WIP - Painting/Converting/Sculpting General

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Just finished my Gorm.

http://massivevoodoo.blogspot.com/2011/12/black-is-new-black.html
I wish there where more articles comparing different brands of paints like this

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incase anyone wanted to see it, nurgle throne with water effects

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Hey WIP, looking for suggestions on a conversion/kitbash idea.

I'm looking to make a sort of mortal Avatar of Khaine model based off this pic related banner for an Age of Sigmar themed army and I'm wondering what models/minatures should I look out for that might allow we to come close to looking like the guy in the Banner?
For the head, I was thinking of getting the Tenebrael Shard's head or maybe even just get some Witch Elf hair to stick on the back of another close resembling head.
For the body, I simply thought maybe The Deceiver or Nightbringer models would be the closest thing to use.

Anyways, thoughts if your willing to share them please?

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Bike project ongoing.

Wish they were better in the codex

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>>50852194
And the other angle.

I've since finished the flamer

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>>50852142
wait nevermind i hadnt put any effect on it yet

>>50852194
>>50852201
>Construction Cultist
>Breaking down building dedicated to the God Emperor and remaking them into places of chaos worship.
>Pay them to remodel your house and add some nice Chaos tiling at and affordable price.
Love the idea Anon.

>>50852194
>>50852201
>Bob the Pillager

>>50852004
Looks really nice except for the huge mold lines

>>50852194
Guy on the left looks like he's having a real blast

>>50852312
That's my powerfist bro. I also use larger ones as maulerfiends...

I've got a few "possessed" drivers, this is one of them, thinking I'll be putting them in the larger forklifts.

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>>50851982
getting ready for SoB hype

>>50852354
Starting with white is a bold decision

>>50852369
but black is hard to paint ;_;

>>50852391
That's why you paint dark grey and wash repeatedly

>>50852004
looking good, I'm in the process of cleaning up/greenstuffing mine and I'll give it a shot too.

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I'm about to start on my Sisters, which scheme should I go with?

>>50852790
right seems holier.

>>50852790
>>50852807
As an addendum. Sisters with the right scheme would have red hair, not white.

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Hey /wip/, decided to paint up my BaC guys as Alpha Legion. Tips?

>>50852790
left but do it with red washes over silver to give a metallic red look

similar technique to this http://www.mywargame.com/2010/02/14/painting-metallic-pre-heresy-thousand-sons/

but I'd just build up red washes over the silver

>>50852837
I've just painted an army of Alpha Legion like that, I don't have an airbrush so it'd be difficult to make it look good on tanks, and I'm immolating all the way.

>>50852814
>Sisters with the right scheme would have red hair, not white.
Sounds like a bad idea desu.
It's just gonna look weird. Just go with natural haircolors or have them all straw blonde.
Using a color from the armor on the hair is just gonna make it look like 'helmet hair'

>>50852850
I suppose I could just give them all differing shades of hair, sort of like how you can do the same with Vostroyan hats to add variety to otherwise identical mooks.

Good idea. Some of them will still have red hair though.

>>50852858
Yeah just saying you should be careful about it ending up looking too plastic.
If you want to paint the hair red, you should probably pick a different color to highlight and paint glossy highlights or differentiate the texture somehow else.

I'm at a loss here guys, my clippers have somehow become magnetized. How do I demagnetize them?

>>50853115
I wish my clippers were magnetized.

>>50853123

It's only a weak field, its enough to hold xacto blades to itself. I was fucking around with 2inch neodynium magnets, i assume that has something to do with it

>>50853139
>Enough to hold xacto blades
That's convenient enough. picking up a stray xacto blade sitting flat on a desk can be dangerous.

>>50853139
Take the magnets from an old hard drive and run your clippers over them randomly.

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Merry Christmas /wip/, who else is looking forward to open some miniatures this evening? What are you getting?

>>50853297
how the fuck should I know, it's Christmas. that shit's supposed to be a surprise.

>>50852829
Are you using clear colors over a metal basecoat? If you are, did you mix clear blue with clear green? (at least 75/25 mix). If you only applied clear blue, you would want to lightly spray Clear Green over some areas (airbrush only, do not attempt to hand-brush this step). Alternatively, apply green washes or green glaze but keep it subtle.

>>50853297
>who else is looking forward to open some miniatures this evening?
My family doesn't do presents.
I'll just eat till I feel sick and fall asleep afterwards.

>>50853297
Merry Christmas Anon.
Christmas Eve isn't a thing here, just Christmas Day, so nothing until tomorrow, and then we eat a lot and have a good time.
No presents though.

>>50853297
Wulfen murderpack plus a voucher I think.

>>50853373

I used Vallejo metallic. I think Waywatcher green would work for the green glaze, thanks anon.

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Finished up my first squad of Death Guard. On to the next five.

are there any disadvantages to stripping a figure multiple times with break fluid?
the only possible danger i could think of is loss of finer details due to excess pressure using a brush.

will multiple immersions in break fluid have any effect on the hardness of the plastic or the bonds of the superglue?

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Would a Dark Angels librarian in terminator armor wear green shoulder pads, or white?

>>50854032
Having a Crux Terminatus usually means you are part of the Inner Circle.
Most models are painted with green pads and the regular symbol instead of the Deathwatch one though. Senior members get to choose. Azrael has the regular design on there too.

Strictly speaking this models robes should be yellow though.

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>>50854032
depends, that one is from GW and is green, but this pic is from a GW sanctioned game, where they can't really go off the lore, and it's white, so I guess its up to you.

>>50854032
Depends.

Is he a member of the Inner Circle/ Deathwing or not.
In the Codex, the Deathwing have their own cadre of Librarians to draw from.

>>50854070
>>50854087
I was under the impression that as a Dark Angel, you must be inducted into the Deathwing to wear terminator armor

>>50854264
I don't think so. Librarians aren't part of the normal chapter organisation. The First Company are Deathwing, Librarians would never be part of the first company.

I expect the Librarium get access anyway. It isn't as if the Dark Angels have a shortage of Terminator Armour.

>>50852790
Definitely the right

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I'm debating using cork to base my Sisters, and I'm wondering if more needs to be done. Maybe some tuffs of desert grass?

Here's a pic with my example canoness. Don't mind the ancient painting, it's just for the colors.

>>50853928
These look incredible - love the contrast between the 'clean' armour and the rusted metal.

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>>50852790

The right pic is mostly what I've used since forever, and I do enjoy it.

Pic related of you wanted to see it on a model.

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I'm hoping a fellow fa/tg/uy can answer a general mini question.

A friend of mine wants a diorama of a stripper. 1:48 minimum, 1:24 max.

All I've been able to find is 3d printed models.

Anybody know where I could pick up some quality naked ladies?

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This guy is going to be a rogue psyker for my Renegades and Heretics army - I suppose he could pull double duty if I ever play AoS as well.

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>>50854305
I suppose the Chaplaincy operates similarly?

Why is my isp range banned repeatedly? This shits getting crazy, cant post Gue'vesa converts for the anon in last thread

>>50854367
Is it just me, or does painting make up on the old SoB just make them look really mannish? I avoid it entirely and find they look way less masculine if you paint everything in a flesh tone.

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>>50854422
Sweet.

THE GREATER GOOD WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES.

>>50854437
did you LOOK at the OP?
>>50851982

>>50854390
Found a shop full of suitable models, but they're all 1:22 (80mm) rather than 1:24.
http://www.andreaeurope.com/en/7/girls/701/girls.html
http://www.andreaeurope.com/en/7/girls/702/pin-up-series.html

This shop might also have some suitable models.
These are 54mm. (~1:33)
http://www.kabuki-studio.com/11-big-sisters

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>>50854461

>>50854505
Yeah still looks like shit. Just don't paint your SoB like street walkers guys and they'll look fine. Why the fuck would a SoB wear lipstick anyways?

>>50854437

I didn't really do make up. Its all flesh tones.

It looks like shit up close please kill me now

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Just started painting the Ork team from the new bloodbowl box, haven't really painted much before but bought a bunch of paints and having my best stab at it.

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>>50854390
>Anybody know where I could pick up some quality naked ladies?

Have you considered Hasslefree?

http://hfminis.co.uk/

>>50854723
Very nice job. They look pretty sharp.

>>50854742
They look very nice on the table, but up close or in zoomed pictures they look pretty rough, not that I mind but I could spend hours nitpicking each model and never finish. I plan to spend much more time on my skaven team and am using the human and orks teams as kind of painting practice before i do the team I want to look really good

>>50852004

Come on man, how can you put that much work into painting something without bothering to clean up the mold lines first? It's an awesome paint job all but ruined.

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>>50854709

I forgot my picture.

Kill me.

>>50854797
The camera always sees paint jobs as more stark than your eye does.

>>50853928
Can I ask for what green you use and how you do your rust?

>>50854390
Vinnie may have them

>>50854818
She looks like my mother-in-law

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>>50853297

Pretty sure I'm getting Magnus. He was on my list and there's a suspiciously Magnus sized box under the tree and I hear sprues rattling around inside :)

Not really /tg/ related but I also think I'm getting a 3DS XL and a new long range rifle.

>>50854437 I tend to only apply lipstick to the bottom lip for this purpose it helps me with my issues

>>50854843

That doesn't sound like a good thing.

>>50853297

There's a solid chance I have a Sylvaneth big box waiting.

>>50854818
there is a pube under her left foot, I suppose you have been using that ultra fine artisan detail

>>50853928

Looking great, anon. If I may make a suggestion, do something to soften up those highlights a bit. Ease the transition between the green and the grey so they look more natural.

Really nice looking though, I especially love the rust on the guns and other metal bits. Keep it up!

>>50854818

Sister Jenner's really looking good these days.

>>50854872

That's actually arm hair. I'm like a bear...

>>50854883
Pmsl, i was wondering where 'she' had got to these days.

>>50854853 enjoy your new Mosin Nagant mortarion and PS Vita not that any of these things are necessarily bad

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>>50854883

Hey, at least I've improved over the years.

>>50854824
Straken Green. Highlights are Ushabti Bone. The rust is the standard GW formula of Leadbelcher, Typhus Corrosion, Ryza Rust drybrush , Stormhost Silver drybrush.

>>50854877
Reasonable suggestion. But the highlights are intended to be harsh to pop really hard on the table. Nevertheless thanks for the kind words.

>>50854948
I hope my girlfriend ages this well over the years

>>50854824
>>50854953
Oh and for the Ryza Rust you want to do both a light drybrush all over and stippled color in a few spots to represent patches of heavier rust.

>>50854883
She is stunning and a hero.

>>50854883
B R A V E
R
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>>50854818
If the next WIP thread isnt 'Stunning and Brave Edition' i will be highly disappoint

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>>50854818
Here's how I do it. I also don't paint eyes because I'm shit at it. I just put a bit of brown wash near the lips and sockets.

>>50851982

Sup guys. I wanna make some terrain that looks like it's out of a futuristic/sci-fi Dark Souls or Bloodbourne, preferably for 15mm. Know where I can start?

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>>50853297
I know for sure that I got at least 40+ ships for Dystopian Wars waiting under the tree, mostly Ottomans.

>>50855609

Can't improve at eyes if you never paint them anon. Buck up and start practicing.

>>50855756
And enjoy all of the otherwise-decent models now ruined by derpy eyes.

>>50854367
Nice scheme but that's white rather than silver.

I'm trying to stick to a scheme that'll look good on Immolators too. I never really think metallic schemes work for tanks. Though it sure as hell would be easier to paint.

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>>50855227
Get in, Gue'la, we're going to expand the third sphere

>>50855861

You paint the base skin tone, and then the eyes. If you fuck up, just erase it all with the base skin tone and use your typical method.

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Pics of our lord Duncan's kill team. Apparently he plays skitarii

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>>50855956

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does anyone here have the white dwarf from december?
I could really use the eavy metal notes on how to paint thousand sons with the eavy metal way style

>>50854972

Thanks man. Like Duncan says, we need to remember where we came from.

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>>50855968

>>50852217

Why exactly is there water there? Did the current holder of the throne piss himself? Are the statues in fact fountains?
Don't get me wrong, the stuff looks to be applied great, but I fail to see the actual need to fill it with water.

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>>50855878

Here's it on tanks, though this is a bit older.

>>50854982
Its a very nice effect, cheers senpai

>>50855756
I can do it, but the amount of effort/luck required is rarely worth it.

>>50855970
Yep, give me a sec.

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>>50855956
Don't forget Phil Kelley. His Kill Team is a Warlock and seven Jet Bikes.

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>>50855908
You're in the club and this Auxiliary comes up and recruits your PDF to the Greater Good.

What do you do?

>>50854803
>>50852305
I see what you mean, but it's just not that big a deal to me (nor my game group). As long as there are no gaps or flash I paint away. Thanks though, appreciate it.

>>50852425
Do it to it man, best of luck and get rid of those lines I'm too nonchalant about haha.

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>>50856193
>>50855970

>>50856243
Sorry about the alignment.

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>>50856201

>>50851982
Which SoB model is that? It looks nothing like any I own.

>>50856418
Its from the relic game

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>>50856313

Realistically, how many hours of practice do I need to put in before I can paint on par with >>50852004 ?

Right now painting is just a source of endless frustration. It's not fun at all to just churn out shit that never looks remotely decent.

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Been working on this guy for a friend. He's never been one to remove mold lines or fill gaps and I get most models from him assembled. I do what I can, but sometimes I just can't get at things.

There are some touch-ups and tiny details to pick out, but he's almost completed. Constructive criticism always appreciated.

First time attempting to paint a tartan pattern. This master comes from his custom Scottish-themed chapter, so I figured this was a good way to show that.

>tfw I just realized I can take a command squad in my SoB kill team now

Duel wielding specialists!

>>50856705

The amount of fucks that man has to offer ran out a long time ago.

>>50854400
Dark Angels have their Interrogator Chaplains. Those are, by necessity, all members of the Inner Circle and so permitted to wear TDA.

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>>50856679

>>50853297
Well we already opend presents got nothing Warhammer related sadly, kinda hoped for something

>>50854390
Brother Vinnie, Hasslefree Miniatures if you want 28mm (which is roughly around 1:48)

>>50856022
Maybe the roof is damaged and its rainy?

>>50856697

All artistic endeavors are the process of sucking for a long time before you start getting good. The best way to think about it is to just try and improve on miniature at a time. Yes, that means it sucks to paint a billion space marines or whatever.

Taking it one miniature at a time lets you work on improving your techniques on each of those minis. Look up guides and practice getting proficient each time. If you have a picture of your work I can try and offer some critiques if you'd like.

As for how long it takes, the picture you're referring to is nice but not something that will require hundreds of hours of practice or anything. If you're dedicated, you can probably reach that level of proficiency in 50 hours or so. Keep in mind that mini is very large and so easier to paint details on, and they used lots of drybrushing to make the process faster on the skin.

>>50856919
I know it takes a long time, there's only work, no natural talent and so on. It just feels like a task to slog through shitty mini after shitty mini before things start to turn out okay.

I've probably got 30-40 hours in on painting minis? Then again most of that wasn't focused on getting better, just painting the fuckers and getting it over with.

I sold all my 40k minis a while ago, actually, so nothing to showcase. Gorm there caught my eye because I've been thinking about getting KD:M, but my inability to paint is giving me pause.

I suppose I already know the answer to my question; I just need to keep at it to get better. I guess my actual question is how do people suffer through knowing they're just doing shit over and over? The light at the end of the tunnel, so to speak?

>>50857008
i kept converting models and then looked at the conversions or squad leaders/HQ's and said to myself 'i gotta get better before i paint this. how do i get the skin right?'

>>50857008

For me taking it one mini at a time is how I approach it. I've recently stopped trying to paint armies for 40K/Infinity or whatever, and just painting singles. That's a lot more relaxing because you can just focus on making a good mini.

>I've probably got 30-40 hours in on painting minis? Then again most of that wasn't focused on getting better, just painting the fuckers and getting it over with.

That's why then. You should be painting each mini with an eye to improve until you're satisfied with where you are. Here's a basic recipe for working to get better and make decent minis, assuming you know the absolute basics:

-The first thing is being able to do accurate basecoating. Each bit of the model should be distinct (if flat and ugly looking generally) by the time you finish the basecoat. The belt, armor, gun, etc should all be easily distinguished from one another.

-After you have base coated, do an ink wash. For flesh use reikland flesh shade. Armor should be nuln oil or agrax earthshade.

-Finally, apply highlights. These should be one step higher above your base coat. If you're really looking to improve, work on incremental highlighting. Start with a mix of 60:30 basecoat to highlight and do a broad highlight. Then 50:50 in a narrower strip. And so on until you get to your brightest color.

-Take your time. Speed comes with practice and experience. I generally find focusing on each part of a model (armor/flesh/clothin) makes it easier on me to concentrate and get it done since you do each part in steps.

>>50857112
I found everything that wasn't flesh, faces, etc, pretty simple to make look decent in a hurry. I liked painting tanks and shit the most because of it.

>>50857145
Thanks for the tips, anon. I'll add them to a doc I've had for a couple years now. It's pretty big, but woefully disorganized.

As above, fleshy bits and everything else always gave me the most trouble. With a Tau army it didn't really matter, but when I tried doing some demons for Chaos? Oh boy.

Anyways, I'll cease my pointless whining and go back to soaking up info as a lurker.

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>>50857205

Keep at it anon. Flesh isn't too bad once you you get the hang of it. It's just tricky because the more incremental your highlights, the better it looks. This is an image I posted a few threads ago of a 6 month difference in skil. The monk was painted using the recipe I told you above - the Sorceress is the next set of techniques I"m working on (glazing, layering, and a different skin recipe). I've stopped using ink washes except as a specific tool or to correct minor mistakes I make.

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Having received Magnus for Christmas I had an idea to improve my would be Sorcerer dreadnought.

Yay or nay? Keep in mind if I did this I would saw his fingers off and repose them to be better grasping the sword.

>>50854394
See if you can get the Evil Wizard from HeroQuest... and have them doing a double hi-5!

>>50854390

Mmmmmm... Fried Marder.

These people have a few nuds....

http://www.monolithmodels.com/

>>50857398
Maybe remove the feather, and as you said give it a better grip, but otherwise I like it. Possibly add some warpflame details to other parts of the mini if you're using that sword, though, since it looks slightly off otherwise.

>>50857398

>Bangles had psyker dreads
>Thousand Sons can't for reasons

GW pls

>>50854598

>Emperor's brides
>Not going to any effort to look good for him

Fuck that.

>>50857684
Glad I'm not the only one who thought it.

>>50854934

I've already got a nugget, if I get a rifle it's gonna be something chambered in .260. Box is too big to be Mortarion, and nobody would have gotten me a game system like that without consulting.

I am confident :)

What colours go well with yellow-green 'old bronze' look? Blues? Someone in my FLGS suggested mid-greys.

>>50856243
I love you! god bless you! merry christmas anon!

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First mini, muckin' about with the colour scheme
How do I fill the scripture without turning it to sludge?

How did I do anyway?

>>50856254
super thank you anon! say does it say anything about which paints they used in the other page?
I dont wanna sound too needy, but we didnt got the white dwarf over here for this season, yeah our retailer kind of sucks...

>>50858089
And why does it go sideways?

>>50858170
punishment for using an iPhone

>>50856769
>>50856679
>>50856313
>>50856201
>>50855908
>>50855227
I'm so disappointed that GW decided to go with Titan suits instead of auxiliaries like you know in the fucking fluff of the army.
Instead of something that goes totally against their fluff.

>>50858170
Your phone records camera rotation metadata in the pictures you take. Phones and many image editors read this metadata and "unrotate" the picture for you automatically. However, 4chan ignores this data..

>>50858214

The vast vast majority of Tau players have no interest in fluff, they only play Tau to win with their Riptide wings and stormsurge assaults.

I doubt 3/4 of those players even know what a Vespid is.

a tiny tiny tiny minority of Tau players embrace the alien covenant but when GW can make serious cash by selling robots to a faction collected 9/10ths by waacfags... it's gonna happen

Should space marine scouts be on 25mm or 32mm bases?

>>50858318
32 if you ask me. Looks better if the infantry within one army is based in one way.

>>50857398
dear god yes

why doesn't magnus have the sword though?

>>50858378
Magnus has the option for a sword or a staff. No rules difference.

>get Start Collecting! Skitarii for christmas
>assemble Dunecrawler legs
>can't decide if I'm going to use the feet parts or not

I mean, it'd make sense since it'll be on an ice base to use the wider feet, though at the same time a pure spider walker looks also really good.

>>50858409
sweet. I might see if I can scum the sword off someone in my LGS. Might give it to my renegade knight.

>>50853297

I want that wall painting!

>>50858318
25mm is the official size at the moment. I doubt it will change anytime soon.

>>50853297
>>50858616
Yeah its really cool, my girlfriend painted it herself based on our cat

Holy moly, got the slaughterstorm, a SC bloodbound and gorechosen. Im set for the whole damned year, still havent finished my half of the base set and also have the war mammoth and a greater bloodthirster in front of me... Guess ill quit my job and start fulltime painting haha

>>50857820
That was only during the Age of Apostasy. Now they're Daughters of the Emperor. I personally don't wear make up to look good for my daddy but no kink shaming I guess.

>>50857300

Your monk appears to have one really long hair growing from his armpit

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Done minus any freehand. Though I don't really see a good area for it

>>50858707

No father wants to come home from a long day at work only to see his spawn uglying up his house.

>>50858296
>>50858214
the vast majority of Tau players arent I, Gue'Vesanon, Builder of Cadian Fire Warriors. The One Who Plays Kroot Blobs. The Vespidestrian.

nah but i am really trying to build an entire Auxiliary army, ive been posting my Gue'vesa and Kroot FW and Pathfinder Shas'ui. In between hoarding Tau conversion pics. Got any?

>>50858792
Nice to see someone else had the same idea. Great painting anon

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>>50854437
>does makeup make them look really mannish?
>they look less masculine without it

We've reached 2016 levels that shouldn't even be possible.

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>>50858952
gotta go to the Christmas/Saturnalia party soon, but before i go i'll post some more for you lovely anons

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>>50859218
no breaks on the Kroo-Kroot Train

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>>50859261
theres a lot going on in this picture, but the Kroot Devilfish conversions on the road are sweet

>>50859218
I wish gw still did shit like this, I havent really seen conversion brainstorming from them in a while.

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>>50859288
this pic is made by one of our anons on the thread, as a stand in for Marker Drones.

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>>50859299
i agree. one of the reasons i only use GW parts for my Auxiliary Troops is because if i ever get to a tournament, or even just win a stupid contest or something, it just might show them there are Tau folk that really dont like suits bigger than Broadsides, and really like Diverse Coalitions of Species.

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>>50859343
A pic of my Gue'vesa and a Fire Warrior

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>>50859390
And I'll finish this Shit Show with a close-up of them.

If anyone has some Tau conversion pics, please do post!

>>50858130
I don't think so, sorry.

How do you guys do your plasma highlights? Do you just paint them blue then drybrush lighter blue or white? My Skittles look a little drab.

Merry Christmas from Britland, by the way.

So earlier in the year I told mum I was getting into warhammer and I pointed at an airbrush in a magazine and said I would get one of those eventually
What did I get for Christmas?
>airbrush
>bench grinder
>hobby saw
>solder iron
Thanks mum? eh, i'll find someway to use them

>>50859697

That method is common and what most of us think to do but it's actually wrong, because the plasma should be brighter near the bottom as that's the heat source. Try painting the plasma white then doing wash or drybrush of light blue then finally dark blue at the highest ridges and edge of the plasma. That will create a realistic glow.

I did the blue with white drybrushing and it looked kinda shit. Like, not terrible, but not plasma-ish.

Now I just paint them deactivated colors. Silver, gold, copper, black, etc. Looks cool and that's what FW has in its artwork of plasma.

Is there any quick and easy method for painting black power armour?

>>50859843
I can't believe I didn't think of that. I'll have to pick up some extra blue shades and some White Scar when I next visit the FLGS. Many thanks.

>>50859912
>spray with really dark grey (german armor grey for example)
>black wash

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>>50859697
1/2

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>>50859697
2/2

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>>50859912
3/2
Hope these help.

>>50859969
Also much appreciated. I will try both and see which I prefer on the Skitarii, thanks.

>>50859635
ohh this is dreadful, I guess white dwarf still needs to improve in their painting spotlight parts.

>>50858089
I think he looks great, but I'm a layman. Just saying, I'd pick him over a more detailed mini that wasn't so clean and sharp looking. Love the colors.

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Working on the elfs (elves?) from Spire of Dawn. Armour was fun but I'm stumped what to do with the cloth. Already have a green-and-gold dwarf army, and wood elves that are all greens and browns. I'm kinda torn between purple (too dark elfy?), some variant of blue or blue-green, or else black/grey.

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He might not know why he dies but he'll at least know what kills him

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What can I do (if anything) to fix this massive gap between the join of these two sides of bone? It's not yet glued so isn't as bad as it looks but it's still bad. Also never painted bone before, not sure if it looks ok.

>>50861684
How the bone looks from the side. Any advice on improvements? On any aspect really. I have yet to try painting his axe just slapped on some base coat. I worked my way up to painting him after trying out painting on the brute guys first. I found it harder to paint the larger surface areas especially of skin.

The armour I never gave much thought to what it's made of, I just chose a colour I liked but now I don't know how I should make it look worn like I've seen some people paint?

I've never done a base before so I'm struggling with that also. I got the gw stir land mud and I bought some cork but I've no idea how to make cork look good or even if it is a material that makes sense in a fantasy universe? Maybe it's supposed to be concrete that people use it for?

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>>50861813

Forgot pic ofcourse.

>>50861684
>>50861813
>>50861823
Filling it with greenstuff then painting it over with the same shade as the rest of the skull is probably the best solution.

>>50861684
fill with greenstuff/liquid greenstuff, paint over

>>50861684
Go back in time, fill with greenstuff before you prime it, then paint as normal

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Holy fuck that light made it look like someone looking into the sun, let me try again
>>decide to finally finishing these boarboy
>>spent 12 hours batch painting
>>do everything but skin and base
>>ran out of warboss green
>>everything is close for 2 days
>>forgot to paint 1 boy and have to do him separate and take more time
>At least I have these cool good looking models...right?

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And I fucked up the quotations
I want to die

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Grey Knight Terminators
Get the new plastic ones or roll with the old metal ones? I've got a fetish for metal models but the arms look a bit off on the oop models

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Lunch time boys

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Using her (from hasslefree miniatures) As my Bretonnian Damsel. What do you guys think? I know the paint is sort of thick... I still haven't mastered the art of blending, and watering down paints...

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>>50863235
Whoops wrong pic... That's when I just primed her. Here's a more updated progress pic...

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>>50863246

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>>50863272

>>50863235
>What do you guys think?
Dem Hips

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>>50863445
gotta throw some ink on her skin (hands and face) and finish up the base.

>>50863445
Leaning too far forward and the scabbard is too blue IMO, but it looks good. Maybe use a brown base coat or wash on the hands next time, though.

>>50854948
1-2 I can't really tell you which is better.
number 3 though.. gj my dude

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Hey /wip/, can anyone tell me how to fill these gaps? They're too small to add extra feathers to and too big to not stick out like giant herpes blisters. I'm also really not much of a sculptor. Any suggestions?

I've got big plans for this model and I'd really like to make it presentable.

>>50864308
roll long, thin sausages of greenstuff and place it along the seam. Then use you hobby knife, back of a brush, etc. to squish it into the seam and then smooth it out. Use you hobby knife to carefully scrape away any excess green stuff.

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>>50864377

Thanks anon, I'll give it a shot. Just gotta work up the courage to actually do it. I always choke when coming up to moments like this because I know it's things like that that can make or break a mini. Just gotta get more confidence I suppose.

Anyway, I'm making some Tzeentch conversions. Here's a picture of the whole mini, I'll probably end up piecing most of it out, and I'll post another pic in a minute to give those of you unfamiliar with it an idea of its scale.

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>>50864308
>>50864438

Here are the wings on that mini next to a Knight Titan. It's a pretty big mini.
I was thinking of taking the bird head and sticking it on my Cerastus Lancer (a planned WIP that's gonna have a very feathery body) whereas pic related is more to go along with my screamers (lamprey mouths and eyeballs errywur). Not sure what I'm gonna do with the wings yet, I feel that actually putting them on one of my knights would be a little bit too much.

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Merry Christmas WIP, did Santa bring you anything?

>>50864543
Santa brought this little boy a Dark Elves batallion box and A box of Nobz.

>>50864308
I'd use GW's Liquid Green Stuff. Add a little water and you may need to do two coats but you won't have to scrape anything away like with regular green stuff.

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Liquid-Green-Stuff-2015

>>50854394
Great painting, but I can't shake my hatred for that miniature. It's so lifeless and just "chaos for chaos' sake".

>>50858792
Pretty dang good. Paint is still a tiny bit thick in places. Have you tried acrylic flow improver?

>>50858085
You know that the mega dump in the 40k general OP has all the White Dwarf issues as pdf, right?

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>Got an Iwata Neo from Santa
Th-thanks

Did you guys get any /hobby/ related stuff?

>>50864465
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejTgl3cCyDo

>>50864841
Got an electronic screwdriver.
I guess that could be used to do some hobby related stuff.

>>50864870
Those are perfect for drilling barrels.

>>50864935
I already got a rotary tool for that.
But yeah, you can twist wires or build a gaming table with one too.
Or at least a frame for your modular tiles.

Just about done with my first flash git. fuck assembling and painting these things

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>>50864965
forgot pic

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Merry Christmas, Anons. Got a bit further with Señora Veridyan. How's she lookin?? (Say nice things to her, it's Christmas)

Got a devastator squad from santa. How should i equip them?

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>>50864988

>>50864976
That face sculpt looks really good. I wonder why they went so heavy on the shadows in the Studio paintjob.

>>50861203
I'll give it another check when I get back from Christmas shit. Maybe it was in the corner of the page or something.

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>>50864841
>Did you guys get any /hobby/ related stuff?

HAH. AHAH. HHHhhhah. Ahahah... heh... hem...

>>50864988
Whatever you think looks coolest unless you plan to play tournies in which case grav

>>50865113

I wish FW would make an infantry-mounted graviton heavy weapon so I can use them as GCs in 40k.

>>50865140
they probably didn't

The post-processing done on GW's images tends to up the contrasts rather significantly.

>>50856789
I've been collecting the warhams since I was a kid in highschool, when 2nd Ed was just in, so Im probably too old to be posting here. In all those years my family has never once bought me anything GW related for Christmas, despite it being my main hobby for decades.
I really don't get it.

>>50857008
>no natural talent
Bullshit.
Anyone can git gud with enough practice, sure, but I guarantee that someone like myself, with a natural ability to draw and paint well, has a huge advantage over the rest of you.
If anything people who improve through pure practice and perseverence deserve a little more credit than a naturally talented person, but I don't have to work as hard as you.

>>50852850
most humans have black/dark brown hair. red hair will probably be a tiny minority by the end of the century along with green eyes. Us blue-eyed blonds will be the next group to go extinct after them as himanity devolves to all mud people
.>>50854394
needs a rave diaorama, give him some warpstone glowsticks

>>50857820
>>50857820
>>Not going to any effort to look good for him

explain nuns.

Merry Christmas /wip/! Anyone get anything hobby related? I didn't, but I got some money I will be spending on Burning of Prospero!

>>50865702
As genetic engineering becomes more viable and even affordable thanks to stuff like CRISPR people will probably start altering their children and later even themselves to have these traits as they are desirable. If you want proof of their desirability just look at the amount of women around the world going to Danish sperm banks so they can have tall, blonde haired and blue eyed Viking babies.

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xmas eve painting, think I am done with it, but no idea what to do about the base.Couple of messy bits here and there, I know. Just it's tabletop quality so good enough for that.

Not really wip or /tg/ related, but am I the only one who hates the holiday season?

>>50866760
>am I the only one who hates the holiday season?
This is a rhetoric question isn't it?
OF course you are not.

>>50866774
>This is a rhetoric question isn't it?
Rhetorical in the sense that, yes I know other people hate it. But, mostly a way of asking who else hates it.

>>50866760
I feel pretty ambivalent towards.

>>50865955
Some.new paintbrushes, and there's a bunch of basing stuff, a few paints and an Imperial Knight Warden on the way. That's going to end the year on a high note.

Thus begins the year of conversions, starting 30k Mechanicum and a lot of their stuff has no official model or really expensive ones, so I'm going to be doing a lot of kitbashing. Going to be fun :)

>>50866857
That sounds like a fun project anon! Working on renegades and heretics myself so kit bashing is the name of the game - think I'm gonna use my christmas money to buy a load of different infantry box sets (Guardsmen, gene stealer cults, marauders etc) and then throw all the bits together and see what happens.

Hey /wip/! I got myself the Prospero box for my christmas money and I was thinking of going for an alternate paint scheme for the Custodes.

Currently considering red with gold detailing, but that might scream "Blood Angels" a bit too much. Do you guys have any suggestions what would look good on those minis other than the full goldenboy look?

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>>50866996
Kind of the only thing that comes to mind.
Since they are supposed to be palace guards they don't really have more than one paintscheme, unless that has been retconned though.
Dunno if that's important to you at all, just throwing it out there.

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>>50864841

I got pic related.

Kind of excited. I'm going force my shop to play something if it kills me.

Still, I can't wait to get to work on them. I might try out the reaper paints I nabbed last month on them.

I have a question for you lads; how would you go about putting oval goggles on Imperial Guardsmen while spending as little as possible?

>>50867229
Greenstuff from a company that is not GW.

>>50867229
>oval goggles on Imperial Guardsmen while spending as little as possible?
Two tiny balls of GS and a needle pin is all you need.
Put the balls on his eyes and push the round back of the needle pin in to make indentations/lenses.
Then you can sculpt he straps.

If you are in straya you could also order goggles from victoria miniatures. Made in pewter so you can wrap them around your mini however you like.
Have to pay a fair bit of postage if you are in the rest of the world though.

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>>50864976
No way... This is the same pose as the "famous" sisters of battle pic that i love! Was this a real model, or did you make this?? That is amazing man...can't wait to see it painted.

Are you going to do the same "80's" theme punk rock look?

>>50867352
Have you slept under a rock for the last 3 month?

GW released this just recently as a first release for the coming new sister range.

>>50867352
Let me be the first to tell you. There are is a new models of Saint Celestine.
It's plastic.
Yes. Plastic sisters.

>>50867403
NO SHIT?! PLASTIC SISTERS WHEN?

>>50867422
Q1 2017 i guess.

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>>50867352
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Sisters-of-Battle-Canoness-Veridyan

And there was a image of a plastic Celestine and bodyguard earlier this week.

>>50867422
here is a link to that specific miniature:

https://www.games-workshop.com/de-DE/Sisters-of-Battle-Canoness-Veridyan

Apparently sold out (again), but they keep making her available from time to time.

There was also a leaked(?) picture of some future sister minis, but i didn't save that. Lurk /tg/ and the 40k threads for more infos i guess. But its really a thing.

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>>50866893
I have a friend who runs Renegades. Since his units respawn on a 2+ and outflank, you actually get to look at the infantry a lot, so your conversion work will be appreciated. Go for it.

30k Dark Mechanicum have these 20 man fearless tarpits. but from FW they're £37 for 10, and fuck that. I'm going to convert some Chaos Cultists with a few Skitarii heads and melee weapons, and shave off the Chaos, they should work decent as lobotomised hordes.

Also, I have to figure out a way to make Medusa artillery without too many third party parts, since I play at a Games Workshop. Any ideas? The Forge World one looks like pic related. Since the Ordo Reductor have lots of disposable arty, I was thinking of mounting something in the back of a Chimera chassis that looks like a Medusa gun.

>>50867089
>Since they are supposed to be palace guards they don't really have more than one paintscheme, unless that has been retconned though.
Dunno if that's important to you at all, just throwing it out there.
Eh, not super much. I just want to break up all the gold in the standard paintscheme since it looks a bit dull imo, since the models lack the red robes from custodes artwork which helps make them more interesting to look at.

can i prime 30k TS and SW with white primer or should i go and buy some more cans

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>>50865955
>Merry Christmas /wip/! Anyone get anything hobby related?

Beckenham anon sent me this as part of our Secret Santa pact. If that isn't hobby-related Christmas, I don't know what is!

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Trying to do Menoth without making everything white. Decided to try a "blued steel" look for the platemail.
How bad did I fuck up?

>>50865624
39, here. No one ever bought me any WH shit for any holidays either. 95% of my minis are mid-90's era.

>>50868070
Lighting is washing out the blue effect, hard to judge it. Paint could be smoother, you have red on your shield's gold bits.

>>50867443
>>50867410

Is the pewter Celestine worth anything?

>>50865624
>>50868098

In my family there is an unwritten rule that we don't buy big gifts for each other. We "children" (i'm 30, my brothers and cousins are 25-40 by now) usually got 200€ from our grandparents and that was it.
Usually some small "standard" stuff like socks, shower gel or a belt from our moms too.

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Thanks Spanish anon

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Merry Christmas /wip/

Merry Christmas /wip/!

>>50867451
Its probably only celestine and the twins for now.

Bought myself a cutting mat and a couple new $5 brushes. Woo.

>>50852194
I recognise those CNC workshop guys

Finally got a squad of chaos terminators. Now just trying to decide the best way to kit them out

>>50868693
please don't use those tusk helmets.

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>>50867451
>>50867422
>>50867410

Holy crap... yea I have been living under a rock figuartively. Been focusing on Warhammer Fantasy and Bretonnia... Been ignoring 40k

>>50868795
>implying the tusk helmets aren't the coolest shit

>>50868028

That's amazing...

>>50868795
You kidding me?? The tusk helms are so creepy/bad ass.... don't listen to this fool. If anything I'd love an entire squad of tusked termies...

>>50868818
>Been focusing on Warhammer Fantasy and Bretonnia
Good taste, anon.

>>50868960
Going to be posting some pics of the Brets soon actually

>>50868880
tusk is love, tusk is life

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Making tankbusta arms

>>50868070
before I swapped to Khador I was gonna try painting a purple and gold Menoth for Orthodox Christmas.

you've got a pretty neat colour scheme, but as mentioned you've got to clean up your paints a bit and maybe do a second coat to help smooth everything out.

>>50861216
Thanks! I had in mind doing the posterboy gold/blue.
However, Balthasar Gold was a lot less yellow than I anticipated. After the black pauldrons the rest sorta fell into place on its own.

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I'm sitting on a sofa just watching tv with my gfs family.

I bought bought games, I bought card games, I even bought my tools to assemble the models I got.

But no. We sit in silence, watching tv. and have done for the last few hours and will do until bed.

I honestly cannot remember the last time I was so bored, I'm getting dirty looks for even having my phone out and being anti-social.

lads, what are you assembling / painting

I'm making up the plans of how I'm gonna convert my two Lords of nurgle that I've got in the mail.

One for 40K, one for AoS. both are gonna lose their arms and heads, and may even be slightly re-posed. Thinking of buying a Knight Questor as well, and sorta kit-bash-convert one of the lords as to be a "fallen knight of Sigmar", if such a thing could be made. Heavily armor, broken here and there, where tentacles push out, or heavy sores are shown.

think that could look good?

>>50869460
Can't fix boring humans.

Just got back from one Christmas dinner and we're off to another. No time to clean or prime my daemonettes and Exorcist that just arrived. Sadness.

>>50869460
Finally cracking on with my Skitarii Rangers, only 5 left before I can finally paint something interesting for once.
Experimenting with the Nuln Oil gloss on the metallic parts, I've found I really like it. Looks surprisingly good on the robes too, which was surprising.

Try not to go too insane, anon. What cool stuff did you get, by the way?

>>50869460
it's ok anon, I have many tacticals that need to be finished and I am at work until 7pm

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how can I get smoother skin? just water down the paint? Think I should use inks on skin tones? I don't want her skin dark though

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>>50868818
There is a better quality image out there, but couldn't find it.

>>50869609
>how can I get smoother skin?

moisturize

>>50869632
those wings looks so fucking bad wtf. just get the old model in that posture GW

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>50869609

Making sure the picture is focused is a good start.

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>>50869609
Ok, stop for a moment, and take a good look at the pic you just posted.

Now having done that, do you honestly believe we have any chance in hell of telling how smooth her skin is, and how you may have gone about painting it?

If you answer yes, then you're in dire need of an optician, a psychiatrist, or most likely both. If you answer no, then realsie what a dumbass you've been and go commit sudoku with a brush handle.

OK, my Imp Knight is done building. Obviously going to spray the skeleton Chaos Black, then basecoat Leadbelcher, but would spraying on the LB from the can be OK or would it be better done with a brush as usual? Seems like it would save a lot of time.

>>50869188
I like it. Where did you get those rockets? I'm making tankbustas myself at the moment

>>50869952
drybrush the leadbelcher onto the black base.

you can tank me later.

>>50869952
Depends on the finish you're going for.

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>>50869997
The dakkajet box comes with 6 rokkits bits and the Killa kans box comes with 3 you can cut off.

>>50869460
I had my dose of that yesterday, be glad you've got tv and the same language in common if any talking does come up... I was not so lucky but at least there was drinking.

>>50864841
Well other than what I got from a certain wonderful person on this board I also got a Dremel accessory set which I can use for conversion work or possibly Terrain

>>50870026
I'm really not too sure, but the rest of my army is quite battered, so possibly a more run-down finish? How does the application method affect it either way?

>>50869460
This. I hate boring normie-people without any hobbies besides tv.

Thank god my we have 2 cats and 2 ferrets so i had to drive back home from gfs mom after the dinner yesterday evening.

Now i'm at home, assembling a Tamiya Jagdpanther kit while the ferrets watch me from their pillow on the couch. My gf sits on her moms couch and they watch some shitty christmas movie for the 100. time.

>>50859299 technically Lord Duncan Show De conversion on his Show recently

>>50869751
Those wings are artifical ones part of the armor just in case you thought they were real wings

At what point should I start worrying that a wave 1 Secret Santa won't show up? Halfway through January?

>>50870154
Where do you live?

>>50870165
South Carolina

>>50851982
Anyone ever put GW ork heads on Mantic orcs? How did it go?

>>50862340
>>50862350
pls respond

>>50870170
>>50870170 well wishes friend I have hope that it will come as you came through for me

>>50870324
Sorry man. I can't help you die.

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>>50869460
Still elves from Spire of Dawn. Hang in there anon!

>>50869557
>>50869557

Some Thousands Son stuff, heres hoping the points improve in 8th!!

Home Alone just finished... Now its some other shit film... Fuck....

>>50870344
Im just glad your beat the holidays especially when they told me it'd be like the 28th. I wouldnt even be mad that I didnt get anything, Id be mad that someone was kind enough to send something and some jobber in a mail room somewhere or some cunt nabbing packages made off with it.

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>>50869887
Why. The bloody fuck are you so hostile? Jesus fucking christ, I posted a slightly out of focus picture...the amount of energy you spent conjuring up your response could be used to realize "Sudoku" is a game you fucking shit head.

>>50870533
Holy shit man. Not him, but you might want to consider not mixing sand into your base coat next time.

>>50870533
Don't take it personal Anon, but if you spend hours to paint a mini, a couple of minutes to take a good photo won't hurt. Especially if you want some critique or advise.

I can't answer your question about the skin, because its hard to see it on your pics.
What paint did you use so far for that miniature?
But thinning usually won't hurt.

>>50870575
Thanks. And yea I took it with a camera phone..so Maybe I'll break out the Cannon point n' shoot when I finish...

I used the "Army Painter" line of paints from the squeeze tube. I did thin them a bit, but not enough apparently.

Maybe I"ll apply a layer of ink to see if it dries, it'll give her skin a smoother look.

Again thanks for being an actual gentleman, and not a total dick...

>>50870620
An ink wont smooth the texture itll make it more apparent I think

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>>50870620
>squeeze tube.

A dropper bottle? Like pic related?

In general try to have a milk-like consistency for your paint, even if that means it doesn't cover at your first layer. You can always apply a 2nd or 3rd layer of paint, but if its to thick you can't fix it that easily.

My super simple recipe for tabletop standard skin is:
>Basecolor flesh
>flesh wash (a red-brown wash, but brown will work as well if you don't have the flesh tone)
>simple highlights with basecolor
>very tiny highlights on nose and other raised areas

Same with the fingers

>>50870533
You need to thin your paints more. That kind of result usually comes from thick paint and especially from tearing partially dried thick paint that keeps getting pushed around as you try to correct brushstrokes on a small important area like a face. Thinner paint will give a smoother coat AND dry faster on the mini so you so can go over it again quicker without tearing the first layer. If the paint isn't flowing easily off your brush it's too thick and may even be drying and caking up on your brush itself. This is a common problem people have when painting fiddly details. If you are having trouble controlling watery paint consider using some Liquitex Slo-dri blending medium as well to give you more time to work with it. But that shouldn't be necessary.

>>50870456
I feel you, just finally managed to escape dinner where everyone was bitching about something or another, set off some of the lamest sparklers known to man (Didn't even light, just smouldered down to the handle) and now I can FINALLY start work on Skitarii #6.

Endure, sorcerer. Perhaps I can convince one of my Infiltrators to screw with the TV signal.

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>>50869460

This kind of shit is exactly the reason I opted out of christmas this year.
Gf went to spend the day with her family today, so I got my Skitaari Kill Team started. Tried some speed painting techniques for the first time, pretty happy with it.

Sorry for the shitty pic.

>>50854735

Muh negroid, mad props for suggesting the best Hasslefree lady.

One of my favorite models that I've painted.

>>50870620
If you aren't sure whether you thinned you paints, you definitely didn't do it enough. It's not just a meme, it's something you really need to do to get good results.

Does anyone have a riptide instruction booklet they can scan/ or take pictures of? I have an unassembled one that didn't come with instructions

>>50870679
I will actually take your recipe into account for next time. I'm going to be doing a unit of Peasant Men at Arms either tonight or tomorrow.

Thanks for the support! I'm glad there are people willing to not be assholes and actually have a conversation and talk.

>>50864841
Got $200 in amazon gift cards.

What should I buy /wip/?

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>>50870757
I see... when you thin your paints to the "right" consistency, how many coats of it do you do? Does that depends on what color it is? Do you keep applying the thinned layers until you get a solid coating?

I was recording a tutorial on painting a warpwolf for Hordes. 4 steps deep I decide I don't like the skin tone and repaint the entire thing.

My painting style means I block in the colours first and then paint up each area to make sure that everything works before I invest too much in any one area. Would a tutorial still work to work from the blocking stages or should I just delete the videos?

>>50870941
airbrush + compressor?