WIP - Work In Progress General

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>>54056870
>Does anyone have that gif showing how to paint SoB faces to look more feminine?

Yes.

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Is Green Stuff "needed" for 40k? Between the complaints of mold seams and the amount of it I see on here, it looks that way, but can it really not be covered up by paint?

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I've hit a wall. I just picked up a box of Sanguinary Guard now that they are not shit in 8th. But I want to paint these guys to be the glorious golden angels they are.

Watched Painting Buddah's tutorial on Stormcast Eternal on how he did the gold... and it's all non-metallic, just browns and yellows.

I don't know, I want to try out this style because it looks gorgeous but I have never tried to paint gold without non-metallic paints before. I'm scared.

>>54062064
Trim mold lines with a blade or file, use the green stuff for gap filling and minor sculpts and repairs

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Working on my Masque of Slaanesh, waiting on some paints I ordered to come in because the store I frequent doesn't carry them by default.
How am I doing?

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Progress on the thunderbolt. Successfully cast up replacement engine parts and used a nephilim's tailwind as a template for extention, and chopped out a rudder. Tried to stride in a rudder but I stink at scribing.

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Some DI models I built over the weekend.

Not sure what to do with the Lord of Contagion yet. I planned on making him into Typhus but after Khârn and Ahriman I'm sure a resculpt is coming.

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>>54062211

>>54062203
It appears your mini is faulty, the plastic shows no detail and appears fuzzy everywhere.

Focus your camera, anon.

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Need help picking out a primer, as I'm on a high humidity island where i can't get any online retailer to ship me gw or army builder primer.

Would any of these work for priming my minis?

Also I heard spray primer doesn't work as welll in a high humidity environment?

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>>54062211
Rudder

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Hey anons, I want to paint Crimson Fists like this painting from RT, but I don't know what colors would match this nice dark blue or anything else.

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>>54062253
She's uh, phasing in and out of the warp?
I don't know how to work this damn camera

>>54062252

Thin your paints.

>>54062349
If autofocus, just put a piece of paper behind the mini or something. Blank the background so the camera doesn't think "Ooh, that seeker off in the distance I can barely see looks interesting!"

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What is the best way to strip paint from only part of a mini? I fucked up the sword but I had already painted most of the rest of the mini and I like everything else so I would rather not redo the whole thing. It's not a removable part and it is a plastic Bones piece.

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>>54062370
I don't even know if it's autofocus honestly.

>>54062258

Rustoleum white plastic primer works fine. Takes longer to dry than the GW or Army Painter stuff but the end result is adequate. Don't use spray primers or spray sealers outside when the humidity is 50% or higher, the humidity will fuck it up. Do it inside.

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>>54062296
from the GW painting guide.
I'd use the formula with the aptly named Kantor blue, if I was using GW paints.

I'd like to use the opportunity to shill Vallejo colors though, since they got a lot of great colors.
The VGC range is based on the old GW range.
If I could remember which issue it was in I'd dig up the old painting guide from the four generals article series, where one of the guys did Crimson Fists. I really liked his paintjobs.
So I'd tell you to steal his recipe and use Vallejo equivalencies.
The VMC range has a lot of cool colors as well, wouldn't be suprised if you find some great blues in there. Prussians and Napoleonic soldiers came in a variety of blue too, so...

If the blue in here isn't dark enough for your taste just wash it black.

If you try to do the red from the picture 1:1 I think you may end up with a scheme that lacks a bit of contrast. It works well in the cover because the fire and smoke surrounding the marines frames them, without that a mass of minis painted so dark may just look like a dark horde of unidentifiable mooks.

PS.: Make sure to do a Captain Cortez, he is the best Space Marine to ever Space Marine.

>>54062446
Move the camera about six inches further from the mini. It focused on the seekers just fine so we know the camera isn't terrible.

>>54062389
Probably cleaner to just paint over it.
Stripping only really becomes necessary if you painted over it a handful of times already. Especially since a sword usually is just a flat space.
Unless there is some engraving or whatever you are not even losing detail.

You can also use some fine grit sandpaper on it, if it's a regular old 'pointy finger' pose.

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>>54062513
Like this?

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Infinity higlander #3

>>54062550
Looksh nishe.

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>>54062461
I live in a Dorm so I cant use spray primer inside. The humidity outside is 70%+ on average.

Am I screwed?

>>54062615
You could ghetto rig a spray booth.
Or just put your stuff inside a box and lay some newspapers around it.
It's gonna stink your place up though, so not something I'd do before going to sleep or if you're planning to spend the rest of the day in your room.

Just saying you can absolutely do it.

In any case you should try it on a piece of sprue or scrap first, just to be sure the paint comes out nice.
You can try outside an a day that feels less humid and see what happens.

>>54062528

I don't think painting over it will work. I used dark steel metallic paint and applied a couple coats, then I realized it would look nicer if it had a light red glaze since it is on a fire giant. Sandpaper should work though.

>>54062615

If you're a collegefag, take your primer and pieces to the art building and find a studio. Spray in there. Before you start, give it a little test spray away from figures to make sure you don't accidentally "frost" them because that can happen when you start spraying.

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I'm looking for a paint to match the pinkish-red color used in this scheme. Any ideas? Citadel seems to be failing me here.

My group is thinking of starting a rogue trader game and I want to make a model for my character.

I am considering using part of the tempest scions commander model Or at least his overcoat and kitbashing something together.

Does /tg/ have any thoughts on potential parts to use?

>>54062947
VMC Old Rose or Salmon Rose maybe?

>>54062967
>Does /tg/ have any thoughts on potential parts to use?
Not without any information about your character. Otherwise it's just "use everything".

>>54062203
Do you have parkingsons?

>>54063003
Well I am going for a typical Rogue Trader, So a typical space privateer.

So I am mostly looking at different bits that could be used.

>>54062986
Maybe one of those mixed with a bit of red could work out. Salmon is not a really common war-gaming color.

>>54062446

Are you using the macro setting on your camera, and a stand?

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>>54063034
In that case check out HF. They have a nice bunch of Space Pirates.
Two of them are modeled after Jes Godwin and John Blanche themselves.
Reaper's Chronoscape range has a bunch of of minis that fit the bill, as well as quite a wide selections of good oldfashioned pirates.
If you are willing to consider regular pirates as conversion fodder you should also check out Black Scorpion and Freebooter's Fate.
Rogue Stars also has several minis in their range you could use without and conversion work whatsoever (the name is kind of a sly giveaway).

For other dudes in coats from the GW range, if you are dead set on converting something I'd check out the chaos cultist with the commissar's coat, the regular commissars, the old cadian commander that came with the command squad, the fleet advisor, Creed and the WHFB witchhunter if they still sell it.

The rest you have to fill in with your imagination I guess, cause then you could do just about anything I guess.

>>54063021
I do have shaky hands...
But I don't think I have Parkinson's.
>>54063117
No and no.

The Masque camera troll literally has me laughing my ass off...every photo is worse than the last...

I want to make my ork Painboy look pale and gross. I'm thinking of going Death guard green -> Biel-tan green -> Nurgling green. Thoughts?

>>54062550
sweet! damn good job man.

>>54062615
I'm new to this painting stuff but I'm in Guam and it is always above 50% humidity. I wait for it to be kinda dry outside, with wind. I spray from as far away as I can stretch my arms (manlet so not very far) and use the wind to carry little primer particulates to my models. I do it right on the porch and IMMEDIATELY put them back inside the kitchen after super thin coat. I sometimes let the models stay splotchy half primed half grey and then wait til its dry to do a second coat. I've only had like 2 or 3 things turn out with that lumpy fucked up primer coat you get from the humidity.
But like I said, I'm new and haven't seen a mini in person in over 10 years so dunno if I'm doing it right. I like my dudes tho

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Finished my dank imperium primary marines :D

>>54062486
I've been looking up Crimson Fists guides, but what's the difference between Kantor Blue and Dark Prussian Blue from Vallejo? I've also heard that you should use Temple Guard Blue to hihlight them? I don't know much about painting, but I rather do like the Crimson Fists.

>>54062138
NMM canm be fun on a show piece, but you'll want to kill yourself if you try to do it on an entire squad.

>>54064075
I wasn't referring to any Vallejo color in particular, just meant to say that they have lots of blues. Didn't even know there is one actually called Prussian Blue.


There is no one right way to paint anything.
I just posted the GW recipes for reference.
It's a good point to start I thought, I didn't mean to confuse you.

>>54064126
Yeah, they have one called Dark Prussian Blue. I suppose you're correct about that, I'm just wondering what the differences between the two would look like on a model. I've heard Temple Guard Blue should be used to highligjt them since it has a green tone/influence to it, which goes with Kantor/Prussian Blue apparently?

>>54062064
No, most people don't use it, even here. I enjoy it though. It is a valuable tool if you want a unique army.

>>54064022
are they neutral?

Also what about the bases?

>>54064022
Norwegian marines are looking good.

>>54061846
Is there a non gif version of this?

>>54064022
You deserve a (you). Those are looking really good.They could use a bit of matte on the shoulders, love the stripes on the bolters(? is that what they're called) at the back.

>>54064266
oh yeah, haven't done the bases. Still trying to decide how to do them. Probably gonna go for green turf so they can play football on it. Maybe some flowers. idk.
>>54064273
Thanks :^)

>>54064293
you can open it in irfan view>options>extract all frames
Or any other image viewer or editing software.

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Incase anyone wanted an update:

Here's the head next to the soul grinder for scale. Going to have it look like it's coming out of slimey pus flesh.
Green stuff coming in mail tomorrow! This will be a nurgle soulgrinder.

My lgs literally only has space marines and imperial guard players. One tau player and one eldar player.

>>54063137
Cheers I will check them out.

>>54064318
Yeah I put a gloss varnish on the shoulders because I wanted them to be slightly glossy. I'm shining a light directly on them in this photo so it's a bit exaggerated.

Yeah I kind of became obsessed with hazard stripes. They make for great spot details. same with checkers

>>54062249
this is really nice!
If you figure out something to do with the Lord of Contagion, do share!

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>>54064587
HOLY HELL EVERYONE RUN!!!!!

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What do people use to get neat curvy lined camo like pic related? Using an airbrush i've tried repeatedly with blutac but i always inevitably end up with fuzzy lines in places, and worst of all the blutac tends to rip off bits of paint when it comes off.
Doing some fw russes so there's quite a few recesses to get into.

>>54064950
If you can do the majority of the work with an airbrush you just need a big brush to neaten up the edges quickly.

>>54062550
Very nice!

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>>54064337
I converted it into a static jpg.

>>54064985
Painting things on gives you a different shade than an airbrush though.

>>54065072
I guess that is fair. But you can do more than one coat with an airbrush, that shouldn't be a big issue I think.

If you check the Duncan videos I think he did it entirely with a brush.
Big brush can be pretty quick too.

I dunno, I always thought for this particular kind of patterns the soft transitions work well.
I recently stumbled over a pretty nice WIP thread on B&C, where somebody used a sponge instead. Doesn't look bad either.
Here's a link
http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/269375-wip-thread-711th-ccab-chocochip-rats/

Depends on what you are going for.

Another option may be to just paint a black or brown line over the transition and make a minor adjustment to the camo pattern that way.

Or switch from blutac to masking tape. That should get you cleaner lines too I think.

>>54064102
I'm aware of how difficult it will be. I'm in a weird mindset right now where I find newer and better ways to paint minis, which only end up taking more time to do. I then can't go back to the faster way of doing this because I get hung up on the fact that I am not making my guys look to the best of my ability.

It's silly but I really want to pour out all my skill into my stuff, even if it's on something as minor as a scout because it feels like if I am not pushing my limits I will not improve at all.

>>54062683
don't listen to this person. you don't want fumes in your dorm. the chaos black spray is fine in humidity, i live in Florida and even after rain it's still alright. The Corax White shit never works though.

>>54065385
>you don't want fumes in your dorm
yeah no shit, sherlock, that's why I said he shouldn't do it when he's around afterwards...

opening a window or something goes without saying I think.

>>54065403
Spraying rattlecans in your own living quarters is retarded for more reasons than that.

>>54065468
Nobody said that it's a great idea...

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Hi, an idea how I can fix this (synth bristles)? Also general brush care advices for a starting hobbyist are welcome.

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W i p

>>54065146
Thanks anon, i do want a sharp edge to the camouflage i guess i just have to mask small areas and fight it back from either sides to clean up but god what a pain. dug up some liquid mask so that should help a bit.

>>54064273
>danish flag
>thinks they're norwegian

Hello burger.

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>>54061834
How does GW's Purity Seal Spray hold up?

I've seen a video of a guy that has been in the hobby for over ten years, claiming it to be great. I also read a bunch of stuff about it being not so great, (the usual suspects, frosting etc.)
but I know that a lot of complaints about varnish spray comes from people who don't know how to use them properly. I need to know because I want to varnish my new Dark Angels and I have never used this product before.

I'm thinking of picking some up today and I want to be sure.

>>54065585
very nice weathering. How long did it take for you to get that good?

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I´m not that good of a painter,
but heck..

IT IS NOT DIFFICULT TO MAKE A GOOD PHOTO

fucking hell, look at your photos before you send it

a fucking todler is able to make a better picture of their recent lego creation

>>54062947
Vallejo's Salmon Pink + literally any red.
Save pure Salmon Pink for highest highlights.
Shade with red, or even hull red/tank brown
Deepest shadows can be darkened by green glazes/wash (only if you like high-contrast style of painting)

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>>54065634
I swear by pic related. It's matte though, but it does a great job at sealing. I've heard enough horror stories with Purity Seal to not risk minis I've spent hours painting on it.

>>54064587
paint eyelashes over with skin tone. It should look creepier/less toy-like that way

>>54062615
GW sprays do okay with humidity. What they do not like is heat. At all.

I live in Georgia and typically only spray at night.

>>54064022
nice, but from what chapter are they?

>>54064587
>This will be a nurgle soulgrinder.
Slaanesh would be fitting more, in my opinion
anyway, looks creppy, I like it

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I'm working on a base for a better Rowboat Gullymean. First time trying out a marble effect, tell me how i'm doing so far.

>>54064022
I like them alot, but i have to say, the first thing that shot through my head while looking at them was just "Well, these guys look really bland." And they do, there is no amound of high contrast on your minis, nothing that really draws the eye. Sorry to be so harsh, but i really do think that you can do better. Have you thought about adding some wear & tear to them? That usually looks really great on white armour.

>>54065585
Looking good there, anon. You might want to think about adding some more chipping on his feed and kneepads, that's usually were the paintwork tends to chip in the first place and the look quite pristine on your model.

>>54063279
It wasn't even intentional, I'm just that bad.

>>54066039
looks awesome

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Mostly done with these two. I feel like I should add some white/bone freehand decals on it but idk what to put.

>>54066039
I think it's fuckin rad.

>>54062211
>>54062252

>5 mb
Thin your fuckin images.

>>54064950
Try panzerputty

>>54065894
Most of the faggots here are phoneposters taking their phottos with their cheetos covered fingers.

>>54066320
Phoneposters should be euthanized on sight.

>>54062548
jesus just stop

>>54064950
masking fluid - vallejo makes some

>>54066039
really nice overall. the paint looks a bit chunky in places (around the letters, particularly, which are a mess) also something about the stark contrast between the marble and the metal seems like it'll be awfully distracting, but thats aesthetics and not technique

>>54066216
nice gems, great colors! those scorch marks or whatever they're supposed to be look really bad though.

>>54064950
cut tamiya tape into whatever shape

>>54065913
thanks. What about army painter stuff? any experience? I ask because that is a lot easier to come by where I live.

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>>54061834
finished more of this freaking terrain last night

>got Plague Marines
>only have paints for Blood Angels
>don't want to paint them puke green anyway
wat do?

>>54066799
Paint them a sickly white

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how do you keep super glue from drying out

pic related, managed to finish a grand total of 15 orkz with this

>>54066799
White with redwash to make em look like they have cholera, also add random rash marks all over

>>54066799

>money for miniatures but not paints

Come on now

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Sculpting the face of my squiggoth.

This kit seems to be a pretty good size match for the FW gargantuan squiggoth. I'm considering investing in another one and this time getting a tyrannosaur to do a simple head swap and save myself a bit of sculpting effort. Both kits together are still only about one tenth the cost of the FW one.

Unfortunately, I forgot to account for the weight of the putty on the front end and I already glued the body together, so it's going to be tricky to rig a counterweight into it. Might just drill a hole somewhere the armour plating will cover anyway or glue some metal bits under the howdah.

Anyone know a good place to get a base big enough for these things? Needs one about 10-12 inches long, I think.

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>>54067036
If you're from the UK get this. It's 4 squid but well worth it. Gives you superb control, doesn't dry out and I personally just use it for everything. Can get it from Waitrose. Dunno where else.

>>54067036
I haven't found a way after many years of using the stuff. Just buy small, cheap tubes. GW's new ones are actually pretty handy, but I bet there are cheaper alternatives.

Also, you do know about other glues, right? Don't use super glue for everything.

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>>54067092

I use this myself, not a fan of ones where you have to pierce the foil and screw on the nozzle first, I always find the other screw cap seizes up.

>>54067131
Fair enough. All a like. I've been using the scotch one for a few years now. Never had any problems. I have one which sat opened for a year and worked like the day I got it. How much is the loctite?

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>>54067121

>Just buy small, cheap tubes. GW's new ones are actually pretty handy,

This is awful advice. Those tin tubes simply dent under pressure, rather than a plastic tube where it returns to shape, you have a lot less control of the amount coming out.

I know GW are pretty bad for hobby supplies, but even I was surprised when they went from plastic bottles to re-labelled pound shop super glue.

I can't imagine little timmy trying to assemble a Knight with that stuff.

>>54067157

I got a few on offer in Wilko's a year or so back, £1.50 for 5g iirc, so I got 3 for keeping.

>>54067217
Fuck those things, half of those are always hardened when I pierce em

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I want to kitbash some ork vehicles. Going to need some tracks for grot tanks and big trakks. Any suggestions of good kits to loot from?

Also, what are my options for ork crew? Just look on bits sites and hope to find some in stock? Not fond of enclosed cabs, especially on planes.

>>54067217
Damn that's a good deal. I'll check them out. Need to stop burning cash in Waitrose. Isn't even worth the free coffee. Does the loctite one have a button for dispensing the glue?

>>54061846
Thanks anon

>>54062064
Really depends on what range you are working with and how fussy you are about getting everything perfect. Most of the newer plastic kits don't really need any filling so GS is strictly for conversion work. Older models, especially finecast ones will need some kind of filler to not look like crap.

For most issues with GW models, you can use a simpler filler putty like squadron green to cover any gaps and sand it smooth. You only need a proper sculpting putty like green stuff (AKA kneadatite yellow/blue) for major repairs and conversions.

I've decided all my old Marines and Blood Bowl teams are going to go on 32mm bases. I'm not paying £27 for 100 though off GW, and in the UK the only cheaper ones are MDF ones with a flat edge rather than a bevel.

Anyone got any experience with these or Aliexpress?

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32mm-Plastic-bases-table-games-100pcs-model-bases/32611598400.html

>>54067305
The Heavy Battle Servitors for ad mech make great grot tanks

>>54067423
While we're on the subject. What is liquid GS and what is it for ?

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>>54067439
PDC gaming sell a pack of six tracked artillery for the same price as three GW kataphrons. Robogear models are probably even cheaper.

>>54067447
I think it might be exactly the same as squadron green putty, but I'm not certain.

It's OK for covering small gaps and smoothing out transitions, but is too fluid to form into proper shapes. I've been told that some people manage to use it for sculpting texture onto stuff, but it never worked for me.

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>>54064950
Just use a brush and be thorough.

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>>54067217
>>54067131
>>54067092
>>54067036

I'm telling you. This is the holy grail of super glue. Doesn't run because it's a gel, holds like death, never clogs or dries up and you can apply it perfectly by squeezing the moving side panels.

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>>54065527
>Hi, an idea how I can fix this (synth bristles)? Also general brush care advices for a starting hobbyist are welcome.

The wise-ass in me wants to post a picture of an apothecary administering The Emperor's Peace. That *may* be what you are in for with this brush ... but maybe not.

So I can be more helpful than wise-ass, here's a picture of Masters Brush Cleaner and Preserver. With a 40-50% off coupon, you can pick this up at Michaels for only a few dollars, and even with regular use, the cake inside will last quite a while. Try cleaning your brush with it and see if you can get some more use out of it besides "transferring-paint-from-pot-to-palette" duty.

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Just finished making another Nurgle Warrior for my Mono-Nurgle WoC Army.

Allthough my painting is still shitty I feel like I'm making some small progress with every model I paint. Granted some parts of this mini were pretty sloppily painted even for my standards and is something that I will probably have to do a touch up on some time in the future. For now I'm just happy that I'm one guy closer to having the whole unit painted.

Would love to hear your input on the little fella.

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>>54067082
Going to need some big lobbas for this guy. What are my options?

Scratch-building is fun, but the biggest tube I have is evergreen half-inch which is a little bit too puny. Nobody seems to seel styrene tubes larger than that, so I would need to use some other material, which makes me less keen.

Puppets war do a fantastic orc super cannon (pic related), at the fairly reasonable price of 17 euros. But it's resin and I don't like working with resin, especially on the bits that stick out of a model and are likely to get scratched.

Takom make a 1/35 scale kit of a heavy siege howitzer, which looks perfect, but is way expensive (about £60 for two even if I order from china and about £90 for two if I don't).

Anyone got any other suggestions?

>>54067580

Does it spread alright? I've looked at the gels before but the idea of it put me off.

>>54067739
PVC plumbing tube.
Comes in size from 3/4 of an inch to a few inches.

>>54067752
If you can't dose it right or the piece is really tiny you can spread it with a piece of wire or something. I've glued everything from Kriegers to a Reaver titan with the Gel and goddamn I'll never go back to liquid.

What are some good parts for a Decimator conversion besides a Dreadknight chassis?

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Found this on eBay. It is brandnew and was even still sealed.

So, wich Legion/warband should these guys become?

>>54067447

It is a meme, it is worthless for its intended purpose because after you have fileld the gaps the stuff shrinks, leaving you with a gap again. Best thing to fill the gaps with is milliput or equivelent. Just fill the surface with it and gently use water and your finger to smooth it.

>>54067819
This guy speaks the truth, i use pattex gel and that was the holy grail for the superglues for me.
Also, to keep the glue from drying out wrap a piece of teflon tape at the connection parts. Search '' superglue tip drying out '' on youtube.

>>54068065
Word Bearers!

http://www.sealmodel.com/product_details.php?category_id=84&item_id=5079
These are enamels, right?

>>54068123

Hmm.. I don't know. Actually I'm more an Iron Warriors/Alpha Legion fan.

Although the wb colour scheme is really nice.

>>54067999
The tehnolog lobster seems like it could have useable legs and a suitable claw arm. Need to surface it with plasticard to get the sharp edged GW look, but it's a framework and a cheap one.

>>54067036
No joke, put it in the freezer.

From Wikipedia:
"In general, cyanoacrylate is an acrylic resin that rapidly polymerises in the presence of water (specifically hydroxide ions), forming long, strong chains, joining the bonded surfaces together. Because the presence of moisture causes the glue to set, exposure to normal levels of humidity in the air causes a thin skin to start to form within seconds, which very greatly slows the reaction. Because of this cyanoacrylate is applied thinly, to ensure that the reaction proceeds rapidly for bonding.

The reaction with moisture can cause a container of glue which has been opened and resealed to become unusable more quickly than if never opened. To minimise this reduction in shelf life cyanoacrylate, once opened, can be stored in an airtight container with a package of silica gel desiccant. Another technique is to insert a hypodermic needle into the opening of a tube. After using the glue, residual glue soon clogs the needle, keeping moisture out. The clog is removed by heating the needle (e.g. with a lighter) before use. The polymerisation is also temperature-dependent: storage below the freezing point of water stops it, so keeping it in the freezer is also effective."

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I finished my Inquisition with Grey Knights support. I will have my first 8th Edition game this weekend. (which is also my like 4th 40k game in general). I'm hyped.

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>>54068569
Dreadnought

>>54068065
NIGHT LORDS

>>54068065
You lucky motherfucker.

>>54068569
>>54068590
painting is a bit sloppy in some areas (scribe guy in front looks like just a basecoat and nothing else) and the script on the scrolls is awful - consider a micron pen or something. That said, coteaz looks good and the whole force together looks great and has visual cohesion. Nice basing too!

>>54067489
>PDC gaming sell
but where?

any advice for going about painting this kind of thing?

https://ttcombat.com/collections/sci-fi-gothic-scenics/products/gothic-mausoleum

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*block your path*

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Any tips on how to proceed from this point? (Besides obvious parts that aren't painted yet) So far this is base coats and washes. I'm new to painting so the reason I ask is because it looks like it has some natural highlights from washing, but it's still good to go back and add in stronger highlights with a lighter paint?

Also apologies for dark phone pic. I actually tried to set up a little light box but for whatever reason my camera wasn't picking up on the brightness.

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Mentioned my colour scheme for "Hive Fleet Petunia" in a thread last week, ladybirds and pretty butterflies, and people said it was stupid.

Well fuck them, here is my Carnifex and a 20% completed Gargoyle.

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>>54069925


2/3

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>>54069941

3/3

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>>54069981

Also some hormagaunts

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>>54069997

TREMBLE BEFORE HIVE FLEET PETUNIA!!!

>>54068590
Why is your Dreadnought french?

>>54069280

I got them for 35€.

>>54069578
http://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/pdcgaming

How difficult is it to get featured on places like Warhammer community?

>>54068191
They're lacquer.

>>54069925
>>54069941
That carnifex looks surprisingly cute.

Whats the best way to make a good looking power klaw?

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Thanks /TG/, I unfucked my ork's teeth.

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Could you help me with colorscheme? Left one is done by a GW employee who I can't contact anymore and I'm trying to go with this style.

I like dark blue and bleak ochre on the right one, but it looks very monotonous, albeit realistic... When I tried to put a ve-e-e-ery watered down blue layer and juicy orange layer on middle one it started to look rather toyish.

>>54070845

It is meant to

>>54066799
Don't paint them green.

Do them in black, and maybe pick up a green or white or purple to hit some of the more disease looking bits.

>>54070625
Pretty difficult as far as I can tell. You want to be at least Duncan-level.

>>54070979

Build up a boxy structure around the hand and forearm with sprue and plasticard. Cut some thick plasticard into fingers or use bits like choppa blades and the hooks from trukk boarding ramps. Cover with as many technical looking bits shaved off choppas, etc. as possible.

>>54068065
METAL MANIACS.

>>54071040
gotta be straight with you, they all look blotchy and sloppy, with only very minor differences between them

>>54071076
Duncans a fucking pleb mate. I could out paint him with my fucking feet. Hence why I want to know how I get my shit out there.

>>54071133
Well, fair enough. (Although I was sure that left one looked really cool, but maybe thats placebo effect as I and GW employee spent quite a lot of time on it). Could you tell me what is off? Colors overlapping each other, or models are looking too dark in general?

If someone could give any advice on how to highlight dark blue, I'd be thankful

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Why is nurgle STILL so fun to paint /wip/?

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Fuck.

My sergeant just lost his hand and plasma pistol down the drain.

>>54071204
Go digging in there bud.

>>54071202
Any retard can throw ink over a green base and claim it's a master piece. It takes the least amount of skill of any model type.

>>54071276
Sounds like some salty projecting there anon, do you not like fun?

>>54070688
Oh, thanks!

>>54071246
Impossibru.

Guess i'll give him the gay downward pointing replacement hand with the Grav pistol or something.

Shame, i was excited to paint the plasma pistol.

>>54071204
I got half my in progress 30K army stolen loosing all the arms of my marines, rhino, reaver squad with jump packs and gamesday praetor I feel your pain. didn't get my horus the cunt

>>54071306
Don't ask questions if you don't want the answer.

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>>54071343
jesus christ

>>54071375
if I find him I will kill him!!!!!! ruined my 30K so now im gunna get some heavy weapon kits and try and salvage the army fucked off though

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>>54071368
I got my answer from you anon

>>54066336
>Implying we all just sit around on our computers so we can post pictures on 4chan.

I bet you complain about file size too.

>>54071306
He's just being a tetchy euro bitch about saying they're fun to paint because they're designed with the beginner in mind

>>54067036
I exclusively use the super glues with the screw top with the brush on the inside. Unscrew, brush it on, close it. No more self-sealing super glue and it's only a few cents more than regular super glue at Wal-Mart

>>54071187
Some colors overlap, some are unevenly applied, and none of them appear to have bright highlights. The image is quite dark, so it is a bit hard to tell.

To highlight dark blue, pick a mid blue and a light blue that match in tone (which will depend on the range you are using) and go from there

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>>54067036
I use Revell Super Glue
As long as you remember to clean out the tube after you're finished gluing this guy won't let you down
When finishing up, just aim the metal tube upwards, hold a paper tissue just underneath the opening and squeeze hard until no glue comes out
The small metal tube will give you real good control and makes sure the glue doesn't anywhere but where you want it

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murdering comissar yarrick in progress.
im drunk and having fun, have fun too there my painting friends.

>>54071534
Looks like the murderer took a swing at the nid first with how bad that paintjob is.

>>54064273
They are danish, FUCK.

>>54071552
Oh piss off
In what universe is that "bad"

>>54071343
What the flying fuck, how did that happend?

>>54071596
The universe where people can paint better than a rat faced freak who doesn't even change his painting water.

>>54071627
...I feel like I'm missing some context

>>54071552
i quess its because im a woman.
jokes on you you big meanie because both armies are painted by me.

>>54071596
thanks, you i would like to play with and have a nice evening.

>>54071185
lets see your work then?

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>54037682
What do you guys think?

>>54071780
That right hand could use something in it
Maybe like a shield or something?

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>>54037682
God damn it.

>>54071796
For fuck sake, now I forgot to link to >>54071780

>>54071794
Yeah, perhaps I should add some ceremonial trinket/bell to it.

>>54071552
that's not a bad paintjob anon, the pinkish color is a bit disturbing somehow but it being an alien that's the point i guess

>>54071534
pic of the commisar? that's not yarrick but it's my favourit commisar mini. i have him somewhere but it's till waiting for paint

>>54070117
good question. because knightly conduct is very french? Idk

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>>54071794
>>54071850

Gave him a maggot made out of his rat-tail.

>>54066216
Conapy on the left is nice but makes the one on the right look bad by comparison...

So want to give one of my Spess Marines (potentially a Custodes or someshit) a power sword.

I also need a tiny He-Man head. For reasons.

Where do i find a tiny He-Man head?

>>54071771
On a new PC, don't have any of my photos yet and I'm not linking my shit on 4chan so plebs can downvote it no good reason

>>54061834
would you collect primaris marines if they made a new primaris sculpt of johnny, but kept it johnny?

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>>54072107

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Behold the true power of the Chaos Gods and tremble.

>>54071534
I really like these nids - the black is a bit stark, but the pattern you've used to make carapace highlights looks almost like cake frosting. Combines with the pink to make these nids look like murderous confectionary

>>54072107
this fucking chief again

>>54072245
>Pictured: Early development of the Primaris Reivers.

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>>54071627
i think i need to make some sort of a stand here tonight.

as a fellow /pol/ack i get where you are getting at but heres the thing.
at my LGS we leave politics outside of the door and just play and enjoy our silly hobby we rarely get to do, nobody does politics of any sort because it doesnt really belong there. we take it outside after game whatever if needed. and yes every camp gets thrown out not just ebil nadzis.

i pay nids and here im a girl, my not too serious colour scheme just feeds that meme so why not go with it (dont get the wrong idea people, mostly girls play nids as we know).

im 14 years into this hobby and have painted 4 armies "seriously" with canon colours but wheres the fun in that.

>>54071909
thank you.
heres your comissar in peril dude, no idea how old it is but by the looks of it its done with them oldest old washes.

lets all have fun and find some peace in the grim darkness of 40k, everyone needs a short break from wordly troubles and this is one of ours.

>>54072107
why lie on the internet?

>>54072519
>I'm a girl
>I'm a girl

Tranny confirmed. Kill yourself

>>54067092
>Waitrose

ooh get Lord fucking lah de dahh over there
.
.
(i just use the shitty 10 for a quid ones from poundland. not great, but at that price i'm not that arsed.)

>>54072563
>plays nids
>not a girl player
doesnt make sense.

would gladly step into the oven being the case you presented but nope.

sorry for siderailing the thread a bit

>>54072519
Those 'nids look really good, and nice touch with the piñata one.

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>>54072168
>would you collect primaris marines if they made a new primaris sculpt of johnny, but kept it johnny?

If you're asking if I would collect Primaris Marines *solely* because they made a new Johnny sculpt in Mk X Gravis Armour, the answer is "no". Since I'm already planning to add some Primaris Marines to my existing Blood Angels army, however, if GW decided to expand the Primaris line by reproducing "homage" models that are throwbacks to old sculpts from before the Dark Age of Technology, then yeah, I'd buy the Primaris Johnny.

It'd certainly be easier than trying to convert/sculpt one.

I need some help with edge highlighting guys. I've just started painting and while everything works as it should ( I watched a million tutorials) I can't seem to get highlighting right. I've tried 00, 000 and 5/0 brushes but every time the bristles are not strong enough once they get wet, the point doesn't really give off paint and I either get nothing on it or too much. If I wet the paint it just flows all over and the line ends up thick. Is there some special secret trick I missed perhaps? My bushes are supposed to be good quality. I've tried both sable and synthetic.

>>54072896
That's a standard experience. Have you tried getting the paint wet/thin, then using a second brush to dab into it? I've found it helps when I need less-soaked bristles

>>54067305
The Robogear Varan kit is handy for making tracked ork stuff. And of course there are the various conversion-bits makers. They usually have wheel/track sets.

I recommend going thrift store shopping, though. You can find all kinds of toy vehicles for a couple bucks apiece, and rip them apart in true Orky fashion

>>54062615
i live in south mississippi where the humidity is practically a fucking rain forest
i use chaos black primer and i spray very few models at a time (like 5) and immediately put them in a box and bring them inside while they dry (i just pick them up from the rim of the base)

works perfectly fine

>>54067580
bullshit, first bottle i got of that shit the cap got glued to the bottle and broke the entire thing off

>>54071204
And now a set of tiny grenades is lost to the endless void that is my bullshit dark colored floor tiles.

>>54062615
Acrylic gesso works for me. I thin it down a ton and just slather it in two or three layers per mini.

Some people claim you can do one thick layer, but I haven't been able to do it.

is magnetising between sydonian dragoon or ironstrider feasible?

>>54071202
Nurgle's fun to paint because there's a certain forgiveness in sloppy painting with him. Moreso than that, being dirty and disgusting gives you a lot of chances to cut loose. Diseases come in a wide variety of nasty ass colors.

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>>54061834
I have limited colors to work with but need to add a highlight to a brown on my zombie model's loincloth. The color used is Gorthor Brown. What's the best option here?

>Zandri Dust
>Ushabti Bone
>Screaming Skull
>Skrag Brown
>Cadian Fleshtone

I've tried Cadian Fleshtone but it looked kind of strange to me

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how to improve armour

>>54073767
aaaand there goes a purity seal. Fuck my life.

>>54073767
found a dunecrawler ladder rung from after about 4 hours crawling about earlier in the year

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>>54073893

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so I just noticed duncan got a new haircut

looks pretty good now, I think it suits him better

>>54073985
Another more focused highlight will make everything pop.

I'm talking the tiniest of edge highlights on small areas of each panel.

>>54073893
Needs contrasting highlights to make it pop. Something cool.

>>54073943
Do you have delirium tremens?
>>54074149
>he thinned his coats
>life thinned his hair
Cruel irony

>>54071483
But that isn't super glue. Revell contacta is butanone (aka plastic cement) while super glue is ethyl cyanoacrylate.

More will come. Death to the false emperor.

https://youtu.be/IFPkd4yM_SQ

Post your bases.

>>54073893
push the highlight to bright ass red/orange (wild rider/troll slayer) and try a cooler color for the bone/cloth instead of that pinky flesh color, which blends too much with your reds. maybe a greyish blue/bluish grey?

>>54072896
Don't use the point of your brush if you can possibly avoid it. Draw the edge of your brush over the edge of the piece you are highlighting.

Alternatively, try painting the highlight first and then filling in the mid-tone leaving a thin rim of light at the edge.

>>54072977
I really prefer to work in styrene rather than whatever they make toys out of. Also, the tracks and wheels of toys tend to look especially shit. Most historical kits are too busy for 40k and have fine details which get snapped off though. Only ones which have tracks which look about right to me are world war one tanks and bulldozers and for some reason they are both expensive as fuck.

>>54072519
why is candy coming out of the one on the left?
I think they look ok just needs another highlight on the skin, and maybe feather the large carapaces a bit more.
also yeah no need to mention gender unless you are an attention whore. Just post your models and stay on topic.

>>54073767
Get a flashlight and lower your head to the floor. Small objects are much easier to spot when you are looking at the from the side.

>>54074329

Here's a shitty pic of the first mini I've painted since I decided on a base theme. >>54067672

Praise be to Duncan ofc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na26t36C7X4

Are there some good cheap brushes I can buy on Amazon or something? I don't want to get some nice Citadel brushes or anything so I can just ruin them with my first meager attempts at painting.

>>54074394
the cloth isnt done yet, but thanks for the advice!

>>54074605
you could get The Master's brand brush soap from hobby lobby and you shouldn't fuck up your brushes, look into how to best use it. as long as you don't get a bunch of dry paint into the ferrule you should be fine. and citadel brushes aren't *that* nice, they're okay but you'd be fine just using cheaper brushes, it's all nearly the same shit anyway unless you get sable. I have used reaper and royal brands paintbrushes and those work just as good as citadel.

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I'm looking to paint my Salamanders darker than the standard GW paintjob.

I know the standard GW paintjob is Waaagh! Flesh green as the base with Warpstone Glow green over it, and I do like the look of Warpstone Glow, I'd just like my guys a little darker, but not quite Rogue Trader era Sallies dark. Just a shade or two.

Would something like Caliban Green as the base coat then Warpstone Glow as the layer look good and give the right effect, or would it make my dudes look too much like Dark Angels?

>>54074694
How many/what type of brushes would I need to make a complete set? I just want a basic bit of brushes for painting mostly marines and dreadnoughts, but I'm looking into Razorbacks as well.

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>>54074703
Just paint them like this

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>>54074703
GW should shill their free color scheme pdf more often, the damn thing isn't even easy to find on their site and I doubt a lot of people know about it. Maybe you want something like the Castellan Green scheme here?

>>54074605
If you want cheap, tough brushes you probably want synthetic bristles rather than sable.

Decent options are the army painter hobby range, winsor and newton university series 233 and their cotman series 111.

>>54074729
It depends on what you want to do. I'll just explain how I do it. You will really save yourself some time and effort by getting either a spray primer and spray base coat, or one of those paints that are both in one. Dunno if you know but you need a primer which is a specific type of paint that goes on first, it's usually black or gray or white, GW has "undercoat" paints which aren't technically a primer but they work basically the same. So you spray on let's say the black primer which helps actual paint to stick on (because just straight up using normal acrylic paint won't stick on the mini properly) then spray let's say Caliban Green spray if you were doing dark angels. now the whole model is green and all you have to do is paint the details.

So for my army, I just paint GW chaos black undercoat, then mephiston red spray base coat, then go over the whole thing with a wash and paint the details on with their layer brush, which is "medium" sized. You would use this brush to paint stuff like shoulder pads, and so on. Then you need a small brush like size 00 or GW's "detail" brush to paint small stuff like eyes and do edge highlighting.

So most of my painting is really only 2 brushes, but occasionally you might use a larger brush like the large GW base brush if you were painting the base coat on a tank instead of spraying. And you will probably want another medium brush to do rough things like drybrushing which tends to make the brush unusable for other things. Really though you could just check out GW's guide on their brushes which is pretty helpful.

Also WARNING: I haven't heard a lot of people with this problem but when I started out, I made the mistake of using a detail brush for literally everything because I had poor brush control and it made things "easier", but this is a bad idea because I ended up taking forever to paint anything. Use the biggest brush you can when painting a detail, because it'll be faster and help u git gud.

>>54072107
ok, just making sure you were actually a troll and not a garden variety idiot here's a (You)

>>54074729
Generally, I find that I do the vast majority of stuff with two good brushes and a couple of cheap ones which are just used for mixing, drybrushing and washes. In citadel terms, a medium base and a small layer, about a size 1 and a size 00 in most other schemes. For vehicles you may want to have a couple of larger ones... I mostly paint orks, so my vehicles are a load of tiny panels but marine vehicles have much larger flat areas which might benefit from a bigger brush.

Also, try painting big flat panels with sponges rather than brushes.

>>54074745
i want to do this to a squad now, i think i have an unpainted tac squad hanging around, will post picks if i do

For people who don't have the ventilation (or constitution) to deal with spray paint base, I recommend acrylic gesso. I just glop it on and it sticks to the finer details upon drying.

>>54072245
10/10 Convertion, would embrace the ruinous powers.

>>54075022
do it

would be cool if more people painted variant schemes of popular chapters, it's the easiest way to make Your Dudes unique and is fluffy or at least from actual printed RT material.

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>>54064587
Babyface.

>>54072245
Gondola/10.

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The first of the boyz for the new and improved Purple Moon WHAAAAGH! Tried to paint these guys as fast as possible (only highlighted the metal, the purple, and the skin, gave all the leather a wash). Look good for tabletop standard?
Still need to drill the gun barrels, are there any suggestions what drill to get?

>>54075393
Army Painter's drill is cheap but nice for the price. Comes with good bits.

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Any tips on stripping 140 models (138 plastic, 2 shitcast) at once?

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Guys how would you go about painting white face paint on an ork? I've tried a bit on my Gretchin but it doesn't look too great. I'd post images if I had anything capable of taking a good one but alas I don't.

>>54071276
Spoken like a man whos never painted oldcrons.

>>54075991

Try a really thin coat or 2. Thin enough that the coverage isn't great and the normal skin shows some.

>>54074424
>>54072946
thanks guys, noted

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My chaos lord project is done. Renegade and proud.

>>54076197
thiccccccccccccccccccccccc

Hey, how would you guys do a good blue plasma glow on a fusion blaster?
I tried going for Caledor sky on the outside, with Lothern blue at the core, with some Guilliman Glaze to finish it off, but so far it's not that special
Not terrible, but it just doesn't stand out
If I had a camera that's capable of anything more than fuzz I'd give you some pictures

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>>54076207
I think the lighting is giving a bad texture. I definitely thin my paints.

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Last night I uploaded my first marine that was so bad you'd remember it. Tonight I made another dude, any feedback for a beginner? Besides the tardy lenses and the barrels, I'll do those tomorrow.

>>54076472
I like what you did with the aquila. Adding some red to the backpack would help. It all looks very monotone currently. Even the bolter i might think about adding more color to

>>54076197
>>54076243

I definately like the concept but the paintjob doesn't look good.

I hope that you fluff him as some renegade planetary governor who turned to Chaos due to a massive case of hybris and an amazingly distorted view of his own importance. Maybe the planet he controls was some very important Agri-World who fed a large collection of neighboring planets.

>>54074424
this wherever possible. Actually trivialises the process if done right.

>>54075991
hit that shit with celestra grey, then ulthuan grey, then white nigga

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>>54076472
Looks pretty neat for your second model, commendable of you being able to stay within the lines.
The metal looks a bit unfinished in some areas, give it two or three thin coats for a solid finish.
Red on the shoulders and head could use highlights.
Give him some more contrast, especially on the backback. He needs some more color back there.
Overall though, good job! Keep up the good work!

>>54076472
I kinda like it. There's definately room for improvement but the colour theme is nice. If I'd were to add something to it it would be to paint his knees in the same golden colour as the skull on his breast. Painting his sabatons red would also match up nicely with his red gauntlets.

You got any fluff done for the chapter?

>>54076472

I'd make the helmet more uniform in colour and maybe swap the red and lighter silver on the aquila. Feels like it bleeds into the shoulders somewhat.

Otherwise it's an improvement! Try two thinner, smooth coats on the metallic armour. Still seems a bit blotchy (from the primer?).

When painting with sub assemblies, how does one deal with gaps?

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>>54075115
>>54064897
>>54065924
>>54065980

>>54069620
*squats your army*

>>54075860
All at once? I generally just do small batches with isopropyl, but even working in a production line fashion it would take ages to do that many. Probably want something that aggressively erodes the paint away rather than just softening it up. Possibly simple green will do that, never tried it myself.

You don't have an ultrasonic cleaning tub do you? They are capable of stripping paint after it has been soaked in isopropyl.

Just how lazy can I get when painting deldar infantry like Kabalites? Assuming I just spray with chaos black and do a few edges, will that be enough? How well do washes/shades show over black?

>>54076730
Try really hard to have the joins hidden by the parts of the model and if that isn't possible at least make sure you can push the pieces tight together and test fit them before you start painting.

In most cases GW's multipose kits aren't too bad for this. The only real issue I have is the guns where one hand is attached to the front grip of the gun and you have to line the wrist of the arm up with it. Those suck.

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Does anyone know how to get green stuff off resin without damaging the resin? I've got some kromlech ork bodies I tried making flash gitz out of back when flash gitz weren't nob sized. I'd like to recover the parts, but I moulded all kinds of decorations onto them with green stuff and my skills weren't very good at the time so it looks terrible.

>>54076535
>>54076616
>>54076674
>>54076721

Thanks a lot guys! It's my fourth model actually, the previous two are kind of like the first.

Yeah, I got some minimal fluff done for the Chapter. They are the Bloody Pinions (hence the aquila styling), they are about 3000-4000 year old, BA successors, they focus on quick, up and personal aerial/frontal CC assaults. They live in the Galactic Northeast, near the Ghoul Stars, their main task is to keep general vigilance over the region and deal with known/ unknown xenos threats that appear nearby.Their homeworld is Auron III, a cold/continental feudal world transitioning into an Agriworld. My main source of inspo is general Germanic historical stuff, I try to go for a 'medieval knight with pagan symbolism' aesthetic. They usually have German-sounding names. I actually started to do some writefaggotry for them, you might see it uploaded later if interested.

>>54072870
We will always love you Johnny

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>>54076763
Where did you get that chest-eye from?

>>54072011
Creepy (thus, good)

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>>54076472
This was you wasnt it?

>>54077029
Sounds interesting, wouldn't mind reading some more.

>>54077107
yes

>>54077125
Youve had a good 24 hours! You always get better as you go, the slight alterations you have in the overall scheme are cool, like the red fists and red parts of the helmet. Keep it up my man.

>>54077135
thank you!

>>54077100
Thanks, will probably try my hand at some more extensive green stuff-work to make the heads in the future with ofc the odd suitable putrid blightking head etc. All I need to do now to prep for that is look up a whole bunch of facial disfigurements of various origins to get that delightful nurgle look.

>>54062349
Is this a /tg/ meme? For fucks sake did you actually think anyone could tell what that is?

>>54077091
Bracelet sold on a boardwalk in california

>>54065045
Doesn't look much better for all that work imo, now she's just looks like an ugly gook

Going nuts trying to do NMM for my Sanguinary Guard. So far I have stripped the same mini 2 twice now after not being satisfied with the turn out.

Been trying it with a loaded brush technique and glazes but I am just really struggling trying to make white, yellow, and brown look like gold.

>>54072519
Wait, I don't get what's wrong with the pink/white colour scheme. It looks like bone on raw flesh, which given the context fits the tyranid flavour.

Add to that the fact that, en masse, that colour scheme genuinely makes the nids look fucking disturbing, like weird The Thing/Blob monsters. It's a tight look.

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How would i achieve the colour on the back of the turret and on the air filter here? like a non metallic bronze.

>>54074190
lol

>>54078057
Doesn't really look non metallic to me.
You may be able to get a similar look with non metallic paints if you apply paint in a scratchy/stippled textured way, preferrably something with a lot of contrast like black and white and the went over that with brown ink.
And I don't mean miniature paints or premixed things like that. Just regular old ink, like people used in the olden days of miniatures painting.

>>54077517
There's a world of difference. Not every mini need to be a beauty queen.

t. Nurgle devotee.

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>>54077545
Here is my 3rd attempt. Still not happy with how uneven the transition looks but it's the closest I have got so far.

>>54078657
smooth gradients are important to make it look like a smooth polished surface, but it's more important to work out how light reflects off of surfaces of varying smoothness.

Dunno if you have any background in traditional arts or illustration, but studying light is an important prerequisite to get it to look right. The techniques used for that are the same as painting nmm effects.

>>54067580

I've switched from gorilla super glue to this. Although I use the silver bottle version, which seems to be the non-ultra version.

>>54073715

I can tell from your lack of capitalization that almost all your problems stem from user error and your own stupidity rather than any faulty products.

>>54078848
I have a basic understanding of how light works.

I'm just contemplating now if I want to continue with this method for now or just redo it with metallic paints and see how that looks.

>>54072038
the blood angels heads have he-man style hair because they're meant to be painted as blonde pretty boy

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>five years without doing any projects
>suddenly all the projects

What are some good tv shows to watch while painting?

What's the difference between priming, undercoating and basecoating?

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Ok, posted this a few threads ago and didn't really get anything.
I got some metal painboys a while back and the first one turned out really good, the thing is I just don't know how I should go about painting this guy.
His head just fucks with the color scheme I had going for all my orks and I dont know if I should just straight up paint him red and white or something else entirely. Any input on this would be helpful.

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>>54079036
>I have a basic understanding of how light works.
It's kinda hard to bell in text based communication, I didn't mean to step on your toes.

You definitely need more than just a basic understanding.
To get the look really right you have to have a deep understanding of it.
Reflected light and ambient light for example.
The pecs on a marine's chest are gonna reflect light off of each other. That is information that you have to communicate visually via painting.

The example here >>54078657 kind of look like it's just painted yellow.
That makes it look matte. To really make it look shiny you have to ramp up the contrast, and really use precise punchy highlights.
This example here kinda illustrates my point. The top row look from left to right simulates the gradient from rough to smooth surfaces. Your paintjob right now kind of looks like it is more to the left than the right of that scale.

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>>54079189
Priming gives overall coverage and something for your paint to grab on to. Various colors also provide either a brighter or darker overall finish.

Undercoating is where you will leave after painting the basecoat to give your basecoat shadows

Basecoating is what you want your base color to be.

A wash is a substitute for undercoating because the paint is thin and pools in the recesses leaving shadow effects. If you paint it over your entire basecoat it will make it a shade darker, this will allow you to go back over with a basecoat to provide a method of highlighting

This miniature is a good example of all this as it's exactly what I did. White primer, basecoat with a wash then touched up with the original basecoat

>>54079189
Priming is the first coat applied to a miniature. It usually is supposed to bond to the material and provide grit for the later layers of regular paint to adhere on.
Undercoating and basecoating are sometimes interchangeably used, but it's context based.
Basecoating or undercoating can also just mean you are laying down the first layer of paint on something.
Example:
>you are priming your miniature black
>you basecoat the minis skin brown
>you basecoat the minis pants blue
and then you add the other layers.

>>54079205
I see what you mean, I'll certainly try to educate myself on light then and in the meanwhile study up on more NMM tutorial stuff.

As for my guard I think for now I'll just paint them the way I know how. Thanks for the helpful feedback.

>>54079272
>>54079249
Thank you anoms for making things clearer

>>54079162
Trek. You can be totally absorbed in your painting and just listen to it. Assuming you know the characters even if it's an episode you don't remember you can get the basic gestalt without ever looking at the screen.

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>>54079430
Never seen an episode of that. Maybe it's time

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Can anyone please specify what vallejo colors would be used in this scheme?

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Hi fellas. I'm new to the hobby and my first box of dark eldar are arriving tomorrow. Because I'm new I think I'm going to stick with citadel paints to keep the process smooth, but I'm curious to know if there are any alternative brand of paint that work well with GWs models. The pots are kind of expensive, and when I'm more confident in my painting skills I'd like to dabble in cheaper brand if possible.

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>>54069925
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>>54069981
I dig it. Keep up the good work anon.

>>54079971
Can't help you, since it was obviously photoshopped.

these mk3 rivets get old real fast

>>54080010
Army painter works pretty well for most stuff. Tamya paints are also pretty alright as long as you don't try anything too fancy with it.

>>54080010
vallejo or AP like the guy said but it's not as if these are colossal savings.

https://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Paint_Range_Compatibility_Chart

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Put together another Sanguin Guard to see how the metallic paint would look. I like this more, thought I was done with the chest piece but now I see I should throw in some more chrome around the edges of the pecs and abs.

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>>54079133
>the blood angels heads have he-man style hair because they're meant to be painted as blonde pretty boy

The one on the upgrade sprue (furthest to the right in this picture) reminds me of Peter Graves, who played Captain Oveur in Airplane!

>We have clearance, Clarence!
>Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?

>>54066039
It fits, base of first Warmaster for second one.

Does anyone have a guide for sculpting true scale marines completely from scratch, including measurements? I have no recent marines for reference.