

[white tangle]

Harass you over a tattoo?

[sick ledge]

Yep. They think im racist

Then they find out I was married to a black woman for years and have a kid with her

[white tangle]

Oh, well i guess depends on what the tattoo is. Warhammers has taken a lot of imagery and inspiration from subjects that are considered to be evil. A lot of outsiders to the franchise may see them as what it resembles.

[sick ledge]

just the basic admech symbol

[final plaza]

Most people assume I'm fat when I say I weight 235lbs

[sick ledge]

Im nearly 300, over 6' and only slightly chubby. so I dont assume shit about body fat. I get it

[white tangle]

Oh, well i guess theyre just a bit strange then. To my knowledge, the admech symbol is only inspired by the ying and yang. And i dont think the ying and yang have any offensive connotations.

[sick ledge]

its a 40k symbol and there has been a lot of issues with... neo-no no words flying 40k signs and a lot of transphobes on twitter being stupidly dedicated to 40k

BTW

HMG makes all GW painting products

[final plaza]

Nice, makes a change

Plus being a gym bro I have the information at hand

[sick ledge]

Im not a gym goer, I just have to hike 25 miles for work a lot entirely to get to a natural pigment site to test for PFAs and other toxins that I cant get to with a car. A few companies mine over there and we have to make sure they aren't selling dangerous materials and this area is well known for being very toxic for the residents due to the energy company dumping chemicals into the river and constant "accidental" chemical spills

[final plaza]

Oh wow, that's an interesting job

[sick ledge]

ehh, its just what im contracted to do at this moment because my normal specialty died in this city due to covid so I'm moving soonish to get back into just testing paint for quality and pigment color consistency

[final plaza]

Oh cool

[grand spruce]

Primarily an Ork player so I went into this well prepared in the art of checkerboards. Recently finished a kitbash of Malakim Phoros, Chapter Master of the Lamenters (though he'll be used as a Dante stand in for 10th)

[short pawn]

That's a crazy model

[rare hornet]

Little bit of trim work

[placid glen]

Painting the world eaters combat patrol myself. It's made me realize now how much I hate painting trim, haha

[compact umbra]

wait a minute

you could 100% make old marines into scouts

[vale pollen]

Powerfist and plasma captain

[teal wolf]

He looks wicked man! Good work.

[vale pollen]

Eyyy thanks yo

[rare hornet]

It’s a necessary evil, but it looks great when done

[white tangle]

Struggling to paint something and then seeing that even the eavy metal team fucked it up a bit, is like the best feeling.

[rare hornet]

Oh?

[sick ledge]

They constantly fuck up and a lot of their things are very amateur

Its a very good feeling

[wooden dew]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1099377686926860328/1250810583192829983/PXL_20240613_135301454.jpg?ex=666c4ba1&is=666afa21&hm=6928243c786f7e11873654a3d8e72d484a3c2566011c6ee8d14cbfdc970b65dc&

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1014660707775676438/1250810535369506888/PXL_20240613_135310723.jpg?ex=666c4b96&is=666afa16&hm=b1919ddb7cdabc5edcca4e0e617d988e11ec997be58c338b06e85b9c05c956d0&

[vestal shale]

Cool angron

[wooden dew]

[vestal shale]

I got that wrong didn’t I?

[delicate dune]

Nope! That is angron!

[visual turret]

great highlighting work on that gold!

the red also looks damn impressive

[white tangle]

Out of curiosity, how long does painting something of that size take?

[alpine zealot]

Not sure if I shared my Luna
Wolf here

Did some conversion with MkVI parts to make mkiv into new scale

[brisk vapor]

an hour of shoulder work

[rare hornet]

Finished shading the legs and torso so can move on tomorrow

[calm tundra]

I really need to finally get my shit together and buy my first minis + paints but the shop I want to buy them in is out of nuln oil lol

[sick ledge]

Don't use nuln oil... It honestly makes things a little bit harder to paint because either you're doing a full wash and it's just going to look splotchy or you're doing a pin wash which means you need to modify the nuln oil or you're going to be spending hours fixing.
You can also make it really easily it's like one drop of ink and 50ml of water

I have the recipe for the old school one and it's way more pigmented

Washes are actually something that discourages a lot of new painters funny enough because they don't understand why their model isn't looking good after putting on a wash

They don't realize that they have two patch up the wash and paint over it again to get the effects that they're seeing on YouTube

[calm tundra]

Oh I'd be grateful if You'd share it and/or suggest some alternative brand for a such a wash

[calm tundra]

I've seen people do it before

[sick ledge]

Well I just make my own wash when I need it, The old school recipe is 50ml deionized water, 20ml medium, 5ml mars black, 1mlbrown ink, 3 drops titanium white, 3 drops alcohol ethoxylate(this is a flow improver, which actually works way better than Vallejo will ever work as vallejo doesn't use a flow improver and actually just dries your paint out quicker)

You can up the ink ratios too

Because you're making it you can change the saturation

[sick ledge]

I've seen a lot of newer painters get screwed up over washes and when you look at the higher tier painters they don't actually use washes unless they're trying to make it beginner tutorial.

It's like that whole putting a brown wash on skin to give it shading when you could mix the wash into the paint and apply it which will make it look a lot better and not have those weird pooling issues some washes have and not take any tangible extra amount of time

[calm tundra]

Thanks

[calm tundra]

So it's better to mix the wash into the paint?

[sick ledge]

Sometimes yeah if that's all you have.

Generally speaking mixing your own colors is going to give you a better selection of colors as a whole and cost you way less money... And I mean way less money.

So mixing in a wash is a good first step

A lot of those golden demon winners you see use inks to thin down their paint

And a wash is just a diluted ink

Also a lot of those golden demon winners use really stupid and dangerous techniques that if they aren't careful can actually get people killed in very very rare circumstances.

I mean extremely rare but it's not uncommon to use certain pigments which when they interact with the acrylic will create cyanide gas for oil washes and stuff like that

It's like a 1% chance of that even happening but that still high enough for me to never want to risk it

[rare hornet]

Spicy painting

[calm tundra]

Oh shit, wouldn't want to try that too then lol

Also, quick question, is Tamiya Primer good? I think I have a can from a few years ago when I tried my hand at scale modelling, and if it doesn't work I might order it from the store with all the supplies I'm ordering cause they're out of citadel primers (and it's a bit cheaper)

[sick ledge]

In the massive testing of different primers for different types of material that a paint company called Golden did number of years back primarily for 3D prints,

Tamiya performed fairly well in terms of abrasion resistance. However there is no notable increase of adherence from a paint. However stynlrez and Vallejo actually reduced the adhesion abilities of paint due to their weak surface bond compared to just using normal acrylic paint.

So yes Tamiya is not that bad. If you want the link to that test I can give it to you because it's actually pretty interesting because it kind of disproves a lot of things that hobby people say

[calm tundra]

I'd be grateful for that link

[sick ledge]

I hesitate calling it good because I'm used to using something called toom, which is the top tier primer in the world

[sick ledge]

https://justpaint.org/hand-painting-3d-prints-with-acrylics/

[calm tundra]

Thank you very much

[sick ledge]

Golden is a great company and I work with them all the time. They are always really good about answering questions as well and they genuinely have helped me get past a lot of weird issues that I've had at work with some testing stuff. Like I kind of accidentally discovered a fluo pigment that most companies claim isn't fluorescent but golden did testing for me and actually founded themselves

Which was a fantastic thing for me because that saves me a lot of headache because I was super concerned about an adulterant in that pigment which is not a good thing for a safety industry if it fades too quickly

[white tangle]

So im looking to buying another brush but winsor and newton have mini painting brushes now? Anyone know what they are exactly and are they worth buying instead?

[sick ledge]

Miniature painting means something very different than what you think it does.

What you guys called mini painting is actually called figure painting.

Mini painting in reality is actually small canvases. Also do not use sable with acrylics because acrylics actually kill the brushes really quickly and the paint companies keep asking many painters to stop using their brushes is the point where a lot of the companies are actually pushing the price point up to push you guys away from them. Which I believe I've told you about that before and how we are in a problematic area with them due to them actually being put back on the endangered list due to the mass calling during COVID and they might become illegal globally again.

So that means their prices are going to skyrocket and you won't be able to get them which means switching to synthetics is going to be required in the near future

Also windsor and newton brushes are garbage

And I will die on that hill

Seriously they are actually increasing prices entirely because of mini painters because theyre going through more brushes than the average artist in a year

And you're buying more brushes than the average painter does in their lifetime, The course of 5 years most will actually buy more than most oil painters will in 50 years. It's kind of insane.

And they don't even use half the brushes they just collect them

Also those brushes are spotter brushes which are not a brush you want for an acrylic as they will die in a few months at best

I've tested this and they yeah they die really quickly...

[short pawn]

It's generally not productive to refer to a group of people as you people while casting wide generalizations of what you believe the majority do

There's probably a word for that

[sick ledge]

I'm using voice to text so some things might be kind of worded weirdly as I stutter a lot and it's trying to figure out what I'm trying to say

[silver thorn]

Pls send free castigators ty

[sick ledge]

Ok

[silver thorn]

ty

they cost too much

xD

[sick ledge]

You can have these 3d printed ones

[silver thorn]

I do have a 3D printer...

maybe I should learn how to use it

ive had it in a box for 5 months haha

i just bought a venting hood. this month is the month

[sick ledge]

I havent offered to teach you a few times IIRC

[silver thorn]

yea but now im gonna DO IT

[sick ledge]

Yes finally

I think i have some files for that tank too

[peak flicker]

WIP

[wooden dew]

Did it in shifts with my wife for about a week as a gift for a friend

[kindred palm]

ACTUALLY Getting started on the Age of Darkness Battlegroup I have had sitting for longer then I care to admit, ALSO trying the "New" coloring that GW has for MKIII legs, NGL I KINDA Like the extra black breaking up the green (Also Hewwwo to all, my first time posting anything here )

[naive spruce]

At 4 kriegsman

need to paint 5 more

Corvas white is decent

[scarlet urchin]

I'm magnetising my Veteran Guardsmen!
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1237819165000204403/1251152403005440080/VID_20240614_153037.mp4?ex=666d89fa&is=666c387a&hm=b1a1a7701c5bbb217793fd30e8de00d2e7cc35928e86d2b4225020847cc02f21&

Love that click, so satisfying

[white tangle]

@sick ledge What brushes would you recommend? Ive been painting for nearly 2 years and have always had issues with my brushes. (granted i am still refining my brush care and have had some accidents with my brushes) I know acrylics damage sable brushes, but i have never found any other brush that has provided me with such precision as natural hair brushes. All painters that produce amazing work, also use sable brushes from the videos that i have seen.

[sick ledge]

Yeah you have to perfect your brush good to use a sable effectively honestly because that's kind of the trick with them too... Even with watercolors they'll die if you don't take care of them correctly.

Personally I use mostly escoda but I've been working with a lot of silver brush recently and I'm really liking silver brush because their durability is really high for what they are.

When you're looking for a synthetic brush you don't actually want the softest what you want is actually something a little bit harder and that will actually help a lot with its durability.

[sick ledge]

@white tangle Ive been using the same silver brush synthetic mongoose for about two months no, still no signs of damage

and i havent been taking care of it that well

[brisk vapor]

base tones here and there

[brisk vapor]

https://youtu.be/IwI80Bv9BGk?si=JN6zLpFWEVS0XTGd

finally, Night Shift's take on warhammer

[sick ledge]

Thats not enough rust to be nightshift I call shenanigans

[brisk vapor]

there's a good bit still, not much visible on the thumbnail

[sick ledge]

The paint is too perfectly intact even in the video to be nightshift

I just realized I havent seen a nightshift video in years ever since he took that AK "sponsorship"

[plain granite]

Second squad of beserkers done.

[vale pollen]

Sweeeeet

[silver thorn]

took a break from 40k to assemble this

visiting friend roped me into a gundam

[lavish crescent]

Tau!!

[south stratus]

My lamenter strike force command structure. All I need is to decide if I want to get a reg apothecary or use my gravis one and get a tech marine and then I truly have a full command structure for it

[south stratus]

Leaning towards gravis as I can have: captain and the company heroes for the reg troops, chaplain for the terminators, librarian for any Phobos marines, apothecary for any gravis and tech marine obviously for vehicles. All in all they will probably never all be in a singular battle but still cool and fun in my eyes so I don’t care

[scarlet urchin]

Magnetising my Veteran Guardsmen
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1237819165000204403/1251548286595371091/VID-20240615-WA0000.mp4?ex=666efaac&is=666da92c&hm=4831d1c8102154854e5f5c0969510e801681140a0336d6f082d579b3e3edf8fb&

Apologies for the baby

That's my niece

[peak flicker]

Free hand straight lines

[faint lantern]

First time doing faces and I'm not really sure on how I should feel

[teal nest]

This is a cool lad

[toxic rampart]

Barbatos?

[teal nest]

I felt like making kitbashs

[naive spruce]

What color should i make the radio?

[sick ledge]

I mean it reads as skin and its far from the worst ive seen and ive seen worse from people who've painted hundreds of faces. The right eye in the picture is a little off center but you still painted the eyes without making it look like they had two detached retinas so its better than most peoples work.
you could go over some parts with the skin tone paint to highlight parts if you wanted to.

[sick ledge]

I'd do a greenish grey or a grey but it depends on your army scheme

[silver thorn]

Aerial

[naive spruce]

Honestly Russ grey, scarlet, grey, and corvas white

Corvas white aint that bad

sure as hell beat wraith bone

[sick ledge]

I know scarlet and grey, I dont know what corvas white and russ grey are

what kind of scarlet? there are 30~ scarlets

or what people would call scarlet

[naive spruce]

evil suns scarlet

[sick ledge]

so desaturated close enough to a scarlet, a bluish grey and a white

[naive spruce]

Along side administratum grey and Barthasar gold

[sick ledge]

no yellow?

[naive spruce]

nah

[sick ledge]

like that royal dork yellow

or w/e his name is

[sick ledge]

I can remember the names of most pigments but hobby paint names I cant remember

Maybe admin grey?

[naive spruce]

think that would work?

[sick ledge]

cant hurt

at worse you just made it easier to paint over

[naive spruce]

true save it for last then

[toxic rampart]

Oh nice! Need to watch Witch from Mars. Looks really good!

[silver thorn]

It is, its a really good.

And not as long as most gundam series.

[toxic rampart]

I'll have to check it out. Catch that after I finish up with Fallout.

[true path]

Red Corsairs Chaos Jumplord with balefire for OSL practice

[main mango]

Give the baby some warhammer minis to paint up

[plain violet]

The Baby likes The Kreig

[sterile grail]

one of many

[plush swift]

perturabo typed this post

[obsidian shell]

unironically is that petty

[obsidian shell]

very nice edge highlights

I hope you're not doing a guard horde

[sterile grail]

I am

😂

but mostly for display.

Anyone got a recommendation of a plexibox for display. Single display case and 5 figure as well.

[vernal mesa]

Cobalt Keep

Already magnetized or metal base to keep pieces in place.

[sterile grail]

https://youtu.be/B60VJ51AwrE?si=3WpyMAIYeq5MHXAT

im trying to find something like this based on holder but cant find its name

it groups the models toghether

[signal plover]

movement tray i think

[midnight cairn]

Give a look here https://www.greenstuffworld.com/en/524-movement-trays-for-round-bases

[sick ledge]

there are tons on amazon for "cheap"

[naive spruce]

it came out pretty good

[naive spruce]

whats the single fucking mini on the top shelf

[rare hornet]

Looks like the krieg sergeant, absolutely FLEXING his superiority

As one would say; “I see no god up here OTHER THAN ME”

[stuck gale]

Ahh yes, my only Krieg Painted model ahah

[naive spruce]

Lmao

[stuck gale]

I will put Celestine next to him

[naive spruce]

gay put yarrick

[sterile grail]

yes indeed, until the shipping cost 2-3x times the price

actually i didnt use amazon so not sure about the shipping fee but ebay shipping fee is outrageous

[sick ledge]

most of it is free but the display cases these days are super expensive no matter where you go. I remember them being like $5 a few years ago

they are like $20 not which isnt bad but still

[sterile grail]

commercialized inflation gents

same reason WH plastic is so expensive. 70% justification of the price is because of the IP& LORE

[sick ledge]

yep.

I blame funko pops

[naive spruce]

should I start another mini?

[rare hornet]

Yes

[naive spruce]

Welp

[naive spruce]

second to last veteran is hardened vet, lets make him a Hardened kriegsman

[rare hornet]

yeeees

[silver thorn]

I love the red dirt base

[alpine zealot]

Martian ironearth

[teal nest]

I just use random dirt outside and rocks

[stuck gale]

He still has model?

[naive spruce]

yes

[naive spruce]

Hot and ready

[rare hornet]

Hell yeah

[naive spruce]

gym time

[peak flicker]

Shrine of the Sable Helm finished!!!!

[floral wind]

After a very extensive break I'm glad to be getting back into the hobby

[short pawn]

For painting terrain do you guys recommend a big old makeup brush or sponging?

[edgy jackal]

Depends on the terrain and desired effects. I'd honestly be more inclined to work with sprays, airbrushes, and transparent paints (inks or contrast)

[short pawn]

@brisk vapor what was that colot preview app you used for the goblin that my dumb ass thought was real?

[sweet sigil]

It really depends on what you are going for me personally I like using rocks and stuff to build it up than adding more on here is the one I’m planning out rn

[short pawn]

Spray is a no go

[short pawn]

Oh i mean like the actual massive terrain kits sorry

[edgy jackal]

Why though?

[short pawn]

Backyard has a very hyper husky and garage has a car in it - room is poorly ventilated and not allowed even if it were

Trust me if i could get an airbrush i would have had one 2 years ago i hate brush painting vehicles and im an atsra militarum fan

[brisk vapor]

You mean this? I just did it on Paint3D, think it's included with Windows as default

[short pawn]

So you like digitally painted it as a test?

[brisk vapor]

Yeah

[short pawn]

Dudd that's nuts

I just thought it was a really advanced pallette app i am such an amateur

[brisk vapor]

😄

Yeah no, it was just done with the water colour brush tool with low opacity on Paint

[short pawn]

Very interesting and fun way to test schemes i dig it

Never going to even attempt it but I'm amazed

[scarlet urchin]

Oh hey dude I got Death Korps for Killteam aswell!

I'm magnetising my units rn

[naive spruce]

https://tenor.com/view/csm-denji-chainsaw-man-meme-gif-25728292

I current have the Magnipro LED illumination headband magnifying visor

Best purchase I made to help paint, Currently all thats left is my Sergeant and he still needs to be primed

[naive spruce]

and I have a couple more to build

[edgy jackal]

How do you prime your minis then?

[naive spruce]

Most likely by hand or just going outside with a spray can

[rare hornet]

Pour the entire pot over it

[edgy jackal]

My suggestion would then be to prime with a light colour (grey seer or wraithbone level, doesn't have to be GW though), then use inks/shades/speedpaint/contrast to apply colour.

[naive spruce]

yeah I do that main with darks you

[edgy jackal]

What?

[naive spruce]

I use dark primers

[silver thorn]

I prime indoors in a little venting hood set up with a mask. I do dark primer and sometimes a white spray from the top to pick out details

[vale pollen]

Fuckin Angron

[rare hornet]

Casts yeet

[vale pollen]

It's cool, I casted melta guns up is ass and gave him a good ol crimson fistin

[rare hornet]

Give it a turn or two and he’ll be back

[vale pollen]

Tru

[rare hornet]

Such a dumb ability

[vale pollen]

If it only this didn't happen in turn 5

[naive spruce]

EVERYONE PICK A NUMBER BETWEEN 0 - 100

[vale pollen]

69

[vale pollen]

Cuz of course

[rare hornet]

World eaters in 9th and 10th feel so disconnected, because they released them with half a model range and called it a day,

[rare hornet]

55

[naive spruce]

Whats with people choosing 55

[rare hornet]

Idk, it was either that or 57

[paper creek]

7

[sick ledge]

Both

[sick ledge]

I dont prime my minis 🙂 I'm a rebel clearly

[edgy jackal]

Well, that's also a valid answer ("I don't"). In which case I would have recommended either make up brushes or sponging, depending on the desired effect and texture.

I was trying to give context specific advice

[sick ledge]

I always have to make those stupid quips as you know

[brisk vapor]

Very enjoyable to be painting Sons of Horus again after a long while of other projects

[naive spruce]

Time the prime the hell out

they

been primed and are drying

May the emperor smile upon they

The

Emperor has forsaken one

[peak flicker]

Backlog progress. Finished the base after letting this Boy dust on the shelf for a month. 1/3 done

[teal nest]

Dark angel sister of battle

[compact umbra]

This is the first time I’ve seen green sister! I love it!

[brisk vapor]

Coolest little 'Nought

Feeling kinda good about this

[twilit cliff]

zapping time

[rare hornet]

What a handsome boy

[brisk vapor]

Quite! Thank you

[rare hornet]

I see you painted the rivets, I respect the detail

I painted the target lasers on the epic scale knights

[brisk vapor]

Painting the smallest details on the smallest models is a fun little challenge

[rare hornet]

Do a heated barrel on the melta cannons

Super satisfying at this scale

[naive spruce]

Yeesh

[hollow goblet]

Y'all I need help pricing stuff

I have an old metal Ahriman body + a bunch of random metal models (I also have just a loose metal Drachyen with no Abaddon in sight which isthe absolute peak of memery) and I have no idea how to price them

I don't really have an interest in metal and from what I've seen there's not a lot of demand outside of random collectors with nostalgia goggles

[signal plover]

If you’re in the United States I highly recommend checking out the market for the model via eBay as it’s typically a good reference for used model pricing

If you can send pictures I may be able to help as I’m a big collector of all things Warhammer

[naive spruce]

okay chat

may add some gold to the skull portions or may not

leave it to yall

But anyway

thats the Sergeant done

[short pawn]

Can somebody give me simple ways to achieve a brush only OSL for something like an emergency light?

For an example - these lights on the Gallowdark

Would sponging work for OSL?? Sounds simple but idk

[brisk vapor]

Check out Elminiaturista

He's got pretty good videos for that kind of stuff

[short pawn]

How simple are his concepts?

I'm genuinely like a chimp with a paint brush

A lot of tutorials on youtube are not accessible at all imo

[brisk vapor]

Not too difficult to grasp but might be a bit difficult to put to action I suppose

[hollow goblet]

Generally speaking, take the whitest paint you own, thin the mcfuck out of it with contrast medium, apply semi-generously to the area you want to glow and overpaint a little, you want light to spread out a lil further than the actual thing you're painting, then take whatever colour you want to use for the light and thin it down with contrast medium the same way you did with the white (remembering that the medium will lighten the colour you're using a little bit)

thats about as good as you can get for non-airbrush OSL

Oh yeah and if your light are cyan or yellow you'll want to add a tiny bit of white back into the middle of the light

Like after everything

[short pawn]

Hypothetically speaking i dont own contrast medium

[hollow goblet]

I'll get some pics together soon I'm not fully sure how to even ID some of them lol

[hollow goblet]

Water probably works there but I can't say I've tried so no guarantee

[short pawn]

Sad

I wont be able to go to any paint stores within the next week

RAHHHHH I HATE NIGHT SHIFTS RAHHHHH

[sick ledge]

his concepts mostly use acrylics over oil paint... which arcylics cant adhere to and will delaminate.
How I do it is dry brush white, dry brush a darker transparent pigment, lighter dry brush white, dry brush a brighter transparent pigment on the white, mix white with the lightest and do edge highlights

[sick ledge]

Yes it does and very well

[sick ledge]

I'll need to borrow you then in the near future for something then as you will be invaluable

[short pawn]

Then i will do this

I plan to mostly sponge my terrain anyhow

[short pawn]

Im so down

[sick ledge]

hell yeah, you get free classes and I get a test subject for making guides for the newest of painters which is lacking on youtube

[sick ledge]

there is no rule saying you cant and I have use a sponge for osl before

[short pawn]

Yeah to this day i havemt found a single youtube guide helpful

Because all of them tell you that you need good brush control and shit but never fucking tell you what that means

[worldly pawn]

goodluck painting void terrain with hand i've been at it for a while now lol

[sick ledge]

naw fuck brush control, I'll paint with my feet to prove a point. New meta will be foot control

[short pawn]

Every tutorial assumes you are already proficient

Its annoyijg

[sick ledge]

And they also dont realize that

thats why I hate youtube art guides

they also make them way more complicated than they should be

[short pawn]

YES EXACTLY

They make it seem like they are creating the atomic bomb sometimes

You aewnt splitting atoms bruh

[sick ledge]

I can literally do the same with as an oil wash with acrylics including the caplilary action

[short pawn]

Im ashamed to say that i started mini painting almost a year ago and probably only have 20 miniatures painted

[sick ledge]

its all about understanding the raw basics

[sick ledge]

I have less

and ive been painting for 4 years

but to be fair 5 of the minis ive painted are titans

[short pawn]

Yeah mine are cadians lol

I love the game but painting can sometimes bum me out

[sick ledge]

well I aim to have people to stop being bummed out

Good and bad are irrelevant opinions

[lethal lion]

Managed to do a two tone effect from lower angles.

[edgy jackal]

How do you get the physical properties of oil washes without diluting the arcylic to the point of ruining the binder?

[prime crown]

Ive spend hour scraping off trims and chaos symbols to make this firstborn loyalist for no reason

[vale breach]

Soooo, I prefer fantasy straight up. But I'm looking to get into Kill Team.

Is there any team which yall think would be suitable to run a skaven team as proxy

I'm thinking guard/kriegsman

But I would like something with heavy wep

So I can run rattling gunners

[lethal lion]

Adeptus Arbites lol

[hollow goblet]

About as good an excuse to paint Alpha Legion as you're gonna get lol

Also doing a super original legionary kill team where I have one of each traitor legion for each model, nightlord shrivetalon kinda goes hard

Not sure what base size they have but you could probably proxy them as a few teams, fellgor ravagers is the one that leaps out at me immediately as looking "correct" with Skaven (I used tzaangors for mine)

Could probably get away with blooded pretty easily too

[hollow goblet]

Or most guardsmen teams

[edgy jackal]

It depends on what you want to do. Running skaven "as is" would be hard, due to general lack of guns, and for the weapons teams, the bases wouldn't be a good match for their kill team equivalents.

If you want to kitbash something like 40k skaven, then the blooded or veteran guard teams might be close enough rules wise. Maybe also wyrmblade.

Even then, for gunners/snipers, you'd have to go the vermintide route, where the gunner is one dude with a backpack

[silver thorn]

depending on your hobby level and wallet size I think a veteran guardsmen team kit bashed with skaven heads would probably be amazing and draw tons of compliments

you can even homebrew a little story that there are ratmen abhuman (not ratlings, who are tiny) who have a guard regiment. they are fun to play and would look really good, and be easy to do. the vet guard capes are probably easy to glue skaven tails under sticking out

did some googling and people have done good kitbashing of that concept

the traitor guard team could also be used as a base, and they are more chaotic

but kitbashing the ogryn into a rat ogre would be WAY more involved

and come on you HAVE to run the ogryn in that team

[plain violet]

[plain violet]

I see Rat

[silver thorn]

https://tenor.com/view/rat-rodent-vermintide-vermintide2-skaven-gif-20147931

[hollow goblet]

How do the rat ogres scale against Ogryn?

You could maybe use one of those instead

[silver thorn]

probably similar size, especially the old metal ones

[hollow goblet]

Or use the head on the ogryn at least

[silver thorn]

yea, but the mask is so cool on the ogryn

I think that chaos ogryn model is one of the best they've made in the last 10 years of 40k.

[hollow goblet]

Is the mask a seperate piece? Looks like it would line up decently well with a bit of plastic surgery

[silver thorn]

its an insanely good sculpt from a design perspective

probably not but you might be able to cut it off and cut the front off a rat ogre head

but its probably way bigger

[hollow goblet]

Yeah idk how well the bits line up but it looks like you could borderline just clip the nose of a ratogre and glue it right on

[silver thorn]

honestly you could probably just glue a tail on him and call it a day.

he already even has pointed ears

[hollow goblet]

True actually

I really hope that they end up making the dark admech into the Skaven it would work so easily

[silver thorn]

that's hoping for too much

[hollow goblet]

It just works seamlessly imo

[silver thorn]

i like votann but they aren't just dwarfs in space

gw won't let us have nice things

[hollow goblet]

You wouldn't have to change almost anything about either faction to make it work

Me still waiting on exodites, emps children and Tau auxiliaries

I'm getting one at least

[silver thorn]

yea I agree, skaven already are a techy species for sure. its not hard to imagine skaven ships and artillery

[hollow goblet]

Also Tau auxiliaries would make such a good kill team give me my goddamn psyker owlbears GW I am no longer asking

[silver thorn]

admech are very much skaven themed though

a mix of skaven and necromancers

though 40k admech are just cowboys and davinci guys :<

i like 30k admech way more, much scarier

crazy that 40k admech models aren't really "grimdark" at all

cawl is great

more stuff like cawl

[hollow goblet]

Yeah I think a lot of the general themes of Skaven have been absorbed by guard, GSC and Admech but like, people still want their ratmen y'know

[silver thorn]

kitbash a whole skaven admech army 🙂

[hollow goblet]

Yeah Cawl and tech priest dominus made me wanna collect admech then I saw the rest of the army

[silver thorn]

if you don't care about playing and just the models...

30k admech are really good

[hollow goblet]

Yeah I plan on grabbing a Cawl at some stage for a display for sure

Same as like half the AoS centrepieces

[silver thorn]

i have a cawl because i got the combo box of him celestine and grayfax

so it was like getting a free cawl because i wanted the other two

[hollow goblet]

I wanna find a way to use Illarielle(?)s beetle for a ksons unit but I think it's too big to even be a MVB

Lol buying boxes for single models then reselling everything else is such a trap for me too

[silver thorn]

this thing?

[hollow goblet]

Cawl would go hard with purple robes I reckon,

Yeah

[silver thorn]

age of sigmar?

[hollow goblet]

It's absolutely massive

[silver thorn]

looks really big yea

[hollow goblet]

I think I might split them up and paint them for my housemates or smth

[silver thorn]

haha that would be nice

[hollow goblet]

One loves bugs and the other is violently gay so it probably works out

Ferociously gay, even

[silver thorn]

happy pride month xD

it does look easy to split them up

[hollow goblet]

I've always wanted to toy with a homebrew game mode where the mid objective is a big creature or artillery gun you fight over controlling so might be cool for that even

[silver thorn]

i looked it up and the beetle is 180mm x 130 mm oval

vortex beast is about 100mm

so yea a bit too big

[short pawn]

No its part of the whole head

[hollow goblet]

Yeah I've found psychophage made for a better proxy model for that

[vale breach]

I don't think it would be that bad, more going for the asthetic of "skaven picked up gaurd weaponry"

Got a story/lore idea which kinda explains it

My explanation for this.

In the middle of "The End Times" mid Ubsriek 5 shit.
A greyseer has a premonition of the man things surviving and becoming giant mech robot things (space marines). In rage he commisions Clan Skrye to create a teleportation/time travel thing to move an army of about 10 million mixed skaven to these mech things.

Being skaven tech the portal wipes out all but about 10 and the 10 remaining rat men are teleported into the remains of the Krieg Gaurds men from the original Krieg VS Orcs trailer.

They nick their guns and start killing

Also in my head cannon this is the first attempt at what will eventually become the skitter gate

If I do the models I plan to write the reasoning into a short story

Either that or a gang of orc weird boyz while wanting something to fight accidentally brought a gang of skaven into 40k

[sick ledge]

You're not sending it that much it's all about understanding how surface tension works and prepping the surface correctly.

I'll show you at some point its just not exactly an easy thing to explain.
It also requires some specific products and understanding of the chemicals in them.

[edgy jackal]

That sounds a lot more detailed and specific than "varnish model, mix oil paint and odorless spirit, pin wash, don't revarnish for another half year at least", but I don't doubt that your acrylic alternative is viable.

[sick ledge]

So the process is the same as that except you don't varnish you kind of put down a wetting agent it's just very complex to explain because of what you have to add into the acrylic which is kind of hard to find in some countries so we have to go around finding the chemicals that would work for it

The short of it is you have to base the surface with a wetting agent, send down your acrylic with a specific type of flow improver, put it down.

You can also do a gloss varnish which would work really well which also means that you could varnish it again that same day

Not all flow improvers will work for this because not all flow improvers are actually flow improvers

As me and a few companies just recently found out a lot of companies tend to list things as flow improver and they are not

[naive spruce]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8XUpf3tidn/?igsh=aG16bGs0b3l5YmI1

elminiaturista

There is always a mystery about that white liquid that runs easily into the recesses. So here you have it, quick and concise!
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What other use do you know for the oilpaint?
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#warhammer #paintingwarhammer #warhammer40k #gamesworkshop #gamesworkshop #paintingminiatures

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[open stream]

Thought I might as well show one of my projects and most beloved works: the Splatterfest, a kill team of khornate ratlings (And Henry the Ogryn).
In short, the kill team is composed of:

• Gunther Handfrier is the leader and masterchef of the team. Blessed by Khorne with uncomfortably big hands.
• Benjamin Bonebroth is the second in command and medic of the team. Incapable of speech besides grunting and screaming. Has to wear a helmet to keep the pieces of his head together.
• William Faceburger. William actually seems to be the happiest with his situation, to the point people question his loyalty from even before the ratling village of Cuccagna fell to chaos. (3rd model ever painted and 1st converted miniature)
• Melvin Marrowsalad. Melvin has mastered a number of excercises and meditative practices in order to achieve peak phisical and mental performance.
• Brian Brainstew. Handles machinery and explosives. Keeps eating brains. It's slowly killing him.
• Pick-Nick. Scout. Doesn't cook and instead eats raw meat, so Gunther hates him with a passion. Has a battle fork.
• Henry the Kind. Actually an Ogryn. Real softie until he gets mad.

There are actually 2 more members to the kill team, though they're still unpainted:

• Oliver Liversteak. Blind gunslinger, guided by his familiar Princess Bloodbath.
• Terry Bloodbrew. Icon bearer. Found a way to make a blood-based alcoholic drink. Local hero.

I love them all very much and I could never pick a favourite, but I'm particularly proud of Melvin with his ork iron jaw, and the mighty champion Gunther himself.
All because a friend gifted me his bits-box with some abandoned halflings and plenty of ork bits, AND my brother just happened to have bought a zombie dragon.

[brisk vapor]

Hell yeah, very cool!

[plush swift]

Let’s fucking gooo

[silver thorn]

Nice!

[plush swift]

Need 7 more now

[sick ledge]

yep he does a forbidden by physics and chemistry technique

[silver thorn]

WHATAREUTALKINABEET?

but yea, I want 3 castigators and I need to get my printer set up

[sick ledge]

acrylics delaminate from oil paint and the gas release causes them to crack and flake off when you apply a varnish and if you apply a varnish too early in extremely rare cases you can cause a fire or create cyanide gas

and by extremely rare I mean extremely rare

[silver thorn]

oh thats interesting but I was more responding to the australian cadian fan

[sick ledge]

oh

[silver thorn]

https://tenor.com/view/sassy-big-lez-show-wadiyatalkinabeet-what-are-you-talking-about-tell-me-gif-8526583

his profile picture is from a silly youtube cartoon about australians doing drugs

[sick ledge]

I dont know of that one

[sick ledge]

what printer?

[silver thorn]

Mars 3

Elegoo

[sick ledge]

Cool easy enough to deal with

the mars 4 is a nightmare

[plush swift]

https://tenor.com/view/sassy-big-lez-show-wadiyatalkinabeet-popcoin-movies-gif-8526680

[sick ledge]

it has a fatal flaw in it that causes the plate to crack screens if you mess up

[silver thorn]

oh wow! its a bigger printer than I need though haha

[plush swift]

Print a bigger one then

Duh

[silver thorn]

I think I'm gonna paint my monkey today.

[sick ledge]

its actually fairly small

you'll need to slice the body in half to print it most likely

[plush swift]

I got a issue with my print that all my prints sick to the bottom of the reservoir and failing

[silver thorn]

I was thinking about printing vertically

or is that more likely to fail because it would extend print time a lot

[plush swift]

I love the cyborg monkey race

[silver thorn]

I have a unit of henchman so now I can take the monkey

[plush swift]

They should’ve gotten they’re own army instead of custodies

[sick ledge]

you need to set the zero better

and change your bottom layer settings

how many layers and time for bottom layer?

[plush swift]

I did all of that

[plush swift]

I don’t remember

[sick ledge]

it needs to be higher than the recommended a lot of the time

what resin are you using too?

[plush swift]

all I know is the brand

I’m out with family so I can’t check

[faint lantern]

Does the custom terrains on the surface of your miniature round bases affect gameplay or is it merely for aesthetic purposes?

I am still new to the game

[plush swift]

I don’t think so

Don’t see why it would

[wild monolith]

WIP

CF Third Squad Sergeant

[plush swift]

Saw this at my local hobby store

[naive spruce]

oh?

[sick ledge]

Yeah as I mentioned below, basically its a hazardous method and delaminates fairly quickly. The acrylic will "adhere" but you need to wait roughly about 250-600 years before it can

but even then the bond is so weak it rubs off

[naive spruce]

I see

[sick ledge]

hobbiests argue with it all the time but I have confirmation from about 70 different paint companies that on plastic this will not work and my own experience too where the paint slides right off

[plush swift]

I mean primer is a thing

[sick ledge]

acrylic primers do not help with paint adhesion and we are talking about acrylics over oil paints

[naive spruce]

ah

[sick ledge]

if your paint isnt adhering to bare plastic that means the paint has gone bad, you destroyed the binder by thinning it because of low solids count in the binder to support thinning, low no stabilization agents, or the solids count in the binder is too low to support the pigmentation and a few other things

Some primers can help with durability but they are few are far between

Toom can but thats an expensive thing

tamiya nylon sprays can also

[naive spruce]

mhm

[sick ledge]

brush on primers do not as they do not contain a solvent for bonding to plastic

[naive spruce]

so spray paint is better?

[sick ledge]

not exactly as it really depends. What you're more so trying to do with a "primer" is to get a base coat

[naive spruce]

mhm

[sick ledge]

Personally I use an ink do that with an airbrush

an ink with a satin finish

has more durability than matte and it doesnt have the risk of being gritty

I paint with satin and varnish with matte unless i'm doing true metallics

then I varnish with a specialized varnish to prevent corrosion

[plush swift]

How do I do a exposed metal look for vehicles

Like scratched paint

[sick ledge]

base silver, use masking putty and masking tape, paint over everything, remove putty and tape. For scratches grab either a silver fineliner pen or a tiny brush

stipple around the scratches to provide a simulation of paint chipping off, even better if you do a primer layer showing

Just dont do a zinc chromate look because everyone will read it as corrosion

[plush swift]

Can I just stipple silver

[sick ledge]

yes

you can also use a sponge too

there is no technical wrong here

[plush swift]

Probably do that

I only got a quarter roll of painters tape left

[sick ledge]

I use a lot of methods personally

[plush swift]

Painting vehicles is way more fun than painting individual guys imo

[sick ledge]

I agree but I also do a lot of scale modeling

[naive spruce]

should I make my orks?

since i finished my kriegsman

[plush swift]

Yeah

[sick ledge]

yes

[naive spruce]

purple bois it is

[sick ledge]

thats cheating

[naive spruce]

nuh uh

[sick ledge]

you paint the base and not the ork because the ork is invisible

[naive spruce]

sounds like a skill issue

[sick ledge]

sounds like painting for advantage

So well played

[naive spruce]

thanks

[plush swift]

eldar vs tau oiled up who's winning the gundam mech off

[plush swift]

Eldar

I don’t want fish pus pus

[teal wolf]

I bet on wraith knight

[rare hornet]

Warlord Titan

[naive spruce]

We making invisible orks today

[silver thorn]

Not sure how good people here are with rules stuff but figured I would ask. Celestine's Mircaulous Intervention says to set her up back on the battlefield as close as possible to where she was not in engagement range.

Is she still attached to her unit and the Geminae Superiors/Seraphim?

And does the enemy get to pile in before that happens if she dies in melee?

I'm assuming that it works like transports where if there is no legal place to set up the model because she's swarmed she just evaporates into thin air.

Or does she split off and become her own unit because it says "model"?

[brisk vapor]

The resurrection rule should specify when it happens, usually it's at the end of the phase

[silver thorn]

It says at the end of the phase, so that could be the fight phase.

[brisk vapor]

And the attached unit rule I am not sure, I'd recon she would stay as a part of it if she dies before the unit does

[silver thorn]

That's what I'm assuming, I just want to be sure so I don't yeet her into a mob of ork boyz to screen and then use her FNP to tank hits and can't set her back up because im totally surrounded.

I have a friend who's doing Green Tide.

Also my army went up by like 400 points so I guess I'm officially over 2k now. :3

I lost my crusaders though... No more crusaders/repentia team popping out of the suicide rhino.

[brisk vapor]

Yeah the resurrected character should be part of the unit until the unit itself dies, same with Necron thralls

[white tangle]

Why do some people lick their brushes while painting?

[silver thorn]

Something about getting a nice, fine tip on your brush

[oblique socket]

Paint tasty

[sick ledge]

because they havent learned what hands are

[edgy jackal]

To make a point/wet their brush, but it's a really dangerous practice considering how little the average consumer knows about the contents of their paint. For one of the worst cases, look up the radium girls (description, the images are somewhat NSFL).

[plush swift]

What can I use for camo netting for my leman Russ

[tiny cairn]

Certain fishnet clothing might make for an okay base for the camo to rest on, look at some videos on how people make ghillysuits

[sick ledge]

gauze

[wintry solstice]

Oh I saw that in 1000 ways to die

[white tangle]

Yeah i know of that horror story

Also, anyone here with a beefy PC? Out of curiosity, do you paint with it on?

[sick ledge]

yes. I use it for background noise like art history documentaries or chaotic industrial metal

[edgy jackal]

What specifically is your concern? Airborne paint particles getting sucked into the ventilation, the ventilation affecting air quality/humidity/temperature of the room, the noise?

IDK if my pc qualifies as "beefy", but in the summer I have bigger issues with my room arrangement (faces the sun, doesn't have great ventilation if there's no wind outside) than with the PC regarding ambient temperature, and in the winter the PC is only advantageous for temperature (no ventilation for the most part though, due to closed window in winter).

[mint dove]

Knocking the rust off

All the base colors are down

[mint merlin]

for years I thought my auric armour gold was fucked and useless

turns out I just needed to get some mixing balls in there and shake

[sullen creek]

My chaos knight war dog stalker is assembled and the gun hardpoint is magnetized. I think i did pretty good on the base

[ocean pendant]

My latest 40K™️ models for use in hit game Warhammers the 40K™️

[sweet furnace]

Imposter

[ocean pendant]

But the box said Imperial on it, checkmate

[sick ledge]

this is almost alwyas the case or you need to stir it in some cases

[plush swift]

Fart hammer

[plush swift]

Yippie

[naive spruce]

Me orks have been primed

[white tangle]

yeah, i was just wondering if my PC may have some affect on when i paint. I always have it running to watch something while painting and was just curious if others do the same.

[naive spruce]

Marina with the Rher engraving skill correct me if im wrong

[sick ledge]

it can but not really

[plush swift]

Yeah

[naive spruce]

rad

[plush swift]

Sulfur god is cooler tho

[naive spruce]

Go groth better

[plush swift]

Nah

Groth doesn’t have his own ending

[naive spruce]

nuh uh

[plush swift]

https://tenor.com/view/fear-and-hunger-termina-the-sulfur-pits-sulfur-pits-gif-4022383576696423628

[naive spruce]

imagine worshiping the moon

[plush swift]

I put the melta on upside down

[plush swift]

God of sulfur is infinitely cooler

[naive spruce]

Oh yes let the god with a tongue in his only eye socket be cooler, Dude the god of fear and hunger is better

[plush swift]

Perkele is a sulfur worshiper

The moons spokes person

[spare sedge]

Krieg converted wyvern

[naive spruce]

ok

[plush swift]

Literally true

Need to paint now

[naive spruce]

He was just using the god tho

[plush swift]

He still worshiped him

And needles and stitch is cool

[naive spruce]

He, the janitor, Needles, and the stitches worships the sulfur god

[plush swift]

The alll mer church in the city is a front for the sulfur cult

[naive spruce]

mhm

[plush swift]

It had his symbol in the church

[naive spruce]

same thing with the logic old god

[plush swift]

Logic is a new god I thought

[naive spruce]

No old god

Le garde tried becoming old god but Olivias sister just reached it first

[plush swift]

He still ascended

You can see him when you meet the janitor

[naive spruce]

who?

[plush swift]

Nvm

I did a oopsie

[naive spruce]

felt

[plush swift]

But isn’t the guy in yellow le garde?

[plush swift]

Confusing ass lore

[naive spruce]

thats Frans and The tormented one

[plush swift]

I know it’s the tormented on

[naive spruce]

but yeah, he just revived as a vamp by darce and set off trying to become a old god

much like the god of fear and hunger

[plush swift]

It’s been a hot minute since I played the first game

[naive spruce]

I just stay refreshed on the lore

its good background as a paint minis

[plush swift]

Mauthe doog?

[naive spruce]

Mauthe, Frap, and Worm girl

[plush swift]

Goats

[naive spruce]

Ong man

Was on the game from Rim playing it at first

[plush swift]

I dunno

[naive spruce]

oh?

[plush swift]

Tbh needle wearing marinas face fucked me up a bit

[naive spruce]

Skin granny was it for me

or the seemor and buckman marriage

[plush swift]

Flesh lump

[naive spruce]

mhm

[plush swift]

The little girl ascending was crazy

[naive spruce]

Fuck dude don't remind me of that

that just hurt to watch

[plush swift]

Yeah the sounds made it so
Much worse

[naive spruce]

As you hear the bones cracking before the gurgling of her new form

[plush swift]

Also pocket cat was almost a reason for me to drop the game

And the harvester

[naive spruce]

Lemme guess

The girl for both situations

[plush swift]

Yeah

[naive spruce]

followed by the harvest coin toss

[plush swift]

Lucky

[naive spruce]

That was rough to watch man

really rough

[plush swift]

The priest from the mansion was rough

[naive spruce]

Father Hugo?

[plush swift]

I think

It’s like the first big roadblock in termina

[naive spruce]

yeah that ain't him

but god that smile

[plush swift]

No matter who I fight him with I end up losing one of My arms

[naive spruce]

word?

[plush swift]

Lmao

[naive spruce]

that hits

I will not lie tho

Dismorphia really hurt to watch

[plush swift]

A lot of the moon scorch forms are rough

[naive spruce]

Yeah but Samaries was just the worst

[plush swift]

Weeping scope was just cool tbh

[naive spruce]

oh definitely

[plush swift]

What’s Karin’s moon scorched form supposed to represent

[naive spruce]

the Valkyrie?

[plush swift]

Yeah

[naive spruce]

It represent how she feels as a reporter, many people see them as Vultures profiting off of others people misery and suffering from wars, but she saw herself as a Valkyrie carrying the fallen tales of thoughs that died in the battlefield.

[plush swift]

Ohhh

[naive spruce]

and she wasn't wrong as many see news reporter and paparazzi as Vultures trying to find a story and run with for the money

As she spatulates the cause of the moonscorching with daan as chemical attack

[plush swift]

Daan was the man

[naive spruce]

Yeah, the doctor that turned into pocket cat

as his moonscorch

[plush swift]

Yeah

Never worship sylvian

[naive spruce]

The marriage goes nutty

[plush swift]

Fucked up

[naive spruce]

the moonless marriage is fucked up

[plush swift]

He’s to big

[naive spruce]

mhm

[plush swift]

It’s sad the every character gets a good ending in B but daan

[naive spruce]

truly

[plush swift]

Hopefully mods won’t find this convo

[naive spruce]

If anything i need to paint my orks

Did finish with priming them

[plush swift]

You should

Gonna paint my Russ soon

[naive spruce]

I got some kommandos and was thinking of turning them invisible

[plush swift]

Purple?

[naive spruce]

Mhm

[plush swift]

I forget how orcs work

[naive spruce]

Green is best because Orks are green.

Blue is lucky.

Black is dead 'ard.

White is deadly.

Purple is sneaky because you've never seen a purple ork.

Yellow is flashy, both with explosions and with fancy gubbins.

[plush swift]

Gotta love orc logic

is votann combat patrol worth

debating between tau, votann, or a secret third thing

Do whatever faction you think is cool

look i want to rock and stone but i also don't want to get tabled every game

Getting tabled is the fun part

That why I play guardsman

that's the secret third thing

[sterile grail]

people who play for the lore > meta list players

real chad dont care win or lose, they make their own story on the table top

[sick ledge]

So orks

Ork players are the best confirmed

[naive cape]

my first mini painted

[teal wolf]

Ork players are always the funnest!

[teal wolf]

He looks delightfully nasty! Ina good way lol. Super clean for a first mini

[naive cape]

i gave up at the gun and just did it quick and wanted it to be done 7h is enough for me

lmao

[calm tundra]

I'd hope for my first mini to turn out this good lol

[compact umbra]

once i finsih my gsc stuff i think ill start working on my storm cast back log

[brisk vapor]

Worked on the sleeve today

[compact umbra]

oOoOo

[obsidian tapir]

Finished the iron warrior auxilia leman russ

[hoary basin]

not 40k, and not mine, but my sister is painting her first dnd mini :3

[visual turret]

hey chat can I get an opinion on something

[brisk vapor]

I represent the chat, yes

[visual turret]

I'm not sure what I can do to get my marines a bit more interesting. I paint carcharodons so they're a pretty plain grey with gold trim. I wanna do something to spruce their guns up a bit, at least on the heavier units.

the units I have with cloaks get red or rakarth flesh colour cloaks, and those with chainsowrds get a nice red chainsword casing too. But im currently painting heavy space marines, and i'm realising these guys are gonna be so basic if I just leave the guns black. I was thinking red frame for the bolt rifles they have, would you guys have any other suggestions

[brisk vapor]

I've seen people do tribal art on their Carcharodons and I think those work really well for the chapter

[visual turret]

I'm not comfortable doing that purely through lack of talent

it'd look great but i'm not good enough at freehanding

I do wanna do more white half-helmets

[brisk vapor]

fair, but you could approach it as a nice challenge or practice. You'll surely get better at it over time if you're doing an army of them

[visual turret]

it's purely for the sake of painting, so I guess it wouldn't hurt. That one ukrainian group that did those gorgeous carcharodons have always amazed me

but the baseline question here was the colour of the gun. I could simply leave it black but I feel that just leaves the model borderline monochromatic

[brisk vapor]

ye they're one of the people that came to mind

it's a pretty monotone scheme overall so I don't think it would hurt either

maybe not flat black but a darker grey

[visual turret]

Here’s an example, a nice drybrush-highlighted red for cloak and chainsword casing. Something similar on the boltgun could work

[brisk vapor]

yeah that looks very nice

though I'd probably leave the red accent colours for characters/higher ranking models

you could also try a light grey gun casing

almost white

[visual turret]

I was considering white!

I think i'll try that on this guy

i'm kind of half-homebrewing my chapter tbh. I want them to be carcs, but I am in love with so many of the DA models i'm blagging they're a sort of dual-successor of DA and carcs, so I can get away with using deathwing knights and inner circle lol

[brisk vapor]

sounds like a solid plan

[sick ledge]

grab a pen and a paper, draw them on the paper, then use the pen to draw it on the model.

Easy way of getting skill for it

[visual turret]

third party decals can always work too

[sick ledge]

a page or two should be "good enough"

[sick ledge]

too much effort

[visual turret]

i've seen plenty of third party-made transfers

nahh

less effort than braving freehand

[sick ledge]

Sealing them correctly so they dont fall off in a few years is

because varnish doesnt actually save them...

[sick ledge]

brave it

do it

show them what a shark can do

use your teeth if you have to

[marble sorrel]

Been a while since I been around here but I got a question

How well do the tempests scions heads fit with the guardsmen now? I had a older guardsman that I fit a head with and I am looking to recreate that model so curious if anyone knows how well it fits and if the size looks correct or if I should order a a specialized head online

[visual shale]

How are you supposed to connect this cape? It’s always up in the air on one side

[wild monolith]

Finished CF Sarge

[vale pollen]

The detail on the face is incredible

[brisk vapor]

Blue platemail today

[wet hedge]

https://x.com/CerberusXt/status/1804812022585909648?t=wyiCbVyCFtjYK-v40fpZZA&s=19

Great detail here

CerberusXt (@CerberusXt) on X

What better time than pride month to finally paint the centerpiece of my pride theme Sisters of Battle series, Celestine the living saint!

Quite a tricky mini to paint with how fiddly she is, but her wings are the perfect canvas for the rainbow flag.

I hope you like her.

Twitter · Jun 23, 2024, 9:41 AM

[sick ledge]

ehh there is a major lack of shading on the metallics

I expect more out of cerberus tbh

he's been dropping in quality as of late sadly

[plush swift]

This stuff is such a good Cadia green

[plush swift]

Almost makes me want to paint sisters again

[mint dove]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/355809072842?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=8zJyEEnYQym&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=8zJyEEnYQym&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY my last ork boy 😭

[sick ledge]

im sorry for your loss

[sick ledge]

I mean all those military greens are the same, just a basic mixture of something like py150, py42, pg7 and some random black pigment

[plush swift]

its a bit lighter than the one ive been useing

[sick ledge]

just a different ratio

they will all make a good cadian green tbh

[plush swift]

Did I go to far with the damage affect

[sick ledge]

nope. You are like 1/100th of nightshift with your damage

[plush swift]

Sweet

[sick ledge]

I grade damage in a scale based off nightshift

where 1 nightshift is boarding on too much and 10 nightshift is you set the mini on fire and smashed it with a hammer to simulate real damage

[plush swift]

A Cadian tank should have a good amount of battle scars

[sick ledge]

Yes, you have it right too. The turret flew off and the body exploded so only a turret remains

perfect cadian tank

[plush swift]

☹️

[sick ledge]

Its canonical

because you know

cadia is just a bunch of rocks now

[plush swift]

They moved into Cadia 2

[mint dove]

Ehh, it sucks but I was able to pay off my cats surgery in cash, so it was worth the sacrifice

[sick ledge]

I would have helped out if I knew

[mint dove]

I appreciate that! I just really hate asking anybody else for money, my sister does itball the time and I see how much it drains people

Plus once I'm all back to good finances I can just buy them again!

I can't buy another moxxi

[sick ledge]

The difference this is a cat and not for a person

[mint dove]

But now she's all healthy!

[plush swift]

Russ

[short pawn]

Dude thats actually depressing

I so would have supported a gofundme or just tried to help

Mannn if I just bought your models i could have just held onto them for you

[mint dove]

Lol it's no worries guys! Really! It sucks, but it's the right thing to do 🙂 I'm happy I was able to make her feel better

At the end of the day they're just material things.

Plus it's not like I have NOTHING left to paint! I can finally tuck into the zombicide minis I've had for years

[short pawn]

I hope whoever got them enjoys them and the process you went through to create them

[mint dove]

I sold alot of them local to some of the best ork players around, so they'll still see the table 🙂

[short pawn]

I really want to paint my Giga Robo models they r literally juat gundams

[short pawn]

YESSSS!!!!

[mint dove]

And I didn't sell ALL of them, I still got my kill team 🙂

[mint dove]

Oh those are sick, I love the mazinger vibes

[short pawn]

I have to shill this game

ITS SO COOL

[mint dove]

But I still have some cyberpunk stuff to paint, threw a base coat on these guys a few days ago

Really like the bases I made for them

[plush swift]

Reminds me of gundam

[short pawn]

Yeah its hype

[short pawn]

Wait

The new cyberpunk skirmish game?

[mint dove]

Yup! Combat zone

We play the cyberpunk ttrpg so buying the minis made sense

[short pawn]

When you try it out please report how it was i was considering splitting it with a friend

[mint dove]

Its Alot of fun! Super quick games and the reaction system means you're always doing something

[short pawn]

I do like reaction systems

(Giga robo is built off of that)

[plush swift]

How do you get rid of the shine that decals give

[mint dove]

Layer of lahmian medium

[plush swift]

Swagged out

[sick ledge]

precious baby

[sick ledge]

matte or satin varnish

[plush swift]

I got neither

[sick ledge]

what do you have?

any mediums?

[sick ledge]

clean your room

[plush swift]

All I got

[sick ledge]

btw you can get a 4oz bottle of that for the same price as that and as a higher quality product too

if you ever want to save some money

[plush swift]

https://tenor.com/view/the-more-you-know-gif-16083359911448889724

[sick ledge]

its just glaze medium/glaze liquid

[plush swift]

It came with the kit of paint i bought

[sick ledge]

its better than nothing

[plush swift]

My local hardware store sells a bunch of model paints I’ll check there for something better

[sick ledge]

check art stores

or even amazon which isnt that much more expensive than art stores

[plush swift]

Don’t have none near me

[sick ledge]

I dont either so I just order everything online

all you need to really know is when buying mediums go with either golden or liquitex, when buying flow improver go with windsor and newton

golden and liquitex make some of the better mediums on the market but the better ones cost way more than both of them

like double or triple the price

Those two are also compatible with most waterbased acrylic paints on the market

[plush swift]

I’ll probably just get a matte and a clear varnish

[sick ledge]

windsor and newton makes a decent one that can be applied with a brush without issue

it also doesnt leave brush stroke unlike vallejo's

[sick ledge]

all varnishes are clear technically speaking

[plush swift]

Well yeah

[sick ledge]

btw dont mix varnish into paint

[plush swift]

Ik

[sick ledge]

Ok good, its in a lot of hobby guides

so you never know

[plush swift]

My grandpa used to paint model trains

He told me that a lot

[sick ledge]

You probably know a lot of old tricks then

[short pawn]

I walked out of work and saw a rocket launch it was fucking sick

[sick ledge]

train modelers are just built different

[sick ledge]

what kind of rocket?