40k-minis-and-armies

[oblique socket]

there's no chance in hell they didn't know that's what it looked like

[silver thorn]

1. fantastic work
2. it makes me so mad they don't have a one handed aiming arm in that kit

I WANT THE GUN AND SHIELD COMBO aaa

[quartz rain]

Thank you! The kit does have just the single one-handed pistol arm on the leashmaster model.

[quartz rain]

Real example

[silver thorn]

I swear to god I went over the sprue for like 45 minutes looking for an arm like that and missed it lmao

Might be awkward to get it pointing forward though

[quartz rain]

Yea the pistol wrist of leashmaster and medpack wrist of chirurgant share the same arm so I can see why it's easy to miss

[silver thorn]

I just built it, but its a bit frustrating the pose of the arm. I think I might stick with the subductor mace (Im kitbashing all my darktide characters as models)

hehe "stick" with it

It would probably take a lot of greenstuff work or digging through arms to find an arm that can have a more straight pointing shape

I'm really surprised they didnt do a sculpt of the gun braced against the shield

bracing guns against shields looks cool imo

[urban drum]

"this hole was made for me" type fit

[urban drum]

we also got uhh blooded trench sweeper

[silver thorn]

I actually have that arm maybe Ill see if I can put the shotpistol on it

[visual turret]

it's nowhere enar as bad on the actual model himself, i think it's the lighting making the gold bits look way more protruded than they are

[sudden notch]

Mandrakes are ready

[rare hornet]

Gifts of Tzeench

[visual turret]

facts....

[dull apex]

Started on these today

[rare hornet]

Sweet ultramarines

[spring oriole]

no, this is blood agnels

[faint star]

That's the dark angels dude

[viral chasm]

Nah those are grey knights dude

[dull apex]

I assure you the bulldog original moisturiser is absolutely necessary for painting

[ebon aspen]

I'm looking to paint my Arbites kill team in the red armour scheme from Darktide, anyone got a recommendation for a matching red paint? I prefer Vallejo, but will use more or less anything

[faint star]

Khorne red

Which is citadel

[ebon aspen]

Thankyou!

[clear finch]

Try a dark brown undercoat before you do the red if you havent started yet

[ebon aspen]

Red coverage can be a ball ache for sure, thanks for the tip!

[dull apex]

Burnt umber wash complete

[mint dove]

Finally getting around to the scorpions I bought 2 years ago

[rare hornet]

Genuine question, have you thought about a brown recess wash for the red shoulder?

[dull apex]

Yep that’ll be the next thing I do

Then some highlights

[rare hornet]

Oh perfect, carry on then

[dull apex]

Then I’ll do the sword, which will be a blue power effect

Done with an airbrush

[rare hornet]

I’m just lazy and do swords silver

[dull apex]

I just like the bright blue contrast against the dark gold

I did my bladeguard vets with the blue style and it ended up looking nice

What I really need to do is learn how to do lighting effects on the blade well

[rare hornet]

Valid

[wild hazel]

Vallejo red from the model colour range is that kinda red, a little dark less orange

[faint star]

Found the pro settings

I wanna do a lava base but I gotta figure that out so he remains on the unpainted battlegrounds for now

[silver thorn]

Nice! I love how you did the head!

[faint star]

Thanks!

[silver thorn]

Maybe edge highlight the spear with white would look cool

ik its still a wip cause the base isnt done hehe

[faint star]

Yeah I gotta do a touch up on the Cape too

Bit of overspill

[sick ledge]

get pyrrole red from am artist brand, its better than any hobby red by a long shot. The artist stuff can one coat black, proacryls needs like 4 coats because its under pigmented

Most brands use Naphthol pigments which are cheap

pyrrole is not cheap so they dont use it

[faint star]

Touch chunky but it's nice

Can go over with a purple wash too if I'm not happy

[silver thorn]

oh yea very nice

its gonna cut a tyranid in half 😄

[faint star]

Minus the base (you're gonna have to give me a bit) I think I'm happy with him

[silver thorn]

Oh yea, the back came out really nice.

I didn't realize he has a tyranid arm that's so cool.

[faint star]

Honestly he was a really intimidating model for me because he's so cool but I'm pleased

[silver thorn]

https://tenor.com/view/sailor-moon-usagi-tsukino-tsukino-usagi-happy-sparkly-eyes-gif-17209036874865873790

(my celestine is half painted because every time I got to a step I wanted to practice something on another model)

I know you can strip models but its such a pain

[brisk vapor]

Trying to come up with a cool configuration for a Sons of Horus legion champion and think I'm pretty close

[teal wolf]

Love it!

[steel anvil]

Are they really making a hello kitty mini?

The Ultrameowines have officially landed, as a hobbyist turned the unreleased 40k Marneus Calgar into a full Hello Kitty Space Marine, pink armor and all.

Nvm

[faint star]

That"d be awesome

[elder hornet]

Giving us yet more ultraslop

[faint star]

Gadriel model makes it okay

[silk vale]

Chairon just f*cking died ig 💔

[urban drum]

new future drip just dropped https://assets.warhammer-community.com/carousel1b-aeh5fxt0ww.png

[limpid jay]

https://youtu.be/3gOHvDP_vCs?si=9p-B4UDHjDLnWiXG

[urban drum]

how did they fuck up his hair color in that art

[lyric nimbus]

Cos like some time has past since space marine in lore, he’s older now.

[mint dove]

I have no idea why painting these things is so difficult

[pale haven]

Should I get these 6 guys? For 360$?

[visual bolt]

The GW model curse

The only time the did titus' head right was when it wasn't even titus

[urban drum]

im talking about this

which ends up double dumb since the mini painter got it right

[brisk vapor]

he just felt like dyeing his hair for that portrait day

[urban drum]

a warp particle hit the lens as it was being taken

[prime crown]

Dyed hair

[short pawn]

idk what to say but he isnt talking about titus

titus is an angel gorgeous in everyway

[mint dove]

Bought a box of dire avengers for my kill team

These models

Fucking

Suck

They're the worst thing I've ever had to build and painting them is going to be a massive pain in the ass

[visual turret]

POLYAMORUS TAU

raaaaaaagh

[faint star]

They were the highlight of reveals for me

(Even over my own factions new ork hunter reveal)

The colour scheme is awesome

[visual bolt]

Same problem different person

[mild ember]

"we need you to draw gadriel, he's Asian"
"Ok here's an Asian space marine"

"his hair is black because he's Asian"

I don't even think they got the eyes to be similar colors

[faint star]

Big fan of the sky lantern dumpling table

[stoic heron]

What set is this from?

[faint star]

The old world Grand Cathay Sky Lantern

One of my favourite models

[plain violet]

Black Legion Plasmagunner

Still a wip

[faint star]

The universe trying to tempt me to do some chaos stuff

not yet

[silver thorn]

did you buy a sky lantern??

[faint star]

I got one for my birthday haha

[silver thorn]

damn thats so cool

Its so huge!

Are you going to build a cathay army? Or just a one off project

[faint star]

Just a one off

[silver thorn]

well its a good choice

[silver thorn]

😄

[faint star]

Oh 100% I've been a fan of this one for months. The rest of the Cathay is alright in comparison but the sky lantern is so rad

[fast merlin]

Had my rejects out and figured I'd take a group photo :D

...Not entirely sure if this constitutes as something that should be in #darktide-fan-art instead or not

[brisk vapor]

Some further modifications

[sinful jetty]

I’ll be down with Dark Angels and Marines Malevolent, however chaos can be very drippy

[faint star]

I'd love to do some iron warriors eventually

[sinful jetty]

Their Dieselpunk aesthetic goes hard as hell

I love them for that, and the Night Lords too cause of their overtly edgy grimdarkness which is cheesy but eh it’s Warhammer it gets a pass

[tiny cairn]

I saw this the other day at a pop-up museum in Osaka, I don't care for Mecha stuff but it's cool to see how they enjoy their hobbies in Japan, all of the Warhammer stores here have a ton of like local submissions for the cases too, it's really interesting.

[short pawn]

Is this a custom model?

Never seen an eviscerator model before

[fast merlin]

It's just a kitbash

Most of them are

There's another guy with an eviscerator there

Though it's kinda hard to see from this angle actually

This guy

In these cases both were made by cutting up two chainswords and putting them together

But there's at least two kits that come with eviscirators for regular humans

Repentia and the Inquisitorial agents

[visual turret]

Almost there….

[regal nexus]

have any of yall done a list with 9 Dreadnoughts? 3 Brutalis, 3 Ballistus, 3 Redemptors?

[mint dove]

Its at least a little better this time around, but I still just see the flaws

[tiny cairn]

Squint at it and it looks fine, the closer you look at something the worse it looks

Omg I can't believe how bad this transition looks at 20x zoom

You are allowed to be your biggest hater but sometimes self introspection can be too harsh

[mint dove]

I remembered why all my minis wear helmets now

[dull apex]

That looks awesome

Nice work

[faint star]

Big boy

[silk vale]

How tall is that?

[faint star]

Around 38cm with the stand and 30 cm without it

[faint star]

https://tenor.com/view/jerma-jerma985-china-american-century-of-humiliation-chinese-century-gif-7096481836828372770

[visual bolt]

+googolplex social credit

[sly jolt]

Big plasma? Is this some kind of conversion of Laz-Cannon?!

[wild hazel]

i just tore off a sentinel plasma cannon and gave it to a heavy weapon team

[sly jolt]

Very cool... and thanks to you, I've become a little more courageous in terms of conversions...

and also a very cool camouflage suit on chimeras

[mint dove]

Armor on this one looks pretty good but I CANNOT paint faces to save my life

[candid wren]

апщб уцьыбвльлыь ыв альвы ьлвьаыльаывдалыв ьлывальь ьылва авпьвалпвпвхзщ дрпазд парлщл щлащлпв щлщлпкущл лщлывь льллапьвхапхзщкщь давьбь лвьалпьвэапьл ждьллдьдльовапь ьлд вап бд бдапдб дб бдбвапждбвисмдб бдбвапжэваэжбдбмсмр ждбисдб валь вапвапьль льльв бавпб бддапбмси бдабпдва вдбпвб жвдабп бвджжбжвадпб бджжпбв бджвапб жвадбпжвадп бапвбджав бждбпваждб бждбвадпб бжддбавпжд бвжавждпб бдрхз ждбд бждбждб ждбибсджмби бждбвабис бжадбавпбжээбидаббдпжэ дбапрапбд дабпб бдбкапд бдпэ

б мибдавбдбп бдбдвад бдббвжээ дбдбавэбждб ббав

[plain violet]

Scawy Aah

[mint dove]

Really dialed the armor in

[mint dove]

That's what Ive BEEN saying

[regal nexus]

Man I wish I knew what Kill Team was when I built my Combat Patrols Pathfinders, it mentions NOWHERE that that box comes with the sprue to build the Pathfinder Kill Team so I just didn't know what to do with it

[mint dove]

Y'know, I think I did pretty good this time

[heady veldt]

Don’t tell the mods this is AOS

[compact umbra]

oh it does? neat

[heady veldt]

Use it for kitbashing

A lot of my work uses kitbashing

Or magnets

[faint star]

Also there's a little dude in the sack

[cold venture]

That statue is beautiful. A work of art pal.

[heady veldt]

Ty was a commission for someone

Wanted terrain to bring w his armies

@cold venture

Part of a bigger group go work I’ve been doing

[compact umbra]

btw, If anyone is struggling to get the new kill team box, only 3 boxes were sent to each store

[radiant kraken]

Well done, I like this one!

[limpid jay]

some marineslop while i wait for mordheim material to come in

[surreal turret]

do grey knights have reivers within their ranks?

[brisk vapor]

They do not

[limpid jay]

first guy is a drukhari fighting pit champion and the second guy...

https://tenor.com/view/halo-reach-halo-emile-noble-team-noble-four-gif-13407690802745079126

my sweet innocent emile

[surreal turret]

are there any chapters besides gk that do not include them into their ranks?

[brisk vapor]

GK aren't a proper chapter to begin with but there are probably some chapters that haven't taken any primaris forces yet

[past flint]

Black Templars probably

[candid wren]

This is my cat walking on the keyboard while I was gone XD

[sturdy quarry]

im still in 9th edition.
my group plays always narrative but point values

i have an idea for a new campaign army:
Tank Commander
Cadian Castellan
2x Leman Russ
3x Chimera
3x Infantry Squad

that should be around 1000 points to start on.
its more fun and fluff and of course not a tournament army. But i feel this army feels nice like a combined military platoon with tank sand permanently attached support by grenadiers

later on i will att 2 hellhounds and 1 basilisk for additional armor
i will need to see about other infantry additions because they should be mechanised to stick to the theme

[rare hornet]

If you’re aiming for a mechanised infantry company then I might suggest a pair of Kasrkin squads with their own chimera each as shock troops, then might be worth considering a platoon of up to 3 russ and maybe a rogal for breakthrough operations

[ionic kite]

Trying my hand at some actually readable text

[balmy falcon]

Are custodes a good beginner army?

[cloud cave]

Cheap

Id pick death guard its a good army

Or black legion

[cloud cave]

Huge hate to the imperium but this is 🔥🔥🔥

[sinful jetty]

Idc if people think they’re basicbitch,, I loooove krieg

[balmy falcon]

Krieg is very cool

[plush swift]

seeing as the combat patrol box basically gives you everything you need for a good core army, and they're very forgiving to learn to play with, I'd say yeah

[balmy falcon]

Thank you

[pale haven]

I need help yall

https://showzstore.com/joytoy-jt00782-1-18-warhammer-the-horus-heresy-legio-custodes-custodian-venatari-squad-venatari-with-kenetic-destroyer-2_p6758.html
https://showzstore.com/joytoy-jt01413-1-18-warhammer-the-horus-heresy-alpha-legion-headhunter-prime_p7031.html
https://showzstore.com/joytoy-jt4935-1-18-warhammer-40k-dark-angels-intercessors-brother-nadael_p5038.html
https://showzstore.com/joytoy-source-1-18-warhammer-40k-world-eaters-khorne-berzerker-with-eviscerator-chainsword_p6688.html

https://showzstore.com/coming-soon-joytoy-jt01765-1-18-warhammer-the-horus-heresy-iron-warriors-command-squad-chosen-with-legion-standard_p7169.html
https://showzstore.com/joytoy-source-1-18-warhammer-the-horus-heresy-blood-angels-angels-tears-squad-erelim-with-volkite-serpentas_p6648.html
https://showzstore.com/joytoy-source-1-18-warhammer-the-horus-heresy-space-wolves-grey-slayer-pack-huscarl_p6342.html
https://showzstore.com/joytoy-source-1-18-warhammer-the-horus-heresy-thousand-sons-khenetai-occult-cabal-khenetai-blade_p6444.html

I get paid Friday, which of these guys should i get?

i can only do 2-3

[mint dove]

I think after I paint my last 3 scorpions I'll take a break, this will be my 10th painted team in 3 months 💀

[willow horizon]

Finally finished the Leviathan Terminators

[dull apex]

Custodes was the army I started the tabletop with, yes they’re very good to start with. Nothing about them is particularly complicated, they’re very good at 1,000 point or combat patrol level games because even the cheapest point Custodes unit is a 3 wound monster in melee

If you’re playing against people who are also new to the game, you’re going to win a lot, Custodes are super strong in low skill games

Because they’re basically just stat checks

I did find that eventually I wanted to move onto other things because they can get a bit boring after you’ve played them a lot

The biggest issue with them is lack of model range

Two of their most common units are nearly identical

[balmy falcon]

The guards and wardens?

[dull apex]

Yep

[dull apex]

also another issue, vehicles

anti tank in general

all of your tanks are forge world only

so get ready to spend a fortune

or get one 3d printed

[vestal sluice]

Im painting minis in Strike Party 1

[balmy falcon]

Is it required to get tanks / vehicles? I was thinking of doing a 1000 point army to start which would allow me to only have to buy a custodian guard box and a combat patrol.

[dull apex]

you can get away with no vehicles in a 1k army

you just need to make sure you're using your blade champion well

he's an absolute force of nature if you can get him where he needs to be

hitting on 2s, 5 attacks, -3 AP, 3 damage

the sword confuses people a bit

the different names are just stances

you decide which one to use when you attack

he can have lone operative as well

so the enemy has to be within 12" to hit

Or you can put superior creation on him

enemy killed him? okay now he's back again with all his wounds

[limpid jay]

sword and shield will never not be the best combo

[mint dove]

Thoughts so far? I feel like I fucked up on the highlights

[faint star]

Highlights look fine. Yellow might need another coat though? Not sure how pronounced you want it

[tiny cairn]

What is your goal for this killteam? To get er done or are you targeting a technique/skill? The highlights on the helmet could be a little softer I think

[mint dove]

Oh yeah this is just the base

[mint dove]

Yeah I went back with the previous glaze color and kinda smoothed or back out

[tiny cairn]

I like that alot better

Lots of little cervices on eldar, very good brushwork practice models

[mint dove]

Sadly it's just the lighting

Because under light like this it looks like garbage

[faint star]

You and I have very different views of "garbage"

[mint dove]

Like this lighting is fine but if I put it under any actual light it looks shitty

[brisk vapor]

You don't want to be painting for it to look good under a harsh light, the white light you have in the previous picture is too close and too harsh

it's perfectly fine with the more natural light

even if it's a tad bit warm in tone

[balmy falcon]

How does this list look?
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

• FACTION KEYWORD: Imperium - Adeptus Custodes
• DETACHMENT: Lions of the Emperor (Against All Odds)
• TOTAL ARMY POINTS: 1000pts
• WARLORD: Char1: Blade Champion
• ENHANCEMENT:
• NUMBER OF UNITS: 6
• SECONDARY: - Assassination: 2 Characters
  +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Char1: 1x Blade Champion (120 pts): Warlord, Vaultswords
Char2: 1x Shield-Captain (120 pts): Guardian Spear

4x Custodian Guard (160 pts): 4 with Guardian Spear
4x Custodian Guard (160 pts): 4 with Guardian Spear

3x Allarus Custodians (180 pts): 3 with Balistus grenade launcher, Guardian Spear
5x Custodian Wardens (260 pts): 5 with Guardian Spear

[dull apex]

Why lions?

not a criticism, but what are you hoping to use lions for?

you're picking a detachment rule that only effects one unit in your army, which only has 3 models in it

imo Shield Host is a much better general detachment, especially if you're new to the tabletop

It just makes your melee weapons better, and makes your guys tougher

Also think about objectives and stuff

most 40k games are going to come down to objectives, not just killing stuff

with Shield Host, you can sticky and objective

which is super useful

[mint dove]

Probably the best I'm gonna get on this boy :/

[balmy falcon]

It looks awesome!

[balmy falcon]

Thank you, in all honesty I was looking up what good detachments were and Lions sounded good for the rolls and stuff, but it makes sense to use one that isn't reliant on your other units being too far away

[dull apex]

Lions can be very good, but only if you're running more allarus and going heavy on enhancements for characters. For lions you'd want to take a allarus shield captain, rather than just a normal captain

give him enhancements

[balmy falcon]

I see

[dull apex]

You can be an absolute menace with it

deep strike some allarus, then unleash the lions

go and murder a bunch of stuff

then use "from golden light"

each of them are now seperate units and use it individually

then you can deploy them again as seperate units later

[balmy falcon]

Interesting, I'll have to look into this

[dull apex]

yeah it's an aggressive playstyle

you have to be pretty confident in what you're doing to get utility out of it

[balmy falcon]

So probably best to stay away from it as a beginner

So that list with shield host looks okay?

[dull apex]

Yeah that's fine

Custodes is good because it's hard to mess up a list

[balmy falcon]

That's nice!

@dull apex Thank you for the help!

Any other tips for custodes?

What's the best ranged custodes detachment?

[dull apex]

none

If you're playing custodes, you mostly fight melee

[balmy falcon]

I see!

So, your goal is to close the gap as fast as possible and start swinging melee?

But also capture objectives

[rapid willow]

that is one Striking scorpion

[dull apex]

ya

[balmy falcon]

Sounds fun!

[balmy falcon]

Should a build the minis and then paint? Or should I paint them and then put them together?

[faint star]

Build then paint however you can also sub assemble them (leave heads seperate to paint on their own for example) if you want

However you do generally want the majority of the model together

[balmy falcon]

That makes sense, thank you 😊

[dull apex]

If you ever have a model with a cape, paint that separately

And yeah heads as well

With capes it’s very hard to paint the inside when it’s attached

[faint star]

Or just fuck it we ball and glue the head on lol

[dull apex]

Even though nobody can see it, you’ll know it’s there

And it will drive you insane

At least it does for me

Prime properly and thin your paints!!!!

If you’re buying retributor gold spray, shake it for 4 minutes!!!!

Keep it warm before spraying!!!!

It’s a very easy spray to mess up

There’s so many “why does my gold spray look bad” posts online

And it’s people just not using it properly

[faint star]

Not spraying everything the same colour hah! Look at this "advanced painting"

I only spray things in grey seer

(This is a joke)

[dull apex]

I airbrush now so I’m unshackled

I can spray whatever I want

[faint star]

Now I'm jealous

[dull apex]

It’s a peaceful life

[faint star]

No matter what primer you buy buy a pot of that primer colour too

[balmy falcon]

I'm thinking of using Montana Black gold chrome, as it ends up looking like actual polished gold when it's finished. I'll be running trials to make sure I don't fuck up a model with it tho

[dull apex]

There’s one issue you’ll have with that paint

Well technically a few

[faint star]

Isn't it a spray paint

[dull apex]

Yes, you can use it for minis though, it still works

But you’ll need to wait at least a day for it to dry

And don’t touch the minis at all during that time

Because it’ll fingerprint

The problem with very very reflective paints like that is because of how light hits the model

It’ll get rid of the detail

[balmy falcon]

Yeah, I've heard about the fingerprints

Funny stuff

[balmy falcon]

Oh, I see, could you do a black wash afterwards?

I'm assuming that would ruin the shine

[dull apex]

Yeah

[urban drum]

get rid of mold lines too if you care for it 🙂

[dull apex]

There are some good gold paints out there

Retributor gold with reikland flesh shade on it is always solid

[balmy falcon]

I've also seen people use silver ink and a brown / orange wash

[dull apex]

I’ve been experimenting a bit with scale75 necro gold

If you want something a bit darker

[balmy falcon]

Looks good

[dull apex]

That was before the wash anyways

I’m going for a much more dirty look

[balmy falcon]

What color wash are you gonna do? Black?

[dull apex]

I used an oil paint as a wash

Looked awesome in the end

[balmy falcon]

Cool!

[dull apex]

I’ve still got plenty to do

But if you want a more gritty gold

Necro is good

I have an old pic of one of my Custodes around

The first minis I ever painted

That’s Retributor gold with a slightly heavy silver dry brush

Then reikland on top

I gave them a bit of a worn look

[balmy falcon]

Looks good!

Sorry I meant to have an exclamation point lmao

I think the silver peaking through looks awesome!

[dull apex]

That was the whole gang

[balmy falcon]

Is there a catalog of different color schemes for each army?

[dull apex]

Yep

Usually in the codex

Custodes codex has loads of them

[faint star]

But it's your plastic

[dull apex]

Yeah

Some “not official” colour schemes I’ve seen for them are very cool

[balmy falcon]

👀😳 I'll have to take a look

[dull apex]

Aquilan Shields look cool

They go for purple instead of red

Their job is to go out and make sure people who’ve been prophesied to do something important are safe

[balmy falcon]

The shadowkeepers look cool

[visual bolt]

Not 40k, but instead...a better Warhammer system

(it's vermintides setting so I'm allowed to say that)

[balmy falcon]

@dull apex Is the maximum amount of points I can get from a single Custodian Guard box 280? Or am I missing another conversion or addition I can make with just the pieces in the box? (280 is with a unit of 4 custodes and a shield captain)

[vestal sluice]

Bro this is so good for first ever mini you did great 🔥

[dull apex]

Yep that’s the max

The current combat patrol for Custodes is exceptionally good

If you’re looking for best value for money

I’d recommend some sisters of silence as well

Just to keep on your home objective

You don’t want to be wasting Custodes by having them just sit at home

[dull apex]

Cheers, those were ages ago now

Much more money has been spent since then

I’m currently waiting on a bunch of aftermarket parts to finish off a 1K blood angels army

[balmy falcon]

What's the max on a sister's of silence box? Because the combat patrol is 760, can I get 240 from a sisters of silence?

[dull apex]

Remember your enhancements as well

Those cost points

Put them on your shield captain and blade Champion

That’s another 50+

You also don’t need to be dead on 1K either

If you’re doing a 1K army

It’s up to 1K

You’re basically always going to be a little bit off

[pale haven]

Hoping to get these 4

[surreal turret]

black templars have done the primaris conversion? do they use reivers and hellblasters?

[faint star]

I believe all of the chapters have primaris now

[marsh ether]

do you need perms to post pictures here?

[faint star]

Yeah just talk until your name is red

[marsh ether]

oh

[carmine kettle]

Yes they use everything except librarians.

[marsh ether]

librarians are cool

[compact umbra]

Any recommendations for brush on primers?

[sick ledge]

autoborne or golden, I tested a bunch and those were the only two that didnt leave horrible streaks

vallejo didnt leave horrible streaks but if the film became damaged at all the entire primer would peal off

proacryl had issues adhering to bare plastic

[compact umbra]

I’ve never heard of both of these, could you send pics of the bottle so I know what to get?

[compact umbra]

Thank you so much

[sick ledge]

Golden is a fantastic paint btw, if youre interested in mixinng your own colors at any point thats the paint to buy. Its hard to beat them

They are the leaders in fine art acrylics for a reason

[silver gull]

I'm very new to painting, got myself an airbrush

I think I did really well! But then my paint markers were runny/thick and ruined the teal/brass parts

I probably should've sanded the mold lines, but oh well

[dull apex]

This is an excellent work, especially for someone new to painting. If you have an airbrush, I’d recommend trying out some shading on some of your other models

Use a darker version of your primary base colour and spray the model from below

Use a wash over the top as well to really add some depth

[silver gull]

They are shaded, its just hard to tell

If it was in person, it would be far more noticeable

[dull apex]

Yeah home cameras especially are really bad for actually showing what stuff looks like

[silver gull]

They were actually darker in person than I expected

[dull apex]

My blood angels come across not so great on camera

[silver gull]

You might be able to see it in this video. They're under direct light from my airbrush booth as well

[dull apex]

Ah yep that’s much better

[silver gull]

Pretty proud of my little dudes

Took a lot of work since I don't like Space Wolves

[dull apex]

Yeah they’re very clean

[silver gull]

My custom chapter master Zenithal'ed

[dull apex]

You chose the best mk of helmet as well

[silver gull]

If you know Calgars model, you'll see I made A LOT of modifications

[dull apex]

Beaky helmets every time

[silver gull]

I use the Primaris Mk7-8 helmet, beakie and a couple Mk10 helmets

[dull apex]

Are you keeping them very clean or are you doing a bit of a dirty wash over the top?

[silver gull]

Gonna keep them clean I reckon, cuz I plan on doing blood splatters on them

Still gotta do the details on the beakie, like the under suit n such too

[compact umbra]

Ooo I’ll keep that in mind! I have been wanting to do a light green silver color and haven’t found a paint I liked yet

[sick ledge]

While this is my yellow, Golden soflat bismuth yellow performs the same its like $20 for a small bottle of it due to the high material cost of bismuth

its however completely worth it if you want a good opaque yellow thats also not toxic like cadmium

[compact umbra]

Oooooo

[dull apex]

WIP

[mint dove]

Finally finished my 100 day painting challenge! Here's everything I did!

[dull apex]

Thousand sons my beloved

[urban drum]

He even painted a thousand of them

[mint dove]

I painted 3 rubrics, found out I ONLY needed 3 rubrics then threw the rest in the junk drawer

[midnight cairn]

You're a machine!

[tiny cairn]

Which is your favorite @mint dove from the challenge?

I know you are talking about taking a break from painting for a bit but you should do some terrain too

[wild hazel]

Chimera chassis my beloved

[final rune]

Hey, how big are the Iron Jaws compared to 40K Orks?

[plush swift]

Proper nobz in mega armour them, or nobz at the smallest

[mint dove]

Probably the warpcoven

[twilit cliff]

Added some gubbins

[final rune]

Thanks, been wanting to kitbash a warboss that looks similar to Grimskull or Gorgutz

[plush swift]

Might want to pick up a megaboss for that?

[mint dove]

@sick ledge is it worth it to buy golden matte medium? Or is matte medium one of those products where it's gonna be a negligible difference from brand to brand

[sick ledge]

golden is very high quality but its leaner than other brands when it comes to additivees

I personally use both golden and liquitex

[mint dove]

I'll give them a go, I heard they're better for making glazes than using straight water because the medium extends the paint without diluting the pigment or weakening the binder

[sick ledge]

thats partially bullshit

adding medium will dilute the pigment

I have a wash medium recipe btw

[mint dove]

Oh do share

[graceful ledge]

Some of em haven’t been unlocked yet 🤷

[round bloom]

You didn’t get 200,000,000m studs yet

[twilit cliff]

Transfers done

[short pawn]

Can't decide what color armor to paint my wrecka krew

😡

[sick ledge]

yellow

[wild hazel]

Red (goes fasta)

[rare hornet]

Purple

[little geode]

Purple

[urban drum]

green

[silver thorn]

Man, I don't play orks but I was kind of sad they nerfed the oops all boyz detachment

I got stomped by it 3 times but it was always such a blast to play against

there was a guy at my store who combined his orks with his friends orks so he could field just a massive amount of boyz

it really felt like fighting off a huge horde

it was cool to because the painboyz(? I think thats what they were) are really strong in a huge unit.

[balmy falcon]

What gold is this?

[dull apex]

Scale75 necro gold

With Windsor and newton burnt umber oil paint as a wash

With no oil wash it looks like this

[urban drum]

put it back on

[dull apex]

Yeah the wash makes it look way better

[balmy falcon]

I just picked up some retributor gold, can I make it look anything like that?

[dull apex]

Retributor gold with reikland flesh shade on top basically always looks good

It won’t look exactly like what I’ve done there

The more wash you put on

The more “dirty” it gets

Necro gold is supposed to be a very dark gold

Whereas Retributor is supposed to be a more warm gold

[urban drum]

if you just had a brown and just lightly drybrushed gold onto that you might get something similar

🤷‍♂️

[dull apex]

If you can get some necro gold though I do recommend it

Very highly

It’s a bit of a pain to buy physically for me, I had to order it online

It goes on very easy though, from a normal brush and an airbrush

[dull apex]

Once you’ve been painting for a while you’ll end up slowly replacing citadel stuff

Because you’ll want to do things a bit different than how GW recommends

Retributor gold is still a very good gold paint

Especially for Custodes

When that new Vallejo metal stuff comes out I want try doing Custodes with that

God I’m so excited for those paints

[rugged vigil]

Ive rebased the Mortars and the Command squad is finally finished!

[dull apex]

Is he okay

[balmy falcon]

Would auric armour be the closest paint do this one?

[balmy falcon]

Ahhhh okay

[balmy falcon]

To clarify this is Scale75 Dwarven gold

[balmy falcon]

Thank you for the information :)

[dull apex]

Auric is for highlights, don’t use it as a base coat

Do a base coat of Retributor

Then you can do auric on top if you like

[balmy falcon]

Ah I see

In this picture they used charred brown by vallejo underneath

and then they do a dark wash on top of that gold

It's from this guide

https://www.goonhammer.com/how-to-paint-everything-adeptus-custodes-shadowkeepers/

[dull apex]

Yeah it’s because Retributor on top of a black primer is very annoying to paint

If you’re doing just normal all gold Custodes you can prime with Retributor spray which makes things a lot easier

[balmy falcon]

I'm gonna go out tomorrow and get some Rhinox Hide because they're all out of Charred Brown where I am

[faint star]

Love Rhinox hide

honestly one of my favourite paints

has a really nice subtle kinda purple to it at times

[sick ledge]

once you paint for a long time you start replacing all your hobby paints for stuff thats higher quality as a whole and for more control.

[dull apex]

And then you start airbrushing 😈

[sick ledge]

and then you start oil painting with lead white

[dull apex]

Delicious……

[dawn stream]

Ursarax

[deep fjord]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvsluP5ctMg

Battleforce price tags for everyone

[glass lintel]

Crazy story at the grand narrative this year:

I faced World Eaters four separate times-From the moment I first deployed my forces on Catachan, they hounded me. Finally, their forces cornered my own on the world of Sanctus.

They were aggressive, and fierce in close quarters-a perfect counter for the urban warfare-focused guardsmen of the Hexian 21st Hellions. (They had a lot of scout moves, we had a lot, so by halfway through turn one we were all standing pretty much right next to each other in the middle of the field). Forced in the thick of it with the Chaos marines, and unable to destroy them at range, we were left with one choice: Charge first.

With a brief thought towards our faction priorities (kill enemy leadership), a unit of kasrkin disembarked and engaged a chaos lord riding a juggernaut, first with arms, then charging him, finally killing the chaos lord with a ramming attack from the wheeled chimera that disembarked the guardsmen.

For my other squad, a worse fate was in store. A demon prince of Khorne, swollen with the power of Chaos (and quite lovingly kitbashed, I might add-There's a reason he won best display board this year) assaulted the unit of kasrkin escorting my own warlord, a castellan. It slew them in an instant, killing ten men in a single fight phase, with only the castellan to survive, wounded at that.

The impossible happened: he drew his power sword, and engaged the Khornate beast. Remarkably, the castellan, engaging in melee combat with one of the most powerful threats on the planet, managed to slay it in single combat. We even called the vox localum (guys who oversee the event in each room in character) over to watch-This was the type of thing that deserved to be recorded.

Anyway, after the battle concluded (I still lost, but my warlord survived to tell the tale), we posed the minis for this picture. My opponent had only seen the mini die twice since he built it, and I was proud to be one of the ones to banish it.

[glass lintel]

Evil gue vesa to shoot with my good and righteous shadowsword

(I actually really like what you did with this)

[midnight locust]

Thanks! Another model off my backlog

[brisk vapor]

Truly the greatest model in the Heresy range

[urban drum]

He's horusing his heresy for sure

[twilit cliff]

The dead guy is so good lmao

Been wanting to do something like that but never got aroudn to it

Painted this lil heretic last night

And today I touched up my KT's plasma gunner

[short pawn]

I need to see how you paint this

I will be checking every day

[brisk vapor]

This might be a long one which will have others done in between

[urban drum]

Ole steelhelm head

You don't do glows?

[twilit cliff]

Nah, I was happy with how it looked and i didn't want to risk mucking it up

maybe in the future

The steelhelm actually required a bit of doing to get it to fit in

and it's not 100% snug

[short pawn]

Any advice on getting this kinda black armor for my own wrecka krew?

[sick ledge]

thats dark grey not black Basically a 1 to 1 black and white with a little brown in it

[urban drum]

it maybe looks black contrast over grey or white and then with a bristly ass brush lightly drybrushed wear on, kind of like stippling

[brisk vapor]

It looks exactly like that

[twilit cliff]

If not using contrast, try Corvus Black with a drybrush of uhh

leadbelcher?

[brisk vapor]

Started with Maloghurst by airbrushing on the base tones

[balmy falcon]

My first time painting warhammer WIP

[dull apex]

This is very good so far, probably 90% of people starting out just cannot stay within the lines, but you’ve kept it pretty clean

[balmy falcon]

It's pretty hard on the hands doing such small detail work

[dull apex]

If you don’t have one already, a table mounted magnifying glass makes a night and day difference

[balmy falcon]

Yeah, I've been thinking about getting one, it seems like a really good idea

[dull apex]

Time to cook

[torpid wolf]

My Birthday gift

[proper falcon]

Pretty nice

I would show my traitor guard but cant

I finished some plague ogyrns

[torpid wolf]

Nice

[dull apex]

WIP

[balmy falcon]

Beautiful 😍

[balmy falcon]

Added red and nuln oil

Also disassembled him

[dull apex]

Time to edge highlight

[balmy falcon]

Yessir!! I also have to do the head

[pale haven]

https://showzstore.com/joytoy-source-1-18-warhammer-40k-chaos-space-marines-black-legion-chosen-with-bolt-pistol-and-power-fist_p6805.html

https://showzstore.com/joytoy-jt3297-1-18-warhammer-40k-ultramarines-primaris-captain_p4482.html

found the 2 i'm gonna get

[visual turret]

I have a joytoy kit

I got the Techmarine

[balmy falcon]

I'm not sure what else I would do on this one, but I think I might be finished :)

[wide agate]

Love to see some Crimson Fists action

[sand stratus]

He's been on my pile for quite a while

[wide agate]

Crimson Fists are one of the many, many armies on my long list of armies I'd like to do eventually. Pedro Kantor is the GOAT, as is Alessio

[balmy falcon]

Any recommendations or constructive criticism is highly encouraged! Should I paint the top portion of the gun a different color?

[tiny cairn]

It seems too clean, closer to a joy toy than a character in the world, obviously there are spots that can be touched up to make it look even cleaner where you missed some spots but it depends on what ur goal for the model is

[balmy falcon]

Well! That's high praise! This is my first mini so I wasn't 100% sure which colors to put where as I was following a guide for custodes and thought I would try my hand at doing the color scheme on a space marine! Thank you for the advice, I'll keep it in mind moving forward

[tiny cairn]

For a first mini you did a good job keeping in the lines for the most part, I've seen a lot worse for first timers

[balmy falcon]

Where were the places that were missed? Also what color would you suggest I paint the top part of the gun (part closer to chest) if you think that it would look better / contrast better with more color

[faint star]

you did great yeah but I'd agree the gun needs to be a different colour. Right now it just blends into teh mdoel

[balmy falcon]

This part should be silver / gunmetal 100%

[faint star]

The casing should be a different colour too

[tiny cairn]

Metallic on the skull on flamer cannister. Maybe on the piping around it too. The ultramarine symbol is not fully covered on the sides of it

[balmy falcon]

This is very true, I scrapped a bit of the ultramarine logo off on one side trying to remove other paint and completely forgot to add the paint back that I removed

Maybe i go with red like this

[faint star]

Not a bad call

Watching a black templar fan be born in real time

[urban drum]

Have you thought about doing more edge highlighting like that templar there

highlighting your metals with a whiter metallic

And doing the helmet earpads and tubing in metal as well

[balmy falcon]

I would do more with the helmet, but I feel like my current brush is too big to get as detailed as I would want it, also I haven't thought of outlining my metals in a whiter metallic, thank you for the suggestion :)

[urban drum]

i did mean doing a more complete edge highlighting as well, though i guess youve glued him together at this point which makes doing a few of those now a bit hard

how big is your brush by the way

[dull apex]

this is excellent, especially since you're new to painting. As others have said, I think the main thing is improving the weapon

[balmy falcon]

Actually! I haven't glued him together yet! So I could go back and do this!!

[dull apex]

It doesn't help that painting black space marines well can be quite difficult

[balmy falcon]

I didn't know where the most common edge highlighting spots were so I was just guessing @urban drum

[dull apex]

you're basically entirely reliant on highlights

[urban drum]

oh, id consider that a reasonably small brush for details

[balmy falcon]

Oh sick! I think I was just scared at messing up the eyes, as I was going to try and do two different layers on them

But yeah, I could probably do the tubing on the head in a gunmetal

[balmy falcon]

I'll try and replicate these lines with my current highlight and I'll report back! Thank you for the recommendations! :)

[urban drum]

if you want to sink a bit of time into edge highlighting heres a bit of reading you could do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UVbfQlxNZE

[rugged vigil]

He's dead Jimbo 🫡

[rugged vigil]

Warped Factory has some great prints! But 100 USD is a bit much to ship now 😬

New Progress is Heavy Stubber teams coordinator, and rebased the Heavy stubber gunner since the original bases I ordered didnt fit the Hvy team 🥲

[dull apex]

Bit more progress

[balmy falcon]

@urban drum
Time for the gunmetal / silver on the pipes and earphones

[wide agate]

Far worse chapters to be picked lol. The Templars are one of my favorites, although I'm primarily a Dark Angels fan

[orchid atlas]

Magos Dominus !

[visual turret]

One day I'll get Cawl......

maybe in the summer when my Primer won't crackle immediastely

[balmy falcon]

Should I put nuln oil on after I highlight? Or before?

[rare hornet]

Before I would say

The highlights are generally what you do last

[balmy falcon]

Ah I see

[rare hornet]

Plus it lets you clean up any bits of the wash that you might have gotten on the wrong parts

I.E if you was just doing a recess shade

[balmy falcon]

Makes sense

[rare hornet]

Ye

[balmy falcon]

So I would do it at this stage, and then highlight afterwards

[rare hornet]

Yeah, pop the nuln oil on, give it a good bit of time to dry, then you can clean up any parts you’re not happy with afterwards

Then you do the highlights

[balmy falcon]

👍

[balmy falcon]

Nuln + highlight

[dull apex]

Mate you’re killing it, very nice work

[dull apex]

Throw some reikland flesh shade on the red part of the gun

[balmy falcon]

Is reikland a brown wash?

I'll have to go buy some

[past flint]

I'll start

[balmy falcon]

WOW! Those are awesome!

[past flint]

Thank you! I painted mine as Forge World Deimos

I'm working on some necrons right now

[dull apex]

Yep, gives a more sort of dirty and weathered look

[balmy falcon]

Ah I see! I'll have to pick some up

[balmy falcon]

Would Agrax Earthshade create a similar effect?

[dull apex]

Yeah that should be fine

[sick ledge]

technically its dark red that looks brown

[dull apex]

All done

[pastel nova]

Hi, I got a bunch of pictures from a tournament 2 weeks ago in sweden, how do I get a ok to post them? :D

[dull apex]

basically you attach them to a message

and hit enter

throw them in

[pastel nova]

The pic thinge is greyed out

Might be because I joined last evening

[dull apex]

ah yeah

you just have to stick around for a bit

[pastel nova]

Dang, oke

[brisk vapor]

Once you have the orange name role it'll give you image permissions

you get it by chatting

[dull apex]

yeah, good info Jerk o Matic

[pastel nova]

Ah I see!

Fun to meet the swedish 40k team, and see they are sponsored by fatshark :D

One team who allways comes to the tourney, called go go harambee rangers, they had a awsome army of admech, with a full on cowboy theme

[keen urchin]

Just ordered my first lil Ork Warband

Any recommendations for spare parts and stuff for base decorations?

Wanted to kinda make swamp ass Orks

With crocodile Squigs

[glossy hawk]

get yourself some beastboyz

[keen urchin]

I figured the grots would be great to start off painting. Used to do it a few years back but never got fully into it.

[pastel nova]

Tape the sides up and pour a tiny blob of epoxy to make it look like they are treading water?

[keen urchin]

That’s actually a phenomenal idea

I’m more worried about the skin texture on the squigs tho

How would I go about getting that nice scale patten

[pastel nova]

That's abit harder unless you are top with freehand painting

[keen urchin]

My first idea was using some green stuff and just carving it myself LOL

at least along the spine of all my squigs

Maybe make some scales separated from the model itself and then slap em on the model?

[pastel nova]

If memory serves me, I think squigs got scales already

[urban drum]

theyre more leathery than scaly

[keen urchin]

Yeah I want them to look more reptilian

I’m talking the thick slabs of scales on crocs

[plain granite]

A tau

[balmy falcon]

Holy crap! Bro those lines are crisp 😍

[polar crypt]

@brisk vapor

Someone told me you're the resident artist in this server.

How would one go about getting those kind of edge highlights done?

Any tool you recommend?

[brisk vapor]

uhh aah huh

Sorry I was cooking

[faint star]

Took you two whole minutes to reply smhmyhead

[brisk vapor]

I presume this is continuation of the tag I got in #40k-lore-chat

but a fine sable brush, probably size 0 or 1, and a lot of practice

use the brush's side, not the tip

[balmy falcon]

What type of model is this? (Like what faction)

[polar crypt]

Yes, my bad chief.

[polar crypt]

Gotcha.

[polar crypt]

No clue. 30k though.

[brisk vapor]

It's a Sons of Horus Cataphractii Terminator

@balmy falcon

[polar crypt]

Pre-ordered the Krieg battleforce box. Pretty excited to get started on those.

Ordered Vulkan He'stan aswell to finish up my Salamanders, can't wait for it to arrive so I can finish and move onto the next project

[balmy falcon]

Shoot, it looks sick!

[brisk vapor]

Cheers, here's the finished one🫡

[balmy falcon]

Lovely! It literally looks perfect

[brisk vapor]

Much appreciated

[balmy falcon]

I just started painting minis recently, this is my first model and I was wondering where the areas you think I need the most improvement are

[brisk vapor]

Hm, you've got a good brush control already, not much overlap onto wrong panels and the like, so I'm sure you can manage thinner highlights if you'd want to go for that

I'm not a very good teacher though

[polar crypt]

First mini? Brotherrrrrrr

That's great

[faint star]

He just picks up a model then blacks out for a few hours and suddenly the masterpieces appear

[polar crypt]

Way better than my first.

[brisk vapor]

yeah pretty much

[faint star]

First model v my most recent

I also found out camera settings are a thing

I hate bases to this day

[balmy falcon]

Ahhh okay, so I'd want to probably go with a thinner brush then

[brisk vapor]

and to continue, you could do a highlight of a darker colour first, closer to the original tone, which can be a bit thicker, then have a more precise highlight with the brighter colour

Looking up tutorials by Duncan will definitely help anyone starting painting

either the old ones on Warhammer youtube channel or the newer ones on TwoThinCoats

[balmy falcon]

Thank you 😊

[polar crypt]

This was my first or second mini

Fuckin drowned them in Nuln Oil

Mistakes have been made

[balmy falcon]

Is the most recent a dwarf?

[faint star]

Leagues of Votann so basically yes

Space dwarf

[balmy falcon]

Very cool! It's looks amazing

[polar crypt]

And my most recent mini.

Blasting doom metal during paint sesh with the boys is a vibe btw

[polar crypt]

Np chief.

[balmy falcon]

Will do! Thank you

[polar crypt]

Still need to edge highlight 1065 points worth of minis tho. Really looking forward to it. 🫩

[brisk vapor]

Edge highlighting an army is a really good way of learning brush control and painting good

[balmy falcon]

Ahh so something like this dude has on his arms?

[brisk vapor]

pretty much how I learned

[polar crypt]

Good thing I'm doing that before my Krieg battleforce comes in then.

[brisk vapor]

ye exactly, makes the change from base to highlight less sudden

[polar crypt]

Looking forward to painting astra militarum but it also seems challenging considering the size difference.

[balmy falcon]

Yeah! It makes it look super smooth

This is my current smallest brush, I was wondering what you guys would recommend for a smaller brush to do finer details?

My next mini will be a custodian guard, so I assume I'll need a finer brush

These dudes seem to have so many tiny details

[plain granite]

It's more about the tip of it vs the size of the brush itself. A good size 0 or 1 is honestly fine for most details barring like eyes.

[balmy falcon]

@plain granite So, do you think this brush is small enough?

[plain granite]

The tip looks a little blunted, does it still come to a fine point?

[balmy falcon]

Yeah, in that pic it looks a little stubby but it does still come to a point if shaped

[plain granite]

Then I think it should be fine. Though the thick handle may make getting it into some crevices a pain lol.

[balmy falcon]

Yeah it was a little tough to maneuver

[balmy falcon]

What size would you say that brush is?

[plain granite]

0 or 1 I think.

[balmy falcon]

I see

I'd like to pick up a 0 or 00 for smaller details for sure

[plain granite]

I've got like a 5/0 for eyes, but I just use that for the whites, and then a micron pen for pupils.

[balmy falcon]

Has anyone in here ever used paint pens for edge highlighting? And if so, how did it go?

[rare hornet]

I haven’t but I know someone who has, they’ve very much like the result and apparently it was very easy, I’ll grab you their image

[balmy falcon]

Wow those look pretty solid!

[polar crypt]

Looks really nice.

[rare hornet]

He did say they are much better for vehicles than on infantry

[polar crypt]

I've also seen a post on IG of some guy using a sillicone toothpick to edge highlight the crevices on vehicles/dreadnoughts

Ima give that a try lol

[balmy falcon]

If I can find a paint pen with a fine enough tip it might be good for normal minis too

[pastel nova]

That highlight is awsome

[urban drum]

Only being able to edge highlights in the pen colour sounds like a deal-breaker for me

[brisk vapor]

The size isn't actually that important, as long as the tip is very sharp it can do any precision work. Very small sizes have the disadvantage of having a tiny belly on them so the paint reservoir will dry up very very quickly, sometimes before even getting the brush from the palette to the model

[balmy falcon]

Yeah, I can see that being an issue

[brisk vapor]

These are my favourites at the moment, sizes 2 and 0

[balmy falcon]

Any particular brand? And are they synthetic?

[brisk vapor]

Natural, kolinsky afaik. These particular ones were from a kickstarter by Mindwork Games, but any kolinsky will usually do

Also: Quite positively surprised how well these metallics turned out and how much they improved the look so far

[balmy falcon]

I can't wait to see what type of wash / shade you put on them to make them look grimy!

(Unless you aren't, which is cool too)

[brisk vapor]

I'll do a very selective oil "wash" at for the final steps. The volumes in the gold are quite good already so I don't want to muddy them up too much

[balmy falcon]

Fair enough! What gold is that?

[brisk vapor]

it's a mix of like 4 or 5 paints 😄

[balmy falcon]

Nice haha

[brisk vapor]

darker areas are a mix of couple browns and black mixed with retributor armour and the lighter areas are either a mix of retributor armour and vallejo metal color gold or just metal color gold

[balmy falcon]

I see

[vale crest]

Today I will paint an infernus marine

It has been 12 years

Emperor steady my hand

[pastel nova]

Ooooh lovely bronze!

[glad pasture]

Presenting my first mini ever, ultrabob of ultramar

[balmy falcon]

I love him!

All Hail Ultrabob!

[mint dove]

Need some advice on color chouce for a paint that matches this horses coat. I was thinking of doing a base of dryad bark, washed with agrax earth shade, then drybrush gorthor brown then baneblade brown but I'm not sure, any advice?

[dull apex]

maybe ask the horse

could have some insight

[faint star]

mornfang brown base?

[mint dove]

I thought of that but it may be a bit too orange

[sick ledge]

its basically just raw sienna and white

So tau ochre base

xv-88?

w/e its called

[mint dove]

Hmm yeah xv-88 washed with agrax, then layered up with tau light oche and ungor flesh may get me there,

[sick ledge]

Dont forget the mixer exists, youre smart enough to extrapolate from it

[mint dove]

You're right, I'm thinking of maybe mixing in more and more ivory into the xv-88 and dry brushing in smaller and smaller areas

Looking at the coat theres not so much highlights like you do on metal or leather but it's like the fur has an all over sheen

[keen urchin]

Boys

I think I got the perfect idea for my orks and squigs

I’m thinking a nice red on the Orks, something unusual

And then I want to attempt to paint my squigs black

But from what I’ve read so far I would wanna start with a grey base and then nuln oil? To get the black but to still have some shading

[urban drum]

i think thatd get you a dark grey with some shadowy pits

im not sure itd produce black

[mint dove]

Kinda the opposite, you'd want to start black and work your way up

[keen urchin]

That’s legit the opposite of everything I’ve read so far

What black would you recommend then? Should I prime em black?

[urban drum]

have you considered black contrast

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/i4tPq3_6tI4

[keen urchin]

Not very familiar with how to paint orks. Painted Lizardmen for a short time in HS and haven’t done it in forever

[mint dove]

If I wanted something to read as black I'd prime black then add gentle highlights, like my mandrakes, I wanted them to have black skin with a hint of blue so I based in black, and highlighted with dark reaper and black in increasing parts til I got to just pure dark reaper

[keen urchin]

That black is not as nearly dark as I would like

[keen urchin]

Do you happen to have pictures of your mandrakes?

I do much better with a visual reference LMAO

[urban drum]

well of course you could start at grey as well instead of white like he did

and if you want more recess shade you could hit it with nuln oil

[keen urchin]

I actually think what he did followed up by a layer or two of nuln oil might be perfect actually

[mint dove]

Here's the recipie I used, not my pictures

[keen urchin]

I want my squigs to be dark black, with a reddish spine

[keen urchin]

That’s actually really nice!

I think Black legion would work perfectly actually for what I have planned. Follow it up with Nuln oil and maybe some grayish highlights

I’m really not too confident in my color theory so it might look better in my head though LOL

First time painting squigs too so I have no idea what I truly want

I’ll have to sacrifice a squig I suppose. Start testing out the black when my $150 of paint arrives next week

[keen urchin]

Wait wait wait. Red base with black contrast. Would it come out nice?

[brisk vapor]

I'd believe it would just read as black because the black contrast paint isn't transparent enough for a nice red gradient to show up

[keen urchin]

Well that was kinda the point

Even if it doesn’t show up the reds I have are pretty damn dark

So it’ll just add to the darker effect, and I can highlight with some lighter reds instead of grays

[brisk vapor]

It would be somewhat the same as just painting with black I reckon. Black contrast on white gives some highlights on raised areas but with a red base I'm not sure if those will show up at all

but it could be worth a try

maybe with a thinned down black contrast

with the medium they sell

[keen urchin]

Woah I haven’t even messed with medium

I have a bad habit of trying to plan everything out before I even start

I don’t even have my models built yet

But I don’t want my squigs to look like everyone else’s LOL

I’m really hooked on this black and red idea

[urban drum]

a redback spider squig

thatd be fun

[keen urchin]

Oooh wait a minute.

You’ve given me an idea

Pale Orks on Redback spider squigs

Oh my god

[rare hornet]

Chalk white orks

Go mad max style

[urban drum]

literal leadbelchers

[keen urchin]

YES

thank you fellas for the brainstorming

I found a nice paint scheme for the white orks already

[rare hornet]

Witness me!!!!

[keen urchin]

Wraithbone base, and maybe a really diluted mix of Magos and Dreadful visage?

To get that kinda pinkish/purple hue

[rare hornet]

Possibly? You’re better off asking someone else more familiar to working with whites

[keen urchin]

On mostly eyes, ears, thinner parts of the skin

[keen urchin]

Yeah LOL probably

I’m not familiar with painting orks in the slightest so this is brand new to me

[rare hornet]

Full send it

[keen urchin]

Already have a sacrificial squig and grot picked out for…. testing purposes.

Just gotta wait the fuckin 2 weeks for shipping

[balmy falcon]

How would you guys recommend priming a head separately? Maybe use blu tack or something?

[keen urchin]

Glue it on a toothpick.

[brisk vapor]

I use old paint pots and blutack/equivalent

[balmy falcon]

I see! Thank you

[opal bough]

My Necromunda Kitbashed Mutant gang using poxwalker, hive scum, and cultist parts

[faint star]

They're fun

[balmy falcon]

Holy crap

Bro straight up painted the sprue! It looks amazing!

[keen urchin]

ILLEGAL

YOU DISGUST ME LMAO

[wild hazel]

i refuse to drill a little hole and mount it to a stick with silly putty to paint faces, so be it

[polar crypt]

Gotta do what you gotta do chief. Your minis, your process.

https://tenor.com/view/improvise-adapt-overcome-bear-grylls-gif-10468556

[round bloom]

Why waste the perfectly good stick

You already have it connected to something

[keen urchin]

What would yall highlight black legion with?

[brisk vapor]

Corvus Black mixed with Fenrisian Grey

[keen urchin]

Oooh I’ll have to try that

[brisk vapor]

Do that and then do a lighter mix with more fenrisian grey for the lighter highlights

[keen urchin]

My question is how would Black Legion look over a base of like a really dark red?

And if I tried to kinda highlight with a lighter red, how black could I have it without having like 0 shading LOL

[brisk vapor]

I think it would just be black, contrast paints aren't really good over dark colours

but testing it would yield concrete results, I've not really used contrast paints that much as they're "intended" to be used

I mostly use them as glazes to slightly modulate the colours beneath

[keen urchin]

That’s fair

With me never painting squigs before it’s kind of a toss up on how it’ll come out

I would’ve tested it by now but my paints shipping and gonna take like 2 weeks to arrive..

I just cannot stand half the colors I see squigs painted as, and of course the one color I wanna use I’ve never seen anyone paint on a squig LMAO

Everyone either paints em red, pink, blue, or green

[brisk vapor]

Greens are rather rare as well tbh

there was one GD entry this year that had them green but other than that I've not really seen those

[keen urchin]

I just wanted mine to stand apart from the rest a lil bit

Legit I’ve seen I think, one black squig?

And it was a Squigosaur

Nobody has painted a small squig black

[dull apex]

All primed and built

[tiny cairn]

I like orange and purple squigs when they're in a pack

[keen urchin]

Such a strange combo but to each their own!

I just thought black and red would match the albino orks better

[tiny cairn]

It's not orange+purple squigs it's, orange squigs mixed with purple squigs in a pack, looks Halloweeny

[balmy falcon]

Amen! 🙏

All hail the halloweeny squigs!

[steady geyser]

Drip or drown chat

[balmy falcon]

Beautiful 😍

@dull apex Whats the point of a vexilus praetor?

[dull apex]

+1 wounds and +1 OC

He’s not really a separate unique unit

He’s just a guard with extra war gear

[balmy falcon]

I see

So I can just run him in a normal guard unit?

[dull apex]

Yep

There’s a fair few 3 damage weapons in the game

Which will kill your Custodes in 1 hit

The shield is good because in the case that you really get some terrible rolls

And an attack makes it through

He can tank it

[light kite]

makin everyones favorite slug

[dull apex]

She has the high döner

[keen urchin]

Definitely did not just order $200 worth of models and then $300 in paint…

[dull apex]

We’ve all been there

[keen urchin]

The wait for the package is the worst part man

[dull apex]

Is this your first army?

[keen urchin]

Actually yeah!

I dabbled with some lizardmen back in the day but they were the really cheap shitty models

This is my first actual army. Been interested in the hobby for years and I’ve watched enough videos to entertain an iPad kid

[dull apex]

You better thin your paints

If I see you post a picture of non thin paints I’ll go feral

[deep fjord]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA6TNIdLEuY

[keen urchin]

One of the first things I learned LOL

Tbh a lot of it’s just overthinking

I know once I actually get my models and assemble them I’ll be a lot more prepared to paint em

[sick ledge]

I dont thin my paints ever

pointless to do

in fact I thicken them a lot

[keen urchin]

King of gaslighting

[sick ledge]

Not in the slightest actually. I make my own paints

thats the trick

[keen urchin]

Oh