40k-minis-and-armies

[ionic kite]

I think I'm finally getting the hang of yellow

Admittedly had to fuck up most of the set to get it right

But I think if I were to do yellow again I'd do it way better

[brisk vapor]

Almost finished

[quartz rain]

Very nice eyebrows, for some reason it's not common to paint that part even in box art

[ionic kite]

My wife did those cuz I gave up

I'll let her know

She says she had enough practice doing her own eyebrows lol

Reckon that's true

[round bloom]

Nice I got some Mk.IIIs

[brisk vapor]

Hell yeah

I've only got the old MKIIIs but will probably get the new MKIIs once I've gone through the models I have on the backburner right now

[round bloom]

Finished that guy

[untold void]

Just finished these black legion terminators

[round bloom]

Half the gang is here

[deep fjord]

Need help, I am using Iron Warriors for the fatigues and I want to try to make it accurate like darktide. Is it the right colors?

Zoomed in

[sinful jetty]

I think that’s pretty bang-on, if you make the pants a little more bluer it’ll be mint

[deep fjord]

the pants or upper body?

[urban drum]

If youre planning on highlighting at all you could do that to blue it up

[sinful jetty]

The grey on the jacket looks perfect, bluer pants like in game will make it contrast nicely I’d think

[deep fjord]

thank you

[sinful jetty]

No problem brother

[regal nexus]

I know these breachers are built wrong but they look cool

[mint dove]

Nearly done with my last plague marine

[rare hornet]

Seeg breaker

[brisk vapor]

fat fuck

[rare hornet]

the widest boi

[cloud cave]

Progres

[cloud cave]

Looking good

Love me plague marines

[cloud cave]

What colour did bro used for blood effect ?

[brisk vapor]

Killing for the living

[plain violet]

Question!:

What kinda bronze color did you use for the metal?

Currently gonna be painting up a little Typhus Boyo of my own soon

[cloud cave]

thats balshar gold

from cidatel

[plain violet]

I seee

Thanks brøther

[untold void]

Blood for the blood god technical

[cloud cave]

rare paint i assume

[sick ledge]

hard to find but you can make it at home really easily

it just requires mixing colors which I know is verboten in this hobby

[cloud cave]

show me

[sick ledge]

You mix pr177 anthraquinone red or pr264 pyrrole red rubine with pr101 transparent red iron oxide 1:1, then you mix in gloss gel medium in a 4:1 gel to paint ratio

[midnight cairn]

@sick ledge what color would you recommend for a base layer to paint dark angels? I plan to keep them quite dark, going from green to black.

[sick ledge]

I've been really loving brown for the chiaroscuro approach recently

like a dark brown

burnt umber has been my go to

[midnight cairn]

Now I just need to figure out what the chiaro scuro technique is 😆

[sick ledge]

its light to dark contrast

this is chiaroscuro

it starts with a dark base layer and moves into brighter colors

[tiny cairn]

That would be a funny t-shirt, like those how to make meth ones

[sick ledge]

I should make one

[tiny cairn]

That's what I do when I get a tshirt idea for red bubble, I say I should make one and then I don't

I think a breakdown of like the GW ultramarine paint scheme in non-hobby industry terms would be funny and enough to be confusing

[sly jolt]

Ні, I don't know how acceptable it is to ask about the rules here, I don't have any more board game channels so I decided to write here.
I’ve got a couple of questions. About half a year ago I bought 4 boxes, but I haven’t touched them since, because I wanted to build my own custom Guard regiment. And now the new Codex is coming out.
I was planning to build according to a modern-style doctrine: a squad of 7 riflemen + a marksman + an RPG pair (basically a regular Infantry Squad, with one special weapon being a long-las, plus a Heavy Weapon Team with a missile launcher).

But in the new edition, as far as I can tell from the book Codex I bought when it first dropped, the standard Infantry Squad was removed. And Heavy Weapon Teams can’t be attached to the other squads anymore.

I noticed that the weapon profile for the grenade launcher is quite similar to the missile launcher – both have frag and krak shots. The only difference is in damage and range (well, the frag shot on the grenade launcher is D3, while for the Heavy Weapon Team it’s D6, but the krak shot is 1 for both). So from a gameplay perspective, they’re almost the same. But both shoot the same type.

Would it be acceptable if I converted one Guardsman with a “tube,” gave him something that looks like an RPG for example, and then played him as a model with a grenade launcher?

[slender mesa]

HOLY PEAK

[untold void]

Usually always stocked at my local GW

[fast merlin]

Generally as long as it's made clear to your opponent it should be ok (after all as you said, missile launchers can no longer be taken in regular infantry squads so there's not a ton of other similar weapons for it to be confused with), but keep in mind (iirc) only Krieg squads get sniper rifles.

[night bay]

Still pretty new to painting

The red and whites are mine. I have maybe a third of my eldar army done now 🙂

[sick ledge]

It's been out of stock for 3 years at mine

[untold void]

Jesus

Maybe try Amazon?

[sick ledge]

It's why I gave up on hobby paints and learned to mix my own

[untold void]

Fair

[sick ledge]

It's like $12 for a pot on Amazon

[untold void]

Ouch

[sick ledge]

I can get a 8 oz bottle of a better paint for the same price on Amazon

[untold void]

Fair

[sick ledge]

Like genuinely paints like golden soflat completely decimate hobby paints in terms of price to performance and quality

You just have to mix your own colors which is actually really easy turns out

My autism loves it too

[mint dove]

To be fair, you can also make a better looking blood out of contrast paint

Flesh tearers red and wyldwood 2:1 makes a perfect dried but still fresh looking blood

Looks great and without the gloss finish

[sick ledge]

I like glossy blood though

its more realistic for fresh blood

[mint dove]

If its on something like blades then yes but it was always annoying that if I wanted old, won blood look I didnt have really any 1 paint that could get me there

Its always nice having fresh blood and dried old blood on a model

[sick ledge]

true

[limber cove]

that's the "Night Watch" by Rembrandt
it's interesting that the painting is not entirely the artist's imagination - that's a depiction of an actual city guard that was commissioned by its members
King Crimson made a song about the painting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwFYy_Th7BA

[solar abyss]

The honorable rogal dorn joins the motor pool

[mint dove]

Death guard are all done but I now have 6 different nurglings to paint and I want them all to stand out, gimme some nurgling recipies pls

[limber cove]

I love how old and weathered it looks.

[mint dove]

Pretty substantial improvement id say

[sinful jetty]

That half-rotted head is gnarly

[round bloom]

Looks goofy

[plain violet]

Chaos Space Marines :>

[sick ledge]

BTW if youre in the US buy your paints now, there is near no pigment production here anymore so things will be unobtainium very soon

[mint dove]

Like ALL paint?

[sick ledge]

We dont product the polymers here either

it all comes from... china and europe

[mint dove]

Everyone saying "oh you buy too much paint" LOOK WHOS LAUGHING NOW

[sick ledge]

We allowed for the sales of out industries during covid

and look at us now, we have nothing

[mint dove]

Well guess who's stocking up tomorrow because I ain't getting caught without paint

[sick ledge]

exactly

I have no way of paying the tariffs turns out

there isnt a system in place to pay them

[cloud cave]

I went always 2 of them and they never had something like this

[untold void]

Thats crazy

[drowsy hare]

JUST TOP COATED THE BODY BUT NOW I GOTTA FINISH THE WEAPONS AND WINGS

[final rune]

Yo gotta paint those too?

[round bloom]

No

It’s optional

[final rune]

Ah

How much Dakka can you put on one of these?

[round bloom]

With glue that’s unnecessary as much as you can fit on it

[drowsy hare]

Optional

Aw man

what the helly

[final rune]

Gonna loot me a zoggin’ gundam

[vernal haven]

Lmfao the dude in the middle in the first image is like:

[plain violet]

For real tho

Peak Future Word Bearer

Imma paint them chaos dudes into all of the Trator Legions if I can

[dawn stream]

Archmagos Prime in progress

[dawn stream]

Completed

[toxic rampart]

Oh shit! It's a Gundam!

[drowsy hare]

GUNDAM‼️‼️

[toxic rampart]

Beautiful

My Space Leos and Tallgeese 2

[drowsy hare]

Damn those looks gooddd

[round bloom]

Behold my Aerial and Destiny Gundams

[mint dove]

Love gunpla. I'd show mine off but they're all in storage

Having to find space for 100+ Hg/RG kits after a move is rough

Pallid hand plague marine kill team all done!

[faint star]

Beautiful

[visual turret]

ohhhh wow what's your enamel recipe?

[toxic rampart]

Hell yeah.

[quartz rain]

I am just a simple entry grade noob (but panel lined ofc)

[sinful jetty]

This one gonna be a banger

[peak flicker]

Looking forward to it. Not sure if I wanted to do a rustic or lighter gold or keep the deeper gold on the box art for the banner

[bronze knoll]

Another 3D printed model

[toxic rampart]

Looks good none the less! Well done.

[final rune]

Ok I got a question

Might be a bad idea

Instead of a CSM army

Can I just run cultists

And like nothing else

I mean obviously I want vehicles and demons

But no Space Marines

Could I do it?

[vernal haven]

Afaik only in killteam

[final rune]

wtf is Afaik?

[midnight cairn]

As far as I know

[final rune]

Oh

[mint dove]

Enamel?

Not my best work, rakarth flesh and pallid wych flesh are still temperamental as always

[visual turret]

The bone/off-white

[quartz rain]

Iirc there is a cultist-focused detachment for csm. Main units are the regular cultists up to accursed, and dark commune

Detachment is literally called Chaos Cult

[hollow goblet]

Just play darkoath chaos in AoS

Better game system anyways and it actually respects the idea of running cultists and isn’t actively pulling them out of all of codexes for no reason (salty ksons player here)

[mint dove]

Can you tell which of these is mechanicus standard grey primer and which is rustoleum grey?

Trying to see if they're actually close or im just trying to save myself from buying a can

[mint dove]

Oh the armor? Its just a base coat of ushabti bone, then a coat of pro acryl ivory, then skeleton horde and contrast medium 1:1 wash

Without all the dirt and grime it gets you something like this

[tiny cairn]

Krieg is Rust-Oleum right?

[mint dove]

Okay so its not just me

Krieg is MSG, space wolf is rustoleum

[tiny cairn]

I think the marine looks better, the krieg looks a little mottled

[mint dove]

Yeah the kriegsmen came 2nd hand

[tiny cairn]

Like 3d print or eBay?

[mint dove]

Ebay, already primed

[tiny cairn]

Ahhh yeah looks a little thick with it

[mint dove]

I mean...theyre not the worst krieg ive bought 2ndhand recently

Behold

[tiny cairn]

2nd hand orks always require stripping

[mint dove]

And these were the only 4 USABLE ones

Can you strip GW primer?

[tiny cairn]

I don't use citadel but I can't see why you wouldn't be able to

[mint dove]

I may just sit with it, primer looks a little thick but its not obscuring any details so I may just let it be

[tiny cairn]

Do a test base coat and see if you fuck with it or not, not like there's too many ornate details to fuck up like on the chest aquila for marine feathers

[mint dove]

Did a quick test on the shoulder, goes on smooth and doesnt bead up

Thankfully rustoleum grey is such a close match it wont make much of a difference

The only issue is it takes SO LONG to cure

Like I primed this marine on sunday and the base just stopped being tacky this morning

[tiny cairn]

Yeah that looks totally fine

Imo it looks better and is cheaper, if you just plan around your projects and do it in stages it's NBD

[final rune]

Absolutely not

I do not like AoS

[brisk vapor]

I don't think there's enough cultist units to fill out a 2000 point list without it just being mostly vehicles

[final rune]

What about the cultists themselves supported by daemons?

[brisk vapor]

you can only have 25% of the points costs from an allied faction iirc

[final rune]

Oooooh

I didn’t know that

So if say I play Guard and want a few Space Marines or Sororitas to protect some key units I could only have, say, 500 points of them for a 2000 point army?

[brisk vapor]

actually, I'm not sure how the allied detachments work now

[final rune]

Ah

Well I’m just gonna believe you until proven wrong

That does actually give me some ideas for an Inquisition army though.

[brisk vapor]

there might not be a way of having multiple factions in a single army list in 10th

[final rune]

👀

Oh fuck yeah

This is what I’ve wanted

[brisk vapor]

might not be a way

[final rune]

I’ve had an idea of an Inquisition army of Tempestus Scions with Grey Knight support

Now is my time

Now if only Fyodor Karamazov was still around…

[brisk vapor]

the only way is for special units like knights for the imperium, chaos knights or daemons for chaos, imperial guard for gsc

[final rune]

Darn

[brisk vapor]

no core rule that states that you may mix your armies any more

[final rune]

I feel like Imperial Agents should probably allow that though

[brisk vapor]

all mixing rules are from the codex rules of the specific faction and those specify which units you may take

[final rune]

Considering they don’t got any damn infantry

Just heroes and vehicles

[brisk vapor]

yes imperial agents can be included, one retinue and one character per 1000 points

[final rune]

Retinue?

What like one single unit?

[brisk vapor]

imperial agent units are called retinues if they're more than just a single character model

[final rune]

Ah

[hollow goblet]

It seems like you dont really know either game system if you’re asking about cultists as an army😂 how would you know if you dont like aos?

Also im saying this as someone who literally came into the hobby with the intention of doing exactly what you’re doing: chaos is an npc faction in 40k and you won’t get proper support for almost anything you want to do within the faction unless you essentially homebrew your own rulebooks

Ask me what happened to my 3000pts of tzeentch daemons: ask me if they even baseline function in the army anymore lmao

[round bloom]

Am I going crazy or did they
-Ask whether cultists only were usable
-get given way they are
-say no

[hollow goblet]

Lmaoo fr

Also I forgot to mention Trench Crusade the entire game system is essentially multiple chaos cults as armies

Except Sultanate ig but they’re also dripped tf out

[mint dove]

5 models done in a day, its time for bed

[round bloom]

Nice

[final rune]

Don’t like the setting

Games probably fine

I just feel it’s existence is an insult

[round bloom]

This guy can’t have fun

[brisk vapor]

An odd take for sure

[round bloom]

Even when I really hated AOS back in September and October last year when I started 40K it was just because I didn’t like the themes

This is another level of insane

[rare hornet]

It is certainly an interesting opinion

[final rune]

Ow. Y’all can like it. I just don’t.

[sick ledge]

yes but it takes days

[marsh perch]

I think some of the army’s and factions are interesting but find the overall setting and lore confusing

I wouldn’t say I hate AOS it’s just not my cup of tea lore wise

[deep fjord]

made some double checking online

this is titus squad for DW

If anyone got the KT Deathwatch models and wants to make Titus squad. us this as reference

[dawn stream]

WIP Krios Venator

[hard seal]

Is this a little Helghast?

[bronze knoll]

Yes

[plain violet]

Bro be Bearing those Words frfr 💔 🥀

[quartz rain]

Wysiwip

[hard seal]

Looking sick

[bronze knoll]

Bought a bunch of STLs of them, I even have a completed set

[dry canopy]

Certified “lil fellow”

[brisk vapor]

Hell yeah

[queen monolith]

Dude that looks sick as fuck, I love this DG termie

[brisk vapor]

Got started with the chunky ones

a couple hours of a difference

[sinful jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/hmusicruof4-rowley-diary-of-a-wimpy-kid-rodrick-rules-gif-26773802

His geneseeds are showing

[marsh perch]

This joke is very funny

I applaud all of you

[regal nexus]

Oh god I have so much to paint

[mint dove]

Gonna try this for my kriegsmen greatcoats

Seems like it'll be difficult but Im sure I can do it

[round bloom]

Damn that’s pretty good

[slender mesa]

Thanks:)

[deep fjord]

@faint star Titus model arrived and now waiting for DW Sold seperately

[sick ledge]

The funny thing is is that you could actually make that easier if you use professional paints and use pigments because that's only four pigments total

It's black, white, phthalo blue and phthalo green

[regal nexus]

What Combat Patrol has the lowest amount of points

[urban drum]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BOlEO6LNQ5dI3UPs-j60Mi0SCcZbu-z0n6OsrPBeUMQ/edit?gid=372353033#gid=372353033

militarum/mechanicus

[regal nexus]

I can't navigate that on mobile for some reason

[faint star]

Admech and imperial guard are tied at 295

Most value is (act shocked) custodes

[regal nexus]

God damn and I thought it had it bad with a 370 point Combat Patrol

[faint star]

Though that's not completely up to date

The nee Votann box for example is like 350ish points I think

[brisk vapor]

combat patrol game mode isn't really measured in points, the datasheets differ from the normal game and are pretty well balanced for what they are compared to one another what I've seen

and it's not supposed to be the perfect system, just an introductory way of play

[regal nexus]

Yea i know i was just wondering in terms of using it in army building

Cuz the point of Combat Patrol is obviously to get people buying more boxes and making a full army

[brisk vapor]

to an extent yes

but comparing them from faction to faction is pointless when the factions are never well balanced between money and points

[faint star]

Again you want high points the answer will always be custodes

Also consider the value of the units you get in the box

Votann are loving thunderkyn rn so the fact their combat patrol comes with 3 of them is nice

[regal nexus]

I just wanted to know who had it worse to make myself feel better about having a low point combat patrol box, not for any real tabletop reasons

[brisk vapor]

fair, no harm done

[faint star]

The answer will always be admech lol

[plush swift]

For the combat patrol game mode with the custodes box you're at most allowed to use like hald the box

[round bloom]

Points are irrelevant

Aslong as it’s good

[regal nexus]

Well i mean aren't most combat patrols the same price? You're getting less value for the same amount of money

[mint dove]

Man I am NOT having fun painting these

[brisk vapor]

The value of the boxes are pretty similar when you compare the unit boxes in money rather than points

there is some variance between them but all of them are a pretty good deal

[brisk vapor]

how come?

[round bloom]

Less points but you save on money begging the units separately

So overall it’s good

[mint dove]

Theyre just kinda...plain

[brisk vapor]

Ah, well I suppose

[mint dove]

And especially after painting my death guard this feels like having to eat my vegetables after eating cake and ice cream

Also I feel like the paint job just isn't coming out well on them

[waxen moat]

cron i did a long ass while ago

[plain violet]

Khârn :>

[mint dove]

3 more to go thank GOD

[heady granite]

Okay. Now he's done. And has lore!

Jarl Yuka Take of the Ash Wolves. Little is known about this venerable brother of the chapter, lord of the 4th great company bar his loyalty and devotion to a banner he carries into war and his customised armour. Depicted here with his twinned axe and xenophase blade, the sole marker of his deathwatch carrier bar the silver arm, shield and finally a bared hand. He is known for an indomitable spirit, rising to every challenge and task even when the odds seem impossible.

The standard itself, a relic from old terra many have said, was supposedly made by a child, and bar simple restoration has never been remade.

He is oft seen escorting a small Abhuman around the fields of war and infirmaries, raising the morale of the wounded.

[visual bolt]

Necromunda terrain phase again

[visual turret]

Progress on Logan

[faint star]

As loose cannon famously says

First of many

[rare hornet]

Ohh I like the grey

[visual turret]

that is space wolves blue xd

it's a pretty standard space wolves recipe -
The Fang heavily drybrushed over a mechanicus grey primer
Recess shading of Agrax Earthshade.
Russ Grey drybrush highlight over raised surfaces and a little more focus on the high, in-the-light points.
Fenrisian Grey edge highlight from there

[midnight cairn]

Love the hair, grandpa.

[rare hornet]

Shhhhhh, close enough

[visual turret]

I am stumped on the Metallics…

At least, for the rich colour here

Screaming bell? (On the wolf)
Or Balthazar Gold? (On the band)

Oh wait I didn’t ping

@rare hornet

[rare hornet]

https://tenor.com/view/waking-up-anger-the-undertaker-wwe-gif-15072678

[rare hornet]

Are those two pictures the comparison?

[visual turret]

Just slightly different lighting

Screaming bell’s on the wolf and Balthazar gold is on the banded piece

Not sure which one I’d do across the whole model

[rare hornet]

Hmm, I light screaming bell more as it’s lighter

[visual turret]

true

but i can ge tlighter through highlighting the darker darks of balthazar

[round bloom]

Did some Leaper progress

[visual turret]

I too made progress this evening

[regal nexus]

What are some good magnets for magnetizing minis

[short pawn]

check out magnet baron

[brisk vapor]

T'was a mistake to start another 10 man squad right after the one before, the highlights just get lazier and lazier after each model

[dry canopy]

The tac team grows, and even got a veteran character in there

[plain violet]

Green Fire

[slender mesa]

https://tenor.com/view/mechanicus-techpriest-warhammer-omnissiah-machine-spirit-gif-20384130

[plain violet]

Chaos Marines! Emperor's Children and Word Bearers

[mint dove]

Finished my hand of the archon. These models were kinda boring so they got a very basic paint job, but orks is next so im stoked for that!

[visual turret]

how on earth am i gonna do this axe

[visual bolt]

Use it in WHFB

[visual turret]

no i mean

how am i gonna be able top paint it

[visual bolt]

Uh, idk it doesn't have to be That special

You could just do a metallic (but bright) undercoat and then put on a very thin red over the top

Depends on the look you want

[sick ledge]

glazes and velaturas

[visual turret]

\o/ pigment guy

been a while

and yeah I worked out it's gonna be a load of blending and glazes

to me it looks like khorne red on the outer, with a blend through toooooo something like evil sunz/wazdakka ? then jokaero orange

My first thought was that it's metallics but I took a closer look

[sterile loom]

The new Marneus Calgar mini looks so bad(bc he looks like he wants to die). Let that poor old man retire Guillaman!

[sterile loom]

Thats fucking lit!!!

We stan robo slaves

[round bloom]

Bluetariis

I have one in Macragge blue

Gonna see how Sons of Horus green works on them

[sterile loom]

The new calgar for ref

[prime crown]

I prefer the "new" calagar, but his head is meh

But the armor is 100% improvement over his gravis armor

[fossil kiln]

orks are back on da menu boyz

[twilit cliff]

Feudal guardsman vet with custom lasrifle

[midnight cairn]

He needs to get some sunshine.

[twilit cliff]

He has vitamin b12 deficiency ok?

[dawn stream]

Castellex Destructor

[quartz rain]

His new model is a redesign of his old terminator armor from around 2004

I bet you'll find people complaining about his current primaris ver back when it was first revealed too if you dig far enough

[regal nexus]

Its very funny that Farsight now costs less than a Coldstar Commander, which his suit is based off of

[round bloom]

Damm he lost value from going and doing whatever it is he’s doing

[regal nexus]

I wonder if GW reduces model points so it makes people buy more models

Cuz it feels really weird for a character as important to the T'au as Farsight to be so cheap

[brisk vapor]

very much doubt it, meta chasers and min maxers are in the minority

if GW were to 'game' the system to their advantage they'd make Admech the most point efficient and effective faction when their $/pts ratio is the worst

[regal nexus]

Oh if that's the case than I think it would make much more sense to buff Farsight and increase his points cost (I barely understand tabletop and haven't actually played it)

[brisk vapor]

in reality there's very little correlation with point costs and model prices

[mint dove]

How would you paint this? Im not sure if its supposed to be a blue horror manifesting out of his shoulder or gold detail

[brisk vapor]

I'd do the horror

[regal nexus]

Well yeah I know but it just feels wrong for Farsight to be so low in points

[brisk vapor]

Yeah but if the datasheets represent that I don't really see why that would be an issue, it's just a 10 point difference and the unnamed variant has a huge amount of options to choose from

[regal nexus]

Well yeah I know but like it's FARSIGHT, I just think it's weird that he's so low points, especially since he's supposed to be in what's basically an upgraded Coldstar suit

[brisk vapor]

By lore logic Trazyn should be a more expensive unit than a nameless Necron Overlord but he is not because his rules do not reflect that, it's just how the game is balanced and the points fluctuate ever so often so they'll never stay accurate if they ever were

[prime crown]

Its me I was complaining about it. The attempt at terminator erasure will not be forgottten.

[urban drum]

its a funny little guy

[mint dove]

Odd, it didnt strike me as trim...oh well I think having a blue horror spawning would look cool, ill sleep on it

[urban drum]

its got the same color as his funny bird toes

[mint dove]

Doing some tests for my thousand sons, I saw this color scheme for the armor so I tested it out. Its akhelian green base>temple guard blue layer> temple guard ble and gauss blaster 1:1 highlight> pure gasses blaster

[sterile loom]

I'm not saying the whole mini is bad but I am saying that his head sculpt looks like he is so scared he is mid shitting himself

[visual bolt]

My HH marshall

[zinc turret]

first mini

[rare hornet]

We're back :3

[plain violet]

Iron Warrior?

[rare hornet]

Ye

[plain violet]

Nice! What scheme you going with if I may ask? Planning on painting one with a Missile Launcher for my Killteam

[rare hornet]

Just the silver, black and gold

Iron warrior silver is the colour for the armour

[plain violet]

I seee. Thanks broski

[sinful jetty]

Phenomenal work,, I love you made the axe a power weapon

[mint dove]

Whats a good recipie for tzaangor skin? I hsve 5 to paint and also the bird body of the exalted sorcerer

[brisk vapor]

Hell yeah

[urban drum]

What a creature

[drowsy hare]

I keep on forgetting about that-_-

[rare hornet]

I got a pair of those to do next :3

[visual bolt]

Robit

[dawn stream]

After this one is done, the pair will be completed. I've got a Triaros, a Karacnos and a Thanatar that I'll need to decide between for my next project

[brisk vapor]

8/10 of the green highlights

[untold void]

Abbadon the despoiler! Warmaster of the black legion!

[rare hornet]

Body done :3

[sinful jetty]

Cleannn

[rare hornet]

Now he has an head

One almost finished siegebreaker

[dawn stream]

Castellex Destructor

[mint dove]

Tried to paint a lord of change feather on his belt. Not sure if it paid off

[dawn stream]

Karacnos Assault Tank

[regal nexus]

Wow they weren't lying, flight sticks do break easy af

[short pawn]

DAMN

thats your best work by far imo

[mint dove]

Only took 2 hours too, I was having so much fun

[rare hornet]

What paints you use? Got a friend testing painting Tsons

[mint dove]

The armor is akhelian green contrast>highlight temple guard blue> temple guard blue and gauss blaster green 1:1 the armor trim is runelord brass and TTC glistening gold 1:1> highlight 2:1 glistening gold to VMA steel>1:1 gold to steel>pure steel on high points. Yellow is base with wraith bone> iyanden yellow contrast>phalynx yellow highlight. Cloak is 3:1 shish purple to volupus pink> pure volupus pink>highlight Screamer pink>highlight pink horror. Inside is just rakarth flesh washed with earthshade

[rare hornet]

I did wonder if the yellow would be contrast

[lucid compass]

Hello Guys, I need a bit of technical advice. How much Watt compressor you are recommending to airbrush?

or how much psi it should be able to do?

[mint dove]

Around 10-15 for normal everyday use is what i usually go for

[mint dove]

Yeah I tried painting with base paints on some of the spare heads and it always got too messy

[compact umbra]

Feather looks great! Did you use contrasts

?

[plain violet]

Death Guard Heavy Gunner and Night Lord Chosen wip

[brisk vapor]

Finished with the greens

[regal nexus]

I've heard the Dhrukari Combat Patrol is highly coveted

[ocean pendant]

It is, if you're looking to start Drukhari grab one before it's gone

[mint dove]

Yep! Its just black templar, lexicon purple and volupus pink blended

[mint dove]

Trying to figure out how to paint my tempestus aquilons like the 54th psian jackals without making them look boring, what I think im going to do is paint the undersuit a deep black, and paint the armor in gunmetal and then wash everything but the trim in black templar to make it look metallic

The skull motif might be a bit difficult but ill test it out first on some spares

[urban drum]

This guy did some crazy osl https://www.reddit.com/r/Warhammer40k/comments/wympw1/trooper_of_psion_jakals_54th_regiment_of/

[mint dove]

Damn, wish I had a space to set up my airbrush again, wouldn't mind trying that

[mighty root]

Dang that's cool

[mighty root]

I have a nail art airbrush that charges by USB and the compressor is smaller than a soda can. It's not great for osl type stuff but it does work for it

I mostly use it for priming and base coats

[regal nexus]

I think I'm bad at thinning my paint
(Also I rushed this)

[mint dove]

Are you testing the consistency before you paint? Like on your hand?

[urban drum]

yeah looks like its drying too quick

[regal nexus]

I was told to damp my brush, get bit of paint on it, than wipe the glob off on a paper towel

That's how I was taught

[urban drum]

the glob?

[regal nexus]

Ya know like that bead of paint

Like the excess paint that sticks on the brush

[urban drum]

have a watch when you have the time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBDVPoNXyVI

the most i use paper towel i think is when i wash my brush and need to get rid of moisture then

[mint dove]

"I CAST, TESTICULAR TORSION!"

[final rune]

Hey I just got the Astra Militarum codex (10ed). What do the Leman Tuss tanks use for the main turrets attack? The Hunter Killer missile?

This part.

[brisk vapor]

that's just the Leman Russ battle cannon, the Hunter-Killer Missile looks like a missile and is often placed out side of the hull

[final rune]

Okay. What weapon is the cannon then on the sheet?

[sick ledge]

as a paint formulator I hated this video, he gets so much wrong its not even funny

[sick ledge]

contrast over metallics?

[faint star]

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/af8hxvxy/two-masked-combat-patrols-deploy-for-the-harlequins-and-death-korps-of-krieg/

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/786208719200583710/1418583509706080336/IMG_0308.jpg?ex=68cea658&is=68cd54d8&hm=a9f626861879655031a607a8915dc368e1988f2cfd7c4a02dae8202147a3a0fa&

[brisk vapor]

a pretty decent combat patrol I feel

[faint star]

This makes me more annoyed at the IG one lmfao

[urban drum]

they couldnt have snuck in a cheeky few engineers

[urban drum]

which aspects?

[midnight cairn]

How old are the harlequin figures? They look like they could use a refresh.

[sick ledge]

I'd have to rewatch it to know since it was like a year ago I watched it but things like you destroy carbamate links past 25% dilution which affects durability heavily and dilution is heavily specific to the type of binder the paints are using, some binders cant be thinned at all due to the water content in the paint. This can cause cracking and flaking after 5 years.

I cant remember if he was one of the ones adamant about using distilled water over tap for thinning too, tap water destroys carbamate links due to its acidity which cause paints to have problems

So if you're thinning with tap water you need to add in ammonia for a pH balancer, which it also will prevent fungal blooms on your minis which causes discoloration

[urban drum]

i dont think ive ever heard of anyone using ammonia in their painting

though that sounds like something only a paint formulator would do

[sick ledge]

Its very common in restoration and conservation

but they also dont use tap water for acrylics

the mold issues with tap water are massive

[sick ledge]

People do all the time without knowing, acrylic thinners are distilled water and ammonia, sometimes a little extra binder

on occasion extra wetting agent if its a good thinner

[final rune]

Y

Ty

[short pawn]

If I were to kitbash these goobers into Valhallans, what could I potentially do for the banner?

[urban drum]

you could laboriously file off all the detail and freehand valhalla onto it like this fella did https://www.reddit.com/r/Valhallan/comments/qppuq6/heres_our_valhallan_1212th_cold_bloods_standard/

you could bugger it and just swap the kreig lettering out for valhalla

or you can get a new flag

[short pawn]

I'm not able to open the link, could you send a screenshot by chance?

[short pawn]

Ooo thats awesome I actually have that scion flag i could work with that thats awesome thanks

[dry canopy]

Red Hunters force is finished (for now)

[mint dove]

Yeah I tested it in an old krieg model, it still reads as metallic but like black mwtal

[mint dove]

How can I use an airbrush indoors? I see those airbrush booths but those have vents that need to go out a window, I live in an apartment and all my windows have screens I cant remove

[untold void]

Salamanders Sgt

[twilit cliff]

Stomp like buuuugs

[mint dove]

Didn't strike me til now..my geomancer is crooked

Hopefully it wont be too noticable

[wild hazel]

Do it under the cooking ventilator

Into a cardboard box

[regal nexus]

I can't decide what drone to make, so I made a super drone

[mint dove]

I nearly broke him 4 more times but he is finally upright

[rare hornet]

One completely finished siegebreaker

[mint dove]

Almost finished my last sorcer er tonight but I couldn't get it done in time, all I had left to do was the higjlights on the head feathers but hey doing 3 of these in 3.5 days, not bad

[faint star]

My local warhammer store reopened so I got some goodies

[marsh perch]

I’m also working on the canopek circle! What paint scheme you going for?

[zinc turret]

mortgage payment obliterated

[faint star]

My credit score in shambles

[spring oriole]

Watahheeell 😠
DarkAngels playing dota 2

[dry canopy]

More veterans of the IVth.

[plain violet]

Are those Kalashnikov Pattern Boltguns I see?

[dry canopy]

Is that what that’s called? Whatever it is I like it

[plain violet]

I have no idea either, that's just what I call bolters that have AK-esque receivers and banana mags

[dry canopy]

I like that name for them lol.

[mint dove]

Im gonna go for nihalakh for my canoptek circle

[round bloom]

Nice marine you got there heresy era armour truly is the best

[twilit cliff]

Another smelly heretic done

[dry canopy]

It really is… I’m using them for my 40K Iron Warriors because they match the vibe better than the chaos Legionaires imo

Those Mark 2s are a godsend

[dawn stream]

WIP Karacnos

[mint dove]

Got them eyes fuckin KWISPY

[glossy hawk]

ive seen you improve over the past year in the ork server and here and i think this is the best thing you've ever posted

well done

[verbal perch]

My Gue’Vesa

[mint dove]

BIRD UP!

[mint dove]

Thanks! Its thanks to mostly everyone here that ive got this good

[verbal perch]

Hey!

[mint dove]

Oh yeah, im everywhere

[verbal perch]

Same lol 😂

[glossy iron]

https://youtube.com/shorts/6y3WloGqazk?si=mYRpX_N9g216rHLE

[marsh perch]

I painted a tombcrawler from the canoptek circle

[dawn stream]

Karacnos Assault Tank

[twilit cliff]

Ruinskulkers on the hunt for heretics

[glass lintel]

I may have committed some light tech heresy :3

"Some nights, I pray for the guy who first figured out you can take a spare sentinel cockpit and turn it into basically an underhive rickshaw. I mean, he's probably a servitor now, right? You started seeing these pop up a bunch after the last big refit-legs break down more than engines, and the cockpit frame on the new models is directly welded to the engine compartment, so a lot of regiments wind up with a bunch of spares lying around and just begging for someone to do something like this. Anyway, if these are really tech heresy, how come regimental enginseers agree to build them so often?"

-MB

[mint dove]

I had a idea for my own harlequin troupe but im not sure how it would work, they're called the masque of the crooked dealer, their color scheme would be red,white and black with gold accents to mimic the face playing cards, id do alternating white and black checker boards instead of the purple and blue on the model, other arms and legs will be red, any coats will be red eith black glazed near the coat tails, accents and finery will be gold and any waistcoat will be bright yellow, thoughts?

[quartz rain]

that some hot kitbash. Would make for a really baller gsc vehicle

New atalan jackal member

[glass lintel]

Thanks. I based it off the suicide tuk tuk from Brigador. It's about the right size to be used as a cyclops demolition vehicle so that's what I'll use it for.

I'd build so many variants of this thing if I played Necromunda lol

[final rune]

Hey I’m building a 500 point Guard army, would it be better to bring two Commissars or Ursula Creed

[visual turret]

ohhhh shit assault terminators

finally

I can make a proper Tyberos

[viral chasm]

I’ve gotten my hands on some old unopened Kreigsmen

[wild hazel]

Premium grade aged plastic crack,what’s the street value?

[prime crown]

Kitbashed some non krieg engineers

[mighty root]

When do I get to post images 🙁

[wild hazel]

Post a bunch of nonsense in the channels for a few days

[mighty root]

Thank you

I will do that

So that I can then post my nonsense minis 🙂

[brisk vapor]

1/10 awaiting for metallics

[glass lintel]

I like to use genestealer cult shotguns on mine

[prime crown]

That was my plan too but I couldnt find any. Im gonna get some krieg shotguns tomorrow maybe for repleacements

[glass lintel]

Probably because I bought so many lol, bits sites aren't known for holding lots of stock at a time.

[prime crown]

the GSC shotguns are so good...

[prime crown]

I commend use of karskin for engineers, I should probably do that too if Ill ever get some spares

[warped wedge]

My first mini just completed

[mighty root]

I wanna paint a dreadnaught sometime

As a hobby project

[silver thorn]

rannik kitbash WIP

[mighty root]

Looks great!

[silver thorn]

thank you, I used a lot of different parts.

The book comes from the cadian upgrade sprue, the head from the traitor guard kit, the pistol is a surgically combined arm and pistol from novitiates and serberys pistolier and the body from inquisitorial agents.

Thinking of shaving down the body and putting an inquisition rossette on there I have from the deathwatch upgrade sprue xD

[dawn stream]

More Thallax

[mint dove]

Trying to make this black necron scheme but I want it to read more as black metal tha. Flat metal. I think what ill do is base coat in Vallejo metal color duraluminium, highlight VMA steel, spot highlight chrome then wash with black templar and contrast medium 1:1, then do select chipping highlights with chrome

[silver thorn]

Go vallejo gunmetal and paint it black then high light with gray

Idk why I just really like that gunmetal paint color hehe

[mint dove]

Oh vallejo metal color blows the model color stuff out of thr water

[regal nexus]

Maybe i should stop being an actual godamn troglodyte abd get a fucking wet palette so I can properly thin my paints

[brisk vapor]

It help but it isn't mandatory to do it

You can also make one yourself using a plastic container and a sponge

[regal nexus]

Or just a regular palette at all

Anything

[brisk vapor]

Are you using paint straight from the pot?

But yeah, a palette would be good

[regal nexus]

Not directly, the way I was told to do it was to damp my brush, load it up, than gently wipe it on a paper towel, but that hasn't been working super well for me

[brisk vapor]

Paper towel directly might be too porous and it'll drain most of the water

[regal nexus]

Maybe a bit of cardboard?

[brisk vapor]

That'll have similar problems

anything plastic would be better

and if you have anything shaped like this, size doesn't matter, you can make a wet palette

[regal nexus]

Yeah i think I underestimated how much stuff you need for good painting

[silver thorn]

his point was you can make one at home easy

any tray will do

just buy a sponge and cut it into sheets and then lay non waxed baking paper over it

or buy a 5 dollar one off of temu

[slate pond]

Finished my EC test mini woop

They are a bit bigger than the normal CSM!

[brisk vapor]

Lanky boys

[wintry solstice]

Finished up the legs of my knight from house taranis

[quartz rain]

Oh yea, EC models are technically primaris height

[rare hornet]

Chaos twink marines

[viral chasm]

Whatever 20 yrs of age can get in value

[frigid mortar]

oh my God

[keen oak]

(this aint my figure btw, it just felt wrong not to post this)

[gilded eagle]

HAHAHAHAHA

okay I've never seen this one, this one's great

[keen oak]

oh dont worry

ive got more

or should i say hes got more

[round bloom]

HOLY TERRA

[sick ledge]

An improperly set up wet palette can actually make it harder to thin paints and make them way too watery, also you dont need one to thin paints properly. Most golden demon painters ive talked to actually use dry palettes weirdly enough

[regal nexus]

Yeah i just need to start using an actual palette

[wild hazel]

Anyone tried to give their space marine head drag makeup

[sinful jetty]

Emperor’s children

[keen oak]

blood ravens "borrowed" a titans mega bolter

[sinful jetty]

The teeny scope and bayonet is great

[untold void]

Lieutenant Titus from Space Marine 2!

[plain violet]

I'm Khorning it so hard rn

[mint dove]

@sick ledge you told me the name of some good quality brushes a while ago, not W&N but they weren't DaVinci maestro either, do you remember what they could have been?

Maybe raphael 8404?

[sick ledge]

Isabay is the superior version of raphael, but it was escoda reserva

escoda is completely unheard of in this hobby unless youre from spain

[mint dove]

That's the ones, thanks dude

My old brushes are starting to lose their luster

[sick ledge]

Love my escoda reservas

[mint dove]

Can still pull off some pretty good results, but its getting harder and harder to keep a point

[sick ledge]

I own every brand of sable out there, over 300 brands

[sick ledge]

synthetics?

[mint dove]

No they're sable, I have some DaVinci brushes, older citadel brushes and some offbrand sable ones, the da Vinci is the best ive got at the moment

[sick ledge]

davinci isnt bad

[mint dove]

I think ill order the 1,2 and 0 escoda, see how they grip me

[sick ledge]

the 1 and 0 are very similar in size

[mint dove]

Ahh okay ill get the 1, ive git a shit ton of tiny brushes

Ive been buying the 18/0 brushes from hobby lobby in bulk for detail work,

I use them like 10 times and then toss them

Thankfully its only a dollar a brush

[sick ledge]

In order left to right 5/0, 0, 1, 2

[mint dove]

How long have you had those brushes?

[sick ledge]

a very long time

5+ years

[mint dove]

Those look brand new pretty much, they hold their shape that we'll over time?

[sick ledge]

the most used is the 0

and the 0 is FUCKED

[mint dove]

I was about to say besides the 0 🤣🤣

[sick ledge]

the 0 I spilled acetone on

the 2 is my second most used

[twilit cliff]

I cant for the life of my keep my brushes in any kind of shape

Do you have any pointers?

[wild hazel]

lightly rotate the brush as you pick up and remove excess paint and do so after washing

Get some conditioner for it

If it’s synthetic it won’t be as maintainable

[sick ledge]

These are high end sables

Not synthetics

[twilit cliff]

I see

I've been using my childhood brushes and citadel brushes since forever. It works for me but they do look haggard

[sick ledge]

That's also like $100 in brushes right there

I have probably $15,000 in sable brushes here for review purposes

[sick ledge]

Yeah, synthetics will die over time fairly quickly sables retain their point even when they're dead

[twilit cliff]

ol reliable

[rare hornet]

Angy boi

[mint dove]

I dont know if im off my game or what but this feels like the worst model ive ever painted

Like do bad i gave up for the night :/

I think i may switch up my scheme, the video i was following had my doing akhelian green base>highlight temple guard blue> highlight gauss blaster and temple guard 1:1> pure temple guard

I tried layering temple guard and it seemed to come out splotchy

[faint star]

Sometimes we need a mental break

[mint dove]

What I may do is kind keep the sams kind of idea but tone it back a bit, instead of temple guard blue do thousand sons blue layer over rakhelian green, then a chunk highlight of ahriman blue then temple guard on just the top parts

[final rune]

Hey I’m building an Imperial Guard commander, do y’all know of a model that has a right hand power fist that would be the right size for a Guardsman?

[urban drum]

wouldnt you just grab one from the cadian command squad

oh err right handed

theyre a little bit old scale but the tempestus scions have a right handed power fist

[urban drum]

pretty similar to the cadian one

[sick ledge]

Its not your worst

[final rune]

That works

Thanks

[mint dove]

What do you think about what I said about tweaking my scheme? I think the reason it looks so stark is because temple guard blue is too bright of a color compared to akhelian green

[sick ledge]

You should know by now that I dont know your fancy words for colors

I'm slowly learning

[mint dove]

Lol hold on let me get the approximations

I know digital splotches aren't the best but they'll do

[sick ledge]

its hard to tell them side by side with both are two digital ones taken by different cameras

[mint dove]

@sick ledge t sons blue

Ahriman and temple guard respectively

[sick ledge]

much more green and a lot of titanium white in it

I can see why it looks stark next to it

[mint dove]

And this is thr contrast base layer

[sick ledge]

phthalo is a very strong color

and contrasts are just a weak ink

so they'll be very strong compared to a hobby paint when it comes to color

personally I dont hate the scheme and thinks it looks fine now

[mint dove]

I see, so thats why even with 2 layers the temple guard blue is still showing up splotchy

[sick ledge]

yes

[mint dove]

I do like the vibrancy of temple guard blue, I think my problem was I did no midtones and jumped straight from that pthalo green to a bright turquoise

@sick ledge this is a better look, I feel like a midtone of that ahriman blue and a chunky highlight of temple guard blue instead of a layer would save it

[sick ledge]

why not just mix white into them yourself rather than buy ones with white mixed in?

[mint dove]

Im kinda neurotic and I like the color tovbe the same every time I use it, even if its a shade lighter ill notice and it'll throw me off my game

[sick ledge]

then why do you use hobby paints? Each batch is 3-10% different from each other

I did a video on that a while back proving they werent consistant with their colors

[mint dove]

Also just that im really not great at color mixing

[sick ledge]

I shall teach you and turn you into a golden demon painter

that way you too can spend 500 hours licking up your mistakes

[mint dove]

Only to lose to someone with an AI generated backdrop lol

[rare hornet]

It’s sun’s out guns out time

[toxic rampart]

WAAAAGH

[sick ledge]

Dont get me started on that

[visual turret]

Logan is finished \o/ just need some snow

[mint dove]

@sick ledge do you think is could layer back up with the thousand sons blue over thr existing blue? Or will it look weird

[sick ledge]

probably? its been a long time since Ive used citadel paints

[mint dove]

Oh...oh I FUCKED up

The tutorial said EDGE highlight temple guard blue

Not layer

WHOOPS

[sick ledge]

Lolololol

[mint dove]

Its supposed to look like this

OOPS

[mint dove]

@sick ledge salvaged it

Not my best work, but its DEFENITLY not the worst rubric marine out there

[brisk vapor]

hell yeah

[mint dove]

Worked out pretty well,

I found a good match for akhelian green contrast is ahriman blue and temple guard blue 1:1...so I m gonna do that because FUCK contrast paint on space marines

Oh yeah this FUCKS

[mint dove]

MUCH better

[calm lichen]

I was about to ask if you primed gold, then I saw the above picture.

[mint dove]

Nope I do this shit the painful way lol

[calm lichen]

I feel that, I got chaos burnout trying to do a unit of rubrics.

I'd post pictures, but I'm gonna assume it takes abit to uh gain access.

[sick ledge]

hell yeah

[tiny cairn]

@sick ledge how much more/less expensive is becoming a pigment piggy vs using hobby stuff?

[sick ledge]

You only need 8-10 paints at the high end vs around 50 for hobby stuff so its slightly cheaper

and requires less space

cheaper by ml too

most of the time

[tiny cairn]

How does one start that journey? Where do you buy the proper pigments from?

[sick ledge]

Guerra for making your own paint, blick or jerry's for paint

For pigments youd want Quin. Magenta, bismuth yellow, pyrrole red, phthalo blue/cobalt teal, ultramarine blue, burnt umber, titanium white.

this is siimilar to my palette I use

[tiny cairn]

Would I be buying them as dry pigments?

Something like this? https://www.guerrapaint.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=145_123_144&products_id=647

[sick ledge]

no dispersions

dispersions are far easier to deal with

[tiny cairn]

so per oz it looks like its more expensive, does it yield more or is it just easier?

[sick ledge]

the dry pigment you need to turn into a dispersion for acrylic with requires a rock tumbler

[sick ledge]

easier

and quicker

I have an entire wall of guerra dispersions

[tiny cairn]

I might try like a basic blood angel or something to see how I like it

[sick ledge]

tthe dispersion all you need to do is mix it in with medium and you have paint

with dry you need additional chemicals

[tiny cairn]

anything else to be conscious of?

[sick ledge]

not really

[tiny cairn]

If I want to make like a batch of something is it better to just properly document and recreate it or get like a dropper and fill it?

[sick ledge]

I use lab beakers to measure, droppers for the other additives

depending on the pigment 20-30% works well

for their dispersion

some pigments really want 30%

[brisk vapor]

Probably half way there

[round bloom]

The imperfections on the main knight (minus the Helmet bit since that’s also a replacement piece) are from December (when I got the knight and painted it)

[silver thorn]

necromorph ass marines, cool I like it

[trim tundra]

The Thing and Iron warriors is not something I would have thought of. It would make a great diorama.

[sinful jetty]

Mutations sickkkk

Love the dynamic pose for the chain sword fella

[glossy iron]

https://youtube.com/shorts/tSgBfFOX-yM?si=c3Aqqt29qkIJlUqn

[prime crown]

Combat engineers in progress

[regal nexus]

I hope the T'au Stealthsuits get updated

I just don't understand why the egg helmet

[mighty root]

Damn that's so clean

[floral wind]

Thanks! Glad you think so

[mighty root]

What's the base color on the gun? I've been trying to do red guns recently but they don't look nearly that good

[floral wind]

Started our as mephiston red, layered with evil suns scarlet. Wash was a mix of nuln and agrax and lahmian. The orange higlights were flat orange ))

[mighty root]

Perfect thanks!

[floral wind]

Np!

[mint dove]

Need some feedback on which scheme to pick for my eldar corsair, im stuck between these two

[faint star]

Well what do you like about each of them?

[mint dove]

I mean i lime how much the warp hunters pop, but they dont have alot of differentiation, meanwhile the void dragons have a really cool color scheme but its kinda flat

[silver thorn]

make them all different colors

because they are pirates

[visual turret]

Lmao my local sold out of Aethon Shaan same day he came out

Still have two Lysander’s though

[midnight cairn]

I'd mix it up, take the kinda turquoise armor and the orange shoulder pads.

[sick ledge]

Mix the two into one.

[plush swift]

New group, Void Hunters

[plush swift]

The only true competition if knights ever get one too

[wild hazel]

AAAÄAÂÁAAAAÃ

[plush swift]

https://tenor.com/view/warhammer-wh40k-sly-marbo-aaaaaa-alfabusa-gif-14316691

[calm lichen]

Back when I attempted to paint Tsons, and what caused me to get chaos trim burnout

[marsh perch]

This would be funny if they released this and in the combat patrol rules for it Sly Marbo is just on the same level as a primarch

[untold void]

Per a request from my aussie friend, a pink marine.

[crimson hull]

I've decided to do emperor's children as my first army am I cooked

[calm lichen]

If your doing base scheme, no.
But you'll be painting alot of the same models

[mighty root]

I'm a big believer that if you're painting a lot of units, they should have strong colors and visual legibility.

I think there's certain stuff people do in mini painting that looks good in photos but actually hurts their appearance on the tabletop

So I'd go with the green 🙂

[sinful jetty]

Green with some of black and red splashed in

[calm lichen]

My current project for Black templars, decided to peacemeal the army instead of what I've done in the past

[uneven meadow]

Hexmark my beloved

[olive quartz]

First time painting minis

Think I'm doing alright so far

[olive quartz]

That's tuff

[mighty root]

Looks good! A lot better than my first try 🙂

[calm lichen]

Where is that head from?? a 3d print? Another necron kit?

[uneven meadow]

Whole model is printed!

[urban drum]

Bodels binted

[urban drum]

The g qwucks

[drowsy hare]

Yuhhh

[plain violet]

The War Hammers of Age of Sigmar and 40,000

I LOVE CHAOS RAAAAGH

[ionic kite]

Working on aod from kill team

I am no longer afraid of edge highlights

And I tried to make a somewhat camouflaged cape

[spring oriole]

My first mini. Rate it from Complete crap to Bruh

[sinful jetty]

If bruh means 10 then it gets a Super Bruh

The detailing is excellent and very nice colour choices. Good job painting the barrel hole too

And night lords,, good choice brother. Ave dominus nox

[spring oriole]

But. This is not a Night Lords

[sinful jetty]

Apologies, I saw dark blue and gold I thought they was

Ah wait it’s the lighting in a couple the images I see it’s black now

Nonetheless, looks sick as hell brother

[spring oriole]

Maybe next time, i paint Night Lords

[bronze knoll]

More 3D printed Helghast

[brisk vapor]

5/10 steel parts

[plain violet]

Yellow paint is so ass 💛 🥹

At least It's chaos so I can get away with it

[sick ledge]

Yellow hobby paint is trash, professional artist fluid acrylics aren't.

[hushed tangle]

Shadowkeepers

[weary egret]

Got some work done on my Cadians today

[mint dove]

I think i absolutely killed this trim, this is 1 pass, no cleanup

[mint dove]

Last warpcoven rubric

[sick ledge]

you missed a spot

[mint dove]

I always miss a spot, its like my signature

And defenitly not because im too lazy to break out base colors again

[sick ledge]

The signature of artistry

[mint dove]

@sick ledge been using this app to determine which citadel paints i can sub with golden

The 3.41 one is chromium oxide green

Ive only ever used golden soflat, are their liquid acrylics good for mini painting?

[sick ledge]

I think you have chromium oxide I sent you

and yes they are

I prefer them over soflat but thats me, im a nut for smoothness

[mint dove]

Its at my folks house somewhere ill have to go look, I think Michael's sells them, ill give them a shot

[mint dove]

A little test for my eldar corsair scheme, I really like the black/green

[zinc turret]

on or off

[wispy summit]

peak

[silver thorn]

Reminds me of a great segment from the Terry Pratchett book "Making Money"

All the assassins wear black as a point of pride, but former assassin turned mayor Lord Vetinari wore green because it was actually "blacker than black" or something

it was really well written and really funny I'm probably not doing it justice bringing it up xD

[dawn stream]

Thanatar progress

[plain violet]

I have one Bloodcrusher because I'm not spending 110 dollars on one box. He big

No fucking way they should cost as much as one combat patrol

[mint dove]

Just primed this model can you tell whats wrong with it if I didnt point it out?

[compact umbra]

mold lines?

[sick ledge]

WASNT ME THIS TIME

[compact umbra]

or the tad of over priming on the legs?

[plain violet]

I can't tell

[sick ledge]

i thought combat patrols were like $200 now

[sick ledge]

the cat hair?

[plain violet]

About 170 at most on Mr. Games Shoppington at most, and you can get cheaper options on Amazon at 144

Only about a 30-50 smackaroo difference, yeah, but I still think it's Bull-Honkey

[sick ledge]

god this hobby has gotten too expensive

[mint dove]

Yeah I primed it in grey seer, noticed the priming was a little sparse so in the morning I went to give it a quick second spray but I didnt realize I grabbed leadbelcher instead so I had to give it a heavy 3rd spray to cover

[compact umbra]

Ah fair I do that all the time, luckily the legs don’t matter you can just paint dust on it

Or dirt or what ever

[plain violet]

It's got me like

[sick ledge]

I collect knights, imagine how I feel with our prices per model

[mint dove]

Thankfully it's not obscuring TOO much detail

[plain violet]

Oooooh noooooooo...

[mint dove]

And its deathwatch, I feel ile once the bla k paint is on it may not even be noticable

[plain violet]

I felt a wave of psychic damage reading that, I'm sorry broski

[sick ledge]

why didnt you prime with black?

[mint dove]

I wanted more of a midnight blue looking armor so I was going to undercoat leviadon blue contrast then black templar over it

[sick ledge]

That mades sense, but look at you doing atomic mixing

youre growing up

[mint dove]

Im learning!

[sick ledge]

hazzah!

[mint dove]

It only took 3 years lol

Like for my corsairs I found a recipie that requires a ton of paint mixing

Its black base, equal parts dark reaper, incubi darkness and corvus black as a wash, then use that previous mix 2:1 with sons of horus green, then 1:1, pure sons of horus, 1:1 sons of horus and deepkin flesh

[sick ledge]

imagine that with single pigments now, you'd only be working with 4 pigments

[mint dove]

Baby steps 🤣

[mint dove]

At least I didnt ruin it with the primer so im pretty happy with it

[edgy flax]

are they selling those saturnine dreadnoughts to paint yet?

[mint dove]

Had my wife send me a picture since its been a few hours since the primer set

It looks a little better

Im sure once paint is on it wont matter

[limpid jay]

FAT!

beautiful

love him

[dawn stream]

That plate could probably deflect a tank round

[olive quartz]

First time painting

How'd I do?

[dawn stream]

Purple is always an excellent choice

[olive quartz]

I'm pretty happy with it

[dawn stream]

Checkers are good

Good job! 👍

[olive quartz]

Thanks!

The checkers were tough

I tried my best to follow this

I'm gonna try doing some highlights on them tomorrow but I think I'm done for tonight

[faint star]

First time painting and you do some nice free hand good stuff

[olive quartz]

I've always had a pretty good hand when it comes to stuff like this

Get it from my dad

Though I also have been building gundams for about 2 years now so I can't say I'm a total beginner when it comes to models in general

Just my first time hand painting stuff

[faint star]

Looks great you did a great job

[olive quartz]

Thanks I appreciate it

Now I just gotta do it on 5 more minis

Lol

[visual elk]

That looks so cool

[sinful jetty]

Gonna be sick when I get the bases painted and I get em all gore’d up like the others

[visual elk]

That'd be so cool to see. I love seeing what people do to their minis. I would invest but I don't have the money

[sinful jetty]

I’m doing it piece by piece and working with I got so far for I too, am broke

Every now and then I’ll make an investment of sorts beit little things like corkboard and the handy hand drill for barrel holes n such

One major thing I really wanna start learning is DIY terrain and buildings, because I wanna start learning to play the game but I wanna go out of the way to make my own customs board with buildings n whatnot

[visual elk]

Yeah that makes sense. Actual terrain is so expensive

[sinful jetty]

Exactly my thoughts lol

I got hardboard for a base thing for it to be on, I already have cork but I’d need a lot for what I have in mind for like trenches and gradual hills n stuff, so I think I’m gonna try and get some kinda foam to make it easier and cheaper

[visual elk]

Yeah that should work. Would be interested to see the development of it as you do it

[sinful jetty]

That’s what I’ve got so far, gonna try and make some kinda fort thing with a couple levels

Definitely gonna try to expand on it ofc, and most definitely have no clue what I’m doing

But I think I’ll try to take time to look into actual dioramas n shit to learn I guess