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reposting my wip skele linesman, they're missing some highlights and at least one basecoat, I just want feedback on how the colours look together
Working on my sword brethren.
>>97326820Forgot Pic
>>97326825Berry cool.
>>97326765Looking good champ nice colors
>>97326825Looks great. It’s difficult to paint BT that don’t look mediocre to bad, but yours look great.
>>97326765The colors look good. Personally I think you could add a little to helmets since right now they look a bit boring. Maybe the highlights will solve that, but I think putting the blue colors on the top fringe part of the helmet would look nice. Maybe a paint the scarab on the middle guy like a jewel of some sort.
>>97327200good shout on the helmetsI will probably just try to paint the skulls/scarabs since the surrounding recessed fringe might be a bit annoying to paint cleanly at this point. Silver for the scarabs/skulls could work well, also thinking about red for interest or the same bluegreen as the collar.
>>97326765I'd lighten up the gold or lighten up the bones and darken the gold. Just provide a bit more contrast. Highlights like the other anon suggested would be a good idea
>start basecoating my corsair kitbashes as Anon paints his owngorgeous corsairsDrat
>>97326825Only thing that's niggling at me is that the Pass guard / Tilt Targe (aka. "Tilt shields") are used to protect the armpit on the Sword arm, and they should be closer to the body
>>97327386>the Pass guard / Tilt Targe (aka. "Tilt shields") are used to protect the armpitA tilt targe covers your left side, trying to hit your opponents right side during tilting would likely be impractical. It also very much isn't the thing if you want a signficant range of movement, as you would with your sword arm. The armpit-protector you're thinking of is likely the besagew, even thought hey see use on the left too if needed.As for these little shield-like thingies on the marines on the other hand... probably more decorative than protective, so ailette seems like the better term.
>>97326765Boring, blue and gold is the everyone-does-it standard for khemri, teal and gold isn't really any different.red/copper is the default "but I want to be different" scheme for them.I'm impressed when I see someone do khemri in non-standard schemes, following the path that's so beaten the dead horse looks alive next to it is boring as fuck.technical work is fine though.
Finished the other 2 bikes. Ordered another box so I could make 6, with the intent of eventually having 6 Suphurhounds and 6 Raiders.
>>97327510And now I see I didn't fully get the mouldlines on the antennas. Im going to throatpunch James in the dick for constantly running the mould along the edge of all these fucking ridges.
>>97327527Prints never have mold lines
>>97327556instead they have support blisters, which are even harder to find and clean up
Can someone repost that photography guide from a thread or two ago?
Recently found this badboy from Black Reach and painted/slightly repaired the powerclaw with Greenstuff. What we sayin
>>97327784It could look nice once you repaint it. I think you need to use a sculpting tool to smooth the transition on the greenstuff. I also think that the gun barrels need to be drilled with a larger bit.
Need some critique, does this read as old weathered leather ?
>>97327658
>>97327890yes, though it's missing a certain je ne sais quoi, I can't put my finger on what, (perhaps glaze on some stronger shadow tones?)
>>97327925I'm thinking of the one another anon made
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>>97328036thank you, anon
>>97325677It's custom made out of spare/optional parts from Bandai 30MM line and generous amount of polystyrene. Or rather will be since it's in construction phase.
>>97327701i will never understand those culpts, what's with the hair on their backs? why is it pinting upwards? do they use aquanet? or is it not hair? is it flames?
>>97328196Very stiff hair.
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>>97327925>>97328036>>97328180Anyone got the one bitching at common noob photographer mistakes that had the next picture fix that only to have another mistake to complain about?
I am becoming addicted to painting models and miniatures with hardware store primer and craft paints.
>>97328319oh don't say that here, they'll think you're him
>>97328319If you know what you're doing you can get decent (if stylized) results with crushed berries and a brush made out of your own bellybutton lint.https://thetyranidhive.proboards.com/thread/35363/all-natural-paintjob-homemade>>97328349
>>97328275i see, thats a cool photostill i dont buy it on ghouls, looks a bit retarded, but don't mind me
>>97328355ew no that's too far and gross besidesI just like cheap colored primers and the "premium" craft paints are honestly not too bad. The flake size of the metallic craft paints really reminds me of GW metallics from the 2000s.
>>97328397Cool. Just don't sperg out about how other anons paint their minis and we're good.
>>97327510I think the admech horsies are one of the coolest horse models, I'm using one to make an inquisitor on horse for a lord solar proxy. So gimme yours. But these are definitely cooler and more appropriate for admech than horses
>>97328418I learn towards letting enjoy the hobby however they want but draw the line at sanitary or health hazards. Please do not paint your chaos space marines with actual blood, fecal matter, or any other bodily fluid.
>>97328422>horsesAren't these dogs? Or is there a different kit I'm not aware of
>>97328438they are more dog like but not far from horses, basically same proportions just more lithe. I think I default to them being horses in my head because no one makes models of greyhounds, it's always mastiffs or the quintessential retarded looking pug in a helmet
>>97328438>Aren't these dogs?While the other build of the kit than the one in that image is called "sulphurhounds" that seems to be the name of the troop type rather than the mounts. As for the mount itself it's the size of a hors,e used like a horse, about the right shape for a horse... though if the biological bits are those of a horse is of course a different question. Might not even be anything that evolved on Terra in the first place.
>>97327890Yeah, but make a wash/glaze with the midtone and run that over it to bring the colours together. That's how I do my leather. Also maybe go a bit darker in the shoulder bit.
>>97328458>that seems to be the name of the troop type rather than the mountsThey're dog-themed through and through. You mentioned Sulphurhounds, but both builds are part of the Serberys Corps and the Codex calls their mounts cybercanids (pic related).
>>97328438>horse-sized rideable quadruped mammal of unclear speciesit's not unreasonable to call that a horse, being pedantic about it is pure autism
>>97328592people make fun of these specifically because they're dogs not horses thoughbeit
>>97327510I think you should remove the guns from the bikes tbf
I want to use an ultra matt varnish on my minis, preferably by brush. I also want to add pigments and Dirty Down rust. Do I varnish them before or after adding the other stuff?
>>97328703After
>Check out my local Müller, a shop that somehow sells anything from beauty products to miniatures>Find a Revell Leopard 1A5 tank model>I am not a huge fan of it, but it was on sale for only 12€, which seems very cheap for a 1:35 military vehicle>Ehhh, should work well enough for my Astra Militarum or as terrain for my space western campaign>Absolutely love assembling minis, way more than actually painting them>It says building difficulty 4/5, but whatever, it's just a miniature, I've build plenty of GW and Star Wars >Open and flip through the instructions>Required techniques:>Applying decals>Drilling connection holes yourself (don't even have a hand driller)>Cutting up included metal wire, heating it, and pressing it into the plastic>Using an open flame on a screw driver for some fucking reason>It has 260 individual partsIt's so fucking over...
>>97327510I like em. They have a bit of a Star Wars speeder-cum-pod racer vibe to em.
recent kairic acolyte I did. What would be a good color for the tiny eyes in the mask? I could not think of anything
>>97328778and a Dumbo I printed and painted for my mom today. I have to carry it in my luggage so hopefully it doesn't break.
>>97328770>>It has 260 individual partsOn the scale model side of things we generally consider "a lot" to start when you get into four digits. And that tank doesn't even sound like it has a bunch of tiny photoetched parts.https://youtu.be/HO9hika-hoo?si=-Akxpih_NUZackGX&t=5>Using an open flame on a screw driver for some fucking reasonProbably to weld the track strips closed.
>>97328770yeah assembling scales is usually a bit more difficult compared to gw minis lol
>>973287701/35 is way too big for warhammer scales. 1/48 is a more correct scale but even then it's not heroic scalings. So 1/48 tank would be around the right size but the barrels of guns will be dinky and in general things will be sized for smaller hands than warhammer guys have. You're better off just enjoying the model on it's own than trying to warhammer-ify it imo. Or using it for kitbash parts
>>97328770>He didnt watch Boxman Welcome to the big leagues kiddo, enjoy your future substance abuse problem in order to cope with the unholy schemes scale model companies come up with to make scale military hardware for autists.
>>97328833>1/35 is way too big for warhammer scalesDepends entirely on the kit and how you want to use it. I regularly use 1:35 stuff.The infamous (and still very funny) Dragon Wagon incident during Golden Demon (I think it was circa 2002) was also purely 1:35 scale.
>>97328860>scale military hardware for autistsI recall that some companies are infamous for making otherwise unnecessary parts separation with lots of veeeeery tiny elements because of people believing that more parts equal to better model.
>>97328897for a main battle tank kit like anon has they are like baneblade size in 1/35. Hard to convert that to anything warhammer-ey
>>97328911Generally speaking, utility/logistics vehicles, some smaller IFVs, older APCs (~WW2 and Vietnam era), pretty much ALL weaponry since weapons are oversized in warhammer heroic scale, and a whole lot of stuff like baggage, era bricks, etc. are near perfectly sized in 1:35. Picrel is Vietnam era wagon in 1:35 + plasticard + bits.
>>97328904Maybe. But at the same time keep in mind that the people talking about such things tend to be of an age where their eyes don't really want to deal with small things up close any more.
>>97328927that's a big model
>>97329063for u
Slightly unusual question - what's my best bet for heating up polystyrene sheets (0.5-1.5mm) if I want to shape/bend them? I figured out I would need something around 110-120C (boiling water is not enough, I checked before and PS tend to rapidly cool down anyway) and European hairdryers are designed to handle hair and thus produce low temperatures compared to US literal heatguns. Speaking of, when I checked local shops I could find only small portable heatguns producing 260C at minimum or ones with precise control in 50-650C range but also rather huge and with 2-4kW power so something I wouldn't plug into power strip under my desk. Also tried heating over kitchen gas burner but it proved to be quite unpredictable - slightly too close and it would almost melt or get burned.Anyone with good idea?
>>97328927>that medusaThat might be a good way to convert a stygies, neat
>>97329238sexo
>>97328778Maybe a magenta since you already have some of it on the scroll
>>97329093you could try one of those cheap aliexpress ones, they are like 3€ and might even work well enough for that
>>97328911a leman russ is 3" tall. a sherman was 9 feet tall so at 1:35 it should be 3.08" tall.>>97328770it's typical for even cheaper gundam kits to have over 100 parts. gw really rips people off for what they charge compared to what you get.
>>97329506>gw really rips people off for what they charge compared to what you get.This. Not to mention the kit quality, sprue organization, and the fact that GW is like twenty years behind scale modelling standards when it comes to detail. GW kits are not the worst, but they are also nowhere near the best. They are, however, one of the most expensive ones around.
>>97329093>Anyone with good idea?See if you can find a length(s) of Ni-Chrome wire and a desktop voltage regulator use the adjustable power supply to use resistive heating to get the temperature right.
>>97329582https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wftz-L-NlTE
>>97328911Only the largest/superheavy tanks in 1:35 are roughly the same size (but generally not as wide) as Baneblade. Shit like Maus, E-100, etc. Smaller stuff like Sherman, Panzer II are okay for Leman Russ, bigger MBTs are generally fine for Macharius or Dorn. People often use 1:35 modern Russian tanks for kitbashing, shit like T-72 and such.
>>97329645I'm holding a chieftain mk5 in 1/35 scale next a leman russ and it's like two leman russ' in length and like an inch wider. It's close but it's also egregious. Idk how you could make an MBT anything for 40k. I thought it was a cool idea a long time ago but I've not seen it done in a way I like.
>>97329093Salt. Plain old NaCl, put it in a pan or kettle, and "cook" it while stirring, so that the heat is uniformly absorbed, then dunk the piece in.
>>97329709Buy older tanks. WWI, WWII, Vietnam era. Modern tanks are generally a lot bigger. For Leman Russ, tanks like Panzer II (and all similarly sized) are nearly perfect in 1:35, picrel. As far as general kitbashing, use just parts (turret or hull, never both), and use a lot of warhammer greebles to cover everything.
When yesterday one anon suggested "breaking" silhouette of polystyrene part, is this the right direction? Phone barely catch contrast on all white elements but general idea is present.
>>97329736I'd want to take pieces out of it to shorten it and maybe increase the height of the hull to make it more chunky and "40k". Like how the KV2 turret just looks 40k-ish in it's design. but I've not seen anything inspiring in that way or seen anyone do similar. real tanks don't look all that fit to fight tyranids. Sturmtigers and things like that I guess look like what I might be into, that might be cool. thanks anon I'm inspired
>>97329804Most model tank kits have the upper part of the hull (on which turret sits) as own part, which means that you can easily make it taller with plasticard. Shortening also shouldn't be too difficult, but there will be cutting involved.
>>97329796Yeah, that's looking good. Now it's less of a boring hoof and more of a mechanical claw
Anyone try these color shifting paints from Turbo Dork?
>>97329982Havent used that brand in particular but Ive had Vallejo ones. You usually need a good surface area to see the shift, so its not as interesting on smaller parts.
>>97329982Yeah they work well, they're just finicky to use. Really great colors tho.Make sure you follow the rules on the bottle, and if you're using brush rather than airbrush, be very careful with brushstrokes and do 1-2 extra passes. Treat it like glazes of flesh/yellow tones
>>97328778I think red, magenta or violet would work here. I like the turquoise you used here.>>97327890It does! If you want to go further you could make the highlights a bit brighter on raised parts like his knee or the collar. Darkening the shadows in deeper creases would definitely help, too.>>97327701I like the desaturated palette you've got going on these guys, feels fitting for undead.>>97327510I like the dogs that the kit uses originally but this looks really cool as well!>>97326825Very nice! I like the pop they get from those yellow accents.>>97326765They look nice and crisp but I kinda agree that those collars would look better if the alternating colors were more contrasting to each other.
>>97329804>KV2Bro what were the Russians smoking during WW2, that thing looks cartoonish.
>>97330486>Ivan, da Germans are getting big armor, we need a big gunThat's pretty much how it worked. They wanted a tank capable of blowing up bunkers so they mounted fucking howitzer gun (152mm) with all predictable results (slow, problematic, etc).
>>97330543well russians aren't particularly known for their intelligence
>>97330543>da germansSlav languages have no articles, anon. You are correct otherwise.
>>97327890>>97328016Yes but its missing a wash to bring it together, and some splotches from old stains to age it
>>97330486>that thing looks cartoonish.We have to go sillier
>>97330742Jokes aside, originally higher ups demanded project with three turrets (obviously because more turrets = more dakka) and actual prototypes had two, one above the other.
>>97330486Finns managed to out-wacky the Soviets with the BT-42.
Couple minor bits before get to the diamonds. Gonna do them on the bottom right leg and top left arm (as you look at the image), was gonna do them blue and coral but thinking maybe black and coral. What do people think? And anyone have any last min tips for diamonds? Planning to make a grid with thin black paint then fill in with blue/black.
>>97328770Scale modeling really makes you appreciate how easy lot of the gw stuff is to build.
>>97327327Corsair kitbashes fucking cool, so much you can use amongst Eldar and DE kits, basically everything works
>>97331130nice 1:1 horse nutsacks
>>97331130Sir, this is a blueboard
>>97331130Nice you doing a Chernobyl game?
>>97331130Elephant's nutsack
>>97329796I like it!
>>97328770FYI a hand drill is really inexpensive - I have a couple of sets and neither cost me more than $20. They're not Tamiya-grade but they get the job done.
>>97331478Oh, and you can also use them to drill ya barrels, so it's a definite win. :)
Wtf is the point of a new john blanche set from AP? Are they just gonna start labelling random paint sets with his name? I want to say people aren't stupid enough for that, but they definitely might be.
>>97327327Good to see more corsairs! Nice selection of helmets.Got the Squeedle done, grimy swamp tractor.
well, my cheap chinese usb air compressor now charges. it didn't charge all yesterday while plugged in. but for some reason it's fully charged today.
>>97331944Seems like the Vol I & II sold pretty good so they keep the thing going.
>bust/figure order being inspected by customsOh god, they're gonna find out I'm a weirdo who paints coomer figures. How do I become an EU citizen so I can just get domestic access to all the good figures?
>>97331437>>97329829You guys were right, it indeed look better, even if it looks a bit chunky now. Can always still swap to that other option anyway but that would depend on how upper part will ends up looking like.
>>97331948That's pretty neat
>>97331069dremel them off and replace them with clear parts. anything else will look like a cartoon.
>>97331984Cheers!Behold my magnificent photo setup, but the pair look good together. Probably going to get another 2 or 3 little dudes done which I think comes out to 200-ish points.
>>97332037I'm behelding itcute miniatures. do they have names?
>find a 2d artist who's art I really like and have been looking at a lot lately>makes me want to get better at art>don't think the style would translate well to mini paintingwhat am I supposed to do
New John Blanche setWhat do you think?I got the first two boxes but haven't had the chance to try them yet
>>97332184>Practical Colour Naming Convention>Moonpetal>Iceborn
>>97332128The little blue guy is Cadwgan and the tractor driver is "Carrot" Hadryl, riding his Squeedle tractor Caledbryn.
Quar mentioned
>>97332184the colors look nice but I don't really care desu, I have more than enough paints already
>>97332207What ARE quar? Are they supposed to be like anteaters or something?
>>97332184Is that in aus bucks? Looks expensive for 10 pots, unless they're on the bigger side.
>>97332228Yeah they're anthromorphic anteater like beings
>>97332184low saturation mid tones are really nice to have in general and make the more details with stronger colors stand out. I don't know how much influence John Blanche really has over the paints bearing his name, but back in the day he was known for having a really good eye for color usage and visual contrast, especially when it came to how strong colors like white, yellow, and red were used.As for paints, it's whatever. There are loads of paints on the market already with lots of different properties. It's not like the old days when your choices for acrylics were two manufacturers of hobby grade acrylics worldwide and only a handful of color choices for each.
>>97332184Looks nice, but why even? AP is redundant, especially with all the fuckery that comes with their paints.
I LOVE PAPA NURGLE>>97332207I should get into quar those lil guys look delightful
Very happy with how the weathering turned out in the end so I'm calling this tank finished
>>97332588Here's the back end as I'm particularly happy with that>>97332037Adore this tank
almost done with the snake, only need to cleanup and highlight the gold
>>97326825Also working on some bladeguard.
>>97332588>>97332609That looks really great. Top tier work, anon
>>97332623i adore seeing your updates on your tomb kings, keep up the great work anon
>>97332037Devious subterfuge on the tank, I like it
>>97332184why though? The first one was specifically to kind of invoke his art style, this one just seems unnecessary.
I've tried citadel and vallejo. just got some pro acryl and holy shit I'll never touch another paint line this stuff is amazing
>>97328498>>97328447Podracer admech anon here.I know they call them dogs top to bottom, but I always call them horsedogs because of how weird and not-doglike they appear to be.I'll have to figure out where their scabbards/holsters are going to go. Im thinking of pitting them along the hull so you could grab them from the seat or sideways on the back of the seat. They're pretty long because they're supposed to hang down behind them on the "saddle" but obviously the saddle is gone. Thoughts?
>>97332884I'm super hapy to hear that anon, thank you>>97332956Never tried PA because it's kinda difficult to get here but AK and TTC are really good as well
>>97332937Shekels
>>97332956PA is a very nice line (unsurprisingly) but there are still some convenient colours I like from other lines. PA might have options and maybe I'm just missing an expansion or signature set, but I find myself lacking the out-of-the bottle bone and tan, of off-white colours I like from citadel (something like karak stone for example). And the browns, I like them but I really like the shades of things like mournfang brown, which at least in my pretty decent PA collection I don't have a replacement for without mixing. Rhinox hide is a super nice colour too, but at least PA has mahogany which is similar enough to work.
Anyone got guides on painting Ulgu style terrain?
>>97332956what did you like about it? I've got a couple of colors from them and it doesn't seem like anything special.
>>97333144I don't understand the question.
>spent the last week sub assembly and painting the interior of my ghostkeel>test fit everything together>it's so close together you can't see shit inside the cockpitgoddammit.
Imma say this guy is tabletop ready now sans the base>>97332956True proacryl might be my second favourite paint line after ak
>>97333185
>>97333161Guides on painting terrain themed around the Mortal Realm of Ulgu, the Realm Of Shadow, as seen in the setting of Age Of Sigmar.
>second day without a spergout
>>97333185Rotate
>>97333213Don't tempt me, yuru yuri poster
>>97332184Blache would have been better off working with practically any other paint brand. Pro Acryl would've been great for his collab.
>>97333399
>>97333144A lot of grey I guess, maybe some dark browns and blues, a little purple. Orange beaches are probably out, palm trees too.
>>97332196The practical names are off to the side, so "Blanched Berry" from the first set of John Blanche paints has a practical name of "Very Dark Purplish Red"
>Rules of Nature intensifies
>>97332184So I did actually buy the last 2. They all come with a card that has Blanche talking about the colors he uses and why. He very specifically doesn't use blues because blue is super common in real life, and he wants to omit that color from his paintings. So why does this one exist with his name on it? A bunch of paints he very explicitly stated he avoids?
>>97333832>blue is super common in real lifeit is? I thought blue dye was the rarest because it's the least common in nature.
>>97333901I wish I could find the paper, but I must have thrown it out. He said something like, "The sky and water is blue so I didn't want that color."
Thoughts?
meh atleast i had fun
>>97334097the star is nice but it would look better with the gold bands in metallic gold instead of nmm. also without the blue tron lines. and with the rivets cut off instead of made impossible to ignore.
>>97332202I hope they get home to their families>>97334097fucking sick. needs some other colour goin on somewhere >>97333811gee billy, how come your mom lets you have two swords?>>97333222nice & cleanbase coating some lizards with a black->purple zenithal as a test
>>97334097Looks good
>>97328786Care to share, fren?
>>97333901Blanche is not a scientist. Blue is common for our eyes, but in reality, almost nothing in nature is truly "blue'.Maybe an insect subspecies or something.Most is some hue of green or purple I think.
>>97334097And a first pass on the other side.
Did the pottery and malachite green of the chassis (the camera cant quite catch the green hue)Now on to the annoying part of doing the small details and metallics.
