WIP - Painting/Converting/Sculpting General

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Pretty much finished, what do you think?

>>51326098
Because of your highlighting style, your infantry look much brighter than your vehicle. Might want to either brighten up the vehicle or darken the infantry a little.

>>51326098
Think your paints.

>>51326292
>your infantry look much brighter than your vehicle

Because he didn't think his paints.

>>51326098
>>51326292
>>51326319
Think it already looks pretty great man, keep it up.

>>51326319
definitely something I fucked up - unless you meant "think" in which case I'm not sure what you mean

>>51326098
I like that sail a lot.

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I started my Brass Scorpion today!

I plan to do lots of freehanding on the armour plates next.

I plan on keeping my christmas tree up a while longer. It's comfy.

>>51326457
Looks awesome so far! Are you gonna recess wash the plating?

>>51326495
yep absolutely, literally just doing the base colours right now. so much to do

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is this sword any good? considering redoing it

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A rough Wip of the ogroid from my silver tower set

Probably wont get above table standart since the lack of my skill but im kinda happy how hes coming along

C&C welcomed and apreciated

>>51326678
its not too bad, but does look a little messy. the blue looks uneven and I dont see any highlights. its also a crappy photo so its sort of tough to say

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New to the hobby any advice on how I can improve. This is what I've done so far

>>51327318
is this to trigger the photography faggots?

because at this point its not even funny anymore

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>>51327318

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Finished a squad leader for my 30-man arcanite unit.

>>51327412
>Finished

Not until he's based he's not.

>>51327412
I like all the freehand - looks like you had fun with this one

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One down, 29 to go. I love the models, but highlighting the gold trim is driving me insane.

Also, disregard the base, he's getting something different tomorrow.

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re-posting my angry dorf
I plan on using him in my Mordheim campaign.

>>51327476

Were you the anon posting his sorcerers over Christmas?

>>51327412
reminds me of kefka
i fuckin like it

>>51327476
Hot damn that's nice! Really clean. I agree on rebasing, not only is it not really painted to the standard of the mini, its a little too busy for such an ornate mini

>>51327476
I actually like that base...

>>51327509
Nope, my sorcerers are still in their box. I started with Magnus.

>>51327507
Showcase quality, how long have you been painting? Natural talent, or years of practice?

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First bloodreaver, first try at NMM. Any NMM resources people particularly recommend?

>>51327675
>only notice grey running down the skull when the photo is on the big screen

FFS.

>>51327675
thin your paints
use a wet pallette
practice more

>>51327714
what

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Supposed to be building cultists and chaos spawn, built a fate master instead.

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>>51327671
>Natural talent
Trust me, I'm the living proof that ANYONE can learn how to paint, no matter how little talent they have.

I got into this hobby more or less 9 years ago, but became serious about painting only about 3 years ago.
And by serious I mean sitting down and watching a shit ton of tutorials on YT and looking up stuff, sticking to a limited colour pallate and then expanding it and practising my brush control.

So a piece of advice to all those who're just starting up: Find a painter that you like/admire and try to imitate their way of painting. This form of imitation eventually becomes a tool you can use on your own, without the need for guidance.

Just keep on painting, you're BOUND to improve after some time, even if it doesn's seem so obvious now.

And p.s. I'm also painting my DG army on the side. Yay we got Traitor Legions. Finally.

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>>51327904
shit, sorry for the cancerous pic size

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>>51327714
If I'm getting ripped on, can I have more specific critique? I'm genuinely trying to form this habit for this year and git gud.

>>51327904
Those are also really, really nice! I've been painting for about 4 years (first raider in thread is mine) and I feel like I've plateaued a bit. I aspire to the level you're on, though

>>51327973
I honesty think hes retarded, its high quality

>>51326689
I like what you're doing, but the transition between colors isn't subtle at all. Gotta learn that blending~

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>>51326098
>that mint green
>that edge highlight actually done right and in stages

This pleases me greatly.

>>51327675
Generally, painting buddha's vids are really great for watching advanced techniques

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

>>51328048
I watched his entire Khorgos Khul series before this, which is what made me mad enough to try NMM at all.

Even if no. 1 is a fuckup, there are 39 more of these little suckers to practice on.

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>>51327998
thanks m8
I love your deldar too, really digging those mint edges. :D They remind me of the older edition ones, like pic related

>>51328048
>>51328139
The hardest part, I think, is figuring out just exactly WHERE the reflexes and highlights should be. It's not like a matte surface at all, and I for one just cannot seem to get the right eye for it each time I try.

>>51328033
Blending is hard and I'm just a noobie

Any tips?

>>51327675
It looks pretty good NMM for a first try, anon. I think having higher contrast might really help here- going to almost compelte black and white in the extreme highlights/shadows really makes it pop .

>>51328843

The trick to blending is very, very thin layers and lots of patience. I mean very thin. So thin that it looks like you're painting nothing but clear liquid on the model.

Or just buy an aibrush.

>>51328843
https://youtu.be/wj5Ue72B1E8 Check out the wet blending on this, it's almost the same scenario except you have a LOT of transitions.

>>51322157
>homemade stamp
Do tell more.

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>>51329128
It's a 40mm base that I packed with milliput.
I pressed the surface against some terrain with bricks on and then worked from there, pushing in where I wanted raised bricks.

40mm because:
>had it spare
>didn't want to spend forever sculpting bricks
>all the bases I'm stamping are 32mm

After it cured I sanded the top a bit flatter and gloss coated it so it won't stick to the milliput on the bases when I stamp them. Stamped my first ten yesterday and you've seen the first one painted. Rock is for adding texture to the top of the milliput before / after stamping.

>>51328048

too bad painting buddha is kill

Ben Komets has his own channel but you need to be on his patreon supporters to see majority of the content

>>51329271
and its too bad I cant find the painting buddha videos anywhere, the ones they actually had for sale and shit.

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Tried a 2nd step highlight on this guys

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Need some advice. This is my first time doing tank camo

>>51329326
did you

did you rub your camera lens with sandpaper

nah but the dots should be smaller, more of them, and with dots of other colours slightly over them too

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Reposting my Greyfax because I really like how she turned out overall.

R8, h8, masterb8.

>>51329326

This type of camo needs to be denser (meaning the dots).

After that apply filters to tone down colors - then add scratches, chippings and streaks and your golden.

>>51329576
The road line makes my inner iron warrior hard.

The model itself looks okay, but I need better lighting to be able to tell you anything more.

>>51327318
I like that yellow on the left side. Maybe next time you should put it on the right side instead

>>51329653
>inner iron warrior

Iron within, iron without, iron within, iron without...

Iron goes and lies down for a while.

>>51329311
Looks pretty good to me, anon.

Could be cleaned up a LITTLE bit better, but it looks pretty nice overall.

I especially like the skin-cloth effect. The female on the front right especially has that flayed-hide look.

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Hey everyone. Working on some Grails knights, any feedback is appreciated. Trying to thin out as much as possible, but painting bright over black primer is pretty hard.

I think for some self imposed feedback, I'm going to do 1 coat black primer, and actually use a suited base coat, like space wolves grey.

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Celestine coming along. Not sure about the wings though, is the red too much? Her cloth sections will be purple blended into a light blue.
Just wasn't really sure what to do with the wings, considering her armour is white.

>>51329868
Holy shit those wings!

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current wip is this dragoon, I had some trouble in the beginning trying to figure out a decent color scheme, to go with the orange, but I just said fuckit and now its going to be ryza orange and various types of metal and silver

On a related note, does anyone know how to paint to make it look like a model is wearing latex/rubber? I want that guy in the middle to be my dragoon gimp

>>51329868
this looks fucking fantastic

>>51329868
I think you can get away with the transition because of your scheme, they frame the white armour really well. The trick will be balancing your blue-purple robes, possibly adding a blue to the sword and doves will help.

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>>51329886
>>51329901
>>51329919
Cheers guys - yeah I'm going to add more blue where I can - I might adjust her corset to have more red tones to match the wings, since I've only used red as a spot colour for the rest of my sisters.
I was also thinking of being lazy and just airbrushing the transitions like I did for my DE/Harlies/Eldar force I spammed /wip/ with a few months ago.

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>>51329772
some more...

>>51329889
I would do extreme highlights to make it look like latex. You want to transition from black to almost white. The contrast will do all the work for you

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>>51330042

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>>51330068

>>51330061
i dont really understand what you mean

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>>51330247
This effect will be difficult to pull off. To make it look like latex, you need your highlights to be pure light reflecting off a glossy surface, not diffuse highlights like cloth or skin, which are matte and satin respectively.

An alternative is a glosscoat and rely on the gloss/matte contrast between it and everything else to carry the effect.

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>>51330068
Whoops that's an older pic...ignore

>>51326319
>thin your paints
Nigger what

>>51330311
drink your paint water, absorb it directly into the brain

>>51326098
Looks good anon, love the GW Dark Eldar scheme. (I know, not the same but pretty damn close)

>>51329963
What's the base model?

>>51330295
unless I put it on thick, the white wont work on the black

>>51330565
Lots of thin layers. Paint the grey first then do white over it to use less layers

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Starting my Terminator Captain and wanted to make him look extra-fancy so I am going to make his armor metallic-red. It's my first time trying to do something like this and don't know how to proceed. I am considering washing the whole figure in Carriburg Crimson then do all my layering and such (don't know if I should mix my layer paints with the metal medium I did for the armor as well.) Or I could just wash all the recesses with Agrax like I normally do. Then after all is said and done I was gonna do multiple thin coats of 'Ardcoat to give a shinny effect.

Any thoughts?

>>51330565

>This effect will be difficult to pull off.

I wasn't fucking with you, anon.

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>>51330307

>>51330749
i guess i wil see if i can get some sort of gloss

>>51330779
>>51330307
>>51330213
>>51330068
>>51330042

Look, we didn't want an endless parade of these guys when you bought them and we don't really want them now. If you must show off a shitton of dudes at the same time COLLAGE.

They look like unfinished models. Finish one and get critique.

>>51330784
Pledge with Future Shine / Pledge Multi Surface Wax is a nice, thin glosscoat with multiple hobby applications, one bottle will last you a loooong time.

Other than that, there are plenty of glosses out there, even GW does 'Ardcoat.

>>51330632
So you actually want a shiny captain.
What you have suggested will get you that, I don't really see why this is what you want?

He'll match poorly with your basic troops, I really think you'd be better spending the time to do a really nice highlighting job on him and then do whatever varnish you normally give your guys.

>>51329889
>walker gimp
Is there some inside joke/conspiracy I'm not aware of, or is it just multiple guys think it's entertaining that the pilot is a gimp?

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Made this, lads. Told you might all like it.

>>51330905
My whole idea was to give my more elite guys, Captains, Command Squads, etc, this kinda armor scheme. Though you do have a point about matching poorly with some regularly painted guys. I am trying my best to make the armor match well with my other dudes just "metallic."

>>51330935
>Repetition is the step to mastery
>Do not be discouraged, everyone begins in ignorance.
>Two thin coats

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So /diy/, I went and bought an airbrush and I'm having issues with it. Air comes through fine, no leakage, but when I try to "paint" something nothing comes through (except air). I wanted to learn to use it before painting so I'm using dyed water, so it can't be pigment clogging it up. It "works" when I shake it, though.

Am I doing something wrong or did I get a lemon? I heard I'm supposed to use 10PSI but I don't know how correct that is.

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>>51330959
Do you have a picture of something painted in the way you're trying to emulate?

If it's something like this, we have an anon in here doing KSons in a similar scheme using gold, and tamiya clear paints.

>>51330970
*/diy/ -> /wip/

>>51314066
Damn, this looks nice. How did you get the fine lines for the strings and the checkered grip? A really steady hand, or some kind of tool?

>>51330932
no the pilot is literally modelled as a gimp

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>>51330932
There is literally a gimp built into it.

>>51331099
>>51331166
Huh. Don't know how I never realized that.

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>>51330984
I do not. I got this idea and decided I would try and see if I could make it work, so right now it's all trail and error. I'll post pics of the progress, just finished washing the recesses with Agrax. Once I get it all cleaned up and the armor layered I will share what it looks like. I've also decided to take the chance and mix my layer paint with this medium I got today.

anyone have / had experience with Tamiya paints? they any good?

Anyone else losing a lot of drive painting the Geminae for Celestine?

I loved painting her but these two chicks are kind of boring in comparison and make me want to skip to painting Cawl.

>>51330932
>>51331099
>>51331166
>>51331239
It's not a gimp -- it's a servitor. A human, typically a convicted criminal, whose brain is highjacked by the Mechanicus to become a biological computer programmed by the Mechanicus to animate their machinery.

Basically, hard AI or even good programming is illegal in the Imperium, so they highjack human brains as a workaround.

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Whats the equivalent of this in a normal layer/base paint?

>>51331286
>hard AI or good programming is illegal
Didn't know that, either. How come? Source/link to fluff?

>>51331286
Anon, we know. We're making a joke. You know; a thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter, especially a story with a funny punchline. You know, cause it looks like a gimp?

A joke? No? Ah well.


>>51331315
Because AI nearly wiped out humanity in the past, and Big E didn't want them to do it again.

>>51331315
Google "Dark Age of Technology Warhammer 40K".

>>51331292
IIRC the edge paints share pigment with the dry, so probably Blue Horror.

>>51331324
>Anon, we know. We're making a joke. You know; a thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter, especially a story with a funny punchline. You know, cause it looks like a gimp?
I know that. I was clarifying for the anon asking the question, who clearly did not know.

>>51331265
Some people swear by them for airbrushing scale models. I've only used the clear paints myself which are fine and do exactly what they're supposed to.

how 2 varnish models with matte varnish?

GW doesn't seem to have matte varnish, only gloss.

>>51331475
Have you tried buying some matte varnish?

Or does your mum only buy GW paints for you?

>>51331585
so there's nothing to know before just buying any old matte varnish from a hobby store?

because if my problem were "how do i strip models" instead and didn't do research in advance I'd end up chucking them in acetone and melting the fuckers

also my mother died when i was 2

>>51331640
>so there's nothing to know before just buying any old matte varnish from a hobby store?
As long as it's acrylic based you will be fine, yes. I don't even know if there are enamel based varnishes, but you should avoid them if they do exist, as should you avoid wood varnish.

All varnish is is transparent paint with a harder, sturdier composition.

>>51331475

Best way is a spray can of matte varnish or an airbrush.

You can brush on Lahmian Medium if you want, but it's not matte, just satin and looks about as matte as regular paint.

>>51331710
>>51331743
thanks a lot boys

I also heard something about matte varnish layered under gloss varnish so you know when the varnish is wearing off, but I'm not even sure I'll care about my models in 10+ years when that's happening so i'll leave that for next time

>>51331835

What most people do is gloss first, because they feel it protects the model more than matte (it does, but only because it's thicker than matte), then they spray matte on top to remove that ugly gloss shine. When the matte gets rubbed away, then the model becomes shiny and glossy so you know there is a bald spot on the model.

I personally don't use gloss, it's too thick and it doesn't protect the model any more than if you used the same amount of matte varnish, so instead of spraying gloss, then spraying matte, I simply spray matte two or three times. Both ways work, and you should have gloss varnish on hand for things like vehicle washes or decals anyway, whether in spraycan form or paint on form.

>>51331835
If you wanted to do that you would do it the other way around -- gloss varnish first, then matte varnish. Then, when parts of the mini start becoming shiny you know to reapply the matte varnish.

But yeah, that sounds like an unnecessary extra step.

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I dislike reposting, but since these guys did kill about half of an 1850 chaos army on their own and ensure a win with late-game objective grabs I think they deserve it.

>chaos bikers melta II's fist off
>he clubs one to death with his gun and runs them down
boxnoughts bestnoughts

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>>51327904

>>51331926
We're proud of you, old school ultras anon. And they still look great.

>>51331926
Those dreads are rad. Glad you reposted. Well played ultranon.

>Paint my first mini
>At first it was going okay
>Look at the finished product
I've never known such shame. I can't even bear to ask you guys what to improve on because it's basically I need to improve on... everything. Back to watching youtube tutorials I suppose.

>>51332386
learning to thin paints is gonna be the first step. That and practice. You're gonna learn a lot from tutorials, but no matter how many you watch, you're still gonna paint like shit unless you practice on miniatures a lot to get steadier hands and pinpoint accuracy.

>>51332386
Don't spend too much time watching. Watch enough to learn the basics -- but once you know what to do practicing is more important than watching.

Don't be an armchair painter. Be a real painter.

>>51332419
I think I over-thinned them, actually. I'm not sure.

One problem I discovered is my eyes got a lot worse than I thought. I'm going to need a magnifying glass and some other shit. I literally can't see the tiny detail brush. I have to fucking guess where it is.

Also, my brushes kept splitting or getting scraggly tips. Why is this happening?

>>51332386
Don't get discouraged, anon.

I tried my hand at painting many years ago with "limited" success. I'm just now getting back into it and the learning curve is pretty steep. That said, every model I paint gets better. No amount of watching tutorials can equate to the experience of actually painting minis.

Keep at it. Stay positive.

>>51329963
going from white to black like that on those wings, with the intermediate pinks and reds, is just fucking magnificently done

>>51332386
Give us photos (following >>51327378 ), we can give you pointers. Everyone was new once, you have the fortune to not be 11 years old and not know good from bad.

>>51330213
I can say it looks like you've come a long way on getting solid colors that pop and look more or less smooth. Nice progress! interested to see these come along (but only a pic or two at a time, please!)

>>51332500
no such thing as overthinning unless they just turn into water that won't stick to the model at all
and don't worry, I use some reading glasses (even though my close range vision is pretty good) and with brushes, at least with drying them, make sure to turn them while you're drying them off, that should straighten it out.

>>51332500
>I think I over-thinned them, actually. I'm not sure.
Trust me, every single new painter says this. And they're always wrong. The problem is having too much paint on your brush, not having paint that is too thin. Having too thin paint just means it takes too many layers to get a solid coat on. Show quality painters will often thin their paint so much that they'll apply 15+ coats per color to build up a smooth candycoat finish.

But new painters should aim for 3 coats, IMO. The return on investment for thinning that much is not very good. It's far more important to practice to get *even* application across the whole surface.

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Finished my first two Neophytes tonight. Well, I still gotta do basing and clean up a few mistakes, but for the most part, am done.

Pic (1/2)

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>>51332594
Pic (2/2)

The blue stripe is a reference to the Hive Fleet they come from, as their carapace is the same blue color.

>>51332594
>>51332612
thin your paints.

>>51327507
looks really great. Nice job.

>>51332594
not bad but paint looks a bit thick on that eagle, as well as the bit of green on the back of his head

>>51333055
Yeah, I posted a while back and got informed I need to thin metallic paints down more than normal. Couldn't really go back and fix it at this point, but I'm taking it in mind for future models.

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>>51332526
Sorry for the dark photo. I took it under the brightest light I have, but I guess it still wasn't enough.

I attempted to make it look dirty, but it just looks... unfinished.

>>51333135
two ideas. first, paint a lighter layer of green over those panels while avoiding the recessed areas; this will make the panel lines stick out more. the second i'm less sure on but maybe an army painter dark tone/gw agrax earthshade over the white, focusing on the recessed areas. then clean up again to white. then very light dry brush dark brown or light tan over legs/feet.

not a bad first try. that scale is tough.

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How would I go about getting this blue color?

>>51333277
space wolves color scheme, maybe? greys with light blue

>>51333299

I dunno that pic is quite a bit lighter than what SW usually are.

>>51330833
Why is it... I'm always the only single person to get flamed/insulted/ and ignored, in these threads. You all are pretty cordial to each other, but every single time I post here, I get fucking battered

>>51333277
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QksrFJyT5A4

>>51333403
Not the guy you replied to, but it might be because you spam a lot of pictures with little visible progress and no commentary.

>>51333403

Just ignore that shitlord. These threads never hit image limit anyway so post all the pics you want. It wouldn't hurt to include some commentary including what you're working on and what's coming next, but that's all.

tl;dr just ignore him.

>>51333277
Prime white -> VGC Glacier Blue -> highlight by mixing in increasing amounts of white.

>>51333271
The other problem is the mini itself is really, really poor quality. I should've taken a picture of the bare thing too.

I did actually use an army painter dark ink wash, but it didn't do shit to help pick out detail. Not sure why.

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Dammit.

Why can I not finish a mini?
When is it "good enough"?

>Think today is the day!
>11am - pick up 8 acolytes from Silver Tower that I have been putting off for a long time, so I can finally play a game
>fire up that airbrush
>begin priming
>Airbrush keeps fucking up CONSTANTLY
>keeps blocking
>keeps splattering
>clean and clean again
>not one smooth spray
>2 models ruined so far from the attempt (textured to fuck)
>thisisfine.jpg
>after battling for over an hour, change to .5 needle
>wow the paint flows freely
>finish priming
>on closer inspection, all suffer from paint that is much too THIC
>into the bucket of paint stripper
>meticulously toothbrush off all the primer
>finally back to square one
>8pm
I sure do love painting.

>>51333403
Because you're a big fucking baby who isn't paying attention - I gave you a compliment up-thread. if your skin is this thin, this really isn't the environment for you - try dakkadakka. otherwise, i know how painful critique on something you're working hard on can be, just try to put it in perspective

>>51333770
Never, as long as you ask yourself this question. Try putting something you're blocked with on hold and doing another unit/mini/project for awhile. Come back to the old stuff with new skills and eyes. etc etc

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this green needs a zillion coats to go on smoother over the ultra-bright VMA chrome. Chrome was a bad choice...

>>51334173
witnessed

>>51334173
Paint black before the green then.

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My intent is for the titan to look as if its been walking around in the pouring rain inside a dirty urban environment such as a hive city. I like the mud but do you think i should make it darker/blacker?

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So did most of the layering now (sorry for the shitty quality of the pic) Need to clean it up a bit more though I am unsure how far I should go with the layering, may just do some thin layers of white on the highest points. Other than that I think I am gonna go ahead tomorrow and do some layers of 'Ardcoat.

>>51334258
Yeah, make it brown. How did you even do that?

>>51334191
Underrated.

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So I'm thinking of picking up a female techpriest to round out the trio (I've got 2 already, different models). But the model is...well, honestly I think it's TOO immodest.

Odd to say, I know. Anyway, how would you make this model decent, but still visibly distinct?

>>51334796
Give her a patchwork of scars using a dremel or soldering iron and make her skin grey and dead looking, mottled with bruising around the scars. Use some green stuff to make her something to cover her up a little more, if you like.

>>51334796
compared to most of their sculpts that model is prude

File off the nipple and greenstuff a bit between the breasts to make it look like she is wearing at least something of a shirt shirt.

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Necromunda Zombie...
Very much WIP.

Feel like I'm breaking the rules (washes before all base colors done, even some drybrushing)...

>really trying to thin paints and avoid drinking paint water

>>51334258
Think about the hive in question.
What stuff will hit the titan.
Where will it hit the titan?
What will the resulting effect be?
Maybe the environment has a ton of soot, so soot collects in crevaces, or maybe corrosive rain melts off paint where it is hit.
I made my armies with the idea that they are stuck on a Daemon world that has this sticky black dust in the atmosphere that makes it near impossible to breath.
So my Tau, now have matte black armour with gunmetal grey parts, which were the crucial bits they need to keep clean (Death Guard pre heresy-esque) My Lamenters (blood angels) which were "rescued" by admech, have cleaner stuff, but still are dirty, but less so.
Moreover, as they are on a Daemon world, I used different techniques for painting the base yellow for each model, and made different sized chapter symbols on each model, making them seem individual.
My dreadnought was painted with red sharpie, and spray painted with medium yellow, then touched up with yellow ochre. Bad for fine detail, great for making a model look like its in a daemon world with the unclean nature.

>>51334636
Its vallejo industiral thick mud applied with a flexible spreader tool, caked on and getting thinner as it goes higher and then dotted on at the highest points combined with vallejo industrial spray mud which i flicked on with the same spreader tool, then after it dried i coated it all with vallejo wet effects to make it, well, wet.

>>51327889
every day is leg day.jpg

>>51334796
File down the nipple. Paint the skin black, with gloss coating. Add detailing.
Make it look more like some body glove undersuit to wear to not get in the way of other functions.

>>51334953
wat? you painted with sharpie? then sprayed it? that makes no fucking sense

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Great Unclean One progress. Reasonably happy, I think most of the front is done now.

>>51335001
I know.
Its a long story,
fortunately, the effect that came out worked rather well for my intentions of making a battle worn dreadnought.
However the detailing, I admit, suffered a bit to much for my liking, but it is still tabletop quality.
But seriously, don't discount the possibilities of pen use in modeling, red sharpie on blade edge makes for good easy blooded effects.

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>>51335032
Questions:

My plan was to use these spikes down his spine but now I can see the final silhouette I'm not sure. Opinions? I'm bored of the exposed spine route.

I'm building him on a 60mm base because it's the same as a gw guo base, but he's outgrowing it. Not sure whether to keep him on it or stick that base to a larger one and hide the difference when basing.. again opinions?

>>51335032
>>51335078
Nice work anon!

>>51331926
im trying to pick what ranged weapon to use for my nauts

choices are assault, plasma, helfrost, las or auto

planning on facing tons of high toughness models and not so many vehicles

>>51335078
I'd say, keep the spines, but try and minimise their impact by drawing the eye somewhere else.
Because if you do not add the back spikes, the one on his ass would look alone and weird.
Or you could remove that ass spine?
Those are my two cents, your decision is tough though anon.

>>51335070
pics?

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>>51335250
Sick nauts.

>>51335313
Just a minute.
Unfortunately, the pic may not be best quality, as I lack the environment to get adequate lighting/backing.

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Sorry about photo quality.
In the background, you can see some of my other stuff, a heavily modified Broadside, my Land Raider, and the base of my Coldstar, not yet finished.

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>>51335344
>lack the environment

Amen. Even with a white background, I can't get a good pic to save my life. (Need light box) Evidenced here >>51334945 where I have to lay the mini down or hold at an angle and take multiple pics to get a half-assed one.

>>51335110
Thank you.

>>51335292
Yeah I think I'll keep them. The butt spike actually sticks out of his right cheek so it's not so dependent on the spine as it might look in that picture. It's the easier option to keep them too.

>>51335410
Yeah, I took quite a few pics before I got that one, and I really should have tilted my dred up as well.
The legs are in shadow!
But seriously though, Your picture taking skill is fine, you can see the model in enough detail to see the fine work, unlike mine (unfortunately/fortunately)

>>51335426
Glad to be of help to a converter of your skill.

>>51335453
Thanks.

Your naut looks great, IMO. The unconventional way you painted it appeals to me (Sharpie ftw?). The base seems a bit lacking, but I'm not one to judge. Well done, anon.

>>51326098
wouldwreckwithboltersturn1/10

>>51335517
Thanks, your praise is greatly appreciated.
I did the base separately from the model, when I was lacking in supplies and had to use really unconventional methods, and I can't bring myself to try and change it up.
The base has a bit more stuff then the photo reveals however, as the shadow covers up some of the details.
Ideas for what to do to the base would be appreciated greatly though.

>>51334997
I like this idea. I'm either gonna do that or some sort of wrapping, like a sarashi.

>>51335557
Yey, I helped!
I'm actually looking at making an admech allied detachment for my SM's, what site are those models on?

>>51335553
It just seems a bit dark - almost like he's storming out of an oil slick. I dig the skull visible. Maybe brightening up the base?

>>51333403
The reason why is because you are showing us a long chain of unfinished, and currently low quality models. This is spamming, and it is irritating, even with the best ever models.
Only post one photo of your best model, preferably once complete. Then, expect the cordial feedback.

>>51334796
Put purity seals on both nipples.

>>51335647
Yeah, I tend to go overboard with black wash, which is not helped by the shadow from my shitty photo.
I had the idea though that, since they were picked up by admech forces, and do work for them, the admech pay special attention to the dreadnought, as he is a hallowed machine, meaning a lot of maintenance and sacred Unguents/oils, which would give him that oily look plus the world idea I had had permanent sticky black dust, but I get what you mean about the base being boring. I don't want to brighten the ground per se, but I would like ideas to improve this if you would like to share.

>>51331353
Are you a robot?

>>51335408
Sexy lamenter naut? I'm sure he was put in there due to some tragic accident.

>>51335408
Your picture taking ability will improve by quite a bit if you simply use a folded piece of white paper as a backdrop and then crop everything that isn't the dread from your picture.

>>51331315
After the Butlerian Jihad it was decided that the role of thinking machines should be filled by specially trained humans.

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Alright /wip/, I need your help on a colour scheme.
Pic related is the colour wheel I'm using for a reference. I want to paint the new Tzeentch Arcanites with a very bright, high contrast scheme, and I chose orange and blue because as we all know, they contrast excellently.

Currently the idea was Wild Rider Red highlighted with Troll Slayer Orange and Lothern Blue highlighted with Temple Guard Blue for the robes and armour respectively, but I'm stuck on the skin.

I tried painting a couple of different skintones, one was sort of Indian looking and the other is a yellowy tan, but they don't contrast well enough with the armour and robes. I had two thoughts about how to fix this, either going for very pale or very dark skin. Which do you think would look better?

Incidentally, the contrast I'm going for on the colour wheel is Red-Orange/Blue-Green, with Violet-Pink as my spot colour.

>>51331315
>Didn't know that, either. How come? Source/link to fluff?
The Mechanicum considers hard AI an abomination, a hold-over from the end of the Dark Age of Technology when the Men of Iron (ie. Hard AI controlled Robots) rebelled and started the Age of Strife.

https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Men_of_Iron

That is not to say that Heretical Mechanicum Magi don't work to create true AI, the Caliban Project short story is proof of that, but it is extremely illegal and cause for immediate termination if discovered.

>>51335854

Orange and blue contrast excellently and is used a lot by hollywood for

1. making skintones look richer
2. making the environment look bolder

I think you'd be better going pale because your contrast will bring it out anyway

>>51335883
Thank you. Would you say Kislev Flesh highlighted with Flayed One Flesh is pale enough to let the contrast work? I think Rakarth Flesh highlighted with Pallid Wych Flesh is a little too grey to look good with bright colours.

>>51335909

I think so

>>51333403
You're not posting good content.

>>51335854
>>51335883
Orange and blue are used a lot but usually muted versions. High brightness and high contrast is a recipe for an extremely garish scheme. Go ask that Minnesota Vikings feathering anon if you don't believe me.

>>51335922
Alright, I'll paint up a tester and post him in here in a bit.

>>51335955
I sort of want it to look garish, and I remember the Purple/Yellow Dangles bloke. The colours I've chosen aren't incredibly bright, and they are separated on the model by the more neutral pale skin.

>>51335955
>Feathering
Deathwing

>>51335978
Cool well if you have confidence in it and the ability to paint it well then it could work. Will look out for the test mini.

>>51333097
Actually you were told that your paints were all thick and your metallic especially so, because you hadn't thinned them at all that time whereas you had, a little bit, with everything else.

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Just finishged Crawl.

Holy shit I could feel my sanity slipping the closer to the end I got.

>>51335078
I'd try turning them around so that the spikes are pointing down. However the wip looks awesome, keep us updated with the progress

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Last time posting this guy.

What a model.

Still a few things to finish but we're 95% done.

>>51327507
Very good!

>>51336078
Fine thing you got going

But man give the base some love

>>51336078
Looks beautiful, anon

>>51336134

Thanks

I still have to finish the base... it's at this stage best described as... "base coated?" so more to do

I had some ideas myself but do you have any thoughts?

>>51336140

Thank you, Sir.

>>51336078
How did you do the Base?

>>51334796
Ohh nooo a nipple!

America is a joke.

>>51336078

Sublime, what a great job.

That subtle off colour on the hand, those orbs.

You have to finish that base though m8!

>>51336201

It is a mix of Martian Ironcrust in the centre and Martian Ironearth on the outside of the base. That effect happens automatically when it dries.

>>51336203

Will do mate thanks!

>>51336151
Convert the book he's standing on so it looks like a miniature place of worship.

>>51336233

That'll really give a sense of scale!

>>51334796
Give her a greenstuff poncho

>>51336214
Thanks, cogboy.

>>51332594
>>51332612
Hah, I just did the same not too long ago with 30 IG Neophytes. Did a red stripe instead of the blue, though.

>>51335787
This gave me the weirdest, borderline heretical image in my head.
>>51335789
Will do next time, I couldnt find one unfortunately this time.

>>51331286
It's a gimp you faggot

>>51334173
Chuck some black on beforehand.

I like dark browns actually but thats just me.

>>51336526
http://imgur.com/a/dSXXk

Best quality photos I can muster for the time being. I am ashamed to say I wasn't nearly as thorough at cleaning the models as I should have been.

>>51335854
>colour wheel doesn't mention cyan or magenta

I don't trust your wheel, anon, with subtractive colouring using pigments CMY should really be your primaries. Theory still stands with the contrast though.

>>51333403
I don't know how to be clearer.

One unfinished Bretonnian looks much the same as another, and a model that has had maybe one colour done on it isn't one most people will critique because it's just not a paintjob yet.

I gave you advice to collage if you really need to show a whole bunch of miniatures, I stopped ignoring you because it was clear that you were getting desperate and I told you what to post to get critique.

/wip/ helps those who help themselves by posting their work that's in a state to be critiqued. I'll note that even people who came to your aid against my vicious attack didn't have anything to say about your painting.

>>51333277
base with VGC verdigris (colour, not technical) and thanks me later

>>51330970
Try higher pressure. Psi needed depends on Airbrush, needle/nozzle size and paint.have you disassembled everything and reassembled after cleaning?

>>51333828
Are you retarded? Priming with an Airbrush is literally the easiest thing in the world. What airbrush and primer do you use?

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>>51334796
Burka is obviously the only way to go

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Alright, first try at the O/B Arcanite. I went back to the yellowy skin because I really like how saturated it looks. I think it needs refinement - either darker or lighter blue and orange. I'm leaning towards a brighter orange and a darker blue. What do you all think.

And yes, the model looks pretty shitty because it's a tester model, I didn't spend very long on it because I'm just testing out colour schemes. The actual models will be much better prepped and painted.

>>51337227
I think your blue would look better desaturated a little to really bring some cool colours into the scheme.. Your orange definitely needs to go brighter, it reads red at the moment.

>>51337227
Okay I'm the guy concerned with the garishness before, but I like this. Some highlights to give the yellow skin more texture will help it a lot. The blue and reddish orange look good to me.

>>51337227
The skin looks slightly too similar to the orange skirt, maybe if you washed them with separate colours this effect would be lessened.

I'm planning to repaint my lists for X-Wing. I'm playing all three factions so I'm looking for three three-colour schemes. The problem is I can't come up with ones that look different enough and look good on spaceships.
I think I'll go black/gold /silver on one and either gray/blue/yellow or orange/white/black on the other but I've got no idea for the third.
I'd appreciate any scheme ideas or tips.

How does one apply multiple layers of thin paint in order to get a smooth finish without killing the detail of the crevasses etc?

General advice is to water down paint to the thickness of milk and when I do this it's basically like I'm washing the mini so shit ends up looking weak as fuck once the paint layer is thick enough to start washing, blending and highlighting. None of the guides I've read explain how to avoid this issue, simply that you build of the colour by applying thin layers one by one.

Please respond.

>>51337386
Load less on the bruss and desaturate it with some tissue or paper towel. If it flows from the brush when you touch the mini and pools then you've got too much or too thin.

>>51337354
Gunmetal grey, with secondary colour/s of medium yellow, green or cyan?

>>51337404
Thanks, breh. I'll give this a try later.

>>51337273
Yep, alright, cooler blue and brighter orange. Cheers.

>>51337296
Thank you, I'm glad it's not hideously garish. Not sure how to highlight the skin without just straight up using yellow, it's Bestigor Flesh washed with Cassandora Yellow. Maybe I'll try relayering some BF and see how that looks.

>>51337349
They were actually washed with different colours, they're just a little too similar in tone. I'll brighten the orange for the next one.

>>51337427
You should apply some matte sealer to your model when you finish so it doesn't look like you've smothered it in PVA glue.

I need some help, I need to convert my IG weapons into a plasma gun. I have all IG special weapons(flamers, grenade launchers,meltas) and a plasma pistol. Any advice on pulling this out?

>>51337468
A hobby knife, old unused/leftover sprues, a file, and time. Chop the shit out of the spruces, file them down to the head shape of a plasma gun, file another down to represent the induction chamber, and then glue that shit together.

>>51337458
It looks like that because I took the picture before the final wash was dry.

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>>51337468
left is a conversion with a flamer and a chaos plasma pistol and second to left plasma and lasgun.

>>51337485
I cant really picture how should I do it.

>>51337552
They first one looks pretty great, how did you do it?

>>51337576
I didn't do it, but it's made from a catachan flamer (which is basically a sm flamer iirc) and a chaos marine (khorne zerker) plasma pistol.

>>51337576

I tried posting a link to a tutorial I did ages ago but seems 4chan keeps blocking it

If you google "42nd cadian plasma" you should be able to find it

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>>51337576
>>51337587
you can do the same by using a cadian IG flamer though.

>>51337601
>>51337613
Alright, I see. Thanks a lot.

>>51337539
Oh. Just fart on it next time. Speeds up the drying and gives your minis a homely, personal touch.

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another one
wet-blended leather was killed by camera

>>51337164
(You)

>>51337776
Wet blended leather was part kill by lighting, part kill by insufficient contrast. Get bolder with highlights.

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>>51337808
lighting -- one LED strip, one white light lamp and regular warm light lamp

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Great Unclean One progress, guardsman for scale. First arm on. Suddenly he's looking pretty hench. The second arm will need more thought though and I need to wait for some plasticard to arrive to make a sword. I think I'm done for the weekend.

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Progress on my old school metal Blood Angels scouts

>>51337924

This brings back memories of trying to paint the hair on these guys and failing badly.

>>51337896
I may have to steal this idea, good jerb!

>>51337896
>>51338079
also, can we get a backside view?

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>>51337859
>one LED strip

I bet our lightboxes were made by the same chinaman. We have almost identical lighting setups.

That is a really subtle highlight, I can hardly tell that there's a highlight there. The gradient is smooth, but the thing you're lacking is contrast.

Here, I've desaturated the image so we can see your contrast without having to worry about the actual tones. Your top highlight on the skin is barely lighter than the deepest recesses, and while we can see that there's a highlight around the leather, it really doesn't stand out.

Considering that all but the maille is earthy brown tones, visual interest is lacking because everything runs together a lot. By adding more flesh tones to your skin brown, and going up close to a bone finish on the leather, your models will look a lot better.

>>51337859
>one LED strip, one white light lamp and regular warm light lamp

Aka "let's make it impossible for the camera to nail the white balance".

And back off a bit with the camera so you have some depth of focus.

>>51338079
>>51338085
Thanks but I've put him away now, I'll probably post some of the back tomorrow when I've actually done some work on it. It's just a big green blob at the moment.

I painted a model on acid last night, expected interesting results.

It came out the same as my others, just heavier washes. Not too /wip/ related, but meh.

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Celestine coming along. The back wings aren't finished by any means, just wanted to see what it'd look like with the purple to blue blend. Might be being colourblind but I'm not sold on it. Thoughts?

>>51338418
It's way too many colours unless you're trying to one up that rainbow Celestine someone posted a day or so ago.

>>51338418
Not a fan of the blue combined with the red, though the individual parts look great.

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>>51338446
Well the reason I added more colour is because my last Celestine didn't have enough contrast. I've used red and orange as spot colours across the whole force, with the blue robes. Is it the purple that's ruined it?

>>51338472
Maybe try a blend from black to blue for the robe? Gives contrast to the mini, more colors and resembles the color shift the wings have.

>>51338532
I like that idea. Trying it now

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>>51337896
Pretty spiffy, dudeman. What did you use as the base model, by the way?

>>51338131
Thank you kindly.
%%my main problem is only 1 matching color and nuln oil%%

>>51338545
Looks like the FW GUO

>>51338567
are you high?
it's the Maggoth Lord kit.

>>51338545
>>51338567
No it's actually the age of sigmar maggoth lord kit. The parts are all repurposed and jumbled up, he's full of wire and sprue and green stuff holding him together. The maggoth is an ugly model but the kit is great, you get loads of arms and legs and plenty of other options, not to mention the blight lord guy on top.

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Duncan doesn't use a wet palette, and his work station is about as messy as the average poster.

Maybe he posts here already.

Note his mastery of the paint, even dry, it bends to his will and he took off all that old paint in 1 go.

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>>51338532 I tried the blend. It's only rough to see how it'll look when done properly.
Better?

>>51338627
I use a homemade wet palette and its the best

>>51338627
Duncan doesn't use a wet palette because it saves paint and GW does not want that.

I'm pretty sure he uses a wet palette in private.

>>51338820
That -is- his private work station in anon's pic.

>>51338820
That's literally his personal palette.

Unless you're using a lot of custom mixes, wet palettes aren't all that important, just convenient.

>>51338627
But is he using super glue or plastic cement?

>>51338820
he probably isn't a lazy fuck, and is able to use all of the paint he puts out without having to use science! to keep it fresh.

>>51338683
Yeah, I like it a lot more. Looks nice.

>>51326098
Please explain how to highlight like that and how you painted your model tank and its crew. I'm new to this and it's really hard to get an answer that isn't "Dark eldar painting guide" which doesn't explain how to hold the brush or anything.

>>51336014
I do thin my paints though. I think my main issue, though, is that my palette is kinda small, so I can't drag the brush out that far to get excess off my brush. Gonna look into getting a bigger one soon.

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Hello, /wip/! I just finished my fifth Alpha legionary. They are going out slowly, but I really like how they look. I'm specially proud of the metal in the bolters, and I've even done a bit of free hand. What do you think?

>>51339409
If you're starting with "holding the brush" I'd definitely look up Warhammer TV on youtube and check out some of their painting guides. If you mean how did I paint the bits on this particular model, I painted the crew, gun, and sail separately from the body of the tank and then glued them on after they were finished. Makes it far easier to maneuver the brush

>>51336202
She's naked. It makes her look like an attention whore retard.

Europeans don't go to war naked. (Technically because they're too cucked to go to war, but that's for pol)

>>51339602
I've been watching them, I've been painting years I just can't understand how everything I paint is so crooked, uneven and spilly.

I meant the colours you used

>>51339623
>naked
>one (1) visible nipple
>naked

Yeaaah... shouldn't you be praying to our lord jesus christ?

>>51339521
those look real nice anon, though I've never seen the tubes on the feet/by the helmet colored like that.

>>51339656
It's there just for nipple sake though. Cheesecake is fine, but why do so many sculptors feel compelled to do it?

Also, its placement makes me wonder if the sculptor ever actually saw a nipple.

>>51339521
They look lovely anon, how did you do the metallic blue for the armour?

>>51338418
You'll have a better time with a neutral to cold black cloak IMO.

>>51339647
>crooked, uneven and spilly
Use primer and thin your paints

>>51338305
I used acid in shop class when I was a kid and coated a bench I was making with about 20 layers of polyurethane because I thought the smoke I saw rising from the wood meant it wasn't properly sealed

>>51329326
/fowg/ has a scans section which includes Colours of War, which is useful for the German camo schemes.

>>51339647
ohhh ok. I started with a thinned caliban green, then went up to thinned kabalite green, which i put on in about four or five progressively smaller layers to get a bit of a gradient effect, and then the highlight is sybarite green. That's currently where i struggle most to get the consistency right, edge highlighting sucks

>want to prime things
>fog as thick as pea soup the past two days
earth, please

>>51334796
Forge world?

>>51339825
Since I moved into an apartment I had to get some brush on primer since it's much more practical. Vallejo makes some good stuff, I was worried it would be flakey but it's decent primer.

Maybe look into that just to have around for the rainy/snowy/bad weather season?

>>51339844
No it's War games Exclusive. You think Forge World would produce a design that bad?

>>51339694
If you don't like the mini because you're so cucked don't buy it, stop with this weak bait, it's embarrassing.

>>51339746
he was talking about a different kind of acid, but cool story anyway.

>>51339684
Thanks! What do you mean by painted like that? The brightness of the silver? In the feet at least i see the tubes as cables, so I used the same deep red of the eye lenses to don't break too much the scheme

>>51339656
You walk around with a thong or something?

>>51339889
I mean that they're normally painted like the rest of the metal, not that theres anything wrong with painting them red/green. The silver parts are fine, I'm talkin about the one in the middle with his helmet tubes. It's not something to correct or anything, I'm just remarking that I've never seen it before~

>>51339883
i think we were both talking about lsd?

>>51339933
Oh! Jajajajaja, don't worry! I just saw the tubes as cables in that one. Maybe is from painting so much deathwatch veterand, I just jumped with my cable color schemes in the helmet

>>51339866
not a fan of how brush-on stuff and gesso handles

>>51339876
Yes

>>51339878
I guess you haven't seen a nipple either. :^)

>>51339623
Celts/Germanics and Dacians frequently fought naked.

Can you bring paints on a plane?

>>51335032
>>51335078
Disgusting. Great job.

>>51340173
Yes, except sprays.

>>51327476
That is crispy as fuck anon

>>51326098
yea looks great, >>51326292 has a point but i think there is nothing wrong with that, infantry should pop out more IMO

>>51340316
Great, cheers mate.

>>51339878

If his bait is so bad it's embarrassing, what does that say about you for falling for it?

He doesn't want a nipple on his mini. There's nothing wrong with nipples, but he's right: It's there for no other reason than so the mini can have a nipple, and it's obvious.

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>>51336078
this actually got me rock hard familia

Working on the mace's osl right now.

Does this look right? I didn't want to make it too strong.

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>>51341565
Forgot pic.

>>51341589
shit that looks nice a f

>>51341589
Take me as your apprentice.

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Gettin' there... one step at a time!

>>51341589
Nice, the mace is looking more coherent with the rest. Do you have anywhere else for orange accents?

>>51341589
Looking excellent Anon, very nice NMM.

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Any of you guys have this pinvice? Army Painter Model Drill.

Comes with 1.0, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, and 1.8 mm drill bits.

Anyone else have one that could tell me if it holds larger?

Are those large enough to do magnifying models?

1/8" X 1/16" .
1/4" X 1/16"
1/16" X 1/32"

are the magnet sizes I was gonna get for my space marines.

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>>51342180
The cape's gonna have a freehand with the legion icon, if that counts.

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>>51342452
As long as the mace isn't the only orange on there. Could potentially look nice for glowing psychic eyes, but I imagine you have a plan worked out for the face.

As you clearly have NMM down, any pointers? This is my first try at it and I'm aware that my highlight placements are kinda funky.

>>51342594
Tell me how you did that anon, that looks awesome

>>51341589
Yup, the mace is coming along really nicely now,Anon. Also like the OSL, but it could be just a touch more intensive.

>>51342315
You can get exactly the same pin vice for like 2$ on aliexpress.

>>51342614
I mixed a gradient from White to Black, with my midtone being administratum grey flavoured with Sotek Green.

I'd spent forever watching Painting Buddha, read some other tutorials and had a go at NMM, seeing as I literally started using this technique yesterday I really don't think that there's more I can say. Watch Ben Komets paint the Chaos lord from the AoS starter set and have a go?

https://youtu.be/Km1-vU2-pbk?list=PL0_grDypO1doLoA8jydpbh1Bchz_Ug58P

>>51342594
Not a fan of NMM, but this looks really cool and not over the top like most. Hope you are not planning in doing a whole horde of reavers like this?!?