WIP - Painting/Converting/Sculpting General

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Cobblestone bases for my devastators, bricks are cut up sprue

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Urban Kazak Strikeforce for Infinity. Need to touch up a Spetsnaz kneepad and get the Vet Kazak's hands matching his armor rather than flesh.

Other than that, happy to hear suggestions. Very happy with 'em at the moment.

>>51214057
I'm stealing this.

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Alright, so continuing from last thread: I got $50 to spend and am in need of an airbrush to learn with. I was recommended pic related, and it was also suggested I get a 'cleaning station, cleaner, and some brushes' (>>51210616 >>51210657). Now, the brushes I understand, but why the cleaning station/cleaner? Would a small cardboard box + solvent not be an adequate replacement? Also, are airbrush brushes standardized or does each manufacturer/model have their own?

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Reposting because I'm proud of it.

Cultist Champion of Slaanesh with Shotgun.

Legs are Daemonette legs spliced with a Kabalite Torso, gun is a Wrack Hexrifle, lash is also from the Wrack box, and the head is a Daemonette head.

My warband raided a Craftworld and plundered it while it was fighting off a Necron war fleet, and stole tens of thousands of Eldar civilians and warriors and brought them back to their Space Hulk to sacrifice them to Slaanesh. However, as the Chaos Lord of the warband believes that the greatest gift one can give Slaanesh is the love of her children, they have begun a strict regimen of torture, Warp exposure, and psychic manipulation in an attempt to convert the captives into willing servants of Slaanesh. Most Eldar cannot handle it, and their bodies are used in sacrifices and distilled into toxins and hallucinogens, but one in every thousand is twisted into accepting the love of Slaanes. These bands, though extremely few in number, operate alongside the regular Marine forces and are herded at the enemy through psychic manipulation by the warbands Sorcerer. They are used as horrifying terror weapons against other Eldar, and their creation has sparked a massive search for their base of operations by many Eldar forces, be they Craftworld, Kabal, or Corsair.

>>51214576

I would actually buy a brandless Chinese brush from eBay for $10-$20. Don't waste a whole $50 on a low end Badger or Iwata. When you're comfortable, spend more and buy a $100-$150 midrange brush like a Badger Krome or Iwata Eclipse, which will be your endgame brush as you don't need a $300 airbrush.

The difference between a shit airbrush and a good one is the smoothness and sensitivity of the trigger (like the gas pedal on a sports car vs. an economy sedan) as well as the general fit and finish of the parts: how tightly the screws fit and leave zero gaps, how well polished and durable the chrome finish is, etc.

For beginners' purposes and simple priming/basecoating, you can use a $20 brush instead of a $50 one.

Thanks for making one. Was waiting for it but had neither the links nor an image on my phone.
Anyway:
I mentioned it at the end of last thread: what are some options to make Celestine transportable? Using a pole like on fliers instead of the seal parchment for a stand would be a decent first step. What about her doves and wings? Any way to realistically magnetize them without it being visible?

>>51214057
>®

Looks good, though. I wish I had an army that could make use of this.

>>51214576

Airbrush cleaning pots just act as convenient holders and liquid catchers. If you don't care, you can just plop your brush on the tabletop when you're not holding it, and you can just spray the excess shit on a towel or box. You don't NEED a pot but it's a nice thing to have.

Airbrush needles should be standard.

>>51214182
totally baffled why the pointing guy is doing drag revue while everyone else is full on tacticool mode, but this scheme looks really nice overall. One distracting moldline on the bare forearm of the "action sniper" but I really like the camo

Anybody got the picture of the Magnus with a LoC head that got posted the other day? Forgot to save it, gonna steal the idea.

>>51214687
try a wash

>>51214712

http://img.4plebs.org/boards/tg/image/1484/40/1484409766671.jpg

If you squint hard enough, his symbol of Tzeentch belt buckle is actually a scaly serpent penis.

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This tack holds together better than I thought. And to think my impression was initially marred by metal figures constantly falling apart with these things. Now I can prime every single piece with an easy mind.

>>51214671
I don't actually see a trigger on that picture, by the way, just a button which I assume works the same? I'll note that and try to figure out what the cheapest but best is based on reviews, then, I suppose. I just listed $50 because that's currently the maximum I /have/ to spend, not the amount I /want/ to spend.

>>51214698
>holders and liquid catchers
Got it. Will print my own, probably.
>needles are standard
Splendid.

http://a.co/iIpyJgm looks to be the cheapest one, and looks /exactly/ the same as the next 3-4 ones in the list. However, http://a.co/6O596F0 is the same thing but with 6 "free" feet of hose. So, unless someone has a good reason not to, one of those seems like a safe bet.

>>51214705
Holy shit, that moldline completely passed me by. Thanks. And I dunno in regards to the Vet Kazak's posture. It's one of Corvus Belli's older models, but I've always liked the bastard.

The army's generally painted up green, but given the nature of the battles as well as the Kazak's control of the planet's only spaceport, I thought I'd run with the urban camo look. Sort of Helghast fucked STALKER.

>>51214182
Looks pretty sweet.

>>51214877

The button is a trigger you can push in and out and pull back and forth.

Hey anons, it's too going to be humid all month, so is GW's paint-on Imperial Primer any good?

>>51214963

It's even shittier than most paint on primers. The "best" paint on primers seem to be thinned artist's Gesso, or Vallejo's surface primer. I don't really like Vallejo's surface primer because it takes forever to cure being polyurethane, and it's also not that durable anyway, I wouldn't recommend it for anything but airbrush priming on heavily sealed models or models that won't be touched. Gesso is also going to be either super thick out of the pot or have iffy coverage when thinned.

You're kind of fucked.

>>51214982
Why must there be surprise storms all month in a desert.

Why did I sign up for a painting contest.

>>51214982
>>51215186
Will priming in my garage work?

>>51215216
Perhaps. Open a window and wear a respirator, and you should be fine. Then leave the thing open afterwards.

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Another fist today.

>>51215285
I don't have a window or a respirator in my garage. Just a crapload of junk and a fridge.

>>51215318
Can you open the garage doors?
your garage has doors, right?

>>51215333
If they had doors, the hookers could get out. It's really more of an oubliette than a garage, I suppose.

>>51215333
Yeah.

>>51215360
Kek.

>>51215360
damn guy, your just not giving us much to work with here

>>51214982
Thinned with what

>>51215302
Looking crisp and tasty, good work my man.

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>>51215406
Milk

>>51215452
Poor slav.

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>>51215546
Is not all bad. If work hard, don't get fed to Space Werewolf. Lighting on this one's a bit rough, and I don't know if I did it accidentally or what, but someone pointed out after the fact that the un-transformed one looks like Captain Pronin.

>>51215590
Yeah, the skin looks a little too yellow on your guys. If the lighting isn't behind that, then a glaze is a very easy way of changing that. Solid work otherwise.

>>51215668
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's just lighting. Also, with that guy I kinda wanna do something to the mane, but I'm not really sure what. Maybe a drybrush on the edges of each layer in a different color, or something. Or maybe just a bit of shading on the veins? I kinda find myself at a lost for what to add, or if I should just leave it be for now.

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Base sculpting continued. Starting to look a little better now

>>51215727
Do a standard wash and drybrush to start. Maybe stipple it to make it look mottled in areas if that is your thing.

>>51215802
Any particular recommendations as far as colors go? The other one is getting salt-and-pepper hair, then with a black hulkmode with silver touches to the mane. But with this one, I'm not really sure what would look best highlighting his mane.

So on the black parts of the Cadian IG, like the belt, shoes, and pouches, what should I use to highlight them to make them pop?

>>51215748
What are you using? Doesn't look like green stuff.

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Mfw all the colour schemes i pick out look like shit.

>>51215907
Super sculpey. I use that for most general sculpting (bases, bodies etc) and GS or similar only for details.

>>51216011

And what does that tell you?

>>51216011
Just do Ultramarines. They'll look good no matter what.

What would be the easiest way to fix a mold slip with resin?

>>51216204
Putty, some cutting, and lots of sanding. It worked for my chinacast pink horrors.

>>51216061
I have no idea

>>51216078
>Ultramarine leman russes

>>51216266
I've got a chinacast Russ that has a pretty noticeable slip on his leg, but the piece that slipped is so tiny.

>>51216285
Ultramar Auxilia doesn't sound like a bad idea

>>51216332
what does a mold slip look like exactly?

>>51216285

Ultramar Planetary Defense Force is one of the most prestigious and famed PDFs in the galaxy. Some even compare them to the vaunted Guard regiments of Cadia. Truly, these mighty men and women of Cadia are blessed by both Lord Marneus Calgar of the Ultramarines and their spiritual liege, the Primarch Roboute Guilliman.

>>51216360

It's like a really bad mold line you can get on non-plastic models due to the way they are cast. Except instead of just being a mold line, it's like half the model moved one way and the other half moved the other, creating a tectonic plate like a mountain shelf created by earthquakes. Practically impossible to fix if they are more than half a millimeter high as the entire fucking model will have all its details sliced in half.

>>51216373
im guessing cutting the model in half is the only solution?

>>51216404

That's so terrible I actually laughed, but if you managed to do it perfectly that actually would be one of the best ways to fix it. Most people just try their best to sand down the misalignment and usually fill in and reconstruct broken details.

You can just ask for replacements if you bought actual GW/FW stuff that had a slip that's really bad. The best recasters won't be shipping out slipped models either as those are basically defective.

>>51216428
well im wondering how you'd cleanly cut a resin model in half

>>51216455
actually Im also wondering how you cut a model apart cleanly

Thinking of cutting the torso out of a cadre fireblade to make a custom one so they dont all look the same

>>51216455
with a hammer and chisel

>>51216455

Monomolecular blade, obviously.

>>51216474
electric saw am I right?

>>51216473
Jewelers saw. It's even flexible enough to do curved cuts.

>>51216662

You see those jewelers from /tg/? They’ve got curved saws!

>>51214057
looks good but you should either cut the sprue thinner so it looks sunk in the ground or fill the spaces.

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Started my own Wyrdwood today

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>>51216881
Also started these this morning, they are nearly done. Just drying now.

>>51216373
It's not a matter of material. It's just that the finecast production and qa is garbage so people associate slips with resin. You can misalign any mold.

Hey WIP, how should I base colour my guys? I mean is it better to use a white base or black?

>>51216974

It is a matter of material. Injection plastic steel molds are much more durable and have much higher computer assisted tolerances compared to the soft, rubber molds that are aligned by hand that metal, resin, and Finecast (which are just metal molds repurposed) use.

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>>51216908
Done

>>51217220

10/10 would crusade alongside with on my own desert based loyalist army

I really like how the wash and highlights make it look like the terrain is from a video game.

>>51214057

I'm with this >>51214208 guy. Have the perfect use for this idea.

Thanks anon.

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>>51217240
Cheers! I made them to use on a table i made for a friend. Can't wait to see what they look like on the table. The tiny looks different but the garage has yellowy clear panels in the roof so it makes the table look more yellow than it is. Used the same base colour, sand and washes so it should fit in nicely.

>>51217220
Looks good.

Did you cover the foam in sand, or use textured paint?

>>51217267
Card base for the foam, then watered down PVA sprayed all over. then brushed on paint then another PVA spray, then prayed with the main colour you see there, then another PVA spray and while wet I added the sand to the places i wanted, then let it dry 50% and then sprayed with pva again. waited to fully dry, did the wash, once dry added a few bigger rocks of sand with super glue, drybrushed it and then matt varnish spray.

>>51217417
that's a lot of PVA, but I guess that'd do it

makes me want to bust out the foam and make terrain

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If you were to make miniatures from scratch, or from something that isn't initially for the tabletop, how would you approach it?

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>>51217486
make a shape out of plastic then glue shit to it

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Very early on in the /wip/ stages, first go at a model this sized, what do you think I should do for the ion raker?

>>51217459
you probably dont need that much PVA i was just making sure it was super strong. Especially the piece that bridges over the raider. And was also to make super sure that no spray paint would get to the foam

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>>51217486

I would aim to make it as similar to an official model or artwork as I can, or make something with a unique silhouette that works and isn't obviously recognizable as something that it isn't. While not bad quality, your photo is actually a bad conversion IMO because it's too obvious that it was just a Mr. Potato Head. He didn't even cover up the shoe. Compare to pic related.

>>51217591
light blue/white

>>51217615
Tbh I prefer the potato head over this, The potato head looks like a clever conversion and this sorta looks like a bunch of shit glued to a robot.

>>51217659

Maybe the first person to do it was clever.

>>51217603
Can never be too careful with expanded foam, really. I find it's more fragile than extruded.

>>51217657
You don't think thatd be too much contrast? I'm pretty Shit at color theory tho

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>>51217615
I get what you mean, but I really think the stompah potato head is a great conversion. The fact that you can tell it's a potato head adds to its charm.

>>51217591
The ion raker is the shooty thing on his right arm? If so, you should go back and fix that very, very noticeable seam all along it.

It's probably too late, but you do that by scraping your hobby knife lightly along it until you can't see it anymore.

What level of sub assembly id adequate for Cawl? Is Duncan's 3-part assembly enough for a painter of average /wip/ level, so not terrible but nothing professional looking, or should I keep sone things off for now, his hood or weapons or something? Kinda not liking the idea of that too much, since glueing cables always sucks, twice more so if painted.

>>51217854
>so what weapons does it have?
>WYSIWYG
>...

CURRRRRVED SAWS

>>51217854
>giant green Mr. Potatohead with angry eyebrows

Counts-as Squiggoth.

>>51214576
You need a pot to clean between colors, AS you dont want to spray your cleaner Ingo a towel or whatever, that shit is nasty. Cleaning pots come with a filter, also much more convenient. That suggested Airbrush is fine, though. Brushes are standardized, they come in different sizes on a keychain.

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Progress on the grotesques, they are a nice distraction from the imperial fist scheme.

Holy shit, how am I supposed to transport Celestine and Cawl without literally everything breaking?

Only ways I see for Cawl is either laying him down sideways inside the Citadel transport case or to somehow add a magnet at his hip to detach the upper body.

Only thing that'll probably work for Celestine is fortifying the fuck out of the frail parts somehow and magnetizing the wings to pop them on or off.

>>51218848
with faith. and Tupperware.

>>51218991
>Tupperware
I went over to my mom's yesterday to check her wide collection of Tupperware stuff and even she didn't really have anything I could confidently fit them in.

Almost thinking to just keep them on the shelf and get bases of their size as proxies for actual games.

>>51219019
>get bases of their size as proxies for actual games.

What will you do for line of sight and cover when their height is involved?

>>51219043
Not sure, maybe just some stupid shit like paper cutouts of them in scale or something.

Not going to use them that often anyway, since their strength is almost too much for casual games and my local tourney doesn't allow unique characters either.

>>51218848
I'm going to buy some pluck foam and dedicate a tray to celestine and the geminae.

In the meantime, tupperware, bubblewrap and packing pellets.

>>51219043
>>51219204
Currently trying to figure out a way to magnetize her wings. Was thinking of putting a magnet in her torso, glue the backpack cable attachment over them and add a magnet to the backpack itself.

Magnets should still have enough attraction to hold the backpack with like 2-3mm of plastic between them, right?

>>51219221
So you almost certainly can, but you then have the sword and doves to contend with, and I feel like any solution that can handle them could handle the wings pretty easily as well.

I see the doves being the real problem long-term.

>>51219285
You got a point there.

Fuck, this model is a pain in the ass to get not break.

Definitely going to add a pole to help her stand, though.

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I'm working on a diorama of all 18 HH legions. Shits going so slow. I thought I'd be able to knock out a model every half hour of painting. 12 hours later IVe only got 9 built and they're still all WIP.

>>51219499
>model every half hour
I need like half an hour for just the weapons if I really go detailed.

>>51219499
THE LEGION MARKING FOR THE WORD BEARER IS ON THE WRONG SHOULDER!

>>51216011
>>51216061
>>51216285
it means you have shit taste - pick an existing scheme and call it a day instead of trying to do "your dudes" or end up like Minnesota Vikings Marines guy

>>51216473
bench vise and a jeweler's saw

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>>51216011
post them and we can help you fix it.

>>51219499
>gloriously smooth blues, reds, blacks and metallics
>That white
>That yellow
How, Anon? What happened?

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Anyone Triumvirate of the Imperium here?

Starting on the magnificent Cawl here first

So when you spray things with a basecoat of Leadbelcher (rattlecan) do you then go over it with a brush? Seems like my Knight is a little spotty in places.
Also, when priming, how thorough do you have to be? Bit paranoid of overdoing it after I rather fucked up some Kataphrons.

Asking again, how should I think when basecoating? Should I use black, white or something in between?

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>>51219947
Prepped this much so far. Probably going to keep Celestine in these parts for painting her and paint the remaining Cawl parts separately as well.

>>51219985
It depends on what you want.
Black for darker colours, deeper shades and shinier metallics.
White for bright, strong colours
Grey for more neutral colours, or a mix of bright and dark colours.

Zenithal Black & White : For pre-shading the model, and things like OSL.

>>51219975
Spraying isn't perfect, so go over it with a brush where you feel it's needed.

>>51219985
Basecoating in what sense? If you mean the first coat on the plastic, spray with a primer (or suitably solvent-based spray paint) that's near your intended base color, so black for darker ones and white for brighter ones if you have no other options
And use white sparingly, it can give bad results

>>51220014
OK then. Knight skeleton is surprisingly easy to paint, all the details are fairly large and easy to get to. Much better than the Rangers I was grinding through until last weekend.

Should I follow Duncan's advice and paint Greyfax' and Celestine's faces last or should I paint them first?

Hey, looking for color advice here. I'm pretty much working with Citadel paint on my minis, so that's my frame of reference with this stuff. I have an old 6th ed Dark Vengeance box because I wanted those gorgeous chosen minis/Kranon, but I wanted to paint them with a more Nurgle color scheme. Because of that, I looking for something with a sickly green look to it. I know that I want to do the layering with Nurgling Green, and I'll probably hit the edge highlights with Nurgle's Rot or Ushabti Bone, but I can't for the life of my pin down a good green base paint. Could Castellan work or is that too dark to really hit with the lighter layer paint? Can I just go over a base black primer coat with a layer paint without needing enough layers to smash all the detail?

>>51220176

A good rule of thumb, that Dunc advocates is paint the largest surface spaces first.

If you paint the face first then slop the black on for their hair and get it all over the face...

Hi /wip/! I´m finally getting an airbrush, but I don´t really know how to work with one. What I must keep in mind? Is there any tutorial I should see? Also, do I need a mask? I´m going to buy one to work with resin, what kind should I get that work for both tasks? Thank you for your time!

>>51220306
Death World Forest is the "Officially sanctioned" way to do it I guess, another option would be Waagh Flesh

>>51220501

Ah. I didn't find that filtering their site for greens. That looks perfect.

>>51220614
Also, look into Athonian Camoshade for the shading, it's pretty much Green Agrax.

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Almost ready to start painting the Bandersnatch.

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>>51216042
Man, I think something's REALLY wrong with mine. Does yours crumble when you bend it? I can vaguely carve mine but it disintegrates when I try to do near anything with it if I haven't been thoroughly kneading it for ~10min. It's just regular Sculpey, though, not SS.

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Not 100% sold on my ability to do green fire, still lots of work to do on these 5. Any feedback?

i know people say you get better at painting the more you do it l, but do you get faster or slower?

>>51221154
Increase the contrast. You REALLY want the shades to stick out. Layer on brighter layers of the palest shade till you get a really pale green for the highlights, or use a yellow green color. Use that color for HIGHLIGHTS!

>>51221154
More blending! You do a transition from bright to dark on the bigger flames already, but there's no reason not to do it on the small ones. Contrasts look good.

>>51221164
For me it goes in phases, sometimes my finished product quality will plateau as I work on getting faster, other times I'll start getting better but slow down as I adapt to new techniques

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Crawl/scoria

Hey guys, I need a bit of help. I'm painting up a deathwatch kill team and was wondering what size brush you guys use for the grey line work to differentiate the pieces of black armor, or if you had any tricks for doing the line work

>>51219947
waiting for mine to come in the mail

>>51220010
not doing greyfax's head/hat separately?

>>51221775
Edge highlight with dark reaper, kind of a fat highlight, then on all the most prominent areas, fine edge highlight with fenrisian grey. It's how I do my death company.

Lads, give me a good enclosed helmet head model I could use for an Astra Militarum conversion. Already using greatsword/state troop bodies to emulate a carapace breastplate. Just need something a little bit visually interesting than your bog standard Cadian helmet for my dudes.

>>51221957
Skitarii Vanguard heads? Or possibly the Hostile Environment ones from FW, but those are damn expensive and come with a torso that you apparently have sorted already.

>>51222011
Well I'm in the process of putting it all together, yeah, mostly just sourcing parts at the moment rather than assembling anything. Hostile environment is bueno but pricy. Vanguard bits was my other option, but I love Vanguard thematically as a unit and was thinking of putting together a skitarii army at some point and I wouldn't want it all to look samey.

Just having a nose around to see if there's anything obvious I've missing in GW's range.

>>51222047
Have you looked Anvil miniatures? They have a lot of heads that could be of your taste.

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>>51222047
>I've missing in GW's range.
There a reason you want to limit yourself to that?
There is a whole bunch of companies that do 3rd party bits.
I mean you can get really weird like in pic related.
Puppetswar also do sci-fi'd up roman or greek helmets though.
Or you could just get regular roman helmets from warlord.
Or some bascinets or sallet helmets from another historical miniature maker.
Or if plop some old school retro sci-fi helmets from crooked dice on there.
If you look into bombshell miniature you can even get fishbowl helmets with clear plastic domes.

>>51220898
>>51220501

Thanks for the help. My FLGS opens in half an hour, so I'll be heading out to pick up my paints then. I'm gonna paint some shitty spare minis I have laying around to shake the rust off from years of not painting, but I'm looking forward to posting my CSMs in the WIPs threads.

>>51221759
Hate the base. Sorry. it really detracts from the model.

I attempted to paint the Ogroid from Silvertower. It looks like dogshit, i really dont have the brush control to highlight round these tatoo's. I am sad.

>>51222150
>>51222151
Mostly because I would like to play with these guys at some point and the only place that hosts games with any regularity where I'm at is my local GW store. They can get pretty funny about non-GW models being used, I hear, even if it's just individual components of a larger conversion job.

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>>51221799
Done with the revive marker and about halfway done with Celi's feet.
Time to break out the greenstuff.

>>51222238
Sorry, didn't mean to quote.

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Imperial Herald Dev Centurion.
Going to put the Fw etched brass Word Bearer symbol on his chest soon.

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18th Century Woodland Indians

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>>51217615
But Mista Tater 'Ead is so expressive.

>>51219879
Is there one of these for kriegers or deldar?

So I've been told a few threads ago that a white tone (Palid Wych should be good?) washed over with Reikland Fleshshade is going to make for a cheap and quick but decent skin tone. Can anyone vouch for this?

>>51217864
It's not a mold line unfortunately it's the seam where both pieces connect, I planned on getting some liquid green stuff to try and fill the gap

>>51222238

Where'd you get the feet from? Asking for a friend.

>>51223037
Just use regular green stuff. Liquid green stuff is good at everything except its intended purpose.

>>51222658
Ooh, neat spikes on his chest and the ground. Part of the set, or from something else?

>>51223051
Ah ok, well I have some of that lying around. How do you smooth it out? I usually use my hibby knife to press it into the gaps I can't reach with my fingers but it usually doesn't come out nice and smooth. And since this is so noticeable I want it to look good

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>>51219499

>>51223018
>Can anyone vouch for this?
Are you even fucking serious? Vouching?

The advice is to use a pale skintone with a wash that is literally called flesh.

I mean seriously, if you don't already have them the worst case scenario if you go out and try it for yourself is that you have two new paintpots.

>>51223083
Sculpting tools are nice. Otherwise a file and a knife works fine.

>>51220950
Looking frumious so far.

>>51222996
Love your redskins, anon.

>>51223096
By "vouch" I meant the casual "Yeah, works, did it myself", not "I swear on my life that this works", just to get some extra input on it.

Was asking in the first place because I had Reikland already but didn't want to buy the whole array of typical skin paints for having to paint like 2 heads in 100 models.

>>51223006
It's a page from the 4e codex.
So strictly speaking no.
Kriegers are an almagation of WWI french and germans though. So look up their historical counterparts for inspiration maybe?
The old Dark Eldar schemes were pretty terrible imo, but with the new range and the codex update there are a few new ones that are pretty decent. Check the how to paint deldar in the op for fluff an schemes on those cabals.

>>51223153
>By "vouch" I meant the casual "Yeah, works, did it myself", not "I swear on my life that this works", just to get some extra input on it.
Just sounded hilariously overbearing in my head.

>for having to paint like 2 heads in 100 models.
in that case mix the paint.
Start with a brown and go from there.
Add a little white to it and then see where that takes you, add red or yellow depending on what the brown needs.
There are a lot of different browns with more yellow, red or even green in them so i can't be more specific. you'll know when it looks right.

>>51223018
Not even Pallid Wych, just plain white primer with Reikland makes a good quick skin tone.

>>51223077
They are actually from some Dark Elves that I forgot the name of, maybe the Cauldron of Blood? Chest blades are more intimidating anways.

>>51223124
Cheers mate.

>>51222996
>tfw you will never bother to make good magnetic transportation trays like this guy
Solid work. I especially appreciate what you have done with the casualty markers.

>>51221759

Your design choices are dubious

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>>51223006
here

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Working on the first member of a squad of Vostroyans.

>>51223037
>It's not a mold line unfortunately it's the seam
I'm well aware. That's why I wrote seam. The process is called dry welding and works kinda like scraping mold lines.
https://youtu.be/njhLv_nyP_s?list=PLEaPE4sLDA7s6jGafUb-0qBtek7KcIs_g&t=114

Or you could use greenstuff of course.

>>51223004
>implying you need any expression other than "WAAAGH"

>>51220950
What game is that from?

>>51224699
Malifaux

It looks like her converted the thing though as the regular version is a little different

>>51221759
I like it.

>>51222996
Warlord games?

>>51221759
Round off that base with some black paint and use a camera that isn't from 1990: Blur City.

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>>51224699
>>51224723
Yea, I hated the miner and the solid bit of plastic on the bottom of the bandersnatch itself.
Fluffwise it hides in peoples shadows and I wanted to represent that with it half in the ground.

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Working on my Celestine. (I'll probably use my old one in games though). Second model I've tried blending on, does it look alright so far?

>>51224837
>>51220950
just make sure to not waste the opportunity to use some clever OSL here from that lantern, especially if you want it to look what befits its shadowy nature.

>>51224886
I've never managed to make OSL look anything other than terrible when I've tried it on other minis. I'm still going to give it a go this time and hope for the best.

>>51224863

I thought it was a drider from the thumbnail

>>51224863
The skin looks a bit grey for my tastes but the rest of it is looking really nice.

>>51221759
His name's Cawl, not Crawl.

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How did I do anons? It's the best I've done yet.

Also should I go over with a lighter color after I wash it so it doesn't look as grimy?

>>51223096
Holy shit. Not even the guy youre replying too. But try getting the stick out of your ass. It's an expression.

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Where do I put this on my Farseer Skyrunner ?

>>51225008
Went for an almost ghostly skin tone, and tried to keep it muted since Greyfax calls her the corpse bride or something. I get how it might look weird, though.

>>51225150
On the bottom, in front of the bit his feet go on

>>51224863
Her lips need to be made smaller, it looks like she has a rash around her mouth at the moment. Look up some make-up tutorials and apply what you've learned to her face.

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>>51225175
Like this ?
Also thank you for the quick answer

>>51225245
Yeah.
>>51225221
Haha, yes it does look like that! Fixing now.

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>>51224754
yeah, Conquest Miniatures were bought out by Warlord, but he did the sculpts. Got some North Star and Redoubt still to paint, but only 6 of each for now. If I decide to get any more I might pick up some Galloping Majors.

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here are the newest additions to my word bearer host. those are autocannons because chaos and i liked the look

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>>51225487
forgot to resize the picture. so i got spoilered like a chump

>>51225132
looks like he's been lying behind the radiator for a year, but you've done a neat job with a generally appealing scheme

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Working on the crew of the next raider - I do all hair in the same way for the army so far - should I mix things up, or would it impact visual cohesion negatively?

>>51225500
nice

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>>51225500
>chaos gatlings made out of heavy bolters

That's pretty metal

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>>51225132
Anon, did you prime it?

Does anyone have the Space Marine chapter roll image? I'm in the mood to paint a random muhreen

Anybody got Z's catalogue? Also recommendations on bits to bulk out my BoP set

>>51225779
Yoyhammer subreddit

>>51225582
Y-y-es

>>51225151
I interpret 'corpse bride' as a very unflattering allusion to her being a devoted, literal warp sockpuppet of the Emperor.

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I don't know what colour to do the trousers, think they'll blend in too much if I do them the same colour as the coat?

>>51226168
Navy blue
It's my go to if I need another color that isn't too flashy

>>51221085
Regular sculpey is like that, and it's quite shit desu. Super sculpey is much better easier to work with, smoother etc. I sometimes use some regular sculpey mixed with SS when blocking out large parts on big sculptures, but never for anything slightly detailed

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>>51226299
To the left: SS + SS firm mixed (I mix them in different ratios depending on need). To the right, the crumbly mess that is normal sculpey.

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Doing a wazbom blastajet for a blood axe army at the moment, figuring a nice Castellan green for the main and then get some sharp angled red as a red paint job. Any suggestions on where to highlight the green or if that is even necessary, or even just some tips.

It's slow and steady and still needs lots of touching up, so just trying to see if I can't get some advice on it while it's still halfway unpainted /unassembled

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I like how this turned out, overall. Not perfect, but I think it's alright.

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>>51226476
And I just noticed how terrible the image quality actually is.

Gonna build a lightbox one day.

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>>51226430
Also, did some more work on the base. Finished soon I think.

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>>51226537
New details.

>>51221237
>increase contrast

True.

>HIGHLIGHTS

Nope. you highlight fire backwards, the brightest part of a flame is in the deepest recesses on the sculpt.

>>51221085
you can mix sculpey with some solvant (i use lighter fluids) to make it more smooth and easy to work with but it will hold less detail

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Not sold on this

Still fun playing dressup with this model though

>>51226694
Those flames have a crest at their 'base', right? Did you think about maybe taking out the middle flame and reforming the side ones a bit to put the crest in front and form a collar of fire bursting to the backside, coming from the front crest?

Not sure how well that'd work but I'm sure it's doable with only minor greenstuff work.

Any of you tried magnetizing Cawl's "hip" for transport? The lower half is perfect for putting a magnet in, but the upper half seems a little frail to drill into.

Having him magnetized could also lead to some fun mix-and-match robots if you magnetize the right things.

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been getting more work done on my Armored Nurgle lord for AoS/Silver Tower. the staff-arm is glued on by now, but the hand is not, wanna wait until the glue silts completely so I can work on nurglify-ing the arm a little bit.

I'm trying to figure out what to give his other arm, though. A dagger, a sword or an oversized axe? Not sure yet.

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>>51226827
Also been doing work on this guy. the armor up-top looks like it's broken upwards, it just doesn't read off well due to my shitty photos - which I profusely apologize for.

I wanna give him either an arm that holds a shield or a bolter arm. Not sure yet, but leaning on the bolter arm.

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>>51226569
Current "actual" sculpt, a chaos "juggernaut" for my Lord. Not very impressive so far, but just started the detail layer in GS, which is why I'm sculpting a base while waiting for hardening in between stuff.

>>51226694

The fiery wings are too much. The base model, Archaon mount's head on Magnus' body, was pretty great. Some horns would be alright, but not that close to the head. I'd keep detail limited to cloth, tattoos, sigils, and the like. Keep em close to the body. Not too much that sticks out. That beast doesn't need a bunch of extra bling to speak for it.

>>51226875
K

I can't actually see anything, but okay

>>51225545
Generally hair colour is related to a kabal scheme, so no.

>>51227058
>>51226999
Ah, sorry, I've got very few lamps in my apartment and it's 0.50 in the morning here. Also only got my webcam for taking pictures. I'll post shit at some other time in one of these threads.

I'm working on some slaanesh marines and thought it would be a cool idea to make some of them female. I realize you can't really tell the difference under heavy armor, but I'm wondering if there are any small things I could do, like maybe the posture or something, other than putting a female head on them, to try to make them look more feminine?

>>51227168
Please do, I'm interested. I just can't tell what I'm looking at

>>51227216
Put them in very feminine poses. Then they'll look either like women or gays, both will suit the slaneeshi theme quite well!
Or just try to resculpt them slightly slimmer or something.

>>51225132
Looks bretty good.
Grungy.

Like the copper parts on his guns.

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>>51227216
>I'm working on some slaanesh marines and thought it would be a cool idea to make some of them female.
you filthy fucking casual! there are no femal marines. REEEE!

Androgynous is cool though. Marine with a titty or something is cool just don't say female Marines. At least say corrupted sisters.

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>>51227243
At least I can show off my toolholder that I made at work a few years back. This shit is extremely useful.

>>51227282
Don't judge anon, slaanesh marines can be whatever gender or combination of genders they want

>>51227216
Not really. Aside from swapping in like, a daemonette head you're pretty tied down in what you can do.

You could cut away one side of the breastplate and expose a boob under the armour, or modify one of the bell bottom boots into a thinner heeled boot.. but those are labour intensive conversions for 15~ point dudes.

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>>51227334
Also, this is the tool-setup I use for most sculpting. Everyone should get some of those round-tipped ones, they're great.

>>51227367
Cat-girl marines when?

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>>51227216
Cool, huh? That's why you want it?

Follow this guys advice >>51227258

I recommend using the new assault legs. Nothing masculine about them.
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Space-Marine-Assault-Squad-DA

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Round two.

I like this one better.

>>51227282
chaos has female marines. one of the books has a slave girl go full khorne 'zerker mode. im just gonna be lazy and quote a wiki.

"During the Hydra Cordatus campaign, Koreger took a female Imperial Guard Captain, Larana Utorian, as his personal slave. While attending to her new master's armour, the prisoner realized that his armor held the essence of a Daemon. Communing with it, Larana learned that the creature had grown tired of Kroeger's petty slaughtering and tempted the slave to don the Daemonic armor.[1c] Upon entering his personal chambers, Kroeger was slain by his slave, now completely possessed by the creature that dwelt within his armor.[1d]"

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>>51219853
>>51219879
On second thought. It's actually turning out OK. Tank is a bit beaten up and glued on since i bought it second hand from a fellow anon.

>>51227529
Okay.
That excerpt said pretty clearly she is an imperial guard captain.
And while possessed by the demon 'that dwelt' (past sense) within his armor means she was possessed, it does not mean she was wearing the armor.

In any case wearing power armor is not what makes you a marine. Cause if that were the case Sisters of Battle would be female marines. Or every Inquisitor wearing a suit of PA.

The point is, there is no shortage of power armor wearing women or non-marines in the imperium, but they are not marines.

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>>51227600
What do you guys think? This is only a basecoat so far.

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Finished one on the Left, one on the right is currently drying after a wash.

>>51227621
>This is only a basecoat so far.
then why have you put on decals

>>51227640
Because weathering is supposed to go over decals.

>>51227640
Presumably because putting them on after weathering looks like shit.

>>51227621
Looks good. Could fit right in as an urban world, ice world scheme or a chemical wasteland kind of thing.
The Methylene wastes of Blubb V, or something.

>>51227640
obviously so he can weather and age them with the rest of the tank

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>>51226537
Did a quick concept sketch on what i might sculpt for this base. Some sort of counts as bloodthirster maybe? Dunno, I mostly just improvise. Thoughts?

>>51227601
space marines are their power armor.

>>51227529
So a human woman just puts on armor made for a seven foot man with no assistance at all and then slays him, a living demigod, Captain of the Iron Warriors, and follower of Khorne whose only purpose in life was to kill?

Thanks, Black Library.

>>51227713
maybe read the book shitheel

turns out chaos changes things chaotically

>>51227711
Only if they are thousand sons.

>>51227710
Bulls are Hashut's thing

>>51226694
I'd remove the cyborg bits, add the rest of the Phoenix wings, and add a loincloth and some armor.

>>51227713
the armor described in the book is alive, its filled with flesh and blood that encases her and accommodates her tiny emaciated form.

>>51227529
>worship Khorne
>remove armour

>>51227713
possessed daemonic armor doesn't give a fuck

If I remember right it just used her as a sort of living battery. Kinda like how phoenix lords operate.

>>51227738
Argumentum ad Hominem

>>51227710
>>51227770
>Bulls are Hashut's thing
back in the day that was a slaanesh thing. Bull with an extra crab arm was the greater demon of slaanesh.

Khorne demons traditionally have more of a twisted hounds' face.

It's demons though, so at the end of the day you can do whatever look cool.

>>51227621
if thats the one you bought in sydney, i'm glad to see my tank painted so nicely

>>51227770
>>51228034
Oh indeed, but I'm not going extreme on having everything be super fluff-correct. I just want to have a greater daemon of Molok for my chaos marines, because I enjoy sculpting stuff like that. For me it's more for the art than being completely true to the setting. Might use him as a daemon prince if I end up rolling one on the boon chart in games as well.

>>51227841
>american highschool student

Seriously you guys spent time in your ridiculous discussion clubs because apparently oratory technique is not something used in everyday life and then end up with a bunch of idiots arguing about the technicalities of argumentation instead of the point you were supposed to argue in the first place.
Which means you suck at arguing, i.e. convincing your opponent of your point of view. Instead you point a finger and pretend like he is the one failing to deliver an argument.

I don't even know what you were arguing about, this kind of talking just clonks my bongles cause it misses the point of talking to each other at all entirely.
If you just want to be right, for the sake of it don't talk to anyone and be content in the knowledge that you can silently agree with yourself.

>>51226694
Where's the giant demon dick I was promised?

Anyone knows where I can get one handed spears for Space marines/Stormcasts Eternals? Any 3rd party site? I went to puppets war and Anvil Industry, nothing.

The Prosecutors Javelin would be perfect if they weren't so damn impossible to get your hands on.

Ideally if it's just with a hand attached and not a full arm that's be great.

>>51227841
guess you didn't read it
why waste your time complaining about things you don't understand?

>>51228268
Chaos Knights the fantasy ones

>>51224041
Thanks anon!

>>51227841
Wrong, you autismal fucking retard. Shitheel was an insult, plain and simple, and not part of the structure of any argument or refutation.

Now if he'd written 'Because you are such a cringeinducing, underage cockgobbler whatever you say is wrong' it would have been a 'fallacy'.

since chapterhouse went down as being corrupt and not shipping orders, can someone recomend a place to get wheeled chimera parts? I want them for my R&H army.

>>51228337
Jesus you're right. I'm an idiot, I was looking at that exact kit yesterday.

>>51228406
I was on their website a minute ago, apparently the owner has started shipping again.

>>51227601

>tempted the slave to don the armor

Sounds pretty clear to me that she was wearing it. Still certainly doesn't make her a marine, but we gotta make sure all our points are valid when making our case.

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House sitting for the next two weeks time to get some shit done ... procedes to sit around binging TV instead

>>51214655
Nice Anon!

Only thing that puts me a bit off is the size of the ammo in relation to the muzzle of the gun. Im not savvy on how that particular gun functions though.

>>51228609
derp. your're right.
Read over that.

Oh, well point still stands though.

>>51228622
Good job dingus.

>>51227689
Thanks, the infantry is based on sort of a winter thaw theme, so slightly patchy snow with a few tufts of grass popping out.
>>51228049
Yea it is and thanks.

>good brush arriving tomorrow

Finally gonna have a decent one.

>>51228834

Kolinsky?

>>51228876
Yeah.

Have been using 4 old no-name brushes so far, one was about the size of a Space Marine head, 2 were about 1-2 mm big and had like 30 hairs each and the last had a decent 3 mm diameter but the hair was split in all directions. Painting anything took years and the thin ones while decent for detail held no fucking paint at all and were barely forming a good tip either due to lack of hair.

flames f war noob here?

im finally starting to see an improvement in my painting (ie not great but im not ashamed to put my dudes on the table)

but painting soft edge camouflage n 15mm tanks with a brush looks crap. is it time to invest in an airbrush? where should i start?

>>51228692

It certainly does, anon.

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wrecked the model trying to do OSL, I wish i'd not bothered.

>>51229279

Not wrecked at all, anon. Just make the lantern brighter and add a thin brown glaze around the edges of the light on his clothes to soften it up a bit. You can certainly save this.

>>51229279
does that poor australian man know what's behind him?

looks aight btw

>>51229279
>>51229312

Actually just making the lantern brighter would go a reaaallly long way towards saving it.

>>51228638
It's a Hexrifle from the DE Wracks set. That's the way it comes normally.

It does seem a little odd to me too, but it looks like it can easily pass as a Chaos weapon in my book.

It's been far too cold to spray prime outside and I can't do it indoors.

I suppose I should invest in some brush-on primer?

Where do you guys go for bitz? I find myself in need of a shitload of Admech bitz for some Iron Warriors conversions.

Can someone with experience on the subject tell me if you want to paint the pieces of a slaaneshi lawnmower seperate or are you okay assembling them?

>>51229312
>>51229279
also i'd brighten up the stone a little to make the shadow stand out more

>>51229407
My first source of bits is my friends. I ask them for stuff they have lying around, and they are usually happy to give it to me.

Second source is ebay. You've got to pay (compared to getting it for free from a buddy), but I seldom have trouble finding what I need on there.

You could try asking around at your game store, and perhaps trading bits with people there.

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Currently experimenting with metallic purple. I feel like it is a bit too bright for my tastes. Should I try to work towards the matte color with it or should I just use that on my actual models?

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>>51229698
Wow the matte test model was blurry in that post.

>>51229595
I've not got around to doing the base yet but i'll bare that in mind.
I've lightened up the lamp a bit now and I feel better about it now.
I think i'm going to start doing the bandersnatch itself now, I've got a couple of idea for colours but i'm not sure what to go with;
normal(ish) looking spider colours or something really garish and bright.
Either way they'll be blended up from black where it's joined to the rock.

>>51229725
Metallic looks great. Why do you say it's too bright? Looks pretty dark to me.

>>51229835
Something feels off to me. Maybe it's a bit too shiny.

>>51229259
I can't say i'm an expert but i've had good success doing soft edge camouflage in the past using a badger patriot 105 which was pretty cheap, together with some no name compressor i bought from china (as long as it can maintain up to 30 psi it's good).
I guess you might need a smaller nozzle or good trigger discipline for flames of war scale though.

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phooo...sorry for the shit lighting and holding it and whatever. I don't have a proper lighting setup and I don't usually have to worry about it but this guy is retarded shadow cast.

>>51227529
>a haunted suit of armor with a female in it is a female space marine

Are you fucking stupid? I guess dust space marines exist too because Thousand Sons are a thing, so therefore dust makes perfectly good neophytes.

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Two down now, I'm hoping I improve with every mini. These are the first two I've ever done.

>>51230273
That is a wonderful looking turkey. Out of curiosity, where are the body parts from?

>>51230397
I got them here. Sack o' corpses and sack o' skulls.

http://www.secretweaponminiatures.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=47_55

>>51230393
really like that skin tone
i'd make the robes browner than pinker but that's just me
enjoy your hundreds of rats

>>51230516
Thanks anon, my headcanon for my dudes is that these guys are kind of an offshoot of Clan Pestilins, all rotting and shit, but in their clan society, they covet bright colors above all else, as a status symbol to cover up their rotten green bodies. So the higher in the clan you are, the more vibrant and clean your clothes.

>>51230560
Then the warlord better make Slaanesh look away from its garish armor

>>51230592
That's actually my full blown intention ahaha

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Having the worst time picking out a color scheme for my Eldars' bases.

They're primary bone and secondary light blue. The bases are part sand and part "ruins," and I need a distinct color for each. I want to avoid orange, grey, brown and similar colors, because I already have bases in those colors.

Anons, what type of base(s) should I give my Triumvirate?

>>51216455
Obsidian blades

>>51221154

I'd say darker more earthy recesses - some kind of brown translucent layer. Also needs implied green elsewhere on surrounding areas.

>>51225151

I think it works

How do I do blood without it looking edgy or excessive?

None of my other orks have it, but the entry for Headwoppa's Killchoppa describe it as a "blood-slick big choppa"

>>51229279

You did literal yellow colour straight on. Whereas it should be a layer blended onto what tone is underneath. Push the areas with no light and too much towards a medium of implied light casting onto another colour.

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Anyone else ever thought of getting a BMP-2 model similar scale to 40k, then slapping a Chimera turret onto it?

>>51231162
Yea but i eventually came to the conclusion that it would look dumb next to 40k vehicles since it's so long and short.
And doesn't have rivets all over it.

>>51230842
the point of bases is to provide a neutral background.
So grey and brown basically means you just threw 90% of the variations that will not look like a clown threw up on your miniatures out of the window.

Anyway, I guess you could try a green marble or something like that for the stone part.
Painting sand sand colored, when you got bone on your miniature is gonna distract from the paintjob on the figure though.
And I can't think of any other sensible choice for sand that isn't sand that wouldn't then be some variation of brown or grey.

My advice would be to throw those artificial limitations out of the window and go with something that looks good.

The only other way to circumvent that, that I can think off would be to do some kind of mars themed (not gw mars) red earth look or cover all the dirt with snow.
But then you got a bone white mini on a snow white bases.

And if you use red/terracotta on the base you gotta be careful that the strongest color in your scheme doesn't end up being the dirt on the bases.

Imo a dark grey urban rubble theme would look good with the blue/bone scheme cause it's neutral but provides a good contrast.

>>51229279
Mistakes are how we learn.

Always bother, anon.

>>51231246
Fair point. The proportions and designs of most guard vehicles trigger me though.

I suppose it would take a lot of green stuff to make the rivets etc to make it not looks horribly out of place.

>>51230393

Really nice first models, liking the skin you chose.

>>51231399
You can also cut up a very thin plastic cylinder for rivets.
Also imo the forgeworld autocannon turret does a lot to make the chimera look better.
Kind of wish they would make a streamlined slimmed down version of the chimera similar to the death korp leman russ.

>>51226827
Put an axe head on top of the staff to transform it into polearm. And in the other hand put some poor dude that the lord will be carrying by the neck from behind.

If there is no good legs for the victim you can just add guts hanging from his lower half.

>>51231403
Thanks man, I appreciate it

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Hard to get a good picture this late, but I'm liking this shoulder-cloak thing and some TK bits as armor on his back more than the Flamespyre collar

Just need Kairos from the new kit and bird men will wage holy war

>Birds only know how to scream

>>51231827

What's the birdy model on the left?

>>51231943
Ultraforge Vrock
Been my LoC for a while

I got a raise this past Christmas and was given some free money to splurge on stuff, but the great irony is I work more than ever now (60-80/week is common) and all my hobby time has died. Sorry for the blog post nature of this, but, what would be some actually good commission painting services? are any US based?

I really wanted to get one of my side project armies done up by someone who could make it look awesome.

>>51232093
>80 hr a week
Christ, man, when do you sleep? 16 hours a day of work?

Word of advice /wip/

if you're working with a plastic Doomwheel, for the blessings of the Horned Rat, don't put the wheel rims on the wrong way. I just spend an hour cutting the wheels off rims to fix the front bumpers on.

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>>51229725
Me again. I tried to darken his left side (the one with the arm) with a layer of black ink. I see a bit of a difference but I'm unsure if it's better or not.

>>51233302
Looks like a really nice base colour to me, but obviously we don't know what you're aiming for. You'll struggle to get it as dark as that other marine because of the metallic sheen.

>>51233424
Hm if that's the case then I'll have to settle on it. Good to know that I can't darken it too much more (I'm horrible with colors). Would you recommend before or after the black wash?

For posterity's sake, I want to go for a Pre-Heresy Emperor's Children purple. All the photos I found on the internet seem to be shiny in the same way.

>>51233531
You can go for the artificer tint and leadbelcher

>>51232648

Probably 10 hours a day for 7 days.

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Just whipped out a sunstalker pretty quickly.

>>51226476
i think the gold around the legs needs a bit of a cleanup

>>51233765
thats a giant penis