WIP - Painting/Converting/Sculpting General

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Looks like there's another Johnny up for sale. Seller might not know what he has, as there are no distinctive keywords. Also, he might not ship out of the UK (haven't asked), so some pommy bastard might be the lucky one this time!

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update on my castle fort from last thread

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>>51450642
i dont know if i have the will to do four of these, but it'd be pretty much all the scenery i'd need for a vanguard game

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There's a pencil sketch of the new sail. This is gonna be the last attempt as any more white is gonna make the sail thick.
Good start?

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I can't shine a light on the sail or the sketching becomes unviewable so sorry about that

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Finished today

Wildo you fuck

>>51451285
Yiss. Gud

Anyone have any suggestions for models that work ad imperial guard? Also, how can I work red into my color scheme for guard? I've done some google searching and can't find something I like.

>>51451285
It's always nice seeing different colour schemes on stuff like this.

The drum embedded in in dry, cracked ground bothers me though since it doesn't really make much sense.

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>>51450642
>>51450657
I am enjoying your progress. keep it up.

>>51451649
Admittedly, i just got the sector imperialis basing kit from gw, and may have gotten a little careless

>>51451023
>>51451037
looks like skateboard art from the 90's. pretty jarring with DE, but whatever levitates your skimmer. you seem pretty dedicated to badly drawn skulls

>>51451735
I'd say adding a bit more Martian Ironearth around the edges of the barrel would help. As is, it just looks like a barrel half that's been placed on the ground, rather that something that's sunk in, imho.

>>51451792
It doesn't really make much sense for it to be sunk in at all is the thing, since it's hard and dry.

Hey I need some advice. Posted in /40g/ but you guys are crafty so you might have better input.

I'm moving into a new place downtown and need a way to secure my minis. I've got about 10k points in total of Necrons, Eldar, Space Marines and Genestealer Cult.

Don't have the time or scratch to get a bunch of battlefoam or whatever, considering I'm moving out by the 20th, so I need something that can keep my minis secure for a half-hour car ride.

Thx in advance

>>51452076
I know that people use magnet foil under their bases and metal bawkses to transport their stuff.
You can get the magnet bases precut these days too.

>>51451285
>>51451792
>>51451882
Maybe add more debris scattered about? It'll make it seem less out of place.

>>51450657
when I paint this, can i get away with a base layer of shitty craft-store acrylic and then drybrushes with GW paints, or will it fuck up the detail? I want to paint the thing but not use eight bottles of paint doing it.

>>51452409
There's nothing wrong with using all craft paints on terrain.

>>51452409
Spray it, would be my advice.

>>51452449
Do not spray, it will melt the polystyrene

>>51451285

The lamp post thing bothers me. He looks like he just walked straight through it.

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Would the Custodes shoulder pads fit marines or terminators?

>>51452409
You have to either brush on prime or apply white glue to the foam via brush and then prime it. Correct me if im wrong.

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The nozzle to my thing of Army Painter Super Glue is sealed shut, Is there anyway to make sure it stay clear? I did keep the cap on it.

>>51452076
Packing peanuts and a careful hand should be just fine.

>>51452692

There is no way of keeping it clear other than using a bottle that comes with a metal tip or has a metal spike on its cap. The best super glue brands know what super glue does so they design their bottles accordingly.

Is there anything special about Citadel™ paint or is it just acrylic paint with meme names?

>>51453116
compared to craftstore acrylics for non-miniature use, they're miles better.

compared to other miniature-hobby paints, theyre so-so and generally overpriced, but have the saving grace of some nice technical and specialty paints.

>>51453116

It has some paints that other brands don't offer, but it's basically just slightly more expensive model paint that comes in shittier bottles compared to other brands like Reaper, Vallejo, Privateer Press, etc.

Regular acrylic paint is unusable garbage for our purposes. They are meant for large canvases, not small plastic/metal/resin figures.

>>51452076
Back when I was in high school, my ghetto transport option for going to friends' places was a shoebox full of handkerchiefs.

Anyone here paint busts? I'm looking to get into it so I can pad my commission portfolio. Where do you guys usually buy them from? I'm mostly interested in WW2 and fantasy stuff. Also if there are any commissioned painters here, how did you get started doing commissions? I'm not the best, but I've got the basic skills and a lot of free time to learn.

>>51452692
The best way to avoid super glue sealing itself shut is to get a brush on super glue where the glue never comes in contact with the seal.

>>51452524
Marines, but not terminators

>>51450642
>>51450657
Not sure if you are aware, but posting just in case.
Don't spray paint it without giving it multiple decent coats of something protective.
Looking good.

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Great Unclean One sculpt finished! There's a lot I would change if I did it again but for my first major greenstuff project I'm really pleased. Going to let him cure for a day or so then do one last hunt for mould lines before I prime him.

>>51453633
looks great, he needs some lil nurglings

>>51453629
Spackle paste is an easy, and god tier way to add texture to and cover foam terrain. It's also great for using on bases.

>>51451576
Victoria miniatures if your looking to start an alternative regiment.

What's the best way to Chaos up some Grey Knight termi armor? It's for a fallen Malleus inquisitor, not for a Grey Knight.

Has anyone tried using soulstone blue over a metallic basecoat to make metallic blue? I've seen it work with red over gold for Thousand Sons.

If so, pics?

>>51453633
fuckin' aces, anon!
I do agree with >>51453693

add some nurglings if you feel like it. it ain't necessary, but it'll look nice.

What's a good hand drill for minis? I keep seeing "DO NOT BUY, CHINESE PIECE OF SHIT" scattered between reviews of the ones I look at

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Need to highlight this and then I'm all done.

>>51453993
I can't say I've used a wide variety of them, but I got the P3 one and it's been fine for me and conveniently came with a bunch of brass rod to use.

>>51454075

Don't get lazy, anon. There's a whole lot of detail you could be picking out.

>>51454096
I'm not going for eavy metal standard. Just trying to get to table top standard as quickly as possible. Im going to go back and pick out other details further down the line.

>>51453993
I can confirm the ones I bought were generic branded units and they were made of 100% genuine Chinesium. Fucking ghastly.

Might look into P3 like >>51454083

Mine are so shit it's almost not worth it.

>>51454083
>>51454129
Ugh, I'm just going to go to a fucking hardware store in REAL LIFE to get one instead of Amazon gambling.

>>51454121

Ah, carry on then.

Is painting skeletons with a black primer/undercoat a bad idea? Not able to spray undercoat because of the weather just now and just have imperial primer.

Thinking of just painting on zandri dust then adding on Ushabti bone then shade with agrax, add more ushabiti and white for highlights. Will that make them too dark/brown?

How big is your painting/modeling backlog?

>>51454426
wait for a break in the weather then use the vallejo grey primer. Ushabti over that, with gloss agrax. Highlight with a slight off-white (screaming skull I think they call it) then pure white for the most extreme edge highlights

the gloss agrax flows so much better than the regular agrax.

Anyone got tips on blending flesh into metallics? have a plan for some kairic acolytes(and Ferrus Manus) and need to figure out how feasible is it

>>51454426
Nothing really wrong with it. Zandri dust and agrax will kill any difference you might see with black primer.

Hello. What brand of not too costly but sufficiently detailed metal miniatures would you recommand for training purposes, /wip/?

>>51454513
buy some second hand space marines off ebay and a gallon jug of super clean

paint them again and again until you never want to paint another space marine

>>51454513
reaper miniatures are fairly cheap, metal and usually single-piece

>>51454585
>>51454594
Thank you both. I'll take a look.

>>51454513
For value for money something historical like Perry's might be good.

>>51451649
>The drum embedded in in dry, cracked ground bothers me though since it doesn't really make much sense.
are you joking?

>leave drum in wet mud
>it dries
>drum halfway submurged in hard ground

Mud cracks (that texture) happen because it was once mud, then the moisture leaves and it has to contract, causing even cracking patterns.

>just realised how autistic this response is for a 5 hour old post
sry you triggered a geologist my bad

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>>51453633

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>>51453745
Just grab a standard inquisitor and chaos it up. Lot easier to do and much more convincing, as those look menacing to start with.

Take this handsome bastard for example. My favorite Inquisitor sculpt. It'd be easy as pie to make him Chaos-y if you grab him resin, give him a tattered robe, mutations, some glyphs and fucked up weapons and boom. Done.

>>51454439

Smaller than the vast majority of players, and yet still too large.

>>51454439
I dare not think about it. More than a hundred marines between 30k (BoP and BaC) and 40k, metal veterans of all kind, almost got them all, plus LotD.
2 boxes of Bullgryns, 1 Stormtalin that I'm currently building, buyt my airbrush broke last night so can't paint it, a Giant, a start collecting Ironjawz, and several boxes of orks.
God, help me.

>>51453633
Looks really cool, although I don't get the sword, how is he supposed to use it? Or do I just don't see it correctly and he leans on it?

>>51453993
Aliexpress hand vice and pick the cheapest one.

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>>51454439
You bastard, now I can't stop thinking about my backlog. Even knowing that everyone else has the same problem isn't helping!

>>51454137
What hardware store can you get one of these at? Australian hardware stores don't stock these (correct/enlighten me please).

>>51454439

2 Terminator HQs
2 Power armor HQs

15 Terminators
5 Devastators
5 Assault Marines

1 Land Raider

But I only have 0 HQs and 30 Troops painted

>>51454439
three snap-fit space marines because i haven't started painting yet.
Gonna start 'em tomorrow. Wish me luck, /wip/!

>>51454832
http://www.hobbytools.com.au/tool-holders-pin-vices-hand-drills/
https://www.mightyape.com.au/product/tamiya-fine-pin-vise-0-1-3-2mm/26076002

>>51454439
11 paper leman russes or equiv,
6 paper chimera or equiv
160+ guardsmen equiv from warzone and wargames factory
2 aobr
1 bop
1 us armoured company from plastic soldier

>>51454904
>paper leman russes

pics

>>51453633
you missed a wee lil bit on the tummy. near exposed gut

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>>51454439
also 1850 points each of eldar, deathwatch, Deathguard, Nurgle daemons and dwarfs.

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Help me /wip/, I somehow lost my standard paint brush, I have no idea what happened to it. Also have a shitty pic of my harley kill team I'm trying to paint.

>>51455187
Jesus wept anon. Build nothing until you've painted at least ten dudes, then reward yourself with a scratchbuild.

>>51455232
That'd mean I'd have to settle on a scheme.

>>51454897
Good luck anon!

PAINTS. THIN THEM.

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>>51455187
YOU'RE ONE OF THEM

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>51455251
Painting a model mean you give up future conversions on it, how can I do that when there's so much awesome shit to build?

>>51454897
Watch Duncan tutorials if you haven't done so already!

>>51453693
>>51453985
Thanks, yeah I might add just one, don't intend to cover him in them.

>>51454758
Yes the end of the blade is against the ground and he's leaning on the handle. I need to stick him on a bigger base which will make it clearer.

>>51455165
Not sure where or what you mean.

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Just finished him, pretty please with how he turned out :)

>>51455318
Ebay turns up some horrid shit.

>>51455262
Just fuggin paint it and base it, it's not that hard.

REEEE.

Cunts like you drag gaming stores down. Nothing more annoying than playing against some lazy cunt who can't be fucked painting his insanely overpriced models.

Why do you even play Warhammer if you don't paint? It's not exactly a good or balanced strategy game?

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Threw these in the 40k gen too, the first guys I've painted.

>>51455248
>That'd mean I'd have to settle on a scheme.

Only for those ten dudes. Pick one constant across the army (skin colour) and then go nuts with your schemes.

I mean, you're not going to, so I don't know why I'm bothering. Do you play often? What's the attitude to it in your playgroup?

>>51455335
Nothing more annoying than playing against some lazy cunt who can't be fucked to customize his insanely overpriced models.

>Why do you even play Warhammer if you don't paint? It's not exactly a good or balanced strategy game?

If painting is your justification for 40k why not go with canvas? way cheaper per cm3.

CONVERSIONS!
The one thing GW does better than all competitors, everyone else has monopose metal garbage, shitty unworkable restic material or 0 options in terms of wargear.

>>51454969
In bed wanking soz. I'll take some pics before I head to the gym.

>>51455355
Not the worst first models I've seen. I hope you'll stick around and learn the fine arts of shading and highlighting.

You've got some properly thick white on one of those shoulderpads, you'll benefit from building up to white from some greys and using much thinner layers when you do the rest.

I'd go in and get the ribbed joint parts in, though, as well as actually painting your sergeant's face. Then, clean up where your painting of the tubes to the backpack vents has spilled over onto the green.

>>51455364
>I mean, you're not going to, so I don't know why I'm bothering. Do you play often? What's the attitude to it in your playgroup?

I play twice monthly, sure there's Boos for grey minis, but an equal amount of Ooh's for the latest doof-wagon, bandit technical or custom buggy

How do you guys get over a hobby burn out? Painting at the moment feels like there's an anvil above my head rather than the enjoyable experience it used to be. I traded for an empire army, about 1000pts and after spraying them all I'm sick of the sight of them and want to paint a Lord of Plagues.

>>51455403
>I'm sick of the sight of them and want to paint a Lord of Plagues.
Then do that.

Do a unit at a time, hell do a colour at a time if that's your pace.

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Does anyone know some cute color schemes for Cadians?

I think I want to paint mine purple, but I'm not sure on the secondary color. Gray fits, but it's kind of boring. Yellow and orange can look interesting, but they clash too much. Khaki might be okay, but it might be too close to the skin tones.

>>51455417
I would but I have a habit of swapping armies, eg I have Tau and SM and I used to have Skitarii, Guard and Grey Knights.

Does anyone else do this?

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>>51455249
>>51455267
Aye aye, anons!
Will be heading to my local GW anyway, so there'll be competent people on hand if I need assistance.

Also, a thought. Could you use the gemstone paints for marine eyes? Part of me thinks it'd work, part of me thinks it'd look dumb.

>>51455434
See >>51455187

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>>51451285
Looking good though it'd be nice if you had done the trim of the sleeves and hood in a different colour, and personally (though I don't think i'll get this model) I would have done a cog style trim around the skirt like pic related.

>>51455403
Paint the Lord of Plagues. Spend as long as you want on him, the Empire dudes will still be there when you get back and you can use him in Silver Tower if you want. I also really want to paint one but am skint so no new models for now.

A varied painting diet is what does it for me. I got super sick of power armour, so now I'm doing Bloodbound dudes that I picked up for cheap. I'm not worried about when my first game will be, I just want to do a nice unit.

Little and often is the key to forming the habit, and variety stops you getting bored, so in the long run you paint more and have more fun. If painting that LoP means you paint today and have fun, instead of getting negative reinforcement from spending an evening fretting over your Empire guys, the Empire army is far more likely to ever be finished.

Also, put your backlog away. Have what you're actually working on (max 1 unit) and things you've completed visible, and your workstation ready to go.

>>51455390
I guess you do you, ork anon. I don't get it and I don't like it, and I'm sure your gaming buggies would love to see a painted doof-wagon even more, but they're your toys in the end.

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Nearing completion of the first of 8 Acolytes.

What do we think?

>>51455444
I have a 75% painted demi-compmany, so at least it could be worse....

>>51455462
>I guess you do you, ork anon. I don't get it and I don't like it, and I'm sure your gaming buggies would love to see a painted doof-wagon even more, but they're your toys in the end.

It's getting there, but slowly, the spark of inspiration has to strike for me to work, otherwise the models come off as even more lifeless than unpainted plastic and plasticard.

>>51455462
Thanks, that helps. I worry though if I paint the LoP to a nice Duncan (PBUH) standard, it'll evolve into me collecting Demons of Nurgle as I find their shade/shade/detail paint scheme cathartic. In theory anyway, I haven't painted Nurgle before.

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>>51454439
just got into it and not planning on playing, but I still have six more tactical asstarts, four saguinairy guard and I have a conversion on a lone custodies I need to do. Probably going to finish up the asstarts and guard and get either assault marines or termies to practice my molding and painting more before I go on to my custodie conversion.

Probably going to do both and a few other HQ models as well before I get to him actually.
I also need to decide if I want to change my scheme so they look less like the marines of Christmas present. I think adding some black/gray fur ontop of the red/white might help. Or not. I kind of like it anyways.

>>51455483
Paintjob's quite nice. Add some more outlining, especially between flesh and gold, if that wasn't already planned.

The seam line across his torso on the other hand, fucking hell.

>>51455440
I'm nor sure, look up GW's vid on them, I think Duncan says wether or not you can. Imo the way they do it to gave a reflective effect it requires a glob of paint way too big to be out in a marine's eye.

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>>51455483
Next ones you might wanna patch the seam before painting.

Besides that it's solid, toenails could use a colour maybe

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>>51455428
I should point out that they would more be along the lines of this than the other image.

put the mini down

>>51455483
Nice and thin paint anon. But I think the skin seems a little on the flat side. You could try a thinned wash maybe.

>>51454439
Nearing completion of a Space Wolves Great Company. About 15 vehicles left to go or something like that.

Also an entire Dorf army that I got before they got AoSed.

And then a lot of tanks for my IG.

And some harlequins (only a squad luckily).

And then Prospero+Calth as Undecided 30k Legion.

And also some Mechanicum.

I think I am going to die of old age before I finish all that.

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>>51455403
The urge to paint comes and goes. I've got a full Empire army plus a load of 40k, for my CSM and Blood Angels waiting. I would rather take it slow and do a good job when I feel like it than force myself, rush to get stuff painted and do a sloppy job.

Failing that, watching painting tutorials gets me in the mood. Sort of like porn.

>>51455509
>>51455518
Conscious decision, I hate GS.

>>51454439
A full Retaliation Cadre

A quarter of a Demi-Company, a Armored Taskforce.

2000pts of Freeguild for AoS.

Lots of Firewarriors and Pathfinders.

I've just hidden it all away and put the painted minis on display.

>>51455483
That skin looks amazingly realistic.

>>51455560
Yeah I've found watching Duncan's videos really help me get in the mood for some painting. Makes me want to put effort in, rather than ham it out for the sake of it.

>>51455509
>>51455537
>>51455518
Thanks anons.

Yeah, Still a few things to do, but need to try and push ahead otherwise I'll never get to even play the game

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>>51455555
Might as well post the thing I'm currently working on

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here are my Mongolian/Hun ogres for sigmar, still need to do some highlights on stuff, bases basically done.
feedback appreciated

>>51453431
Are they of interchangeable size? Is the fit similar to a marine pad, or looser? Will marine pads go on Custodes?

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>>51454439
Overwhelming, actually.
>decent chunk of sisters army
>entire woof elf army
>most of tzeentch daemons army
These are assembled and either primed or mostly primed.

>Deldar is 2 SC, wyches, succubus, scourges, and a venom
>only one SC is mostly assembled

>Sylvaneth big box, a few sprues of Dryads, a unit of assembled Dryads, and 6 converted treekin

>Warmachine 2 player box set untouched

>Both HH boxes with literally one Marine done
>box of raptors and CSM to go with it
>also two drop pods

And to top it all off
>two knights

Just kill me now.

>>51455555
>five 5s

>>51455483
Real shame about that seamline.

The only parts with any real depth of contrast are your loincloth, which is very nice.
I'd go over the muscle definition in the recesses again, and some more washes/inks on the metallics wouldn't go amiss.
The golds veer a little too much towards the silver at the moment, a sepia or flesh ink would warm them up a lot, giving you good contrast with the silver edges.

I'm wanting to start using paints from dropper bottles, how are Vallejo Game and Army Painter compared to the paints GW puts out?

Leaning more towards Vallejo because of the compatibility chart

>>51454439
I actually dont have much of one, LOOK UPON MY GLORIOUS ALMOST FINISHED BACKLOG

nah but ive got
-3 Crisis suits to build/paint(only because im not sure if i want them in a squad, or just two for bodyguards)
-one stealthsuit to paint
-one Kroot to paint
-5 Pathfinders to paint

>>51455670
Tabletop / 10.

Skulls, belly plates and swords could use some love, and I assume the hair needs highlighting, but they're nice. What's your skin recipe?

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>>51455885
Also heres a Kroot Knight i worked on yesterday (i have since fixed the seam on the shoulder, and gotten a nice purple on the Sword/Claw on shoulder)
Hoping to add more trophies to him as i start to play.

Sorry for shit pic

>>51455889
yeah, a lot of the things you have mentioned have just a basecoat and a wash, still need to get to those, the skin is pretty basic:
Undercoat zandri dust, then apply a thin coat of zandri dust to smoothen it out, water down citadel sepia with medium about 2:1 mix and shade mainly the recesses and face, go over the non recessed areas with ushabti bone MULTIPLE THIN COATS, then a highlight with screaming skull and then pallid wych flesh for extreme highlights

>>51455904
agrax earthshade him man, then base him with a texture paint then BAM, tabletop ready, then comeback and do extra highlights as you go

>>51453633
Oh, hey, it's you again. That model is fucking disgusting. I'm going to actually go vomit, now.

9/10, bitchen work anon, I look forward to seeing it painted

>>51453633
is that base temporary? it looks way too small

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>>51455318
"This 'Pr@ Painter' refuses to give-in to the social demands of those
who would have ALL painting be 'realistic,' and instead expresses his
own inner sensibilities through his medium. Rather than recapitulate
an objective representation of the mundane, he challenges entrenched
traditionalists (the tired, played out - yet vocal - Old Guard), AND
scorns the low expectations of younger conformists within The Hobby."
- Duncan Rhodes, Queen of All Painters

>>51455979
Oh i went through with Reikland Fleshshade on the body and Nuln on his shield, working on the Warp Talon claw now on his shoulder, going to do a royal purple with gold, his sword is a much darker purple with silver details, going for a Kroot that has done some work for some Chaos chapters

>>51455920
Will have to play about with that recipe on my bloodbound (I'm using as many skin tones as possible so I don't get bored of painting their ripped abs).

>>51456047
yeah make sure you leave the recesses shaded next time, but it might just be the shitty lighting in the image, best of luck though

>>51456072
im sure it will look fine on some blood reavers, come to think of it, my palette has similarities with classic bloodbound

>>51456074
Pic was pre-shade. I was too tired to take one last night of current progess.

Anyone got tips on how to use the Nihilak oxide on leadbelcher blades?

>>51455561
>Conscious decision, I hate GS.

Try a different putty, even PVA can be used for little seams. Another option if you have good enough plastic glue is to squeeze the parts together so a small bead of melted plastic covers the line.

PVA demo
https://youtu.be/IVGh5drtazY?t=28m40s

>>51456097
use it VERY sparingly and a tad bit watered down, it could ruin the colour scheme when used too much or on the wrong spots, use a little bit in the recesses and if you want a dripping effect put a drop on the blade and the drag it down with a bit of medium on the brush for a blended streak
personally would rather put it on bronze, brass or copper parts

>>51456093
It adds more yellow than the classic Rakarth / Flayed One / Pallid, which is nice. I just want a band of warriors from all over the old world, united now by their love of taking heads.

>>51456137
fair enough.. good luck!

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I don't care what you guys says anymore.
This looks cool as fuck.

>>51451285
Needs church ruin on the base, otherwise an ace job.

>>51455561
Then use some Tamiya putty, milliput, plastic cement (extra thin is good to have around) or such instead of consciously choosing to fuck up.

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>>51456156
Id raid some real space with you bro.

>>51456156
Hull and rudder are very flat.

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I've got some of this stuff for primer, it seems to be some sort of multipurpose stuff. Good or no?

Also the local temps today have a high of 63-66 degrees (primer says use between 65 and 90). Would I get screwed painting a few degrees below temp?

>>51455904
A bit toony atm, get that ink and highlights done, otherwise you run the risk of making him look like a TMNT villain.

>>51456015
Yes it's a 60mm base, I think I'm going to put him on a 100mm base.

>>51456186
Yeah, I know. I'm probably gonna go ask my paint wizard what red I'll need next highlight for the hull.
As for the rudder, metallics are hard.

>>51456156
The trouble with eldar free hand work is that it has to look like it was produced by a race with a higher functioning, ethereal understanding of beauty and grace.

It's not bad work but it clashes with the deldar aesthetic.

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early WIP brotherhood of darkness marine. still gotta finish drawing all the runes then going over them with yellow, bolter, etc.

babby's first attempt at painting black power armor, it's surprisingly difficult and I feel like I'm fucking up but I can't quite place what the problem is. I'm using apathetic fish method of painting black templars kinda

For UK anons -

I've gathered from these threads that Chaos Black isn't actually all that useful as a Primer, so much as a base coat.

What sprays do you use?

>>51454439
Hundreds of minis... hundreds.

>>51456386
That's breddy gud anon. Could use one extra lighter highlight on the black, although it might be just the photo.

>>51456409
I have several thousand points of several 40k, AoS, Bolt Action, and LotR SBG armies to do in my back log.

I could not buy another model and have enough in my painting backlog to do in my lifetime at the rate I'm painting these days

>>51456494
Meant for >>51454439

>>51454439
2 BaCs, a BoP, a LR, a Rhino, a Vindicator, some 1000pts of Chaos Daemons. Also have Nagash and a fantasy necromancer which I got for ex-gf to paint at the time so I doubt those will ever see the light of day.

>>51456333
I don't know, I feel like a little kid about and think its really cool because skull, but you gotta start somewhere I seem.
Im getting a mix of "Thats really fucking cool" and "Thats cool, but it doesnt feel really deldary, but its still good" reactions from friends and /tg/ which is odd.

>>51455561
Even something like plastic glue can be used to mask seams like that.

>>51454439
Got a hole new Tzeentch army to paint, and some left over Khorne stuff. The rest of my khorne is painted up and based proper but shiny toy syndrome has got me and all i want to do is my new stuff right now.

>>51456431
thnks. actually it was lighter but I felt it was too bright so I dulled it down with nuln oil, the problem might be that the highlights aren't smooth enough so they just make the overall whole mini look like a gray blur instead of having much contrast. and yeah that camera doesn't help either. gonna try to make more contrast probably with brighter spots especially around face

>>51454439

Right around 300 minis at the moment. Mostly infantry of all kinds but some vehicles and bigger minis mixed in there.
I just try to think about how cool it will look when everything is painted and in a display cabinet. Keeps me going.

>>51454439
I want to kill myself more than I usually do when I think about it.

>>51454439
Insurmountable wall kind of big.

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Don't know if it's his army, but there are some squats going around and ankle biting Primarchs to death at GW.

>>51456883
Only a matter of time that GW brings them back, now that there are already suitable plastic minis
>>51452182

I'm just joking, don't waste your time with GW, just buy Hasslefree Grymn.

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>>51455318

>mfw this is pretty much how my models look

>>51456883
>>51456957

it's probably just his/somebody's personal army that they run using ancient rules houseruled to current editions or even just counts-as existing units tho

>>51455483
It's carried by the airbrushed skin honestly. Nothing else is highlighted or highlighted well

>>51457058
>houseruled
it's 30k, chances are those are imperial militia

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>>51456386
muy caliente, anon

>>51456974
Really, or are you just exaggerating?

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Alright so my blood bowl team of lizardmen is coming along great! Got myself a full line of saurus, a few skinks for handling the ball, and a kroxigor for beat-downs. One last tiny model in the back, not sure if you can see him, but I'm not sure what to do with the carnosaur. I'm thinking either putting some big pom-poms in his claws and pretend he's a Bloodweiser Babe, or paint his scales in large checkered pattern or black and white stripes for a Lustrian Home-Team Referee. Can you imagine getting ejected for a foul from this guy? CRUNCH.

What would be cooler?

>>51457072
>He doesn't even bring his Primarchs to a "friendly" game of 40k to go with his Knights-Riptides-Waithknight against the newcomer of the shop

It's like you want to lose.

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>>51457128
>Alright so my blood bowl team of lizardmen is coming along great!

Bob: Skinks are about as stupid as you can get. Every time I played against them, they thought *I* was an opponent, when in fact, it was *them"!
Jim: Yesss...

>>51457128
This makes me want bloodied albino lizards

>>51457213
Well I haven't decided on a color scheme for them. Albino might work well.

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Painting blood meat is annoying as hell. Using this recipe right now, what do you think?

It's Crusted sore then mixing in more tanned flesh. Bit of dry brushing but mostly traditional highlighting. Then used Army painter's red tone in different spots to add some depth to it.

Trying to find a way to make it simple enough that a beginner can paint it but still look accurate

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>>51457420
RREEEEEEEE

>>51457437
those stubby arms look ridiculous

looks fine enough, though I'd probably take the highlighting on the bones a little brighter (unless you're already planning on doing this)

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>>51457420
>>51457437
Example of what I'm trying to figure out.

>>51457493
You leave his arms alone, he's trying his best considering he's like 8 feet tall.
It's very WIP, if it's not the inner flesh/bloody area then it's not even base coated.

>>51457318
If you do albino lizards don't do gold armor/weapons, do black or silver instead.

>>51454693
Well, the issue with that is that it's a Terminator armored Inquisitor. A model like that won't work all that well.

Anyone know of any predator scratch build plans? No luck on papercraft so far. I only really want to try with the main turret as I have a lot of plasticard and bitz sites are terrible value.

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Forge Lord kit bashed.

Is there any company that makes cute miniatures? Or at least women that don't look disgustingly ugly? The closest I can find are the Kingdom Death Pinups, but even they have ugly faces most of the time and I'd prefer full armor to these tiddie monsters.

>>51457517
>if it's not the inner flesh/bloody area then it's not even base coated.
Then it looks about as you can probably get it. Those models aren't super detailed so basic techniques can only go so far.

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>>51457606
Which is what I'm saying. Terminator Inquisitor almost always look either wonky or like a generic blinged out SM with a hat and a Big I slapped on it.
Look at Rex. He doesn't have a standard armour by any means, which is the reason why he looks good.

>Cleaning up Ghostkeel parts to prepare to convert/magnetize
>Arms sockets are literally THE perfect size of rare earth magnets, so much so it's difficult to get them out after dryfitting one in the slot

I'm starting to love Rowntree's GW. Also a lot of these parts look perfect for articulation, the ghostkeel kit seems like more of a poseable action figure than a miniature. How do I ensure this thing keeps all this articulation aside from magnetizing? Cause even the jetpack can swivel upwards!

I'm actually considering filling in the insides with milliput so it has some weight to it and treat it like an action figure.

>>51457420
>>51457437
I like him a lot, I want to get out because he's mad

>>51457606
>>51457906
You could check the urban war range by urban mammoth/scotia grendel for the termie looking dudes in the Junkers range (i believe... the roman looking guys) for something that could pass as non-standard termie armor.
Or just scratch build the square back piece on a power armor model with plastic card to make human sized terminator armor.

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>>51457906
>not just using one of the classic inquisitors in terminator armour

>>51457420
>Trying to find a way to make it simple enough that a beginner can paint it but still look accurate
Why?
If you want to take it closer to this >>51457517
you need to add a lot of detail with your painting.
Not necessarily difficult stuff, but proper highlights to visually 'sharpen' the soft board game sculpts.

Like painting the white of the skull around the eyes and reproducing the contrast of the exposed flesh vs the pale skin on the arms and legs more faithful to the reference.
Though the sculpt itself isn't overwhelmingly good you should be able to make it resemble the screenshot quite well.

>>51456547
Would be great painted on the side of a valk or some scenery as graffiti. It just doesn't look like Eldar would paint it, you know? It's not in their style.

Good job either way though, looks cool. ;)

>>51457906
Weird as it may sound, what about using a Stormcast as a base for the armor? I can probably source one from one of our shop's Sigmar players.

>>51457994
I know, I'm trying to figure out how I make a tutorial and still make this look good. I could spend hours blending it and giving it detail which isn't there but that's not the objective here. The objective is to give someone who has never painted before a brush and get them tabletop results through following a video.

>>51458023
Stormcasts are WAY bigger than space marines. If you want to use him as inquisitor he'd be comically huge for what he represents. Or maybe compensating very hard.

>>51454426
Why not just base with Zandri spray? That shit would have been awesome back when I did a bunch of skellies.

>>51458052
Well, by the time she'd be bearing Terminator armor, it's Full Chaos time. Could explain it away as mutation.

Dunno, the whole "lack of models even close to what I need" makes kitbashing fun.

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>tfw can't figure out what scheme to paint Celestine in...

I'm just not sure I could do the gold justice...

>>51456156
Looks fine in itself but something tells me it's odd for it to be a human based skull on a dark eldar ship.

>>51453633
you've inspired me to make a similar conversion from my - now former - maggoth lord, although as a Daemon prince instead of a GUO.
Good Gumbo, anon.

>>51458098
Silver with cream cloth and gold detailing.

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>>51458170
picture of said thing, forgot to attach it because I'm a dumb.

>>51458098
white with a deep purple trim is a pretty nice scheme if you want something that is seldom done

>>51454439
I actually took inventory of my backlog last fall and prioritized every kit from never paint to paint now. Now I can choose between painting stuff for my current project or just a random piece for fun. Feels good man.
A whole bunch of "never paint" I was thinking of chucking into Secret Santa this christmas and see if someone finds better use for it than I did.

>>51458190
You could say such a scheme is a... Rarity.

>>51457654
pretty sweet

>>51450642
Where did you get that marvellous soviet ork?

>>51458184
He must be known as Abortiontron.

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>>51458202
don't you fucking dare

>>51458245
Kromlech, they do great soviet, vermachs and US army orks, even some of those aussie one in shorts and polos.

>>51458098
Talking about justice, you could do like we saw recently, and make her the parangon of social justice. Purple hair, rainbow wings, etc.

>>51451285
I love the white robes and brass and martian terrain

BUT

I think it could do with a spot colour on the face and weapon or some other important parts to bring them out a bit. Also maybe make the lampost a different colour to separate it from him.

Over all very nice but a bit dispersive.

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>>51458284
This sloppy hackjobs?

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almost finished this guy, still unsure about what colour to do the beard though.
Also I can't decide on how to base him or the rest of the army, I'm thinking volcanic or ash wasteland kind of looks but both of these are pretty overdone when it comes to Chaos Dwarfs

>>51458318
not as overdone as lava

>>51458089
>she
>Dunno, the whole "lack of models even close to what I need" makes kitbashing fun.
Mh. Prodos do a line of female cheesecake chaos marines, even wearing termie armor.
Hasslefree as a power armoured libby that is pretty built, so you could get away with calling it TDA. You'd have to add chaos arrows and bling to her yourself though.
The Eisenkern minis are all plasic, and you might be able to kitbash the female ones into something looking like what you need.

Question about stripping with 91% isopropyl: if I filter out the paint sediment afterwards, can I re-use whatever I was soaking the mini in?

>>51458318
How about the floors of one of their forges/workshops?
I'm thinking stone floor with iron trims and the odd screw or pair of pliers.
Vents or piping maybe, that are connected to the fires.

>>51458378
couple of times at least

>>51458318
A spring field, full of pansies and daffodils.

>>51457654
Awesome, love that head.

>>51455428
This British guy they did a batrep with on miniwargaming had a pretty cosy blue fatigues, silver armour scheme. It was the look that convinced me Cadians could be okay and that I didn't have to break bank on FW/metal models/kitbashing a whole custom army with ebayed bits

Will provide link when i get off phone

>>51455187
You are not allowed to buy anything anymore.

>>51456192
Ditto on this question

>>51458804
I haven't bought in years, I do trades.

>>51454439
Ahriman and Gaunt Summoner on disks, Celestine, her bodyguard and Greyfax, 10 Fountain Court Guard, Dain foot and mounted and Veridyan. So, about a weeks worth of backlog.

>>51458316
Didn't say it was well done, but at least the idea makes me chuckle.

>Begone you shitlord!


Even though SJW would probably side with daemons, considering they don't have genders, race and all that.

>>51458979
>a week
Post work, you must paint crazy fast.

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I drastically underestimated how long it'd take to do 18 different paint jobs.

>>51459075
i'll dig my camera out later. I finshed Drycha this morning and am on the finishing stages of the first Fountain court guard. Now i know how i want to do them, i can start batch painting.

>>51454439

Unfinishable at this point really.

I'm a hobby hoarder / a plastic crack addict.

I need to start selling that which I have abandoned to hold on to the most recent stuff.

>>51459089
Sons of horus confirmed for worst pre-heresy scheme.

looking to possibly convert a cultist into a warpsmith for my khornestruction crew, but don't want fucking tenticles hanging all over this son of a bitch.

any tips or conversions for just a heavy tooled cultist that can counts as with an axe?

>>51459168
the standard ork mek, maybe

Give him a headswap and he might make a good mutant overseer.

>>51459089

>Not going Luna Wolves

shiggy

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Here's an Alpha Legion dude I painted up last night.

>>51459243
The armour looks really nice, the highlights on the bolter look a bit thick though.

>>51459243
Pretty nice m8.

>>51459243
Sweet

>>51459265
Thanks for pointing that out, I'll have to touch that up a bit.

>>51459243
Drill that barrel my dude.

>>51459379
Will do!
>>51459266
>>51459267
Thanks m8s

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>>51457972
>not just using one of the classic inquisitors in terminator armour

Let's go hunt some daemons!

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>>51458052
>Stormcasts are WAY bigger than space marines.

They're about one-and-a-half Johnnies tall.

>>51456883

Wait since when does GW not crucify you for talking about Squats anymore?

>>51457654

Not being able to bend forward seems like kind of a crippling handicap.

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>>51458190
>>51458202
>>51458260

Coincidentally, my children are downstairs watching MLP at this very moment.

>>51459592
It Is a great colour scheme.

I memeber the dreadnought here on WIP, took hours before anyone realised it.

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What color should I do the sail?

>Bone
>Black
>Bright blue

>>51459590

That's what the servo-arm is for lol..
But yeah, I needed something to cover up the wolf's head. So now I can practice my free hand.

>>51459649
Black and bone. I know it sucks to do, but it czn look really dope depending on your choice of pattern

>>51456156
hehe the first thing I thought of when I saw the skull was those little finger skateboards I had as a kid. Had similar style.

so guys i have a venom kit and i was thinking about converting it in something orkish, what would u suggest? Probably an orkopter is the safest bet

>>51460058
Turn into some kind of three wheeled vehicle? Like a looted wartrack sort of thing?

>>51458170
>>51458184
Ah cool, I'm glad you liked it so much! The greenstuff work I've done is all pretty basic but I'd advise you to get one of those soft tipped clay shapers to sculpt it, certainly made my life easier.

>>51459243
Not bad at all!

As others said, bolter highlights and barrel need some work, and too bad for that stain above the eye lense but pretty good otherwise!

>>51459590
It's an auto-reactive belt buckle, duh.

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>>51454439
Unfortunately just added a few more models to the pile in the last week. This is not even including my conan and zombicide haul >.> but I'll get to that after, one thing at a time.

>>51459649
I'd try orange. The red looks great by the way.

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>>51459089
Cool.

>>51460314
Aww, you've already painted most of the penises? Y'gotta be running outta steam then.
Just wait for the 1.5 dongs then.

Opinions on white spray primers? What do you use anons?

>>51460373
Rustoleum 2x primer if it wasn't always windy, cold, and/or humid up here (so much for the CA drought), started priming with Badger brush primers and an airbrush, pretty happy with that.

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I used to paint years ago.

I did this one to shake off some rust. Not sure I like how the gems turned out,

>>51460373
grey

>>51460419
brands? airbrush, spray, or brush?

>>51460408
This stuff: https://www.amazon.com/280715-American-Accents-Primer-12-Ounce/dp/B00KZ6LLZW

?

>>51460413
Gems need some edge highlights to pop them out.

Also, GW sells some "gemstone" paints that have generally positive reviews.

>>51460431
Ap spray in grey, green, olive, black and brown.

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It's my first painting. say something nice .

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Hey, anyone remembers an ork mekgun I converted? Here is the result.

>>51458155
Aren't they basically the same?

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>>51459536
But I am the daemon.

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>>51460567

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>>51460589

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>>51460589

>>51460567
>that level of greenstuff
woah

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How the fuck should i apply decals on space marine shoulders? Im loosing my mind here.

>>51460543
I can't see any fuckups from the silly angle you took the photo at, does that count?

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>>51460589

>>51460543
I like the blue, but is not finished right?

>>51460730
dont know how can i improve it?

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>>51460685
Sorry to dissapoint, but Im just starting out. This one is converted from fantasy battle cannon.

>>51460543
looks like you slapped on a layer and called it a day. use some washes.

>>51460709
This eludes me as well. I've tried everything - forcing it down with water and varnish, slight cuts, technique, but nothing works. There's always that little bit that won't smooth down.

>>51460709
>>51460774
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndsic9haHg0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7OEyMMcAd0

>>51460743
Well, the blades, teeth and tongue should been painted in a different color. The color of the base is too similiar with the skin, try some darker brown. I cant tell if you washed the miniature but if you havent you can try some seraphin sepia or even agrax earthshade on the crevices(if you are using gw paints line).
Look some tutorial on tyranids on warhammer tv, or any other painter you like.

>>51455483
Skin looks weirdly realistic. Could be the lighting in the picture. Looks good.

Everything else lacks depth or highlighting.

You're better than this, anon.

>>51460743
Use more than two colors for the whole model? Come on, anon.

>>51455483
That skin is beautiful, what is your method?

>>51457908
Bumping for this please. Really want to find a way to be able to articulate everything the kit allows. I want to be able to fully pose the whole battlesuit as I please before clipping it onto the base.

>>51460709
>>51460774
Soften with white vinegar

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>>51454439
Very old pic but I have to paint virtually every in it (aside from the Deathwatch which I gave to friend). In addition to what's in pic, I have a little more than half of a Burning of Prospero box, a Triumvirate, and a few other random odds and ends to complete also.

The worst part is I haven't learned my lesson and he army is still growing. I got outbid 20 3rd edition Stormtroopers this week and I'm still on the fence about buying an entire Warzone Mutant Chronicles Starter set to use as Stormtroopers/Acolytes/Guard.

>>51460353
Haha yeah >.> I figured I'd get the big stuff out of the way, make me feel like I've done a bigger dent than I have heheh. Lion God is next, penis tail initiating launch sequence.

can't wait, sooooo much 1.5 dongle

>>51460744
>Dissapoint
I wasn't being sarcastic, it's pretty impressive

>>51461038
I think he was trying to tell you it wasn't green stuff, but a green spru of a "fantasy battle cannon".

>>51460413
How much chinwaz did you order?

>>51461110
I hunger.

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Finished the girls for a friend last night.
Gave them a varnish coat today.

>>51460431
>This stuff?
Yep. Generally does a good job of covering, dries nicely, is far more affordable than GW primer (I mean so is most everything, but w/e).

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>>51460588
that's fucking metal as fuck

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Oil washes are fun.

>>51460729
>>51460605
Don't forget to thin your pictures.

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>>51461141
>Finished the girls for a friend last night. Gave them a coat today.

>tfw the better i get at painting the more minis I buy because i'm more confident that i can paint them correctly, but the longer it takes for me to be satisfied with each mini so i end up spending longer per model
S E N D H E L P

>>51461121
I am jelly.

>>51461283
ok I kekd

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some treasures

>>51461090
Not that poster, but now I am super disappointed. I thought that was increds GS work! :(

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>>51461283

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Hey /wip/,
Painted my first mini today and I need some c&c. I figure I need some highlights on the face, arms, hair and shins to make her less dirty looking. Is there any other advice you can give? Thanks.

>>51461141
That yellow on the doves is distracting as fuck.

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>>51461348
And a pic from the back.
Looking at her in images I probably need to do more with the saddlebags to make them pop a bit more.

>>51461348
Needs more contrast. Dunno what you did to it but it looks washed out as fuck.

Also, what the fuck is up with the texture? Is that part of the model?

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>>51461258
>Soon there will be more pics of that badass Lorgar

>>51461368
>>51461348
Your paint is grainy as fuck, are you using miniature paint? Did you prime?
Get that hair off her knee and saddlebags

Honestly the texture just means I don't think this can be salvaged.

>>51452692
Is the nozzle clogged, or is the lid glued onto the bottle?

>>51461387
I wanted it to be pastel-ly but yeah it does look a bit washed out.

The texture doesn't look anywhere near as grainy irl. I think the reason it looks like it in the pic is because I mixed a bunch of retardant with some black (4:1) and gave it a quick once over to bring out the shadows a bit but the photo appears to make them much more defined than on the model.

>>51461433
Yep, using the citadel newbie kit paints.

Got the dog hair, thanks didn't see it.

Shame it can't be salvaged. Thanks anon.

>>51461433
Also, yes I primed. Corax white spray.

Should I get white, black or the illusive grey primer?

>>51461694

Black is the most versatile. Works for pretty much everything. Ideally you want black and white for different stuff.

>>51461694
B L A C K
L
A
C
K

>>51461709
>Black is the most versatile
Why is that though?

>>51461718
Black'd?

>>51461727
?
I just always use black. It's what I started on as a 14 year old.

>>51461709
grey is the most versatile. black is for darker spectrums, white for brighter.

>>51461727

The color of the primer doesn't matter, you will be covering it up anyways. Adjusting your primer color depending on whether your painting darker colors or lighter ones only make it a bit easier to get appropriate coverage.

You can cover primer of any color with literally any other color, its just easier to make lets say bone color on top of white than black. Or dark brown on black then white.

>>51455670
Ace! whats your recipe for the skin?