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reposting from the end of thread: FINALLY getting around to opening this!!! THANK YOU ANON i love these blorcs im gonna get on painting morglum stat. some of these snacks are evil but i will force the damn fish down if its the last thing i do. also i fucking love the mischievous little snotlingobserve: my shitbeast surveying the goods
>my minis included:D
>>97278895I love that a secret santa can bloom here.
Went too hard on the thunder effect ?
If my wet palette sponge doesn't absorb water evenly, is that a sign that I should replace it? Every time I soak it there's still spots that are lighter and sometimes even stay a bit hard like a dried out sponge.It's Army Painter if it matters.
>>97278984Not hard enough. Looks nice but I'd spread it a little more over the flesh on the arm, just a little glaze of blue to integrate it better.
>>97278984I'm parsing it as ice from a glance
>>97279025>It's Army Painter if it matters.Throw it out. I'm not even memeing, AP's "wet palette" is not even a wet palette in it's true sense, it's a shitty foam with even shittier paper. Get/make yourself an actual wet palette instead. AK (the 3rd gen one, with an orange top) is leagues better and usually roughly the same price, for example.
>>97279058I've noticed that every other wet palette used in Youtube videos, the paint seems to bead up on the paper. Something that I've never had happen on mine no matter how thin the paint is. What's the difference? I'm guessing most other paper has a wax coating and the AP one doesn't? I bought it because it was the cheapest I could find when I was starting out.I have so many sponges and paper refills left on it...
>>97279053Hum...Didnt thought about that, thanks ! >>97279057I agree, looks kinda like ice from afar.
>>97279082You actually don't want wax paper but parchment paper. You want some moisture to go through and keep the paint moisturized
>>97278881Nice. I made it into both of the holiday wip collages.
>>97279082Don't get me wrong, you can definitely paint with it, but it's not actually even a wet palette. There are two functions of a wet palette: to 1) keep your paint fresh over long painting sessions (overnight and longer, if you store it in the fridge), and 2) to provide a moist environment (while keeping most of the water out) to mix your paints effectively.Since AP are bunch of boundless faggots, they use the absolute worst bottom of the barrel garbage for everything; their rattle cans and wet palette are a prime example of this. The paper they use is literally the cheapest, shittiest baking paper available, which results in the paper getting soaking wet nearly immediately, not getting moist, but just letting the water through. And, you being unable to get the same effect you depict, the paint is not beading. Worse yet, the paper has a tendency to shed particles into the paint over prolonged sessions, which can result in messy paint jobs. As another anon said, you want a normal quality parchment paper; it lets SOME moisture through, while giving you an option to mix your paints properly (with them beading). I will once again shill the AK wet palette. It's as cheap as AP, but it actually works. It's also bigger, with an actual lid and not a retarded rubber (which also defeats the purpose, considering storing wet palettes in a fridge) like the AP one. I fucking hate AP so much. They bait so many new people into buying absolute worst garbage that's borderline scam.
I want to try and get into painting some fantasy busts this year, any suggestions on brands/makers?Suggestions on guides too would be welcome
>>97279323Arnau minis have some stock of the more recent busts right nowhttps://www.arnauminiatures.com/product-category/arnau-miniatures/They're really nice if you like. Neko Galaxy also nice. Take a look on etsy for 3d printed ones as well to see if anything catches your eye.Treasure Island anon probably has more recommendations and advice that might be helpful if he's around.
Is PA bold titanium white's pigment finer than usual white paints? Been using ttc white star for a mix and while it behaves pretty well I can still see some chalkiness
Almost done with this one. I like the way the color transition came out on the barrel. What else does it need, anon?
>>97279362PA (off)whites are generally very, very nice. Shame about the bottles.
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>>97279366Hazard stripes
There we go, done till his arms show up.
>>97278881>OP collage is all 40gay shit So tiresome
>>97279479(You)feel free to post your not-40k minis anytime
>>97279441Group shot so far. Just the spider to go now and hopefully within a week a starweaver transport, little old metal weapons platform and bits order will turn up to round out the force.
>/>97279479most popular minis are popular, more news at 7
>>97279441dildo bumps will never not look stupid and I don't understand why gw loves putting them on things so much.
>>97278881Love that Blood Angel.Also, what are those swamp wendigo things about halfway up the right?
One small boy done, 6 more to go
>>97279366Was the placement on that spike rack deliberate or did you just not notice that it slots perfectly under the hatch?
>>97279366Dry brush the edges with some metalic, it needs a little bit of weathering to make it pop but besides that it's solid
>>97279506It‘s the kelpies from WHQ Darkwater. I just finished these markers.
>>97279527Anon, he didn't even remove the mold lines.
>>97279247I didn't realize how shit their primer was until I switched to Colour Forge. Holy shit it's like night and day. I'll look into replacing my wet palette because it does bug me how much it seems to water down my paint. I have to keep hardly any excess water in the sponge otherwise it all leeches into the paint over a span of like 20 minutes.
Wife got me two painting handles. One is 3d printed and you can screw the painting bases in, the other is violently magnetic and I've had modes shoot pieces off when just switching the base.
>>97279576Cute dryads anon, I like these models a lot despite them being pretty old at this point.
>>97279536I should probably add some rust...
>>97279527It was deliberate.
>>97279576That painting handle seems to be all the rage as a gift these days. It's getting advertised a lot on social media. My mother bought me one for christmas, and my sister said she saw ads for it and almost got it for me as well.
>>97279609I probably think they gay and wouldn't be caught dead gripping a phallus shaped buttplug for hours on end. Just hold your mini in your hand like a man
>>97279602Carry on then.
>>97279609Yeah I don't know where she got the idea, she's bought like 500$ worth of stuff for the kids online for Christmas so it makes sense.
>>97279628>I probably thinkYep, that's an AI.
>>97279681An AI would have better grammar. Probably just an indian
>>97279247There's really no need to buy a wet pallet at all. I just use an old plastic container from take out like this with paper towers and parchment paper from the grocery store and it works great. Closing the lid preserves wet paint for multiple days no problem. Any sort of container with a lid will work as long as it's big enough
>>97279479There's Infinity and Eldfall and random dsplay figures there too
How's the skin looking? I couldn't get the tan or the gyaru skin to look right with the pink, so I thought drow skin might be good too
>>97279628>Just hold your mini in your hand like a mansays the sissy little fairy who doesn't own a bench vise
>>97279479Be the change you want to see, anon.
>>97279681>>97279698Or perhaps I'm phone posting and it autocorrected "personally" to "probably".. nah you're right, it's never the simplest answer, must be an AI or an Indian
>>97279714It's a little on the dark side.
>>97279742Good morning saaaaaaaaaaar
>>97279742>I personally think they gayYour best argument is that THAT is the proper english you meant to say?
>>97279742>phonepostingeven worse
>>97279755>This nigga sits down at a desk to post on 4chan Boomer moment
>>97279784I'm in my bed on my laptop
>>97279791>phoneposting from a laptopkek
>>97279808huh?
>>97279815Never mind, wrong anon.
Test pestigor Used him to see how many corners i can cut for army painting purposesThis one has so meny cut corners he’s basically a circle
>>97279366You didn't even clean the mold lines
>>97279628This jeet sees penises everywhere kek
Post models, people. Brother hasn't touched his admech (or warhammer in general) since we both were kids, and I don't think he fully assembled a single squad of skitarii. Currently going through and trying my best to fix up a decent kill team out of what he has so that he has something nice to paint when he moves to my city in the next couple of months. Probably going to buy him a squad of ruststalkers to encourage him to give it another shot. I don't think the lad with the chainsaw is legal and probably won't actually be played, just made him for fun.
>>97279878the green hood is really well executed, anonlooks sweet
do premium/more expensive airbrushes work with cheap USB air compressors that come with cheap airbrushes? or do you really need a nice compressor + tank to get the value out of them?
>>97279594Subtle, but necessary I think.
>>97279903Tonk.
>>97279925technically they work, but it would be like buying a computer with a really nice gpu but with a shit-tier cpu and 4gb of ram
>>97279925It needs to hit a certain psi depending on the airbrush. Just read the manuals
>>97279940have you decided what you are going to freehand on this one yet? >>97279925you can find a really decent compressor for under 100 usd, just go for a nice compressor with a tankbuy cheap, buy twice
I haven't been able to paint or participate in a couple years but if the German anon who made my terminator is around I just wanted you to know he had a Merry Christmas and is living his best life.
Tried to make a Marilyn Mushroom but I feel it's ailing. Tips welcome
>>97279940Sexy looking
>>97279903>since we both were kidsThat can't be, Skitarii are one of the newer fac-...
>>97279980I'm so sorry, Anon...I'm in my mid 20s.
>>97279491these are awesome anon
>>97279973>contrast over grainy primerShit's fucked, don't shoot the messenger.Next time around, I would make sure there's more visual contrast, need a dark color somewhere besides the top, and more manual shading and highlighting.
>>97279962>have you decided what you are going to freehand on this one yet?Still workshopping it, did some drafts yesterday but not really feeling it yet. Decided to work on switching up the muzzles on the guns and magnetizing the sponsons in the meantime
>>97279903first test clown stupid fucking mold line and all
>>97280018That skull looks sick, I just think it needs some 40k-specific augments/cybernetics/clothes and it would be perfect (yarrick style eyepiece?)
started the second Ushabti
>>97280001Thanks, I'll strip it.
>>97279903Aaaagh fuck.I need to finish my own pack of Ruststalkers and Skitarii cohorts. Fuckin' things have been stuck in my attic for the past year.
>the first time using a liquid mask>it's a resounding successWhy I wasn't informed about this earlier. This is awesome.
Can I get a recommendation on a starter paint set to buy? Will be painting some dnd minis
