How do I wash the Games Workshop paint off my brush that've been dry for days? I tried water and soap and it didn't work.

painting minis with craft paint has become passe. we need a madman who paints minis with house paint.

>>97802800
You can try IPA

>>97802800
if it's a synthetic brush try 99% IPA
if it's real hair it's GG

So about the April challenge...?

>>97802930
Stop asking other people to do it for you and just set it up yourself.

My first paint job ever, which is worse than I expected it to be.

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>>97802995
Forgot the image because I am stupid.

>>97802836
Reaper paints are literally unironically truthfully house paints.

>>97802998
your shit's too thicc brah
refer to the video in the OP about the importance of thinning your paints
multiple thin coats are better than one thick coat

>>97802998
Reminds me of that autistic girl who slathered herself in peanut butter.

>>97803008
Must've owned a lot of dogs.

>>97803008
was she hot?

Does anyone have some advice for what to change on opencamera to get it to look better. I had it on my old phone and it worked great but I don't remember what I did to make it that way. I tried just randomly changing stuff and im at a loss.

>>97803016
she literally says to her dog
>you can lick me if you want

>>97803141
she's cute, google it

>>97803175
There are a couple photography guides in the mega, give them a look. Its mainly about lowering iso and changing the shutter speed. I assume its the same with that app.

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>>97803230
Didn't know they were there. I'll try that and see if that fixes my problem. Thank you

>>97803175
>photo settings
>optimise focus for.. Quality
>image quality 100%

>processing settings
>edge mode .. high quality
>noise reduction.. high quality

set also timer to 1 or 3s, iso 100, resolution to the maximun you can, focus to auto or macro and tap the focus point before you take the photo,

>>97802998
strip that with simple clean dude. some basic advice
How To Thin Paint:
always test your paint on your skin first
if you can not see your skin texture it's too thick
if you can still see your skin color it's to thin
if you can see your skin texture but not your skin color it's the perfect consistency
it will take 2-3 coats for full coverage, allow each coat to dry before applying a new coat.

More important than thinning your paint is not slopping it on. Use a tissue to dab the excess off your brush before drowning the model. Light brush strokes to deposit the paint, which should slide off freely if the brush is proiperly hydrated (not the same as thin paint, you should be cleaning and rehydrating the brush way more often than convenient).

Most modern hobby paints don't need to be thinned at all. We're not in the early 00s dark ages any more where you needed milk consistency and 2-3 thin coats to accomplish anything.

>>97802868
you can soak natural hair brushes in ipa, you just need to oil them up again afterwards

>>97802752
>first collage without my wip or mini
I have failed you, Baker-san

>>97803008
https://youtu.be/nT0RnbJ8n14

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>>97802752
Finished with the 4th and last swordbro

and with this, I'm done with all the infantry I plan to use for my 2k army (cause maybe I'll get to play again before 20th ed, who knows, anyway I'm prepared)

might try and take a group pic later

>>97803749
>you just need to oil them up again afterwards
with what?

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Crossposting this from /40kg/, apologies if this isn't the appropriate thread. Seeking some c/c on this photo's composition, as I am relatively new to photographing minis at 1:1 macro scale. I took it mid-match between a Wolves player and Chaos player. Any tips on shot composition or mini placement is appreciated.

Also for those curious, the Daemon Prince model took 2nd place at Paintapalooza.

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Started another mini

>>97804301
that's really nice nmm

>>97804301
I don't know anything about "game" photography or whatever but I think this is a nice picture. The depth of field actually looks good here and I feel like you captured the colors pretty well. Maybe someone with more experience with this type of pictures can give you some actual c&c.

>>97804484
i agree the mini looks very nice and clean but
>nice nmm
that just looks like contrast 'staining' to me except on the axe edge

Man, checking out the latest GD winners, and bruh. The painting style of the 98% minis doesn’t align with my preferences at all. All that heavy NMM, everything perfectly clean, polished, neat, basically no realism whatsoever. It's annoying, the models look like from some Marvel comic book.
I miss the FW days when stuff was straying towards the scale modeller way.

>>97804585
How does it affect you and your hobbying?

>>97804585
GD is a glorified marketing event, of course they will favor models that best showcase their sculpts. Also no matter what copes you come up with painting a super clean NMM and OSL takes more skill and effort than plamo-style weathering.

>>97804597
It doesn't, obviously. I'm just surprised how far the general style has strayed away from what I personally like.

>>97804599
It looks like shit, though (to me).

>>97804585
It's been this way since the Spaniards overtook the hobby.

>>97804612
Can you post a model you painted in a way that you like?

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>>97804585
This was a top 3 grand finalist in 1991. Do you really want to go back to this being considered the best of the best?

>>97804653
Vgh... Sovl!

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>>97804585
>>97804612
>>97804653
For comparison, here is a mini from this year's GD that looks so inhumanely perfect that it appears almost unreal to the eye

>>97804653
>Do you really want to go back to this being considered the best of the best?
yes

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>>97804667
Unga bunga

>>97804659
Sovless.

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>>97804637
Sure. It's nowhere near perfect, I'm experimenting with a more realistic approach to weathering with more textures, but I think that the grimy, realistic, scale modeller way just clicks better with Warhammer. Again, it's obviously subjective, but I remember reading Imperial Armour FW books years ago and that's what got me hooked. I can respect all the effort and mastery it takes to do proper NMM and this general hyper-clean style, but I think it just looks kinda cheap.

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I want to go back bros

>>97804678
those teeny tiny tallys mustve been a totally time taking task to try (looks good)

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>The Master Brush Cleaner and Preserver
>Cleans and conditions your brush
>9 bucks

>Big black charcoal soap bar
>Cleans and conditions your body, your hair, your dick and your brush
>3 bucks

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>>97804659
>horse has fucking Tumblr Nose
This is getting ridiculous, it's bad enough that everyone's decided all Greenskins have to have it, but now horses need it too? Have these people never seen a horse?

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>>97804692
idk nwa, have you? color fade from flesh to fur is very common in horses

>>97804678
I mean yeah you got a lot of weathering here but you're still doing volumetric and edge highlights and it's still fairly clean compared to what scale modelers do. Plus a lot of the "griminess" in this particular model/diorama comes from the drab color palette.

>>97804692
It's not a horse though.

>>97804653
Yes

>>97804701
>volumetric and edge highlights
I wouldn't say either of these are uncommon with scale models. There is usually some kind of color modulation involved, though it's probably less deliberate.
If anything, I think that there is a lot of space in between these styles. I'm not sure why GW promotes this one specific extreme.

>>97804684
Impressive T count, anon.
(it's done by Micron, it wasn't that time consuming)

>>97804659
this is insane from a execution point of view
but it looks boring, somehow, artificial

it also has a random orange reflection on the knee and no other metal surface has any

>>97804585
Scale modeling is boring and so is your constant baiting.

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>>97804801

>>97804659
Pillow shading, shouldn't have made gold.

>>97804678
>painting on shading
That's not scale modeling.

>>97804854
>color modulation is not scale modelling
Huh?

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>>97804801
>it also has a random orange reflection on the knee and no other metal surface has any
You can just about make out the helmet has brown reflections (on the dude's left hand side) from the mantle too, and the little shield on the bridle has brown reflections on the lower edge
>>97804854
Never heard of pre-shading?

>>97804885
>(on the dude's left hand side)
Right hand side, RIGHT. Observer's left, dude's right. I'm getting too retarded for this shit

>>97804107
Nice work man, love the sword.

>>97804874
That's not remotely subtle enough to be color modulation, that's shading.
>>97804885
>Never heard of pre-shading?
Pre-shading is just shading, you're not relying on the model to provide shading naturally by its shape.

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>>97804929
Can you point me to the regulatory Office of Color Modulation to see all the legal prerequisites for shading?

>>97804937
This guy has been ranting about how lighting and shading your models is not necessary because his bedroom lights will do that, so now he's to be held by purist standards. No shading and not under a funky name either.

>>97804107
I love him, very bold reds

>>97804832
>everything i don't want to participate in is bait
grow up

>>97804838
this can be part of it, but i'm not sure this is realism, it's more like a perfect idealization, like the skink (and yes the skink was impressive, and boring)

who is that btw?

>>97804885
the metal under the neck of the horse should have a big reflection too, the small shield by the face of the horse, the helmet of the dude should reflect the inside of the shield, etcetc
looks like it has some hint of reflection in a few places but nothing as defined as the knee, seems weird, maybe he ran out of time or something

>>97804541
Thank you! I hope to get some more pictures of in-progress games soon, as well as some diorama shots. I am looking to pickup a battleboard and then to build up some custom hills and whatnot in the traditional manner, to make some totally kewl scenes.

>>97804757
Oh absolutely, my point was that your style is still closer to what people tend to do on miniatures than on scale models. Anyway I like your stuff a lot so we can agree it's a matter of taste. I like clean stuff myself but for example this >>97804659 is too much, it ends up looking like a render and not something you'd expect to actually exist.

>>97804995
>it ends up looking like a render and not something you'd expect to actually exist.
Oh, that's well put, that also explains it a bit. But yes, it's very much a matter of taste, agreed.

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>>97804995
>>97805004
>looks like a render
What do you think this character is saying in this moment? Probably >AAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH

>>97804986
It's Jean Renoir, A French movie director.

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>>97805008
>>97804659
Also just to post it, here is the Slayer Sword 1st place model for Gold Demon 2026

>>97805011
Image saved, good quote

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I fucking love how this girl paints, not gonna lie.

>>97805027
Kasia <3

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>>97805008
>>97805017
>>97805027
While all of these are fantastic paintjobs (Katarzyna especially), pic related is one of my favorites this year. Good weathering, nice textures, but overall not to complicated or overly detailled with NMM stuff. Basically it's good to see that more "normal" models and paintjobs can rank in the top 3.

>>97805084
While I have no doubt about skills of these painters, some entries like >>97805027 or >>97805008 looks like part of some cosplay session in studio or during rave due to all those multicolored lights. I see that this is generally how people paint fantasy models or bust, based on scale models exhibitions I saw and honestly start to doubt my own taste and directions.

But then again, I will never be as good as they are so...

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>>97805103
>multicolored lights
It's just the style of the time, maaaaahhn

>>97805027
This is the only good one. The others have great technique, but terrible composition.

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Don't forget to place your neko galaxy orders for feet.

>>97804757
I'm not a scale model expert but isn't the color modulation done there supposed to represent unevenness in wear and finishing and not baked on lighting effects?

>>97805221
>to represent unevenness in wear and finishing and not baked on lighting effects?
That's one of many possible uses, yes. But it's not the only intended use, far from it. Most of the time, people just use it to shade stuff and add contrast.

>>97804659
for me the reason this looks off is because the lighting is impossible. for example the shield is basically a flat object, yet it has gradient shading as if it actually had a much larger radius. it's also ultra matte which would mute reflectiveness even more, and from a real to setting perspective doesn't seem like the kind of paint the 11th century inspired bretonnians would have had access to.

>fighting with myself to NOT preorder that Starcraft miniature game pack
>...despite already having large Infinity backlog, not to mention other series

I hate myself for that so much.

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It's time for Nagash.

>>97804986
>i'm not sure this is realism, it's more like a perfect idealization,
Boy, you're gonna get your mind blown if you ever learn about art history.

>>97805103
>ESL grammar detected
Silence, eastern European scum

>>97804937
"Panel shading" isn't meant to recreate lighting, it's meant to recreate weathering caused by wear and tear, grime, and paint fading.

>>97805414
It's meant to be used for both (and more).

>>97805427
Sometimes less.

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Anyone have any interesting Slaanesh-themed kitbash ideas? I'm running a beastmen force in a narrative escalation campaign, and I'm looking to add to my workload. The rules are homebrew, so I'm open to ideas involving WoC or daemons as well.

>>97805301
Honestly, I buy everything but the SC minis aren't getting my blood pumping. They just don't look that nice, or at least the paintjobs aren't that good in the box art.

>>97805559
I think they're pretty nice but not nice enough for me to jump into it.

>>97805303
Any comments on Villainy Inks? Tossing up whether to get some, or just go the oil route.

>>97805631
Haven't used it yet, will try it on some other model first before I ruin Nagash.

>>97805407
Make me, asshole.

>>97805559
Archon Studio started to send promo pieces to painters and from what I saw on YT videos, they looks quite nice.

>>97805707
the moldlines on the zerg are pretty horrendous

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>>97804978
>>97804904
Thank you. And finally here's a group pic, with all of them a bit out of focus. One day I'll use a proper camera for these.

>>97805708
Do you suggest that final quality might be rather low? I thought that this company produces rather good stuff.

>>97805748
Wish I could teleport to your place with my camera and take some pics for you like I did >>97804301, they deserve some glamour shots. You did a great job on the scripts and purity seals.

>>97805748
Cool guys anon, cheers.

>>97805748
>That skull and tactical rock combo right at the centre of the base
literally based

>>97805755
NTA, but Archon stuff is hit or miss. They make pretty good stuff (for a good price, too), but they also make absolutely abhorrent dogshit garbage. I definitely wouldn't buy something from them before watching some kind of unboxing or something that shows how it looks. Already made that mistake once.

How times can you strip a mini before it's unhinged? I'm starting my BA army and I have restartitis because I want it to be perfect.
>inb4 you've fallen to Slaanesh

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>>97805773
>>97805782
Appreciated, stones and skulls are all I use for bases basically kek

>>97805762
Comes to think of it, I know a person with a nice camera so I might try and steal it one of these days.
Otherwise my old phone's camera still does a decent job for single minis, it's just when there are 2 or more (or a tank) in the same shot that it becomes an issue

>>97805804
>Already made that mistake once.

Could you tell me more?

>>97805830
I have some basic primaris guys that I use for test models, must have stripped them seven or eight times by now. Arms and cauldrons tend to fall off and need to get pinned but it isnt too bad. I'd say work on a couple of guys until you're satisfied with the scheme then start on the rest from there.

>>97805830
Depends on how many times you paint them per strip. You can paint a mini like 10 times before the details really start to get clogged if your paint isn't stupid thick.

>>97805830
if you have unpainted minis then it's unhinged. doing it more than once is unhinged.

>>97805830
Don't strip anything.
Learn from your mistakes and keep improving on each iteration. Wanting perfection from the start is a fool's errand, embrace imperfection and the journey. Ask yourself, is it really perfectionism or are you too proud to accept that roughness is part of improvement?
Once you've reached perfection, you'll realise two things: One, that your ideal of perfection has now shifted somewhere still beyond your skills, and two, that you have erased the steps you've taken to get this far.

>>97805850
Yes. I bought the Wolverine tank, which was pretty good. Quality-wise comparable to some of the older GW kits, and while some design decisions are even more retarded than GW ones, it's a very solid, highly kitbash-friendly model. Easy recommend, especially for the price.
Then I bought the Mammoth Walker. That one might be the most dogshit garbage plastic model I ever seen. The detailing is on par with an actual children toy, and it requires cleanup that takes like half an hour per part to make it even remotely acceptable. The plastic is the cheapest, crappiest plastic that not even chinks use anymore. I tried turning the model into a basing material, but it's just so shitty and out of scale (for everything) it's not even suitable for that.
The illustration/cover pic also lies (or is from some early development version, I don't know) because the real thing actually misses multiple details.

>>97805804
I am still not over the weird bridge that doesn't work at all from their caves Kickstarter
And I own it 12 times(They accidentally sent me the order twice)

The awakend tree also is quite horrible to put together

>>97805860
My primer isn't spicy, I was able to get the paint out of the crevices.
>>97805904
>Wanting perfection from the start is a fool's errand, embrace imperfection and the journey.
I'm not new to painting, this is just the start of the army. My minis I learned on will never be stripped, no way.
My problem now is I know I can paint a 7 or 8 and these are like a 5 or 6 in my eyes.

>>97806037
>>97805860
Oh, I misread what you were saying.
I paint pretty thin but more than 3 paint jobs would be too much for me.

>>97805957
Oh. Sounds grim but thanks for warning. Now I must really think over that Starcraft pack.

>>97805904
do you expect people to just keep buying more and more space marines just so they have more stuff to paint? nice try james workshop.

>>97805904
Based no-stripping anon.
Waste of time if I've ever seen one, and the amount of discussion time it takes up in hobby communities is completely disproportionately high it it's actual usefulness.

>>97806102
The complete opposite thing, I expect people to take their time with their miniatures and only ever buy more once they've finished their full backlog.
>James Workshop
I have some self respect, so I refrain from playing gw games, friendo

>>97806608
if you're learning to draw you can expect to go through hundreds of sheets of paper in the process of getting gud. it's unrealistic to think you can get good at painting with only the models you actually need to play the game or want to collect, and you can only practice so much on spoons.

>>97805830
>before it's unhinged?
When that's all you're fucking doing, just stripping and restarting again and again, to the detriment of other projects you want to start. At some point, it's got to go on the backburner while you do something else

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>>97805957
>>97806089
that walker is one of the first models they did and its garbage, iirc the ceo himself said it was not a good model
anything from the dungeons and lasers range is pretty good if you like the designs
pic related

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Quick attempt at an OSL. How's it looking for a first time?

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>>97806102
>do you expect people to just keep buying more and more space marines just so they have more stuff to paint?
It's not *just* so I have more stuff to paint. The starter kit boxes are very sturdy and i use them to transport my army!

>>97806670
hard to see, that photo is fried
but it looks like the top of the lantern is solid, so a straight line from the light source to the face would cast a shadow on the cheek

>>97806670
he looks crusty. strip him and learn how to paint a smooth base coat before you try advanced techniques.

>>97806670
He does look a bit chalky, I would strip and restart.
The green is pretty decent for a tonberry, but the current osl is placed wrong, particularly the right hand being too high.
Also remember is the light is showing up on the hand, the cheek would be brighter by about 4x due to distance

>>97805458
Looks like Viser 3

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Feedback on the weathering, please.

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>over a year later
>finally ordered some odorless mineral spirits, the two oil paints I needed to replenish, and a few brushes
Waiting for the delivery with bated breath.

>>97806988
I like it, not overly done and just a touch of character to the piece.

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>>97806968
>>97806889
>>97806701
It's a 3d printed model that's very zoomed in, it looks fine from afar (and with a matte varnish it will be unoticeable).

I'm using picrel as reference, I guess the light on the face is from it bouncing off the rest of the body?

>>97807069
Your pic is kind of set wrong: if the room was pitch black I could see it, and the overall intent was to make it spooky, but that lantern doesn't work that way.
It kind of helps to take a flashlight and experiment with how light reflects and bounces

>>97806988
It's good.

>>97807069
that pic is cute but is all kinds of wrong light-wise

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>>97802752
Getting closer but have
>3x metal ratlings
>4x Catalan jungle warriors
>10x metal Kasrkin
To finish my guard project. Props to whatever anon said he hated camo vehicles which kept me from using a camo scheme on my sentinels

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motherFUCKER

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>>97807353
Even the bottle images are sideways.

>>97807048
you can't just buy mineral spirits from the hardware store?

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How are we feeling about the purple guys? I feel like the mini is a bit cool, so I'm wondering if red or green would be better and pop more with an old hammer feel

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Pic of belt gem

>>97807492
I feel like a hobby store would have that

>>97807581
>>97807585
Dangit

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Good lord. Just imagine I posted my gif of all the various head-tilt clips. I can't find it right now and Only have this one available.

>>97807598
I don't know where you live but where I am there are way more hardware stores than hobby stores.

>>97807585
Yeah I think you could afford a little more contrast somewhere south of the neck

>>97807614
I think thats everywhere. Do you have hobby lobby?

>>97806430
The only reason to strip is when you buy some cunt's horribly painted models and they're too thick to rework the paintjob into something usable

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>>97805458
Two things that come to mind; first, Cenobites from Hellraiser are a pretty obvious Slaaneshi twist on things. Secondly, weird anatomy warping with an emphasis on doing odd things with the senses; the Pale Man from Pan's Labyrinth or the Angel of Death from the Hellboy movie come to mind as examples of this.

>>97807421
I think I might just be so utterly inept that I've managed to knock reality over by accident in my flat

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>>97807709
I'm trying to figure out how that would fit into an army. As an example, doing Cenobite-styled chaos warriors would work for unit champions. Not sure how I'd apply something like the Pale Man, though. Maybe do something with a Bray-Shaman? Smooth off the eyes and greenstuff an arm or two with eyes embedded in the palms. Seems less Slaaneshi and more general daemon to me,

>>97806625
Exactly, you're expected to go over many iterations when learning to draw. You're also supposed to keep those older drawings and use them to understand your process and find things that work, things that don't and opportunities for improvement. I've actually got a 10-pound box of drawings, paintings and the like from back when I went to art school, and as shit as many of those are, I'm glad I have them.
Your point is self-defeating, too. As you said, you're expected to go over hundreds of paper sheets, not just erase the same one over and over until you've become a draughtsman as skilled as Goya or Durer. It's the same with miniatures, it is unhinged to just strip it over until reaching your ideal skill level. Is it to show off how good your "first model" is? Is it maybe some sort of sunken cost fallacy?
You can actually get güd with a very small amount of models if you take your learning time seriously. Take time to understand colour theory, brushwork, mixing, glazing, etc. Work in small sections, avoid rushing and understand where you failed and why.
As a beginner, if you're not making considerable improvement from one model to your next one, then you're just not working seriously. Likewise, if you're always thinking of stripping as a possibility, you won't be taking things as seriously, knowing you can always go back to step 1.

>>97805414
Can you provide an irl example of this phenomenon? I never realised it's meant to imitate a real thing.

>>97806670
It doesn't really look like OSL to my eye. I would not have known that's what you were going for unless you mentioned it.
If it's supposed to be coming from the lantern, you need to paint and light the robes before asking for tips.
Also lantern light is pretty diffuse, so your points of light should be a lot wider than they are. It kinda looks like someone is shining a lazer at your guy, rather than him being illuminated by an actual flame.

>>97806988
It's generally good. I'd add some highlights underneath the chips, to define them and make them look like actual spots of paint chipping. Right now they look like scuffs or mud stains, rather than paint chips (they look as if they're on top of the paint).

>>97807775
The point is the weird interplay of sensory inputs; there's that one Slaaneshi unit where it's playing a dude's exposed tendons like a harp for example. Doesn't have to be explicitly the Pale Man; I'm pointing to it and the Angel of Death because they've got weird shit going on with their sensory input. Having your eyes not just be on your palms but being prehensile and able to be independently moved around is weird. Extrapolate out from the five primary senses we have and get weird with that. Instead of eyes on palms, have a guy just be covered in eyes all over. Have another guy be blind but give him one of those star nosed mole faces. Do weird shit like that with the underlying theme being "Slaanesh decided to hit the randomiser on my sensory organs."

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Got some work done on this bitch's hair today. Still have a couple levels of highlight to go up. This style of hair sculpt sucks so much ass.
I do need a little help with the rest of the scheme. I plan to do bronze accents on the armor plates and a burgundy on the chest and arms. I need a suggestion for the main color of the armor plates and her stockings. I'm thinking just doing steel for the armor, but I don't know what a good complementing color on the stockings would be. I do want the main focus to be the bright red hair so I'm trying to not add too many different colors.

>>97807492
It was more that I didn't have the extra fun money to splurge on it.

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Starting on a sisters of battle pile of shame, first with the vehicles.

>>97805836
The weathering on the black is always so striking on these, so excellent Im gonna cum bro no homo.

>>97807782
>you're expected to go over hundreds of paper sheets, not just erase the same one over and over
you would if paper was $20 a sheet. there are medieval manuscripts that are written on parchment that previously had something else written and erased on it because it was too valuable to throw out after using only once.

>>97806102
NTA but I backed some reapermini kickstarter in 2019 and I still have hundreds of unpainted miniatures from it

>>97807775
the official slaanesh we get is the gay censored slaanesh. everyone knows exactly what the slippery slope of degenerate hedonism looks like and it's not the hellraiser shit gw puts out. everyone knows the real thing is a cross between /d/, jeffery epstein, and those weird news articles about gay people that die from injecting shit into their balls. give them monster dicks and ovipositor tentacles. I think there was a guy who posted an army here last year that had a naked chick tied upside down to the army standard. if you're willing to be the weird guy maybe you could have a captured damsel being used as a seed bed for a warshrine or something.

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How's the red looking? Better?

>>97808065
it looks thin

>>97808065
Why change it?
The purple was nice

>>97808075
>>97808079
I'm not trying for a bright red, but I'll add another coat.
The purple was too cool for the mini I think so I figured green or red would work better

>>97804415
looks like a cool dude

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painting another Skink

Realistically speaking - for how long should typical 18ml bottle of paint last? I mean, does it make sense to buy two or three (in case of base/shadow ones) in advance or single bottle should be well sufficient for a long time and lots of minis?

>>97809125
i drive to the big city once a month to buy paint

>>97809125
Anywhere between 9 months and 30 years in my experience. It's going to vary massively by how much you use it, how good the coverage is (1 or 3+ coats) and the techniques you're using.

The only paint I've ever wished I'd bought a spare was Charadon Granite. When they stopped making it there wasn't a good alternative. Now AK Rubber Black exists and probably others.

Washes can go pretty quick and formulas seem to change a lot.

>>97809125
Single bottle? Depends on how much you use, your painting rate, and if you use a wet pallet. I'd guess one bottle of main colour goes over 25 minis for my use

>>97808909
Cute little blue lizar anon

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>>97809185
>I'd guess one bottle of main colour goes over 25 minis for my use
My temple guard teal midtone is around half full 50 marines deep. I got sick of painting with it long before it has run out.

Whats the best primer for metal minis that is not Mr. Hobby stuff?

>>97809396
Tamiya spray can is by far the most durable stuff ive found for metal. It can be slightly hydrophobic but once you get the base coats down its solid and no issues. only problem is its a tamiya product so it has a tamiya price.

That being said, I play with 90% metal minis actively and if you even prime wth the shitty airbrush primers like stynelrez/vallejo and then seal it properly you wont run into chipping outside of crazy situations like dropping multiple metal models together.

>>97809213
I probably wasted a lot of mine. Ultramarine blue was the first one I started with, and it took me a long time to get a wet pallet. Love your dudes by the way, and your bugs.

>>97809396
Krylon matte black

>>97807840
I do have highlights under the chips, but it's not showing at all in the photo. It's unbelievable that the phone camera would rather focus on some skin far away instead of the object.

>>97809459
>bugs
Tyranids are such a joy to paint. Minimum effort, maximum results.

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>>97809396
If yer in Burgerland, my research has shown Ace Hardware light gray primer to be the price/performance leader... as long as what you're painting is suited to a light gray primer. It's great for Blood Angels Death Company, Imperial Assassins, and ... probably Black Templars, too.

I must share this - I absolutely hate how Im losing inner war against my own consumerism and FOMO. I paint less and less, losing desire to do anything at all, while apparently blindly trying to fill the void with purchases, checking various shops pages daily and contemplating new buys, especially larger sets, while my backlog only grows. And the more I look at it, including miniatures already assembled, primed and waiting at box, the more disgusted I feel with myself. I have some models right within visible range and that awful feeling of "no, you HAVE TO paint these first". Sometimes I wish I could just gift at least some of the boxes to somebody, who will actually put them to use. I don't know how to properly fight with that anymore.

Im sorry, just had to tell someone.

>>97809874
I mean overconsumption is a very real problem in our current economy. You get instant bursts of good chemicals for spending money so you can get addicted to that like to anything else. I dunno what to tell you though, maybe set a monthly budget or something?

>>97809898
Already did and I still, after paying for rent/electricity/water (thats my part at home budget), I save larger part of my monthy income. Money is less of a problem, still have that inner restrictions from times of my studies (and childhood, when I had no pocket money and had to carefuly plan every purchase), the real problem is with not actually painting them.

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>>97809874
>>97809922
Nothing motivates my painting like realizing how much better my last game could have gone if been able to field ten Intercessors with my Lieutenant instead of five.

Do you have friends or at least FLGS acquaintances who share your hobby interests, anon? Encouragement from your fellows can be quite the boost - like have a gym buddy who can spot you and convince you to stay and do one more set.

>>97809950
I don't have friends, do have FLGS with some table space but I was too afraid to arrange some game. Have lots of painted and ready to play Infinity minis but local scene arrange solely on social media and while I made account for that and joined that group, I have no idea how to arrange game that way (posts are mostly about inner ranking so there are games going on for sure). There is planned "tournament" in two weeks during saturday, already know that even total green like me can waltz from the street and join, so I just hope no family stuff will intervine.

Also, such adorable picture.

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The Clowniflower is completed. Very happy with the shading fades I achieved with some of the new high saturation John Blanche 3/4 paints. Going to take him out today for some better lit photos.

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Finished

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End of the month, time to show how much work you've gotten done in March. I had a couple weeks off work, so I got through quite a few Tyranids.

>>97810185
I would do a couple more coats and clean up on the face

>>97810410
Nice mustard brown, recipe?

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>try a bit of scale modelling for a change
>decide to try this stuff
The cumulative years of my life I've spent trying to blob nuln oil around a muhreens ballsack for armour lines when this existed. Ffffff

>>97810487
I kinda improvised it.
I basecoated with mournfang brown, then started layering with averland sunset, and slowly added ice yellow to it to get the highlights

It looked too desaturated which i didnt like, so i glazed some nazdreg yellow into the darker areas
reinstated some highlights and, again, too desaturated, so I went and glazed again some VGC sun yellow

>>97810547
Btw, you can mix your own from any oil paint + (odorless) white spirit. You can also bottle it.

>>97810483
I would like to try and touch up the white spots a bit more, but I've given them 6 coats already, including adding unthinned paint directly to them. They just don't stay painted :( I have learned with these Nolzur's Marvelous Miniatures that a 2nd layer of primer is needed before painting.

>>97810631
Brother, sometimes a nigga just wants to order pizza instead of building a brick oven and making pizza himself.

>>97810658
It takes like a minute, brosephski.

>>97810631
I can't make little magic applicators that turn panel lining into "wave in its general direction and it panel-lines itself"

>>97810564
Thanks!

>>97810705
Any sharp enough brush will do. In fact, you can get dedicated brush (liner/rigger) for panel lining/pinwash that works even better than the ones you usually get with the bottle.

>>97810734
Are you a brush salesman come on mang I like the thing you just buy and then you've got panel lines

>>97810465
I painted like 5 minis in March lmao

>>97810734
I like built in panel liner brushes cause you never have to clean and maintain them, I will not buy yet another unnecessary brush

>>97807985
kek thanks man

tanks are looking clean

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>>97811205
They're really nice for painting things like eyes or thin lines, the sharp tip makes nice lines and the large belly means the paint won't dry in the bristles between the palette and the mini. I wouldn't get a sable liner brush but a white taklon synthetic is nice to have.

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>>97808031
>the official slaanesh we get is the gay censored slaanesh
Basically, yeah. I don't mind the general look of the HoS range GW has in AoS, even if it is extremely watered down. The way things are panning out, I'm using that sort of aesthetic as a base, adding the edge back in, and expanding where I think it's needed (as an example, I'm getting ready to make 30 fat ungors this weekend. Gluttony is an insanely underserved facet of Slaaneshi buillshit).
>ovipositor tentacles
Good idea. Would work well on something like fiends or warped gors.
>guy who posted an army here last year that had a naked chick tied upside down to the army standard
You're talking about the guy who did pic-related, right? I don't mind doing stuff like that. I'm running a Slaaneshi-theme army in private games with friends - if I'm not going to be edgy and degenerate there, where else would I? If I want something that's safe to bring out in public, I have other stuff for that.

>>97807864
Good way to look at it, actually. I like the idea of a unit of mole-like gors being led into battle by an incense bearer or perfumer.

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Cannot get her in proper focus on phone camera no matter what but lines on her cloak are way too thick. Overall broke her off pedestal, accidentally broke off her sword scabbard, her sword detached - so I better call her done, glue everything back and forget.

No idea why people insist on phones "replacing normal cameras".

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>>97811571
I'm still waiting for someone to explain why this kind of brush wouldn't be good for painting fine details. just look how pointy they are.

>>97811796
>pic
Is this the fabled goteslopper? I think I remember someone making fun of an uncleaned mouldline on a face

>>97811840
Don't know. I saved the image some time ago, so I'm not sure if the guy posted more or what the reception to any of it was.

>>97811816
i think it's because the bristles aren't stiff

FUCK
Anyways...

>>97811814
I see you managed to improve the eyes. Good job.

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>>97811951
I only added small amount of fleshy pink to where the black was. On close up it doesn't look very clean but I assume that nobody will use magnifying glass with her and I seriously doubt I could do it better.

>>97811816
Given that they're kinda huge and not really meant for what we consider fine detail work I imagine the tip won't stay quite that well behaved in actual use as it does when styled for a glamour photo. At least not unless you turn your wallet inside out and go for the Really Good Shit™.
That said if you're curious I'd say get one, try it out, and tell us how it went.

>>97811816
Looks like it'd be similar to using a size 8 round while painting, could be cool.

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Any ideas what I could do to make them look better? A wash or dry bushing? With what color?

>>97812105
dark wash, dry brush with lighter color. you could go even lighter toward the tips

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Need some advice on filling some nasty gaps that turned up during assembly. I've never messed around with filling before but want to make sure that my new army is done right and turns out really well this time. Any suggestions or tutorials you guys could recommend? Pic is probably the most egregious of the gaps that I see.

>>97812151
>dark wash, dry brush with lighter color.
what colors should I use? I only ever used black for a wash and white for dry brushing.

>>97812230
I'd recommend Milliput, as is water soluble and sandable.

>>97812230
>>97812372
https://youtu.be/EY8Acdi59M0

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Rookie here. Is this one any good?

>>97812244
for coral, black and white would be good. dry brushing more paint towards the tips

>>97804691
Does it actually condition? Soap just cleans

>>97812230
I like mixing milliput and greenstuff with a 50:50 ratio. Makes a less water soluble filler that's easier to work with in my experience. Definitely experiment though

>>97812534
After you've used it to clean you rinse out the brush well then apply some clean lather and shape the brush before setting it aside. Rinse it out before you use it again, helps to keep the brush shaped and keep the tip from curling as it dries. With synthetic brushes it makes a noticeable difference in how long it takes to get hook tip.

>>97812230
if it's already glued together use bondo with compressed air to force it into the gaps. if it's not and you want to glue it together while filling the gaps use 2 part epoxy.

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>>97812105
These seem to have some texture so yeah, wash+drybrush will definitely make them look more interesting. If you'd like to add some color variation you could try using a purple wash for the red ones and a turquoise wash for the green ones.
>>97811999
>>97811814
That's probably an issue with the sculpt but I feel like her eyes are too far apart? Other than that looks really good already, I love the blue cloth.
>>97810465
Fantastic army anon, I like your scheme a lot.
>>97810185
This dude looks so goofy, I love him.
>>97809213
That grey-teal scheme on your marines is very cool!
>>97807916
Her hair looks good, nice job. You already have a lot of warmth in the scheme so I think silver will work best, yeah. As for the leggings, I'd go with a more neutral color - either black or dark brown.
>>97807985
Very clean so far, blue highlights look great.

>>97812372
>>97812391
Thanks big dogs, I stopped by one of the hobby shops in town and they had it in stock, will give it a shot!

>>97812861
Yeah, her eyes are fixed, my only mistake was making her look at the side rather than straight. Its 3D print, by the way, bought two of them at exhibition last year, only realized later that they are so huge (15cm).

Thank you for posting encouraging comments as always.

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Mentioned second character, she waited for so long that she is now covered in thick layer of dust. And I don't even know who it is, just thought she looks cute.

>>97813298
looks like casca from berserk

>>97813298
Nice Casca

>>97813464
>>97813393
Ok, got it, thanks. Now I know how to paint her.

>>97812861
Clowniflower love you too, Anon. (Don't go taking that the wrong way, now.)

>>97809874
Maybe try speed painting some? Or at the very least sell them at as small of a loss as possible. Hell raffle them off on here or some shit. Maybe just take a week off from painting and hobbying altogether then see how you feel when you come back.

>>97809874
relatable

Are magnet baron/any specialty magnets any stronger then ones I can buy off the shelf from a store?
I magnetized my forgefiend with 3.2 x 0.8 magnets and the weapons are too heavy and droop so I was wondering if I could just buy the same size but stronger or if I'd have to go up in size and redrill the holes

>>97813904
3x1mm is probably too small. I used 5x2mm magnets for the arms of my Armigers. And that's really strong. I also used 5x2 for my riptide guns. I don't know how a forgefiend compares to those two.

I tried 3x1mm for my Ghostkeel and that wasn't enough. Even 2 of them is kind of iffy.

I bought them off amazon(about half the price of magnet baron). I think it's mostly the same stuff. As long as you get the rare earth magnets.

>>97811816
The body of the brush would get caught on stray details around the model, especially if you're trying to paint a detail in a small area.

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These guys are such a pain in the ass to move around. every one has an overhanging hook. brilliant design GW.

>>97814848
istg some gw models stick to your hands better than glue, they have so many thin protruding bits on them

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>>97811816
These calligraphy brushes are too big, even the smallest size, and the tips aren’t as stiff as a normal brush.

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Boobies hehe

>>97814848
Buy a box of washers and glue them to the base

>>97810547
I got a bottle of tamiya panel liner but I got scared to use it because I thought it had mineral spirits in it--that will reactivate/destroy the paint right?

>use Dark Steel pigment
>realize I probably could have achieved a similar effect with a pencil
drat

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>>97810465
I finished assembling my box of elves, and in the process, learned to hate both them and myself.

>>97804653
>The cartoony eyeballs watching
Holy shit it's perfect

>>97804599
>glorified marketing event
>the winners are more and more frequently custom sculpted models that aren't for sale

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Been a bit slow (and very fiddly) but Ive finally close fixing this dudes long-arm syndrome. I think I have reshaped this stupid armature like 20 times now. Making the little cut close to the wrist allowed me to alter the angle of the fore-arm and that helped a lot.

>>97802752
wicked shoop OP.

>>97814848
Are those the new or old ones?

>>97815312
You can only participate in the open category with custom sculpted models, dumbass

>>97812404
never used that one but mtn pro products are usually very good, i use their black and varnish

>>97815608
Thanks. Will try it out on some cheap aliexpress minis as practice.

>>97815433
Isn't that the most prestigious category though?

>>97802800
the masters brush cleaner is pretty good in my experience, though you shouldn't ever let paint dry on your brushes
it's like it globs onto what is on the brush and can be washed off easily. but you may have had paint soak into the bristles irretrievably, and if that has ruined the shape or the point-keeping of your brush, it's probably fucked

>>97802998
you might want to use primer if you aren't already - paint should behave better than this over primer
don't over-thin your paints with water and expect it to cover in one pass. experiment with not thinning down your paint as much, and seeing how it covers over a primed surface - it doesn't always need to behave like water. spread a smaller amount of paint over a larger area without thinning it as much. don't go back over an area where paint has started to dry, is the main thing

Y'all got some oldhammer NMM pics/recipes whatever?

>>97816447
>oldhammer NMM
that's an oxymoron I'm afraid
+ I just got a "who's that pokemon" captcha, wtf

>>97816447
Just making it cartoony is all you need to do to fit with the style. the color matters less.

>>97816447
What are you actually asking for? Because NMM wasn't really a thing until the mid-late 2000s (wayy after the oldhammer era).
If you're asking for era-accurate NMM recipes, they don't exist. If you're asking for NMM recipes that match the simple cartoony aesthetic of the era, then literally any basic NMM guide will do that for you.

>>97815196
Are they particularly tough to assemble or do you just hate assembly?

>>97815352
You really went the extra mile to shave this poor bastard's reach down a few inches, huh? How is he supposed to win his boxing matches aboard the chapter ship now? You've ruined his advantage!

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>>97816447
The only time I've ever seen the process described prior to the 2000s was Tim Prow describing how he painted a Blood Angels Captain for the original Tycho Vs Ghaz BatRep
>For the armour I wanted to get a really rich golden yellow colour that could almost be taken for a metallic gold. The base coat was a mix of Tanned Leather, Blood Angel Orange and Bad Moon Yellow. I washed this with Brown Ink into which I mixed a small amount of Black Ink to darken it.
>The highlights were Bad Moon Yellow and Skull White added to the base coat, gradually worked up to pure Skull White at the very edges of the armour plates. I've painted these white highlights with a small star effect in places to create the impression of a glint of light catching a reflective surface.
There was no write-up of the recipes or anything, but the studio Cdr Dante and Capt Tycho minis were both painted in a more defined NMM style when they released a few years later, so checking out the Codex: Angels of Death and White Dwarfs from around then for decent pics would be a good place to get some reference pics. Calgar also had some more golden-brown accents which I think were meant to be NMM, so that's another one to check out

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>>97816523
>I just got a "who's that pokemon" captcha, wtf

>>97816927
It's Johnnychu.

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>>97816927
That's right, it's Pikachu!

>>97817016
basado

>>97816736
I don't do much assembly, so they're definitely more involved than I'm used to. There were a lot of them, and fiddly enough to be frustrating (whoever invented splitting hands along the knuckles can suck it). I also didn't care for some of the sculpts, particularly the head options.
All in all, I'm just Over It.

>>97815356
old ones from the Tau release battle box. only took me 20 years to finally paint them

>>97817259
Did you take a break from the hobby at some point?

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Got some more plastic in over the weekend. This is probably the most extensive conversion/kitbash I've done yet. The weapon arm and warhammer alone is five different pinned components sawed up, filed and scribed down and fitted together.

Once again I used the tilt pinning method that I have used for my other halfling conversion to give him a more dynamic/at the ready appearance and break away from the more conventional ranked up, defensive posing you see with this halfling kit.

The key part to having a dynamic appearance, and to avoid that stilted look you often see with multi part kits, a lot of it has to do with torso orientation. Having worked with metal figures and observed the techniques various traditional sculptors use has probably done me a lot of favors in this regard. The WGA halfling kit is great for kitbash/conversions because of a few different factors. One being that there are a lot of parts from a lot of kits from a lot of different manufacturers that scale up well with it. The pauldrons and warhammer head on this guy game from a Perry miniatures kit. The second is that the shorter limbs make it easier to put up a dynamic pose without having to chop up the legs and do any sculpting at all. Though you could do this, and probably achieve an even more natural appearance.

This guy is another heavy infantry concept, has more of a renaissance feel to him than the others so far. Still have a couple touches to add. Namely he needs a scabbard and maybe some more feathers in his plume.

When something is missing with a medieval Renaissance sort of motif more feathers in the plume always seems to be the answer. You can also take advantage of that by tilting the plume to give the appearance of motion alongside the tilted torso etc if you are going for an aggressive attacking pose, or the opposite if you wanted a more static pose.

arnau minis has a new goblin girl who is extremely cute.

>>97817449
This is an imageboard, anon. You can post the pic.

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>>97817463
I don't love the paint job on the box art (not because it's not great, just preferences), but the model is nice.

>>97815628
just asked them wich one of their primers they recomend for metal models, they said this
>Best option would be to use Universal Primer, wich you could use on plastic models too.

i may have to try it too

PS: wtf is this weeb captcha

>>97817474
I really like this guy's models but I can't justify the cost sadly

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>>97816927
>>97817016

>>97817572
Go away, slop-kun.

>>97817534
Yeah, especially if you aren't like a super good painter, it feels like a waste (mostly talking about myself, idk you). Maybe if I knew I could do a really quality paintjob it would feel more worth it. Until then, cheapo 3d prints off etsy it is.

>>97817336
Mind the mould lines and attachment points.

>>97817291
yeah, stopped in the 00's and picked it up again last year.

>>97817474
I really like the proportions here, usually people make goblins somewhat bottom heavy but this petite build looks very nice.

>>97817576
Just a reaction image honey bun.

>>97817659
slop is slop

>>97817659
Just post the original, you insufferable faggot.

What company has the most ethically sourced sable brushes
Call me a faggot but I don't want to support fur farms just to have nicer brushes

>>97817828
faggot

>>97817828
None. You should start a company where you make brushes just by shaving sables a little bit at a time rather than killing them.

>>97817474
Too bad she's wearing shoes.
Arnau, if you're listening put optional feet in the box.

>>97817828
I actually done the research some time ago. tl;dr there are none, it's always some kind of gray area or straight up legalese fuckery that's hiding under the ethical/cruelty-free claims.

Most, if not ALL natural brushes come from fur that's a byproduct of a regular fur industry (the worst kind). The "best" you can do is something like Fuumuui brushes, which claim that they are sourcing their hair from 1) certified fur industries (which means fuckall), and/or 2) as a byproduct of fur hunting in cases these animals are considered pests somewhere (which is fairly common, and it's definitely better than from industrial fur farming). But again, it's all just self-reporting with no real transparency, there's nothing you can really look into. It's all just their word, really.

There are some okay-ish synthetic alternatives for most uses. Rosemary Co Red Dot series is alright and can do like 90% of what sable brush can do. But you'll still need one good natural brush for detail work.

>>97817828
Most sable brushes come from wild caught Siberian weasels and not real sables, so you're not supporting fur farms if that's your concern

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>>97817933
>okay-ish synthetic alternatives

>>97817963
I can paint most of the stuff with (sub)0 Red Dot just fine. It's the smallest, tiniest things that only require sable.

>>97817952
Can you source me up on that, anon?

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There are rumours that the 11th Edition Armageddon box will have new Primaris Librarian in it. That would be nice, as there is only one sculpt right now who is generic and not wearing tactical dreadnought armour. I was considering trying to convert Tigurius to be a Blood Angel Librarian for a little variety, and while looking over the parts I'd need to modify, something struck me:

I know the curled ram's horns have been part of the official Librarian badge since First Edition, but the version on Tigurius's banner seemed *really* familiar!

>>97817977
>>97817952
I'm asking because nearly everything I've read on the topic claims that around 80% of all fur (that includes fur for brushes) comes from fur farming. It's mostly from China and Russia, too, so you can imagine how utterly revolting the conditions and the entire process are. I sincerely can't even recommend checking this; it's one of the most vilest fucking things I've ever seen, and I'm saying this as someone who has seen plenty of dead people.

>>97818003
>There are rumours that the 11th Edition Armageddon box will have new Primaris Librarian in it

Good, he shall undergo the chaplain conversion treatment like the other

>>97818024
Its the same deal with shaving brushes, either made from boar or badger with badger making the better quality brushes. Most of it from china now, but at least its "semi-ethical" in the sense that the boar and badger are culled to keep the population in check, otherwise they destroy farm land.

>>97818150
Not sure how about boars, but most of the Chinese badger fur comes from farms that are absolute hellholes.

why don't they just shave the weasels so they can regrow the hair like they do with sheep wool?

>>97818281
One of the reasons they're so good is because of the soul of the weasel. Think of them as enchanted items.

>>97818281
You try giving a weasel a haircut.

So, you know guys, treat your brushes well. Somebody literally gave up their life for them.