/wip/ WIP General

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Post your work table

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gettin some iron warriors finished

>>53092229
Have you considered using some thin strips of hobby tape for those stripes? Tamiya makes some great stuff and it really makes it ez to get nice straight lines with little effort.

>>53092250
i have not! for i did not know a thing existed like that! though ill for sure look into it because i got a rhino coming up

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Brutes, brutes and more brutes

>>53092306
Masking Tape, great when you want your Hazard Stripes to be nice and parallel.

There are also airbrush templates for such things, but if you're painting by hand, Masking Tape is great stuff (also great for airbrushing).

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>>53092227
Been working on my brother's dipped magnetic Chaos army, but hopefully today I can take a break from it and work on my Krell. Also, my workspace is a mess and I need to put some of these paints away.

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I wonder if anyone will recognize someone in this picture from a past thread

>>53092447
Nice tendies

>>53092447
care to explain the row of half-filled water bottles?

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>>53091578

good lord do I know that feel. I have been stripping and repainting my miniatures and trying everything from world eaters to emperor's children to like 4 or 5 of my own custom warbands over the years. I finally settled on a happy medium by going with an obscure warband. so it's a change of pace from the usual marines everyone paints, but it's at least established so I don't have to design everything myself.

for nurgle you could go with The Cleaved, a funky looking nurgle warband that is mainstream enough lorewise to be one of the main factions listed in the 6e chaos dex, yet I've never actually seen anybody field The Cleaved IRL

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>>53092475
Gotta stay properly hydrated while building warhams

>>53092470
those are nuggies, or nugger if that poster is living in asia, you philistine

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>>53092510
>>53092470
You are both wrong

they are fat popcorn chickens that I put in the microwave for 2 and a half min
on another note, pic related are some vraks renegades I have been working on

I used the genestealer cult conversion heads and
knives on them and cut off the barrels and stocks to make their lasguns look like shotguns

>desperately waiting for my forge world shipment to arrive

>>53091067
The issue I'm running into is that within seconds of laying paint down om the palette, all the water in the paint plus any I add gets wicked away into the sponge. The pigment that's left over beads up, and trying to use it is basically drybrushing even from a full brush. Adding more water thina it out but that gets absorbed too.

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Reposting my squat. Might call him Biker Bob

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postan my alpha legion squad cause its 7am and I'm bored

>>53092758
Did Alpharius prohibit leg day?

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First model. How did I do? Still got some highlighting to do but other than that what did I fuck up?

>>53092788
You've gone outside the lines with the gold and other bits in some places. It's a pretty valid first attempt.

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>>53092788
Looks 10/10 to me anon

maybe a bit too much wash you used there, but if thats the look you were going for then I dont see any real probs

>>53092774
Had to search real deep in the bitz bags to find 5 space marine legs

they ended up being shitty chinese forge world knock offs that i picked up years ago

i feel like it gives them a very uncanny and "off" look to them. Like a bunch of alpha legionaries that scrapped together whatever armor they could find for their loyalist disguises

>>53092309
I'm the maw krusha anon from the other thread. Brutes are so fun to paint and I cusotmised both my gore hacka (one has the huge sword in one hand over his shoulder) and my brute bosses (to give them new poses) to make them stand out. Your dudes are looking good so far!

>>53092788
Did you make that all yourself?

P. impressive conversion desu

Is the shotgun from an imperial guard model, a catachan or something?

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>>53092863
your maw krusha looks great dude! Heres some more of my stuff, note the warboss isnt done

Kinda looking to get into 40k, but since I got a job my time is really limited. Are there and quick ways of painting Eldar stuff without it looking too bad? Some of the official paint schemes like Aliatoc seem like a nightmare.

>>53092999
Nah just the GSC Neophyte Hybrids box chose the shotgun rather then auto rifle.

>>53093077
They made an official model for a genestealer cultist? Forge world?

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>>53093088
Nope, GW actually released a Genestealer Cult army.
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Warhammer-40-000?Nu=product.repositoryId&N=102296+1687923141&qty=12&sorting=rec&view=table&categoryId=cat440130a-flat

The model in the image is from the Neophyte box.
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/neophite-hybrids-2016

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>>53092447
>>53092504
....and why would you open a new bottle before finished the last one?

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What are these things that come with the terminator kit?

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>>53092504

>>53093267
Power nunchuks.

They're really small bits of decoration to hang from them, probably from a shoulder piece. Goes with that sort of space catholic look.

>>53092758
Forgeworld mk4 legs are like the slim fit pants version of astartes leg armour. Love the classic plasma pose thought.

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>>53093267
Maybe scrolls like pic related.

>>53093306
They do look a lot like scrolls. Purity zeals or oaths of moment maybe.

>>53092834
It's less "uncanny" and more "comical" desu

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>>53092227

>>53092788
I'd nuln the shotgun, its looking a little shiny. Your primer looks really challky too. Good job.

>>53093271
kek

>>53093267
Look like power nun-chuku to me.

>>53093271
lel

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second half of the kill team's almost done

would like to have finished them already, but it's been raining all week and I was a dummy who forgot to prime the packs

So I've started to get a bit more serious about painting my warhams and I was wondering how do you prime arms/weapons that aren't attached yet?

>>53093847
They look good anon. Very clean and crisp.

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>>53093879
Thanks man, being able to do a bunch of successor chapters I'd never paint otherwise was pretty cool.

>>53093049
You can just get a spray can (gw is pricey but good) and some shaders/washes, they'll turn out decent enough for tabletop and if you ever wanted to go back to put in some work you can. check out some speed painting tutorials on youtube

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>>53093267
scroll holders id assume

>>53093905
what's your usual army?

>>>53091701

Know my pain...
https://youtu.be/6bGEjwSUa0E?t=6m5s

>>53093974
smurfs, with a side of guard

The watch captain will obviously be an ultramarine, because of plastic soldier nepotism. Still not sure how I want to handle the two terminators and potential dreadnought, though.

>>53093913
Space Marines do take oaths to their chapter and the Emperor before every mission. They are written and then signed by the captains of at least 4 division commanding officers. It's a tradition they take to remind themselves of their duties as well as the honour of their division.

>>53093357
This is one of the comfiest work spaces I've ever seen. Good work, anon!

>>53093357
Clean that mug!

Should plasma cannons be green or blue?

>>53094319
Depends on how the rest of the mini looks and the colours you've gone for

>>53094319
purple

>>53094319
copper or silver

>>53094319
Silver with a blue/green wash

>>53094342
I'm painting Deathwing Terminators, so they're mostly bone white with splashes of dark red and dark green.

>>53092227
Table

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Squads done. Only got 3 missile launcher teams and a chimera and I'm done for 7th!

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>>53092227
Here is my station. Currently I got all my models packed up though.

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>>53093294
>classic plasma pose

They're totally worth it.

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Me and my boy made a budget armageddon table.

>>53094684
Good work Johnny Anon

>>53093014
Heh, neat Big Butcha'

>>53094794
Bit of paint on that and 10/10 would play on.

>>53094794
Those foamblocks could really use a bit of Spackle or pva glue to hide the texture.

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Made finally made bases for my Shadow war Deer Pathfinder team. To enter in a painting/modelling competition.
All thats left is to smooth things out with liquid greenstuff, add sand/dirt to a bunch of places and then all the painting.

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>>53094981
Also a stealthsuit for the biggest base.

So if I wanted to paint my plasma cannons blue, how should I go about doing it? It looks rather complicated...

So I need to get the paint off some plastic Cadians. Is there a particular brand of simple green I should look for or watch out for?

>>53094990
>"rawr I am of skinwalker"
"so sick or your shit shas ui"

>>53095020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpSVZiYLuPY

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Im42vmG6zs

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>>53095034
Well the Shas'ui is the guy with the pistol.

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Fucking plaguebearers. I love the sculpt and I love painting them but holy fuck they take so much prep work! Four to go...

>>53094528

This looks real comfy

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>>53092227
>>53094484
>Image didn't upload...

>>53095353
herald conversion's as rad as ever

are his legs from the plaguebearer kit rather than the blight king one?

>>53095627
Thanks. His sword hand and left leg are from the herald of nurgle kit, sacrificed as I already have one. The fat leg is from a different blight king torso as I wanted him to be armour free.

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wip transporter

>>53094981
those pathfinder bases look like horderves

>>53095708
Damn, didn't even think of the herald legs. Guess that's the benefit of the start collecting boxes, loads of spare characters for parts.

>I wanted him to be armour free
And you'll paint him like one of those french gals?

>>53095742
that Shaggy on the Mystery Machine?

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Oh no

>>53094684
Oh yes, they are.

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>>53095829
Exactly.

So how do you guys use your spare bits (extra arms, heads and stuff) and your leftover sprues. Ive been wondering and id love to hear or see what you guys do.

>>53095962
Yes

>>53095068
Oh deer god

>>53096056
Mhmm imagine if that ass sat on your face.

HNNNGGGGG dat ass.

>>53094981
Deer? Antlers?

>>53094990
>>53095068
Antlers! I must see more! How did you do it?

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>>53096151

>>53096164
For the pathfinders: I scrapped a project with wildriders and still had their horns around. Just cut them off and glue them on.
Stealthsuit: Badly carved out of 3mm Plasticard. they fullfil their purpose.

>>53095967
that bottom left one actually looks real cool, and lifelike.

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>>53095742

>>53093267
They're Scroll tubes. Use em on librarians or sergeants.

>>53095397
its... its beautiful. But oh god its too much.

what materials should i use to base my minis so that it looks like they are walking through deep grass, preferably slightly dead grass

>have 8 full sprues of DA laying around
>don't even play DA
The forces of the ruinous powers are ever insidious, brothers. Be on your guard.

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Morr preserve me.
Haven't played a single game of AoS, but I have given in to the voices screaming at me to get back to my egyptian themed vampire counts... I'm actully kinda proud of some of the conversions.

>>53097354
>egyptian themed vampire counts
cause, tombkings were squatted?

>>53092035
I'm considering making a "counts as" faction for Necrons, but they are campy 70s-80s scifi fantasy. Any suggestions would be great.

Considering a Vampire from Space or a Space Wizard being the faction leader.
Zombie retro astronauts was an idea I had for basic troop choice.

>>53097413
You'll probably want to check out the Crooked Dice and Hydra Miniatures ranges.
Crooked Dice has a game called 7TV themed around 70s tv shows. They have generic (moonraker style) henchmen for which they also offer helmet with skulls. So the undead astronaut thing would be quite easy to do.
Die Hard Miniatures had a sculpt like that as well, but I don't know if they sell their mini regularly or just do KS.

Anyway Hydra Miniatures has a range called Retro Ray Gun. You can probably guess what it is like.

Reaper has more cheesy b-movie style sci.fi minis than you'd think. Martians and robots, people with rocketpacks etc.

Another thing you could look into is Bombshell Miniatures. They also do retro sci-fi, they do more of a 60s Barbarella style though.

>>53097569
Great tips! Thanks

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Ayup lads, it's me again. I've been quite busy with work and have been unable to work on my Dark Mechanicum conversions recently. However! Yesterday this little fellow arrived in the mail. Nice numbers decide what I'll make out of him!

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Is it ok to post warmachine?

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Should the goblin have a different skin tone than the Troll?

>>53097887
you could do the goblin a shade lighter to differentiate the two.

>>53097223
Can be built with patience and a tax refund.

>>53097792
>That fire light effect
Broseidon. Firelight isn't that red color. It looks like he's covered in ketchup rather than the glow from the fire.

Look up pictures of shit before you try to do it

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Hey, friend of mine did this and thinks it's sub-par. My inexpert eyes think it looks great. Thoughts?

>>53098213
It's tabletop standard. By no means sub-par, but not superb. the freehanded runes are pretty good. Shows good understanding of base, layer, shade, edge highlight and dry brushing. What would take this guy to the next level is if the gems were painted for real instead of just the lazy new GW stuff. Shortcuts like that are for painting multiple squads in one sitting, not for some HQ centerpiece guy.

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>>53092035

Hey guys, I'm looking for a sea green kind of colour like the ones on this model, I'm most familiar with GW's range. Can anyone recommend me a name?

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My first attempt at painting a 500 pt ultramarine army. whatcha think

>>53098412
>/run/uninstall_life.exe

>That is honestly art.

>>53098470

They look really nice.

>>53098470
needs waaaaaay more highlighting. everything looks pretty flat, like some off-brand toy. you also didn't stay in the lines for a lot of the gold, but it's a fair start for your first army!

>>53098470

Could use a wash and some highlighting but otherwise a pretty good start!

>>53097388
Nah I was doing that before mate. But the endtimes Death faction options allowed me to throw in quite a few TK models so I was happy.

>>53098470
wash and highlight
for the love of god, wash and highlight

>>53095397
Oh I've got the exact same airbrush box. Is it a cheap one like mine or is it the standard airbrusb box thay everyone gets?

>>53097357
Noice.

>>53097628
Of course. The image is super big, flash is used and your purple highlights are a wee bit too thick, but keep at it anon.

>>53098412
Looks like Kabalite green. Also check out Sotek Green.

>>53098470
Have you watched Duncan's tutorial on how to paint an Ultramarine, or very simply a tactical marine?
Please do it.
https://youtu.be/_odi1c7ErCg

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Just finished this commission. Love doing daemon armies.

>>53100245
How long did that take you?

About 6-8 hours roughly? This doesn't include drying time from various washes. I've learned to work pretty quick. Been doing commissions for about 2 years

>>53093357
You window and view looks so similar to mine that I actually looked across my room to see if you had set up a paint station there.

Nottingham?

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Finished my second Guardians of the Covenant squad, they are ment to be tankbustin' with a droppod that luckily I'll be able to complete this month.

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>>53100705
What would you guys get, two rhinos + DV chaplain or the Dark Angels part of the Dark Vengeance pack (including said chaplain).
I already have three tactical squads, two terminator squads, devs and assault units, and 3 droppods. Only thing I lack are rhinos, but for the same price getting more minis is getting me conflicted.

>>53100705
smooth, I like

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>>53100731

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>>53100758
Last pic, second one is a bad crop.

>>53100739
Thank you!

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>>53092035
And the second clown has arrived, in all of his fat-ass glory.

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>>53100910
BUT CAN THEY TAKE THE BAT?!?!

More Joker's henchmen coming soon (hopefuly).

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>>53100910
>>53100937

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>Going to start new army to get back into the hobby with 8th edition
>Want to play Fists but don't like the colour scheme
>Iron Knights look good, very little lore so they can be your dudes to their full extent
>No painting tutorials online
>No real skill painting or working out how to paint things
>Have tiny heraldic shields which would be hell to do and don't have the bitz for them

What do? Are there any tiny shield bits out there I can use?

>>53100731
If I was you I'd go for the rhinos and chaplain. The dv minis are nice but I hate fucking monopose

>>53094990
>>53095068
So... they seek... a shrubbery?

>>53092447
Glad you changed the pee for some tsp water for the pic, anon

I'd be happy to paint those knights for ya.

>>53101018
Guardians of the Covenant anon from some posts above. All my marines have metallic armor but they have a lighter tone than those of the Iron Knights.

Iron Knights have an easy and similar scheme, you don't need great skills to make it look good.
Begin with black priming, preferably with spray, Leadbelcher base and Ironbreaker layers on top, and wash with generous Nuln Oil.

Highlight edges with Runefang Steel if you want a more detailed but obviously more demanding paintjob.
Otherwise applying a very light drybrush of Runefang Steel on metallic surfaces should do the trick to give them some nice contrast to the very dark armor you'lll end up with.

Use transfers on shoulders, drawing them is a real chore and requires a good deal of skill, time and tries.

As for the shields, I really can't recommend any bitz to use, except maybe those from Grey Knights or old Bretonnian knights, which you could find in bitz shops online.

Hope this works for you, Iron Knights is a badass chapter and I would love to see some anon working on it!

>>53101018
you could just not use the shields or whatever, its your army.

>>53101273
Thank you! You've been a massive help. Any idea where I'd find the transfers? I'd like to hope they're included on one of those massive FW sheets but I don't hold out hope.

>>53100245
>commission
Out of curiosity, how much do you charge for a model of this size?

>spend weeks gradually painting a model
>screw it up towards the end, to a point where the model needs to be stripped
>weeks of progress wasted

Every. Fucking. Time.

My going rate is usually box price. This one involved a slight conversion and build so that put it at 150. Though it was more like 125 since I give discounts for bulk.

>>53098938
Yeah, it's from a cheap Airbrush kit I bought. Gonna replace it with an iwata neo airbrush, then in 6 months replace the compressor.

Oh shit just realized. That's in Canadian. The USD would be like 100

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>>53101319
Most space marines boxes will have a transfer sheet corresponding to their type (infantry, vehicle..) which will have the shoulder transfers you need for the squad.
The problem si that Iron Knights are unorthodox in the fact that both their shoulderpads have squad icon designation, so effectively you'll need double transfers than usual. It's not a big problem tho, if you buy two boxes you'll have enough transfers for a 10 man tactical squad (20 transfers in total), a 5 man assault squad (10), a 5 man devastator squad (10), a 5 man veteran squad (10) and 10 command squad transfers. Each type of transfer is labelled in the transfer sheet, so don't worry.

It's a bummer tho, because older transfer sheets were bigger and cooler, and had more diverse designs and for different chapters too.
Nowadays you only get ultramarines chapter emblems on the standard transfer sheets. On the other hand, for infantry you only need the squad designation transfer, which luckily are universal.

For the crosses on the little shields, I don't think FW has any transfer sheet with them, and I very much doubt GW has them in their overpriced transfer sheets.
I suggest learning how to do them, and you can simply them greatly by just doing straight lines with T ends with white or silver paint. If they don't end up looking good I would suggest you don't strain too much on them, just leave the shields black and return to them once you feel confident enough to paint the crosses correctly.

>>53100731
Maybe I'm just weird but I always buy razorbacks instead of rhinos. The price difference Is practically nonexistent and you can swap the tops to have either rhino or without even magnetizing them. The Razorback kit Is the same as the Rhinos, but you get a couple sprues of weapons for a couple more bucks.

>>53101589
Thanks for the response. I might just do what >>53101309
suggested and do the chapter symbol on the shoulder pad. I know it doesn't match their scheme completely, but I'm willing to play around with it a little. I was going to designate company by kneepad instead. Disappointed to hear about how lacking the transfer sheets are. When I first started playing (4th ed I think) they had plenty of chapters on there.

>>53101018
The "shield" there Is usually called a tilting (as in jousting) plate In the lore, fits the knight theme really well, and you wont have to worry about any javelins In your underarm armor seals. I know that terminator squads come with a few. You can probably buy them separately for cheap.

>>53097248
If they're walking on a field of grass, then some appropriately colored flock should work fine. If you want them to be walking through knee or shin high grass then you will want to go for grass tufts, tho you will need a lot of them to cover whole bases.

>>53101635
Yeah, they changed it with the new marine boxes, a real shame.
On another hand, forge world has the Imperial fist transfer sheet which contains a good deal of crosses and similar (Templar design), but which you could use on your dudes if you're not too picky.

https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-JP/Imperial-Fists-Transfer-Sheet

Making the crosses on the kneepad is an excellent idea. Given that one of the kneepads usually depicts the company the marine belongs to, having the other one representing the chapter could make for a unique design.

Have you thought some army structure/company you want to represent? They have different composition and functions depending on their number into the chapter. I usually recommend starting with this and making your paint designs, icons and characters with that in mind (if you are doing 8th company the captain should be kitted towards assault while 7th should be more dakkaish, for example). That's just my autistic ways of doing anyway.

Be sure to keep us informed!

>>53101635
Here
http://www.bitzstore.com/en/space-marines-wh40k-terminators/553-space-marine-small-shield-e.html
There's your tilting plates. Almost did up that chapter but decided not to, so I'm really glad someone Is. Best of luck, Knight-Brother.

>>53101618
Mmm yeah that's a good idea. Given I'm buying them from Wayland a couple of bucks more for each is gonna give me some good flexibility.

Man I really should have gotten the troop transports sooner.

>>53101758
I'd quite like to do a battleforce rather than a company, so probably a battle company with elements of the first and reserve companies for elites/fast attacks. I'm leaning towards 3rd company as I think the red kneepad/eyes look would be quite nice. I'm tempted to paint the bolters in the old school red way but I'm worried the model will be a bit too busy.
>>53101776
Thanks Anon. I'm far from a good painter and the last time I touched a brush was years ago, so please don't hold out hope. But I'll keep you all updated nonetheless.

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>>53096627
Anon...

Anyone got any tips on painting purple armor (preferably using the GW range)?
I want to give my Orks purple armor.

>>53097887
Red goblin

>>53101838
Everyone starts out somewhere. If you've never seen Duncans first mini, look It up, you can only get better. Also,
http://www.bitzstore.com/en/space-marines-wh40k-terminators/549-space-marine-small-shield-a.html
and
http://www.bitzstore.com/en/space-marines-wh40k-terminators/551-space-marine-small-shield-c.html
Have very similar designs to what you want already built In.

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>>53101838
Red bolters are better painted with darker crimson tones, like Khorne red, as to not be too much bright.
You can try to do em but seeing as the Iron Knights favor the duality of black and steel/white, I maybe would keep them black-cased.

3rd company is always a solid choice, but 5th company really shares the color composition of your base design. Any way I see both of them fitting.

What's your "dumb idea that'll never work" that actually worked?
>currently carving bases out of Lexan

>>53103271
>currently casting hollow bases with 0.5mm floor

Pretty happy with that.

>>53103298
You wouldn't happen to be doing so for water bases, would you? I'm going the opposite route, I'm installing the original GW bases' rims over the Lexan. Same height on the mini, raised rim on the base.

Hi guys, storm bolters (and even bolters) look HUEG on humans, but I want some storm bolters for an Inquisition Kill Team. Does anyone know what the best reasonably sized storm bolters or counts as storm bolter weapons I could use?

>>53103355
Anvil's Firestorm Carbine is an over-under storm bolter scaled for humans, if it helps you.

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>>53094498
>keep having to paint the same unit or thing (robed valhallan dude#37282 in this case) for tabletop
>know people are getting sick of the same unit despite quality and such
>get no yous
One day I'll post something new, I promise.

>>53103354
Kind of. I'm gonna go with swamp for the Tau in my closet that have been collecting dust for the better part of 10 years now. Same thing though. I want to fill them with water effects.

I did something similar like you though. Cut out the top from a GW base and then glued it onto .5mm plastic card. Cut the edges flush and sanded it so it looked nice and then I made a mold of it with something else (bases with room for the integral warlord bases).

I was a bit worried about getting good casts with such a thin floor. So I tried a few things and I managed to be able to cast the bases now without the need for even sanding them flat at the bottom after demolding.
I was kind of worried about that.

I cover the open mold with a piece of glass with a some baking paper sandwitched between.
That way the resin doesn't stick to the bases and the bottoms are perfectly flat.

Pretty chuffed. I've been meaning to do some sci-fi/Space Hulk bases, now I already know how to cast them when I finally get around to that.

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>>53103456
Neat. I'm doing a batch of 10 by hand (plus two flyer bases, because I don't trust resin at that size), but then I'm gonna get around to casting it. Hopefully, the thickness will make sure casting works out. Did you have any trouble starting out with them?

I'm doing something like pic related (spoilered for mermaid breasts) for my restarted Dark Eldar; playing up the pirate theme, as well as the sky theme with a whole pile of Scourges, Reavers, and (now that a separate flyer slot exists) Razorwings, for a visual reference. I've been doing rocky bases for so many models, I wanted something different at this point.

>>53103455
I don't mind them. They're awesome models and you are doing a good job with your painting.
You were just fishing for compliments anyway, weren't you?

Have you considered doing some minor conversions on them?
I'd understand if you don't want to break such old models, but a few headswaps here and there could do wonders.
Just switch some helmet guys heads with ushanka guys' heads where thats possible. Or sculpt some fur flaps onto the helmets to make them look like an ushanka at least.

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>>53092413

I was going to paint Krell today but instead I decided to greenstuff back on a tiny little piece of his ax that was missing. Now I have to wait until tomorrow to start painting him, because it needs to cure.

I've got a bunch of other Vampire Counts models that still need to be worked on, though. I've got third party fell bats, black knights, Vlad Von Carnstein, zombies, and crypt ghouls, plus some unassembled Isabella and Spirit Hosts models. What should I work on tonight? I feel like taking a little break from painting daemons and work on some of my own stuff.

>>53103514
>Did you have any trouble starting out with them?
Yeah it took a few tries to get it right in terms of casting.

First thing I did was cast just with an open mold.
But I poured a little too much or a little less than necessary into each base a few times.
To little is easier to clean up on the full base, but left me with holes in the hollow one. Too much just won't sit right and you end up having to sand the resin down (something I'm not keen on since I'm essentially doing this in my bedroom).

Then I tried covering the mold with glass and that worked fine for about two pulls in terms of getting the bases off the glass afterwards. But I managed to trap bubbles in the bases while doing that.
Then I also ended up having to pull the bases from the glass with some tweezers, cause the resin started sticking to the glass even when I used mold release.

Anyway after a short bit of googling I found somebody mentioning baking paper.
Gave that a shot and to my surprise it works really well.

So here's how I do it now:
I make sure I have enough resin, a tiny bit of overflow is necessary for this. Then I fill the mold and carefully roll the baking paper onto the mold making sure I don't trap air. Way easier to do with paper than with glass.
Once that is done I carefully put the glass on top of that and press down in circular motions to remove the excess resin.

After about 15 minutes I can pull two perfect new bases from the mold that require virtually no cleanup.

The backing paper kind of saved my ass on this. I couldn't stand the bases with uneven bottoms.

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i tried basing one of my minis today

>>53092306
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00J3TLZQC/ref=pd_aw_lpo_23_tr_img_2/131-2190741-3147852?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=SWHXMXD9FAXZ46Y2C65K

Yeah bro its the bomb.

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Took forever, but the freebooters are finally painted.

>>53104820
I swear you guys post stupid pictures on purpose

I want to build a KoS with their upper Head hidden behind a Mask (Think Elesh-Norn or DS3 Firekeeper)

anyone happens to know any heads with that or will I have to deal with Greenstuff for this?

>>53104820
Would be so much better with some washes, desu.

>>53104994
This, already looks nice but something is missing. Great job though

I have always wondered something, do skills acquired by painting minis carry over to literally anything else?

>>53105666
well satan, they carry over to other hobbies/arts and crafts. Skills like painting with acrylics freehand and gluing crafts together.

but like most hobbies, there arent many skills that will realistically help you at an average job

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Working on my rogue Culexus assassin mercenary

Blood for the blood god is an amazing paint, looks great on cold white, it's almost tempting me to paint some pre-heresy World Eaters

Still undecided on the cloak color

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>>53092227

>>53105804
>Still undecided on the cloak color
the white skirt kind of makes me think of the mint green scrubs doctors wear in an operation room.
Though color theory says you can't go wrong with purple either.

>>53104475
>i tried basing one of my minis today

My first reaction looking at the photo was "no you didn't", the base requires some color

The model itself also requires some washes and highlights, I think nuln oil and angrax earthshade will serve you well here

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So I'm stripping some paint with methylated spirits.

Going well for the most part but the primer is basically not budging. Is that normal? I've used a GW white primer.

>>53105885
Only time I stripped was with Simple Green and that didn't do dick to the GW Black primer either

Not that I was trying to strip that, really

>>53105900

Yeah, I'm going to be priming with white again anyways so I suppose it's not so bad. I'll just have to clean it up a bit perhaps.

>>53092788
Someone tell me that's not sprue grey.

>>53105879
in the picture the sides of the base look quite a bit darker than in person, like im looking at it now and you can really see the texture of the rocks i added and the color in contrast to the rest of the base

also thanks for the wash advice i was wondering what kind i should buy to do the finishing touches

>>53104994
The skin is washed, not sure what else to wash

>>53105933
That's not sprue grey.

Stupid question, is painting leadbelcher directly over khorne red viable, or should I always reprint those areas black? Doing trim on CSM legs seems to take up a lot of my painting time.

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>>53092229
BROTHER

>>53106704
HOT DAMN FELLOW WARRIOR

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How do I paint these guys? It is apparently "Brass covered in rust and decay ", but I'm not quite certain on what to use.
I did an attempt using Warplock Bronze, then shading it with Agrax earthshade, but it feels like it needs something more. So, I tried adding in some Lamenters Yellow wash over a few places, and that makes it look more like beaten gold than brass.

Any tips or hell - anything at all would be helpful!

>>53107122
Waplock is much to dark. do the same thing but with a layer of Sycorax bronze before washing, its much lighter and duller than Warplock

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> Do you love me brrrrrrother?

> Be strong, be strong for magus.

>>53097628
yes, you just have shit taste.

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>>53107184
here is an example of how it looks with Sycorax and a Agrax wash.i like to use it for the flame part of my Word Bearers to keep it from drawing too much attention.

>>53107184
I don't currently have that one. I do have some Runelord brass which I also used. looked lighter, but again, I feel like it needs something to make it "pop" out more.

>>53107225
it looks very matte, but good.
Nice job with him. Really like the reds!

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BA Bike Sergeant all done. First time working with green stuff. Thoughts?

>>53098470
I would recomend getting a hobby drill, to make the bolters look great.

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>>53107122
here's brass scorpion over a white primer, with soft tone wash ( same as gw's flesh shade)

I would add red, purple, or green wash to it to nurgle it up, it's really up to your personal taste. see the faint red blotches on your original pic.

Water it down first and try it on the back of the mini first.

>>53101018
grey knight terminators have those. you could buy them on eBay.

>>53107255
metal/10

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>>53107248
thx, heres a better example, its very matte yes, but thats how i like it :)

>>53107497
that looks really fuzzy, did your primer not apply properly?

>>53107511
sadly yes...

>>53107497
is that... a serrated sun?

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>>53107551

>>53092447
Why do you live like an animal, Anon?

>>53107551
not realy, the symbol is not quite the same. that is an Ashen Circle Iconoclast

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Ive fucked up /wip/. I glued sand down to the base first and tried to use a super glue/green stuff combo to stick my models down but its not working very well if at all. Plz help

>>53107725
Fuck sorry for the fuck huge picture

Just break him off from the base and clean up the gunk. Remove the sand from the base were his feet will be and reglue, possibly pin him too.

>>53105840

I see that killer queen in the background anon

I put my painting brush into my coffee instead of the water, not the first time either. Kek.

>>53107874

When I was a kid I had a big gulp of my dirty as fuck paint water because it was next to my lemonade.

>>53106072
If it isn't elven steel you can always improve by washing iron colours with some black or brown and gold with a brown or flesh shade.

>>53107915
Wow, well at least the paint isn't toxic. It happens to all of us at least once I guess.

Drink the paint and become one with it, and paint better!

I have become paint, destroyer of backlogs!

>>53107763
>>53107725
What are the chances of a cover up job? Im actually pleased with the strength of the bond i just didnt expect the glue to bubble up the way it did

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>>53092227

>>53100696
I wish fella. Hobby mecca is Notts

>>53107915
Agrax within, Agrax without.

>>53107915
I have cola. Muddy paint water. and ACATONE with PAINT DISSOLVED IN all next to each other. every swig is its own puzzle.

>>53108298
I recommend you not sit in a room with an open acetone container.

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>>53092227


>>53108160
comfy af, mark me jelly

>>53108505
the only problem is i have a game night every thursday and i have to collapse my painting studio to use the table :(

>>53093357
My best mate in school had a loft conversion like this, it was sick. Used to love being 6'3" at 15 and twatting my head off his ceiling every time I stood up.

Anyone know what the display mats in the build and paint boxes are like? I'm considering buying one of the sets, but I'd like to know how big the mats are and such first, and I can't find any images online. Would they be big enough to use as a SWA board?

>>53106994
>>53106704
>>53092229
IRON WITHIN

>>53106704
Wew lad, whats those necron weapons supposed to be? Vulkites?

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>>53092227
Really need to get a proper compressor soon.

>>53095370
thanks, although the seat could be better.

>>53105666
Anything requiring good near field visual perception, attention to detail, and/or steady hands

>>53105666
found myself good at fixing shit thanks to my use of superglue, epoxy resin, and just general fine detail work

>>53103525
Everyone likes compliments!

Maybe I need more infantry I'll try that, but for the time being my backlog is almost empty, 8th is out in a month or two and I don't want to buy stuff till the rules show its face. I hope they fix ogryns so I can get some.

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>>53092447
>Thinking nobody saw you post the original.

>>53106072
EVERYTHING. Wash the skin again, too

>>53107122
dont do it fucker that's my next project. this board aint big enough for the two of us

>>53108379
it has a lid, but it is still amber, so i kinda go for it. and the paint.

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Finished my Termies for now. The goal was to get a pretty good TT standard for now, and after I'm done with the rest of my minis go back to them and pimp them up a bit. CC welcome

>>53108838
slick

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>>53100910
Daaaaam son. That shirt on the right guy looks sick.

>>53109295
show me another Nurgle-scheme to pain then that is not green or dirty, off-white then.

>>53109318
I like them, but PAINT. THEIR. EYES.
I beg you.

>>53109315
I'm more concerned about the fumes - they aren't exactly healthy.

>>53109318
I remember your marines and I know you
're going for TT, but dude - take the 10 minutes and paint their eyes.

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I just started doing orks recently. Trying to make a Warboss in mega armor. Not sure if this head works.

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>>53109836
Another angle

>>53108129

Pretty easy I think.
I might just be easier to just cut off most of the gunk and add some more basing material around his feet to cover up what's left.

>>53109836
Either the head is too big or the body is too small, they way you have it now he look like Danny DeVito

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I made a quick mockup for my DIY scenery. Skitarii (also wip) for reference, the fence is unpainted and the floor was done quickly for this mockup as this mockup is mostly just to see if the materials are good. What do you guys think?

>>53100910
>>53100937
make one a juggalo

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>>53110198

>>53109881
you say that like its a bad thing

>>53109881
>Not wanting to make Danny WaaaghVito

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>>53109881
Yeah I figured it looked a little odd.

>>53109318
Yes. Tabletop standard. Sure..

>>53110596
Are you implying it's way beyond TT, or that it's shit?

>>53110618
Way beyond TT.

Oh boy, time for the shitposting and arguing about what exactly "tabletop standard" is to start.

>>53107255
AND THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED.

>>53110827
Thanks a lot then! While I'm pleased with how they turned out I know there's a lot to improve on.

>>53108838
What's your ventilation setup like? I want to get an airbrush, but I'm worried about huffing the paint.

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>>53111343
>THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED

Send in the hotties!

>>53111630
As a polish man, I'd like to ask: What the fuck?

>>53111630
How bad is it that one of the first thing I noticed is that two chicks in the back have their braids on the wrong side?

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Now, primed Deer Tau on bases.
The primer isn't grainy, just wind throwing pigments around. The moment I pusch the spray button wind rises.

>>53093357
I lived for 5 months in a room like that, loved when it rained and the drops hit the glass, so fucking comfy

>>53112074

Had problems like that. It's not just the wind, it's many factors. Duration of you spraying, quality of paint, humidity, time of day, etc...
Try to do short bursts of spraying, about 2-3, then adjusting the mini. Also wait for paint to dry, and also take a good look between bursts.
Sometimes you are already done and every next burst may be wasted paint and layers too thick.
Also sometimes this coverage is the best you want or can get, and it is enough.

>>53109250
Nice edit anon, I wish my piss was as clear as that.

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>>53107565
In order to paint chaos, you must live in chaos.

I am becoming one with my army. (Chaos forces of Vraks)

>>53112415
looks amazing anon!

>>53112415
It's too good you gotta put thicc paint on and make it bad.

>>53112084
fucking word. i had a room like that for 6mths in 1998-99, and seeing still makes me nostalgic for that sound of rain...

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>>53111630
>cheap plastic armor
>cheap looking skirts
>all have different boots
>braids on the wrong side

No amount of Kurwas could ever express my disgust.

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What do you think of my bloodthirster lads

Just resized the pic so its not quite so retard

Would love to hear feedback

>>53112496
Looking pretty good so far, especially the gold on the axe, I really like the sort of worn look its got going on.
I think that the transition on the abs and pecs could do with being a bit subtler, it jumps to orange a little too quickly.
The belt is a bit to similar to the skin at the moment, I'd consider making it stand out slightly more
Also the fire on the whip is the wrong way round, you should start with a bright colour and work backwards.

>>53112285
It's the result of one to two burst of skull white from the top. Sometimes it's even and sometimes like this.

>>53112653

2 bursts isn't enough. Get more down, and wait between each 2-3 bursts from a different angle for the paint to dry a little bit.

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Anybody use one of these babies when painting? I find it helps me spot a lot of the fine details I would otherwise miss.

>>53109734
it is in a coffee tin. quite safe. not fumie.

>>53112691
It is the last step of priming, after full black and grey in ca. 45°. It is only supposed to be one short burst. But often enough that doesn't cover enoug.
A different angle would defeat the point.

>>53112988
Wait a sec, you primed it black, grey AND white??? Why would you do that??

>>53112496
I almost threw up after seeing those gaps and mold lines on his legs.
nice paintjob though

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>>53112773
If you're using those you're either retarded or just very old. Or possibly both.

>>53113009
When done right the model will naturally become darker as you go down.
The only real priming is done in black, the grey just covers really well over it and I tend to get too close in. due to wind pushing the spray away.

>>53113061
why's that? they work great for painting.

>>53093357
this turns me on and makes me envious.

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>>53111370
The short answer: not perfect. I have a spray booth that I set up and run through a filter - but it doesn't exhaust outside. So I make sure to only run the airbrush when I can open up my apartment. Buying a house in a few months though - I'll have a more permanent setup soon.

Unrelated, trying to learn to paint Eldar canopies. Any tips for getting a good glass look to them?

>>53105840
>>mbmbam

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>>53101018
Fuck Yeah, Iron Knights, I played one of those in Deathwatch as a Techmarine, pretty much made Iron Man.

A neat idea is to use the little shields from the Grey Knight Terminator box, they fit perfectly into the corner of the shoulderpad and look pretty neat, here is a pic of a model with one I've done, though not in the same position.

>>53112773
Yeah, I use one of them, mainly to cast light on the model from when my lamp doesn't feel good enough.

>>53112084
good shit

>>53112773
Unnecessary. I have a magnifying lamp and I hardly use it except for precise detail. Using it for everthing is has you focusing too much on shit so small it's not gonna be noticeable without the lense.

I would threat for hours as I tried to keep all the paint where it needed to be until I realized without the lense you don't even notice the minuscule imperfections.

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>>53112074
>primed Deer Tau

!!!

>>53112773

Yeah, I have an optivisor, no led light though since I've got good lighting. Great investment.

>>53113061
A fucking idiot.

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>>53113756
>being this much of a mad autist just because someone doesn't like his retarded strap-on magnifying glass

Now that's entertainment.

>>53113990
>desperately trying to be entertained at some pisspoor attempt at trolling on the internet

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>>53114165
Sure, whatever you say Geri.
Don't forget to take your medicine.

>>53112074
Oh god make it stop. One looks like he's tripping over, they all look so, so stupid.

Please send help I think I'm having an aneurysm.

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My DP conversion.

those totally aren't Hive Tyrant wings

>>53112074
any particular reason for the deer antlers, anon?

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Here I go again...

>>53112074
I feel like I must be missing something here, I don't understand the theme. The bases look cool, though they all seem a bit big and randomly themed.

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Wanted to get those sweet sweet Emperor's Champion vibes.
Pretty happy with the result, had to cut of the sword arm as it wasn't making it completely vertical and replace with a more recent one.
I like that the crest goes on pretty well, however it's just poking a wee bit too much in the back so I fear the powerpack won't be perfectly glued to the back.

Thoughts?

>>53114616
Just like the coats and boots they were always part of the initial design. You know the scary guy in some cheap horror motive who has antlers for some reason.
>>53114629
Slightly different areas in a combat zone.
Dangerous terrain of mecha tentacles
Street broken open by vegetations due to neglect
Sligthly damaged area inside some factory with cables spilling out (doesn't quite come across)
Normal river next to the streat
Area inside some factory
Newly destroyed street.

In order to portray the area in which they fight better I used bigger bases, got the okay from the organizer. All the other projects for the competition, that I've seen so far, used the gw styled bases.
Also after adding the coat the tau would have needed to go on 32mm instead anyway. 40mm now.

>>53114706
I like it it. I'm not sure if that's a mold line of the left fist or not. What kit is the body from?

>>53113592
Hello Dejarie, how is reddit?

>>53114905
It's actually the top of the thumb, I had the samr thought at first. It's kinda weirs how they sculpted it.
Torso, sword and shoulder pads are from the Company's champion of the Command Squaf kit.
Using old and new kits together really shows the difference on moldlines, moldslips and general details.

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New painter here

Could you tell me what are the easiest ways to improve (besides obviously painting more of course)?

I just finished my first termagants and whole I like the general colors my highlighting sucks..

I would like to improve before going to the bug bugs, any advice?

>>53115295
watch youtube videos on painting tips, it vastly improved my guys, watching them show you step by step shading and highlighting and such

>>53115295
I've found that painting well usually comes down to not mainly practice, but the tools, techniques, and guides you use. Creativity only gets so far in this hobby and most of the time if you want to spice your model up to look better, you need to learn from a guide or video on how to do it. Then apply those rules from those guides to colors you think would work well together. Keeping your brushes and other tools in good condition helps too. Good lightning helps as well. Don't just watch the technique used in guides and videos, watch how the painter holds his hands stead and the flow of the stroke he uses.

>>53115331

yeah, i watched many videos of blessed Duncan and generally get the idea of highlighting, BUT those thin lines along edges just look very weird when I do them (for example on the chitin on the termagant)

>>53097617
Can see your Dark Mechanicum?

how do you shade a really light green, almost yellowish? I tried it with green shade but it just looks dirty

>>53114706
Looks great anon

Mk IV armor is so sexy

>>53115644
try mixing it with agrax

>>53115663
Technically only the head is Mk4, since torso and pads are Curadh pattern, arms are mk7 and legs are mk3.
Good thing the Carcharodons do armor mismatch, it actually forced me to cure my armor autism, and it allows greater flexibility for conversions.

>>53115371
watch apatheticfish doing the emperor's champion and how he does a gradient with a brush. It's pretty basic stuff but it's a good place to start learning how to blend.

>>53115721
Curahd pattern? Thanks anon, i didnt know this was a thing. I always loved those type of shoulders

>>53115983
>The standard pattern of Champion armour -- known informally as Curadh Pattern variant armour, after a title for heroes in ancient Terran -- is laid down in the Codex Astartes. Based loosely upon Mark VII Aquila Pattern battleplate, the Curadh Pattern variant comes with additional reinforcement upon the shoulder guards, designed both to display the many badges of honour a Company Champion is entitled to wear and to provide greater protection.

It's very quickly talked about in the Company Champion's dataslate.

>>53115295

Not bad at all anon. I think focusing a bit more on neatness and thinner highlights and you'd be sitting pretty.

>>53114557
>>53114591

Brutal. Looks like it'd be a pain in the dick on the table, however. Can we get a close up of the head and chest? I'm into the melting skulls.

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Is there a picture of this guy's whole squad?

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>>53116166

The body's from the Khorgoraths from the AOS starter box.