I have looked at Al’s neutral texture and I’m wondering if mixing that with green paint will create a convincing moss look.
If it fails what’s the best way of cleaning it up?

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Finally put some paint on the knights. Need to add a brighter red on top of this, it's way too drab as-is.

>just bought a paint I already had
Alright lads I’m going to engage in a long and arduous journey of gathering my paints and writing down what they are and saving them as a pdf to remember and update.
Anybody here do this?

anybody have tips/a guide on how to carve in semi-convincing wear and tear on a plastic cape? I tried with carving triangles out and drilling holes in some sword brethren capes but they don't look great

>>98236697
no, I still use almost only just my army painter starter set paints

>>98236652
Smooth them out with some plastic cement afterwards

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>>98236673
Is there a resource for color matching old paints?
Specifically trying to match old Citadel Elf Flesh which was a warm peachy orange.
Warcolors makes claims with their Nostalgia line but importing paint is $$$ and I don't want to get burned.

>>98236697
Sort of, I use a 3x4 sketchbook to swatch all my paints by color, and also by project. That way I can remember mixes and interactions too.

>>98236697
I keep swatches and names of paint i have in a notebook along with recipes. If i choose to not use a paint anymore/give it away or run out and don't want to replace it I just cross it off in the list.

I preferred the mosaic with all of anons' work as the image in the OP

>>98236850
I dont care. I just appreciate the anons who bake for everyone to enjoy.

>>98236850
kek

>>98235936
I don't know, man. I barely remember any of the videos she did last year at all, it all felt like random gimmick bullshit and a few gundam videos.

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>>98236673
I churned out a few quick dwarfs, just to make sure I completed something this week.
(I actually painted 10, but 7 are for a forum project and won't be shared till the deadline)

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Giving squigs human eyes is fun

>>98236957
I really like your style anon. its very whimsical

Are you happy, chat? You made Baker San post a different image.

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>>98237021
>Are you happy

>>98236957
wish i could do the whole big fat visible paint strokes aesthetic and make it work

>spent 6 hours last night fixing a spot because my grey paint came out different than when it was first painted on
>buy a new grey to replace it
>it's way brighter
this is hell

>>98237162
grey is just black+white, it's like the easiest color to make.

>>98237175
that's exactly the problem, the pigments are polar opposites and getting the exact match is basically impossible, let alone having it stay like that

>>98237189
Are you using vallejo paints? I have found some of those go on a different color than they dry.

>>98237195
pa neutral grey. separating really fast on the wet palette is one thing but it coming out a different color on different days is another. I mixed my bottle with some vmc neutral grey and ak black to try and stabilize it but same issue. maybe I'll try ak grey but I doubt it'll change anything.

>>98236697
Yup I have a couple .txt files.
>what paints I have
>shopping list for what I need to replenish
>a .txt for each army with what paints I used

>>98237175
I own about 10 distinct greys.

>>98237225
ok, Mr.CIA

>>98237201
Are you shaking it enough?

>>98237298
lots, mixing ball included.

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Finished I think faces 5 and 6 in my training arc. I think they took me 1-1.5 hours a piece. Any recommendations to improve?

>>98237618
thin down a red/magenta wash a fuckton and glaze it over the eyes

>>98237175
>he doesn't know about paynes gray

>>98237618
What is it about zooming in this far that makes so you can't even tell the sculpted details of the model anymore? Like on the left one I can't even make out where the lower eyelid is.

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man I love real sable

>>98238181
user error

>>98238208
it's a pretty new brush. I thought it could be tamed by trying to use it anyway. I was wrong.

>>98237021
Yes

>>98238220
Had the same happen with a raphael 8404, it would split in 3 every time, no matter what I did.
Ended up using to mix paint in the airbrush cup.
First and last time I'll use that brand.

>>98238181
You just overworked it, it’s completely fine.

>>98236850
Anon was right, collages are somewhat beneficial, especially since they're randomized (I thank op, I would spend an hour resizing and putting the pics together as well) and most of the times you get very amazing or not even models pics that are bigger and occupying most of the collage and ugly/single models pics relegated to tiny specks.

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>>98238181
Embrace Synthetic...Dismiss weird $40 Russian weasal hair.

>>98238181
Works on my machine.

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Now that im thinking about it...if these Russian ferrets have such good hair for paint brushes...why havent they painted anything before?

>>98238358
they dumb

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>>98236673
So I picked up a trio of Wargames Atlantic (WA) boxes, all from the Baron's War range, Peasant Levy, Mounted Serjeants, and Foot Knights

This is me kitbashing a special little Foot Knight to use a two-handed sword while pointing. I've got some thoughts to share, maybe people here would be interested.

The WA Foot Knights is 4 copies of a single sprue, each sprue makes 6 knights in the style of the 12th or 13th century. The knight bodies are split into torso and legs, with 4 of the torsos having a built-in left arm with a socket for a shield. So if building knights with two-handed weapons and no shields, you kinda only got a max of 8 bodies without kitbashing.

This guys torso is one of those without a built-in arm. If you zoom in on the picture I uploaded, you can see that the cloth chest actually has marks left from the sprue mold being machined. I sandpaper'd away most of it, but you can still see the marks.

His arms are from the knight sprue, they're all fully chainmail, but the hands are actually from the WA Guards sprue. I sliced away the glove-covered hands I wanted, sliced the ends of a mail'd arm, glue'd em together. The raw arm from the Guards sprue is just cloth, it doesn't carry the feeling of weight.

He has a little dagger on his left hip from the Oathmark Elf Heavy Infantry sprue, it's sized correctly and feels a bit ornate, appropriate for a knight. I'll do some later sculpting to put a little link around it, connecting to his belt. I figure he would have some back-up weapon, and if his right-hand mostly carries the sword, then his left could pull out the dagger.

I'm always tempted to glue on some little pouches, bags and gubbins to these knights, but I really, really like their silhouette and style. Once built, they look much better than I first thought they would.

>>98238385
Oh, I totally forgot to mention, there's a little armoured shoulder pad at the bottom of the pic, it's from the WA Guards sprue. I'm not sure if I should glue it on, or if it would be too much. This guy will be more of a fantasy knight, but I do find myself really enjoying his clean, simple silhouette. Adding on one or two pauldrons, gluing on some little antler or goat horns to the side of his helm, even sculpting some greenstuff fur cape, I think that would ruin it.

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another update on the thunderhawk for my inquisition guys.

>>98233720
I, for one, like your minimal paint style very much anon <3

Love them <3

>>98238315
>>98236850
I also prefer the collage.

I think we should all physically get together every 1 or 2 days when a new thread is made, and put all our WIP models in 1 nice group photo for the new OP.

>>98236850
>>98238315
>>98238457
I too like the collage
What if the OP pic was one larger picture surrounded by a number of smaller ones? Still a collage, but highlighting one specific standout piece from the last thread (if one exists).

>>98238466
>models touching
bit gay innit

>>98238466
Unless you want to fly to Australia, you better be ready to pay for my air fare.

>>98236957
kino

>>98238414
Starting to look real nice. I'm a bit in awe of you Anon, smashing out a thunder hawk gunship in the time it takes me to paint one bloke.

>>98238483
thanks, and not working helps you get a lot more painting time in.

>>98238181
>Not using Rosemary & Co red sable/synthetic blend brushes in the year of our lord 2026

>>98237618
a tiny white dot on the pupils to show light reflection brings a ton of life to the eyes. You need a good brush for it though.

>>98238526
I've had a size 0 winsor newton for a long time and it's an amazing brush, but too small for most things. Turns out the quality went to shit since then.

I miss when taco tuesday was the johnny pic, also the thin your barrels, drill your brush, etc

>>98238526
>red sable/synthetic blend brushes
It have the same problem of hooking as synthetic brush, what’s the point?

>>98238700
I can see that making sense if you baby them like you have to with a synthetic. Kind of get the wetting and paint release properties of sable but some of the stiffness of synthetic if you don't like how soft sable brushes are.
I could never though. Give me that weasel fluff. I've never successfully not immediately fucked up a synthetic brush.

i just ordered some golden maple sable brushes. i assume they are not genuine kolinsky but i don't care if my brushes are made from chink weasels as opposed to genuine siberian weasels. these brushes are like 1/3 the price of the """real""" shit and i am pretty sure at the end of the day weasel pubes are probably all the same.

>>98238759
They aren't quite, but you don't *need* the kolinsky ones. I hope these ones work for you.

>>98238526
>synthetic
heresy

Having one real hair brush for specific purposes is useful, but modern synthetics are so good there's no good reason not to use them for 99% of your work. Ignore the hipsters itt who own multiple brush soaps and haven't touched a synthetic in two decades or that wasn't 100 for a dollar.

>>98238909
I've never used any of the "high tier" synthetics, but I've used mid level ones that aren't like bulk bin from the craft store.
I genuinely hate how they release paint. I'm sure it's a skill issue and I could figure it out, but the way I thin and wet my brush with sable #justwerks. With synthetics the bush is either too wet and dumps paint off, or has no liquid and like 3 brush strokes of in between those where it works properly. I noticed this when I was trying to use my synthetics for basecoating, and I even hate them for basecoating broad areas.

>>98238759
>golden maple
It’s trash, if you want cheap and good kolinsky brush get roubloff or nevskaya, or actual chink shit like nightwork, madwork

>>98238909
Why would I buy a synthetic at half the price of a natural hair brush when the natural hair's useful lifespan is far more than twice that of the synthetic?

Using kolinsky brushes for ARMY painting is quite gay.

>>98236697
there are phone apps dedicated to keeting track of your paints if you are into that

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The skin look like it’ll be a pain in the ass to paint

>>98238953
What's this model supposed to be anyway?
It looks almost like Albedo from overlord, but not quite.

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>>98238919
A real hair has "scales", which gives them way more surface space, and they taper towards the end, giving them a natural tip.
Synthetics are smooth plastic tubes. No texture, no taper.

>>98238953
That you didn't start with the skin is extremely disturbing.

>>98238958
Some random 3D print from aliexpress. The print quality is pretty dogshit, but it feels like a waste to just leave it there
>>98238963
Well, trimming the bikini armor is pretty annoying

>>98238953
GYATT

>>98238181
few things may help restore this,
1) good brush soap to remove acrylics
2) possibly use some tiny surgical scissors, you know, them curved ones, snip away at the loose sides

hopefully paint hasnt gotten too deep into the head, dried up back there and causing all this, but its still worth using soaps and such in the future, and take extra caution not to completely soak your brush with paint or tilt it backward when it does, since that crap will just run up to the base and dry out. Shits a nightmare, right?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vinci-4033-Cleaning-Brushes-Yellowish/dp/B000PHCQFA?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&smid=A30GW2XM4HZB4B&th=1

>>98238385
fucking cool, i love peasantry / armed militia vibes, look forward to seeing some colour on this

>>98238468
I like this idea, but I guess at the end of the day it doesn't really matter that much.

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>hair trapped painted under his skin
aaaaaaaaAAAAAAA

>>98239125
Paint some stitches on it and make it look like an old wound.

>>98239125
Just tweezer it out, give it a lil' sand and repaint it? You don't even do more than base coating so you might as well take advantage of your chosen paint style.

>>98239125
Make it a roid vein.

>>98239149
I mix and layer seven different paints to get that skin tone, colour matching it is going to be very difficult. I'll make it a scar or something

>>98239171
Do you have a tutorial of how it takes 7 steps to get a flat base coat color?

I just realised that "shade" variant of Vallejo "True Metallics" series colors is just a wash matching the color in question. Priced the same so I bought more expensive wash. At least it's one bottle but I still feel stupid.

>>98239171
>I mix and layer seven different paints to get that skin tone
bullshit
and if it isn't, you're massively wasting your time for that results

>>98239202
How is Vallejo "True Metallics" paint? Is it better than their original metallic paint? Shit expensive

>>98239228
Theyre pretty good ngl.

>>98238700
What are you on about you nonce, these aren't some shitty Amazon Specials intended for toddlers R&C make proper artist brushes, if you take any care of them at all they'll last for ages.

>>98238919
Which is the exact point of the blends, you get the best properties of both.

>>98239260
Nigga, it’s a mixed-sable brush. Of course it’s going to hook, not as bad as pure synthetic though

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>>98239194
Sure
>prime light grey
>basecoat, midtone and zenithal with three different skin tones. i use the army painter airbrush nomad flesh triad
>dunk in a wash made of reikland fleshshade, TTC flesh wash and lahmian medium mixed 1:1:1
>drybrush with flayed ones flesh
>take pure black and pure white, mix them with your base flesh tone to give them a skin tint and dot the eyes. i suck at this part
>if teeth are showing then paint them light grey
>wash the eyes, ears, scars and mouth with a thin red wash
>after painting the helmet bits hit the area where the skin connects to it with the flesh wash mix
I genuinely find it funny that people think I just basecoat my models and call them done

>>98239269
>I genuinely find it funny that people think I just basecoat my models and call them done
We're surprised you don't, because it totally just looks like you do. This is not a good thing. You are wasting your precious time.

>>98239269
Based on that picture above, I'd say you are lying. Any Contrast paint followed by a flesh wash looks better than the skin colour of that model above.

>>98239269
You do go for very subtle gradients and do focus more on the base + wash parts. I think the thing that stands out most is that you don't seem to accentuate highlights or edge highlights, and people are very used to that being "the standard", so it doesn't compute for them when they don't see that accentuated. I think your paint style is very clean and looks good.

>>98239319
They don't though. It's not visible in this photo >>98239125 but in this one >>98239269 you can see all the minor color variations in the skin. It's really noticeable on their chins, there's all these tiny spots where the colors are shifting around.

Nta but
>>98239326
No it doesn't
>>98239319
Speak for yourself

>>98239331
I guess it's just an issue with his lighting. He needs to get a forward facing light or something.

>>98239332
It looks super thick, and super plain. Again, based on the picture above you posted.

>>98239331
clearly this >>98239269 is a waste of time, when he later takes pictures like this >>98239125

And unironically, that picture is much closer to whats visible on the table anyway, so the question is, why bother with 7 different skin colours.

>>98238537
I should be able to make that work. Any recommendations on a color to do the eyes? I used Corax White on these, but it still feels too bright and close to pure white for eyeballs. I could crack open my PA Ivory.

what brush do people use for enamels? I thought you weren't supposed to use real fur brushes with enamel because of the solvent, but I see people using enamel to paint anime girl faces with a lot of fine detail.

>>98239542
>Any recommendations on a color to do the eyes?
I think you want a slight blue/gray tint. you can add a drop of something like field gray to your white.

>>98239553
hog or synthetic, look into the brushes people use for oil painting

>>98239574(me)
>>98239542
don't use your watercolour brushes (sable, squirrel, etc), you are right about the solvents damaging them

>>98239269
way too many steps for that result.

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i know im not welcome here but i painted some olden terrain
could be a change to try painting some lava with that chaos symbol or just make it filled with blood

Why tf is green stuff world in spain? Why can't it be in a real county

>>98239640
Vallejo is also a Spanish company. I think we just need to accept that the Spaniards are the true golden gods of this hobby.

>>98239662
So is AK, and AMMO, too.

Also plenty of pro painters from Spain, I wonder if they put something in the water over there.

>>98239671
Spain is into art. The real question is where the French at?

Is it normal for metallics to always look a little thick even in thinned layers? It's 100% just the surface reflecting more light that makes me think it looks thick, right? Using ProAcryl and AK metallics, which are the absolute thinnest out of the bottle I've ever seen and even when thinned down I feel like there's "texture" -- this is just me autistically noticing the overlayering of flake combined with the increased lightbounce, right?

>>98239671
When you're born iberian you probably feel a greater than average need to prove you're not brown.

>>98238181 rubbing alcohol + brush conditioner + rolling into a tip when you're done. You're welcome.

>>98239720
Metallic smoothness increases based on their coverage. Thin layers of metallics actually look rougher than thicker ones. You really don't need to thin metallics all that much, if at all.
ProAcryl paints in general also don't need much thinning.
I would suggest thinning them LESS, and just trying to apply smoother coats. (or use an airbrush).
I usually use 2 or 3 barely thinned layers to achieve a good finish. More if I'm airbrushing.

>>98239791(me)
>>98239720
Metallic paints are also highly translucent because of how the flakes rest in the medium, the undercoat is EXTREMELY important to achieving a perfect finish. (you can actually experiment with differently coloured undercoats to change how the metallics look)

>>98239791
Oh yeah I've been using these bad boys mostly unthinned, I was just wondering if it was my tismonaut brain overthinking it since it happens regardless- it mostly happens with warm metallics too, which is why I've been slowly coming around to the idea it is in fact a figment of my brain worms. Thank you anon.

>>98239720
don't think metallics.

>>98239812
Oh God, oh fuck
The Game

>>98238909
Any synthetic you think is getting close to the performance of a sable brush 1. Isn’t and 2. Is going to cost enough that it would be stupid not to just pay the $20-$30 for the kolinsky sable that’ll last you forever. Synthetics have their place for your hacksaw work but you need a sable brush for the precision work.

>>98239710
Have you seen the french soccer team?

>>98239930
You mean their colonial display case? What does that have to with painting?

>>98239939
Black people do not paint.

>>98239602
Why wouldn't you be welcome here? Any idiots saying terrain isn't WIP are out of line. Anyway, looking real nice.

>>98239946
Their football team doesn't reflect their demographic make up, those are mercenaries.

>>98239946
I know you're just meming, but some of the best painters in my group are black.

>>98239975
No, quit lying. You don't get social credit points on an anonymous forum.

>>98239987
No way you are actually being serious right now, or else you're fucking retarded.

>>98239269
>I genuinely find it funny that people think I just basecoat my models and call them done
Because the differences in shades on your models seem to be so subtle they barely register as having any variation or depth. The basic principle to making your minis look interesting is exaggerating the contrast and there's almost none of that on your models. This is not meant to be an insult in any way but if you really do as many steps as you claim the results are vastly underwhelming for the effort you put in. To be fair though it might be because of the pictures, try taking them with light coming from the front instead of top like you seem to be doing right now.

>>98239987
What puzzles me is why would someone who virtue signals even come to 4chan in the first place?

>>98239998
Sure thing retard, but you'll never be able to stage a photo of blacks painting wargaming miniatures.

>>98240000
>>98239998
Ya'll are a bit too hiveminded if you think that's virtue signalling.

>>98240006
You're a bit too reddit to be here.

>>98240009
Owie! Anyway

>>98240011
No, you're the one making the absurd statement that your gaming group is majority black and all the best painters are black, let's see some fucking proof of this or let's see you admit you're just making the gayest fucking virtue signaling attempt of all time.

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>>98239553
White taklon synthetics are softer than golden taklon and hold paint better while not being too expensive. Also really good for pinlining, script/liner brush pic related has a sharp tip to be accurate with a big belly to hold a lot of the wash so you can touch a recess and fill it with wash once so you don't need to go back multiple times risking hitting other parts of the model.

>>98240021
>the absurd statement that your gaming group is majority black
He didn't say this at all, you got reading problems. Since this is an anonymous board where virtue signaling is pointless, have you considered that he just happens to have some blacks in his group that are decent painters? Not all black people are hoodlums.

>>98240021
Sigh...
I said that some of the best painters in my group are black, in response to an absurd statement that black people do not paint. No, I'm not going to dox my friends. You can believe whatever you want my guy, it was a mistake to engage with what is either, in hindsight, a troll or an irrecoverable retard

>>98240006
Spanish Chad here, best painting hobby scene in the world.

Negros don't paint.

In 20 years in the hobby never seen one, and I've seen a lot.

>>98240021
>>98240032
>best painters (plural)
If you think about it this means anon is claiming to have at leaat 3 blacks in his wargaming group, 2 to be "some of the best" in the groyp and at least one more tgat doesn't qualify or the statement would have been some variation of
>all the blacks in my group are among our best painters
instead, so anons wargaming groyp is supposedly very big (20 or more and is somewhere like chicago or detroit to make 3 blacks not a statistical absurdity) or is just anon and 3 black guys.
>>98240034
But of course, because a claim like that will NEVER EVER be accompanied by proof.
Totally for doxxing reasons of course, no one has ever figured out how to post pictures of gaming groups that don't dox, how is that even physically possible?!

>>98240045
Why is it hard to believe black people can be loser nerds too? This world needs it's Urkels.

>>98239671
We are just more social, and the hobby scene here is HUGE, full of independent clubs everywhere, even for niche editions like WHFB 6ed and 3ed 40k.

>>98240045
We're about a rolling 8 in the painting group, we play TTRPGs with a larget community of around 30, we don't wargame. Not in America, thank god.
Look man, this is a really weird interaction to be having and I'm done with my break, so I'm gonna go but like... seek help

>>98240061
No one is asking why, everyone here but you understands why, what's happening here is that proof is being demanded.
If you said your gaming group included bikini models, siamese twins or a bipedal cat you would be met with equal incredulity and a like demand for proof.
If you can't or won't then there was no point to making the statement at all, except to virtue signal.

and there goes the thread again

>>98240068
>I'm done with my break
>working on a sunday
le mao

>>98240078
I guess this is where the guy that usually shits up /aosg/ has been coming.

>>98240068
See? Just virtue signaling No proof just a offhand "trust me guys, it's normal" like we're just supposed to completely change our lifetime observation based worldview because you made an anecdote.

>>98240064
>niche editions like WHFB 6ed
you mean FABA 6th edition

>>98240080
>having your days off with the rest of the plebians working 9-5 M-F who then squeeze all of their errands and free time into Saturday and Sunday.
Sunday is the best day to work because you avoid the riff raff

>>98240045
No it doesn't. If you have a group of all white painters and two blacks, yet those two blacks happen to be among the best in the group, his statement still makes sense.
I'm a far right anti-immigration activist, but that doesn't mean intelligent and capable black people don't exist at all. They're just a minority among their group.

>>98240088
post a picture of your hand, would you kindly

>>98240068
>Not in America
You just made your claim even more absurd, because that's the one place with a white population sufficient to make wargaming a thing, but where the nonwhite population is of the correct demographic spread to possibly support your claim.

fucking /pol/ tourists lmao

>racist who goes out of his way to not run into black people doesn't see black people in his hobby space
>this must mean no black people play warhammer anywhere in the world
truly a credit to your master race

>>98240097
>They're just a minority among their group.
And as Commander Rockwell pointed out famously on televised interview, any so-called "educated" black you trot out to prove they aren't animals is going to be one heavily diluted with European genes.

>>98240100
European blacks are higher educated on average, making it more likely for them to engage in civilized behavior.

>>98240108
Okay, maybe he's got two Obama's in his group. Would you call them white?

>>98240068
Based ethiopian mini collector???

>>98240110
Unlikely is still unlikely, also the majority of non-Europeans in Europe are not south-africans, they are north-africans and indians.

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>>98240106
assuming this guy is white, of course...

>>98240117
No, but I wouldn't call them representative of blacks either, they're freaks by any measure.
And claiming to have the rarer sort in bulk just extremifies the incredulity of anons statement.

>>98240121
True, but we do have some south-Africans, those came in earlier through our colonies.

>>98240121
South Africa has a very healthy hobbyist community, yeah. Especially around unis and in the Western Cape. Cool place.

>>98240133
He didn't clarify, he just said they were black. I would call Obama black.

>>98240136
Poor Afrikaaners =/

>>98240103
You aren't on a woke site anon.

>>98240159
you aren't on /pol/, saar

>black nerds don’t exist
Have you never heard of fighting games? There are millions of niggas with glasses and goku tshirts

>>98240161
/pol/ was born because the ENTIRETY OF 4CHAN was filled with /pol/ content, it's birth was an attempt to concentrate /pol/ content in the one place, it has never ever removed it from the rest of the site, it only serves to keep everything else from being 100% /pol/
Fucking newfag.

>>98239975
That is nice, but it's still a fact that black people are an tiny minority in art in general, and in our hobby in particular, no matter how good some individual ones might be at painting. 99% of miniature painters aren't black, and therefore black countries do not really develop a hobby scene and therefore no hobby companies get formed there.

>>98240167
I love seeing tourists like you larp like you didn't come here in 2016

For fuck sake, this is /WIP/, not /pol/ thread, get the fuck off to your containment board or back on topic.

>>98240167
>pol/ was born because the ENTIRETY OF 4CHAN was filled with /pol/ content,
lol

>>98240167
yeah, and /mlp/ was created because the entirety of 4chan was getting posted with pony shit, that doesn't mean I want to see horsecock in my /tg/ thread

>>98240147
Just Afrikaner, not two 'a's. And no, it's not like that. Things were a bit dicey some time ago, but people are genuinely getting along better now. It will take more time, of course, but at times like these I feel like racism (w/b and b/w) is way worse outside of my country than inside of it. Anyway, this is all horribly off-topic. Let's all take a breath and go back to painting minis.

>>98240173
>I'm going to call you a tourist while claiming that you've been here for a decade

>>98240136
I somehow doubt that. You can't have a community where you need physical things in your possession for any length of time in SA. I'm a slower painter but I would be robbed and have all my stuff destroyed 3x over before I even finished a single army. When only the people who can live in gated compounds with private security can own things you can't have a large community in anything.

>>98240183
>thinks being here for 10 years doesn't make him a newfag
LOL

The end of this story is that anon Will Not (because he Can Not) post proof of his claim.

>>98240188
Any kind of evidence would immediately dox him.
You want him to dox himself to satisfy your hunger hunger for black penis?

>>98240034
>an absurd statement that black people do not paint

What is absurd about that? The vast majority of blacks (in western countries) are not into nerd shit. And of those that are nerds, the majority is not into mini painting. That's why you don't see black golden demon winners, you don't see black miniature channels on YouTube etc etc.
And yes, there are always exceptions, and you might even know one or two in person, but in general terms: black people don't paint.

>>98240179
Doubt? Some of your political parties are openly calling for genocide and your white population is fleeing to the US and Europe.

>>98240183
Not a tourist, but definitely a culture war immigrant.

>>98240203
>any kind of evidence would dox him
Oh of course, it is absolutely not possible to post a photo that doesn't dox you, I have a full list of names and addresses of all anons who have ever posted pictures of miniatures here.

>>98240211
>this obsessed about seeing pictures of black men
like pottery

>>98240211
You made the initial claim that blacks don't paint, prove it.

I really gotta find a better place to get painting tips and feedback

>>98240159
and you aren't on /pol/ you fucking tourist faggot, go back to your containment board with this off topic garbage or preferably hang yourself

>>98240219
Israel anon?

>>98240222
Nah, just ask. We can weave in tips and feedback while having a race war.

>>98240220
Can't prove a negative.

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can we move on now

>>98240162
Not related to mini painting. Blacks love Yu-Gi-Oh too. Still not related to mini painting.

>>98240222
if'n'when the /pol/ shitter gets hammered, we'll go back to business as usual

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This is why we can't have nice things.

>>98240208
That was the EFF, a very vocal minority who has since massively declined in popularity and does not stand any realistic chance against the DA and ANC coalition. People outside of the country don't really know what it's like inside, and of course that's going to be the thing you latch onto if it's the bit that you see. Anyway, again, off topic. I know I'm not going to convince anyone of anything, here, and it's not the place. Let's let the matter lie and go back to painting minis.

anons still talking about /pol/ even when the board doesnt even exist because it moved to eightchan over 12 years ago
dial down the shitposting people are trying to paint here

>>98240231
>There are no cookies left in the jar.
>Look in the jar, find no cookies.
Oh shit!

>>98240231
Sounds like you're just virtue signalling then

>>98240159
>niggerfaggot hiding behind muh woke or muh free speech in a pathetic attempt to justify his off topic shitposting
like clockwork

>>98240220
It's like saying GW is expensive. Some things are just so obvious, any discussion about it is pointless

>>98240257
If we kept all the blacks in a jar the problem wouldn't exist.

>>98240222
4chan hasn't been capable of meaningful discussion for over a decade. discord is unfortunately the best place for hobby discussion of any kind these days

>>98240064
>mfw I live in a shithole 50k population town with no scene

>>98240267
You just outed yourself as a pedophile

it's these kinds of threads that make me not want to post my minis in /wip/ anymore
I don't want to risk being associated with this place

>>98240251
I wish we had 8ch moe's global report function here.

>>98240274
>don't want to be associated with this place
>associates with this place

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Minis, lads. Minis! Fascinating as this exchange surely is.

Will this work? I was advised not to undercoat in black, but I gave this badboy a heavy drybrush, kind of a pre shading. But will it even work? I tried something similar by spraying one side of thos lizardmen black and the other grey. Did not work.

>>98240267
got any good 'cords?
I'd consider using it if there were some actual good painting servers.

>>98240281
If they didn't engage in that hypocrisy then 4chan would be a purely segregated website for racist homophobic white guys, and that can never be allowed to happen.

I think we should kill the offtopic /pol/ shit
>>98240284
>green painted base tops
pure kino

>>98240284
will probably work fine, but slapchop usually takes better if you use a base that isn't as dark as black and a drybrush that isn't as bright as white.

>>98240284
Work for what, anon? Speedpaints? Just an undercoat?

>>98240297
>slapchop
it's only slapchop if anon is just putting contrast paints over it.
Preshading by drybrushing is a concept older than contrast paints, it's a very useful approach to traditional painting.

>>98240303
>I'm convinced that it's like one or two complete fucking retards stinking up the place.
almost certainly

>>98240303
This goes for the anon who interjects with the anecdote about having blacks painting in his group.
With no ability or willingness to prove it anon was doing nothing but provoking a response.

>>98240303
That's the fundamental issue with the format of 4chan. One or two dedicated spergs can ruin an entire board with shitposting. And /tg/ has way more than just one or two dedicated spergs.

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>>98240284
This is looking really good, nice job anon

Picrel is a little green fire torch I made to test fire before trying it on a larger model. Purple prime, apothacary white contrast to lighten up the deep areas, fluo green, then teal, blue-green, magenta and dark purple on top for smoke

I think it looks neat

that post was deleted quickly

>>98240327
I realized that complaining is only adding to the number of off-topic posts and decided to lost my torch instead. No sense in saying something everyone knows, anyway.

>>98240324
And no matter how racist, fundamentally issued, homophobic, transphobic or whatever other id-pol shit you give a fuck about that 4chan is, you will never stop posting here to migrate into a community that actually doesn't tolerate those things you claim to hate.
So you choose to be here in spite of all of it, which means you actually like it.
Otherwise STFU OR GTFO.

>>98240339
no point in deleting it when everyone who belongs here knows how to look at it in the archives.

>>98240341
You gotta at least post minis to make a claim like that!

>>98240341
I want to post about miniature painting without some sperg flooding the thread talking about niggers, trannies, and politics every 5 fucking minutes. Jesus Christ just fuck off already.

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>>98240295
Sorry to disappoint, but grass is going on there. I only paint them green first as some will fall off over time.
>>98240297
Ok so maybe grey with bone drybrush?
>>98240298
No this is not a speedpaint job I am trying to git gud so I can paint my Slaan. That's why im in these thread fishing for tips. Look at this beastie (the aggradon) he needs a real paintjob. I don't even play I can't keep up with all the drama and rule changes.

Pic rel is progress on my Saurus lord.

>>98240375
There's a website for that and this isn't it.

>>98240383
>I only paint them green first as some will fall off over time.
I like to use vallejo mud paste (the one with the twigs in it) for the same thing on my blood bowl guys. As they get handled, the grass will slowly fall away and reveal the mud underneath.

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How about we post some fucking models and WIPs. I'd be interested to see some anons' highest level faces. I'm getting back to this fucker today after taking a break from him to practice more.

>>98240403
in the grim darkness of 2026, there is only off topic shitposting

>>98240325
>Lilac+mint
Motherfucker, that's my favorite color scheme. Look good anon.

>>98240375
Then why do you hang out where those things are tolerated and often never deleted or banned at all? Why not the place where those things are instantly deleted and permabanned?

>>98240341
it is funny that you can make a burner reddit or discord account and have your functional anonymity without the shitposting but because queers occupy those spaces people will just continue to bitch about the lack of productive discussion on 4chan

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>>98240412
Thanks man, that gives me a lot of confidence that it's going to look good on a larger model. Look forward to posting the whole thing when it's done.

>>98240383
>No this is not a speedpaint job I am trying to git gud so I can paint my Slaan.
Oh, I wouldn't bother with underpainting then. If you want bright colors I'd just go with white primer. If you want to improve from where you are, I would try volumetric highlights. Put a lamp on the model, take a picture, and replicate the locations of the highlights on the scales through drybrushing. Later on you can paint them in as the next step.
A matte varnish would probably help, the glossy finish makes your models look a little toy-like.

>>98240432
I look at it this way: Regardless which space you hang out in, there will be (with varying frequency) posts that subtly test the waters as to your political tolerances.
So why not pick the place where those posts will align with you rather than the one where they will oppose you?
The third position here is that you may not like the leaning of things here, but you recognize that a tyrannical forum that outright forbids a given half of the political spectrum and actively penalizes it, creates a more disagreeable space than one which is hit-or-miss and inconsistent at best, but in that case you chose the "freedom of expression" place and have no excuse to bitch about it.

>>98240341
Shut the fuck up, craftsperg. Your shitposting doesn't belong here no matter how much you try to pretend otherwise. Just because this place has barely any active moderators and jannies to actually clean this place up doesn't mean your idpol garbage should be tolerated. Please consider killing yourself already, you'll be doing everyone a favor.

>>98240389
>>98240425
>>98240432
>Why do you care that I entered a thread and started shitting all over the floor? Just go somewhere else!
Believe it or not, /wip/ used to be a comfy thread where miniature painting was discussed.

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>>98240325
>>98240442
Thanks. It will be interesting to see how it looks after a basecoat. I thinks the saurus look glossy cos I hit him with some 25 year old armour wash to see what would happen. None of my minis are varnished, but I need to look into it. You recommend hand painting on matte varnish, if I recall?
>>98240392
Really good idea. Many thanks
>>98240411
No just keep posting minis we can still save this shit thread. And guys not posting or talking about mini painting/ building can you be kind and post elsewhere? That would be much appreciated.

Pic rel unit shields and Big lizards shield and sword.

>>98240454
So given that all of society thinks of 4chan as a place for racist white transphobe nazi incel chuds, then what the fuck are anons who don't like that or who don't like being associated with that, doing here?!

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>>98240284
Barely made any progress on my current project these past few days but I'm always down to post models. Here's the same aggradon you're working on

>step away for about an hour
>refresh
>+100 posts
oh fuck, that isn't good. What's going on?

>>98240493
>You recommend hand painting on matte varnish, if I recall?
Not me, I don't varnish either. If you can prevent the gloss, do that instead.

>>98240493
>can you be kind and post elsewhere?
Funny, that's all we're asking for as well. But apparently tolerance doesn't work in two directions.

>>98240517
About what you'd expect, a couple spergs fucking the place up with off topic shitposting. The usual rate of posts for this thread is a couple an hour at best, any time it jumps above that you can be 100% sure it's getting filled with shitposting

>>98240517
Someone claimed that black people make up some of the best mini painters in their group.

>>98240527
Report and ignore is all we can do.

>>98240575
Go to the website where that actually works for you.

>>98240577
See >>98240261

>>98240514
Pretty spectacular. I have a long way to go but I'll give it my best shot.

>”pro painted” model
>it looks like shit
Do people really buy these? Do you do commission work?

>>98240584
>stick your head in trashfire barrel
>head is on fire now
>scream and complain that your head is on fire and that your head always ends up on fire when you stick your head in the trashfire barrel

>>98240493
>matte varnish
I really like ak ultramatte 1:1 with contrast medium, then painted on. It works like a charm, and helps your gradients and highlights stand out because reflected light doesn't dazzle the eye and hide it. Test it out sometime if you get a shot!

>>98240599
Please stop claiming that the space that some of us love, that you are treating like ans actively turning into a "trashfire barrel", has always been like that. Have some common decency and self-awareness.

>>98240599
that's a lot of words to try and justify off topic shitposting lmao, just kill yourself already

>>98240622
>4chan was a safe space for all the colors and queers once upon a time!
Lmfao.
You're always free to go shit up the parts of the internet where people like me aren't allowed to post.

>>98240630
you're so fucking obvious it'd be funny if it wasn't so pathetic

the other anon is a shithead but you guys are morons for engaging
>choose to engage in a community with little to no moderation, inherently requiring users to self regulate
>someone comes in and starts shitposting
>instead of blocking and ignoring to preserve the quality of the the space you engage with every single fucking post
You either like the drama or you’re lacking just as many braincells as he is

>>98240641
Yet here you are, still choosing of your own free will to hang out with people you say that you hate.

>>98240645
Nice samefagging craftsperg

>>98240654
Keep killing the thread

>>98240630
>>4chan was a safe space for all the colors and queers once upon a time!
I mean, not a safe space exactly, but 4chan has always been full of faggots. [x]fag didn't become the default term for a given demographic for no reason. This is the site that originated Bridget worship and "a game of pretend." Moot wished to be the little girl.

>>98240716
Fag became a common suffix because it is one of our favourite insults, not because fags belong here, newfag.