Lets get a 'Thin Your Paints' thread going

>>51777648
That's not so bad, I actually like what he did with the blood

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>>51777648

>>51777648
>tyberosthegreymess.jpeg

>>51777689
Me too. The blood on skulls is a bit too much, but on the claws? I really like the effect. But the rest is making me feel good about my everage painting skills.

>>51777681
Looking at the thumbnail, it wasnt so bad. But I regret opening it.

>>51777724
>Looking at the thumbnail, it wasnt so bad. But I regret opening it.

"IT LOOKS GOOD FROM A TABLETOP DISTANCE!"

>>51777903

The color scheme on that axe and even the SW are pretty dope though.

Dark gunmetal and bronze SW with a tactical black and gold axe with blue lasers?

>>51777960
Ok,this has to be intended. You cant be THAT bad unless its on purpose.

>paint so thick you get a 2+ save

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>>51778318
T H I C K

>>51777853
Irvine has two right hands.

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>>51777761
>pupils on helmet

>>51777960
>all those faces
>killme.jpeg

>>51777879
Wait what's so bad about this one?
It looks pretty neat, if a bit dusty

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>>51778457
I love finding unattended armies and adding some googly eye spots.

>>51778458
oh Dear Regiiiiiinaaaald whare are the heretics ?

>>51778418
that's why tom is so perturbed

>>51777761
I really want to like this, but goddamn is it just so poorly painted.

>>51777648
I think I see a terminator in there!

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Here's some OC for y'all.

>>51777681
What's the base model?

>>51777761
Seen eyeballs, lost my shit

>>51777853

>Tom the Librarian

Lost.

>>51778457
It so gives it an 'Angry Marines' look.

>>51777681
This is still better than anything I can paint :(

>>51778458
No chad velencio

>>51777648
It might just be the patchy finish from what I assume is a wash over unthinned paints, but some parts of that look like they thinned their paints too much.

But yeah, why the fuck would you spend all that money on FW, and then do that to it?

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>>51781025

>>51780351
that one's not so bad
looks like one of my really old minis (i'm not a good painter)

>>51781295
what's wrong with this one?

>>51781295
there's nothing wrong with this one

>>51781295
I mean, it's not amazing, but it's not bad.

>>51777681
The paints on that one aren't particularly thick. The problem's more to do with poor coverage and lack of any real shading/highlighting. Not too different to my painting a year or two after starting out.

>>51777960
Did they basecoat by dunking them into a tin of house paint or something?

>>51778511
I think I saw these on DeviantArt, ages ago. People on there were actually saying they were well-painted... wat.

>>51778556
It only looks (mildly) passable because they actually had some idea of proper brush control and colour placement.

Still mediocre though, and the paints are still way too thick. It's just not eyefuckingly bad like >>51777960.

>>51778458
There should be a ban on painting names on base rims, unless you have solid free-handing skills. It almost always looks shitty.

>>51778673
Geez, thick paints AND mould lines.

>>51781025
This makes me want to see a well-painted Necron army in Ronald McDonald colours. Also, I'd caption it with that alert Necron saying "Kill... meeeeee...", but I'm too lazy.

>>51781408
Looks like I missed this: >>51781338

>>51781357
>>51781377
>>51781390
Yeah. It's not really good, but it's passable for tabletop.

this thread... im crying

DV terminators that I got sick of trying to salvage and started to use to test different schemes.

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>>51781510
Forgot the pic like an idiot

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Mods are asleep, post models with well-thinned paints.

>>51782441
This is alright. Paints are a little thick, but it just gives the armour a slightly textured appearance rather than coming off all gloopy. At least no detail seems to have been lost.

>>51777761
>eyes on the left model
Lost.

>>51780661
>tfw your murderboner goes soft mid genocide

>>51777648
Aren't they getting a book soon? On the one hand I would love them to get more lore, but on the other I don't trust GW not to be fucking horrible and just ruin them. Hard to see how they could work as a book, given they show up outta nowhere say nothing but flash their ID, kill everything in sight (still saying nothing), get back on ships and leave (saying nothing). Not exactly a real opening there for character development.

>>51783116
But aren't the helmet pupils a bit silly?

I don't understand how they get it on so thick. Are they taking scoops of paint and just smearing it on there?

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LOL look at this shit, fucking guy is hopeless.

>>51778458
>Reginald the white fur tiger on the left

I'm fucking critical here. I need help!

>>51784080
Lol what retard painted that guy? I hope he dropped out of the hobby years ago what the fuck does he know about painting

>>51784080
kek

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Hey guys, I have a question for you. I'm ruining the resale value of my Space Crusade, much like the guy who took this picture but: Whats this thing under the left arm supposed to be? Nade, Extra clip, toilet brush?

>>51784331
That's a stikkbomm if ever I saw one.

>>51784693
It's weirdly wide and curved in the handle part, that's the dumbest thing about the mold. I'll just work them as sticks then.

>>51780661
Oh, I remember those! I even had that exact set; they were prepainted metal/plastic figures.

>>51784331
Magazine pouch

>>51778297
it looks just like the shit i painted when i was 9 years old or some shit, save for the models not being trash

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>not throwing your model into a bucket of paint

>not using a sharpie and some crayons to paint details


Fucking tryhards

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I will expose you to what we found yesterday.
Not super-thic, just... inept.

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>>51785155

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>>51785349

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>>51785366

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>>51785392

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>>51785395

>>51785403
Does this grant Skyfire?

>>51785403
This one makes me sad

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Problem with this thread is that its about paint being slobbed on to thick, by people who didn't thin down the paint one bit. But many pictures features simply "bad painted models" which is not the same as OP requested.

Has this meme gone so far as to portray just about anything "bad" as a thin your paint kind of model? Most hobbyists who has done work in this post, is mainly suffering from not taking the time and effort that is required, and calling it a day. But that does not equal that they have slobbered on paint to thick in my opinion.

>>51781295

And photos like this really gets to me. I get it, its an expensive model and the paint job is fairly ok´ish. Id rate it tabletop standard at least. What has the "standard" come to be regarding models in the last 10 years? Hell, I remember when I started about 17+ years down the road. There was no fucking Internet even! You couldn't get a tutorial at the click of a button. You couldn't get the models you really wanted unless you used mail order. We painted like shit! Seriously, like >>51778511, this right here would have been a solid work from any of us guys back then! But its still not a case of "paints to thick"! Its just a bad paint job from someone who is clearly a beginner.

>>51786017
Don't get the shitposters get to you anon, I agree with you

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>>51777648
As someone who is failry new to this, and is yet to start painting my models, how do I avoid this? Just make sure my paints are watered down on my pallet before applying?

>>51786475
Yeah, pretty much. Paint in multiple thin layers

Also what the fuck is that and why would you have it saved

>>51784080
I feel like I'm missing a joke here. Is the guy who painted this notable?

>>51786475
Basically yes. It comes down to experience really, since thinned paints are hard to control and need more coats, noobs tend to lean towards thicker paints. But keep practicing with your thin paints, learn how to load the brush properly, how to use the brushes malleable properties to your advantage instead of an obstacle to be navigated around and remember that painting takes time and if you have to put three coats on then you have to put three coats on, no way around it.

Experience and patience really, the actual thinning of the paint itself is the easy part.

>>51786539
>>51786520
Thanks guys, going to start on my Dark Angels later on today, will post results.

>>51786525
That's one of Duncan Rhodes' first minis

>>51786552
If you're talking about the Dark Vengeance pack, I recommend painting the army you're not going to use first to practice.

>>51786552
Also a shitty paintjob become twelve million times better with the application of nuln oil or agrax earthshade if you're just looking to get up to tabletop quality and not something great.

>>51786562
Well about 9 or so years ago I collected Thousand Sons, I was divided on what to go with now, either them or a Space Marine pack so just bought Dark Vengence so I could go either way. Still not sure to be honest, Thousand sons have some good units right now but I would like to go Space Marine for something different. Dark Angels seem a bit risky with the whole "One Primarch will turn traitor" shit and with most people here saying it will be The Lion.

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>>51781165

But how?? After a year of practice my minis looked like this, are yours worse?

>>51786596
I imagine there will still be a legal option to play loyalist Dark Angels even if that does happen.

But then again GW has done stupid shit in the past.

>>51781295
Are his legs on backwards?

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>>51786612

This is a great example of setting the standard of the internet to high. You, as a beginner, has started to use techniques way above your skill, before you have the basics down.
Don't get me wrong, I see what the idea behind your model was, but the execution is simply not up to the standard on many of the features. For instance, if you had ignored the "weathered" battle damage look, and put that time and energy on staying inside the lines, to begin with. This already would have looked much better. Second part, the edge highlight, its a skill that requires training, but do some research before you start out, there is simply no need to "frame" a armor panel with edge highlights, it makes it look weird and unnatural.

So, by going back to basics, simple colors, staying inside the lines, this would be so much better than an attempt to go way beyond your limits.

I wrote a piece over at wip recently, explaining how I drybrushed this guy in about 5 minutes, and added some details for an additional 5-10 minutes. A 15 minute model with an ok standard in my opinion. The point I was making with the post was, had I known how far you could go with the very basics in this hobby, my youth as a hobbyist would have been so much easier! We didn't have the Internet when I started out, and every tip and trick cost us money, so we had to rely a lot on our selves, and you cant put the blame on this nowadays. Go watch some tutorials on how to get good tabletop standards.

>>51786596
A primarch will go traitor, that doesn't mean his army necessarily will, at least not all of it. Same with the traitor that'll go loyalist.

>>51786887
Speaking of the days before the internet (or at least before I had proper access to it), back then I thought I was extremely clever to have figured out the technique that I later learned is drybrushing, and is common practice for a majority of miniature painters. I thought i had a great and brilliant original idea of how to use my worn out brushes for easy highlights, hah.
Just a random thing I came to think of. I'm not even the guy you were writing to.

>>51786887

His eye lens is pretty good.

>>51786475

Remember that you can strip paints.

Things got a lot easier for me when I realized that not ever mistake was model ruining and that I could even go back to some of my older models and redo them with better painting standards.

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>>51787921

haha, I know what you mean! Me and two friends "discovered" the art of dry-brush when having a bottle of dried out metal standing about. It was simply so dry, that when we first tried it out, no one wanted to put a new brush down. We tried to wet it up a bit, but in the end simply had dry´ish paint on a worn out brush. When we tried it on a black based model we really got the "WOW" effect going! We couldn't believe anything could look so good, with such ease!

>>51788098

Thanks. The idea behind this model was that I am introducing the hobby to my son (now soon to be 4 years of age), and have a ghazillion regular space marine primed up to practice on. The model was literally just dry-brushed for 5 minutes (see picture), and then I added details such as a shoulder number, some angel-thingy on the left pad, and eyes and a (hard to see due to light) laurels of victory on the helm. This in total was about 10 more minutes (excluding dry times). Sure it ain't no winner when it comes to quality, but Id be insanely pleased if I had owned an army of this standard when I started out. Sometimes the easy things are the best to start out with.

>>51788098
>>51788528

Oh and yes, his (as in the Tau model, I get it now!) is pretty good. I wasn't trying to bash or anything. But imagine if he had skipped the lens to make the overall model look better, that in my mind would have been a much better trade of.

>>51783093
Andy Wardle?

>>51777648
Fucking Christ!

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>>51777648
friend sent me this to fix last night

>>51778297
I was that bad when I first got in WHFB and modellism in general, you never realize how fucking bad you are doing it when you are a kid with a brush and paints

Someday I will take pictures for the enjoyment of /tg/

>>51777681
I love the theme the painter was going for but holy mess

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>>51780661
>Hitler's? moustache
>Floppy guns
>That giant on the right

Do you thin on a palette or use a wet brush?

I've tried both and in either case the majority of the paint seems to run into the creases of the model.

I've tried loading the brush less, but there's surely a balance between not overloading and not having to take literally eight or nine coats to get anything approaching coverage.

>>51792399
Thinning on a palette is more consistent, since you will usually get easily replicable consistency (but I'm lazy and just use the wet brush)

>the majority of the paint seems to run into the creases of the model.
If your paint behaves like the shade, you are thinning it too much, apply less water/thinner until you get the balance

>>51792399

Touch the wet brush on a paper towel to wick up the drippy runny excess, then you're left with the right amount of thin paint in the brush to smoothly brush on the model without running.

>>51786887
>This is a great example of setting the standard of the internet to high. You, as a beginner, has started to use techniques way above your skill, before you have the basics down.
What shitty advice.

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>>51793593
Cheers guise.
I'm starting some Malifaux Oiran, and after seeing pic related I'd really like to not fuck them up.

>>51792320
I guess if you start as a kid, I'm 26 now and I did 40k from 18 to 24. I was bad when i started, but not ''im 12 years old and this is bad ass!'' bad.

should I post my first attempts at painting?

I made them with canary yellow from michaels, had no concept of paint thinning, and when a friend told me to thin my paints, I thought he meant with actual paint thinner.

>>51796711
Do it! Let us laugh at your misfortunes... and probably post your newer models as well.

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>>51796752
I did these 6 months ago.

dreadnought is there because I was just collecting at the time.

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>>51796788
and I just finished this talos this afternoon.

>>51796797
Good work! Lacks a little dept id say, but an overall very nice job! I love the dark eldar models, but they look so hard to paint. Especially the faces and the eyes. Did they update their codex recently?

>>51797276
not super recently, but they do have a seventh ed codex.

They also got a pseudo-update with the biel-tan stuff, so several units can drop their DE flags and go ynnari.

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>>51786525
Duncan from the Warhammer TV YouTube painting videos. Here's some of his current personal stuff.