/wip/ - Painting - Converting - Modeling - General

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I need some help wip.

I'm converting a heavy weapon team but I am unsure about the pose for this guy. I want him to look like he just sighted an enemy and is yelling to the other guy but I just don't know about the position of his hand over his chest like that. Thoughts?

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>>47761361
>OP has a question Edition

So... what's yer question, and what the hell happened to the Youtube links in your OP, OP?

>DIY Lightbox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyxzC5kqbyw

>How to Moldlines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4LZ8iCSkeU

>Fuckin Magnets how do they work?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8Tkw7ttTIo

>While the enemies of The Emperor still draw breath, there can be no peace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEQM9sbQ4fk

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Found this guy in a drawer and built him up, gonna go paint him
He looks very silly

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>>47761506
>He looks very silly

Does not!

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>>47761518
I guess it might be seconded edition syndrome

>>47761518

> Owning this many Wraithlords
> In 3rd Edition

You monster.

>>47761502
Yeah sorry I don't know if I have the current op saved so I just copied it from the other thread. Thank you for posting them.

>>47761518
>metal wraithlords
>all their arms have fallen off

Some serious nostalgia for playing at my old GW when I was 11 right here

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>>47761531

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Anyone have some good music that that they paint to? I'm cranking out an entire space wolf airforce + land raider for a friend and made pic related progress so far. Need some background noise to keep things going.

>>47761714
I like ambient electronica normally. Lots of Aphex Twin, Tycho, etc.

Although currently I'm painting to this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEmqJBcQ2lg

>>47761714
Dude listen to Horus Heresy audio books. You can just download them online

>>47761743
now listening to Selected Ambient Works 85-92 from Aphex. smooth stuff. thanks anon

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castlevania-theme VC army underway, next update will be when I've finished the unit

>spend all day at work reading WIP, looking at pictures, reading guides
>get hyped up and can't wait to get home and get painting
>work finishes, I get home sit down at my desk and all my motivation is gone, and no longer can be bothered
>oh well I'll just fap I guess

Why is life so difficult

>>47762190
Posting and getting harsh criticism or no replies at all should be all the motivation you need.

>>47762190
I don't know if you have the space, but have all your paints and tools out and start to paint something. When you are finished for the day, don't put anything away, just leave it there or put it to the side. The next time you'll come home it will take 5 minutes to continue painting. I do this and it works.

>>47761714
Deadbolt OST
Risk of Rain OST
if you like them, listen to both albums' commentary. awesome

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Has anyone converted the Khorne Bloodbound to 40k? I want to use them alongside my Khornate IG as Renegades and Heretics but Im at a bit of a loss as what to count everything as and what to add to them. I particularly want to use the Lord with the Flesh Hound but he seems beefy for a Demagogue and the Hound would end up being a fluff bit.

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Have GW finally jumped the shark? It's a Hordes warbeast I've converted with wargames factory skeletons so I can double tap on the model for an army theme

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>>47761501
perhaps he should have his gun shouldered or by his side and should be pointing at the target with his scope hand, while still holding it.

>>47761361
stop forcing this mini like its a gods gift to men

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where should my hatch be?

middle or back and should it be centered or offset?

I was thinking back and offset to the side but I am not sure.

>>47762721
kv-2 is that you?

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>>47762746
that is the intent.

KV 2, fighting for the Emperor for 38.16k years

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>>47762721
is the tracks too much or do I need more gubbinz and other bits on my turret?

>>47763015
Is there a way you could add rivets?

>>47763116
I have never tried rivets, Do you know a way of making them?

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I have now given my special wraithlord a pet

>>47763205
Tubes of plasticard, or use the end of Spears and cut them off very thin to make thin circles

What's the best way to thin paints?

No matter how much water I add, they never seem thin enough.

>>47763502
What technique are you using to thin? Are you thinning your paints on your palette or on your brush?

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>buy pic related
>model has weird texture to base resin, rough and details obscured
>everything is warped, spend an hour trying to get stuff into position via dipping in boiling water
>fail
>spend another two and a half hours assembling rickety model and cleaning mould lines, slowly going insane
>Fuck it, lets just start it
>Missed at least half the mould lines
>Don't care, drunk robot gives no fucks

He's getting dunked, highlights, blue cores and then getting tossed in the cabinet. Worst god damned kit ever, and I have 4 more on the same chassis to do. And yes, the paints are thinned - that's one thin metal coat of a light spraying, you can see how the model surface was fucked to begin with.

GG Pirvateer Press

>>47763502
semen

>>47763015
GLORIOUS KV-2, STRONK TENK FOR EMPEROR!

>>47763574
best goddamn quality you are gonna find man.
Isn't there a way to get a refund? try looking into it instead of telling us.

>>47763015
>>47762721
Definitely wouldn't center it, if it was me. The guy standing there would get in the way of the breech, if it was. IMO, place it as far to one side of the turret as possible.

>>47763205
>>47763375
An (arguably) easier way would be to drill a hole where the rivet is going, glue in a short length of matching plastic rod, then file down to the correct height when dry. Preslicing rod sections is great for ork stuff, but anything else wants a bit more precision and plotting.

>>47763658
Eh, I got it sealed from a guy on Bartertown who apparently bought an army, then decided he didn't want it, so no way to get a refund.

Still gonna make the best of it, but it was damned irritating. If the other kits are as wonky, I might run with it a bit and build them as goofy as possible, then give them the best paintjob I can. Could be fun.

hi /wip/, i am trying here since it seemed like the best place, is there any major site to buy used minis in europe? Something like bartertown, the only thing i ound are minor forums which obviously dont have nearly enough choice unless you only look for warhammer

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>>47763682
I will remember that.

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>>47762721
>>47763015
>>47763668
How is this for hatch placement?
Also is the spot light on the gun too much and should I move the radio antenna to the back?

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>>47764018
Hatch is perfect there, I think. As for the radio, it can work fine there, but if you're going to have a pintle mounted weapon, consider that if it were to rotate, it would probably hit it on the way. Moving it to the back would alleviate that problem.

The spotlight is adorable, I like it.

>try to paint mud onto mini's feet
>Makes it look like she's walking on marshmallows
This isn't even worth taking a picture of. Not going to strip, got two more and it's just enemy fodder anyways.

I need to work on my manual dexterity for dry brushing. I applied way too much force and smeared out water.

>>47763563
On my palette. Just adding watch to a bit of paint.

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Just need to add banners and other details...

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>>47764185
thanks, I will move the radio to the back.

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>>47763205
>>47763375
like so

hi /wip/, i recently picked up some nurgle units (a plaguelord and some nurglings) and I'm thinking about a maggot-white flesh with red washes and details as a sort of albino colour, to avoid the typical green.

how hard is it to paint a really maggoty-white fleshtone, what citadel paints should I use, and is it difficult to do without it looking under-detailed?
I would appreciate any opinions, thanks

>>47761501

Give him a pistol or a free hand, the bayonetted up lasgun is too busy and could better be used on a model that isn't meant to be doing something entirely unrelated to a bayonetted up lasgun.

>>47761501
you could get a spare tank commander hand if you have a chimera/russ kit handy. the hands are meant to be resting on the tank hatch, but if you rotate it you can make it look like he's signalling a direction

>>47762578
I like it.

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The robes look too dirty so I'll re-do them, and some other stuff needs to be fixed, but I like it.

>>47761518
nice, I was going to start on one of the older models you have in the back here, soon.

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>>47764018
>>47763015
>>47762721
>>47764185

So new question. Which looks better Stormbolter or heavy stubber?

Also I now have a rear mounted lasgun on the turret. I'm getting soviet up in this bitch.

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>>47765147
>nice, I was going to start on one of the older models you have in the back here, soon.

Now that Eldar Dreadnoughts can carry multiple big shootas without giving up an arm to do so, I should really think about recasting some left arms, heavy weapon exhaust vanes, and the double shoulder joiners if I ever want to rehabilitate those ladz.

>>47765249
Heavy Stubber looks better.

>>47765510
Mine has the arms and the rest of the stuff, but no guns. Figured it would just run around slapping things.

>>47765539
thats what I was thinking, so thanks

>>47763707
It should have a packed by number in the box. Contact PP and quote the number and the model code.

They have a whole system for this.

>>47763921
I use facebook groups. Just join as many relevant ones as you can find then let your feed fill with wallet draining goodies.

>>47762043
Ooooh, I like this idea. What other colours/mobs you planning?

>>47763921
/r/miniswap on reddit is my go-to (I'm American though). don't tell anyone though

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Did a rushed paint job on this Sigmarine I got for free in order to test a colour scheme. Paint job's shitty, but what does /wip/ think of the colour scheme? I was trying to go for something that'd fit in with my Sylvaneth and woodland free guild.

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Hey all.

Bought some paints yesterday and started to give altering mtg a shot. Decided to try with a card that seemed easy.

Holy fuck this is hard.

Also colorblind, so hopefully not too bad.

I think at this point i need to make a light gray and start making the ground under the puma better. And then blend into dark bottom.

Really not sure what I'm going to do with that 1/2 guy on the left.

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>>47766289
the color I'll be using to tie the army together will be a garish pastel purple, the specifics I have in mind are a Gaibon-like terrorgheist (the red/blue concept art, not the sprite) and SotN-colors Dracula x Mannfred

I did this thing as my Wight King and posted it in a thread a few days ago because ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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for those of you from last night's thread curious about the size of the scibor mini's, here are two of the ones i have next to a guardsman for scale.

I just finished assembling the one on the left, which i've dubbed Brother-Captain Shitkicker, Murderer of Orks

>>47766955
Thanks for that. Yeah, that is massive. The height of a baneblade pretty much, might work as a counts-as Abaddon but even then it'd be humongous. Maybe Daemon Primarch with some conversion, but still.

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>>47766776
He has literally the same expression.
I couldn't resist!

>>47762190
I do this too.
>Tonight is the night I'm definitely going to finish those Rhinos.
>Tonight rolls round, God damn I'm tired!

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>>47767229
My WIP Rhinos and Razorback for the curious. Insides are done. I've about 50% left to do on the outside then some weathering to finish them off.

>>47761361
>Finally get a new Duncan video after four Emmas in a row, each 20+ minutes long
>It's a 4-minute video about a new technical paint

desu I'm too happy finding out that Duncan still works there to be pissed, but goddamn

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>>47767229
>>47767396
Inside. All the doors are hinged except the top hatch on the Razorback and the driver/gunner hatches.

I can't get the damn picture to rotate though.

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>>47767229
That is called procrastination.
Jokes aside and included, the only cure for that is to
JUST DO IT
Clean your area completely. Put everything away that isn't "those Rhinos" and just do some. Even for an hour
There is a FB group for just that 1HourANight. Maybe that will help you. But, action begets motivation, not the other way around.

Anyone here play Grey Knights? What did you do for your Librarian(s)? Surely you didn't use the same resin smurf all the normal chapters do.

>>47767421
>>47767396
>Actually doing the insides

You are a better man than me, anon.

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>>47766835
Alright. Time for bed. I think this is the best I can do for now.

the resin heads I ordered came today. The faces look pretty decent, but the hair is a travesty. Anyone know any good hair sculpting tutorials?

My GS attempts usually turn out terrible. It ends up lumpy rather than smooth, sticks to everything but the model, and even when just filling gaps I can never seem to get a flush finish. How do they do it?

>>47763205
I've heard of some people putting tiny drops of PVA (white/elmers glue i believe) and building them up like that.

>>47763205
get a very thin rod of plastic (look up plastruct on amazon), slice it really thin, and use tweezers and thin plastic cement to apply.

some people use the tip of a very sharp hobby knife instead of tweezers. That may be easier if your rivets are very very small.

>>47767767
http://santacruzwarhammer.blogspot.co.nz/2008/01/how-to-make-simple-rivets-with-pva-glue.html

>>47766776
that lighting is very yellow so it kind of hard to tell the actual colors.

Daylight LED bulbs are just a few bucks each. They not only are good for painting, but they made my living room be a much nicer place to be too.

>>47765063
>The robes look too dirty so I'll re-do them

no. new chapter. filthy marines

not dedicated to nurgle just really demotivated and too poor to have chapter serfs to clean for them.

>>47766835
>Also colorblind, so hopefully not too bad. The colours seem to mostly match besides that the light blue in the sky is more of a purple/mauve

>>47765063
No!

Keep the robes that way!

Make your entire army look like that! You could have a seriously nice looking army.

>>47767842
>>47767851
Knights Humilitus

16th Founding Ultramarines Successors.

They believe firmly that it they are no better than any common man, but they have been entrusted with the sacred duty to be The Emperor's angels of death. They cover their armor with simple robes and tabards spun from coarse cloth, which they refuse to wash, as a show of humility. Similarly, they avoid lavish trinkets and ornamentation commonly worm by other chapters.

>>47762499
Dunno about the lord, but the hounds could be used as chaos hounds in a renegade ogryn squad.

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How the fuck am i supposed to base this nigga?

None of the flat surfaces even touch the base, only the tips of the legs, not enough surface for the glue to work properly desu

>>47768317
I just smacked a clump of greenstuff under his robes and glued that to the base.

>>47768370

Sounds good, gonna have me buy some of that stuff.

Until then, no base 4 you techpriest

>>47768382
Which model is that?

>>47768389
>techpriest
u tell me bruh

>>47768392
Well, "bruh", it's 5 AM and I wasn't sure if there are multiple techpriest models available.

>>47768398
Games Workshop have been kind enough to put together a website cataloging all the models they currently sell.

>>47768317
Placed a little bit of glue under every leg and tangent that touched and gently set in on the base.

Then I painted the base again so any spillover glue looked like the terrain.

>>47768424
Oh look, there's the Tech-Priest Dominus and the Techpriest Enginseer.

So I'll ask again, WHICH MODEL?

>>47768389

It's the Techpriest Dominus, not sure why the other guy is being such a cunt about it.

>>47768435
One of those has legs, one of them has a horrific betentacled robe asshole. The original picture wasn't exactly the sole of someone's boots.

>>47768484
Calm down nikka

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>>47768484
STOP BEING A CUNT

>>47767540
Already looking better. I think you just need something to make the foreground a little more interesting.

>>47762190
I'm glad I'm not the only one.

>>47767421
i love how you did the grime, the only thing i would change is this: notice how, at the top door edges, there is a squiggly white line from the top arrow? Just fix that.

>>47768389
>>47768392

I just want to clarify i'm not that cunt (the one that posted that techpriest image), That's some other cunt

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>>47767540
Hopefully you can see this. It's fine with my colour issues but I know how different they all are.

There's a nice tidy line here. You could turn from there down into a cliff face with some cracks and maybe like a peg with a rope running down.
That would add some interest to your foreground.

>>47767883
They're like protestant marines, shunning the pompery of the catholic styled normal marines.

>>47768792
Thanks.

Some (most) of the white is supposed to be silver showing chipped paint on the door joint, it does look white in the pic though. That said I agree it looks messy and I'll repaint it I think.

The grime is weathering powder and thinners, works a treat.

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>mfw I never have enough natural light to take a decent pic of my minis
>mfw living in the UK
>mfw even Mordor had more light

>>47769139
I know. It's supposed to be summer already. I'm looking out the window and I can see nothing but grey.

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>>47769145
i know that feel.
have a free baneblade.

>>47769145
Summer was a month ago guys. You missed it.

>>47769092
tone down the scratches and paint the underside of them with a lighter tone of blue. Helps making them look like they are 3d scratches

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Decided to just bumble fuck my way through a pink horror from the silver tower boardgame. Loads to do still but I think he's getting there.

>>47769275

That's a really nice model. I might have to pick myself a copy of Silver Tower at some point.

>>47769275
Pretty good, are you going to keep highlighting the teeth and claws? Is that knife going to get non metallic metalled? Or do still have to give him the metallic base?

>>47769400
I didn't even check silver twoer until now, because overkill horrified me with how overcosted it was, but i have to admit this one looks too noce to pass up. If i just had the money..

>>47769508

desu, there are a shitload of miniatures and content in there

1 Fyreslayer Doomseeker
1 Darkoath Chieftain
1 Excelsior Warpriest with Gryph-hound
1 Knight-Questor
1 Mistweaver Saih
1 Tenebrael Shard

Monsters:

1 Gaunt Summoner of Tzeentch
1 Ogroid Thaumaturge
2 Skaven Deathrunners
2 Pink Horrors
4 Blue Horrors
4 páry Brimstone Horrors
6 Tzaangors
8 Grot Scuttlings
8 Kairic Acolytes
8 Chaos Familiars

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Guys, I tried to make water effect on a base with the new gw gloss varnish (the old 'ardcoat worked pretty well) and the result is shit.
What do?

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>>47769533
better img
oh, the model is still wip, btw

>>47769533
What do you mean new gloss varnish? 'Ardcoat is still produced. What did you use?

>>47769521
Most of those monster sound like warhammer things.

None of the heroes do.

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>>47769689
Here is the two
Old one was waaay more thicker

>>47769737
Do you know what new means?

>>47769737
I guess they've renamed it fairly recently as it's still Ard Coat on my "new" citadel range, and is still listed as ardcoat on the GW website.

>>47769476
Pretty much still have everything to do/finish. Teeth and claws getting highlighted a lot more, metals are going to be regularly metally, the leadbelcher i threw on the knife doesnt seem to show up very well due to it being one very thin coat on a white primed area. Usually i like to plan everything in advance when it comes to models, but i just sorta dove right in and figured out what i was going to paint and how as it came together.

>>47769508
Speaking as someone who doesnt even play Fantasy/AoS, silver tower was worth it just for the models, super high quality,really fun to paint. THe only ones i have any real complaints about are the grots which i think look a bit cheap and not so great.... but its made up for entirely by the smirking berserker and the little bird chaos familiar that looks utterly diabolical.

>>47769794
It's still hardcoat, he must not be following the scene a lot
>>47769737

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So what project goals are you dear anons trying to finish before the weekend ?

Using today to basecoat the last of my haqqislam force. Hope to have most finished before saturday when i have my first couple of games.

>>47769918
I was wondering how open are infinity's lore and its community towards custom paint schemes?

>>47769982
Very open as far as i've experienced.
Already got another Hassin Bahram force that's mostly painted in the red and white Assassins creed scheme. It hasnt even raised an eyebrow so far.

Go nuts.

>>47769998
Thank you,30k stories thraumatized me

>>47770075
as a 30k Emperor's Children player, i can understand your worry.

>>47770075
To be fair, 30k is pretty much a historical game what with its organised, set-in-stone events, characters and victories (not to mention played by a load of old farts that nitpick minor details).

>>47769918
>Haqqislam

What kind of scenarios do you play with a force like this, purge the homo?

>>47770187
Harr harr

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i hate doing faces/heads senpaitachi, keep or replace?

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I am so excited! All three of my ups packages arrived today.

1. instant mold, so that I can start copying chaos cultists and then mod them into desert imperial guard

2. I had a sprue that was missing a part from the factory and GW sent me a whole new box. This almost makes me feel bad for #1

3.A bunch of stormraven bits arrived from ebay. So now I can finish my kitbashed valkryie. The pic is a loose mockup of said valkryie.


I'm so excited.

>>47770511
1. The guy looks stunned, don't know if that's what you're going for
2. Legs, where did you get them.

Is this a bad idea for learning airbrushing? I plan on getting a nice badger down the line.

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/1Pc-Tattoo-Kits-With-Rotary-Machine-Airbrush-Paint-Spray-Guns-And-Compressor-Air-Brush-Make-Up/32665878006.html?ws_ab_test=searchweb201556_0,searchweb201602_2_10017_507_401_10040,searchweb201603_3&btsid=7c118fb0-85e3-42aa-b1c1-bc88a88ddccb

I've also got a tank, and a cheepy little 5$ DC air compressor. Could use an inverter and charge up the tank...
What do you think, /tg/?

>>47770132
Well,yes, I can understand that, but I don't appreciate people trying to dictate my army. Even if they are right. (Plus nothing forces me todo be playing something which is canon, I could be nullifying some alternative 30k history)

>>47770576
Iron Hands upgrade pack from gw

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>>47764472

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For my next batch of Emperor's Children i've been experimenting with instant mould, basically just doing some stamps. Imo my first few tries look allright-ish, what do you guys think?

>>47770511
Your work is awesome, love the bionic legs. The face and mask are allright, but the eyes make him look somewhat goofy. Thought about just making the eyes black or bloody red? Something inhumane would look good on them.

>>47769145
100+ here, no clouds. Can we trade? Or would stuff over there melt?

>>47770841
Seconding red eyes
It looks alright, but it would be easier to judge with grey primer I think. The pipes in particular look st range, but I can't tell if it's the mould or the look of the resin.

>>47770974
Greetings fellow Floridian. Aren't you glad that we have no O-Zone these days?

>>47770974
I hope that's faranheit not centigrade.
But sure.

>>47771104
Nevada actually
>>47771112
Yeah, def not centigrade

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damn

>>47771235
I am sorry to stop on a small detail, model looks good, but is it me or is the white portion of the shoulder shield lacking a highlight?

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I tallscaled a Space Wolf of mine and magnetized his head and arms. How does he look? I'm new to 40k and I have a bunch of grey hunters to paint. My biggest concern is how his legs will look once I paint over the parts I cut to extend his legs. Should I try to smooth it better with greenstuff or will the small bumps be negligible once I paint over them?

>>47771380
I don't know much about anatomy, but if you make legs bigger shouldn't you make arms and torso bigger too? I thought space maribes' heroic scale meant only head and weapons bigger, not only smaller legs. Also every little bump will show with paint, think of mould lines.

>>47771582
Not the guy you are talking to, but aside from big heads and hands and weapons and feet, heroic GW's minis also tend to have pretty long arms or short legs depending on how you look at it.
The average marine's arm almost reaches down to his knee which is chimpanzee anatomy rather than human.
It all kinda works because of the poses though.

The new tactical kit has a pair of arms where one arm is pretty obviously much longer than the other.
If you look at it from the right direction you won't even notice it.

Lets call it artistic license.
If it makes a pose look larger than life I think it's fair to take a little liberty with it, as long as you don't end up with poses that look like somebody with a broken spine (which has happened too of course).

>>47771582
I think with the SM models, they have some long ass gorilla arms so it works out in the end. I think the heroic scale is probably cooler, but I don't have the time and resources to make one. Also... damn, hopefully I can smooth the legs out with green stuff.

>>47771651
I heard gs doesn't work very well with sanding, i think people adviced to add a bit of bonus blue stuff to the mic or milliput so that it comes harder and more sandable.
>>47771644
Thank you, one day i should really learn some anatomy and sculpt smething

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My first terrain/diorama thingy.

I am waiting for vallejo still water to arrive. I will put the stream in the middle.

The idea was to have some sort of crossing - I thought that marble tiles would work well but I don't know what to do next.
The cork tiles looks a too rough to be marble, now they just look like awful concrete slabs. Any ideas? I might just strip them and put just another slab of cork there.

>>47772048
you need flock for the all the rocks.

>>47772048
Drybrush some varying colours onto your tree and bushes, the bushes especially look very uniform in colour at the moment.

>>47772098
What do you mean?

>>47772123
Thanks, gonna try that

>>47771235
Why does that model look reasonably cool with a pilot helmet, but retarded without one?

>>47772159
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r79HuWyU0ic

>>47772191
Oh, that. Thanks.

I wanted to make it more uniform with my bases which are more kinda desolate but a grass here and there might make things more interesting.

>>47762711
its a drawing crack head

>>47769139
then buy some light bulbs you twat

>>47772048
Is that meant to be birdseed, or lots and lots of spent cartridges?

>>47769521
>desu

that shit is pure lame

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Work continues on the modular trench networks.
Done with the 4 browns, now on to choice oranges and reds in some places to add some depth and interest.
I'll Be Back.

>>47772674
Looks great anon. Cant wait to see the final product.

>>47768317
Pin it to the base. I did all my Night Raptors like that. Glue a piece or two of resin/plastic to the underside of the base. Then pin the dude in place.

>>47772674
looks awesome!

>>47770582
Ive only ever used an Iwata Eclipse and a Badger Krome. I bought a Badger compressor and just taught myself.

The hardest part to learn is troubleshooting and proper maintenance. It also takes trial and error to learn proper paint consistency for your brush. Oh and using psi correctly takes some time to learn.

Have fun.

>>47771380
Looks alright, but you need to mix your greenstuff better. You have lumps of unmixed yellow sticking out. If there are bits of solid yellow that cured in the packaging, remove them because they will never be truly solid.

>>47766891
>By the House Avernus

Hello, /tg/.
Does anyone have any guides similar to >>47769165
I would appreciate them. I play orks, but anything's good.

>>47772411
you're not welcome here

>>47773468
everyone is welcome everywhere on the internet.
you are not the internet police.
desu and it's ilk are lame.
use it as you will, but you are simply lame.
own your lameness.

>>47773579
desu i dont really care what you think senpai
now go to >>>/v/eddit where people maybe care cuck

>>47772411
First day on the 'chan? That's alright, we all were 12 once. Come back in 6 years.

>>47773622
You clearly care what I think else you would not continue to derail this thread instead of posting your own WIP.

>>47773674
t. derailer

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>>47773413
Im pretty sure we had a link floating around somewhere with that stuff

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>>47773750

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Not WIP, I am breaking the rules

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>>47772674
>>47773700
>t. derailer
And yet....


Anyway, how about we just post some WIP in WIPg, hmmmmmmmm?

Building up those deep reds!
Then 3 oranges after I do all the red on all 18 pieces.
Then I have to repaint all the sand and earth Behr Raven black, dry brush it Behr Tawny Port, then Behr Milestone Grey and then finally apply grass and snow and water effects in the "duckboard" grates and in corners and around pipes.
FINALLY, I will do detail work like verdigris on copper pipes and chapter colours on scattered marine armour.

>>47773771
Get me some of that sticky icky icky!
Looks good. Throw some brown, green and yellow washes in that web of fecal ooze.

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>>47773857

Thanks, already done. Have to update the picture.

>>47773802
What are these models? I love that hound. I need more in my cultist horde.

>>47773875

Witchhunter is a Bretonnian + imperial + cultist head (some company I forgot) bitz mishmash.
Doge is a mierce miniatures drune hound with the horns cut off.

>>47773892
>mierce miniatures drune hound
>http://mierce-miniatures.com/index.php?act=pro&pre=mrm_dkl_ysn_kys_bst_101_000

Love it, thanks!

Anyone know of any good 28mm HOUNDS?
Like, blood or basset?
I have a basset sleeping under my desk right now and I'd love to have him on the table top! haha
I may attempt to just sculpt him if there are no good options, tho.

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>>47773934
>>47773892
>Hounds of Carn Dhu, Drune-Hound Unit

Oooh, or I can get a unit of different ones!

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Forgive my tragic cellphone pic.
They are Iron Kingdoms RPG Steelhead Merc Crew.
I gave them all names too, careers, etc.
Fun times.

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>>47773817
>>47772674
Done with red. On to oranges.

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The bulk of the paintjob is done. Now onto the twenty gorillion gems.

>>47773702
Got any more? I love that guide!

>>47775179

Airbrush cheatery

>>47775179
Hot Sex on a Platter!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJI5kvWBL1E

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>>47775246
I seriously hope you never waste your time glazing such a large surface. There is a correct tool for every situation anon.

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Muh elfdar army so far.

>>47775499
>That full line of vallejo effects
I didn't even know that Vallejo sold liquid mask

Solid paintjob btw, the blending on the helmets is top notch no matter how you acheived it.

>>47775530
The guardians are 100% regular brush.

>>47775540
How do you blend so nicely?

>>47775499
Not a fan of the bases otherwise bretty good, would be proud to purge.

>>47775621
Those helmets have a perfect shape to glaze. Aside from that it's just practice.

>>47771380
couldn't you just sand it down? more greenstuff seems like a recipe for disaster

>>47775627
Woulg you rather have the guardians with this >>47775355 kind of basing?

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>>47775037
Love my Hobby Zone so much

>>47775812
I just think you need to pick out the brown more on their bases, similar to the larger WS one. The ground is brown and the rocks are grey. On the Guardians, its mostly just grey.

>>47761868
where? i got few all sauces seems ded

>>47775940
I see, I'll try it when I come back to the guardians as I have to apply a darker shadow on the armors too. Right now it just seems plain white.

>>47775953
a lot seem to have seeders on kat.cr anon

>>47775812
As the guy you're actually responding to, it's too stoney and it doesn't work. At least you havn't mounted them on a full half inch of cork.

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>>47775499
Brother!

>>47775642
whats glaze?

>>47776272
as in blend, not a GW glaze paint

>>47776299
how to blend?

>>47776272
A technique to achieve blending. See for example this article to get a quick view of different blending techniques: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/666562.page
For more information google will give you plenty of tutorials.

>>47776249
that speckled blue just gave me some PTSD-esque flashbacks there. Y-you're not blue eldar poster guy right?

>>47775914
Stop posting your confy hobby zone anon.
Makes me jelly!

>>47776580
I'm not sure, care to explain? If its that dire avenger with the mould line guy its not me

>>47776598
So much better with the larger tv and now both monitors are on the same better computer.
Plus the WiiU for when my younger siblings text me to destroy them online in MK8.
And so many movies now!

Any recommendations?
I am on an Aussie Horror Thriller kick atm.
Just watched Wolf Creek 1&2, Rogue, Animal Kingdom, Wrymwood.
I am now going to watch Raid Redemption and Raid 2.
But what next /TG/?!
Recommend movies to me!!!

I want to try out painting a mini (40k imperial guard) but I'd rather pick up paints and brushes from an art shop instead of buying citadel paint. What type of paint is used for painting 40k minis (enamel, accryllic or something else?)

>>47776873
Acryllic paints are what you want. Model paints are nice because of their consistency, but with enough monkeying you can get other higher end acryllics to work.

>>47769508

Just fyi...

I bought 3 copies, one for me to keep intact.

and 2 to sell the

Heroes
Skaven
Grots
Minotaur
Familiars
Box Contents

keeping the

Pink Horrors x 4
Blue Horrors x 8
Brimstone Horrors x 8
Tzaangors x 12
Acolytes x 16

I manged to make a little profit, I made £156 selling the individual bits,

feels good man, you can too! Just make sure you do it sooner rather than later, otherwise people will have all the models they want.

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>>47776618
some time back some dude with a similar colored blue eldar army, except with red helmets/vehicle exhausts. Spammed posts of his vehicle army altogether worth 10k points or so. Every single thread. It was spammed to the point where I found one pic of it by searching "blue eldar 4chan"

He just spammed it at any mention of eldar.

>>47776618
>>47776618
some tourneyfag dildo used to post his fairly poorly painted alaitoc eldar superheavy repeatedly

>>47776990
No, Im not that guy. I only have that fire prism.
That scheme is ugly, and that poor lynx...

>>47776990
Aaaand it was a cheesy list and everybody hated it.

>>47776873
Try and find acrylic paint designed for miniatures, be it vallejo, p3, army painter, whatever. It'll give you not shit paint jobs because it has far finer pigment.

>>47777030
was just being cautious. As you said the scheme was mediocre but by god did that poster seem to be in love with it, whether or not it was trolling is unknown to me.

>>47777034
>everybody

you* (or "I" in context)

>>47777038
>finer
*more

Hay newfag here, well at least to the WIP threads. How do I convert the orruk mega boss into a 40k warboss? Anyone got a picture example?

>>47777399
break up the carapace-y curved armour with bulky and edged armour plates, graft a power klaw on with greenstuff and wiring, possibly some pistons, and then some suitably large gun on the other arm.
an iron gob certainly wouldnt be out of place, and possibly some kind of reactor or power source on the back would be good as well, might have a look at either a deff dredd or just dreadnought kit

>>47776939
Sounds good, but italy's miniatures market is pretty shit. I think i could struggle selling them. Thank you for the input anyway.

>>47777513
That would work, though I'm keeping the axe to use as a big choppa or one of the relic big choppas. As for a gun for the left hand what would work well for that? Tried the ogrin guns but they are all on the right hand

>>47776990
Am i really a bad person if i like the scheme? Or is the problem the bad paintjob?

Guys, do you remember viking anon? I am pretty new to painting and am now looking into colour theory, why was his scheme so horrible? For what i recall it was pretty much a contrasting colour combination. What did he do wrong?
>>47777556

I think you would have to look into tank weapons, maybe killa kans bits have something?

>>47772342
the mini in the background...

>>47762711
>>47777631
238 replies later and her is still on about it

>>47777573
the scheme is mostly fine, it was just that the overexposure of it combined with that anon's drive to push it down others throats' left a bad taste in my mouth

>>47777269
It's both.

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>Your package has been shipped
>Estimated arrival time: Tomorrow or Thursday
>5 dollar shipping

>>47777913
Can you explain the issue?(why don't people just explain in the post? You know there will always be a retard asking)

>>47777974
extremely cheap shipping offering next day or very fast shipping is the equivalent of gold at $5 a pound, just pay upfront and get it the next day. nobody is that cheap and telling the truth about the shipping time

>>47778031
Its with canada post so atleast itll actually come unlike UPS...

>>47777034
No, everybody. If any, everybody but me, as I've never faced eldars and don't have any idea about how the army was. But as soon as he dropped the pics my /wip/ became infested of people calling in how he just bought the cheesy stuff and painted it terribly and tourney and whatever, to the point the thread went to shit. I don't give a damn as is, you know, easy to just avoid clicking in pictures I recognize. But I didn't like the threads getting derailed.

>>47767717
Anyone? Have any advice for hair sculpting or lumpy green stuff?

I coat my tools in Vaseline so it doesn't stick to the tools, but it is like the GS eats the jelly off the tool and becomes a nasty mess very quickly

>>47778060
>UPS
There is your problem. I've never had any issues with USPS but they suffer because of
>muh private sector

>>47770132
Its also much more fun and doesnt have bullshit like formations or hyperOP xenos fuckery

>>47769918
>no HMG Azra Il
for shame

>>47776873
>>47777038
Thanks guys I just bought the miniature and paint and when I walked out of the store I realized it needs to be assembled. What kinda glue do I use to put it together? What are the steps for getting the mini ready to paint

>>47777880
I agree

>>47778414
i think googling will give you a better array of more detailed answers,but first off, use super glue,the normal market one, plastic glue is too strong and you won't be able to dismantle the model. Do not asssemble the whole model for the sake of it, just get to the point where going on will impede your painting and stop. Tipically people leave arms and sometimes heads off to be painted separately. After you glued and think you are ready to paint, file off mould lines. You now think they are not important, but they will be very obvious after painting. look closely for a little bump line which goes all aorund the model and file it. It's hard to see for beginners, but try. (if you scrape off mould lines before gluing it will be easier sometimes). Now you should Greenstuff or milliput some cracks which could be in the parts you glued in your miniature and you should be good.(to be honest i would skip the filling for the first times)

>>47778414
best thing would be plastic cement. This basically melts all the parts into one.

Before you can get to painting you want to remove all the pieces from the sprue, clean the moldlines, assemble as far as you can without obstructing anything later for painting and then - this is important - clean the models with dishsoap or something before you prime them. The cleaning gets rid of any residual mold release that might prevent your primer from sticking.

If you have a basing theme that lends itself to it, you can add sand or other stuff to the bases before priming as well. Might save you a little time later.
I use wood glue to glue sand and flock to the bases. For the sand I also add a second pass of diluted wood glue once I've glued it down, so it can resist recent handling and won't rub off.

>>47778567
i am>>47778567 i don't know if it's a good idea to advice a noob to use plastic glue, as you said it melts plastic and when he will go back to his models and eventually regrett his rookie mistakes it will be hard to undo them.

>>47778776
ops, first quote should have been>>47778601

>>47778776
super glue is a real pain to remove. Better to do it right, learn to clean the parts and assemble them properly from the beginning.

>>47778242
just use water instead of vaseline.

>>47778835
Super glue is a pain,but plastic cement is nigh impossible without cutting it off which will easily result in a mess. You can't tell me you would prefer to have to repose a mini glued with plastic glue then one glued with super glue, regardless of him needing to learn.

>>47777623
Cool I have some kills kan and deff dread big shootas. But how do you think I should attach them? Cut off the hand and make it look like it's his new hand? Or mount it on his gauntlet?

Also what would be a good boss pole to put on him? I was thinking the waagh banner one, attach that to his back

>>47778776
>>47778835
>super glue is a real pain to remove.
just put the mini into the freezer, then you can disassemble easily, and scratch off the glue.
>>47778898
>plastic cement
now this one, I agree with. You can also try the freezer method, but since it melts the plastic and connects the parts that way, it is really butcher work. (but can be done)

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>>47771380
Sand them and post results.

i think it looks good for scale, its not true scale be at least that marine is now taller than a normal man.

8/10 would crusade with

Any airbrushers on? I've ordered my brush and compressor and bought some cleaner and already have some normal citadel paints. Can I just thin them with water or do I need a proper thinner? Also am I better off asking about this stuff on /ic/ or is this kosher for these type of threads?

>>47778414
Superglue brand Super Glue Gel is the best shit for plastics. Disregard gits who say zapagap or GW's glues.

Plastic Cement is a side-grade, and if you fuck up there's no undoing it since it melts the plastic together instead of bonding them.

Superglue brand superglue gel is also cheap and easy to obtain, since it's at dollar stores and supermarts.

It also doesn't crystallize like zap and GW glues do, and doesn't fucking bond to skin better than it does plastic.

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>bought 130 of these little shits
>whathaveidone.jpg
>no airbrush

kill me.

>>47779009
look up the method 'dipping'

>>47779009
You purchased 130 of what might be the worst melee-focused unit in the game WHY?

>>47778978
Super glues, ESPECIALLY gel glues, create a gap between parts, and have a very weak bond.

Gel glues are extremely easy to use for beginners, but they are not good.

>>47779033
because they were a good deal and I already have 90 termagants.

yes I have lost control of my life.

>>47773771
looks hotglued. don't post this on
>>>/toy/

>>47778901
First is obviously check if the dimension fits, i am just imagining here, then, the easiest way would be terminator-like gun under the arm if his pose allows that, just stick th gun under his arm, maybe after building a little thing to look like th gun was stuck there and then make something which connects to his hand if you would like to. It's all i can give you.

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>>47778901
Like this if i was unclear

>>47779009
You can get away with white primer seraphim sepia highlight(screaming skull?) carapace and claws, it should be fast as fuck like this. If you really gotta go fast you can skip highlights and base carapace before washing and then wash the carapace too.

>>47778060
UPS guy delivered my parcel to the wrong house today... He personally came back to retrieve the box and bring it to the correct address.

After I called and complained.

>>47779057
Nah, ever since I switched from GW and Zapmyasshole to Supergluebrand I stopped having blatant gaping between parts. (again, it doesn't crystallize like those do)

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Can I get some advice on this guy?
Not on the OSL, I'm very aware of how sloppy it is, this is a test model.
I'm wondering about colors. He looks far too bronze. I fucking love the way the bronze turned out, and while I do want that to be the predominant in your face LOOK-AT-ALL-MY-FUCKING-BRONZE look of the color, this is just too much.
I tried painting all the gear bits to chainmail, but it wasn't enough.
I'm worried that if I start picking out too many other bits and painting them the same color, then it might appear in too many places and detract from the bronze color by looking like a bunch of little ugly spots.

I really want the bronze to stand out with the green OSL as a little distraction and the chainmail where necessary.
What should I do, /wip/?

>>47779744

To expand just a bit, if I started to paint all the bolts and rivets and whatnot chainmail... well, that's a lot of bolts and rivets and I'm afraid it'd start to look like polka dots.
Ugly metal polka dots.

>>47779766
what about making the joints, which look like flathead screws, brass?

>>47779822

I like that idea. It looks different enough so everything's not so monotone, but not different enough to wash out the overall color of the model. I'll give it a shot, thanks anon.

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>>47779009
>>47779092

Do the priming and base color 'assembly line' style and then do the finish painting in small batches of 10 or 15 at a time so that you get to see finished results and don't get discouraged.

>>47779744
Paint the recessed areas different colors, maybe add some gold... you could also give it some corrosion if you want

>>47779009
>Prime white
>Wash flesh agrax twice
>Wash carapace druchi violet twice
>Manually paint claws, teeth tongue
>done
Swap out agrax or druchii for whatever other colourscheme you want

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>>47779971
It won't take long before you start having hordes of little bugs swarming across the table top...

>>47779971
my tyranid color scheme is yellow and black. ive painted my MC's and i am not looking forward to the tiny guys

>>47779009
Please skip to :55 to reference my opinion on your situation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4QJwGTOny8

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I'm giving up on this model.
How is it?

>>47780147
>That unpainted Rhino

It hurts so much man, this picture would look so good if the rhino had a few colours at least.

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He looks fine in a squad at least

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>>47762711
>stop forcing this mini like its a gods gift to men
>
>Implying that Johnny is *not* The Emperor's gift to Mankind

>>47778954
Distilled water is fine (no tap water; no need to add contaminants into the mix when distilled is $1/gal). You'll want to thin it down @ 3:1 or so (the same thinness as a wash). If distilled alone isn't quite working out, you can homebrew some thinners by mixing distilled 50/50 with artist's acrylic medium (the liquid kind - any art store or Michael's, etc will sell you some).

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>>47779173
Thanks mate will look into it

>>47775787
>>47778953
I don't have any sanding supplies, What would you guys recommend I sand it with? Files, sand paper or something else?

>>47781591
a set of files off amazon will set you back 5-10 dollars

also get a 40 dollar rotary tool like a dremel. You can get grinding heads which are excellent, and you can use it to drill too.

>>47770538
Looking good, interested in those desert IG

>>47779597
What do you mean by crystalise?

Obviosly they are meant to go hard as they dry. Is there some secondary thing you mean?

>>47764269
>Those mismatched missiles
Fuck how do you live with yourself?

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Progress update, because if I post them somewhere, I won't paint ever.

Last time I posted these guys, you guys seemed to think that the green looked a bit off and that I should use another green color. Honestly, I didn't share that opinion, but constructive criticism is always welcome, and I'm really using these plaguebearers as a way to experiment with bright color schemes.

I really liked the green color on their pus boils, but somebody suggested using a flesh wash around them before laying the green color down. The red wash makes the boils look less neon, but it also brings the general color tone of the entire model down when you look at it from afar, which I really don't like. I still have to go back in and touch up on some of the stray red wash to make it look less sloppy.

Some of the boils and a tooth or two on his belly have slightly too thick paint because I wasn't paying attention.

Not sure how I like the results, but experimenting and taking criticism is part of why I'm here.


Also, I made a makeshift photobox out of plasticard, so hopefully these images are less shit quality..

>>47775246
>looking down on airbrushes

Somebody's poor

>>47782594
It's probably less to do with being poor and more with confirmation bias.

Obviously everyone starts somewhere but when we see people post shitty brush painted figures people don't say "fuck brushes are shit"

But you see exactly that for every beginner level airbush job you ever see.

>>47781749
What set of files would you recommend?

>>47782725
small steel files intended for models, preferably a set with a few different shapes. A round file and a flat file are probably the most useful. but pointy files are nice too.

The brand doesn't really matter.

>>47782725
My best set are wierdly the citadel ones that I got given.

But I got a pretty good set from my local hardware store. I think they were just called jewelers files.

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>>47775037
Okay, done with stippling all the browns, reds, and oranges. I am burnt out and going to bed.
Tomorrow I continue with various washes, fixing up the black earth, using a graphite pencil to simulate worn down rust on areas that I feel might see more traffic and get bumped a lot.

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daylami infantry
not a great time to paint haqqislam minis

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>>47782923
super good!

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Is there a way to make a colour into a proper wash?

I just add water, which is fine, but it's far from behaving like a wash.

>>47782725
Needle Files.

They're cheap, and just about everywhere.

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Ok, so I'm trying to do a monsters from the deep/Cthulhu style army wide conversion on my stuff. I've got some decent ideas for a lot of it, a mix of deep sea creatures with some CoC style additions to get the right feel, but I'm stuck on this model.

Anyone have any pictures of either Cthulthu style angel/winged creatures or deep sea creatures that would give this Theme? Basically, I need to show the wings in some fashion, and they need to stay looking more of a fast mover. Beyond that, sky's the limit.

can you airbrush shades like nuln oil?

>>47783244
washes and shades are a little different than regular paint. You could spray them with an airbrush, but they would just run.

If you want to coat a large area, consider dipping or using a large brush.

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>>47783377

Well I wont dip, guess it's time to purchase an XXL brush

>>47783390
I mean you could spray it with an airbrush, it just wouldn't be very different from applying it any other way, unlike normal paint which an airbrush makes blending very easy

>green stuff refuses to stick to anything
I've tried all sorts of different ratios of blue:yellow. What am I doing wrong

Running a wash through an airbrush eliminates tide marks and makes it act more as a tint or glaze than a wash.

>>47783069
>I just add water, but it's far from behaving like a wash

That's because you can't just add water you have to add acrylic medium. Washes aren't just paints with extra water in them, damn. Fucking water plebs I swear to god.

>>47783498
water washes are useful sometimes, but you have to get the ratio just right

and use an additive to your water our you will leave rings on your model

>>47779744

It's a bit flat. There's a World Eater leviathan floating around somewhere on the internet which has a really good bronze effect. I think it was achieved by starting from tin bitz or something, lightly drybrushing gold, and finally some silver. Gives it a lot more depth.

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Big question: wich lighting looks better? Tryinf a few from the hammer but not sure wich one is more realistic...

>>47783486
Maybe you're not mixing it enough?
Perhaps the surface your applying it to is wet or dirty?
Have you tried sanding the area to give the green stuff something rough to stick to?

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Anyone have any pictures of the back of Johnny?
I got two coming in the mail but I don't have any backpacks that I think will fit.

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Guys...I fucked up. I wanted to do an alternative imperial fists color scheme but I glued on my shoulder pads and heads, so I primed a test model all in black and used yellow from the pot for the first time ever...I know I need to THIN MY PAINT, this is so bad I almost didn't post it, but how would you recommend going from chaos black primer to flash gitz yellow? Please make it as idiot proof as possible because I'm an idiot. I never want to turn a poor marine into a hunk of American Cheddar ever again.

>>47784364
>how would you recommend going from chaos black primer to flash gitz yellow
By removing the Chaos Black primer and using a white primer instead.
I'm serious.

Other than that, try painting a white base coat over it first and then painting over that with a yellow.
This will lead to the same paint thickness in most situations, but the color will be much nicer - more like a nice slice of American rather than a chunk.

>>47784364
Holy shit.

Dark brown, light brown, dark yellow light yellow.

Colours in 3ish coats from the point you hit the yellows. Super thin paints let them throughly dry in between.

>>47784395
Which white primer would you recommend? I tried krylon but it gunked up my test model because I'm artistically challenged, so I wanna stick with the hobby stuff. Is the p3 or army painter white any good? Citadel doesn't make a white primer anymore...just a damn base coat.

>>47784037

Neither one. The light cast by OSL always needs to leave the area it hits brighter than the rest of the mini, but darker than the source of that light.

>>47784487
dark red then? there's a way to strip down the paint on these one?

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>>47784446
I don't prime white to often but I've found that pic related works fairly well for whatever I'm doing.
Personal experience may vary so use it at your risk.
It's also something like 3 dollars a can so there's that.

>>47780147
>Aquarium Terrain
>Goblin Green rimmed bases
>Green cactus with red toothpick spikes
Classic

>>47780277
Better than thin your paints tier. Robes are nice. Yellow needs work.

Id call it a day on this model and move on.

>>47784497
Also one last question: I'm gonna try thinning and layering over the black tomorrow first, because I really am just trying to get to tabletop a standard here. Would you use Celestra Grey or Ceramite White before adding yellow? And should I be thinning those base colors too? Sorry for all the questions.

>>47784515
First off I'd say to thin every paint you're going to use (sans primer).
As for whether to go Celestra Gray or Ceramite White, I'd use Ceramite White since it's a tad whiter and thus the yellow applied over it will also tend to be a lighter shade than if you were to use a grayer undercoat.

Overall I'd go Ceramite White (undercoat) -> Yriel Yellow (basecoat) -> Flash Gitz Yellow (highlight). This should give you a fairly good base to do a wash/glaze over (either a shade of Casandora Yellow/Seraphim Sepia or a glaze of Lamenters Yellow).

I never paint yellow so take my advice with a grain of salt however.

>>47784495

What are you going to do with the rest of the model, the parts that are white at the moment?