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>>97343060how italian my friend
THICKEN YOUR PAINTS
WIP Quar edition?
ngl I am gonna consoom the new Blanche sets as well
>>97343240are you going to actually use them though
>>97343251Yes
Thank you for the suggestions last thread, I applied a glaze and it ended up looking 10x betterMy shitty phone camera does not do it justice but it looks like actual leather now
>>97343256nice
>>97343276looks good bud
someone said the last thread was too civil so here's your hot take for this one:this community doesn't value fundamentals enough. the reason I think is toxic positivity. this is what I see happening: a beginner will post his work looking for advice. the model will have a lot of beginner mistakes. the brush strokes will be messy, the primer will be grainy, mold lines will be visible, etc. now the most important thing for this person to learn at this point is fixing these basic issues, but aside from "thin your paint" which has reached meme status, no one wants to mention it because they think constructive criticism means only saying positive things. anyone who does point the mistakes out will get called out for nitpicking and "can't you see he's a beginner?"now this beginner will go on painting without ever having the importance of the basics being impressed on him. many of the issues will clear up through repetition, but without the fundamentals being stressed some of them will persist even after months or years. he will see work from people who do have good fundamentals and think they look better than him and think it's because of some advanced technique, not realizing that like 80% of a good looking model is solid fundamentals that he should have learned while working on his first few kits. eventually this person will consider himself an experienced painter. he will see another beginner post his work and give the same advice he remembers from when he was new. "good attempt, but it looks a little flat. try dry brushing the armor to make it pop."
Almost done with him sans the base
>>97342526Squeedle!Not huge progress but got the ossefactor gun arm done, so now my corsair weapons platform crewman is done and can shoot people with boneitis.Probably 1 or 2 more models left in the project overall since including the Walker and Starweaver pilots I'm up to 8 eldar and 10 seems a good round number. I just need to work out conversions etc. Some kind of melee bruiser would be good, as would maybe some kind of ghost warrior.
>>97343383What do you use for the slate rock?Looks nice and sharp
>>97343374Almost every beginner paintjob posted here gets some more in-depth feedback, especially if they actually ask for it. I do agree we might be a bit too positive at times but I'll take that over low effort shitposting posing as criticism any day
>>97343406Small bits of pine bark I got from someone leaving the hobby. It's stuff that's been properly dried out, baked etc.
>>97343422I also use those. Not this exact products but small pieces of bark, works really nice.
>>97343382Looking good, anon. Love the sick flesh tones there.Any advice on how to paint these? I'm taking a commission to paint the darkwater box soon and it feels a bit overwhelming
>>97343060Wips? In THIS thread!?Never!!!
>>97343142oh man that beetle is so cute, lovely ant eaters as well
A local store is doing a painting competition for March, rules are it has to be an official GW model.Any recommends on what I should enter with?
>>97343509The oldest and most obscure GW model you own
>>97343509probably some flavor of a space marine, a lot of people really like these for some reason
>>97343509a demon prince
>>97343446I wet blended the base tones and then did some really rough highlights with the basetones mixed with some warm gray
>>97343509a night goblin
>>97343416is it shitposting to tell someone to clean a mold line or that his primer is fucked and he needs to strip it and do it again? like I said almost all feedback given to beginners is in the vein of "do this additional thing to make it look better" when the advice they need to be given is "work on improving this thing that you're already doing."
>>97343509A single guardsman.Paint him extremely well.
>>97343276I missed this, how was it done?
>>97343675>is it shitposting to tell someone to clean a mold line or that his primer is fucked and he needs to strip it and do it againAbsolutely not, I see this said here fairly often though? Even last thread we got a guy with uneven coats of paint/primer and anons pointed that out. Shitposting would be saying it looks dogshit without providing any advice on how to actually improve it. I'll try to keep what you're saying in mind next time I get a chance to give feedback though because you brought up valid points.
Here's that mind flayer from a bit back.Wondering if I should do another pass of white dot for stars after the glaze tuned it down
>>97343765>Wondering if I should do another pass of white dot for stars after the glaze tuned it downI think it's ok like this, I can clearly make them out as it is.
Wip of my grail reliquae. Three carriers have been assembled so far.
>>97343509Soul Grinder
Brother-Sergeant Gerin (Elite promoted Shocktrooper).
>>97344079
Hey have I ever told you about how I hate batch painting? Boy I hate batch painting.
>>97343509One single LIgma infantry guy.
>Prime my Darkwater minis in subassembly figuring since they're pushfit it'll work fine.>Fully paint them>Now they won't fit>Trying to push them is rubbing off all the paintWell there goes hundreds of hours of work and dollars. Why do people like pushfit again?
>>97343060Basecoated the skeleton today so I'm almost done
>>97343703Basecoat with SC31, paint shadows and recesses with SC32, then creases and raised areas with SC28 and SC27 for the very top/edges that catch the most light. Then when it dries thinned agrax earthshade all over to blend.The set is called wood and leather from scalecolor
You have to pick 1 painting youtuber and the rest die. Who do you pick?
>>97344298fuck off, we're not doing this
>>97344280very slick
I've joined a new ttrpg group and one of the players asked me to turn his ai slop into a mini. He said he can't paint for shit so I offered to paint itit looks kinda grimey to me, bit too much or let's say undefined, but the ai slop he provided also has a grimdark aestheticopinions or rather tips on how to make it more crisp?
>>97344324the ai slop I use as a template
>>97344298Vince of course
>>97344250I have a hard time believing the tolerances are so tight that they don't fit after priming, but it's of course possible? People usually shave a little bit off from the push fit parts to fit them better, or they cut the connection points all together.
>>97344324>opinionsI don't think the issue lies with how you've painted it, but the quality of the print itself providing a uniform texture.Other than that the beard / chestplate seems to lack detail / volume but that might just be the lighting.
>>97344250No one likes pushfit because it literally never fits without extensive shaving of the pegs, but you should have at least dryfit them before priming if you've never dealt with pushfits before to realize that.
I think I mightve messed up a bit, but I have a plan~
>>97344478it looks nice but If I have a critique is that his flesh looks like hes flayed.
Finally getting around to those terminators of mine, couldn't sleep so I started on some base coats. Desk lamp is a bit harsh for photos, but the crux and the chest eagle are done, those are always fast and easy to do. The fist will have a checkerboard pattern over the red, will be using some transfers for that, though, I don't trust myself to hand paint that on such a small surface. And I swear the grey over-layer is just drinking up the dark metal(citadel iron warriors) like a drunk at the bar, it'll probably be a better finish after a wash, but it still feels kinda annoying.
>>97344644From behind. These classic fellas are so nice, I kinda want some more for my upcoming blood angel force, got some of the old space hulk termis for them already, but a squad of assault termis would be cool, too.
>>97344659Last one, I'm a bit worries how much I'll screw up my chapter badge on these guys. I've done it so much for left sided pauldrons already, but coming at it from the right feels weird.
>>97343717in a recent thread there was a guy asking about his fucked up primer and there were more people telling him to just paint over it than telling him to redo it. I point out crustyness and mold lines every time I see them but usually don't get any acknowledgement.
>>97344422I used some makerworld tool to make a mini from his picture, so the mini is just flat like that. I showed him the dwarf sets I have from lootstudios, but he preferred the slop
>>97342526>"Nobody screws with the Tank Police!"
I just want to let you guys know that you produce a ton of great looking minis. Even before I got into them I enjoyed coming here to check them out.
>>97344886Thanks, anon. I also think we do some pretty good work.
>>97344894Yeah for such a small community I think the level is pretty good
Gap filling to do tomorrow, but got the penultimate corsair put together and put in a bits order for the last one.
>>97344456>>97344398I did dry fit them. I did prime these models twice so that's probably why. I'm stripping them and will probably just try to paint them assembled or cut and glue.
>>97343509Metal Khaine.
Why does paint randomly not adhere to some parts of a model? It seems to just "shimmer" away or retreat or w/e. The model is primed, and there's not an inconsistency in the coverage. Like it covers fine in most places but there's always someplace where it won't.
>>97345118What were you priming with? It's possible your primer went on too smooth on these parts and that's why paint can't adhere properly.
