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>>94397863In about 5 days (or less) my SS will be complete and shipped. Until then my antidepressants are kicking me into high gear and I'm finally painting my Kill Team equipment
>>94397983Cool
>>94397983Just shipped mine today he should be getting it mid next week.
>>94398280Cool
How do I get drybrushing dust off my model?
541 KBReally enjoying this style of painting. Scratchy and stylized.Just some more stuff like the nurglings and he´s done.
>>94396800Huh, interesting to see. Maybe something about the way you paint changed? Do you use your brush for stippling? I remember reading some reviews a long time ago that some people found that certain brands of wet pallet paper really destroyed their brushes. Nothing lasts for ever thats for sure, I feel like cleaning a brush every session probably does shorten the lifespan too. I have also seen these new water pot products on the market with a metal coil in it, I make sure not to rub my brush on any surface when in the water pot.
>>94398372I really dig the green color anon. He looks great. Consider some satin varnish? Your model looks very matte all over, and sort of comes accross as dry looking in that reguard. I think you could add some really nice pop with some varying surface finish.
>>94398398>Do you use your brush for stippling?Not really. But I think that could contribute for sure. As for palette paper, I use Redgrass papers I bought.
>>94398343What do you mean by drybrushing dust?
>>94398461All the powder that gets into a model from drybrushing sometimes. Gets right into the creases.
SS I'm sorry but KDM keeps not shipping me my god damned models so I can't send yours out yet.
>>94397863SS host, you do read all the messages you receive right? I'm a little worried mine didn't go through.
>>94397983>antidepressantsWhich ones? I got prescribed Mirtazapine/Remeron.
>>94398548We got at least 4 weeks. Keep the faith!
>>94398644Send a reminder if you want to make sure. But yes, in general i read and answer my mails. But there is always a possibility that i read something, then do something else, and forget that i wanted to reply.
>>94398504there should be some dampness either from the paint or very slight wetting of the brush if you are using a powder/dry technical, or you need a stronger paper towl like kitchen towel to dry it on. If it is in recesses you could just wash them with something dark though.
ok I think he's done
>>94398882
>>94397863> Two weeks in alreadyShit, I need to get my ass in gear.
>>94398504if it is pigment you are using, simply by brushing it out with an unloaded soft brush. If it is paint you are using, it shouldn't be so dry that it is dusting into recesses to begin with anyway, but if it does, again you should be able to brush it off. If it is damp drybrushing getting into your recesses, you probably want to town down how vigorous you are drybrushing.>900 seconds, can't even preload the captcha so I can autosend and walk awaynani the fuck is this shit, I don't have time to hang around for 15 minutes waiting for a greenlight, are they trying to kill the site?
>>94397983>antidepressants>my kill teamLet me guess, votan?
>>94398992people say t'au is "unWH40k", but to me that votan is worse in every regard. They look like something straight out of deep rock galactic, comical space dwarfs
>>94398987>nani the fuck is this shit, I don't have time to hang around for 15 minutes waiting for a greenlight, are they trying to kill the site?Anti-spam measure you need to do once in a while. The alternative is putting an email in the email field for verification.
>>94398398>>94398459Brush sizes are not normed and are specific to each manufacturer. Doesn't mean anything when the Rosemary and Windsor one are different even if the handle has the same size designation.
>>94399007and necromunda?
>>94399007And space bikers weren't comical? Also, like most modern miniatures, change the paintjob and results are very different.
>>94397983>>94398665Average Warhammer enjoyers
>>94399503Keep that shit out of here.
>>94399506Nta, but he has a point, keep your medication history and mental illness sob stories out of here, /r9k/ still exists.
>>94399503
>>94399713That's not what he was saying at all, but let's drop it.
>>94399713I don't see you posting any wips/models either, curious
>>94399713This, every year more "I can't find motivation to paint wahwah" posts, like I am on fucking reddit, fuck off seeking validation and support for your problems.>>94398882>>94398884Sick paintjob, very clean. Especially like the subtle colouring on the crotchcape.
>>94398665>>94397983Friendly reminder that taking AD's without an overarching plan with support structures along with a schedule to reduce medication at a set time and interval is American and should be considered malpractice.I have friends who have been taking this stuff for YEARS and at this point I doubt they could get of it, the crutch has become their sole treatment.
>>94397983Waiting on a bunch of stuff from Etsy, but everything else is ready to go.
>>94399769>fuck off seeking (...) support for your problems.Do you say this when someone asks for help with painting techniques?
>>94399053I think you replied to the wrong post? We were talking about how to keep your brush pointy and not wearing out so fast. The pointyness of a brush has nothing to do with its size. Take this example of a 000 next to a 4.
>>94400004False equivalence fallacyFuck off
>>94399788>America>I have friends who have been taking this stuff for YEARS and at this point I doubt they could get of it, the crutch has become their sole treatment.but think of the shareholders
Exalted Sorcerers should be here on Monday
>>94398882>>94398884BeautifulWhen you do the stripes on the headdress, do you leave the small gap in between each as black or do you paint it blue?I initially was filling in that spot as yellow and when I stopped doing that I noticed a big improvement on the look
>>94399769Thanks anon! Not sure why the cloth would stand out to you but I'm happy you like it all the same>>94400053Glad you like There's probably a more efficient way but what I do is paint it roughly in blue, then block in the yellow stripes. Afterwards I put a wash either directly in the recceses or just over the entire thing and relayer the raised blue and yellow parts>>94400039nice tsons anon, I like the magma bases
>>94399725>>94399746> anime posting AD meds addictsMaybe just kill yourselves and save the rest of us tax paying citizens some dosh.
>>94397861Two questions as a new painter1. Do i need to remove the paint with acetone before i use sprue goo to fix this gap on the shin?2. Why does army painter red make my model smell like burnt shit? I used it as a layer on the base and covered it with (not nearly enough apparently) Martian ironearth, the base itself is 3d printed PLA
>>94400133The eternal "forgot pic"
>>94400133Sprue goo will melt any paint it comes into contact with. In all honesty at this point I think you'd be better off filling this with milliput/green stuff and painting over that but I'm not big on building so I might be talking out of my ass
>>94400004Meds. Keep them to yourself.
>>944001331: Sprue goo, and most other fillers, won't mind that the paint's there. Odds are they'll bugger up any paint they get into contact with, but since you have to paint over the filler anyway...Also be careful with acetone around these models, since it'll melt the plastic into sprue goo if you put on too much and can coarsen up the surface even if you don't.2: Something in it apparently happens to smell that way.
Some time ago one anon posted some minis from a fairly new game.The games gimmick were round and square units, everything in the factions were either round or square tanks and mechs.It was called ?geometry wars?The SEO of this project is terrible can sombody help me here?
S.carolinanon you have 6 lbs of Christmas joy headed your way
>>94400755the block war?
>>94400900There is an anon living in Charleston, only 2 hours from my house, and Secret Santa pairs me with a dude living in central Europe
>>94400967The reason of course being that we can enrich the US with our superior snacks and you can reward us with your larger paychecks.
>>94400967I think I'd sleep more soundly knowing my address was being shared with someone who couldn't reasonably travel to my home if they turn out to be a schizo
>>94400987>giving real addressYou didn't give a postbox?
>>94400967I got paired with an australian and got shit from a dude who lived an hour and a half away from me one year. I don't even recall saying I'd do international.
>>94400900>stuff from UK that I ordered for SS has been stuck in customs for a week
>>94400967I'm pretty sure I've seen a post this year saying they got paired with someone like 10 minutes away.
>>94400967My anon is an hour away and if my car was currently a cube i would have just dropped his parcel at his door.
>>94398548Sometimes their shipment arrives next-day, sometimes in two weeks. I think its a combination of made/boxed to order minis and them not having a lot of warehouse staff.>>94400967The pairings are supposedly random, otherwise you'd be exchanging gifts with the same person every year.
finished my first ever model the other day. These threads have been a great help and inspiration.
>>94401092
Anons, I find myself befuddled as to how to make my Librarian distinct, with a red-blue-blue-red quartered scheme of the Brazen Hawks. When one’s default scheme already has enough blue, how then to make the Libby distinct? I was thinking a distinct unique color across the entire model, would welcome your input as painterly sorts. Example above of my scheme.
>>94401115Use a lighter blue along with the standard red and blue you already have used, perhaps?
Hello friends, how would I go about stripping Citadel primer from Forgeworld resin bits? Isopro. alcohol damages them, I believe.
>>94401200A) depending on the primer, not, as many primers chemically bondB) why would you need/want to? Can't do much with an unprimed mini
>>94401115Use an Epistolary model or something with a nice big tabard. Yellow should stand out well enough and you get bonus points for codex compliance.
>>94401204Damn, that is pretty cool, even for an ai.>>94401092Good job anon! Not bad for your first try. I think you should've left the lenses in a single color until you'll a bit better at brush control, the white looks weird as it is now. I would've also painted the haft of his weapon in a different color to break it up a bit. Also try filling the gaps/seamlines next time, it's pretty noticeable on the weapon. You'll get better in no time if you stick with the hobby and actually try to improve
>>94401218I made some pretty bad mistakes when painting a squad of Iron Warriors for my 30k army.
Working on some Malifaux.
>>94401092>>94401099Well done, anon. My first mini was also a Grey Knight and here's where I'm at today. Keep at it and don't repeat the mistake I made by stripping and repainting my first models a few years later. The top picture was the actual first paintjob, but I went over it the next day to unify the squad. Wish I could have taken a remotely decent picture back then.
>>94401204Wtf. Is this real?
>>94401303...come on anon
Will AP speedpaints 2.0 do anything stupid if I mix them with speedpaints medium or layer them with other speedpaints
what can I do to salvage this plasma glow without stripping it to remove the chunky ink under the current paintjob that reactivated when I tried to cheat with speedpaints
>>94401398test how they behave, all contrast equivalents have different pigment densities and mixing them might make them flow oddly
>>94401435Throw some white into the bottom of the coil in a way that lets it pool like it was a wash
>>94401435I think if you added some white or yellowish white to the bottom of the glow it would look fine. Those bulbs or whatever they are look pretty fucked though, don't think you can salvage those without stripping.
When I attach the head should I have it facing the owl or facing the same direction the owl is facing?
>>94401263thank you! And without a doubt, ended up messing up the eyes quite a lot because I couldn't get the blue pleasing at all, those were very confusing with the guides I read. The halberd has definitely been bugging me, I didn't notice how messy was until I saw it on camera hahahaah >>94401291thank you and wow these are gorgeous! What paint were you using for the silver? looks so bright and amazing with the gold. The bow figure is beautiful
>>94401493The way he's pointing I'd say.
>>94401442I meant more AP speedpaint on top, wary of it since last time I tried it was finnicky
>>94401512as long as they're 2.0 and fully dried you should be fine then, 2.0 only gave me reactivation issues with polyurethane varnish
>>94401495I was taking a shortcut with the silver, but it was some Krylon silver primer. In real life it was almost chrome-like and I don't recommend it for the final look on minis. I like Vallejo's Metal Colors range, though.
Put some basecoats on another tree today. The arrow broke when I was stripping him, I'll fix it a bit later because I want to avoid breaking it again
>>94401493what is he doing?if hes giving an order to someone else he should be looking at whoever is giving the order toif hes just like 'im going there' or 'there it is' he should be looking at the thing
>>94401314retard
>buy used pre painted Vlad from ebay for really cheap. Advertised as Pretty good condition, missing the one floating spectral skull coming from his cape.>minature arrives. paint job is superb, far better than anything I could do BUT >zero effort put into preserving the paint. Covered in chips and minor cracks.Why? Is there a reason not to varnish that I'm missing?
>>94401493I'd say he should look the same direction as the owl, otherwise it seems awkwardly out of place staring at nothing as he looks and points into the distance.
>>94401893Conversely you move the owl to be perched on the finger and then have him look at the owl
I'm painting my first army and this model was the first one that gave me any amount of trouble. Over half the time putting on the base paints has been spent on the weapon alone, and over half of that time on the weapon was spent on just this orb and the frame it sits in. I must have had to go back and correct the black and white each six or seven times, what a nightmare this is to do with shaky hands. It's not perfect but it's good enough and I am so done for today lol, I've never been this frazzled while painting so far
>>94401398No. I still use most of the paint from the SpeedPaint 1.0 mega set and I've never had a single problem with them
>>94401920>what a nightmare this is to do with shaky handsrest both your elbows on the table when you paint, if you aren't already
>>94401920I remember this skelly from 40kg, you still haven't decided on the colors? jesus
>>94401275shave your mold lines
>>94402023What do you mean? I've decided all the colors, this is a fresh model. J just finished a royal warden, if that what you're thinking of. >>94402011I am, I just have a mild condition that gives me sudden tremors ever now and again.
All the paint in my wet palette just seperates and spreads over the whole pad every time I leave it overnight.
>>94402023This reminds me, what happened to the guy who was planning, iirc, an Aztec theme for his army and had been planning a scheme for literal years posting it here every so often but never even starting, let alone getting it done.
>>94402110That only happens to me with metallics, which is why I try to use it sparingly and not put too much out at once.
>>94402110Sheet to permeable or sponge to wet.
>>94402099>tremorsthere's a video about this in the OP, if you haven't watched it yet.
>>94402116oh I remember that dude. Haven't seen him post that stuff in a while though. Maybe he finally accepted that it's just not happening
>>94402128Neat, thanks.
>>94402083I'm really pissed off about them.I had them for a year before painting and must have assumed I got rid of them. Oh well.
>>94401920>what a nightmare this is to do with shaky hands>luv warhammer>luv collecting>develop double vision that's bad enough to affect painting but not enough to get correctFeels bad, man.
>>94400932hell yea thank you anon
>>94402169You can get glasses for even the mildest correction, just go on in to the optometrist and have them do their little eye measurement tests and they'll get you a prescription that helps.
>>94402132Oh that's too bad, not surprising, but still a shame.
>>94402204>go to optometrist>"test is free, right?">"yes, test is free">get test>tiny error right eye>decide against glasses>"that will be 20 Euros for test please"mfw test is only free when you get glasses based on testmfw got tricked
>>94402204They said it's best to avoid them if it's not necessary because that can make it worse over time. The eyes/brain do a great job compensating for it and it doesn't really affect my day to day otherwise.Maybe I could get some just for hobby time, though.
>>94402252Magnification is a great help without fucking up any of the compensatory mechanisms you have develloped. Just a stand with a ringlamp and a x3-4 magnification does wonders imo.
>>94401204>when you ween on the tzeentch teet
>>94401115>how to make my Librarian distinctGive him a bosspole with a book on it and, if yer daring, his name.
>>94402425Several layers of clear drying PVA can make the water pop even more. Looks cool even without that though.
Just finished up this zombie horde. My first attempt at dead flesh. They are not perfect, but I like them and think they will look pretty good on the table.
>>94402292This, I thought I didn't like painting until I got one of these lamps. It's the biggest game changer you can get. >>94402577Wow, those look great, great job.
>>94402577what models are those
>>94402582I got them off of etsy. They are decent prints and I only had to trim a few mold lines. I didn't have to glue anything either so, they feel pretty solid. https://www.etsy.com/listing/896188034/zombie-horde-mini-monster-mayhem
Ravager in progress I hate literally everything about this model. It is infuriating to paint. I'm forcing myself through it, because after this, 3 raiders, and 2 venom's, I'll have a full 2000pt Drukhari army battle ready and ready to play. The other vehicles are getting a much quicker, much sloppier painting jobs. And seeing how sloppy this one already is? That's saying something. I hate these boats.
>>94402631Slow down, take a break. Some times you are better off walking away for a bit. You are better off taking your time and painting something you like then staring at a shitty model on the table for the next few years.
>>94402631is that a fucking thicctor
I need to pick between a vallejo, tamiya, or mr. surfacer rattlecan primer. Can anyone vouch for one over the others specifilly?
>>94402789Rustoleum
>>94402824My rustoleum grey looks like poopoo doodoo with metallics on my test spoon and I don't know if I trust it for minis
>>94402789Vallejo primer is pretty fucking bad in my experience.Maybe go for tamiya.>>94402824Rustoleum sucks.
>>94402789I have used this vallejo black primer and it does a good job. Comparable to chaos black and about 5 bucks cheaper.
>>94402888I find Vallejo greys are really nice. The bone colour is awful.
>>94398372I like it, too. Are you gonna give the cape a similar texture or leave it smooth?>>94398882Very slick.>>94401092Not bad, I've played against much worse.>>94402425Luv me dreadfleet>>94402577A perfectly serviceable horde>>94402631I know the feeling. The good news is you can almost always go back and clean up the slop if it bugs you.
>>94402832You want black under metals, not grey or white. They look like absolute shit otherwise. Also rusto primer and primer + paint are kinda shitty, X2 primer's pretty good.
>>94403701Mine says "Painter's touch" but not paint+primer. The problem I think is the roughness sticking out more with metal than it would with normal colors, the gunmetal I'm putting on has more coverage than my other metals so I'm not sure it's a color issue
Do you think I should add these little grass deals to the bases or is it too much?
>Look ma, I'm on /tg/Finished up the first sentinel, waiting on my buddy to come through with another base so I can finish the second.
>>94403721Definitely add the grass
>>94402245>they don't have your info, nor evidence that they tested you>walk out of the storeTwo can play the scam game.
Weather being a bugger still, so only got these finished this weekend, can't really build more because I already got two warbands and a third one sitting on my table waiting to be primed and painted.
Noooooot quite WIP related, but I figured this would still be a good place to ask if y'all don't mind indulging me.Just ordered some bits and models, gonna make a friend a model for his army for his Bday. Now my actual question though, how would you guys recommend packing a model for shipping? I was thinking about getting one of those baseball display cases or something and blue stuff/tack to stick the model down, filling it with like the shredded paper for gifts or something reasonably soft and then taping the display case down before dropping it off at UPS or something where I can have them add a little more protection and marking it as fragile.Do you guys mail models at all and how would you recommend packing it to attempt to prevent the least amount of damage?
>>94400133>>94400139Is this metal? Don't use acetone to strip plastic minis. Alternatively if you don't want to strip, use gloss varnish or vallejo plastic putty as filler and paint over it.
>>94397863Old World enjoyers, for approximately $60, would you have liked an army of 20 miniatures or one big boi unit?
>rat ogres are only available in the box set for nowI swear to fucking god as a dude who just likes painting cool models GW makes it as difficult as possible for me to give them money.
>>94404259>Do you guys mail models at all and how would you recommend packing it to attempt to prevent the least amount of damage?I sell shit on ebay. You mostly have the right of it. Easiest way is to wrap the model in small-bubble bubble wrap, then place it in a hard container with foam or packing paper so it can't rattle around. Box that. Most mail-order minis companies just put the mini in a small ziplock, then put the whole thing into a small box with some bubble wrap. Doesn't work with painted stuff or fine resin but it's fine for raw metal minis.
>>94402343Do we still get banners in modern GW boxes ? Are they hard to sculpt yourself ?
>>94404378There's a shitton of people selling sprues separately anon.
>>94404531Ok simple enough, I'll go ahead and follow through with that
>>94402789Tamiya is good, Mr Surfacer is good, haven't used Vallejo's rattlecan.
>>94404677>Are they hard to sculpt yourself ?Sculpt? For a back banner you just cut it from regular paper and paint. There are probably some black and white outlines you can print out and work from in various 2nd ed codicii (at the time meant to be photocopied).
>>94404797Oh, I feel retarded now. I was convinced they were usually made of solid plastic due to a bloodletters box I painted ages ago that had one.
What colored shadows should I paint for pic related? Blue, purple?
>>94404717for example? i had a hard time finding one in the EU (not UK)
>>94404898Just mix in some black? It's as much grey as purple as it is, I doubt you need to worry about loosing vibrance in your shadows.
Guy how do you chose which paint to buy next? Based on the need for the next project scheme? I have around 40 random pots (mostly vallejo and citadel) from which Id say at least half was a miss. I dont want to buy any mega set, but when I do paint I feel Im lacking variety (mixing works great except I steuggle to reproduce the color when I come back to the desk a month after)Also advise on good Army Painter browns and greens? Should I try a whole triad?
>>94404903NTA but I often find just ebay is pretty good for bits, and you can filter by seller location
>>94404898Depends on what the ambient light is in the imaginary location your minis are in. If they're outside under a blue sky, blue makes sense. Purple happens automatically when you add blue shadows to reddish surfaces (like skin). If your models are inside or on an alien planet, the shadows would reflect whatever the main color of the environment is. Perhaps red for a mars type setting, or orange for indoor lighting. Blue and purple are often used, because we're so used to that being the standard here on planet earth, much like yellow/orange lighting due to the sun and electric lightbulbs.
>>94404898try shading with pure dark blue or red for a cool coloured shade instead of just desaturation
>>94403752very nice painting anon
>>94404903>EUTry vinted if it's in your country, otherwise ebay. Or wallapop maybe.
>>94397861I fucking hate vallejo metal color goldThin as fuck (i know it’s more for airbrushing but still), takes a shitload of time to shake the paint, the color is barely actually golden and more like a slightly yellow metallic and even after you shake it as hard as humanly possible it still separates almost immediately Maybe I got an old or a dud bottle or smth but fuck it annoys me
>>94404942People buy paints unrelated to current projects? Wat. Why? I buy my paints alongside the kit/box/model, no different to buying ingredients for recipes I am going to cook. Do you also just randomly buy galangal despite having no intention to cook thai? Sounds like FOMO madness.The only paints I have that I don't use are the result of boxsets being cheaper than singles. So e.g. when I painted a Luftwaffe plane, I got the Vallejo Luftwaffe set, 1 of those paints remains untoucjed, but it was still cheaper than getting the other paints as singles.
finished my scorps after 6 months of indolence
>>94405016>I didn't have the food processor the recipe called for so I just did a quick and dirty chopjob>wtf it came out all rough and horrible and non uniform, not at all like the paste the recipe is for, 1/10This is you
>>94405016gw retributor gold has excellent coverage and is my go to basecoating gold
>>94405022>FOMO madnessI don't know how you concluded that but If anything a do exactly opposite. I buy single pots of colors that look good on screen but sometimes they turn shiet in RL.I paint random miniatures from different games and manufacturers so in the begining of my hobby I went with what seemed logical to me. Some red some blue, 2 browns black white.Obviously if my next step was to paint 2000 points of blood angels I wouldn't be asking such a general question.
>>94397861I like the IG vehicles too bad I don't care for them as an army. Lemon Russ my beloved.
>>94405040Yeah, the fact that it is a shitty barely golden color and separates almost instantly no matter how hard you mix it is definitely my fault>>94405041I use retributor armor for basecoats and was planning to use vallejo for highlights but it turned out not really worth it
>>94405016It taking you a long time to shake is probably a sign that your bottle ain't great but all the rest is the same for me, vallejo metals are good for flowing well and being smooth but it is a bit of a pain to use them with brushes because of that and I agree that their gold is closer to a brass than what most other brands would call gold.
>>94405031Well executed, if a little standard.
>>94405031Very nice, I love the green. Probably would've looked better if you tried to refine the edge highlights a bit, they're a bit chunky in a couple places.
>>94404944i have never found any good deals there, is either too expensive or from the uk (wich would make it too expensive to get anyways)>>94404996>wallapopvery far and between and with the same prace as a new full fox usually>vintedeven worsei actually bought a full box elsewhere and sold most of the sprues myself on wallapop for the same price i paid for them, probably will do it again since its cheaper than ordering singles from the uk
>>94405031Gonna be honest I'm not big on your basing choice. The dudes look good though
>>94405056yes, it is, you using airbrush paint for not airbrush is entirely 100% on you.
>>94405106yea the bases need more work, they came out a bit slushy
>>94405016the problem here is that you are brushing on something that is inherently not a brush paint. All the vallejo airbrush colours work, in my experience anyway, very well in an airbrush, but suck major titties when brushed on.
>>94404898put color in 3D rendereradd lightsourceadd shadowuse color pickerdone
>>94405128Isn't that just because there's black underneath the snow?
>>94405130nta but maybe he thought it would work like vma silver which brushes on very well
>>94405128oh I didn't mean it that way, they read as melted snow pretty well. I'm just not sure about snow bases for such vibrant green guys
>>94404942>Based on the need for the next project schemeyes, how else would you determine what to buy? I mean, I am definitely not buying what I DON'T need. I am not going to buy racecar red for a kroot killteam (I mean, unless I was planning to do racecar red theme kroots for osme reason, but then I would know I need racecar red)
>>94405152NTA but I live in a shithole with no LGS so I buy everything online. I would often add paints and other random products like tufts to my orders so the total qualifies for free shipping. Now I have a lot of paints I very rarely use and an absurd amount of basing stuff
>>94405031nice gemstoning
>>94405162Ya, I do that, but I am still not getting racecar red if I know I am never going to use it. I'd get something I would conceivably need a lot of anyway, something genereic that works for lots of different stuff and projects spanning the depth and breadth of the hobby. PVA glue, PU foam, cork, basing mats like you say, gloves, coffeestirrer sticks, bluetack, a spare sprueclipper, sanding sponges and sticks, brush cleaner and soap, a spare brush or two. The list is near endless, it is also why I think anyone with this as a hobby is extremely easy to get gifts for, loads of stuff to get in all price ranges. My mom will to this day come round with a box of random house stuff she no longer needs or saw on sale or w/e with a "thought you might be able to use this". What's never in that box though is racecar red paint.
>>94405162That's the same for me. I buy online so not always what I buy matches my expectations. That's how I got a bunch of pots i dislike now. And looks like I am particularly unlucky with browns in Vallejo GC range...
>>94405209I don't have that problem with normal paints (mostly Army Painter and GW) since my LGS stocks them but the second I try to do vallejo or air paint it's fucking gambling. I got some yellow paint, not dark enough. Get some blue-green paint, wrong shade. Only thing that actually fucking worked as intended is the white primer
>>94405252>i swear on me mum I'm not a shill
Printed some cyberpunks
>>94405252>wrong shade Lmao, anon do you not mix your paints to get the exact color you want? If it's the wrong shade them just change it....
>>94405360good looking prints>>94405391not always feasible across a whole army is it
Just got into the hobby after playing Space Marine 2, GF got me some paints, brushes, and some Sword Brethren for our anniversary, mate of mine that had been making fun of me buying the nerd toys bought me some Company Heroes. Then got myself the Combat Patrol, and then I got Helbrecht yesterday. Lots of details need adding.
>>94405508>plays one video game and then immediately blows hundreds of dollars on a hobby he doesn't even know if he enjoys or not You and GW™ are made for each other
>>94405554He already painted some models, that's more than what some that spent thousands can say.
>>94405508Pick up a wash/shade paint, it'll help a lot
>>94405554post your work with timestamp
Just getting into the hobby and I picked up the Drukhari Combat Patrol. Don't like the Archon's face, and I see he doesn't come with a blast pistol option, so I'm going to look for bits for those. As for the boats, it seems like it would be a huge bitch to paint them if they were fully assembled, so I'm guessing that everybody paints them in sub assembly. However, do you just use super glue after, to put them fully together?
>>94405611>I post picture of myself naked on the internet, in the view of hundreds of menDude that's kinda gay
>>94405611>this post is off topic
>>94405554while I agree that might be a bit too much plastic for just starting out in the hobby at least he's not a massive faggot like you
>>94405554Whats wrong with getting some miniatures after you like a game?
>>94405360If you don't paint a colorful luchador mask on the left one, I will find you and end you.
>>94405554fuck off back to 40kg or whatever shithole you crawled out of
>94405611Faggot confirmed.
>>94405610I have no idea why gw retired the old metal archon with the soul trap, that was far superior to the current one.Does the kabalite squad have a pistol option for the leader? maybe you can snipe that
>>94405610yeah you have to use ca glue/super glue to glue already painted parts, plastic glue will damage the paintjob
>>94405644I googled it and it looks much better. Yeah I can grab the kabalite blast pistol, and just leave him unarmed (heh) until I get another proper bit. But I still gotta look for a better head I think. I saw some art where the archon has a helmet that looks like a Raider head, and that looks pretty good.>>94405652Oh ok gotcha, that makes sense.
>>94405611dyel>>94405635That is very much the plan, along with the oldschool goalie mask with the one on his side.
>>94405508Try to ignore the spergs, they flare up from time to time.Nice job for a beginner, could use some shading and highlights.
>>94405628>a bit too much plastic for just starting outHow so?From a "veteran" painter PoV, knowing how much time you can spend to paint one miniature, maybe.From the Pov of a new player? He might or might not have known that the Combat patrol is enough to play. But since he already had the Sword Brethren and Company Heroes gifted to him, what else should he have bought? He can't play with just those two units, so combat patrol it is. And one character model (that he already painted) is not adding too much of a backlog either.If he continues to paint the minis on this level, the whole bunch will be ready to play with next weekend for sure and then he can play the tabletop and has all the time to watch or read some guides on how to make good looking black armor or other basics of painting.
1. How can I prevent my brush drawing paint all the way up? This was from a ~1h painting session where I did nothing but continually applying paint to plastic. Also, the brush appears to already start fraying at the tip. I am not a caveman and can apply proper pressure, so why could this be happening?2. What are some good brushes anyway? This is one I grabbed from an arts & crafts store, "artist's brush for acrylics". Do I have to buy a mini painting brand mini painting brush? If yes, what *are* good brushes?Plz no bully, I haven't been at this for too long.I also had a picture attached, but since some piece of shit in my range got it "temporarily" banned from uploading files (and it doesn't even say for how long), there will be none here. Just imagine a brush with a "clean" tip and a bunch of paint right up to the collar. And no, Hiroshimoot, I will NOT buy a pass, go fuck yourself.
>>944058261. cheap brush will split asap and the fibres are not so good. put your paint on a palette, add a little water, take paint from the edge, when you notice it building up, wash and reload.Helps to have a paper towel (or thumbnail) to wipe excess paint off of for highlights2. probably want to get yourself some rosemary&co series 33, as cheap as top quality goes you won't worry about ruining a few and you can learn how top-end tools go.Get a size 1 and a size 0https://www.rosemaryandco.com/watercolour-brushes/pure-kolinsky-pointed
>>94405826>Do I have to buy a mini painting brand mini painting brush?Nah, those are just rebrands.There's a lot of differences in brush quality, and usually you get what you pay for.
>>94405826Get some brush soap from your lcoals arts&crafts store (many different brands, probably matters little which, it's just a block of really fatty soap since our brushes are essentially the driest kind of hair imaginable), it'll help keep your brushes ok for longer. Also try various brands of brushes from what you have ready access too, you'll probably find that some that go to hell in a hurry while hopefulyl some other brand will provide decent bang for your buck. Special mini painting brushes aren't really anything special, as for cheap vs fancy stuff you can go really far with just basic synthetic hair brushes, though eventually you're going to want to try some nice sable brushes too. Though you'll probably never abandon the cheap ones entirely, they do a lot of jobs just as good and some things (drybrushing, stippling, to a lesser but extent metallic paints) aren't kind to your brushes.
>>94405508Really good for a first timer. You have pretty clean applications and stayed within the lines. I can see that some of your pant looks a little lumpy, this might indicate that you had too much paint on your brush, or that you didnt wait long enough between painting new layers. But they look great for a beginner, and like the other anon said a wash is the next place to experiment to get some greater depth and shading.
Spent multiple week-ends agonizing over a single rubric, painting and stripping him multiple times trying to find the best way to paint the fucker and the rest of his company.Ended up doing>prime black>cover in gold then talassar blue>dry brush gold on topand got the exact look I was going for. Shit yellow lighting and I haven't filled in the parts the brush didn't get but once I paint the cloth and other details he should look pretty good, hopefully.
>>94405826>How can I prevent my brush drawing paint all the way upI hate to be snarky, but the answer is pretty much by being careful. Dont dip your good brush in the paint pot (you can use the back side to transfer paint to your palette), dont mix your paints with your good brushes, dont load tons of paint onto your good brushes, dont apply washes with your good brushes (as these wick up more than normal paint). Nothing can make a brush last forever, but being mindful of your actions helps.>what are good brushesBuy a winsor and newton series 7 size 2. And do not get tricked into the "miniature" ones. You want the normal water color one. Longer bristles means less likely of getting the paint into the ferrule. https://www.dickblick.com/items/winsor-newton-series-7-kolinsky-sable-brush-pointed-round-size-2/But try to only use your good brushes for when you need to, as a single nice brush can cost more than a bag of shitty cheapo brushes that work just fine for basic stuff. I only use mine for painting eyes and the very finest highlighting.
>>94405958Looks all right for what is essentially a speedpaint, if you were going for a "dusty" feel you definetely got it
>>94405990Yeah, a 10min job + drying time.I'm going for an old, sandblasted armor. I also wanted to give him a single white pauldron but I'm not sure how I'll blend that with the rest of the armor.
>>94406112
>>94405508Try nuln oil for fun, will make them look dirty but it'll do wonders on that greenie
>>94406143I dont get it
>>94406112this is cool>>94406143made me cackle
>>94404677>Do we still get banners in modern GW boxes?For loyalists? Almost never. The new multipart Sternguard kit has a nice one. I just have a massive backstock of older (albeit smaller) bosspoles from decades past.>Are they hard to sculpt yourself ?Depends on technique and skill level. All the banners in >>94402343 are one or two layers of paper, which was how it was done in the old days. I'm switching to plastic banners for my newer squads, but if you live in a country where foodstuffs still come in metal squish-tubes, it's my understanding that those tubes make excellent banner material once they're empty if you cut them up right.
>>94405977>50 dollars regular priceNani the fuck, am I glad I don't live near there
Just starting with this one, trim and base painted up (the latter will get some bits of grass in the end), some of the main armour plates basecoated.And I guess I'm gonna have to go find focus stacking in the menus by the time he's done, but that's a bit much to be arsed with for an early WiP shot.
>>94406257Yeh thats just bs marketing "oh look how much money you're saving!". But you can buy them at most art stores, just dont get them from amazon or you will get fake shitty counterfeit ones.
>>94406391are you the same black legion anon with that fantastic land raider?
>>94406440Nope.
Finished my sagitaur
>>94406963Difference with the one I painted 1.5 years ago.
What's a good AP fanatic/pro acryl equivalent to grey seerthe paint itself, not the primer
>>94406987Here anon:https://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/paint_range_compatibility_chart
>>94406994I appreciate it but that's lacking grey seer, same as this other chart I checked https://redgrimm.github.io/paint-conversion/index.html
>>94407011Sorry, I haven't checked before posting it.
>>94407020all good, only reason I asked here is cause I couldn't find a conversion chart that had the paint listed
No local place has 40k bits apparently. What is the best site for random bits, specifically Drukhari?
>>94407254noel's atticwarbits
>>94405360You get what you pay for, I guess.
>>94407321It's literally my second print, anon. It will get much better.
>>94397861Started getting minis & into painting fairly recentlyIt's honestly pretty fun Tried to do a lamenter as they are one of the first space marine chapters I learned about, absolutly fucked up trying to do the insigna free hand, guess it's a lesson to watch proper tutorial, will probably keep it as is and finish all of the other details before painting quite a few orks minis
>>94407381
>>94407381Mind your mould lines, be neat, practise a whole bloody lot.
>>94407433very nice, I guess I could at least try to touch that up (along with everything else until I call it done)Best way to remove paint on a specifc part? Heard that acetone was pretty bad for plastic; and that something like isopropyl alcohol could do the trick, but I have no idea where to find that>>94407448yeaaah looking at the picture now, I'm seeing plastic bits I didn't cutt off/trim properly, and everything looks really sloppy,
>>94407489as a beginner you aren't going to get good results stripping anything, just move on to the next one and try to do better
>>94407489Don't worry about it anon, you'll get there with practice. Nobody paints display pieces right off the bat. Also nice, you're the second new anon in this very thread.>>94406963I was a bit nervous when I saw the painted clear parts but this pink looks pretty cool. The vehicle overall is pretty neatly painted, I say you did a good job>>94406391Make sure to post your progress!
>>94407254bits and kits, they are more comprehensive than many places and while they have had bad rep I think they mostly ironed it out.
>>94407535honestly, I got this infernus marine for free at a warhammer shop, so even if i fuck it up, it's not that much of a loss; I have enough boyz & grots to experiment a bit more and get more practice. I'll still have it stand in the forefront on my shelve will make for a nice basis of comparaison once I git gud, I have 2/3 units (Uftakh, Big Mek & Kill Team Kommandos) that I'm keeping for later as I really want those to look good
>>94401705some progress
Need your opinion/help lads. Should I leave well enough alone and leave this black spot as a "shadow" or should I attempt to repair it? I was able to repair/hide all the other cracks/chips but this one might be beyond my meager skills.Also anyone know the blue color used for the spectral skulls.His sword is also bent, is it possible to warm it under hot water and then bend it back true with out damaging my repair job? Would varnish prevent the water/bending from damaging the paint?
Panel lining tau makes me want to kill myself. I'm starting to think gloss and gundam style lining would be less work.
>>94407746just buy an enamel panel liner or make your own oil wash anon
>>94407565>honestly, I got this infernus marine for free at a warhammer shopThis is a neat deal, and I love that GW does this. You can get easy-to-build Infernus marines on the cheap, as they came in the Leviathan box (two sprues of five each) and some of the magazines, but this model - with his textured base - is unique and does not come with the regular kits.Like adding blind box heroes or commemorative series models, it's a fun way to swap some distinction into a squad of ladz that tend to all look alike after a while.
>>94401043...Your car has been crushed into a cube; you have 30 days to move your cube.
Thanks for the Canada Post strike update my-SS-anon.Still waiting on my last item to ship to send mine out. Hopefully I can avoid the strike, or I'll at least just be able to pick fedex or something else.
Did some progress with the Beast. I'm happy how the arm came out, but not sure how to properly do the dark hair. Any tips?
>>94408043See where it's specular highlights are with that glossy finish? Paint those in where they are in teh picture, and then matte finish the model when everything's done.The skin looks cool.
I'm painting a bunch of Tau drones. I hate the clear plastic bases, but I don't know if I want to get and base a bunch of individual drones. I'm thinking about maybe just drilling a hole in a lot of tau model bases and letting them slot into the bases of my units with a piece of armature wire. I guess if I were to ever hypothetically play a game of warhammer I could just pop them in and out as necessary? Does anybody see any problems with that idea?
>>94408090Unless the rules have changed significantly since I last looked into 40k the obvious problem would be that the drones are not just markers or decorations, they are units in their own right. So you need to be able to move them independently and that means they have to be on bases in their own right.You could probably use a piece of brass wire painted black for a more minimal approach, or you could integrate them into the environment somehow (mount them on small trees or pieces of ruins depending on your basing scheme)
>>94408090per 10th edition they're tokens, not models, and don't even need to be present on the board. I have a fully painted Tau army and exactly zero painted drones.
Calling this guy done, Except for maybe some Gloss varnish on the nurglings. Also i need to sleep over the Plasma effect, Lots of stuff on this model im trying for the first time.
first models, almost done just need to decide what color i want the aspiring sorcerer to bepeople were right, 1k sons is hell of a faction to start with
>>94408509and also need to do some clean up, final details, etc...
Hey guys, I'm finally in a spot where I'm ready to pull the trigger on my dream army since I was a kid. Just did the first test model for the color scheme. I will be doing an urban city-fight style on the base. Haven't painted a model in years, so what do we think about the test model?
>>94408565I really like it.If you want some good 3rd party models too look into the noctern iron guard.They have really good proxies
anyone done/seen any decent conversions of the necromunda ridgewalkers for admech? found a cheap box, same base size as the cavalry and I've got more than enough spare skittle bits. always seemed like a no-brainer conversion but I haven't actually seen it done yet. certainly not approved by mars, but ramshackle walkers feels much less silly than the horse-dogs.
So guys, what are some of the challenges of gluing ALOT of skulls to a cape? I'm trying to recreate the cape of the Skulltaker for my Master of Executions cape so once I get the "Citadel Skulls" box, then once that arrives just start slapping them things on. But they are all pretty small and contact area probably isn't to great with the cape being curved and all, or would they be so small that any amount of plastic cement will pretty much be enough without much other thought?
>>94408708That’s a tough one, it may help to sand the side that will be facing the cape down. Trying to get them flush will serve to increase the surface area of the glue or cement
>>94408675Thanks, I appreciate it. I have around 70ish Mordians that I've been buying over the years. Thanks for the recommendation, but I want that sweet OG look
>>94407631Keep it, I didn’t know it wasn’t supposed to be that way until I read your post.
>>94406239https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSGEzpkgsu0NTA. It looks like a bunch of crap smashed together through anger like in the clip. That was not a swipe at you because we know it's supposed to be a shipwreck.
>>94408741I completely understand. There are many imitations but the genuine article has a flair all its own.
>>94408734Yeah that is what I was thinking too, and hopefully once I start filling it up I can start gluing them to each other as well.I should probably also go ahead and buy some tamiya thin cement and start dropping some leftover sprues in there so I can make that coveted "sprue glue"
>>94408800You could make a guide out of tin foil or another flexible material that holds its shape
I'm having so much trouble painting the blades on this guy, this will be my second time repainting the base coat and trying again, but because I put so much paint on it the details are starting to get smoothed out. This last one is going to have to be done right, or I'm going to strip the whole miniature and start over again. Do you guys have a go-to method for painting Necron blades that have turned out well for you?
>>94406257Don't buy Winsor, their quality control is crap. Find some Rudoff or Nevskaya kolinsky brush on Ebay, the size 3 Nevskaya kolinsky is only $11, size 2 is $7, size 1 is $5. I've been using them for years with no problem
>>94409051I do NMM but in bright [insert energy color].Pic not mine.
>>94409051You are going way too maximum effort on this. Just find a contrast/speed paint in the color you want and do that. Paint a light grey and white undercoat in a pattern if you want, but do yourself a favor, and just be ok with the results. Hit it with a dry brush or edge highlight at the end of you want, but you are going to do so many energy weapons and bits in this army, just find an easy path forward! This is a light grey undercoat with white highlights, followed by doomfire magenta contrast. Then a fulgrim pink dry brushing followed by an AK interactive florescent Magenta dry brushing.
>>94409323Nice try vladimir
Is there any trove or share for 3D printable miniatures? myminifactory obviously has a bunch, but you pay a lot and they're labelled with "legally distinct" names making it pretty difficult to actually find the thing you're looking for.
>>94410164Telegram?
>>94409647>someone saved a picture of my stuff
>>94410323Yeah, your stuff is good and I liked the simple black bases on these.
are there any decent brush-on primers or is it over for me if I can't manage a spraycan?
I'll be making a platoon of Foreign Legion inspired guardsmen inspired by pic related. I have enough old Cadian bodies that will fit the bill well enough, but I've been looking for heads desert type kepi to use for them. Any recommendations for STLs or already made bits that could fit?
>>94410433Most primers that would go through an airbrush work just as well with an brush, just way more time consuming.
>>94410433vallejo polyurethane white is what I use sometimes, you almost want to drybrush it on. but it's very messy if you do that, so watch out
>>94410433I've heard about thinned gesso but I feel like it's gonna be rough as fuck
>>94409647What's the front left unit (cyclops) or does anyone have a separate pic of that mini? Looks like suitable conversion material for a project.
>>94410715That's an Apprentek, I don't know if he's exclusive to the KT box. I only have this which I think shows him better? I'm at work right now so I can take some more closeups in about 8 hours if you want
>>94410350oh and I forgot to say thank you, I'm really happy you like it
>>94410728I meant the left unit with the huge eye.
>>94410480Why there is no pre thinned primer?
>>94410831Do you want less product?
>>94410809Plasmacyte reanimator
>>94410858Why do i need to thin my paint?
>>94410868"I am going to spend dozens of hours painting my minis but spending 60s adding thinner to my primer is a dealbreaker"Lole
>>94410868Because different thicknesses of paints are for different purposes?There´s a reasons GW lines of glaze paints and dry paints flopped
>>94410809oh my bad, yeah that's a plasmacyte
>>94410099Communism is the only way you could get a decent and quality Kolinsky brush though>muh animal feeling
>>94410868>Hello Miss Claire! My speciality is i could thinned my plastic toy paint down to the consistency of milkHa! What a nerd
>>94410892People here will argue just for the sake of it. Same shit as blowing hundreds of dollars on absurdly overpriced plastic or even more on a 3d printer but making a huge deal of buying a $5 pack of cork rocks or someshit
>>94410861>>94410906Welp, it's the model's side, never mind then.>oh my badand I missed an actual cyclops, so nbd
>>94410868Water. If you mean specifically how, this video in the OP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBDVPoNXyVI
>>94410461You gotta make a Benny from the mummy. a little pencil stash at least.
>>94410461You'd probably have an easier time looking for heads with something simpler like a fez or civil war caps and then just adding the brims and/or neck capes with greenstuff, those are the kind of parts that are super easy to make yourself and would probably look way better that way than any pre-made you could find since you could actually drape the cloth over their shoulders and shit
>>94410461I'm pretty sure I saw FFL-inspired printed heads somewhere. Also, I'm surprised that there isn't more of the stuff. The Legion, and especially the old Legion, is very warhammer organization.
>>94411281Forgot to add, you could also do the Pionniers. You know, long beards and axes.
>>94410868Because otherwise the jews will forcing you to buy their premium Wash aka super thinned paint and Glaze aka quite thinned paint
>>94410433Sty-Nyl-Rez, aka Ultimate Primer, works well enough with a hairy stick.
Day 8 of KDM not even having shipped my order. I swear I'm workin' on it, SS anon. As long as I get it out before the end of the month it should be okay.
>>94411225The opening scene of the Mummy has been the main inspiration besides that picture, so a squad will definitely have Benny and Sergeant Rick!>>94411272It could probably work well, but honestly I've had trouble to find any sort of heads with a kepi hat! Madrobot has some, but no files and relatively little variety. I have found this by Wargames Atlantic that pretty much fits the bill: https://wargamesatlantic.com/collections/imperial-conquests-digital/products/french-foreign-legion-sino-french-warBut I have no idea if they fit well on Cadian bodies.>>94411281>>94411293While it would be very cool to field some, I'll first focus on getting the main platoon done. Looking for fitting heads may take a while, but maybe if I can find some ACW ones with beards I'll add the pionniers.
>>94408043>dead Gaston>slutty BelleI do not care for this
>>94412141>I do not care enough to tell everyone how I do not careok retard
Some very basic custom quars done priming. I have 6 extra of each side, but have the extra arms and heads taking forever to come in, so I tried to make something a unique guy with just the base sprue. Out came a trench raider and sharpshooter.
Drukhari newbie here again. So after seeing how tragic the bit situation is, I've got a couple options. I could buy the Scourge box for the blast pistol bit, from amazon this is like 34. I mean I like them and would use them later, but yeah. The other thing is giving the Archon a right hand option from one of the Kabalites hanging on the Raider. It's a small blade, so he would have no visible pistols, and then I could say he had any pistol right? For the Archon head, I could use an incubi head instead, which *kinda* looks like the Archon with Soul Trap head, but I dunno if that'll look good.
>>94412427oh baby I think you're my SS cause I got a request for this game
>>94411942Wargames Atlantic make their historic stuff in 28mm scale, no? I think it should fit. But I would check some comparisons first, I think there are quite a few on youtube.
>>94412543I think it's been riding an algorithm recently
>>94412353Hello ESL, you parsed that sentence entirely wrong, then confidently made a dumb statement. My best guess is that you are German.
>>94412438you can always give him an ambiguous pointing hand or some shit and wysiwg you aren't at faultjust say he has the pistol
>>94412353That is just an idiomatic way of saying you don't like something, it doesn't mean that you don't care to express the opinion.
>>94411942Mummy theme based
>>94412655Ok cool cool, I'll read through the manual and see if there are any bits in the Combat Patrol that are like this.
>>944059583 paint minimum, you need to leave.
Best French imperial army minis?
>>94412718for napoleonics? or warhammer?if the former, what scale
>>94411829I've had it take 38 days for KDM to ship things.You can get shit quicker from the chinese recasters on ebay.
>>94412570>>94410461WGA historical minis are rather small, compared to what GW sells.WGA sci-fi minis (i.e. everything thats labeled Deathfields) is GW guardsman scale. If its just the heads you are after, they should work well enough with cadian sized bodies, but full minis will be noticeably smaller.There are the Grognards, from the Deathfields range, they include Kepi style hats/heads too.There is also this range here:https://www.myminifactory.com/users/GoldenDragonGames/collection/marcher-new-french-republicScale is pretty much GW guard. Maybe you find some parts useful.
>>94412805fuck, forgot to post the pic (from an infantry set on that MMF link)
>>94412797I'll ship the bulk of the stuff by end of month if I have no updates and send the KDM thing a bit later if need be I guess. I have a fine SS without it but it was kind of the icing on the cake.
>>94412750The former, and really any TT scale. I know the very small ones look kinda stunly and ass and seem to serve more the purpose of getting a numerically large force. On the larger end busts and megasize scales will look great, but are hardly scale pieces. I essentially would like to do some diorama's so I guess 1:28 to 1:16 or so
>>94412697He said he's going to paint the cloth and other details by brush. Consider reading the entire post before replying
>>94412814IMO overdid the dusting.
>>94412854You know as well as I do that it will be painted the same blue with a gold trim.
>>94412854>Consider reading the entire post before replyingno
>>94412855True it looks rather bad, but i did not post it because of the great propainting, but because Anon above was looking for Guardsman sized desert heads. They all wear gasmasks it seems, but maybe thats ok with him.
>>94412848warlord games do some amazing 28mm, but they are gonna be ass to paint a whole napoleonics army
>>94412848I meant to say 16-28mm*
>>94412830Oooh, I might have spoken too soon!
>>94410892I posted this a couple threads ago already, but I’m kind of with anon. I got a bunch of Vallejo “air” paints and am discovering how much I like the convenience of prethinned paints. It’s 100% less cost effective, and you’ll definitely need regular paint for when you need something thicker or a specific viscosity… but having “air” paints for certain things is kind of nice since I can brush them on right from the bottle. Vallejo “air” black has pretty much been my go-to black for the past month. And I have a box of US desert camo colors in the “air” version that I reach for a lot when I’m doing terrain or just brush/sponging camo.
Just did some last minute priming. Tomorrow will be snowy outside.
>>94412989>It’s 100% less cost effectiveThis. But lets be real, we are talking about cents here for the usual hobbyist. If you paint/spray through 50+ pots of paints a month then we could start to discuss the cost effectiveness, but with normal useage for miniatures, a single "air" pot will still last very long.
Pic unrelated.Anyone ever used a brush to apply MIG Streaking Grime, or should I use an airbrush? Is there a big difference in using either method (frankly if I can avoid having to use a respirator to airbrush streaking grime, I will).
>>94413060You can apply it with a brush just fine. It should be the normal method.
>>94413060the point of streaking grim is to apply streaks. You need to do that with a brush obviously.If you want to do something like using it like a wash, because some guys on YT do that...you can still do that with a brush.
Anonymous, your package has been received with a lot of gratitude, very generous of you
>>94413215/ shall see you in awg
>>94413215whats the nazi sprue? lances?
How different is GW plastic glue from tamiya plastic cement? I got it by mistake
>>94413363they are the exact same thingall plastic cement is methyl ethyl ketone.
>>94413398no?tamiya extra thin is acetone and butyl acetate
>>94413215oh that's a sweet haul. I hope Santa brings me something nice too.
>>94413478>adding an O and more carbons to the chainsame chemical bozo
Have you seen that nail art girls have way better color shift techniques than we do?
Axoswotl has finally a friend to go dungeon delving with.
>>94413621honestly I got recommended a load of weird nail art shorts on yt recently, where they are all pissing around with the brush and the medium, and trying to fill their practice sheetsall i could think was: I'd be a fucking grade A nail salonist
>>94413621Techniques? You just put it on right?
>>94413701apparently brush control is 90% of the jobjust enjoy being called gay for your entire career
>>94413708I use an airbrush though, it's smoother.
>>94413398>>94413478So does it perform the same or does it have some weird traits that make it a pain to useAnd can it still make sprue goo
>>94413701Yeah but they do neat shit with metallic flake nail polishes and magnets to control designs in them. It's too thick for a lot of stuff we would want, but I can see it being a cool effect for things like larger gemstones.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoXw390cOXU
I'm currently waiting on a 75mm figure plastered in BioStrip20. Even though I know what it is, even I find its current appearance somewhat embarrassing. I've never seen a product that so accurately replicates the appearance of, well, a load.>>94413060I'd never airbrush it, its for streaks. Thin lines then feather them out with a barely wet brush with white spirits on it. You could use it as a wash, same routine really. I have no idea why you'd airbrush it or want to airbrush an enamel based product.
>>94405977Buy some brush soap. I know people say use shitty brushes but I'll easily get a year of regular painting out of proper brush and you're driving a rolls royce the entire time. Obviously stunt brushes for enamel washes, basing, drybrushing etc. but "OMG never use a proper brush for basecoating" is ludicrous. They cost money but they aren't THAT expensive. Its like buying a car and walking everywhere in case you scratch it parking.
>>94413735tamiya extra thin 50:50 with sprues is sprue gooprobably other cement would work but would be annoying to apply without the brush
>>94413841>probably other cement would workNooooooo! it only works with the tamiya branded molecules!
>>94413790I have used one of my brushes for over 8 years before, with proper care.
>tamiya extra thin mentionedBUY TAMIYA AIRBRUSH CLEANERITS LITERALLY THE SAME THING BUT TEN TIMES CHEAPER
>>94412543Nta but it could be me. D-don't over do it, but I wouldn't mind trench raiders or officers for both sides haha
>>94413856no, it isn't at all
>>94413897yes it is -+1%the formulas are public
>>94413897Yes it is, wrong-kun.
>>94413361Nazi fences. Scatter terrain from Rendra. If you want to build a giant burning.. symbol. Well no one can stop you. I like using them to break up charge lanes while giving ranged units something to shoot past. Makes cover more dynamic than just big stone cubes.Hope you enjoy Anon. Was nice to share some of my autism with a fellow mini agnostic gamer.
>>94413757>I'm currently waiting on a 75mm figure plastered in BioStrip20.Do report, I have an apparently stronger kind of that stuff I haven't used yet. What's the mini made of?
What's the best way to get into airbrushing? I am at an intermediate level with my painting.
>>94414052>Buy a halfway decent dual action gravity fed air brush>buy a small compressor tank>Be annoyed for a while trying to figure out pressures and thinning ratiosoff to the races
>>94414052>>94414072buy a compressor *with a tank*
>>94414072what's a good way of making it through 'get annoyed' phase, I'm afraid to use airbrush for anything other than priming as I'm afraid to destroy miniatures, and besides damn thing gets clogged all the timealso how do I even transfer paint from citadel pot
>>94414141Buy the cheap dnd miniatures around $2 or $3.
>>94414118I kinda said that didn't I?>>94414141>also how do I even transfer paint from citadel potonce you've established an eye for how thin things should be, and whatever mixture of thinner/water/retarder you like - put a bit of water in the reservoir, and just take a brush load of paint from your citadel pot and swish it around in the water to mix it with the water and whatever additives you need.
>>94414203Do you just rinse out the reservoir with water when you switch colors?
>>94414266Yeah. Buy a little squeeze bottle and just flush it with water upside down, sometimes requires a swish with a brush or wiping out with a paper towel.
>>94414281You don't have problems with a new color mixing with the old color in the gun, or do you spray on a piece of paper or something until you know it's good?
>>94414141>also how do I even transfer paint from citadel potYou must first purchase the Citadel™ Texture Tool© to transfer your Citadel™ pot paints to a Citadel™ Servo-Skull Palette© before you can use a Citadel™ brush to paint your Games Workshop™ licensed miniatures, ideally under the supervision of a Games Workshop™ employee in one of our Warhammer™ stores.
Skipped to the fun part. Slightly regretting it. now i need to be extra carefull.
>>94414320Nta, but I just run water through it until it comes out clear, then run a few drops of thinner through to "lube" the needle/nozzle again.It really is just a case of doing it, if you are really scared of ruining minis, get a non expensive one and a jar of IPA. Single layers are usually thinner than brushwork, so it comes of basically instantly when you dunk a single layer of airbrush in IPA.
ATTENTION C.M. OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON!Your secret santa is DELIVERED and will ARRIVE just in time for the Warhammer preview show!
>>94414141Old brush or dropper. Dropper wastes less paint, but adds a little bit of inconvenience because you need to either have disposable ones or clean it.
>>94414418Varnish eye and area around it. Blue tack/masking tape on top. Proceed without care.
>>94414418Just put some masking fluid on it
>>94414418how do you do that rusty look
>>94414418Why all you nasty motherfuckers painting on the same desk you do computer work on. You are getting paint dust on your keyboard and keyboard skinnshit on your minis. DISGAHSTING
How is my ultramarine looking?
>>94414470nta but the only place that can work as a dedicated project desk is also a cold metal desk in the coldest part of my house and it's fucking AUTUMN
Only turquoise left to do but I need to wait for gs to cure before sanding it>>94414470I don't have any other place I could set up my hobby space anon, I live in a small apartment.>paint dustw-what?
>>94414484Can't tell because you took lowres phone pics, cropped them and then saved as jpg.
>>94414484Looks decent. Highlights on the legs are too extreme, you should still get more extreme highlights up top but yours gets darker the higher up you go.
>>94414493Very nice, that critter better have a name>paint dustThat mini looked airbrushed, if you are airbrushing indoors with no vent (which I presume is the case if you are painting near your keyboard) then any and all overspray us going to just settle as dust somewhere (unless you are spraying oil or lacquers, in which case carry on my sweet summer child of reduced life expectancy)
>>94414484The volumetrics are nice, maybe you could try to blend them a bit better? Also like the other anon said, highlights should be brighter towards the top, not darker. It looks especially off on the legs. Try taking reference pictures to base your highlights on, it usually works for me. White on the pauldron is kinda rough but it's not an easy color to paint to be fair>>94414499I can see everything just fine not sure what your issue is
>>94414509Of course they get darker, they are more recessed.Fucking eavy metal brainrot I swear
>>94414509>>94414525>basing highlights on vertical location on the miniRetarded, ngmi
>>94414536I'm talking about the top of the model like the shoulders and power pack, retard. That criticism wouldn't even apply to eavy metal.
>>94414522I have a separate room for airbrushing and i also know how to wash my hands.Why are you getting so worked up over this.
>>94414470I do it, but I pack my KB&mouse away. I know what my hobbymat looks like, and none of it was intentional. I don't like the idea of it accidentally getting into my clickyclackies.
>>94414543>>94414536Fucks sake this is what I'm talking about, not that it should get brighter towards the knee on the leg or however the fuck you understood that
>>94414545Those are clearly highlighted though.Optometrist, now.
>>94414577And yet the legs are highlighted MORE.
>>94414555if you paint CORRECTLY (full isolation bubble and hazmat suit and adult diapers and 2 covid masks as a bare minimum, chuddy) you can actually live to paint shitty minis forever
>>94414582>the only possible highlights are topdown highnoon sun angleAngleologist, now
>>94414555>separate hobby room>paints near keyboard
>>94414577>>94414607let's see your volumetrically highlighted miniatures
>>94400967>>94414615Wtf ....
>>94414525You can't see everything just fine. You are simply mentally filling in the gaps. Your eyes aren't fucking magic, you aren't hocuspocssing a bunch of bonus resolution. Get outa my ass with that nonsense.
Holy fuck... so much hostility because of my highlights.Here's another angle with the topmost highlights more visible.
>>94414615>>94400967I hope my SS anon doesn't mind that I'm sending him 9 of these jugs.
>>94414615>>94414603Seperate Airbrush room. If i had enough place i would also get my setup next to my pc, anon.And jack the exhaust of by spray booth directly into my lungs.
>>94414624I posted mine dipshit, now post yours.
>>94414652People are mad that they can´t paint half as well and get assmad instead of improving
>>94414203>I kinda said that didn't I?just wanted to emphasize the point because some people overlook that and then regret it
>>94414680fair.
How to make this last?
>>94414741That looks much better than it should
>>94414652>>94414664i think left here is what previous anon was talking about
>>94414661no you didn't lmao>>94414761yes, exactly
>>94414761It does look better. I will try to fix that.Thanks anons.
>>94414759That may be, but how do I make it last?
>>94414802Don't eat it all in one go.
Help.I didn’t know black primer isn’t good for skin tone.I tried to salvage it with a second coat of white and flesh tone but I don’t know.Any advice?I’ll touch up the accessories so it won’t be skin tone next go round.
>>94414966reikland fleshshade to start, we can work up from there.
>>94414966no reason to panic. Just apply more thin and even coats until you have something solid built up. Might take a couple of coats - more than two - but fine.When you do this the next time you can also just base those areas with a midtone like a medium brown first.
>>94414977>>94414987Thanks guys.That’s super helpful.
>>94414431
>>94414966If you have a paint with poor coverage, undercoating with a mixture of itself and something stronger sometimes can help. I generally use VMC black-grey for this. Dunno what the equivalent would be in other ranges.
Hello WIP my first time painting a 40k vehicle. Did only Bolt Action tanks before. It was nice to do something ''messy''.
>>94414966>coomer shit Lmao
>>94413790What the difference of using a cheap synthetic brush for basecoating and kolinsky brush?
>>94413856Is Epoxy putty drowning in IPA work the same as sprue goo?
>>94415577no?
>>94414966What primer is good for skin tone then?
>>94415625Well, they look pretty gooey to me and work the same as sprue goo, just a bith harder to sand
>>94415667White is probably the overall easiest since you can do any color skin over it and there's plenty of good white primers availableGrey ain't too bad eitherA brown or a tan would be the best but I think those would be a bit harder to find and I've never seen anyone say anything about them so they could all be shit.
>>94415835What about yellow primer?
>>94415232I'll be real, I saw skaven on your wishlist and kinda sorta went all in on it. It's not much but I hope you enjoy
What are the chances my SS just *happened* to get me the rat ogre sprues despite me not putting anything specific on my wish list?
>>94415905I didn't
>>94415842Probably comparable to white in that you can easily put another base color over it but I don't think any bleedthrough to a pure yellow is going to do any favors for most skin colors like white, tan or brown might.
Thanks to the annon who pushed me to use the grass on the base. 6 zombies look great
>>94415905I did
>>94415905I did not
>>94415905Did I?
anyone have the mega from Grimdark Compendium's new cadia series?
>>94415667any. just put a lighter base over it, then the skin tone>>94414966just get a solid skin tone layer. or put a brighter colour as a base for the skin tone to go overglazes too can be another way to help.>pretty much why i always prime black (best primer colour, has best coverage and is great as a base for metalics/colour shifters) then put any shade of white or (rarely) a light grey base on top>at least you werent painting yellow over black and having it transform into greencolours are weirdoverall you could consider the darkened colour of the skin as the darkest/shadow part of your skin tones for your minis. so it can be a good thing if you can adapt to it>i love across the realms sculpts toovery based taste, his guard series is truly where he peaked atmtop tier snoo snoo ogryn + great tanks too
>>94416606I've always using black primer on everything, and always wonder about my skintone paints acting like shit. Am i making a mistake?
>>94415835>>94416606I don't have white or grey primer, only black. What do i need to do to paint skin?
>>94416612>lighter colours need more layers to be solid/get better coverage compared to dark onesyoure doing nothing wrong with the primerprimers are meant to help with paint sticking to the mini, thats alltoo many people think its supposed to be a base paint JUST because you can "life hack/hobby cheat" it as a base colour>i am now gaslighting myself to think that transparent primers existcouldve swore they didso yeah just use ANY primer that covers the mini, then put a base colour for the paint colour/type you are using>dark for metals/colour shifts/another i cant remember (those eldar gem ones form citadel?)>light colours for light paints like skin tones, florescents, or those easy paints like contrast and speedpaints, and whatever all the other brands ones are called from green stuff and AK>>94416623put a white base paint over it. corax white is cottage cheese pain in a bottle. but any acrylic paint thats a bright colour is best. can even do off whites or warm tones if you want to change how your paints look over them. but just stick to neutral white for non-unpredictable "normal" colourings.>wraithbone/warm toned whites with a red over it looks amazing for blood angles also cold toned base paints for corpse'y looking skins
>>94416623>>94416653i SHOULDVE added that when I put a white base over black i drybrush its on>anons couldve been putting terrible coverage paints over black in layers RIGHT AS WE SPEAKdamn that would be agonizing sorry lolmost of the time good ol' duncans 2 thin coats meme tactic is fine enough with something like bugmans glow or whatever base skin paint, most likely more than 2 with most skin tones>so as long as youre not making a texture with the paint its finedont even NEED full coverage woth you darkest layer of paint as the lighter paints are going over it anyway
same tactic for painting a white, just put a lighter grey underneath before the white to help it be a solid colouri see black templars pauldrens painted that way pretty much always
I'm gonna try and paint a space marine head for the first time really quick before bed. Wish me luck.
>>94416902lood guck, anannymoose>pic is a scale model, not a mini
>>94416623Depends on the skin, but you can build up from brown, or even purple.
>>94416916not my mini pics either>i fucking WISH (i wanted/would to paint AT ALL)
>>94414457He sprayed it from the top with a redish brown.
>>94416922Where'd you get that one?
>>94417064a /wip/ thread a long time ago
>>94416976>>94414457Sorry i jumped over that reply after all those shitposts. Yea it was a zenithal through an airbrush. Very thinned down Mephiston red over black.
>>94416902It took a bit longer than I was hoping, but not bad.>>94416916ty anon. Cool figure.
>>94417098not mine but it isyours too>i saved them whenever he posted them because they trigger the creativity tism in me
>>94417098>would pay a regrettable amount of 6 gorillion mcsheckles on ebay because its "pro-painted"/10very nice
>>94416922>>94416916>I am your redeemer! It is by my hand you will rise from the ashes of this world!
>>94414741I usually really dislike any kind of fuzzy material for smoke or mist, but you actually pulled it off here. Really cool look.
>>94415905I don't know
>>94415905that's the dichotomy, do you make specific wishes for useful kits and come across as a demanding little bitch or do you make vague asks and come up with a pile of waste?
>>94417425>brother, come in brother. do you read? AH BROTHER where are your limbs brother? ugh by the dark gods he's rambling again. . .>hold position, brother (HMPHHH HAHAHA) we're sending retrieval forces to your location (yes my lord, thats him without his limbs BWAHAHAHAHA)
>>94417504Just be goldilocks and specify system/army etc.. Napoleonic is specific enough to receive something I like, but I'd hardly call it demanding.
>>94417504As long as you aren't being super specific (1ed print with Spanish language instruction of uncommon model xyz vs. T'au stuff)
First time trying to freehand the much dreaded WB logo. How did I do anons ? I followed the guide in the MEGA folder.
>>94418162Not bad, would purge.
>>94418162Not bad at all anon
I don't think it's particularly visible that the arrow was broken, right?
>>94418336You mean at the point where it touches the bow? If so, no it's not. If not, same answer obviously.
>>94418336Nah, you did a good job, at least from that angle I doubt anyone could tell it had been broken unless you told them
Uhm is there any difference between pink and white primer? They're both good for Yellows, Orange, Reds, Blues basecoat right?
>>94418408If your paint has low coverage, the pink will tint the outcome. If that's something you want, it's good.
>>94418408One of them is pink and the other one is white.
Wow. I guess /tg/ was just slow last night. New thread:>>94418736>>94418736>>94418736
>>94418715
I've tried all sorts of different recommended stripers for paint and they all take time and scrubbing effortyesterday I did IPA 99% and the paint including the primer fell off without a hassle after just a 20 minute bath, don't know why this isnt just the top recommended
>>94418760It's what I use. Idk why people recommend other stuff desu.
>>94415853Not reading that spoiler, I open on XMas day so you're going to have to wait a while
