WIP - Work In Progress General

I'm rather proud of myself. I never was into painting as I always found it tedious at best, I take HUGE year+ breaks and yet now I feel like I can do this. I usually go full OCD on even a single trooper, taking 6+ hours to do one and just barely tabletop standard. Now I took on 4 FWs in the same amount of time WITH breaks and i could've cut off another 40~ minutes cause I basecoated the wrong shade of green.

I'm fucking stoked. The success is making me want to paint even more. I'm actually going to have a fully painted army, then I move on to the next.

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I entered this model in a painting competition a few weeks ago, and while I didnt win, the store told me some random guy wanted to buy my model for $50 AUD, which I accepted.

>>52442939

Nice! Usually a sign you can start taking (low level) commissions. $50 is about an appropriate price to buy that, I'm a middling painter and usually charge $25 for my services.

>>52443128
50AUD is like freedom $18

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Just about done with my two Caladius Grav Tanks.

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Just started some blight kings i picked up today instead of working on my backlog, Im going for a less corpse pale skin

>>52443263
I feel that the gold on those tanks needs some shading and highlights.

>>52443234
50aud =around 38freedom

So closer to 40ish.

>>52443462
blightkings are a fuckin blast to paint, they're so full of character
and anon, trim those nails.

>>52443539
There's actually a shit ton of both.

Gold reflects horribly and washes out tons of detail if you don't have a professional camera.

>>52443658
There's a reason why Blight Kings are constantly showing up in GDs

>it's a Duncan shows us how to paint red armor for the 17th time because some faggot on facebook is too retarded to check the backlog and whoever manages the requests is too retarded to just send them a link
I don't even need his tutorials anymore but some variety would be nice.

>>52443462
Ignore this >>52443658 post. Paint your nails instead for guaranteed replies.

>>52443933
I would love a "how to not kill yourself painting Harlequins "

>>52443933
Why don't you send him a more interesting request then?

>>52443957
Sent 12 to date asking how to paint mordheim terrain/ruins/etc

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>assembling models
>order bits I want to use
>won't here until next week

Fuck

>>52444000
This is me when I order bits for completing models and half a model is just sitting sadly on my desk for a week or two.

>>52444000
>order bits for some models
>get distracted by other projects
>when the bits eventually arrive I'd forgotten what they were for

>>52443263

They look clean theres no denying that.
But you lack contrast on parts of your pallet. The gold for instance, you have just edged it it seems, and it lacks any real depth.
My recipe for gold is
1. brown base
2. Gold
3. Agrax
4. Re-gold (remember to thin your paint and stay out of the recesses!)
5, ad a tiny dot of silver to the gold
6. repeat stage 5 about 2 times more
7 edge with the brightest highlight
7. pull out pure silver and "dot" the extreme highlights of your edge highlights.

This will give deep recesses, and high points that will give the model a good contrast between shades and highlights.

Apart from this I also would thin the red down a bit more, you can see the paint streaks, this is extra visible on larger surfaces such as these tanks.

But as I said, its nice and clean at the moment, but for Forge world expenses such as this, you should really not only aim to do your best, but to do even better!

>>52444184
Interesting recipe. Any picture of the results you get with them?

>>52444184
Honestly I truly need to take pictures with an actual camera and not my phone. Much of my work is lost in the pics but honestly looks great in person.

It's very frustrating.

>>52444184

Is there a reason you use agrax over Reichland fleshshade? I prefer the redder tone it gives personally.

>>52442939
>>52443128
Just curious, how do commission painters even make money? 50AUD for that model is what, 2-3 hours of average salary? I bet the model took longer than that to complete, and that's not counting the materials required to make it.

It's not just this example either, I see commission painters selling boxes of fully painted models for 2x-3x the price of the box itself, how can that possibly be profitable? Do they just work 12 hours a day to make up for the shitty pay?

>>52444400
Local commission painters are probbably just barely scraping by with around minimum wage. The big studios on the other hand have their offices in shitholes like Poland where the average wage is like €700 a month.

>>52444400

I don't do it as a primary income or anything. Mostly I just paint models for other people in my D&D circles. They provide the mini (typically) and I spend 2-3 hours painting it. If I have to buy it they cover those costs. Not great money, no, but it's a nice way to get some drinking money on the side. But yes, unless you're the absolute cream of the crop the income is typically pretty shit for a primary job.

>>52442510
Good job. Keep it up anon.

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>>52444211

Not the best of pictures, but heres a snapshot from my phone.

>>52444280

Well, it all depends on what you're aiming for. the Fleshshade has a lot more red in it, and is not as stark as the Agrax. But you can even experiment with purple and pink to get exiting reflections to your gold. I recommend watching SchnauzerFaceMinis on YouTube for some exiting "new thinking" when blending colors.

>>52444221

Well, as I said, it looks good. But I personally would prefer it if it was darker shades on it. heh, we all have that problem, I think I took like 6 pictures for pic related to even get close to "reality", frustrating as hell!

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using this as a winter wolf for dnd, how did i do?

>>52445045
primed white, washed blue then drybrushed grey and white with a few bright blue streaks?
it looks good

>>52442939

Why does the tiling have little penises on them?

>>52445062
Thanks
Primed with the fang, based with light grey, washed with dark blue, then white/re-wash until i was happy.

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>>52445063
>>52443128
>>52444400
thanks, sorry for the late reply, i had some mates over for a few games of sigmar killteam ( i got smashed)
i havent comission painted before, but a friend of mine gave me his space marine army and as a thankyou i'm painting a small dwarf army for him.

I'm thinking about picking up Shadow War when it comes out and using the scouts as Neophytes for my Black Templars. I'm not fond of the heads, though. Are there any good alternatives? Helmeted is probably preferred, but anything sufficiently medieval looking would be good too. I've thought about Bretonnian bits, bit I assume they're vanishingly rare these days.

>>52445240
like, its painted, but the blending is weak as fuck and its very flat

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>>52445063
no idea, it's a scibor base, i took that big head bit off and used the void area for the plaque

>>52445252
it's my first attempt at blending, can you give me some general advice on how to improve? on the blending or anything else about the model

>>52445330
you need more intermediate colours and many, many more layers
get a wet pallete

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classic GW jester colours on the waistcoak since I'm going for a carnival of chaos look as the original Realm of chaos describes Nurgle.

Still WIP

>>52444753
Eyy man, thanks a ton. I spent all night doing those, so much so I only had a nap to try and reset my sleeping pattern.

Tomorrow, I'm going to continue. Maybe 5 drones, 2 stealthsuits or even my custom Shadowsun.

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>>52445242
>plastic scouts
>not fond of the heads

Join the club.

>Are there any good alternatives?

How about Militarum Tempestus Scion heads?

Anyone still have that picture of the Greyfax model converted into a SoS?

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Working on this ruined rocks area. Can't decide if I want to apply some sand to the filler or if I want to leave it smoothish as it is now. Any thoughts?

>>52446089
What are you going for?
Fine sand or spackle or something like that? Then go with no sand.
If it's just stones between earth a few smaller bits of sand to add a bit of texture and variety is not a bad idea.

>>52446231
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GSOZnPQ7eU Something along the lines of this video's end fight. It seemed the most fitting.

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>>52444000
>tfw it's been your life for the past few years
>tfw table scattered with half-finished models all requiring something from a bits store
>tfw try to order some bits every month to finish models
>tfw some bits are always out of stock and those models will probably never get finished
>mfw get excited about a conversion idea and go through my bits

>>52446415
>>52444000
Same here right now. Got a bunch of stuff to convert but I'm still waiting on my magnets. I AM using this time to paint like a madman though, so it's not that bad.

>>52445515
Blimey, did you take my advice of doing blue over pink? Looks so much better than the original purple you had going.

>>52446988
I did Orc blood washes from Army painter over a pale flesh base. But based on your ideas yea.

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Still have to paint the body and the other wing, but Alberich's mount is coming up nicely!

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WIP Plague Marine test model.

Be honest. Do these split feet look like dicks?

http://www.mediafire.com/file/tga8ovd3peu17km/Figurepaintermagazine1to12.rar

First 12 issues of figure painter magazine. Top notch magazine by the guys at Paint and Putty. Very high quality models and tutorials and well worth a purchase since they're dirt cheap.

>>52442939
>>52444400
It's probably just a hobby thing for most people rather than a proper income, but what I don't get is why people hire others for painting their stuff in the first place. Takes away a large part of the fun in the hobby, doesn't it? For me the building/sculpting/painting of the miniatures is lke 95% if not more of the time I spend on my warhammers (not counting shitposting on /tg/ that is)

>>52447463
i personally like the feet

>>52447537
Plenty people dislike the painting.

I fucking hated painting my stuff for the longest time. Loved assembling, main reason I was in the hobby, but painting just felt like a chore. Painting didn't become something I like until I started making it routine.

>>52444400
Some do volume. If you really get it down with airbrush, base colors, wash, edge highlight, you can crank out a squad a day or even more

Others have taken to twitch streaming. If you have the personality for it and are willing to put in the effort to entertain people, twitch can be very lucrative.

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>>52444000
Such is the painful life of a kitbasher/converter.

>>52447463
If you hadn't mentioned it I might not have noticed. It vaguely looks like it on the right foot.
Still, I think you did a good job so far.

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>>52447577
Yeah I guess, I prefer converting/sculpting over painting too, but I don't think I'd ever pay for someone else to paint my dudes, feels like they'd lose a lot of the personal connection that way.

On another note, painted my first guy for the army I started a while back. Have posted a few WIP pics of the sculpting in progress, but havent gotten around to painting anything until now. Thoughts?
Went with some additional colours as it felt like I had too much red first.

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>>52448133
Old WIP I posted a while back before paint.

Random spurts of water out the airbrush. What's that about?

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hey guys, any suggestions in wich colour I should paint the stripes of my cataphracti terminators. I am going for a Salamanders scheme, so there will be lots of black and green on the armor.
So any idea wich colour would really work with black and green?

>>52448380
Red or yellow.

>>52447463
Too "Clean". Needs some gunk on it. Nurgle's rot, or typhus corrosion... Something, y'know? It's good otherwise. Maybe a teeny bit of nihilakh oxide on the copper bits?

>>52446089
are those aluminum foil rocks? looks good

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Quick update on my chaos lord. Does this necron bit look sonic cannon enough to anyone? I made a little subwoofer in the middle, still on the fence a bit. I like it, but it bumps the claws of the lord's fist some

>>52448328
We're going to need more to diagnose it.
What brand, what psi, what paints, what are you using it for. General advice is disassemble, clean all of the parts, reassemble then test.

>>52448742
milliput in baking paper but I used to do it with tin foil. Was trying a new way but roughly same results, only difference is I broke it up 75% dry instead of 100%

>>52448806
I'd cut the prongs down halfway, otherwise it looks good

>>52448806
Looks different than the official sonic cannon, but it looks good regardless.
I'm not really up to date on the rules, but how does a lord take a sonic cannon? isn't it a heavy weapon? Or is there a variation of the theme they can use now?
Askin because it seems to be bigger than bolter sized judging by the melta next to it.

>>52448328
Check your water trap. Purge your bleeder off the bottom of your air tank, if you have one. Intermittent bursts of water screams water in the air supply to me. If that doesn't do anything, then
>>52448861

>>52448380
Orange

>>52443955
This so much. I made the amazing(ly shitty) decision to buy Harlequin models as my first army I wanted to paint and play in the tabletop

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Some progress on the Sekhmets and Phosis. Don't know who has the patience to do full scarab occult termies, the trim is fiddly as fuck.

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>>52449139
>I made the amazing(ly shitty) decision to buy Harlequin models as my first army I wanted to paint and play in the tabletop

Why did you make your life so complicated?

When I bought my first box of RTB-01 beekees, I picked Blood Angels for no better reason than I had several bottles of red Testors flat enamel on hand. Keep in mind that they were just "red space marines" until 1996, when they actually got their own roolz.

>>52448957
The little release pin thing? Does look like some condensation.

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Starting my not-Necromunda ork gang, starting with the boss nob.

>>52448806
If you've got sonic weapons throughout your army, I'd say try to stick to a similar look. Honestly it looks more laser shooty than sound. 40k has my mind programmed into thinking about sound based weapons as grilles with faces molded around them but if you replicated the look across the army it could work.

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Posting the update of my Nurgle Gorebeast. It's pretty much done now, besides a final looking-over.

What do you think?

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>>52449455

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>>52449455
>>52449474

Final pic.

Is the guy who was sculpting and painting a great unclean one in here today? I wanted to show a friend a picture of their model

>>52449492
>>52449474
>>52449455
make a C
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looks pretty nice actually tho, cant wait to see it painted

>>52449308
Yeah, most water traps just have a little pin that sticks out the bottom; just push it in and you'll purge the trap.

>>52449761
Thanks! I'm not that good a painter since I'm a newcomer to the hobby but I find myself actually looking forward to painting, which is something I otherwise kinda dread.


How would I go about creating collages? I'm pretty inept at computer stuff.

>>52448887
Using it as a proxy for the burning brand of skalthrax or the new emperor's children relic thing. I'm just fluffing out the model as a huge sound cannon.

Anyone use the FW etched brass before? Would just free handing and getting decent at it be better?

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WIP pls help
I'm making a missile launcher guardsman and I want him to be wysiwyg which means he needs a lasgun in addition to the missile launcher. I want to make a lascarbine and put it on him but I don't know how to go about making a tiny sling for it.

Pic related it's the rest of his squad which I'm still working on

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>>52450225
>Would just free handing and getting decent at it be better?
better in what regard?
I mean the brass adds three dimensional detail to your model. You cannot do that with only freehand.
You can get sheets with roman numberals and use that as squadmarkings instead of trying to paint it by hand or using water transfers though.

If you are good ad painting freehand you can add a lot of detail by hand, but it's painted on. A quick aquila here and there or another small icon on a beltbuckle can add a lot, with next to no effort aside form gluing it down.

Depends on what you are trying to do really.

>>52450270
Looks neat. Dig the Pig Iron heads.
You can get a carbine with folded stock from the tank accessory sprue iirc.
In any case it'd probably be easiest to glue the rifle to the back of the mini and add the strap with a bit of thin plastic card.
I did that on the drummer here.

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>>52450444
>that green
>that yellow
>those trips
10/10 that's what orcs should look like

>>52448401
>>52449060
thx.

I will think about it and post the final result.
But it might take a while, got to finish my devastator squad first.

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Gesso is supposedly supposed to go on thicc and dry smooth, which is what I saw in the article I read. However, I'm leery and testing it on a poor wych. This is white Pro-Art Gesso mixed with Dragon Black from reaper.
What little has dried is showing promise. We'll see after work.

>>52449305
Reason I got em was I co-purchased the Death Masque box with a friend when that was still a thing, and I just simply preferred the Harlequins to the Deathwatch. Should I post pictures for everybody to tear me to shreds?

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Some marines iv been painting, thoughts?

>>52449834
Gurgled a bit so hopefully that's what it was. Cheers.

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>>52450903

>>52450903
Behold the aquamarines. Looks good, custom chapter? Really like the hand print you freehanded

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>>52450903
>Some marines iv been painting
>iv
>
>Mk IV armour

I see what you did there!

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>>52450903
>>52450918
Heeey, that's pretty good.
Dunno if I like the nutella bases though.

>>52451042
>nutella bases

looks more like marmite to me

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After the couple comments I got I revisited my sonic cannon. So, here's two possible solutions. I reworked the claw bit and added a more "40k" speaker, since anon had a good point- other than cawl, I don't remember any speaker not being a grate. They're dirty as I just cobbled them up, but that's a test cannon and not the one on the model itself. Also, on the bittom there is a nipple-mounted speaker.
Thoughts?

>>52450918
hotties

>>52450997
Thanks, an yea custom chapter not sure what to name them yet.
>>52451042
Its a bit lighter in person, but yea doesn't look great in the photo.
>>52451107
Cheers man

>>52450903
Looks really good anon, good job.

The legs look kind of unfinished though, very flat in color. Torsos and heads are fantastic though.

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>>52442447
Hey guys, about to get started on that tutorial on how to hand paint light colors

My plan is to make the one for cremes today and then yellow and white later when i can go grab my spare marines, should have it done by tonight so keep an eye out for the pdf!

>>52452378
>using a case of Yeungling as an improvised shadowbox

Pennsylvania Pride World Wide

Good evenin, gits 'n grots.
I want to make things loud now, and zog paying 40$ a mini for guitar noise marines.
I manages to source one.
I plan on brushing this on, til I get a good mold, pulling the mini out, and filling it with easy cast resin. Keep it upside down in a egg carton. Is this a good idea? Will it work? Do I need to strip the mini of it's paint beforehand?

http://www.michaels.com/castin-craft-mold-builder/10558726.html#start=5

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>>52442447
So... I just intentionally purchased a set of the worst GW minis ever sculpted off e-bay... Might buy a razorgor to go with them.

#nevarforget

On a more serious note... anyone got any ideas as how to make them look... not crap?

>>52452794

I do not... remember these. They're so awful.

>>52452794
>On a more serious note... anyone got any ideas as how to make them look... not crap?
without conversions replacing all of their everything?

not possible

Just have fun painting them. Goofy models are an entertaining break.

>>52449305
Haha! My RT-01 marines are a fetching shade of lilac with white beaks, right shoulders, hands and toes. Their hoses and left shoulders are an orange copper.... basically... all the paints that I was never going to find a use for elsewhere.... Even more surprisingly, it looks pretty good.

>>52450903
>>52450918
If there was another color added here somewhere these would look a lot better imo

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>>52452703
>I want to make things loud now, and zog paying 40$ a mini for guitar noise marines.
>I manages to source one.
>I plan on brushing this on, til I get a good mold, pulling the mini out, and filling it with easy cast resin. Keep it upside down in a egg carton. Is this a good idea?

I wouldn't do it.

>Will it work?

Probably not. There are enough details on the old guitar-slingin' noise marines that you really should use a two-part mold - a front half and a back half - and to keep the halves from sticking together, you'd at least need a bottle of rubber-to-rubber mold release.

>Do I need to strip the mini of it's paint beforehand?

You probably should. Since it's metal, you can go whole hog and use the most caustic shit in your arsenal to get the paint off.

It's been my experience that if you don't strip it, it will be in the mold when you pull the master out.

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>>52452853
>Even more surprisingly, it looks pretty good.

Pics or it didn't happen!

>>52452842
>>52452819

I've been working on replacing the old models from Space Crusade with newer ones. All the marines in my set will be the Prospero Mk II ones... which were about £14 a squad on e-bay.. with Forgeworld Rotor cannon and underslung missile launchers.

Think some of these guys will replace Genestealers in my set... The Chaos marines will be Mk III dudes... or I might just leave them. The Space Crusade Chaos Marines have always been pretty cool looking (unlike some of the other stuff from that game :P.

>>52452918
Can you reccomend a way to make a two part mold that's cheep, and doesn't use lego and oyumaru? I don't own lego, and i'm poor as shit and hoping to do this for the ~20$ mark.

>>52450903

This is a really good job. I can tell it's airbrushed, but it's not in-your-face and super obviously airbrushed like a lot of hack airbrush jobs, like a model with way too much photoshop and airbrushed makeup on.

The blending and highlighting on the blue is really great, as is the shade of light blue. The base doesn't look terrible but it looks like it could use some more steps or some decorations.

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>>52452942
Don't have any on this laptop... did track down a 10 yr old pic of a Terminator Librarian WIP in the same colours though. It was on an old Photobucket account. :P

>>52450444
It's Mr. "You Don't Need To Thin Your Paints"

>>52453038
>disguisedabaddon.jpg

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>>52453079
Sadly he's been completed since 2009, so he has arms now. I also painted a Sergeant in the same scheme... then got bored. Should probably paint the rest of the squad... and then the other 7 squads of lead terminators I have kicking about.

But I won't... These BA are going to lose some shoulder-pads when I get home. Picked up a blister of fancy ones... then I should probably finish them off and move onto the Ultramarines and Fisties for the same game.

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Painting up this atrapos for a friend, and he wanted a scheme of grey and red with a bronze superstructure.

Keeping that in ind I decided to make the red translucent and went clockwork.

Split on what combo of colors I should do for the legs. Any input on combos appreciated. Thinking of going all grey.

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>>52452378
Making progress on my tutorial piece, hopefully this ushbati bone is smooth enough for hand painted

>>52453275
His left shoulder pad seems a little wonky, maybe touch up the highlights

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>>52453275

>>52453275
I have a thing for Verdigris... I'd be constantly fighting to stop myself from breaking out the blue and lime green paints and washes :P

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>>52452996
>Can you reccomend a way to make a two part mold that's cheep, and doesn't use lego and oyumaru? I don't own lego, and i'm poor as shit and hoping to do this for the ~20$ mark.

LEGO is just the brand name. I'm sure you could find other stuff to build a small rectangular box that is secure and won't be too much trouble to get your mold out of. I got most of my ideas from da clevva ladz at Hirst Arts (http://hirstarts.com/moldmake/moldmaking.html), and they made a box out of foam core.

You can use the latex, but you'll need the mold release if you go that route. Specifically, you need rubber-to-rubber mold release (pic related). Otherwise, the first half of your mold will fuse with the second half of your mold into a solid piece of rubber.

To build a mold, I:

1). Build the box. I use LEGO, you will have to find something that works as well.
2). Put clay down in the bottom of the box.
3). Push the master down into the clay.
4). Stick a few uvva fings in the clay so the mold halves will line up when you take them out.
5). Pour the rubber over the clay and the master. It helps if you drizzle it slowly from the corner, and also if you brush on a thin coat right over the master.
6). Let the rubber vulcanize.
7). Take your box apart and remove the clay, but DO NOT REMOVE YOUR MASTER FROM THE RUBBER. You might need to trim some of the rubber with your hobby knife.
8). Paint the face and sides of the mold with mold release. Try not to get any on the master if you can help it.
9). Rebuild the box and put the first half of the mold in it with the master facing up.
10). Repeat step 5. You are now pouring the second half of your two-part mold.
11). Let the rubber vulcanize.
12). Disassemble the box and *carefully* pull the two halves of the mold apart.
13). Carefully remove the master
14). Cut the channels and vents to let your resin flow into the mold and push air out. Use a sharp hobby knife to make the cuts.
15). Bob's yer uncle. You now have a two-part mold.

>>52452794
I kind of like some of those bits. Like the one in the top right's head, or the middle's multiarms.

>>52452996
If you're very clever with the orientation you can make a 2 part mold of metal bits using cuttlefish bones. My dad is a metalsmith and did it with jewlery. He'd make a wax master, then press the tue bones together to make a mold. Then he'd pour molten silver or gold right into it.

It's a one-shot mold but it works wonderfully. Should be fine with pewter, too. Not sure about resin, though.

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>>52453356
Left shoulder is still being done, here's the right for reference.
>>52453407
Appreciated
>>52453457
I was tempted to go to town with oxide, but my bud likes his armies in mostly pristine shape. I'm a sucker for battle damage and wear though.

>>52453591
I like the bumpy finish you added to it, makes it look like actual armor

however those highleghts simply are not my taste, i think going from light red to what looks basically like black is too dramatic.

>>52453591
What copper/gold are you using? I have some GW ones, but they separated and haven't been covering too well since I mixed them back together. :/

>>52453591
Those airbrushed shadows are way too stark. They look really weird. I'd recommend you transition them more gradually.

>>52453654
>>52453725
Yeah they're a bit stark there. However, it is not as bad as the shoulder pic in person. Downside of taking pics of shiny stuff with a phone cam.
The actual shadowing looks more like the chest in >>52453275 but that came out pretty bad too. I'll definitely work on transitioning though.
>>52453665
For GW I used a combo of Hashnut Copper and Brass Scorpion. I also used Tamiya Copper XF-6 airbrushed on.

>>52453778
I'll see if I can sort my metallics when I get home... I'm feeling tempted to try painting small squad of Chaos Marines in Bronze armour with heavy Verdigris.

Select all images that match the label: wok.

At least it isn't street signs again....

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>>52453832
If you want to paint bronze play best chapter.

>not using legacy captcha in the current year

>>52454115
how do you put on legacy capture?

>>52454115
I need 5 Chaos marines for my Space Crusade board. Will probably base-coat in bronze then murder them with green and blue washes.

>>52454349
>Green and blue washes

That will do nothing to the effect of showing wear. Look up the Oxide technical paint that GW sells. That gives the results you're looking for

>>52450903
How'd you do the battle scars? X-Acto? Looks great.

>>52454394
>X-Acto

You can see in the X shaped scar they're painted on. You just highlight the scratch.

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>>52443955
>>52449139
https://youtu.be/ospUJu2L2fA
Fucking use a search engine. Jesus. Your problem has been solved.

>>52454390
I've done it before, It works about as good as the GW technical stuff... mainly because the paints I use are old Valejo ones that have separated and gone funny... a really dark blue and a scorpion green. When I mix them I get a really pale white-green that works perfectly when I use thin washes of different mixes.

Select all squares with street signs.
Captcha! Please tell me what you consider a street sign, 'cause you never accept them when I select the bloody things :P

>>52454500
>Fucking use a search engine. Jesus. Your problem has been solved.

You're talking to people too stupid to "Save As: jpeg" or to crop/resize. People too stupid to go to google.com and type in a word and instead ask "WHAT IS X" on /tg/.

>>52453040
the fuck you on about?

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An employee at my local game store tried to tell me Krylon will destroy the fine details of plastic models after some time. He recommended I buy the tall can of Chaos Black.

Is it common for LGS employees making commissions to blatantly lie to their customers?

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>>52454568
I'm never the guy complaining about spoonfeeding but I'm getting actively rankled imagining someone requesting tutorials from the paint saint that already exist. Duncan's time is very valuable to me.

What's everyone's opinion on batch painting? I finished 4 FWs in record time and I'm stoked about painting more, but having lots of infantry often puts anyone off.

So I thought, why not do them all at once? But with goals. I have 22 Fire Warriors left. Was thinking I take it in stages, day 1 I do all the underclothes, day 2 I basecoat all the armour, day 3 is details and washes etc etc until I finish all of them by Day 9 give or take.

I'd imagine it's incredibly tedious doing 22 armour basecoats f.ex but at the end of thise week and a half I'd have a mass of troops ready without any more to paint.

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>buy eldar models
>this is what I find in the box

Why

Why is this allowed?

>>52454677
>is it common for employees making commissions to fudge the truth to push a product?

nah i dont think that ever happens

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>>52452946
honestly if you were replacing space crusade stealers, I'd use the straight resculpts from deathwatch overkill

>he Space Crusade Chaos Marines have always been pretty cool looking
They'll be pretty chunky alongside modern plastics, though. I'd probably pilfer dark vengeance chosen for them, though the special weapons would be a problem.

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Anyone know if there's any suitable pauldrons bits for this guy? IMO putting some bigass pauldrons on will make it drastically less silly.

>>52454765
Welcome to Finecast®. Have fun losing half your details just trying to dig the miniature out of the fucking sprue.

>>52454765
That's pretty awful looking, but I wonder if you can even get good casts of a striking scorpion in resin anymore. Those molds cant be very good anymore.

If it's unsalvageable, call their customer service. Theyre pretty great about replacing your shit.

>>52454851
Jesus christ just end my life
>>52454860
Maybe I should, they're bubbly as hell as well

Why aren't there plastic aspects yet?

>>52454762

Paint in smaller batches. Like 5 FW per batch. It wont get so tedious and you'll see progress quicker.

>>52454769
If he had said "Citadel paints are made specifically for miniatures, it just works better than Krylon", I'd have said he was a good salesman.

But what he said was along the lines of "Don't use Krylon, you are going to destroy your models. You need to buy this can of Chaos Black."

>>52454831
There is a company that does alternate heads.
If you switch the head for something with optics and cable instead of a fishbowl thingy is also stars to look less silly.
As far as pauldrons go I think you could maybe try the ones from the demon prince plastic kit.
Or maybe a 3rd party bits seller has something appropriate.

Scibor's termie pads are supposedly even big on termies. So maybe they could fit? Not sure about the sizes though, I never had one of these robots in my hand.

>>52454893
Hm. Alright then. I did manage to knock out those 4 in around.. 5-5:30 hours. But at the very least I'll rotate. Never paint 2 batches of the same type of model in a row, I don't want to get burned out.

Thank you.

>>52454951
maybe he honestly believes that

he is wrong wither way, whiel i would not reccomend krylon for other reasons its not going to fuck up your model over time.

>>52454893
This. I like to do my core color as a large batch, but any more than 5 at once to paint color by color and lack of visual progress per model kills my speed. >>52454887
Normal bubbling and warping they generally expect you to greenstuff and hairdryer away, but if it's so prevalent the model is unsavable they should replace it. They sent me a second Draigo when I told them about how there was a great big hole through his shoulder and just today they sent me a new backpack for guilliman because I murdered him by accident. Both times zero hassle. I think they figure they gain more business by treating you well as long as you buy their expensive products.

>>52455052
Looking at the other boxes I bought at the same time, I think this level of clusterfucky bubbly shit is the standard for finecast. If I send them back, I'll get the same abysmal shit back.

Oh well, gives me sculpting practice.

>>52454677

If you buy the Krylon primers that bond to plastic or chemically etch metal, then yes you can melt your plastic if you spray a shit ton of them.

But you will notice the details going before the plastic does. If you aren't a retard and know how to do a light proper coat of primer, Krylon won't damage your plastic and is both cheaper and a better primer than GW's non-primer sprays like Chaos Black.

Are there any good, more affordable alternatives to the Citadel primer sprays? Ideally something I can get on Amazon?

Also, will any brand of super glue do for metal models? Or are there sub-species of super glues?

>>52455052
So for example you'd paint all the basecoats on all the models but you'd only continue 5 at a time? So when you finish those you realize any model you pick has a good chunk of work done already?

>>52454765
>>52454860

That is considered a good cast for Finecast. The alternative is this.

>>52455086
Finecast can be pretty awful. Good luck. I, too, hope we see new plastic aspects to encourage eldar armies that aren't a pile of jetbikes.

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>>52455106

>buying fineshit
>ever
>hey guys, we're going to switch to a cheaper inferior material and also raise the price

>>52455102
Yeah that's how I like to roll. Like for my imperial fists I just get everybody yellow first. Then like you say, a little easier to pick up and paint any individual.

>>52455090

There are many spray paints that are cheaper than Citadel and work better. The easiest to work with are Tamiya Surface Primer and Army Painter, but they cost as much as GW.

Cheap primers that are good are Duplicolor, Krylon, Rustoleum, and Halford. Just make sure it is some combination of flat, acrylic, sandable, and primer. You don't want to be buying enamels, lacquers, non-primers, etc so looking for keywords such as "sandable" "primer" "acrylic" "flat/matte" will help you buy the right can. Krylon and Duplicolor can be had for $1-5.

Super glues come in both thick and thin formulas. Thick gels tend to be easier to work with as you can let go of the pieces and they will resist gravity faster, and it doesn't drip everywhere. But thin superglue is also good if you know how to work with it. It's personal preference.

>>52454981
The tone of this post is not condescension, but actual curiosity.

What are the downsides of Krylon? And what are some alternative primers? I've always used Krylon because of price and availability. It hasn't always been perfect, but I've always blamed the mistakes on user error. Rustoleum is the other brand at Walmart, is one superior to the other?

>>52455154

Finecast price went up because they released it in June/July, the same time frame they raise prices every year. They didn't raise it because they switched to Finecast, they raised everything. What they did do was switch to a supposedly superior material in an inferior way, and then failed to deliver the promised lower prices the superior material was supposed to offer. I will take good resin over metal any day, GW just fucked up with Finecast.

>>52455160
That actually sounds dope as hell. It's basically both types of batch painting in one. It's still tedious as fuck painting so many basecoats but it's like a trial by fire in and of itself. They're the most mind-numbing parts of painting any model in my opinion.

>tfw found out that the Nob Kombi Rokkit bit has both hands molded on
But I wanted to give my Power Klaw Nobz those.

>>52455179
>What are the downsides of Krylon?

You might buy the wrong type of paint.
It might be less humidity resistant than others.
You might spray it wrong and fuck up your model because you're not used to the spray pressure and nozzle pattern.
You might not be able to strip your miniature because you bought a strong bonding type of can.
You might not have it available in your area.
Your area might overcharge you for it (though it will still be less than GW).
You might not find the color you want if something other than black/white/gray/basic colors.

Rustoleum is better than Krylon simply because they make more sandable primers. Krylon makes a whole lot of shit, but if you have a sandable flat acrylic from Rustoleum and a sandable flat acrylic from Krylon the only difference between the two will be price and how the can sprays. They are both primers so it doesn't matter if one is "inferior" to the other in terms of the paint and texture it's putting on the model.

>>52455197
Yknow what's awesome right now is I have a newbie painter friend splitting a deathwatch army with me. I have him basecoating all the black, silver and red and the bases while I do all the accessories, highlights, and details. Plowing through this shit in assembly line mode.

>>52449312
Is that from the FW Kommando conversion set, my fellow Blood Axe?

>>52455271
that IS awesome, it'll be done in no time at all! I'm hoping to finish painting 2K worth of Tau by Summer so I can get to work revamping my Thousand Sons. Exalted Sorcerers, Magnus, 30k Ahriman converted and maaaaybe changing my termies to IW/WE and getting a box of Scarab Occult to replace them.

Busy busy but by the end I'll have like 4 2K armies. I will manage, I have the fire now. I am growing stronger.

>>52455179
all of this>>52455221
and the fact that its super easy to fill detail since those paints are not necessarily made for such small detail, you have to be careful or else you get a chunky model like some people post on this thread.

people have the misconception that you have to coat the model until its completely white / black, but in reality you only need to dust it.

>>52455348
Certainly is, finally have a reason to use it!

>>52455457
Do you have any pics of any of the other bits painted up? Unpainted they don't look all that good to me, like a 3rd party set, but I dunno. Maybe they'll look better if I actually see a painted example?

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>>52455384
Noice. I gotta say I find it much easier to bounce between painting units from two different armies. Definitely helps with the tedium.

My to do list for this year is 2 more killteams and a corvus, the imperial triumvirates, a unit of fallen, the second half of my scions, a stode squad, clean up my old GKs, and bang out the second half of an imperial fists mechanized detatchment. Im very glad that death guard are getting a turn, all this imperial attention is murdering my backlog progress!

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>>52455628
That sounds daunting as fuck but I have faith in you bro. I have discovered a newfound energy for painting and getting shit done. I have been idle for too long, years in fact. Collecting and making lists, not even fucking playing! but now I'm getting back to it and I will have these done.

Looking forward in particular to painting Magnus. I am going to have a fucking field day. Gonna get a bunch of new paints for my TS in general, but they'll make him look glorious (at least I'll try, I'm no Duncan)

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made a rapier from leftover lascannons, i used pintleweapon arms from a predator kit connected to a valkyrie instrument panel, looks way less stupid than the fw operator. the tracks are mantic

>>52455977
From the thumbnail I wouldn't have known it wasn't a regular rapier. I think you done good.

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Can i get some opinions on those faceless horrors?

Tried to difference my troop with some varience

Anyone mind posting some blood angels (and any successor chapters) or imperial fists? I'm trying to decide on an army and need inspiration

>>52455977

The steering wheel is too high up on the weapon.

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>>52456312
Ill post a couple dudes. Mine are mostly okay.

Having painted other armies now, I gotta say yellow is just unpleasant. Mistakes are very annoying to fix. I like the generic ness of fists but bangles do offer a bit more unique flavor.

>>52454765
I had the same thing happen with Incubi. Thought they were just a shitty recast at the time

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>>52442447
Been making terrain.

Still need to put a base down for the hills.

>>52456402
>Bato on the heavy bolter

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>>52456312
Here's some others.

>>52456402
>>52456456
Thanks anon!

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>>52456455
This pleases me.

I painted that captain a little while ago now but he'll always be my favorite. Punches out necron characters and doesn't afraid of anything.

>>52442447
>Ready to paint
>actually feeling good.
>the critical basecoat color I need is missing from my paint drawer
>literally the only paint I have missing

GOD fucking dammit

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>>52456567
No problem. I hope you enjoy whatever you choose. Sorry, I just realized I forgot to resize everything.

Looking to prime my first models, trying to figure out the best way to go about it. From watching videos, it seems the main two methods are either having it on a flat plane which you rotate as you spray, or having it mounted on top of something like a water bottle which you can then maneuver to get more angles. While I think the second method sounds better, I lack the putty used in their examples to affix the base to the cap. Could a loop of tape (duct or scotch) server a similar purpose?

And/or how do you kind anons handle your priming?

>>52456728
Also, how do you guys thin your paints? The two main methods I've read about are either:
1. Getting paint on brush, then quickly dipping in water cup
Or
2. Putting paint on palette, then adding a bit of water to your paint-pools.

Would either of these be fine?

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>>52456673
Aaaaaa. I just did this too.
>>pumped to paint guilliman and friends
>>get up early to prime. Drove an hour over the weekend to the gw so I could have all the paint I needed
>>I've used up all my black primer
>>I have to wait until next week for a day off

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Still got a load to do before I start basing but does anyone have any suggestions for what type of basing would look good?

>>52449940
ms paint

>>52456742
Im no expert but I think 1 will ruin your brush over time as paint gets pulled up by the water and into the interior of the brush.

I use 2.

>>52456781
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bIKwVvhEDU

>>52456781
I kinda like the idea of some unnatural looking flora - Blue grass and bright flowers or some shit, get a slight Pandora look going? Might contrast nicely
t. shitter who doesn't know what he's doing but likes blue

>>52456281
pic is too dark and area in question is not in frame. I'd like to help you but can't with this photo

>>52456785
Thank you!

>>52456281
They look good. I remember seeing a tutorial for something similar a while ago. Make sure your greenstuff is smooth. >>52456893 This dude is madly photo-autistic and/or his eyes don't work properly/he doesn't know how to change the brightness on his monitor

>>52456742
Duncan uses method #1, but I use method #2. I guess both are OK, because I don't have the problem >>52456785 is describing.

>>52456728
https://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Priming_With_Acrylic_Gesso

>>52456281

Cook as shit. I wish I wasn't autistic when it came to Greenstuff.

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>>52454831

Puppets war makes some pads that look very much like the forgeworld Knight shoulders. Not sure if they'd be sized properly for the bot but if you want to take a stab it might be cool

https://puppetswar.eu/product.php?id_product=197

>>52454831
I've seen Centurion shoulder pads and Imperial Knight leg plates (ones on the thighs) being used.

What's a good humidity to be painting in? I bought a gage I keep on my desk and its in the "comfort zone" at the moment, which is around 50

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ive never bought a forge world model before, do these guys come with only 5 marines or 10? and do they come with weapons

>>52457241
Ooh, that's nice. May experiment with it in the future.

>>52457783

Here's my example >>52450572

Gonna check on it when I get home from work in about 2 hours

>>52454765
Eldar have eviscerators too?

>>52457841

It's a biting blade. Iirc, more hits give more strength

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>>52456146
thank you anon

>>52456330
i was just gonig to argue you when i noticed you are right, the lascannons are mounted on the land raider bit that normally holds de heavy bolters. i lined everything up not noticing the whole thing was pointing up ever so slightly. i chopped a little bit of the steeringrod and leveled the guns out again. now it's just flush with the cover of the cannons and the space marine also does not lean backwards anymore (he's not glued on yet). to tired to take new pics but thank you for keeping me sharp anon!

also, my box raider is almost ready for paint! but i think i'm going to use it for 30k so now i have to scrape off the eagles en the veteran crosses is guess

>>52454765
>>52455124

Literally chinashit is better than this. How fucking shameful to be selling a worse product than the gooks who sell for half price.

>>52456742

You should make yourself a wet palette and use method 2. All you need is some tupperware, paper towels, and parchment paper.

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Sup WIP, bought chinacast from Z, gotta admit, I'm impressed. Fuck paying forge world for a horde army. They actually look decent, had 3 bubbles so far, some warping, but nothing that can't be fixed with hot water and greenstuff.

I'll post more when they're all painted up.

>>52457635
>do these guys come with only 5 marines or 10? and do they come with weapons

When I bought Mk III's all those years ago, I got five guys and no guns.

>>52458040

Those are hella shiny. You're going to want to scrub them in some water with dish soap.

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Someone post cool leman russ conversion ideas, bonus points if it's "realistic" ie not a giant moving building and isn't a ww2 tank converted

>>52458302
Going to be hard to get a realistic tank and not have spergs freak out on your for modelling for advantage. Either you keep the height but make it a lot longer/wider or you keep the length/width but make it shorter.

>>52458177
Thanks dude, I was debating, but that's seals the deal. I realize it's part of the molding process, but I'm really angsty about finishing these.

>>52453344
How the actualy fuck did you hand paint that so smooth? My light colors are clumpy as fuck

>>52452378
>yeungling
My man
in PA?

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>>52458318
Is there any way to small the side tracks smaller? I want them to be more rectangular and like this.
Anyone know how this was done? I'd probably really want to do this if I could, is it possible with only a leman russ? I see chimera bits

>>52458437
It's an old chimera that came with individual road wheels. He's chopped up the side panels and used the road wheels in a more traditional manner instead of closing them in with the second side plate that you normally see on it.

You can't do that with the new kits, at least, not without sourcing new road wheels from elsewhere.

Im trying to get a definitive on this because I've had different responses from different sources. Do gw color sprays like retributor armor need to be applied over a black (or other color) primer or do they themselves function as primers?

>>52458437
>>that sexy low profile and sloped armor
Damn, girl. What you doing later?

>>52458663
They, like all spray cans GW sells, are not primers. That said, if you're spraying over plastic it doesn't really matter. A thin coat of primer would help, but it isn't mandatory.

>>52443950
underrated af

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Terminator Sgt

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>>52459548
here he is closer to being finished

>>52456652
>Punches out necron characters and doesn't afraid of anything.
sounds awesome

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>>52450572

Well, here it is. That shit really does shrink up. Time to do the rest, then.

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>>52457635 cmon maaaan

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http://spikedmini.blogspot.com/
My WIP for my N7 armored Terminator Sgt. I talk mostly on my blog. I am trying to use it to keep track of my progress

>>52459290
...huh.
So is there any actual difference in the nature of retributor armor spray compared to chaos black?

I'm just trying to do right by my fancy primarch buddy here.

Thanks for the knowledge.

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>>52459623
He's kind of a pimp. I give him the primarch's wrath and he hangs out with some heavy bolter devs. In his first fight he solo'd goku the diviner with his fists and survived to endgame against the lychguard mob. I gave him a power sword after that. After surviving against impossible odds for months of gaming, he faced the necrons again. I lost all my armor support early. He charged alone into the midfield to challenge the overlord and lychguard retinue, wrecks the lord, wins the combat, sweeps the entire squad. Does the same with immortals and some other shmucks. Finally loses his last wound on the final turn to overwatch from a warrior mob. Nearly won me the game. Saved his marines and drew all the enemy fire with his sacrifice. Total hero.

>>52452794
Holy fuck. First time in 17 years that I have ever seen these models.

Welp, my latest order of Kingdom Death resin minis came in (fucking resin, can't wait for the hard plastic KS stuff)... and I dropped one of them onto black top. So now I have to glue it back together in really inconvenient spots and a less interesting pose.

Thinking of doing some blood angels conversions, namely dante and mephiston.

Do you think using the knight azyros and knight venator from the stormcast eternal line would work?

Here are my ideas for each, what do you think?

Dante: replace azyros head with sanguinary guard death mask, equip power axe or grand axe in sword arm. Replace shoulder pad with BA shoulder pad. Replace lantern arm with pistol weapon. Replace wings with jump pack (unsure)

Mephiston: Replace venator helm with (??, his face is sort of his trademark, would a helmet be acceptable?), swap torso for BA power armor along with shoulder pads. Use azyros sword or other power sword. Replace wings with dark elder scourge wings . Replace bow string arm with plasma pistol

>>52460764
Mephiston wouldn't be Mephiston without the popped collars.

>>52445515
>carnival of chaos
Fuckin' A, man. If you can find a nice middle-ground with the carnival aspect and horror of Nurgle, that would be pretty spiffy, I have to say.

As for the model, the eye is a little too jarring. It looks too much like it was just "painted on", rather than it actually being part of him. Some shading would do well to help that. Also, the buboes similarly have too much contrast. Not saying you can't rock them, just that you need to try and build up to the yellow from the purple/pink, like the skin has been distended to the point it's now clear and the color of the pus shows through. Those are just my thoughts, however. Take it as you will.

>>52460858
I haven't been able to find anyway to recreate his popped collar and pimp cape sadly.

Need to up my Greenstuff game

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Finished building my Coronus Grav Carriers. Even by FW quality there's quite a few mold lines and such and a few spots I still have to fill/sand. These are great and beefy models but I'm really surprised how much more work for cleanup is needed compared to the Caladius.

Also fuck having a viewable interior, the structural integrity of the model is horrifically compromised if the rear hatch isn't sealed. It will literally creak when the doors are down

Deathwatch for scale; these are fucking big.

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Finished the model I've been working on for the last two weeks. I struggled with this every step of the way.

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>>52461125
And the back.

>>52461125
>>52461140
Good job, anon. Looks really nice.

>>52460986
I think the original model really only suffers from the arm pose. IMO arm swaps might be the best way to modernize it.

>>52455977
What models are the tracks from specifically? I have to build 5 chaos rapiers eventually and I'd rather get something that looks better than Poundland-tier toys.

>>52452794
Take a Chaos Spawn kit, and use those arms to add onto some of these guys, along with swapping out a few heads, like the bottom right guy could use a new head, bottom left needs a headswap and some more insect arms and tentacles to make it alright.
Top right is utter shite, maybe replace his head with something, and replace his right arm (The one he has raised over his head) with a regular pistol arm.

The center model though, that guy actually looks pretty cool. I would honestly love taking this guy and just swapping his legs with one from the newer Space Marine kit, and calling it good. I've been hunting around on Ebay for the center dude alone just to have a good looking Aspiring champion.

In the fluff, do SM Dreadnaught pilots have limbs that would show if you say, blew the Dreadnaught's arm off?

>>52456450
Nice keep up the good work is that FoW? If so feel free to post it in the FoW General too :) Good job!

>>52461642
No, Dreadnought "pilots" aren't like regular suits. Come to think of it I don't think suits work like that in 40k in general. The two prominent ones are Dreadnoughts and Tau battlesuits, both of which have the pilot stuck in the chest cavity.

Also the DN pilot is a corpse. Sometimes he doesn't even HAVE limbs. They're giant ECG machines with guns.

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>>52459548
Look at this pic motherfucker, look at it >>52458437

It is 83kb and it still does its job, we dont need to see your shitty figure in 3.74 mb's.
Get your act together, all of you.

>>52461736
That's a great explanation, thanks. I'm way out of touch with the fluff. Are there any GW images of the wires connecting the arm to the chest?

>>52461736
The Night lords novels have chapters from a dreadnaught perspective.

You're inside a giant fish bowl where you can move your actual body around and feel everything it feels but you're also connected to the dreadnaught which will respond to commands. It's like 1 brain hooked up to 2 bodies and you can feel both's senses at once and know they're distinct.

>>52461736
Not sure but I didn't think the Tau used direct neural implants inside the suit. In fire warrior (game though it be) in any case they move around in the suit to move it.

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>>52461780
So the pilot inside is fully conscious and aware they're a slab of grinded-up meat and can move and look at the stumps and wires.

Great. I need a drink.

>>52461767
Dunno how official this is but it captures the jist of the average DN pilot.

>>52461812
They do? I don't remember Crisis Suits being in the game at all. And yeah, they use an implant kinda like the Matrix uplink thing. Some get so used it they develop that neuroses where they feel phantom pain when their suit suffers damage.

It also describes some pilots being dumbfounded as to why they can't fly in their real bodies, which sounds silly but I know exactly what that's like due to a lucid dream I once had. I could will myself to float with barely a thought and it felt so natural, like breathing, like I was always able to do that. That part of the fluff stuck with me for that reason.

>>52461844
I wish Tau fluff returned to that kind of shit. A lot of the Fire Caste endure a lot of psychological drawbacks thanks to their technology. Pathfinders handling radioactive weapons with little to no shielding, stealthsuit pilot becoming awkward loners, Ghostkeel pilots become NEETs who talk to their AIs, Crisis pilots having phantom pain. I love that shit.

>>52461828
Thanks mate. Doesn't quite work for what I have in mind but it's a good reference.

>>52450918
>>52450903
What's the process for the color layering like that? I've been dying to use an airbrush on some infantry but haven't been brave enough yet.

>>52461140
That fuel meter or whatever it's looks awesome

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>>52461828
Eddie?

>>52456781
Some warm dead grasses matted over a dark brown base - it would bring out the gold in your bark without overwhelming the balance of cool/warm you have on the mini.
>>52461125
Excellent edge highlights! All I would suggest is bringing out the chain across his shoulders with the same brass as his sword.

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>>52452794
I do not think I have actually ever seen those before. Are they metal?

>>52462943
They're metal. GW only sold them for about a year or so before the released the plastic kit.
They were universally hated.

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>>52456781
Went for a pretty simple base, it still looks like it's missing something though. Any suggestions for improvements?

>>52463139
A spot of color might look nice.
Maybe a few mushrooms? or some fallen leaves or a branch here and there.

though it looks good as is.

>>52463139
It's really generic and.. why? It's not badly done but simply why? What model are you putting on it that ways bright green and black to make it pop?

>>52463139
I'd probably have used a warmer brown for the dirt, play off the brown you've used in the recesses of the bark

Simple's good, though. Elaborate centerpiece models don't need more shit competing for attention.

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>>52458437
Looks like the front glacis of a chimera with the rear and bottom of a Leman russ. Turret is from the older Russ kit, with what looks like a heavily modified lascannon as the gun.

The treads aren't as tricky as they look. Older Russes come with an entire bobby suspension setup that includes a whole pile of those little round wheels that the treads are supposed to stick to. The modeler here appears to have used that and simply omitted the addition of the outside plate, letting the bobbies and treads hang free.

Actually he seems to have moved the bobbies around a bit, but not by much. I don't recommend following this, it's a motherfucker to kitbash and would leave bits snapping off the sides if you aren't careful with it.

A better solution might be a correctly sized 3rd party model, such as the Mad Robot Miniatures tank (pic related). Sure, geedubs employees will probably balk at you (probably) but it's the right size and looks hella sweet. Can't remember where but I saw it next to an LRBT once, it's the same overall length, width and height.

>>52454765
That's how the Sgt Telion Model came out, its fucking infuriating cuz then you have to clean off all that shit. Fucking pissed.

>>52456652
Nice to see red shoulders IF for a change!

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hopefully I can finish the rest before getting distracted again

>>52463643
dude, I like the work on those Militarum troopers
did you make the knives yourself? and how much is greenstuffed?

Has anyone seen or tried to do a dullahan chaos warriors army?

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>>52463654
The swords are from the stormtrooper kit. Building an army of them means I had a truckload lying around. Shield arms (and eventual shields) are from the sigmarine footmen. There's not.. too much greenstuff, mostly just filling gaps and the occasional khorne symbol. Had to rebuild one abdominal plate but that's about it.

The real hurdle was dremeling the heads and neck areas out enough to fit the headswaps in. Could have just used the multipart blood warriors instead of the starter set ones, but I wanted the more dynamic poses.

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Y'all are gonna love this.

For the longest time I was frustrated by three things:

1. How awesome heavy artillery carriages are.
2. How expensive the Forge World model is.
3. How bulky it is, which is an issue when you want to fit your entire army into a pair of steamer trunks.

So I made this. A 3d printed model of a gun carriage that fits the gun deck of a Basilisk. It's bigger than the FW model in pretty much every dimension (by anywhere from 0.5-1.p inches), but as an Artillery unit that doesn't matter much. Combined with some Zinge 28mm wheels it makes a damn good conversion. And my Basilisk guns are magnetized, so I can swap them out at my leisure.

Gonna put some grubblies on it and go to town on anything that's not TEQ.

I think I made the model public. It costs about $20 to print, and the wheels are another $10. A bit of money but a far cry from the $120 you'd pay for a Forge World gun carriage. Smaller too, if you have some magnetized basilisks.

Could also theoretically fit the MaxMini siege gun I've seen floating around.

>>52461140

Well its.. well at least its painted, thumbs up for that at least.

>>52463643
>Those chaos manacles
>That deathwatch dude already pointing the bolter at him
Kekest

>>52463757
That's pretty ace anon.
Put some rivets on that thing and it'd be perfect.

Fuck you for making me want to start playing IG again.

>>52461762
Sorry, I should have resized...but I mean damn it's not that shitty.

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>>52444000
What about this
>have cool idea for a conversion
>acquire the parts
>start building going good.jpg
>Realize when 80% done with building that I need to greenstuff a key part
>don't have the necessary greenstuff skill
>get depressed and move on to a new project
>feel shame every time i glance at the half finished models.

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Rate my mek gun, /tg

>>52463857
don't worry officer these are just.. halo manacles

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>>52456783
Thanks mate!

>>52463969
you're already using the easiest stuff to work with. But Milliput is sandable post drying so you can work it down that way instead.

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What's a good modelling putty? I was gonna fix some cracks on a project I was working on and the little green stuff I had was all stiff and hard as fuck to work, and I decided it was no good. I need something soft and pliable. Liquid green stuff won't work, the spaces are too big for it to fill.

>>52463747
that's really cool shit, anon! I'm gonna steal this for one of my characters!
kudos!

>>52463993
Tamiya putty, squadron green, milliput.

>>52463990
There has to be something softer. I tried mixing a small amount and my fingers hurt like hell. And even with a tool I could barely get the two to mix in any way. It's like trying to knead bitumen. If I try to apply this onto the model, I'm likely to break it, if I am even able to mix the stuff.

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>>52464031
Go nuts, bro.

The multipart guys are a bit easier to convert if you don't have a dremel. The most difficult part would be ditching the axe hand, which is just a matter of clipping the axe off and filing the hand down completely with a needle file.

>>52456747
just paint him black my friend

>>52464071
Either You're such a faggot you belong in /lgbt/ or your putty has dried out/started curing. Buy some fresh stuff.

>>52464071
Old Greenstuff gets harder to mix. You just have to mix it a few minutes it should get softer.
Milliput is basically like clay. You can add a few drops of water to soften it to the point of making it into a soft mushy paste.

>>52464054
>Tamiya putty

Might have to give that a try. This stuff is harder to mix than European royalty. And the little bit I got mixed was way too stiff to apply. Tamiya stuff looks simple enough to just squirt into the spaces, even out and sand down.

>>52461970
I just base where I put the paint on where I think light would hit, but I also use a really fine point needle in my brush so i pretty much used it like a would a paint brush. Not sure if that answers your question but let me know.

>>52450444
What is your recipe for ork skin? I'm envious as fuck

>>52458375
Consistent brush strokes all in the same direction probably

>>52464083
It'd be easy to keep the axe too, just full in the rune of khorne with greenstuff, add one half of an Aquila on both sides and "connect them" using greenstuff, and there you go, Imperial Axe from the olden days!

>>52464452
I painted these nearly 10 years ago.
So you'll have to find a modern GW equivalent or check for the corresponding Vallejo match. I found the Army Painter Dark Tone Ink to be a very close match to Devlan Mud (the opular Agrax seems to have less black in it).

Pretty simple three color recipe:
>base Catachan green
>highlight Camo green
>wash Devlan mud, make sure it settles in the recesses and not on your highlights
>rehighlight Camo green

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>>52463864

It was a warning to all mb posters, dont take it personal.

>>52464613
Strong tone is Devlan mudish. Dark tone is black.

>>52464802
The dark tone is a dark brown.
At least the bottle I have.

>>52464466
wrong.

this is why a lot of people have such a hard time painting non clumpy light colors because they always go in the same direction. each layer you need to alternate the direction of your brush strokes, so if you painting left to right one layer you need to paint up and down the next.

>>52464802
>>52464868
Wait, scratch that. You're right.

Dunno why, I only have one Army Painter ink and for some reason I thought it was the brown one.
I'm sure I used it before and it was brown.

Then again, as I said it's been a while so maybe I'm starting to imagine things.

>>52464868

I also heard that strong tone was %100 devlan mud rebranded.

>>52458302
How. do. I. get. that. grey.

I have to know.

>>52464881
Drop the namefagging.

>>52464915
use green paint.

>>52464907
I have the entire range. They all have a brownish tone to them except the blues but that's mostly because it dries so matte which looks that way for some reason.

>>52464910
It's not, it's thicker and needs less to get the same result.

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>>52464931
You think this is a motherfucking joke?

>>52464975
I'm serious, look at the tank sarge's binoculars. They are grey.
The tank is green.

>>52464986
>the tank is green

Yes I know, but it's a very grey-ish green. I'm hoping someone knows the recipe.

>>52465007
Just in case nobody shows up with a recipe I'd look around for similar paintschemes in WW2 games like boltaction.
Basically looks like a german stone-grey.

>>52458302
That's a terrible diorama, it's just a lump and then shit blocking it's view. The giant tree is even worse as it draws the eye up and away from where it should be i.e. the tank.

>>52464924
why do you care