40k-minis-and-armies

[brisk vapor]

I'll keep it as is most likely

[heady veldt]

Lucky bastard painting good faces

https://tenor.com/view/better-call-saul-what-a-sick-joke-not-jimmy-chuck-mcgill-he-defecated-through-a-sunroof-gif-18287410639578020002

(Jokes aside great work)

[brisk vapor]

thanks

[heady veldt]

Just constructive criticism!

What’s next

Drawing hands?

[brisk vapor]

anything with enough practice

[heady veldt]

https://tenor.com/view/nba-gif-15687325833433865178

[brisk vapor]

https://tenor.com/view/skeleton-mad-skeleton-gif-10886506202898815019

[burnt sable]

Hey everyone, new to painting and horribly scared of screwing up so I'm looking for second opinions

Primed with wraithbone, is this about the right amount, too light, or too heavy?

[brisk vapor]

It seems fine

[rare hornet]

You might want to do a layer or two with bottle wraithbone to clean any bits the spray might have missed, but that’s up to you

[burnt sable]

Not a bad idea tbh, I'll probably brush some of the thinner areas later

Ngl I'm paranoid because when I last worked on these guys, I primed in humid conditions and primed too much

[rare hornet]

If you plan to do contrast paints it’ll be worth doing

[burnt sable]

So I don't want to relive 3 days of paint stripping

Oh yeah these are imperial fist so I'm going to be using their contrast paint

[faint star]

That's a classic dw

You did good

[burnt sable]

One of the perils of living in the American south lmao

I'd say the imperial fists are a good fit for me because, as you can imagine, when that first happened I tweaked out over making a silly mistake

[pale haven]

just got these 2

[faint star]

I love building the kit I hate priming it

Painting it is fine

I'm trying to do a base coat a day after work for new years (within reason) because I figured it just gets me a step closer every day

Technically 2 of those models are legal

Since they have 3 colours

[faint star]

That's so good

[floral wind]

Thanks! First mini of the year

[sick ledge]

you can skip priming if you want, its not actually required

I have some research articles on this if youre interested

[brisk vapor]

More work work work

[midnight cairn]

More worth, worth, worth

[odd vale]

My second ever space marine (wip) but Im really looking forward to seeing my sons all finished 🥺

[tiny cairn]

I am curious about that

[light kite]

Iron within

[autumn monolith]

FIRE UP THE ENGINES SARGEANT TYCE MY SWORD NEEDS A BLOODING

My custom lionheart is ready for priming and painting

And of course it has THE GREAT RAXIMILLION DRAGOR at the command

The back is also more or less correct to the game

[tight musk]

Pain(ting)

[slate crypt]

second death guard i’ve ever painted, took a long break and came back and i’m happy with what i’ve done. maybe 60-70% of the way done

[midnight cairn]

I'm really hoping for new warrior models in the not so distant future.

[tight musk]

Same. But I honestly like the ranged weapons the warriors get

[midnight cairn]

Yeah, just the bodies could have used an update just like the gaunts.

[tight musk]

So I decided to give them all ranged weapons. I wanted them all specifically to use Barbed Stranglers but unfortunately as far as I could tell, they don't all come in the box with those

[drowsy hare]

Not warhammer but first mini finished of the year

[round bloom]

Master Chief you mind telling me what your doing in Warhammer 40k

[drowsy hare]

Sir for the emperor

[plain violet]

I got me some Axisboyos made :>

[lethal lion]

Just finished Leontus after about a week 🙂

[jaunty trail]

Another Squad done.

[slate pond]

made some progress on my dawg

[brisk vapor]

Lots of little and larger details today, some refined and some just starting to take shape

[short pawn]

Might be my new favorite piece of yours

[brisk vapor]

Glad to hear it, definitely one of my favourite sculpts I've worked on

[solar dome]

I'm a terrible painter but for my defense it's been more than 10 years since last time I painted minis. Since I have a 20k pts apocalypse planned for next month I had to take off the dust from my minis, assemble them an paint them and eventually... kitbash them.

I also painted a cursed custom mini I'm using as pfp but I'm so ashamed of how hard I butchered the paintjob I dare not show it

[ionic kindle]

They were… disarmed

[solar dome]

arms are paid DLCs

[ionic kindle]

Along with voice modulators for their chassis

[solar dome]

Dreadnoughts are clearly dalek fans

[sinful jetty]

HES MAKING A ROBOCHAD NOW WOOOOOOOO

[solar dome]

Don't talk to me or my son ever again

[solar dome]

https://tenor.com/view/so-old-gif-27277116

[brisk vapor]

Metals should be far enough now that I won't be needing any metallic paints for the rest of the project, hopefully

[faint star]

fucking hell man

it's just insane

[brisk vapor]

Thank ye

[marsh perch]

Custom lokhust destroyer lord

[tranquil summit]

[tranquil summit]

Oh, dude, those are fuckin sweet

Such a nice red

[fleet sleet]

So true
Got Kharn the betrayer yesterday so I’ll be painting him soon (tm)

[tranquil summit]

yes

I request to see when you finish

[fleet sleet]

Sure thing
Tragic that he’s still a manlet marine

Please update his model GW

[wintry solstice]

Soul Drinker Judiciar

[left crescent]

No way it's the UltraTau

[solar dome]

Iron dudes go !

[left crescent]

https://giphy.com/gifs/shield-rah-hardpunjabigifs-FIxqsozdqLDHftboUt

[solar dome]

Pretty much

[regal nexus]

Its the colors of the Sa'cea sept

And i used The Fang

[left crescent]

UltraTau

[solar dome]

UltraTaus

The most despicable faction in the galaxy

[wary sonnet]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/683841055103385601/1465368622997442633/26-01_image3-knvdfm18mc.jpg?ex=6978da60&is=697788e0&hm=d94dafc83bdf44e9f0a04202d6d4f3393a1c8e664496e20334d8ab48448d74f8&

[midnight cairn]

For a moment, I thought he had implanted nails... Looks pretty rad.

[cloud cave]

is this for horus heresy or 40k

these are the old ones right

wait no

horus heresy ones lwk looks good

[solar dome]

bro over there taunting me with flawless hazard stripes

[trail ridge]

Is this the Space King everyone is talking about?

[sinful jetty]

My god that’s actually genius for a Castellan paint job lmao

[solar dome]

lmao I see it now

castellans are like

[valid nest]

Dude is that a Deathwatch Raptor?

[sand stratus]

Yep, based of my in game character

[valid nest]

I love that.

What game?

SM2?

[sand stratus]

Yep

[peak flicker]

Almost there. Some weathering and decals. Need to practice freehanding the Lucius Forge World symbol tonight

[brisk vapor]

Filling in little details

[solar dome]

another radioactive skitariibro for my android wranglers, dang they all look like sadomasochists

[nocturne steppe]

VATS capable marine

[brisk vapor]

Pretty close now, the shoulder will need a lot more work still, but hopefully I'll manage to finish this with oils tomorrow

[teal wolf]

@sick ledge do you still suggest Golden for Fluorescents??

[sick ledge]

I dont suggest fluos at all due to them fading in a few weeks typicaally, but the golden ones are way better than the hobby ones and dont fade as quickly

[teal wolf]

👀 Oh yeah? Ill try a bottle and go from there. Thanks duude

[sick ledge]

They are way more vibrant

I stole this picture from another server. Left is vallejo and right is golden fluos

as you can see, the vibrancy is insane compared to the vallejo one

[teal wolf]

Yeah thats way better

[thin snow]

Some of my traitor guard that I'm working upon

[brisk vapor]

Hell yeah

[thin snow]

My dumb ass thought it'd be a good idea to convert an entire army of blood pact/sons of sek

But they will be imperial guard proxies

[brisk vapor]

worth it

[faint star]

That first one is so rad

[thin snow]

He's part of the tempestus aquilon squad I'm making

[faint star]

That's so damn cool excellent work

[brisk vapor]

Was there an equivalent unit in Sons of Sek? Can't recall one from the Gaunt books, but it's still a very cool concept

[thin snow]

Not really, I just remembered the one gas giant world that the tanith fought on and made an assumption that the blood pact/sons of sek would have jump pack infantry

I was honestly thinking a specialized death brigade division

[brisk vapor]

Ye, it's cool

Are you planning on including Loxatl

Can't really think of what they could proxy as though

[thin snow]

That's what I was having trouble with

[brisk vapor]

Kasrkin?

[thin snow]

Once I had enough spare sprues I was gonna make wirewolf proxies for bullgryns

[thin snow]

I mean I already have both the regular kasrkin and proxy 3d models getting ready to be built, and I'm not creative enough to make proxies for all the different kasrkin weapons

I could bring them in as aquilons, but I already have enough in my list

[brisk vapor]

Ah

[midnight cairn]

Aquilon body on goremonger legs is awesome!

[pale pelican]

@lyric spoke https://vincentknotley.wordpress.com/2025/08/09/vulkan-hestan-alternative-covenant-of-fire-colour-scheme-and-recipe-card/

[faint star]

2 more 6 to go

[lyric nimbus]

Sons of Sek?

[mental sparrow]

https://www.instagram.com/p/DT4-1hRgfre/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

[thin snow]

A mix of blood pact and sons of sek

[brisk vapor]

Managed to get this far yesterday. Had to call it quits for now at this point because of a deadline today and I'll be away for the weekend. Will most likely improve some areas later and will be making a gaming base for it as well

[valid nest]

What would y'all recommend for a Mechanicus starter box?

[solar dome]

start collecting

[silk vale]

Or the boarding patrol

[quartz rain]

Combat Patrol is the current one

[hushed tangle]

My January painting progress

[vernal haven]

WIP

[midnight cairn]

Impressive, are you painting as a full time job? 😆

[hushed tangle]

Nope. Just used every single bit of free time I had. No tv. No videogames. Barely any exercise... etc etc. I wont be as productive next month though.

[naive umbra]

I finished paining these Blightlord Terminators this weekend

I'm pretty happy with how the kitbashed banner turned out

Was also my first time painting a plasma gun

[solar dome]

nice rust effect

[naive umbra]

Ty. It's actually super simple. Rhinox Hide base coat, and then a watered down wash of Jokaero Orange. Can do the same with pretty much any dark brown base washed with orange

[untold void]

Devil fish transport is finished

[clear tusk]

Tallan Desert Raiders 15th Armoured Cav Tank commander

The Desert Fox wip

[solar dome]

when kastellans are on your side :
when kastellans are against you :

[rugged vigil]

For a little bit of fun, I took one of the many spare FW Bolters I've printed and stuck it inside the Command Centaur and tbh it kinda slaps.

[glossy hawk]

i dont like most tau shit i see but this is the first tau scheme ive ever liked

well done

[ionic kite]

He looks like lightning MC queen

Or a chicken

[sinful jetty]

There’s a dude on instagram I’ve seen that paints T’au like they’re Titanfall suits all militaristic n gritty

Seeing those really made me tempted to cave in lmao,, but I ain’t no blueskin

[wild hazel]

YOU ARE OUT OF UNIFORM SOLDIER

[rugged vigil]

Concrete boosting, Bunker Maxxing

[marsh perch]

Fortification grinding

[autumn monolith]

Made an inquisitorial kasrkin squad

I think I got automodded

[soft tusk]

I kinda expected them to hit harder when first playing against em

[solar dome]

If your opponent didn't use all of their army's abilities then yeah they might look very average

[soft tusk]

Well they hit hard but only if they do hit

[soft tusk]

To be fair I did snipe the data smith leading em turn 1

[solar dome]

that's a good move

[soft tusk]

So they missed out on all that fun stuff

[solar dome]

else kastellans can throw a lot of bullets

[soft tusk]

I did loose a few sisters to the flamer thing

[solar dome]

I learned during an experimental game against my brother (2 knight titans vs 2 onagers and skitariis) that shooting a lot is better than shooting hard

I managed to lose because 2 titans are still 2 titans and the onager anti vehicle gun isn't that good

[soft tusk]

Ye I learned that when first playing against guard

Hitting on 3/4 and wounding on 6 will still get a few through when a good 60 dice are rolled

[solar dome]

strong shots are good if you can guarantee they will hit (Doomsday Ark for example, it's almost impossible to miss the shot)

[soft tusk]

My army barely has shooting anyways

And the few that do are either flamers or pretty good bolters

Hitting on 2 and 4S

And 2W

God I love getting a nice fire overwatch on flamers

[soft tusk]

Btw do you play mechanicus?

[solar dome]

yes

it's dark mechanicus so it's a composite army

[soft tusk]

If yes would you mind giving me some tips on how to deal with someone spamming almost 1k points of ironstrider ballistari

[solar dome]

uh

I don't know what that is

[soft tusk]

The buggers are fiendishly fast, tank a fuckton and hit like a truck

[soft tusk]

These karkers

[solar dome]

hm

one of ad mech's flaws is that vehicles have the same aim as battleline/infantry most of the time

if you have a way to give them BS maluses

[soft tusk]

A few

But only when close

[solar dome]

you could try to engage it in melee with a vehicle and some infantry to lock them in melee phase

IIRC guns on vehicles have lowered BS when engaged in melee I need to check

[soft tusk]

I have like 20 infantry in total

[solar dome]

oh ok

[soft tusk]

And each hit that does land takes one away

Playing adeptus chudstodes

[solar dome]

autocannons are pretty stronk

if you can

get a custodes land raider or whatever it's called

[soft tusk]

I just got an idea

[solar dome]

but yeah

try to engage ad mech in melee as much as possible

[soft tusk]

I might be able to get one of my terminator units to get focus fired and then use an ability to face tank most of it

And then charge and pray

[solar dome]

ad mech doesn't really have heavy infantry, well they have but it's not as mobile or as versatile of say terminators for example

[soft tusk]

Or I can try to get my draxus leading guards into shooting range while out of their range

[soft tusk]

Tried that last time but the bugger set up what I best can describe as a Killbox around the middle objective

[solar dome]

IIRC ad mech doesn't have great melee weaponry, they can be outclassed quickly if your army has swords or similar

[soft tusk]

Chudstodes basically is an army of melee gods

[solar dome]

I'm not too keen on ad custodes but I imagine they have similar gear to space marines

[soft tusk]

Avg infantry hits/tanks about as hard as a space marine lieutenant

[solar dome]

that's a lot

my army suffers from sucking at melee lol

[solar dome]

I have flayed ones for melee but they are very difficult to manage strategically since they are extreeeemely slow, melee glass cannons. So they end up being used as bullet bait

My two decimator chaos engines usually do the melee job

[solar dome]

sv 2 that's insane wtf

[soft tusk]

That’s just the start of it

[solar dome]

spam advance and charge

[soft tusk]

In one detachment they get 5+ against psyker and mortals, in another they get 4+ feel no pain for 1 cp and even more fun stuff

[soft tusk]

That’s my game plan most of the time

Basically fancier world eaters

Get into melee as quick as possible and then slaughter

Even more fun with valoris 12A 2+ 10S 2ap and 3D

I’ll just attempt to deep strike my terminators into them or sum like that

[brisk vapor]

Pretty good progress on the champ in a single sitting

[midnight cairn]

Is the champ the one in the center or the bottom of the picture? 🙊

[brisk vapor]

Har har

[woeful vale]

Heavy blueberries, WIP, my last primed minis from before winter. I hope to finish them this week

[quick sonnet]

nice

[sinful jetty]

Ogryn!!

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-patrick-spongebob-patrick-smile-spongebob-patrick-spongebob-patrick-neptune-gif-15553908463759634649

[sharp ginkgo]

After like 3 years i finally reattached a leg that snapped off big boy scarab lmao

[solar dome]

Omg John Darktide !

[fallen condor]

Nice looking minis. Sadly, mine were broken and have parts missing from moving. Only one I was proud of was my Juggernaut. I dunno if those returned to rule book

[midnight cairn]

That ogryn is more a 747 than a 737.

[summer shale]

Rookie painter here. I am working on the other 4, but I finished this one Tempestus Scion.

[faint star]

That's nice

[solar dome]

Yeah it's sad when it happens, happened to my triarch stalker which is now only a chassis with legs

Ill probably turn it into a flesh abomination with enough green stuff

[fallen condor]

that sounds like could end up getting a noice.

[brisk vapor]

Excuse me but let's fucking go

[steady geyser]

Yule Marine

https://tenor.com/view/papai-noel-twerk-santa-claus-twerk-papai-noel-santa-claus-feliz-natal-gif-1463631992943420950

[radiant cave]

Bruh that face is insane

[brisk vapor]

Kinda amazed how well it turned out myself as well

[trail ridge]

lore inaccurate, Kriegers can't read

[solar dome]

I've still got a bunch of fella to assemble/repair/undust

let's not talk about painting

[round bloom]

https://tenor.com/view/knuckles-glasses-i-can't-read-sonic-boom-gif-16639389307809755599

[solar dome]

oh no its the fella who buffs kastellans

[solar dome]

Finally completed assembling my 2nd Decimator CDE

[solar dome]

Converted War(p)smith as well (a bit of the hammer fell but ill find it eventually)

[ionic kite]

Another stinker

[solar dome]

Now that's some chaos HQ

[faint star]

Are you sure you didn't just shrink a real person for that head?

[brisk vapor]

Almost sure

[solar dome]

bro you sure you didn't sign a pact with chaos gods to be that good

[brisk vapor]

I'd expect more from them if I had to to be frank

[urban drum]

Its john heresy

[brisk vapor]

Real

[limpid jay]

fat

[soft tusk]

Opinion on my new nids list?

[midnight cairn]

It's a nice joke 😆

[solar dome]

Still very much WIP (man these tech priests are such horrible minis to paint)

[solar dome]

That's a lot of infantryslop

[sinful jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/five-hundred-cigarettes-bortus-orville-cigarettes-500-gif-7580742793072271551

500 gaunts

[brisk vapor]

More work on the metallics

[soft tusk]

Was the original name of the list

[untold void]

Commander in Coldstar

[radiant cave]

Damn bruh what brushes do you use for such detail?

[brisk vapor]

Size one Kolinsky Sable mostly

[solar dome]

First ham dude I paint

These guys are about the size of my thumb

[rustic portal]

Repainting the fists

[plain violet]

My custom Stahltruppen that i have named the "Laubdecke Korps"

Or they could be uh... Primaris Ultramarines or something

[solar dome]

Airbrushed the babies, now it's turn for brushes

[rancid geode]

sweet decimators, are they for an iron warriors army?

[solar dome]

Yes

Iron Warrior dark mechanicum

[solar dome]

First big android complete

[marsh perch]

These models might be old but they still look great

[rancid geode]

Honestly, a lot of stuff from forgeworld, irrespective of age, holds up really well today

[solar dome]

I wish GW gave us a new decimator with more curved pauldrons and an IW head

[rancid geode]

That’d be really awesome, though I do think that a more angular design works better, especially for IW. Now I’m wondering how a decimator would look with a head from one of the HH IW dreads.

[solar dome]

Angular makes it look very khornate (like old defiler) iron warriors (terminators) have curved pauldrons that's what I was thinking of. I don't think it works like the decimator face piece but the new defiler IW head would look perfect

Kinda like old immortal minis

(not mine, I can only dream of ever having one of these)

[rancid geode]

That’s fair, the existing decimator faceplate works especially well for IW too now that I think of it. The vaguely Grecian style of it fits with some of the other Hellenic stylings you occasionally see with the IW.

[faint star]

Cooling with gas now

[lyric nimbus]

https://youtu.be/MiDBTrgNm4A?si=zQftXi_MOtXvqeHD

[brisk vapor]

Explaining 40k to americans

[lyric nimbus]

hey, the Scottish are more prolific deep fryers than Americans.

the deep fried mars bar exists

though I suppose so does the deep fried twinky.

[brisk vapor]

Fellblade gang hell yeah

[round bloom]

A fucking deep fried what now?

[sick ledge]

yeah well we deep fry koolickles

[plain violet]

Deep Fried Butter

[ionic kite]

Working on mini of the month

🐛

[faint star]

That green effect is sweet

[solar dome]

Nice scheme

[ionic kite]

I literally made it up on the spot

It look real bad until the wash lol

Targor rageshade really brought it together

[faint star]

The classic

[ionic kite]

I missed a few spots but whatever

Nobody's gonna notice

[faint star]

You get it

I really dig it

[final garden]

the humble gaunt in teh spotlight, looks awesome

[brisk vapor]

Capeshit

[solar dome]

Tf man I was painting my warpsmith and I open discord to see this 😭

[midnight cairn]

Good shit

[brisk vapor]

Cheers mate

[midnight cairn]

I like the scheme, go team 'nids!

[plain violet]

Type shi, fr

[solar dome]

Born anew, the iron warrior deserves a better paintjob

[marsh perch]

NOOO, HE’S IN THE JAR

[sinful jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/davinjho-memes-jar-pov-your-a-gif-3416424828086284064

[solar dome]

He looks goofy but I love him

[turbid brook]

||Why is he givin John warhammer a footjob||

[solar dome]

I got him like that for christmas from my brother

The weirdess of this custom is awesome

2nd edition necron smashing a black templar primaris painted in ultramarine in the balls on a limited 2015 base is odd but funny

Oldcrons look so smug

[turbid brook]

He knows he’s won you just don’t know it yet

I love the knockoff ankh on their chests necron drip > imperial drip

[solar dome]

Well if I could I'd have removed it because it kinda ruins it for me

Not only it's metal, but I can't afford to do it considering how pricy and rare these can be

[marsh perch]

It is still a very cool model

[stray bear]

my first models

[solar dome]

Not done yet

[light kite]

Tryin to make cadian Space marines (wip)

[plain violet]

Sons of Malice Spotted

Hell yeah

[solar dome]

Now it's turn of the flayed overlord

[solar dome]

Last dark skitariis I had to assemble

[soft tusk]

https://tenor.com/view/bosnov-67-bosnov-67-67-meme-gif-16727368109953357722

[brisk vapor]

Pretty much done with the acrylics I feel

[rare hornet]

New berzerker WIP

[solar dome]

Bro out there taunting me with a painted dunecrawler while I'm stuck at the game assembling my opponents' dunecrawlers and watching mine that has only bases 😭

[hushed tangle]

https://tenor.com/view/small-soldiers-chip-hazard-looking-whats-this-shit-concerned-gif-11700670

[solar dome]

Zis is going to be bullshit

There's 6k pts of aeldari coming as well

[supple current]

The best part of these games is always before you play

[sinful jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/time-for-rock-and-stone-rock-and-stone-deep-rock-galactic-dwarven-mining-stole-the-wife-and-kids-gif-4069740831590852865

[solar dome]

Decimator dodged EVERY SINGLE ATTACK

Bro casually absorbed all of the enemy firepower on the eastern front

[pulsar cobalt]

Oh my god that is one of the VERY few faces I think I've seen on a mini that actually looks like a person. Very well done!!!

[plain violet]

Ooooo, that boy lookin clean. Fresh asf fr

[faint star]

He keeps trying to trick us he definately shrunk a person down

[pulsar cobalt]

Honestly.

[radiant cave]

Oh bruh try Agrax Earthshade with those skulls

It will make them look really good

Now I constantly use it for skulls

[sinful jetty]

I already do that lol

That guys a work in progress so I haven’t added any washes yet

[sinful jetty]

Earthshade’s the best for Skulls ‘n boney bits

[vivid quartz]

just played a second game of kill team with vespid stingwings against my friend's canoptek circle

he won both

were beginner players but cnaoptek circle feel absolutely insane

the tomb crawlers are insanely tanky and one shot any vespid with decent luck

plus healing, matrix buffs, respawns...

feels like theres no way to kill one without losing like 3 operatives if I dont get a monster roll with my sniper

and they save on threes

think theyre way overtuned

this weapon is just silly bro

literally one shots any of my operatives

reading online people seem to agree theyre incredibly overpowered so i feel a bit better

thinking about buying a melee team just to stick it to my friend

[marsh perch]

I have the team but haven’t played a single game with them, nice to know that their one of the best ones I guess

[vivid quartz]

they are broken bro

[robust fog]

attack 5 dmg 5/6

thats a kill team unit? that guy would eat the heirotek circle alive lol

[brisk vapor]

Much appreciated 🫡

[potent meteor]

Is buying a pre painted mini lame? I wanted a cadian to buy a cadian miniature.

[brisk vapor]

Not really, many do it

[urban drum]

its only lame if youj claim you painted it yourself

[brisk vapor]

Yeah that

[solar dome]

After a very long one and half turn on 3 very condensed fronts, the game is over

All the warlords and honourable machines

[brisk vapor]

Pin wash and a slight filter, finishing him up tomorrow probably

[robust fog]

I finished partial assembly of my yaegir kt just in time before a brief moment of sunlight here in the pnw winter let me prime them 🙏

The only thing i dislike about votann armor is most of it is incompatible with a long-ass beard

Im in the dwarf camp that not only should all male dwarves have beards, ALL dwarves should have beards

[midnight cairn]

Strong aura! I can practically see him standing on a hill, cloak fluttering in the wind, looking for a challenge.

[brisk vapor]

I'm very happy with the posing as well

[nova glacier]

The color layering is so moist, I've been trying to learn how to do that. Are you doing glazing?

[brisk vapor]

Mostly just meticulous layering, I don't quite thin the paints to a glaze consistency

Thank you though

The raw umber oil filter is kinda like a glaze, barely noticeable but will tint the tones ever so slightly to a warmer hue

[sick ledge]

man you make me want to increase my tbaletop standard

[coarse comet]

u just have to slightly superglue a connection point with less than a drop pf glue

[robust fog]

for assembly i legitimately pour out a couple drops of glue then use a toothpick or something as an applicator and thats for plastic glue lol
kinda surprised superglue doesnt strongly adhere to liverpoolium but polymer science is wacky

[tiny cairn]

Got my trench crusade book the other day, very pretty product

[robust fog]

i guess superglue is a kinetic glue and unless you sand it warhammer minis are real smooth at the relevant scale so a small contact patch will bond pretty weakly

[sharp ginkgo]

Doin a slight kitbash here with the banner instead of the iron halo

Going to buy the big all in one transfer sheet for IW stuff and put that on the front

Something off that i mean

[soft tusk]

Imo this would look better with a few scratches or bullet holes

To break the flat body up a bit

Or a bit of blood on the claw or feet

I put a marine corpse under the foot of my dread

[sharp ginkgo]

I dont trust myself not to stuff up those kind of details at the moment

Need a proper test model to do that sort of thing imo

Well i probably should try it tho

[soft tusk]

I tested on one of the parts I didn’t use

That I had laying around

[sharp ginkgo]

That would probably have been the idea lmao

Took my hand drill to it and scratched some lines around the edges. Filled with runefang. Also added some edge highlights

[soft tusk]

Nice

[sharp ginkgo]

Chucked a bit of nuln on top. The plates had a combo of nuln and ratling grime on them already

[soft tusk]

Looks really nice

[coarse comet]

Can it be buyed?

[tiny cairn]

Uhhhh not sure I backed it awhile back I'm sure it's buyable somewhere

[brisk vapor]

Champ's finished, will take proper pictures with the camera in the near future

[faint star]

Just holy moly man I've said it before but this is genuinely crazy

[brisk vapor]

Thank you kindly

[tiny cairn]

"No, thanks I'll move my model thanks for the offer"

"Can we close the shades so the sun doesn't get on my model"

🔥 Good shit

[brisk vapor]

Cheers

[tiny cairn]

Are you gonna paint a stand in for his movement?

[brisk vapor]

Probably not, it's for my HH army and I don't have another army planned

[solar dome]

Horus Heresy minis are nice but god damn they are tiny

I got myself the traitor skitarii pilgrim set

They're so proportionally different from 40k skitariis

Their head is tiny

[solar dome]

(ignore the paintjob, it's like my first ever painted skitarii back when they were released)

[faint star]

He's so talllll

[compact umbra]

HOLLYYYYY

[final garden]

left is basic tabeltop right is horus heresy?

[solar dome]

Left is 30k marshall and right is 40k ranger

[dawn stream]

I just got my Skitarii Battle Group box today

I think that the head seems tiny because the legs are so big

The head looks proportional to the torso

[solar dome]

the head piece is very tiny imo compared to the usual skitarii head piece

[dawn stream]

I didn't get the open the box before I had to skidaddle out of my house so I haven't handled them myself yet

Though I will say 👍 on the phase Claw. That's what I'm going to put on my Marshal, too

[solar dome]

4 piece arm lmao

[dawn stream]

Is each finger a piece?

[solar dome]

thumb and fingers are different piece

the hand piece is a different piece

and the arm needs to be glued to the shoulder

which obviously is glued to the side of the torso, which is glued between front and back of torso

30k mini assembling is something else

[dawn stream]

I've put together 12 Thallax and 6 Ursarax

[solar dome]

my regret is that the standard skitarii pilgrym base size is not the same as 40k skitarii base so I can't really use them in 40k

I really want Thallax cohort to convert them into androids

because everything can be turned into an android

I've already obliterated my bank account with those 30k skitarii tho

next addition will be proxy immortals

these boys

[dawn stream]

Kinda looks like the Hastarii they just announced

[solar dome]

yeah my thought was

"they added skitarii immortals"

they ressemble original immortals a lot

[dawn stream]

Wow, the old designers really leaned into the Terminator look

[solar dome]

yeah lmao

I love these, but I don't htink I'll ever get one

[dawn stream]

I'm glad they changed to Egyptian Skeletons

[solar dome]

most chaos looking non-chaos mini

[ionic kite]

Wip, work continues

Two left to go

[solar dome]

Started working on the dunecrawler, it's a bit damaged but ill fix broken/missing parts eventually

[rare hornet]

WIP, used nuln for the gold wash instead of Fleshshade

[solar dome]

Basic weathering before details and oil

[solar dome]

Working on my dark skitarii alpha

[prime crown]

oh wow thats pretty good

reminds me of the monkey puppet meme a lil bit

[brisk vapor]

Here we go again

[tiny cairn]

promising start 🔥

[solar dome]

Still not done

[urban drum]

the dome on him

[faint star]

Me when the red that consumes your head starts consuming your head

[solar dome]

I should have not taken a pic of him through the lens, it gives him tiny legs and a huge head 😭

[prime crown]

I love the red glow, really gives evil vibe

[sinful jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/mogger-mind-moggermind-мегамозг-мьюинг-мегамозг-мьюинг-gif-16212916096529261739

[solar dome]

all that stolen knowledge and brain implants cant be hidden by the regular cranium

[dawn stream]

Marshal

[plain violet]

Kitbashing a Chaos Sisters Killteam part 1

[rare hornet]

Because how the arms is set up, it looks like he’s doing the John Travolta shrug lol

[brisk vapor]

He is urging his army to rise to the challenge and overrun the enemy of course

[solar dome]

if I had the ressources to, I'd build the emperor with john travolta's face

[solar dome]

I need topaint mine but first I gotta complete that black pile of shame my 40k skitariis make

[rare hornet]

Fair, but I can’t shake the idea that he’s watched one of his comrades do something really stupid and is just shouting at him “brother what the fuck?”

[plain violet]

Part 2 of Chaos Sisters Killteam

[livid plover]

Kinda hot ngl. What are you using to bash with primarily?

[plain violet]

Random bits from some Chaos Cult, Legionaries, and Goremongers sprues aswell as the Murderwing and some Brood Brothers for spikey bits

Almost forgot about Felgore guns and horns

[livid plover]

nice! thats a rich ammount of bits for that work! Well done, cannot wait for em painted ^^

[brisk vapor]

Didn't really get a flow state going today so the results aren't as good as I'd like yet but managed to improve the cowl somewhat nevertheless

[plain violet]

Thanks broski, I can't wait either! Tho I am wondering what their color scheme should be

[plain violet]

Part 3 and 4

[radiant kraken]

Last model I painted a couple years ago! Figured may as welll post it

[rustic portal]

In progress

[soft tusk]

Holy tuff

[livid plover]

Bad flow state, still good osl that looks based

[brisk vapor]

Hah cheers, will try to refine it later still

[rare hornet]

Clearly didn’t drink enough paint before starting

[elder hornet]

My daemon prince and newly annointed berzerkers

[faint star]

Daemon prince and his chud children

[soft tusk]

Probably gonna paint a few more of my adeptus chudstodes today

Or start painting one of them

[floral wind]

Work in progress

[midnight cairn]

Terrible name but cool model.

[floral wind]

Cheers ig

[midnight cairn]

Blame the US xD

[floral wind]

[solar dome]

a perfect match for my chaos androids

[sinful jetty]

Hell yeah chaos androids are dope

I’m thinking with the rest of the necrons I got I think I’m gonna try to make them look like the Automatons from Helldivers

Already seen a lot of people’ve done the same online and I just think it’d be a dope colour scheme to do

[solar dome]

I was thinking about my converted immortals

[solar dome]

this makes me realise how much better necrons look with smaller guns

[sinful jetty]

Actually brilliant

[strong badger]

First mini I’ve painted in like 10 years

[abstract willow]

i can't seem to post mine?

[solar dome]

you have to talk a bit to unlock red role

[compact umbra]

Oh nice how did you get that color?

Is it uhhh

Ghoul flesh?

[solar dome]

blue spots indicate this is a former ultramarine

[urban drum]

recognisable as the free in store mini

[solar dome]

ah yes, john age of sigma and brother worthless

[worldly pawn]

erm actually its Joan sigmar

[strong badger]

Yeah, i went to the local warhammer store. They had blue primer for it, but I wanted to paint it green. There’s still hints of blue though

[strong badger]

WAAAGH flesh

[tardy spoke]

First minis ive ever painted. Just almost finished them today in the warhammer shop near me

[solar dome]

thats some pretty clean brushing for a first time

I cant say the same about my first necrons, who by today's standards/my painting skills look like they have been bathed into sulfuric acid

[radiant cave]

Oh yea you know already man

I'd post some minis here but I haven't reached the 100 message limit to start sending images yet 🥀

[sinful jetty]

Just keep saying Pog to every image or sum idk lol

[tardy spoke]

Thank u, really helped to have the guys in the shop help tbh. The gold trim originally was nowhere near as neat but I went back over it with the blue again just to tidy it up

[tardy spoke]

Tbh necrons feel hard to do as a beginner thing. My dad did some Necrons while we where in shop but there's just so many small bits to detail on them

[tardy spoke]

That's pretty cool, I love sisters of battle

[radiant cave]

[solar dome]

it was 4th edition first plastic necrons, they had arguably less details than new necron sculpts

[solar dome]

BLOOD RAVENS MENTIONNED LETS GOOOOOO

[faint star]

1 wolf priest off to do whatever he does on tabletop

[tardy spoke]

Ohh right, don't think i've ever seen those ones

[solar dome]

first image that shows up when you look up for necron

probably the only mini james workshop would encourage you to spam nuln oil on and do nothing else

[tardy spoke]

Oh, yeah those look super simple, idk what else you would do with them tbh

[solar dome]

rifle is annoying to paint tbh

it was back when they had that green lightsaber rod

[tardy spoke]

Looks like it's meant to be translucent

Or like a glowstick or smthm

[solar dome]

it's translucent plastic

paint sticks really badly on it, same with glue

the rifle is made of like

4 different pieces which is annoying and makes it very heavy

old necrons only had ball joints, very bad one

[tardy spoke]

That's a lil bit stupid. Also yeah think i've tried to paint on translucent plastic as a kid and that was hard so trying it on a mini that's also made of that just doesn't seem fun at all

And also tryna make it stay translucent without puttin on too much paint that it becomes opaque

4 pices seems a lil overly complex for that one part

[marsh perch]

Omg it’s John warhammer 1-6

Also wanna put in this nice skitarri I painted

[solar dome]

ah yes transuranic arquebus

my least favorite precision weapon on tabletop

ONLY ONE ATTACK !

[marsh perch]

It was fun to paint at least lol, and these are for kill team anyway

[sinful jetty]

It’s so goofy I love it

I was wondering why the box came with that base til I saw that model in the instructions lol

[marsh perch]

I know it’s an amazing model

Also, second skitarri I painted, I love the backpacks on these guys

[sinful jetty]

That guy and the one admech dude with the comically long legs is just gold

These the only two Skitmarks I got done up so far

[plain violet]

Building complete

[ionic kite]

kitbashed infernus into AoD kill team assault grenadier

with some phobos infiltrator parts

and a blood claw chainsword lol

[final garden]

Issat, chaos sistas?

[solar dome]

started working on my 2nd decimator

[plain violet]

Si, señora

[final garden]

they look pretty cool ^^

[plain violet]

Thanks, it was a pain in the ass to flay off the Fleur De Lis on the knees, packs and Trinkets

[final garden]

i can only imagine

very detailed parts

[pale pelican]

Man those shield and halberd sisters are so cool. I have one unit of them and I constantly have to fight the urge not to make an entire army out of them.

[solar dome]

sisters of battle do not perform well

[peak flicker]

Have you seen the Celestial Insidiants Killteam?

[pale pelican]

Yeeeeees

I really shouldnt

[brisk vapor]

Some lazy progress on the green armour bits

[solar dome]

absolute heresy

[marsh perch]

Bros calling it “lazy progress” when it’s still better than what I have ever done

Still, looks amazing so far

[sinful jetty]

WiP BeepBoops

[elder hornet]

Tempaz...

[brisk vapor]

Lazy as in I only had the energy to paint maybe 20% of the green bits 😁

[solar dome]

u should try with thallax

[sinful jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/yowzers-awooga-wario-eyes-popping-out-meme-gif-16517611947796229200

That would be perfect holy shi

[slender mesa]

@kind haven

[kind haven]

What is that

Are thoses robots?

[rancid geode]

those are beautiful, excellent job with all of the freehanding!

[urban drum]

They're tau stealth suits

[quartz rain]

First time kitbashing

[fast merlin]

Thank ye :D

[fast merlin]

Hive scum with Inquisitorial acolyte parts?

[kind haven]

They look like robots

I don't like robots

[brisk vapor]

Some more work on the greens

[radiant cave]

Your faces are actually so good wtf

[regal nexus]

They aren't all painted but I have 1000 points of T'au ready

[brisk vapor]

Many thanks!

[west coral]

First 40k mini purchase. Take 2 hrs but kinda fun. Any recommend army to go with for newb?

[faint star]

Whichever one you think looks cool

You'll have a way better time painting something you enjoy than something you feel obligated to do

[west coral]

I do like Imperial Knight, big robot and things. But many in my local area dont recommend it since it's very different from the rest.

They recommend me start with any IoM and fill them with Imperial Knight later so I'm still looking for one.

[iron nova]

Knights are fun but take a while to paint i brought a few when I fist got into warhammer if its something you wanna try go for it chief other people dont matter if your the one whos buying and enjoying the model's

[warm ocean]

@muted ore this are so ass but theyre the best ive ever done

[muted ore]

very nice

I would look into adding some highlights to get the depth out

but it looks good

[wild hazel]

https://kkinstagram.com/reel/DVBrJt6DKZ4/?igsh=MTd3aDNpdGZkN3R5Yw==

[plain violet]

Damned Chaos Sister in the Word Bearers color scheme. I think it works

[faint star]

WIP

[ionic kite]

dont you guys love it when the sun is finally out

(find the space marine)

[urban drum]

found wally

[ripe ridge]

Marine i worked on last night:

[placid owl]

Why can’t I send a picture?

[urban drum]

you need to raise your trust level

[placid owl]

Awwww 😔

I’m not trust worthy?

I just wanted to show my krieg 😭 😭 😭 🥺

[radiant oracle]

Get to yappin until you get a red name

[placid owl]

Hmmm, oke

Let me show krieg 😡

Let me show krieg 😡

Let me show krieg 😡

Let me show krieg 😡

Let me show krieg 😡

Let me show krieg 😡

Let me show krieg 😡

Let me show krieg 😡

Let me show krieg 😡

Let me show krieg 😡

Let me show krieg 😡

Let me show krieg 😡

[radiant oracle]

Not like that

[placid owl]

Bro you said start yapping

[radiant oracle]

Yeah just talk around the server and stuff lole

[placid owl]

😔 too much human interaction

[plain violet]

God I Love Chaos. I love having minis that are essentially just a Cannibal Corpse Album Cover (I bought a Combat Patrol)

[final garden]

that description is so fitting though Xd

[plain violet]

Indeed

[compact void]

Recently painted my first minis! Working on the full squad, then I wanna do another with silver and red so I can cope and pretend my zealot is part of them

[lilac pike]

Chat is this real

I have red roll and I don’t chat

[sick ledge]

yes, its a "newer" thing though

its been like this for a year or two

you joined when it was fairly new so you got the role instantly

[knotty dragon]

My tank commander, Cassius of the Cassus Belli(justification of war/bastard of war)

That is a pipe in his hand

[lilac pike]

Beta boi

Playing since beta

[west coral]

Second 40k TTG purchase ever. TBH I didnt know it would be this big when look at it from the shelf and compared to introductory set. Ill comb through painting guide on youtube soon. Wish me luck!

[radiant cave]

[ionic kite]

Taking a shot at sponging

[faint star]

I know this may sound cliche but I remember when you started posting minis here and seeing how much progress you've made is super cool to see

[ionic kite]

Ohhhh

I'm gonna cry 😭

Add a little whimsy

[solar dome]

bro got a pip boy

[faint star]

Mandatory whimsy

[faint star]

I'm gonna do some noughts and crosses in my memnyr

[ionic kite]

That's sick lol

[ionic kite]

And the base done

Should be ready for kill team

[knotty dragon]

He’s my MVP in every game I’ve played, he OBLITERATES the enemy tanks and vehicles

[timber anchor]

chat i finally found an imperial fists combat patrol

[white stag]

My first mini

[faint star]

First of many

[glad dock]

Kitbash printed plague ogryn and Poxwalkers

[plain violet]

Making it a priority to finish my Chaos Cults this year. Starting with that guy

[brisk vapor]

Been working on the golden metallics, very tiresome to work with metallic paints but it's getting there

[mighty helm]

My first ever mini

I get it now

Terrified of when I get to the painting bit, but still have to assemble another 16 minis

[hushed tangle]

Welp, here's my build/paint progress for February. This is for a Black templar army by the end of the year for my new years hobby resolution.

[mighty helm]

God, everyone in this channel is so insanely talented at painting

[solar dome]

yeah aint that amazing

[regal nexus]

I like the pose I managed to get for this guy

[elder hornet]

Kharn!

[pale pelican]

Steppe camo deathwatch

[midnight cairn]

Nice pose!

[pale pelican]

dddefault pose, simply swapped the mace for a sword

[midnight cairn]

Ah, thought it was kitbashed using an infiltrator because of the unit on the backpack.

[pale pelican]

The new deathwatch kill team kit is quite fun (albeit monopose)

[urban drum]

i'd kitbash an aegis but i dont have any melee weapons besides knives

[faint star]

Very pleased with the face on this guy

[marsh perch]

The rocket pistol looks so goofy I love it

[faint star]

When the little gun doesn't work you need the big gun

[brisk vapor]

Rest of the metallics

[radiant cave]

Holy tough

[rustic portal]

A Project For a Friend, including a WIP of a blackrock warboss conversion from fantasy ton40K

[tiny cairn]

@faint star this is for the project I was talking about

All scratch designed in blender

[faint star]

Look at that! Thats super neat!!!

[tiny cairn]

Yeah I don't really have alot of experience with blender but it was surprising easy to get results that I can spruce up with painting/technical stuff

[faint star]

I think they're gonna look sick

[tiny cairn]

I still have a fair amount of stuff I'm going to design, like the church interior and probably some boards for the windows

[tiny cairn]

Having access to a 3d printer is so crazy for having an idea and then getting it done in 30 minutes

[sinful jetty]

Couple guard dudes I whipped up in about 2 hours last night

[urban drum]

Nuln oil fields

[marsh perch]

Working on a hive tyrant for a show project, just finished the legs

It’s a lot smaller of a model than I thought

[elder hornet]

Finished my Goremongers

[marsh perch]

Some progress pics of the hive tyrant

[round bloom]

My Contemptor was also smaller than I thought it would be bloody lot of customisation in comparison to the Redemptor though

[lyric nimbus]

very nice, these for tabletop 40k or kill team?

[elder hornet]

they're for my shelf

[lyric nimbus]

not gonna play at all with them?

[elder hornet]

maybe one day, but for know, shelf

likely one day

For now they gonna sit up there and look pretty

[lyric nimbus]

have you painted other stuff than HH marines? I'd be interested to see your painting on some other factions or ranges.

[brisk vapor]

I have, though not lately

Trench Crusade last spring

[lyric nimbus]

Honestly your facial painting is some of the best I've seen, really does the expressions on the sculpts a lot of justice.

[brisk vapor]

Thank you kindly

[lyric nimbus]

How many years you been painting?

[brisk vapor]

Actively since 2017, but I did paint a bit as a kid too. The last 3 or 4 years has been the time where I've actively tried to better myself

[brisk vapor]

Some quick screenshots of other factions and ranges

[faint star]

Puts my votann to shame smhmyhead

Also you clearly like purple

[brisk vapor]

I kinda randomly figured that out now as well

though none of my armies are purple

as a main colour

[faint star]

It's a good colour

[faint star]

So good man

[brisk vapor]

Cheers mate

some of these are starting to be very old

the ork is from 2021 maybe

[faint star]

Well shows I have a long way to go

But I can get there if I'm good enough haha

[brisk vapor]

Hell yeah, anyone will with enough practice

[faint star]

1st mini Vs Latest

[brisk vapor]

Hell yeah

[faint star]

Gotta get better at highlights I think

[brisk vapor]

Painting 4000 points of Ultramarines teaches you a lot about brushcontrol through highlights surprisingly enough

[faint star]

A cool casual 4k points ueah?

[brisk vapor]

Yup

across two or so years

[faint star]

Noted!

Just do that!

I do have two whole ultramarines around

[brisk vapor]

yeah and paint those two repeatedly 200 times

that's 4000 points worth of intercessors

[faint star]

Ahh I understand it now

[brisk vapor]

or wait was one marine 10 or 20 points

[versed spade]

That is the reason there why i'd prefer Kill Team

just paint up to 12 minis

[faint star]

Kill teams still take me forever lol

[versed spade]

F

[faint star]

I've been painting yaegirs for like 6 weeks

[versed spade]

One mini for KT takes me like, 1 hour of work

[faint star]

Pros of job: buy minis
Cons of job: oooohhh I'm tired ooooooh

[brisk vapor]

This particular example isn't really about just getting an army done but improving through repeated actions

[versed spade]

Well, i'd prefer to paint 200 different minis, than the same ones.

(Even if my all time favourites are from Underworld XD)

[faint star]

That's fair

[brisk vapor]

of course, BJH here just has the two though

[faint star]

I noticed lots of red

[versed spade]

Red is cool

goes fasta

[faint star]

I've got vostroyans, red corsairs, blood ravens

So much red

I hope that vostroyan refresh leak is real

Still debating doing a metallic red for my corsairs instead of a flat one

Matte red? Non metallic?

Normal red.

[lyric nimbus]

Love the votann

[brisk vapor]

Thanks!

Wanted to paint something FUN today after the painful metallics (which still kinda need work), so I finished a bunch of gems today

[faint star]

Damn that's nice

[ionic kite]

Tactical rat

[winged wyvern]

This isn't 40k, but I've started model building with Bolt Action. I suck at it, but here

[jaunty trail]

Land Raider "Redeemer of Faith" has joined the ranks of the Sabena Crusade.

[round bloom]

I spy a Kliment Veloshilov 1

[winged wyvern]

That’s right!

The rest are American and German infantry

[sand stratus]

Still slowly working on it

[brisk vapor]

Improved the face, I feel like the OSL is somewhat more believable now

[tiny cairn]

Yeah definitely a major improvement

[solar dome]

bro got forehead abs

[tiny cairn]

I think the thing with the underlighting that isn't sitting right with you is the face isn't fucked up enough IMO, like when you see that on chaos dudes they usually have more fucked up faces that are darker

[brisk vapor]

True enough, though I don't feel like going 100% chaos with my heresy force. Just in the cusp of it

[tiny cairn]

Yeah, idk maybe darken the eye sockets a touch. I don't think it looks bad I just think it defies the expectation most people will have which isn't necessarily a bad thing either.

[brisk vapor]

yeah darkening the eye sockets isn't a bad call, will probably experiment a bit

[rustic portal]

More yellow incoming

[solar dome]

ah yes spissmarines

my favorite chapter

[final garden]

fisties

[radiant cave]

Imperial spissts

[floral wind]

My ogryn wip

The inspo is largely from Darktide for the basing and mini scheme, since its close to what my ogryn wears in game