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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.
>>97279366
>>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
>>97280242Army Painter's GameMaster Adventure Starter set comes with a color range, free brush, and five D&D compatible minis.I see the Fanatic Starter set for as low as $28 online, also with free brush and one mini.
>>97280000Cheers man.Working on the 4th corsair with the warp jump generator. Mostly just the black, generator itself and a few small details to go. The missing arm's due in the bits order.
>>97280242Buy specific paints you will need for that specific paintjob. If you REALLY have to buy a starter set, then AK 3rd gen basic starter set is good. As for the rest, Citadel stuff is okay but overrated, Vallejo is also serviceable though a bit redundant for fantasy/scifi mini painting with AK around (there are plenty of nice colors in their historical range though). Only buy AP if there's no alternative, because you will regret that purchase if you decide to stick with the hobby.
>>97280030Just paint either the left or right half of the mask another color, then the mold line will play into the mask and look intended.
>>97280287I thought AP is supposed to be decent now
>>97280208I mentioned it a while ago but no one seemed interested in it. there's tons of useful products and tools out there that people seem to ignore. probably because gw doesn't sell a version of it.
>>97280278>>97280287I'm getting some conflicting info
>>97280295>>97280318Don't get me wrong, AP is currently serviceable, they came a long way since their utterly abhorrent early days. But it is still overpriced garbage for what it is (a bottom of the barrel cheapest acrylics with god knows what kind of mixture inside, considering the violent reaction with white spirit/oils), with multiple quirks that can and will ruin your day. There's virtually no rational reason to buy AP if you have access to AK or even Vallejo.
>>97280350Gotcha, thanks for the advice anon
>>97280350>considering the violent reaction with white spirit/oilsI've seen an anon in 40kg have a spergout over this. Saying it's bullshit and that the metal plate chart that's been floating around has been proven wrong. I don't buy AP so I don't really care but I'm kinda curious what's the truth
>>97279491>>97280280Cool stuff, inspiring even. I really like deldar and corsair bashesI have a fresh kabalite box and a, sadly mostly used up, corsair one, but I might get a third something to mix them together
>>97280411Funnily enough, I've made that plate chart. And no, as far as I know, it wasn't proven wrong. In fact, I even saw it circulating on plebbit, and not even the AP fanboys there seem to disagree with it. If anything, there were more cases of AP paints dissolving/pulling under white spirit/oils, including plenty of them lately (~6 months range), and a lot of debate about it, too (you can google army painter + white spirit + reddit) Imo, it's a real problem and even redditors, who are traditionally the #1 victim of AP marketing, are noticing.
>>97280411at equal sperg levels it would me more rational to trust the man that made the plate than another just sperging about it without his own plate, more so when you take into account that the plate anon made it because a discussion was already in progress with several 'other' anons having problemstldr: >>97280350 >no rational reason to buy AP if you have access to AK or even Vallejo.
>>97280318Different people like different paints, a lot don't have much preferences either way at all, and we have one guy in particular around here who would apparently get a brain haemorrhage if he didn't sing AK's praise as Pure and Perfect Divinity in a Bottle every time paint is mentioned.In reality GW, AP, AK, Vallejo... just get whatever has the specific hues you want, the rest is either a matter of specific paints vs specific paints instead of range vs range or too marginal to really matter. So don't think it's a big deal what you get, just get something from one of the common choices and start painting.
>>97280464>>97280470Yeah that's what I figured especially since I did look it up on plebbit and there were a couple posts with people bringing up the issue. I'm more inclined to trust /wip/ anyway, especially since anon actually put an effort into testing it.
>>97280486NTA, but AK seem to be generally the most favored on /wip/. Otherwise yeah, no reason not to be brand-blind.
>>97280464>>97280470What is the plate chart?
>>97280486the only time i think specific brands matter is with specific problem paints, like black, white or yellow
>>97280582Picrel
>>97280611how is "gentle cleanup" somehow worse than "rough cleanup" with AP
>>97280637To this day I have no idea. I personally believe there's something wrong with AP drying/curing times, that creates this inconsistency. But I'm no chemist, so I don't have anything tangible.
my first ever painted head that is not a helmet. what do u think overall?
Building any 40k imperium model is actually easy as fuck compared to anything else.>accidentally shaved detail off?cover with purity seal>unsightly seam?cover with purity seal>large gap with little detail?cover with purity seal>too many purity seals? cover with purity seal
>>97280637It likes it rough.
>>97280242i got the vallejo starter set on amazon, it's pretty good. most of the basic colors and a couple of metalics. although I don't know how good it would be for DnD if you're painting a lot of flesh on creatures.you could look into the Army Painter Speed Paint starter set if you want something really simple.
>>97280666The highlights are a bit too sharp and heavy handed I feel, it's pretty important to keep things smooth when painting skin of any kind. Then again this happens to be a dude so having sharply defined features is not that jarring in this case. Not bad all things considered but there's room for improvement. Go watch Duncan's video on painting faces, it should help you understand the basics.
>>97280242>>97280681seconding the vallejo model color set. I got "basic colors USA" which has an american revolutionary on the front. I bought it to round out my set that already had most of the colours but I haven't even gone back to my old GW and older game color ones. The model colors are really good, really matte, good coverage all over and mix well with consistent consistencies. And the set has pretty much everything I want to mess with. The true metallics aren't great but I don't really mess with them. Maybe if you're a complete beginner you also might want to get some contrast paints or something.
>>97280681>>97280797Thanks for the rec. I have no idea what contrast paints are but I'll look into it along with the intro set
>>97280666Very satatnic. Looks good though
>>97280821if you just want to easily paint simple minis, google "slapchop", which is a method using contrast paints (aka speedpaints) and a zenithal undercoat (starting with black primer, spraying white primer from above to mimic light)
Reposting for the New Year.>>97278793Thanks, I got the idea from here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/h6HdMpPGg48I draw more lines to make it look frostier.>>97278939You got sardine anon. Try making the sardine grilled cheese sandwich.
>>97280821the set won't come with any "washes" or "shades". And as a beginner most of the work should honestly be done by that kind of thing. The paint set will just be basecoats and won't give you any real depth without them. Contrast paints are how a lot of people paint a single color with a single paint but I don't use em much.
>>97280875>I don't use em much.I'd hazard that this applies to most people in this general desu. Contrasts are good for new painters, but I rarely see experienced painters use them for anything more than the barest basecoat on specific natural materials.
