WIP - Painting/Sculpting/Converting/Johnny General

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>>48110351
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>>48110402
>How did you feel about the prequels?
not good but not bad, they were just Meh.

I had hoped to go for a imperial guard/sci-fi Vtol look kind of like this.

This is going to sound really gay but do you guys know of any decent painting services or individual painters that could do a (small) army's worth of models? I just can't handle my backlog anymore and I prefer to take my time on individual models for the skirmish wargames I play and D&D game i'm in, which isn't very productive toward big ass armies like in KoW or 40k. But I hate showing up every other week with an unpainted army..

>>48110647
where do you live?

>>48110665

West coast, US of A. I don't mind the cost of shipping overseas.

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>Posted this in the last thread but it was already in autosage

I live in florida where it gets super humid, I've been working with an airbrush (Paasche VL w/ Blue testors air compressor) it's been fine for about 2 months but recently it's started spitting water. So I bought a Paasche inline water trap and installed it on the hose it worked great for about 10 minutes and then started spitting again. I've gotten a few comments ranging from "You need a better compressor." to "The humidity is too high to paint even with a water trap" has anyone encountered this problem before and if so what did you find was the solution?

>>48110545

>Scour eBay for literally weeks
>no Johnny

Feels bad

>>48110707
Responded in the other thread; do you not have a trap as part of your regulator?

>>48110647

This may sound obvious but you know it's not cheap right?

http://www.denofimagination.com/ - gives you like 5 levels of quality, based in poland.

DO NOT USE -http://bluetablepainting.com/

They drybrush everything, Person A sends them money, they use the funds to fund themselves, person B sends them money, they use this for Person A's stuff, Person C sends them money, they use this for person A and B etc... not necessarily scammers just shit business people (and painters)

>>48110784

I'm not looking for cheap. I mean, if you saw my backlog you'd know i'm not shy about spending money on my hobby.

>>48110813
Yeah sure, but USA, Canada, UK, etc?

>>48110839

USA.

>>48110813

Well I listed one there you can use but really just google

"army painting service" probably "+ usa"

Otherwise, you'll ship the stuff to country X and no doubt have to pay import charges
They'll ship it back and you may, again, have to pay import charges.

>>48110813
Den would be a good choice if you are looking for reliability that the painting standard will be high.

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>>48110545
I'm on the hunt, every day and every night prowling ebay for delicious johnnies. My goal: nobody knows, but it's whispered that soon a chaos johnny will be born. Suggestions?

>>48110707
Vapers pls go

Anyone got a good tutorial/tips for sculpting 28mm torsos? I swear I can't seem to give my guy any pectorals and instead he looks covered in scars shaped roughly like pecs

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>>48110714
>Scour eBay for literally weeks
>no Johnny
>Feels bad

Emperor's Teeth, anon! Were you not in the last thread?

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>>48110607
So what do you all think if the engines in mid wing?

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>>48110745
No I don't that testors compressor is like a starter hunk of junk, other than making air it doesn't do anything. If it wasn't $9 I probably wouldn't have bought it.

I'm heading to a nearby hobby lobby now to take a look at the compressors they have, see if I can find anything. I think the problem in general is that I wanted to start off with the minimum and build up from there but it seems that's just gonna cost me more money in the long run.

>>48110968
The fuck are you on about? That's an airbrush not a mouth fedora.

>>48110707
You need to get a better compressor. An Aspire TC908 can be picked up for about $150. Hassle free, plug and play.

Id think about upgrading that brush too. Once you have the basics down, look at an Iwata hp-cs 'eclipse'. Or a Badger of any variety.

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This spear is slightly fucked, which bugs me.

>>48110813
DO NOT under any circumstance use Frontline, or Blue Table for comission work.

Blue Table just flat out sucks, their standard is very low.
Frontline - I used to hang out with a couple guys that do comission work for Frontline. They were ok, but didnt seal, used cheap/bad primer, and various other unprofessional habits. One of them also steals from people he does local comissions for. Im guessing this explains why he moves to a different city once a year.

>>48110784

Didn't they get into some dumb teenage-shitfight style drama with another painting service or something?
I seem to recall them getting into some kind of drama bullshit with someone else a while back.

>>48111073

not dropping $65 desu

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Finally finished off my goblin/grot squad. Wew lads. Had much fun painting the little guys.

>>48111565
Just make a new Johnny. Ive seen plenty of plastic Johnny's; I actually prefer them because scale and detail.

>>48111570
Beautiful.

>>48111445
10-4 I basically got the paasche for free cause of a gaming action I went to so I was planning on upgrading when a good deal rolls around.

>>48111570

They look great and considerably less Moot Green than the rest of your horde, how's Forgeworld going?

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>>48111565
>not dropping $65 desu

Sorry, m8. Don't know what else to tell you other than keep watching, keep waiting. All da uvva wunz I've seen lately - including one in a different $65.00 lot from Noble Knight - are already gone. This blister was ~$25US, and it was gone pretty quickly shortly after I mentioned it here.

Damn, CAPTCHA... again with the storefronts?

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Kinda sorta finished, just a few touchups and maybe highlights if i feel adventurous

What do you think?

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>>48111570
>Finally finished off my goblin/grot squad. Wew lads. Had much fun painting the little guys.

Tell us of your static grass secrets! My first efforts at using loose grass instead of pre-made clumps looks... well, *weird.*

Is yours loose grass with some longer clumps glued in there, or ...?

>>48111762

Looks good, a little flat though, I'd love to see some really subtle highlights on the cloak edges (very subtle not fluorescent nuclear yellow)

Maybe do the lenses too

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Further progress on my blackshield libbie

>>48111647
Cool, good luck and have fun man. It's a rough road while you're learning, but it's worth it.

>>48110545
>ventilate mother fucker

This is just for spraypaint right? Surely this isnt the stuff we get in paint pots too like GW or vallejo brand stuff?

>>48111762
Take a red 2 steps up from your basecoat, and edge highlight the cloth. Then take that same red, thin it to the consistency of fat-free milk, and brush very thin layers on the high points of the robes (top of head, top of folds). Let the layers fully dry before applying the next one. Building up brighter spots like this adds depth and looks great. Getting the consistency right is key.

>>48111968
A+ greenstuff.

>>48112022

The stuff in the paint pots is water based acrylic paint, non toxic, you could drink that shit if you wanted to. (don't)

It's just talking about the sprays

>>48111968
>melting chaos axe and legs
>clawed hand
>Ork armor

I don't think the Death Watch would accept him with no questions asked.

>>48112119
Its a HH blackshield. Aint nobody got time for questions^^

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>>48111878
>>48112077

Thanks, i'll try it out, can always cover with the same red in case i fuck up

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Decided to try out airbrush highlighting

I swear to god it doesnt look this bright in real life.

Hopefully some washes will bring it down

>>48111741

I'm Just having a whinge, I'll continue to keep an eye out, just want to join in is all.

>>48110545
I need to take an updated picture of my Johnny now that he's based.

how many Terminators do people usually put in a 2000 pts non-ZM list? 10? Maybe 15 or 20 if taking certain RoW/Primarchs like Mortarion or Horus?

>>48112190

It certainly is smooth.

it certainly is lilac

>>48112190
Looks like you hit it a little too hard. The lighter the highlight is from the basecoat, the less spray you need.

I would just take a white and edge highlight the hell out of it. Hit everything, rivets too. It will look pretty awesome.
That coat is nice though. Color looks great too. I did a fire raptor a couple years ago, challenging kit.

>>48112190

Looks like a teenage girl's bedroom

>>48112237
I have never seen more than 10. Though i have only once against a pride of the Legion, that can up the termiecounter significantly. And i bet mortarion would definitly take to the field with 30 terminators^^

>>48110545

Owner of Red Johnny, Green lenses here, should I dump his ass in dettol and have another go?

>>48110545
>ventilate mother fucker

This is just for spraypaint right? Surely this isnt the stuff we get in paint pots too like GW or vallejo brand stuff?

>>48112415
Glue too

Even if glue is odorless, it isnt vaporless

>>48112103
Thx

>>48112206
>I need to take an updated picture of my Johnny now that he's based.

Do, and post. I'll add him to the collage.


>>48112371
>Owner of Red Johnny, Green lenses here, should I dump his ass in dettol and have another go?

Why? Did you want him to be a distinctly different chapter from the Blood Angels?

Just base him. Your technique is solid, friend.

>>48112190
Fuck that messed with me for a moment.
Looked white at first, then the colour slowly started showing.

>>48111523
You mean the bend? Just warm it up and bend it back into place.

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Please excuse the phoneposting. Working on my renegade Knight

>>48112190
>Hopefully some washes will bring it down

Dont do that. Do like >>48112268
said and edge highlight it with a white or lighter purple. Only put wash in the crevasses and recesses.

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Posting some progress on my Iron Hands successors. I've never painted before so I thought I'd try different techniques out. This was on a old miniature so the details weren't in great condition. Black base with attempted highlights.

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>>48113151
First step attempting a grey base and numerous washes.

>>48112850

Damn, I want one of those.

I was thinking about buying Silver tower or the Renegade box. Can't justify to myself buying both.

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>>48113180
Whoops, meant to post smaller files. This is the furthest I've gotten with washes on top grey with a few minor highlights. I haven't touched the metallic areas yet as I was considering dry brushing the details on. I'm only using a single base and layer of the core colours I'm using. What does every one think? Any advice?

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So I have gone with engines mid wing so the next question for you anons is should I go with wingtips up or down?

>>48112850
Nice base church

>>48112850
Nice but your heavy stubber is lacking in chaosy/spikybits so I would suggest a nice bayonet would look good.

otherwise false-emperor/10 would form warband with

>>48113318
up, the body looks like a German sdkfz 222 or 251, and having them up would look like a Stuka

>>48113424
thanks, I thought up may be a cool idea. Its funny that the wings should be stuka-like since this model started life as a german scout car. I will post the results for the wing tips soon.

>>48113410
I'm actually trying to find a good horror head to slip up the barrel. If I can't find one I'll just leave it as is

Does anyone have a good guide on painting metal discolord by heat?
I mean that effect you sometimes see on the barrels of melta and plasma guns.

I found one in the Forge World HH guide, but that relies on FW paints and airbrushing and I have neither of those.

>>48113714
Mig and Ak interactive doa kit that sort of works like a make up set that has
Similar effect. You brush on this sort of pigment stuff. Its super easy.

Otherwise you can try using clear paint with a brush and a lot of patience.

>>48111391

He's being facetious you dimwit

>>48113272
>>48113180
>>48113151

Loyalist black legion?

>>48112156
But did the Death Watch even exist at that point?

Anyone got pictures of patriotic marines for Freedom Day?

>>48113903
I was going for Iron Hands originally but thought if I heavily went with bionic conversions and add a few Chaos units like a Lord I could make them renegades under Black Legion.

I don't know if I'm just being lazy with the coats I put on but the paint on primer doesn't help. I've heavy black is hard regardless. I would like to try glazing as even the grey looks a bit flat but maybe a dry brush would make >>48113272
look table top quality.

>>48113993
I've heard black is hard*

>>48113784
Hmmm, thanks for the tip but that sounds a bit excessive compared to my needs.
You see, I DM a PF campaign for friends and since I'm the only one with hobby experience I also paint all the models we need.

Models for PCs get (a lot of) extra attention of course and for the new fire-focused wizard I thought it'd be cool to have his metal staff have that cool heat-effect.

But I'm not going out and buying stuff especially for that, not while I already have washes and glazes for pretty much all colours.

Actually, I asked advice on colour schemes for another model here in a previous thread.
And since this is WIP I'll see if I can get a decent pic of that model which is about halfway done now.

>>48112190
Looks like a completely normal Emperor's Children colour scheme to me.

>>48113906
No it didnt. Thats why nobody will ask questions^^ or do you mean deathwatch as in the recruits for the dw? Blackshield during the heresy meant a warband with no clear or no allegiance at all, thats what my libbie is for

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>>48114077
Took a pic, it's kinda crappy but the best I can do at short notice in artificial light.

The gold's got two layers with one highlight of Burnished Gold to go before washes and more highlights.
The red armour plates hava basecoat and two washes (Carroburg shade and Devlan). The red cloth has the base and a wash of Devlan.
Shame the sleaves are badly visible, those are mostly done and came out in nice purpre for a touch of imperial grandour.
All the rest is just basecoated and washed either Devlan or Badab Black.

Still lots more to do, especially since I also have a footslogging version of the same character to do.

So, what does tg think of my fantasy-classical indians? Almost finished this fella, just a million more to go...

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>>48114473
pic didn't upload

>>48114511
kinda racist painting them that colour :\

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>>48112190
Progress on one of the cataphractii

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>>48110545
Just finished my 1st Wyvern

You mad Tau cucks??

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>>48114573

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>>48114599

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Mid wip shot of my eldar, experimenting with wet blending and glow effects.
Anything look off or needs improvements before I move onto highlighting? Suggestions?

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Working on a bieltan farseer.

>>48114742
Eldar-- the most numerous race in the galaxy

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What do you guys think? Still trying on Kabal names, I have "Violet Sun" as of current.

>>48114864
bad ass name

>>48114742
step by step on that blending? its very well done

>>48114864
Nice helmet, is it from the DE bikes?

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>>48114942

It sure is! I was thinking of naming him Avery Arzurhis, His Kabal aims to plunder terrible technologies to aid them in stealing the very essence of the stars themselves... but to what end?

>>48114620
I'm curious to know, Did you use different paint for the guns or have they not been washed? I want to know why they are a different color.

good job too

>>48114511
Ah, I can see I'm >>48114400 not the only one having fun converting other riders on Dark Elf Cold Ones!

Nice paint job on the mount btw

>>48114939
I assume you mean the green. I don't know the exact recipe, as I just prepared the gradient on the palette. I might have used 2-3 layers of shadows and 4-5 highlights. I apply them on thin layers in a glaze fashion and smooth them out with feathering and even thinner glazes.
The colors used were these

VGC goblin green as the basecoat.
GW warboss green, incubi darkness, and a bit of VGC scab red for shadows.
VMC lime green, VGC moon yellow and white for highlights.

>>48115346
thank you. the guns are standard IG green (castellan green) washed with nuln oil, drybrushed with loren forest. hard to tell on camera cause the rest of the tank is kinda like a werhmacht grey

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Hi guys, newbie here. I've recently finished painting my second squad and would love to get some tips from you.

Sorry for potato quality, but my phone camera was the best thing I could get.

I'm generally quite content with them, especially that i have a slight manual disorder and I'm shit at everything art related, but I do see a lot of room for improvement. So I'd be very glad to hear your advices and comments.

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>>48115918
Here's another guy

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>>48115943
And a photo of the whole squad, unfortunately with a double potato quality

>>48115918
You are doing fine, It looks a lot better than my first models. If you are willing to share the manual disorder, there might be some work arounds for it.

As for the painting, throw in some edge highlights on the metal in a lighter color for it to look better and either drill your barrels or put a black dot on them. Also, have you painted his eyes?

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Just about finished with this thing, I think.

>>48114742
Looking phenomenal.

Why is Biel Tan so popular?

>>48115918
>>48115943
>>48115971
By and large, its actually decent quality.
There are some parts where it doesnt seem like it's been washed, and there is a few spots with the red paint that looks like they got alittle too thick.
Looking into doing highlights to make the colours 'pop' should help you alot.

>>48115971
>>48115943
>>48115918
Not finished until those bases are done.

>>48116011

It's the default posterboy craftworld.

>>48116066
Negative, that's Ulthwe. Biel-tan is popular because unlike Ulthwe and the others, they don't fuck around with aloofness; they full-blown murder-elves 24/7 getting shit done.

>>48116011
i think people just like green

>>48114555

No more than having used a white primer ;) Flesh is better painted in layers

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A couple of WIP for Guild Ball

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>>48116438

No pic because I don't have the models to hand, but I feel like I've highlighted my Chaos Cultists too thickly, so it doesn't look natural. Is it worth doing another wash with Agrax and trying to highlight up again?

>>48115982
>>48116022
Thanks a lot. Yes, I definitely have to practise washing and highlighting, I haven't really got hang of it yet. The barrel holes idea is great, I will surely do that. The eyes are painted dark green, I'm planning to add some highlight to them when I get more paints(which I'm planning to do soon).
As for the disorder It's not very serious, I'm not even sure if there is a specific name for it, I was simply diagnosed with "manual skills disorder". In practise it means that my handwriting is shit even though I was doing exercises for it for like 3 years, my drawing skills stopped at the level of preschool and I have serious trouble with everything requiring precision. Miniatures are pretty much the only art-related thing that I manage to somehow do semi-decent.

>>48116024
Sure thing, I'm currently making some corrections for my first squad and then I'm planning to do bases for both of them.

>>48114864
I like this model but gods, that flat cape.. I can't stand it.

>>48115657
feathering is just glazing, isn't it

>>48116808

I think feathering is blending by layer paints thinned down to glazes. You don't glaze the whole surface, just the gradient.

>>48115918
>>48115943
>>48115971
Tfw you're a newbie and are still better than people at my FLGS that have been in the hobby for years. It's a sad thing.

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So I still got a lot of green stuff and rivets ahead of me. Anyway here is my Valkyrie stand in, with its wings in place.

Any suggestions for a pattern name? I will be painting it in a desert theme to go with my guard.

>>48117116
Desert hawk

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Have you ever painted something and been like, wow! I painted that?
Because these looks bad.

>>48117185
get them in the simple green m8

>>48117180
thats works, perhaps i could look into desert hawk names too.

>>48112190
More pictures of your gnome.

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>>48117185
>Have you ever painted something and been like, wow! I painted that?

Happens to me all the time!

>>48117185
they're very dark, you should add some highlights

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>>48117541
I want this guy

I want to hug him

>>48115971

These look fantastic. You should be fucking proud.

>>48117666
That is a 10ft tall super human, walking tank, space marine of the 41st millennium, who strikes fear into the very souls of his adversaries, and who will mercilessly rend flesh from the bones of any enemies of the imperium.

Now look at his picture again.

>>48117811
Still want to hug him tbqh.

>>48118004
Nah i'm just pointing out the humor in his hideous description, with his real life cute appearance.

he looks adorable.

>>48116008

Looks good. What is it?

>>48117811
Astartes are seven feet.

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How'd I do so far on my first drop pod?

>>48118210
Astartes ranges in height from 6-10 feet tall.

>>48118210
you just got cucked

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made progress today, I think i've gone a bit thick in places though.

>>48118316
Good first effort. On your next model you should try to thin your paints a little more. The wash on your yellow is a little haphazard, you could spend some more time getting the wash everywhere it needs to be and theb clean up some of the areas where its running down with your yellow.

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>>48112206
Made the head darker, silvered the rivets, Snew, and tried to keep the picture the same size as the collage's.
Should have re-done the eyes but I would have made them worse.

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I have no idea how I want to paint this guy, I'm open to ideas. I'm looking for something that will stand out a bit but isn't attention hogging.
Base will be snow.

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>>48113151
They look suspiciously similar to the Hammers of Dorn.

>>48118406
hes in the middle of casting the curse of bumpy robes

>>48118406
You have. But solid none the less.

Can I paint myself a gf

>>48118809
Yeah, paint her in glue

>>48118809
gf stands for goblin force yea? Should be doable. you'll need green paint, possibly get a can of armypainter green primer it'll save you some time, goblin armies tend to have a lot of models in.

The new Gemstone paints are pretty useful for screens and scopes. Has anyone tried them for eyes yet?

>>48118894
i've seen the work on eyes, pretty good stuff if you want the eyes to be seen

>>48118894
I like the blue one for power weapons.

>>48118406
looks more like a priming issue to me

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forgive the potato phone quality. I'm working on my Khemri team for Blood Bowl

>>48119317
this stuff is Blood Bowl? and just when I thought I was done getting into expensive specialist games

>>48119371
I built the team for $8 from bits in my bin and BONES reaper figs. If you're not looking for OOP GW figs, it's an insanely cheap game to play.

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>>48113992

KNIGHT CAPTAIN AMERICA HERE WITH A FRIENDLY REMINDER TO ENJOY YOUR INDEPENDENCE DAY, BE SAFE WITH YOUR FIREWORKS, AND PLEASE NOT REPLY TO SHITPOSTERS!

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>>48113992

Freedom Dread reporting in!

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>>48113992

Commissar Stars & Stripes ready for action!

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>>48113992

WHEEEEW READY TA BLAST SOME FUCKIN ALIENS!

>>48119432
ahhhhhh nah I'm a sucker for rare old GW stuff. I might get into this if I can find a team that doesn't look so samey like all the ones I'm seeing on eBay

>>48119450
I should hate this but it's fucking dope.

>>48119450

Putting Captain America decals on the shield is a nice touch. Because if a person doesn't see some faggot dressed in blue with american colors all over him and wings on his head with a round shield, they PROBABLY wouldn't know who Captain America is to begin with don't you think?

>>48119692

The mini is not mine, but I imagine its creator just wanted to be very, very sure that everybody knew exactly what they were looking at.

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Close to being done with these.

A Mud Demon and Chocobo.

I scrapped the last model since I didn't like how it was turning out. I'll probably restart it later.

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>>48119746

I also started making more armored pauldrons for power armor models based off old RT artwork.

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I'm doing 1 tactical marine for all 18 HH legions. They're about 90% there. Just gotta clean up, do some more wash, base edges etc.

Also I'm finally getting around to doing my genestealer cult.

R8 m8s.

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>>48119450

Democracy is non-negotiable!

My Wip for today was moving around my entire hobby room and trying to clean off my table. coming along well. I just don't know how I'm gonna get my Malifaux stuff out here now.

>>48120091
I think you should do a model for the 2 missing legions as well. I don't mean make something up, but instead do them like shadows/black with minimal highlights.

>>48119770
I'd pay for those.

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ive been busy today- just finished my 1st plague bearer...

you mad tau cucks??

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>>48120312

>>48120312

I'm mad. Mad about file sizes.

>>48120368
Not the lack of rotation?

How do I package a box of assembled plastic GW models to be sent through UPS? Packing peanuts?

I've never bought assembled models online before so I don't really know how it's done. I'm selling some stuff on ebay.

>>48114400
Is this a conversion or an actual model?

>>48120510
fuck peanuts, use bubble wrap or some shit that's what I do. otherwise it really depends on what you're selling. if it's painted stuff you have to wrap individually, metal you can just throw around, plastic just as long as it doesn't move around much

>>48118406
What model?

>>48119746

Neat!

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Uzas, Xarl, and Mercutian early stage.

>>48119770
Amazing.

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Still /wip/, but I think this mini work might be the best of what I've done so far. No idea what other people's skills are like 4 months in, but I'm happy with the progress.

Also my mini-photo skills still need work definitely. I plan on making a light box this weekend.

>>48119770
You best cast that shit man, I'd buy hundreds.

>>48116011
Because back in the day Biel-tan was the "aspect warriors army", just like saim-han is the "vehicles army", iyanden is the "wraiths army" and alaitoc is the "dirty hobos army". People like aspects.

>>48116808
>>48116935
Wrong. Feathering is just laying down a layer and then smoothing the edge using a clean brush to blend it with the one below before it dries.

>>48121058

Isn't that just wet blending.

>>48117109
They probably just want to play. Or want to get their shit done so just get paint on it. Not everyone cares like we do. Be happy their shit is painted.

>>48118406
Nice work on his face though. Makes it look like the new model has details there.

>>48119770
Fucking nice! I am keen to see more.

>>48116438
>>48116454

I just got my fish starter box and I'm terrified to paint human models. I played Gators in WarmaHordes and had a good time painting them up, but I feel like painting flesh tones is going to be a lot trickier then painting scales.

>>48121138

Wet blending is where you put down two or more of the layers at the same time, and blend them together on the model while they're both still wet. When feathering you'd let the first layer dry before adding the second.

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That airbrush basecoat saves so much time, at least an hour or more per model

>>48121378
>That airbrush basecoat saves so much time, at least an hour or more per model
I have to get one, all I have left to paint in my army is a bunch of vehicles and the thought of basecoating them with a brush makes me want to kill myself.

>>48120814
I like where your head's at anon

>>48121378

I like your choice of pastel violet. I think it looks better than the usual hot metallic pink or deep purple EC get, and reminds me of 2E marines. Your painting style is like mine except better because I'm too impatient to do the highlights. I should probably buckle down and do them, they look a lot better with than without.

You gonna do a head swap on that tribune?

>>48121443
I dont know. I might put a phoenix termie head on him, or maybe ill GS some hair onto the one it came with, not sure yet.

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oi, one of you'z umie gits got a light?

>>48119770
check out kromlech, theyre always looking for more modellers to make moulds with, and one of the guys who made a set of markers for them posted on here, so you could have a business opportunity.

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The Tater Titan continues. Also a battlewagon conversion I haven't started painting yet

>>48119770
10/10 wish I could master green stuff like this, what tools do you use?

>>48121511

Can't wait to see it finished!

So, I'm in the makings of creating a Red Corsairs CSM army, and I wanna convert their warband leader into a real "raider/pirate/scum of the galaxy" type of guy. Any specific things that could? Maybe use some meat-things from OK (then again, they are awfully large)

really, any and all kinda of tips would be helpful.

>>48111570
Great work. Like the snotting conversion work as well

>>48111762
Not bad, but as the other anons have said, highlights.
Don't be afraid to step out the comfort zone man

>>48121511
just be careful you dont make it into a cock-gun

>>48114620
Looks good man

>>48114742
That blending is ace

>>48114684
The glow effect could be brighter but that might just be the picture . otherwise its good.
Also you might want thin your paints, that blue looks pretty thick.

>>48119492
The confederates and their modern supporters are anti-US, like, they literally lost the war and stand for what the winners, the successful United States, stand for. They're the US version of Germany's Nazi party, except for some fucking reason we didn't outlaw them where as Germany did.

>>48120848
Looking good. White bits look like they need a little tidying up, but other than that you're ready to wash and highlight.

>>48120814

Uzas needs his skin-cloak. Otherwise pretty damn fine anon. I like it.

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Something new arrived. Fuck I hate cleaning these up with file, knife and clippers. Oh well, it's a damn cool tank at least.

>>48120814
where's Mercutian's nl pad from?

>>48122064
Looks like china shit to me anon, you might wanna try to get your money back for that stuff.

>>48122099
Yeah, it was chinese. A friend ordered some stuff and mentioned a really cheap sicarran so I thought I'd go for it. It's not really that impossible to clean though but does require work.

>>48112850
>Gee Litany of Tedious Rudeness how come the Chaos Gods let you have TWO battlecannons?!

Also, did you paint the legs with stripper glitter?

How do you stay motivated to finish that army /wip/?

>>48122181
my friend has dropped something like two grand across four different armies in the course of one year

his current finished-model count

5 space marine scouts
a dreadnaught

when he gives me painting advice
i want to actually strangle him

>>48122190
tfw I can't stop buying things and I'm not getting anything new painted

to be fair I'm just recently learning how to paint so it's easier to buy things than it is to see something I painted and feel like I wasted time

Had two conflicting colour schemes for my Alpha Legion army. Lost the drive to do it at all. Finally discovered SuperClean so I could strip those little bastards. It's a good feel.

>>48121442
Thx man. Making a NL Kill Team/display piece. These three + Talos, Cyrion, The Exalted, Malek, Garadon, Variel, Ruven, Adhemar, Sar Zell, Septimus, and Octavia. Modeling them all as true to the books as I can.

>>48121859
Yeah early wip. Im giving Uzas something to represent his cloak.

>>48122088
It's from the finecast NL upgrade kit. Im using parts from a lot of different kits to stay as true to the lore as I can.

>>48122064

Quality looks great! Definitely going to get one myself some day.

>>48122181
Find stuff to listen to or watch while you work. I've been ploughing my way through the Grimdark Podcast archives, if you need a suggestion, but anything that it's completely fascinating works.

If you can paint in a communal area with family/housemates/partner/etc then all the better, provided it's not too distracting to be out there (and you enjoy their company). If you've got friends who are painting themselves then invite them over, chat while you paint and then have a game in the evening.

Knowing what you're working towards helps. Don't worry about perfection from the get go, focus on getting stuff finished. If you really need to you can touch stuff up later. Seeing a fully painted and based squad will hopefully give you the satisfaction to fuel painting the next one. Getting the occasional game in also helps, even if it's just an unstructured knockabout with a few units a side.

Break up painting the rank and file with smaller, more interesting squads/characters/big models/etc. If you've got multiple factions to paint then alternating between them can help avoid monotony from setting in. Figure out which minis/tasks are easy and save them for when you're feeling a bit drained. Get them finished, gaze upon your works and hopefully feel invigorated again.

>>48122321
Poor Uzas. :/

>>48121715
fuck off to >>>/pol/

>>48121466
can someone comment on my post please

>>48114742
can you explain your 'feathering' process, as there is confusion abound.

>>48117116
unless you flip the ML you won't be able to shoot shit with it.

Why does GW has to force their shitty premade bases upon HQ characters? I bough librarian for my spes morons and you don't even get a regular base, now I got to puting my Archon together and he cant even stand properly without that shitty rock.
It's sure unique to have every hq character stanging on the same rock formation(because it's always rocks with them), thanks GW.

>>48122444
pretty pathetic maine

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>>48122504
>>48122444
?

>>48122114
Not that anon, but recasts have been proven to be cancerogenic again and again. These things are dangerous and you should neither use or handle them. It's just not worth it anon.

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>>48122222
Practice, practice, practice and a little bit of tutorials

>>48122575
It's not like the forge world resin is that much healthier but aye, most likely won't bother with recasts after this as it took way too long to arrive for my limited patience.

>>48122181
I don't, which is why even after fifteen years in the hobby I don't have a single finished army.
I've come to terms with that, I don't think I'll ever finish an army big enough for regular size games.
Instead I have three small incomplete forces, the basic "two troops and an HQ" core of an army for two and one that's a bit bigger. For each of them there are also a bunch of models that make no sense army composition wise but were added because I thought they looked cool.

My biggest problem is that I love building and converting and consider painting a chore.
I've built a WE CSM warband based on the BA 'dex, lovingly converted two full Tac/Assault squads, a unit of count-as-DC Berzerkers, Khornified some Sanguinary Guard to have Bloodletter faces & swords and batwings instead of those angelic ones.
I built skull-gathering Blood Priests for Apothecaries, turned Astorath into a Daemon Axe wielding dark reflection of himself and converted three Dreads mostly because I think they look great.
And I've painted exactly three models of that army, only one of which is actually finished.

Truth be told I stopped trying to collect an army years ago.
Nowadays I only model and paint stuff for my D&D campaign. That way I get to try my hand at all kinds of models, from Orcs to skellingtons to dragons to one off character models for PCs. Now that it's ten to fifteen similar models max I'm starting to rediscover how to enjoy painting again.

>>48122625
Just pay someone to paint them then.

>>48122575
Gud one GW

>>48122493
Holy shit just make your own and stop bitching

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>>48122575
Mang, ALL resin is bad for you

whenever I work with any resin I

>Do all my clipping, scraping, cutting, sawing, anything that creates any dust, underwater with long kitchen gloves and a mask on with loads of ventilation, outside and away from my house

then I wash all the parts and let them dry before assembly. During assembly I wear a mask and gloves and have good ventilation. After im done I take off my clothes and wash them immediately then jump in the shower and scrub well

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>>48122493
Don't buy their shitty premade characters and you don't have to deal with that issue.

but yeah I understand what you mean completely, the old archon was pretty damn awesome and it's a damn shame that they decided to stop selling his model when he could easily have been sold alongside the new guy. Especially considering he's the guy on the front of the codex.

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>>48122657
I wear Gloves, Respirator, Face Shield and a protective cape whilst working the resin.

Pic related

>>48122657
Don't forget to incinerate your clothes afterwards. Also burn down the house if you really want to be safe.

>>48122625
Have you considered playing skirmish games? Kill Team is a thing and Heralds of Ruin seems to be a pretty popular mod of it. With marine type armies you can build a full force that's only a dozen models or so.

Where do you put your finished minis?

I've got a few nice ones, that I don't just want to chuck in a box and would like to display, but putting them on a table/shelf they get covered in dust if I leave them out for any longer than a day.

Anyone have some nice small display boxes they would recommend?

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>but leaving they get covered in dust if I leave them out for any longer than a day.

Have you considered dusting/hoovering?

That all said, pic related seems to be the prime choice for a cheap display cabinet. It's furniture rather than a box, but it's got a relatively small footprint and has lots of space for what is surely an all-consuming hobby.

>>48122809
Hoovering doesnt seem to help. I'm always surrounded by clouds of dust.

Yeah I would get something like this, but i only have 5 dudes to display. Its gonna take at least a year before I have any decent number of dudes.

I was thinking something much smaller

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>>48122657
>bad for you

It's okay to act like a paranoid coward in your own home, anon. But, relax. I treated my resin models exactly like my lead or plastic ones - except I used epoxy cement for their assembly. That's it. No 10ft poles or hazmat suits.

The dangers of resin dust are no more threatening than any other inert particulate matter: Just don't blast rails off your bench like cocaine, and no worries.

Protip: It's plastic resin, not polonium.

>>48122857
Try googling for miniature display case? There's a load of stuff out there, though a lot of it seems to be expensive.

Actually, scrap the miniature bit and the prices come down substantially. You can get a plain 20cm cubed box off Amazon for about £20.

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I hate those manga eyes. So many colours on that little (even for miniatures standard) space.

>>48121626
belly guns are always cock-guns

>>48122646
>paying someone to paint your army
I could never do that man, it'd feel wrong, like they weren't really my dudes.
Besides I'm a) too much of a perfectionist so "if I'd done it myself they could have looked better" would haunt me every time I played and b) commissioning a well painted army ain't cheap and this isn't my only expensive hobby.

>>48122759
I have in fact. My FLGS has run a few the last couple of years. I played in a Kill Team campaign and joined a Path of Glory run (the old WH "so you want to be a Chaos Champion" campaign), although Bronchus the Infamous turned into Bronchus the Infirm halfway through and became a hermit after being crippled in both legs and losing an arm and his eyes.

I have played a few 500-750 pts and doubles/co-op games with my IG but somehow their tabletop performance never lived up to the grizzled veterans my models look like...

>>48121715

Yeah, that worked out well for Germany and the EU didn't it

>>48120194
good idea. i'll do that. I'll do one in thunder armour and the other in mk 2. as they got killed early in the crusade. probably paint them like stone statues. ie just grey and some highlights, and no metallics, symbols etc.

>>48123225
what other expensive hobbies do you have?

What metals oxidize in a way appropriate to use Nihilakh Oxide? I'm painting my stormcast as aged statues and want to try weathering the metal bits (they are mostly stone, with metal trim). Should the metal be bronze (warplock bronze + brass drybrush, then oxidized) or does bright copper, dulled with wash, also work as oxidized?

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>>48124005
I also just finished up these six sword knights to add to my cygnar. They took a lot longer than I wanted so I only highlighted up their cloth and shield bits and left the metalgood after just a wash.

>>48124005
red/brown metals goes blue
silver/grey metals go rusty/red

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>>48124081
Here's an example of the yellow gradient I did on the Cygnus on the shields.

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>>48124096
And last picture, when I do minis I don't really bother with eyes.

>>48123534
Not him, but I spent more on mountainbikes alone than on warhammer in the 20 years that I've been playing and I've got rooms full of little plastic army men. And that's just one other hobby.

If you factor in the time spent painting and playing, you really get insane value for wargaming stuff.

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>>48112735
i think anons also refering to the spear tip
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>>48124082

Too simplistic. Metals age more or less as follows:

>Iron

Starts silvery, turns black at first, then rusts into browns and oranges which will flake and corrode.

>Stainless steel

A cool metallic which skips the blackish stage of iron and is very corrosion resistant, but can get rust spotting.

>Copper

Starts metallic orange, turns darker shades of brown, through purple, then black, before pale blue/green verdigris appears. Weathers pretty quickly outdoors.

>Bronze

Very similar to copper, but more subdued and takes a long time to weather.

>Brass

Begins bright yellow metallic, slowly turns a darker and darker brown, then verdigris. Unlike iron, all three of the copper-based metals are very resistant to corrosion, they only change colour.

>Aluminium

Starts out a very bright metallic silver, but quickly takes on a more flat and dull light grey finish. Also pretty corrosion resistant.

>Zinc

Starts out looking like steel, but durns a dull and very flat cool and darkish grey, sometimes with white or black bits. Can pit and corrode in coastal environments.

>Nickel

Is a pale and fairly warm silver, which will turn black over time.

>Silver

Pretty similar to nickel, but slower.

>Gold

Doesn't take on a patina.

>>48119692
You understimate the amount of casualness normies have

From calling Black Panther Batman, to call Daredevil Batman, dude, I even witnessed someone calling Spider-Man masked Superman

>>48122181
A great phrase to remember when painting - "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good". A finished unit of dudes is a much more satisfying thing than one guy painted perfectly, IMO.

>>48124153
>>48111523

That's an easy enough fix, just put a small dab of glue in there, then affix a small amount of greenstuff, let it set, then carve it into the shape you need.

>>48124541
Not him but I usually use green stuff for filling gaps. When carving/sculpting like you describe, would you let the green stuff dry and harden first before carving or work with it while its still soft?

>>48124577
You can work with it while it's soft to get the rough shape (or get it close to prefect if you practice and watch some tuts) then wait for it to dry and do a bit of touch-up work with your razor. The most important thing to get down is the beveled edge. Use the edge that's there as a sort of angle-guide and you should be able to make the GS look great.

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>>48122448
A little hard to explain with words, I made a 1000-hours-in-paint picture.

>>48122575
> recasts have been proven to be cancerogenic again and again
[citation needed]

>>48121466
Sandbags look pretty good, did you make or buy them?

>>48122868
>Not buying miniatures made of exotic radioactive elements.

You must like being a pleb, anon.

>>48111312
Different, which is good, makes it special

>>48120091
Would you mind posting the other side of those genestealer dudes? I'm painting them right now and I just wanted to see how you did their scars.

>>48124270
This is some good stuff anon, thanks!

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Peripheral neuropathy anon here, tried some baby's first freehand.
Pretty happy with it, had to use a lot of fix ups.
Debating doing the same on the helm but I'm worried as its really small and hard to do.

Alright lads, my army consists of these units.

Fireblade, Darkstrider, Commander and Shadowsun. Strike teams, Pathfinders with rail rifles, stealthsuits, a single ghostkeel and a remora. I'm doing MGS references on Darkstrider and the Ghostkeel, I'm doing the commander up like Zone of the Enders but I'd really like a Pacific Rim reference somewhere.

What do?

>>48125560
>Stop playing tau

>>48120091
Center the Alpha Legion marine. It looks like he's trying to sidestep to someone's blind spot.

>>48125605
As you can see from my list, I don't play cheesetau, I play sneaky tau. A force that can get its ass wrecked by orks, of all things, if played badly.

Does anyone know any good Nurgle themed music/songs/soundstrack to play in the background while you build and paint? I kinda need some when I ma building my Nurgle stuff

>>48125560
>not painting the commander like a RX-78-2 Gundam

>>48125770
Brazilian fart porn should work.

>>48125776
While I like gundams, I never watched that one so rather do references to settings I really like.

Any suggestions for Pacific Rim, please?

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Working on my silver tower dudes. Not super happy with the skin but otherwise it's okay.

>>48125770
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGQLtm1QXRo

>>48125606
Seems appropriate for an AL

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Finally want to finish my hobby corner and I need some paint racks for citadel pots/vallejo drop bottles/FW pots, preferrably something I can attach to a wall, not sure if I can just put a screw through those MDF paint racks on wargaming and back2base.
I mean there is the wall climber, but I would rather have my pots standing.

Not my pic

>>48125799
shove two tau bodies in one crisis suit

>>48126434
B-But I don't field Crisis Suits other than the Commander whose set already.

If I fielded a Riptide that would be great tho, but I'm not a WAACfag.

Does anyone have any saved pictures of other anons Ironjawz wips or their own?

I'm looking for some inspiration, not yet got my models but i'm not a huge fan of the yellow scheme.

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>>48126575
This is my current progress on my Mawkrusha. Like you I haven't come up with a color scheme for the dude on top yet. The standard blues, reds, yellows I've seen don't really scream out to me.

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>>48122145
That's just bad lighting. When it's done it will be rusted like this

>>48126633

I had this problem with my 40k orks, couldnt come up with a uniform scheme that i liked to go with the green skin. I'm thinking dark browns and black but really not sure, i like sharp contrasting colours against the green like reds and whites but i dont know if it suits with orks.

Love that model though, are you going with a red for its skin?

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>>48126763
This is my inspiration. I'll have to do some blending on the neck area and I need to do some more gray highlights on the black sections. Trying to decide if I should make the spines darker (brown) or lighter (bone). I'm leaning towards lighter at this point. Then I have to come up with a wing membrane color...

>>48125776
>Not painting the commander reddish pink for 3x initiative bonuses

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>>48120242
>>48120839
>>48121268
>>48121481
>>48121539

Thanks! I do plan on selling castings of them using Kickstarter.

I have plenty of other designs as well, I posted them a while back but here they are again.

These are large pauldrons for Terminator-size models.

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>>48127000

Smaller pauldrons for regular power armor models.

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>>48127016

Some Meso-American bits.

I'm working on several more parts for this range to expand it.

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>>48127027

The old Angry Marine parts I made. I'm making another power glove for the other arm as well.

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>>48127040

Some Angry Marine vehicle bits. I think I need to make a few more doors for this set.

There are 2 doors and the top hatch for a rhino chassis, a faceplate for a dreadnought and 1 door for a land raider vehicle.

I think I need to make more parts for the land raider set.

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>>48127068

And lastly some tabards. Most are for power armor models, but a couple can be used for terminator-sized models.

>>48124270

Saved

>>48127000
>>48127016
>>48127027
That's some next level stuff, man. Good job!
>>48127040
>>48127068
I need. NEED. a set of those

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Bloodaxe flyboyz 1/3.

Another blitza bomma and a wazbomma to go, may pick up a fourth too, either another bomma or a dakkajet.

>>48127086
Anon, you've made tabards, now you must make Pteruges.

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>>48127240
And fullshot, still need to do some weathering.

>>48126820

That looks awesome man, i hope it turns out like you imagine.

>>48122114
They look like some fucking great casts. Any chance you could all your friend which Chinaman it was?

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>>48127247
>Pteruges

You know, I actually had to look that word up.

But yeah, I did make some of those. They just weren't in the pic since I didn't like them initially.

Here's another pic with them in the set.

I can make more though.

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>>48127442

Here are a few crests I made, but they are just a bit large so I might have to have them reduced in size.

>>48127442
What's the brown stuff and what's the reasoning behind using it for different portions of the piece? Like why was the cloth on the far left middle one made with green stuff but the middle middle ones made using brown?

I'm trying to get into sculpting bits myself and I'm being told milliput is shit and I should use beesputty, but no that's shit and I should stick to greenstuff, but that's terrible etc. etc. You clearly know what you're doing so some suggestions would be nice.

>>48123262
Love the statue idea.
Should also add a little scroll design on the base lip, like the one on the marine tank sprue. Write the legion numbers in Roman numerals.

>>48127442
I'd buy those Pteruges. they'd fit pretty well with the Emperor's Children.

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>>48127269
>>48127240
not a big fan of bloodaxes but I really like your paintjob on that one.Shark maw (like pic rel) would look great on it.

>>48124107
War gaming is a cheap hobby. It really isn't as expensive as people make it out to be.

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>>48127000
Great looking sculpts overall, I really like the selection of tabards and terminator shoulder pads.

>>48126760
Cool rust effect.
Working on my own rust right now, open to feedback:

>>48127970
That depends.

If you start from nothing with the aim of having a playable (strong) army ASAP it will be expensive. If you buy box by box and paint by paint while slowly expanding you won't need much money at once.

It also depends on how long you aim to do it. I am in the "hobby" for like 15 years now and still have all and use some of my earliest miniatures (thankfully they are metal so i even could strip them). If a child asks their parents to get the newest shit and plays for 3 weeks and quits then it is expensive.

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Working up the blue skin tone on my Tzaangor Cultists for my Thousand Sons.
OG Space Wolves Grey is the next highlight after I do the same to the next 18.

>>48125627
Good on you man. You never see cool tau only cookie cutter gundam tau.
Also keen to see what MGS stuff you work in.

>>48128015
scheme looks cool but poor execution. Hazard stripes looks terrible, whole model looks like randomly slaped with browns and orange, thick paint, no propa highlights, and as for verdigre watch duncus, cos this thing is not really pooling like on yours:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw3iLEW1P2o

>>48127027
Top tier work. Mind sharing what you like to sculpt with?

>>48120814
Nice, currently reading Blood Reaver right now.

Mercutian has a horned helmet and Xarl has a bat winged helmet btw, are you going to add that?

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>>48127965
I think i may just have to... i have three to paint though so maybe the next one!

>>48127603

Brown stuff is just like green stuff but cures much harder.

I sculpt these parts in-between sculpting commissions so I tend to use whatever putty I have mixed up and available so I don't waste any putty.

They type of putty you use is mostly due to your preference and skill with it.

I've used most all putties and they all have their strengths/weaknesses.

Milliput is great for mechanical sculpting, making flat sheets and carving/sanding them to shape.

Green stuff is a great putty to use since it can withstand vulcanization easily and is inexpensive.

Beesputty (and other polymer clays) are great for organic sculpting and have an unlimited working time. It only cures when you apply heat, unlike epoxy putties like green stuff which cure quickly after mixing.

I've been using a lot of Beesputty recently and it's quickly becoming my favorite material for organic sculpting.

I still use brown stuff, plastic card, milliput or magic sculpt for making weapons since it's easy to carve and sand the material into shape.

>>48128189
I described putties in this post
>>48128852

It's good to familiarize yourself with a few different types of putty, in case you can' get one type you can switch to another without trouble.

Sometimes, like what happened to brown stuff a few years ago, it can be hard to get hold of.

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Still need some touch ups on faces (especially ember mage) and still some tinkering with weapons, and bases ofc. But mostly done.