40k-minis-and-armies

[median thistle]

Brothers and Gentlemen, I present to you, Tank

Well work in progress tank

[wary sonnet]

The new KT starter set is just space marine heroes.

What the actual fuck.

[rare hornet]

Yeah that sounds about right

[wary sonnet]

Well, that ruins the value of the plague marines.

[visual turret]

trying to decipher what colours I'd be looking at for a hive fleet based on this lancer mech

your colours are SO fuckin clean always

[rare hornet]

Thank you :3

[visual turret]

now can you help with my colourpicking conundrum please 😇

[rare hornet]

Hmm, so a black carapace would make the most sense obviously

But you’d need a contrast for the body

[visual turret]

see I was thinking a veeeeeery dark green

so black undercarapace with a nocturne or maybe caliban green upper carapace]

[rare hornet]

Hmm, what about red flesh with black/dark carapace

[visual turret]

nah see I want red as the highlight, so eyes and possibly vents

unless thats what you mean x3

[rare hornet]

Oh hang on got some reference here

[visual turret]

I also like the kinda off-tan colour on the piping

and vague blue strips as well

[rare hornet]

Hang on, got to try and find a not 200 x 200 picture

so you got the dark carapce and then the lighter flesh with red accents

[visual turret]

also, the primary carapace colour is hex 1D2221

which comes up as a dark green

I realise it's not popping as much on the green on my end because I drybrushed corvus black instead of abaddon black on the undercarapace 💀

[rare hornet]

Ah yeah

[visual turret]

I am gonna do a VERY gentle drybrushing/speckly highlight on the green I think

[rare hornet]

that could work, if you start it light you can make it heavier if you needed

[visual turret]

I can get that grimy off-white on the claws I think

in fact
steel legion drab > skeleton horde > baneblade brown

[rare hornet]

Yeah, taking a look at it, that would work

[safe bison]

how we feelin about the sister i just painted?

[rare hornet]

porpl

[safe bison]

...yeah

so like is it shit or

[frank spire]

I like it, but I would recommend adding kore purple to the armor to help make the gold itself pop more, especially since you gave her blonde hair

but I have also never painted a mini before

So take what I say with a grain of salt

[urban drum]

i can tell your paint looks a little lumpy

particularly your cream color

[visual turret]

So far so good

[eternal ivy]

oooi like it!

[plain violet]

Oooooo yes!!!

[rare hornet]

BOOG

[visual turret]

gets the dark green in, the black underbelly, the red accentwork and the off-white grimy bone piping

but it is VERY dark lmao

Maybe I drybrush some lighter greens on beasue at present that's nocturne with a drybrushing of caliban

[rare hornet]

I can just about make out the caliban green

[visual turret]

Maybe..... an even gentler work of waagh flesh

[rare hornet]

Was gonna say, I think waaagh flesh could work?

At very least worth a test

Very light and gently, like how I do a very light brush of troll slayer on my dwarves

You just want it poking through

[round bison]

Cosplay done

[hollow goblet]

Nah just needs a little more purple to break up the detail, adding some into one of the gun panels/on the legs should be plenty to make it feel finished

[frank spire]

You know the annoying part about seeing armies and not having money to get one? Too many damn options

[marsh harness]

Absolutely peak

[cunning hearth]

Auric level operative, WIP

[mint dove]

Testing out my votann scheme

Thoughts?

[rare hornet]

The orange contrasts well with the grey

[mint dove]

That's what I was going for!

Originally it was yellow but I fond it contrasted too much

[rare hornet]

Oh yeah, I can see the test yellows in the background

[mint dove]

Oh those are the base, which is ushabti bone

[rare hornet]

Well I mean, yellow enough

[mint dove]

I usually do a ushabti bone base coat and then 1:1 imp fists contrast and contrast medium

Which washed out the whole model and made the details kinda disappear into the yellow

[rare hornet]

Yeah these guys have got quite small details

[mint dove]

A better picture

Not sure if i wanna try painting the eyes or leaving them dark for that whole "grimdark" look

[rare hornet]

Generally speaking, if the eyes are so small you really don’t miss much by leaving them unpainted

Had a friend who painted the eyes on their they and it had a questionable result

[hollow goblet]

Most people don't notice if you don't paint eyes it tends to be something to only notice if it's mentioned

[simple thorn]

Could also overdo the eye area with nuln oil and get the Darkest Dungeon look

[sick ledge]

Not an ork

[naive umbra]

I learned a fun hobby hack today. Turns out that the 250ml Tamiya airbrush cleaner product is chemically identical to the Tamiya Extra Thin Cement, so you can just buy the cleaner bottle for cheap big refills. Since you're paying more for the glass bottle and brush with the cement

[sick ledge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G0Ay33oCCY&t=1s

the even better hobby hack is to make it yourself

they arent actually the same btw

the airbrush cleaner is 50-50 acetone to butyl acetate and the glue is 49-51

yes that 1% difference does actually matter but not that much

[dry canopy]

Finally finished with my Moebian 21st Killteam (outside of transfer sheet nonsense I still need to figure out)

[sick ledge]

do you have any white vinegar?

[dry canopy]

I do indeed... I mean I have eveything to do the transfer sheet stuff, I just need to... do it lol

[sick ledge]

Well then do it

or else

the emperor will be sad

[dry canopy]

That is some very powerful motivation

[sick ledge]

https://tenor.com/view/do-it-now-tts-if-the-emperor-tts-emperor-warhammer40k-gif-27571095

[delicate dune]

https://tenor.com/view/yes-my-lord-star-wars-yes-my-lord-gif-video-game-gif-17937721

[wary sonnet]

Rock and stone.

[clear tusk]

Hey guys I would like your opinion on something I'm making a chapter master for my loyalist iron Warriors Force Do I A combine a cataphractii terminator and Centurion wawsuit Or B Combine Gravis Captain and cataphractii Terminator I'm trying to make perturabos armor

[rare hornet]

gravis and cataphractii, little better proportions

[mint dove]

Gellarpox bases all done

[clear tusk]

If I cut the gravis legs at the knee keeping the pipe work and hooking on a pair of cataphractii would it make him too short?

[rare hornet]

Cataphractii are technically taller, so probably not?

[edgy jackal]

What's that for?

[clear tusk]

[sick ledge]

softening decals

[rare hornet]

That took a little bit more effort than I was originally expecting

[clear tusk]

That instantly gave me Tycus vibes from Starcraft

[urban drum]

there was a guy who accidentally made a starcraft theme

[clear tusk]

[hollow goblet]

I feel like some Votann parts wouldn't go astray for a perty kitbash

[urban drum]

Which parts

[hollow goblet]

Not entirely sure but just the sheer bulk of the armour panels seems like it would suit the proportions perty has

[naive umbra]

https://tenor.com/view/short-warhammer-thorgrim-gif-13932078525086181170

[simple thorn]

Finished off the last of my beakies this morning (couldn't sleep so literally finished at 3am)

Finished these lads the day before

And to finish off - tried a kitbash, and don't think it turned out too bad honestly

[brisk mauve]

https://www.ragingheroes.com/collections/painters-delight-large-models/products/almeriah-on-war-pupit-v2-s-sf

[mint dove]

Tried giving the armor a brighter hue

I felt the jokers orange was a little too muted

[white tangle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A80pIh6s6g&t=1992s Im pretty sure ive asked this before, but how do you use a paint like a shade like this guy does in this vid? Whenever i do this, i get a ton of coffee staining. It feels like im froced to use a medium. Im just curious how these people manage this and get such a smooth effect.

[brisk vapor]

you probably have too much paint on your brush when applying it

the timestamped portion is more like glazing than shading

[white tangle]

Im scared that i may have fucked up my paints or something because a while back ive moved them to dropper bottles. I may have over thinned them. So that might be part of the issue

[brisk vapor]

You can go as thin as you want and not cause coffee staining because of that alone

of course too thin is hard to work with for certain purposes but I doubt that is the cause for the problem you are having

[white tangle]

Granted i havent tried doing this in a while so i might try it again soon and see how it goes.

[brisk vapor]

just keep the amount of paint loaded on to the brush reasonable, too much and it will pool on the model and cause coffee stains when drying

[white tangle]

On another topic. Ive seen a vince vid about wet pallet and he said you should fill your pallet till the membrane has water around it. From my experience, i find that having that amount of water makes my palette essentially unusable. It basically thins the paint to like a glaze consistency within maybe 3 minutes. Is this down to climate or could i be doing something wrong? I use redgrass paper.

[brisk vapor]

do you let the water on top of the paper?

[white tangle]

nah

[brisk vapor]

and you don't really want the palette to swim in water, just enough so it kinda keeps the paint moist

try having less water, experiment a bit

[white tangle]

yeah, yeah thats what i do. Im just curious why my experience is so much different than others. It was a nightmare when i first started painting.

[brisk vapor]

I'm sure the climate is a part of it but some people prefer the palette paper to float on the water and some have just enough for the sponge to get wet

I just usually have enough for the water barely cover the sponge

[pastel island]

that's fire

[brisk vapor]

A bit more work on Typhus

[haughty ravine]

Damn he green

The wood and the blade of his scythe look really good

[mint dove]

So I finished my csm but the armor looks a little boring, I'm going to highlight it but is there any way I can make it look less flat

[rare hornet]

Finally, a weapon to surpass metal gear

[mint dove]

So these are all My csm, as you can see they're a little flat looking on the armor, I used vallejo model color black which dries VERY matte, would going over this with a coat of black legion contrast look better?

[brisk vapor]

you could try that thinned down with the contrast medium

it would add more contrast by settling in the recesses

[mint dove]

Okay that'll be the plan then, just 1:1?

[brisk vapor]

maybe more medium at first, try it on like a leg piece first and see if it works out well

[mint dove]

Okay I'm gonna practice doing these well because the night lords kill team came out and I really want to do them justice

[urban drum]

Recess shade

Actually you probably cant hey

The lighting made it look a bit grey

But highlighting the trim and adding some edge highlighting to the black might be what brings it together

[mint dove]

I think I'm gonna do what jerk suggested and finish 1 model completely, base and all

[rare hornet]

The voices are getting louder

[mint dove]

Do you think painting the gun holsters on the nightlords like they're made of human flesh would add to the feel of the models? Or is it like putting a hat on a hat

[mint dove]

I painted 10 csm and I'm about to paint 10 night lords,

I'm pretty sure all the traitor legions fell to chaos because they were forced to paint their own armor trim

Although I think for next time I'm just gonna bluetack the heads and backpacks on for easier painting

[rare hornet]

The trim hasn’t been that bad

[mint dove]

Trying to paint the head area was a BITCH

[rare hornet]

Okay, yeah fully assembled I can see that being a pain

[mint dove]

I did my votann in subassembaly and got super glue on the paint when attaching the arm and nearly crashed out

[rare hornet]

Yeah, been sub assembling mine too, doing this berserker as a little break from all the warriors

[mint dove]

I posted my csm earlier today

I'm gonna try to darken down the armor more before I highlight because it looksna little weak

[compact umbra]

wait what

why is this on the 40k admech page

[hollow goblet]

Someone motivate me to start hobbying again

I have like 6 half painted kill teams and 1400pts of my ksons left to paint plus 4-ish kitbash projects and a big scratch build and a bunch of terrain to paint and idk where to start anymore

[mint dove]

Your minis are sad

So so sad

https://tenor.com/view/godleftmeunfinished-filthyfrank-dade-gif-21225258

Your minis rn

[hollow goblet]

Yeah glueing backpacks on last has always been a strat for me otherwise you can't get the panelling

Btw if you ever paint rubric marines you'll want to do the same thing with their arms bc their guns are held up in a way that covers the trim and panelling on the chest and its kinda noticeable if its not painted

[sick ledge]

He does have good advice

[sick ledge]

Imma steal all your models if you dont finish them

[hollow goblet]

Wouldn't be the first time someone flogged them lmao

[hollow goblet]

Yeah this might be a strat

[sick ledge]

you know its good when I agree with the advice he gives lol

[hollow goblet]

I'm indecisive asf is my problem

someone pick a thing out of a hat and I'll arbitrarily decide to see that through

Legionaries
Hierotek Circle
Gellerpox
Chaos Cults
Fellgor Tzaangors
Death Guard proxies

[sick ledge]

one second

[hollow goblet]

I kinda wanna paint my Magnus but I think doing a big project like that with so many small ones is not a smart way to time manage

[sick ledge]

chaos cults then hierotek circle

[hollow goblet]

The gods have spoketh thus

[sick ledge]

personally I like to have 2-4 projects on the table at a time

and do them all at once

while the paint dries I move to another one

but this isnt the smartest way of doing things, its just the most efficient for me

[hollow goblet]

That's what I like to do ideally but ADHD task juggling means its hard to hit a flow state when I'm doing that

[sick ledge]

I have ADHD meds

[hollow goblet]

Yeah I should probably look into those

[clear finch]

Im looking to make some chaos marines that evoke the Bio-mechanical look of old chaos marine doodles from realms of chaos. Then 3d print them later. I might consider even shrinking them proportionally down to the retro proportions of old 80s warhammer

[mint dove]

Lmaoo I just realized I fucked up on my hearthkyn salvagers, I put a human head on an ironkyn body

Fuck it, he got his legs blown off in space Korea and these are replacements

I got it, his name is lieutenant dŷan

[hollow goblet]

That would make sick Word Bearers armour, there's design elements of all 4 chaos gods in there, a couple of skulls and gemstones one the armour would probably help sell it

[hollow goblet]

Praise be to the plague father

Was gonna be tzeentch but I feel like Nurgle is the most appropriate for Halloween

[golden night]

throw it at somebody like a plague bomber

grenade, out!

[mint dove]

@brisk vapor okay I think I fixed it

It added a deeper black and also some sheen to the armor

Bad news is now I have to go around and clean up all the trim

...again

[brisk vapor]

Looks nice. I thought you would've wanted to keep some of the grey, hence I suggested to thinning it down with the medium so it would be more dark on the recesses instead of the whole plates but this is excellent too

Here's something similar you could try (timestamped)

https://youtu.be/TUd5GFXWGsI?t=660

not necessarily the same colours but the same technique

[mint dove]

I like how this turned out

I may take another pass and put some slightly thinned black legion back in the recesses

[rare hornet]

That is the face of a man who loves his job

[mint dove]

I wanted to try some simple volumetric highlights, how's it look for a first step?

I've never done volumetric highlights before only simple edge highlighting

[rare hornet]

The first one’s leg is very good

[brisk vapor]

hell yeah

after you start doing that there is no going back

[mint dove]

Look pretty good for a first attempt?

[brisk vapor]

indeed

[mint dove]

I was trying to glaze but I had the paint a bit too thick

[brisk vapor]

the placements look correct

[mint dove]

Still getting back in the swing of things

After this dries I'm going to use thunderhawk blue for the inner circle and then fenrisian gray as the spot in the center

And advice for blending them all together?

[brisk vapor]

you could either sketch on some more opaque paint where you want the highlights to be and then return to the midtones by glazing the transitions to become more smooth
or build up from where you are by glazing thin layers towards the highest highlights with your chosen colours

[mint dove]

So say I use dark reaper as layer 1, then put that thunderhawk blue as a 2nd layer, if I thin down some dark reaper really thin and put it over the spot that'll help it all kinds fall in line

And same thing with layer 3 except with fenrisian gray

[brisk vapor]

basically yeah

you could also mix the two paints together for the thin glaze for a smoother transition

[mint dove]

Ooooh and like go on the edges of the circles for a smoother transition!

My third eye is opening

[brisk vapor]

exactly

[mint dove]

Well that's what I'll do tomorrow night!

Gonna be honest, really excited for my night lords to come in

I feel like they'll be easier to paint if I leave the head and backpacks off

Especially with NL huge head frills

[mint dove]

Okay wow fuck edge highlighting

Volumetric REALLY make the model feel alive

[teal wolf]

Snagging a few shots of this convo. I love and hate edge highlighting...

[sick ledge]

yep, something I keep saying

[sick ledge]

between you and me, we're going to turn mcpingus here is to a fairly competent painter lol

[mint dove]

The volumetric I did for step 1 are kinda chunky but im gonna try and blend them into each other

Gonna mix black and dark reaper and do small lines around the lowest layer so they don't look so stark

[sick ledge]

smart

I try toi do a mix of volumetric and edging

but my edges are shadows mostly

[mint dove]

I plan to edge the upper gold trim that's facing upwards, and maybe I'll put some washes into the shadows

These were more of a practice for the main course

The night lords box

[sick ledge]

Dont forget you can also ask for C&C in my discord, its been growing a lot recently and the advice in there hasnt been dogshit

just in case you want more opinions

or different schools of advice

[mint dove]

Will do!

[mint dove]

@brisk vapor quick question if I wanted to blend the black armor and dark reaper how would I do that seeing as I used contrast paint for the black? Can I mix contrast and base paints?

[brisk vapor]

yeah no problem in that, the consistency will be a bit different but it'll work just fine

[short pawn]

Vespid stingwings are such an intimidating model to paint

Got me going feral on a thursday

[sick ledge]

just take your time and breathe with them. When you start getting frustrated, imagine them naked.

[short pawn]

Bad news i eated every single one

[brisk vapor]

Was painting the metallic parts of the horn and scythe, but the paint started to dry annoyingly on to the brush constantly so left it as is for now. Will be continuing them later

[short pawn]

Do i even have to announce to the world my joy at this sight

[midnight locust]

First Aquilon

[mint dove]

@brisk vapor

First completed black volumetric

Now just to try and blend

[brisk vapor]

Good shit, wouldn't hurt to spread them around a bit. Right now the highlighted areas are maybe a bit sharp/small

[wintry tulip]

I’m a big fan of Warhammer and I am trying to start painting what are some of y’all says on the topic

[hollow goblet]

Avoid citadel paints and products for the most part

Contrast paints are good and worth using as well as some of the technical and special fx paints

but for the most part you're able to find much better alternatives for much cheaper

They're not bad per se but egregiously overpriced for the quality and quantity

[wintry tulip]

Thank for the help

[wintry tulip]

👍

[mint dove]

Okay one pretty much done

[brisk vapor]

when it comes to hobby paints Citadel isn't really half bad, for their price and quality

their pots are the weakest link when the paint starts to gather to the edge of the seal and thus not sealingcorrectly and drying the paint

but their whites are pretty bad

[brisk vapor]

If you want to go even further you could do a glaze of the base tone you used on the edges of the highlight to blend it in even better

[mint dove]

When you say base tone you mean for the highlights not black legion yeah?

[brisk vapor]

Meant the black legion, so the highlights would blend in with the armour colour

[mint dove]

Oh okay, but I'm guessing SUPER thinned down with contrast medium

Like more than I did for the base coat

[brisk vapor]

you can use water too for this purpose

but yeah so much it barely changes the colour on the highlight

[crystal tendon]

Is there a software for The Army Painter that tells you what color codes are in a set to test on a software such as Paint 3D?

[rare hornet]

Anjery

[white tangle]

Is deathwatch primaris still on the gw page? cant seem to find it.

[golden night]

reduced to atoms

[white tangle]

https://tenor.com/view/crying-emoji-dies-gif-21956120

[ocean pendant]

They will return

[sick ledge]

Yes

BUT

it costs $250 a month

and it requires a $20,000+ device

I have all of this so I can get you partly what you need

there is also d2c which is free but its a nightmare to use without the above and requires knowledge about single pigments to get it to work

Color encyclopedia has hex codes for some brands too

[brisk vapor]

Scythe progress

[past wharf]

Sorry for bad quality. Should I prime them with the base or without the base? Note it has not been glued to the base yet

[brisk vapor]

Depends what you want to do with the base

but priming the base won't do any harm either

[past wharf]

Don’t really have plan for them but I’m thinking of chopping off the gun arm thing in the grey knights as I’m having a hard time fitting pieces onto the left hand

But I don’t know if I should do that

[white tangle]

Picture this, i have a small flat area i want to stipple. I really cannot be asked to do it with a small precision brush because i hate it 😠 What kind of brush would you suggest? Should i look into some small makeup brushes or would a GW base coating brush do?

Also, ive never really done any stippling so i dont even know if you would use those brushes.

[visual turret]

So I bought the unique combat patrol sergeant

Thinking of doing an armswap

[visual turret]

Missing a shoulder!!!!

[rare hornet]

for now :3

[visual turret]

anyway warsmith what do you think

do I build as-is or do I do the armswap

Also this one possibly

[rare hornet]

Armswap all the way

[visual turret]

which oneeeeee

[rare hornet]

Hmmmm

Rifle

[visual turret]

I like the rifle because I think the pose is great, nice bit of triumphant symbolism

but the pistol also works because it's like, the flamer has no fuel canister so it's a backup weapon

[rare hornet]

Well the rifle has a sling so he just uses that when he’s not using the bolt rifle

[visual turret]

true

[urban drum]

can you make him look up with the bolt rifle

[visual turret]

maybe?

[urban drum]

same direction as the pistol pose

[visual turret]

I could, but I prefer him looking away from the bolt rifle

plus I'm prolly gonna get another one to actually do the intended build with it

[sick ledge]

sponge

[hollow goblet]

Y'all if I'm running a unit of Pink Horrors: I can't use daemonic manifestation to bring back a split pink horror right?

Like say hypothetically I have 2 pinks left in my unit and 16 blues but all of the blues exist bc I used the split ability: I wouldn't be able to use that ability to put more pinks back into the unit right? Like I'm assuming the split is a permenent form shift and you can't heal them back up to pink

And say hypothetically I had 14 blues and one of the pinks outright died without splitting: that's the circumstance where I'd be able to use manifestation bc the pinks never converted into the smaller unit right?

[urban drum]

as long as the unit has pink horrors in it, you bring back pink horrors

blue horrors count towards your unit strength for the purposes of battle shock.

[hollow goblet]

Oh man that's wild so I could hypothetically end up 10 pinks in a unit + more blues if rolls go my way?

[fervent trout]

Imperial knight nmm

[turbid brook]

Nmm 🥰

I hate painting it but looks really good

[wary sonnet]

I bought 5 liberators.

As I'm preparing to get into AoS.

Not a flex, since they're cheaper than a box of gretchin.

[visual turret]

@rare hornet

[rare hornet]

hehe smol

[visual turret]

True

[rare hornet]

We now do more angery marines

[visual turret]

UNDRILLED BARREL HOLE

[rare hornet]

Yesh, now suffer >:3

[sick ledge]

angry marines are yellow though

[rare hornet]

no no no, there are angery

[mint dove]

What kind of basing scheme would be the best thematically for night lords?

[sick ledge]

gore

[mint dove]

I was going to make it look like nostramo but then I remembered night lords rarely ever went home to nostramo and then it ykno

Exploded

[urban drum]

so an asteroid belt then

[rustic pebble]

soyfacing right now

[hollow goblet]

Heavy industrial with tonnes of gore would be my first thought

Like as if they're on some hive world just absolutely taking their day out on civilians

[rare hornet]

Just a pile of blood angels

[urban drum]

Cadian scout

[haughty ravine]

Staring at this for like an hour trying to put together all the paints the person used for the main metal scheme, any input please?

[rare hornet]

Thunderhawk blue, I think for the main colour

[vestal shale]

That holy heck Sherman firefly

[haughty ravine]

I found this so I think I might give it a go

[edgy jackal]

This isn't epic scale, right?

[haughty ravine]

No it's a listing I found on ebay

[sick ledge]

I can tell you every single pigment in that but I cant tell you what GW paints they are

[signal plover]

It's like a slightly lighter version of vallejo sombre grey it looks like

[sly jolt]

m4 sherman ... unbelievable ...

[haughty ravine]

It's cool af

Love muh shermans

[floral wind]

Thinking of painting him as a raptor what we thinking about these dw chest rigs I have spare? I don't intend to go ott with the "tacticool" look just subtly

[rare hornet]

Soooooon

[visual turret]

dwarf 2 of 10............ not done yet

[rare hornet]

The grind is eternal

[rare hornet]

That's a very nice coat colour though, what you use for that?

[visual turret]

Juuust Dryad Bark

Not even shaded yet

[rare hornet]

oooo

[visual turret]

Most of it was drybrush coated

[rare hornet]

Might do that for my bikerts

[visual turret]

I find I get smoother coats of paint as opposed to brushwork manually

[rare hornet]

That's fair, different techniques work for different people

[abstract temple]

dead orphans? Shrug

[proven arch]

Hey guys how do you rate my most esteemed skitarii?

[crystal tendon]

M4..hint of A3....T26..turret...meshed with a 40K tank I am not in the franchice...long enough to know.... This.... it just blursed...

[rich pond]

Theo Harlaw, Aquilon Trooper of the 54th Psian Jakals

[plain violet]

I bought more Plastic

I love him

His hand is scuffed but I love him

[mint dove]

What's a good recipie for painting maggots? I want my sludge grubs to have a sickly green base color but Tim not sure how to get it there

What's a good recipie for painting maggots? I want my sludge grubs to have asickly green base color but Tim not sure how to get it there

[golden night]

literally me

[hollow goblet]

off white with the barest yellow tint, (I'd use slightly lightened zandri dust) and then a green shade/wash should be a quick way to do it

Then if it's one of the nurgly models with the boils and stuff on it I use volupous pink then a fluo yellow to mark the tips of the boils

[mint dove]

Maybe doing an undercoat of imperial fists contrast?

[hollow goblet]

Yeah if you want it to read as a brighter colour that'd work too

I was thinking for more of a realistic/semi muted style

[glossy hawk]

tzeentch flamer

[haughty ravine]

Calmest Tzeench color palette

[brisk vapor]

he do be flaming

[median flame]

Finally got an actual command unit

[rustic dust]

Grimdark Terminator done. Any feedback welcome!

[white tangle]

I just did the dreadful calculation of how much ive spent on GW paints. I was expecting something like £400, but the relief i feel after seeing £143. Still a ton but a lot less than i thought.

[steady wren]

Honestly GW paints are kind of a pitfall if you ask me, like... They're not bad but I feel like we all spend at least a tiny fortune on them before realizing

[midnight locust]

Trying to get better at picture taking. Any advice?

[brisk vapor]

Painted a little fucking gremlin

[true path]

oh it's only literally the coolest thing ever

[sick ledge]

Most people have spent way more than you have, the average is like $400 iirc

[midnight locust]

I shudder to think what my total hobby cost is rn

[sick ledge]

All hobby paints are to be fair as they are designed to be an ecosystem so make you spend way way more on paint.
Professional paints add up to be way cheaper but you need to learn to mix your own colors which is easy since things like mixbox and golden color mixer exist

[sick ledge]

oh mine is easily over 10k in paint alone

[midnight locust]

Me when I started guard and quickly realized my starting paint supply was lol. Lmao.

Turns out 6 colors is barely enough for a base coat

[midnight locust]

Which looks better?

[urban drum]

the 2nd definitely looks less washed out but maybe a touch too saturated

[glossy hawk]

lovely, but you should put a really dark wash over the base and some of the texture paint up onto his foot and leg armor

couple of tufts or rocks here and there

a great model should have just as good a base to go alongside it

[rare hornet]

Violence

[frank spire]

He needs no arms, he shall gore you upon his tusks all the same

[rare hornet]

The mightiest of headbutts

[waxen moat]

I am branching out from fallen

Have an iron warrior

[mint dove]

Been trying to improve my patience and improve my brush work

This is one pass no clean up

Thoughts?

I can see a few placed I fucked up

[sick ledge]

its getting there

[mint dove]

I'm trying my best to take My time with these

[subtle kernel]

I love painting chaos trim. It's relaxing

Starting my helbrute rn and it's great

[mint dove]

I feel like this is the first tike I've attempted glazing and it actually looks nice

I used night lords blue to simulate shadows

[mint dove]

Glazed some highlights!

[short pawn]

That's gonna look great with some lightning!

(Already looks great(

[mint dove]

That's gonna be the hard part lol

I've had a Windsor & Newton size 1 brush for over a year now and I've never used it because I was never sure when the right first thing to use it on was, but I'm thinking it'd night lords lightning

[short pawn]

Just make sure your paint is thinner than you'd think, the lightning will look streaky and stand out too much if its thicker than your base

Unsolicited advice from a newbie but i know a thing or two about ruining things

[mint dove]

My plan is to work in layers getting thinner and thinner lines,so sotek green>temple guard blue>baharoth blue and then a dot of white where the lines cross

[short pawn]

You got it, that'll slap

I will take one @ on a picture of your lightning if permissible!

[mint dove]

Will do! im gonna probably finish this one tomorrow

1 done 9 to go

And that's just one team

I still have to paint my gellarpox,eldar scorpions,beastmen,traitor guard and then my space marines and death guard on the 9th

[short pawn]

I know it all too well

I gotta get my ass painting! But mannn the hosptial has been nuts lately!

[mint dove]

Tell me about it lol I hate fall/winter because EVERYONE shows up

God damn county hospital

[mint dove]

I think this is My best work so far

[mint dove]

Okay this is my stopping point for the night

[short pawn]

In midnight clad!

You nailed it my friend

[rustic dust]

Thanks mate! Yes, some work still to come on the basing. Appreciate the feedback 🙂

[mint dove]

I tried lightning...I think I'm gonna have to work at it

[short pawn]

I think its great! less might be more tho imo

[mint dove]

Next time I'll probably do 1 or 2 bolts coming from the top of the panel instead of filling th panel

[short pawn]

imo its still super good! it just hides the awesome shading

[mint dove]

@short pawn

First one done

[short pawn]

https://tenor.com/view/hai-gif-10567033442484308038

[mint dove]

9 more

On a side note

If you haven't read the night lords trilogy

I highly reccomend it

[plain violet]

Creature

[tacit chasm]

Awww, it's brining back it's master's arm

Adorable

[plain violet]

Yes

[rare hornet]

Very nicely done salamanders

[median thistle]

thank you I just love vulkans shiny bald head

[rare hornet]

You’ve really captured the green so well

[leaden yoke]

What do you guys usually do for mutated flesh

[faint lantern]

I'm going to have a field trip painting him

[steady wren]

Sergeant Aym Cadmel of the Dark Angels Scout Squad "Lion's Eyes"

[plain violet]

Decided to "Oops! All Skulls" the Psychomancers little skull with littler skulls

[mint dove]

@brisk vapor I think I've improved on my volumetrics

[plain violet]

Another Psychomancer Post of Progress

[mint dove]

2nd one

[glossy hawk]

k thats peak

well done

[brisk vapor]

I agree!

[mint dove]

@brisk vapor @glossy hawk thanks! I really decided to slow down this time

And instead of batch painting them to paint each of them one by one

[brisk vapor]

[glossy hawk]

flamers’re done

[golden night]

man i took somebody's advice to use the green liquid thing to strip paint from my models and after 3 weeks of sitting in it the paint still isn't coming off

isopropyl alcohol doesn't even damage polystyrene unless you leave it in for months so that advice is pointless

just use rubbing alcohol guys

[glossy hawk]

yucky

you gotta scrub it after dude

sitting in it, it doesnt naturally come off

although personally i use LA’s totally awesome all purpose cleaner

[mint dove]

This,

This stuff strips off everything

[glossy hawk]

and its veeery very cheap

objectively the best

[plain violet]

Psychomancer Update

[tiny cairn]

Use LA totally awesomes and then they have those sonic cleaners if ur lazy and don't wanna use a tooth brush/pipe cleaning brushes

[golden night]

doesnt work

with the stuff i used

way too weak

i mostly just wanted to say that isopropyl alcohol will not damage models so if you have access to a lot of it like i do you should use it

[tiny cairn]

Do you have la or simply green? Because simply green doesn't work very well

[sick ledge]

No, that stuff sucks for stripping paint and isnt reusable like actual good paint strippers

[golden night]

yeah simple green

[sick ledge]

very wrong too. It will damage resin models after about 20 minutes so you need to clarify plastic or resin

[golden night]

i said polystyrene earlier

[sick ledge]

because we use both

[sick ledge]

Yeah there is a polystyrene resin that gets damaged by IPA in about 20 minutes

polystyrene is a huge category of plastics and resins

[golden night]

could you specify which resin that is please?

[sick ledge]

Extruded polystyrene alkyd is the most common

thats what most terrain is made from

i need coffee before I get into a deep organochem talk though

[golden night]

interesting, i thought polystyrene as a whole had the same reactions to IPA and acetone

the way the person told me about it i think he was confusing IPA with acetone because the latter will absolutely destroy models

[sick ledge]

Acetone and some forms of polystyrene creates a deforesting agent

IPA and PS wont so thats a very important difference

also sprue goo

[sick ledge]

this is shockingly common in warhammer communities

ive seen it a lot from reddit

[golden night]

that's because of acetone's benzene ring right? please slap me if that's super wrong i failed highschool chemistry

[mint dove]

So I'm planning out my scheme for my Angels of death and death guard, will this work color wise?

For the angels I'm doing flesh tearers. I'm going to base with Khorne red. Glaze gal vorbak red into the shadows, Glaze wazdakka red on the high points, and a final Glaze of evil suns scarlet:wazdakka red 1:1

For my plauge marines I'd bade death guard green, Glaze shadows of death guard green and caliban green 1:1>highlight death guard green and Elysian green 1:1>pure final highlight of Elysian green

[sick ledge]

I wont slap you but I dont remember there being benzene in acetone except in trace amounts. Dont worry I failed chemistry too I just happen to work in chemistry now... somehow

well did until the hurricane

[golden night]

oh right reading back on it I see that acetone doesn't even actually dissolve polystyrene, it merely softens it. it's why styrofoam deflates when you put it in acetone, all the air is pushed out and you're left with a hard puck of polystyrene.

also i hope everything improves for you americans affected by the hurricane

[sick ledge]

Aye, my city was destroyed but I have water back now so all is good. I get to paint again

[tacit chasm]

Keep them coming! 🙂

[white tangle]

Whats the difference between medium and glaze medium? ratios?

[mint dove]

Does anyone know if the angels of death in the starter set is monopose? Or are you able to choose gear

[rare hornet]

SKULLS

[urban drum]

Everything there should be push fit with 2 choices of heads

[mint dove]

Bummer

So for a full kill team with all choices I'll need half a box of intercessors and assault intercessors

[hollow goblet]

Yeah that's basically the deal

[mint dove]

Hiw would I volumetric highlight black? Abbadon black>corvus black>eshin gray>dawnstone?

[urban drum]

it seems like volumetric highlights can be done using edge highlighting colors

not sure though

[plain granite]

More blood angles

[sick ledge]

A glaze medium is going to have other things in it like a slow drying additive.

[white tangle]

Ooh! I may have to look into that

[sick ledge]

i use glaze mediums a lot, its much better than just water for glazing and velaturas

[mint dove]

First time at flayed flesh, thoughts?

[plain violet]

Oooo, looks leathery. I like it personally

[mint dove]

Tweaked it a bit thanks to @sick ledge suggestions

[sick ledge]

add some extra blood splatters for extra gore too if you want that

[true path]

when the school is a bit old! Heck yeah, Iron within iron without!

[agile seal]

I have assembled a funny

Techmarine to backline hump a predator annihilator with rage fueled
Alternatively
Tachmarine following up a baal predator up to the front

either way the gimmick is this:
he sits next to a car and heals it/buffs it until it dies
when it dies, vengeance of the omnissiah procs giving the omnissian power axe an attacks characteristic of 7
on the charge, red thirst gives you +1 attacks and +2 strength
for 8 total attacks on the omnissian axe, and str 8

incase your wondering this puts the omnissian axe on par with "finest hour" captains minus dev wounds

he also has a servo-arm which has extra attacks, so it doesn't gain any attacks bonus, but it does gain the str bonus going up to str 10

so your melee before anything else looks like
8 attacks with 3+/8/-2/2
1 attack with 3+/10/-2/3

then you proc rage fueled warrior which gives you sustained hits 3
which, fun fact, does effect extra attacks

meaning if you roll like a god you can get 32 omnissian power axes and 4 servo arms.

totaling a maximum potential of 76 wounds in one melee phase.
which is a Reaver titan with 16 wounds to spare.

but that's not why we take him, as that's statistically impossible.

instead we can inject him with red rampage, and give him lethal hits, lance, or for the low price of a battle shock, both.
this a) gives him keyword soup, which is very fun
and b) that keyword soup looks like +1 to wound, 6s to hit auto wound, 6s to hit confer 3 extra hits, and a weapon with extra attacks
however against things that aren't terminators or custodes that +1 to wound won't matter.

[white tangle]

Any brand you'd recommend?

[sick ledge]

Golden or liquitex

[mint dove]

Sooo any of you got tricks to paint death guard

This looks like so much detail

[sick ledge]

It's less detail than youd think

[faint lantern]

This is quite troublesome with a brush

[white tangle]

I wish i just did more painting. These look so damn cool. Oh, and the nightlords... I want to buy toys but i still have toys to paint 😦

well maybe i should say, i wish i did more painting without screwing up.

[mint dove]

Oh night lords are fuuuuuun

[mint dove]

Dude painting is screwing up

Ask @sick ledge how many times I've fucked up before I painted something halfway decent

[brisk vapor]

Couple of hours of painting and trying to find a similar colour tone for the copper as I had done the shoulder pad detail earlier, will need to work more on it later

[mint dove]

Yknow it's funny ever since I started getting more into volumetric and glazing I see them everywhere

[plain violet]

"Oh boy! I have a Primaris Psyker! I can't wait to practice painting her"

"Let's have a looksie at a guide and figure out what paints I'll-"

[true path]

never follow a painting guide 100% to the letter. You'll grow faster if you use what you have and only buy new paints when they become unsuitable.
It helps to have three shades in each of the colours and two or three of each common metallic.

[plain violet]

Thanks for the advice. I know I'm covered with the Earthshade, AetherBlue, Black & WhiteScar, and I have a gold paint that'll do for the aquilla on the staff, but I just need to single out what paints I want for the hoses, staff, and clothing

Also, would 2 thin layers of Wraithbone work in place for the Primer?

[urban drum]

if i ever get that mini i'd convert em into bro

[plain violet]

...honestly yeah, that'd be sick

I'm planning on Kitbashing a Kreig Centaur for the hell of it and I may need to learn Green Stuff

[urban drum]

oh thats a vehicle

i thought you were about to make a horse person

[plain violet]

...I'm making a Horse Person 🐎

[urban drum]

🧍‍♂️

[plain violet]

I will not be stopped

Not even my bank will stop me

[mint dove]

Don't listen to him! Buy more paints

Consume!

CONSUME!!

[plain violet]

How about I consume you?

[true path]

You absolutely should use a primer for the first layer 100%. GW's white scar and chaos black are really good. Administratum Grey is good too. Leadbelcher spray is not a primer, but it's adhesive enough that it works, strangely.

[mint dove]

I will say corax white spray is a really good primer, the corax white paint is 1 step above wet chalk

But for every other color primer, just use rustoleum

Save yourself 18 bucks

[plain violet]

I only have a Black Spray and a Blueberry Boyscout Spray rn

I will say, I did "Prime" my first Termagaunt minis using only Wraithbone and I'd say they turned out pretty good

Well, for my first time painting those bitchass bugs, at least

[mint dove]

What seems to be the optimal team to run for angels of death?I can buy either 5 intercessors or 5 assault intercessors to add to the starter box.Also isn't the intercessor Sargent that comes in the box kinda useless? Seeing as he just has a bolter on his model and none of the special melee weapons

[leaden yoke]

i have no idea what to paint to my csms

should i just do black legion or go for night lords

[urban drum]

well night lords are supposed to have bat wings and flayed skin arent they

id say if you dont have those then just go black legion

[hollow goblet]

Streaking grime at the end goes a long way with Nurgle, you can introduce colour to the metal portions with rust effects, tho that mostly limits you to orange and blue and you'll want to leave the guns unglued on the top-left 3 models bc the weapons block a bunch of the body when painting

[hollow goblet]

I mean Night Lords have their own box now so you could always do CSM as black legion and then pick up a Nightlord box that looks more "correct" later

[leaden yoke]

yeah thats fair

[hollow goblet]

This is seeming like the play for a lot of people

[fast merlin]

If I did Darktide miniatures would it be better to send them here or in fan art?

[mint dove]

Either this or the starter box with half a box of intercessors and half a box of assault intercessors gets what you're missing you can build the assault seargent,grenadier,3 assault warriors, 1 more boltgun warrior, 1 more autobolter warrior,an intercessor gunner and either 2 stalker bolter warriors or 1 and the seargent if you want a different loadout

With ebay it turns out to about the same

[sick ledge]

a lot

[peak flicker]

WIP

[urban drum]

i dont see why you cant do both

[mint dove]

"Who's the dummy now? Loyalist dog"

[agile seal]

painting guides are made by people who's whole job it is to paint minis, thus they have hundreds if not thousands of dollars of paints and supplies at the ready

I would recommend looking at working with what you have to match the scheme, or reducing it down, some paints are used for super small details that nobody will notice, or may be beyond your skill level (IDK how long you've been painting)

[fast merlin]

Aye fair enough :D

Now I just need to be able to actually send pictures...

[visual turret]

Work begins on my Master Moulder

[crimson pine]

Looks gross. 👍

[rare hornet]

The violence is growing

[sick ledge]

those painting guides are why I said "fuck it im mixing my own colors" and it saves me tons of money

[plain violet]

Oh, I am like.. prime novice at painting. I did paint 24 Tyranids, A Space Blueberry, and some Necrons, but that's it

Thanks for the tip, homes

[mint dove]

@sick ledge gonna try using that pigment powder you sent me, any advice on getting it to stick to the base?

Was gonna put some vallejo diorama fx down first then wash it before adding the pigment

[mint dove]

Or you could be me with a wildly unchecked spending habit

[mint dove]

Also I don't have it in front of me and I can't remember, was it brown? Or more of a brown orange?

It'll decide weather it's a mars base or not lol

[sick ledge]

watered down PVA glue to help it stick then varnish it

[mint dove]

I plan to spray the entire mini with topcoat, will that work or should I brush on matte varnish

[sick ledge]

spray is better

[clear finch]

I kinda just pick 4 colors and go. In this case it was badab camo.

Anyone got any favorite paint brands outside of citadel they use?

[mint dove]

@sick ledge I was wondering what I could use as industrial trash for my bases,

I'm glad I had you send me the resin supports

[compact umbra]

hey chat i need ideas for kitbashes for my GSC space pirates

[elfin lake]

Anyone have recommendations for what color paint to use for the fatigues?

[mint dove]

Probably dark reaper

Then highlighted with fenrisian grey

[clear finch]

I say take and do a slight mix of caledor sky with a little gray to mute it - hit with a thinned black wash.

then highlight with fenrisian grey

[mint dove]

Ending spot for the night

[sick ledge]

anything from your garbage can tbh

[sick ledge]

grey and mix in some blue thats a green leaning one

[sick ledge]

I rate this almost ok. So massive improvement

[mint dove]

Hell yeah, I remember when it was just

"How's this look"

"Bad"

[sick ledge]

its coming along

youre growing and improving fast

[mint dove]

Thanks! I'm trying more things and just kinda learning by doing

I could definitely smooth. Out my Glaze transitions bit something is better than nothing!

[mint dove]

Does anyone know when the last day to preprder the kill team starter box would be?

[fast merlin]

Vallejo is pretty nice

[fast merlin]

Nice

[sick ledge]

I use golden and schmincke the most but I mix my own colors because it saved me over $1200 in paint so far.
Better quality paint too

[urban drum]

Rejects

[urban drum]

Is the one with the shield your trench sweeper

And the one with the heavy sword the thug

[fast merlin]

The one with the eviscerator is the thug

The heavy sword is the butcher, she has throwing knives on her back

And aye, the shield guy also has a back slung shotgun

[fast merlin]

These are the other guys I painted recently, though my main army is space marines

[urban drum]

hm, i just figured the more armored look would lend itself to having thug special rules

still, very cool

[fast merlin]

Thank ye :D

[mint dove]

I have to tidy up a few spots and do the lightning but other than that the Ventrilokar is done!

[fast merlin]

Nice, what you thinking for the basing?

[safe bison]

thoughts?

[dawn stream]

Big gun good?

The symbol looks good

[safe bison]

i love plasma weaponry more than life itself

yeeeeesssss....dangerous but effective....yeessssss....

[mint dove]

Was gonna base in gray texture paint, wash with thinned agrax, some cork bark to look like rocks,then I have a mix of smashed up rocks and sand to look like debris, then add various other bits of trash

[mint dove]

Plasma looksnnice but the paint looks a little thick on the armor no?

@sick ledge finally got some dirty down rust

Promise I won't drink it

[sick ledge]

Good.

[mint dove]

Also I "finished" my ventrilokar, just need to clean up a little bit, do the lightning and that tooth in the armor I forgot about

[rare hornet]

Time for extreme violence

[jaunty trail]

Lookin' good!

[rare hornet]

Thank you! :3

[jaunty trail]

Currently workin' on a Redemptor Dread... got some nice stuff for my b-day 😄

[rare hornet]

Oooh what you got?

[jaunty trail]

A vortex mixer, a grimnyr, and the Redemptor dread ^^ but that was only the mini building related stuff ^^

[rare hornet]

Redemptors are fun

[mint dove]

I'm kinda torn on painting my night lords

They're the most fun I've had painting a model but I only have 5 left

I want to finish the team to play but I also want to keep paintong them

[urban drum]

clearly you need to drop 1k on more night lords

[mint dove]

But I only play kill team 😭

[urban drum]

dont worry youre just building all other options and another NPO team 🙂

[rare hornet]

The back-up killteam

[safe bison]

bad moonz gang!! looks lovely

[jolly thicket]

Throw a wash on that bad boy and also nice work on the checkerboard.
That white looks like it was put on a little thick on the shoulder but it’s a better checkerboard than most of the minis I see at my local game store so.

[sick ledge]

its called painting them and playing with a half painted army

[brisk vapor]

Lil' details here and there and plenty of improvements on the green all over

[haughty ravine]

Putting together my first ever miniature squad, 10 Kriegsmen from the octarius kill team set and I never realised just how much prep work is needed for cleaning the mold lines and setting up the sub assembly properly for priming and then painting, whew.

[compact umbra]

I hope GW will sell Kt upgrade sprues by them selves, if for the sake of keeping certain KTs in stock easier or for easier kitbashing

[haughty ravine]

That seems too logical and fair for the consumer, unfortunately.

[visual turret]

what the hell

tornus the redeemed is ELEVEN FUCKING BITS

[urban drum]

Big model like that doesn't sound surprising

[visual turret]

he's not that big

The ENTIRE WING PACK IS ONE PIECE

[haughty ravine]

Better than... you know who...

[visual turret]

Rat update

[golden night]

what in the name of all that is holy is that mount

is that a first release sentinel?

also a combi bolter on a guardsman???

what is this insanity

[dark elbow]

This is from when 40k was cool and the rules were actually good.

Mighy be very shocking to fans of the whole "you can only use the loadouts in the box" "war"game

[golden night]

those are very good models if they're official

i didnt know tallarn were baller like that

i do see a steel legion officer helmet though

or is that krieg

[dark elbow]

Almost everything is converted

[golden night]

so is the combi bolter from a space marine model

[dark elbow]

Yes, the Veteran Sergeant with Bolter with aux. Grenade Launcher, metal sculpt 2nd Edition.

[plain violet]

Very very early stages and a bit messy but I found some paints I'm happy with

I like the purple more instead of the white on the promo

[dawn stream]

My first Necron

[golden night]

why did they ever change this design

it looks so damn cool

literally a motorcycle cab on legs

[plain violet]

Purple Necron!!!

[main mango]

Gives tau vibes

[dawn stream]

Purple is my favorite color so purple my Necrons will be

[plain violet]

Based

[main mango]

Based name

[plain violet]

[haughty ravine]

Did I mess up? It looks spotty and almost slightly grainy when zoomed in, I did a little bit of browsing on reddit regarding this and apparently it's just what you get when using a white spray, part of me wanted to hit it with another passing but then I got worried that it'd be applied to thick then so I figured too little would be better than too much

[plain violet]

Had the same sorta thing with my Necrons with a Black Primer I bought from a superstore. I just ran with it and when I got into painting the shoulders and the brass bits, it didn't look grainy afterwards. I think it's fine

[haughty ravine]

Reddit ( 🤓 ) was saying the texture of it actually helps the paint stick and that after 2-3 coats you're not able to notice it, still had me a bit worried though

[plain violet]

Ugh.. Reddit...

For real, even with 1 coat it wasn't noticeable for me. Ye, you're good, homes

Trust the Process

[haughty ravine]

https://tenor.com/view/reddit-is-down-the-hall-gif-16217874748283718723

[plain violet]

By the Power of God, Jake Hill, Chips Ahoy Cookies, and 4 hours of sleep, I think I have her looking pretty decent

No doubt things I can clean up and fix

[brisk vapor]

Progress on the copper trim and brass skulls

[short pawn]

Such a curiously cool style

I hope to someday find my style

[willow horizon]

Finally got around to finishing this guy.

[plush swift]

Started painting old minis again since space marine dropped, so have some “we have Titus at home” minis

[rare hornet]

WIP smol thunderhawk

[waxen quarry]

Death korps my beloved

And a lil kill team for variety

[silver thorn]

make sure to shake the van thoroughly and if you want to be extra thorough warm the can up in hot water

primer can come out spotty like that once I tried to use spray on varnish and it did that to a model I painted for like 10 hours xD

[hollow goblet]

Nah just not full coverage, the patchiness there bc it's still showing the grey plastic through, another couple of quick sprays and it'll be fine

Primer dries in super thin layers you're not gonna fuck the model up by priming twice, you can literally prime over a finished paintjob and repaint and lose almost no detail

[deft fable]

Hey long time no see

Here my last paint

[midnight cairn]

Nice touch with the painted on flaps on the cloth. 👌

[mint dove]

Feel like I'm getting better at painting chaos marines

(Just a wip so far i have washed the metal or highlighted the blue

[mint dove]

I wanna try painting the necron kill team but it's never in stock

[waxen quarry]

It’s very fun!

[mint dove]

So far i only have 10 kt I think

Blooded, salvagers, beastmen, gellarpox, orks, CSM, eldar, night lords, Ksons, angels of death and death guard

So 11

But necrons look really fun

[plain violet]

Horses Aquired

Now for the Krieg

[vapid jewel]

cool

[compact umbra]

500 killteams

[plain violet]

Nah it's just the Autism saying that I need to learn to kitbash something

[plain violet]

Purmple

I like

[dawn stream]

I'm still figuring out the glazing technique to make a proper hyperphase effect. First time was too thick, this time is too thin

[sick ledge]

glaze medium is a godsave for glazing

[dawn stream]

I have one but I'm still working on the ratio

[sick ledge]

I do 1 glaze medium to 1 paint

and this generally works

[dawn stream]

Kinda cute in a weird, murderous robot way

[hollow goblet]

It's lowkey a scam anyway you have to buy a second immortal/deathmark box plus at least 1 new Cryptek to actually play the team.

Hierotek circle is a neat box but probably the most intensely regrettable warhammer purchase I've made other than maybe the Horticulous Slimux that's absolutely butchered in my bits box and never going to get used for anything

It's strategically designed so you're unhappy basically no matter how you build the box and putting the 50mm base Cryptek that's objectively the weakest leader in the box and trying to get you to also buy a chronomancer and psychomancer on 40mm is actually nuts

[mint dove]

@sick ledge volumetric getting slightly easier

[mint dove]

This is why I was surprised with the kill teams i bought recently

Gellarpox, night lords, CSM, salvagers, beastmen and death guard are essentially one box kill teams

The only kill team I have that I had to spend more on was angles of death

[hollow goblet]

Gellerpox is my beloved

[mint dove]

Which isn't bad because intercessors are a dime a dozen

I cannot wait to paint those funky bastards

I even made scenic bases for all of them

[hollow goblet]

yeah trying to get a kill team together for my ksons would've sucked if I didn't already collect them as a main army that team in particular sucks to build

[hollow goblet]

Yeah plus there's a tonne of board games you can get extra members from

[mint dove]

That's what my wife was surprised about, she's been slowly working at a box of rubric marines and exalted for a year and she already has a full team except tzangors

But I don't know why you'd run them over a marine

[hollow goblet]

This is the Thousand Sunflowers right?

Fkn love those

[hollow goblet]

More bodies on the board for actions basically, you always want 2 to be action monkeys and sometimes 4 if you're not gonna get value out of the icon bearer

You always take 3 sorc, soulreaper, then icon + 2 Tzaangor or drop icon bearer for 4 tzaangor

The brayhorn goes hard on 4 Tzaangor teams and the champion actually does super well in melee

[mint dove]

Ahh okay, that'll be helpful to know since despite having 11 kill teams i have yet to play a game

[mint dove]

How would you go about painting plauge ogryn skin?

Whike we're at it how would you gi about painting the skin of the scabs in darktide? I'm making them my traitor guard

[plain violet]

Moar Purple dudes!!

[urban drum]

this is what eavy archive says

[urban drum]

oh plague ogryn

i guess you could do a great unclean type skin

[willow horizon]

Finished DA Sergeant

[wary sonnet]

Does anyone know if the new Kill Team starter set comes with a transfer sheet for the marines?

Because if not than it kinda sucks.

[urban drum]

It does not

[wary sonnet]

Well, shit.

[dry canopy]

Etsy has some good transfer sheets for cheap

[wary sonnet]

Or I could just use the WB book transfer.

To stand in for CoF.

[sly jolt]

Hello. Veteran painters, please help me pick a color palette for a newbie. I want to paint my guardsmen in MM-14 camouflage. Cadian camo looks quite similar, so I decided to start with that, with a base layer of Zandri Dust. Now I need a slightly darker color. I don't see much sense in using all four colors since the model scale is small and two colors will stand out well from a distance. I want to make the fabric elements look like MM-14, while the armor pieces of the guardsmen I want to paint in a solid dark color matching the second camouflage color.

Or paint armor pice in the color Raptors Order

[brisk vapor]

Lots of little details such as the sack on his hip and more work on the back horns and the nurgling

[sick ledge]

the green would be a mixture of yellow and black

tiny bit of white. Also the colors exist as premade mixtures from ammo I think. I know there is another brand from ukraine that has them too

[mint dove]

Yes I know there's a mold line on the leg

Also if I want to paint purple but I don't want to BUY another purple would it work to just base coat on Phoenician purple then mix that with wraithbone 1:1 for a midtone then 2:1 for a highlight?

[sick ledge]

it gets easier the more you do it

[visual turret]

Oh that sisters scheme is really nice

[mint dove]

@brisk vapor if I want to volumetric highlight black what should I use? I feel like my last attempt was too stark

[uneven meadow]

Need more necrons in this channel

One day I will be able to post necrons here

But I must hit my message quota before I am freed from my shackles

[haughty ravine]

Any advice on making a color like thunderhawk blue appear brighter?

Example- this is two layers of thunderhawk blue under a white base but it looks too deep / "midnighty" for what I was going for

Any advice? Maybe different color suggestions or steps I could take?

I did a lot of experimenting with different layers bases and mixes but I couldn't find one that felt right for me, I'm basically trying to get a smooth clean color like this uniform, I think I'm just being overly picky though

[brisk vapor]

You could try spreading out the existing highlights to decrease the overall darkness of the model

[hollow stratus]

I LOVE THAT BLUE!

[mint dove]

Stopping point for the night

Yes I am aware I forgot to do mold line cleanup on this one

[urban drum]

Turning point

[red folio]

Designed and printed a "moar DAKKA" EPIC scale BaneBlade!

Free file on: https://makerworld.com/en/@lordwaffles

[prime crown]

@cunning blaze welsh people in question (not mine)

[golden night]

valhallans!!!

[plain violet]

Yooooo, the Pseudo-Russian Guardsman!!

[golden night]

legally distinct not-vostroyans©️

[plain violet]

I have plans for you

And it starts with decapitation

[safe bison]

it was a few coats!

Cotaez 3d printed for my agents army. REALLY proud of the face.

[ocean pendant]

Leave that horse alone

[sick ledge]

Add a little naples yellow to it, some hobbyists call it ice yellow

[plain violet]

You will not convince me to

[golden night]

do not harm the horse

[white tangle]

@sick ledge Im planning on buying some stuff and might as well get paint re*arder just to see what its like to use. Any brands youd recommend?

[sick ledge]

its all going to be very similar so brand is mostly relevant but I always recommend golden because I like the company a lot

[white tangle]

I think it was vince that said that some retar*ers are thick and a bit useless. So i thought id ask you just to be safe. Thx

[sick ledge]

No slight to to him intended but I dont trust Vince with paint advice as he knows very little about this stuff.

He also dosnt understand that they are all a blend of PEG and other stuff so its going to be thick by nature and if its thin out of the bottle that means its a low quality one, but ive never seen a liquidy one ever.

He's a good painter just not someone I trust with paint tips, but im heavily biased since I have the curse of knowledge

[white tangle]

Also just to make 100% sure. The golden glaze medium is called glaze liquid ?

[sick ledge]

yes

[mint dove]

Smooth as butter

[leaden yoke]

That looks sick

Those are the gw night lords heads?

[mint dove]

Yep it's the new kill team

[leaden yoke]

oh lord

[mint dove]

They're a joy to build and paint

And monsters on the tabletop as a bonus

[mint dove]

He is done

[plain violet]

This goes hard, on god

[midnight cairn]

I think, giving the shoulder spikes a metallic color, too, would look ever so slightly better. Really cool overall, though 👌

[wicked vapor]

give me until tmr and i'll post my crons lmao

[visual turret]

Not sure on the fur

Might need its shade done for me to pass judgment…. Hmm

[midnight locust]

What’s a shade brighter than wazdakka red?

[visual turret]

wild rider red

borderline orange but it's juuuust red enough to be the peak highlight for a nice rich red

@rare hornet what'd you use to highlight corvus black?

[rare hornet]

I think admech grey and then a little bit of dawnstone?

Then celestial grey, been a while since I’ve done it, but that sounds about right

If you just wanted the one highlight, dawnstone

[dawn stream]

Did someone say...Necrons?

This is all I have for now. I'll get Imotekh done sometime in the next couple days

[lost kindle]

Love ittt

Living for the purple blades

I've been working on my girls today👸💅

My Adeptus Sororitas aligned knight house; "Order Of The Iron Rose"

Early days but they're getting there

[midnight cairn]

Super clean!

[mint dove]

What i was gonna do is sponge on some gunmetal to make it look like over time the paint has flaked off

Is kill team termination worth buying? I'd assume the cards are out of date, But I'd assume the scenario book and tokens are still good, plus it looks like you get the full blood brothers kill team with the patriarch and all

[midnight cairn]

That also sounds neat 👍

[jaunty trail]

Current wip on redemptor dread...

[mint dove]

Black looks good but my advice for white is to not paint pure white and only use it as an edge highlight

Very few white things are ACTUALLY white

This is a good example

Its alot of shades of dark/light gray with it only being pure white on places the light hits the most

[mint dove]

But then again I may be talking our my ass

Drez is the art guy here lol

[jaunty trail]

I didn't use white... its wraithbone.... Highlighting etc. are still missing 😉

[mint dove]

Ahh wraithbone...my nemesis

[jaunty trail]

😄

And even that will get some washing and edge highlighting ^^

[wicked vapor]

Some necrons to make up for the lack of crons in this channel

Currently working on a monolith and a 2nd doomsday ark

I need tips on painting white😢 trying to get the time and motivation to paint up the pile of world eaters I have in my cupboard. I’m thinking panel liner xd

For easy definition

[plain violet]

I will not be stopped

Did my best to clean up some areas, not the best looking, but I make do

[urban drum]

Is the greenstuff on the chest

[mint dove]

How would you paint black fur? My fellgor ravagers have tons of fur i have to paint

[plain violet]

Yes

[uneven meadow]

The omnissiah has deemed I can finally post here

[haughty ravine]

That grip looks annoying to work around?

[mint dove]

Does this read as a bolt carbine?

[urban drum]

Yes

[dawn stream]

Imotekh the Stormlord

[mint dove]

Really proud of how this is turning out

[mint merlin]

dark grey base, black shade then lighter gray drybrush

or just straight black contrast to lighter drybrush

[wicked vapor]

HELLO NECRON PLAYERS have yall tried painting the silent king lmao

[jaunty trail]

Base decorations still missing

[visual turret]

Honestly? Nah

[simple thorn]

Skitarii Scavengers! Made from leftover Skitarii bits I had in my bits box, and some torsos I got off Etsy

And a lad kitbashed from a Tempestus Scion kit, the pilot from a Knight kit, an arm from a Guardsman, and a pistol from Necromunda

[white tangle]

@sick ledge Does paint re*arder work sort of like a medium? If i were to add it to a more chalky paint, would it help to reduce the texture that comes with using those sorts of paints?

[sick ledge]

No not really, with some paints it can make the chalky texture worse but thats rare

like very rare it does that

it generally just makes the texture more uniform so it wont be as bad. What will fix the chalky texture is a tiny bit of gloss medium

[mint dove]

Really pulled it all together

Shoulder pads lookin ace

[jaunty trail]

Thanks a lot!

Was a bit of work but i'm very happy with it!

Now the base decoration is still to go..

I want to try to build a ruin of a house around the dread...

[brisk vapor]

On the final stretch, now I just gotta figure out what to do with all the hoses and pipes sticking out everywhere. No idea what to do to those

[jaunty trail]

Make them look like bones ^^

[brisk vapor]

ehh, don't think that would blend in too well

[mint dove]

I think this is my best work with shading and highlighting

[jaunty trail]

then something like rusty nails or so?

[brisk vapor]

been thinking about rusty metal as well, but not too sure about it yet

[mint dove]

Trying to do the skin cloak in the same style as the loin cloth

This is only step 2

[glossy hawk]

maybe try and do some veins

barely visible

slight blue ones on the pale skin and faded red on the tanned skin

[rare hornet]

Smol hawk

[main mango]

They look like Ewoks

[main mango]

Doesn’t that cost just under 1k?

[rare hornet]

Not for the epic scale one

[main mango]

Ah I see

[runic imp]

My first squad of a new army, can anyone guess the chapter?

[dawn stream]

The Busy Bees?

Space Hornets?

[jaunty trail]

Marines Malevolent is my answer